The Japanese sent four cruisers to the battle, and Zhao Yun's side, under the guidance of Timur, sent two Nassau-class and the Haiqi, as well as five wooden sail cruisers to participate in the battle, leaving behind the submarine carrier and a number of wooden sail cruisers and gunboats.

"Even if we don't have enough speed, we can win by watching them attack, we are a herd and we have a numerical advantage." Zhao Yun sneered, "They are like wolves, they must pick the weakest attack, the target is likely to be the Haiqi, but the abacus is a little wrong, we dare to come, the target will not simply be to contact, try the level of the Japanese, today I will leave them all here." After a pause, "Let the submarine tighten the net for me, but don't let them run away." ”

The Japanese Navy was trained in Europe, and Japan relied on the European Industrial Revolution to open the door to modern warfare, but the Japanese fought with the Manchurians for a long time. At the beginning, the Manchurian knights, who were particular about strong armor and heavy armor, found themselves wearing papier-mâché armor in front of the firearms, and instead of pondering how to use this advanced weapon, they simply ordered it to be shelved. He insisted on using the bow and arrow, a traditional weapon, until he was attacked by European bandits with strong ships and guns, and he suddenly realized that the Japanese were also opened to the country by the Americans, and only then did they develop in later generations. It can be seen that the brains of the Japanese are also anxious, and the Japanese who learned from the European war think that naval warfare should be warship against warship, artillery against artillery.

Submarines are like assassins in naval warfare, and if possible, the Japanese Navy would certainly not think of using this thing first.

The problem is that the commander of the Huaxia Navy is Zhao Yun, and Zhao Yun from later generations heard the most about the submarine tactics of the Germans in World War I and World War, so he will not abide by this ban.

So when Hisakamoto saw the three Huaxia warships appear in the field of vision, the submarine carriers in the fleet had already sent out all the twelve submarines they were dragging.

The submarine aircraft carrier can be said to be the most distinctive warship in Zhao Yun's fleet, with a maximum sustained speed of 18 knots, but the economy of fuel consumption has increased a lot, and the cruising speed is 15 knots. The appearance is similar to the Atlantic Transport in the Falklands War, when the British Royal Navy requisitioned merchant ships and converted them to carry helicopters as amphibious assault helicopter carriers. Due to the large number of civil regulations, except for the bow, stern and low deck parts of the ship, the design of the longitudinal lattice frame of the rest of the hull is in accordance with the Russian merchant ship code; The hull is made of a large number of commercial steel plates, which have good low-temperature ductility and low construction costs. The above parts of the water are mostly flat shaped, which can speed up the construction and assembly progress.

In order to accommodate the troops, the interior space of the submarine aircraft carrier is designed as living quarters for the crew and troops, accommodating a total of 255 crew members, 206 submarine personnel and 480 marines, which can be increased to 800 if necessary. In addition to the personnel, there is no dock in the submarine aircraft carrier, but it is still equipped with 40 light assault boats with large openings on the starboard and starboard sides, which are retracted by cranes on both sides of the ship for the use of the landing force. A large crane is installed in the bow of the ship, which can lift materials and equipment into the cabin during transfer operations.

Different from ordinary transport ships, in order to ensure the supply of submarines, the internal space of submarine aircraft carriers carries various supplies, and if necessary, they can also be used as supply ships to support the supply ships in the formation.

Of course, these auxiliary ships, which were used as supply ships, fell behind the formation, and the Japanese did not pay attention to them, but as everyone knows, a large net woven by submarines has long been opened. The Japanese Navy still has contempt for the Chinese Navy.

This time, in the face of the Huaxia troops to recover Qingdao and Luda, the Japanese were already a little nervous about the sudden "rise of the Chinese army" on the one hand. On the other hand, I have to admit that Huaxia chose a good time. After World War I, Japan's actions in the Far East have been indecisive, and it has been mired in the quagmire of war between Belarus and Soviet Russia for many years, and it is difficult to extricate itself, including the greed of the Japanese, the power of Britain and the United States that do not want White Russia to regain the East Asian region, and the driving force behind the hope that the war will completely pull the Japanese economy into the abyss.

