There is no doubt that in the field of naval affairs, the Royal Navy of the British Empire is now the undisputed thickest thigh in the world.

Valentine's words are theoretically correct, as long as they fight in conjunction with the Royal Navy of the British Empire, even fishing boats can win.

It's like O'Neal complaining about Rodman: My grandma and Jordan can play together and win championships.

In fact, Rodman is really not as unbearable as O'Neal complained, but he is also the man Madonna has a crush on, and he must have something extraordinary-

Don't think crookedly, after all, he is a seven-time rebounding champion and a two-time best defensive player.

The same is true of the Southern African Navy, which was able to keep up with the pace of the British Navy, from logistics during the Battle of the Dardanelles to direct involvement in the Battle of Jutland, which is a testament to the speed of progress of the Southern African Navy.

If the Southern African Navy is really as unbearable as Valentine described, then it is not qualified to fight with the British Navy at all, such as the Portuguese fleet, which is not qualified to participate in the Battle of Jutland.

It's not that people don't take you to play, but your ship is too backward, the speed is slow, the firepower is weak, and the protection is seriously insufficient.

Valentine certainly does not have this consciousness, and his thinking is actually no problem, 30 years of the army, 50 years of the air force, 100 years of the navy, this is the consensus of the whole world.

Ten years ago, no one could have imagined that Southern Africa would soar into a world war.

As Harrison had imagined, southern Africa's patience was limited, and three days after the seizure of the "Fufu", the heavy cruiser "Johannesburg" arrived at the outer port of Sao Tome and Principe with two light cruisers, four destroyers, as well as a supply ship and a hospital ship, while six bombers of the Southern African Air Force circled over Sao Tome in formation.

Angus, the special envoy of the Federal Government of Southern Africa, also came to Sao Tome to ask to meet with the crew of the "Fufu".

As for the goods loaded on the "Fufu", it is no longer important, the fruit cannot be stored for a long time, it will have to be dumped into the sea if it is not delivered to Paris within the specified time, and the refrigeration time of the beef will also affect the taste, these are not important, anyway, the goods on the "Fufu" ship must be paid by the Portuguese government in the end.

I just don't know how much the Portuguese government will pay for this.

"Why can't you meet the crew?" Whether Angus is white British or from an aristocratic background, this identity is still a bit deterrent.

At least the Portuguese government did not dare to seize Angus.

The seizure of a member of the nobility is a provocation that can provoke war.

"The crew of the 'Fufu' has collectively contracted a strange illness and is being treated in lockdown and cannot be visited." Harrison tried to stall as much as he could, trying to reassure the crew and try to cover it up.

"It's okay, I brought a doctor with me to treat the crew better." Angus was not arrogant in his disdain for the medical care of São Tomé and Principe, and the level of medical care in southern Africa, honed by the world wars, is now recognized as the best in the world.

It doesn't take too much to be the best in the world, just one.

During the Russo-Japanese War, other European countries sent military observer missions to East Asia, but southern Africa sent medical missions.

That is, since the beginning of the Russo-Japanese War, medical treatment in southern Africa has been on the right track, first the Johannesburg Pharmaceutical Company, which has developed into a pharmaceutical group, then the Johannesburg Medical School, and then the University of Nyasaland Medical School, and now almost all institutions of higher learning in southern Africa have medical branches, with more than 3,000 graduates every year, many graduates are hired by hospitals or clinics in Britain and France with high salaries, and doctors have become the most popular profession in southern Africa.

It is about the same status as a soldier and a teacher.

"No, no, no, the doctors you bring are not well informed, they will fully recover after a while, and this disease is more dangerous than the flu in the United States, the probability of contagion is high, and the risk in the hospital is very high." Harrison found the best excuse for the fact that now as long as the crew was appeased, the dead crew members were "ineffective due to illness".

"Your Excellency the Governor, those crew members are from southern Africa, and the doctors I brought with me are also doctors from southern Africa, and doctors from southern Africa treat southern Africans without considering the risks." Angus is righteous, and when it comes to the American flu, no one understands it better than Southern Africa.

Harrison was speechless for a moment, but his attitude was still resolute.

"Your Excellency the Governor, I now have serious suspicions that our crew has been seriously harmed, and if you are persistent, it will have a serious impact on the relations between our two countries." Angus used three "serious" in a row, and Harrison's obstruction made Angus realize that things were going in a more dangerous direction.

