Chapter 122 I will beat you to the level of monarchy! (It will be released tomorrow morning at 10 am. Please order first!)

On the battleship Revenge, George Elliot also rushed to the bridge after hearing the news. He was holding a telescope and looking at the chase that was taking place 20,000 to 30,000 yards away with a confused look on his face.

His trip to Japan was going very smoothly until he was woken up from bed by his orderly. The Japanese did not realize that he was here to make a fuss, so they were extremely enthusiastic. Not only did they send a lot of

The navy chief of the Navy came to Mito Port to greet him. After receiving an airship provided by the British (for a fee, of course), he also cordially invited the Iryuu fleet to visit Yokosuka Military Port in Edo Bay - where the shogunate was.

The navy's home port is never open to the public, and the Yilu formation is the first foreign naval formation to enter there!

After leading the formation into Yokosuka, George Eryu was also invited to go to Edo and entered the Edo Castle of the de facto ruler of Japan, General Tokugawa Ienashi, and paid an audience with a very high standard in the Ohiro Room.

General.

Although, he also accompanied the general to the castle tower of Edo Castle and watched the performance of the shogunate naval aviation together. Seeing the airship dropping lantern shells from the sky, the general seemed very satisfied, and a group of ministers also said

"Don't be afraid of Ming Dynasty anymore" and other nonsense, it seems that Japan is preparing to take Japan to fight with Ming Dynasty.

After meeting the general, Iryuu, accompanied by Tokugawa Saiaki and Shimazu Sairyo, went to the famous Edo Yoshiwara for a few days to observe the Japanese customs. Well, it was quite "vulgar"!

Just after Eryū had a sufficient understanding of Japanese customs, he received an invitation from the Emperor to go to Kyoto to meet the Holy Spirit and experience the customs of Kyoto again.

This is really a great honor!

Since the founding of Japan, there have been countless foreign envoys who have met the Tokugawa generals, but the number of foreign envoys who have met the Emperor can be counted on one's fingers, and all the foreign envoys who have met the Emperor are from the Ming Empire.

Yilu is also the first Westerner to have this honor. Based on this alone, we know how successful his trip to Japan was.

So before being woken up by the orderly, George Elliot was lying on the bed in his cabin, dreaming of pushing Japan into a pit of fire to consume the Ming Dynasty. However, when he woke up from his dream, when he arrived at the bridge, he encountered something he had never dreamed of.

matter.

A formation of two Ming Dynasty cruisers and destroyers were chasing four merchant ships flying the flag of the East India Company!

"Your Excellency, Chief of Staff, what is going on? Isn't this Japan's territorial waters?"

George Eryu, who was looking confused, saw that Shimazu Sairyo, the naval staff officer of the Japanese shogunate who accompanied him to Kyoto, had also arrived at the bridge, so he hurriedly asked him a question.

"Your Excellency," Shimazu Qi Liang said, although he has never studied in the UK, but he can still speak Japanese English with teeth and at least Yilu can understand it, "Although this is Japan's territorial waters, the Ming Navy's Beiyang Fleet

The warships always come when they want, and they don’t care about territorial waters at all. They call this free navigation!”

"This is too unreasonable." Yilu frowned, "Then why are the warships of the Ming Dynasty chasing merchant ships flying the flag of the East India Company here? By the way, are those merchant ships really belonging to the East India Company? They ran away

It’s so fast!”

"Those four merchant ships should be Yipian smuggling ships anchored by the East India Company!" Shimazu Qi Liang said, frowning, "Yapian is subject to extremely strict control in the Ming Dynasty and our country, and it is difficult to buy it.

, so the price is very high, and it is inevitable that some people will take risks. Therefore, the few smuggling ships active in the Ming Dynasty and the coast of Japan are all modified. They appear to be ordinary merchant ships on the outside, but their speeds are usually very high.

Some even have artillery installed.”

He paused and suggested in a low voice: "Your Majesty, Admiral, how about we just pretend we didn't see anything?"

"Pretend you didn't see anything?" George Elliot frowned and thought to himself, "Can you pretend you didn't see this? The merchant ships of the British Empire were in the territorial waters of Japan, a British friend, in front of the British Royal Navy fleet.

Being chased by the Ming Dynasty fleet and the strength of the Ming Dynasty naval formation is much smaller than that of the British fleet! In this case, the British fleet would not dare to let go of anything. What would the accompanying Japanese think? The news came to

In Europe, what will the great powers that follow Britain think?"

