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Text Chapter 228: Who takes revenge on whom?

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    In the early morning of April 1, the Japanese main fleet had already arrived at Nagasaki, but there was no trace of the Chinese fleet anywhere.  The Japanese navy was very upset and cursed the Chinese as hooligans, hit-and-run, and without samurai spirit.  But suddenly, bad news came again, Tokyo Bay was bombed.  Only then did the Japanese navy realize that the Chinese were extremely cunning and were trying to divert the tiger away from the mountain.  The Japanese fleet rushed back to Tokyo to destroy the Chinese fleet.  Zhao Zeyong, who was in Qinzhou, received news that the main fleet had successfully bombed the three cities of Tokyo, Yokosuka, and Yokohama and was returning.  Immediately called Sun Ke in Nanjing to tell him the whole story and how to deal with the subsequent situation.  In fact, Sun Ke had already determined it before. Of course, it mainly relied on the information confirmed by the Japanese. The Japanese could investigate clearly overnight, but the Sun Ke government did not have this ability. It has to be said that in terms of the degree of organizational rigor, the current Nanjing government  There is still a gap with the Japanese government. Not only the Nanjing government, but also the Yunnan government is afraid that there are some gaps. It can't be helped that the Meiji Restoration lasted 60 years, while you have only developed for a decade or so. Many detailed issues are difficult to erase in a short time.  After Sun Ke received Zhao Zeyong¡¯s confirmation, he immediately became high-spirited and held a high-profile release reception.  "Didn't the Japanese say they want revenge? Our attitude is that this is revenge! This is revenge for the Jinan massacre caused by Japan in Shandong. This is revenge for Japan's invasion of China's Shandong territory! Japan is limited to 72 hours to withdraw  Shandong, otherwise we will carry out a devastating blow to the Japanese army in Shandong!" Sun Ke was very tough, but it was not Sun Ke himself who spoke, which made him quite regretful. It was Chen Youren who spoke.  Chen Youren spoke in English, not because he was following the fashion and wanted to use an international language, but because he was not good at speaking Chinese.  Chen Youren is an overseas Chinese from South America. He was originally a lawyer and the first non-white lawyer in the area.  Because of his good service attitude and strong professional ability, he has been recognized by Chinese and Indians, and most of them come to him for lawsuits.  Chen Youren was already a rich man at a young age. He bought a large area of ??land to run a plantation and took time to go on vacation to the UK every year.  But when the news of the Revolution of 1911 came, Chen Youren immediately returned to China and helped Sun Yat-sen in foreign affairs. With his deep understanding of international law, he did help Sun Yat-sen a lot.  Moreover, Chen Youren is a hawk, which is why Zhao Zeyong invited him to be the Minister of Foreign Affairs.  Since he came to power, he immediately took back the foreign concessions in Zhenjiang and other places, and surprisingly did not cause any diplomatic conflicts. This time he held a press conference to personally express the attitude of the Nationalist Government.  Chen Youren's statement immediately aroused heated discussion in the world. First of all, everyone was shocked by the boldness of the new Chinese government to launch a sneak attack on Japan. How could this person have such a brain? Who would have thought of launching a sneak attack on Japan? Even the great powers would not have thought of it.  Unless you are ready to fight to the end, you will not even consider a sneak attack on Japan; secondly.  It has already launched a sneak attack on Japan, but it seems that it still refuses to give up. No one can figure out the attitude of this Chinese government.  Suddenly, the great powers felt that it was too difficult to deal with the Chinese. They had encountered it before.  The Chinese way of doing things and thinking about things are very different from the West. Westerners came to China and wanted to do business and trade according to Western methods. As a result, the Chinese regarded trade as a gift.  This makes Westerners very unhappy, but if you don't like it, feel free to do it, as long as you make money.  But the Chinese government threatens them by cutting off trade at every turn, and their actions to crack down on them are unacceptable to Westerners. If your officials are dissatisfied, they will cut off trade. If your emperor is dissatisfied, you will still refuse to do business.  Don¡¯t you know that trade is a win-win cooperation, something that benefits both parties? Don¡¯t you know that cutting off trade will also hit your businessmen?  Later, Westerners understood that Chinese businessmen have no social status, even if they are rich.  After the Opium War, Westerners began to interact with China in Western ways. At this time, it was no longer possible to do anything other than Western ways. If the Chinese are unwilling to abide by various agreements and Western contractual customs, then you will be beaten to accept it.  At first, it was still possible to follow the spirit of the contract. Later, Westerners found that plundering according to the spirit of the contract was too slow, and began to deal with it in the spirit of bandits.  