Early morning, Honolulu.

The barracks of the 1st Army Division were full of tall soldiers, including officers and men of the 1st Army Division wearing blue army uniforms, and sailors of the Pacific Fleet wearing white shirts, who were lined up in a neat straight line under the leadership of their respective officers.

Looking at the neat and uniform team, Li Mo took a deep breath.

Although the Jiyuan eventually fled, the destruction of the two troop carriers showed that the ship had taken control of the shipping route to Korea, and in a trance it seemed that the overwhelming army was landing in Korea.

The Qing army was defeated again and again, and the loss of Pyongyang was imminent, as long as North Korea was taken, it would be said that Ben would use where as a pedal to slowly infiltrate the three northeastern provinces, and finally control it after defeating Tsarist Russia! The huge resources of the Northeast will eventually support Yuben's participation in two world wars and develop into a short-lived and huge sea power empire!

But now I'm back! Back in this era of gunpowder, then all this should not happen again!

Four weeks ago, the last six destroyers built in Chile were all launched and delivered, although they were all small warships of several hundred tons, but they represented the completion of the first phase of their preparations! With all the radios installed, the fleet is ready to go!

The army has also completed all the expansion and training, plus the 25,000 marines, except for the heavy artillery that has not yet been equipped, they have all been replaced with brand new equipment, and they are standing in front of them at this moment!

In the Far East, the decisive battle at sea that gambled on the fortunes of the country is about to begin, and there is no way to avoid it since Asan, on the one hand, it is trying to maintain the shaky Qing Empire, which wants to defeat the Qing Empire, which has proved to be still huge in this fleet, and on the other hand, it is armed to the teeth, and the ambition is surging to try to get out of the thousand-year-old island!

It's like two bulls, already in a posture, flirting their hooves!

Now that I have all the preparations, and the last blow of the years of planning and waiting will be turned into the final blow, the stage has been set, and what I have to do is not to persuade the fight, but to stab the most dazzling sword!

"Soon, some of you will be on your way."

Accompanied by Chen Ping, Li Mo walked through the phalanx formed by the sailors of the first Polaris with his voice loud, the soldiers held their heads high, their bodies straight, and their eyes firm.

"Then, all of you will go!" Li Mo walked past the Antarctic Star phalanx.

"I know, many of you still don't understand, where to go?!"

"I have come today to tell you, from now on! From now on! You guys! Will follow me on the road home! ”

A phalanx passed by.

"I know some of you are worried, scared!"

"I can tell you that I'm just as scared as you are!"

"But I'm not afraid of death, nor of bloodshed! I am afraid to tell my children and grandchildren that the Heavenly Empire, which has been in China for thousands of years, has become a slave of foreign powers and foreigners in the hands of our generation! ”

Sun Jiugong and Zhang Zuolin raised their heads respectively, stood in the ranks of the Marine Corps and the First Division of the Army, respectively, and watched Li Mo walk in front of them.

"The Manchus have no way, so the foreigners can smash our homes with a few ships and a few cannons, treat us as pigs and dogs, rob our women, and squeeze out our money!" Li Mo clenched his fists: "We set off this time to tell everyone and tell our thousands of children and grandchildren!" Tell those powers and foreigners that we are not pigs and dogs, and we are not lowly slaves! ”

"I used to say that this is a big time! As husbands, we all have a lot of blood and pride, how can we be willing to stay on the yellow earth all our lives, today! The ironclad giant ships crisscross the ocean, we should regard all the world's eight directions as my land, and any place is the land of my descendants of Yan and Huang! ”

"All we have to do is tell the world! The Chinese also have giant ships! There are also cannons! ”

In the breeze, the loud sound of the military horn resounded through the four fields!

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Li Fu frowned, and after standing at the door for a while, he still gently pushed the door open.

As far as the eye can see, the room is solemn, and a plain shirt is placed horizontally on the incense table. Above, a yellowed photograph. In the photo, two people are standing side by side, shoulder to shoulder, and one of them is Li Enfu in his youth.

"Enfu, you are ......." Li Fu looked at the photo, looked at Li Enfu who was sitting silently on the side, and said in surprise.

"Shen Shouchang, whose name is Qinghe, is the best friend who studied with me in the United States back then, and he just received the news that he ......." Li Enfu sighed, leaving a few tears in his eyes, since the children in the United States were recalled to China, he knew that this matter was inevitable, but he still didn't expect it to come so quickly, so quickly!

Li Fu also sighed, he had also heard about studying in the United States at the beginning, and at this moment, when he saw Li Enfu putting incense to pay tribute to his classmates, he did not shy away from putting his own appearance next to him, and he didn't know how to comfort him for a while.

Li Enfu took a deep breath, wiped his tears, walked out of his remembrance, and asked, "Fu Bo, is there anything you have to do with coming to me today?" ”

Li Fu nodded, rubbed his hands, but didn't know how to speak, and said after a while: "I'm here today because I want to ask for your opinion on something, and see how to talk to the young master." ”

"Oh? What's up? Li Enfu frowned, it was the first time he had seen Li Fu's helpless expression, what was it that made the old man the young master's most trusted person worried?

"Actually, I want the young master to give an order, no matter what, I want to keep Fang Boqian!"

"Oh! Why is that? ”

Li Enfu was surprised, at this time everyone knew that the Qing Dynasty and Yue himself were already on the same footing, and both countries had declared war on August 1, saying that the army had achieved a great victory in attacking Asan, forcing the Qing army to return to Pyongyang.

