"It can't be! How did the Japanese buy 4 Nisshin-type armored cruisers? Didn't the Japanese have only two? Didn't the Germans build a total of 4 armored cruisers of this type? How could they all be here in the Japanese fleet? That's impossible! Severa yelled a little frantically!

"It's all a conspiracy! A conspiracy! The battleships ordered by the Brazilians were actually Japanese, and because the Russians gave up on the plans of the Japanese, what a great irony that the Americans thought they were clever but helped their real enemy! Japan wanted to take the Philippines from us at the very beginning, and the British helped them deceive the whole world! A series of tears filled Sevela's cheeks. Okay, in that case, you can play slowly! ”

At this time, the Japanese apparently did not know how much shock their actions had brought to the Spaniards, and when the two sides approached about 4,000 meters, the flagship Nisshin issued a flag that the two sides had declared war and demanded that the Spanish fleet surrender. He said that as long as the other side left the battleship, then the personal safety of the officers and men of the Spanish Navy would be guaranteed. and indicated that there was a third party willing to vouch for the Spanish fleet.

After the signal was sent, John. Jericho came to the scene, offering to vouch for the promise of the Japanese as an officer in the Royal Navy. Anyway, the British have not done this kind of thing once or twice, and in the last stage of the siege of Weihai, the Japanese Combined Fleet entrusted Philimant, the commander of the Far East Fleet of the British Royal Navy, who had watched the battle, to deliver a letter of persuasion to surrender. And this time it's just a lieutenant colonel to do it for you.

The Japanese fleet cruised around the perimeter, while Jericho and his party boarded the cruiser Carlos V in small boats. When Jericho boarded the battleship, he looked at the devastated battleship with a serious expression, "It seems that the Americans are also very strong in combat." Jericho said in his heart.

In the officer's cafeteria, which was still intact, Jericho saw the emaciated Evera. Later, he informed the other party of the Japanese conditions and took out a document signed by himself.

"We can hand over this ship to the Japanese, but we don't have the slightest trust in the Japanese, and even with your guarantee, we still don't feel at ease. Because before that, your country and Japan blatantly deceived the whole world. Severa looked thoughtfully at the four armored cruisers in the distance.

"Huh." Jericho naturally knew what Severa was talking about, "The British Empire and the Japanese are in the same group, so they can't be counted as a third party, and we don't think that because you are a lieutenant colonel, the Japanese can really keep their promises." What the Japanese are doing is clear to us, and I am responsible for my boys to bring the rest back to Spain safely. ”

"You're embarrassing me, and don't you think you're running out of options now? I can guarantee it. Jericho struggled to explain.

"Find a third-party merchant ship or warship, and then send me and my brothers to a safe place, and then the battleship will be handed over to the Japanese to take over, this is our condition! And we will definitely not destroy the battleship. Evera ignored Jericho's rhetoric and repeatedly emphasized.

"It's a hard request! It's hard for us to be satisfied. Jericho repeatedly emphasized that now that the United States and Japan have declared war on Spain at the same time, there is chaos in this sea area, and ordinary civilian ships will try to avoid going here, and it is obviously impossible for the Japanese fleet to stay here for too long. It's not that Jericho doesn't want to help, it's that he really can't help! And he still couldn't understand why Evera stubbornly asked to go to a third country, isn't it good to be a prisoner? Could it be that the credibility of the British Empire was really such that no one believed it?

"No, it's easy, you see, over there, there are two French battleships, these two battleships are enough to transfer all the people to the French colonies, and in order to guarantee that we can travel our promise, we can use Japanese dinghys to transfer personnel. What do you think? Mr. Lieutenant Colonel? Severa said.

Jericho had to admire the luck of the Spaniards that he was really good, and he was able to meet the French, but this was not a problem in his opinion, since the Spaniards were willing to go, it was not unacceptable to let the Spaniards leave while preserving the battleship, and according to the rough investigation of the British, the battleship had lost power, so all that remained was towing, as long as there were a small number of personnel to take care of the battleship, and considering that the Carlos V was originally also a German battleship, Operationally speaking, it has something in common with the Nisshin, so the Japanese fleet readily accepted this request, as long as the Spaniards handed over the battleship, then they could leave!

The French were also a little stunned when they saw the huge Japanese fleet, as an old enemy, the French were very concerned about every move of the Germans in military affairs, and as the pinnacle of the German Navy's export, the Nisshin armored cruiser was naturally the top priority of the French, and now, the warships that originally belonged to the two countries actually appeared in the Far East, all of which is intriguing.

However, the French were obviously not welcome here, and if it were not for the fact that the Japanese needed to use French warships to divert the Spaniards, then I am afraid that they would have sent warships to disperse the French a long time ago. And the French were willing to help with the transfer of personnel, so under the unkind gaze of the Japanese, hundreds of surviving Spaniards left their flagship, and after the Japanese boarded the battleship and raised the Japanese naval flag, the war had nothing to do with the Spanish navy!

However, after the Spaniards left, the Japanese made a difficulty, what to do with this half-crippled battleship that had already been messed up by the Americans and the Spaniards? According to the idea of the Japanese, it must be brought back, but the deck of this battleship is only more than 2 meters from the sea, and it has lost power, so the Japanese can only tow it back with a battleship, and it is definitely not possible to tow a battleship with small power, so if you want to take it away, you need at least a Japanese-class armored cruiser. If it's peacetime, it's nothing. But it's a time of war, and God knows when the Americans will pounce!

"The fleet must remain intact to guard against the American fleet, the Americans are still in the south, according to Severa's confession, the Americans have also suffered heavy losses in this battle, and need to supply and repair their own warships, so they will not be able to come for a while, in this case, the enemy poses little threat to the landing force in Luzon, and we can pull the battleship to Taiwan first, and then send it to Shanghai or Hong Kong after a simple rush repair." After comprehensively analyzing the intelligence from all sides, Shikiri Kayama ordered, and so far, the United States and Japan have not declared war, and the possibility of the Americans taking the initiative is very small.

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