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The Wollaston Islands are located in the southernmost part of South America, and it is the southernmost island in the entire South American continent. Like most of the islands around Tierra del Fuego, there are few boats frequented here, even during the fishing season. The only inhabitants at this time are birds, social penguins and flocks of boxnose birds; The bird flies like a pigeon, so whalers call it the "white dove".

From the vassifiable crevasses of the coast, tall glaciers spill out into thick layers, slow and uneven, everything shrinks into a white line that outlines the horizon. Above the white line are the snow-covered peaks of the mountains. It's "winter" in the Southern Hemisphere, and huge icebergs can be seen everywhere in this area.

Most of the time, merchant ships do not enter the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean from this turbulent sea and iceberg lane, and they tend to choose the safer Strait of Magellan with pilot ships. But in the past, more than a dozen ships have been moored in Wollaston's huge jagged fjord, which sinks tens of kilometers into the island, and near the bottom of the fjord, there is a large floating dock that anyone who has ever been to Rio de Janeiro will recognize: a steel floating dock that once belonged to Rio de Janeiro and was sold to a British company two months ago. It was supposed to be towed to Chile. But no one thought of it. It's actually going to be here.

In fact, it is not only this floating dock that appears here, in addition to the dock, there are also several 10,000-ton cargo ships, none of which have extremely deep drafts and are obviously fully loaded, and at a simple trestle made of steel and wood at the bottom of the bay, the "Zhengjie" training cruiser of the Northeast Navy is moored, in fact, it is not just the "Zhengjie". The four large training cruisers of the Northeast Navy, with a tonnage of more than 6,000 tons, were all moored here at this time.

"The fleet is anchored here, which is clearly contrary to international law."

Sun Qingyu, a naval engineer, looked out the window, and as an engineer, he was ordered to set up a temporary ship maintenance and repair center overseas, and this is the purpose of the floating dock, where the warships of the Zhenyang fleet will be maintained after going to sea. However, this is a violation of international law - the island of Wollaston belongs to Chile, and the actions of the current fleet are undoubtedly violating Chile's sovereignty.

"Of course, if they know about the case!"

Ge Fengguo lit a cigarette as an intelligence officer in Chile for the past few years. He's been keeping an eye on it, just as it used to be. The Chileans never found out that the Chinese fleet had ever intruded into their territory, and even set up a base on these uninhabited desert islands, which of course was temporary.

"We will do whatever it takes to win this war!"

Spit out a puff of smoke, Ge Fengguo said in an extremely calm tone.

Indeed, in order to win this war, they will do whatever it takes, even if it is possible to cause serious diplomatic friction in the future, and of course, more importantly - the dignity of small and weak states is not valued. Even in Ge Fengguo's view, if it really causes any chaos at that time, he will simply occupy this place without doing anything, so as to master the only way for Europeans and Americans to enter the Pacific Ocean.

Of course, this is just a thought, at least for now, Ge Fengguo knows very well that the navy needs just this berth, and what it needs is this fjord as a docking point for the Zhenyang Fleet to intercept the Russian Second Pacific Fleet.

The light outside the porthole began to turn white, and the shadows of the mountains appeared on both sides of the fjord, and at this moment, through the porthole, a cruiser could be seen arriving, it was a Shenyang-class armored cruiser, its tonnage was less than 5,000 tons, but the firepower was very powerful - two twin six-inch naval guns and eight 4.7-inch rapid-fire guns on the side, this was the most successful armored cruiser of the Northeast Navy. With its powerful firepower and speed of 27 knots, it is undoubtedly the king of the "light cruisers".

Feng Guoli, who was on the bridge, immediately issued a series of orders after the cruiser sailed into the fjord: the main engine stopped, the cable was thrown, the two auxiliary anchors were thrown, the camouflage net was laid, the artillery was on duty, and the officers took turns to go ashore...... He then handed over command of the warship to Lieutenant Commander Li Mingwei, the deputy commander of the warship.

Then he returned to his cabin, rubbed his sleepy eyelids, drank a cup of strong tea, and moved his tired waist. The pilot of the fjord was a competent ensign, which saved the ship a lot of trouble when navigating between the treacherous mountains and the fjord, otherwise he would have had to sleep well before he could go ashore.

And now, he was about to go to shore at once to see the deserted island, and this was the third time he had been here, but the first two times had been for training in the ocean, and this time for war.

At about half past seven in the morning, the light had already tore through the night. After a light breakfast aboard the warship, Fung strolled along the piers of the Northern Bay. The weather is very dry and cold, you can still see some stars in the sky, the air is cold, the cold is pressing, and there are even snowflakes floating in the air, I don't know if it is really snow, or snow that is swept up by the wind.

Winter in the southern hemisphere is the opposite of the northern hemisphere, perhaps, it should not be described as "winter", perhaps it is more appropriate to describe it as "cold season", it is now the cold season, on this seemingly desolate island, you can see the figure of naval officers and soldiers, they even built barracks out of wooden planks, although the barracks look like a "whaling station", he has sailed to Antarctica, he knows that there are many similar whaling stations in Antarctica, which are the traces left by the distant-water fishing company.

Perhaps, this so-called barracks was rebuilt on the foundation of the whaling station of the Ocean Fishing Company, who knows?

Half an hour later, when Feng Guoli returned to the "Shenyang". I met an acquaintance. It is Ma Guohui of the Navy's special attack boat team.

"Hello. Captain Feng! ”

Ma Guohui said to Feng Guoli that the two of them were contemporaries of the Naval Academy.

"When did you arrive?"

"Half a month ago, what about you?"

