In addition to the Second Fleet of the Northeast Navy and the 1st Division of the Second Field Army of the Dingbei Army, which attacked Hokkaido Island, there was also a group of men and horses that directly attacked the Sasebo Naval Base on Kyushu Island in Japan, preparing to use it as an attack point and landing point, and then attack the entire Kyushu Island.

In addition, there is also the idea of destroying the remnants of the Japanese Navy along the way, after all, the Sasebo Naval Base is one of the most important home ports of the Japanese Navy's combined fleet, so this time the Northeast Navy has brought 7 provincial super dreadnought battleships and 6 Dragon-class dreadnought battleships.

A large number of warships are indispensable to defend a naval base like Sasebo, and as long as the Japanese are determined to defend the Sasebo naval base, then the dreadnought battleship formation will have a chance to exert its might.

However, when the Northeast Navy's dreadnought battleship formation and the Third Fleet, as well as the 1st Division of the Third Field Army of the Dingbei Army on transport ships, came to the outside of Sasebo Port, they found that there was not a single warship of the Japanese Navy in the entire port, and it was empty, and there was not even an ordinary transport ship.

On the bridge of the super dreadnought battleship Fengtian, Yu Fu, the commander of the dreadnought battleship formation, frowned when he saw this situation and said to Zhen Li, the captain of the Fengtian beside him: "It seems that the remaining warships of the Japanese Navy are going to hide!" Don't know where to hide? ”

Zhen Li nodded and said: "Even Sasebo does not have Japanese warships here to defend here, it seems that the Japanese Navy is not ready to continue to fight our Northeast Navy, and it is not good that it has fled from the Japanese mainland." ”

The combined fleet of the Japanese Navy wants to fight your Northeast Navy, but the problem is that your Northeast Navy is not particular at all. Get a whole bunch of dreadnought battleships, who else can play with you? If you bite the head. Hard, wait for the remnants of the Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet. Definitely not a good outcome.

Yu Fu frowned and asked, "Why doesn't the Military Intelligence Bureau have any news at all?" "There is no news from the Military Intelligence Bureau in such a situation, which does make the Northeast Navy a little passive.

As soon as Yu Fu finished speaking, a naval soldier in the bridge ran over and handed Zhen Li a telegram, and after Zhen Li read the telegram quickly, he said with a wry smile: "Ma Yan, commander of the Third Fleet, sent us a message, the Military Intelligence Bureau has just received information that the remnants of the Japanese Navy's combined fleet warships have left the Japanese mainland and their current whereabouts are unknown. Looks like I guessed right, they really ran away! ”

Yu Fu snorted coldly and said: "This military intelligence bureau always makes these afterthoughts, and the director Li Kun doesn't know what to eat, the last time the marshal was assassinated, I said that Li Kun should be removed, and the director of the secret bureau, Shen Peng, is also a stupid person, according to the old man, he should also be replaced together, but the marshal has repeatedly tolerated such and such mistakes of the CIA and the secret bureau." I really don't know what Dashuai thinks! ”

Yu Fu has a very deep feeling for Lin Daxin, although he now calls Lin Daxin a handsome man, but in Fu's heart, Lin Daxin is his nephew. So after Lin Daxin was assassinated and seriously injured last time, Yu Fu was very dissatisfied with the Military Intelligence Bureau and the Secret Bureau, and he could be said to be angry. Regardless of the fact that his body was still recuperating at that time, he ran to the buildings of the Military Intelligence Bureau and the Secret Service respectively. found 2 bigwigs of the intelligence department, and pointed at them to scold. Let the two bigwigs of the intelligence department not even dare to say anything, and they have to smile at Fu Bian.

Li Kun and Shen Peng, the two bigwigs of the intelligence department, know very well in their hearts that Yu Fu has deep feelings for Lin Daxin, and Lin Daxin also has deep feelings for Fu, don't look at them and they are deeply trusted by Lin Daxin, if they really offend Yu Fu, Lin Daxin will definitely not let them go.

Zhen Li then said to Fu: "Ma Yan asked you, are we directly attacking Sasebo?" ”

Yu Fu scolded with a smile: "This pony, he is the commander of the navy this time, why do you ask the old man if he has any opinions?" You send a telegram back to the pony to report to him, and the old man waits for his orders. ”

Zhen Li secretly said in his heart, your old man is here, who dares to ignore you! Even when the principal saw you, he shouted at Yu Bo, who dare to disrespect you, the students of the principal!

