"The chimney of the Assyrian Memorial is smoking, and they are pressurizing the boiler!"

Almost as soon as the "Assyrian Memorial" pressurized the boilers, the gunners on the Cape Wada Fort immediately realized from the soot that the warship was leaving.

"Huh, what's going on?"

When it was almost evening, the warship of Lu Guo was about to leave the port, and Heiichi Morii, the commander of the battery, immediately asked loudly, for him who was in the battery, he did not know what was going on outside.

"Could it be that the crown prince of Lu Guo is leaving?"

When the fort soldiers on the other side of the Hetian Cape Fort looked at the warship of Lu Guo who wanted to leave the port in confusion, the port director of the port was frightened by this move, he almost rushed to the port for the first time, and he was not there with the three souls who had been frightened by the assassination of the crown prince of Lu Guo, and he didn't know how to keep these angry guests, let alone whether to detain the guests. Just as he was asking his superiors, the "Azov Memorial" had slowly left its berth, and a gunboat of the British Far East Fleet on the side also chose to leave the port of Kobe.

The British officers and men on the ship had apparently realized what was going to happen next, and the angry Russians would retaliate by razing the city with shells, and at this time, the British gunboats on board sensibly chose to back down.

"There's no hurry!"

When the warships of the two countries left the port of Kobe one after another, several Japanese naval officers who had just arrived looked at the warships of Lu Guo leaving the port with solemn expressions.

"Quick, go to the motorboat!"

A naval officer pointed to the steamboat at the port office in the distance, and now catch up, perhaps in a hurry to stop it.

"Toot ......"

With a whistle. The "Assyrian Memorial" headed out of the harbor. The Russian sailors on board quickly lowered the hoisting flags. The cruiser of the first rank was about to vent Russia's anger on the city, and just as the Russian warship began to prepare for the bombardment, Heiichi Morii on the Wada Cape Fort had been watching the warship with a telescope curiously.

"What are they doing here?"

The soldiers of Lu Guo, who had closed the portholes, were discarding the flammable materials and opening the jackets of the main guns at the same time, apparently they were not preparing to salute, but preparing for war, although they were not officers on the ship, but Morii, who graduated from Etajima, knew very well what preparations were needed for warship operations.

"Ring the bell. Prepare for battle at all gun positions and reload with live ammunition! ”

The instinct of a soldier made Morii not sit idly by and watch the danger in front of him, but chose to be vigilant.

The well-trained Japanese gunners on the battery, immediately rushing to the gun emplacement, under the supervision of the bronze bell, according to the orders of the commander, and stuffing the shells into the chambers, all asked the same question - what was going on?

"Your Excellency, what's going on?"

In response to his subordinates' questions, Morii handed the telescope to his subordinates, and a consensus was quickly reached that it was necessary to remain vigilant. Although the warship was invited by Japan, it was not intended to attack if the other side intended to attack. As soldiers, they have to respond. However, out of caution, they still contacted their superiors by phone, but surprisingly, the phone did not go through.

"There seems to be something wrong with the phone line!"

The first shot was fired during the "Black Ship Attack", and it has been rebuilt several times and is now a powerful Western-style battery complex equipped with multiple 120 to 260 mm Krupp guns. As the "Assyrian Remembrance" sailed out of the harbor, it was ready for battle, and the gunners on the battery watched nervously as the warships sailing out of the harbor adjusted their course in the sea outside the harbor, showing the side side into their line of sight, and at the same time, the main turret was also pointed at Kobe.

"Captain, the whole ship is in place, ready to fire at any time!"

On the bridge of the "Assyria Memorial", Andreev stared at the Hota Cape Battery, and the common sense of the soldiers told him that he must first shell the battery, and then bombard Kobe after the battery was destroyed.

"Target, Cape Wada Fort!"

The order was quickly sent to the gun positions through the guò tube, and a moment later, as the archer gave the number of shells, the guns on the warship adjusted the firing angles and firing ranges.

"Fire!"

At the moment when the order was given, the main and auxiliary guns of the "Assyrian Memorial" sounded almost simultaneously, and the cannonballs flew towards the Hotan Cape Fort with a whistling sound, and at the moment when the "Assyrian Memorial" opened fire, Morii on the turret saw the thick cannon smoke, and more than ten seconds later, when the cannonballs with a sharp whistling sound hit, he immediately shouted.

"Prepare for shelling!"

As soon as the sound fell, the cannonballs rained down on the Fort around Cape Wada, and the smoke from the powerful water-containing cotton cannonballs instantly engulfed the fort.

"Aim for the open ship and fire!"

Without a trace of hesitation, at the moment when the battery was shelled, Morii gave the order, and when the roar of the Krupp shore cannon was heard in his ears, he said to the herald beside him.

