While the dignitaries of the U.S. government were struggling with the Nicaragua Canal, Jochen embarked on his own sightseeing tour of the East Coast of the United States, leaving all the negotiations to Foreign Secretary Bilo.

The fact that the right to dig the Nicaragua Canal is in the hands of Germany is a bomb that has not yet been detonated for the United States, and the fuse is in the hands of the Germans, so Jochen is not in a hurry, it is the Americans who are in a hurry. As for the transfer of the right to dig the Nicaragua Canal, Jochen did not make too high demands on Bilo and others, after all, he was here to promote German-American friendship and not to undermine German-American relations, so it was impossible to make things too difficult for the United States.

In addition, I don't want to stay in Washington, D.C. to bargain with Roosevelt and others, so it's better to leave professional things to professional people.

Jochen himself took Mary to travel and sightseeing in major cities on the West Coast, meeting with representatives from all walks of life, giving public speeches, showing off his acting skills and brushing up the goodwill of the American people. He also met with the Germans in the United States, deepened exchanges, interacted in tandem, and asked the Germans to unite as one, care for each other, help each other, and make efforts to promote mutual understanding and friendly exchanges between the American and German peoples.

Because Jochen is free and democratic on American soil, American newspapers have given Jochen the title of "free and enlightened monarch", which has greatly increased Jochen's prestige.

However, these leisurely days did not last long, and the development of the situation in the Far East forced the pace of negotiations between the United States and Germany to be accelerated.

"There was a fierce battle between the Russian Navy and the Japanese Navy in the Tsushima Strait, the Russian Navy suffered a crushing defeat, 5 warships fled into Manila and were detained after being disarmed by the Far Eastern Fleet? What about the specifics? How much did the Japanese lose? Jochen, who was visiting Wèn in Seattle, received a telegram from the Philippines on the evening of June 1.

"I'm really sorry, Your Majesty, after the Russian warship entered the north of Manila and detained us, the Far Eastern Fleet immediately questioned and investigated the officers and men of the Russian Navy. However, the Russian side's dictation was very chaotic, so it was very difficult to sort out the information and straighten out the context, and the information sent by the Far Eastern Fleet was only a guess from the Far East Fleet, while we had no information from the Japanese side at all. The military attache stationed in the United States who came to deliver the letter replied cautiously.

"It doesn't matter, the Japanese will definitely make a big deal about it if they get such a big victory. The United States will surely get the news soon, and tomorrow's newspapers will publish the news from the Japanese side, so you can go down first, and I will first look at the information from the Far East Fleet. Jochen waved his hand and said disapprehantly.

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Although the Far Eastern Fleet's report was confusing about naval warfare, it was clear and consistent about the movements of the Russian fleet after Rozhestvinsky left Manila.

Before departing from Manila, Roger Stevensky sent an envelope to all captains. Asked to be opened after the road, the envelope contained a small piece of paper on which Rozhest Stevensky wrote in beautiful floral script the direction of the Russian fleet "Tsushima".

This was exactly the route that the Japanese wanted the Russians to take, because the narrow terrain of the Tsushima Strait allowed the Japanese to attack the Russian fleet many times along the way, and the Russian fleet had to be annihilated, and if the Russian fleet was allowed to run away, the consequences would be unimaginable.

You must know that after the news of the arrival of the Russian fleet in the Far East, panic had already begun in Japan. The number of sea freight has been greatly reduced, and there is a shortage of raw materials in the Kansai Osaka generation. Factory shutdowns have already begun to occur.

If the Russian fleet cannot be completely annihilated, then this threat will persist, and if the Russians go to the Pacific Ocean, then the chances of the Japanese being able to attack will be greatly reduced, and then it will be difficult to completely annihilate the Russian fleet.

If the Russian fleet took the Tsushima Strait, the Japanese had carefully prepared a set of "seven-stage operations" to launch seven attacks between the Tsushima Strait and Vladivostok. Send the entire Russian fleet to the bottom of the sea.

However, even if Rozhestvinsky chose the Tsushima route, the Japanese did not know it, and the Russian fleet was very cautious along the way, and since its departure from Manila, the Russian fleet has changed its habit of being brightly lit along the way. Strict lighting controls were imposed at night, even the anti-collision sidelights that had to be turned on were reduced to a minimum standard, and radio silence was implemented.

It can be said that the Russians did a good job of secrecy at this time, but after that, the information provided by the Russian sailors made Jochen unbearable to look at directly, and it can be said that the Russians sent themselves to the cemetery.