"Mr. Angus, you know, our Navy is enforcing the law—" Harrison tried to find an excuse for the Navy's atrocities.

"No, Your Excellency the Governor, your navy has no law enforcement authority over our ships of the British Empire!" Angus was righteous, the ships of the British Empire, when it was the turn of the Portuguese to enforce the law.

Harrison was about to speak, it was really hard to talk about.

Angus is not in a hurry, the Southern African fleet is cruising off the coast of Sao Tome and Principe, and the bombers of Southern Africa are circling over Sao Tome, and if the crew of the "Rich" is harmed, then the federal government will definitely take advantage of the problem.

Don't think that as soon as West Africa became independent, Southern Africa would show mercy to the Portuguese.

No, for southern Africa, it is advisable to chase the poor bravely, and it is not the king to learn from the overlord, Portugal has lost West Africa, so it is normal to lose Sao Tome and Principe.

Sao Tome and Principe is an archipelago in the southeast of the Gulf of Guinea on the west side of central Africa, 201 kilometers east of the African continent, consisting of 14 islands including Sao Tome and Principe, with a total area of 1,001 square kilometers.

Sao Tome and Principe is small in size, but it is very important in its geographical position, right on the shipping route from southern Africa to Europe, and it was when it passed through Sao Tome and Principe that the "Fufu" was seized by the Portuguese navy.

If Sao Tome and Príncipe were to be captured, there would be an additional relay station for ships from southern Africa to and from Europe, and the security would be more secure.

"Your Excellency the Governor, 24 hours, you only have 24 hours-" Angus was aggressive, as if Angus was more like the Governor than Harrison: "-24, if you don't release the crew of the 'Fufu', then we, the Federal Government of Southern Africa, will regard the seizure of the 'Fufu' as an act of war!" ”

Angus gave Harrison an ultimatum that in just three days, southern Africa was ready for war, the army was massing towards Cabinda and Luanda, the First Fleet was ready for the transition, the airfields in Cabinda and Luanda were full of bombers, and the Umbrella Company was ready to intercept Portuguese ships in the Suez Canal.

After the loss of West Africa, Portugal's overseas colonies remained only Cape Verde, Sao Tome Principe, and Guinea-Bissau in Africa, and East Timor, Goa, and Ma-Harbour in Asia.

Needless to say, Cape Verde and São Tomé are archipelagos, strategically important and of little economic value, Guinea-Bissau covers an area of only 36,000 square kilometers, and only became a Portuguese colony in 1879 and has not yet been fully developed.

The Portuguese colonies in Asia had to be connected to the Portuguese mainland through the Suez Canal, or through the Pacific Ocean to bypass the Americas and then across the Atlantic.

"Angus, war is a disaster for all of us, and we should learn from the world war-" Harrison said bitterly, that is, Angus is British, and if Angus is African, do you see if Harrison will be so peace-loving.

"Your Excellency the Governor, this is not our southern Africa deliberately provoked the incident, it is you who seized our merchant ships for no reason, and then led to the situation, of course we in southern Africa love peace, but we are not afraid of war." Angus was indifferent, and now he said it so nicely, why did he seize merchant ships in southern Africa in the first place?

"Angus, the seizure of the merchant ship is not a decision of the Portuguese government, but a private act of the navy, and we have punished the person involved to strictly prevent similar incidents from happening again." Harrison also knows the reason, but in Harrison's position, he must find the right reason.

"And then? That's it? Angus is not satisfied, the so-called "punishment" is mostly two days of confinement, or a penalty of salary, which is not painful at all.

This result is absolutely unacceptable in Southern Africa.

"Of course not, we will also compensate the 'Fury', and we will buy all the goods on board at the highest price on the market-" Harrison made a condition, as long as there was no war, it was easy to say.

"Okay, then I'm going to meet with the captain first to determine our losses-" Angus still wants to see the captain, although Angus doesn't know what happened yet, but Harrison's attitude obviously makes Angus feel abnormal.

"The captain has contracted that strange disease, too—" Harrison used this as an excuse to organize a meeting between Angus and the captain.

"Your Excellency the Governor, I warn you that if anything goes wrong with our crew, it will be considered an act of war." Angus was so fierce that he was now skeptical that the crew was still alive.

If, according to Harrison, the crew contracted a more severe illness than the "American flu", it seems normal that the mortality rate is relatively high.

It seems—

This was even more unacceptable to Angus.