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Zheng Yu looked at Xu Fan in disbelief: "Uncle, what did you say? Do you want to get on the ship yourself? I will never allow it."

Xu Fan looked at Zheng Yu and just smiled. After a while, the only remaining marshal in the Chinese world, the chief of staff of the Navy, who had great influence in both the land, navy, politics, economics and other fields, and the deputy commander of the base camp, stood up and walked behind Zheng Yu with his hands behind his back, and gently patted the young man on the shoulder. This behavior was undoubtedly very ordinary between elders and younger generations, but it was very unusual for an emperor.

But Zheng Yu was not uncomfortable, but stood up naturally and tacitly, followed Xu Fan to the front of the map, and quietly waited for the other party's explanation.

"Xiao Yu, the time for the decisive battle has already appeared." Xu Fan looked up at Bohai Bay, his tone was calm, "This is a decisive battle we have been waiting for fifteen years, no, we have been waiting for a lifetime."

"Xiaoyu, you are not us, you don't know what all this means to us." Xu Fan said, "In our time, the suffering and humiliation that our country has experienced is something you can't imagine that we have fought to this day, for today, and for being able to wash these shames imposed on the nation with your own hands."

"A hundred years of blood, I will wash the snow today." Xu Fan's tone was calm, but Zheng Yu heard unprecedented determination. "The teacher told us that we have a mission to come here. Now he and A Tie and Dalei are no longer there. I must take it for them."

"Xiao Yu, these are the missions of our generation, so don't rob me." Seeing that Zheng Yu seemed to be talking, Xu Fan shook his head, "I will be fulfilled after helping you fight this battle. We have helped you to build a strong country well. But the real prosperity of a country is not about supermen and prophets like us, but about the awakening of every citizen and their voluntary efforts. This task can only be accomplished by you."

"This is also my dream since childhood." Xu Fan closed his eyes, his expression was complicated, as if he was recalling, and as if he was looking forward to it, "Million-ton steel giant ships confronted at sea, giant cannons roared, the setting sun was like blood, the highest crystallization of human industrial civilization, the ultimate epic of large ships and giant cannons. If I miss this scene, I will regret it for the rest of my life... No, this is my stage that cannot hold the throat of fate with my own hands, and I cannot win this decisive battle with my own hands, and I cannot let go."

Zheng Yu looked at the extremely determined old man, sniffed and nodded vigorously.

"You can already lead this war alone." Xu Fan turned his head and looked at the student who was extremely satisfied with him. His words were filled with relief, but also with a faint sourness. "The plan has been revised long ago, and everything is moving forward according to the track. As long as I win this duel at sea, there will be no doubts in this national war. More importantly, if I am not here, they will be at ease and boldly following our plan."

"I was sent out of Beijing, and a lot of information can be inferred by all parties." Xu Fan sighed, "The most meaningful thing is that I am not in harmony with you, leaving Beijing to avoid disaster... In this way, our army has various problems and confusions in the situation, and it is very easy to understand. Their thinking is on the track we have arranged, and the actions will naturally fall into the hub. Xiaoyu, you should know how important this is to us."

Zheng Yu nodded, but asked with some concern: "What if there is chaos inside us? What if many people have different thoughts about it? Once the fire is ignited, will it be impossible to control it?"

"You have to have confidence in yourself." Xu Fan looked at him and said word by word, "Even if I want to help you, I can't leave for a few years. The key is to rely on yourself. The teacher and I have taught you for so many years, and your prestige has been established. If you can't do this, you can only say that the teacher and I have left."

"Don't forget, even A Tie is in your hands." Xu Fan looked at Zheng Yu, "How could these shrimp soldiers and crab generals be your opponent? Now your strength is enough to guarantee your status. As long as I win this decisive battle, the Japanese landing troops will be fish on the board. You can sweep away the Russian teams that have penetrated the border, counterattack Russia, Japan and the world, and set the world in one fell swoop. This country's situation is unshakable until that time, you are the emperor of the ages. Even if the teacher is in front of you, you cannot cover up your glory. At that time, I can express my love to the mountains and rivers, watch you let go of your actions, and lead this country to glory step by step."

"You have put my ideals and my teacher. You are our inheritance. You sighed a long sigh, "What's the difference between you doing it and us doing it? After struggling for half a lifetime, I can let go of everything and truly feel every bit of beauty in this world. In that kind of life, there will be no more shortcomings."

"I'll leave tonight and go directly to Zhoushan." Xu Fan's words made Zheng Yu stunned again, "You can't wait. Once the news is leaked in advance, you don't know what happened halfway. You will announce it in a small way tomorrow. When the news reaches the Japanese and Russians, I guess it will take at least two or three days. At that time, I've arrived."

"This fleet is my thirty years of hard work. I can't let it go if I can't take them with my own hands to complete my destiny." Xu Fan closed his eyes, "If I have any problems, take good care of Xiaoxue, and those three fools. Tell them that I never regret my choice."

Zheng Yu's pupils suddenly contracted.

"I know very well that from now on, the ideas and situations of naval warfare will change. It will be difficult to find such a naval war to determine the fate of a country." Xu Fan took a deep breath and looked firm, "Everyone has a dream in his heart. If he missed it, he would die with his eyes open."

