The towering lamppost and the snow-white high-power searchlight scanned back and forth, illuminating the entire Ryukyu Port bright and transparent, Luo Sanniang, who saw this scene for the first time, was stunned, and even the sea harrier who followed her was as if her body was frozen by a spell.

The two of them have been in the South Sea for many years, and they think they have seen a lot of things, even submarines have seen a few times, and they have boarded real battleships, but when they look at the huge Ryukyu Port docks in front of them, they know that what they have heard about before and what they have seen are all children's toys!

Compared with the Ryukyu Port in front of you, the Port of Manila, the Port of Cavite, which was still good before, is not in the flow at all, not to mention that this is only a base of the Pacific Fleet, in Honolulu, in Guam, in Lushun, and in that distant place called Truk Island, this smiling young man in front of him is expanding the base for his fleet.

The Sea Harrier finally understood how merciful the instructors of the Pacific Fleet who came to Palawan and laughed at the petty family of the water village, and the emotional family was this the big water village!

Not to mention the seven or eight small boats of the special task force, just pulling the entire fleet of people over, I am afraid that it will not be able to fill this seaport.

Luo Sanniang stood on the deck in a daze, looking at the figure standing on the bow deck, there was only one thought left in her mind, how much money does this loser have?

Don't talk about this problem, even Young Master Li himself is probably not very clear. Take gold as an example, after he donated all the 500 tons of gold he had accumulated to the Government Council at one time, the empty secret room was filled with 300 tons of gold that Thomas exchanged from the American market, plus the $65 million special gold bonds exchanged for 100 tons of gold, and the difference between the price of the US stock market in the run, which suddenly made Master Li's small treasury full of money, and the disposable cash he had in his hands at this moment was enough to build five or six Duke-class battleships.

But to build a ship, you have to wait, and you have to be restricted, the most important thing is that these things built now, in a few years will become scrap metal, why World War I can't fight for a few years, it is all consumed in the crazy shipbuilding race, and in the later stage, hundreds or even tens of millions of pounds a super dreadnought, that is simply burning money!

Even Young Master Li, the richest man in the world, can't afford to play this kind of game, but if the pre-dreadnought era is shortened and the world is brought closer to the dreadnought competition earlier, then the scale of the Battle of Deland, which is worshiped by all the BB parties, will be expanded by several times?

Young Master Li was leisurely fascinated, if there was a duel of a hundred battleships, would the BB party members of later generations explode directly?!

So when he learned that he had started to rebuild the navy, he had already planned to get a vote, but it was not easy to grab warships, so why did he say that the navy was tragic? It's because the navy has an extreme tradition, and it's common to sink by the enemy, and the Azuma is also because the guy who just became the captain of a freighter was scared stupid, and this freighter basically can't install a sea valve, so he forgot that the warship also has a sea valve, and finally cheapened Ji Weishan.

Capture of naval vessels, both in memory and in reality, is rare, unless they are as frightened by the fierce artillery battles as the Russians and the Azuma before them.

In the face of the person who cuts his stomach at every turn and pulls out his intestines to play, the Azuma incident can only be a very few, and the only way to use the brains of this fleet is at the dock.

"Young Master, Qin Shou has set off."

Young Master Li had just taken Luo Sanniang to the cement dock, and Chen Ping, who had returned to Ryukyu in advance, handed over the latest battle report, and did not forget to glance at Luo Sanniang, and the corners of his mouth were crooked.

"Laughing at what? Haven't seen it? Young Master Li glared at Chen Ping, who was biting his lip and holding back a smile, before opening the information.

After reading the telegram, Li Mo took a deep breath, he finally rushed back in time, hurriedly said hello to Luo Sanniang Sea Harrier, and ordered someone to take them to rest, then Sanniang had deep eyes and hurriedly walked towards the headquarters.

Looking at Li Mo's hurried back, Luo Sanniang's red lips opened slightly, and she wanted to ask when she would see her brother, but the words that came to her lips turned into a light sigh.

"Where's Xue Muhua?" In the soldier's salute, Li Mo quickly rushed into the staff headquarters and squeezed in front of the huge sand table.

"It's all ready, and they're currently on standby on Hachijojima." Chen Ping took the putter from the staff officer's hand and pointed to a small black dot with a red flag planted on the Izu Islands off the coast of Tokyo.

Hachijo Island is located 280 kilometers south of Tokyo, as early as the day after the declaration of war, a battalion of marines quietly landed on the island, due to the loss of communications, and the inability of the Saimoto Navy to control the islands in the open sea, so there was no garrison on the Izu Islands, and the Marines almost effortlessly seized Hachijojima and all the nearby islands, and threw thousands of Saimoto fishermen on the Izu Islands into the construction corps.

It became a secret forward base for the newly formed airship unit.

After introducing the situation of Hachijojima, Li Mo immediately set his eyes on the Uraga Waterway, which was a figure-eight waterway with a wide exterior and a narrow inside, and the Tokyo Gateway Waterway, which suddenly turned left before entering Tokyo Bay, had plagued the fleet for several months.

In fact, a long time ago, senior officer Chen Ping had planned to forcibly cross the Uraga waterway and raid Tokyo Bay after the declaration of war, so as to directly break Yumoto's will to war, but due to the intervention of Britain and the United States, coupled with his own lack of preparation, he could only watch Yumoto's four capital ships return to Tokyo Bay and lose the opportunity.

