The assassination of Lin Daxin, the subsequent raid on Vladivostok by the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy, the landing of the Japanese Army in Far Eastern Province, and the attack on Sakhalin Island in Far Eastern Province by the Japanese Navy and Army forces shocked a group of powerful people in the Qing court.

Empress Dowager Cixi's first reaction when she heard the news was to immediately ask people, did Japan declare war with the Qing Dynasty? Fortunately, the Japanese considered that the Great Qing Army was not without combat effectiveness, and was not ready to fight with the Manchus, the Japanese had their own small calculations, if Japan attacked the Qing Dynasty, Lin Daxin would definitely send troops, and if Japan attacked Lin Daxin, the Qing Dynasty would not send troops 90 percent.

The Japanese envoy in the Qing Dynasty, Komura Shoutaro, never left in Beijing, and he comforted Prince Gong Yixin, who came to inquire about the news, this incident had nothing to do with the Qing Dynasty, but only because the Dingbei Army of Yalu River Province under Lin Daxin attacked the Japanese Army on the border line, which brought heavy casualties to the Japanese Army, which caused this border conflict, the Japanese are reasonable, they will only find Lin Daxin to settle accounts, and will not be unable to get along with the Qing Dynasty.

However, Komura Shoutaro threatened Prince Gong Yixin that if the Qing court did not know how to raise it, the iron hooves of the Japanese Empire would not hesitate to set foot on the land of the Qing Dynasty again.

When Prince Gong Yixin, who was relieved, left the Japanese Legation, Komura Shoutaro couldn't help but sneer and think, this group of stupid Qing Dynasty people, when our Great Japanese Empire cleans up Lin Daxin, then the entire Great Qing Dynasty will belong to the Great Japanese Empire.

Border conflict, this is the definition given by the Japanese, but it did make the high-level court leaders led by Cixi and Emperor Guangxu breathe a sigh of relief, and the Japanese almost broke through the city of Beijing back then. It is that in recent years, the imperial court has a new army in 13 towns, and it is still a little afraid of the Japanese.

In the Empress Dowager Cixi's Xinuan Pavilion. Li Hongzhang advocated sending troops to fight against the Japanese with Lin Daxin, and even declared war with the Japanese. Lin Daxin's subordinates have just experienced a brutal war, and finally defeated the Russians, and their vitality may not have eased up, if they are defeated by the Japanese, let the Japanese occupy the Northeast, and even Lin Daxin's other territories, according to the Japanese temperament, they will not let go of the fat of the Qing Dynasty.

However, the Empress Dowager Cixi repeatedly warned Li Hongzhang. Don't provoke the Japanese, last time, in order to avoid angering the Russians, the imperial court had already cheapened Xinjiang Lin Daxin for nothing, this time you Li Hongzhang don't toss, and finally Li Hongzhang walked away angrily.

The Empress Dowager Cixi looked at Li Hongzhang's back, and a trace of vicious eyes flashed in her eyes.

After Li Hongzhang returned to his mansion in Beijing, he ordered the elite of the Beiyang Army and the Huai Army to enter a state of readiness, and after his old man discussed with Lin Daxin, if necessary, the elite of the Beiyang Army and the Huai Army rushed to the battlefield. 300,000 elites of the Beiyang Army and the Huai Army will rush to the battlefield and fight side by side with the Dingbei Army.

The Japanese suddenly declared war on the forces under Lin Daxin, and after the news spread around the world, oh. The Japanese interpreted it as a border conflict, and Lin Daxin also acquiesced to the Japanese statement, and the two sides did not declare war. Many countries around the world applauded, like Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, who had just been defeated by Lin Daxin. After getting the news, I was very drunk that night.

Italians, French, and Americans who have suffered at the hands of Lin Daxin. is even more gloating, waiting to see Lin Daxin's jokes, countries like Germany and Austria-Hungary are also watching coldly, and the British are even sharpening their knives, I have to say that Lin Daxin's popularity is really strange, and these powerful countries in the world are about to provoke Lin Daxin.

Lin Daxin is actually drunk himself, and he doesn't want to provoke so many world powers, but these countries really want to bite off a piece of fat on Daqing, can he, a hot-blooded young man, endure it?

Lin Daxin can't care about the attitudes of other countries now, he has focused his attention on the three fleets of the Northeast Navy escorting the 21st, 22nd, and 23rd Divisions of the Dingbei Army to Sakhalin.

And this naval battle is definitely a difficult naval battle, the Northeast Navy has prepared a killer weapon in the previous sea battles, but now the warships of various countries have been equipped with a large number of anti-aircraft guns, so that Lin Daxin's airship has lost its effectiveness, and the depth charges equipped by the navies of various countries have made Lin Daxin's 2 submarines as a killer weapon The effect has also weakened a lot.

This collision with the main force of the Japanese Navy's combined fleet was a real battle, but what made Lin Daxin feel more at ease was that the combined strength of the Japanese Navy's combined fleet was slightly inferior to the three fleets of the Northeast Navy.

