After receiving the telegram from the port of Busan, the base camp in Tokyo, Japan, was so surprised that it even wondered if it was April Fool's Day in the West, and sent another telegram to confirm it, and then immediately ordered the Combined Fleet to send warships to intercept the two Japanese ironclad battleships that had been taken away in the Korean Strait.

After the commander of the Combined Fleet, Ito Yukami, received the order from the base camp, he fainted!

2 powerful ironclad battleships were silently snatched away in the port they had already occupied! Moreover, the Canglong and Tianlong are the two sister ships with the most powerful comprehensive performance among the 21 warships purchased by the British, and if these two warships are lost, the strength of the combined fleet will drop by at least more than 10%.

Now the base camp has asked the Combined Fleet to dispatch warships to intercept the two Japanese ironclad battleships that were taken, but now the main forces of the Combined Fleet are training at the Yokosuka Naval Port in Tokyo Bay, and if they want to go to the Korean Strait, they will have to bypass at least half of Japan, and when the main warships of the Combined Fleet sail to the Korean Strait, the daylilies will be cold, and the Japanese ironclad battleships that have been taken away will have long escaped without a trace!

And the Sasebo Naval Military Port, which is very close to the Korean Strait, has only the just-repaired protective cruiser Fuso and the protective cruiser Chiyoda.

The commander of the Combined Fleet, Ito Yukami, who had nothing to do, immediately ordered the Fuso and Chiyoda in Sasebo to intercept the two robbed ironclad battleships in the Korean Strait.

In the Korean Strait, the armored cruiser Grand General and the armored cruiser General II converged with the Third General, the Fourth General, and two ironclad battleships that had robbed Japan in less than half an hour, relying on radio contact!

Now the Grand General is no longer the flagship of the Second Fleet, and the flagship of the Second Fleet is the large fast armored cruiser Xinghai, which has been newly transferred from the First Fleet.

It turned out that Chen Ming, the captain of the Great General, also left the Great General and went to the flagship Xinghai as the captain. The captain of the Great General was served by He Di of the first phase of the teaching team. The four warships dispatched this time were also commanded by He Di as the temporary commander.

When the six warships were about to leave the Korean Strait, the soldiers on the watchtower of the Great General reported to He Di in the bridge that they had found two Japanese warships in the distance, and He Di took a closer look with a telescope and found that there were indeed two Japanese cruisers on the course of their return.

If there are only these 2 Japanese cruisers, He Di doesn't care at all, relying on 4 armored cruisers with a displacement of more than 7,000 tons, which is enough to deal with 2 Japanese ships, He Di is worried that listening to the telegram sent by Liu Zhuo, the third general, the Japanese Combined Fleet still has 19 warships newly purchased from Britain, these 2 Japanese ships will not be just the vanguard, right? The main forces of the Japanese combined fleet are just behind 2 Japanese ships!

If you let 2 Japanese ships at the mouth of the Korean Strait, you will be entangled on your side! It's going to be a hassle!

He Di ordered to his subordinates on the bridge: "Send a report to the other 3 cruisers, and send flags to 2 ironclad battleships!" Let them stay in formation, leave the entanglement of the 2 Japanese ships, and drive at full speed, we will rush over! ”

The Japanese ships Fuso and Chiyoda, the Japanese naval soldiers on the 2 cruisers, saw the 6 behemoths rushing towards their 2 ships on the opposite side, and their faces turned pale one by one, with 2 protective cruisers If they can resist these 6 giant ships, isn't this a mantis arm blocking the car? The officers and men of the Japanese Navy of the 2 ship secretly scolded the commander of the combined fleet for not having a long brain!

The captain of the Chiyoda, Uchida Masatoshi, looked at the pale faces of the naval officers and men on the bridge, and sighed secretly in his heart, he couldn't let the officers and men of the Great Japanese Navy die in vain, so he gave an order: "Let the power compartment slow down, maintain the speed of 8 knots, and order the whole ship to prepare for battle!" If Qing warships come at us, open fire! ”

The captain of the Fuso, Arai Yuguan, saw that the Chiyoda had slowed down, and immediately understood Uchida Masatoshi's plan, and after slowing down, it would be equivalent to making way for the Qing Dynasty warships and the 2 robbed ironclad battleships, I believe that the Qing Dynasty commander had a clear mind, and he would not have to find 2 Japanese cruisers with a combined displacement of any Qing Dynasty warship!

