This battleship is the flagship of the Combined Fleet of the Japanese Navy...... The Matsushima, the commander, was a famous Japanese admiral in the Lin Fei era...... Heihachiro Togo.

Like Nogi Noshinori, Togo Heihachiro was touted as the "god of war" by later generations of Japanese, and his most proud battle was the Battle of Tsushima in the Russo-Japanese War, in which Togo Heihachiro led the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy to annihilate the Baltic Fleet of the Russian Empire, and established the victory of the Russo-Japanese War in one fell swoop.

In the First Sino-Japanese War, Heihachiro Togo was the captain of the Naniwa ship, and during the Battle of the Yellow Sea, he was the admiral, and in April 1895, he was promoted to rear admiral and served as the commander of the Southern Dispatch Fleet, the so-called "Southern Dispatch Fleet", which was the fleet that escorted the Japanese invasion of Taiwan.

Heihachiro Togo looked at the corpse on the sea, his face was blue with anger, and at this time an old man walked to his side, and on the epaulettes of the old man, there were two shining golden stars, and he turned out to be a vice admiral.

The old man whispered beside Heihachiro Togo, "Togo, who do you think attacked our transport fleet?" ”

The old man's steps were very light, so Togo Heihachiro didn't notice that he walked to his side at all, and he didn't react until he heard the voice, Togo Heihachiro turned his head to look at the old man, bowed respectfully, and said, "Senior, I'm really sorry, I didn't hear your voice." ”

It turned out that this old man was the commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet...... Vice Admiral Ito, during the Sino-Japanese War, he commanded the Combined Fleet to defeat the Beiyang Fleet, and at this time his position was the commander of the Southern Dispatch Fleet.

There is actually no difference between "commander" and "commander", it stands to reason that Togo Heihachiro alone is enough to serve as the commander of the fleet, and there is no need for Ito Yuhiro to be a "commander" again, but Togo Heihachiro has just been promoted from Navy Osa to rear admiral, and the captains who participated in the First Sino-Japanese War with him have not been promoted, and the Japanese Supreme Command is worried that Togo Heihachiro will not be able to control the scene, after all, several other captains are very qualified and capable, and the captain of the flagship Matsushima ship, Arisugawa Weihito, is still an imperial family, There is a title of prince.

Ito Yuhyung smiled and said, "It's nothing, let's talk about it, who attacked our transport ship." ”

Heihachiro Togo pondered for a moment and said, "The biggest possibility is the Huaxia Empire. ”

Ito Youheng frowned and said, "Isn't the Huaxia Empire without a navy?" ”

Togo Heihachiro bowed lightly and said, "Senior, please don't trust those guys from the Intelligence Division, if their intelligence is accurate, the 16th Infantry Wing and the Guards Division will not be wiped out." ”

Ito Yuhyung smiled with satisfaction and said, "Very good, Togo, I didn't misread you, many guys in the military department believe in the intelligence section." Ito Youheng's tone changed when he said this, and he said in a deep voice: "Let's go back, I have a hunch that a big battle is just around the corner, and the enemy we face will be much stronger than the Zhenyuan and Dingyuan ships." ”

The "Zhenyuan Ship" and the "Dingyuan Ship" were the core warships of the Beiyang Navy, and they were the well-deserved "No. 1 ironclad ships" in Asia at that time.

Ito gave the order to turn the fleet, returned to the Penghu temporary base at 6 p.m., and at 7 p.m., the seriously wounded Chiyoda returned to Penghu.

At 9 o'clock in the evening, Ito Yuhiro convened a meeting of the whole fleet, which was attended by all the captains of the southern dispatch fleet, including the captain of the torpedo boat and the captain of the transport ship, and the meeting was also attended by people from the army, including the commander of the second division, Vice Admiral Nogi Noshinori, the commander of the fourth brigade, the rear general of the infantry, Prince Fushimi Miya, and many Japanese imperial families served in the army, and Prince Fushimi Miyazawa was one.

Everyone knew the news that the transport fleet was attacked by the Huaxia Imperial Navy and that the Chiyoda ship had suffered heavy damage, so everyone's faces were solemn, and the atmosphere in the conference room was extremely depressed.

Ito Yuhiro spoke first, he turned his head to look at Nogi Noshinori and said, "General Nogi, let's talk about the losses suffered by the army first. ”

Nogi Noshinori nodded and said, "The troops carried by the transport ship are the first and second brigades of the fifth wing of the fourth brigade, a total of two thousand eight hundred people, except for more than two hundred people who escaped by chance, all the others ...... Dedicated to His Majesty the Emperor, Wing Captain Sasaki was on duty and sacrificed his life for the country. ”

Everyone was deplored, and Ito said, "After talking about the army, let's talk about the navy." Ito turned his head to look at Masatoshi Uchida and said, "Captain Uchida, let's talk about the loss of the Chiyoda." ”

Uchida Masatoshi's face was full of shame, he stood up, bowed deeply, and said: "The losses suffered by the Chiyoda ship are still very large, in terms of personnel, sixty-seven people were killed, most of them were gunners, medics and firefighters, and another thirty-six people were wounded, ten of them were very badly wounded. ”

"In terms of hull, the guns of the No. 8, No. 9 and No. 10 gun positions were damaged and basically lost their combat capability, the two coal-fired boilers in the No. 1 power compartment were scrapped and became unusable, and the No. 2 and No. 3 boiler compartments were also damaged in different ways."

