What's going on?

To put it simply, in the past few months, the Pacific Rim Federation has basically wiped out the Japanese navy!

In fact, this matter is not a difficult matter, because of some previous actions, Japan's resource channel has basically been blocked, and the country itself has no resources, of course, there are, in fact, Japan has gold and silver, the output is not bad, but iron ore is much worse.

Modern warfare is about steel, and gold and silver are of little value when you can't use them.

So, the Pacific Rim Federation, which had completed the blockade, sent its navy to look for fighters.

The Pacific Rim Empire underwent a naval reorganization and established the Pacific Fleet, with Samuel Murphy as the supreme commander of the Pacific Fleet. DuPont, and the commander in chief of the Marine Corps was Arthur. MacArthur!

Basically, as long as the navy encounters it, then the Japanese navy has no chance...... Originally, their warships were inferior, and now even steel is no longer enough, and the shells are bigger and fewer, so what chance is there?

This was originally a war with a huge difference in strength, but in Li Mengyang's eyes, there was no difference between this and the war between Japan and the United States that he knew.

It was the same during World War II, in fact, Japan didn't have any chance from the beginning, but they just did it, and they didn't know whether they were alive or dead, and now, they are the same.

Iwo Jima is one of Japan's last strategically important islands, so the last Japanese naval warships are concentrated in this place. But though. They don't ship supplies to the guys on the island. That's not their job, and those guys are still the Army.

However, the day before yesterday, the Japanese Navy concentrated its last forces and fought a decisive battle with the Pacific Fleet 20 nautical miles north of Iwo Jima.

It was really a terrible battle, with more than 100 ships participating in the battle, compared to more than 30 Japanese warships......

On September 20, 1881, in the ocean south of Tokyo, Japan, warships sailed here.

Today's weather is average. It's cloudy, and it's a little depressing.

And standing on the flagship of the Japanese Combined Fleet, Saigo Norimichi on the Yamato, his feelings were also very complicated.

"Your Excellency! Our army is in decline, so it is better to develop a mobile and flexible tactics and attack around the opponent's flank! A naval commander dressed in a military uniform came out to admonish.

"......" Saigo Congdao was completely indifferent.

At this time, Sheng Haizhou, who was on the side, was very clear in his heart......

What the fuck is flexible?

As far as our warships are concerned, they are all slower than the Pacific Fleet of the Pacific Rim Federation!

yes, it's slower than your opponent, and it's a nimble fart. But this actually came from the mouth of the Japanese Navy's Osa, this ......

Sheng Haizhou really felt deep despair at this time!

And he knows it. Although Saigo Congdao is a halfway monk in the navy, his current psychological pressure is definitely not small.

But...... Katsu Haizhou is still here, and he still appears on the battlefield of the last fight of the Japanese Navy!

"Report! Enemy ships spotted 5 nautical miles ahead! Feature, flying the Navy flag of the Pacific Rim! ”

The time of engagement is finally coming!

"Gentlemen!" Saigo stood up from the road, his eyes were firm now, everyone used to call him 'so general', because he always said, so it is, and now, he doesn't say anything anymore, only to see him pointing in the direction of the enemy ship!

"Attack!"

Just two words, there is no tactics and tactics at all, so this Xixiang Congdao...... Is it another old problem? Do you know everything?

The so-called so is, that is, he didn't know a lot about the navy before, Saigo Congdao was born in the army, but now, Saigo Congdao is the leader of the Satsuma Domain, and his brother Takamori is dead, so Saigo Congdao must be firm at this time and serve the emperor!

But this tactic ......

"......" Sheng Haizhou nodded, he felt that Saigo's approach to the Tao was correct!

Why?

It's very simple, because Sheng Haizhou knows very well that this battle has not been fought at all!

There are only 30 warships on his side, and only one of them, the current flagship Yamato, is an all-metal ironclad ship, and most of the other warships are iron-clad warships eliminated from Europe...... Because it's cheap!

Japan is still relatively poor, although it has obtained a lot of real money in the war with the Qing Dynasty before, but it is too late to have time!

This Yamato, in fact, was bought from the British, the British copycat the earlier American Empire warships, of course, built quite well, the Yamato is 200 meters long, the caliber of the main gun is 380 mm, twin engines, displacement of 30,000 tons, very powerful!

But only one......

It can't be helped, it's too expensive, it's really too expensive, the British's offer reached as much as 10 million yen!

What is the purchasing power of 10 million yen now?

For 5 cents, you can have a good sukiyabe meal in Tokyo...... The emperor only spends 300,000 yen a year.

This offer of the British is still the cheapest, no way, the British let the American Empire be ruined before, and this is also the point where the whole of Japan is almost bankrupt!

You have to buy it, you can't buy it, you can't make it yourself, and if you count the amount of steel, a series of experimental costs, and the acquisition of various technical parameters, this cost is estimated to be more than 10 million yen.

In fact, if there was a chance, I would have bought this Yamato, studied it carefully, and then copied the British, but ......

And now their opponent, the Pacific Expeditionary Fleet of the Pacific Rim Federation, which has a total of more than 100 warships, is now on the scene...... It's a bit too much to count for a while.

