Chapter 116: Nervous Britain

After four or five hours of artillery fire, the whole city was still burning at seven or eight o'clock in the morning.

The wood crackled under the fire, and in the face of the hundreds of thousands of lives consumed by artillery fire and fire, it was more like the cry of unjust souls.

In the sky, it has long been shrouded in gunsmoke, and the gloomy sky is pressing. In everyone's heart.

In the harbor of Tokyo, the wrecked ships sit crookedly on the sea, and the bustling docks have become a ruin, and the sparks are lit, which is still burning coal.

In the city, a large number of Tokyoites looked at the city in front of them in despair, which was like a ghost domain, full of large and small craters, small ones were two or three meters, and the big ones were dozens of meters.

It takes decades or even hundreds of years to build a city, but it only takes a moment to destroy a city, such as a nuclear bomb.

In this era, there were no weapons capable of destroying cities instantly, but the status of battleships was that of modern nuclear bombs.

In the history of human warfare, the most powerful weapon developed is the battleship.

And the terrible destructive capabilities of the battleship, which everyone has now seen, are bustling Tokyo one. In the evening, it was reduced to rubble, and hundreds of thousands of people were buried.

If it weren't for the fact that the embassy district was not the target of shelling, and many people took refuge here, I am afraid that the death toll would have increased by tens of thousands.

When the sky was bright, when everyone saw the huge Third Fleet in Tokyo Bay, and clearly saw the battle flags fluttering from the battleships, the expressions on everyone's faces were quite wonderful.

People who have a certain identity, or have channels and interests in understanding the international situation, know that a strong military presence has risen in Southeast Asia.

Fan Yize, this magical Chinese, has a powerful army under his command that he doesn't know where he came from.

Because of him, the Dutch lost the last glory of the kingdom, the British Far East Fleet was completely wiped out, and even part of the territory of the Malaysian colony was included in Fan Yize's pocket.

Although more than a year has passed now, and Fan Yize, who controls the East Indies, has never established a state power, the global powers have long placed Fan Yize at the level of the head of a powerful country.

And compared with the heads of government, the private armed forces under Fan Yize are far more terrifying than all the powers.

Because Fan Yize is not bound by the state, and even the army is him alone, which means that he can fight whoever he wants.

After the British Far East Fleet was destroyed and the relevant news gradually came out, some people said that Fan Yize was very dangerous.

In the past year, East India and Fan Yize's performance has been very normal, and it can even be said that it is super low-key.

There is no statehood and there is no Morocco with any neighborhood. Rub, concentrate on construction in the East Indies.

This made many powers gradually ignore Fan Yize.

However, when Fan Yize's fleet appeared in Tokyo, when this powerful fleet bombarded the capital of the Japanese Empire indiscriminately, everyone was horrified to find that they were too naïve.

In the embassy district of Tokyo, after the British ambassador Wilmington learned that the fleet that shelled Tokyo came from the East Indies, he suppressed his irritability, his face was expressionless, and no one knew what he was thinking, but anyone with a discerning eye could see that he was holding back his emotions.

The Anglo-Japanese alliance, Japan, which had become strong with the support of the British, saw that the Russo-Japanese War was about to be decided, but this happened.

This means that over the years, British investment in the Japanese has been wasted.

Now Wilmington has no idea of blaming the Japanese, not because the Japanese are incompetent, but because the enemy is not only strong, but also very cunning.

No one would be naïve enough to think that Fan Yize had shelled Tokyo only on a whim.

I haven't had a detailed understanding of the water ripples in Tokyo Bay, how can such a huge fleet dare to come in so swaggeringly and attack the capital of a country.

Obviously, Fan Yize had planned to do something to the Japanese for a long time, and what Wilmington cared about the most was whether Fan Yize had already united with Russia?

Britain supported Japan, and the fundamental purpose of forming an alliance with Japan was to deal with Russia.

Once Fan Yize forms an alliance with Russia, Britain will not only have to face Russia in Europe, but also face Fan Yize as an opponent in Southeast Asia and the Far East.

What is worrying is that the British Navy is still not sure to defeat the fleet under Fan Yize.

If you can't master the sea dominance, needless to say, it is impossible to deal with Fan Yize.

What made Wilmington most anxious was that he had personally seen the fleet on the sea, and the three battleships were larger than all the battleships in the world, exactly the same as those told by the officers and men of the Far East Fleet.

But the side numbers of these three battleships are not the same as the two battleships that destroyed the Far Eastern Fleet in the naval battle of the Java Sea, and even the cruisers and destroyers are not the same.

Unified caliber, four main gun turrets, without the side of the battleship installed in the battleship secondary guns, this kind of battleship, the British are already building.

But neither the caliber nor the tonnage are comparable to the battleships under Fan Yize's command.

And now, the situation is far more complicated than expected, the fleet under Fan Yize is not only two battleships, but three, and the number of armored cruisers is also larger.

The more advanced power system that could be seen at a glance, without the tall chimneys, terrible speed, and artillery, made Wilmington feel jealous and powerless.

As the British ambassador to Japan, Wilmington was not only an ambassador, but also a member of the Prime Minister's Cabinet, and a nobleman from the British Royal Navy.

Naturally, it is clear what Fan Yize meant to the British Empire.

To put it bluntly, the naval warships under Fan Yize's command have completely crushed Britain from a technical point of view.

This was difficult for the British to accept, but it also forced the British to calm down.

Wilmington had mixed feelings in his heart, and he had been thinking about how to report this situation to China, what should the British government do when Fan Yize intervened in the Russo-Japanese War and launched a military operation against the Japanese?

The sound of footsteps came, and Wilmington looked up to see that it was William, and hurriedly asked, "Old friend, is there a result?" ”

While Wilmington was thinking alone, William looked for the fastest way to contact Fan Yize.

"There is news, according to what I have learned, the fleet that shelled Tokyo was the Third Fleet under Fan Yize, and it was the First Fleet that defeated the British Far East Fleet, and I also got the news that the Second Fleet under Fan Yize is in Sasebo."

William said as he walked towards the upstairs room, not forgetting to continue to explain to Wilmington: "Fan Yize is in the Third Fleet in Tokyo Bay, and I will go to see him immediately." ”