If Rurik doesn't go back to Vladivostok, then the only place you can go to is the main port of Japan, but most of those places have been "visited" by Beiyang, and the military port that has been beaten into ruins or blocked by mines obviously cannot meet the needs of Rurik's maintenance, so as long as Lin Yongsheng leads the team to go around the remaining military ports, you will definitely be able to find the Russian fleet.

This plan, which seems to be very correct in common sense, disappointed Lin Yongsheng, when the two Guiyuan-class warships were spared in all the ports of Japan, they did not find a single Russian ship! Are you kidding? Could it be that the battleships of the Russians will dive? Or did they all run back to Vladivostok? It's not scientific! So, in desperation, Lin Yongsheng could only return to Lushun with the fleet and report the situation to Xu Jie.

"It's really interesting, the 3 big ships are gone if they don't say no, Makanov is really capable." Looking at the report, Xu Jie smiled bitterly. It is impossible to meet Vladivostok, and if the Russians go back, then in the negotiations between Tolkien and Li Hongzhang, they will not be eager to ask Beiyang to release the Russian fleet. Although Vladivostok is also within the strike range of the Beiyang Fleet, if he does not make full preparations, Xu Jie will not easily run so far!

"That is, the Russian fleet is still near Japan, and they are likely to rest somewhere." Xu Jie said as he opened a large-scale map while muttering to himself.

"And judging from the current situation, there is no trace of the Russians in all the places on the Japanese mainland where large warships can be docked, and according to the situation of the Turquoise and Pearl, they will need at least a week or so to prepare, if not longer. And now they are not at sea. Xu Jie thought for a moment and continued.

"This shows that they are still there, otherwise, we will definitely find their traces by so many attack ships converted from civilian ships at sea." Lin Yongsheng added.

"Now the question is, where are they?" Xu Jie wrote these words on the blackboard and put a big question mark!

"In fact, we can think differently, it is not necessarily a military port that can temporarily berth warships. As long as the water depth is sufficient, the battleship can be stationed there. And if the other party realizes that some materials and equipment are ready, simple repairs can also be carried out. At this time, Yang Yonglin said.

"Very good idea, you mean we should broaden our search?" Liu Buyun asked.

"No, it's a change in the focus of the search, we have already searched several times in mainland Japan, and our next step will be to search along the coast of Korea and other areas around Japan. Emphasis is placed on those possible deep-water harbors. Yang Yonglin said.

"Around Japan?" Xu Jie pondered after hearing this. The coast of North Korea can be directly excluded. After all, the Russians are ready to turn against the Japanese at any time and will not put the fleet on the territory of the Japanese Army. Moreover, there is a lack of ports suitable for 10,000-ton warships on the east coast of North Korea. And the west coast was almost the backyard of the Beiyang fleet, and it was impossible for the Russians to get there, even if they all passed through the Kamitsu Strait.

"Where will that be?" Xu Jie looked at the map, and suddenly, the Ryukyu Islands in the southwest of Japan. "So here!" Xu Jie said excitedly. "Ladies and gentlemen, the Ryukyu Islands are not far from the Japanese mainland, and are outside the normal course of our fleet. At the same time, the distance is not too far, and there are no large military ports and civilian ports in the Ryukyu Islands, so we rarely go there. If the fleet is there, the chances of being spotted are naturally not high! ”

"But is there any equipment and supplies needed to repair a large warship?" Deng Shichang was a little unconvinced.

"Now Japan doesn't have a place where it can repair large warships, so it's good to retreat this time and find an anchorage where you can anchor and supply some supplies." Lin Tai once said. …,

"But is there such a place in the Ryukyu Islands? We don't have detailed hydrological information there, so it's hard to say. Lang Wei couldn't help but shake his head.

"How not, this place, once developed. In the future, it will become an excellent deep-water port! Xu Jie pointed to his plane Okinawa and said. Joke, the 100,000-ton aircraft carrier of the United States can get in, and even if it is inferior now, it is still no problem to enter a 10,000-ton warship.

"Why is Lord Xu so sure where the Russian fleet will be?" Liu Buyun asked.

"If you're not there, you'll find out. There is a ninety percent chance that this will be the final battle of this war for my Beiyang Naval Division! Xu Jie sneered.

"Lord Xu is really going?" Liu Buyun asked.

"My Beiyang Fast Fleet will set off immediately, and if Your Excellency's fleet is also corrected, you can go with you." Xu Jie's mobilization of the fast fleet was at least not something that Liu Buyun could stop.

"Okay, my Beiyang team will go with me. Fight this last curtain call! Liu Buyun gritted his teeth and decided to go with him, although Xu Jie's plan was just a guess, but according to Xu Jie's past performance. Liu Buyun still decided to believe Xu Jie's judgment.

