Volume VIII 1312 Night Sneak Attack

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The first to engage the enemy was Captain Hermansky, who was at the eastern entrance of the Strait, and the Svetlana under his command, along with two other capital warships and four frigates, was blocked at the narrowest point of the strait, where the width of the strait was only three kilometers.

Amami Oshima is not an island, its main island is composed of two parts, the main island of Amami Oshima in the north accounted for 70% of the total area, and the narrow and narrow island of Ruma in the south accounted for about 15% of the total area, and the strait between the two large islands is the place where Xiao Lotian chose to bury the Russian fleet.

The strait is east-west, the western estuary is wide and the current is gentle and suitable for the large fleet group, while the eastern estuary is narrow and reefy and turbulent, and it is the best place to defend in the art of war.

At its narrowest point, the three-kilometer strait is just over 1,000 meters wide for safe sailing, and the rest of the strait has many reefs and undercurrents that are extremely dangerous.

Stefansky sent Hermansky to defend this place with a small number of warships, which was correct in terms of the art of war, and with an entrance of more than 1,000 meters to the sea, seven large warships could hold on for a long time.

The officers had conducted tactical exercises before, and even if the powerful Zhiyuan was to storm this place, if Hemansky chose to defend it, it would be able to buy five to six hours for the army.

Hermansky did faithfully carry out the commander-in-chief's order, and he not only firmly held the strait, but also planned for other troops to launch an artillery attack on Lyma Island, and the Cape Battery was blown up by this fleet.

For the whole night, Hermansky's vigilant gaze never left the Pacific Ocean in the east, and as a cautious commander, he did not dare to take the ironclad ship lightly, and if the Zhiyuan appeared in front of him, he would rather have the tragic feeling of being broken than destroyed, and even if the last drop of blood was shed, he would be blocked out.

The fleet shrank and shrank, and at last the detachment was all hidden in the strait, just behind the narrowest entrance, with all the cannons wary of the sea.

Throughout the night, the sound of artillery on Tangwan Mountain continued to shout and kill, and the fire lit up half of the sky, as a soldier, Hermansky also hoped to be able to participate, but he knew very well that his task was also very important, and if he wanted to win the overall situation, he must sacrifice others.

After countless officers and soldiers pleaded to join the war, Hermansky always calmly said, "Not everyone can get the greatest credit for the war, and the contribution of those who are unknown is actually greater...... If I had a choice, I would prefer that we stay until the end of the war, and that we don't go into battle......"

"Because this is the flank of the battlefield, if we lose here, we will lose half of the initiative on the battlefield! In the final victory in the future, I am willing to give up those military exploits in battle! Don't worry, the empire will not forget our efforts......

Under the reassurance of the commander, thousands of naval soldiers finally stabilized their mentality and began to endure the long night! But no one expected that at this moment, a strange fleet was taking advantage of the cover of night, extinguished a qiē light, and quietly approached the strait.

Tonight it was cloudy, moonless, starless, and the whole sea was so dark that people could not even see the boundary between the sea level and the sky, the waves crashed against each other, and the battleship shook gently like a baby's cradle.

This kind of night with extremely low visibility is a great test in the eyes of the lookouts, who stare at the empty sea with wide eyes, and after a long time their eyes are sore, and they can only rub them fiercely.

In this case, the tired lookouts are prone to some hallucinations, as if the two lookouts now seem to have noticed a lot of dark shadows on the sea.

The black shadow swims slowly in the sea, much like a group of migratory returnees spawning, or a school of salmon.

"What's that? Is it my eyes?"

"I'll see...... It's nothing, isn't it a shadow caused by the waves?"

Little did they know that more than 2,000 fishing boats and small cargo ships were cautiously approaching them, and the sailors who operated these ships were the most famous water ghosts in the Ryukyus, and the Chinese water ghosts accounted for the vast majority.

Dead soldiers! This is a group of dead soldiers! They swore in front of the statue of the water ghost of the country before they set out, and if they don't succeed, they will become benevolent! Either they will come back alive with the news of victory, or they will die on this sea.

These civilian ships were all purchased by the military from the civilian sector and belonged to the cannon fodder on the battlefield, and the only purpose of their appearance was to sink the ships in the mouth of the sea in the east of the strait, and use the huge cement structure on the ships to form an artificial reef under the deep sea.

The fishing boats and merchant ships are placed on the huge half-man-high cement structure, which resembles the cement blocks of ancient horse nails, and is composed of four pillars, no matter how you throw it on the ground, there will always be three pillars supporting a plane, and one pillar will go straight up.

The blocks are connected by iron chains or even arm-thick brown ropes, which sink to the bottom of the sea and entangle all the blocks into a single piece.

And that's not all, each ship still has a lot of stones and sand in its holds, and the heavy sand and gravel weighs the waterline of the ship is extremely low, and the speed of sailing on the sea is simply not fast.

When they could clearly see the lights on the opposite battleship, when they could see the figures of Russian soldiers walking back and forth, thick brown ropes began to throw each other, and soon the boats were firmly tied together.

"What's the sound? there's movement on the sea...... Shoot a firebolt!Take a closer look!"

More than a dozen sailors reported the crossbows common in medieval Europe from the warehouse, installed the rockets, set fire to the cotton yarn soaked in kerosene on the arrowheads, and gave the order to throw ten rockets into the sky at a 45-degree angle.

There was nothing to hide from these attacking fleets, and hundreds of sailors on the fleet shouted in unison, "Oh God......! There is an enemy sneak attack a thousand meters away, why are there so many!"

Hermansky slammed open the door to the captain's room and rushed out of the deck, and at this moment hundreds of rockets rose into the sky, and everyone could see the dense boats on the sea.

No one could guess what these boats were going to do, but everyone knew there was definitely nothing good going on!

The Ryukyu water ghosts who had revealed their identities no longer had to hide them, and the ship boss tore off his shirt and let the icy sea breeze blow his burning chest.

"Full sails! Crash into it! Die to complete the prime minister's task...... Bump into it!"

"All the ships threw their cables! Joined together! Blocked the strait! Blocked these bandits here......"

Hermansky's side also shouted, and the captain shouted "fire" in a hoarse voice...... All the battleships are free to fire! We must not let them get close to us, and we must open fire immediately......"

Boom Boom Boom ...... The gunners, who had been ready for a long time, pulled the tow rope, and the large-caliber rifled guns sprayed flames, blasting into the sky and white waves in the Chinese fleet.