"Destroyed 56 Japanese ships, including 3 battleships: Mikasa, Asahi, Fuji, 5 armored cruisers, Asama, Tokiwa, Yakumo, Azuma, Kasuga, 10 protective cruisers, 16 destroyers, 22 ships, 8 captured warships, respectively, the battleship Shikishima, armored cruiser Nisshin, protective cruisers Tsushima and Takachiho, destroyers Fukiyuki, Shinonome, *Fumizuru, A total of 237 Japanese personnel were captured, including 6 officers of the rank of colonel, 17 officers of the rank of lieutenant, and 23 non-commissioned officers. ”

"Sink 8 Russian ships, including 1 battleship: Navarin, 1 armored cruiser: Admiral Nakhimov, 3 protective cruisers, Admiral Ushakov, Admiral Sinyavin, Pearl, 3 destroyers, 12 captured warships, battleships Borodino, Eagle, Nicholas I, protective cruisers Oleg, Aurora, Svetlana, Monomakh, Emerald, 4 destroyers, 2,374 Russian prisoners, 9 generals, 31 colonels, 149 lieutenants, and 274 non-commissioned officers. However, 1,291 of them surrendered voluntarily, and according to the promise we made when we accepted their surrender, we would release them when we returned to Qingdao. ”

"None of our warships were sunk, a few were damaged, but not serious, and 87 officers and men were killed, including 2 lieutenants, 3 ensigns, and 7 non-commissioned officers. Now the Shikishima and the Rijin, which have been captured by our troops, have run aground, and the hull of the ship has been flooded, and it needs to be repaired before it can be towed back, and Commander Shang has ordered the Yueyang to lead the armored cruiser detachment and the 4th cruiser detachment to stay in place and wait for the repair of the ship, and the rest of the warships have been withdrawn in batches. ”

"A total of 20 warships were captured, and this is really a lot of money. ”

"Yes, I really can't imagine that this battle can capture so many warships, and it is indeed a huge gain. ”

In naval battles, it was quite difficult to capture the enemy's warships, and in the old time and space, although the Japanese Combined Fleet won a brilliant victory in the Battle of Tsushima, it only captured 6 Russian ships, while the KPA Navy captured 20 warships at once, which was a very astonishing achievement. Before the start of the war, although Xia Bohai, Qin Zheng, Xiao Jianjun and others were full of confidence in the victory of the People's Army Navy, and it was not surprising that they had won a complete victory, after all, it was taking advantage of the competition between Japan and Russia, their own fishermen benefited, and there were 5 modern warships pressing the formation, and it was not difficult to win, but a total of 20 warships were captured, including 4 battleships, 1 armored cruiser, and 7 protective cruisers, and the gold content of the captured warships was quite high.

Of course, among the captured warships, the Russian ships were higher than the Japanese ships in terms of quantity and quality, mainly because the Russian ships were already demoralized, and when the KPA Navy entered the war, they had already been defeated by the Combined Fleet. In contrast, the Combined Fleet was much more tenacious, and the Shikishima and Nisshin were captured by the KPA Navy after they ran aground, and several other warships were captured only when they were beaten to the point where they had no power to resist and could not escape, and each captured Japanese ship was captured only after a series of tears, for which the KPA Navy also paid a certain amount of casualties, and there was no one who took the initiative to surrender under the white flag or accept the persuasion of the KPA Navy to surrender. In a desperate situation, several warships even opened the bottom valve and sank themselves.

It was now 10 o'clock in the evening, and the members of the wartime group, except for Shang Jinfeng, who commanded the fleet to fight, the other seven people did not go home, and gathered in the newly established comprehensive war command room in the administrative building, waiting for the news of the battle.

The navy won a great victory, which was also a good start for the East China government to officially enter the war, and it was also equivalent to obtaining absolute sea control in the waters in this area, and neither Russia nor Japan had enough strength to compete with the East China government at sea.

However, the members of the wartime group could not return home at this time, because today it was not only the KPA Navy that participated in the battle, but also the army and marines would also participate in the battle this night, the army was the 2nd Army stationed in Jinzhou to cross the Liao River and launch an attack on the Japanese troops in the eastern Liaodong area, and the Marine Corps was to launch a landing operation in Lushun. And the time of the two battles was launched at 12 o'clock this evening. Therefore, the members of the wartime group are still here, and it is impossible to go home at least tonight.

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"Report to the commander, the Qingdao command has called, and the navy has won a great victory. ”

"Yes, read. ”

After the telegraph soldiers finished reading the telegram, the entire command of the 2nd Army was also boiling, because in about one and a half hours, the 2nd Army was about to launch an attack on the Liaohe defense line where the Japanese army was stationed and officially enter the battle.

