The submarines of the Corpse Country Navy inflicted huge losses on the Japanese Navy, and the 1st and 4th Armies behaved like a clown in front of the world's naval powers. As a result, the top brass of the Japanese Navy had to review their strategies and tactics.

Heihachiro Togo also reviewed the Japanese Navy's strategy, but he still insisted on "big ships and big guns." He believes that the Chinese Navy's astonishing achievements in this war are not only due to the superiority brought about by the advanced weapons themselves. In this regard, it is somewhat similar to the Battle of Dadonggou in those years, when the Qing Dynasty navy pursued horizontal tactics, trying to defeat the Japanese Combined Fleet by relying on chaotic battles, ramming, and ship firepower, while the Japanese navy pursued a tactical idea of column tactics and broadside firepower to win, and the outcome of that naval battle proved that the Japanese Navy's tactical thinking was the correct direction of the naval exhibition.

What are the tactics of submarines? The Japanese Navy once thought that submarines could only be used to carry out maritime guard missions, but after the Chinese Navy's submarine tactical practice, the Japanese Navy suddenly appeared. Submarines are not just a defensive weapon. It's quite aggressive.

Faced with such a conclusion, Heihachiro Togo could only sigh, if it had not been misled in intelligence at the beginning, perhaps the Japanese Navy would not have despised China's submarine forces so much, and the attention of the Japanese Navy was attracted by the two large attack ships that China had ordered from the United States, and indeed ignored China's submarine forces.

Now, the Japanese Navy has come to its senses, but at the moment it is true that it has not yet been able to find effective anti-submarine means. However, the Japanese military department can no longer take care of so much, no matter what, first throw the reinforcements of the Japanese army on land.

According to the operational plan previously drawn up by the military department, the combined fleet had to escort the Japanese army to land on the Liaodong Peninsula, and the first advance team landed at Dagushan Port, but the second batch of reinforcements changed the landing site and no longer landed on the Liaodong Peninsula but carried out the landing line at the mouth of the Yalu River

The Battle of Dadonggou in the First Sino-Japanese War was led by the escort mission, but at that time, it was the Beiyang Naval Division of the Qing Dynasty that was responsible for escorting the landing of the army, while the Japanese Combined Fleet undertook the interception mission, and the landing operation of the army led to a naval battle, which was the embodiment of sea supremacy.

Although Beiyang Shuibei was defeated in the naval battle that year. But after all, the task of covering the landing of the army was completed, although it was still glorious. Now, will the Japanese Combined Fleet be able to fulfill the task of escorting the landing of the army? In this regard, Togo Heihachiro was a little worried in his heart, he was still worried about being attacked by Chinese submarines, Dadonggou is not a good battlefield for battleship battles, but for those elusive submarines, this is an ideal hunting ground, and the prey is these Japanese warships swimming in the waters of Dadonggou.

In order to prepare for the attack of Chinese submarines. Heihachiro Togo ordered the fleet to implement lamptip control. In addition, some light warships were transferred to the Yalu River, which could not only avoid submarine attacks, but also carry some army units ashore.

Dadonggou is located at the mouth of the Yalu River, where the coastline rises and falls significantly at high tide and low tide, and it is not an ideal landing point for landing operations, but because the Japanese Army General Staff Headquarters insists on carrying out landing operations in Dadonggou, the Japanese Navy Command Department can only order the Combined Fleet to cooperate with the Army's actions.

For the landing scenario of the Army General Staff Headquarters. Togo Heihachiro was opposed, in his opinion, even if he went to Dagushan to land, it was more sensible than to land in Dadonggou, of course, according to Togo Heihachiro's meaning, the best landing place should be in Shandong or Fujian, and Shandong was chosen because the Japanese army had carried out landing operations in Shandong during the First Sino-Japanese War, and Shandong was now Germany's sphere of influence and landed in Shandong. Germany can be drawn into this war in the Far East, then. Japan will no longer have to fight alone, Britain and France will join the Far East war, and as for landing in Fujian, it will be out of the consideration of being close to the island of Taiwan, and the logistics will be more secure, and it can also encircle and suppress the Chinese attack fleet that is harassing the route from Japan to the island of Taiwan.

However, Heihachiro Togo's opinion was not accepted by the military department, mainly because of the opposition of the army staff headquarters, and in the eyes of high-ranking figures in the Japanese army, the Korean Peninsula is the "cornerstone of Japan's continental policy" and South Manchuria is the "key to Japan's mainland policy." Therefore, the Japanese Army insisted on landing at the mouth of the Yalu River, striving to advance in the direction of Shenyang, completing the plan of "encircling Wei and rescuing Zhao," and at the same time taking advantage of the situation to solve the South Manchurian issue "once and for all."

Heihachiro Togo scoffed at this arrogant plan of the Army, which, in his opinion, was a plan by the mainland policy faction in the Japanese Army. Without the slightest consideration of Japan's overall national strategy, this plan was supported by Japanese public opinion circles, and even the Japanese Government had no shortage of supporters, so under the guidance of this strategy, the Japanese Combined Fleet escorted the second batch of landing troops of the Japanese Army to the mouth of the Yalu River, preparing to cover the landing operations of the Army.