After the loss of Qingdao and the defeat of the brigade, even the most optimistic Japanese high-level before the war had to acquiesce in the competition with the army, and in the face of the massive number of China, Japan, which had not drawn its hand from the Far East for the time being, was not at all the opponent of the million-strong army of China. And if you want to pull out of the Far East, you have to give up the qiē you got before, for the stingy Japanese, they want to have both fish and bear's paws, and they refuse to give up any piece.

Originally, the Japanese still pinned their hopes on the internal fighting in China, but Huaxia seemed to be divided into two factions, the north and the south, but the direct Beiyang Army in the north alone had already made the Japanese tired to deal with, if the war situation was unfavorable, even Wu Peifu in the south was involved, which made the Japanese scalp numb, so in the later stage of the Qingdao campaign, the Japanese no longer ordered the troops to resist with their lives, and abandoned the city, in order not to pull Wu Peifu into the war at this juncture, causing the entire anti-Japanese situation in China.

However, as Wang Huaiqing's victory at the University of Tourism slowly spread, it not only made the pride of the Chinese people soar, but also made all the forces watching the fire from across the strait a little more cautious. The emaciated camel was bigger than the horse, and China was originally busy with the civil war, and the impression of various countries on China was still stuck in the Manchu era. There is endless infighting, which is also the reason why the Japanese repeatedly kick their noses in the face, but after the First World War, in the secret statistics of all parties, the crazy expansion of the Chinese army, with a growth rate of 100,000, scared off many people. At this time, excluding the feudal forces represented by Tusi and Wang Ye in the southwest and northwest, China's new-style army, if not 2 million, will definitely exceed 1.8 million, and they are all young and strong people who can fight with guns.

They knew that even if the Japanese army exceeded 600,000, it was a cut behind the Chinese army in terms of both number and overall strength. Japan was not ready for all-out war, and let's not forget that it was 1923, and many people died of starvation in Russia last year, which gave White Russia a chance to make a comeback. And in the spring, the drought in more than ten provinces in China also means that this year is also a famine year, and Japan, which is a strip of water in China, is not having a good time, spring drought, summer drought, and the fields are not said to be harvested, but they are similar. If Japan wants to recruit troops, it must first have food to support, but the same situation is in Goryeo this year, except to drive more Goryeo people to the front line and save rations, there seems to be no good way.

Compared with the three countries, all of them suffered from drought, Huaxia because of the camp funding, Zhao Yun by the vigorous tuntian, water conservancy, although Huaxia's grain this year is not harvested, but with the camp grain subsidy, burst a soldier, and then support Russia still has a surplus.

But in the eyes of the Japanese who don't know what to do, it's terrifying. Thinking about the terrifying population base of the Chinese army and the various forces looming behind it, the Japanese are anxious.

China must be taken quickly, otherwise it will be dragged into an endless quagmire by the vast land like the Far East. The Japanese already have an endless Far East, plus a more extensive and densely populated North China, which will kill the Japanese.

As a result, they exploited the Koreans more brutally, and continued to accumulate strength and wait for a better opportunity for revenge.

In the face of China, the army that was a drop in the bucket could no longer show their superiority, and correspondingly, the Japanese suddenly put aside all the despicability of those Japanese and became more and more arrogant towards the navy, which was far superior to China.

However, when facing the Japanese Navy, the "fear of Japan" was quite strict, and although it had not yet developed to the point where it did not dare to go out of port to fight as soon as it heard about the Japanese Navy, no one dared to shout the slogan of victory against the Japanese Navy.

The Japanese, who often look down on the Huaxia Navy as the victors, have the lowest embankment of the Huaxia Navy, and Huaxia has ten times the Japanese army on land, and can play the tactics of crowds to offset the superiority of the Japanese Army, but at sea, the tonnage of the Huaxia Navy is not even one-tenth of that of Japan, so it can be said that the situation is completely reversed.

