270 Japanese Navy, sunk

Outside the temporary army headquarters in Phoenix, several army division commanders walked into the headquarters in a low voice. (Vertex Hand Hit)

After crossing the Yalu River, they did not have a good face for a day, not that the Japanese army on the opposite side was tenacious, nor that their own troops could not fight, but that this battle was really a little aggrieved.

Because the General Staff did not order a general offensive for a long time, and the Japanese army retreated sharply, it was basically in a defensive state after crossing the river, but the Korean rebels of 10,000 people were very active, and they ate the Japanese watchtower for a while, and they took a small city for a while, and it felt like the New Year.

Although there are such and such opinions, no one dares to complain, mainly because everyone knows that the thoughts of the General Staff and the young master are in the navy, and the navy has not lived up to everyone's expectations.

But the more this is the case, the more anxious everyone becomes, although they don't show it on their faces, they always want to show their performance in their hearts, especially when they got the news last night, the navy entered Tokyo Bay in an almost crazy posture, and after slashing people twice in the heart, they couldn't sit still, so they rushed to the headquarters early in the morning to see if there was a new order.

In the hall of the command headquarters, the officers and staff officers still maintained an unhurried pace, but the more they did, the more uncomfortable the division commanders became, those guys in the navy have been busy and crazy recently, is it too idle on their side?

But when several division commanders crossed the hall and walked to the door of the conference room, they suddenly froze, and saw several men who were shorter than the Japanese, with light complexions, thick beards, and strange clothes, talking and laughing with the army commander.

Next to him, there was an expressionless man interpreting and explaining, this scene suddenly made everyone feel very strange, who are these people? Why is it in the Confidential Army Command?

Zhao Long didn't seem to see a few division commanders, and after chatting with Shen Jun for a while, he got up and shook hands with the short men next to him one by one, and told Shen Jun to treat them well.

Seeing these strange men leaving, several division commanders crowded into the conference room one after another, Luo Feng was the most anxious, and asked, "Commander, who are they?" What are you doing here?

"Oh, they're Ezo."

"Shrimp ......, Ezo people?"

Several division commanders glared left and right, all of them stared at each other with big eyes and small eyes, and they couldn't figure out what kind of ethnicity the Ezo people were.

"The Ezo people, also called the Ainu people, are a minority group living in northern Japan, and Ezo is the Japanese disdain name for them, in our words, it means Mao people, prisoners and fan people." Chen Ping explained.

"It turns out that there are barbarian people in Japan, right? I thought Japan was a nation. ”

"Japan is not one nation." Zhao Long smiled and beckoned everyone to sit down, and said: "The Ezo people are the aborigines of the four islands of Japan, but they have been bullied, and now most of them are hiding in the deep mountains and dense forests of Hokkaido. ”

"Hokkaido?"

The eyes of the three division commanders lit up, and they hurriedly patted their asses and said, "You deserve to be the army commander."

"The commander is so knowledgeable."

"The commander is amazing."

The three division commanders nodded again and again when they heard this, and they all patted their ass, Zhao Longna didn't know what these guys were thinking, so he held his forehead and cried and laughed twice before taking out a pack of cigarettes from the drawer and throwing them away: "The matter of the Ezo people has nothing to do with you, it is the matter of the navy, so you can put away your thoughts." ”

"Navy again?" As soon as Ouyang Xiu lit a cigarette, he slammed up, just now after they heard about Hokkaido, and saw Zhao Long entertaining the Ezo people, they vaguely guessed that the General Staff might use the Ezo people as an excuse to use the Ezo people to make the last stab against Japan, but they didn't expect to be taken advantage of by the navy again.

Seeing that the three of them lowered their heads and smoked cigarettes without saying a word, Zhao Long smiled slightly, took out a document from the drawer and handed it to them: "This is the latest order of the General Staff, yes, about North Korea." ”

Luo Feng, who was the most anxious, grabbed the plan, and jumped up excitedly just after looking at it, and the other two division commanders also surrounded him when they saw this, and when the three of them finished reading the entire battle plan, a smile finally appeared on their faces.

The young master and the general staff are finally going to end this boring confrontation and tug-of-war, and are ready to make a big move against the Japanese troops stationed in Korea, not only will they send four Jinghai-class ships to support, but also the airship troops that have just made great achievements will also participate in this attack-

Off the coast of Yokohama.

On the turquoise sea, more than a dozen majestic warships lined up, all the turrets pointed to the port of Yokohama not far away, and the thick muzzles of the guns were as if stained with a layer of blood under the rays of the setting sun.

In the distance, in the port of Yokohama, more than a dozen thick plumes of smoke suddenly rose into the air, and a moment later, two light cruisers flying the Japanese Navy flag led several old warships slowly out of the harbor, their turrets tilted and their muzzles lower.

