After the report was issued, Yuzaburo Kato's originally heavy heart did not feel a little relaxed, but extremely heavy.

If it is said that the fleet suffered such losses in the Battle of Tsushima, it is barely acceptable, but it is impossible to say that it suffered such heavy losses in the face of the pitifully weak Chinese navy.

Somehow, at this time, Kato Yuzaburo always had an ominous premonition in his heart.

"It was decided to sink the ship 'Hanoi' and severely damage the ship 'Settsu.'" There was an indescribable excitement in Lan Jianshu's voice.

Li He flipped through an atlas and quickly found illustrations and data about the "Hanoi"-class battleships.

"These two ships are the main battleships of the Navy." Li He said, "This time it really gave them a slap in the face." ”

"Yes! This time, the Navy finally gave an explanation to all the people. Lan Jianshu sighed and said.

"That's not enough." After reading the report, Li Dingxin shook his head and said, "According to the report of the reconnaissance plane, there are still two battleships in Yuben, which have been determined to be the 'Satsuma' and the 'Anyi', and the firepower of these two ships is no less than that of the 'Hanoi' class battleships. ”

"That is to say, we must sink or damage these two battleships, and we must not allow them to threaten us again." Tang Qianming looked at several generals and said.

"That's right." Li Dingxin said, "In fact, even if these two battleships are sunk, the strength of our navy is still far stronger than that of our country, and if we can sink these two warships in a big way, we will still be unable to resist them, but if we can sink these two warships again, we will be greatly shocked in our country, so that our navy will not dare to send large ships to our country easily, and our army will inevitably have no support, and if our army has a few more victories like Shandong's, we will definitely retreat in the face of difficulties, and if we make peace with our country, then our country will not be able to win." ”

"Then we'll have to hurry up and strike again." Lan Jianshu thought for a moment and said, "However, I'm afraid I can't use submarines anymore this time." ”

"Why?" Li He listened to Lan Jianshu's words and immediately asked.

"Although the submarine attack this time was brilliant, it also exposed a lot of problems," Lan Jianshu said, "According to the reports of those who returned, due to the lack of direction in the dark, the No. 1 boat almost ran aground, and the No. 4 and No. 6 boats had mechanical problems in the process of engaging the enemy, and failed to complete the attack, and when they returned home, they ran out of fuel and were almost swept away by the current." If these problems are not solved, it is inevitable that a few submarines will suffer losses, and besides, they will inevitably strengthen their precautions because they have suffered a big loss, and we will immediately carry out another similar attack, which will be easily detected by them. ”

"Then what are you going to do......" Li He looked into Lan Jianshu's eyes, understanding that he already had an idea at this time.

"It's better to use drifting thunder this time." Lan Jianshu took out a drawing and handed it to Li Dingxin.

"This is a map of the ocean currents near Tianjin sent by Yang Zhenshou, and this one is about Caofeidian," Lan Jianshu pointed to the ocean current marking line on the map and said, "Now that the direction of the anchorage of this fleet has been basically determined, as long as the drifting mines are put down in these places, and the drifting mines enter the anchorage of the ships along the current, all the ships anchored here can be blown up and sunk." ”

"Is it that accurate?" Li Dingxin asked with some hesitation.

"I tested it twice offshore, and I hit both of them." Lan Jianshu said, "This time it should be fine. ”

"It's okay, once the bombing misses, it's better to let the submarine and torpedo boat make a joint attack." Li Dingxin said, "I have ordered the four boats of 'Chen', 'Su', 'Lie' and 'Zhang' to come quickly, and they should be able to compete head-on with Yue himself." ”

"However, our reconnaissance plane has already found them, and they will definitely be vigilant when they see the plane," Tang Qianming asked a question, "Will they change berths?" ”

"That's not a problem." Lan Jianshu said, "The drifting mines move forward with the ocean current, and we can put a few more in different directions to cover all the anchorage positions of the ship." ”

"Since the drifting thunder can be attacked, why didn't we use it last time?" Tang Qianming thought for a moment and asked again, "Then we won't lose two submarines." ”

"Although this tactic is good, it is not easy to control after all, and once it is discovered by the person and makes them have a defense, the effect of reusing it will be greatly reduced," Lan Jianshu said, "The so-called surprise, attack it unprepared, take advantage of its ignorance, and make every effort to prevent our submarine when using floating mines, which can achieve great results." ”

"Wow! This time, I said that I had no return! Li He waved his fist excitedly, and his eyes lit up with eager flames, as if he had seen the scene when the ships were buried in the fire.

