In the Korean Strait between Japan and North Korea, the large armored cruisers of the Second Fleet of the Naval Academy, the Third General and the Fourth General with a displacement of more than 7,000 tons, sailed in the Korean Strait at this time.

It turned out that Ding Ruchang, the commander of the Beiyang Naval Division, received information that the Japanese army had captured nearly 15,000 Qing prisoners of war after several battles with the Qing army, and most of these Qing prisoners of war were the elite of the Huai army in Beiyang.

Originally, the Japanese imprisoned this huge group of Qing troops in a prisoner camp in Pyongyang, North Korea, but now Ding Ruchang received information that the Japanese were preparing to transport the Qing prisoners of war back to Japan in batches, so Ding Ruchang ordered Lin Daxin to send warships to search the Korean Strait to see if they could find the Japanese ships transporting prisoners of war and try to save those elite Huai troops.

After all, Lin Daxin immediately dispatched four large armored cruisers of the Second Fleet, divided into two teams, the Great General and the Second General, and the Third General and the Fourth General, to search for the Japanese transport ships escorting the Huai Army prisoners in the Korean Strait.

At this time, it was already past 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and the large armored cruisers General 3 and 4, which had been searching for 2 days, found nothing.

In the bridge of the Three Generals, Ju Peng, the commander of the newly established Marine Corps of the Navy and the first phase of the teaching team, said to the captain of the Three Generals, Liu Zhuo, who is also the first phase of the teaching team: "Old Liu, there is no way to go on like this!" This time, I brought two battalions of the Marine Corps out with you, one battalion for each of the two warships, originally to wait for you to intercept the Japanese transports, and we will control the Japanese transports! Now I can't even see the Japanese transport ships, so I think about whether to let our marines go to the port of Busan in North Korea to reconnoitre, and if the Japanese want to transport prisoners of war, they should load prisoners of war in the port of Busan! Let's go and see if there are any prisoners of war from the Huai Army in the port of Busan! ”

Liu Zhuo, the captain of the armored cruiser Three Generals, thought for a while, and also thought that what Ju Peng said was reasonable, and it was not a way to go around like this, so he nodded and agreed to Ju Peng's construction, and contacted Huang Kai, the captain of the Four Generals, who was also the first phase of the teaching team, and the two warships sailed in the direction of the port of Busan, North Korea.

In the middle of the night, Ju Peng of the Marine Corps, with a platoon of Marine Corps cadets, rowed a lifeboat, and quietly went ashore from a remote place not far from the port of Busan.

Hiding the lifeboat in the grass on the shore, Ju Peng led a platoon of Marine cadets to the port of Busan.

When Ju Peng led people to the edge of the port of Busan, he was stunned to see the two giant ships parked in the port!

These two giant ships are almost the same size as the Italian ironclad battleships captured by the Navy of the Naval Academy, Ju Peng looked at the large-caliber cannons and thick armor on the two warships, Ju Peng judged that these two warships were not inferior to the Italian ironclad battleships.

It turned out that these two warships were the 12,880-ton ironclad battleship Nile and its sister ship, the 12,791-ton ironclad battleship Trafalgar, among the British ships that Japan had just bought.

The ironclad battleship Nile, with a displacement of 12,880 tons, was renamed Soryu by the Japanese Combined Fleet. The ironclad battleship Trafalgar, with a displacement of 12,791 tons, was renamed Tenryu by the Japanese Combined Fleet.

Other British ships purchased were also re-given Japanese names.

The ironclad battleship Steadfast, with a displacement of 12,070 tons, was renamed the Daiho by the Japanese Combined Fleet.

The ironclad battleship Nelson, with a displacement of 12,200 tons, was renamed the Mizuho by the Japanese Combined Fleet.

The ironclad battleship Honho, with a displacement of 10,770 tons, was renamed Zuizuru by the Japanese Combined Fleet.

The ironclad battleship Rodney, with a displacement of 11,200 tons, was renamed the Fengxiang by the Japanese Combined Fleet.

The armored cruiser Nongxiang with a displacement of 5670 tons was renamed Mogami by the Japanese Combined Fleet.

The armored cruiser USS Nelson, with a displacement of 7473 tons, was renamed Mikuma by the Japanese Combined Fleet.

The armored cruiser USS Northampton, with a displacement of 7630 tons, was renamed the Kumano by the Japanese Combined Fleet.

