Chapter 114: Wreaking havoc in Tokyo Bay
Emperor Meiji of Japan was very worried about the Yokosuka Shipyard, but Japanese Prime Minister Ito Hirobumi could only shake his head with a wry smile and said to Emperor Meiji: "Your Majesty, I have sent a brigade of the Guards Division to be placed 2 kilometers behind the Yokosuka Shipyard, and there is also a naval garrison group in the Yokosuka Military Port. If the Hokkaido Naval Division still wants to seize the Yokosuka Shipyard, the Guards Brigade will immediately support the shipyard, but if the Hokkaiko Naval Division bombards the Yokosuka Shipyard with naval guns, there is nothing we can do! ”
Emperor Meiji also knew in his heart that without a combined fleet that could compete with the Beiyang Naval Division, relying only on some old shore defense artillery could not prevent the Beiyang Naval Division from destroying the shipyards built by the sea. So Emperor Meiji also smiled bitterly: "Forget it! Ito-kun! Let's do our best! I hope God will bless Yokosuka Shipyard! In addition, Ito-kun, how is the situation of the 15th and 16th divisions newly trained by the army? ”
When Hirobumi Ito heard Emperor Meiji ask about the newly formed divisions, he said with some excitement: "Emperor, our young people in Japan are vying to join the imperial army, and now the two divisions have been formed!" ”
Because it was necessary to replenish the damaged divisions and regiments, the two new divisions and regiments that should have been formed long ago were postponed again and again. However, just as Ito Hirobumi said, the Japanese people were very supportive of the war with the Qing Dynasty, and after the base camp sent more than 100,000 recruits to the Southern Route Army and the Northern Route Army, a large number of Japanese young people who signed up to join the army let the two newly formed 15th and 16th divisions be formed in a short period of time.
This should be the only good news that Emperor Meiji heard today, and Emperor Meiji said in desperation: "Since we are pinning our hopes on capturing the city of Beijing, we will force the Qing Dynasty to surrender!" Well, Ito-kun! Send the 2 newly formed 15th Division, the 16th Division, and the 5th Division, which has been in the country, to the battlefield, and let the 3 divisions go to support the Northern Route Army! We Japan must do everything we can to occupy the city of Beijing! Forcing the Great Qing Dynasty to surrender to our Great Japan! Let our Great Japan achieve the final victory! ”
Prime Minister Hirofumi Ito nodded sternly, if these 3 divisions were sent to the battlefield of the Qing Dynasty, there would only be one Guards Division left in the whole of Japan! Japan has really done its best for this war with the Qing Dynasty!
The naval fleet of the Naval Academy led by Lin Daxin arrived at the Yokosuka Military Port at the entrance of Tokyo Bay at noon on the same day, Yokosuka is located on the east coast of the central part of the Miura Peninsula, adjacent to Yokohama in the north, and chokes the mouth of Tokyo Bay, which is the gateway to the capital Tokyo.
When the naval fleet of the Naval Academy arrived outside the port of Yokosuka, Lin Daxin did not hesitate to order the fleet to bombard the port of Yokosuka, and even the shipyard next to the port of Yokosuka did not let go. The Yokosuka shipyard was preparing to repair the damaged warships of the Combined Fleet, so no new warships were built in the dock in the shipyard, and the warships of the Navy of the Navy in the Naval Academy were bombarded with a row of docks in the shipyard!
The captain of the Japanese Navy Garrison Brigade guarding Yokosuka Port saw the Navy Academy fleet coming, and in accordance with the orders of the base camp, he gave up the idea of attacking the Beiyang Navy Division with shore defense artillery, and did not make unnecessary sacrifices, and immediately ordered the entire garrison group to withdraw from Yokosuka Military Port, and arrived 2 kilometers behind Yokosuka, and watched the large-caliber naval guns of the Navy Fleet of the Navy Academy destroy the docks, batteries, barracks, warehouses, and most importantly, the Yokosuka Shipyard in Yokosuka Port little by little!
The Japanese soldiers of the entire Yokosuka Naval Garrison Brigade could only watch, and there was nothing they could do against the fleet of the Naval Academy that was reckless on the sea! A brigade of the Guards Division behind the Yokosuka Shipyard could only watch the shipyard they wanted to protect being destroyed by the naval guns of the naval fleet of the Naval Academy, and helplessly watched the shipyard that Japan had worked so hard to build be destroyed by artillery fire!
After the fleet of the Naval Academy bombarded for at least half an hour, the entire Yokosuka military port, including the shipyard, was bombarded in tatters, and there were fires in many places, Lin Daxin observed with a telescope for a while, and the port and shipyard that were on fire, put down the telescope and ordered with satisfaction: "Go inside Tokyo Bay!" Continue bombarding the port city in Tokyo Bay, Japan! Also, let's not forget to grab the transport! We're going to pack up and ship the Kure Port Shipyard away! Hahaha! ”
Looking at the tattered Yokosuka, Lin Daxin was in a very good mood! Let you Japanese start a war! Now let's let you Japanese taste the bitter fruits of war!
After the naval fleet of the Naval Academy left, the naval garrison group behind the port of Yokosuka and the army of a brigade rushed to the port of Yokosuka and began to extinguish the fires in the port and shipyard.
After the fire was extinguished, the soldiers of the Japanese navy and army were crying without tears, not only all the facilities in the port were destroyed, but the entire dock of the Yokosuka shipyard was bombarded and dilapidated, and it would be a very huge project to restore the shipyard to its original state, which would require a lot of manpower and financial resources from Japan.
