Chapter 208 Japan must withdraw from this game

"Zhao Dong's house has been shipped. Who wants to go?"

On the dock of Tianjin Port in the early morning, a shout broke the silence, and the footmen and hardmen who had squatted on the dock ran in the direction of shouting one after another.

It's not easy to eat at the Tianjin dock. With braids, gnashing teeth, unloading and loading with bare arms, in exchange for a meager salary every day, just serving the ship owner is enough for their scalp trouble.

Although they still have a manager, where is Tianjin Wei? It is not only connected to the Forbidden City, but also the sea gateway of the capital of the Qing Dynasty. Many of the ships coming and going are private goods of the princes. Even the rest, most of them are foreign sea [***] ships. None of these masters are easy to serve. If they overturn or damage things, they will have to be delaminated if they don't die.

However, there are exceptions. Since Zhao Dong's family came to Tianjin a few years ago to run home goods. After several large warehouses were built on the side of this dock, the cost of moving his family's goods was much higher than that of others, and the owner was also kind, and he also included lunch.

At the beginning, there were still a few green skins who relied on the crowd, saying that they had broken the rules to find faults, but the next day, they were hung on the tree beam, and even the government had no evidence.

In addition, they are all sea ships, carrying not only Nanyang goods, but also foreign people's novel things. No one can't know if there is a backstage, so no one has dared to provoke them since then.

In the past few years, the business of Zhao Dong's family has become more and more prosperous. From half a month in the past to now, sea ships come from three to five to five times, which has also made these hard laborers on the dock a small profit, and even the Zhao Dong family has a much higher status in everyone's eyes.

However, because of the sudden arrival of four Pacific Army ironclad ships in the sea, they turned around Tianjin from time to time, and the muzzle of the black hole looked scary. So recently, not to mention the nobles in the capital, even the foreign ships have left the Weihai side, which made everyone worried to death.

Now that I heard that Zhao Dong's family was going to ship the goods again, of course, everyone squeezed over, and even several carriages waiting for passengers next to them gathered around to see if they could make some extra money.

"How is Zhao Dong's family."

"Zhao Dong's business is getting better and better."

"

After a noisy greeting, several tyxes took everyone to the dock. When they arrived at the dock, everyone saw that three sea ships on the sea were constantly lifting goods to the connecting boats in the distance. Due to the shallow water of the wharf in Tianjin, it is impossible to dock such a large sea ship, so we have to use this old method to pick it up with a small boat first, and then move it into the warehouse by the porters and the hardliners.

Seeing three sea ships coming at the same time, everyone was excited and working. At the same time, they couldn't help but be more surprised by the strength of the Zhao Dong family. You know, even the foreigners were scared away and did not dare to come to Tianjin to deliver the goods easily. Unexpectedly, they not only followed the same, but also three ships came at a time!

As the boat connected to the dock, the hard workers soon forgot the root problem and rushed up to start a new busy day. However, at this moment, a rapid sound of horses' hoofs suddenly came, and they saw a carriage running by the roadside quickly. The foreigners who were driving not only did not slow down, but also raised the whip when they saw the hard labor. I want to smoke.

Fortunately, several people stood at the forefront of moving goods, so they avoided the carriage and whips. Seeing the carriage rushing to the dock next to them, the sitters spat one after another and scolded the foreigners who were driving for bullying others.

The hard laborers began to be busy again, but they didn't see that the rich Zhao Dong family suddenly took out a small thousand-mile mirror and looked carefully at the carriage and the fast boat on the dock over there.

"It's a Russian, it must be Casini. Let's go. Send it to Lushun immediately and tell them that Kashini has boarded from Tianjin. After looking at it twice, Zhao Dong's family quickly hid a thousand-mile mirror and quietly disappeared from the warehouse.

Kasini quickly boarded the temporarily hired French Clipper. He received an invitation last night to go to Lushun to discuss future negotiations and check the situation of the captured Russian army, so that he had to give up today's appointment with ambassadors.

Soon, the ship left the dock. When it disappeared on the horizon, an invisible radio wave also rushed out of the warehouse area.

Although it is a fast ship, the speed of the 18th knots really can't make people feel that it is fast. He sets out from Tianjin to cross the Bohai Sea in the early morning. If it goes well, he can reach Lushun in the evening. In fact, it is not too far. However, at the thought of his military officer who had left a letter saying that he could not bear the pressure to resign, his heart was simply compared with The sun overhead was still strong, because it was the military officer's negligence that made it contact Lushun two days late. At that time, the main fleet had already set off, leaving only two cruisers and two small boats.

