The war is imminent, and the military port naturally activates the highest level of defense and vigilance, but fortunately, Li Chengtai took Liu Jin's token and traveled unhindered all the way, and soon arrived at the combat conference room.

The battle reports from the front came one after another, and the communications officer did not dare to say more, but just put the letters on the table, turned around and hurried away. The letter was quickly picked up by the staff officers, almost all of them only glanced at it in a hurry, and quickly updated the coordinates and recent situation on the arming map on the wall, and everyone lowered their voices to talk, and the atmosphere in the conference room could be described as extremely depressing. Li Chengtai didn't dare to enter rashly, so the communications officer sent to and from there helped bring the token in. After a while, Lu Canghan hurriedly greeted him, he knew this token, not to mention sending officers, it was not a problem to transfer ships, when the two were engaged, Liu Jin gave the token to Lin Wanjing as a gift, that is, when the Lin family was in trouble, she never took it out as a life-saving straw, and now she actually sacrificed her privileges, which shows that it is 100,000 urgent, and there is no delay.

But seeing that it was Li Chengtai standing under the corridor, Lu Canghan couldn't help frowning:

"How are you? Didn't the young marshal take you to protect the safety of his wife? ”

"The phone line of the Imperial Kuntai has been intercepted. Madame was worried that the previous arming plan would be completely leaked, which would be detrimental to the young marshal, so she sent me to send this over. ”

Lu Canghan was surprised to open the letter wrapped in silk handkerchief, but saw a coordinate written on the yellowish page, corresponding to an island arc chain known as "Chaozhuyu".

Although the offshore waters of Luzhou are surrounded by a number of islands of various sizes, this island arc is indeed special - this chain of islands is hilly and lush on the hills, which can provide perfect cover for ships.

Under the coordinates, there are eight words in the book, "Hide from the sky and cross the sea, and the golden cicada sheds its shell", and then look at the model of the thorn bird wrapped together, Lu Canghan's doubts became deeper and deeper:

"What do you mean, ma'am?"

So Lee Seung-tae succinctly recounted what had just happened, adding:

"Madame repeatedly confirmed with me that the Thornbird was a British-made battleship, and said that the land general returned from a study tour in Japan, and he should still remember the Japanese emperor's military parade in Edo Port."

Lin Wanjing actually knew that he and Liu Jin watched the military parade in the military port together, and it seems that Liu Jin mentioned the events of the year to her. But this did remind him of a dusty past - at that time, they were still ignorant teenagers, and they only found the colorful flag language very interesting, and remembered a lot at the moment, especially the set of salutes to the emperor, in the early days of the formation of the fleet, they also used this set of flag language to stumble with each other, but they also had a lot of fun.

Looking down at the eight words written on the letterhead, he suddenly understood what Lin Wanjing meant: she wanted him to find a way to let the Thorn Bird blend into the Japanese fleet to create chaos, after all, the Thorn Bird hadn't even brushed the name of the ship.

No painting is the best disguise.

Lu Canghan sorted out his thoughts again, and really felt that this plan was feasible, and couldn't help but praise:

"Yun Rou really hides a piece of beautiful jade, your wife is a talented woman, no wonder even the Japanese are afraid of her." At this point, his expression sank suddenly: "She's still in the Imperial Kuntai now?!" ”

Since even the telephone line can be manipulated, I am afraid that the ill-intentioned eyeliner has already been planted by Lin Wanjing's side, and the Yukuntai is no longer a safe haven, but the center of the storm.

"Madame should go to the British Consulate at this moment. She said a convoy of troop carriers passed by in the afternoon, waiting offshore for supplies. The first mate of the fleet was her alien brother, and she took the opportunity to ask him to bring some of the scenery back with him. ”

At three o'clock in the afternoon, a convoy of British troop transports would arrive in the waters near the merchant port, and although it was a cruiser, its weapons were mostly defensive and did not pose a threat. This fleet departed from the west coast of the Americas, and of course passed through the "Chaozhu Island" to replenish supplies, and there was a section of overlap with the route of the thorn birds. They are all British-made ships, and if you don't recognize the flags, it is difficult to distinguish the identity of the ships even if they are close in front of you, let alone in the coastal waters of Chaozhuyu Island, which is dozens of nautical miles away from the commercial port.

Originally, I was worried that if the Japanese side noticed a loophole in the patrol of the commercial port, the Japanese fleet would be on guard. never thought that Lin Wanjing would even solve this problem. It's a bit adventurous, but it's worth a try!

"Be brave and resourceful! Canghan admires! Lu Canghan did not hesitate to praise, but after finishing his words, he changed his words: "It's just that if this battle is won, Wan Jing will definitely be in the realm of right and wrong, and you should go back to your wife as soon as possible, and you must protect her no matter what." ”

Li Chengtai didn't dare to slack off, took the token, said cherished, and turned to leave.