The spirit of contract and the logic of banditry are the foundations of Western civilization. Use whatever you can to make profits.  As a result, Westerners have become unscrupulous in China and can do whatever they want. They must evade taxes as long as they have the opportunity. Anyway, they found that the Chinese government is not willing to deal with them at all, and anything can be escalated to a diplomatic incident.  , which also fostered the barbaric attitude of their businessmen. As a result, the image of foreigners in China was extremely bad.  Now they suddenly discovered that the new Chinese government that came to power seemed different from before.  They are no longer afraid of diplomatic incidents. Foreigners don't come to them. They have to come to foreigners frequently. First, they use negotiation methods to pull out various arguments, including international law, international practices, universal values, and various things to prove.Certain treaties signed by foreigners and China are unreasonable and should be abolished and must be changed.  Then if the foreigners disagreed, they threatened to use force.  Is this simply a replica of the foreign contract and pirate spirit? The Chinese are using the spear of the son to attack the shield of the son.  So how will we conduct diplomacy with China in the future?  The foreigners were a little confused.  "Other foreigners are just confused, while Japanese and Japanese are in trouble.  How to solve the current dilemma? Should we declare war on China? The time has been missed. We should have declared war as soon as possible. However, due to the hesitation at the time, should we declare war now? Does Japan have the capital to launch a counterattack?  After two days of buffering, everyone in Japan has actually calmed down and recovered from the initial shock.  People are always most helpless at the moment when they are suddenly hit. After that, no matter how difficult the situation is, they are actually more and more shocked.  This was the case in Japan at this time. Senior officials inspected the attacked ports everywhere, and the military began to take active action.  Senior officials are based in port cities, exchanging views with local governments and discussing rescue methods.  The army marched into various port cities and began to redeploy defenses, strengthen fortifications, add air defense facilities, and began to pay attention to the use of the air force and began to study new aircraft procurement contracts.  And the people also calmed down. After the initial panic, all Japanese realized that Japan had been attacked and violated, but it had not been knocked down once.  Public sentiment is raging.  The national consciousness was aroused, and the calls for war became louder and louder.  The Japanese government continued to speak, stating that it would definitely take retaliatory measures against China, demanding that the Chinese immediately apologize, pay compensation, and hand over the perpetrators to Japan.  However, they still did not express their attitude on the issue of declaration of war. It was as if they sent troops into Shandong and caused shocking tragedies, killing diplomats and massacring soldiers and civilians.  The Chinese government has not declared war.  Obviously, the offense and defense are now switching positions.  It was the Japanese government that condemned, protested, demanded an apology, and demanded compensation.  But behind the scenes, Japan's strict and huge military machine has started to rotate, and the Army Reserve has begun to make preparations. It can supplement the regular army at any time and expand the army to one million levels.  The military factories turned on their power and concentrated their efforts to rush out a batch of aircraft. Anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns came out.  The Japanese finally discovered that they seemed very passive without air superiority.  The aviation force, which had always had a low status, finally had the right to speak, and different aviation officers began to express various opinions.  The future wars belong to the sky, just like the wars in the 18th century belonged to the land and the 19th century belonged to the oceans, future wars will be dominated by the sky.  The military has also been organizing various seminars on aviation issues.  The Italian Douhet's theory of air supremacy became popular in Japan for a while, and it is difficult to find a copy of it in Luoyang.  The attack on the United Provinces made the Japanese realize the importance of air power in advance.  But the more we understand the importance of air power and how terrifying the threat from the air is.  On the contrary, Japan is even more aware of the weakness of its own strength and the danger of its own shortcomings.  Without an advantageous air force, Japan not only has no trouble defending its coastline, but its warships no longer feel safe. Even the most heavily armored battleships have the possibility of being sunk by aircraft from the air.  For a time, the Japanese Army felt that it was completely behind the world by an era, while the Navy felt that all its warships had fallen behind overnight.  The discovery of the overall backwardness of its air force made Japan anxious and temporarily lacked the confidence to win.  So they only expressed their stance but did not declare war. This is a concrete reflection of this mentality.  