When the storm came, the Japanese finally gave up the pursuit and began to sail back in the direction of the main battlefield, the chase was too scattered just now, and now the Japanese need to gather their fleet and plan for the next move. To be honest, the Japanese also paid a certain price in this engagement, except for a torpedo killed Kasuga, the Fuji, which had been firing at Iowa, was the worst battleship in the Japanese fleet, and 3 of the 4 10-inch guns were destroyed. Half of the 6-inch guns on the side chord were broken. Although the Americans' artillery skills are not flattering, even Shiki Kayama believes that if they continue to chase and fight, it will be the end of the Fuji!

The Yashima, which was caught against the Brooklyn, was also broken, and the bridge of the original Gundam was full of traces left by high-explosive shells, huge bullet holes and traces of flames after high temperature burning, although the core cabin did not suffer any heavy losses, but it was inevitable to return to Hong Kong for a major repair.

The real intact combat effectiveness of the Japanese fleet was the 4 Asama-class armored cruisers produced by Bavaria, and now almost all the Japanese naval officers and sailors think that the 5 million pounds is too well spent! He even said that if the Japanese Navy orders another cruiser, then there is no need to think about other models, and 4 more will be according to this model! Of course, not to mention political issues, this budget alone has bought the officials of the Japanese Ministry of Finance to come to the Admiralty to fight hard.

But even so, the four big King Kongs in the Japanese Navy still need to go back to rest and recuperate, not to mention that the ammunition stock is a little insufficient. At first, the Japanese did not expect to fight the Americans so quickly, in order to ensure the speed of the voyage, the loading of ammunition and coal were limited, but now it is good, after winning the battle, they cannot take advantage of the victory to pursue, so they can only go home to replenish first. As for the other two cruisers? It also needs to go back and tinker. So after gathering the fleet, the Japanese fleet began to sail north, and informed their government of the naval battle in the Sea of Sulu by telegram.

At this time, the rectification of the Japanese fleet was filled with a joyful atmosphere, and the depression and grievances of many years disappeared after this battle! In the eyes of the Japanese, whether it was the enmity of the black ship of the U.S. fleet that broke the gate of Japan, or the game between the two sides around Hawaii for many years, or the hatred and humiliation of Russia's entanglement with the intervention of the three countries back then, they were all washed away by the blood of the U.S. and Russian navies after this war!

"From then on, the Japanese Navy dominated the Far East!" When the birshans shouted this toast at the banquet of high-ranking officers, the entire banquet hall was filled with cheers. Even some militant Japanese officers have begun to wonder if the next step is to take Hawaii as well!

As the saying goes, some people are happy and some people are worried, and the Japanese fleet that won the war is naturally happy, while the American fleet, as the losing side, is silently **** wounds. After the captain of the New York was fired by a shrapnel, Magiffen automatically took over the command of the fleet, and the Japanese ate and drank merry, while Magiffen did not even have time to eat beef jerky since the end of the battle.

Problems like the boat going too fast, the swells widening the breach, the makeshift hospital flooding again, the lack of medicine and gauze, and all sorts of other problems made Magiffen unable to escape like a nightmare. These problems are tricky but not difficult to deal with, and what really worries Magiffin is, what will happen to the US fleet next? Now the elite forces of the U.S. and Russian fleets are estimated to have been wiped out, and there are only 2 ships left that can fight, and those dome cruisers will die if they encounter them.

Now not to mention the assistance to the landing force in the southern Philippines, the American fleet itself is not guaranteed, and after a busy night, watching the re-rising sun, nibbling on beef jerky and drinking slightly salty water, Majifen fell into deep thought.

After the Battle of Manila Bay and the Battle of the Sulu Sea, there was no possibility of negotiation between the United States and Japan, and it can even be said that when the American and Japanese fleets entered the Philippines from the north and south at the same time, the outbreak of war between the two sides was a foregone conclusion, but no one expected that the Americans would lose so badly and so quickly! A few hours of fighting turned years of U.S. Navy effort into a humiliating defeat! Although Ma Jifen had participated in the Qing-Japanese War and had a certain understanding of the Japanese Navy, when this result came, he was still a little unacceptable! It's cruel!

In the eyes of outsiders, there are only two ways in front of the Americans, the first way is to withdraw to Samoa first, and then spend 2 to 3 months waiting for the arrival of the American battleship formation. The other way is to withdraw from the Philippines. But in Majifen's view, people are too optimistic about the situation! As Japanese, they don't do it, and once they do, they will never die! Now that it has reached a point where it cannot be mitigated, Majifen believes that the Japanese will attack American Samoa in 80 percent! Only after knocking out Samoa, the US Navy will lose its bridgehead into Asia, and it will be impossible for the United States to take revenge even if it wants until the Panama Canal is opened!

"Samoa is not safe, and the only way now is to stabilize Japan first and buy time for the army to mobilize." Majifen found that the U.S. Navy was in a dead end, that Samoa was too important for the Americans to give up easily, and that the Far East was now not strong enough to hold the bridgehead. The Japanese have a great possibility of doing it again, so what should the US Navy do now?

This kind of political matter was not something he could decide, so he quickly focused his energies on the most realistic places, on the one hand, he needed to go to the landing sites such as Morro Bay to inform the American landing force that the American Navy had been defeated, so that they could prepare to retreat, and at the same time he needed to immediately rush back to the German colony in the Far East - Kaiser Wilhelm's territory, where they would be supplied and could repair the battleships. At the same time, he also needs to send the resurrected Japanese and British to Hawaii, and then to the mainland of the United States! The British and the Japanese jointly planned this event, and the US government and people must know about it!

Just when Majfin was facing these things, Shelly, who was rescued by the Germans, was already doing these things, in order to inform the country of these things earlier, and to achieve this purpose, it was necessary to use the German ground telegraph station, so Shelly told the Germans everything about these things! He also said that if he could run into the New York in the German colonies, Shelly would order Magiffen to cooperate closely with the German government. And just as the first round of confrontation between the United States and Japan has just come to an end, the diplomatic and political confrontations between the two sides are also going on.

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