The fleet of the Sino-British-Swedish (the Marauder fleet still flies the Swedish naval flag) sailed arrogantly through the Tsushima Strait under the hateful gaze of Hensuke Ito and the remnants of the Combined Fleet. Now there are only four capital ships left in the Combined Fleet and the steel-hulled cruiser Kaohsiung, in addition to four wooden-hulled gunboats and five torpedo boats, which have just been released from the port of Pusan by the British Far East Fleet, and are being used as coastal defense ships at Tsushima Fortress to prevent the Russian Far East Fleet from moving south to block the retreat of the First Army, and after completing this mission, it will go north to attack the route from Vladivostok to Japan.

It is estimated that their end is to die in battle, you must know that their opponent is twenty-six large warships, including two Alexander II-class battleships, that is not a 7,000-ton Dingyuan, it is a first-class ironclad ship with a displacement of nearly 10,000, with six 305 guns in the bow, and the thickest armor reaches 406 mm.

Looking at his former opponent, now he can only hide aside and draw circles, Ding Ruchang's mood is very refreshing.

"Brother Yang, no, it should be Lord Taiwan, and the lower officials can have today, but thanks to you, this time I went to negotiate with the Russian army, Lord Zhongtang said, everything is subject to your orders, even if you order to fight with the Russians, the seven warships of the Beiyang Naval Division will definitely not have a word." The creature said with a smug smile on his face. This is sincere, because he is worried that Cixi will attack him, Li Erdevil has recently paid extra close attention to the work of buying people's hearts. With Yang Feng's more than 20 million in hand, even if he gave Xu Bangdao and Jiang Zikang 6 million, he still has more than 15 million windfalls to use, so the entire Beiyang system from the naval division to the army, and even the clerks have their own rewards, and a right-hand man like Ding Ruchang is directly rewarded with 10,000 taels.

Thinking about the source of drinking water, the Beiyang sailors want to say that they are not grateful to Yang Feng, which is true or false.

"It's easy. When the time comes, you will take Dayuanjun directly to negotiate with the Russian Governor-General in the Far East and tell him that Korea is a vassal state of China, and that any armed cross-border crossing will be regarded as aggression against Korea without the permission of us and the Korean royal family. If we don't withdraw their troops immediately, then our fleet will bombard Vladivostok, thinking that they have two first-class ironclad ships, and they will be arrogant, provoking Lao Tzu to go out and sink the two destroyers directly. Yang Feng said viciously.

He was really not afraid of the Russian Far East Fleet, and at the speed of Alexander II, which was less than sixteen knots, eight destroyers went up together to besiege it to see if it could hold up a few five-three-three heavy torpedoes. What's more, the main British and German fleets will also arrive soon, but thinking that this war can't be fought, the Russians are not stupid, what they want, Yang Feng has almost guessed.

The fleets of the three countries soon reached Vladivostok, and since the destroyers did not have large-caliber guns, they were of little use against the fortresses, so the main deterrent task was entrusted to the Beiyang Naval Division, and the seven capital ships aggressively aimed their guns at the distant port. Eleven destroyers made a surprise attack on the ships in the harbor. At the same time, a destroyer of the British Navy carried Ding Ruchang and others into the port to negotiate, and returned after about an hour, and then told Yang Feng that the Russians refused to withdraw their troops, claiming that they were invited by the Korean government to expel the Japanese. And there is an official invitation from North Korean Prime Minister Kim Hong-ji.

"Jin Hongji? Who admits his identity? A puppet supported by the Japanese can represent the king of Joseon? Even if the king of Korea agrees, it is illegal without the consent of our emperor, telling them to withdraw their troops within two days, and not to withdraw their troops from Korea after two days. Then don't complain that the Governor Ben is not welcome. Yang Feng said with a sneer, Ding Ruchang and the others hurried back to negotiate.

There was still no result this time, since Yang Feng was too lazy to care. Directly ordered the blockade of Vladivostok, no ships were allowed to enter or leave, just wait here, wait for the main British and German fleets to arrive, then see who is better, but the British and German fleets did not arrive, and were carrying out cover tasks on the coast of Japan The Russian Far East Fleet returned.

The Beiyang Naval Division, which was blockading the port, immediately retreated and assumed a combat posture, and at the same time, the destroyers were divided into two groups away from the common formation, and once the battle started, the Russian fleet would be attacked from both sides. Because their number is almost three times that of the Beiyang Naval Division, once the war starts, it will form an encirclement situation, of course, the premise is that Yang Feng's twelve destroyers do not move, but this is impossible, even the four British destroyers have received orders from Fremantle, who are coming at full speed, and once the war starts, they will obey Yang Feng's command.

