Chen Feng really understood Takasu Shiro's mood very well, because his mood was the same as Takasu Shiro at this time. After receiving the telegram, Chen Feng's first reaction was disbelief, followed by anger, and finally helplessness.

The navy is no match for the Japanese navy, and Chen Feng is mentally prepared for this. After all, the strength of the Japanese Navy has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, as early as more than 30 years ago, the Qing Beiyang Naval Division, ranked sixth in the world, failed in a battle, and the Russian Baltic Fleet and the Far East Fleet, which ranked third in the world during the Russo-Japanese War, were also defeated by the Japanese Navy.

Besides, the navy under his command has only been in force for more than a year, and there is not even a decent naval officer, and for the navy, which pays attention to tradition and inheritance, the three fleets under Chen Feng lack this necessary historical background.

According to the results of last month's statistics, the navy stationed in Nanyang has 187 surface warships of various kinds, including 122 large warships, and the rest are auxiliary ships such as torpedo boats and submarines.

It looks good on the surface, but in Chen Feng's words, it is just a donkey dung egg, and the surface is just light. Among these 187 large and small ships, there are less than 100 of them that can really be used to fight the Japanese Navy, and the rest are all rags that the United States and the Soviet Union are about to be eliminated, and they are barely used for training, let alone pulling out the Lu to fight hard with the Japanese Navy.

Japan, on the other hand, is surrounded by the sea on all sides due to its island nation. Foreign enemies and supplies come from the sea, so the navy is given the highest priority. In addition, Japan's own manufacturing and technology are high, absorbing the most advanced technology from the United States, and combining internal and external technology to design and produce first-class ships with reliable quality and advanced technology.

In addition, Japan's national education level is high, and the personal education level of ordinary officers and men is among the highest in the world. The navy is a technical branch of the armed forces, and the country's basic education level restricts the combat effectiveness of the navy.

The most important thing is that Japan has a tradition of being a naval power that has lasted for more than 100 years, and has a sound personnel training system and a high level of talent training. The Navy has experienced a large number of naval battles. There is a lot of experience and tradition that has been passed down, which is the advantage of the software.

Therefore, Japan's most powerful force is not the army, which flaunts its might on the battlefield in China, but the navy, which the entire Japanese people are proud of.

There is no doubt about the strength of the Japanese Navy. There is a famous saying in Japan: "The sea protects Japan." The sea also isolated Japan. "As an island nation. The sea is the lifeblood of Japan, and the navy is the defender of the lifeline.

The Japanese have long attached importance to the construction of the navy, dating back to the end of the 16th century. At the same time, Japan's navy has always been the vanguard of foreign aggression, and even hundreds of years ago, the Japanese navy participated in the war of aggression against Korea, but unfortunately they met the genius commander of Korea, Yi Sunsin, and suffered two disastrous defeats in the naval battles of Mingliang and Zhangliang, and returned with a feather.

The real rise of the Japanese Navy began after the Meiji Restoration, which was a peak in the construction of the Japanese Navy. At that time, the size of the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy was the 11th in the world, lagging behind the Beiyang Naval Division of the Qing Dynasty. In order to annex Korea and occupy northeastern China, Emperor Meiji shouted the slogan of concentrating the nation's efforts to build a navy.

He spearheaded the donation of 10 percent of the annual savings of the royal family to the navy; In order to buy the Yoshino, the emperor ate only one meal a day, so all Japanese people ate only one meal a day; Even the game that Japanese children usually play is "Dingyuan". The perseverance and perseverance of the Japanese nation is truly terrifying.

Subsequently, in the First Sino-Japanese War, the combined fleet commanded by Ito Yuhiro inflicted heavy losses on the Beiyang Naval Division and obtained sea supremacy, ensuring the smooth implementation of the Japanese army's strategy of invading Korea and occupying the brigade.

In 1905, the Combined Fleet once again challenged an opponent stronger than itself, this time against the Russian Navy, which ranked third in the world. Heihachiro Togo commanded the Combined Fleet to ambush the Russian Far East Fleet in the Tsushima Strait, and won a complete victory. At the small cost of losing three torpedo boats, the Japanese sank eight Russian battleships, four cruisers, and captured four large warships, almost completely annihilating the Russian Pacific Fleet and the Baltic Fleet.

In the 30 years since, the Japanese Navy has expanded at an astonishing rate every year. In 1922, the Fengxiang was launched, which was the first aircraft carrier in human history, and then Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, Daho and other world-class large aircraft carriers were launched, and its strength has been firmly ranked third in the first world of Asia in these decades.

It has been less than 50 years since Japan emerged in the Sino-Japanese War in 1894. Since the First Sino-Japanese War, Japan defeated the Beiyang Fleet of the Qing Dynasty, first drove the Russians out of Lushun in China, and later expelled the Germans from Qingdao, Shandong.

