After Lin Daxin personally sent the British minister in the Qing Dynasty, Ogner, out of the gate of the Governor's Palace, he returned to his office in the Governor's Palace, and at the same time sent someone to inform his cousin Wang Yan to rush to the Governor's Palace.

This time the attitude of the British made Lin Daxin very satisfied, and finally Lin Daxin had reached a verbal agreement with Ogner that the British would no longer intervene in their war with the Japanese, and in the future Lin Daxin would remain neutral in the process of overthrowing the Qing Dynasty, and after Lin Daxin obtained the actual control of the Qing Dynasty, the British would return to Lin Daxin all the British concessions in the Qing Dynasty except for Hong Kong.

In short, the British no longer had that tough posture after suffering a great deal in the Northeast Navy this time, and Lin Daxin also reciprocated and promised to withdraw the South African volunteers to the four northeastern provinces, and the British would continue to launch an attack on the Boers after the South African volunteers withdrew from South Africa.

In addition, Lin Daxin promised to return the British naval prisoners of war captured in the naval battle to the British unconditionally, and Lin Daxin brought Wang Yan to let Wang Yan represent himself and sign a secret agreement with Ogener, who represented the British.

Soon after, Wang Yan came to Lin Daxin's office, and Lin Daxin told Wang Yan that he was going to sign a secret treaty with the British.

After listening to this, Wang Yan said approvingly: "Daxin, this is the best result, it is very beneficial for us to be able to turn the war with the British, so that we can concentrate our forces and solve the Japanese as much as possible, let us recuperate for a while, after all, we have just fought a big war with the Russians for nearly one year, and then we will start fighting with the Japanese." Moreover, this naval battle with the British and Japanese caused a lot of losses to the Northeast Navy. Both the military and the localities should breathe a sigh of relief. ”

Lin Daxin said with a smile: "I also have this consideration. Only then did it decide to sign a secret treaty with the British and withdraw the South African volunteers. Hehe, but cousin, I didn't expect that after the Northeast Navy beat the British Navy, the British would be cowardly, and I thought that the British would be angry and choose to declare war with us! ”

Wang Yan said with a smile: "The reason why the British can dominate the world is because they have a powerful British navy, although the Northeast Navy has suffered a lot of casualties this time." But it also made the British Navy even worse, and the British were afraid. ”

Lin Daxin nodded and said, "Yes!" If our Northeast Navy and the British Navy fight to the death twice again, then the navy on which the British rely for hegemony should be almost consumed, and the Germans, who are eyeing the British overseas colonies, will wake up with a smile in their dreams. Cousin, you prepare a little bit of writing, and strive to sign with Ogna tomorrow, and then we can rest assured and bold. Take care of the Japanese. ”

Wang Yan was very efficient, and before the next day, he found Ogener and signed a secret agreement in the afternoon of the same day. Anyway, the two sides have reached a consensus, as long as they sign the secret agreement.

After the secret treaty was signed, Lin Daxin sent a telegram to the Northeast Navy. Sue them that they have now reconciled with the British. To the fleets of the British, which withdrew to Hong Kong and Singapore, do not attack. Let them go.

The Northeast Navy received Lin Daxin's order to block the Korean Strait, and the British Navy's fleet must be closed to Hong Kong and Singapore, and it must be through the Korean Strait.

In addition, Lin Daxin ordered the Northeast Navy to draw out a part of its warships and cooperate with the Marine Corps to attack the Ryukyu Islands occupied by Japan.

The Ryukyu Islands are a series of island groups in the western Pacific Ocean, located between Taiwan in the Qing Dynasty and Kyushu Island in Japan, and are the collective name of the Osumi Islands, Tokara Islands, Amami Islands, Okinawa Islands, Miyako Islands, Yaeyama Islands and other islands, and are the general name of the islands that once belonged to the Ryukyu Kingdom.

The Ryukyu Kingdom has always paid tribute to the Qing Dynasty, and the history of tribute can be traced back to the Ming Dynasty, and it was a subject state of the Qing Dynasty, but unfortunately it was later annexed by the Japanese.

In 1609, the Ryukyu Kingdom was invaded by the Satsuma Domain, which is located in the southernmost part of Kyushu, Japan, and lost the territory of the Amami Islands, after the Meiji Restoration, Japan sent troops to occupy the Ryukyu Islands, and in 1871, the Ryukyu King was forcibly canonized as a vassal king, when the Ryukyu Kingdom was still a vassal state of the Qing Dynasty, making the Ryukyus a Japanese order state, in 1872, the Ryukyu Domain was replaced, in 1879, the Ryukyu Domain was abolished, in March, it was first incorporated into Kagoshima Prefecture, and in April, it was changed to Okinawa Prefecture, and the rest of the islands except for the Amami Islands of the original Ryukyu Domain were under the jurisdiction of Okinawa Prefecture. The Amami Islands are under the jurisdiction of Kagoshima Prefecture.

