In the days before the advent of radio communications, it was not easy to turn a fleet sailing at sea, and it was even more difficult to turn the Far Eastern Fleet, commanded by Vice Admiral Edmund Fremantle, north.

In view of Vice Admiral Filimante's performance in the early days of the Sino-Japanese War, the British Minister to China, Douglas, felt that it would be difficult for the Vice Admiral to turn north without any deterrence from the British Parliament's Task Force 38.

On July 25, 1894, the Naniwa of the foot basin chicken sank a troop transport ship of the Manchurian in the waters off Toshima in Korea, and the Sino-Japanese War officially broke out. However, the troop carrier that was sunk by the Footbasin Chicken Navy was an authentic British ship piloted by the British and flying the British flag.

After the news was transmitted back to London, it caused a boiling of public opinion in the United Kingdom. A group of Oriental dwarves dared to attack the merchant ships of the empire, and many arrogant John Bull "gentlemen" clamored for the government to take immediate revenge on the footbasin chickens. Vice Admiral Filimante, commander of the Far East Fleet, was the leader of these "hardliners", saying in a telegram to the Admiralty in London: "We should remove and arrest the captain of the Naniwa and the high-ranking officials who commanded the warship to be involved in the incident during the negotiations between the two countries (Manchu and Japan)." If the Japanese side does not comply, I should be authorized to retaliate. Above all, something should be done to make up for the insult to the British flag. ”

Of course, in the end, John Bull did not take any revenge on the footpot chicken over the "Gao Sheng" incident, because the financial owner behind this war is the John Bull government. However, Vice Admiral Filimante, the commander of the Far Eastern Fleet, who was not authorized, did not stop there. Ignoring the official reply sent to him by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs through the Admiralty, he directly led the main force of the fleet to question the commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet, Sukehiro Ito. Filimante, who had received no satisfactory answer from Ito, immediately informed all British ships in East Asia, saying that they would be provided with armed escorts, and ordered the Japanese navy to cease the exercise of search rights against British ships in order to ensure that "British ships should not be harassed under any circumstances." ”

If you think this thorn is going to stop there, then you're too young to be even more arrogant after you've done this. Mutsu Munemitsu, who was the foreign minister of the Foot Basin Chicken government at the time, described in his memoir "Jian Jian Lu" that the British Royal Navy's Far East Fleet always helped the Manchus before the war, and they would follow the Japanese navy warships and report the information they gathered to the Beiyang Fleet. Filimant himself fired a cannon salute when he met the Japanese fleet in the fog of dawn, revealing the location of the Japanese fleet to the Manchu fleet.

Based on the various pasts of this thorn-headed vice admiral, Dou Nale directly asked the Admiralty to order him to lead the main force of the Far East Fleet north into the Yellow Sea to further pressure the Great Song and Japanese people to achieve the goal of forcibly leasing Weihaiwei.

"Your Excellency, the Admiralty has ordered us to immediately adjust our course to the waters of the Yellow Sea." The adjutant handed the Admiralty telegram to Filimante.

"What? We didn't even see the shadow of the Tsarist Pacific Fleet and the 38th Task Force of the Great Song Dynasty, so we turned north? Is it our ships that have been attacked, or have our colonies been attacked?" Felimante said and snatched the telegram from the adjutant's hand.

"Do these soft-boned politicians think that they can make the Great Song people give in just by bluffing?! As long as we teach the 38th Task Force of the Great Song people a hard lesson in the South Pacific waters, the arrogant crown prince of the Great Song Dynasty will compromise on the Weihaiwei issue. Filimante said, waving the telegram in his hand.

Filimant's idea is not unreasonable, when you have a navy that can easily take out the Dutch Far East Fleet, you are unlikely to easily abandon a strategic location like Weihaiwei just by seeing the main force of someone else's fleet.

The commander of the Hong Kong Fleet, Colonel Percy Scott, had already made a detailed report to Fermante on the bombardment of Maguan by the giant battleship BB63 of the Great Song Dynasty, and the thorn-headed vice admiral knew very well that once the 38th Task Force of the Great Song Dynasty merged with the giant battleship, he would not be able to defeat the Great Song people even if he pulled all the large and small warships of the Far East Fleet.

Colonel Percy Scott was a naval commander with extensive combat experience, and Fermante believed every word he said about the description of that huge battleship. As for the politicians' argument that the shelling was a conspiracy to plant explosives in advance, Fierymant did not believe even a single punctuation mark. Only those fools who have never been on a warship would make such a stupid guess, and if you have the ability, you can also plant explosives to demonstrate such a great shelling for me!?

"Your Excellency, I don't think we can pose a real threat to the 38th Task Force of the Great Song Dynasty even if we bring all the main warships of the Far East Fleet. The Royal Navy of the British Empire has only one advantage over the Royal Navy of the Great Song Empire, and that is the number, which is dozens of times the number of warships of the Great Song Dynasty! Now that we have far from reaching this number of warships, it is better to follow the orders of the Admiralty and go north to bluff. Colonel Percy Scott said.

"No, once the 38th Task Force of the Great Song Dynasty and their giant battleship turn, we will pay an even greater price if we defeat them! The large supply ship (L9013), which had just appeared, must have brought important materials to support the Song people to continue their war. Filimante said.

The Travelers have always claimed that their supplies are airlifted by airplanes, and the spies entrenched in the Liaodong Peninsula have also seen large aircraft such as the AC-130U and Tu-160 roaming the Liaodong Peninsula. But as an experienced naval commander, Fremante knew that in order to keep a ship as large as a BB63 in operation, it was unreliable to rely on planes to deliver supplies, even if the planes were unusually large as the spies claimed.

Ferrimante predicted that the 20,000-ton large supply ship with a displacement that had only recently appeared in the South Pacific was the key to the Song Dynasty's giant battleship BB63 continuing to dominate the Far East.

At this time, the Great Song people relied on their giant battleship BB63 to force a landing in the Yantai area, and even if the main force of the Far East Fleet went north, it was impossible to deter the BB63, which was only a few dozen nautical miles away from the Liaodong Peninsula. On the contrary, once the giant supply ship escorted by the 38th Task Force of the Great Song Dynasty took the opportunity to enter the Port of Arthur, so that the BB63 could get the materials that could continue the war, and at that time, unless the British Empire sent the battleships of the Mediterranean Fleet and the Continental Fleet to the Far East, otherwise the Far East waters would be decided by the Great Song Dynasty.

It's better for the Great Song people to fight the Russians first, and then we pick up another leak, and then it couldn't be more perfect. It would also be a good choice if we first found a reason to fight with the Great Song people, and then lured the Russians to pick up the leaks, in short, we couldn't let the 38th Task Force of the Great Song people go north with that large supply ship, Filimant thought to himself.