When Fang Lang boarded the House the next morning and left Okinawa, his head was still dizzy. Fortunately, the waters of Okinawa were now the territory of the Allied Forces, and he could not meet the Japanese whenever he wanted.
In fact, the straight-line distance between Okinawa Island and Hangzhou Bay is only about 900 kilometers. If the House goes directly to Hangzhou Bay at its maximum speed of 35 knots, it will take less than 20 hours to arrive.
Of course, a ship cannot always sail at the highest speed. Therefore, the House kept sailing westward at a speed of 20 knots. Fang Lang's target was not the mainland, because if he got too close to the land, he would be within the attack range of the Japanese air force.
Although Japan is currently short of fuel, it still has oil reserves in the country. The Japanese are now trying every possible way to transport strategic materials such as fuel to Japan.
These transport ships were Fang Lang's targets. It wasn't that Fang Lang didn't want to attack the Japanese mainland directly, but if he foolishly drove a ship to attack Japan directly, he would basically end up like Don Quixote.
Fighting is not a street fight, and we cannot act recklessly. Fang Lang ordered the Hope to patrol the middle of the route from Shanghai to Nagasaki. He himself was looking for ships that might be heading from Taiwan to Japan in the East China Sea.
It was not known whether the Japanese navy had really been defeated. After three whole days, the two warships had gained nothing. This made Fang Lang very angry. He thought to himself that he was too late. It seemed that the Japanese had really been defeated.
After consulting the Fifth Carrier Fleet, Fang Lang began to shift his target, ordering the Hope to advance directly to the Korean Strait and attack ships traveling between North Korea and Japan near Tsushima Island.
Fang Lang himself followed the House and began to move towards Shanghai, trying to find out whether the Japanese Army Aviation would send military aircraft to attack him because of his warship.
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Because the Fletcher-class destroyer's air-to-air radar has a maximum detection range of 120 kilometers, Fang Lang led the House directly to within 100 nautical miles of Shanghai on July 12.
But let alone Japanese planes, not even a Japanese ship was encountered. This made Fang Lang very angry. I came all the way here to fight you, but you didn't show up. This made me lose face.
On July 13, Fang Lang's House simply broke into a distance of about 50 kilometers from Shanghai in an attempt to attract the enemy to attack at close range.
However, Fang Lang did not dare to enter within a distance of fifty kilometers, because this was the maximum range of the Japanese Type 90 240mm heavy cannon.
If they were hit by a Japanese heavy artillery, it would be a loss. After all, Shanghai was not Japan, and Fang Lang could not attack Shanghai. The firepower of Fang Lang's destroyer could not reach the Japanese.
The result was unexpected. The Japanese seemed to be blind and remained indifferent to the approach of the House. Just as Fang Lang was cursing the Japanese on the House for being cowardly,
The Hope brought good news from the Korean Strait, sinking a transport ship from North Korea to Japan. It also made contact with the American submarine that was carrying out a blockade mission in the Korean Strait, playing the wolf pack tactics invented by the Germans.
This hurt Fang Lang a lot. For the first time, he sincerely wanted to own an aircraft carrier so that he wouldn't be in such an embarrassing situation as now.
Similarly, Fang Lang also saw the weakness of the Japanese from this situation. Fang Lang could never have imagined that the Japanese would allow the House to approach so close and remain indifferent.
Fang Lang decided to go all out and began to blockade the waters off Shanghai. He didn't believe that the Japanese would really not run away.
Just when Fang Lang was furious that he had hit cotton and could not find the enemy, Global Steel and Global Shipbuilding in the United States finally completed the acquisition and integration.
He owns steel companies and shipyards across the United States, Britain, Germany, and Italy, although the scale of the steel mills and shipyards in each country is not large.
Even the factories in the United States are of a research institute nature, but it cannot be denied that the two companies have officially acquired the qualifications to enter the steel and shipbuilding markets.
The company's first priority after completing the integration is to formally start joint venture negotiations with Brazil's Fangyuan Group, planning to invest in the establishment of a steel plant and shipyard in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
This project has received high attention from the Brazilian government, the Brazilian military, and the Sao Paulo City Government. For the first time, the Brazilian Circle Group appeared in the eyes of Brazilian politicians and the Brazilian people.
