Open an aircraft carrier to fight against Japan

Lin Yuan smiled and said to Fade Chen: "Don't worry, anyway, I will announce our plan soon. For the sake of your injury, I will give you a spoiler."

Lin Yuan went on to say: "Now our aircraft carrier needs to find a port to call at. Although Lushun, Dalian, and Weihaiwei are all excellent military ports, a huge ship like ours with a capacity of [-] tons will inevitably arouse the suspicion of the Beiyang Navy. , so we decided to change to another place to take shelter for a while.”

Fade Chen frowned and asked, "We are the benefactors of the Beiyang Navy. It's too late for them to thank us. How can they suspect us?"

Lin Yuan smiled and said: "Don't forget, now we are in the past. In this world, the Beiyang Navy has never failed. We have all read history. The admiral of the Beiyang Navy, Ding Ruchang, forced away the naval expert Lang to fight for officialdom." Willie, if we go, there will be troubles."

Fade Chen said: "These messy things in the officialdom are too annoying, Captain, just tell us where we are going?"

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "I thought of a good place, Keelung Port in the northeast of Taiwan."

Fade Chen is very familiar with this name. In order to deal with the anti-Japanese forces, the Marine Corps has done a lot of research on Taiwan's ports. Keelung Port is a good natural port. The water depth there is more than 20 meters, far exceeding the full-load draft of the Beijing ship, and it can dock [-]-ton ship.

Lin Yuan also said: "Taiwan is already a province of the Qing government at this time, but the Qing government's control over it is far from enough, so we can obtain a relatively relaxed development environment there. And there are also rich fishery resources, We don't have enough food on board."

Fade Chen said with regret on his face: "Then, when we get there, we won't be able to beat the devils!"

Lin Yuan laughed loudly, Fade Chen was dumbfounded by his laughter, and asked, "What are you laughing at?"

Lin Yuan said: "When we get there, we will fight the devils harder!"

Fade Chen said: "I know that Japan once attacked Taiwan, but after the failure, they didn't station troops there. How do we fight devils?"

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "You will know when the time comes, and now there is a glorious task for you."

Fade Chen quickly stood at attention and said, "I promise to complete the task! What task did you say?"

Lin Yuan said: "Just now Ye Zhichao sent us a telegram to negotiate with the Japanese. I will bring a few comrades with me, and you will be in charge of security. This time, we will sign a contract for the Japanese to lose their rights and humiliate the country." Treaty of Shimonoseki!"

Fade Chen quickly answered yes, and the two went their separate ways.

According to Lin Yuan's plan, all warships of the United Fleet were captured by the Beijing ship, except for the sunk Matsushima ship, Itsukushima ship, and the seriously injured Fuso ship, and nine other warships. These warships will follow the Beijing ship to Taiwan. In Keelung Port, Lin Yuan and the others have spent a lot of effort in order to operate these warships.

For example, the power system, although the Beijing ship uses nuclear reactors as power, most of the comrades in the power system on the Beijing ship have experience in using steam turbines, because the previous generation of aircraft carriers in our army used steam turbines as power, although the previous generation of our army The steam turbines of the aircraft carrier Liaoning are much more advanced than those of these battleships, but the basic principles are similar. The soldiers and engineers on the Beijing ship saw the machines that they had only seen in history books, and they were both fresh and excited. Just mastered the method of operation.

There are relatively few problems with the navigation system. Although the soldiers on the Beijing ship are used to the help of navigation radar, the method of celestial navigation is the foundation for the sailors, so it didn't take too long.

Even so, there was still a shortage of manpower, so Lin Yuan decided to select some people from the Japanese prisoners of war as assistants, and arrange them in positions that were necessary but replaceable, for example, filling coal for steam engine boilers, and so on.

The economic speed of the Beijing ship is 18 knots. At this speed, it is the most energy-efficient, but this speed has exceeded the maximum speed of most Japanese warships. Fortunately, the Beijing ship uses nuclear power, so the energy consumption can be ignored.So the Beijing ship sailed at a speed of 10 knots, trying to keep within the field of vision of every Japanese warship.

There is also the key issue of sea charts. Sea charts mainly include information such as coast shape, islands, reefs, and water depth. The sea charts used by Beijing ships are all drawn in the 21st century. In the past 100 years, sea conditions will definitely change, such as Said: Coral reefs can grow at a rate of 5 centimeters per year, so 100 years is enough to change the water depth by 5 meters, and the water depth in the East China Sea generally does not exceed 0 meters. .

Lin Yuan quickly thought of using the Japanese charts, but he couldn't use the Japanese charts, because the Japanese were mainly fighting in the Yellow Sea this time, and most of the charts they carried were from the Yellow Sea. , There are only a few charts of the East China Sea, and the scale is too small, which shows that the drawing of the chart is not accurate enough.And the most important coastal charts and port charts are almost zero!You must know that the hydrological conditions in ports and along the coast are the most complicated, where the waterways are narrow, there are reefs, and there are many artificial buildings.

So Lin Yuan organized the comrades in the navigation department to discuss and decide to turn on the active sonar on the ship to test the sea conditions. The behavior of turning on the active sonar is very dangerous in modern warfare. The ocean is like a dark room. Both sides of the submarine in the sea are in this room. Whoever turns on the active sonar is equivalent to turning on the flashlight, and the position is immediately revealed.But now the enemy does not have submarines, so there is no need to worry about these.

The preparations took ten days. During these ten days, Lin Yuan finalized the personnel to go to Japan for negotiations, including Chen Fei, Shen Wanqing, Zhang Hua, and two comrades from the operation team of the confidentiality department, as well as those who had previously reported Tang Fan, the reporter who met Shen Wanqing, insisted on recording this exciting historical moment, so he followed suit.A group of seven of them went to Tianjin to meet with the missions of the Qing government.

The negotiators of the Qing court were Li Hongzhang and his adopted son Li Jingfang. Ye Zhichao recommended Lin Yuan to Li Hongzhang, saying that he was a genius born in the world, so the Qing court still valued their people. Including Lin Yuan’s people, there were 35 people in total. They soon headed to Japan.

Just like what happened in history, the negotiations between the two parties were carried out at Chunfan Restaurant in Maguan. Chunfan Restaurant is a well-known local restaurant, famous for its cuisine of puffer fish, and the surrounding scenery is pleasant.

After experiencing the disastrous defeats in the Battle of Toshima, the Battle of Asan, the Battle of Chenghuan and the Battle of Pyongyang, the negotiators of the Qing court were all frowning. In sharp contrast, Lin Yuan and the others simply regarded this negotiation as a horse Guan self-guided tour, especially Tang Fan, the first thing he did after getting off the boat was to go to Chunfan Tower to eat puffer fish.

It was already evening when they arrived. The Japanese knew that Chinese literati and officials had the habit of living in temples when they lived abroad, so they specially cleaned up the Jieyin Temple near Chunfan Building and arranged for them to live in and negotiate. Scheduled for ten o'clock in the morning the next day.

Lin Yuan and Zhang Hua lived in the same room, and Zhang Hua started snoring like thunder as soon as he hit the pillow. Lin Yuan was very excited and thought: "This time I can give the Japanese a big loss, let's see how I can give the Japanese Sign a Treaty of Shimonoseki that humiliates the country."

After thinking about it, he couldn't help but walked into the yard, just in time to see Shen Wanqing going out, her slender figure under the bright moonlight was extremely charming, Lin Yuan couldn't help asking: "It's so late, where are you going?"

Shen Wanqing smiled sweetly and said: "This is a secret, I can't tell you." Then, she gently opened the courtyard door and walked out.