In the command post of the military in Wonsan Port, Oshima Yoshimasa took the telescope from Shaozo's hand, looked at the lonely imperial cruiser on the sea in the distance, and felt a pang in his heart!

Two years ago, he led the 9th Infantry Brigade of the Daishoben Empire, and some artillery and sappers attached to it, landed in Asan under the escort of the Yoshino, and defeated the two troops of the Shina people in the Battle of Asan, which opened the prelude to the First Sino-Japanese War and also started the first battle of Yuben's march into Korea!

At that time, he thought that with the continuous landing of follow-up troops at Incheon, the flag of the empire would soon be planted throughout Korea, but he did not expect that with the successive victories of the army, he had just fought a five-hour naval battle with the Beiyang Naval Division of China, which could be called the largest naval battle in the era of ironclad ships, and the combined fleet, which had not sunk a ship and successfully escaped from the battle with the pride of the empire, was despicably ambushed by another group of Chinans!

That damned Pacific Fleet, undeclared war, not only caused the bones of thousands of officers and men of the Combined Fleet to be lost, but also finally shelled Yokosuka, Osaka, Kobe and even Etajima, causing ten years of hard work of the empire to be ruined!

His Majesty the Emperor grew old overnight!

In the end, he even had to put down the dignity of the emperor and turn to Britain and the United States for help, and in the end, although he reached an armistice agreement with the Pacific Army, the price made the entire empire cry!

Lost the Ryukyus, lost the Ogasawara Islands, and paid 30 million pounds! In the end, he had to accept the harsh loan conditions of the Americans, and even lost the country's financial power for the next ten years!

This kind of price makes every citizen of the empire feel painful, if it weren't for North Korea to save some face, no one knows what will happen to the empire in turmoil!

Now, the empire is going through its most painful period, with only a few warships left in the navy, and the lonely figure in the open sea, although a second-hand cruiser purchased from Chile after the war, is precious to the imperial navy today.

Now, after leaving countless devastations on the coast of the empire, the Pacific Army patted its ass and left. With the help of the British, the Chinese said that they would not enter Korea again, but no one expected that the more powerful Russians would appear in front of them again, and the navy, unable to accept further losses, could send a cruiser to reconnoiter in the open sea, which was already considered to be the best of its ability.

Although Admiral Aritomo Yamaguchi urgently went to Moscow not long ago, negotiated with Russia, and expressed his willingness to cede half of the interests of North Korea, the Russians not only ignored it, but instead sent a fleet even more vigorously!

At that time, all the emperors knew that a new war was imminent!

After the Korean incident, he accepted the appointment and came to Wonsan Port with the 6th Brigade to station, he knew what it meant, but he had no choice, because the empire had lost the protection of the navy, and the army had to read the strength to face the heavy artillery from the sea!

Looking at the lonely shadow of the ship in the distance, although Oshima Yoshimasa wanted the other party to leave immediately, he couldn't speak, because he knew that if there was no such warning barrier, he would only find out if the shell fell on his head!

Yoshimasa Oshima took a deep breath, and just handed the telescope back to Shaozo, telling him to continue to be vigilant and carefully check the movement on the sea, when suddenly a series of strange sounds came into his ears.

Sigh .......

A strange whistling sound kept coming from the sea, and Yoshimasa Oshima knew what was happening just by looking at it!

Boom Boom!

Countless columns of water suddenly exploded from the surroundings of the cruiser on guard in the distance, and the sea water rolled in the explosion, setting off surging waves, and the figure of the cruiser became fainter and fainter in the smoke of gunpowder.

As the cruiser quickly withdrew while returning fire, four warships suddenly appeared on the sea, two of which were huge ironclad ships! As they opened fire, they rushed towards Wonsan Port.

"Boom~"

In less than a while, a huge explosion had come to Oshima Yoshimasa from the sea, and the shock wave of the explosion shook the dust inside the bunker, and several guards held their guns nervously, and their small eyes kept scanning the surroundings, for fear that it would spread here.

"Your Excellency, you must leave immediately and evacuate to the rear." Looking at Yoshimasa Oshima with a stern expression, Shao Zuo persuaded with a nervous expression, and the corner of his eyes swept over the Russian giant ship with tongues of fire from time to time.

Oshima Yoshimasa looked at the nervous Shaozuo, and suddenly found that in the previous soldiers, the momentum of the Imperial Army was fading little by little with the fiasco of the navy and the turbulence of the domestic situation, which suddenly made him frown.

As the first commander of the Imperial Army to start a battle with the Chinese people, he knew the current situation better than anyone else, without the support of the navy, the army alone could not prevent the Russians from landing, so when formulating the plan, the base camp also asked that the coastline should no longer be entangled with the enemy, but choose to let it in and fight again.

It's just that at this moment, he saw the looks of Shao Zuo and the soldiers around him, and knew that there were some things that could not be avoided, the empire had no way to retreat, and if he blindly dodged, it would not only consume money and lives, but even the strictest discipline and confidence would dissipate with the Russians' artillery!

