This is the sixth time that the Beiyang Fleet has shelled Sasebo today! Hirahachiro Togo was tiredly dragging his body to patrol Sasebo on a torpedo boat. While patrolling, he encouraged the Japanese soldiers in the port.

After fleeing back to Sasebo like a stray dog ​​last night, the officers and soldiers of the entire joint fleet did not have a good rest and consolidated their coastal defense overnight. The Beiyang Fleet was discovered in the northwest early in the morning. The Beiyang Fleet did not know whether it was concerned about the mine formation in the waterway or intentionally trying to destroy the soldiers' fighting will, so it would launch a fierce shelling on time every hour.

Unfortunately, the shore artillery range was not enough, so I could only watch the battleships of the Beiyang Fleet 10,000 meters away arrogantly bombarded Sasebo's port and could not fight back.

Originally, the United Fleet was defeated on the Tsushima Strait and did not sleep all night. During the day, the Beiyang Fleet's artillery attacks continued, making the United Fleet, which had not slept for a day and a night, feel exhausted.

All the warships that could fight in the empire were basically blocked by the Beiyang Fleet at the Sasebo Naval Base. Each shelling made the soldiers of the Joint Fleet feel panic and restless.

Togo Heihachiro once stopped a group of suicide squads, but as soon as more than a dozen torpedo destroyers and gunboats left the port, they were shot into sieve by the Beiyang Fleet, and even the wreckage could not be found.

It seems that this time I have really become a turtle in the jar. Togo Hirahachiro, who has always been calm and calm, has also fallen into deep worries.

The specific situation of the war Togo Heihachiro has reported to Prime Minister Hiro Kanetaro, and Kanetaro also reported the huge difficulties the empire has encountered at this moment to His Majesty the Emperor overnight, and His Majesty the Emperor has sent a telegram to Britain and the United States, hoping that Britain and the United States can mediate from it.

"Boom, boom..." The sound of the three-unit main gun fired by the Beiyang Fleet unique to the Beiyang Fleet was heard again from the sea. The Beiyang Fleet's shelling was as accurate as a needle at the same time. It started shelling every hour or minute by second. The officers and soldiers guarding Sasebo in the previous few times were able to actively guard against the Beiyang Fleet's sneak attack.

However, after many punctual artillery bombardments, the officers and soldiers of the joint fleet were not even able to get up and take a look. This was exactly the problem that Hirahachiro Togo was most worried about. He was afraid that one of the artillery attacks would be a real attack, but the officers and soldiers of the fleet did not respond.

This is also the reason why he kept inspecting Sasebo. He must inspire the high morale of the soldiers. If one of them was Tang Jian's real general attack, Sasebo would no longer exist!

However, what disappointed Togo Hirahachiro was that the officers and soldiers in Sasebo experienced a day and night of naval battles. Although whenever Togo Hirahachiro inspected a place, the local officers and soldiers would cheer up and shout long live the emperor and swear to defend Sasebo to the death, as long as Togo Hirahachiro left, the local officers and soldiers would be listless.

At the end of the inspection, even Hirahachiro Togo was already discouraged. Even if the soldiers of the empire had strong fighting will, they were humans after all, and they had not had a good rest. In addition, they were defeated in the long-distance raid, and the fleet officers and soldiers had dropped to the lowest point in their morale and physical strength.

Togo Heihachiro had to urgently call Prime Minister Katsutaro, and Katsutaro immediately called back, saying that he would immediately send students from local naval schools to support him.

Hearing this news, Hirahachiro Togo could only smile bitterly. Most of the naval students in school were thirteen or fourteen years old, and the older ones were thirteen or eighteen years old. Let these children with no war experience go to Sasebo for support, wouldn’t they be killed?

But Hirahachiro Togo knew that Prime Minister Kanetaro had no choice but to have the war experience in the Imperial Navy lost more than half of the battle in Dadonggou, the only remaining elite Imperial Navy are besieged in Sasebo. There is no other way except to send students to participate in the war. Should those troops who do not even understand the most basic theoretical knowledge come to support?

"Boom, boom..." The sound of dense shelling came from Sasebo's outer sea again, and the Beiyang fleet attacked again. Togo Hirahachiro raised his wrist and looked at the table below. Sure enough, it was extremely accurate, just one hour.

