Makanov did a good job, making a situation in his favor through maneuver and strategic deception, and taking out a Japanese capital ship, although there was an element of cunning. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info But in general, the situation with the Russian fleet is not good, the Makanov fleet is strong, yes, but the main Japanese fleet of Heihachiro Togo is even stronger, and the Satsuma class battleships are even stronger than the Borodino class on paper! And 8 Japanese battleships against two old second-class battleships naturally did not have much effort.

Just as the Tsukuba began to sink, besieged by 8 Japanese battleships and at least 2 dozen destroyers and torpedo boats, the great Siyssos and Navarin hastily completed the last journey of their lives! The dense barrage quickly swallowed up the counterattack of the two Russian battleships, and then ten torpedo boats went up and fired three torpedo salvos, and a huge explosion was heard on the two Russian battleships, and five minutes later, the Siyssos broke into two parts, and the Navarin capsized and sank to the bottom of the sea.

The main Japanese fleet, having completed the tactical turn, began to catch up with the Russian fleet. And Makanov used the last period of time to frantically attack the Japanese cruiser formation, Makanov's layout is still very distinctive, 4 Borodino-class battleships are divided into two groups, two at the head and two at the stern. Supposedly, this layout is unreasonable, because generally warships of the same class have similar performance and should be deployed together, but Makanov also did this for a reason.

"If we had deployed 4 battleships in front, then when the main Japanese fleet caught up, their Satsuma-class battleships would have faced our weakest cruisers directly. I don't think the cruisers of the Americans will last long against 4 Satsuma-class battleships. And because of the limitations of the battleships, the speed advantage of the armored cruiser could not be played at all. So you can only be beaten. So, I decided to let the two stronger battleships break the rear. As for saying that battleships and cruisers were separated? That's even more unlikely, you will be caught to death by your opponents one by one. Makanov explained after the war.

When the Togo fleet arrived, the Russian fleet fell back into passivity, and the advantage in the engagement was quickly wiped out. When the eight Japanese battleships gradually followed behind, the Asama, the more damaged part of the Japanese armored cruisers, temporarily withdrew from the battle, and then Uemura Hikonosumi and the officers of his command transferred to the Kasuga on the destroyer. The Asama, on the other hand, sailed to the mainland under the protection of the destroyer, and the loss of one capital ship was already painful for the Japanese. The bow and tail of the Asama ship was hit many times, and the water ingress was serious, and it was not suitable for continuing high-speed navigation and fighting, so in the case of the great advantage of the own fleet, it was natural to let it evacuate first.

The arrival of the Togo fleet immediately made Makanov feel great pressure, and the four Satsuma-class battleships really deserved to be the best of the British battleships of the same period. The firepower and defense of these ships, which were already indistinguishable from those of the dreadnought, were almost impossible for the Russians to resist, even the Borodino-class battleships, which were known for their strong ships and guns, were unable to resist the Japanese fleet, which had absolute superiority in numbers!

"Your Excellency, the Alexander III has been hit by a bullet and caught fire, and the power compartment has been damaged, so it is estimated that it will be difficult to keep up with us." An officer said with some panic.

"Got it. Do what you have to do and don't give up until the last minute, God will save us. Makanov looked around at his panicked comrades-in-arms and comforted him: "Concentrate all your firepower and attack the Japanese cruiser formation." ”

The Russian main fleet continued to stare at the Japanese cruisers, and the Togo fleet, which gradually came up, knocked on the tail of the Russian fleet with peace of mind in the back, and the two battleships Alexander III and the Eagle in the rear guard faced the saturation attack of the five battleships alone, and the encounter of the Asama class just now was repeated on them, and the heavy shells flew towards the two battleships like raindrops, and the huge explosions continued to come from the two battleships, and the distance between the two sides quickly narrowed to within 5 kilometers, at this distance, the various turrets almost leveled the artillery. Heavy high-explosive shells were lifted from the armoured ammunition depot and sent to the gun emplacement, and the gunners on both sides reloaded, locked the chambers, and fired their guns like mechanical parts, operating the most fearsome war machines on the planet without seeing each other.

"Let the torpedo boats get on board, we don't have that much time to spend on them." This time, Togo Heihachiro was a little anxious, the loss of the Tsukuba just now made him realize that the enemy on the opposite side was by no means a fish belly, although the strength was far inferior to the combined fleet, but the old dog still had a few teeth, if he lost a few capital ships in the case of great superiority, even if he won, then he would have to face the blame of the high-level, and even Togo himself could not forgive himself.

More than a dozen torpedo boats interspersed between the fleets, and the Russian cruisers and destroyers were killed, the Russians tried their best to prevent each other's lightning strikes, but when the Japanese battleships behind aimed their guns at these small things of less than 4000 tons, all the efforts of the Russians were in vain, after the two battleships Fuji and Yashima successfully damaged a Russian 3000-ton light cruiser, the Russian convoy was torn a gap, and 8 torpedo boats took advantage of the situation to kill it, The torpedo boats split into two groups and fired two torpedo salvos at the Alexander, which was located at the tail of the team!

The fan-shaped torpedoes rushed over like sharks smelling of blood, and at a distance of less than 800 meters, fifteen torpedoes crisscrossed and formed an almost unavoidable net of lightning strikes! Although the Alexander III destroyed three torpedo boats with the remaining guns at the last minute, two torpedoes managed to hit the battleship, which was struggling in battle.

Two torpedoes hit the middle of the hull, tearing a 10-meter square meter hole in the side of the battleship, under the action of seawater and high-temperature and high-pressure bubbles, the cracked steel plate tore the wall of the engine room like a cannonball, and with the surging sea water, the battleship stopped instantly. Then another torpedo was even more fatal, this one hit the lower part of the bow ammunition magazine, and the violent explosion directly ignited the ****** compartment near the bottom of the ship!

Everyone saw a column of water nearly 100 meters high rise into the air, and the Alexander III was cut in two from the bow main turret as if it had been decapitated by a giant sword. In less than two minutes, Russia's first self-built advanced warship disappeared from the sea, and only 3 of the more than 1,000 officers and men on the ship survived. It was like the sky was falling, and I didn't think I would ever go back to Russia in my life. After the war, an officer who witnessed the sinking of the battleship Alexander III said.

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