Zheng Yu looked at the old man with a complicated expression and a persistent expression. For some reason, he thought of another burly Marshal with a cold expression. He thought of a face with loving pride in his majesty. His heart felt sore and tears quietly slid down.

The lights are on.

Zheng Yu watched Xu Fan's convoy drive out of the base camp, sighed with regret, looked up at the starry sky, and for some reason, he was suddenly shrouded in an unprecedented loneliness and loneliness.

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The main force of the Japanese Joint Fleet had been stationed at the anchorage of the Pillar Island for six days.

Due to long-term service in the Ryukyu waters, the ship status of the joint fleet has gradually declined. Although several large maintenance ships and supply ships have carried out multiple maritime operations, including lifting and replacing gun barrels, repairing turbines, replenishing ammunition, food, and coal, there are also many ships and computers in the middle. This is only for rotation. However, the entire fleet's status cannot be maintained at its peak.

After preparing to launch the Higashi combat plan, the fleet returned to Hong Kong. Most of the Russian ships were prepared at the Sasebo Military Port, and the Japanese Combined Fleet ships and some Russian ships were prepared at the anchorage of the Pillar Island. After day and night repairs by the naval service personnel, the state of each ship was basically restored to its best, and the personnel were given sufficient rest.

Of course, this also includes Akiyama Masao.

The current staff member who shoulders the responsibility of setting fleet tactics naturally knows how important he is in the future war that determines the fate of Asia.

He slept for forty-eight hours.

Then he devoted himself to the hot work.

The Japanese and Russian armies have secretly transferred their submarine forces to the Nanpu Military Port in northern North Korea so that these short-legged crabs can be closer to the Bohai Bay.

He knew very well what these things were considered secret weapons:

Ten "Cap"-class submarines purchased and built by Japan from France are 36 meters long and 4 meters wide, with an underwater displacement of 210 tons and a crew of 30 people. They are equipped with two 450mm torpedo tubes. They use a 260-horsepower steam engine to provide surface power, and a 100-horsepower electric motor provides underwater power. The surface speed reaches 11 knots and the underwater speed reaches 6 knots. The surface endurance is as high as 1,500 nautical miles, but the underwater endurance can only travel 58 nautical miles at a speed of 3 knots. It is called the "Carp" class in Japan.

The Russian "Dolphin" class submarine has similar performance to the Japanese "Carp" class, and are both French drawings.

The steam engines used by these French submarines are not suitable for underwater navigation. They spend a long time before diving, and the underwater range is very short. In addition, the steam engine has a high heat dissipation, and the comfort of the crew is very problematic. All this has led to the limited practical value of this submarine and can only rely on certain special circumstances to conduct sudden strikes. Once it is discovered on the water surface, the enemy ships even have enough time to smash the submarine with naval guns before diving.

The bigger problem is that no one knows how to use these unprecedented weapons at present. For example, how they should form, how they act, how they cooperate with the surface fleet, which targets should be attacked, and how the troops should be managed, everything is blank.

Thinking of this, even with Akiyama Masao's genius, it still feels very difficult.

What's even more terrifying is that he doesn't know what level of Chinese submarines have developed. He just intuitively believes that the Chinese submarines may have surpassed their own side. However, he can't find too many clues about the performance, tactics, training level, and combat plans of enemy submarines. He can only rely on the performance of his own ships and add a performance fluctuation to calculate.

The submarines in this era have too low underwater endurance, and the speed of floating and diving is relatively slow. The periscope is only more than 4 meters, which leads to the superstructure, especially chimneys and watchtowers, that are exposed to the water surface, and the torpedoes are only two to four torrents, and the range of the torpedo itself is relatively short. Especially these guys are constantly having problems during navigation. Japan and Russia have sunk two submarines in just over half a year, and there are many other accidents.

Everything determines that the submarine can only undertake auxiliary functions.

In his opinion, the most suitable submarine at present is to wait for the rabbit and then launch a sudden strike on the warships stationed at night.

The real reliance on Japan and Russia to win is still the main warships: twelve Russian ships and six Japanese ships.

In his opinion, the main warships of China can currently participate in the war with only four British old man star warships. As for the two Guangzhou-class, which are not seen at the head and tail, it is still unknown whether they can participate in the war. Even if they can participate in the war, they are just six battleships. The two high-speed warships, the Cheetah and the Snow Leopard, suffered heavy damage in the previous battle of the Yellow Sea. They may not be able to recover in such a short time. Even if they participate in the war, their combat power is mostly good. As for the thin-shell armored cruisers equipped with battleship-class main guns, one of the three Guilin-class patrols sank and one of them is severely damaged to the point of being scrapped, and the remaining one has no way to fight against the real battleship. In this way, Japan and Russia have an overwhelming advantage in terms of quantity and tonnage.

The plan formulated by Akiyama Masao is actually very simple. In his opinion, only plans with simple and clear internal logic are good plans. All plans that are so complex that they are difficult to understand have been repeatedly proven to be the worst plans by history.

