Although the defense was not broken, the officers and men on the "Taishan" who were hit for the first time in history were also frightened into a cold sweat, and then they returned fire in retaliation. The heavy main gun turret had been turned, and the huge gun muzzle reached the Japanese position on the shore.

A 380-mm main gun was prepared, and the huge battleship shook slightly, hitting one hundred and fifty-five meters to the left of the Japanese shore defense artillery position. The first tracer shell hit almost accurately, the turret slightly corrected the direction, and the second high-explosive shell immediately came out of its disembowel, and the heavy shell did not drag, lifting the heavy shore defense guns on the Japanese position into the sky.

The Japanese positions on the shore, after the airships were far away, under the organization of the officers, the soldiers regrouped, and the positions after being bombed were in a mess, and the wreckage of artillery could be seen everywhere in the smoke of gunpowder, and occasionally there were ammunition storage places that were hit and caused by explosions, resulting in the complete destruction of a certain position, and the bones of the Japanese soldiers were gone.

As soon as the whole team was finished, I saw the super battleship of the Chinese army appear on the sea, and an officer danced and pointed to the battleship excitedly: "The battleship of China has thrown itself into a dead end, and there are countless mines under the sea, and it will be blown up and sunk immediately!" The surviving soldiers believed it and waited expectantly for the spectacular scene of the sinking of the giant ship, but they did not expect that the battleship was turning around, but it did not hit the mine.

"Fire!" The commander drew his samurai sword and ordered in a loud voice, although he did not know why the battleship did not hit the mine, although the shore defense position suffered heavy losses, but with shore artillery against the warship, his own side has an absolute advantage, and the mine is useless, then let the shore defense artillery send it into the water!

There is still one heavy artillery and three medium guns left in the No. 1 battery of the Tokyo Bay coastal defense position, and the rest of the mountain guns and light guns are only strong and of little use. The so-called heavy artillery was nothing more than the Armstrong 110-pounder (178 mm) rifled gun produced by the British in the fifties of the 19th century. During the American Civil War, Britain imported a large number of Armstrong guns to the United States. After the end of the war, the price of artillery fell sharply, and Japan bought this part of the surplus artillery and equipped a large number of the Restoration Army.

This artillery played a huge role in the War, but after the war it was much more backward and was therefore used as a shore fortification. After that, Japan went all out to develop its navy, and there were few resources for shore defense. As a result, there is now an embarrassing situation in the face of super warships. You must know that the shore defense artillery has an absolute advantage in the face of warships, and if the "Tarzan" were in Europe, it would never dare to brazenly break into the enemy's ports. In Japan, however, there was a situation in which the shore defense guns were powerless against the warships.

It has to be said that Japan's ability to defeat the Qing in the First Sino-Japanese War was really incompetent. Li Hongzhang not only bought back the world's most advanced ironclad ships from Germany at that time, but also more than 300 Krupp cannons, and Weihaiwei alone had 30 large-caliber guns. From heavy weapons to individual weapons, all of them were ahead of poor Japan. In the end, it was a failure.

After the Zhenguo Party recovered Fujian, eight 280 mm Krupp cannons were seized in Xiamen, and the Beiyang spent a lot of money to build the fort, with a total area of more than 70,000 square meters and a castle area of 13,000 square meters. The rate of fire of the fortress cannon is two rounds per minute. The firing range is more than 10,000 meters. Comparing the Hulishan Fort with the Tokyo Bay Fort can be described as a local tyrant and a fishing line.

Even so. The Japanese soldiers were also full of confidence in their artillery, and in their eyes, their shore defense guns were invincible, but they didn't expect that a shell finally hit the battleship of China, but it only left a black spot on it!

A minute later, this battery was destroyed. "Tarzan" continued to move slowly. From the No. 1 battery of the Japanese army, it can be known that their coastal fortifications cannot threaten the super battleship at all, and the aristocratic game of the coastal defense cannon is not something that the Japanese can afford to play at this time.

The news of the Chinese invasion of Tokyo Bay soon spread from the direction of the Uraga Suido to the city of Tokyo, and in the Emperor's Imperial Palace, Yama Prefecture Aritomo and other high-ranking Japanese political leaders were bitterly persuading Emperor Tomo to take refuge for the time being.

"Your Majesty. The Chinese army is menacing, and the fleet led by the super battleship has broken through the No. 1 battery and is breaking inside. According to reports, the batteries suffered heavy losses, and our troops had no way to deal with the air strikes. The most puzzling thing is that the Chinese army seems to be aware of the arrangement of mines in Tokyo Bay, and its warships have been advancing along the safe waterway! ”

Emperor Meiji, who had been holding back for a long time, finally broke out, he was the emperor, the first emperor after the downfall, who was leading Japan to prosper day by day, and even almost defeated Russia, and he was able to back down at this time!

