William's flagship Ostari is moored next to the Hongzhang, so Yan Fu doesn't need to say the flag, he can let William hear when he shouts at his throat,

Hearing that the attack on Sasebo was to be discussed, William happily jumped into the dinghy, came to Hongzhang, and accompanied Yan Fu to the war room. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

In the war room, the topographical map of the Sasebo area and the sand table have been placed on it.

Not only is the location of the Japanese batteries clearly marked, but even the factories, schools, and even the barracks and the depth of the water are clearly marked. All this is thanks to the investigators of the Liaodong Intelligence Bureau.

After the signing of the "Treaty of Tianjin", Liu Jun analyzed that China and Japan would have a war sooner or later, and it was also the one that decided who would be in charge of East Asia, so after the war, Liu Jun's first order to Zhong Lin's intelligence bureau was to let the personnel of the Japanese station find out the terrain and maps of all places in Japan.

For nearly six years, the personnel of the Japanese station of the Liaodong Intelligence Bureau, dressed up as various characters, finally figured out all the maps and terrain of Japan. For this reason, nearly 50 Liaodong intelligence officers were killed in Japan.

"Lee, when are we going to do it?" William was an impatient, and he wanted to go right away and teach the short yellowskins a lesson.

You can set off at any time, the question is whether you are willing to attack the fort and not the port, Li He, who looked at William, thought for a while, stood up from his chair, walked to the sand table, Li He took the command post from the adjutant next to him and said: "You see, after so many years of construction, Sasebo now has five forts, of which, there are twelve 200-millimeter guns and 35 150-millimeter guns, and these batteries will defend the entire Sasebo military port and form a huge protective circle. Speaking of this, Li He looked at William who was standing in front of him and said again: "If we want to occupy Sasebo, we must first cut off the threat of these forts. ”

Inevitably, after listening to Li He's explanation, William nodded, as a navy, he also knew that the threat of coastal defense batteries was the greatest, and once the batteries were destroyed, the rest would be easy to do.

"I decided, first concentrate all the firepower, pull out the Sasebo battery, after pulling out the Japanese batteries No. 1 to No. 4, divide the troops, William, your fleet continues to attack the No. 5 battery, and I, the Beiyang Naval Division, will attack the port to attract firepower for you."

What a loss, to attract the fire of the battery, but let the Germans take advantage of this, Li Hexin, who said this, was dripping blood, but he didn't do it. When the time comes to attack the port, it will be impossible to coordinate it yourself, let the fleet fire practice bombs, and ensure the safety of the submarine.

Although the Germans looked honest, they were also very calculating, and William could see at once that the Liaodong Naval Division would be in danger of being attacked from both sides by the shore defense and shore batteries and the port combined fleet, and his own fleet would only suffer some minor injuries at the top of the sky.

"I listen to you, we will fight how you say." It is the duty of a soldier to obey orders. William executed this very well.

Finally agreed, seeing William saluting, Li He gritted his teeth and nodded, then threw down the command pole in his hand, and looked at the time above, it was now four o'clock in the afternoon of August 25, 1903.

"Whether the ships have been replenished or not." Li He, who took a deep breath, turned around and asked the staff officers beside him.

"Report, all ships have been replenished with ammunition, fresh water and other materials at ten o'clock last night." Without any hesitation, the staff officer finished reporting on the situation of the entire fleet.

Since this is the case, then it is time to fight, thinking of this, Li He took a look at all the personnel around him, and this time he took a deep breath and said solemnly: "Order, all ships will enter the state immediately, and they will leave on time at eight o'clock tomorrow." ”

"Yes." The staff officer walked out and began to give orders to the entire fleet.

Woowoo...... Woowoo...... The fleet roared in unison. Nearly forty warships of the First Fleet, led by the Hongzhang and the Ostaney, sailed murderously in the direction of Sasebo.

Sasebo, the headquarters of the Combined Fleet, Yuhiro Ito, who was approaching exhaustion, looked helplessly at the sunlight outside the window, then returned to his position again and opened the diary sent by the adjutant who was in charge of patrolling today.

From above, it was the armored cruisers Yaeyama and Torishima and the torpedo cruiser Tosho Maru who went out on patrol today. “

If I remember correctly, these three warships left the port about 11 days ago to patrol the 30-nautical-mile sea area of Sasebo, and now the time has reached five o'clock, so it stands to reason that these three warships have returned to the port two hours ago, but now, there are no warships outside the port.

Smack, put down the patrol diary, Ito Yuhiro stood up and walked back and forth in the room,

"Did they come back?" After thinking about it for a while, Ito Yuheng asked Ono, the chief of staff standing beside him, seeing Ono shaking his head helplessly, Ito Yuheng had a bad premonition in his heart, but he also estimated that these three warships did not return to the port normally because they had slowed down their speed.

Just in case, for the sake of safety, Ito Yuheng still said to Ono beside him: "I'm waiting for an hour, if there is still no trace of them, immediately let the second detachment go out to look for it." ”

"Hey." Ono nodded, turned around and walked out, conveying Ito's order.

Off the coast of Japan, 31 nautical miles from Sasebo. The three Japanese warships flying chrysanthemum flags on their masts were lined up in a row, and at a speed of ten knots, they were slowly moving in the direction of Sasebo.

Ito Yuheng guessed correctly, these three warships are indeed slowing down. This is a helpless thing, the Bird Island in the battle of Vladivostok, the No. 2 boiler was hit, although it has been repaired, but there are still problems from time to time, this is not, the Bird Island that was supposed to come out well today, actually halfway to the very faceless, the No. 2 boiler stopped working, so that the Bird Island, which was up to twenty-three speeds, was reduced by half of its speed.

There was no way, and the captain of the Yaeyama armored cruiser, who was the captain of the patrol fleet this time, could only order the ships to slow down and take care of Torishima, and the three warships were patrolling the area like an old cow pulling a broken car, and then turned the bow of the ship and headed in the direction of Sasebo.

Hey, after Akiyama, who was standing on the Yaeyama, sighed helplessly, he raised his wrist and saw that the time had reached half past five, and the time left for arrival had exceeded two hours, and he didn't know how he should explain this matter to the commander after he went back.

"In the southeast, a lot of soot was found." On the mast, a desolate scream rang out.

With a snap, Akiyama's hand shook obviously, and then he turned around and ran towards the bridge on the right and raised his telescope at the same time.