"In any case, drag on the war for a year! Your Excellency, for the future of the Empire, for His Majesty the Emperor! Please! ”

Yoshimasa Oshima remembered the words of General Aritomo Yamagu, who returned to North Korea three months ago, and remembered the scene when he bowed to himself and all the officers, under the despicable sneak attack of the Hawaiians, the empire has lost its navy, and if it can't stop the Russians, then the North Korea, which the empire has worked so hard to get, will become someone else's plaything, which he and everyone in the empire will never allow!

This battle is completely different from the fleet being attacked by a sneak attack, the empire has been carefully preparing for a year, as early as when the navy was lost and the Hawaiians did not propose to let the empire withdraw its troops from Korea, the base camp guessed that the Russians would definitely come, so they have been preparing!

Everyone knows that the Pacific Army did not mention North Korea, not because it had no ambitions for North Korea, but because it deliberately wanted to use the power of the Qing Dynasty and Russia to consume the empire so that the empire could not concentrate on fighting them.

But they underestimate the determination of the Empire! It's too much to underestimate His Majesty the Emperor!

In addition to rebuilding the navy, a large part of the taxes on the mortgage for a whole decade were used to expand the army and strengthen the control of North Korea!

The most elite First Army, which was originally intended to be used in the Qing Dynasty, has also come here with General Youpeng of Shanxi, and asked the British to transport tens of thousands of troops at a high price! Two hundred cannons, two hundred machine guns, 100,000 rifles and a large amount of ammunition were urgently purchased!

All for today!

Yoshimasa Oshima took a deep breath, and a pair of eagle eyes locked the sea on the surface of the Russian [***] ship Since the first battle against the people of China was started by itself, then let yourself start the first battle against the Russians! With blood and victory, reawaken the glory of the Imperial Army!

A sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth: "Order all wings, you must not take a step back!" ”

"I want to make this seaport a grave that the Russians will never forget!"

"Tell every soldier of the Empire! Although the Imperial fleet has temporarily failed, they have forgotten that the Empire still has us! ”

"Hey!" ――

In the telegraph room of the Provisional Staff Headquarters in the Ryukyus, more than a dozen radio transmitters were ticking non-stop, and while orders were sent from here to various troops, they also brought back all kinds of complicated news.

"The 3rd Battalion of the 1st Division, 2nd Regiment and 3rd Battalion successfully entered the Andong Port District."

"The 4th Division stationed on Aimei Island has been put on alert equipment."

"All members of the Third Division have arrived and are ready to leave at any time."

"The reconnaissance company of the Fourth Division has entered Jilin and is approaching the border."

"Nighthawk reports, lurking in Port Arthur."

“……。”

One by one, the specially coded messages were quickly translated by the translators, signed and handed over to the staff officers who were already sweating profusely behind them, and then they handed them over to the senior military officers of the General Staff, and after the itinerary was deliberated, they took back the new orders and reissued them.

The footsteps were hurried and sweaty.

But when everyone is busy, they will glance at the few still idle transmitters on the left side of the telegraph room, which are naval radio, and the fleet has made a feint to go to the Ogasawara Islands for temporary refuge, but the six destroyers that act as the eyes of the fleet have already entered various positions, and everyone is waiting.

In front of the transmitter, the telegraph operator wore a headset like a Western medical earpiece, for fear of missing any of the sound of the current shuttle, their eyes widened, their ears pricked up, and their fingers clamped the tip of the pen to the special telegraph.

Seven hours after receiving the news that two Russian heavy cruisers and two light cruisers had left Vladivostok, the telegraph did not ring again, where did the Russians arrive? Will the Navy fight to intercept it? Has the battle for Wonsan Port begun?

Nobody knows.

On the one hand, it is busy, but on the other hand, it is as quiet as the bottom of the sea, which is like the feeling of ice and fire, which makes everyone feel hot and uneasy, even the cool sea breeze that continues to pour in through the skylight does not give people a cool feeling at all.

Zhang Zuolin walked into the telegraph room, handed over an army message from the General Staff to the sender, walked to the Navy radio station, paused slightly, sighed and turned around to leave.

Suddenly, one of the telegraphs suddenly hissed and stopped, and jumped rhythmically to the sound, and the telegraph operator held the headset in one hand and took the pen in the other hand to record it.

As the tip of his pen flowed rapidly, everyone in the telegraph room widened their eyes and held their breath, even the Army Radio deliberately lowered its voice, for fear of disturbing his record.

The telegraph operator, who was intently recording, did not seem to realize that he had become the center of attention of everyone, and he was recording every rhythm and every note, and his eyes were getting brighter and brighter!

Suddenly, he threw down his pen, tore off the telegram and handed it to the translator who was already waiting impatiently next to him.

Everyone was watching his movements until .......

The interpreter stood up in everyone's expectation, and shouted with a red face: "It's a fight!" ”

With his voice, those naval radio stations seemed to wake up from their sleep, and suddenly they all rang out, ticking and ticking with news one after another.

"Outside the port of Wonsan, there was an exchange of fire between the cruiser and the Russian cruiser, and the exchange lasted for ten minutes, and the ship was wounded and evacuated."

"The Russian cruiser formation is shelling the port of Wonsan."

"Three Russian troop carriers off Vladivostok are moving south!"

Looking at the telegraph room that was busy again, Zhang Zuolin took a deep breath, his eyes brightened and his pace quickened, and there were only three words left in his mind.

"It's fired!"

(To be continued)