Although it did its own secrecy work, it was inevitable to run into other ships during the voyage, but the Russian Navy was not a pirate after all, and could not kill people, so it could only intercept the ship first and force it to act with the fleet.

Originally, after the Russian fleet arrived in Manila, everyone knew that this route was unsafe, and there were not many ships to go, but the Russians still had a stubble, first intercepting the British oil tanker Ort on May 19? Not long after the Hamyan forced the ship to go with the fleet, it hijacked the Norwegian freighter No. 2 Oscar, but I don't know what kind of mentality, after the inspection, the Russians actually let go of the freighter.

Maybe the Russians didn't know what was going on, but Jochen knew that the ship was chartered by Mitsui & Co. of Japan, so what happened next must be the same as in history, and the crew of the Second Oscar "casually asked: "Where are you going?" And the Russian officers and soldiers replied casually: "Go to Tsushima." ”

Immediately after the release of the Second Oscar, he sent a telegram to the Tokyo headquarters, which was then forwarded to the base camp and then to Heihachiro Togo.

Seeing this, Yochen had to say that this was really the inertia of history, if the Russian fleet could pull itself from Manila sooner or later, it might not necessarily meet this ship, but the speed of the old ships of the Third Pacific Fleet determined their arrival time, and the time of Rozhest Stevensky's departure did not change much, so it became inevitable to meet the second Oscar.

However, this was not the only mistake of Rogerstvinsky, and on May 25th, Roderstinsky made a second mistake, when the fleet passed through Shanghai, he ordered the coal carriers that had been following the fleet to Shanghai, and angrily gave the flag of farewell and thanks on the flagship Duke Suvorov, and Roderstvinsky stood on the bridge with all the officers to watch the transports leave the formation, and Jochen could imagine that the atmosphere must have been very sad.

Rogerstinsky's original intention was that the battle was imminent, and the non-combat ships should be left first, but Rogerstvinsky did not let all the non-combat ships leave, ammunition carriers, repair work ships, and hospital ships were still in the fleet, and in order to protect these ships, they had to separate very valuable ships to escort them, anyway, they all carried these burdens, so why care about the 6 coal carriers?

More importantly, after these coal carriers entered the port of Shanghai, Mitsui & Co.'s Shanghai branch immediately informed the Japanese mainland of the situation, and based on the fact that there were no coal carriers in the Russian fleet, it was concluded that the Russians had no choice but to take the Tsushima Strait, because the Russians did not have the amount of coal to burn around the Pacific Ocean and through the Tsugaru Strait or the Soya Strait.

Two days later, Roderstvinsky made another big mistake, and this time the mistake directly led to the whereabouts of the Russian fleet exposed, on the night of May 27, near the Shirase Atoll in the Goto Islands, the Russian fleet encountered Japanese merchant ships, and the Russian fleet at that time ignored the light control order, and her bright light made the other party immediately find her.

The merchant ship tracked and sailed around the Eagle for 2 hours, and after the Eagle found out, it actually sent a light signal to the other party in plain language to ask the other party to identify itself, and the other party continued to track the Eagle until dawn, and the entire Russian fleet was immediately exposed to the other side.

The Russian fleet, which had already discovered the opposing side, did not react, and the Russian ships received an order from Rozhestvinsky: "Leave her alone, speed up." ”

Perhaps by this time it was already normal to be discovered, but Rogerst Winsky did not realize that the Japanese had been waiting for him for a long time, and did not give the order to "prepare for battle", did he really think that he could slip through by speeding up?

The Russian fleet's refusal to attack the Japanese merchant ships emboldened the Japanese to follow the Russian fleet, and the actions of the Russian fleet were thus broadcast live, and the Russian fleet did not fail to intercept the radio signals sent from the merchant ship.

At this time, the Japanese Navy was equipped with a Type 36 radio with a stable communication distance of 180 nautical miles, and if the Japanese ships were allowed to sail beside them, the movements and information of the Russian fleet would be seen by the Japanese at a glance, and Rodger Stevensky would no longer be able to escape.

The big battle was imminent, and the forward formation of the Russian fleet was not adjusted, and the cruisers, which were originally flexible and maneuvering, taking advantage of their speed advantage to clear the threat of small ships of the Japanese Navy, were left in the rear of the fleet, and torpedo assaults should be carried out, and the mine-striking ships entangled with the enemy's large ships were placed on the sides of the battleships, and the reason was that if the battleships were heavily damaged, the commander could quickly transfer to the mine-striking ships and continue to direct the battle.

The three-way column in this arrangement reduced the combat effectiveness of the Russian fleet to the lowest point, and then in the face of the prepared Japanese combined fleet, sinking became the only result. (To be continued......)