Huaguo, Presidential Palace.

Xiao Zhenlei and others waited in the strategic operations command hall from the morning until 4 p.m. for news from all quarters, especially from the initial bombing by the air force and naval aviation to the reception work after the naval fleet forced the Japanese fleet to surrender.

Just as Xiao Zhenlei and the others were anxiously waiting for the results of the naval fleet, Sa Zhenbing rushed over with a telegram, his face seemed to be twenty years younger, glorious and energetic, "President, everyone, good news, great news, the chief of staff of the Japanese Combined Fleet, Yamanaka Shibayoshi, led all the naval officers and ships to surrender to our naval fleet, just now Cheng Biguang and others have completed the surrender ceremony on the Yingzheng, this is a telegram sent by Cheng Biguang!" ”

"Good, good, good!" Xiao Zhenlei's body shook when he heard this, and he was so excited that he couldn't help but say three good words in a row, and the other generals were also inexplicably excited when they heard it, full of tears.

"Since 1840, when the British knocked on the door of our country with warships and cannons, in the past 80 years, we have experienced two opium wars, and the great powers have successively driven warships into our waters, showing off their might on our land, foreigners riding on our heads to and pee, we are slightly dissatisfied and use knives and guns to move warships, forcing us to agree to a series of rude demands, they use force to force us to sign countless unequal terms, and since then land reparations have become commonplace, and even more, The joint attack of the Eight-Nation Coalition on our country, and the fact that Japan and Russia have waged a war on our soil and caused painful losses to our people is a great shame for us. We will not stop there, we will continue to fight Japan, completely annihilate the Japanese navy, and not leave them a single battleship, not even a fishing boat! ”

Everyone nodded one after another, as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.

After everyone's feelings calmed down, Sa Zhenbing said: "President, Cheng Biguang asked in the telegram for instructions on the next step, is it the fleet to escort the prisoners and those captured ships back to China, or to use a small number of ships to escort the prisoners and captured ships back to China, and the main fleet still continues to attack the Japanese coast, look for the ships of the Japanese coastal defense fleet, and destroy them?" ”

Xiao Zhenlei heard this: "Of course, they will continue to fight, with their current endurance and supply capacity, it should be no problem to circle around Japan, and now they have two things to do: first, they have several large shipyards, all of which are in port cities, and there are many ships under construction in these shipyards, and several of them are about to be completed, such as the Yamashiro and Fuso, two battleships built by Japan itself, which are about to be completed, and are now being installed and installed in the shipyard. What our fleet has to do now is to fill the harbor with torpedoes, not to let these Japanese battleships that are about to be completed go to sea, and when our troops have landed in Japan, we will be able to receive new ships without spending a penny; Second, bomb the major port cities along the coast of Japan, such as Tokyo, Yokohama, Sasebo, Kure Port, Osaka, and so on, and destroy their coastal defense system. The Air Force should not be idle on this point, and the Air Force should be affirmed and put on a show for its great achievements today, but it must not be complacent, and the Air Force should also draw up a plan for bombing Japan's important cities, military installations, and transportation facilities, submit them as much as possible, and implement them as soon as they are approved! ”

Sa Zhenbing and Ma Hanlong stood up and saluted: "Yes! ”

Xiao Zhenlei looked at the big clock on the wall again and said, "It's too late today, and tomorrow morning we will hold a press conference to announce the news of the navy's victory!" ”

"Good!"

Not long after the people dispersed, the Japanese side learned the news that the naval fleet had been defeated and that most of the warships and all the officers and men had surrendered, and everyone in the Japanese cabinet was stunned. But they didn't know that the strength of China's air force had far surpassed that of all countries in the world.

The Japanese cabinet was shocked, followed by a furious outrage, which on the one hand reported to Emperor Taisho, and on the other hand, prepared to announce the declaration of war against China, and at the same time withdrew the envoy and embassy in China.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, Emperor Taisho announced a declaration of war on China, but the Japanese side has not yet disclosed the fact that the main force of the Japanese Combined Fleet has been completely wiped out, and most of the ships and naval officers and men have been captured. The Japanese cabinet is nothing but self-deception.