The countries of the world are also relatively well-informed, and immediately focused their attention on the two huge fleets that are getting closer and closer, waiting for another large-scale naval battle to break out.

At about 7 o'clock in the morning of September 20, 1899, the sky was already bright, and the sea was breezy and the northeast navy's first, second, and third fleets of several all-steel battleships had changed their formation and turned into a long snake formation sailing on the sea surface of the Korean Strait.

It turned out that the radar on the warships of the three fleets had already discovered the traces of the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy 2 hours ago, and they had prepared for a naval battle in advance, leaving the transport ships behind, and leaving the 17th and 18th warframes, 8 fast protection cruisers to protect the transport ships, and all the warships of the other 3 fleets to meet the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy.

Soon thick smoke appeared in the sight of the officers and men of the Northeast Navy, and gradually the outline of the Japanese warship became clear, and the officers and men of the Northeast Navy knew that their opponent had finally arrived.

The Japanese did not have radar, so they sent a reconnaissance fleet in front, and the purpose of sending a reconnaissance fleet was to report the enemy's position, speed, course and other information to the main fleet, so that the fleet could form the most favorable formation to meet the enemy ships as soon as possible, and the reconnaissance fleet should also try to avoid the opposing reconnaissance fleet from obtaining similar information.

The Japanese warships seen by the officers and men of the Tohoku Navy were the Asama-class large fast armored cruisers Nachi, Haguro, Myoko, and Chikuma of the First Armored Cruiser of the Combined Fleet, and the fast protection cruisers Asahun, Yamagumo, Natsugumo, and Minemo of the Fifth Protective Cruiser of the Combined Fleet.

The eight Japanese warships saw the overwhelming warships rushing towards them, and immediately turned their bows and retreated back, if there was a small number of reconnaissance fleets of the Northeast Navy, their eight warships would still be able to engage each other, and now this is obviously the main force of the Northeast Navy, so it is better to quickly join the main force of their own combined fleet, and it is not brave to rush over now, it is completely to die.

At about 8 o'clock, the three main fleets of the Northeast Navy and the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy finally met near Tsushima Island in the Korean Strait, at this time the two fleets were 15,000 meters apart, and the commander of the Japanese Navy's combined fleet, Heihachiro Togo, ordered the first armored cruiser and the fifth protective cruiser in charge of reconnaissance to withdraw to their own fleet.

Subsequently, Heihachiro Togo ordered the formations to adjust their formations and ordered the battle fleets to form battle lines, which caused some confusion in the formation of the fleet, but the formation was quickly restored, and it can be seen that the Japanese Navy's hard training in recent years was also in vain, so that the Japanese Combined Fleet sailed to the southwest and the fleet of the Northeast Navy to the northeast, forming a parallel and opposite navigation.

The all-steel battleship Fuji, the flagship of the Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet, raised the "Z" signal flag under the order of Heihachiro Togo, indicating to the whole fleet that the rise and fall of the Great Japanese Empire was fought in this battle, and the princes worked hard to kill the enemy, and more than 100 warships of the Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet vigorously greeted the Northeast Navy opposite.

Because the commander of the Northeast Navy in this naval battle was Jiang Hui, the all-steel battleship Yade, the flagship of the Third Fleet of the Northeast Navy, became the command ship of the three fleets of the entire Northeast Navy.

Jiang Hui ordered the Yade to also raise a flag, which was a black flag with the bright red word "death", which was still the "death" flag made by Lin Daxin to the Navy of the Naval Academy, the predecessor of the Northeast Navy, and the Northeast Navy still retained this flag.

The fleets of both sides, determined to fight to the end, rushed to each other.

When the two fleets were 10,000 meters apart, Heihachiro Togo first ordered the battle line of the Japanese Combined Fleet to start turning around on the left rudder and making a "U" turn, preparing to seize the T-head.

Almost at the same time, Jiang Hui also gave the Northeast Navy's battleline an order, turned to the left, made a "U" turn, and also prepared to seize the T-shape.

It is the most ideal situation in naval warfare to be able to seize the T-shaped position, that is, the column formed by your own side is exactly across the advance path of the opponent's fleet, forming a T-shape, and your fleet is located in the position of the T-shaped horizontal, so that all the front and rear main guns of your side and all the gunwales on one side can aim at the opponent, and the opponent can only return fire with the forward main guns of the ships at the front of the column.

There were 18 all-steel battleships and 4 ironclad battleships on the battle line of the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy, and as for the 4 old ironclad ships of the 7th Battle Fleet, Heihachiro Togo did not let them into the battle line.

The battle line of the Northeast Navy has 25 all-steel battleships, and the battle lines of both sides are several kilometers long, although they are turning around, but it does not affect the distance between the two sides getting closer and closer, and a sea battle is about to break out near Tsushima Island. (To be continued......)