Soon after, Ma Yan sent a telegram ordering the provincial super dreadnought battleships to fire first, so seven provincial super dreadnought battleships fired their main guns at each battery in the Sasebo Naval Base port 30,000 meters away from the port of the Sasebo Naval Base.

These shore defense guns in the Sasebo port batteries have an effective range of about 20,000 meters, and in the face of the 406 mm guns of the provincial super dreadnought battleships with a range of 30,000 meters, they can only be beaten passively, and it becomes impossible to fight back.

As soon as the 7 provincial super dreadnought battleships opened fire, the Japanese troops in the Sasebo port battery understood this truth, and staying in the battery could only be a senseless sacrifice, so the artillerymen of the Japanese shore defense artillery, under the leadership of their respective commanders, withdrew from the battery, and they could only stay to no avail, and could only lose their lives in vain.

In fact, it did not take long for the coastline of the Sasebo Naval Base Port, more than a dozen artillery batteries that the Japanese had invested heavily in recent years were all destroyed by 406 mm giant shells, and then 6 Dragon-class dreadnought battleships and other warships of the Third Fleet also approached the port of the Sasebo Naval Base, bombarding other facilities and some fortifications in the port, especially Sasebo, which also has a shipyard, was taken care of.

Although the Japanese have moved some factories in the port inland, many of the equipment in the shipyard is very heavy, and the size is huge, and it is extremely troublesome to disassemble, and it is impossible to move it at all, and the shipyard under the command of Lin Daxin has formed a very large scale, and they do not care about these Japanese docks at all, so these equipment and docks can only be destroyed under the naval guns of the Northeast Navy.

The Japanese troops guarding the Sasebo naval base also knew that they had no sea supremacy, and their shore defense artillery did not pose a threat to the provincial dreadnought battleships of the Northeast Navy. The main forces have withdrawn to the interior of Kyushu Island, where they have joined the Army and Self-Defense Forces of some other cities on Kyushu Island. Outside the range of the provincial dreadnought battleships, build positions and wait for the arrival of the Dingbei Army.

So. There were not many Japanese troops in the Sasebo Naval Base, and after the warships of the Northeast Navy were bombarded, the 1st Division of the 3rd Field Army of the Dingbei Army, which had followed, began to land at the port of Sasebo. The whole landing process was very smooth, and there was almost no resistance from the Japanese army, and the entire Sasebo naval base fell into the hands of the Dingbei Army.

However, then, when the troops of the Third Field Army of the Dingbei Army advanced inland to Kyushu Island, they encountered very big trouble. In areas beyond the range of provincial dreadnought battleships, the Japanese army concentrated a large number of Japanese army and Japanese self-defense forces, and the total number of them exceeded one million, of which there were only 7 divisions of the regular army, and the remaining nearly 900,000 people were all members of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces.

Moreover, the terrain chosen by the Japanese to establish their positions was particularly conducive to defense, which made the Dingbei Army on the attacking side suffer very much.

Japan is really desperate this time, and it operates completely according to the principle that all people are soldiers. In particular, after the shooting of some Japanese who opposed the participation in the Self-Defense Forces, the recruitment and deployment of the entire Japanese Self-Defense Forces has progressed rapidly, and the number of the entire Japanese Self-Defense Forces has now exceeded 8 million, mainly concentrated on the islands of Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku. Moreover, this number is not only increasing, but with the Japanese army of more than 1 million, this is where Japan's confidence lies in resisting the powerful Dingbei Army and the Northeast Navy.

The assault force of this division of the Third Field Army of the Dingbei Army. At once, more than a million Japanese troops and self-defense forces were encountered, and many ants bit and killed elephants. It was the attack force, which was supported by the air support of the Yellow Sparrow fighters and the Blue Eagle bombers at the Busan airfield. In the end, after a whole day of attack, they still did not break through the positions built by the Japanese outside the range of the provincial dreadnought battleships, and they suffered a lot of casualties, losing nearly 5,000 people, and had to retreat to the Sasebo naval base to wait for the follow-up reinforcements of the Dingbei Army to arrive, and then relaunch the attack.

Of course, the Japanese lost even more, in this whole day of fighting, the Japanese lost at least more than 150,000, most of them died from the bombing of fighter planes, but the Japanese are outnumbered, and the Japanese Army and Self-Defense Forces in other parts of Kyushu Island are still supporting this area, so the Japanese lost 150,000 people, and they didn't care, but happily repelled the attack of the Dingbei Army for a whole day.

