"Admiral Ito Youheng, this is a challenge from the Shina people, hoping that we will hold a naval battle in the Yellow Sea. This time we will have the navy duel it out, and then decide our naval supremacy off the coast of China. May I ask Senior General Ito, will we agree to this challenge from the Shina people? The staff officer asked.

Ito looked at the challenge sent by this telegram, which said that this time the Taiwan Navy and the Japanese Navy will have a decisive battle, this decisive battle will be held in the Yellow Sea, and then the two navies will do their best to fight to decide the victory or defeat of the sea supremacy along China's coast. And Ito Youheng looked at this challenge and specified that this decisive battle would be held in Dadonggou in the Yellow Sea, which meant very obviously. This time, the Taiwan Navy arranged the decisive battle site at Dadonggou, obviously hoping to allow them to wash away the shame of the Beiyang Naval Division's Dadonggou naval battle in the Yellow Sea. When this Ito Youheng saw this, he immediately became ruthless.

"I'll go and ask His Majesty the Emperor right away to allow me to go to a decisive battle!" Ito said.

Ito asked to see Emperor Meiji and then began to state his views.

"Your Majesty the Emperor, if we can have a naval decisive battle with the Chinese people this time, then if we can win, we will gain sea supremacy along the coast of China. Once the Chinese lose all their navy, they will not be able to maintain sea supremacy along China's coast. They will completely lose control of Taiwan and the mainland, and their ammunition and supplies will not be able to be transported from Taiwan to the mainland, and we will be able to take the opportunity to conquer Taiwan at that time. Even if we can't eat it, we can invite all countries to do it together. At that time, Taiwan's troops on the mainland, which had lost their supplies, must be a lone army, and we can slowly wear them down. So, once this naval battle is successful. That would create an immortal legacy for our empire. Ito said with red eyes.

But some people disagreed, asking, "What if we lose?" ”

"There's no way we're going to lose? How could we lose to the Shina people? Ito said fiercely.

"Can you guarantee it?" The man next to Emperor Meiji asked.

Ito immediately patted his chest and said, "I can guarantee it." Taiwan's navy has been formed for only a few years, where is the accumulation of decades of our formation? The quality of their soldiers, as well as their ability to run in various battles, and their ability to resist pressure are obvious, such as our Great Japanese Empire. They have the same firepower as us, but they obviously can't use it. It's not bad that they can have half the combat strength of us. So I think we can win and don't have to worry about anything. ”

"Joke, there are fifteen battleships that have been made public in Taiwan, and our battleships are only five whoosos, plus all kinds of attached cruisers, etc., our tonnage is only less than half of Taiwan's in general, may I ask Admiral Ito Youheng, how can you guarantee victory?"

The Japanese did not yet know that there were five Sword-class battleships in Taiwan, as well as submarines, which were assassins in the sea. So they obviously underestimated the number of battleships in Taiwan a lot. And this is enough to be the biggest source of their failure.

"I believe my command skills should win!" Ito said.

Emperor Meiji did not completely believe in Ito's approach, but gathered various staff officers of the navy and then conducted a careful exercise. Then they passed what was known so far, and then they conducted a very rigorous operational deduction, and the results were soon in.

"Your Majesty the Emperor, I think that if we can fight a decisive battle with the navy of the Shina people this time, the result of our deduction is that the probability of defeat is 40%. The probability of ending up together is also 40%, and the probability that we can win is only about 20%. ”

"No way. How come the probability of our victory is only 20%? Ito asked incredulously.

The staff officer replied: "The people of China have fifteen Sovereign-class battleships, and this Sovereign-class battleship is currently the best battleship in the world, and our battleships are obviously at a disadvantage. And their sailors may be of relatively low quality, but the number of fifteen ships is not so easy to solve. Their firepower is more than three times that of us, and even if they make a half-fold, it is one and a half times as much as ours. But in fact, it can't be counted that way. Because the number of artillery pieces is real, and their power ability is better than ours, we may not be able to really occupy an absolute advantage. And if they succeed in seizing the 'T', their huge firepower will be enough to cost us dearly, even if their sailors are relatively low. ”