Ito asked expressionlessly, "When will the Chiyoda ship be repaired?" ”

Uchida Masatoshi looked gloomy and said: "The temporary berth in Penghu cannot repair such damage, and if you want to repair it, you must return to the shipbuilding factory in Nagasaki, so it will take at least a month." ”

Ito Yuhyung said "um", waved his hand at Masatoshi Uchida, and said, "You sit down first." ”

Uchida Masatoshi bowed apologetically and sat back on the chair, Ito Yuhyung looked at everyone and said, "This matter must have been done by the Huaxia Empire, I don't know what everyone thinks?" ”

Prince Arisugawa Weiren, the captain of the Matsushima ship, stood up and said loudly: "General, I think we should immediately dispatch a fleet to march to the waters south of Taiwan to find the main fleet of the Huaxia Empire, engage in a strategic decisive battle with it, and destroy them as we did with the Beiyang Fleet." ”

Ito was noncommittal, but looked at the others and asked, "What is everyone's opinion?" ”

The captain of the Naniwa ship, Shichiro Kataoka, stood up and said: "General, I agree with His Royal Highness the Prince, in the past month, the Chinese Empire has disgraced our Great Japanese Empire again and again, and if we don't punish the Chinese Empire severely, we will be the sinners of the Empire, and we will be ashamed of His Majesty the Emperor." ”

After Shichiro Kataoka finished speaking, the other captains stood up one after another, and they all said that they were going to find the Huaxia Imperial Navy for the main decisive battle, and when everyone finished speaking, Ito Yuhiro said: "Everyone's idea is very good, and I also agree to have the main decisive battle." ”

Everyone was excited, and the oppressive atmosphere in the room just now was swept away, and then Togo Heihachiro said softly: "General, should we slow down the matter of looking for the main decisive battle of the Huaxia Imperial Navy?" ”

Ito Youheng and everyone in the room were stunned, and Prince Arisugawa Weihito said: "Commander Togo, this matter is imperative, why delay?" ”

Togo Heihachiro was just about to speak, Ito Yuheng laughed loudly and said, "I understand Togo's concerns, he is worried that the current situation of the Huaxia Imperial Navy is unknown, and it will be dangerous to rush into a decisive battle. Ito turned to look at Heihachiro Togo and asked, "Am I right, Togo?" ”

Heihachiro Togo nodded solemnly, and Ito Yuhiro stood up and said in a loud voice: "Rest assured, in this battle, our Imperial Navy will be invincible. ”

Everyone looked at Ito Yuheng intently, and Ito Yuheng continued: "When the Chiyoda ship returned, I called the sailors on the ship to the office and personally inquired about the situation of the enemy ship, and it turned out that the two warships of the Huaxia Empire had a displacement of about 2,000 tons, which was about the same as our Naniwa ship and the Akitsu Zhou ship. ”

"And our warships, Matsushima, Itsukushima and Hashidate, are all large warships with a displacement of nearly 4,000 tons, and they have a great advantage. According to the sailors of the Chiyoda ship, the two warships of the Chinese Empire had only eight guns, on the other hand, our warships, eight guns were already considered to be less, and the Chiyoda ships had ten guns. ”

"Our artillery is a rapid-fire gun purchased from the British, and the rate of fire can reach ten pieces per minute, which is enough for our shells to rain down on the warships of the Chinese Empire. In addition to the rapid-fire guns, there are also 320 mm caliber heavy guns on the Sankei, which were not able to exert their power during the Battle of the Yellow Sea, and now is the time for them to show their skills..."

"Sanjing" is the Songshima ship, Itsukushima ship and Hashidate ship, the name of these three battleships is three landscapes, so they are collectively referred to as Sanjing ship, the biggest feature of these three battleships is that they are equipped with 320 mm caliber heavy guns, this kind of heavy artillery is specially used by the Japanese to deal with the Dingyuan ship and the Zhenyuan ship, in the Yellow Sea naval battle, due to the design defects of the artillery, can not achieve the expected combat effect.

Ito continued: "Our fleet not only has capital warships, but also six torpedo boats, these torpedo boats are extremely fast, and they are all white-headed torpedoes made in England, one torpedo can sink a battleship, and the torpedo boats are the most heroic sailors of the Empire, they are enough to cooperate with our main warships and destroy all enemy ships." ”

Ito Yuhiro said this, his voice became more and more high-pitched and passionate, "Under the wise command of the Emperor and under the protection of the soul, our Imperial Navy will be invincible, and in this battle, we will defeat the Huaxia Imperial Fleet like defeating the Beiyang Fleet..."

Everyone cheered in unison, and Togo Heihachiro's face still had a hesitant look, but Ito Yuhyung had already made a decision, and he didn't dare to say anything more, he could only ask: "General, the sea is so big, where can we find their main fleet?" ”

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