Ito disagreed with Inoue's proposal to immediately convene an emergency cabinet meeting and a military meeting.

It is not a peacetime now, and if it were a peacetime, it would not have anything to do with the convening of this cabinet meeting, not even a military meeting, but at the last meeting, I had already proposed that once the meeting was held, it would be announced that a full mobilization would be carried out against Japan, that is, the Japanese people would be armed to deal with the attack on Liaodong.

Although now, according to intelligence, Liaodong has summoned the commanders of various corps and naval commanders along the coast to Lushun, but this does not mean that Liaodong is only to discuss attacking its own homeland. Therefore, this meeting cannot be held, and even if it is, it is not who this is.

Inoue may have known Ito's thoughts, so he didn't ask again, but prepared to turn and leave.

"Inoue-kun, how is the relocation plan for the Imperial Palace?" Seeing that Inoue was leaving, Ito Hirobumi asked after raising his head from his chair.

The Imperial Palace relocation plan was a large-scale plan, and the core of his plan was to relocate all the members of the Imperial Family, leaving Tokyo and moving to the interior of Japan. The purpose of this is:

Ito Hirobumi had never thought about this plan, but when Tokyo was bombarded by the Liaodong Navy, Ito felt that Tokyo was no longer so safe. Therefore, the next day, he convened an emergency meeting, at which the first task was to move the royal family.

Inoue Xin, who was just about to go out, heard Ito Hirobumi's question, and pretended to be said again: "Your Excellency, the palace where the relocation is located has been completed, and an anti-artillery hole has been built, so the emperor can move at any time. ”

That's good, Hirobumi Ito, who heard this, finally fell a stone in his heart. He knew that anyone in Japan could die, even the emperor could not die, and if he died, the spiritual pillar of Japan, it would be over.

"Okay, I'll go to the palace tomorrow to play the emperor tomorrow, and I hope it can make an early decision and leave Tokyo." After saying this, Ito Hirobumi waved his hand weakly and motioned for Inoue Shin to go out.

In Sasebo, the hot wind with the salty smell of the sea breeze laps on the beach of Sasebo. Looking from the beach, not far away, there are white naval warships densely lined together.

The commander of the Combined Fleet, Sukehiro Ito, was sitting quietly on a rock on the beach, watching the children playing on the beach from time to time in a daze.

A whistle sounded Ito raised his head and looked, and in the distance, the battleship Mikasa was billowing soot, and under the guidance of the tractor, it was slowly moving towards the port, and behind Mikasa, there were two armored cruisers, following behind.

"Hooray." A burst of screams suddenly sounded on the beach, and Ito saw that the children playing on the shore were watching the Mikasa ship and shouting loudly.

In the past, Ito would have had a satisfied smile on his face, but now, Ito only had pain in his heart, a pain without words.

He knew very well that the reason why the battleships Mikasa were entering the harbor now was entirely because they had gone out on patrol and returned.

Using a battleship to patrol sounds like a very awesome thing to anyone, but Ito knows that he is completely forced to do so.

Very simply, after the First Battle of Vladivostok and the later sneak attack of the Pacific Fleet, their combined fleet was considered to be a great loss of vitality, although there were still more than 30 battleships, but in addition to three battleships and six armored cruisers, the rest, that is, some small ships of two or three thousand tons, these ships did not say that they were dealing with the armored cruisers of the Beiyang Naval Division of Liao, even if they encountered the torpedo cruisers of the Beiyang Naval Division of the same tonnage, they did not occupy any upper hand.

Today, his fleet is still so huge in the hearts of the people, but he knows best, although the strength of the combined fleet has exceeded ten years ago. But compared with Liaodong, it is still a big difference. People can throw themselves off several streets.

After sending himself from Tokyo to strengthen coastal patrols, he was a desperate police station and a warship, but even so, he still couldn't meet the needs of patrolling, and he had no choice, so he could only give an order to let Mikasa, his flagship, also go out to patrol the port.

It's all a handful of tears when I think about it.

After taking a deep breath, Ito glanced at Ono, the chief of staff of the Combined Fleet, who was sitting next to him, and asked the question he had been asking for too long, that is, whether the Combined Fleet could win this time.

This really scared Ono, in his eyes, Ito Sukehiro is a very confident person, if even a commander would have such a language that is not sure about victory on the battlefield, it is really a very unfriendly language.

However, as a subordinate, he couldn't make matters worse, and after bowing his head and pondering for a while, Ono found a good reason, "Your Excellency Commander, we will definitely win." ”

Win, what to win, Ito Yuheng smiled helplessly, he once did a survey of the current Beiyang Sleep and his own combined fleet, and now, counting the Tsarist fleet and the German Far East Fleet, the fleet commanded by Li He is three times as many battleships and five times as many armored cruisers. And torpedo cruisers are almost seven times more numerous than themselves, and as for torpedo boats, that's not to mention. That can no longer be explained by numbers, he doesn't know what else he will use to compete with the Liaodong fleet, and what he will win this war.

Perhaps seeing Ito's conjecture, Ono stood up and pointed to the west: "Commander, have you forgotten that the warships we bought in the United States will return to Sasebo in the near future." “

Weng, as soon as he heard this, Ito Yuhiro suddenly felt his blood boiling, he really didn't expect this. It would not be long before his combined fleet would be replenished on a large scale, with three battleships, five armored cruisers, and nine torpedo cruisers returning to Sasebo.

This is a huge fleet, if they join, their own strength will be able to grow again, then the distance with the Liaodong Navy will be able to shorten a lot, if they exist. Then he has enough ability and the first battle in Liaodong.

"You're right, we will soon have a batch of warships, and when the time comes, we will definitely be able to defeat the Beiyang Naval Division in Liaodong." Saying this, Ito clenched his fist and raised it high. Excited.