At nine o'clock in the morning, when the counterattack had been going on for four hours and the Tsarist Russian Expeditionary Force was in chaos, the Zhiyuan finally came out after being called upon for a long time. What the latecomer on the battlefield saw was the craziest scene.
Tokushima was on the right, and Wang Huaiyuan personally took the intelligence and boarded the fastest clipper ship and was pursuing him. The fighter planes were changing rapidly. The CIA had no time to wait for the two ships to cross and had already reported the current battle situation to the Zhiyuan through semaphores.
The flag bearer shouted down from the high observation tower, and the communications officer Cai Bixia's pencil rustled in his shorthand notebook. Every message must be filed one by one as a battlefield record.
"Only the Gaobo Mountain Fort left in the Ryuma Island Fort can still fight, and the other forts have all been destroyed by the enemy..."
"Chief of General Staff Xiao Hexin successfully broke through and his current location is unknown... Tangwanshan Fortress has greatly damaged the enemy's effective strength!"
"According to the report from the secret sentry on the battlefield, the person commanding the Russian army this time is a young major in his twenties, with brown hair and about 1.9 meters tall..."
"The Russian army had a serious gold-stealing riot in the early morning, and the current morale is extremely unstable..."
One piece after another of the latest information filled everyone's ears. Xiao Letian didn't say anything. He just listened quietly, and then kept paying attention to the burning island in the north with the telescope in his hand.
"Hey... sometimes war is like a pot of chaos! If you throw in all the ingredients, ingredients, and seasonings, you're not sure what the flavor will be in the end..."
Xiao Letian never expected that the gold would be so advantageous to the Tsarist Russian Expeditionary Force. It would drive not only the officers crazy but also all the soldiers.
Opening the treasury is equivalent to opening Pandora's box. This beast has torn apart the sanity and the morale of the army. It has also interfered with the strict discipline. When an army steals for a little gold, Behavior, this army can't be considered a strong army.
"Prime Minister! There are warships at the west entrance of the strait that are firing at the Gaoboshan Fort... and they are moving rapidly outwards while firing... Could it be that the enemy's navy is giving up those land forces?"
When Xiao Letian heard this, he quickly turned his telescope and saw that among several supply ships, there were two warships moving westward while firing.
"That's right! The enemy wants to break out! Want to escape? It's not that easy... Xiang Ying!"
"Here! Prime Minister!" Xiang Ying shouted loudly.
"Now that the Zhiyuan is approaching the battlefield, I don't care how to direct the battle later. All command rights will be handed over to you!"
"Yes! Prime Minister! Listen to my order...the engine crew is pressurized by strong winds! The gunnery commander is ready to shoot! All units enter a state of war...the final decisive battle is here! Have a good fight..."
Woo hoo hoo... The sharp whistle sounded, the high-pressure fan began to rotate, and the fresh sea breeze from the sea was forced into the boiler. The red flames instantly burst and turned blue.
The coal shovelers in the boiler house suddenly felt that the heat wave in front of them doubled, and everyone involuntarily took several steps back.
"Why hide! Now is the time for the decisive battle! The Zhiyuan needs us to provide power...splash water! Take off your clothes!" The boiler chief was the first to pull himself naked, and then poured a bucket of cold sea water over his head. .
A huge shovel more than a foot long flew up and down in his hand, and the dark anthracite was thrown into the burning boiler. The powerful steam power drove the crankshaft and turbine unit to rotate desperately. The Zhiyuan pierced the white waves and rushed forward like a swordfish. Rush away.
If there was a regret medicine in this world, Stefanski would definitely spend all his money to buy one. Failure is now the destined outcome of the expeditionary force. The only difference is the severity of the failure.
Under the dual effects of greed and incompetent command level, the Russian Expeditionary Force has wasted too much time, and they have no chance to escape.
The frigate Tundra, which had just rushed out of the strait, was the first Russian warship to spot the Zhiyuan. The lookouts on the high tower were so frightened that they stuttered.
"The enemy... the enemy ship... is... the Chinese warship... that ironclad ship is here again..."
The battle of the Zhiyuan at the mouth of the Minjiang River has shocked the hearts of all Russian troops. The arrogant demeanor shocked the jaws of the 30,000 expeditionary troops.
From that moment on, the idea of Zhiyuan's invincibility has been deeply implanted in their hearts!
And today, at the most critical moment of life and death, this terrifying beast on the ocean appeared again. His appearance directly crushed the last hope of the Russian army.
"Fight! Fight with all hands... abandon the Gaobo Mountain fort... fight the enemy ships with all your strength!" The captain of the Tundra himself felt the trembling in his voice.
Even the captain was frightened to this extent. You can imagine how panicked the soldiers under his command were. The deck was full of sailors running around like headless flies. The chaos was like a market being attacked by bandits.
Suddenly, a ball of fire lit up on the bow of the Zhiyuan in the distance, followed by a muffled sound like a passing train. The shells drew a faint trajectory in the sky, which was a strange picture formed by the high temperature distorting the air. .
There was a loud bang, and the 210 main gun high-explosive bomb hit the Tundra's mast. The explosion air waves and fragments swept across the deck, and hundreds of sailors, including the captain, suddenly lay down.
Thick smoke billowed up, and the tall mast fell into the sea with a crackling sound in the firelight. The corpses and debris washed up by the explosion air waves fell down like rain.
This shot shocked all the ships at the seaport. Those troop transports and supply ships were frightened to death when they saw how powerful the Zhiyuan's shot was.
At this time, no one cared about the glory of the military or the glory of the empire. The Tsar's instructions were all thrown aside. The captains of all non-combat ships said one sentence: "Run! Everyone run! The Chinese took the last road." It’s all blocked, we’re going to be doomed!”
The Tundra lost its captain, its gunnery commander, its observation tower, and its communications chief... With just one shot, the frigate was rendered useless, and even if it wanted to fight back, it was impossible.
The huge explosion shook the entire strait, and other warships that had not yet circled the seaport were stunned. However, immediately after the Glacier battleship circled the mountain blocking the view of the seaport, the sailors on the observation tower were horrified. Roar.
"It's a Chinese warship! It's the Zhiyuan! The Tundra has been spent... There's a fire on the Tundra!" All flagmen in the entire strait began to spread the frightening news, until finally the news reached Stefans In Key's ears.
