"What's the matter, what's the change?" Seeing that Li He didn't speak, Zhang Cheng asked suspiciously and took the document from the table.

Occupy Tanegashima and immediately march eastward to occupy the Ryukyus. A few large letters are written on the first page of the document.

Zhang Cheng gasped and looked at Li He, and after a long time, Zhang Cheng woke up and looked at Li He: "Dashuai means to help Ryukyu recover the country." “

"You should say it's the annexation of the Ryukyus." Li He glanced at Zhang Cheng, and after casually speaking, he began to close his eyes and began to think about sending those warships back to Lushun to participate in the battle.

"What do you think of getting the First Fleet back to Arthur?" After a while, Li Hecai opened his eyes, looked at Zhang Cheng who was standing in front of him and asked.

If the First Fleet is mobilized, then the Second Fleet will be in Vladivostok, and then it will be able to independently complete the transportation of the corps on the Northern Front.

"I don't have any problems, and besides, I can also send a few cruisers from the Second Fleet to strengthen our forces, you know, after coming to Tanegashima, we will also escort the army to land on the Ryukyu Islands." The order was given to immediately let the First Fleet, as well as the three cruisers of the Second Fleet, immediately depart and return to Arthur. Li He, who accepted Zhang Cheng's suggestion, immediately gave an order, after all, Liu Jun didn't give him much time.

Vladivostok, the Provisional Command of the Liaodong Combined Fleet. Provisional Navy Commander Lin Taizeng was in front of the simulated sand table, discussing some plans for future operations with Deputy Commanders William and Nikolai, as well as Navy Chief of Staff Yan Fu.

A major in a white navy uniform walked straight up to Lin Taizeng and handed over a telegram: "Commander, the Admiralty has an urgent telegram. ”

The telegram sent by the Admiralty, this is the supreme order, and Lin Taizeng, who thought of this, put down the command in his hand, took the telegram and opened it and read it.

"Admiralty, order, all of the First Fleet, the Second Fleet, the Bu Toad, the Shichang, and the Ruojing immediately return to Lushun to carry out combat missions." After reading the telegram, Lin Tai said lightly after handing the telegram to everyone.

Finally waiting for such a day, Lin Taizeng felt a little inexplicably excited in his heart. After seeing that no one objected, Lin Taizeng issued an order in an almost trembling tone: "Order, the first fleet, the second fleet Ruojing, Bu Toad, and Shichang armored cruisers, immediately add a supplement." At three o'clock in the afternoon, we left Vladivostok and returned to Lushun. ”

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the First Fleet, which was originally moored in the open sea, and the three armored cruisers in the harbor began to slowly leave, and the originally densely packed battleships suddenly went to dress up, but even so, Vladivostok still had four battleships, seven armored cruisers and more than two dozen torpedo cruisers, and it was enough to use these forces and repaired batteries to deal with the sneak attack of the Japanese combined fleet.

In a small town 30 kilometers outside of Tokyo, after only a third of Tokyo's population had been evacuated, Hirobumi Ito's Prime Minister's Office finally began to be relocated, and the Prime Minister's Office was relocated to a town far from the range of naval guns.

The small town, which was originally not prosperous, suddenly became the center of Japan, and the War Department, the base camp, the Cabinet, the Admiralty, and the chaotic departments all entered here in less than two days and began to work again.

The Prime Minister's Office is the most important department, the leader of the whole department, so the treatment is much better than other departments, and it is good to be able to find the town government to work it, and the others, to be able to have a larger house, are already thankful.

There is no luxury and prosperity in the original, not even low sugar, which makes Ito Hirobumi very uncomfortable, the first day of work here, he just opened his eyes and lay alive for a day, unable to sleep, too noisy, and not used to it.

Therefore, in today's office, Ito Hirobumi's pair of eyes have become two pairs of panda eyes.

With a creak, the door was opened, and Ito Hirobumi took a look, and it was Inoue Shin who walked in, and only Inoue Shin, who was the most diligent here during this time.

"Prime Minister, emergency." Inoue Xin, who came in, quickly took out a telegram from the folder and handed it to Ito Hirobumi and said again: "Liaodong and Vladivostok sent an urgent telegram, at three o'clock this afternoon, all the former Lushun fleet of the Liaodong Navy and the three armored cruisers of the former Weihai Fleet suddenly set off and did not know where to go. ”

Hearing this, Ito Hirofumi stood up from his chair at once, looked at Inoue Shin, and quickly came to the map and began to mark with the pen in his hand.

A huge red line appeared in Tianjin at the same time, as did a red line in Vladivostok.

The Arthur fleet, which is missing, and the 23rd Army, which is on alert, what is this going to do, is there any connection between them, Ito Hirobumi, who has his arms crossed, narrowed his eyes and thought.

After the 12th Corps entered Tianjin from Baoding, it has been resting in the area of Yangliuqing, and it has always been in a calm state, however, judging from the telegram, the 23rd Army was on alert for less than six hours, and some ships of the Lushun fleet and the Weihai fleet sailed out of Weihaiwei, what did they want to do?

"Your Excellency, do you think they ordered the Arthur fleet to attack the port after receiving our order to retreat?" Inoue Shin stepped forward and asked.

This, it shouldn't be like this, Ito Hirobumi shook his head, it's very simple, if it is to attack the mainland, then there will definitely be some movement in the dozen or so corps in Liaodong, but now, there is no movement about these corps at all.

"No, if it's a big attack, why in Tianjin, Lushun. Weihai. The Liaodong Army in Lianyungang did not move. Ito said, pointing to the map.

The crux of the matter is where the fleet from Vladivostok is going, but now that the combined fleet has all withdrawn to Sasebo, it is impossible to send any patrols to search for the movements of this huge fleet.

Hey, Ito Hirobumi, who sighed, sighed helplessly, glanced at Inoue Xin next to him and said lightly: "Order, the coastal defenders will strengthen their vigilance, and once they find the news of the Liaodong Fleet, they will report it immediately." ”

There was no way, Ito Hirobumi knew that now, he could only wait for the appearance of the Liaodong Fleet to determine what they were going to do and what they were going to do.