Qiu Yahui, commander of the 2nd Army, nodded, and said to the telegraph soldier: "Thank you for your hard work, call back to the headquarters, and the 2nd Army will not disappoint the headquarters and the Military Commission." ”

The telegraph operator saluted and turned to leave. Qiu Yahui said to the others in the command: "The navy opened the flag victoriously, the shot was extraordinary, and it gave us a good start, in another one and a half hours, it will be our turn to participate in the war, we can't behave worse than the navy, and there are also marines who are also participating in the war with us, and we can't lose to them." ”

Wang Jianping, deputy commander, said: "What is the victory of the navy, there are five modern warships in battle, it is difficult to lose if you want to fight, it is completely to bully Maozi and little Japan, and whoever fights will be replaced; the Marine Corps has amphibious tanks to help in the war, and only we can be regarded as real swords and guns to fight with little Japan, if we give us all the amphibious tanks, it will not be a matter of minutes to win this battle." The command and the military commission are also too partial, and they all say that the Marine Corps is a fourth-class person, but that is in the United States, and I think our army is the real fourth-class people?"

Political Commissar Liu Jun shook his head and said: "I can't say that, the amphibious tank was originally used for amphibious landing, and it is also reasonable for the command and the Military Commission to assign the amphibious tank to the Marine Corps, and the command and the Military Commission are not careful with us, drones, helicopters are also in place, and those few modified weapons, which are not the trump cards for preparing for this battle, and the results are all sent to us, and it must not be said that the command and the Military Commission are biased." ”

Qiu Yahui also nodded, and said: "Yes, what weapons do you have to fight, and the weapons assigned to us are not bad, if you can't fight this battle like this, don't blame others, don't make excuses, we can only find reasons from ourselves, so I will never allow any mistakes in this battle." ”

Although the garrison in Jinzhou and the attack from the Liaohe River were a temporary intention, the East China Government did not despise the battlefield on this line because of this, but regarded the Liaohe front line as a left-right combination of the People's Army's land offensive, just like the Lushun landing. In fact, the fact that the 2nd Army was assigned to this task shows the importance attached by the command headquarters and the Central Military Commission.

Before the establishment of the Marine Corps, the trump card of the People's Army was of course Luo Yue's 1st Division, and the 2nd was Qiu Yahui's 2nd Division.

In fact, from Qiu Yahui's heart, he was somewhat unwilling to become the army's first trump card in this way, and he hoped to become the real army trump card in a fair competition with Luo Yue. However, Qiu Yahui is not a person who is obsessed with details, Luo Yue has already gone to the Marine Corps, and he can't get him back to the army, so instead of worrying about this regret, it is better to focus more on the battlefield and use his military exploits to prove that he is a veritable army ace. And this time the Marines also participated in the war, and they could still have a fair competition with Luo Yue.

At present, the 2nd Army has 4 divisions and 3 regiments, totaling about 67,000 people, and is also equipped with some temporary troops, so the troops commanded by Qiu Yahui have exceeded 70,000, and all of them have been stationed in the western Liaoning region.

In addition to the army, nearly 1,500 administrative, public security, and engineering personnel have been transferred to the People's Army in Jinzhou and western Liaoning for more than half a year, and now it has basically taken control of western Liaoning and completed land reform work in about 70 percent of the areas, and has also won the support of the overwhelming majority of the people. In addition to building a port in Huludao that can directly berth 5,000-ton ships, under the auspices of Zhan Tianyou, a simple railway from Huludao to Jinzhou, Montenegro and Tai'an has been built, with a total distance of about 200 kilometers to ensure the supply of logistics materials after the war, and a logistics support team of more than 200,000 people has been set up in Jinzhou to ensure the logistics work of the army.

Although the command and the Central Military Commission gave the amphibious combat vehicle battalion to the Marine Corps, it does not mean that they did not attach importance to the 2nd Army; first, the Type 05 amphibious combat vehicle brought by the crossing was originally developed for amphibious landing operations, and it is reasonable to draw it out for the Marine Corps to use, not to mention that because the Marine Corps was established for a short period of time, it is too late to tailor a few ace weapons for them; second, several ace weapons designed and manufactured by the East China Government for this war have also been finished products, and this time all of them have been drawn to the 2nd Army for use.

First of all, of course, there are armored trains, two trains have been manufactured, and one train has been transferred to the 2nd Army; the second is the self-propelled 200 mm caliber * gun, in fact, it is to use the heavy vehicles that cross as the chassis, and install a 200 mm caliber 40 diameter times naval gun, now the East China government has manufactured a total of 4 guns, and given the 2nd Army 2 guns, and finally the 155 mm caliber 40 diameter times car traction * artillery regiment, a total of 18 guns, all of which have been allocated to the 2nd Army, so the 2nd Army actually has several trump cards in its hands.