The Northern Fleet opened victoriously and successfully defeated the 2nd Squadron of the Combined Fleet, and the Southern Fleet also entered the battle mode, but the situation faced by the Southern Fleet was much more complicated than that of the Northern Fleet.

Now the situation in the southern battlefield has become fragmented, and the Russian fleet is actually divided into four parts, distributed in the southern battlefield, and the combined fleet has also dispersed its forces, searching and pursuing the Russian fleet everywhere, so the situation on the battlefield is very chaotic.

Although the KPA Navy relies on modern science and technology and is well aware of the situation on the entire battlefield, how to deal with it is still a big problem; if it is cleaned up one by one, it does not have to waste time, and it is also easy to let the enemy escape; and if the fleet is dispersed and attacked by attacking various parts of the Russian fleet, it is again a mistake of dispersing forces; the Russian fleet still has four battleships, divided into two parts, and its strength must not be underestimated; you must know that although the KPA Navy now has a battleship detachment, it actually has only three battleships, and it has no choice but to bring in two armored cruisers to make up the number。

After consulting with others, Shang Jinfeng decided to divide the Southern Fleet into two fleets, the east and west, and divide the battleship detachment into two parts, which were the core warships of the two fleets, with the Eastern Fleet with the Weiyang, Yuanyang, and Kaihai as the core, leading the First Cruiser Squadron and the First Destroyer Fleet; the Russian fleet that attacked first was headed by the battleships Borodino and Eagle, as well as the cruisers Oleg, Aurora, and Svetlana.

This is also the strongest of the scattered Russian fleet, there are two Borodino-class battleships, so the Eastern Fleet is more powerful, Weiyang is the former Russian ship Crown Prince, is currently the strongest in the People's Army Navy, and it is also the prototype of the Borodino-class battleship, used to deal with this part of the Russian ship, to have an original and copycat battle, naturally it is better; the Ocean is the original German ship Brandenburg, this type of battleship is older, and the design is also flawed, the technical level is already a generation behind, the speed is also slow, the original design speed is 17 knots, and now the fastest speed is only 15 knots, but the firepower is good, a total of 6 main guns are equipped, two more than the average battleships of this era, and the speed of the Russian fleet is generally slow, and the weakness of the slow speed of the Ocean is not obvious; With 3 against 2, there is still a good chance of winning.

The Western Fleet, on the other hand, led the 3rd Cruiser Squadron and the 2nd Destroyer Squadron with the Tuohai and Kuoyang as the core, and attacked the battleships Nicholas I and Navarin, and the cruisers Admiral Apraksin, Admiral Ushakov, and Admiral Sinyavin.

Although Nicholas I and Navarin were both battleships, they were both older, and Nicholas I was still a warship commissioned in 1889 with a displacement of only 9,600 tons, while Navarlin was commissioned only two years later than Nicholas I, with a displacement of only 10,200 tons.

The Aoyang is the same type of ship as the Ocean Coast, a little younger than these two Russian ships; and the Tuohai is the original German ship Count Bismarck, although it is also an armored cruiser, but this warship is more special, it is the first type of armored cruiser built by Germany, due to lack of experience, the design of the main gun caliber reached 240 mm, the waterline with armor reached 200 mm, and the armored cruisers of this era were generally 200-230 mm, and the waterline with armor was 170-180 mm, so the Aoyang can really be regarded as a shrunken battleship, although it was too much armed, armor dragged down the speed, only 19 knots, but it was enough to deal with two old battleships.

After the fleet was allocated, the two fleets formed two columns and headed for the battlefield.

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"How's it going, haven't you got it done yet?"

"Not yet, we've checked it three times, and all the parts and wire numbers are in good condition, but we don't know why we can't use them. ”

"Bastards, you are so incompetent, if you don't fix this telegraph quickly, you will wait to be punished by the military order when you go back. ”

"Yes, yes, yes. ”

Seeing that the telegraph operators were sweating profusely and looked panicked, although Fujimoto Shushiro Osa had a fire in his belly, it was not good to have another attack, after all, it was up to these people to repair the telegraph and send electricity to the lead ship. So he stomped his feet hard, left the telegraph room, went to the deck, stepped onto the bridge, and said to the soldiers on the bridge: "How is it?

The soldier hurriedly said, "What about it?" and pointed to the left front.

