"I don't know what happened when the chief of staff arrived here so late." Seeing Yan Fu walking in, Cai Ting smiled dryly. Take a step forward.

"Okay, it's all old acquaintances, don't be so polite, it's not me looking for you today, it's the commander looking for you, hurry up." After Yan Fu finished speaking, he turned around and walked out of the room.

The commander looked for himself, Cai Tinggan's head popped out of a big light bulb, he was stunned for a moment, and reacted violently: "Hey, Lao Yan, what is the big boss looking for me." ”

"Commander, do you want to do something to the Japanese?" On the way here, Cai Tinggan had already gotten the news from Yan Fu, so as soon as he entered Li He's room, after Cai Tinggan finished saluting, he showed a happy face and looked at Li He with a blank look.

Regarding Cai Tinggan's performance, Li He was already immune, nodded slightly, and Li He put down the document in his hand: "How many submarines can sail at present?" ”

"Whale One, Three, Fourth, and Six are ready to go." Cai Tinggan knew this well, he didn't have to think about it, and immediately said the answer.

Bang, he stood up and walked around the room twice, and turned his head sharply: "Immediately hang No. 3 onto the battleship Ningyuan and No. 5 onto the armored cruiser Ruojing tonight." ”

"Understood," Cai Tinggan nodded, turned around and walked out.

Seeing Cai Tinggan walk out, Li He turned around and walked to the map.

This time, the stakes were so great that he had to personally lead the battleships Ningyuan, the armored cruisers Ruojing and Yinsen, the torpedo cruisers Flying Leopard Flying Eagle and Exocet and two torpedo boats to set off to escort the Japanese fleet.

"Where are you going to do it?" Seeing Li He standing in front of the map, Yan Fu took a step forward, observed for a while, and then asked Li He, who had been silent.

"Here." Li He pointed to a spot in North Korean waters. Yan Fuding looked at the Liefei Islands.

Sasebo, Japan. The Japanese Combined Fleet was anchored at the base, and in the headquarters, the commander of the Combined Fleet kept picking up the binoculars and looking at the warships moored in the distance.

Those warships were really the battleship Fuso and Itsukushima, which were responsible for transporting the army this time. Chiyoda good torpedo cruiser.

These three warships are now loading ammunition and fresh water, moving telescopes, and moving their targets to Pier 2, which is not far away, and is now mooring three merchant ships that have been transferred from commercial companies to carry the army, and now the army soldiers are boarding the transport ships in an orderly manner, and the supplies and artillery are being transferred to the transport ships.

"Your Excellency, Commander, we will finish the reprint at about six o'clock tomorrow morning, when do you think we will leave?" The chief of staff on one side stepped forward and lowered his head and asked.

"Ten o'clock." Take a deep breath. Ito gave the exact time of departure.

At the Sebo Military Port, the sun at ten o'clock had already broken through the clouds, and the sun shone on the white warships below, reflecting bursts of silver light.

Whirring, smoke was already billowing from the chimney of the battleship Fuso, and two minutes later, the chimneys of the Itsukushima and Chiyoda, which were moored nearby, had begun to billowing smoke.

There was a creak. The battleship Fuso, which had reached a certain pressure, trembled and began to move towards the outside of the military port, followed by Itsukushima and Chiyoda. The three warships will be in the open sea waiting for the transport ships that will depart later.

An hour later, the three transport ships that had staggered out of the harbor finally met the escort warships of the Japanese Combined Fleet in the open sea, and began to adjust their course and sail in the direction of Suwon, Korea.

In fact, if there were satellites at that time, it would have been easy to see that five hours after the departure of the Japanese Combined Fleet escort fleet, it was at the Lushun Beiyang Naval Division Military Port in the west. The huge fleet of the Beiyang Naval Division began to slowly sail out of the military port, but all this did not escape the eyes of the Japanese spies, and not long after the Lushun Beiyang Naval Division was dispatched, an urgent message was sent from a small village in Lushun to the Intelligence Department in Tokyo, Japan.

Tokyo, the cold winter is getting colder and colder, and in the prime minister's office, the body is obviously not as good as before, and Ito Hirobumi rubs his aching knees from time to time.