However, there is no decent port at the mouth of the Yalu River, and we can only rely on transport boats, general boards, and light ships and small boats to carry out the landing, and this landing method is not only inefficient, but also extremely easy to attack the combined fleet, because according to Togo Heihachiro's calculations, according to the current degree of landing, if all the army units are to be landed, it will have to wait at least until tomorrow afternoon, and once it is dawn, the Chinese air force will come to bomb it, and the submarines will also be able to easily find the target of attack. Under the unfavorable landing situation, the Japanese Army General Staff Headquarters planned to open up two landing grounds at the mouth of the pseudo-Green River in the first month, one in Korea on the east bank of the Yalu River, and the other in China on the west bank of the Yalu River. From the south, he detoured to the flank of the frontal position of the squadron, and attacked the squadron with the Japanese troops coming from the direction of Uiju, striving to break through the squadron's defense line as soon as possible. Then follow the railroad line and attack Phoenix directly. and threatened Shenyang, forcing the main force of the squadron on the Liaodong Peninsula to return to the north, thus lifting the siege of Lushun in one fell swoop.

It must be admitted that this operational plan of the Japanese Army General Staff Headquarters has merit, but there must be a premise for this, that is, the Japanese Army must act quickly and must not be detected by the squadron ** of its tactical intentions.

But Heihachiro Togo is now very worried that this plan of action of the Japanese Army General Staff Headquarters may have been leaked, because it was just in the afternoon. A reconnaissance plane of the Chinese Air Force skimmed over the Combined Fleet and circled in the sky for almost five minutes before being expelled by the seaplanes of the Japanese Navy. No one dared to guarantee that the reconnaissance plane did not pass back the information on the arrival of the Japanese fleet at the mouth of the Yalu River, and once this information was transmitted, Heihachiro Togo was completely convinced that the decision-making organs of the Chinese side would never sit idly by and watch the Japanese Army complete the landing.

It is precisely for this reason that Togo Heihachiro decided to adjust the landing plan of the Army General Staff Headquarters, and he sent a large number of light warships into the Yalu River, not only to avoid the submarines of the Chinese Navy, but also to carry part of the army units directly from the Yalu River to the direction of Uiju, and to provide artillery support for the Japanese troops who crossed the Yalu River to attack. The fleet of light warships had left the fleet for almost two hours, and according to the telegram that the net had just received, they had arrived in Uiju and were unloading the army troops, and once the landing was completed, some of the warships would immediately return to the waters of Dadonggou to receive another group of army troops to carry out the landing, while the remaining warships would remain on the Yalu River to provide artillery support for the army troops to cross the Yalu River.

Standing on the bridge, Heihachiro Togo held a telescope and looked in the direction of the dark land, he could see the fire on the shore, which was the signal to guide the navigation of the ferry fleet, and at night, the sea was densely packed with small boats, most of which were civilian ships requisitioned from Japan, from small pale boats to luxury yachts, from corporate commercial ships to civilian leisure boats, it can be said that the Japanese government and military department have made every effort to loot, And the Japanese people did make great sacrifices for this life-and-death contest between China and Japan, if the Japanese army and navy could not turn the tide of the war. No one can guarantee what will happen in Japan. Heihachiro Togo thinks about this every time. It's all involuntary cold sweat.

"Your Excellency, Marshal, I just received a telegram from the Naval Command Department, using a special password, I need you to be soft and self-respecting."

A staff officer walked up to Heihachiro Togo and whispered a few words.

Heihachiro Togo turned around, handed the telescope to an adjutant, and then took the staff officer to the captain's room, took out the code book, and recited the coded telegram.

The telegram was not long, but it surprised Togo Heihachiro, because the Navy Command informed him that the Japanese detachment besieged in Arthur had failed to break through and suffered heavy losses. Almost all of them were wiped out, and there was no doubt that the Chinese naval forces that intercepted the detachment were still dominated by the submarine department.

"The Empire really needs to review its current strategy, not only for the Navy, but also for the Army and the Government."

Heihachiro Togo quickly prepared a reply, but before he handed the telegram to the staff officer, he added a few more sentences to the telegram.

"The reason why the Imperial Navy suffered heavy losses in this battle is that in addition to the new tactics adopted by the squadron, it is also directly related to the reduction of the Navy's shipbuilding funds, and I hope that the Imperial Congress can reflect on this."

At the beginning of this year, the "Siemens incident" broke out in Japanese political circles, and the fact that high-ranking figures of the Japanese Navy had accepted bribes from foreign companies in the process of ordering armaments was exposed. Affected by this incident, the Japanese Prime Minister Gonbei Yamamoto, who came from the navy, was forced to resign, and the Yamamoto cabinet was also brought to power. The Japanese Navy's shipbuilding expenses were cut by the Cabinet. This directly led to the fact that the Japanese Navy's shipbuilding program could not be completed on time, and the construction of several battleships was postponed or even canceled.

Japan's army and navy had been competing for limited military spending, and the "Siemens Incident" brought the struggle between the two sides to a white-hot stage, in which the army forces presided over by Aritomo Yamaguchi defeated the Japanese naval forces, and all the senior Japanese naval commanders were indignant about this, and Togo Heihachiro was no exception. Now that Heihachiro Togo suddenly mentioned this matter in a telegram, he was also reminding the Naval Command Department that the defeat of the Navy was not unrelated to the Army, and that perhaps it was time to re-establish the dominance of the Japanese Navy in the government.

Now Japan has indeed reached a critical moment, and this Sino-Japanese war has also reached a critical moment. Concave 8 said that the situation was full of umbrellas