After Uemura Hikosei made up his mind, he immediately bowed deeply to the Emperor of Japan, and then said: "This northern expedition was all carried out by Commander Ito Yuhiro of the Combined Fleet. As subordinates, we cannot disobey the commander."
The order can only be to lead the warships northward."
The Emperor of Japan heard this and cursed loudly: "Idiot, not only are you stupid, but you also don't obey military orders, so you will die unjustly."
Uemura Hikosei listened to the emperor roaring from above, and he felt a little trembling in his calves as he stood below.
After a long time, Emperor Meiji of Japan calmed down and asked again: "Then was it true that the Japanese combined fleet was completely wiped out? How did you come back?"
"Your Majesty, the Japanese combined fleet has been completely wiped out, and now only two cruisers of the First Guerrilla Fleet are captured by the other side."
When Uemura Hikosei said this, his voice trembled a little. Finally, he secretly glanced at the Japanese Emperor Meiji, and then said the words he least expected to say: "The captain of the Naniwa, Togo Heihachiro, as
The commander of the First Guerrilla Fleet ordered us to surrender, but I have no choice but to obey the military order."
The Emperor of Japan, Kabuchi, had nothing to say here, so he directly ordered people to pull Uemura Hikosei out and shoot him.
Uemura Hikosei didn't want to die now. Whether it was for his own life or for the future seeds of the Japanese Empire, he had to live.
So he quickly said: "Your Majesty, the reason why I can come back this time is because Admiral Liu Hai of the Nanyang Navy asked me to deliver a letter to Your Majesty."
When the Emperor of Japan heard this, he asked the two soldiers to stop fighting, and then ordered someone to deliver the letter to him.
The Emperor of Japan knew that there must be something unpleasant in this letter, so he took a deep breath in advance to calm down his mood before opening it.
Sure enough, the Japanese Emperor got it right. Liu Hai's letter was very impolite. The general content is: Now that the Japanese combined fleet has been completely wiped out, Japan has no defense at sea. If you don't surrender, there will be peace between the two countries. If not
Listen to the advice and insist on contending with the Kingdom of Heaven? All life in the place where the warship passes will be devastated, and Japan will be plunged into eternal disaster? I hope the King of Japan will think twice.
After reading this letter, Emperor Meiji of Japan smiled coldly, "You guys really surprised me? This bangs actually wants me to surrender."
When the Emperor of Japan said this, he suddenly started laughing, and he burst into tears at the end. The great gods standing below were a little confused.
It took a long time for the Japanese Emperor to slowly stop laughing wildly. Then suddenly his face turned pale. Tears already burst out of his eyes. "I have gone through a lot of troubles since the Restoration. I didn't expect the results of the Restoration in the past few decades. Today I am going to
Disintegrated into nothing.”
Several ministers below also heard what the Japanese Emperor meant. Now in order to buy time? Those coastal cities can only give up? I am afraid that not much of the equipment purchased at high prices from foreign countries can be saved? Is it really like what the Emperor said?
, the achievements of decades of reform were wiped out in one day.
The Emperor of Japan sighed for a while and then said: "Mutsu Munemitsu, are you going to the British Embassy again? Urging the British to send troops immediately. Everyone else should immediately perform their duties and do their best to maintain the stability of Japan and at the same time allow Japanese factories to move inward as much as possible.
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After the emperor said this, he closed his eyes tiredly and stopped paying attention to these people.
The other Japanese members bowed to the Emperor and left. Uemura Hinoki looked around and saw that no one was paying attention to him, so he also hurriedly left. If he stayed here, the Emperor would probably fall when he thought of him.
Brain.
Liu Hai waited on the battleship Huangdi for a day, but without waiting for a reply from the Japanese, he knew that the other side would never surrender.
So he smiled and said to Liu Wei beside him: "This time, we should be polite before fighting. We are not rude at last. Now you can take action?"
As the current commander of the fleet, Liu Wei immediately stood at attention after listening to Liu Hai's order. After giving him a military salute, he exited the cabin and came to the command bridge of the battleship Huangdi.
Liu Wei came to the bridge and carefully looked at Tokyo in the distance with his binoculars. He found that there were still some sporadic factories in Tokyo in the distance that had not been completely destroyed, so he immediately ordered a bombardment of the remaining urban areas in Tokyo.
The last time they attacked Tokyo, the four Iowa-class battleships did not get very close because they were afraid of torpedoes in Tokyo Bay. This time the fleet did not have such scruples.
The Iowa-class battleship is now close to the coastline, conducting indiscriminate bombing of all buildings in Tokyo.
The longest range of the 406mm main gun of the Iowa-class battleships can reach 30 kilometers. If it was during World War II, such a long range would not be of much use, because at this range, the shells would almost have no accuracy.
But the fire control systems on the four current Iowa-class battleships are China's relatively advanced electronic warfare systems in the 1980s and 1990s.