Although the Qing Dynasty negotiated with Japan several times between 1877 and 1880, it did not suffer as the Qing Dynasty weakened. Now that Lin Daxin has decided to take care of this matter himself, how can the subject country of the Qing Dynasty be occupied casually! It's too bad to give yourself the face of the governor of the Qing Dynasty! The Ryukyu Islands are also one of the pieces of land that Lin Daxin wants to occupy in this war with the Japanese.

On the morning of October 26, at the Sasebo Naval Base in Japan, in the bridge of the British Navy's all-steel battleship Prince George, British Admiral Bridget said to dozens of captains who came here: "There has been an order from China that our Eastern Fleet will end its escort mission and return to Hong Kong and Singapore, and several battleships that have been seriously injured will enter the repair plant of the Singapore Navy for repair." ”

As soon as Bridget's words fell, dozens of British Navy captains in the bridge couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, for the nightmare naval battle a few days ago, they really didn't want to experience it again, the powerful British Navy in the head-to-head duel with the Northeast Navy, the heavy losses should be the largest in the history of the British Navy, 10 all-steel battleships, 6 ironclad battleships, 12 large fast armored cruisers, 17 new protective cruisers, 16 new destroyers, 38 torpedo boats, This series of figures is the number of warships sunk by the British Navy in naval battles, and nearly 29,000 British naval officers and sailors killed or missing. This made the British admirals, who had always been arrogant and arrogant, feel a little trembling at the thought of facing the Northeast Navy again.

Now that the country has decided to end the escort mission, it is really the wisest decision for the dozens of British Navy captains who have experienced naval battles.

At noon on the 26th, after eating a lunch provided by the Japanese, the remaining 10 all-steel battleships of the British Navy's Eastern Fleet, including the wounded 5 all-steel battleships, as well as the other 4 large fast armored cruisers, 7 new protective cruisers, 12 new destroyers, and 22 torpedo boats, all ignited and pressurized the boilers on the warships, started the warships, and headed for the port of Sasebo.

The commander of the Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet, Togo Heihachiro, is in the rest room of his flagship Fuji, writing an excerpt to Emperor Meiji, and it has been 2 days since he returned to the Sasebo Naval Base, and Emperor Meiji has not made any decision to punish Togo Heihachiro, but Togo Heihachiro thinks that he is still a little more conscious, and quickly hand over the excerpt of the guilt, after all, this time the combined fleet is equivalent to breaking the muscles and bones, and the sunken all-steel battleships have reached 11, Although the objective reason was that the Northeast Navy was too bullish, and the British Navy, which fought side by side, suffered more losses, Heihachiro Togo was still willing to assume his responsibilities as a commander.

At this time, the captain of the Fuji, Jiro Takahashi, almost knocked open the door of Togo Heihachiro's lounge, "Commander, something is wrong!" The British warships were all heading out of the port of Sasebo, and it looked like they were leaving. ”

Heihachiro Togo hurried to the bridge of the Fuji, and immediately ordered someone to contact the Prince George of the British Navy in the flag language, and asked Admiral Bridget, what are you British doing?

Bridget asked Togo Heihachiro to send a signal back in flag, and the British needed to escort several wounded all-steel battleships back to Singapore for repairs, so for a period of time in the future, the British Navy would not escort the Japanese transport fleet, and as for when it would be possible to escort the Japanese transport fleet again, please contact the British government.

Togo Heihachiro's face turned pale in an instant, it's over, it's over, Japan was abandoned by the British!

Prime Minister Hirobumi Ito stumbled to the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, and when he saw Emperor Meiji, he said with a gloomy face: "Your Majesty, we have been abandoned by the British, and their fleet has left the Sasebo Naval Base!" ”

"Bang-" With a bang, the teacup in Emperor Meiji's hand fell to the ground and fell to pieces, but Emperor Meiji couldn't care about any teacups anymore, and asked urgently, "Ito-kun, what's going on?" We signed an escort agreement with the British! ”

Ito Hirobumi said with a wry smile: "It's useless to have an escort agreement, I asked the British minister in Tokyo, and I have received a clear answer, the British have suffered huge losses in this naval battle, they will not send warships to Japan anymore to protect our transport fleet, and we can only rely on Japan ourselves in the future." ”

Emperor Meiji shouted angrily: "The British who don't talk about their trust, we paid for the escort!" ”

Ito Hirobumi shook his head helplessly, the British escort cost was only a symbolic 50,000 pounds, and it was impossible for Japan to find any trouble with the British by virtue of the escort cost, and Japan did not dare to find the British in the slightest trouble.

Emperor Meiji may have understood this truth himself, and after shouting, he stopped shouting, but sighed, and thought about what Japan should do next with a gloomy face. (To be continued......) R1292