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readx; In the early hours of the morning, in the headquarters of the Japanese Combined Fleet in the Sea of Japan, only Heihachiro Togo was left alone, lying on his seat with his eyes closed, still holding the plan for the decisive battle in the Sea of Japan by Masayuki Akiyama. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Outside the cabin, the murmur of waves and the breeze makes the Sea of Japan seem quieter, and there is a ghostly fear in the quiet.

Since the start of the Russo-Japanese War, Heihachiro Togo has always been trembling and walking on thin ice.

He's been sleepless for a long time, and tonight will be another sleepless night of panic. Although, the commander of the fleet showed an incomparable self-confidence in front of his own officers, so much so that those young officers imitated Admiral Togo's silent demeanor and calm demeanor.

However, whenever he is alone in the middle of the night, Heihachiro Togo spends it in extreme panic. He knew what he had experienced, and every war he was about to face, and what it meant to Japan. Perhaps, one day and in a certain battle, Japan will be thrown into a catastrophe from which it will never recover.

Their Emperor Meiji, who worked hard, fantasized every moment that he could bring Japan to the top of the world and create Japan's mythical glory in this world. Therefore, he did not hesitate to devote the strength of the whole country to gamble on a war with absolute disparity in strength.

If Russia loses the Russo-Japanese War this time, perhaps they will only lose a reputation that is not worth mentioning. And if Japan loses this war, it will bring disaster to Japan.

Emperor Meiji never wanted to see Japan on a crumbling island, and one day it would be silently drowned in this vast sea.

He absolutely does not want Japan to sink in numbness, he wants Japan to rise, and he wants to expand a broader living space for Japan.

Emperor Meiji's vision rested on Japan's wealthy neighbor, the Qing Dynasty, who still fantasized about being a great power of the Celestial Empire. For this reason, the ambitious militarist emperor, in order to satisfy the wishes of his empire, did not hesitate to put the whole of Japan on the gambling table.

Russia fought this war only as a question of plundering land and interests, while Japan fought this war for the question of whether there was still room for survival.

This is a gambler's war, and this big gamble will either push Japan into the ranks of the world's military powers, and can be on an equal footing with the Western powers, or it will push Japan into the abyss from now on, and it will never recover, and it will be fought back to its original shape.

As soon as Heihachiro Togo thinks of this, he will be frightened by a cold wit. However, after just a few minutes, he would clench his fists with both hands and make a heroic encouragement for himself, and he would repeat a sentence to the full-length mirror in the bedroom every day: I am the best! We, the Great Japanese Empire, are the most powerful! Our combined fleet is invincible!

Then, after the daily routine of self-hypnosis, Heihachiro Togo has the confidence to start to be full of sunshine.

However, the moment he stepped back on deck, he felt an inexplicable panic. Therefore, in order not to convey his fear to his subordinates, he chose to keep a silent and unchanged expression forever.

This is a gambler, in the mood of the gambler who walks to the casino, in front of him, there is always an unknown gamble, and he actually has no confidence to win. It's just that every time he uses rhetoric to cover up the panic in his heart, cheering for the young cannon fodder soldiers who don't know anything.

"The fate of the century-old imperial state is here", this seemingly heroic slogan, in fact, is a psychological portrayal of the extreme panic of the Japanese emperor and his staff. They are eager to find a miracle that even they can't believe in in this 1 in 10,000 probability.

However, Japan's Meiji Emperor and his crazy aides knew very well that the stakes that Japan had made in this big gamble were their 100-year national fortune!

Heihachiro Togo is very sober, and the fleet he leads is an army full of madness and gamblers.

However, I have to believe that it is this group of war gamblers who have formed a very creative army without nonsense.

In this way, a gambler-style army, which no longer has the thinking of normal people, is able to ignore all existing economic, political, and military rules and conclusions and make a desperate bet, thus creating many combat methods and operational ideas that ordinary military strategists dare not imagine.

These madman-like battle plans and operational ideas are almost a vacuum-like theory, and it is in this seemingly impossible plan that Heihachiro Togo sees the hope of a big gamble.

When Heihachiro Togo was studying military command, he admired the German Moltke's military theory of quick combat and sneak attack, and used the most unexpected style of play to solve the war.

Moltke advocated the use of war to solve political problems, and he believed that war is nothing more than the continuation of politics through another means, political intention is the end, war is the means, and war is the decisive means.

He believed that once the political goal was determined, politics gave way to the war, and that politics must not hinder the course of the war until it was over.

The political, geographical and national aspects should be taken into account when the armed forces begin their operations", requiring the planning and elaboration of operational plans, deployments and operations with the utmost care, detail, prudence and thoroughness before the war.

As soon as the war began, it went on the offensive. Moltke advocated a preemptive and rapid offensive war and opposed a defensive strategy.

It was this theory of military thought that made Togo Heihachiro decisively adopt Akiyama Shinyuki's plan for a decisive battle in the Sea of Japan.

This is indeed an extremely creative plan, and the genius of Akiyama Shinyuki brings a little comfort to Togo Heihachiro's panic.

Although this is extremely risky, Akiyama's plan for a U-shaped giant slalom is childlike and naïve.

However, such a design is also very likely to make the Japanese combined fleet fall into the attack of the Russian army, once the formation of the Japanese combined fleet is chaotic, it will be unimaginable!

However, Togo Heihachiro took into account another element, which was that, although the Russian fleet was ostensibly strong, it was difficult for the old and new warships in the fleet to coordinate their actions.

The officers and men of the newly commissioned warships are not yet proficient, the quality of the officers and men is low, and the morale of the officers and men is generally low.

In addition, due to the long voyage that lasted eight months, the fatigue of the journey sharply reduced the combat capability of the entire fleet.

These conditions are enough for this plan and the ordinary possibility of winning, so how will you face this war about the whole situation without taking a gamble?

Heihachiro Togo put down the Sea of Japan battle plan, walked to the deck, looked at the Sea of Japan in the long night, clenched his fists, gritted his teeth, and whispered to himself: For the good of the empire, Togo is willing to gamble with his life again!

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