"Immediately report to the fortress headquarters, the warship "Assyria Remembrance" of the Lu Kingdom suddenly opened fire on our battery, and the Hotan Cape battery has launched a return fire! ”

A few kilometers away on the mountainside, listening to the sound of explosions in the distance, looking at the batteries shrouded in smoke and the Russian warships shrouded in smoke on the sea, the corners of Li Yuanyou's lips lifted slightly, just a few hours ago, after receiving a telegram from Otsu, he had been waiting, and after the Russian warship began to smoke, he used only ten yen to cut off the telegraph and telephone lines leading to the fort.

Without further orders from their superiors, the Japanese officers and men on the Hota Cape Fort faithfully performed their duty -- to defend Japan, and immediately and mercilessly returned fire under the shelling of the warships of Luguo.

The Japanese counterattack was rapid, the shells almost rained near the Russian warship, and the Russian warship constantly adjusted its course to avoid the counterattack of the Japanese battery, while firing at the battery, while sending shells into Kobe Castle from time to time, looking at Kobe from the mountain, you can see that there are many flames in Kobe Castle that have been ignited by shelling, and perhaps the Japanese people are running everywhere in the city now.

"Is this war?"

Breathing the smell of gunpowder smoke blown by the sea breeze, Li Yuanyou thought silently, the smell of gunpowder not only did not make him feel disgusted, but made his physical exhaustion relax at this moment, I don't know if it was because the task was about to be completed.

Just when he was full of emotion, suddenly, Li Yuanyou was stunned by the scene on the sea, the warship was hit, not the Russian warship was hit, but the British warship flying the rice flag, the British warship that originally wanted to leave the port to avoid the retaliation of the Russian army, was accidentally hit by a shell, and the warship was instantly swallowed by the smoke of gunpowder, obviously a heavy shell.

"Now it's good!"

A few hours later, in the palace of Nambetsu in Seoul, Tang Haoran, who received the telegram, shouted excitedly, this telegram was sent back by Li Yuanyou from Japan, and half an hour after the Russian and Japanese shelling, he left Kobe and went to Kyoto to prepare for another thing, and this telegram brought good news -- Crown Prince Nicholas and Grand Duke George were assassinated, Russian warships fired at Kobe in retaliation, and the Japanese batteries immediately returned fire and started a battery with them, and the Japanese and Russian artillery battles even affected the pond fish - British gunboats, which normally tried to escape from the harbor to avoid the conflict, were hit by stray bullets, and then British gunboats joined the Russian camp and launched artillery attacks on Kobe.

"Now, I have to see how the British are going to end!"

Tang Haoran muttered excitedly on his lips, he has been planning and promoting this matter for the past six months, and the so-called "Sakura Plan" is centered around the assassination of Crown Prince Nikolai.

In history, after Crown Prince Nikolai was slashed, it was Britain that actively mediated, coupled with Russia's consideration of its own strength and the fact that the crown prince was not seriously injured, in view of Japan's apology and extremely sincere, so in the end, the thunder and rain were small, and the incident was over, and Japan passed the most dangerous moment since the founding of the country.

But now? A crown prince and a grand duke were all assassinated by the Japanese, and the Russian warships were shelled, will Russia, which is difficult to ride a tiger, still swallow its anger as it did in history? As for the Europeans, they will also feel deep sympathy for Russia, after all, the crown prince and the prince have been assassinated, and naturally they will not oppose Russia's retaliation against Japan.

As for the British, they were injured by mistake, but in this era when power is power, how can the British people care about their accidental injuries, they only see that "the dignified British Empire has been bullied by Japan, the sick man of East Asia".

If you don't die, you won't die!

If there is any more public opinion fanning the flames and agitating for retaliation, then soon Europe will be ignited by boundless anger, and the only thing that is needed is to incite the anger of the Europeans against the same enemy, and direct their anger at Japan...... Will Japan still be a danger to China?

At this time, Tang Haoran did not consider the impact of the death of Crown Prince Nicholas and the fall of Japan on the future, all he saw was that the history of modern China would be changed by this, and Russia would be entangled in Japan's power - after this war, at least in the next ten years, Japan would no longer have the strength to challenge China, and as for Russia, this war that would need to cross the ocean would deplete Russia's wealth, and after the Japanese problem was resolved, it would have energy to expand in the northeast and Mongolia.

Time!

Two years after coming to this time and space, Tang Haoran felt that time was on his side for the first time, and from then on, at least for the next ten years, he did not need to consider the threat of Japan and Russia.

"Now, it's just a matter of adding fuel and vinegar to fan the flames!"

(Different history, different Oriental, from this day on, the Orient in the novel will be turned upside down!) At this point, everyone will ask again, how to fight in the first day? Is it a defeat, is it a loss? Add more today, ask for a guaranteed monthly pass at the beginning of the month! (To be continued......)