"What... Chinese fleet operation was discovered in the Igaguan Strait, and the scale of the other party cannot be confirmed for the time being!"

The news just came from the emergency military telegram line made the Japanese cabinet members present immediately nervous, and the authoritative figures in this regard were naturally the Army Minister Oyama Iwa, who had never spoken after the meeting. Immediately, everyone's eyes immediately turned to this Army veteran from Kagoshima.

Oyama Iwa was obviously a little surprised by the news, but he immediately noticed the huge hidden crisis. A few minutes later, an officer threw a military map onto the long table of the cabinet meeting, and the Iga Kankaikou mentioned by the telegram was an important checkpoint for entering the Seto Inland Sea...

Previously, there were coastal defense forts on the Igaguan Peninsula. However, it was vulnerable in the Sino-Japanese conflict seven years ago and was completely razed to the ground. After that, considering the huge cost of reconstruction, the Shanghai army entered the Japanese inland sea to fight... In fact, this situation was completely beyond the scope of the Japanese Navy's consideration! How could a powerful Japanese Navy allow people to enter the inland sea to fight... Moreover, there is no need to enter the relatively narrow and complex waterways of the navy to fight...

Now, the facts are in front of them. The Chinese Navy did not directly pounce on the more important Japanese coastal urban circle Osaka or Tokyo Bay like the last Sino-Japanese War. Instead, it directly circled Kagoshima and Miyazaki drove straight into the Japanese inland sea... The embarrassing situation before them was that there was no decent Japanese navy in the entire inland sea, and some were patrol boats at most...

The wooden-hulled ship with machine guns as its main weapon and mainly responsible for anti-smuggling and robbing tasks to fight against the Chinese Navy, which is invincible in the Far East, is completely a mantis chariot... This means that all cities in the entire Japanese inland sea are already fish on the other party's case!

"The Chinese are definitely not going to shell those coastal cities to put pressure on us!" Dashanyan's thick eyelids moved, and a serious expression finally appeared on his face that had been stern, but the conclusion he came up made others a little confused!

However, Prince Shiren of Sugawa Miya was of many years of experience in the General Staff Headquarters. He immediately thought of the reason why Oyama Islam's expression changed slightly. He immediately stood up excitedly... "Hiroshima Division! They are going to attack Hiroshima! Immediately report that the Hiroshima garrison must take necessary precautions! Immediately order to investigate the situation of the Chinese fleet!"

The Chinese Navy took action again, which immediately made the tension in Tokyo a little stronger. This time, the Japanese military could not predict the specific strategy of the Chinese Navy. Some of them were just helpless sighs to the coastal cities along the entire Japanese inland coastal area!

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On November 4th, when the morning light in the east shone on the Seto Inland Sea, a grocery ship belonging to Mitsubishi Sea was in trouble at its doorstep. As soon as it sailed out of Matsuyama Port, the cargo ship full of food and cocoon suddenly found that the rolling black smoke on the sea in the distance obscured the glory of the rising sun!

Although Captain Yanao Shenghui felt a little surprised, he had never expected anything special. Considering that there might be a large fleet in the distance, the captain made people hang up the signal flag, but... a few minutes later, Yanao Shenghui unexpectedly discovered that the situation took a sharp turn. In the distance, two warships came quickly!

The opponent's ship's speed was obviously far higher than this grocery ship with a speed of more than 1,000 tons and only 8 knots. What surprised him even more was that after getting closer, a thick black smoke suddenly spit out at the head of a warship, and the smoke mixed with fire suddenly enveloped the opponent's warship. More than ten seconds later, a shell exploded in front of the grocery ship... The waves raised high suddenly shocked the entire ship's Japanese!

"Captain, what's going on!"

"The warships...they are shelling us!"

“…”

After a panic, the crew of the observation deck finally brought news that surprised Yau Shenghui. "On the other side is the Chinese naval warship, and they asked us to stop the ship immediately for inspection!"

Liu Shenghui looked at the hideous minions exposed by the warships in the distance and immediately gave up any idea of ​​resistance...

The one who arrived quickly was the destroyers "Kaifeng" and "Xuzhou" who were responsible for clearing the waterway ahead, and they were patrolling the inland coastal sea at a speed of more than 22 knots. It was really useless. Early in the morning, they had intercepted more than 6 Japanese cargo ships. This was obviously the seventh!

Inside the commander tower, he was born in the 85th phase of the Nanyang Naval Academy. Ding Hao, the commander of the Xuzhou destroyer, lay on the chart and ignored the Japanese grocery ships that the battleship quickly caught up with. His eyes had long passed the Seto Inland Sea, passed through Tsukiji Island, and pointed directly to the offshore of Hiroshima, which consisted of many islands!

"Report, intercepted a Japanese grocery ship that may be transporting food and military uniforms to Kyushu! It is a ship transported by Mitsubishi Japan!" The lookout officer had quickly ran in to report the flag-tongued signals sent by the soldiers from the landing ahead.

"Execute according to the established order! There must be no errors... All goals must be eliminated!" Ding Hao did not look up at all. Less than 6 nautical miles behind him, the rapid formation responsible for this mission was following. The eight Shanghai-class destroyers who were responsible for clearing the waterway ahead must do their best to block the Japanese's ability to learn the news.

"yes!"

The commander's tower was immediately issued. One minute later, the Chinese lieutenant who had just hurriedly boarded the Mitsubishi grocery ship handed a Japanese notice to the trembling Japanese captain Yanao Shenghui... Yanao Shenghui's face was gray and faced with the black holes of various caliber on the side strings of the high-speed warship not far away, he immediately ran to the lifeboat at the stern without hesitation.

"Boom...boom...boom..."

In just 2 minutes, as the firepower on the side of the Xuzhou destroyer was fully opened, all made of wood, with a drainage of more than 1,300 tons, was torn apart from the side string waterline without any resistance. The high temperature of the explosion immediately ignited various flammable materials in the cabin. The raging flames spread from the bottom cabin to the upper layer, regardless of the rapid influx of sea water at all!

Looking at the huge torch that was getting smaller and smaller in the distance, Ding Hao, who had just finished reading the chart, said thoughtfully: "Immediately send a report to the flagship, we have entered the Hiroshima Inland Sea Area and cleared all the Japanese ships in their location!"

With the sound of telegrams, six miles away, on the fast formation flagship Dayu, the commander of the squadron, Xu Shoushan, was ready to go and immediately issued a pre-war mobilization order loudly.

On the chart behind him, a huge arrow pointed to an island outside Hiroshima Inland Sea Area less than 20 nautical miles away - Etan Island! (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian to vote for recommendations, monthly votes, and your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile phone users please go to m. Read.)
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