There are more than seventy ships, although not all of them are as huge as the Yamato, there are small ships, but they are like the Los Angeles among them. Panama. New York. The Baltimore, these are all super ships, comparable to the Yamato in size and displacement, and other people's warships still use the latest technology of the Pacific Rim!

I heard that the rate of fire of artillery is extremely fast, and Hai Shengzhou knows how many pieces there are.

Yes, Hai Shengzhou got all this information. But is this information useful?

Huh~ Therefore, now Saigo Congdao has let all his warships go to war, and it is also helpless to fight for themselves, whoever faces this situation, no one has a good way, it is better to give full play to the personal creativity of the junior officers, and let them figure out their own way.

So......

"Togo-kun!"

"Ito-kun!"

In the Japanese Combined Fleet on the sea, there are two ships that are very close to each other, and their commander, one is named Ito Yuhiro. One is called Heihachiro Togo!

Yes, this pair of brothers also appeared in this naval battle sequence at this time. And this pair of brothers is still a meritorious general!

The previous sneak attack on Pearl Harbor was done well, and the San Diego that sank people's houses is good!

Anyway, the whole of the Japanese Empire thought so, and the military also propagated it, and the emperor also approved of it.

No matter how strange it is, this happened like this, and now, this pair of brothers is now the same enemy!

"Let's break the jade for His Majesty the Emperor!"

"That's exactly how it should be!"

The pair of brothers nodded from afar, and then saw the two clippers in the Japanese Combined Fleet, the Awa and the Akamaru, suddenly speeding out of their own battle sequence!

"Oh?"

Samuel was on the other side. Admiral DuPont, he is on the USS New York, the flagship of the Pacific Rim Fleet, is the latest product of the Empire, although it still has 3 heavy oil internal combustion engines, but the power is already much more powerful, and the caliber of the triple main gun has reached 406 mm, and the fastest rate of fire can reach 50 seconds per shot!

This rate of fire is already very fast, 5 times faster than the previous San Francisco, oh yes, Samuel. DuPont's beloved ship was overhauled in the dockyard at this time.

And now, as the coach, DuPont sees that the opponent's warship sails out, and this is to come to meet his own side in a short fight.

"Order each ship to fight separately!"

Well, let's all mess around!

Originally, the New York was surrounded by many warships, and after the flag, the Pacific Fleet immediately dispersed!

"Fire!" However, DuPont's selfishness was also exposed, and when everyone dispersed, then he could fire unscrupulously!

I saw that on the cloudy sea, a huge ship, her long thick black cannon barrel, moved slowly, and then seemed to find the right direction, boom!

First, there was a flash of fire, and a huge fireball protruded from the barrels of the triple cannon, and then it instantly turned into a large mushroom cloud!

The scene was extremely shocking, and the ocean in front of the artillery was set off by large waves, which slowly turned into huge ripples in the form of radiation......

Followed by!

Thundered! Thundered!

On this piece of the ocean, dozens of warships opened fire one after another, which was deafening!

"Rush! For His Majesty the Emperor! ”

"His Majesty the Emperor is onboard!"

"Ahhh

At this time, the Japanese Combined Fleet was still in the process of rushing forward, and the Rapid Wave and the Akamaru, they rushed to the front, and they ......

Thundered! Bang!

The guns of warships are not particularly accurate, in the past, everyone used more guns to win, and the accuracy was not enough to make up the number, but now it depends on the rate of fire!

The Sho Lang was unlucky, and a 406-mm shell was fired head-on, and a huge hole was punched straight out.

"Ito-kun!" Heihachiro Togo burst into tears, he had just watched his comrades being swallowed by the explosion!

But!

"For His Majesty the Emperor!" Heihachiro Togo didn't flinch!

Thundered! Thundered!

The two sides are in a mess!

The naval battle of September 20, 1881, known as the Battle of Tokyo Bay, was actually quite far from Tokyo Bay, but as it is called, it would be too imposing if it was called Ryukyu.

And this naval battle, which began at 10 a.m. and ended at 12 noon.

Heihachiro Togo sank to the bottom of the sea with his Akamaru, and to his great surprise, Saigo surrendered!

The reason why Katsu Haizhou came was because he wanted to follow the Yamato to break the jade, which was really his idea, but when Saigo Congdao announced his surrender, he was really surprised.

And Saigo's reason is that the Yamato is the essence of the Great Japanese Empire, and it is called Yamato, which cannot be sunk!

Don't say it, what this old boy said is quite reasonable, Yamato Yamato, if this warship sinks, won't it be equivalent to the sinking of the Yamato clan?

This Shenghaizhou is angry......

The Pacific Rim Federation lost five warships, and at this point, the Japanese sea power was swept away!

In this way, the remaining target is the main island of Japan! (To be continued.) )

PS: Thank you, Brother Feng! Thank you for the Gospel! Thank you all for your support!

What, the punitive tax levied by the United States is actually not an egg, because the blow to us is very small, for example, our steel can't be sold, it doesn't matter, is it Japan's steel that will be sold, or even the steel of the treasure island?

Then our steel will occupy the Japanese market, or other markets, so this method is really useless.