Chapter 471: The Battle in the East China Sea

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In order to strengthen his rule, the Meiji Emperor of Japan had to increase taxes in the country many times, reduce civilian industry, and allocate a large amount of special military spending, and the balance of his government debt was nearly 20 billion yen.

The real standard of living of ordinary people in Japan has become unbearable, and the country's finances are facing collapse.

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Japan is a resource-poor country, and its crazy ambitions have led to a serious resource crisis.

Due to the huge consumption caused by the continuous foreign wars, Japan has a crisis in the fields of food, electricity, coal, and other resources.

Japan's gold reserves were so low that Japan had to start using its strategic reserves.

Although Japan has experienced tremendous setbacks, the serious political crisis in Japan has made Japan want to divert its internal contradictions through foreign aggression.

Britain and the United States for their interests in China, and at the same time Britain and the United States also had a serious political and economic crisis in Japan, so they took advantage of the political ambitions of Japanese militarism, and they finally came together.

Britain, Japan, and the United States need to reap their greater interests in China, and they must support a government that listens to them. Yuan Shikai and Pu Yi became their best candidates.

However, the birth of the king of Hainan disrupted their ambitious plans.

In the past few years, they have adopted various means, both soft and hard, but they have not been able to promote the king of Hainan to be used by them.

Therefore, the king of Hainan has become a thorn in the side of these imperialists, who have ideas about China. If Chen Zhong is not removed, their "dream" in China will never be realized.

Driven by this situation, it has become inevitable for them to jointly wage war against the Hainan army for the sake of a common goal.

Although Yuan Shikai had 200,000 troops of the Beiyang New Army, he was almost vulnerable in front of the powerful Hainan army.

Britain and the United States contacted Chen Zhong through diplomatic means, trying to persuade Chen Zhong to divide the river with Yuan Shikai, but Chen Zhong also sternly refused.

The secret agreement between Japan and the United States and Yuan Shikai was also announced to the world by Chen Zhong's military intelligence officers at the first time, arousing the opposition of the Chinese people against Yuan Shikai.

Now, Chen Zhong took advantage of the situation to carry out an armed attack on Yuan Shikai, so that Yuan Shikai was forced to leave the city of Beijing, and the Yuan regime was in danger of falling at any time.

In order to force Britain, the United States, and Japan to give up the illusion of supporting the Yuan regime, Chen Zhong held large-scale naval military exercises in the waters of the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea.

Chen Zhong's behavior is obviously a demonstration of his powerful force to Britain, the United States, and Japan in front of the public all over the world.

This kind of declaration of force has seriously shaken Britain's position as a maritime hegemon and greatly stimulated the US military's ambition to dominate the Pacific Ocean.

It was in this situation that the combined fleets of Britain, the United States and Japan, stepping on the same boat, decided to go to war with the Hainan army.

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On 20 October, Chen Zhong ordered the Bohai Fleet, the East China Sea Fleet, the Hainan Fleet, the Hainan First Submarine Brigade, the Naval Air Force, and the Marine Corps to enter the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea live-fire exercise areas, and announced to the whole world that the Hainan Naval Force had officially begun the exercise in the East China Sea.

The target of the exercise is the imaginary enemy, that is, the enemy fleet that dares to invade China's territorial waters, and it is emphasized that the exercise is a live-fire exercise.

Of the three fleets currently in service, there are 30 battleships of 23,000 tonnage and above, 42 battleships of 15,000 tonnage and above, 25 battleships of 10,000 tonnage and above, and 238 other ships, including transport ships, towing ships, medical vessels, supply ships, torpedo boats, gunboats, and so on.

This time, Chen Zhong mobilized 48 attack submarines, five transport submarines, and six reconnaissance submarines of the First Submarine Group of the submarine force, which had just been formed.

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Although Yuan Shikai had 200,000 troops of the Beiyang New Army, he was almost vulnerable in front of the powerful Hainan army.

These attack submarines, in addition to the installation of attackable artillery, each submarine carries four torpedoes, and one attack submarine is amazingly powerful in naval warfare. One submarine is enough to destroy a medium-sized fleet.

It can be said that this submarine group is the most powerful in the world today.

Chen Zhong believed that this submarine group would definitely create an amazing miracle in the decisive battle in the East China Sea.

It is even possible that it is these submarines, despised by Westerners, that the British and Americans will completely destroy the sea giant-class warships.

This must be an unforgettable historical moment, and he will surely be recorded in the glorious annals of naval warfare.

In this naval battle in the East China Sea, Chen Zhong designed a grand war layout, in addition to the three huge sea fleet battle groups, he also used this secret submarine force, as well as a gorgeous aviation unit.

In the northeastern battlefield a few days ago, this air force unit defeated the Japanese army's military strength in North Manchuria at the cost of zero casualties, fully demonstrating the powerful power of the Hainan army, a brand-new armed weapon.

On 21 October, Britain, Japan, and the United States, with a total of 248 warships, formed a three-nation joint fleet and appeared on the surface of the East China Sea.

The British Far East Fleet had 25 giant battleships of 20,000 tons or more, 18 battleships of 15,000 tons and above, and other series of ships, and a total of 58 ships of the Far East Fleet.

In addition, in this fleet there were two giant battleships of the rank of 30,000 tons and above, namely "Queen Vittoria" and "Georgia".

These two giant battleships are the largest tonnage battleships in the world today, they are the most outstanding representatives of the British Royal Navy, and they are also the most glorious symbol of Britain as a supremacy at sea.

The U.S. Pacific Fleet consists of two fleets, one is the Far East Fleet, with a total of 45 ships. The other is the South Pacific Fleet, with a total of forty-eight ships.

The US Pacific Fleet has a total of 32 warships of 20,000 tons and above, and 40 warships of 10,000 tons and above. and other serial ships, etc.

The Japanese fleet is a newly formed combined fleet in the past two years, and its scale was formed in accordance with the establishment of the Russo-Japanese War; in the later period, with the help of Britain and the United States, 10 new battleships of 20,000 tons or higher were added to the battle sequence, and its scale should not be underestimated.

For a time, nearly 500 warships gathered on the sea surface of the East China Sea, and a large-scale naval battle was about to break out.

In the face of such a confrontation, there should be a great disparity in the strength of the two sides, and it is impossible for the Hainan Fleet battle group led by Chen Zhong to resist the powerful combined naval fleet of Britain, the United States and Japan.