"And I guess after that. The probability that we will be preempted with the prefix 'T' is about sixty-five percent because their navy has a better level of power than our naval battleships. In layman's terms, that means they're running a lot faster than us, so we're at a disadvantage in terms of seizing the 'T' prefix. In addition, the range of their artillery is obviously much farther than ours, so we are afraid that it is not very advantageous. ”

Then these Japanese naval staff officers came up with the results of the deduction and told those Japanese bigwigs, and the sentence of this report is that Taiwan has more warships than you and has better performance than you. Even if the quality of Taiwan's sailors is not as good as yours, they will bully you by using more warships, more artillery, and faster speed, and there is no way to bully you anyway. Taiwan's warships are much more bright than Japan's, and the number of artillery pieces is also higher than Japan's, so they are much better than Japan in terms of hard power. And there are some poor soft power, which can also be made up for by hard power. This is like a computer, a supercomputer with windows98, even if its software is poor, but it can also blow up an ordinary home laptop with windows7.

Therefore, this gap in hardware cannot be bridged by software alone.

"Damn, these cowards, can't they send the same number of warships to fight us? I'm going to beat them up with ease! Ito said angrily.

And the high-ranking Japanese officials present were speechless, Ito Yuhiro was really "naïve", and he actually expected Taiwan to have a fair duel with Japan and fight with the same number of warships? Taiwan's military doesn't have a brain to get into the water! Fighting a war means making use of its strengths and avoiding its weaknesses, and Taiwan has many warships, so of course he wants to bully you with more warships? The battlefield is not the boxing ring of the Olympic Games, where the number of people is the same and the weight is the same. War is never fair, in war, more people bully less, that is reasonable and legal, no one will scold you for being unfair.

However, Emperor Meiji also sighed and said, "Heaven is really unfair, our Yamato nation is such an excellent nation, such a noble nation, but we can only cower on such a small island where volcanic earthquakes occur everywhere." However, the people of China, the inferior people of China, were able to occupy such a large piece of land, and it was still a land with fertile land, with countless mineral deposits, and land with abundant grain. Such a large area of land does not belong to our Yamato nation at all. ”

"We finally gained Taiwan, but we were inexplicably raised by a kingdom. This Wang Guorui, I don't know what forces have gained the support, can rise so quickly. It was possible to build a strong army so quickly, to be able to build its own industrial system so quickly. If this organization is willing to support our Yamato nation, then it will not be long before our Yamato nation can enter the continent and then dominate the world. But it is really unreasonable for them to favor the inferior people of the China. ”

"Heaven is so unfair to our Yamato nation, but our Yamato nation will never give in. The inferior people of China do not deserve such fertile and abundant land, which belongs to us. Therefore, we Yamato nation must work hard, and then let them hand over all the land that belongs to our Yamato nation! ”

Emperor Meiji was also shameless enough, and he actually said that the Chinese did not deserve such good land, and these lands were all Japanese. However, these words made those high-ranking Japanese officials obviously acquiesce to this, and this is also the situation of being brainwashed by the logic of the bandits. They have always been robbers, and they don't care about any normal thinking at all. What they think is theirs is theirs, and what is not theirs is theirs. So they are all like this now, obviously it is aggression, but they say so righteous words and say so righteous, as if they are the righteous party. If you don't know, do you really think you've been deceived by them?

"However, in order to ensure victory, we still have to make the necessary preparations. If we can pull the American fleet to our side and fight with us, then what are our chances of winning? Emperor Meiji asked.

A few hours later, the staff officer came back and said, "Your Majesty? If we can pull the three battleships of the Americans over, maybe we will be able to win fifty percent. ”

"Fifty percent? It's time to gamble! When we went to war with China, wasn't it just gambling? This time, for the sake of the great cause of our Yamato nation, then we gamble again, so what? Emperor Meiji said frantically.

Now, Emperor Meiji has apparently fallen into the mind of a gambler again, and he thinks that fifty percent of his hopes can be gambled. In the case of such huge gains, fifty percent of the risks can be risked, which is also the gambler character of the Japanese, and in the face of huge gains, they can't help but gamble with the fortune of the country. (To be continued.) )