Li Hongzhang's apartment, today's weather is unstable and cold, Li Hongzhang stays on the balcony for a relatively long time, and even, today's lunch, he eats here.

The deafening whistle in the distance made Li Hongzhang, who had closed his eyes slightly, suddenly flash a golden light, and then motioned to his housekeeper to help him up. He heard it, this voice, in the entire Lushun, and even in the whole world, there are only two warships that can come out, that is, the two dreadnoughts that have been officially incorporated into the Beiyang Naval Division a week ago, the Hongzhang and the Yi? Number.

Standing up tremblingly, Li Hongzhang, who came to the guardrail, took the binoculars from the housekeeper and looked at it, and then he saw that it was Yi, who was slowly entering the military port under the tugboat towing boat? battleship.

These two warships were too big, Li Hongzhang clearly remembered that on the same day, the two warships entered the port and were incorporated into the Beiyang Naval Division, and almost all the warships were scattered to the side, and after the two giants were moored, they slowly drove in. Looking at Zhenyuan and Dingyuan next to the two battleships, Li Hongzhang was extremely shocked in his heart, the two largest warships in Asia were originally in front of these two warships, and now in front of these two warships, the short ones were not one or two.

Although the guns of these two warships are not as powerful as Zhenyuan Dingyuan, only 210 mm, they are much heavier, there are six guns in front and behind, and there are six guns in the side chords of these two warships, but they are not in the cabin, but are placed above the deck.

Looking at the two huge golden dragons on the bow of the boat and the two huge ones on the side? With two words, Li Hongzhang's heart suddenly remembered that he had passed away.

A trace of tears fell from his eyes, Li Hongzhang raised his head, he remembered Heyi back then? When we started Western-style affairs together.

Lord Wang, we have worked hard for decades to strive for the prosperity and strength of the country, but our achievements in the past few decades are not as good as Liu Jun's eight years, if you live until now and see that the navy is strong and the country is strong, how good it would be.

"Master, Liu Jun is here." Looking down at the housekeeper outside, he saw Liu Junzheng entering the courtyard and whispered to Li Hongzhang.

Liu Jun, Li Hongzhang wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes with his sleeve slightly, and after regaining his composure, he looked down at Liu Jun who was entering the courtyard, and from that swollen face, Li Hongzhang already knew that Germany and Tsarist Russia had taken the bait.

"Good news, old man, Tsarist Russia and Germany will declare war on Japan in the next few days."

What the? Li Hongzhang's eyes widened, it was less than half a month from the beginning to his own idea, and he thought that today Liu Junlai was telling himself that he was already talking about how to speed up the declaration of war between the two countries according to the plan and discussion, but now, did he hear it wrong, from Liu Jun's mouth, this is obviously telling himself that the plan has not only been launched, but also completed, and Tsarist Russia and Germany have agreed to send troops to declare war on Japan.

"How did you do that?" Li Hongzhang raised his head, if he came to handle this matter, I am afraid that there would be no two months. So as soon as he saw Liu Jun coming to his side, Li Hongzhang asked lightly.

Hehe, after Liu Jun handed over the things in his hand to the maid on the side, he moved a chair and sat down: "It's too simple, I just took advantage of the contradictions between their two countries and carried out a mutual deception." ”

Deceiving each other, Li Hongzhang obviously did not understand what this meant. If this is the case, then it is probably the first time in ancient and modern times that two countries will be instigated to declare war on Japan by deception.

Seeing that Li Hongzhang still didn't understand, Liu Jun picked up a cup of tea from the side, took a sip, and then explained the incident in detail.

Hiss Li Hongzhang gasped, after listening to Liu Jun's words, his heart was unsettled, you know, this Germany and Tsarist Russia, as long as either side verifies, this will ruin Liu Jun's plan, this is purely a risk.

"Didn't you ever think that these two countries would investigate what you said?" Lowering his head and pondering, Li Hongzhang narrowed his eyes and asked.

"No, although Germany and Tsarist Russia have not been at war, the relationship between the two countries is not pleasing to each other. If you don't like it and want to get the benefits of the same region, you can only buy time for each other to compete for benefits, rather than spending time investigating what I said. ”

Vicious, the two countries were arrested by Liu Jun to death, such a plan also means that it can target Japan and Germany, if it is other countries, this is simply impossible and cannot be carried out.

"Old man, I brought two bottles of good wine today, do you think we want to drink two glasses?"

"Of course." Li Hongzhang stood up, for this kind of day that has to be celebrated, if he doesn't drink a few glasses, how can he calm his surging heart.

In the waters off Sakhalin, the fleets lined up in a row are rising thick smoke and sailing on the icy sea of Sakhalin. Judging from the national flag on the mast, the red round sun and the scattered articles on all sides look like a Japanese warship. At the beginning, it was a coastal defense ship, and judging from the handwriting, it was still the Matsushima, the flagship of the Combined Fleet a few years ago, and Matsushima was followed closely by three torpedo cruisers.

The commander of the fleet, the captain of the Matsushima, Seisaburo Akako, stood on the deck of the Matsushima, and the icy cold wind made him tighten his thick coat from time to time.

At this time, there was a trace of resentment in his heart, the empire was now at war with Liaodong, and his mission was to lead Songdao back to fight with the Liaodong army from time to time, but to come here to patrol, and in his heart, there was a trace of unrest and disacceptance.

"To the northwest, two battleships of the Russian fleet and four armored cruisers were found." The heart-rending shouts from the observatory suddenly interrupted Chisei Saburo's dissatisfaction.

With a sharp wit in his heart, Chicheng Saburo raised the telescope in his hand violently, and in the telescope, he could clearly see that it was ten kilometers away. A battleship and four armored cruisers of the Russian Pacific Fleet were billowing smoke with murderous air. Towards yourself.

Those who come are not good and those who are good do not come, at that time, they fought with the Pacific Fleet, and they were on the battlefield, and now, such a strong lineup of the Pacific Fleet pounced on them, which is obviously ill-intentioned.

Hiss, Chisei Saburo gasped, and only then did he notice that the gun jacket of the Russian Pacific Fleet was not covered at all, and there was no one on the deck at all.

This is clearly prepared.

"Sound the battle alarm. The gun emplacements are ready for battle. A heart-rending cry echoed over Sakhalin from Chisei Saburo's terrified mouth.

Coo-coo, coo-coo, The Japanese warships, which were still lined up, suddenly began to change their positions, so that they could give full play to the power of their naval guns.

It's difficult, looking at the Pacific Fleet in the distance, Chicheng Saburo doesn't have any confidence in defeating the other party, any warship of the other side is pulled out, he is not an opponent, not to mention the battleship.

We must inform the base camp of this news, or no one will ever know what has happened to us.

"Summons, let Saikyo Maru evacuate immediately, return, Sasebo reports everything that happened here." Clenched his fists, knowing that he was going to die today, Chisei Saburo quietly issued an order.

Boom, the flag-whisperers on the mast quickly signaled the Saikyo Maruka torpedo cruiser to his right.

I saw that after the Saikyo Maru torpedo cruiser signaled its allegiance to the emperor, it began to increase its horsepower to turn right, and then, under the cover of thick smoke, began to evacuate to the Japanese mainland.

I saw that Saikyo Maru was gone. Chi Cheng took a deep breath at this time, and after looking at the black warships of the Russian Pacific Fleet that were getting closer and closer for a while, he turned his head firmly again and looked at the first mate beside him: "Order, all ships will fire immediately when they reach range." ”

"Hey." The first mate nodded vigorously, turned and ran behind him.