Now the damn military officer has run away. If the responsibility is to be investigated in China, I'm afraid he will take the blame for this big blame, and I don't know what His Majesty Nicholas will do with himself.

That's why he is so anxious to prepare for the next negotiation as much as possible before Foreign Secretary Robanov arrives. As for whether he dares to leave the Pacific Army, he has no hope.

Sitting in the cabin, although it was blocked by a thick hull, I don't know whether it was because of the hot weather or the noisy roar of the steam engine, which always made him restless.

In boredom, Casini didn't even want to smoke his favorite cigar. He was ready to go to the deck to blow the wind, but there was a "boom" at this moment. The muffled thunder suddenly came from a distance, which made him shocked.

"What's going on!"

"Your Excellency Ambassador, it's the Pacific Army. They are shelling this freighter."

"What!"

Casini's whole face turned green. He was not afraid that the Pacific Army would attack the French cargo ship, because before leaving, he hung the signal flag given by the envoy Feng Qi, but he never thought that in Bohai Bay, the Pacific Army would attack the Japanese cargo ship unscrupulously!

Is this a representative that the Pacific Army has officially declared war on Japan? If there is no Japanese containment, I'm afraid that the negotiations will be more difficult for Russia in the near future!

In the rumbling sound of gunfire, Casini quickly boarded the bridge. He grabbed the telescope from the French captain without saying hello. On the other side of the lens, a small cargo ship flying the Japanese flag was surrounded by a column of water, and the explosion and fire kept coming out of the ship. He saw with his own eyes several Japanese sailors covered in fire. As soon as he escaped from the cabin, he was torn by a dense rapid-fire gun.

Next to it, the four capital ships of the Pacific Fleet seem to be dissatisfied. They constantly adjust the muzzle and ** this small prey over and over again, from the deck to the bridge, from the mast to the cabin, as long as they are not on fire, there will always be shells.

Over and over again, clusters, it seems that they will never be reconciled if they don't sink each other directly!

Kasini can even see that on a battleship, several gunners are leisurely upturning their feet and pointing at the sailors who fired the artillery!

This is not shelling at all, not a war, but a game of killing lions before eating!

The water column, gunpowder smoke and fire are constantly hitting Cassini's nerves, especially the scene of the other party shelling a small cargo ship with four capital ships, which is simply more terrible than seeing the devil eating. He looked at the blue veins on his forehead jumping violently and stamped his feet and shouted, "Let's sail quickly, go around."

The French captain looked contemptuously at the well-dressed but nervous Russian ambassador, pointed to the signal flag waving on the opposite side and said, "Your Excellency, we can't move now. Their signal is "We are arresting the Japanese spy ship and temporarily blocking the channel!"

"Spy ship?!"

What the hell! That's simply a Japanese freighter, and the cloth lifted above is neatly placed under the oilcloth!

Although they knew that this was the other party's excuse, they aimed at their naval guns from time to time, which made everyone afraid to act rashly and could only watch the killing continue.

With a bang.

A shell accurately drilled into the boiler chamber in the middle of the Japanese freighter. The violent explosion of the boiler and the shell at the same time finally sent the already battered cargo ship to the end. The small cargo ship seemed to be broken by something, and the hull suddenly tore open from the middle, and then raised the pen high. It is directly inserted into the sea at a depth of hundreds of meters.

Until the whirlpool with cinders gradually subsided. Not to mention the cargo ship, even those Japanese sailors could no longer see any cloth. At this time, the first battleship made a signal that it could pass.

The Clippers were on their way again. When they passed by the four Pacific Army's capital ships, everyone held their breath and looked at the muzzle, sweat suddenly coming out of their backs and foreheads.

As the Clippers began to accelerate, the four capital ships of the Pacific Fleet finally overflowed out of sight. At this time, the bridge suddenly remembered a sound of exhalation.

When the sun gradually set, the beautiful Lushun Port finally appeared in sight, but Kasini had no confidence when he came. He stared at the harbor, which had been controlled by the Russian fleet, was full of craters and scorched black, and his heart gradually sank like the sun in the west -

In the Japanese military base camp in Tokyo, the atmosphere is gloomy.