Knock knock, the knock outside the door made Ito Hirobumi stop his movements suddenly, he didn't want his embarrassed appearance to be seen by his subordinates.

After taking a seat in his seat, he took a document from the side and spread it on the table, and this time looked out the door: "Come in." ”

With a creak, the door was pushed open, and Ito Hirobumi saw that it was Inoue Shin who came in.

"Your Excellency Prime Minister, the intelligence department has just received the information, look at it." After speaking, Inoue Shin handed the telegram in his hand to Ito Hirobumi.

Something, Hirobumi Ito picked up the telegram from the table.

The battleship Ningyuan, the flagship of the Beiyang Naval Division. The armored cruiser Wakashine, the Kamimori, and three torpedo cruisers departed the port.

What kind of information is this, Ito Hirobumi glanced at it and put the telegram in his hand on the table again.

He didn't understand that Japan invested so much money in the Intelligence Bureau every year, so it raised a bunch of waste, which was obviously the fleet of the Beiyang Naval Division patrolling out of the port, what was there to make a fuss about, and it was actually sent by secret electricity.

"Prime Minister, haven't you noticed anything strange?" Seeing that Ito Hirobumi was indifferent, Inoue Shin stepped forward and cautiously reminded.

Strange, how can there be anything strange, Ito Hirobumi picked up the telegram again and looked at it, but still didn't see anything strange.

"What do you mean?" I couldn't see it, and Ito Hirobumi looked at Inoue Shin on the side.

Inoue Xin took a step forward, and when he received the intelligence from the Ministry of Intelligence, he really didn't see anything, but on the way here, he finally saw a problem, that is, the fleet on patrol this time was actually the battleship Ningyuan, you know, this Ningyuan is the flagship of the Beiyang Naval Division, and there are so many main warships of the Beiyang Naval Division, and it is not too strange to call the flagship to patrol.

I see. After listening to Inoue Shin's explanation, Ito Hirofumi lowered his head and pondered for a while, and suddenly laughed.

"Inoue-kun is too worried, didn't we also use flagships to patrol back then, there are indeed many battleships of the Beiyang Naval Division, but they also need to enter the port for maintenance, and when they enter maintenance, it will inevitably mobilize warships to patrol, and even dispatch flagships, which is not strange at all."

Nodding slightly, although Inoue Xin was still a little uneasy, but seeing Ito Hirobumi say this, he could only nod and agree with Ito Hirobumi's statement.

In the Lushun Headquarters, after Li He set off, Liu Jun has been staying in front of the huge chart in the study.

"That's it, since Li He left, you have been standing here motionless, are you worried about them?" Zheng Yiqian, who was on the side, stepped forward and hugged Liu Jun's waist and asked softly.

"Yes, although I didn't ask them about their battle plan, but this is always a brutal battle, and it's impossible to say that I'm not worried." In front of Zheng Yiqian, Liu Jun didn't have the kind of disguised indifference, some were just the true thoughts in his heart.

Japan's Fuso, in any case, is also a battleship, weighing more than 110,000 tons, and his firepower is no worse than the current Zhenyuan Dingyuan. Even if it's Itsukushima, the firepower has been improved.

"Don't worry, Li He has not fought with them once or twice, the battle that almost wiped out the United Fleet a few years ago was commanded by him, with him in command, what do you have to worry about."

Indeed, what Zheng Yiqian said was the truth, in the naval battle around the sea that year, the Beiyang Naval Division and the Combined Fleet fought upside down in the Yellow Sea, and in the end, only the Japanese Combined Fleet Matsushima and Itsukushima and a few torpedo boats escaped from death. The rest was reimbursed in the Yellow Sea.

Today, the Matsushima is no longer the flagship of the Combined Fleet, but the Yaeyama, and the Matsushima, which has now become a second-class warship of the Combined Fleet, is anchored in Sasebo and incorporated into the Second Patrol Fleet.

Seeing that Liu Jun still had doubts, Zheng Yiqian smiled slightly: "Don't worry, the person here said that they are a sneak attack, and the Japanese side will not be guarded." ”

Well, this can be regarded as saying that Liu Jun is heartbroken, and he smiled slightly, and Liu Jun, who has been putting on a face, finally showed a smile.