Yang Feng of Dog Harbor soon knew that he had failed in the second torpedo sales again, but this was just a smile, and the results of the Beiyang Naval Division had already surprised him, and even if this fleet was completely wiped out as in history, it finally had a record that would not make future generations feel embarrassed.

However, the fact that the Combined Fleet had been sent to the dockyard was a good opportunity, and although he had made a fortune these days, he always felt a bit of a fly in the ointment, and in order to make his mood more pleasant, he decided to take advantage of this good opportunity to make a landing operation.

Of course, the target is not Japan, before the recruits complete the training, he does not have this ability, after Zhang Quan arrived in Yiwu, he soon sent more than 2,000 recruits, these years the Chinese people are too poor, as soon as they heard that there is a job of one hundred taels of silver a year, life or something is not worth mentioning, not to mention that this is to do the traditional work of their ancestors, but these farmers, miners, hunters want to become real soldiers, at least have to train for a few months, I am afraid that Yang Feng does not have the strength to land in Japan within half a year.

But you can't land in Japan, but you can land in the Ryukyus, at this time the Ryukyu king Shangtai has been made by the Japanese to Tokyo circle, even the Ryukyus have been changed to Okinawa, of course, so far the Qing Dynasty Zhengfu has not recognized their suzerainty over the Ryukyus, take this opportunity to occupy the Ryukyus, and then get a Ryukyu royal family to engage in the restoration movement is also very good, anyway, it rains to beat the child, idle is idle.

With this mentality, the cargo recalled three landing ships that were robbing outside, and then sent a telegram to the destroyers that were hunting on the route from the Americas to Japan, asking them to put down their work first, go to Keelung Port and wait to meet him, and then load 2,000 soldiers on the ship, escorted by the Marauder, and Boss Yang personally commanded by the Nautilus, and sailed out of Dagou Harbor and headed straight for Taipei.

The voyage of less than 200 kilometers is nothing more than a morning for the eighteen-section fleet, and it will arrive at noon in the morning, first go to meet Xue Fucheng, or by the way scare Tang Jingsong and others, but as soon as I arrived here, I learned that Tang Jingsong ran back to his hometown on the grounds of illness, and not only did he run away, after being tortured by him, the officials in Taiwan ran away by almost a third.

The problem is that these guys don't run normally, they want to sue Xue Fucheng for approval, Tang Jingsong is not easy to refuse, and Lao Xue can't wait to let this guy go, but those prefects and counties can't approve it, so these guys are all sneaking away, so there will be no successor in the short term, and he is having a headache about what to do with those counties that have no officials.

"Is that still easy? You ask the local squires to choose a representative of high moral character, and then match the original set of yamen, and make do with it first, and they will sort out the results of important official business such as case judgments themselves, and then send them to the governor's yamen for sealing. Yang Feng said indifferently, without the slightest awareness of the culprit.

"That's all there is to it for now." Xue Fucheng nodded and said, because this matter was done by Yang Feng in the final analysis, so it was naturally not easy to make it public.

After solving this problem, Yang Feng set sail to Keelung the next day, and after receiving his order, the four destroyers that were hunting at sea returned one after another during the day, one of the destroyers returned to a Japanese merchant ship, and as soon as he got off the ship, he found that the sailors were not in a very stable mental state, including the British captain who was like a male dog.

They hijacked a ship from Japan to Singapore to transport women, this merchant ship was like a sardine can, stuffed with more than 500 Japanese girls with dreams, and when they walked into the cabin, they were a little dumbfounded when they saw this scene.

"Don't tell anyone, take care of this ship, there are brothers on your ship who want to play, come up and play on this ship yourself at night, and when we take the Ryukyus, throw these women there, build a comfort station with a size of 500 people for the brothers, and if you catch such goods in the future, replace them, and then send them to remote villages in China to sell directly." The cargo said shamelessly to the captain.

In fact, he suddenly thought that capturing Japanese slaves is also a good business, you must know that Japan at this time is actually quite poor, landing in those more decent cities naturally yielding a lot of money, but now there are not a few decent cities in total, if you accidentally spread a poor place, you can't recover the cost of landing operations, then you can't say that you can't catch some Japanese women to sell, and it seems to be pretty good to catch some Japanese beautiful boys or something, at this time this kind of thing is still very popular among Chinese scholars, just look at the prosperity of the opera industry.

The next morning, under the leadership of several Ryukyuan people who Xue Fucheng helped find, a huge attacking fleet set sail from Keelung Harbor and slaughtered Okinawa, which is what the Ryukyuan people call Oshima, as for the landing position or something, there is no need to consider this, there is not even a Japanese garrison on the island now, that is, there are several armed police, and there is no need to think about the problems that the US military considered back then, just rush to the beach in Naha Bay.