The Brazilian Navy and the Brazilian Expeditionary Force even directly came out to support Fangyuan Group, making this newly established company in Brazil a household name overnight and appearing on the front pages of major Brazilian newspapers.
Don't think my description is exaggerated. Brazil was the only country in South America to send troops to participate in the European war.
This is because in the summer of 1940, the Brazilian government simultaneously launched negotiations with the United States and Germany in order to build the earliest modern large-scale steel plant.
Eventually, the U.S. government reached an agreement with Brazilian President Vargas to provide a $10 million interest-free loan for Brazil to build a steel plant in Volta Ranch.
This marks that Brazil has officially abandoned Germany and joined the American camp. From this we can see how much influence a modern steel plant will have on the Brazilian government.
In fact, to outsiders, the so-called joint venture negotiations seemed to have gone through repeated consultations, and even attracted big capital in Brazil to want to participate. Unfortunately, they didn't know that all this was just a show.
Therefore, the big capital in Brazil is destined to gain nothing.
On July 13, Fangyuan Group officially announced the establishment of a joint venture and began investment negotiations with the government, planning to invest 20 million US dollars to build a steel plant and a shipyard in Brazil.
Fang Lang was naturally very happy to receive this news, which also dispelled the depressed mood he had been feeling for days.
On the morning of July 14, the radar of the House detected a ship approaching the House. Fang Lang thought that the Japanese were finally going to fight, so he quickly ordered the House to turn.
However, when the enemy entered the visual range of the lookout, they found that it was a wooden fishing boat. This made the crew of the House feel bored, and they thought that the Japanese were attacking in a wooden fishing boat.
Just as he was about to aim at the opponent and kill him with one shot, Fang Lang suddenly remembered that his sixth sense didn't seem to sense any hostility this time!
He then ordered the boatswain to take ten soldiers in a transport boat to check the situation. Don't wait, it would be a big crime if it turns out to be a fisherman.
Soon the boatswain brought back two men dressed like fishermen and reported to Fang Lang that they were intelligence officers of the National Army and hoped to meet with the Allied commander.
Fang Lang looked at the two of them carefully for a while and then said:
"What are you doing here? What are you doing here?!"
The two men were initially nervous when they saw that the soldiers who led them here included several yellow people and one black man. When they got closer, they saw that the flag on the warship was something they had never seen before, and they were wondering!
I heard an officer on the other side asking in Chinese, and I was even more stunned. An older man who looked to be about fifty years old took the initiative to speak:
"Sir, are you from the Allied Forces?"
The other person's voice was obviously much younger! This made Fang Lang look at the man opposite him more carefully. He turned around and whispered to the boatswain:
"Has he been searched?"
I was thinking to myself, what if two Japanese spies come to assassinate me at close range? That would be very embarrassing.
The boatswain nodded.
Fang Langcai replied:
"We are an Allied warship. Who are you?"
After hearing Fang Lang's answer, the two of them were obviously relieved. The man who took the initiative to speak continued:
"Sir, you speak Mandarin very well. My name is Zhong Ze, and I am a major intelligence officer at the Shanghai Station of the National Government's Military Intelligence Bureau. The person next to me is my translator Qiu Yuyi. Nice to meet you."
These two people were the first batch of real fellow countrymen that Fang Lang met after his rebirth. However, Fang Lang was very aware of the power of the Japanese intelligence agencies, so he couldn't trust them easily.
Don't wait until the Japanese take advantage of you, or you'll be in big trouble.
"Do you have any evidence?"
Zhong Ze glanced at the soldiers standing guard with guns in hand around him, and pointed to the position of his belt.
Fang Lang understood what he meant. He didn't say anything but just nodded his head. Then a soldier stepped forward and fumbled along the direction the man pointed. He soon found a hard object. He took it out, checked it, and then handed it to Fang Lang.
Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be an identity document, which roughly meant that the National Army had sent two personnel from the Military Intelligence Bureau to board the ship to discuss a plan to jointly attack the Japanese army, and this was to certify something like that.
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