"Fight to the death! Even if you can escape a few warships, how can you survive in this vast sea without a single supply port? You are really looking for death." Xiang Ying sneered and commanded the Chinese navy to form a formation to intercept the Zhiyuan. The ship turned sideways from east to west, using the right side of the ship to meet the enemy. The three main guns fired in turn, blasting the last few hundred meters of the safe exit in the minefield into a mess.
Ye Qiu and his team's mine-laying operation actually did not successfully complete the mission in the end. At the place closest to the main city of Vladivostok, due to the blocking of the Rakshasa Army, a safe exit of nearly 800 meters was left.
This hole has never been blocked by mines. It's not that Xiang Ying and others don't want to block it, but that all the mine reserves of the Volunteer Army have been exhausted.
Without mines, the gap can only be defended by the navy with naval guns. Fortunately, the Zhiyuan arrived in time and blocked the Tsarist Russian Far East Navy that was about to escape.
With the Zhiyuan as the flagship and the Wavebreaker and more than a dozen sail-hulled warships as supplements, a huge circular encirclement was formed outside the Amur Gulf.
From a layman's perspective, this encirclement is indeed impeccable. There are so many warships guarding the 800-meter waterway, and the enemy cannot even think of flying out even if they have wings.
But in the eyes of experts, this encirclement actually has big loopholes. The most critical issue is the ratio of warships on both sides.
The Zhiyuan was the most advanced warship in the entire naval battle. There was no doubt that no one in Tsarist Russia had the luxury of defeating it. However, the excellence of the Zhiyuan cannot cover up the lagging behind of other warships in the Chinese Navy.
Except for the Zhiyuan, all the remaining Chinese warships are wooden-hulled sailing warships. Some were captured from the French and were training ships converted from merchant ships. These warships have formed a shortcoming.
On the other hand, in the Tsarist Russian Navy, ten of the fifteen large warships were all wooden-hulled iron-clad warships with sail and steam dual-power, and the other five wooden-hulled warships were also paddle-wheel driven.
As for the remaining small patrol gunboats, they are all made of wooden shells and iron armor structures.
Anyone with a discerning eye can understand at a glance that in this battle, the Chinese navy was fought by a top student leading a group of scumbag students, while the Tsarist Russian side was a group of middle-class students who were neither above nor below, resisting stubbornly.
What is the average value in naval battles? Or is it more important to have a fleet of heroic battleships? This really depends on the specific judgment of the war situation.
If this is a decisive battle between two sides, and the commanders of both sides are determined to fight the enemy to the death, then the Chinese will definitely win this war.
There is no need for other warships to cooperate. As long as the Zhiyuan has enough ammunition and enough maintenance engineers, it can completely beat up children on the sea.
The reason is very simple, my defense is the highest! I am the fastest! My artillery has the longest range, the most power, and the highest accuracy!
The Zhiyuan can completely rely on its maneuverability, wander outside the effective range of the Russian fleet, and kill them with one shot after another, but the other party cannot hit it at all. This is caused by poor technology and time differences. Attributes are added.
But now the naval battle is not a life-or-death decisive battle between the two sides. The purpose of the Tsarist Russian Navy is to escape, to abandon the flagship and command itself to rush outwards on all sides.
At this time, the Zhiyuan is a bit overwhelmed. All its weapon systems can only be used to deal with the most important targets. Focusing on one and losing the other refers to the current situation.
And those wooden-hulled sail training warships are no match against the wooden-hulled iron-clad warships, or they can't be stopped at all. The eight hundred-meter gap is the stamens, and those Tsarist Russian warships are the blooming petals, and the Zhiyuan can stop three A fraction of it is considered a high level of incense.
This was a suicidal breakout like a moth flying into a flame. One after another, Russian warships stared at the gunfire and rushed south. One after another, the warships were hit and ignited raging fires. The sea was full of wreckage and dead people. There were corpses of sailors, and countless Tsarist Russian sailors who had fallen into the water were asking for help.
There was no friendship left at this time. The Ariut simply ignored its colleagues on the sea, and its tall hull directly crushed the living sailors.
Aitorin's eyes turned blue and he shouted loudly, "Charge over! Charge over! Use our battleships to block the Zhiyuan's gunfire and you can escape as much as you can! Remember this revenge and avenge us!"
"Stand in front of the Reach's guns! It's time for us to go see God!"
The Aleut was burning. Although its huge hull was not as good as the Zhiyuan, it was still the second largest warship on the sea. The mountain-like hull blocked the Zhiyuan's shooting angle. It was like he was blocking the muzzle of the gun himself. The shouters advance like warriors.
Xiao Letian could already see the faces of the roaring soldiers on the Ariut, and an idea suddenly came to his mind: "No! These Russians want to be pirates!"
Xiang Ying was stunned and realized that Aitorin was indeed insidious enough. As long as he ensured that the Tsarist Russian fleet in the Far East had about ten warships to successfully break through, then there would be a group of pirates that everyone feared on the seas of East Asia. fleet.
These desperate Rakshasa ghosts will rush to undefended seaports, burning, killing, looting and committing all kinds of crimes. Every merchant ship on the golden waterway will be their target of massacre.
In this era, the Pacific Ocean was not as extensively developed by humans as the Atlantic Ocean. The North Pacific Ocean, including the Bering Strait, had unexplored islands that were not even marked on the map. These would all be hiding places for pirates.
Fight if you can, and run if you can't. From then on, there will never be peace on the Chinese route. Even Xiao Letian was certain that these beasts would secretly seek out Britain and France to sell off their stolen goods. Those shameless diplomats and colonial governors were eager for someone to cause trouble for Xiao Letian. Seeing that Tsarist Russia was willing to do this dirty work, that was not the case. So happy? It is estimated that weapons and ammunition will be sold at a 20% discount.
"Xiang Ying! Block them and we must not let them escape!" Xiao Letian's face turned pale in worry.
Xiang Ying also realized the enemy's strategic intention at this moment. If these beasts armed to the teeth escape, the Chinese will never have peace, and you will not even have a chance to develop peacefully. The sea is full of beacon smoke. The Chinese have to use their most precious resources to suppress bandits.
If money is wasted on this, there will naturally be less money for corresponding industrial development. The time for the rise of the Chinese nation will be lengthened, and by then all variables will emerge.
With a loud punch, Xiang Ying yelled, "Shoot at close range regardless of casualties! Fire all the secondary guns and sink the Aleut as quickly as possible! Rush up and hit me! Use the hull to block the gap."
"Isn't it just bayonet fighting at sea? Who have we Chinese people been afraid of?"
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