"Lord Yang, in fact, there are still many people on the island in the south." The guide who showed him the way said with a smile on his face.

"This problem will be left to the future Ryukyu army to be responsible for solving." Yang Feng waved his hand and said, how can he have time to take care of these little things.

"You're saying we can have our own army?" The guide said excitedly.

"Of course, Ryukyu is an independent country, since it is an independent country, it is natural that there should be an army, of course, with your own strength, you will definitely not be able to stop the invasion of foreign enemies, so I will maintain a garrison of 1,000 people in Ryukyu, and then His Majesty the King can assign me a military base, if the situation is suitable there, maybe I will build a port there, build a factory or something." Yang Feng said that it is a bit far to land in Japan from Taiwan, but it is no problem to have Ryukyu for his current base.

The voyage of 600 kilometers, leaving in the morning and arriving in the evening, stopping at sea to rest, the next morning this guy swaggered towards Naha, or Shuri.

"Not a good sign!" The governor of Okinawa Prefecture, Narahara Shigeru, looked at the drizzling sky outside, and said to himself, since he came this morning, his eyelids jumped, and he was actually stuck by fish bones when he ate, all kinds of signs indicate that today is definitely not a pleasant weather, as a Satsuma samurai, he has an extraordinary intuition for the crisis, but even so, when he learned the news that a fleet with the Yellow Dragon flag appeared in the sea off Okinawa, the whole person was still stunned.

"Bastard, do you see clearly, what kind of warship it is." He yelled angrily by the neck of the police officer who had reported the news.

"Yellow Dragon Banner, definitely Yellow Dragon Banner!" The police officer said with a white face, this actually didn't need him to emphasize, because at this time, the governor was already staring out the window with his mouth wide open, and on the sea of Naha Bay, a huge fleet with the yellow dragon flag was slowly approaching.

"Quick, gather all the police, all the native male immigrants and prepare to defend against the invaders!" Governor Nara pushed away the police, took out his katana, thought about it and took out a Colt revolver, and then ran out with a gritted tooth, the whole Naha was in chaos at this time, the alarm bell kept ringing, and the streets were full of running police and armed civilians, because of the lack of guns, in fact, most of the people were cold weapons, and some even carried harpoons.

Governor Nara personally led a huge army of nearly 3,000 people in Naha Bay to prepare to meet the enemy, as an excellent samurai, he quickly made careful arrangements, first of all, the port of Naha is too small, the enemy's huge ironclad ships are absolutely impossible to dock, in fact, when he saw these behemoths comparable to the main ships of the United Fleet, he already understood that he couldn't figure out that he wanted to break the jade this time, but even the jade shattered had to maintain the dignity of a samurai.

Judging from the course of this fleet, they were preparing to land on the beach in small boats, which gave him a chance to live, first piling up a bunker on the beach with sand, which was quickly completed by forcing the Ryukyuan people with bayonets, and then deploying hundreds of armed policemen with the most effective combat effectiveness behind the bunkers, and when the enemy's boats came to the shore, they met them with a dense platoon of guns.

In addition, a team of cavalry was deployed in the woods not far away, of course, it was cavalry, in fact, it was to put together a dozen horses that sent credit, and to deploy armed civilians on the other side of the defense line, and wait for the enemy to land on the shore to launch a decisive charge, and strive to drive the enemy back into the sea, but looking at the black hole on the battleship in the distance, he was not very confident in whether his soldiers could hold out until this moment.

However, to his surprise, the opposite fleet suddenly stopped, and then the three strangely shaped warships behind began to step forward and rushed directly to the shore.

"Nani?" Governor Nara was at a loss, he knew very well that such a large ironclad ship would have to be four or five meters deep, and if it went any further, it would definitely run aground, and a smile immediately appeared on his face, and he decided to watch a good show on the shore, however,

Five minutes passed, and the three battleships traveling side by side still did not run aground, and by this time they were only a hundred meters from the coast.

"Stranded, stranded, Baga, why aren't you stranded!" Governor Nara, who was angry, shook his fist and shouted very unfiguratively.

"The enemy ship is grounded!" At this moment, the soldiers behind the bunker suddenly let out an earth-shattering cheer, and the three ironclad ships finally ran aground, only a few dozen meters from the coast.

As soon as I saw this distance, the cheers instantly turned into fear, this is not called stranding, this is called docking.

The proximity of the three warships brought deep fear to the Japanese on the shore, and they felt as small as ants in front of this steel beast.

Then they saw the six twin turrets in the bow, and the muzzles began to press down slowly.