Three Japanese airships loaded with about 30 tons of grain and bullets flew to the Far Eastern Province, and these three airships also shouldered the task of connecting the northern dispatch army of China with the mainland, after all, after the defeat in the naval battle, the Northeast Navy will definitely tightly seal the sea near the Wild Boar River Wharf, and it has become impossible to use transport ships to transmit news.

Emperor Meiji did not wait for the airship to bring back the latest battle report of the Northern Dispatch Army in China, but he waited for a very bad news for Emperor Meiji, a detachment of the Northeast Navy consisting of 4 all-steel battleships, 2 large fast armored cruisers, 8 fast protection cruisers, 5 destroyers, 10 torpedo boats and more than a dozen transport ships, swept the entire Ryukyu Islands, and in just 2 days, all the Japanese islands south of Kyushu Island fell into the hands of Lin Daxin.

It turned out that after Lin Daxin ordered the Northeast Navy to dispatch warships to cooperate with the Marines to seize the Ryukyu Islands, several fleet commanders discussed, and Jiang Chen led the surviving Second Fleet of the Northeast Navy, led by the all-steel battleships Qinghai Lake, Poyang Lake, Dongting Lake, and Hulun Lake, as well as the large fast armored cruisers Xingzhong and Xingning, and the whole fleet went south, and converged more than a dozen transport ships carrying officers and men of one brigade of marines on the sea surface of the East China Sea. Swept away the Japanese garrison on the Ryukyu Islands and occupied the entire Ryukyu Islands.

Originally, the Second Fleet of the Northeast Navy still had one all-steel battleship, the Taihu, but because the Taihu was seriously injured, it had already entered the Dalian shipyard for repairs, and it could not participate in the operation with the fleet for a while.

Japan did not have many troops stationed in the Ryukyu Islands, and the Japanese Navy did not make the Ryukyu Islands the focus of defense. It was only in Naha Castle on the island of Okinawa, which was the capital of the former Ryukyu Kingdom. There was an army with 1 brigade of the Japanese army, and there were 2 old small gunboats with a displacement of less than 100 tons in the port of Naha. These are the largest armed forces of the Japanese in the Ryukyu Islands.

But this bit of strength, under the attack of the Second Fleet and 1 Marine Corps of the Northeast Navy, quite a cannon to fight mosquitoes, the Japanese Navy's 2 old small gunboats with a displacement of less than 100 tons were sunk in the sea by several fast protection cruisers of the Second Fleet, and the other warships did not even have time to fire their guns in a hurry, and then the marines occupied Naha Castle with a single charge under the cover of the warships' guns, and there were even fewer Japanese garrisons on the other islands of the Ryukyu Islands. It was even more difficult to resist the attack of the Marines, and the Ryukyu Islands were lightly controlled by Lin Daxin.

The Japanese on the Ryukyu Islands were all held by the marines, and the Ryukyuan people on the islands, the officers and soldiers of the Marines were very polite to them, at this time the Ryukyu Kingdom had just been swallowed by Japan for many years, and Japan adopted a high-pressure assimilation policy towards the Ryukyuan, forcing the Ryukyuan people to speak Japanese, and even forcing the Ryukyuan people to serve in the military, which made the Ryukyuan people very dissatisfied with the rule of Japan. The Marines who defeated the Japanese were very welcome.

After the annexation of the Ryukyu Kingdom by Japan, some people in the Ryukyus had been negotiating with Japan, the Qing Dynasty, and the legations of the great powers stationed in Japan, hoping to restore the Ryukyu Kingdom through diplomatic means. Even many Ryukyuan people went into exile in the Qing Dynasty and launched the Ryukyu Restoration Movement. Based in Fuzhou, Beijing, and Tianjin, these people asked the Qing Dynasty to negotiate with Japan on the Ryukyu issue, but unfortunately they found the wrong target. The corrupt and cowardly Qing Dynasty is no longer able to point fingers at the rising Japan, if it weren't for the appearance of Lin Daxin, a demon-like figure. After the defeat of the Qing Dynasty in the First Sino-Japanese War, the Ryukyuan people's desire to restore the country would be completely shattered.

However, Lin Daxin is not a good man and a woman. The strategic location of the Ryukyu Islands is important, this place Lin Daxin will definitely be firmly in his hands, and it seems that the Ryukyu Kingdom has no hope of recovering the country, but the Ryukyu Kingdom has always been a subject country of the Qing Dynasty, and even the official language of the Ryukyu Kingdom is Chinese characters, and it is relatively easy to absorb the Ryukyu people into the big family of the Chinese nation.

After occupying the Ryukyu Islands, the Second Fleet of the Tohoku Navy moved its main force to Tanegashima, which was separated from Japan's Kyushu Island only by the Osumi Strait, and could attack the Japanese mainland at any time.

Emperor Meiji knew that the Ryukyu Islands were occupied by the Northeast Navy, but he just sighed, he didn't expect that Lin Daxin would suddenly let the Northeast Navy go south to capture the Ryukyu Islands, shouldn't our war be a showdown in South Korea and the Far East Province? Why don't you Lin Daxin play your cards according to common sense, but now Japan no longer has the strength to launch a counteroffensive against the Ryukyu Islands.

