Section 259 Naval Dispatch
"Zhongfa, Jiawu, Gengzi, you run away in a hurry like a rat crossing the street again and again, do you still have a sense of honor!"
In the Lushun Military Port, Yang Chao scolded one naval officer after another in the office, and at the same time, his speech spread to the entire Lushun Port through Siemens' latest loudspeaker. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Groups of naval soldiers outside were excited, gathered outside the conference room and wanted to rush in, and a group of guards with loaded guns and two Mauser pistols pinned to their waists and rifles in their hands looked nervously guarded.
Liu Guanxiong, chief of the general staff of the Navy, and Sa Zhenbing, commander-in-chief, had a cold face.
"If it's a man, it's time for you to go. Today came the news that our air raid last night hit all the military ports in Japan, and some other ports. Although the Japanese fleet was not damaged, for you, if you sink a Japanese warship, even if you damage them, they will not be repaired, and we can repair them in Lushun, in Qingdao, in Yantai. As long as we keep fighting, the victory is on our side. The only question is, are you guys men? ”
Liu Guanxiong: They are about to explode.
For a continental nation, the navy has never had a sense of urgency, the German military is so strong, their warships are not all nested in the harbor, there is no way to be blocked by the British, although the British navy is strong, but in the original history, the gap between the two sides is not too big, and only after the outbreak of a Jutland Sea battle, the German navy will lie down, until the end of the war, their only role is to launch an uprising, so that Germany collapsed.
The reason why the navies of the mainland countries are so cowardly is, first, that they have no sense of honor, and second, that they have no sense of urgency. For the navy of the maritime nation, behind them is their own territory, while the mainland navy does not have this kind of psychological awareness, even if they are defeated, they still have a strong army behind them.
Therefore, Yang Chaocai provoked generals, even insulted these naval officers, and let all the soldiers hear them through the loudspeaker, so that they could muster up a courage to fight to the death with the Japanese Navy, otherwise, Yang Chao was really worried, because he was sure that the Japanese Navy had gone crazy, and their will to fight was at least at the level of World War II.
"Okay, what I'm saying is a little ugly, whether you can prove it or not, it's up to you. If you win the war, I will hold a celebration banquet for you and apologize to you. If the war is lost, there will be no need for the Chinese Navy to exist. In the future, we will get some coastal defense artillery and hand it over to the army to defend our sea frontier. ”
After speaking, Yang Chao walked out of the conference room, and a group of indignant naval soldiers outside were already pushing their guards.
Liu Guanxiong walked out, with a blue face: "What are you doing, it's really shameless?" ”
He is a veteran of Beiyang and a native of Fujian, and he can still suppress this group of people.
Sa Zhenbing is also a veteran of Beiyang and a native of Fujian, he came out and reprimanded a few words, these are mainly Fujian and Shandong naval soldiers retreated, mainly Fujian naval soldiers, Shandong soldiers will not have an opinion on Yang Chao.
Yang Chao left.
On the same day, the navy went out to bombard the Japanese ports in Korea and engaged in a fierce battle with the Japanese detachment.
Both sides were in high morale and did not give in to each other, but the Chinese navy was dispatched as a whole, and the Japanese navy was only a detachment, and it was mainly cruisers, and the result of fighting to the death was that the whole army was annihilated, and only a few fled back to the Korean ports, and with the support of shore defense artillery, the Chinese navy was repulsed.
The victory of the navy in the first battle made Li Yuanhong happily convene a cabinet meeting, and it was difficult to hide his joy and relaxation.
In fact, Li Yuanhong's biggest concern about the war was the navy, and he was worried that the Japanese navy would attack Tianjin.
As for the Japanese troops stationed in Tianjin, they have long been surrounded by the troops mobilized by Yang Chao, Yang Chao does not plan to storm it, it is a concession, and importantly, Yang Chao does not want to sacrifice needlessly, he does not plan to exchange his life with the Japanese devils.
If it can be solved with the Air Force and Navy, don't let the soldiers die.
However, only the Chinese were happy, and other countries did not care, and in their opinion, the Chinese Navy fought against Japanese cruisers with dreadnought warships, and it would be a miracle if they lost.
After the first battle, the Chinese navy also boosted its morale, and the sense of honor that had been squeezed for decades began to arouse their sense of honor, and after reorganization, they continued to march along the coast of North Korea, port after port shivering under the ship's guns.
Step by step, the navy advanced towards the shores of Japan.
Needless to say, at night, Yang Chao still bombed Japanese seaports again and again, not only military ports, but also commercial ports.
This move caused another protest from the British, who believed that Yang Chao's bombing of Japanese ports had affected British interests.
But the British are not so tough.
Because the British knew a secret, the Japanese fleet was blown up and sunk 4 battleships, more than 10 cruisers, and they were temporarily unable to repair.
But what made the British even more angry was that in the Japanese naval yards, those warships built for the British were also sunk, and they were more damaged than the Japanese warships, the Japanese fleet was alive after all, and their warships could only be on the slipway, buried by the collapsed dock with the Chinese bombing of the naval yard.