Not to mention that Fang Boqian has already led the ship to fight in the waters of Toshima, just with the decisive battle posture of the two fleets at present, it is not easy to keep a warship in a big war!

Li Fu didn't know that this matter was difficult to handle, but when he thought of what Li Guotai had told him at the beginning, he had to grit his teeth and say: "Don't hide it, Fang Boqian's daughter Fang Hui is the wife of my young master. ”

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Li Enfu suddenly got up, I am afraid that he would not think that Fang Boqian turned out to be Li Mo's father-in-law, this matter is tricky, although he doesn't care about the affairs of the army, but he also knows that at this moment the fleet is ready to go to war, once it is launched, it will be a thunderbolt, can it be said that now you have to tell the young master to change the plan and find Fang Boqian to fish him out of the Beiyang?

Li Enfu glanced at Li Fu, frowned and asked, "Young Master still doesn't know about this?" ”

Li Fu shook his head: "When the old master ordered me to escape with the young master, let me wait until the young master became an adult to tell him, and then we didn't send him a letter until we got a firm foothold here, but I didn't receive a reply for a whole year, I thought that the Fang family was no longer admitting this family business, but now Fang Boqian suddenly wrote a letter, saying that he wanted to meet the young master." ”

Fu Bo took out the letter he had just received and handed it to Li Enfu: "Originally, I wanted to tell the young master after receiving the letter, but he has been busy with military affairs recently, and I am afraid that he will be distracted by saying it, so I want to wait!" But I didn't expect ......, and the news came that Fang Boqian led the ship to fight with him, in case he had three longs and two shorts, how could I have the face to see the master in the future! ”

Li Fu told the whole story completely, but it made it difficult for Li Enfu, and now he told the young master, didn't it distract him even more? In the end, as soon as the two discussed, they gritted their teeth and prepared to tell Li Mo about it.

"Da Zhuang? What about the young master? Li Fu and Li Enfu hurried to the port, but found that the port that was originally full of warships was already empty, and they were dumbfounded, and hurriedly trampled over Du Dazhuang who asked on the side.

"After the young master went to the barracks in the morning, he immediately went to sea with the fleet for training, saying that he would come back in five days!"

"Five days!" Li Fu and Li Enfu glanced at each other and breathed a sigh of relief, finally there was still a chance.

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Pacific Fleet, flagship, inside the USS Polaris.

"I said the national medal, I heard that you haven't closed your mouth since you boarded the Polaris, do you need this?"

Li Moxu kicked Long Guozhang, this guy is really disgusting, isn't it the worst battleship in the former dreadnought era? It is said that this guy has not closed his mouth since he took over for half a year! In addition to roaring during training, he is grinning and smirking, and I heard that even when he eats, he must sit in the command tower!

"If you say this, I think that many of the young master's people have no knowledge!" Li Mo held his mouth, the dotted line on his forehead hung horizontally, thought about it, and added another kick.

"Haha......" Seeing Long Guozhang being kicked by the young master and covering his ass all over the ship, Ji Weishan and the others laughed happily, without him, it is usually Long Guozhang who kicks their butts, and someone finally takes revenge on their behalf! Cool!

Soon, Li Mo came to the command tower, compared to the command tower of the Long Xiao, the Polaris was much larger, and there was a table in the middle where everyone could sit down and discuss the battle situation.

"Let's all sit down." Li Mo waved his hand and motioned for Chen Ping and Long Guozhang to lead everyone to sit down, before he looked at Chen Ping and asked, "Yuanshou, you have to think about it, this step will be difficult to go out and return to the fleet in the future." ”

"Yes, Yuanshou, you are now the chief of staff of the fleet! Besides, our Pacific Fleet can have more people surnamed Chen without those rules in Beiyang! Long Guozhang also pursed his lips, he thought that Chen Ping had made such a decision because of his name!

Under everyone's gaze, Chen Ping smiled slightly, and said lightly: "Yuanshou has thought about it for a long time, what the young master said is right, fighting a war does not necessarily have to be on the front line, not to mention that now that our family business is also big, Chen Ping should also put down his personal ideals and worry more about the overall situation!" ”

Listening to Chen Ping's words, Li Mo breathed a sigh of relief, in fact, he had already prepared to let Chen Ping be the chief of staff of the army and navy, but he promised him that he would lead the fleet on the front line, and it was not easy to change his words, but now Chen Ping has figured it out himself, and it has also solved one of his concerns.

"Okay." After Li Mo said hello twice in a row, he stood up and ordered: "Order." ”

"Huh!" When everyone heard this voice, they clasped their hands and stood solemnly.

"From now on, Chen Ping will be transferred from the Antarctic Star, relieved of the post of chief of staff of the fleet, appointed chief of the general staff of the Pacific Army, and awarded the rank of major general!"

"Order, Long Guozhang Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Fleet, temporarily on the ship Polaris, awarded the rank of rear admiral!"

"Ling, Tan Xiaozeng is the chief of staff of the fleet, with the rank of rear admiral!"

"Order, Ji Weishan was promoted to the captain of the Antarctic Star and awarded the rank of colonel."

"Ling, Zhou Cheng, the former first mate of the Longxiao, took over the post of captain of the Longxiao and was awarded the rank of colonel."

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With a series of orders, the Pacific Fleet, according to the military rank system of later generations, finally completed the final formation, and at the same time, Li Mo ordered the exercise to begin.

As puffs of black smoke rose, a deafening roar soon erupted on the surface of the sea, and huge jets of water rose into the sky, splashing like drops on the deck.

The strongest note of this era was played!