By 5 p.m., the Chinese Navy had taken advantage of the accuracy of its naval guns and the efficiency of its submarine mines, and the Combined Fleet had once again sunk 16 warships of various types, and 13 others were seriously damaged and almost sunk under the condition that the enemy was attacked on all sides and underwater.

At 5:30, there were only 16 warships intact in the combined fleet, almost all of them were less than 3,000 tons, and none of the warships of more than 5,000 tons could continue to fight.

At 5:45, after the Chinese fleet sank five warships again, the commander of the Combined Fleet, Togo Heihachiro, finally ordered the Combined Fleet to fly the white flag and surrender.

Before the evening came, the Chinese fleet received all the warships that had not yet sunk, including two seriously damaged 10,000-ton warships 'Honshu' and 'Kyushu,' and seven seriously damaged warships of more than 5,000 tons, including the 'Zhenyuan,' which had long since left the battle, and 31 other warships of various types, of which more than one-third were wounded and withdrew from the battle, and only 20 warships were still intact, but they were all small destroyers, supply ships, torpedo ships, and other warships.

The Chinese Navy also captured all the remnants of the Tsumoto Navy and its crew, including Togo Heihachiro, commander of the Combined Fleet, Sotaro Misu, commander of the First Fleet of the Combined Fleet, and Hikonosei Uemura, commander of the Second Fleet.

At this point, the naval battle between China and China ended with the victory of the Chinese fleet!

The Chinese fleet also paid an extremely heavy price, losing a total of twenty-nine warships, of which eighteen have been sunk, and the other eleven are also seriously damaged, and it is simply impossible to continue the fight in a short time, including the 10,000-ton battleship 'Liaoning'!

As night fell, Ye Zuqi and Sa Zhenbing sent the good news back to Yanjing, and boarded the captured 'Zhenyuan' warship together.

Ye Zuqi gently touched the hull of the 'Zhenyuan' and sighed deeply: "It's been ten years, and I've finally taken revenge!" ”

Sa Zhenbing also sighed: "Yes, it's a pity that Zhengqing (Deng Shichang's words), Yitang (Fang Boqian's words), and Zhong Qing (Lin Yongsheng's words) can't be seen." ”

Ye Zuqi looked up to the sky and sighed: "More than 30 years ago, we pursued our dreams together, hoping that one day we could make China's navy stand on top of the world and make China a world naval power. ”

Sa Zhenbing nodded and said: "From now on, China will become a naval power like Britain and the United States, and no country will dare to underestimate the Chinese Navy!" ”

Ye Zuqi said loudly: "Yes, the Chinese Navy will stand proudly in the world from now on, on a par with European and American countries...... No, from now on, it will completely surpass the European and American navies and stand on top of the world! ”

At this time, Liu Guanxiong boarded the 'Zhenyuan' and said to Ye Zuqi and Sa Zhenbing: "The commander-in-chief, deputy commander-in-chief, and the commander of the combined fleet, Dongxiang Heihachiro, asked to see you, saying that he was an old classmate and recalling the old days. ”

Ye Zuqi replied without thinking about it: "You go and tell him that he is now a prisoner, not a classmate, and he is gone." ”

Sa Zhenbing also added coldly: "Also, tell him that from the day the Chinese Navy started the war, there will be no classmates between the Chinese and the Chinese, only the enemy." ”

Liu Guanxiong nodded and said, "Yes, I'll go now!" ”

……

"Finally won!"

Since the beginning of the Sino-Chinese naval battle, Wang Jundao, Yang Poyu, and Xu Jian have been guarding the command room, waiting for the information sent back by the navy at any time.

Not as excited as imagined, nor as happy as imagined, and some of the most are taken for granted.

Think about it, for four years, although Wang Jundao is vigorously developing the navy, he has always been holding his tail, even if he succeeded in the sneak attack on the Russian Port Arthur last year, he did not drive the navy out of China's coastal waters, until now he has defeated the navy in one fell swoop!

In the middle of the ring, Wang Jundao came back to his senses and said to Fan Zong, the director of the communications department: "Immediately send a report in clear code to inform the world that the Chinese Navy has defeated the Yueben Navy, and call back Ye Zuqi and Sa Zhenbing, ordering them to return to Tianjin with the captured Yueben warship and the captured Yueben Navy early tomorrow morning!" ”

Fan Zong nodded in response: "Yes, commander." ”

After a pause, Yang Poyu asked, "Commander, are you starting to prepare to launch the Busan landing battle?" ”

Wang Jundao shook his head and said: "Don't worry, let's see the reaction of Yue Ben first, how can the Yue army have more than 500,000 troops on the Korean Peninsula now, plus the more than 300,000 troops urgently expanded by North Korea, there are a full 900,000 troops on the Korean Peninsula, if we immediately launch the Pusan landing battle, it will inevitably lead to 900,000 puppet troops desperately and sinking the boat, even if we win, it will be a tragic victory." ”

Xu Jian was a little unsure of Wang Jundao's thoughts: "What does the commander mean?" ”

