Chapter 229: Decisive Battle for the Fuso Navy (1)
"What ceded Kyushu Island and Huatai Island to Shina, Okuma, were you bought by the Shina?"
"I will never allow the territory of the empire to be ceded to China, this is the greatest shame since the restoration of the empire, and the people of China will also gain an inch, we must not compromise!"
"Why did you sell Kyushu Island and Huatai Island to the Shina?"
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When Prime Minister Shigenobu Okuma announced that he would cede Kyushu and Katai Island to China, almost no one in the Fuso hierarchy agreed with him, except for his own cabinet, and even drew overwhelming criticism. The ongoing peace talks have already made many people dissatisfied, and no one wants to cede the empire's territory to two islands that are still so large this time, and no one wants to do so.
Okuma Shigenobu was very calm, "Now the shape of the empire is too bad, the war with Shina has been lost one after another, and it can only retreat to the mainland, and there are even more Red Party and untouchables in the country, there is turmoil throughout the country, and the empire's economy has collapsed." The two largest camps in the world are at war, and we should take this opportunity to gain more benefits from this vast war and get rid of the current state of the Empire, but we must solve the blockade against us, otherwise it will not be possible. ”
"Kyushu Island is very important to us, but now that Kyushu Island has been occupied by the Red Party, cede it to Shina and let them fight against the Red Party, and if it rises in the future, it will definitely be able to take it back......"
"That's enough, I don't agree with the cession of Kyushu Island and Huatai Island, these two places are too important to the empire and can't be lost, don't mention this kind of topic again, and the people of the whole country won't agree with it!" Yama Prefecture Youpeng beat the persuasion of Okuma Shigenobu to death with a stick, and in his opinion it was impossible to cede the territory, and he had already ceded Duwan and North Korea, Vladivostok and other places to China, and the people of China were still so greedy, so they could pay it back.
The members of Okuma's cabinet left angrily, originally thinking that these elders would be able to see the current situation and support them, but they didn't expect that the old puppet of Yama Prefecture Youtomo would be so stubborn.
At this point, the hopeless Okuma Shigenobu truly lost faith in the Fuso Empire, and two days later the Okuma cabinet resigned in front of the people of Fuyukyo on various reasons that were not justified.
The day after the resignation of the Okuma cabinet, the Fuso top management consulted with the emperor and announced that he was ready to implement a nationwide military administration in the next few years, and the government would be temporarily maintained by members of the military department, and there would be no prime minister for the time being.
This is also a last resort, no one wants to take over the mess after the departure of the Okuma cabinet at this time, and even the previous hot candidates who were very popular for the position of prime minister have refused to be prime minister for various reasons. Coupled with the nationwide turmoil and the threat of China, Fusang had to use more forceful means to secure the country, so the military management was the best way to quickly quell the riots in various places.
After entering the military administration, the military department immediately gave Yuan Jing a request to refuse the cession of territory, and even if the negotiations could not be completed, they would delay Huaxia for a period of time, and strive to make them more prepared.
Britain, France, and other countries that were originally intermediaries in the peace talks between Huaxia and Fuso were also antagonistic because of the European war, and the ambassadors of the two camps to China were also actively courting Huaxia, where would they have time to fight with the defeated Fusang, and even the two countries that always provoked the war between Huaxia and Fuso.
"I am stating once that our country will not cede Kyushu Island and Huatai Island, and we have already ceded the entire DPRK to your country, so be content! It is not impossible for our country to assemble millions of troops, you must know that these are extraordinary times, and if your country delays too much in this regard, it will not be conducive to development, right? ”
The threat of Yuan Jing's words is very strong, which means that we can still raise millions of troops in our country, and if Huaxia continues to bombard, there will be no good fruit to eat, after all, if we lose 1,000 enemies, we will destroy 800.
Wu Yanfang said angrily: "The situation in your country can still form a million army, and you can still support such a huge army, besides, the people of your country don't seem to want to be soldiers, right?" ”
"No, we will soon quell those riots, you have to believe what kind of miracle will erupt when the country is facing destruction, the Great River Clan is the most united people!"
Yuan Kei's words are not unreasonable, and it is entirely possible for Fuso, which is under military control, to raise an army of more than two million at one time.
The negotiations between the two sides have reached a dead end, and every time the negotiations break up, they are unwilling to give up their demands and bottom line. In view of this, Huaxia announced the suspension of negotiations, and the negotiations are facing a breakdown.
The Fuso military headquarters has always refused to make territorial compromises, urging the army to launch an attack on Kyushu Island on the one hand, and suppressing the riots more brutally and bloodily on the other hand, so as to carry out another general mobilization for the war.
On Jeju Island, the entire Huaxia fleet was concentrated, boxes of ammunition were loaded onto the warships, more than 80 submarines all surfaced on the shore, and ships sent torpedoes and supplies to the submarines from afar.
"The prime minister has given the order for a decisive battle with the Fuso naval fleet, and we will rush to Fusang in the afternoon to fight a decisive battle with it, and this battle must ensure that the minimum casualties are exchanged for victory, and the coastal industrial zone of Fuso will be blown to pieces!" Sa Bingzhen shouted at the column of naval officers lined up in front of him.
"Guaranteed to complete the task !!"