At 3 p.m., the sound of sharp shells breaking through the air tore apart the calm of the open sea, and after four hours of maneuvering in the coastal waters, the Japanese fleet finally lost its patience and fought without declaring war.

The first shot of naval guns should have been coming towards Liu Jin's flagship, but the distance was far beyond the effective range, so the shot of the stone-throwing just fell into the sea and exploded into a huge wave.

The Luzhou fleet seemed to be stunned by this sudden blow, and it took a long time to react, and then it returned fire with sporadic artillery fire, strafing while retreating north.

Twenty minutes later, the first battleship of the Luzhou fleet was shot and sank.

"The Luzhou fleet didn't even have the courage to stop and hang on to its comrades, and it fled in a hurry desperately, and even the formation was out of order."

When Shinichiro Kitano and his staff member Nakamura received the telegram, they looked disdainful of disdain.

"I said earlier, the Luzhou fleet is nothing more than a paper tiger, so there is nothing to be afraid of!" Kitano laughed arrogantly and instructed the fleet to pursue the victory, and it was best to completely crush the Luzhou fleet, and vent his anger for the grievances he suffered in the two collegial panels.

After another ten minutes, Kitano received a second telegram, the fleet reported that it had encountered a "ghost ship" during the pursuit, the hull of the ship was not painted without any paint, and the personnel on the ship were all wearing civilian clothes, and they did not know much about the battle flag, but repeatedly waved the flag of "Long live the emperor". Although the equipment is far superior to any warship in the fleet, for some reason, it looks stupid.

Kitano immediately stroked his palms and laughed, sighing that it was providence to help him, and this battle would be won! These ghost ships are not part of the army, roaming the seas on weekdays, waiting for opportunities to plunder merchant ships and fishing boats, using this kind of pirate dispatch to hoard additional armaments, maneuvering, strong ships and guns, and most of them are well aware of the terrain and wind and water currents in the nearby seas, if they participate in the war, they will be able to strengthen their wings and be invincible.

Nakamura is even more playful, these ghost ships are already outside the establishment, they are squeezed out by the regular army, and they have not bought each other for a long time. So he improvised a proposal to let the two fleets compete, based on the hit rate, and if the number of Luzhou fleets was sunk, there would be a huge reward.

The bounty instructions were transmitted to the fleet, and the improvised "stepping stone" fleet exploded in an instant, and saw that the ghost ships that had just joined rushed out of the battle formation first, and the other ships could not bear it, and the war telegrams came one after another, and the lead ships simply gave up control and announced that they had entered the free combat mode, so Kitano received the third telegram:

"The seven warships are like hounds chasing hares frantically, fighting for their own honor!"

The Japanese fleet wantonly chased the Luzhou fleet retreating north, but they didn't know that they were the fish that were trapped, and rushed into the ambush circle of the Luzhou fleet without hesitation.

With a huge explosion, the first destroyer plunged headlong into the dense bay, and the other ships that followed before they could figure out what was going on, but they were all unable to stop in time due to the full-speed pursuit, and crashed into the smoke caused by the explosion, and then there was no suspense that the thunder deflagred, and the explosions resounded one after another in the bay, and when the invading fleet that followed realized that the situation was wrong, the shells that returned fire had passed through the flames and smoke, and smashed into the destroyer group like a shower. The Luzhou fleet hidden in the smoke screen tacitly fired at each other, as if it did not need to be loaded with shells, and there was almost no breathing space for the invading warships, so even if the invading fleet that was temporarily dispatched and pieced together was equipped with advanced weapons and equipment, it was useless, and could only carry the fierce artillery fire of the Luzhou fleet and shoot blindly at the water column and smoke rushing forward.

The battlefield carefully selected by the Luzhou fleet is at the mouth of the Xijiang River, the Xijiang River rushes out from the valley, and the turbulent undercurrent pushes the fuel leaked from the damaged ships to the open sea, the fuel is ignited, and the wind blowing out of the valley is more and more intense, and the already uncalm sea suddenly burns into a sea of fire, and the invading fleet has already been damaged to varying degrees in the artillery battle. The rest of the battleships that were still functionally intact also had no intention of fighting, and hurriedly turned to try to get out of the battlefield, but it was only at this time that the invaders found that the ghost ship that they encountered halfway had circled behind them, loaded their guns, and aimed at their stern.

**The sound of explosions gradually calmed down, so the invaders saw the Luzhou fleet through the smoke and flames, crushing the wreckage of the sunken ships that had been hit by mines, and came towards them, without any chance to raise the white flag and surrender, and the damaged hull had been tilted and sunk under the close attack of heavy artillery.

"Devil! Liu Jin and his fleet are the devil who crawled out of hell! We're done. ”

This was Kitano's last battle report, and no news came from him since.

Half an hour later, the diplomat, who had been planning just now, could no longer be calm, and drove to the Shui Wuyue Mansion on the street adjacent to the War Department.