But this anger could not be expressed for the time being, because they could not sell Japanese intelligence and let the Chinese know that they had damaged the Japanese naval fleet.
Yang Chao really didn't know, so every day during the day, he also sent airships to bombard the Japanese naval ports that had been heavily damaged, what he wanted was not to continue to destroy this, but to make it impossible to restore here, he wanted to make the Japanese naval factories useless, and they could not repair warships for Japan during the war.
They even did not hesitate to reduce the altitude of air raids, within 1,000 meters during the day and at night at random low-altitude bombing.
The airship fleet suffered huge losses in such a combat method, and every time it forcibly bombed a Japanese port, it would cause damage to several or even a dozen airships.
In this case, Yang Chao simply reported it to the navy and did not make any urging.
The Navy itself began to take the pressure, because they knew that the costly damage of the airship force was paid for them.
So the navy began to approach step by step, and finally drove to Japan, and even shelled several unimportant Japanese ports, but still did not find the main force of the Japanese navy.
The main force of the Japanese Navy went into hiding and suddenly disappeared, surprising the world.
Seeing this situation, Yang Chao felt a conspiracy, and felt that Japan seemed to want to let the Chinese navy underestimate the enemy like it did last time against the Russians, and then they would sneak attack.
Last time they induced the Russian fleet to bomb Tokyo, and then annihilated the Russian navy in one fell swoop.
And this time Yang Chao suddenly ordered: "The navy is assembled and attack Tokyo!" ”
Even the naval officers, who had always wanted to fight the Japanese army, found it difficult to accept this order, and where did the Russians learn from the past?
Liu Guanxiong personally came to find Yang Chao.
"Execute the command. Do you want President Loei to give you an order? ”
Yang Chao's tough attitude made Li Guanxiong only have the determination to act with the determination to fight against the water, because he knew that if he lost, the Chinese Navy could really become history, and he did not dare to bear this kind of historical responsibility, and he could not afford to bear it.
12 dreadnought battleships, led by the world's top 10 warships, marched towards Tokyo, Japan.
The whole world is watching, whether the Japanese copy the miracle of the Russo-Japanese War, or whether the Chinese ask for the fate of the continental countries, it depends on this war.
But everyone is more inclined to the Japanese Navy, even the British, who know that the Japanese Navy has been damaged, are still optimistic about Japan, because they know that although the Japanese Navy was damaged by bombs, the overall strength is still possessed, and at least 18 of the 24 dreadnoughts can be operated, and other warships are far more than China, and most importantly, they believe that the Japanese Navy is more well-trained and more capable of fighting, just as the German army that they can fight cannot raise its head, and the Japanese Navy can also defeat the Chinese Navy.
Just like the arrogant Russian Navy a few years ago, the Chinese fleet led by Liu Guanxiong and Sa Zhenbing also sailed into Tokyo Bay, shelled Tokyo for more than an hour, was damaged by shore defense guns, sank 10 cruisers, and then retreated.
It was summer, and the bay was calm, and Yang Chao picked a good day for them, after the sun had been scorching for a week, and the water vapor over the bay had condensed, producing beautiful white clouds.
When Liu Guanxiong saw the scarred fleet, he thought to himself that it would not be an insult to the dignity of the navy to pay for the casualties of so many battleships, and with the honor of shelling Tokyo, they could return home safely, but it was so easy there.
Although Liu Guanxiong and Sa Zhenbing were not together, their faces were equally solemn, and they knew that the Japanese fleet would definitely be blocked on their return lane.
Hidden outside Tokyo Bay, Togo Heihachi, also has a solemn face.
The Russo-Japanese War made him gain too high honors, he was still the commander of the navy, he was still the commander-in-chief of the navy, and he was admired by all the people.
But he is very contradictory, if during the Russo-Japanese War, this tactic was a stroke of genius, now it is completely forced, he is very strange, such an obvious tactic, how can the Chinese not understand, can only say that the Chinese are too proud, they believe that even if they are ambushed, they can still win.
But do their Chinese counterparts in Dongxiang Heibazao really have such pride, and have they really swelled to such a height of honor?
Togo Heihachi didn't think so, but the Chinese still rushed in, and the conspiracy became a kind of conspiracy, the whole world knew about it, and the whole world knew that the Chinese fleet bombed Tokyo, and then returned to be ambushed, but the Chinese still came.
"This is contempt for the Japanese Navy!"
Togo Heihachi explained to himself that through a huge network of spies, they even knew that this order came from Yang Chao, the Chinese defense minister who had always been arrogant and full of hostility and contempt for Japan, and it made sense.
"Raise the flag, all die!"
Today's Dongxiang Pingba Yan no longer needs to encourage the military spirit like last time, one flag is enough.
The flag of Togo Heihachi was raised, the rumbling engines of warships sounded, and under the thick black smoke, the huge fleet sailed away from the hiding place. (To be continued.) )