Feng Guoli looked at the four ocean-going training cruisers, now those training cruisers are the carrierships of the Navy's pocket submarines, that is because the pocket submarines cannot sail in the ocean, so they need to carry the mothership to cooperate, and the training cruiser has become the most suitable carrier because of its spacious space, and each carrier carries 8 pocket submarines.

They will maneuver with the training cruiser. In an exercise last year, the pocket submarine force carried by the training cruisers even successfully sank half of the fleet -- four capital ships and three cruisers -- without losing a single one of them.

"Just arrived five days ago, and when you arrived here, you had just gone out......"

The cruisers Shenyang and Jilin arrived here half a month ago and have been cruising a lot to protect the ships in the fjord, of course, for half a month. They didn't find any merchant ships trying to approach the area, not even whaling ships - there were no whaling ships in South America anymore. The whaling industry in Antarctica is completely monopolized by the Beiyang Fisheries Company.

"Hmm. We're surveying the shipping lanes, after all, it's the cold season, and a lot of icebergs are coming with the currents......"

"How's that? Will the Russians take Cape Horn? ”

Ma Guohui asked expectantly, he once hoped that the troops would be able to show their skills when the war started, but he didn't expect that they had been "hidden" in the snow, and now is the time for them to show their skills.

"No one can judge this, but considering that the Chilean side has explicitly denied them passage through the Strait of Magellan, one thing that can be believed is that they have no better option than Cape Horn......"

Behind this seemingly simple sentence, there are many unknown details, such as how the legation in Chile lobbied the Chilean government to refuse Russia's passage through the Strait of Magellan, and other diplomatic mediation, which is actually the most unknown behind the scenes of this war, but it has played a decisive role in directly determining the outcome of this war.

As the time approached, almost after receiving the news that the Russian Third Pacific Fleet had left Spain, dozens of warships of the Zhenyang Fleet anchored in Zhenwan were ignited one after another, and when the heavy oil in its boilers was ignited and the slight black smoke was spewed out from the chimney, several people watched the fleet slowly sailing away from Zhenwan on a coastal defense battery on Geoje Island.

For the more than 20,000 officers and men of the Zhenyang fleet, it seemed that this sortie was no different from usual, there was not much pre-war mobilization, and even on Geoje Island, the dependents only came to see them off as usual, and everyone thought that this was just an ordinary voyage - a routine voyage for the blockade of the Russian fleet, as in the past.

Of course, this is not all, at least there is news that the fleet sailed this time to "liberate" the Philippines, but for this statement, the official did not give much explanation, or even refute it, and the officers did not know anything, and similar news reports were also published in the newspapers - the Zhenyang fleet always attacked, and the target was the Philippines!

The newspaper says that the oath is justified and well-founded, but what is the reality?

No one knew where the goal of the Zhenyang fleet was, of course, this was only limited to the outside world, at least for Tang Haoran, who was riding the airship, he naturally knew the goal of the fleet.

In the coming month, the Zhenyang Fleet will first head to Hawaii, where it will join up with the Pacific Fleet, and then sail to the South Pacific and sail into Cape Horn, where it will face a naval battle of unprecedented proportion.

Ten years of work!

Silently muttering this sentence in his heart, Tang Haoran said to the Minister of the Navy beside him.

"If our Northeast Navy can win the naval battle in this battle, it means that the Northeast Navy will become the world's main maritime power......"

It also marks China's transformation from a sub-power in East Asia to a world power, just like Japan in another time and space, did Japan not establish its own status as a great power through the Russo-Japanese War, from a small East Asian country that was bullied by others to a great power that bullied other countries?

"Dashuai, we will definitely win!"

In the face of the marshal's words, when he said this, he looked at the fleet that was sailing out of the bay of the town with jealousy, as a naval soldier, he was jealous of Li Weizhong in his heart, if he could, he was even willing to exchange his position as a minister for the position of fleet commander.

However, this is simply impossible, in the entire Northeast Navy, there is no more suitable candidate than Li Weizhong, although he is not willing to admit it, but he still has to face this fact.

"Whoever wants the same wins!"

After this sigh, Tang Haoran nodded and said.

"The reason why we will win this war is because all of us know that we must win this war, this is not only to defend China, but also for the real rise of China, we are in this era is indeed an era of pursuing natural selection, the law of the jungle, it is indeed an era of power is truth, all the powerful countries are rising in iron and blood, the rise of a country is often accompanied by the victory of the war, the big victory and the big rise, the small victory and the small rise, the fiasco has declined since then, and there is no other possibility, Therefore, we have no way out, so we can only win this war with a strong determination to win the final victory......"

Yes, there is no other choice!

After these words, Tang Haoran silently looked at the fleet, the fleet class is huge, there are a total of 20 warships in the four seas, eight waves and eight provinces, in fact, the scale of the Zhenyang fleet is much larger than this, but long before today, the slower auxiliary ships such as oil and water ships and munitions ships have already left here and sailed to the final assembly point, so that the fleet can sail to the destination with an average speed of more than 18 knots, compared to the average speed of the Russian Second Pacific Fleet is only a pitiful 8 knots. This is due not only to the full steam turbine warships, but also to the fact that the auxiliary warships have long since sailed away, after all, the fastest speed of the fleet is determined by the slowest one.

In addition to the problem of speed, there is another reason for the early departure of auxiliary ships, that is, secrecy, there is no need for oil and water ships to fight in Japan, and in the case that the fleet does not have oil and water ships with them, even if the news of the fleet's departure leaks, it will not arouse the vigilance of outsiders, and this is just a normal voyage.

"Either you will return triumphantly with the military flag high, or you will sink into the sea with pride......"

For the Navy, too, there is no other option.

"If we are defeated......"

When this thought popped up in his heart, Tang Haoran's eyes changed suddenly, and he said firmly.

"No, we're going to win!"

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