Since promising the British to help contain the Pacific Army and march into Yizhou, when they thought that they could rely on the British to fight a turnaround, at least to threaten the rampant opponents, they found that they were not qualified to participate in the game at all.

Especially Xixiang Congdao, as the Minister of the Navy, has a bad taste in his mouth.

Since the First Sino-Japanese Combined Fleet was attacked by the despicable Hawaiians, he, the Minister of the Navy, has not lived in peace for a day. Later, although he got a loan from the United States and His Majesty promised to rebuild the navy, the loan exchanged for the fiscal revenue of this decade was actually not enough.

The shipyard should be rebuilt, the wharf should be rebuilt, and the city should be rebuilt!

It is also necessary to stock up enough army weapons and ammunition, plus providing the needs of the troops stationed in North Korea, so the funds allocated to the navy are not sufficient. In addition, the United Kingdom and the United States took advantage of the fire to rob the lions. After ordering six battleships and six armored cruisers, they would have actually run out. If it were not for His Majesty the Emperor and the base camp. Try your best to maintain it. In fact, it has gone bankrupt!

But even so, he still relied on the perseverance and struggle, got some funds from the poor finances, and bought some auxiliary ships.

Many people don't understand why he, the army-born Secretary of the Navy, will help the navy desperately fight for funds, and spare no effort to support Yamamoto Quanbingwei as the commander of the new joint fleet. Not long ago, Yamamoto Quanbingwei watched the four capital ships of the Pacific Fleet shelling Yuanshan Port, causing a large number of army soldiers to be killed and wounded. At the critical moment when he was blamed by the parliament and the base camp, he almost lost his position as commander, and stood up to support him.

Although many people don't understand, Xixiang Congdao himself is very clear. Although it is difficult for him to figure out the types of warships, it does not prevent him from paying attention to the navy.

As a general born in the army, in fact, he knows better than anyone that if there is no navy, then the army can only be a lion trapped in a cage, a little old.

Because he was not a mainland country, as an island country, he could not fight across the sea without naval support in a powerful army, so he spared no effort to support the navy, and even if he threatened to lure, he would win enough military money for the navy.

With his almost stubborn support, the dead navy in the past two years finally had some vitality, but it did not solve the problem at all. At this moment, the domestic people are shrive, the local political situation is unstable, the grain harvest is poor, etc. The country is suffering every day, and some bad news has been circulating among the young officers. Fortunately, the United States and the United Kingdom still need the Japanese version, otherwise I'm afraid it will collapse soon!

Seeing that the first batch of warships ordered in the United States are about to return to China, the empire will be rejuvenated again, and the cohesion of the people will also be re-gathered little by little with the return of the fleet! Unexpectedly, the base camp led by North Shirakawa promised that the British-led Western countries would contain the Pacific Army and station troops in Yizhou!

It's so stupid!

Those foreigners are simply using the Japanese version. They do not want to see the Pacific army grow, nor do they want to see the Japanese version grow, so sending it to Ran as a gun at this time is equivalent to deliberately provocation!

Therefore, the Pacific Army suddenly appeared at the entrance of the Uraga Waterway, completely blocking Tokyo Bay!

Xixiang Congdao is not worried that the Pacific Army will take this opportunity to attack Tokyo. Although their power seems to have soared, it is not in their interest to start a rash war without fully controlling the northeast of China.

What he is worried about is that he has put together the things he finally made up in the Yokohama New Shipyard!

Damn Hawaiians, if they continue to be blocked like this, the supplies will not be able to enter, and the plan will not be successful!

At the thought of this, Xixiang ignored it. When he got up and was about to speak, there was a sudden sound of rapid footsteps outside the door.

"Report that a cruiser of the Pacific Fleet tried to enter the Uraga waterway and had been ordered to be expelled by Major Suzuki, but the fort was also counterattacked by the other side's fleet, causing serious losses!"

"Damn it!"

"Fack!"

In the base camp, which was still silent just now, it suddenly exploded. Not to mention those ministers, even some VIP officials clenched their teeth and turned their eyes to him, the naval minister.

"Gentlemen, I'm sorry, I won't let the fleet work hard at this moment. No matter what you think, I'm going to see His Majesty the Emperor now. I must have quit this game for the time being!"

"Must!"

(to be continued)