Volume VIII 1288 Young Generation

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North of Taiwan Island, east of the Miyako Strait, the Zhiyuan is riding the wind and waves to the north at high speed, on the blue sea, a warship with steel plates covered with vicissitudes, splitting the waves more than three meters high, and other ships on the sea with a majestic posture to avoid it.

It is also strange to say that at this time, the island of Taiwan was still far from being developed, and the United States' exploration of the Pacific Ocean was only a superficial taste and did not go deeper, and the Miyako Strait was not a golden shipping route in the first place.

But today, as far as the Zhiyuan can see, you can always see the ships of all shapes and sizes shuttling back and forth.

There are merchant ships flying the flags of various countries, the latest distant-water fishing fleets in the Ryukyus, and even small clippers that are completely incomprehensible to the purpose of the ship.

These ships transmitted the enemy's every move and the battle ahead to the Zhiyuan as soon as possible, and completely relied on the intelligence network compiled by manpower to firmly control the huge sea area of the East China Sea.

The latest news from the intelligence ship No. 35 is that the Russian Diamond detachment has cleared the Miyako Strait two and a half hours ago, and is now rapidly heading north on the west side of the strait...... These are the coordinates when I first found out!"

Xiao Letian glanced at Wen Jiàn twice, and then threw the coordinates to Xiang Ying, who quickly marked the location of the Russian fleet on the chart.

The main Russian fleet crossed the waters of Kunikatou at 4:25 a.m. this morning, and it is expected that the battle will begin this morning...... Here are the coordinates of the Russian fleet at the time of discovery!"

"Well, mark!" Xiao Lotian took a big sip of a cup of coffee, followed by a big sigh.

"Let's go and rest in the cabin, there aren't many things going on right now, you can rest for at least four or five hours......," Cai Bixuan persuaded worriedly.

Xiao Lotian shook his head, "I can't sleep! This is a bit too big for me, to tell you, I always have a hunch until now, and I always feel that this plan is still not perfect!"

Xiang Ying pursed his lips: "You are masochistic! Where in the world is there a perfect strategy? War is originally a big gamble, all the classic battles in human history have a little luck factor in them, we have done our best, and God will take charge of the rest!"

"! I can say this kind of old-fashioned rhetoric, but you can't! The navy is a purely offensive branch, and what you want is a sharp blade, and what you want is to have the momentum of going away and moving forward without return! If you study this kind of illusory theory of luck at a young age, how dare I let you command warships again in the future?"

Xiang Ying stuck out his tongue, "I don't dare to agree with what you said! I think that in the battle, the soldier should be the indomitable momentum you said, and he should calculate everything to the full ......."

"But when it comes to strategy, trying to be perfect is a mental illness in itself! You can be perfect with tactics, but can you be perfect with strategy?"

"You, you stinky boy, you dare to talk back? It seems that I really have to mention that your uncle has cleaned you up......" Xiao Lotian feigned anger.

I don't know what's going on, Xiang Ying is not too afraid of Xiao Letian, maybe because he really has the genes of the overlord of Western Chu in his blood, and he naturally has a resistance to Xiao Letian's coercion.

Xiang Ying smiled evilly, turned his head and saw that Jae-chun was not in the command cabin, and the few people in front of him were all the prime minister's hardcore henchmen, such as Cai Bixuan, such as Jin Sanshun.

Xiang Ying lowered his voice and said to Xiao Letian, "If my guess is right, after the Rakshasa ghost this time, Prime Minister, you have to start distributing gift bags, right?"

"Emperor Tongzhi is going to Europe, you have to appease the Manchus before you go!

"Then there is Britain, I think you will have a secret agreement with the British Prime Minister for the spoils of war against Tsarist Russia, do you want to give up some of it? That's right, if you want to enter the club of the great powers, you have to give the boss a little sweetness first, we stepped on the corpse of Tsarist Russia to enter that threshold, but we are still weak among the great powers, you still have to hide it, don't you?"

"What is this? Is this called the imperfect law in grand strategy? The most taboo in the theory of feng shui qi luck is to take advantage of the heavenly opportunity, to put it bluntly, all the benefits are in your own hands and do not know how to share!"

"You wouldn't do that!Hahaha, you wouldn't be that extreme......"

Xiao Letian was amused by Xiang Ying's inattention, "Okay, this kind of thing is not something you should analyze, what about the Great Power Club? Do you think that you can enter the threshold by slaughtering these Rakshasa ghosts? How can it be so easy to enter!"

Xiang Ying clapped his hands, "That's right, so we have to add another fire, what kind of fire? I think it should be the future Franco-Prussian War......

"Slaughter the Tsarist Russian expeditionary force in front of you and give a large amount of benefits to the British, even if it is a bribe, it doesn't matter! These benefits are not lost in vain, at least in exchange for our new army to enter Europe...... Yes, yes, yes, we must ensure that the British will not stop the Zhiyuan and the Marines from visiting Europe!"

"When we are united with the Prussian soldiers, after we have entered Paris, after we have signed the agreement as victors at Versailles...... That's when our Chinese really enter the club of great powers!"

Xiao Letian's smile froze, his heart was like a typhoon, Xiang Ying's words today were really analyzed by himself? It is so consistent with his own grand strategy, this kid is a genius!

"You should think about it, you should think about it, shut up if you shouldn't think about it!" Xiao Letian scolded with a cold face, "Can the sharp weapon of the country be used to show off? What is the difference between you and the Hutong skewers in Sijiu City? Eight Banners analyzes the political situation, and there are more cattle than you, but what is the use of eggs! Do what you should do well, and worry less about idleness!"

Xiang Ying thought that the prime minister's strategy deduced by their hard work and hard work for more than half a year would be praised a little, but they never expected that the prime minister would reprimand them fiercely.

Xiang Ying, Lin Zhen, Jin Sanshun and other big men don't care, they went to work in disgrace, Cai Bixuan is a woman after all, so the prime minister was a little aggrieved when he scolded him, and his eyes were red.

"Cai Bixuan! You are the communications chief of the Zhiyuan, now you don't go to sort out the telegram, what kind of clothes are you putting on for me here? You remember for me, put on this military uniform, you are not a woman! If you want to cry, you can cry when you retire......

Cai Bixuan held back tears and turned his head and walked out of the command cabin with a military salute, and as soon as he closed the cold sea breeze on his face, tears fell uncontrollably.

"Woooooooooo......oo If we do something wrong, we will curse people! Why are we so unreasonable......