On July 24, 1895, the third day after Lin Daxin's wedding, six ironclad battleships of the Second Fleet of the Navy in the Naval Academy of Weihai Weijun Harbor began to ignite and pressurize the boilers, preparing to sail to Tokyo Bay in Japan.

In the bridge of the Tianxiong, the flagship of the Second Fleet, Wu Wei, the captain of the Tianxiong, said to Jiang Chen, the new commander of the Second Fleet: "Commander, all ships are ready and ready at any time. ”

Jiang Chen asked, "What about the transport ship that escorted the Japanese prisoners of war?" Ready to get started? These Japanese prisoners of war are the key to our trip to Tokyo Bay to seek justice for the Japanese for the principal! If the Japanese are not willing to redeem these prisoners of war with gold, they will throw them all into the sea and feed them to the king! ”

During the war between the Qing Dynasty and Japan, the Dingbei Army and the Navy of the Navy Academy captured more than 1,200 prisoners of war of the Japanese Combined Fleet Navy and more than 6,500 prisoners of war of the Japanese Army. This does not include the Japanese soldiers, who were wounded and died after being captured. The Japanese have been contacting Lin Daxin recently, hoping that Lin Daxin will do his best to release the captured Japanese sea and land personnel back to China.

However, Lin Daxin used the massacred prisoners of war and civilians of the Japanese Northern Route Army in Shengjing City as the reason, and asked Japan to compensate the innocent and tragic deaths of prisoners of war and civilians, and pretended not to know that the commander of the Northern Route Army, Yama Prefecture Aritomo, and the commander of the Seventh Division, Inoue Maezen, had been bombed into the bottom of the sea by the Second Fleet.

Pretending that he had nothing to do with him, he continued to ask Japan to hand over the mastermind of the massacre, Aritomo Yamayama, the commander of the 1st Division, Genji Yamachi, the commander of the 7th Division, the commander of the 7th Division, Koko Suzuki, and the commander of the 11th Division, Watanabe Yokoki, and handed over the five masterminds of the Shengjing Massacre to the Dingbei Army for trial. Lin Daxin will release the Japanese naval and army prisoners of war in the prisoner-of-war camp.

This made the Japanese very angry, and the Japanese were almost certain that there were 7,000 Japanese troops in Yamaguchi and the 7,000 Japanese troops of the 7th Division. The British transport ship on which he was riding was the black hand of the fleet under Lin Daxin.

You Lin Daxin even pretended to be a person who had nothing to do, and asked Japan to hand over the commander of the Northern Route Army, Yama Prefecture Aritomo, who was killed by you, and Inoue Inoue, the commander of the Seventh Division, who was killed by you, it is really shameless!

Are you Lin Daxin shameless and can you compare to us Japanese? As a result, the Japanese did not recognize the Northern Route Army at all, and once massacred 12,000 prisoners of war and more than 60,000 civilians in Shengjing City.

The Japanese denied the massacre in every possible way, and the Japanese said that there were no prisoners of war at all, and the Qing army had been resisting in Shengjing until the end. Lin Daxin's so-called 12,000 Qing prisoners of war were all killed by the Japanese army in the battle of Shengjing. As for the more than 60,000 residents of Shengjing, some of them took up arms to resist the Japanese and were killed, and the rest were accidentally injured in street battles.

Grandma's. A mountain is higher than a mountain, and in the face of the shameless supreme realm of the Japanese, Lin Daxin can only be defeated.

Lin Daxin was furious by the rogue behavior of the Japanese and sued the Japanese. All right. Let's not talk about the matter of Shengjing, now as long as you Japanese settle the food expenses of your prisoners of war in the prisoner of war camp, Lin Daxin will immediately release nearly 8,000 Japanese prisoners of war.

The Japanese immediately nodded and agreed to settle the food expenses for the prisoners of war, and asked how much it was with great joy, and then Lin Daxin told the Japanese that the food expenses were 20 tons of gold, and the Japanese were directly speechless, feeling their shamelessness. There is a tendency to be caught up and surpassed by Lin Daxin.

In this way, 8,000 Japanese naval and army prisoners of war have been staying in Lin Daxin's prisoner of war camp. Doing some physical labor.

Nine times out of ten, the Japanese did the digging of tunnels to bomb the Lin Mansion, and the angry Lin Daxin ordered Jiang Chen to go to Tokyo this time, bring all the Japanese prisoners of war, and if the Japanese did not pay 20 tons of gold for these prisoners of war, they would throw all 8,000 Japanese prisoners of war into the sea.