"Chir..." A rapid alarm sounded again over Sasebo. Under the forced order of Hirahachiro Togo, the officers and soldiers of the joint fleet hurriedly set fire and prepared to fight. The army officers and soldiers in the shore artillery bunkers also cheered up and stuffed shells into the cannon chamber to prepare for counterattack.

When the joint fleet was preparing to fight, the battleship of the Beiyang Fleet on the sea swayed again and slowly sailed back to the formation.

The officers and soldiers of Sasebo finally couldn't stand this endless "harassment". They collapsed on the ground with their eyes blank, and some officers and soldiers on the warships even fell asleep on their muzzles.

A few days later, the Beiyang Fleet continued to shell Sasebo incessantly as usual, but it was not as punctual as a few days ago. Sometimes it was once a half hour, sometimes it was once every two hours, and it was still uninterrupted in the middle of the night. The captain of the Longwei Captain Cheng Biguang completely carried out the order issued by Tang Jian, which was to make the Japanese soldiers in the port feel the crisis at all times, but not really attacking, so that the Japanese army in Sasebo could spend all the time being in fear until they could not sleep at night and could not eat.

On the morning of that day, Tang Jian followed the customs and walked to the deck of the Dragon Wei and watched the Dragon Xiao perform alone on the sea outside the Sasebo port.

At this time, Li Gates yawned out of the cabin and walked out with a stretch. Seeing Li Gates's spirits, he seemed to have slept well last night.

Lee Gates walked to Tang Jian, handed Tang Jian a cigarette and lit it, and said, "Young Master, today's alarm clock seems to be a little too early!"

Tang Jian rolled his eyes and cursed: "Damn, this is called an alarm clock? Now it's a cannon attack Sasebo! That alarm clock will be bombarded with a 340mm main cannon in the morning!"

"Haha, young master, isn't this a joke?" Li Gates smiled embarrassedly, "I don't have money every day, and I'm so burning money!" Li Gates looked at Tang Jian with a look of looking at a prodigal son.

Tang Jian said angrily: "The shells cost money, but the warships cost money. Aren't they just a few hundred shells?"

"Okay, young master, you are rich and powerful, so you can throw more shells to loosen the bones of the little Japanese!" Lee Gates smiled as he spitted out a smoke ring.

Just as Tang Jian and Lee Gates were quarreling, Ye Zugui also came out of the cabin. Seeing Tang Jian and Lee Gates blowing sea breeze on the deck, he also smiled and said, "Sir, Cheng Biguang called yesterday. He said that the ammunition of the Long Xiao Hu was only enough for two days to bomb Sasebo."

Tang Jian handed Ye Zugui a cigarette and said, "Don't worry, just let Cheng Biguang bombard me with great enthusiasm. Tonight, the first batch of supplies will arrive. We will probably stay here on the sea for a few months!"

"No, young master, you still have to stay on this sea for a month? My mouth is almost fading out of the birds, can't we fight quickly? Just kill Sasebo directly," Li Gates complained.

"Japan is a single nation-state, and it is not that easy to surrender so quickly! They will only realize that they have the power if they see some blood. Besides, Japan has shortage of resources. Now we have blocked its naval port and blocked the Tsushima Strait. Then let the Japanese army in North Korea drag down Japan and drag down!" Tang Jian said.

"Captain Ye, how are the two torpedo boats that escaped from Sasebo yesterday now?" Tang Jian turned his head and asked.

"Report to the Lord, two Japanese torpedo boats that were secretly stolen yesterday were sunk by the Haiqing destroyer and the other was captured." Ye Zugui replied,

"Haha, it seems that some people in Japan can't stand it anymore." Tang Jian smiled, "The effect of the artillery attack is pretty good. Let Cheng Biguang work harder. If you bomb for another week, you will change the Dragon Power. Anyway, there is only one principle, don't let Hirahachiro Togo have a good sleep!"

"Haha..." The three of them looked at each other and laughed.

ps: Today’s second update, let’s update so much today. If you have time tonight, I will update another chapter. If you don’t have time, I’ll put it until tomorrow!
Chapter completed!