As for the order given by the commander of the combined fleet to intercept 2 ironclad battleships, to hell with him! The captain of the Fuso, Arai Yukan, also gave the order for the warship to slow down, so that the speed of the Fuso was also maintained at 8 knots.

In the bridge of the Great General, He Di watched the two Japanese ships slow down, and secretly rejoiced in his heart, and immediately ordered the six warships to rush through the mouth of the Korean Strait at full speed, enter the Yellow Sea, and sail in the direction of Weihaiwei.

The Japanese naval officers and men aboard the Japanese ships Fuso and Chiyoda were relieved to see the six huge ships in the distance, and the two captains studied it in flags, and then ordered the Fuso and Chiyoda to carry out a 20-minute artillery bombardment on the empty sea ahead. After the shelling, the two Japanese cruisers began to return to the Japanese naval port of Sasebo.

The captains of the two protective cruisers reported to the Combined Fleet that at the mouth of the Korean Strait, they encountered 4 armored cruisers of the Qing Dynasty and 2 captured ironclad battleships of the Combined Fleet.

After a fierce artillery battle, although the Fuso and Chiyoda fought bravely, because they were not of the same class as the four Qing Dynasty armored cruisers, in the end, the Qing Dynasty's four armored cruisers and two robbed Combined Fleet ironclad battleships forced their way through the mouth of the Korean Strait and entered the Yellow Sea.

The Fuso's maximum speed was only 13 knots, and it was impossible to pursue the enemy ship at all, and the Chiyoda, which had a maximum speed of 19 knots, did not pursue because of its weak strength!

The commander of the Combined Fleet, Yuki Ito, who received the telegram from the Fuso and Chiyoda, angrily overturned the desk of his headquarters and roared angrily: "Where are those two wastes, Kameda Nagakai and Tanaka Hideki? I'm going to chop them alive! ”

But Ito Yuxiang is just talking about it, venting, he actually understands in his heart that it will be difficult for the Fuso and Chiyoda to recapture the two ironclad battleships that were robbed.

Compared with the angry Ito Youxiang, Lin Daxin's mood at this time is very good!

After the four armored cruisers and two ironclad battleships entered the Yellow Sea, the radio station in the bridge of the Great General contacted the Weihai Naval Academy, and the captain of the ship, He Di, took Ju Peng and others to learn from the two ironclad battleships with a displacement of more than 10,000 tons that Japan had just purchased from Britain, and made a detailed report to Lin Daxin.

After Lin Daxin received the report, he was first shocked that the British sold 21 warships to the Japanese at once, with a total displacement of an astonishing 187,000 tons.

It's just that the displacement of these 21 warships almost exceeds the total displacement of the Beiyang Naval Division and several fleets of the Navy Academy, and Lin Daxin can't wait to buy an atomic bomb from modern time and space and throw it to London, England!

It's a pity that Lin Daxin can only think about it, let alone buy an atomic bomb in modern time and space! It's not easy to buy a pistol! In modern time and space, the state is quite strict in controlling guns and ammunition!

However, Lin Daxin's depressed mood was immediately made by the news that Ju Peng and others had obtained 2 ironclad battleships with a displacement of more than 10,000 tons, and the rain passed!

Unexpectedly, Ju Peng and the others secretly snatched 2 ironclad battleships with a displacement of more than 10,000 tons in the port of the Japanese army, and He Di also sent a telegram saying that he learned from the Japanese prisoners that these two sister ships were the most powerful in terms of comprehensive performance and combat effectiveness among the 21 warships purchased by Japan from Britain, and they were also the latest, and they were only built in 1888!

Lin Daxin couldn't help but sigh at this time, the commander of the combined fleet of small Japan could really be called the captain of the transport group, and in the last naval battle, Japan hired 4 Italian ironclad battleships, so that the navy of the Sailor Academy was captured intact!

Now it is equivalent to sending Lin Daxin 2 equally powerful ironclad battleships, Lin Daxin really wants to say thank you to the commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet!

Lin Daxin, who is not bad for money, has always wanted to buy such a powerful warship as an ironclad battleship, but unfortunately there is no way, Britain and Germany, these naval powers, do not sell these ironclad battleships to Lin Daxin, and even the more advanced warships are not sold to Lin Daxin, forcing Lin Daxin to buy back a batch of warships from South America at a high price, before forming a practice fleet of the Sailor School, in order to defeat the Japanese combined fleet in the naval battle.

Now that he has not spent a penny, he has 6 powerful ironclad battleships, and Lin Daxin is indeed grateful to the Japanese!