Wu Wei, the captain of the Tianxiong, said: "Commander, the soldiers of the Marine Corps have escorted nearly 8,000 Japanese prisoners of war onto eight transport ships, ready to follow our Second Fleet at any time. ”

Jiang Chen nodded and said, "That's good!" The Second Fleet and 8 transport ships were ordered to set off at once, and we headed straight for Tokyo Bay in Japan! ”

It took two days for six ironclad battleships and eight transports carrying Japanese prisoners of war of the entire Second Fleet to enter Tokyo Bay and approach Tokyo, the capital of Japan.

As early as when the Second Fleet did not enter Tokyo Bay, the Japanese base camp obtained from the fishermen of Japanese fishing boats that Lin Daxin's 6 ironclad battleships and 8 transport ships were approaching Tokyo Bay, and it was very likely that they would enter Tokyo Bay and come to the capital city of Tokyo.

The entire Japanese base camp was suddenly frightened by the Second Fleet, and Emperor Meiji said to Japanese Prime Minister Ito Hirobumi with anger and fear: "Ito-kun, what are Lin Daxin's warships doing here?" Does he still want to destroy half of our Tokyo? ”

Ito Hirobumi frowned and said: "Your Majesty the Emperor, it is very likely that Lin Daxin sent a warship over this time for our intelligence department, and it is related to blowing up Lin Daxin's mansion in the Weihai Acropolis!" ”

Emperor Meiji said with annoyance: "Foreign Minister Mutsu Aokun mentioned this matter to me, the luck of the imperial intelligence department is not very good, otherwise Lin Daxin, the henchman of Japan, can be eliminated!" Fortunately, there was no conclusive evidence left, if Lin Daxin had let his warship come to Hu, those Westerners would not have agreed! ”

Ito Hirobumi nodded and said, "The minister will immediately send personnel to find out what is the purpose of Lin Daxin's warship?" ”

Shortly after the Second Fleet led eight transport ships into Tokyo Bay, passing through the port of Yokosuka, a small steamboat sailed out of the port of Yokosuka and approached the Second Fleet and the eight transport ships under a white flag.

Soon after, two Japanese delegates from the small steamboat boarded the flagship Tenkusa, and Jiang Chen received the two Japanese delegates in a cabin used for a meeting of officers on the Tenu.

A Japanese delegate in his 40s saluted Jiang Chen's waist 90 degrees and said in fluent Chinese: "Contemptible Watanabe Ichiro, please take care of me!" ”

Another younger Japanese delegate also saluted and said in Chinese: "I am Fumikawa Suehiro, Watanabe-kun's assistant, please take care of me!" ”

Jiang Chen nodded casually: "I am Jiang Chen, the commander of the Second Fleet of the Sailor Academy!" ”

Watanabe Ichiro asked, "I don't know why Jiang Sang entered our Tokyo Bay with 6 powerful ironclad battleships?" You must know that we in Japan have ended the state of war with you Qing Dynasty, if you want to invade our Great Japanese Empire. Other Western civilizations will not agree! ”

Jiang Chen sneered: "It's still a Western civilized country, I really haven't seen any civilization among them Westerners!" But don't worry, this time I am on the orders of the governors of our four northeastern provinces. Return your 8,000 prisoners of war from the Japanese Navy and Army! ”

The younger Suehiro Wenchuan next to him shouted in surprise: "What! You will even release our captured naval officers! ”

Ichiro Watanabe, who was relatively calm, knew that things were not so simple, and immediately asked, "Then what conditions do you have?" ”

Jiang Chen said: "The conditions are that our principal has long said that you must immediately hand over 20 tons of gold to us as food expenses for your 8,000 Japanese prisoners of war during their captivity!" ”

Suehiro Wenchuan's original surprise came to naught, and he suddenly said with some anger: "This is impossible!" Even if our captured soldiers eat delicacies from the mountains and seas every day, they don't need 20 tons of gold! ”

Ichiro Watanabe also said: "Jiang San." It is impossible for us in the Great Japanese Empire to agree to such unreasonable blackmail by your Governor Hayashi! ”

Jiang Chen said indifferently: "Okay then! Since you don't want these Japanese prisoners of war, we will throw them all into the sea outside the city of Tokyo, and feed you Japanese kings in the sea! ”

When Watanabe Ichiro heard this, he was immediately furious. Shouted: "No! Jiang Sang, you can't do this! You're slaughtering! ”

Jiang Chen sneered and said, "Massacre? You Japan are in Shengjing City, that's what it's called a massacre! You prisoners of war will just accidentally fall into the water and die! Remember, it was an accident, I learned it from you Japanese! Jiang Chen was a counterattack to the Japanese for not recognizing the Shengjing massacre, and the massacre was called a mistakenly wounded.