"I don't want to endure humiliation anymore! From the collapse of the Combined Fleet and the occupation of Kyushu Island, to the assassination of Koboru Saionji and the invasion of Tokyo Bay, I have not heard a single piece of good news for more than half a year. This is how you, as courtiers, repay my expectations of you! ”

The following immediately knelt on the ground, or Shan Shan Youpeng persuaded: "The ministers have failed to live up to Your Majesty's trust, however, please Your Majesty temporarily hide from the edge of the Chinese army, the target of the Chinese fleet must be Tokyo, with the powerful artillery of the super battleship, in case Your Majesty is frightened, that is the most tragic thing for Japan." So, for the sake of Japan, please follow the advice of your minister! ”

Meiji is nothing more than an outlet for his emotions, and he knows the situation better than anyone else, and he will avoid it even if others don't persuade him.

"You have to find a way to stop the Shina fleet from moving forward, and if Tokyo is shelled, I don't mind changing the cabinet!" Meiji threw down a threat, turned around and walked back, the members of the imperial family were actually ready to transfer, just waiting for Meiji's order.

"Command all the warships of Yokosuka to launch a decisive assault, and be sure to sink the Shina fleet before it reaches Tokyo!" Yamaguchi yelled at his subordinates, and then left with Emperor Meiji.

In Yokosuka Port, all the naval officers and men entered their respective posts with hideous faces, and the order for a decisive assault had been issued to every officer and soldier, and the time had come to serve the emperor!

On board the armored cruiser Azuma, the only large battleship, Vice Admiral Hikonojo Uemura, who succeeded Heihachiro Togo as commander of the Combined Fleet, was kneeling on the ground, weeping bitterly in front of one person.

"My lord, the Japanese fleet needs to leave seeds in order to rise again in the future, the combined fleet has existed in name only, Admiral Heihachiro Togo and tens of thousands of naval officers and men have returned to the sea, leaving only less than a thousand mature naval officers and sailors, these people are the hope of the Japanese navy to rise again! If the battleship is gone, we can buy and rebuild it again, but the talent is lost, and if we want to retrain it, it can't be done in a year or two! Uemura Hikonojo persuaded bitterly in a voice that bordered on mourning.

The person he was begging for was none other than the current leader and actual commander of the Japanese Navy, Japanese Navy Minister Gonbei Yamamoto. This man served as prime minister twice, presided over the naval armament expansion program, and personally issued the order for naval sorties, which opened the prelude to the Russo-Japanese War. In the Japanese Navy, everything from the formulation of the theory of naval control in Qing operations, the establishment of the combined fleet, the proposal of the 66th Fleet and the 88th Fleet, to the retirement of old officers, the implementation of the Hammock, the victory of the two ships with rapid-fire guns, and the appointment of Ito Yuhiro and Togo Heihachiro as fleet commanders, all have his own distinctive characteristics.

"Chengyou, don't I know about this? This fleet, and even this navy, is full of my painstaking efforts, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as I single-handedly built. Can I bear to watch him die? It's just that this is the mission of the navy, and it is a choice that the Great Japanese Empire has to adopt, and no one can bear to see this situation appear. Gonbei Yamamoto was also in tears, and when he received the news of the collapse of the Combined Fleet, he immediately fainted, only to wake up two days later, but fortunately in the prime of life (53 years old), he struggled to maintain the post-war Japanese navy with the support of a sense of mission.

"And what about the Navy of the future? The navy is all that Japan has, and if it loses its navy, Japan will be slaughtered by others! Uemura Hikonojo stood up excitedly and shouted angrily at Yamamoto Gonbei regardless of his ranks.

"Chengyou, have you forgotten Marshal Ito Youheng, his naval university still exists, after we die, he and those children in the university are the future of the Japanese Navy, the navy will not be cut off, and the soul will always exist!"

The port of Yokosuka is just a dozen kilometers north of the mouth of the Uraga waterway, and soon it will encounter the intruding Chinese naval fleet, and the armored cruiser Azuma leads twenty small warships along the safe waterway and lurks about seven kilometers to the left of the main waterway, waiting for the arrival of the Shina battleship.

Fifteen minutes later, the observers spotted the Shina minesweepers, super warships, and about a thousand meters behind them was a fleet of armored cruisers and destroyers in Shina.

"Soldiers, the people of China have shown off their power in our Tokyo Bay with their super warships, and today, we will sink the super warships with our flesh and blood and wash away the humiliation of the Battle of Tsushima! Soldiers, myself, Admiral Gonbei Yamamoto, and Vice Admiral Hikonosei Uemura, Commander of the Combined Fleet, will lead you to the most glorious moment of this battle! Through the flags between the battleships, Yamamoto's words spread throughout the fleet. (To be continued.) )