At eight o'clock in the evening, the British authorities announced that they had declared war on Japan, and the French government in exile in London was not far behind, and Britain also declared war on Japan an hour later.

Shortly after France declared war on Japan, it was broad daylight in Europe, and Belgium, Greece, Canada, Australia, and other good regions declared war on Japan one after another, and Japan did not stop declaring war on all the countries that had declared war on it, and the number of declarations of war in one day was the largest since the beginning of the war.

On the morning of the next day on 7 August, the Chinese Ministry of National Defense held a press conference, at which the spokesman announced to the reporters of various divisions stationed in Beijing that the main force of the Japanese Navy's combined fleet was defeated by China's naval fleet in the waters of Tosa Bay yesterday, and that most of the ships and Japanese naval officers and men were captured, and that the Japanese Navy's combined fleet was basically completely annihilated, and that four Japanese army divisions were captured at the same time, namely the seventh, eighth, tenth, and eleventh divisions, with a total of 60,000 prisoners, and that the Japanese suffered 20,000 casualties in the naval battle, and the corpses floated on the entire sea. The entire sea is stained red.

However, after this earth-shattering news was announced by the spokesman, it immediately caused an uproar at the press conference, and the reporters couldn't believe that the news was true. And what is the strength of the Chinese naval fleet? Not to mention the experience of naval warfare and naval heritage, and only the overall tonnage of naval warships, the Chinese naval fleet is far inferior to the Japanese naval fleet, and the Chinese naval fleet defeated the main force of the Japanese combined fleet? Most of the ships and the Japanese naval officers and sailors on board were also captured, should you lie so much to deceive the reporters and deceive the people?

On the spot, a Japanese reporter sneered, thinking that the Chinese authorities were delusional, and they actually let people announce such impossible news?

A Japanese reporter raised his hand and said, "Mr. Spokesman, I'm Kimura Itabata, a reporter for the Asahi Shimbun, don't you think you're insulting the wisdom of all the reporters present by announcing such news?" Are you trying to fool the people of the world? As long as people with normal minds know that with the current strength of the Chinese naval fleet, there is no possibility of defeating the main fleet of the Japanese Combined Fleet, and you also said that you have captured most of the ships and officers and men of the Combined Fleet, can you not put gold on your face like this, you must know that lies are always to be exposed, and when the day the lies are exposed, where will you and the government you represent put their faces? ”

Most of the reporters at the press conference burst into laughter when they heard this, and the venue was in an uproar.

The press spokesman shouted: "Silence, silence! What I'm trying to say is that the facts are the facts, and if I had paranoia, I thought that after I announced the news, my colleagues would have come out to stop me and announce that it was not true, but unfortunately they didn't! If it makes sense that I am alone with paranoia, with your intelligence, do you think that my colleagues are paranoia? Are all the bigwigs of our authorities suffering from paranoia? They didn't come out to stop me, they didn't announce that I had paranoia, what does that mean? It means that the news is true, it has happened, it is not that you have a low IQ, nor that I have paranoia, because there are miracles in this world! ”

After listening to the words of the person who discovered the news, the reporters present calmed down and fell into a noisy situation of discussion again, after all, his words were still very reasonable, and they all only subjectively believed that the Chinese fleet could not defeat the Japanese fleet, but who could guarantee that this kind of thing would not really happen? After all, in ancient and modern times, there are countless examples of winning more with less, and defeating the strong with the weak.

At this time, the spokesman threw out another shocking news: "Now that our fleet is on its way home, our government has decided to bring all the captured Japanese ships and Japanese naval officers and men to Shanghai, so that the people at home and the whole world can see it to confirm the authenticity of this news. ”

After the press conference, reporters from various countries went back to write articles one after another, and immediately sent them back to China in the form of telegrams to inform them of the news.

The news quickly spread in various countries, the news caused a great shock in all countries in the world, but almost all countries have not had time to confirm the authenticity of the news, which was unilaterally announced by the Chinese government, but the possibility of rumors is extremely low, after all, it is impossible for a government to make this kind of joke, in fact, all governments have already believed, so that this makes governments all over the world shocked, are wondering, when did the Chinese fleet become so powerful, It is incredible that the Japanese fleet can be defeated in complete disregard of the absolute disparity in strength! R1152