The first year of 1894 was by far the most glorious and declining year of the Chinese Navy in the past 50 years. The glorious thing is that at the beginning of 1894, the Chinese Navy was known as the first in Asia, and the decline was the Battle of Weihaiwei, and the Beiyang Navy was completely annihilated.

Since then, the Chinese Navy has never "risen strongly". If the Beiyang Navy of the Qing Dynasty still had the opportunity to go to sea and fight with the Japanese Navy on the sea, then the later Republic of China Navy did not even have the courage to go to sea to fight the Japanese Navy.

During the Anti-Japanese War, the main combat strategy of the Chinese Navy was to sink the steel ships built at a "huge cost" into the rivers like "cheap" stones, in an attempt to "deny" the Japanese Navy by sinking the ships in the waterway to prevent the Japanese army from entering the interior.

After 1894, the Japanese Navy no longer regarded the Chinese Navy as its main combat opponent, and since then, Japan has aimed its main opponents at the navies of major powers such as Russia and the United States.

At the beginning of World War II, the Japanese Navy was known as the "third navy in the world", which was not boasting, but ranked third with its strength, with a total of 66,000 naval officers and men, a total of about 15 large aircraft carriers and small aircraft carriers, the famous ones are "Chicheng", "Yunlong", "Soryu", "Flying Dragon", "Kaga", "Shoho", "Zuizuru", "Shinano" and so on; There are 10~20 super battleships, including "Yamato", "Musashi", "Kirishima", "Nagato", "Kongo", "Mutsu", "Fuso", "Ise", "Hinata", etc.; In addition, there are dozens of heavy cruisers, famous ones such as "Kumano", "Mogami", "Tone", "Atago", "Haguro", "Mikuma", "Nachi", "Furutaka", "Takao" and so on.

In addition to this, there were many destroyers and frigates, but they were not the main force of the Japanese Navy, and the submarine force of the Japanese Navy was the weakest force of the Imperial Japanese Navy, and the performance of submarines was inferior to that of the United States. However, the number of carrier-based aircraft in Japan is staggering, and even at the time of Japan's surrender, there were more than 50,000 carrier-based aircraft in Japan.

Because of this, Chen Feng has always warned the officers and men of the navy not to have a hard time with the Japanese Navy for the time being, but he did not expect the Japanese Navy to come to the door by itself, and at once he beat the Heilongjiang Fleet, one of the three major fleets under Chen Feng's command, if he didn't want to find a way to rescue him, I am afraid that the Heilongjiang Fleet would die before the Titanic.

According to the telegram sent back by Jiang Haitao, although the Japanese army suddenly stopped attacking, nearly 100 large warships of the Japanese army blocked all the nearby waters, and if the Japanese were willing, they could all be sent to the bottom of the sea in half an hour at most.

How to solve the critical situation of the Heilongjiang fleet made Chen Feng quite nerve-wracking, and he thought of several ways to no avail, and the most likely way to successfully save the lives of Jiang Haitao and all the officers and men of the fleet was to order them to surrender to the Japanese navy.

But this method does not necessarily work, because this is China, it is the East, not the West. According to the Western point of view, as long as a qualified soldier has fulfilled his duty, it is his duty to fight well, and when the soldier chooses to surrender when he finds that he is no longer able to fulfill his duty, in the eyes of Westerners, the soldier has completed his own obligations, and the rest of the things are beyond his power.

But after all, that is the thinking of the West, in the final analysis, the West's understanding of the country is not as profound as China's, the division and merger of countries are common, the victor is not so harsh on the vanquished, in this case, the soldier's sense of honor is not so strong, or the recognition of honor is far from the East.

And for the Orientals, war is a never-ending affair, either victory or death. Heroes don't necessarily have to win, the defeated are respected, and surrender has always been despised by everyone. Xiang Yu and Wen Tianxiang were both defeated and died, but they were all heroes, and Shi Kefa was also defeated and died, he was also a hero, what they had in common was that they did not surrender, and even the enemies who defeated them respected them. On the contrary, Hong Tingbi surrendered, but was classified as a second minister by the Manchu Qing. It was after opening the most lurky that he also surrendered, and he also did not end well, so in the East, real soldiers disdained to surrender.

The main officers of the Heilongjiang Fleet were all selected by Chen Feng himself, and he knew that under such circumstances, even if he, the commander of the theater, ordered them to lay down their arms and surrender to the Japanese, I am afraid that few would seriously implement it, so the only way to rescue Jiang Haitao and others was to negotiate with the Japanese and use the Ninth Division as a bargaining chip. (To be continued......)