Lin Fei thought about these things, and walked quickly into the conference room, there was not much time, and the senior admirals of the navy were here, including Liu Daming, the captain of the Han Wu ship, Bi Fang, the captain of the Tang Zong ship, Shangguan Yunlong, the captain of the Tenglong ship, and so on.

Lin Fei first said: "Everyone has heard about what happened in Taiwan, right? Six Japanese warships openly landed in eastern Taiwan and killed more than 1,000 people of the Inami tribe, of which more than 500 women were all killed, and even old women in their 60s and girls aged four or five were not spared. ”

Everyone's bodies trembled, and the old man in his sixties and the child of four or five years old also got his hands on it, are the Japanese still human?

"My analysis believes that Japan's move is not just a provocation, their purpose should be to provoke us and let us send the main naval force to fight a decisive battle with them, on the one hand, to avenge the defeat in the Penghu naval battle, and on the other hand, to clear the way for an attack on Taiwan, I wonder if you agree with my point of view?"

Everyone nodded, Lin Fei continued: "My idea is this, since Japan provokes us, we can't admit it, I think, we should send warships to participate in the battle, according to the results of front-line reconnaissance, Japan dispatched four Yoshino-class cruisers this time, the combat effectiveness of the Yoshino-class is above the dragon-class cruisers, if we want to defeat the Yoshino-class, we must dispatch the Emperor-class, let's talk about it, where should we mobilize the Emperor-class cruisers?" ”

Shangguan Yunlong first said: "Of course, it is transferred to Dayu City, compared with Pontianak and Jakarta, Dayu City is the closest to Taiwan, and it is the most convenient to transfer the past." ”

Bi Fang shook his head and said: "What should I do if the Emperor-class cruiser is transferred out of Dayu City, and the British and French suddenly attack?" ”

"Don't we have the island of Corregido? The shore fortifications there are very complete, and it is difficult for the enemy's warships to enter from the outside, besides, Dayu City is the heart of our Chinese Empire, how dare Britain and France attack Dayu City? ”

Bi Fang said: "I think we should mobilize the warships of Pontianak and Jakarta, Dayu City is our heart after all, we can't help but leave the Emperor-class battleships for defense, and the British have been very active in Xianna Port recently, in case the British and French fleets use Xianna Port as a springboard to attack Dayu City, things will not be good." ”

Everyone talked about it, Lin Fei coughed lightly, everyone quieted down, Lin Fei said softly: "Don't discuss it anymore, I have decided, transfer the Han Wu ship and Tang Zong ship of Dayu City to Taiwan, and form a joint fleet with the Tianlong ship, the cloud dragon ship, the ice dragon ship and the fire dragon ship, attack the Japanese fleet, and annihilate them all." ”

Bi Fang and other generals who advocated the mobilization of the warships of Pontianak and Jakarta cast a questioning look at Lin Fei, and Lin Fei said with a straight face: "There is Corregido Island outside Dayu City, this island is known as the 'throat of death', there are batteries left by the Spaniards on the island, and the 300 mm caliber heavy guns in it can still be used, and it is difficult for enemy ships to enter. ”

"Compared with Dayu City, Pontianak and Jakarta do not have such a strong shore fire force, so they need more warship escort, in this regard, the Battle of Paratu Island provides us with a lesson from the past, in the Battle of Paratu Island, it is precisely because there is no battleship escort that our landing advance team was killed."

Lin Fei called this task force "crusade against the Japanese fleet", appointed Liu Daming as the commander of the fleet, and the next day, December 14, set up troops to Taiwan to join the four Dragon-class touring ships.

In the next day, the Chinese newspapers reported the tragedy of the Hualien Massacre, in which the four or five-year-old girl and the sixty-year-old woman were highlighted, and the Chinese people were excited and strongly demanded that Lin Fei declare war on Japan.

Lin Fei was very helpless, because China and Japan were still at war at this time, and there was no need to declare war again, but in order to calm the anger of the people, Lin Fei released the news to the world that the Chinese Empire had officially declared war on the Japanese Empire, and the Japanese Empire was not to be outdone, and the Meiji Emperor announced on December 15 that the Japanese Empire had declared war on the Chinese Empire.

In this way, China and Japan became the only "countries that declared war for the second time" in the history of world wars.

As soon as Liu Daming left, Lin Fei's heart hung in his throat, what he was worried about was not Japan, the opponent of the naval battle, but Britain and France, who had an unclear attitude, Britain and France had been pretending to be deaf and dumb since China and Qing declared war, and the United States, Russia, and Germany, and even Chile, Brazil, and Argentina in South America all announced that they were closely concerned about this incident, hoping that Huaqing and Qing could return to the negotiating table.

Britain and France have not expressed their position, Lin Fei thought of the mysterious doomsday trial plan, and was even more frightened, Lin Fei looked for Chiyo Shizuka several times and asked her to recall the details of the doomsday trial plan, at this time, Chiyo Shizuka had completely surrendered to Lin Fei and became Lin Fei's right-hand man, but she really didn't know anything, and from that master Wang, Lin Fei didn't find out anything.

