"They disguised themselves as fishermen and waited on the route on a fishing boat, and when our ship discovered the fishing boat and inspected it, the sneak attackers secretly dived to our ship from under the water, climbed up from the hull and stern of the ship, and controlled all the key departments on the ship." Heihachiro Togo sighed, "At that time, the attention of our ship's crew was all focused on that fishing boat, and we were caught off guard, and many of my officers and I were captured, and they threatened our lives to force the crew to give up resistance, thus taking control of the whole ship." ”

Although Heihachiro Togo said it very casually, it sounded like a bolt from the blue to Yamamoto Gonbei and Oyama Iwa.

"How so? ......," Yamamoto muttered.

"It's Lin Jun who personally leads the team, right?" Dashan Yan remembered the wounded people he had just seen and asked.

"Yes." Togo Heihachiro nodded, he probably recalled the scene at that time, and a trace of fear unconsciously appeared in his eyes, "Lin Jun was the first to climb onto our ship from the stern of the ship along the rudder blade and rudder rod, he made a tool similar to an iron claw, which can easily carry out such a climb, of course, it is also a powerful weapon, and those who tried to fight back were all knocked down by him, if it wasn't for the drill this time, I'm afraid I wouldn't be sitting here talking to the two of you." ”

Listening to Heihachiro Togo's narration, Oyama couldn't help but feel a slight chill around his neck, as if the terrible iron claws were cutting his throat......

"Lin Jun is really a powerful person." At this time, Yamamoto Gonbei could be said to admire Lin Yiqing so much, he couldn't imagine that Lin Yiqing would use such a method to seize a warship and take the lead in the battle!

The two of them asked Togo Heihachiro in detail about the details of the ship-seizing exercise, and watched the record of the exercise that Togo Heihachiro had just written, before leaving. The first thing Gonbei Yamamoto and Oyama Iwa did after returning to their residence was to record what they had just seen and heard, compile it into a report, and quietly send it to Tokyo through their own secret channels.

Although they are both sending reports to their superiors, the two have different purposes. Proceeding mainly from the perspective of combat technology, Gonbei Yamamoto reminded the Ministry of the Navy to pay attention to the occurrence of such a situation in future naval battles, and put forward a targeted proposal to strengthen the defense at the stern of the ship. Oyama's report, on the other hand, was intended to remind the Ministry of War of the many noteworthy events that were taking place in Kagoshima and to suggest that the government should prepare for it.

Of course, Gonbei Yamamoto and Oyama Iwa, who sent out the report, would not know what role the two of them played after sending their report back, which they could never have imagined in any way.

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As the east had just appeared a faint white, and I was floating alone on the deck of the Japanese gunboat "Settsu" on the sea, Ito took out his pocket watch and looked at it -- an important mark he had left on his visit to the United States -- at 5:45 a.m.

Now, he is on his way back to Tokyo.

After staying up all night writing a report to His Majesty the Emperor, his eyes felt unusually sour. But when he saw the "Settsu" and the Japanese sailors busy on it, he couldn't help but let out a heavy sigh.

On his visit to Kagoshima, he was aboard the gunboat "Settsu," one of the only remaining Western gunboats in the Japanese Navy.

He was equally worried about what he saw in Kagoshima, the closest frontier of Japan's coastal defense to the Ryukyus, the former base of the Qianguo Navy.

The strength of the Japanese Navy here is only a few old warships such as "Mount Fuji" and "Raiden Maru", and it is completely powerless to resist the Qianguo Navy!

Surrounded by the sea on all sides, Japan has attached importance to the role of the navy since ancient times, but since the "uncrowned emperor" Yama Prefecture Aritomo took over military power, the navy, which has always been in front of the army, has lost its original status, and the "navy and army" have become the "army navy." Since the post of secretary of navy became vacant, it has lost its chief officer with leadership and has completely become a vassal of the army, and the navy's daily training and military discipline have since become increasingly slackened, and even many warships have often coped with daily maintenance.

The evil consequences of not paying attention to the navy have been thoroughly demonstrated in the Battle of Moss Bay......

The Japanese Navy, which has two ironclad ships unique in Asia, will be completely wiped out in the face of a steam fleet consisting of only cruisers and gunboats, which had just been dismally built up by the decaying Great Qian Empire in a few years!

Although he had learned the details of the two naval battles through various channels, in the face of such a tragic fact, from the bottom of his heart, he still didn't want to believe it!

He knew that although the Japanese Navy after the Meiji Restoration was nothing compared to the navies of Western countries, it was not without the strength to fight in the face of that decaying and declining neighbor on the Asian continent!

His original idea was the Battle of Moswan, and the worst result was that the navy would protect the army and withdraw to the Japanese mainland, but what he didn't expect was that the navy and army would all be wiped out by the Qianguo army!

"The battle between countries really can't be risked! ......," Ito said to himself.

Now, he feels extremely remorseful for not stopping or even conniving at the military adventures of Aritomo and Saigo in Yamaguchi.

"Ito-kun." A familiar voice sounded behind Ito Hirobumi, and it also succeeded in awakening Ito Hirobumi, who was still meditating.

"Saionji-kun." Hirobumi Ito turned his head and his gaze fell on the Saionji Gongwang behind him.

"It's still early, why don't you sleep for a while longer?" Hirobumi Ito turned his head, leaned forward, leaned on the railing of the ship's side, and looked at the sea with some abruptness.

Gongwang of Xiyuan Temple smiled bitterly, "I can't sleep!" I had to go out for a walk. ”

"Oh." Hirobumi Ito sighed and did not speak.

"Mr. Nanzhou still refuses to go out of the mountain." Xiyuan Temple Gongwang looked at the sea in the distance and said, "When this national disaster occurs, it is time to abandon the previous suspicions, I thought that with his character, he would agree immediately......"

"Mr. Nanzhou is a straightforward person, and he is reluctant to go out of the mountain because of Mr. Jiadong." "After all, they used to be good friends, but now they have become incompatible political enemies, even if they go out of the mountains, they have many conflicts in national opinions, and they hinder each other when they do things, but it is not good for the country, so I didn't agree." ”

Hirobumi Ito recalls the eventful years that Okubo Ritsu and Saigo Takamori experienced together, and can't help but feel emotional.

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