After returning to Weihaiwei, Lin Daxin immediately arranged for the shipyard to repair the captured and wounded Italian warship!

Originally, all 8 docks of more than 5,000 tons at the shipyard were arranged to build a new type of fast-protection cruiser with a displacement of 4,500 tons, designed by Wei Han, the head of the shipyard.

Fortunately, Lin Daxin, who has great ambitions for the ocean, asked the shipyard to continue to expand the dock, and Lin Daxin asked the dock to be built bigger!

The captured and wounded Italian 5 ironclad battleships and 4 large fast cruisers this time, it just so happened that the shipyard had built 4 new 15,000-ton docks, and these 9 Italian warships could take turns to repair in the newly built docks!

Wei Han, the general person in charge of the shipyard, confirmed the injuries of each warship, and then found Lin Daxin in the office of the Sailor Academy and reported: "There is no damage to the keel structure of these 9 warships, and the injuries are basically the waterline armor that has been penetrated!" The damage to other parts is not a big problem, but it takes some time to repair the waterline armor! ”

Lin Daxin nodded and then asked, "Uncle Wei, how long will it take to repair these 9 warships?" ”

Wei Han calculated in his heart and then said, "Now I have already let 4 large armored cruisers enter the dock first!" But the skilled workers of our shipyards were concentrated on 8 newly built cruisers! The newly recruited workers are not skilled yet! Only a part of the skilled workers can be drawn out and the new workers can be used to repair these captured Italian warships! If these 4 large armored cruisers want to be repaired, it will also take at least a month! As for wanting to repair another 5 ironclad battleships, it will take at least 3 months! ”

Lin Daxin frowned when he heard this, the big war with Japan was about to begin, according to Wei Han, maybe 4 large armored cruisers could be repaired before the war, and 5 ironclad battleships could not be counted on!

But fortunately, the 4 large armored cruisers and the 4 armored cruisers of the second fleet of the Navy Academy are the same model, and the naval soldiers of their own Navy Academy are no strangers to this kind of warship, as long as the personnel are in place, they can immediately form combat effectiveness!

Lin Daxin said to Wei Hanjian: "If the construction of the 8 new fast protection cruisers under construction is stopped first, and all the skilled workers are pulled out to repair the captured warships, how much can the speed be increased?" ”

When Wei Han heard that Lin Daxin was going to stop building a new type of cruiser, he immediately said with a dissatisfied face: "It's not easy for us to build such an advanced warship, we must not stop!" And even if all the skilled workers are pulled out and the captured warships are repaired, it will not be faster than a few days! ”

Lin Daxin hurriedly said: "Okay, Uncle Wei! Just do it your way! Cruisers don't stop building! ”

Wei Han saw that Lin Daxin respected his opinion very much, so he left Lin Daxin's office satisfied.

And the more than 6,000 Italian naval prisoners captured this time were sent to the prisoner of war camp specially built for the Italians in the Naval Academy, which originally contained more than 2,000 Italian naval prisoners of war, who were the personnel of the Italian mercenary fleet!

It turned out that the temporary commander of the Italian mercenary fleet, Vice Admiral Ram, the captain of the ironclad battleship Italia, stood at the gate of the prisoner of war camp with a red face, saluted the commander of the Italian expeditionary fleet with a blue face, Robert, and said: "Welcome! Your Excellency! ”

This group of Italian prisoners of war in the mercenary fleet is doing very well here in Weihaiwei, Lin Daxin considers that although these Italian navies are not strong in will to fight, their professional skills are not bad, and they are also one of the world's naval powers.

Lin Daxin discussed with Ram, who was working as a coolie in the Sailor School, hoping that the Italian Navy prisoners of war could teach some professional naval skills to the naval personnel of the Sailor School, that is, to help Lin Daxin train the navy, and Lin Daxin could improve the living conditions of the Italian Navy prisoners of war and give them some expenses.

After a little consideration, Ram agreed to Lin Daxin's proposal, helping Lin Daxin train the navy is better than being a coolie! This group of Italian prisoners of war began to help the Navy in training, and Lin Daxin also kept his promise, not only giving the Italian prisoners of war food to the level of the cadets of the Naval Academy, but also giving a certain amount of remuneration according to the rank of the Italian prisoners of war.

After the naval battle in Haizhou Bay, the naval personnel on the three cruisers of Britain, France, and the United States, because of Lin Daxin's blockade of the naval battle situation, and even the request of the naval personnel of the three countries to visit the prisoners of war of the Italian Navy were strongly rejected by Lin Daxin, so that he did not get any specific information about the battle between the Italian expeditionary fleet and the naval fleet of the Naval Academy.

