During the Meiji Restoration, Japan was busy with all walks of life, which meant that it was prosperous. Of course, there are a lot of bad things, first the war was inexplicably stirred up by North Manchuria, and then this evil neighbor knocked a bamboo pole hard, which made Japan's finances, which was already on the verge of bankruptcy. I originally wanted to go to Taiwan to take advantage, but the Qing Dynasty was not very easy to provoke, and Taiwan's climate was also very uncooperative, so that the expedition team would lose troops and generals, and they were about to fall into Taiwan. The Rothschilds kept urging the Japanese government to repay the money, so the ministers had a hard time.

Because in the face of the great threat of Northern Manchuria, the Meiji government was much more anxious than it had been in the original history, so all the things such as "abolishing the feudal domain and establishing the prefecture" and "Zhentai" were carried out in advance. These were significant advances, but it was not a good thing to be in a hurry, and a large number of daimyo and mid-to-high-ranking samurai of the feudal kingdom complained one after another, even the four powerful feudal clans in the southwest, which were important investors in the fall of the vein. The ministers were unhappy, the daimyo were just as unhappy, and the upper classes of the entire Japanese society were not having a good time.

The life of the big people is not good, but the life of the small people is okay, although the dividends of the huge change have not yet been reflected, but at least there is no war, and their life will naturally be improvised. Edo, the capital of Japan, is home to small traders and market laborers. Small business was done as it was in the shogunate period, and small laborers did it as they did in the shogunate era, and they didn't experience much change, even the samurai who were strolling around the streets.

Taro Suzuki, who sells ramen near the port, and Jiro Suzuki, who sells oden, have average business today, so the two of them sat together near the port and watched the sea, and when they waited for business, they could only pass the time by watching the sea. The names of the two are very similar to brothers, but in fact, it is just a coincidence, they were ordinary people without surnames before, and after the government asked them to give themselves surnames, they happened to choose the surname Suzuki. Because the entire name registration in Japan is too urgent, and the education level of the people is average, there are many strange surnames in Japan, and it is not strange for unrelated people to have the same surname. The name registry office happens to use a mallet and a brass bell to call the number, so there are many people with the surname Suzuki in Japan, and Taro and Jiro are not just one of them.

"Brother Taro, look! That strange thing is here again! "Jiro Suzuki found that strange thing floating in the sky again, this thing that looks like a huge fish bubble, and has been appearing in the sky of Edo Port lately.

"Where?" The huge fish bubble that can fly is blue-gray in appearance, and some places are whitish, and it floats very high, and it is extremely difficult for ordinary people to find it. If it weren't for Jiro's excellent eyesight and staring at the sky and the sea all the time, there would be no possibility of discovering it. Even if Jiro was guided, Taro didn't see it for a while.

"Over there! On the edge of the sandal-shaped cloud! Jiro hurriedly pointed it out to Taro more carefully, Jiro is the only one who sees it these days, and he says that he is always ridiculed when he tells others, so he must let Taro see it and find a witness for himself.

"There's really something! It's still moving! Taro looked hard, and indeed found that strange thing.

"What's that?" Taro asked Jiro curiously, after all, Jiro was the only one who had discovered this strange thing before.

"I don't know, the house where the gods live!" Jiro said nonsense that he just saw it, and he didn't invite him to fly up.

"O gods!" Taro folded his hands and prayed.

When Jiro saw Taro praying, he hurriedly prayed himself. The prayers of the two seemed to be really effective, and before the silent recitation in their hearts was over, business had already come to the door. Someone behind him urged, and the two people who asked themselves that there was no hope of becoming immortals hurriedly stopped praying and turned around and got busy. Three or five samurai, who didn't know what to do, sat at the booth of the two of them and ate and drank happily.

"What's that?" When a fast-talking samurai looked up after eating his ramen, he also saw something strange in the sky.

"What?" The samurai's companions were still feasting.

"There's a strange thing in the sky!" The samurai hurriedly pointed it out to his companions.

"Ah...... How did it get bigger! Jiro wanted to show off in front of the samurai, but when he turned around, he was startled, and the strange thing had grown bigger.

Jiro had seen this strange thing a few times, and each time it was about the same size, probably about the same as the fingernails of his thumb, and it was very blurry. But when Jiro looked back, the strange thing had become the size of a goose egg, and it was very clear. After a closer look, Jiro became a little frightened, and the strange thing was getting bigger and bigger, as if it was approaching the port.

"There's one over there, too!" A samurai has made a new discovery.

"There's it too! There's one there, and there's ...... over there" The samurai found more discoveries.

Jiro counted roughly, and there were actually more than two dozen such strange things in the sky, forming a very strange formation, faintly surrounding the port. As these things got bigger and more and more, more people discovered these strange things, and many people near the harbor looked up at the sky.

"This is the rumored hot air balloon!" The samurai is more knowledgeable than the average small people, a samurai who has been in contact with some Lanxue, and after looking at it for a while, he probably guessed what was flying.

"Hot air balloons?" The people who heard it nearby all came over curiously.