Wang Jun said: "Wait for this peace talk!" ”

Yang Poyu said: "Then do you want to announce the news and threaten to land in Busan?" ”

Wang Jundao shook his head and said: "No, those marshals and generals are not stupid, if you can't even think of this, it will be too unbearable, wait, we have captured so many of the navy, and nearly 100,000 of the army have been captured, if they don't negotiate peace, under the threat of China in the future, if they want to rebuild the navy, I am afraid it will never be possible." ”

Yang Poyu asked, "Then the Korean Peninsula is left like this??" ”

Wang Jundao said with a smile: "Yes, let's go, we only need to drive the navy to the Korean Strait, and we will not dare to reinforce North Korea in our own country, and the 500,000 Syrian troops in North Korea will not be able to attack us in the north when the logistics supply is seriously insufficient, and we can only harm the Korean people, and on the peninsula, the more chaotic and miserable it is, the more beneficial it will be to us, and if we don't make a move at that time, North Korea will come to us." ”

Xu Jian couldn't help but ask, "Then what are we going to do in the next time?" ”

Wang Jundao said lightly: "Founding the country!" ”

……

After learning of the complete destruction of the Combined Fleet, Emperor Meiji could not wait to summon Prime Minister Katsura Taro, Chief of Staff Oyama Iwa, and Navy Minister Gonbei Yamamoto to hold a meeting.

It was a bleak meeting, just like the meeting that the Empress Dowager Cixi convened for the Manchu ministers when the Eight-Nation Coalition invaded Tianjin and invaded Yanjing.

Emperor Meiji, who was only fifty-two years old, had aged rapidly after several years of successive defeats in the confrontation with China, and when he learned of the total destruction of the navy last night, he had aged almost overnight, and people in their fifties looked seventy or eighty years old.

The new army that was built up in the past few decades was almost brought down by cholera and war, and the army that was built up for decades and thought it could be ranked among the top in the world was completely crippled by the Chinese Dragon and Tiger Army, and the rest were only some new recruits who had been in the army for less than a year, and the navy that had been developed in a few decades and thought could compete with the European and American powers was completely wiped out by the Chinese navy in one day.

Emperor Meiji had almost already seen the future and said that Ben would fall into the Great Depression and the great sorrow of the people, and the misery in his heart can be imagined, this is the country he created single-handedly!

But the emperor is the emperor after all, and his bearing ability is naturally not comparable to ordinary people, and the strength of his heart naturally exceeds that of all the elders present.

Emperor Meiji said, "This is the end of the matter, tell me what we should do next?" ”

Navy Minister Gonbei Yamamoto said: "Your Majesty, we must find a way to ensure the safety of the 20,000 captured naval officers and soldiers, they are the soul of the navy, and only with them can we rebuild the navy in the future, even if we cannot compete with the Chinese navy in the future, at least we must ensure the safety of the coastal waters of the city." ”

Emperor Meiji nodded and asked, "What about the 500,000 imperial soldiers on the Korean Peninsula?" ”

Yamamoto Gonbei said this, but Chief of Staff Oyama Iwa said: "Your Majesty, we must also ensure the safety of those 500,000 army officers, even if we don't want North Korea, we must find a way to withdraw them to the mainland, because now we have to consider not the landing of the Chinese army from Busan, but the direct landing of the Chinese army on the mainland!" ”

Dashanyan's words instantly chilled the hearts of the people present, and everyone knew very well that there were only 400,000 troops in the local area, and more than 200,000 of them were formed within these two months, if the Chinese Dragon and Tiger Army landed in Yueben, not too many, as long as 100,000 people, I am afraid that it is not instinctive to resist!

Prime Minister Katsura Taro asked, "Your Majesty, what are we going to do?" ”

Emperor Akechi said: "Peace talks, the signing of an armistice!" ”

Yamamoto Gonbei also nodded and said: "Yes, let China pay reparations to make up for the losses of our army and navy!" ”

Emperor Meiji glanced at him lightly, and said coldly: "Let's make it clear first, Yue Ben is the defeated side, and he is going to beg for peace, and the person we have to face is Wang Jundao, a great man who overthrew the Qing Dynasty, defeated the Eight-Nation Alliance, defeated Russia, defeated Yu Ben, and created the Chinese Empire by himself, not the [***] cowardly Manchu Emperor!" ”

Yamamoto Gonbei's face turned red for a while, although he was very dissatisfied with Emperor Meiji's words to grow his ambition and destroy his prestige, but he still didn't speak again, the emperor was angry, who would dare to touch his head?

Emperor Meiji ignored him, but said to Prime Minister Katsura Taro: "You personally go to China, ask for a meeting with Wang Jundao, ask for an armistice, and tell him that you can return Taiwan, Penghu Islands and other lands ceded by the Great Qing State in the Shimonoseki Treaty, and give up the northern part of Korea, and only ask him to stop the war in Korea, and return the captured naval officers and captured warships, and say that you are willing to form peace and friendship with China from now on!" (To be continued.) )