Utsunomiya Castle in the middle of Japan's main island of Honshu, where Japan's Meiji Emperor and most of Japan's military and political leaders have been transferred.

Emperor Meiji took his family and was arranged in an elegant Japanese-style courtyard in Utsunomiya Castle, Prime Minister Saionji Gongwang and Japanese Minister of War Katsura Taro hurried to the courtyard to meet Emperor Meiji, and another big man in the Japanese military circles, Togo Heihachiro, commander of the Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet, had already led the remnants of the Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet warships to hide in the Pacific Ocean.

Japanese Minister of War Katsura Taro saw Empress Meiji and said excitedly: "Your Majesty the Emperor, our Japanese Army and Self-Defense Forces, 30 kilometers east of the Sasebo Naval Base on Kyushu Island, have inflicted heavy losses on the Dingbei Army, making the Dingbei Army nearly 10,000 corpses in front of our position, which is an unprecedented victory for our Japanese Empire!" ”

Prime Minister Saionji Gongwang knew what was going on, the Japanese army and self-defense forces died 150,000 people in one day, and the losses of the northern army seemed to be only thousands, what kind of victory was this?

However, when the Saionji Emperor saw the surprise expression of Emperor Meiji, he didn't want to be a bad person, so he said: "Congratulations to the Emperor, it seems that our plan to be a soldier has been done right, and our Self-Defense Force has reached 8 million people, and it can definitely give a big surprise to the Dingbei Army that invaded us." ”

These days, Emperor Meiji is also sick, the whole person has lost a lot of weight, he looks listless every day, he can't sleep well, he can't eat, and his heart is full of worries about the Northeast Navy and the Dingbei Army attacking the Japanese mainland, and now when he suddenly heard such news, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he became a lot more energetic, and immediately asked the two people: "Is this true?" We repelled the attack of the Dingbei Army on Kyushu Island? ”

Saionji Gongwang and Katsura Taro looked at each other, and both nodded affirmatively, and Katsura Taro said: "Your Majesty the Emperor, this news is true, the current Dingbei Army's attack force on Kyushu Island has returned to the Sasebo Naval Base. ”

Emperor Meiji excitedly shouted, "Good! Great...... cough cough cough ...... That's great! It seems that there is still hope for our Great Japanese Empire! ”

Although all the people of Japan are soldiers, and they have come up with an 8 million cold weapon army, but the Meiji Emperor still has no bottom in his heart, after all, he is facing the famous Dingbei Army, and the reputation of the people is fought one battle after another, can the Japanese Empire withstand this pass? Emperor Meiji couldn't help but think about this question every day, but the more he thought about it, the more depressed he became, and finally he became depressed.

Emperor Meiji said to Saionji Konozo and Katsura Taro, "Since we have won a great victory 30 kilometers east of the Sasebo Naval Base on the island of Kyushu, we will send more troops to this area and try to inflict another heavy blow on the Johoku Army in this area." ”

Katsura Taro nodded and said: "Our War Department has ordered other divisions and self-defense forces on Kyushu Island to move closer there and support this area, our War Department is ready to make a meat grinder here, and consume the strength of the Dingbei Army here, it is best to let the Dingbei Army retreat in the face of difficulties and give up continuing to attack our Japanese mainland, and then we can negotiate with Lin Daxin to end this war." ”

Emperor Meiji sighed and said, "I didn't expect it to be so difficult for our Great Japanese Empire to end the war, by the way, the Combined Fleet has been safely evacuated, right?" ”

Saionji Gongwang said: "Your Majesty the Emperor Xià rest assured, Togo-kun personally led the remaining warships out of the mainland, and should have been cruising somewhere in the Pacific Ocean by now. ”

Emperor Meiji said: "The remaining warships and naval officers and men are the hope of the future navy of our Great Japanese Empire, and there is no other possibility than to become a target for the Tohoku Navy in the homeland, and I hope that Togo can take the fleet and hide until the end of this war." ”

Saionji Gongwang hesitated for a moment and said, "Your Majesty the Emperor, in addition, the Dingbei Army has begun to land on Hokkaido Island. ”

Emperor Meiji sighed again and said, "We have no choice but to resign ourselves to fate on Hokkaido Island!" The most important thing for us now is to keep the islands of Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku. (To be continued......)

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