At night, Caofeidian is the temporary anchorage of the First Fleet of the Navy.

A patrol boat drove slowly on the sea, sweeping the surface of the sea with its searchlight from time to time.

One of the sailors at the lookout post may have been so sleepy that he dozed off at his post, but the snoring immediately attracted the scolding of an officer.

"Bastard! Don't doze off! My eyes widened! Look closely! If you let go of the submarine from under your eyes, you will all be sinners of the Empire! I'm going to court-martial! ”

"Hey!" The sailors agreed in unison.

Probably in order to make his subordinates more sober, the officer actually stepped forward and slapped each of them.

Covering their hot faces, several Sailors stared at the pitch-black sea with wide eyes.

Probably because the weather was not beautiful, it was a very cloudy night, the moon was completely obscured by thick dark clouds, and there was a thick fog on the sea, and the visibility was so low that it was difficult to see a little farther away even with a searchlight.

In order to prevent further dozing off and attracting the scolding of the commander, several sailors began to use small talk to distract themselves from sleep.

"It's incredible that the people of China actually have a submarine."

"It's not something too advanced, it's a very primitive submarine, and it can only be operated by three or four people."

"How do you know?"

"The wreckage of the submarine that we sank has been found by divers, and I know the diver, and he said that this is a very, very small submarine, similar in shape to the American 'Holland' type submarine, which cannot launch torpedoes, but can only lay mines or cast frogmen."

"The people of China will get these stealing things, and when they heard that their navy knew that our battlefleet had arrived, they didn't dare to fight us, and they all hid in Shanghai."

"Despicable and cowardly Shina people!"

"I'm just wondering how the people of China built submarines with such backward technology."

"Of course, I got the technology from the people of the United States. Didn't you hear what he just said? The shape of that small submarine is almost exactly the same as the 'Holland' submarine of the United States, which is the proof that the people of the United States helped the people of China! ”

"Nasty Mi people!"

"The people of the United States have been helping the people of China. When the Ministry of Foreign Affairs put forward the '21 Articles' new peace proposal to the Chinese government, the people of the United States were biased towards the Chinese people and forced us to cancel Article 5 of the peace proposal, which is crucial to the relations between the two countries. It's so hateful! ”

"It was at the instigation of the people of the United States that the Chinese political axe rejected the peace proposal of the imperial political axe and provoked a war."

"The Imperial Army fought fiercely with the Chinese army in Shandong, and the battle was very fierce, and I heard that the Chinese army had a lot of heavy artillery, and it seems that the Chinese people secretly supported the Chinese people."

"This is truly a great disgrace to the Empire! We should declare war on the United States! ”

The more the sailors spoke, the more angry they became, and the drowsiness they had just had just now was swept away.

The patrol boat continued to move forward, and soon, under the illumination of searchlights, anti-submarine nets appeared on the surface of the sea.

In order to prevent another sneak attack by Chinese submarines, under the orders of Yuzaburo Kato, not only did all the ships of the fleet change their anchor positions, but also increased the number of anti-submarine nets and anti-torpedo nets.

The searchlights swept through the anti-submarine nets, and the sailors stopped talking, opened their eyes wide, carefully looked at the anti-submarine nets and anti-torpedo nets, and searched for possible gaps on them.

After looking at it for a long time, after making sure that there was nothing wrong with all the protective nets, the sailors let out a long breath and continued to talk about the topic just now.

The sea breeze blew, and the originally thick sea fog appeared thinner, and by the light of the searchlight, the tall shadow of a battleship not far away could be vaguely seen.

On this huge battleship, not even a of light can be seen now.

Fearing a sneak attack by Chinese submarines, at night, all warships were strictly controlled by their lights.

But at this time, the sailors would not have imagined that even with such strict precautions, their destruction would still be inevitable.

If the sailors who had just been on the patrol boat had been more careful and patient, and had stayed a little longer, they would have noticed that there had been a slight tremor in an anti-submarine net just now.

If they could see underwater, they would have noticed that a large round steel ball had touched the net, but instead of being caught in the net, it had bounced off some kind of device, and the rotating blade of the device was spinning rapidly, and soon a large hole was cut in the net. And this big steel ball, driven by the current, easily drilled through the cut gap, and slowly approached the battleship.

(To be continued)