Three days later, Xu Jie's fast fleet set off first. The three ships Zhenyuan, Zhenhai and Zhiyuan followed. Head to Okinawa. At the same time, the Rurik rounded Hokkaido from the north and headed for Okinawa.

As for the Pearl and Turquoise, they have been anchored in the direction of Okinawa. It's not that these two battleships don't want to go, but they really can't! In the absence of radio, the two battleships could not contact the flagship Rurik, and they threw off the flagship alone, and even the officers of the two battleships felt bottomless. The reason is very simple, although Okinawa has been replenished with ammunition, fuel, food and other materials, but the battleship cannot be maintained, if it goes out again, the combat power of these two battleships, if it meets 3 Guiyuan class or Garibaldi class, it will definitely hang! So, in their opinion, the safest thing to do was to wait for the return of the Rurik in this place that they thought was hidden. After the Rurik returned, at least the Russian fleet would not have to be afraid to return to the far rank.

But anything can go wrong, first of all, the Pearl and the Turquoise simply don't know that the Rurik is being tracked. In order to shake off this annoying tail, the Rurik spared a large circle and walked around Hokkaido before heading towards Okinawa, and in order to avoid encountering the Beiyang fleet, Rurik also walked to the open sea. This is even more time-consuming.

As a result, by mistake, the Rurik and the Beiyang Fleet rushed to Okinawa at the same time. And the Rurik is faster, and the Beiyang Fleet is slower. And at this time when the two sides are racing on the sea, the negotiations of the Russians are also being carried out in many ways! First of all, the Russians made direct contact with the Beiyang on the one hand, and directly contacted the Qing Dynasty center on the other, and at the same time brought in the French to act as mediators. That's all the legendary multi-pronged approach. It seems that the Russians have gone to great lengths to keep this fleet.

In comparison, the center of the Qing Dynasty was still relatively easy to fool, and soon Tolkien reached a negotiation intention with the center of the Qing Dynasty, but at this time, a shocking news came from Tianjin, and the Beiyang Fleet set off from the Lushun base! This uncontrollable situation took Tolkien by surprise, and what did that mean? Even if he reached a treaty with the Qing Central, before the Beiyang Fleet received the order, he would still hunt down the Russian fleet! And as far as the efficiency of the Qing State's administrative system is concerned, after this order is transmitted, the daylilies are cold! If Li Hongzhang was delaying a little, it would be enough to destroy the Russian fleet twice!

"What should I do?" For a while, Tolkien was also a little blindsided. In desperation, Tolkien decided to agree in principle to Li Hongzhang's terms of compensation, but only if Beiyang exercised restraint. At this time, Li Hongzhang was not in a hurry, and the price rose from 4 million pounds to 5 million! Desperate, Tolkien was ill and rushed to the hospital, and decided to ask the French for mediation through the Russian government. The British don't have to count on it, so the only force that can be put on the table in the Far East is the French Far East Fleet. At this time, it happened that a detachment of the French Far East Fleet was stationed in Shanghai. …,

I have to say that the French are still very friends this time. Before Tolkien left, Li Hongzhang and Tolkien reached a preliminary consensus, that is, as long as the Russian fleet did not enter the Sea of Japan, then the Beiyang Fleet would not attack ships sailing in the Pacific Ocean, and the Russian government would put the first 1 million pounds of money into the Beiyang account. At the same time, we pledged to completely cut off Japan's assistance. But on the issue of the Russian fleet, the two sides were too divided to reach an agreement.

In response to this, Tolkien decided to find the Russian fleet by all means, and in his capacity as a special envoy ordered the Russian fleet to leave the warring sea immediately and go to Vladivostok. But in the days when there was no radio, it was too difficult to convey this order to a warship sailing at sea. The French, too, were quite interesting enough to order all the French warships in the Far East to find and convey this order. But at the end of the day, this order was still a step too late!

June 15, 1895. When the huge figure of the Rurik appeared outside Okinawa, the Russian officers and men on the Turquoise and Pearl cheered. Their long-awaited flagship is finally back. After the Rurik was rereplenished, the regrouped Russian fleet could proceed with its next steps. But to everyone's surprise, half a day later, something catastrophic happened! Just after the Rurik entered the port, the Beiyang Fleet was also rushing here, and at this moment, Xu Jie didn't expect his luck to be so good, and directly blocked the Russian fleet in the port.

Although Xu Jie was in high spirits when he started to set off, in fact, he just wanted to smash the supply point set up here by the Russian fleet, and then go to find the Russian fleet. But what he didn't expect was that the Russian fleet was still in the port, and what he didn't expect was that when the Russian fleet fled, such an incident happened!

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