The good news continued to reach Kumamoto Castle, and the Satsuma samurai and the allied warriors all cheered, but Saigo Takamori was not as happy as his subordinates.

"Nagasaki, is there any news from Hanpeng?" Saigo Takamori asked Kirino Toshiaki.

"Hanpeng is reorganizing naval ships in the harbor, and wants to go north to patrol Hakata Bay and the Kokura area to prevent government troops from landing." Kirino Toshiaki replied, "I guess it will be a few days before I get back." ”

"I heard that the two ironclad ships 'King Kong' and 'Hiei' have set sail from England and will arrive in about half a month." Saigo Takamori sighed, "It's just that I don't know if our army will be able to break through Osaka in Shikoku within half a month." ”

"Sir, don't worry, Hanpeng will have a trick to deal with." Kirino Toshiaki comforts Saigo Takamorido. Although until now, he didn't know what Lin Yiqing's "strange plan" was to deal with the two ironclad ships "King Kong" and "Hiei", but out of his trust in Lin Yiqing and Lin Yiqing's previous record of never failing, he still firmly believed that Lin Yiqing would definitely succeed this time.

Toshiaki Kirino didn't know where Lin Yiqing had gone at this time, and he wouldn't have thought that the current Lin Yiqing was still at the forefront of the battle, but this time, not on land, but at sea.

In the northern part of Kyushu, Hakata Bay, the gunboat "Mt. Fuji".

At this time, the gunboat "Mt. Fuji" had been completely renovated, and the hull was still painted in white according to its original appearance. But unlike the original, the original Phavas breech guns on the ship have been dismantled and replaced with new Krupp cannons.

Now the main guns of the "Mt. Fuji" are two 120-mm Krupp cannons.

Because of the lack of understanding of the strength of the Satsuma Navy, Lin Yiqing has been trying to strengthen the strength of the Satsuma Navy, and in the case of the inability to purchase large new combat ships, Lin Yiqing made the greatest use of the existing old ships of the Satsuma Navy, transforming them into capable ships, in addition to replacing the weapons and equipment on the ship, the engine and boiler of the warship, also renovated and updated, and now the "Mount Fuji" has not only strengthened its firepower, but also reached a speed of 11 knots that was unimaginable before.

Orders were constantly transmitted through the microphone to the machine room, and the engineer received the order to speed up the wheels. Steam poured into the half-open mechanism; Whirring and whistling. Rows of horizontal pistons make a rattling sound that pushes the levers of the axles. The thrusters' wheels continued to increase their speed, stirring the sea, and the "Mt. Fuji" moved forward in a series of "thuds".

The coal fire was added, the wheels stirred the water more rapidly, and the "Mt. Fuji" sailed along the low yellow shore, and the warship sailed on the sea, the engine room rumbled, and the white foam of the waves stirred off the side of the ship, scattering into the trajectory of a stretched channel behind the ship.

Heihachiro Togo looked up. The sun is very bright and dazzling; The sea is blue and glowing. Mountains and mountains, trees and trees, grass and grass, mountains and trees, trees and grass, because of the relationship between the heavy snow just now, constitute a silvery world. The sky is as clear and blue as the sea. The sea breeze is as gentle as a girl's fingers. A blue sky above, a blue ocean below. Here, it seems to be a dream world, a fairyland in a fairy tale.

However, Togo Heihachiro knew that once upon a time, there were exploding cannonballs, flying dust and mist, thick smoke of gunpowder, burning fire, arrows in the sky, and people wielding swords in bloody battles.

Now, all of this is a relic of centuries ago.

Heihachiro Togo's gaze passed through the woods, and he looked at the sparkling white sand. The tide rolled in a graceful curve, and the waves and splashes seemed to dance vigorously and sing passionate songs to him.

In Togo Heihachiro's ears, it seemed that the familiar singing voice sounded again:

“…… In the summer of the fourth year of Hong'an, Yuankou came one after another. 400 states worked together, 100,000 horses crossed the sea, and the national disaster was at the head. Fusang sons and men are not afraid, fight my martial arts, and uphold justice for the four seas! ……”

The coast was getting farther and farther away from them, and there were clouds hanging over the top of the hill, which made it somewhat obscure; The sky ahead was clear, the sea shone brightly in the sun, and the shore and mountains in the distance showed light and dark pale cyan and pale gray.

As the Mt. Fuji sailed forward, away from the coast, Heihachiro Togo always felt a little lost when he recalled what had happened to him these days.

It is true that he chose to follow Mr. Nanzhou, whom he has always admired, but when he was ordered by Lin Yiqing to patrol Hakata Bay (Lin Yiqing was on the ship at this time) and prepare to intercept the government's naval ships and landing forces, he was a little skeptical that his choice was correct.

The "Mt. Fuji" swayed up and down with the waves, and Heihachiro Togo couldn't help but feel a little dizzy. In this sea, where there are no familiar coordinates of daily life, people feel their own insignificance and helplessness; The feeling of watching the sea is different for everyone; For those who are tired of some senseless troubles and disputes and trivial life in the world, perhaps in this calm, broad and tolerant sea, temporarily throw away the usual thinking coat, and let the essence of the spirit be stripped of the erosion of time in the sea breeze, and some of the blocks that have been accumulated in the heart for a long time will collapse, and will be splashed into the sea and melt away with the ocean current.

Even if you don't want to do anything, let your eyes wander on the horizon. The waves in front of me splashed snow-white foam, and the boundary between the sea and the sky in the distance was not very clear, and they almost blended together in harmony. Nothing in his ears disturbed his mind except the roar of the "Mt. Fuji"—in the embrace of the sea, all his irritability was filtered away by the sea breeze, and only a quiet embraced the return of his heart; It turns out that there are always some things, a period of time or space in the world, when they have no time to take care of them, they are still silently waiting for the soul to look back and understand another meaning of life in sincere hope.

Heihachiro Togo felt like a passer-by in a hurry, and every time he went to sea, he just wanted the boat to dock as quickly as possible; And ignoring the existence of the sea, in fact, during the voyage, there is also a beautiful scenery. In the endless ups and downs of the sea, the sea seems to be the kind of person who wants to live with it in life, always giving people upward vitality, inspiring people with their enthusiasm for life, giving people courage and hope, inspiring cowardice to be brave, and narrow-mindedness becomes broad.

In the midst of the waves, the Mt. Fuji drove at a constant speed. The blue sky, the white clouds, the distant mountains, the bright sun, the undulating waves, the harmonious horizon, everything is so simple and unified, perhaps this is the achievement of the eternity of the sea: there is no painstaking management of the complex, and there is no regret of failure.

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