After leaving Yokosuka, Lin Daxin's fleet bombarded several port cities in the entire Tokyo Bay, such as Yokohama and Kawasaki, along the coast of Tokyo Bay, and the shore defense guns of several ports did not play a role at all in the face of the large-caliber naval guns on the six ironclad battleships and nine large fast armored cruisers of the first and second fleets of the powerful Sailor Academy. As soon as he opened fire on the naval fleet of the Naval Academy, he was destroyed by the powerful naval artillery fire!
Several port cities were bombarded by naval artillery and suffered heavy losses, but the naval fleet of the Naval Academy on the sea had no choice but to wait for the Naval Academy fleet to leave after the bombardment was enjoyable, and then send personnel to start extinguishing the fire caused by the artillery bombardment and rescuing the wounded. Then he cursed at the naval fleet of the Sailor Academy that had left!
In the end, the naval fleet of the Naval Academy came to Tokyo, the capital of Japan, Lin Daxin was still not polite, first destroyed more than a dozen shore defense guns in the port of Tokyo, and then sent a battalion of marines with the ship to grab more than a dozen transport ships with a relatively large displacement in the port of Tokyo City, and finally put artillery fire on the city of Tokyo for more than half an hour.
Most of the houses in Tokyo City in Japan are made of wooden planks, and the artillery fire of the Navy Academy fleet has set a large number of these wooden houses on fire, and if a house catches fire, it will immediately set fire to the houses next to it, so that more and more houses are on fire, and when the Navy Academy Navy fleet leaves, most of the Tokyo City will be on fire! Although Japanese Prime Minister Hirobumi Ito has ordered the evacuation of Tokyo residents, there are still many Tokyo residents who have not left their homes in the city. After 2 days of the Great Fire in Tokyo, the soldiers of the Guards Division were finally extinguished, and at least 20,000 charred corpses were collected throughout the city!
After the fire in Tokyo was extinguished, Emperor Meiji and the Japanese officials in the base camp returned to Tokyo from the outskirts of Tokyo.
"The Beiyang Sailor is really inhumane! Such a heinous crime was committed against the civilians of Tokyo! Emperor Meiji said viciously with tears in his eyes, but Emperor Meiji did not consider that after the Japanese Northern Route Army in the Qing Dynasty captured Shengjing, he carried out a brutal massacre of Qing prisoners of war and residents in the city!
The principle of not doing unto others as you would have them do unto you, Emperor Meiji has not yet figured it out!
Japanese Prime Minister Hirobumi Ito said with a gloomy face: "His Majesty the Emperor! Got the news! The fleet that attacked Tokyo Bay this time was the fleet under Lin Daxin, and the Beiyang Naval Division's own team remained in Kure Harbor! Moreover, the Qing army that occupied the Wugang shipyard had already dismantled the equipment of the shipyard, and it seemed that they wanted to transport the equipment of the shipyard back to the Qing Dynasty! ”
Emperor Meiji gritted his teeth and shouted, "It's that Lin Daxin again!" What does the intelligence service do! Until now, that bastard Lin Daxin has not been assassinated! Didn't I order the intelligence department to get rid of Lin Daxin a long time ago! ”
Japanese Foreign Minister Mutsu Munemitsu, who was next to him, replied, "Emperor! Lin Daxin has always been protected by the Grand Army! The intelligence services of the empire really couldn't find a chance! ”
Emperor Meiji said angrily: "Order the intelligence department to get rid of Lin Daxin at any cost!" ”
Then Emperor Meiji shed tears again, "Woo! Our two shipyards in Japan, which cost a lot of money, are gone! When will my combined fleet be rebuilt! ”
The naval fleet of the Naval Academy, which had been ravaged in Tokyo Bay, returned to Kure Port in the Seto Inland Sea with more than a dozen Japanese transport ships that had been robbed, and after 2 days of shipment, most of the equipment of the Kure Port Shipyard was loaded onto the transport ship, and then the Navy Academy Naval Fleet and the Hokuyang Naval Division Squadron left Kure Port with 3 warships captured in Sasebo, 4 warships that were almost completed in the Kure Port Shipyard, and dozens of transport ships!
The Japanese knew in their hearts that there was a powerful Beiyang Naval Division fleet on the sea of Kure Harbor, and Japan was really powerless to resist now, so it did not attack the Qing army occupying Kure Harbor at all, and let the marines emptie the shipyard in 2 days!
Before leaving Kure Harbor, Lin Daxin also ordered the fleet to bombard the empty Kure Harbor Shipyard, even if the Japanese purchased new shipyard equipment, the Kure Harbor Shipyard would not be restored immediately, and all the docks would need to be rebuilt by the Japanese with a lot of manpower and financial resources.
Let the Japanese workers of the Kure Port Shipyard, who came to clean up the mess after the fleet left, bite the root of their hatred for the naval fleet of the Naval Academy! You hateful Qing Dynasty people not only emptied the shipyard that the Japanese had worked so hard to build, but in the end you didn't even let go of an empty shelf in a shipyard!
When returning home, Ding Ruchang, the commander of the Beiyang Naval Division, did not sit on the bridge of the Dingyuan ship, the flagship of the Beiyang Naval Division, but went to the Flying Bear, the flagship of the First Fleet of the Navy, and Lin Daxin came to the lounge specially set up for Lin Daxin by the Flying Bear.