Chapter 593: An Unacceptable Battlefield
What Ono wanted to say was nothing more than a telegram from the commander of the 6th Division to Ito Yuheng after the fleet arrived in Vladivostok the day before yesterday, in which he used a stern tone to ask the combined fleet to draw troops to ambush the Liaodong fleet in order to cover the retreat of the army.
Ito, who received this telegram, didn't think about it at the time, and in a fit of rage, he tore the phone to shreds. Then dispose of it in the garbage.
When was the Imperial Navy actually suppressed by the Army, this matter made Ito Yuhyung unable to figure it out at all, so he didn't think about it, he didn't order the ships of the Combined Fleet to leave the port at all, but ordered the Army to hurry up the merchant ships, hurry up, and don't delay in Vladivostok.
After twelve hours of hard work, the army that had been waiting for the harbor for a long time had finally landed, and in the meantime, the ships had already been loaded with coal, so Ito Yuheng immediately ordered to set sail and at the same time ordered to blow up all the shore defense batteries in Vladivostok, which would not have come anyway. There was no chance to come back.
As soon as the ship left the port, he ordered the combat ships and transport ships to move forward at full speed, hoping to pass the Liaodong Navy occasionally, but even if the transport ship was at full speed, it could only reach the speed of eleven knots, there was no way, Ito Yuheng could only reluctantly let the large army move forward at a speed of ten knots, who knows, when he was about to cross the waters of the Tsushima Strait, he still encountered the hateful Liaodong fleet.
"The speed of the enemy ship is ten knots." Before he could finish his thoughts, the observers on the Mikasa lookout began to report the situation.
Ten knots, since the Beiyang Naval Division was taken over by Liu Jun, when did the Liaodong Navy have ships with a speed of ten knots, the worst ones are all eleven knots, and the fastest speed, that is, those torpedo cruisers with a few small bulaji, has reached a terrible twenty-five knots.
Ten sections, what is Liaodong going to do next, Ito Yuhiro was full of doubts when he heard such a speed, and raised the telescope in his hand.
That's right, Ito Yuheng, who had been observing for a while, showed a smile, he finally knew the strangeness of this, it turned out that the Northeast Liaoning Ocean Naval Division was actually dragged back, and the one who was dragging back was the Tsarist Russian fleet that appeared on the side of the Northeast Liaoning Ocean Naval Division.
As for the Tsarist fleet, although Ito Yuheng didn't say anything about it, he was really embarrassed to mention its combat effectiveness. When he said it, he felt blushing for the Russian fleet.
Since the Tsarist Russian fleet is dragging its feet, it is time to consider letting himself dispatch a combined fleet to intercept and buy time for the escort fleet. Thinking of this, Ito Yuhiro began to think in his heart, let those warships be substitutes for the dead.
After thinking about it, Ito Yuheng finally picked a few outdated warships, these are all old antiques that were considered the main force in the First Sino-Japanese Naval War, but now, these warships are of no use.
After a while, the two cruisers and three torpedo cruisers in the rear quickly rushed out of the main force and began to move towards the Liaodong Fleet in the distance.
Hehehe, here, I'm still worried about what kind of method to use to make your combined fleet have been able to gnaw a few pieces of meat on you in the past, and now you are automatically sent to the door, I don't eat who you eat, standing in Yi? Lin Tai on the deck was very grateful to Ito Yuheng in his heart. He took a look, these warships are not enough for the entire Second Fleet, but they are still very impressive for practice.
"The herald ordered the Second Fleet to attack head-on with the Russian fleet to attract enemy firepower, and if the Jing and Shichang detoured from the left, they must eat the protrusion of the enemy's combined fleet.
"Commander, attack the salient part of the ship, what about the rest?" Wang Guocheng on the side didn't understand how Lin Taizeng could give this order.
"To tell you the truth, the commander meant to let go of the escort fleet, otherwise I would have ordered to go at full speed a long time ago, where would I have waited until now." Lin Taizeng didn't want to hide Liu Jun's order from Wang Guocheng, so he told the content of the telegram again.
The order of the marshal, that is another matter, Wang Guocheng did not say anything, but nodded, turned around and walked out.
The order was given, and the three battleships, two armored cruisers and five torpedo cruisers of the Tsarist Russian fleet, which were on the right side of the fleet, began to rush out of the array in a majestic manner.
In their eyes, this is a good opportunity to make meritorious contributions, after all, the other party is such a dilapidated warship, and it can't be compared with themselves at all.
Half an hour after the bombardment, the Russian fleet, which rushed out of the array, took the lead in roaring at the Japanese combined fleet to intercept the ships.
Hey, seeing the shells falling to the sea and blowing up a column of water more than ten meters high, Lin Taizeng on the bridge shook his head helplessly, he took a look, the distance between the two sides was less than four nautical miles, and the shells of the Tsarist fleet would actually have an error of up to 100 meters, I really don't know if this is the sorrow of Tsarist Russia or their lack of training. If this is the Beiyang Naval Division, there is such a big error, it is absolutely unforgivable. If the distance is so close and the error is so large, in the position of the gunner of the Beiyang Naval Division, you don't have to do it, you can directly enter the boiler room and burn the boiler.
"That's too bad, isn't it?" Wang Guocheng on the side opened his mouth wide, he had been a gunner for more than ten years, and there had never been such a shameful thing.
"Forget it, love what's wrong, it's not our fleet anyway." After Lin Taizeng sighed, he did not take care of the Tsarist fleet, but shifted the direction of the telescope and looked at the three warships of the Beiyang Naval Division that were making a detour.
Hey, it's a pity, seeing that these three ships were traveling at high speed, Lin Taizeng shook his head scoundrelly, the reason why he let the Beiyang ships make a detour was to give the Japanese a little time, but alas, I can't give orders now, it seems that I can only resign myself to fate.
An earth-shattering bang caused Lin Taizeng to turn his telescope and shift his gaze to the explosion.
From afar, he saw that a Russian torpedo cruiser had been hit by a boiler, and it was bursting into flames, and the 159-mm main gun was actually lifted into the sky.
Don't look at it, this warship is scrapped.
One did not hit, and it was less than fifteen minutes before the start of the war, and a warship was lost, Lin Taizeng really didn't know whether to laugh or cry, he had already assessed the combat effectiveness of the Tsarist fleet, in his opinion, although it was not comparable to the Japanese Combined Fleet, but Austria-Hungary could still be compared, but now it seems that he still overestimated the combat capability of the Tsarist fleet. He is not even a third-rate navy, and I don't know how the world evaluates him, but he is actually in the position of a second-rate navy.