The airships in the sky were reluctant to leave for a long time, they were not China's airship troops, but the watching groups of various countries. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

When the Chinese warship crashed into the Japanese fleet with injuries, the two sides were mixed together, and everyone could not understand it.

The fighting spirit of the Eastern countries is something they cannot understand, and they feel that it is completely unnecessary.

If it were England and Germany, they would have stopped at the sea, exchanged salutes, and then returned to enjoy the honour before night fell, and no one would reproach them.

But these two countries in the East are really incomprehensible, this is completely to the same end, what a big enmity, even if there is enmity, Westerners will not do this.

Although they did not understand this culture, they also felt a sense of tragedy, and the soldiers of both countries were equally heroic and worthy of respect.

"What do you think?"

After watching each other hit each other on the sea, they fired at each other at close range, and then there were airships in the sky to drop bombs indiscriminately, not to mention fearless and super dreadnought, even an iron mountain would be torn to pieces, and there were steel fragments floating everywhere on the sea, wreckage, human corpses, and oil stains.

Only there was not a single floating battleship.

Only one by one the airships began to descend, slowly drifting to the surface, turning on the searchlight on the bow of the ship, and began to search for those who had fallen into the water, whether Chinese or Japanese soldiers rescued together.

The news of the Sino-Japanese naval battle in Tokyo Bay shocked the whole world, and they thought about China's victory and Japan's victory, but they never thought about the result of the two armies dying together.

"I felt fear."

The British Army officer said that if the Chinese Navy were armed with this spirit, would the British Navy still be able to suppress them after the war?

"You are wrong, they still have a long way to go, and you will never understand the honor of the Navy."

But the British naval officer was much more optimistic, his arrogance had reasons for arrogance, and the British Empire had the confidence to crisscross the sea for hundreds of years, but what he didn't know was that their glory would not last long.

But the British naval officers also did not know how the war between China and Japan would develop next, the navy was completely wiped out, and the next thing to look at was the land war, but can the Chinese army win the Japanese army?

Although the Chinese have shown an upward trend in recent years, they can also fight with the Russians, and the Russians have proved through this European war that they are still the steam steamroller, they can still press the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and they can also resist the German army with numerical superiority, and they are not so bad in the Far East.

This shows that the armies of China and Japan are even stronger than everyone imagined, especially the Japanese army, whose performance in several wars is impeccable, but the Chinese army, although it can also fight big battles and tough battles at the beginning, but there are many problems, and it is impossible to persist in protracted operations, especially in several wars, which are basically defensive operations, and the offensive performance is not too brilliant, and it is completely covered by the airship troops.

"What I want to say is, if these airships pounce not on the Japanese fleet, but on the Royal Navy of the British Empire, will you be able to stop them?"

The army officer reinterpreted what he meant by fear.

The naval officer couldn't help frowning: "Maybe." It is necessary to remind the country to prevent the Germans from following suit. ”

The Germans are already thinking about following suit.

In Europe, the Germans have also explored the tactics of airships, such as the use of airships on the Marne River to penetrate the defense, and almost tore through the Marne front and approached Paris.

They also tested the airship tactics used by the Chinese in the past, especially the tactics of airborne Chelyabinsk in the rear to cut off the east-west communication of the Russian army, and the Germans specially found an indifferent town in France for testing and sent hundreds of airships to participate, and the result was that the airborne landing was successful and successfully occupied here.

However, the French then used their well-developed railway network to deploy several divisions around the town and annihilated nearly 10,000 people who had been parachuted. The Germans only then discovered that the Chinese were able to successfully hold Chelyabinsk because of Russia's poor communication line, a Trans-Siberian Railway, and a single line, and bridges near and far were blown up, and the Russians simply did not have the ability to mobilize too many troops, so that the Chinese kept holding on.

However, the French have a dense railway network and a complete air defense network, and the airships have no way to paralyze the entire railway network, so the rear sudden landing tactics can only be surrounded and annihilated.

After that, the Germans experimented with many tactics, but they did not try to attack British warships with airships, because they believed that British warships had strong defensive firepower, and airships were too thin compared to battleships, and they did not think that it was possible to damage warships before the airships were shot down.

But this time the Chinese opened up another idea for them, that is, as long as they are willing to sacrifice, the airship can still blow up and sink the warship, and in the face of the British naval blockade of Germany, which has reached the point of exhaustion, how can it not try him.

In this way, the war in the East affected the Western theater.

Germany currently has 3,000 airships of various types, Britain has 1,000, France has 500, Germany has more than Britain and France combined, and occupies an absolute advantage, but the French are equipped with a number of new aircraft, which poses a serious threat to airships, so Germany's airships were once forced out of the battlefield.