"Sir," George Elliot's cousin and chief staff officer Charlie Elliot came up and reminded in a low voice at this time, "This is Japanese territorial waters, and those merchant ships are flying the flag of the East India Company. According to international public law, the Ming Navy

We have no law enforcement power, and our strength is obviously superior, so we can completely force them back!"

George Yilu nodded, deliberately showing a contemptuous smile: "Yes, we have twelve battleships, they only have four, and we also have the most powerful battleship in the world!

Turn around and rescue our merchant ships. In addition, send a signal to the Ming Dynasty Navy to tell them that this is the territorial waters of the Japanese Empire. According to the agreement between the British Empire and the Japanese Empire to mutually guarantee the freedom of trade in territorial waters, we are obliged to protect Japan's territorial waters.

Freedom and safety, please leave immediately!"

"As you command, sir!"

"Sir, the British-Japanese joint formation has turned towards us!"

"Sir, they also played lanterns, saying that this is Japanese territorial waters and asking us to leave immediately."

"Sir, it has been confirmed that the opponent has a total of twelve steam warships, including ten British ships, two Japanese ships, and two ironclad ships, including a Sovereign class! In addition, they also have four camouflaged assault ships!"

In the bridge of the Lushun, the air had become very tense as the staff officers and signal officers made announcements one after another!

From the perspective of the people on the bridge of the Port Arthur, what is happening now is clearly that Britain and Japan colluded to set up a trap against themselves. The purpose is probably to eliminate these four warships!

This is sixteen against four, the advantage lies with the enemy!

And regardless of tonnage or firepower, the opponent has obvious advantages! Even if they fight for speed, the opponent will not suffer too much. Although the two battleships are not fast, the British cruisers and destroyers are not slow either. If they are allowed to chase them, the consequences will be

Very serious too!

At this moment, Chen Jian, the deputy commander of the Lushun, suddenly said: "Commander, what should we do now?"

Now all eyes are turned to a certain Zhuge strategist who can figure things out!

Zhuge Weidao was also complaining in his heart. The first time he boarded the ship, he encountered such a thing. The opponent had two armored ships!

"Can you confirm the opponent's ship type?" Zhuge Weidao asked about the opponent's strength while trying to calm down his nervousness.

Wang Wendao: "Currently it can be confirmed that there is one Sovereign class, one Indomitable class, three second-class protected cruisers, five destroyers and two Japanese wooden-hulled gunboats. Sir, the enemy's strength far exceeds ours!"

Zhuge Weidao pinched his fingers and counted while whispering: "The Sovereign Class Unyielding Class. If the bow of the ship is facing the enemy, there are two useless 13.5-inch breech-loaded cannons and four even more useless 16-inch front-loaded rifled cannons.

"As he spoke, he suddenly shouted: "Yes!"

"What's the matter?" Chen Jian looked at Zhuge Weidao, with beads of sweat on his forehead.

"Fight!" Zhuge Weidao said, "The brave one wins when we meet on a narrow road!"

"But the enemy has twelve battleships and four camouflaged attack ships, and their strength far exceeds ours!"

Zhuge Weidao shook his head and gritted his teeth and said: "It doesn't matter, we are fast and can quickly seize the T-position and focus 20 155mm naval guns on the leading Junquan. As long as we severely damage the Junquan, we can escape safely!

"

"That's the Sovereign Class!" Chen Jian said in shock, "The Sovereign Class has two 13.5-inch cannons on the bow! The Indomitable Class behind the Sovereign Class uses a diagonal turret layout, with four 16-inch cannons.

You can fire forward!"

"You can't hit them!" Zhuge Weidao said with confidence, "I have already calculated that the six giant cannons of the Sovereign Class and the Unyielding Class are very slow to reload and have poor accuracy. They will definitely not be able to hit us, and our 20

The theoretical rate of fire of a 155mm rapid-fire gun can reach 6 rounds per minute, and the combat rate of fire can reach 4 rounds per minute. As long as you have 10 minutes, you can fire 800 rounds, and you can hit 40 rounds with a 5% hit rate!"

He paused, then turned back to the signal staff officer and said: "Send a message to Admiral Li and tell him all my analysis and suggestions. Tell him again that this is our only chance of victory, and it may also be the only way to survive!"

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