Long Guozhang raised the binoculars and saw that on the hull of more than 2,000 tons, a French-made 250-mm single-barreled gun was installed in the front and rear, and eight 150-mm secondary guns were installed on both sides of the hull.

From the point of view of weapon configuration alone, these are two good cruisers, but according to the standards of the Pacific Fleet, these two cruisers are flawed everywhere, and the main guns in the front and rear are too large, which leads to a lot of reduction in draft seaworthiness, and due to the lack of steel in Japan, the decks of both ships are still wooden, not to mention blocking the cruiser-level naval guns, I am afraid that even the destroyers can make the other party on fire.

Long Guozhang, who had already talked with Saigo Congdao, knew very well that this was the secret warship that Japan had been building, and the original intention was to be the same as the Jinghai class, ready to take the opponent by surprise, but after the blockade, because the 203-mm naval guns were not in place, they could only be equipped with two legal 250-mm shore guns.

Behind these two cruisers were several other old Japanese warships, including specialized communications ships such as the Yaeyama, several iron-hulled wooden sail cruisers, and even two small gunboats with a displacement of no more than 100 tons.

On the bow deck of the cruiser at the helm, Saigo was dressed in a new naval uniform, his eyes full of confusion, and since he had made this decision, he knew that there would be no turning back.

Next to him, there were weary sailors, looking at the majestic and mighty opponents lined up, and although everyone was trying to maintain the dignity of the Japanese navy, their trembling bodies and numb eyes betrayed them.

Soon, when the Japanese Navy led by the two cruisers docked under the majestic muzzle of the Polarstar, the Japanese naval flag, which had been flying high since the Meiji Restoration, began to lower from the stern flagpole little by little.

A few minutes later, a whistle sounded simultaneously on the deck of the Japanese warship, and the sailors lined up, numb and numb, and walked down the gangway to board a freighter that had been prepared for them.

Looking at these sailors with their heads bowed and without morale, every officer of the Pacific Fleet who saw this scene knew that with a series of operations such as two naval battles and the bombing of Yokosuka last night, the Japanese Navy had lost the last of its confidence, and it was probably the best option for them to surrender and return home alive rather than these naval soldiers.

Half an hour later, the last group of Japanese sailors who left opened the sea valve, and the seven Japanese warships began to sink little by little under everyone's gaze, although it was a pity that these warships were sunk like this, but neither the sailors, nor the officers, nor Long Guozhang, who had always liked the more warships, the better, did not stop them.

It's not about ethnicity, it's not about hatred, it's about the tradition, stubbornness and dignity of the Navy

The Japanese Navy failed, and for a long time in the future, the young master will not allow this branch of the military to appear in Japan, although they claim to have hundreds of thousands of troops in the country, but everyone knows that when this batch of warships finally sinks, Japan has sunset slowly into the sky.

When the Japanese cruiser finally sank to the bottom of the icy Tokyo Bay, Long Guozhang raised his wrist and looked at his watch, and decisively gave the final order.

"Order the heavy patrol formation, shelling the Yokohama shipyard."

A few minutes later, four Vladivostok-class heavy cruisers rounded the shipwreck area, and the turrets began to rotate slowly. A few minutes later, the first salvo was fired, and soon a large fire burst into the port of Yokohama, which had long been evacuated in the distance, and the last Yokohama shipyard in Japan was taken care of as the most important target.

Countless cannonballs screamed in the air, a huge mushroom cloud rose from the shipyard, and in the rumbling cannons, the most desperate ones were the Ussuri and Manzhouli, the two heavy cruisers led by Ye Zuqi and Sa Zhenbing, because of their identities and the Beiyang veterans on the ship, these two warships have been deeply imprinted with the Beiyang brand, and at this moment there is an opportunity to take revenge with their own hands, and the officers and men of the captain are extremely hard.

On the freighter, Saigo squatted on the deck from the road, huddled among the sailors, and the rumbling sound of cannon was like a sledgehammer hitting his heart. This is the condition for admitting defeat and for keeping these soldiers alive.

With the complete disappearance of this round of shelling, Japan will no longer be able to find a second large-scale enterprise of this scale, and even heavy industry will be completely extinct in Japan for a long time to come.

From the bottom of his heart, Saigo did not want such a humiliating surrender, but he knew that even if he did not make such a decision, even if he ordered the soldiers who loved and supported him to continue to resist, the Yokohama Shipyard would still not be able to escape this fate, and he would have to take the lives of tens of thousands of innocent soldiers.

The base camp lost, the emperor lost, Japan lost, lost a generation, and lost the future

When the sun slowly sank and the hour-long shelling finally ended, the port of Yokohama in the distance was already full of gunsmoke, and there was no complete rubble in the direction of the shipyard, and the disappearance of the shipyard also indicated the complete destruction of the Japanese Navy.

"Telegraph the General Staff." Long Guozhang looked at his watch: "Telegram, May 26, 1897, Japanese Navy, sunk"