At this time, the British Navy was really not afraid of things, but the Russians were careful, they didn't care about Ding Ruchang's seven warships, but they had to exercise restraint in front of these small destroyers, the British St. George Flag naturally could not be offended casually, and the owner of the black ship who had a scandal with Her Majesty the Empress could not be offended casually, and now His Majesty Nikolai is thinking about the same introduction of diesel engines! If he offended, he also introduced a fart, and in the future, he would take a steam engine battleship with a speed of sixteen knots to compete with the British diesel engine battleships with more than 20 knots to dominate the world?

Nearly fifty large and small warships are just eyeing each other and wary of each other, and no one dares to make a move, since this is the case, then the next thing is to negotiate again, at this time the Russians finally made clear their attitude, it is okay to withdraw the troops, but the retreat of the Japanese First Army must be stopped, we don't care who is in charge of this matter, in short, if you want us to withdraw from Korea, then you can't let the 40,000 elites of Yama Prefecture Youtomo appear on the battlefield in Japan.

"This issue can be considered, but this matter is British-led, so we'd better wait for General Fremantle to arrive." Yang Feng said to the Russian Governor of the Far East, who personally boarded the ship, that he had long guessed that the Russians were doing this, after all, with their little strength in the Far East, it would be good to be able to maintain the war against Japan, and it would be too whimsical to provoke Britain again.

Then we had to wait, but fortunately, it didn't take long for the main Anglo-German fleet to arrive, and as soon as more than forty large warships joined, they immediately formed an absolute advantage over the Russians, but surprisingly, the British refused the Russians' request, for the simple reason that they had a written agreement with the Japanese.

"The British Empire will not do perfidy, and since we promised the Japanese, then we must do it." Fremantle said haughtily.

"Then the Russian army will not withdraw from North Korea." His Excellency the Russian Governor also replied haughtily.

"Then the British government will regard your country's move as a provocation to the order in the Far East, and the Royal Navy will use naval guns to maintain order!" Fremantle continued to say arrogantly, Yang Feng was really a little emotional at this time, this Tama British is a cow, look at this is domineering, but if you are taught a lesson by the Boers in two years, can you continue to maintain this domineering?

What he didn't know was that the British really didn't mind fighting a war with Russia in the Far East now, not because of Korea, but because China was responsible for their invasion of Korea, but because of Japan. The polar bears' aggression against Japan was already touching their bottom line, but the British had no excuse for war, and it would be difficult for the Diet to pass a bill for war without finding a suitable reason. After all, the Russians are using the excuse of punishing the sun, although this reason is almost rotten, but it is also a reason, as for others who quit but they have not quit, it can only be said that the Tsar's sense of justice is too strong, and the scar on his face can also add a lot to this reason.

But if they openly invade Korea, then the nature is completely different, think about what a poor little dog in North Korea, who has just been bullied by the Japanese and is covered in bruises, and now you are smiling and pounced on it, no one with a sense of justice will tolerate it, even if it beats you, it will be very happy.

Time passed in a tense atmosphere like this, in fact, at this time, both Ding Ruchang and Waldzer very much hoped that Britain and Russia could fight, so none of these two old guys persuaded each other, and they were waiting for both sides to brew their emotions to the extent that they were enough to detonate, and then use the hands of the British to kill the Russian Far East Fleet in one fell swoop, so that Germany would have fewer competitors and China would have less pressure from the north.

Yang Feng is also very entangled, whether to let them fight, or not to fight? This is a bit out of his strategy, his goal is to borrow the hands of the Russians to play Japan to death, and then let the Russian army die in Japan for 108,000. To tell the truth, he is really not afraid of the Russian Navy, go back to find a place to get a hundred and ten heavy wire-guided torpedoes and install them on the Nautilus, he himself has the ability to destroy them all, but not on this land, even if he goes back to get a mushroom and kills hundreds of thousands of gray animals at once, Nikolai promises not to even frown.

If there is a fight here, then North Korea will definitely become a substitute for Japan, and even China will be implicated, after all, compared with the conquest of Japan, the conquest of Korea will be more beneficial to Russia, Nikolai does not rule out the possibility of changing the target, here is the ice-free port that he most desires. Then the war is likely to develop in the direction that they least want to see, that is, a large-scale land war between China and Russia, and now the level of the Qing army in the northeast is properly gone, even if they run to release poison gas, it is estimated that they will not be able to stop them.

But if you don't fight, then you will lose a good opportunity for a big war between Britain and Russia, this kind of opportunity is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, I didn't see Waldzer and Ding Ruchang laughing like two foxes, and it is very hateful to stop this kind of happy thing.

Tangled! (To be continued......)