Heihachiro Togo immediately said, "Let's go, let's go out and have a look." Heihachiro Togo walked out of the command room as he spoke, and then the sailor said, "Your Excellency Commander, please go to the cabin on the top floor, where there are special telescopes for night, so you can see more clearly." ”

Togo Heihachiro nodded, and followed the sailors up to the upper deck of the bridge, the upper deck of the bridge is the observation cabin and the artillery command room, and the chief observer in charge of observing the target immediately greeted him when he saw Togo Heihachiro coming, and said, "General Togo, why are you here?" ”

Heihachiro Togo said, "I heard your report that a mysterious fleet was spotted on the port side, so let's take a look." ”

The chief observer said, "General, please rest assured, those warships will definitely not be the navy of Lin Yuan's troops. ”

Heihachiro Togo frowned and asked, "How do you know the way?" ”

The Observer said, "If they were the navy of Lin Yuan's troops, they would definitely be firing at us now." ”

Heihachiro Togo nodded and said, "Where's our night binoculars?" I'm going to see the ships for myself. ”

The Observer said, "It's right outside." With that, he took Togo Heihachiro to the outside of the cabin, opened a protective cover, and inside was a telescope the size of a bucket, fixed on a tripod, and the observer pointed to it and said: "This is the latest telescope of our Great Japanese Empire, a special type for night, with a caliber of 210 mm." ”

Togo Heihachiro nodded, put it in front of his eyes, and looked into the distance, although the Japanese army's telescope is known as a special model for the night, but it is not the kind of low-light night vision device or infrared night vision device of Lin Yuan's troops, the principle of the Japanese telescope is no different from that of ordinary telescopes, the difference is: the Japanese army's telescope has increased the aperture, improved the objective lens design, and is convenient for gathering light in the dark, and a microlight is added behind the objective lens to illuminate the field of vision.

Heihachiro Togo looked at the fleet in the distance and saw that there were no long pipes on them, so he thought to himself, "Without artillery, it shouldn't be a warship." Looking at the general outline again, it was very messy, not at all the concise and clear hull of the Divine Beast-class destroyer, and thought to himself: "It doesn't seem to be the Divine Beast-class, I can rest assured." ”

However, Togo Heihachiro only saw the general outline, and he wanted to see it more carefully, so he said to the chief observer: "Can the magnification be enlarged again?" ”

The observer glanced at the telescope and said, "No, it's already the maximum magnification." ”

Heihachiro Togo nodded, put down the binoculars, and said to the herald beside him: "Immediately notify the signal chief, let him send a signal to the opposite fleet, and ask which country's ship they are?" What does it do? Tell them that we are warships of the Japanese Navy, and no, do not reveal our identities and say that we are warships. ”

The herald quickly ran out of the air, and Heihachiro Togo returned to the command room, and before long the signal chief sent a message, saying, "Your Excellency, commander, they say that they are British fishing boats. ”

When Heihachiro Togo heard this, he frowned and asked the chief of staff beside him, Masayuki Akiyama, "Akiyama-kun, what are the British fishing boats doing here?" ”

Akiyama Mayuki thought for a while and said: "I think they must be a Chinese ship registered with British nationality, and they must have come here to fish, since the people of China recovered Vladivostok, there have been many Chinese fishing boats in the Sea of Japan, and they know that our ship is often active nearby, so they are registered as British nationality." ”

Heihachiro Togo said, "I see. ”

Akiyama said: "Why don't we use these ships as target ships and practice artillery tactics?" ”

Heihachiro Togo shook his head and said, "Forget it, don't worry about the cannonballs, don't worry about those fishing boats, keep the speed of fifteen knots, and continue to march towards the Qingjin Sea." ”

The Japanese fleet ignored the fishing boats and sailed to Kiyojin on a set route, and twenty minutes later, a message suddenly came from the observation compartment: "Report to the commander, that mysterious fleet is still following us." ”

When Heihachiro Togo heard this, he asked, "What did you say?" Follow us? ”

The Observer said, "Yes, they're following us. ”

Heihachiro Togo turned to Akiyama Shinyuki and said, "What does this fleet want to do with us?" ”

Akiyama Shinyuki shook his head and said, "Immediately ask the communications chief to send a message asking about the ship." Togo Heihachiro then picked up the communicator and said to the chief of communication: "Immediately ask the fleet, why are they following us?" ”

Soon after, the chief of communications sent a message: "Report to Your Excellency, Commander, they say that they are not following us, but catching fish, and that the channel happens to overlap with us. ”

Heihachiro Togo asked, "What does it mean to catch the fish flood?" ”

"It's chasing the fish, and they say they have experienced old fishermen on their boats who know where the fish are," said the communications chief. ”

Heihachiro Togo turned off the communicator and said thoughtfully, "How did they find the fish in the vast sea?" ”

Akiyama Shinzai smiled and said, "Togo-kun, why are you still interested in fishing?" ”

Heihachiro Togo said, "I'm not interested in fishing, I think these people are weird!" Do you think they are the people sent by Lin Yuan's troops to scout us? ”

Akiyama Mayuki's face was solemn for a while, and he said: "This possibility is not impossible, we must guard against it!" ”

Heihachiro Togo said, "Then we'll send a warship to reconnoiter and see what is strange on board." ”

Akiyama Shinyuki said: "Then let's send the snow blowing ship to reconnoitre, the speed of the snow blowing ship is very fast, and it can catch up with us after a period of time without our warship." ”

Heihachiro Togo nodded, picked up the communicator, and said loudly, "Snow blowing ship?" Called Captain Kukiki Kuroki. ”

The captain of the Snow Blowing Ship, Kuki Kuroki, quickly came to the communicator and said, "Your Excellency Commander, what do you command?" ”

Heihachiro Togo said: "The fleet on the port side of our fleet has been following us, you immediately go to reconnoitre, and then return to the fleet after the reconnoitre, understand?" ”

The Nine Demons Kuroki replied loudly: "My subordinates understand! After the Nine Demons Kuroki finished speaking, he ordered: "Left full rudder, target mysterious fleet, speed of twenty knots, advance." ”

Togo Heihachiro guessed well, this fleet is the reconnaissance fleet of the Vladivostok fleet under Lin Yuan, their main task is to collect intelligence on Japanese warships, and Lin Yuan knows about the replacement of Japanese warships, because Japan will disclose the names of warships after the new warships are launched, but what kind of new warships the Japanese army looks like and what weapons and equipment they have, Lin Yuan is half-understood, this is because the Japanese army is extremely strict about the secrecy of warships, and even has to cover them with tarpaulin when they dock at the port. Prevent photos from being taken by high-altitude drones of Lin Yuan's troops.

It has been three years since Lin Yuan returned to this era, and there is not much available sailing time for high-altitude drones, so the reconnaissance of the new Japanese warship has been suspended.

This also embodied the strategic policy of Lin Yuan's troops not to fight unprepared battles, and the ten reconnaissance ships were equipped with infrared imaging camera systems to take pictures of Japanese warships.