Now as the artillery sighting radar is aiming, the electronic computer continuously calculates the position, and finally forms an accurate number and sends it to the fort.
Immediately afterwards, 36 406mm cannons began to bombard, and the main guns of other warships of the Nanyang Navy also began to fire violently.
This time the bombardment lasted for more than 5 hours. Each cannon of the four Iowa-class battleships fired 30 shells.
With the roar of cannons, all factories and buildings within 30 kilometers of Tokyo were destroyed.
By this point, all Japanese factories in Tokyo had suffered a devastating blow.
Seeing that there was nothing left to bomb in Tokyo, Liu Wei ordered the fleet to stop the bombardment, and then slowly left the shoals of Tokyo Bay and returned to the sea.
The Nanyang Navy rested on the sea for a day, and during the day on the second day, they began to move north along the Japanese coastline. Wherever they passed, all Japanese cities were reduced to ruins.
In this way, the Nanyang Navy set out from Tokyo Bay and drew a circle along the Japanese coastline. When they arrived at the Tsushima Strait, all the cities along the Japanese coast were covered by bangs.
In Japan's Tsushima Strait, Liu Hai left behind the Nanyang Navy's five old cruisers and ordered them to act as a squadron to blockade the Tsushima Strait. No ship could pass through the Tsushima Strait to the Korean Peninsula.
After that, Liu Hai led the Nanyang Navy southward and reduced all the cities in southern Japan to ruins.
Now, after the Nanyang Navy's troubles, Japan's decades of reform achievements can be said to have been wiped out. Today, Japan can be said to be a country with zero industry.
At this point, Liu Hai's combat operations against Japan have reached their limit. Without a large-scale army landing, Liu Hai really can't do anything with Japan now.
But Liu Hai is now satisfied. Today's Japan is nothing to fear. Not only do they have huge foreign debts, but their industry has also been wiped out. Their navy that has been built for decades has also been completely lost. Now Japan is just a country waiting to be slaughtered.
Lamb.
Liu Hai believes that the current Nanyang Navy has been completed, and their strategic goal is to take the main force of the Nanyang Navy to sail to Shanghai Wusongkou Pier again.
By the time Liu Hai returned to Wusongkou Pier in Shanghai, there was already a sea of people here with colorful flags flying. They were all welcoming the Nanyang Navy who had returned from Japan victoriously.
It turned out that the news that Tokyo, Japan, had been bombed and that the Japanese combined fleet was completely annihilated had spread throughout the Qing Dynasty through British newspapers.
In particular, they learned from newspapers that the Nanyang Fleet had four extremely huge warships that even the Westerners had never built. Therefore, the people of the Qing Dynasty regarded these four warships as national treasures.
Now these people came to the dock. Firstly, they wanted to welcome Liu Hai's return in victory. Secondly, they wanted to take a look at what these four giant ships, which even the foreign powers praised highly, looked like.
And these four warships did not disappoint them. As these four extremely large warships approached Wusongkou Pier, the people on the shore felt like a mountain, slowly approaching.
The coercion involved cannot be experienced at all unless you watch it live.
After Liu Hai got off the ship, he left all the affairs of the Nanyang Navy to Liu Wei. He hurried back to the Nanyang Navy Yamen and inquired via telegram about the situation in the Liangjiang area during this period.
Liu Yu, as the head of the army in the Liangjiang area while Liu Hai was away, immediately sent a telegram back to Liu Hai.
During Liu Hai's absence, Liu Yu had discovered that there were some changes in the Qing government. Provinces near Liangjiang, especially Zhangzhidong in Hunan and Hubei, had begun to organize elites and hoard them in border areas.
The area Liu Yu only defended for the Liangjiang area was too vast and formed in a strip, making it difficult to defend, so he immediately recruited another 120,000 horses.
Since these 120,000 people did not have new weapons, they said that most of the weapons used were raised by Liu Yu from various sources, and almost all of them were old-fashioned rifles left over from previous military expansions.
Moreover, these people have just been recruited and have not completed recruit training. It may be difficult for them to go to the battlefield, but they are still good as supplementary soldiers and to maintain order.
After Liu Hai received this information, he immediately became a little angry. Although he had already guessed that the imperial court would take action against him in the future, he did not expect that the Qing court would put a knife in his back when he was fighting against foreign countries.
So Liu Hai no longer tolerated it, and directly sent a telegram to the court in the name of the Governor of Liangjiang and the Admiral of the Nanyang Navy. The wording was very stern, and there was no ordinary courtesy to the emperor and his ministers.
The general content of the telegram is: Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Huguang, has stationed troops at the border of the two rivers, and the governors of Fujian and Guangdong are also ready to move on the border of the two rivers. I would like to ask the court, did the two governors do this privately, or was it ordered by the court?