The six Campalius-class ironclad ships with a displacement of 9,700 tons were named the Wave Wind, the Sea Breeze, the Island Wind, the Tide Wind, the Matsukaze, and the Feather Wind.

The six invincible-class ironclad ships with a displacement of 6,100 tons were named Chunfeng, Qiufeng, Chaofeng, Xifeng, Chufeng, and Xuefeng.

Ju Peng looked at the 2 giant ships, and the shock in his heart was uncontrollable, when did the Japanese have such 2 more giant ships, could it be that the Italians leased the Japanese 2 ironclad battleships!

At this time, Ju Peng found that not far from him, two Japanese sentries patrolled slowly with rifles on their backs, Ju Peng made a live gesture to the Marine soldiers behind him, and immediately 4 Marine soldiers touched it silently, and quickly captured the 2 Japanese sentries! The 2 sentries didn't even make a sound before they were gagged!

After Ju Peng and the Marines quietly withdrew some distance from the port of Busan, Ju Peng, who knew Japanese, personally began to interrogate the two prisoners.

The two Japanese sentries were tough at first.

After Ju Peng broke two fingers of one captive, not only did the Japanese soldier who had his finger break begin to answer Ju Peng's question honestly, but the Japanese soldier prisoner also confessed to leniency!

Both sentries belonged to the Japanese Navy's guard unit guarding the North Korean port of Busan, and Ju Peng heard a startling news from them.

Japan has just purchased 2 warships from the British Navy, including 2 giant ships in the port of Busan! Including 6 ironclad battleships, 12 old ironclad ships, 3 old armored cruisers.

The 2 ironclad battleships in the port of Busan are there to protect the transport ships that came to the port of Busan! The transport ship was carrying the 12th Division, a newly formed Japanese army division in Japan that had fallen into Korea and Liaodong. Moreover, the two prisoners also confessed that a few days ago, there was already an 11th Division of the Japanese Army that landed at the port of Busan and headed for Liaodong!

Ju Peng also got an important piece of news from the mouths of the two prisoners, tonight is the 50th birthday of Kameda Nagakai, the captain of the ironclad battleship Soryu, and Kameda Nagakai will have a banquet tonight in Busan Castle for most of the naval officers of the Soryu and the Tenryu, as well as the officers of the Busan Port Garrison.

And most of the naval soldiers on the Canglong and Tianlong also went to Busan City to eat and drink to find the North Korean girl, and now there are not many people on the 2 ironclad battleships!

When Ju Peng heard this, his eyes rolled, and he immediately thought of an idea, turned his head to look at the two Japanese prisoners, and was ruthless, and made a gesture to wipe the necks of the soldiers of the landing team, and the two soldiers of the Marine Corps cut the necks of the two Japanese prisoners with daggers.

Ju Peng sent several soldiers of the Marine Corps, rowed lifeboats, and returned to the 2 armored cruisers with Ju Peng's order.

In the bridge of the Three Generals, Captain Liu Zhuo looked at the note written by Ju Peng brought by the Marine Corps, his eyes burst into a terrifying brilliance, and he immediately ordered: "Hurry! Send a telegram to the Four Generals and ask them to transfer as many soldiers as possible from the power cabin of the warship to land in a lifeboat with the Marines! Our ship also sent soldiers from the power cabin of the warship to go ashore with the Marines! Under the condition of ensuring that our three generals can be started, the soldiers in the power cabin can be mobilized as much as they can! ”

With Liu Zhuo's order, the lifeboats of the Third General and the Fourth General were unloaded from the warship to the sea, and the 1 battalion of marines and 120 soldiers from the power cabin of the 2 warships rowed the lifeboats to the coast in a remote place not far from the port of Busan, and joined the people led by Ju Peng.

In a North Korean restaurant in Busan, in the lobby of the restaurant, dozens of officers of the Japanese Navy have already drunk and staggered, and in the only private room in the restaurant, three Japanese Navy officers are still pushing and changing glasses.

Kameda Nagami, who celebrated his birthday today, raised his glass and said, "Thank you Tanaka-kun and Yamaguchi-kun for their appreciation, Kameda will toast you two more!" I wish His Majesty the Emperor good health! May the Great Japan Combined Fleet dominate Asia! ”

Hideki Tanaka, the captain of the ironclad battleship Tenryu, and Hiroshi Yamaguchi, commander of the naval garrison at the port of Busan, also raised their glasses and shouted, "I wish His Majesty the Emperor good health!" May the Great Japan Combined Fleet dominate Asia! ”