The commander of the American fleet, George? When Dewey received the news from Japan, he couldn't help but sneer secretly in his heart, the intention of the Japanese was obvious, they did not want to lose too much strength in this decisive battle at sea, and hoped that the main force of the Eight-Nation Alliance Navy Fleet on the other side of the Taiwan Strait would directly solve the Northeast Navy, while the Japanese fleet and its own American fleet on their side would do some finishing touches, cleaning up the battlefield and other things.

Although George? Dewey was quite disdainful of the Japanese approach, but the Japanese did not want to engage the Northeast Navy in the first place. Dewey's subordinates responded to the commander of the Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet, Heihachiro Togo, in flag language, fully agreeing with the Japanese construction.

George? Before Dewey set out from the United States, the president of the United States, Theodore? Roosevelt personally approached him for a secret talk, and the general meaning was that the fleet sent by the United States this time was in the nature of soy sauce, just to take advantage of it, so it only sent a weak naval fleet and an army with only 500 people. After Dewey arrived in Asia, he took things at his leisure.

After receiving a reply from the Americans, Heihachiro Togo, commander of the Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet, immediately ordered the fleet to turn around, no longer running directly towards the Taiwan Strait, but to begin to slow down and sail westward, preparing to spend the night outside the Taiwan Strait, and then tomorrow when he had eaten and drunk enough, he would leisurely enter the Taiwan Strait to help the main force of the Eight-Nation Alliance's naval fleet clean up the battlefield.

At this time, in the southern part of the Taiwan Strait, in the waters near Dongsha Island in the Dongsha Islands, a super-large fleet is here, almost filling the sea surface of several tens of square kilometers.

This super-large fleet is the main force of the Eight-Nation Alliance's Joint Expeditionary Fleet of European States, the British Navy's Singapore Far East Fleet, the British Navy's Hong Kong Fleet, and the French Asian Colonial Fleet, which have just converged here to form the Eight-Nation Alliance's Naval Joint Expeditionary Fleet.

At present, the main force of the joint expeditionary fleet of the Eight-Nation Alliance Navy has reached 79 all-steel battleships, 54 large fast armored cruisers, 84 fast protection cruisers, 84 destroyers, 104 torpedo boats, 10 submarines, and 2 ironclad battleships. and the British, French, and Japanese fleets that will depart early tomorrow morning in the Taiwan Strait to join the main forces of the Eight-Nation Alliance's Joint Expeditionary Fleet.

In this way, although the 116 all-steel battleships that the Eight-Nation Alliance can gather in Asia are not all engaged in this upcoming naval battle, the number of all-steel battleships will also exceed 100, reaching a terrifying 107, and a few are because the British Navy has retained some warships to guard their hometowns.

The commander of the British naval fleet, Bridget, the commander of the French naval fleet, François, the commander of the Russian naval fleet, Makarov, the commander of the Italian naval fleet, the commander of the Italian naval fleet, the commander of the German naval fleet, Tessim, and the Austro-Constitutional naval commander Rusdit, are all in the bridge of the British majestic all-steel battleship Majesty, looking at the mighty fleet outside, they can't help but be a little excited, it is a proud thing to join a fleet of such a scale and conduct the largest naval battle in the history of mankind. It was also definitely an unforgettable experience.

Bridget, commander of the British Naval Fleet, who is also the commander of the entire Eight-Nation Alliance's Joint Expeditionary Fleet, smiled and said to the other commanders: "Generals, tomorrow will be a day that will go down in history, the largest naval battle in the history of mankind is about to break out, and all of us here will leave our names in history." ”

Several other commanders all smiled, especially the commanders who had some deep hatred with the Northeast Navy, and the Northeast Navy, which had left them with shame, although it could not be said that it would not exist after tomorrow, would definitely withdraw from the ranks of the world's naval powers.

Bridget continued: "Although our strength in tomorrow's decisive battle is more than double that of the Northeast Navy, in order to reduce the losses of various countries, I hope that the fleets of all countries will obey my command, and we will solve this Northeast Navy that affects world peace at the lowest cost, so that the order in Asia can be restored to the normal track." ”

The other commanders nodded without objection, they had already discussed before, in order to facilitate the command, the entire eight-nation alliance naval joint expeditionary fleet will be divided into five subfleets, and the British navy, the French navy, the German navy, and the Russian navy will each form a detachment with their own warships.

The Italian navy, the Austro-Hungarian navy, and the Japanese navy's fleet at Fuzhou, which will converge tomorrow, will form the last detachment.