This battle is related to the success or failure of the empire, and no one knows what kind of hidden strength China has. Therefore, Masaki Akiyama decided that although his battleships had overwhelming advantages, they still had to adopt preset battlefield + gradual reduction tactics to ensure victory.

This tactic is similar to the ones that were previously arranged in Okinawa, but the difference is that it is no longer passively waiting for the Chinese to respond, no longer pinning hope on some obsession and willingness of the enemy's center, but actively attacking a target that the enemy fleet is completely impossible to let go - the Bohai Bay. If the probability of the Okinawa strategy of the Chinese fleet coming to support is only 80%, then this time it is 100%.

This plan, after the improvement of the Joint Fleet Staff Team, has been approved by the Joint Fleet Commander and the Marine Prime Minister, and has obtained a well-known number: Pinghai.

The Army landed on its homeland, completely overwhelmed China's will to resist and destroyed its field corps, numbered Pingyuan.

Japan's entire national destiny will be based on the Pingzi combat plan.

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August 15th, night.

Japan. Hiroshima. Hoshima anchorage.

At first glance, the towering figures of giant steel ships are full of masts and cannons. The magnificent aesthetic of giant ships and cannons in the era of industrialization has reached an unprecedented extreme at this moment.

The Satsuma-class battleship, which had been completed and set off from the United States, sailed and tested while sailing, and had just been officially put into service for less than a month. The Joint Fleet Command has officially been transferred to the pilot ship "Samo".

The whistle roars.

This huge fleet, which was unprecedented in the entire Eastern history, fluttered the Japanese Navy's rising sun flag and the Russian Navy's Saint Andre's Cross Eagle Flag, and set off with a high attitude.

Xiaguan, in front of Chunfan Tower, above the coastal highland.

A burly man who is rare among the Japanese, wearing a black cloak with golden chrysanthemum patterns, stands solemnly on the shore and raises his hands to greet the military salute. The sea breeze is flying, and the black cloak is like a battle flag, fluttering in the wind.

The giant steel ships marched into the waterway of the Shimonoseki Strait. All the sailors lined up in an orderly manner to pay the highest respect to the Japanese living god. Everyone's faces were full of admiration and determination. Ito Hirofumi and others stood on the other side of Chunfan Building from afar, silently watching this very religious scene, as if they did not dare to accept fanatical worship with this Japanese living god.

Akiyama Shinno stood solemnly on the bridge of the Satsuma, looking at Emperor Meiji standing on the shore, tears flowing freely.

From this moment on, Japan's national destiny will be bent on the steel giant ships such as the United Fleet. The future of Asia and even the world will depend on whether this huge fleet can fulfill its entire mission.

The Satsuma whistle sounded.

A string of flag slogans raised to the main mast, and all the officers and soldiers began to sing together the emperor.

"Jun がは

Chiyo に Eight Thousand Years

Fine stone

英とな㊦

Moss is raw…”

Prince Akigawa Miyaki's naval aide behind Emperor Meiji's base camp Prince Akigawa Miyagi burst into tears and said softly: "Your Majesty, the navy's flag is 'Fifty years of life, like a dream and an illusion. There is life and death, so why do heroes regret it? These bastards, they are really enlightened."

The few Navy members of the royal family bowed deeply and said sincerely: "Your Majesty, please allow the colleagues of the United Fleet to die together with their joint fleet to fight to the death of Attack on the Warship rather than to accept the shame of standing by."

"No." Emperor Meiji said calmly.

"His Majesty"

"Virin, you are the guardian of the royal family." Emperor Meiji said word by word, "I can't let you take risks."

Prince Weiren was obviously a little excited: "If Your Majesty fails, then Japan will no longer exist. At this time, as the royal family, how can you sit and watch..."

The Emperor turned his head suddenly and stared at him and said, "Weiren, you must understand that the Emperor is in all ages, we are Japan, and Japan is ours, even if the fleet is gone, as long as we are there, Japan will not perish. If we are gone, even if there is a fleet, is this still Japan?"

Prince Weiren was stunned.

"Where has Jiaren been?" the emperor asked calmly.

"I just received the telegram and His Highness the Crown Prince has already disembarked in Aomori." Prince Viagra said respectfully, "I will arrive in Tokyo by train soon. His Highness the Crown Prince requests to pay homage to His Majesty as soon as possible."

"Let him come here immediately, don't delay." Emperor Meiji breathed a sigh of relief, "Tell him that his father needs him, Japan needs him, and in addition, please inform the royal family, all those who work in the army, come to the base camp. Those who are not in the army, will concentrate in Tokyo to listen to my arrangements."

Prince Weiren was stunned. The emperor turned his head and stared at him. The coldness in his eyes made the navy general feel cold.

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Beijing, Xishan Base Camp.

"Last night, the Japanese-Russian joint fleet set sail from the anchorage of Matsushima and Sasebo military port."

The whole audience was in a state of solemnity.

"The Japanese have bet on all their national destiny, and the Russians are also accompanying them crazy." Zheng Yu looked around the audience and said coldly, "From now on, the fate of the entire Asia has decided to be a decisive battle between the sea and land in the Bohai Bay, and the final result is only one, that is, our victory is complete."

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