Then Jiang Chen also said: "In the Weihai Acropolis, someone dared to dig a tunnel to blow up our principal's mansion. I want to blow up our headmaster! Although there is no direct evidence that you did it. However, we Navy Master Guò analyzed all kinds of signs and believed that you Japanese were the most suspicious, so you must be responsible for what you have done, and compensate our principal for 10 tons of gold! If you don't pay this fee, be careful that I bomb Tokyo by mistake! ”

Ichiro Watanabe and Fumikawa Suehiro shouted almost at the same time: "Blackmail! You are blackmail! ”

Watanabe Ichiro said to Jiang Chen sternly: "Jiang San, what evidence do you have to prove that it is our Great Japan that wants to blow up Governor Lin?" ”

Suehiro Fumikawa also said angrily: "At least you have to come up with solid evidence, and you can't slander our Great Japanese Empire!" ”

Jiang Chen chuckled: "Listening to the Chinese words of your two Japanese representatives are so good, you must have some understanding of Chinese culture." You want proof. Don't you know that there is a kind of evidence called false evidence? ”

Ichiro Watanabe and Fumikawa Suehiro glanced at each other, and they both saw helplessness in each other's eyes. Without the combined fleet, Japan can only be a man-made sword and a fish and meat in the face of the powerful naval fleet of the Naval Academy.

The base camp in Tokyo soon received news from the port of Yokosuka, and the entire base camp was immediately indignant, but in the face of six ironclad battleships with a displacement of more than 10,000 tons, Japan, which had almost no navy, had no way to counteract.

Emperor Meiji turned to Prime Minister Hirobumi Ito and Foreign Minister Mutsu Munemitsu with a gloomy face and asked, "What should we do now?" Lin Daxin's fleet is heading towards Tokyo, should they let them destroy the remaining half of Tokyo as well? ”

Prime Minister Ito Hirobumi said with a wry smile: "Although I know that Lin Daxin is blackmailing, I think it is better to give 30 tons of gold to Lin Daxin!" Otherwise, not only would nearly 8,000 experienced officers and men of the navy and land forces be buried at the bottom of the sea, but the naval fleet under Lin Daxin's command would probably shell Tokyo again, and the loss of property by our great Japanese empire might far exceed 30 tons of gold. ”

Foreign Minister Mutsu Munemitsu also nodded in agreement with Ito Hirobumi's proposal, "Your Majesty the Emperor, there is a saying in China, endure the calm for a while, take a step back and open the sky, our Great Japanese Empire can only endure the humiliation of the crotch now and wait for the completion of the joint fleet reconstruction plan, so that we can settle the new accounts and old accounts with that Lin Daxin!" ”

Emperor Meiji said helplessly: "Okay! Now there is only one way to avoid disaster, but our combined fleet reconstruction plan must begin immediately! But the Yokosuka Shipyard and Kure Port Shipyard are the key to the reconstruction of our combined fleet, what if Lin Daxin still sends warships to the two shipyards to make trouble? ”

Ito Hirobumi said: "This time Lin Daxin sent a warship over, a big reason is because of the assassination operation carried out by the imperial intelligence department against him, I will order the imperial intelligence personnel in the Qing Dynasty to suspend the assassination of Lin Daxin, so that Lin Daxin can no longer find a reason to come to the empire to find trouble!" At the same time, the defense of the Yokosuka Military Port and the Kure Port Military Port was strengthened, and a batch of new large-caliber coastal defense guns was purchased from Western countries to protect 2 shipyards! ”

Emperor Meiji finally nodded and agreed to use 30 tons of gold to buy a temporary peace from Lin Daxin, but this hatred, Emperor Meiji has been deeply remembered, Lin Daxin has one more crime against Japan, and when the Japanese Combined Fleet and the Japanese Army are strong again, Emperor Meiji will settle accounts with Lin Daxin. (To be continued......)