"Hot air balloons are rumored to have been invented by Westerners, similar to the principle of the Chinese Kong Ming lantern, which uses hot air to drive the balloon into the air, and the hanging basket below can carry people into the air. It's just that this hot air balloon shouldn't be so big, and I don't know why there are so many hot air balloons around here. "This samurai is still an academic, he knows a lot about hot air balloons, and through distance comparison, he found that these things in the sky are very huge, I am afraid that they are larger than the warships of more than 1,000 tons moored in the harbor.

"What's that?" Suddenly, in the crowd of onlookers, someone pointed to the sea in surprise.

The onlookers looked at the sea, and sure enough, they also found something unusual, and many black spots suddenly appeared on the sea, and they couldn't see it clearly. They are all people who are often near the port, so they naturally know that there are ships approaching, but looking at the size of the black dot, there are a lot of ships coming, and the hull is quite huge. The port of Edo was also busy, but it was not a time when dozens of ships came in at once, and that kind of pomp and circumstance could only occur in the ports of Shanghai, Dalian, Yingkou, and Vladivostok in China. Everyone stared dumbfounded, unable to guess where these strange hot air balloons and boats came from, just watching them get closer and closer. Just as everyone was curious and watching, the thunderous sound of horses' hooves came from behind.

"Alert, alert! Northern Manchuria is at war against the Imperial State! Alert! The knight on the horse roared hoarsely, but his voice was hoarse, and his speech was so fast that most people did not hear what he was shouting.

Japan is a small country, and the horses produced are small and small, so there are very few times when you can see cavalry. The one who could deliver the message on horseback was either a high-ranking official or an emergency, so although everyone didn't hear what the knight was shouting, they were all nervous. Ordinary people like Taro Suzuki and Jiro Suzuki have already sensed the threat and began to pack up their stalls and prepare to run away, and this port is afraid that something big will happen. When the alarm came, the proud east ship of the Japanese Navy had already lit fire and anchored, but the black spots on the sea surface could also make the onlookers on the shore see clearly, it was nearly 30 warships approaching at high speed.

Suddenly, there was a flash of fire on the sea, and a puff of white smoke rose from the approaching warship, followed by the sound of wind and thunder, and then a column of water rose to the sky in Edo Port. Except for the three observation airships in the sky, which only continued to approach and did not make major movements, the remaining twenty-one bombing airships all accelerated their advance. Three minutes later, Japan became the first country in the world to suffer from a gap, and the Japanese shore defense artillery, which was hastily preparing for battle, had just aimed its guns at the enemy on the sea, and was blown up by the sudden arrival of * overhead.

Willing to pour all his money for Japan, he really took out everything he could get at the moment, bombing airships with a load of more than eight tons, solidification*, the latest technology of North Manchuria, all of which were displayed without reservation. Of course, there are some more advanced things in North Manchuria, but because of the high requirements of Goxinga, they are still in the experimental stage for the time being, and they have to be kept to surprise the British. But these things that Guo Xinga took out can be regarded as the top level of the world's military science and technology, and the Japanese army, which never thought that the enemy would fall from the sky, instantly blew up the world's first bombing into two fools. The Flying Falcon, the closest transport ship to the coast, became the world's first ship to sink an aviation weapon.

The accuracy of the airship bombing is still not high, and it is okay to hit such a big target as a dozen coastal defense artillery positions, and it can only be a chance to hit a warship. Even if the Japanese ships were anchored in the harbor and did not move, it would be difficult to hit, and it could only play a deterrent role, and the "Flying Falcon" was only blinded by the three-engine aviation * because of the explosion of its character. The airships could not be bombed and there were warships, and it was the entire fleet of the Yellow Sea Fleet, which had eight Sea Lion-class cruisers and 16 Seawolf-class destroyers, who came to Edo Port to shut down the doors. Ding Shengping has only one combat idea, after blocking it, beat him hard, and don't let anyone go.

After two rounds of calibrated firing, the gunners and captains of North Manchuria, fed with countless ammunition, locked on to their targets, and after three volleys, the Japanese troops in Edo Port knew the consequences of offending their strong neighbors. The Japanese warships "Kasuga", "Daiichi Chomao", "Yoharu", "Toyoyasu", "Boshin", "Morrowind", "Chaoyang", "Flying Dragon", "Mt. Fuji", "Chiyoda", "Settsu", and the transport ships "Flying Dragon", "Flying Falcon", "Nagawhale", "Osaka Maru", and all were destroyed.

This is a naval battle without suspense, the Japanese army was not only suddenly attacked, but also did not even have the ability to fight back. Of course, there were also two fish that slipped through the net, the Japanese Navy's proud "East" and the transport ship "Kuaifeng", which were the first to see the opportunity, took advantage of the billowing smoke of their teammates and rushed all the way out of Edo Port.

"Ma Erwei, follow along! Send Japan's only armored iron ship to where they should go, this drama has been planned by the general for a long time, don't mess up! Ding Shengping transferred two cruisers, six destroyers, and 12 transport ships to pursue the "East" ship, and the ship also carried a full brigade of marines.