Since the Huaxing army occupied India, Du Wenxiu gave up the strategy of going south and focused on the north.Ma Zhankui and Ma Yaobang have also just unified Afghanistan and are preparing to expand their power in the surrounding areas.At this time, Qiao Zhiqing sent someone to inform them of the affairs of Russia.They are all battle-hardened people, and they still have a little strategic vision, so they naturally refuse to let go of this good opportunity for expansion.As a result, the three Hui forces soon merged into one, and launched an attack on the Kazakh steppe after the beginning of spring.With the exception of the alpine zone in the north, Russia is in the midst of war in three other directions.But the fiercest fighting is still in the Asian region, where Lao Maozi has already exchanged fire with the Qing army.What made the Qing army most angry was that Russia also transferred the Baltic Fleet to the battlefield.After more than a year of sailing, the fleet went all the way west, around the Atlantic and then around South America, and now north to the military port of Vladivostok.Originally, this was the Russian Far East Naval Base, but there were only a few broken ships in the base, and they were cleaned up by the fleet of the Huaxing Army in three or two clicks.This time, Russia poured all its naval strength and gathered ten ironclad warships and twenty wooden warships to the Far East.The Qing army did not have its own naval strength, and as soon as the Russian navy arrived, almost all the batteries along the entire coastline were bombed.The Qing army took a lot of effort to build the forts along this coastline, and all of them were obtained from New China begging grandpa and grandma.These ornaments did not play much use this time, and were quickly blown to pieces by Russia.At this time, Cixi didn't care about any face, and directly asked for help from New China.It just so happened that the Qingdao fleet had just transported ironclad chariots from Shanghai to the front line, and now it was docking at the port of Dalian in Liaoning.As soon as the Qing army's call for help came over, the Qingdao fleet immediately learned the news.The military situation is changing rapidly, and Deng Shichang, commander of the North Sea Fleet, can't wait for the order of the naval command.At present, the North Sea Fleet has a total of 20 ironclad warships of more than 5,000 tons, all of which are equipped with the most advanced power systems and breech guns, and Deng Shichang is also very confident in the strength of his opponent.The North Sea Fleet sailed along the coastline of North Korea, and as soon as it entered the strait between Japan and Korea, it ran into the Russian Baltic Fleet head-on.It turned out that after the Russian fleet bombed the coastline of Vladivostok, the ships were running out of supplies.They only had more than 3,000 marines on their fleet, and they must not be an opponent of Manchukuo until they were on the shore, so they wanted to go directly to Korea to plunder some supplies.The commander of the fleet, Vajim, had served at the Vladivostok base and was well aware of the situation and the North Korea's troubles.At the beginning, they often led fleets to invade Korea, and the king of Korea was very happy to exchange food for peace.This time, Vajim wanted to land in Pusan, but as soon as he entered the waters of North Korea, he ran into the North Sea Fleet head-on.When the two sides were more than 5,000 meters apart, the number of the opposing side's fleet could already be clearly seen.To Vajim's surprise, the two battleships in the middle of the North Sea Fleet were twice as large as the largest ships in his fleet.However, he didn't worry too much, after all, the other side only had twenty warships, and they had thirty, ten more.He expected that this fleet must be the fleet of New China, because there was no more powerful country in this sea area than New China.After the North Sea Fleet caught up, Vajim asked the fleet to quickly form a combat formation, waiting in a semicircle for the North Sea Fleet to drill in, and then quickly close the circle and annihilate it.But the idea is good, and the reality is often unexpected.Vajim was surprised to find that the fleet rushed directly into the battle formation, without the slightest intention of slowing down the ship.In naval battles, the side with a large number of people generally likes to put on such a large encirclement formation, ready to annihilate the opponent.The side with a small number basically attacks the direction of the two flanks first, and can retreat if the situation is not good.Deng Shichang didn't have such a choice, he directly asked the fleet to put on a herringbone combat formation, and hit it with full horsepower to meet the encirclement.And it is to break through from the middle, which is clearly intended to intersperse and divide the Russian fleet."
What an arrogant Oriental, inform the ships to be ready for battle," Vajim shouted with a telescope and gave the battle order to the herald.After receiving the order, the herald quickly waved the command flag in his hand at the herald on the mast.Combat orders were passed from ship to ship, and thirty Russian warships sounded their whistles one after another.All the artillery men took their positions, aimed their guns at the enemy ships on the opposite side, and only waited for them to reach a firing distance of two thousand meters, and then opened fire.But they didn't wait for the North Sea Fleet to enter two thousand meters, and when they were three thousand meters, all the main guns in the bow of the ship began to fire.As soon as the cannon sounded, almost everyone on the Russian battleship was taken aback.The main guns of the North Sea Fleet were all heavy artillery of the Great General, and as soon as the cannon sounded, the shells weighing more than 300 catties exploded on all sides of the Russian fleet in an instant.At a distance of three thousand meters, it is already an effective shooting distance for a battleship.The North Sea Fleet fired a total of twenty shells at once, of which fifteen hit the target.The ten ironclad ships of the Russian warships are all located in the center of the semicircle, and they are also somewhat resistant to attack.The other twenty wooden warships, purely converted from merchant ships, came here to make a noise.After the shell hit, it went directly into the gunwales of the wooden battleship.The explosion was so loud that it directly blew one side of the ship's side into pieces.The Russian warships met the enemy early, adjusting the bow and tail of the warships to face the warships of the North Sea Fleet vertically.The guns on the side of the board were aimed at the warships of the North Sea Fleet, but they did not want to become targets with a larger bomb area at this time."
Give the order to go down, shoot immediately, shoot immediately" Wajim roared, obviously stunned by the situation in front of him, and regardless of whether the range was reached or not, he directly gave the order to fire the cannon on his subordinates.The "brush, brush, brush" herald hurriedly waved down the battle order flag, and all the Russian warships immediately lit the fuse, and a series of violent explosions broke out from the side of the ship in an instant.Deng Shichang was independent of the bow of the ship, and when he saw a group of shells coming from the opposite side, he had no fear.Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, Russia has mainly developed its army, and its naval strength has lagged far behind other countries in the world because of the problem of access to the sea.Deng Shichang just heard the sound of the cannon, and immediately concluded in his heart that they were using breech guns.Even the most advanced breech-loading guns of the British army had a range of just over 2,000 meters.At this time, the North Sea Fleet had just rushed into three thousand meters, far from reaching the range of the artillery of the Russian fleet.Sure enough, the dense rain of shells fell into the sea thousands of kilometers away.It was just a little splash, but it didn't do anything at all, and it was soon swallowed up by the sea and disappeared
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