The five detachments will be adjusted according to the actual situation of the naval battle, but at present, several commanders believe that in the naval battle, the joint expeditionary fleet of the Eight-Nation Alliance Navy will only need to rely on a simple confrontation to send the Northeast Navy into the abyss by virtue of its huge superiority in strength.

At the same time, they ordered the main force of the joint expeditionary fleet of the entire eight-nation alliance navy to continue to advance toward the Taiwan Strait at night, and in order to guard against a sneak attack by the Northeast Navy submarines, several large fast armored cruisers equipped with sonar equipment turned on all the sonar equipment to search for the Northeast Navy submarines that might be ambushed on the sea route.

On the night of June 16, 1902, in the sea area more than 100 kilometers north of the Penghu Islands in the Taiwan Strait, there was also an unusually large fleet sailing here at a very low speed, and this huge fleet had been in this sea area for many days.

This huge fleet is the six main fleets, submarine forces, and dreadnought battleship formations gathered by the Northeast Navy.

On the bridge of the Shenyang, the flagship of the First Fleet, the all-steel battleship, the commanders of the six main fleets, Sun Xitao, Jiang Chen, Ma Yan, Chen Ming, Wen Yu, and Huang Hong, the commander of the submarine force, Zhang Bin, and the temporary commander of the dreadnought battleship formation, Yu Fu, all gathered here to discuss the upcoming naval battle tomorrow.

Ma Yan succeeded Jiang Hui as the commander of the Third Fleet, Ma Yan was also the first phase of the teaching team, once served as the captain of the Flying Eagle ironclad battleship, and later served as the captain of the Shenyang all-steel battleship, this time Lin Daxin established the Northeast Navy General Staff, transferred Jiang Hui to serve as the chief of the General Staff, and then appointed Ma Yan as the commander of the new Third Fleet.

Yu Fu temporarily withdrew from the ranks of the navy due to physical reasons, and has been recuperating at home, after several years of recuperation, although he is not young, but his body is much tougher than before, so he went out of the mountain again to help Lin Daxin master the most powerful dreadnought battleship formation in the Northeast Navy.

Sun Xitao, commander of the First Fleet, said to several others: "According to the report of the fast protection cruiser we dispatched, the radar shows that a large fleet is already heading towards the Taiwan Strait in the south of the Taiwan Strait, and a fleet in the north has also arrived at the gate of the Taiwan Strait, and the fleets of Britain, France, and Japan in the port of Fuzhou in Fujian Province have also set off, and it seems that they are about to join the huge fleet in the south." ”

Jiang Chen, the commander of the Second Fleet, said with a smile: "It seems that we have not waited in vain here, the naval forces of the Eight-Nation Alliance have finally arrived, and a sea battle that surprises the world should begin tomorrow." ”

Yu Fu laughed and said: "This time, let the world see who is the naval overlord in this world, not the British, but our Northeast Navy, haha!" ”

Wen Yu, the commander of the Fifth Fleet, said with a smile: "Old man, tomorrow will rely on your dreadnought battleship formation, I think the expressions of those guys in the Eight-Nation Alliance when they see our 13 dreadnought battleships will definitely be very exciting." ”

Sun Xitao, as the commander-in-chief of this naval battle designated by Lin Daxin, thought about it for a while and said: "Tomorrow I am going to send a fleet of large fast armored cruisers to meet the main naval force of the Eight-Nation Alliance, and introduce them into the battlefield we have set. ”

The other commanders looked at each other and nodded, thus deciding the main tactics that the Northeast Navy would adopt tomorrow.

Sun Xitao continued: "The main purpose of our six main fleets tomorrow is to cooperate with the dreadnought battleship formation, so that the dreadnought battleship formation can always realize the sling tactics from a long distance and intercept the warships of the Eight-Nation Alliance that are trying to get close to the dreadnought battleship formation. In addition, tomorrow's task of the submarine force is to cruise freely in the nearby waters, looking for opportunities to carry out torpedo attacks on the main warships of the eight-nation alliance. ”

Zhang Bin, the commander of the submarine force, nodded and said: "Our submarine force will cooperate well with the main fleet, but this time the navy of the eight-nation alliance also has submarines, so our warships should be careful." ”

Huang Hong, commander of the Sixth Fleet, said confidently: "We have installed a new kind of equipment on many fast protection cruisers, called sonar, which can detect the trajectory of underwater targets. ”

Zhang Bin continued: "Our submarines are also equipped with sonar, and we can also find the submarines of the Eight-Nation Alliance underwater, and with the performance of our submarines, as long as we fight, our submarines have a ninety percent winning rate." ”R1152