Shushiro Fujimoto immediately took out his monoculars, put them on his left eye, and looked in the direction of the soldier's finger before nodding and saying, "Fortunately, they are still there, and they are not lost." Those damn bastards, who haven't actually fixed the telegraph yet, there's no way to send this message back. ”

Hideshiro Fujimoto is the commander of the First Destroyer Group of the Combined Fleet, commanding a total of five destroyers: the flagship Haruyu, Fukiyuki, Ariake, Hail, and Akatsuki. After the second successful interception of the Russian fleet by the Combined Fleet, it was ordered to track down the Russian warship. About 20 minutes later, Fujimoto Shushiro's fleet spotted a Russian fleet, including the battleships Borodino and Eagle. Shushiro Fujimoto also knew that this was a major discovery, and he had made a great contribution, so he immediately sent a message to the flagship Mikasa to inform the news.

At this time, the radio transmitter on the Spring Rain was broken, and it could not send or receive a telegram, and the telegraph personnel checked for a long time, but they could not find out where the fault was, and the entire fleet only had the Spring Rain equipped with a radio transmitter, but they did not expect that it was broken at this time.

Shushiro Fujimoto was so anxious that he was like an ant on a hot pot! Not only could he not make his own merits, but he also found it difficult to hinder his own safety. Although the First Destroyer Group also had five warships, all of them were small ships with a displacement of only 2 or 300 tons, and if the Russian fleet discovered them, it only needed to send one or two warships to turn around and kill them, and they would not be able to carry it themselves. Not even to mention fighting, even if the Russian fleet passed by them, the waves could overturn these warships.

And Fujimoto Shushiro had no choice but to send the Hail back to find the first team, and he led the other 4 warships to continue to track the Russian fleet. Of course, Hideshiro Fujimoto didn't know that not only his own warship, but all the warships of the Combined Fleet were equipped with radio transmissions, and he didn't know that at this time, the flagship had been buried at the bottom of the sea, the 1st Sentai had been disabled, and the 2nd Sentai had escaped, but it couldn't escape far.

Fortunately, the Russian fleet only cared about its own escape, and the first destroyer did not dare to chase too closely, so it was not discovered by the Russian warships, but Fujimoto Shushiro has always been worried, that is, he was afraid that he would get too close and be discovered by the Russian warships, and he was afraid that he would be too far away and be lost.

At this moment, someone on the mast was suddenly heard shouting: "Over there, there's a fleet coming over there." ”

Fujimoto Shushiro's heart moved, and he hurriedly raised the telescope to look, and sure enough, he saw a few masts vaguely appearing in the southwest direction, and it gradually became clear, and sure enough, they were all the masts of warships. And Hideshiro Tengmoto's heart was also relieved, probably because the Hail found the main force of the Combined Fleet and brought them over. It seems that his luck is good, and the hail has found his own people only ten minutes after leaving, but I don't know if it is the 1st team or the 2nd team that he has brought with him.

However, when the fleet approached, Fujimoto Shushiro found that something was wrong, because although he could not see it too clearly at this time, what was hanging on the mast was by no means the Japanese Navy's Rising Sun Flag, but a flag with red on the top and blue on the bottom, at least the color was very obvious. The navy of overseas Chinese seems to be a red and blue flag.

Although the People's Army Navy has been established for more than four years, it has not designed its own military flag, but uses the military flag of the old time and space, with red and blue and white stripes on the top and blue on the bottom, but the word 81 has been removed. Of course, Shushiro Fujimoto knew the style of the flag of the People's Army Navy, and when he thought of this, his heart suddenly felt cold, the navy of overseas Chinese would actually appear here, and he must have come to take advantage of the fire to rob him.

At this time, the other soldiers also found out that the situation was wrong, and the first mate Ishida Seisaburo said: "Commander, this is the fleet of overseas Chinese, let's withdraw first." ”

Hideshiro Fujimoto shook his head and said, "Don't be busy, the overseas Chinese will definitely attack the Russian fleet first, there are 2 battleships there, and they won't care about our small warships, so we don't have to rush to retreat first, and see how they fight, but this news is too important, and it must be notified to Commander Dongxiang as soon as possible, so that the commander can prepare early." Has the telegraph been repaired?"

And the reply he got was, of course, that it hadn't been repaired yet, and at this time Fujimoto Shushiro was already powerless to complain, so he had to shake his head and said, "Order Xiaohao, immediately go to find the first battle team, and report the news of our discovery of overseas Chinese warships to Commander Togo." After a pause, he added: "There may be two battleships visually." ”

After the Akatsuki left, there were only 3 warships under Hideshiro Fujimoto, and then news came from the lookout that the warships of the overseas Chinese had turned, and sure enough, they were heading for the Russian fleet.

Hideshiro Fujimoto was also relieved when he heard this, although he swore by what he said just now, but he was not completely sure in his heart, what if the overseas Chinese had to clean up their own small fish first? Or divide one or two warships to deal with themselves, now they can finally rest assured.