Chapter 911: Coastal Defense Preparations

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"That's all there is to it." Li Danya sighed.

"The ironclad ship we built in the Volkeng factory is for the Satsuma Navy, and when it is completed, we will also deliberately publicize it, so that they will also be uncomfortable!" Xu Jingcheng said hatefully.

"That's nature!" Li Danya smiled and nodded.

At this time, the shore was crowded, and under the guidance of the tugboat, a small hill-like warship slowly sailed out of the harbor with soot, and rushed to the open sea with a whistle.

The ironclad ship "Fuso" set sail for China.

Because both Japan and Germany were worried about the unquiet sea lanes, the Japanese officers and men on the "Fuso" were fully staffed and fully armed, and more than 100 German naval officers and men were hired to help take care of them.

After heading out to sea, in order to save money and shorten the time for replenishment at the port during the voyage, the "Fuso" hung up its sails and sailed all the way out of the North Sea, across the Atlantic Ocean, into the Mediterranean Sea through Gibraltar, sailed into the Red Sea through the newly built Suez Canal, and finally crossed the Indian Ocean to the South Sea. After learning that the "Fuso" had successfully departed for China, Japanese Prime Minister Hirobumi Ito ordered the "Fuso" to report to him and the Ministry of the Navy at every port it visited along the way, so that the news could be grasped in a timely manner.

For the Japanese Navy, this was an extraordinary voyage, and it was definitely a demonstration of real strength; while the "Fuso" was still sailing on the sea, various Japanese newspapers reported on it, and the ardent hope of the whole country for the ironclad ship that was about to return to China was evident from this.

On 4 July, the "Fuso" arrived in Nagasaki, Japan, and the Japanese Navy's Daisuke Nakamuta Kuranosuke personally went to receive the warship, the German merchant flag was slowly lowered, and the brand-new Japanese flag jumped onto the mast of the "Fuso," thus announcing to the world that it had surpassed the Qianguo and had the "first ironclad ship in Asia."

When the "Fusang" departed from Germany and returned to China, Li Danya, the minister of the Qianguo State to Germany, sent a long telegram to the premier yamen in Beijing, in which he explained in detail the tonnage and armament of the "Fusang" ironclad ship, and pointed out that the combat strength of the Japanese ironclad ship had surpassed that of the "Longwei" class, the most powerful ironclad ship of the Qianguo Navy at present.

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