The situation of the crusade against the Japanese fleet was also not going well, the Japanese Second Combined Fleet disappeared without a trace after committing the Hualien Massacre, and there was no trace of them in the waters of Taiwan, Lin Fei couldn't help but worry that they had already gone south to Yanhuangcheng or Mindanao.

For Lin Fei, these things in Japan were just a wound, and the real place that moved the bones was in the Qing State, when the Huaqing Dynasty went to war, the Qing State stopped trading with China, almost all the people who made a living from the trade with the Qing Dynasty were unemployed, and the factories in northern Luzon that relied on the resources of the Qing State were almost completely suspended.

In order to make better use of the resources of the Qing Dynasty, Lin Fei built a large number of factories in the northern part of Luzon Island to smelt the ore of the Qing Kingdom, which could save the transportation cost of the ore, but now the ore of the Qing Kingdom is not imported, and the factory can only be suspended.

The consequences of the factory shutdown can only be described as a disaster, tens of thousands of workers are unemployed, there is no salary if they are unemployed, they cannot afford to buy food without wages, and if they can't afford to buy food, they will starve, hunger is the last bottom line of social stability, a society, no matter how many contradictions there are, there are very deep, only if everyone does not starve, it will not be chaotic, once everyone is hungry, then there is no concern, murder, robbery, rape, a big chaos.

Lin Fei began to seriously consider the plan to attack the Qing State, and used war means to bring the Qing State back to the negotiating table and force the Qing State to continue selling ore.

The time came on December 20, and at nine o'clock in the morning, Lin Fei was in his office preparing a plan to attack the Qing State, when suddenly Li Mingming, the chief of the General Staff, rushed in.

Li understood that there was nothing good in such a panic, and the last time was the declaration of war of the Qing State.

Lin Fei hurriedly asked, "What happened?" ”

Li Ming said in a trembling voice: "Pontianak...... Pontianak sent a message, and the French army ...... The French Army launched a landing at half past eight this morning on a beach 15 kilometers north of Pontianak, and is now engaged with our Army, and the French fleet is engaged with the Qinhuang, the Crazy Dragon, and the Angry Dragon of our Naval Fleet..."

Lin Fei stood up abruptly and exclaimed, "France has attacked? How is this possible? ”

Li clearly said solemnly: "This can't be wrong, the French army has gathered about 100,000 troops and is launching a fierce attack on Pontianak. ”

"Nonsense...," Lin Fei said angrily, "100,000 French troops, how is this possible?" The French do not have a total of 100,000 troops in the South Seas..."

Li Ming shook his head, "I don't know about this, by the way, the French Navy is even stronger, they dispatched four battleships, all of them are big guys with a displacement of more than 10,000 tons, and if there are four cruisers, our fleet is completely at a disadvantage." ”

France is the second naval power in the world in this era, with four battleships and four cruisers, and its own fleet is absolutely invincible, Lin Fei hurriedly said: "Immediately order the Pontianak Navy to retreat to Machen Port." ”

Li clearly said "understood", and was about to go out, when staff officer He Kaisheng ran in and said in a panic: "Report to Your Majesty, just now, the British army gathered 200,000 troops and launched an attack on Jakarta..."

Britain also attacked... Lin Fei was surprised, "You said that the British army has gathered 200,000 troops, how can they have so many people?" ”

"According to reports from the front, among the 200,000 British troops, only 20,000 British soldiers were British soldiers, and the rest were Indonesians recruited by the British from Sumatra..."

"And what about the British Navy, how many warships were dispatched?"

"According to the report of the Song Zu, the British Navy dispatched three Sovereign-class battleships and two brand-new mysterious warships..."

"What's the new mystery ship?"

"We don't have this type of warship on it in our World Warship Identification Manual, it's definitely a brand new warship."

"Have you reported the dimensions, armament, mast and chimney of this type of battleship?"

"It's all reported." He Kaisheng immediately described the situation of that type of battleship, and Lin Fei understood as soon as he heard it, it turned out that this type of battleship was the latest British Majesty-class battleship launched in 15 years...

The combat effectiveness of the Majesty-class battleships is only stronger than that of the Sovereign class, not weaker than that of the Sovereign class, and this type of battleship is equipped with two twin-mounted 305-mm main guns, 12 152-mm rapid-fire secondary guns, and 16 76-mm rapid-fire guns, and its firepower far exceeds that of the Emperor-class cruisers.

In particular, it is worth mentioning that the status and role of the sixteen 76-mm rapid-fire guns equipped on the Majesty-class battleships are similar to those of the 11-mm machine guns on the Emperor-class cruisers, but one is 76 mm and the other is 11 mm.

Without waiting for Lin Fei to speak, Xiyun ran in in a panic and said, "Your Majesty, Britain and France have declared war... The British Empire and the French Republic have officially declared war on the Chinese Empire..."

Qing declared war, Japan declared war, France declared war, Britain declared war ... Lin Fei's Huaxia Empire will face four enemies at the same time...

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