Chapter 112: Plans can't keep up with changes
"The sea, full of water; Centipedes, all legs; Chili peppers, so spicy mouth······"
"Women, they always come out of the water, men, they have an extra leg······"
In the vast sea, aimlessly looking for Japanese ships, it is really a; Young Master Liang went from being full of confidence and enthusiasm at the beginning, to sighing and sighing, and then to now playing with a group of old men······
"The patience of the Japanese is really good, it's been seven days, and I haven't seen a single ship" Liang Jianshe also muttered beside him, which immediately caused a lot of echoes.
"The Wokou Fighting the Street".
"Lose his mother".
"The next time I see little Japan, I'll send them to feed the fish."
"Alas, you left the Japanese ladies behind, I heard that the Japanese ladies are good".
"Hey, Japanese girls will serve men, I heard that the life is very good".
"Heard? You're a dead ghost, you haven't played before, what a brag you are."
"This time I'm going to Japan, and I'm going to taste the taste of Japanese girls anyway."
The old man on the battleship on the water, swaying on the sea every day, the fire in his body is getting bigger and bigger, and he turns into the ditch as he speaks.
This has nothing to do with military discipline, the navies of the world have this virtue, even the PLA Navy of later generations is not exempt from vulgarity; Later, the Americans found a way to recruit girls to join the navy, which can be regarded as finding a way for the warship to put out the fire, and it is said that the sales of the US Navy have increased year after year; So the navies of the whole world have come to refer to and imitate, which can be regarded as accumulating virtue and doing good!
As for now, I can only talk about it. We Chinese have avoided women in the army since ancient times, so what Yang Men female general Hua Mulan will be regarded as a legend when she joins the army. Well, in 1869, women all over the world had no status.
Master Liang and the navy took turns patrolling outside Tokyo Bay, and the officers and men of the navy were eager to sink a Japanese warship and make a contribution; But what they didn't know was that due to Okubo Ritsu's caution, the Japanese did not follow the path that Master Liang had planned in advance.
The current Japanese have limited strength, and they are not as crazy and arrogant as they were later, and they do not dare to rush directly to fight against each other without even knowing the identity and background of the enemy; Saigo Takamori and Okubo discussed for a long time before drawing up a battle plan.
The Japanese plan was to first build an advance base and then land on the main island of the Ryukyus; The forward base was chosen on Tokunoshima Island in the Amami Islands, where Saigo Takamori had been exiled and was familiar with it; The landing site is not the port of Shurijo, but a bay in the northwest of the main island of the Ryukyus, the Japanese are very familiar with the Ryukyus, and know where to land, and the main island of the Ryukyus is a long and narrow island, the coastline is very long, there are many places to land, the landing point chosen by the Japanese is 30 kilometers away from Shuri Castle, this time the battle plan drawn up by the Liang family military in advance is all nullified, the key is that the Liang family army still knows nothing about it.
Young Master Liang has been staying on the battleship, and the main forces of the Liang family army have all arrived on the main island of Ryukyu under the leadership of Liang Haowen, and they are still deployed in the city and outside the port according to the original plan.
Plans can't keep up with change; The so-called impermanence of soldiers and amorphous warfare, Young Master Liang, a military expert in his previous life, is still a little tender when it comes to battlefield command ability.
Of course, it is only the layout stage of the two sides, and the jury is still inconclusive.
The Japanese really spent money for this war, and in their nature they dared to give it a go and dare to gamble their lives; Emperor Meiji ordered the conscription of 50,000 recruits, and at the same time ordered 50,000 rifles, thirty-six twelve-pounder guns, and eighteen twenty-four-pounder guns from the Americans, as well as matching ammunition.
It's just that weapons and ammunition still have to be shipped from the distant United States, and recruits still need to be trained, and this war will definitely not be able to catch up; Therefore, the Meiji Emperor took out all the capital, and the army sent 50,000, of which only more than 30,000 were equipped with rifles, and the rest could only be equipped with swords and spears; The navy was dispatched with all its forces, and more than a dozen warships were requisitioned from the feudal lords below, and there were a total of forty-one warships of different sizes, old and new, many of which were converted from merchant ships, and a few borrowed from below were already old-fashioned, and it would be good to use them to fill the scene anyway.
Although Young Master Liang is bored staring at it every day, he doesn't dare to relax, although the days are tormented, he still has to endure it; Other people can take turns to replace and rest, but he, the commander, is on duty every day, because the navy of the Liang family army is still fighting for the first time, and he is not at ease.
Since the sail warships had been discovered by the Japanese, only six ironclad warships were on patrol, and the six sail warships and four gunboats were all parked in the port of the Ryukyus; The six ironclad battleships were divided into two shifts, three of which patrolled every day and the other three rested; And Young Master Liang stays on the patrol warship every day, hanging out of Tokyo Bay, and is so bored every day that he kills time by counting dicks.
Yes, the first wave of dicks in his life finally grew, maybe it was because he stayed on the battleship every day and was angry, so he suddenly grew out unconsciously, which indicates that he is now a mature man, although the sparse dicks below are far from the Black Forest.
Since the last time he was triggered by that sexy foreign girl in Shanghai, the little brother below is also thriving, and every morning he is holding a skyrocketing tent, and the adolescent boy has strong male hormone secretion, although he is the soul of an uncle, but this body is a young boy, and that impulse will come suddenly from time to time, and this kind of personality split-like discomfort makes him feel tormented.
But the Japanese hid in the hole like an old turtle and didn't come out, which also aroused the vigilance of Young Master Liang, this situation itself is not normal, and it is impossible for the Japanese to completely stop commercial transportation.
On the ninth day, at last, something changed, and suddenly many warships and merchant ships and freighters kept sailing from outside to Tokyo; At this time, although Master Liang didn't know the specific plan of the Japanese, he also understood that the Japanese would definitely make a big move.
Sure enough, the next day, many ships were seen forming a transport convoy escorted by several warships and heading for the Ryukyus.
Young Master Liang wondered, according to the size of this fleet, it is only a strength of more than 10,000 people, the Japanese will not be arrogant enough to send such a small number of troops to attack the Ryukyus, and the Japanese navy has dispatched too little, right?
"No, definitely not", Young Master Liang shook his head, but he couldn't tell what was wrong for a while.
Liang Jianshe was anxious next to him: "Commander, what should we do now?" ”
"Oh, don't worry, follow them from a distance first", in this case, Young Master Liang didn't have a move, and he couldn't fight, and their own strength was not enough, and it wasn't good to say that they hadn't figured it out yet.
Just following behind the Japanese fleet so far away, it still aroused the alarm of the Japanese navy, and they specially separated a battleship to stop and wait for these three suspicious warships, and Young Master Liang quickly ordered all Chinese to hide and be negotiated by British instructors and the Japanese.
Fortunately, there were quite a few British on their ship, and after some negotiations, the doubts of the Japanese were dispelled; These three battleships were British ships, flying British flags, and the people on board were serious British, and the Japanese would not have thought that these battleships were their enemies - the Chinese.
With the status of the British as the world boss today, these straw chickens of the Japanese Navy did not dare to blow up in front of them, and hurriedly left with the farewell of Aria Doth Mi Ma Sai.