Emperor Meiji only ordered the combined fleet at the Sasebo Naval Base on the island of Kyushu to send some warships into the Bungo Waterway and Kii Waterway in the Seto Inland Sea of Japan, and try to hold these two waterways to prevent the Tohoku Navy from entering the Seto Inland Sea.

However, unlike the war a few years ago, when the defense of the home ports was useless, Japan now relies on huge funds to build permanent reinforced concrete batteries in many port cities, and the Tohoku Navy cannot unscrupulously crisscross the entire coast of Japan as it did a few years ago.

The Second Fleet of the Northeast Navy in Tanegashima has been hanging over the heads of the Japanese like a sharp sword, and from then on, the Japanese defenders in those port cities in Japan will not be able to sleep well, and they may not know when the warships of the Northeast Navy will be killed, and the only thing that can reassure the port defenders is the large-caliber coastal defense guns in the port forts.

In the Eagle Gorge in the Sikhote Mountains of the Far Eastern Province, the Japanese Northern Dispatch Army has not stopped attacking, thanks to the reinforcements and two new divisions sent a few days ago, and in the past few days, the Japanese Northern Dispatch Army of China, under the leadership of Commander Oyama Yan, has launched a frantic attack on the passage in the Eagle Gorge and the hills on both sides.

By October 29, the Japanese Northern Dispatch Army had captured the two fortifications built by the Dingbei Army and more than a dozen hills on both sides of the Eagle Gorge Pass, but there were still six fortifications built by the Dingbei Army in the Eagle Gorge Pass, and the task of the Japanese Northern Dispatch Army was still a long way to go.

Oyama Iwa, commander of the Japanese Northern Dispatch Army in China, saw three behemoth-like airships unloading grain and bullets not far away, and finally showed a smile on his face, which had not been smiling because of the defeat in the naval battle for the past few days.

Dashanyan knows what the defeat in the naval battle represents, and it is likely that the waters near the Wild Boar River Wharf in the Far East Province will be blocked by the Northeast Navy in a short period of time, unless the British mobilize a large fleet and have another naval battle with the Northeast Navy for sea supremacy, but Dashanyan is worried that the British will not fight to the death with the Northeast Navy for Japan, and such selfless people will not be British.

But in that case, hundreds of thousands of people sent troops to the north of China, but there are no reinforcements and supplies, Dashanyan can't help but shudder when he thinks of this, he can experience that kind of days, a few years ago and the Qing Dynasty war, Dashanyan is to take the Japanese army South Route Army and Dingbei Army a bloody battle, and finally because there are no reinforcements and supplies, have to flee wolf, has been fleeing from the northeast of Mukden Province to the territory of the Russians at that time.

said that it was Dashanyan who put gold on his face, but in fact, he was driven to Russia by the Dingbei Army like a dog, and Dashanyan really didn't want to experience that nightmare anymore.

Sometimes, the more you don't want things to turn out like this, things really turn out like this, and Oyama Yan's worries soon become a reality, and the Northeast Navy sent a large number of warships to block the sea surface of the Far Eastern Province, especially the sea near the Wild Boar River pier where the Japanese northern China sent troops to land, and it was filled with many powerful battleships.

The news brought by the airship said that the British, as expected by Dashanyan, would not send warships to fight the Northeast Navy again, and even the British did it more thoroughly, and the fleet left Japan directly, waving his hand, leaving no trace of nostalgia, and was very decisive.

However, to the surprise of Oyama Iwa, the three airships did not expect that the Japanese Empire had already built a large airship that could fly long distances, and also sent about 30 tons of food and ammunition to his northern China army.

Although 30 tons of food and ammunition are a drop in the bucket for hundreds of thousands of people in the northern part of China, this means that the transportation channel has not been cut off, but has only changed from the sea route to the air, which is a very big boost to the morale of the officers and soldiers sent to the north of China, and the current food and ammunition hoarded by the northern China dispatch army is enough for half a month, with the replenishment of three airships every two days, this time will be extended, and the confidence of Dashanyan has returned to a full state.

Oyama Yan said to Yoshikawa Daisa, who was subordinate to the headquarters beside him: "Yoshikawa-kun, how many of the 147 prisoners of war of the Dingbei Army captured alive are still alive?" ”

Yoshikawa Osa replied: "Report to the commander, some of the prisoners of war were seriously injured and could not be saved, and our medicine was wasted, and there are still 129 people still alive. ”

Dashan Yan nodded and said: "Yoshikawa-kun, you immediately bring someone to escort the remaining 129 prisoners of war of the Dingbei Army over and transport them back to China by airship, the emperor's prisoner dedication ceremony needs these prisoners of war of the Dingbei Army, Yoshikawa-kun, you personally bring someone to escort the prisoners of war back to Japan!" ”

When this named Yoshikawa Dazuo heard it, his heart immediately burst into joy, you must know that the scene of the battle in Eagle Gorge is almost like a sea of blood in the corpse mountain, although he is the commander of the headquarters guard unit, but if he stays here, he may have to go to the front line when he stays here, and Yoshikawa Dasa, who cherishes his own life, wants to kiss Oyama Rock happily for the commander to let him escort the prisoners of war of the Dingbei Army back to Japan.

Yoshikawa Osa immediately shouted, "Hey! Commander! I'm going to get the job done! (To be continued......) R1292