But now the airships seem to be useful again, the Germans mobilized a thousand airships, stormed the British fleet wandering outside the German harbor, fought fiercely for a day, sank three British warships, lost two hundred airships, the Germans found that the battle loss was not cost-effective, they gave up themselves.

Warships are expensive, but airships are equally expensive, and in the absence of large-scale production of Zeppelin, the cost of German airships is as high as more than 300,000 US dollars, and other countries are more expensive than Germany, so so far countries still do not have large quantities of airships.

Because the cost performance was too cost-effective, the Germans slowly began to focus on building submarines, while the British always preferred to build warships, and they were not interested in weapons and equipment that they believed were not comparable to the price.

"How many people have lived?"

"So far, more than 2,000 people have been saved."

"What about Liu Guanxiong, what about Sa Zhenbing?"

Seeing Gong Mingde's face, Yang Chao knew that he had asked in vain, and he was not spared, and the lives of Liu Guanxiong and Sa Zhenbing were no more expensive than other soldiers, only more than 2,000 people were saved, and there were more than 3,000 soldiers on a super dreadnought.

"Inform all the ships in Arthur, those small destroyers, that they can go out and save people. All ships in Yantai, all those that can be driven will also go to save people, whether it is a Chinese ship or a foreigner's ship, they can borrow if they are willing to borrow, and if they are not willing to borrow, they will rent. ”

"Let the British tell Japan that we are going to search and rescue, not to fight. The naval battle between China and Japan ended. China will help the Japanese soldiers, and I hope that Japan can also help the Chinese soldiers, who are worthy of the title of soldiers, and I hope that both sides will give them respect. ”

After making these arrangements, Yang Chao sent a telegram to Li Yuanhong, telling him the news that the two armies were invincible and undefeated, and that the two armies were all dead.

Cabinet meeting in Beijing.

Yang Chao reported the battle situation in detail:

"The navy is completely wiped out, the rescue continues, and there are currently 12,000 soldiers rescued, and it is not clear whether there are any survivors, but it is not very optimistic. Of the 1,000 airships that participated in the air raids, more than 500 were damaged, more than 10,000 were killed, and less than half were resurrected. ”

"Lord Yang, what should I do? Do you want to continue fighting? ”

Li Yuanhong asked with a frown.

Yang Chao had a calm face: "Fight, of course you have to fight." Otherwise, they would not have died in vain! ”

Li Yuanhong hesitated: "But the British have already offered mediation, and they said that they will persuade Japan to give up the territory in the northeast. ”

Yang Chao smiled bitterly: "Does the president think that the dispute between China and Japan is just a territorial dispute?" This is a battle of national fortunes, and Japan will not be able to stand up if it does not step on China's body, and China will not be able to stand up if it does not defeat Japan. It's fate. The fate of the maritime nations and the continental nations, we have to knock them down completely before they grow to the point where we have nothing to do. And control Japan, so that Japan can only be a small Japan forever, and cannot grow into a big Japan. ”

Li Yuanhong felt that what the two countries were fighting for was just a territory, and where could he imagine what would happen in 10 or 20 years.

"If you don't take advantage of the moment to control Japan. Then, after the European war is decided, whether it is the British or the Americans, as long as the Westerners grasp the world hegemony, they will definitely support Japan to balance our country. Our country will always be stared at by Japan, a watchdog tethered to the edge of Asia, and will not be able to let go to the world! ”

Yang Chao explained in a deep voice.

Li Yuanhong and others are also human beings, although they do not have the concept of the overall situation of the world, Wang Chonghui and others are scholar-type bureaucrats, proficient in professional knowledge, but lack of conspiracy and trickery, Liang Shiyi understands that he is not a regular finance minister, and the means of making money for Yuan Shikai in the past are also unscrupulous, professional knowledge is not proficient, but the conspiracy is a set, he nodded incessantly, indicating that he understood.

"If you can't win a land battle?"

Li Yuanhong asked inquiringly.

Yang Chao said: "If the naval battle is undefeated, the land battle will be won." One year, two years of fighting, we will not break our bones, but Japan will collapse, they now have only one way, surrender, unconditional surrender, or collapse! ”

Li Yuanhong nodded: "Then Lord Lu, reply to the British and let the Japanese surrender." ”

The Cabinet meeting ended.

The members of the cabinet agreed to urge the Japanese to surrender unconditionally.

Li Yuanhong originally thought that he would be very happy to hear the news of the naval battle, but this time he found that he was not very happy, but felt a deep pressure pressing on his heart, and he felt that the old empire he led seemed to be a little different, as if it was slowly changing, raising the flag with eyes that were cloudy due to the long history, and projecting his vision towards the larger world. (To be continued.) )