In the face of the increasingly powerful naval fleet of the Naval Master Academy, the naval personnel of the three countries did not dare to be as arrogant as they used to deal with the Qing Dynasty, so they had to spread the results of this naval battle to the outside world!

All the countries that got the news did not believe the result of this naval battle, a naval fleet that was considered very powerful in the West was defeated by a detachment of the Beiyang Naval Division of the Qing Dynasty, and what is even more unbelievable is that the Beiyang Naval Division detachment did not suffer any losses, but the powerful Italian fleet was completely annihilated, 16 warships, 5 sunk, 11 captured. What's going on? It's not scientific at all!

Although the navies of various countries could not believe such a result, the reality is the reality, and 11 warships of the Italian Navy have been returned to the naval fleet of the Naval Academy of the Beiyang Naval Division.

When the commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet, Ito Yuko, received the results of the naval battle, the whole person was stunned for at least five minutes before he reacted, and immediately carefully studied the results of the naval battle sent to him, and learned that the 11 warships, 5 ironclad battleships and 4 large fast armored cruisers captured by the Navy of the Navy Academy were seriously damaged, and it would take a long time to repair them, so he breathed a sigh of relief.

Immediately build a base camp with Japan, and the combined fleet must fight a decisive battle with the main force of the Beiyang naval division before the Beiyang naval division repairs the captured Italian wounded warships, otherwise the probability of the combined fleet's defeat will increase!

Emperor Meiji of Japan received a report from Ito Yuxiang and said to Japanese Prime Minister Ito Hirobumi beside him: "I didn't expect that the Beiyang Naval Division could capture 11 warships of the Italian Navy!" As Ito-kun said, if the Beiyang Naval Division repairs the wounded Italian warship! The strength of the Japanese Combined Fleet will be weaker than that of the Beiyang Naval Division! The chances of defeat will increase a lot! ”

Japanese Prime Minister Ito Hirobumi doesn't know how many times he secretly scolded the Italians in his heart, so many powerful warships were completely defeated by the Beiyang Naval Division, and he also let the Beiyang Naval Division capture a large number of warships, how much trouble it brought to the combined fleet of Great Japan!

Prime Minister Hirobumi Ito said to Emperor Meiji: "When we got the news that the Italian Expeditionary Fleet was going to fight the Beiyang Naval Division, our entire base camp was overjoyed, thinking that the Italians would be able to inflict heavy losses on the Beiyang Naval Division even if they did not destroy the Beiyang Naval Division!" Our combined fleet will be able to reap the benefits of the fisherman! I never expected that the Italians would be so vulnerable, and they were wiped out by the Beiyang Naval Division, not to mention that they had not brought any losses to the Beiyang Naval Division! ”

Emperor Meiji also sighed and said, "Yes! The result of such a naval battle is really unexpected! Ito-kun, do we know the details of the naval battle now? ”

Ito Hirofumi said more and more: "Lin Daxin of the Beiyang Naval Division has a very strict blockade of the news of the naval battle, and even the prisoners of war of the Italian Navy are not allowed to be contacted by outsiders!" Our intelligence services have not yet received the details of the naval battle! ”

Emperor Meiji sighed: "This Lin Daxin is really my confidant of Japan!" What happened to his assassination? ”

Ito Hirofumi said with a wry smile: "Since the assassination of Lin Daxin by our Qing Dynasty's intelligence department failed, not only has Lin Daxin's side strengthened his guards, but he has at least a few hundred guards everywhere, and the entire Weihaiwei is also heavily guarded!" Our intelligence department has not yet found an opportunity to assassinate Lin Daxin! ”

Emperor Meiji knew that it would be very difficult to assassinate a heavily armed Hayashi Daxin, and he did not have any dissatisfaction with the work of the intelligence services.

Emperor Meiji then asked, "Ito-kun, how is the weather in Liaodong?" ”

Ito replied: "The weather in Liaodong has warmed up, and the army in Liaodong has also sent a telegram requesting the continuation of the attack!" ”

Emperor Meiji suddenly stood up from his chair: "Order the army to launch an attack on Shengjing and Lushun in the Qing Dynasty!" Order the combined fleet to cruise in the Korean Strait, ensure the smooth sea routes, and wait for the opportunity to fight a decisive battle with the Beiyang Naval Division! ”

With the order of Emperor Meiji, the whole of Japan began to turn, and the battlefield of Liaodong, which was suspended because of the heavy snow in Liaodong, rose again!