"This time it is still divided into two parts, the main fleet is centered on the aircraft carrier and sails to the Fuso Navy entrenched in the northeastern coast of Kyushu Island, and the other part is the 'Chang'an' as the flagship and enters the Seto Inland Sea of Fuso along the Tsushima Strait on the one hand, outflanking the rear route of the Fuso Navy on the one hand, and striking at the coastal areas there on the other!"
"Yes, Commander!"
The main fleet, with the Tiantai No. 1 aircraft carrier as the flagship, the 'Xianyang' as the vanguard, the 'Ryukyu,' the 'Zhujiang,' and 'Hainan,' and the 'Kashima,' which captured the Fuso fleet, and more than 60 submarines rushed toward the place where the Fuso fleet was located.
The northbound fleet consisted of the 'Chang'an' as the flagship, and the battleships of the Tang and Song Dynasties, the Duwan, and the captured British army, the Determination, with a group of armored cruisers and 20 submarines.
In order not to let the Fuso people know that the Huaxia fleet they set off from deliberately made a detour, and the northbound fleet sailed from the western part of the Tsushima Strait, not close to Kyushu Island. The main fleet moved up from the northern waters of the Amami Islands.
On March 25, the Fuso fleet frantically transported supplies to Kyushu Island, and more than 100,000 troops from the Kyodo area had already landed in the coastal area of Saeki, and with the help of the fleet, they successfully solved the Red Army that was blocking their landing.
"The damned untouchables on the island of Kyushu are so stupid and ignorant that they want to usurp the power of the empire like the Red Party of Tsarist Russia, and also want to overthrow His Majesty the Emperor!"
"If it weren't for the fact that these Red Party elements were making trouble in the country and disrupting the domestic order, otherwise how could they withdraw their troops from North Korea and cede North Korea to the Chinese pigs, and these Red Party elements should be killed!"
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Several Fuso patrol ships with plaster flags patrolled the sea, and several soldiers on board expressed their opinions on the Red Army, attributing the final withdrawal of Fuso troops in Korea to the Red Army.
A Fuso soldier who was looking around with a telescope suddenly lowered his eyes and rubbed his eyes vigorously towards the telescope, and then quickly looked forward again with the telescope.
The soldier couldn't believe what he saw in the binoculars, and muttered, "How can there be a warship of the people here, is it that I have eaten too little breakfast and am hallucinating from hunger!" ”
Not only this soldier saw it, but there were also soldiers from other ships, but they did not think it was a hallucination, and shouted loudly: "The Shina fleet has appeared, they are coming!" ”
The soldiers they saw were running and shouting, and all the officers in the ship rushed out in an uproar.
"Nani, where is the Chinese fleet?"
"Report sir, in our direction of three o'clock, there are a lot of Huaxia warships!" The soldier stretched out his hand and pointed in the direction of the Huaxia fleet and said.
After hearing this, the officers picked up the binoculars hanging around their necks and looked in the direction of the Huaxia fleet, and sure enough, they saw dozens of warships flying the Huaxia national flag and the Huaxia Navy flag rushing towards this place.
"Withdraw, retreat immediately, don't let them get close, send a telegram back to the fleet to inform them that the fleet is coming!" An officer shouted at the panicked soldiers, who rushed to the communications room without answering.
"Boom !!"
Several huge explosions sounded, and these Fuso patrol ships shook violently, and some of them were directly cut through a huge hole from the side, and the sea water rushed into it frantically.
"Bastards, it's the submarine of the China, they're below us, they've spotted us. Hurry, hurry up! "The captains of the patrol ships demanded a quick retreat from the range of the submarines.
Another explosion sounded, and the patrol ships were hit by torpedoes again, and the patrol ships themselves were not big enough to withstand the attack of two torpedoes, and they began to sink one after another, and the Fuso soldiers on the ships jumped into the sea one after another.
More than ten minutes later, the Huaxia fleet arrived nearby, and a few shells were enough to finish off these patrol ships, and the Chinese naval soldiers on the warship set up machine guns to shoot the struggling Fusang naval soldiers on the sea, they did not want to take prisoners and drag them back, of course it was better to kill.
Saeki, the Fuso Navy received only half of the information sent back by the patrol fleet, which said that it had found a large-scale attack by the Huaxia fleet, asked for support, and then it was gone.
"Woo~~~"
The warships of the Fuso naval fleet sounded the warning of an enemy attack one by one, and the sailors ran around the warships quickly.
"Report the situation of each ship, and if there is insufficient ammunition and supplies, it will be replenished immediately!"
"No. 1 is normal, the ammunition is sufficient, and the machinery is good!"
"No. 2 Normal ......"
Half an hour later, the entire Fuso fleet set out, daring to go to the place where the patrol had appeared at the latest, and at the same time released more patrol ships to find the traces of the Huaxia fleet.
At the port of Kanmon in the waters near Kitakyushu City, the 'Chang'an' and other northward fleets appeared here.
"Report to the Commander, the Commander-in-Chief's side has begun!"
"Enter the Seto Inland Sea as planned, and let those armored cruisers shell the coastal areas."
"Yes, Commander!"
Bursts of artillery rang out at the port of Kanmon, and the ports and factories on both sides of Kitakyushu City and Hikoshima Island were blown up by shells.