But what about Japan's nightmare Central Army, not to mention other warlords including the troops of the Central Army, who were completely shocked at this time. They were fighting back and forth in the country, but they didn't expect that the Allied Provincial Army had already reached Japan.  , this incredible contrast made it difficult for them to accept it for a while, as if they and the United Provincial Army were no longer the armed forces of the same planet.  ¡°As for the Allied Provincial Army, they continue to act.  Wang Huan¡¯s fleet, which set out from Shanghai to attack Japan, and Chen Ce¡¯s fleet, which set out from Qinzhou, returned to their home ports one after another.  Wang Huan's fleet returned to Shanghai, and Chen Ce's fleet returned to Qinzhou.  Of course Wang Huan came back one day earlier than Chen Ce.  Because according to geographical relationship, the distance from Shanghai to Nagasaki is closer.  When they attacked, Wang Huan's fleet was the first to arrive, and those from Qinzhou were at least one day late.  Of course, if you have a plan and handle it properly, you can arrive at the same time, but the federal province does not feel it is necessary to do this.  The staff chose to strike at separate intervals because they were not sure how effective a sneak attack would be.  So first send some of them to sneak attack. If it doesn't work, then you have to rely on the elite fleet to attack by force.  The main target of Wang Huan's sneak attack fleet was the Sasebo naval port, while the main target of the main fleet was concentrated near Tokyo, Japan. Whether it is Yokosuka or Nagoya, including Tokyo itself, they are Japan's industrial centers. Yokosuka and Nagoya are also concentrated in Japan.  Important military industry.  Such an important task must of course be done with the utmost precision.?'s army went to complete it.  But no one expected that after Japan suffered major attacks in Nagasaki and other places, it acted too quickly and immediately mobilized its main fleet to rush to Nagasaki. As a result, Chen Ce's fleet arrived in Tokyo and did not encounter the Japanese fleet. According to the original plan,  Chen Ce intends to completely annihilate the Japanese fleet. It is best to use a sneak attack. If the sneak attack fails, then attack by force. Even if his entire army is annihilated, he will inflict heavy damage to the Japanese main fleet, otherwise China will be in trouble later.  Chen Ce believes that if the Japanese fleet is not destroyed, the Japanese fleet will definitely sail into China to launch a retaliatory strike.  Chen Ce went there with the consciousness of committing suicide, because at that time Chen Ce never thought that aircraft carriers could destroy Japan's main fleet. Battleships were still an invincible ship type in the hearts of the navy at this time.  So even though he returned successfully, Chen Ce was still worried and did not encounter the Japanese fleet. This is really not good news.  Carry out maintenance at the home port, reload ammunition, overhaul, replace fresh water, and replenish vegetables. It will be some time before the fleet can sail again. This time there will be no problems with concealment and sneak attacks. It will be a pure attack, which means that all warships will  It was about to be dispatched, including dozens of cruisers and frigates, which made Chen Ce feel more at ease. After all, using the aircraft carrier alone always left him without confidence. Especially when the aircraft on the aircraft carrier flew away, he always felt like he was being stripped.  The little wife with no clothes can only be teased by others.  Unlike Chen Ce, Wang Huan didn't put much thought into it at all. At the beginning, his understanding of aircraft carriers was the same as Chen Ce's. He thought it was just a new type of ship and a new long-range strike weapon.  To be honest, the understanding of naval powers is stronger than that of Western traditions. Westerners have always regarded aircraft carriers as reconnaissance ships.  But Wang Huan's knowledge was limited to this. Until the aircraft carrier was discovered at sea and was interrogated by the British and was in danger, Wang Huan personally participated in the incident of sinking a British battle cruiser in the Indian Ocean.  From then on, he began to have a good impression of aircraft carriers, and soon took the initiative to apply for transfer to work on the aircraft carrier. He soon became an aircraft carrier expert. He also learned flight skills and became one with pure aviation. From the perspective of aviation,  Rethinking naval warfare.  Wang Huan did not consider the issue of Japanese retaliation that worried Wang Huan at all. What he was thinking about at this time was how to seize the time to attack Japan again. This time he was going to attack Japan with a single aircraft carrier fleet.  Wang Huan firmly believed that under the intensive bombing by a huge fleet of aircraft, it was impossible for any warship to survive, not even a battleship.  Therefore, instead of worrying about the Japanese fleet, Wang Huan is very eager to meet the Japanese fleet and try his hand at it. No one can say whether it will be an aircraft carrier or a battleship in the future. The truth will be determined by his hands.  So when Chen Ce began to nervously formulate the next attack plan, discussing in detail with his staff how the Japanese would retaliate against China and how the United Provinces Navy should respond, Wang Huan was already preparing to leave Shanghai and go to Japan.  (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!
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