readx;

86_86661 Under Chen Fangzheng's order, the "Iron Lion", "Blue Star" and "Red Devil" adjusted their hulls and crossed Hong Kong Island, and these three warships fired at the same time. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Chen Fangzheng ordered these three warships to fire only shells on the periphery of the Hong Kong Military Port in the first round, and immediately six warships of the British and Chinese fleets in Hong Kong also opened fire at the same time.

However, the six warships of the Chinese fleet stationed in the Hong Kong Military Port, the "Cayades", "Motorist", "Igisha", "Juno", "Lily", and "Lundave", were all gunboats and sailboats of the late 19th century. They know that their current equipment can still deal with pirates, but in the face of the powerful Hainan fleet, it is a piece of meat on the knife board, and it can only be a knife.

The Hainan Fleet just wanted to warn them first, and if they really wanted to destroy them, it would only be a matter of minutes!

After the three warships of the Hainan Fleet finished firing the first round of guns, they adjusted their range and distance, and then fired the second round in a storm.

This round of shells smashed down, and the other side had no power to fight back, and all six gunboats shrank into the military port.

Immediately afterwards, the "Iron Lion" and other three warships continued to adjust their distances and waved the flag: Hong Kong's fleet will give up resistance! Surrender from the warehouse! If you continue to resist! Destroy you!

At this moment, the Qi Gang army in the north of Hong Kong also received an order and began to attack Hong Kong on all fronts.

Qi Gang's First Army quickly broke through the first line of defense of the British defenders in Hong Kong and easily entered the New Territories.

Hong Kong's Governor's Palace was in turmoil, and Hong Kong Governor Sir Nathan urgently contacted British Prime Minister Arthur Balfour and Admiral Fremantel, commander of the main fleet of the British Far East Fleet sailing in the South China Sea, asking for a speedy decision that Hong Kong was in danger.

After receiving an urgent request for help from Hong Kong, Admiral Philmantle requested Britain to continue to deploy large ships to support the South China Sea, and on the other hand, he contacted the Japanese West Sea Fleet in the hope of joining forces to attack the Hainan Fleet.

After receiving a request for help from the British, the Japanese ships reported the situation in the South China Sea to the Admiralty of the country. Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs had been in contact with the British before the war in the South China Sea, so it was natural that the British asked Japan's West Sea Fleet to help rescue Hong Kong.

However, the Japanese West Sea Fleet received an order to wait and see and postpone support.

It turned out that after receiving the news from the South China Sea, the Japanese Navy saw that the Hainan Fleet had actually begun to attack Hong Kong Island, which was a big surprise to the Japanese.

This is because if the Hainan Fleet dares to attack Hong Kong Island, it will almost be tantamount to declaring war on Britain, and the situation in the South China Sea will be even more complicated.

Therefore, the opinion of the Japanese cabinet is to let the British stir up this muddy water first, and wait until the situation is clear before making a decision.

However, the Japanese Navy did not think so, and they thought that they would take advantage of this opportunity to first destroy the Hainan Fleet with the British Far East Fleet and seek an opportunity to occupy Hainan.

In the end, under the fierce debate, they still obeyed the opinion of the cabinet, because the Russo-Japanese War that was being waged in the northeast was still in a white-hot state, and all logistical supplies and material supplies were particularly tight, so it was better for the British to solve the affairs of the South China Sea first.

Therefore, Commander Ito Muzen of the West Sea Fleet, after receiving the invitation of the British army, only verbally agreed, but instead stopped the fleet's actions in the original sea area and watched from afar.

General Chen Fangzheng immediately reported to Chen Zhong when he received the news that the Japanese West Sea Fleet had suddenly stopped advancing.

Chen Zhong laughed and said, "This is the cooperation between villains!" Driven by interests, all cooperation is extremely fragile, once there are interests, they can give up their dignity at any time and tear up all the previous agreements, this is the so-called wisdom of a great power!

General Chen, adjust the formation of the fleet, temporarily away from the waters of the Japanese West Sea Fleet, and the main force of the fleet is approaching the British Far East Fleet on all fronts. ”

As a result, Chen Fangzheng immediately ordered the fleet formation to be adjusted: "The 'Iron Lion' (cruiser), 'Blue Star' and 'Red Devil' (battleships) continue to shell the Hong Kong military port and approach Hong Kong!"

The second battle group of the fleet, the "Hainan Ship" (7,567-ton armored ship), the "Purple Front", the "Lingyun Ship" and the "Cheetah Ship" (3,240-ton cruiser) lined up to block the flagship of the British Far East Fleet, the "Otisha" (displacement of 3,774 tons), if the British ship opened fire first, resolutely sink it!

Our Hainan mobile attack battle group "Shichang Ship", "Hurricane" (7,800-ton armored ship), "Qingyun Ship", "Five-Star Ship", "Black Mountain Ship", besieged the "Goddess"!

The 'Zhennan Ship' (flagship 7,800-ton armored ship), 'Goshawk Ship' and 'Taishan Ship' (3,240-tonnage cruiser) of the 1st Battle Group Formation meet the 'Georgia'! ”

At this moment, Britain was still arguing about the South China Sea, and Churchill was furious, believing that the dignity of the British Empire had been seriously damaged, and that Britain's most powerful fleet should be transferred to the South China Sea to deal a devastating blow to Hainan.

Prime Minister Arthur Balfour, however, believes that this is an unnecessary war with no interest in it.

When they received a telegram from General Fremantle, Churchill was even more furious and said: "Japan, what a liar! Villains who don't keep their integrity! It is extremely unsafe to cooperate with such a small country! ”

Prime Minister Arthur Balfour said: "Your Excellency, you don't need to scold the Japanese for not keeping their promises, this is their right, there is no real cooperation in this world, all cooperation is for your own interests, not for the interests of the other side!" We don't think so, so we can't act just for impulses and so-called dignity, but for profit, profit! Got it?

At the height of the British Empire's power, we pursued a policy of 'glorious isolation' because we had strong economic strength and a naval force that dominated the seas, so we pursued a policy of so-called "glorious isolation" diplomatically, and we disdained to establish military alliances with any country, and we could expand overseas without any scruples.

However, in recent years, Germany has begun to challenge the British Empire and compete with us for colonial hegemony on a global scale, so the contradictions between us and Germany have become increasingly acute.

In the face of the German threat, we abandoned the policy of "glorious isolation" that we were proud of, and first established an alliance with Japan.

The reason why we formed an alliance with Japan was only to use Japan to contain Russia. At present, Japan and Russia are waging a war in the northeast of China, and we have achieved our goal, so there is no need for us to get involved in the war between Japan and Hainan in order to consume our own strength. ”

"Your Majesty, Mr. Prime Minister, we have just received a report from Major General MacDonald that an unidentified force has attacked our troops in Tibet, and that Marshal Younghusband has been kidnapped!" ”。

...