Since the blockade began, there have been calls for forcibly opening the waterway in the fleet, but the dense mines have silenced almost everyone, and according to intelligence, after receiving a loan from the United States, he has purchased more than 1,000 new anchor mines, and almost ninety percent of them have been spilled into the Uraga waterway, leaving only a narrow channel to enter and exit.

Not to mention the years before the First World War, when minesweeping technology was scarce, even in World War II and even in the future, mines were enough to give any fleet a headache, these behemoths lurking underwater, with a charge of up to four or five hundred kilograms, as long as one hit, it was enough to sink any battleship immediately.

Seeing Li Mo staring at the waterway with a worried expression, Chen Ping immediately said: "According to the information we have in the early stage, in addition to laying mines, I have also built a fort on each side of the entrance of the waterway, and each battery has six 250 mm guns and at least twenty 150 mm French shore guns. ”

"In addition to these two batteries, even if we enter the waterway, we will have to face here." Chen Ping slammed the end of the left turn of the waterway with a push rod, and the salient on one side: "According to the reconnaissance of the Nighthawk, it is said that the Ben Navy has built a large fortification here, and originally there were 12 French 250 mm shore guns and 36 150 mm shore guns here, but recently, for some reason, four were suddenly withdrawn, and the Intelligence Department has not yet grasped the whereabouts of these four guns." ”

Four 250-mm guns are missing?

Li Mo furrowed his brows suddenly, this is a sudden situation, although the large-caliber shore guns are all modified from naval guns, the rate of fire is slow and the projectile mass is small, but the firing range is longer than that of similar naval guns, and most of them are protected by thick cement fortifications, it is not easy to knock it open, once these four shore guns suddenly appear at a critical moment, then the fleet will undoubtedly encounter a great threat.

Moreover, as far as the shore artillery base that Chen Ping refers to is concerned, not only does it protrude from the waterway, and the firing range can cover half of the waterway, but it is almost certain that the channel left by him after entering there will be very close to the shore artillery base, and as long as any warship passes by, it will inevitably face the bombardment of at least 44 shore guns, which is equivalent to hoarding the firepower of two battleships there!

"Inform Nighthawk and the Intelligence Department to find out where these four guns are."

"Yes."

Behind him, a staff officer immediately took the order, and Li Mo raised his head and asked, "How are you going to fight?" ”

Chen Ping immediately replied: "According to the intelligence, more than ninety percent of the shore artillery and mines have been deployed in the Puga waterway, which shows that they have made plans and are ready to concentrate on using mines and shore artillery to hold the waterway. ”

"Unless we are willing to send an army to land and seize these important places from the land, but the army has already shrunk its strength, and there are currently nearly 200,000 troops on the island, half of which are concentrated in Tokyo Bay, and we are not capable."

"So I have ordered the supply ship to set off, and after Qin Shou finds out the situation of the waterway, the fleet will be the same as the airship, and all the shells will be used to enter Tokyo Bay through the waterway at the fastest speed."

"A bomb!"

Li Mo's pupils shrank suddenly, since the regularization of the army, a lot of equipment has also been set in rank and name, so he is not unfamiliar with the armor bullet in Chen Ping's mouth, because that monster was originally made according to his ideas.

White phosphorus incendiary bombs!

Unlike the early incendiary bombs used in Vladivostok, which were doped with a small amount of white phosphorus, after seeing the power of the incendiary bombs, the Navy and the General Staff have been strengthening the research of new incendiary bombs, and have set the number of Type A shells in the first order, which is even more important than the new armor-piercing shells.

The new generation of incendiary bombs not only increased the proportion of white phosphorus, but also added some other materials, especially after Li Mo heard about it, he also deliberately refined a part of aluminum powder and mixed it in, so that the adhesion and burning area of the new incendiary bomb are wider, according to the results of secret tests, not to mention cement fortifications, even steel can not withstand long-term burning.

What's more, after adding a large proportion of special materials such as white phosphorus, the shell will release a large amount of toxic smoke after exploding and burning, and ordinary people will be dizzy and comatose and completely lose their combat effectiveness as long as they inhale a few puffs!

If all the four Jinghai ships in the auxiliary fleet and the high-speed fire of the heavy cruisers were to use incendiary bombs, then it would be certain that it would only take half an hour at most to completely submerge a shore artillery base, so this was the correct and best choice.

"The smoke is poisonous, let Long Guozhang and them be careful." Li Mo said lightly, which was equivalent to agreeing to the plan of using incendiary bombs as a vanguard, and was just about to continue to ask about the army, when a sound of footsteps suddenly interrupted him, Zhang Zuolin walked into the room and handed over the telegram he had just received: "Nighthawk report, that batch of things is in Sensoji Temple, guarded by about a hundred people of the United States and the United States, and it has been verified!" ”

The telegram made Li Mo and Chen Ping look happy, and the biggest suspense was solved, so the last question in front of them now was whether Qin Shou could complete the task.

Li Mo asked Chen Ping for a cigarette, walked to the window and looked up at the waning moon in the sky, and exhaled a puff of smoke.

(To be continued)