The Japanese Navy admits that the Huaxia Navy has made great progress in the past two years, but the foundation of the Huaxia Navy is too thin, and even if some new warships are added, the current strength of the Beiyang Navy is not even as good as that of Li Hongzhang at that time, and it cannot be regarded as strong. After World War I, in the eyes of the Japanese Navy, which had experienced the experience of the European War, even if the Chinese Navy had battleships, it was just a toy in the hands of politicians. Against them, it can only become a meritorious service for the Japanese Navy.

"Is there a fleet of Huaxia people found nearby?" Kumoto thought for a moment and took the telegram from the staff officer.

At the last moment before the start of the naval battle, Kumoto still made a routine inquiry, Kumoto's ship is equipped with a seaplane, and with it, it is equivalent to an extra pair of eyes at high altitude.

In the past, in the face of the provocation of the Japanese navy, the Chinese army would not send the navy to fight them one-on-one at sea. In Jiumoto's impression, since the collapse of the Beiyang Navy, the Chinese Navy has been much more well-behaved. Even after regaining the possession of battleships, the Huaxia Navy was mostly cowering in the harbor, and unless there was a civil war, they could not be seen at all.

Of course, being able to block the navy of the Chinese army in the door of the house is the proudest thing for the entire Japanese navy, and Hisamoto often takes this as an honor and uses it to attack the other side when facing the Japanese army officers.

And the top brass in China also seemed to suppress the anger of the navy, strictly forbidding soldiers to accept Japanese provocations. It's just that with harder training, to accelerate the growth of these naval rookies, before these seeds grow, Zhao Yun will not let them take risks lightly. So this time, these ordinary people participated in submarine operations, and the battle on the sea was rounded up by the battleships in the camp. Even the two Nassau-class battleships were all new ships provided by the camp, and the two ships delivered to the North and South Beiyang Navy were secretly left in the open sea of Shanghai after going to sea to prevent the Japanese from jumping over the wall and storming Shanghai and blockading the mouth of the Yangtze River.

"Two Nassau-class battleships, an old cruiser, and five wooden cruisers? What are these wooden cruisers running for? Plugging the gun's eye? After reading the information, Hisamoto said to himself, the appearance of these wooden cruisers seemed to mean that a meritorious service had been delivered.

"Hey! The Imperial Wind has changed again! "Jiuben said in his heart.

If it had been before, perhaps Japan's top leaders would have considered avoiding provoking China too much, so as not to attract economic sanctions against China, because after all, China has surplus grain, and those pro-Japanese elements will more or less provide relief to Japan. However, after the Battle of the Great Brigade, the intentions of the Japanese top brass have changed again.

It's been almost a week since the big battle between Hua and Japan at the University of Travel. Both sides are evenly matched, but both sides are promoting themselves as winners. The Japanese had already accomplished the set strategic objectives, repelled the attack of hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops, and inflicted heavy losses on their opponents, destroying the enemy several times their own. Huaxia surrounded and annihilated thousands of Japanese troops, so that the Japanese army in Luda was no longer able to go out of the city to fight in the field, and won the greatest victory against Japan in decades.

But in the eyes of the Japanese, daring to recover Qingdao and Luda is tantamount to a neighbor who has always been "obedient" and suddenly wants his own things back. This trend of thought must be curbed, although there are still many Japanese bigwigs who do not agree on the policy decisions on dealing with China, and the two sides hold their own views and hold each other.

But beating Huaxia hard and letting them know who is the hegemon of the Far East seems to have become the mainstream opinion of the top level of Japan's sea and land.

"We will use a victory over Huaxia today to let more people see the strength of the empire!" Hisamoto, who has always wanted to be higher than the army, doesn't mind pushing the top now.

"Signal them to go back!" Hisamoto glanced at the urgent telegram sent by the destroyer who was going to negotiate in front of him, and said lightly. Then he turned to the adjutant beside him and said, "Pass the order and prepare for battle!" ”

Hisamoto looked at the somewhat vague huge figure at the sea level again, pursed his lips, which were a little dry by the sea breeze, before he hoarsely said, "Give a signal!" ”

A short time later, a new flag was hoisted on the destroyer in front.