Chapter 260: Vladivostok (I)
Vladivostok, the name is the name of the Chinese Empire for an important town in the Outer Northeast occupied by Russia, and the Russians call it Vladivostok, which means "ruler of the East" or "conquer the East", Vladivostok is the capital of the Russian Primorsky Krai, and the largest city in the Russian Far East, facing the sea on three sides, with excellent natural harbors, the geographical position is superior, it is the most important port of Russia on the Pacific coast, and it is also the location of the headquarters of the Russian Pacific Fleet. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Vladivostok belonged to the territory of the Manchu Dynasty before 1860, the traditional name is "Vladivostok", derived from the ancient Sushen language (Manchu), Chinese translation as "seaside net field" or "small fishing village by the sea", originally under the jurisdiction of Jilin Hunchun co-consul, in 1860 after the signing of the Sino-Russian Yenching Treaty was occupied by Russia, in 1872 Russia built a military port here, the Pacific Fleet station from Nikolaevsk (Temple Street) moved here, in 1875 set up a town, from 1880 to upgrade to the city, In 1888 it became the administrative center of the Primorsky Province of Russia.
Because of the importance of Vladivostok, Russia immigrated to Vladivostok on a large scale, making Vladivostok as populated as much as 300,000, and more than 100,000 of these 300,000 people were Han, Manchu and even Korean.
Russia's naval strength is very strong, although the Russian government pursues a basically defensive naval policy, but the strength of the Russian navy is not weaker than Germany and Italy, but the Russian Pacific Fleet is located in the Russian Far East, very far away from the elite region of Russia's Europe, so the strength of the Russian Pacific Fleet is average, and it is not as good as the Pacific Fleet of the Chinese Empire.
Vladivostok was occupied by Russia, which made the Chinese Empire lose an important outlet to the sea, not to mention that the Russians' naming of Vladivostok is simply a shame for the Chinese, plus Vladivostok is the location of the Russian Pacific Fleet Command, Vladivostok has become a must for the two countries.
When the ten cavalry divisions of the Suzaku Army broke through into Russia, Xiao Yao, the commander of the Fire Phoenix Army stationed in the northeast and Korea, personally led more than 16,000 people of the Eighth Infantry Division to advance towards Vladivostok, intending to take Vladivostok in one fell swoop.
Vladivostok can be called a fortress city, which can withstand the bombardment of heavy artillery, and perhaps only heavy artillery of more than 200 mm can break the shell of Vladivostok.
The 8th Infantry Division is the main division of the Fire Phoenix Corps, and the artillery regiment of the 8th Infantry Division is a reinforced regiment with 24 105-mm howitzers, 24 150-mm howitzers, 12 150-mm cannons, a total of sixty artillery pieces, and the entire artillery regiment
There are more than 2,500 people.
With the firepower of the artillery regiment of the 8th Infantry Division, it can bring great trauma to Vladivostok, but such firepower is not enough to conquer Vladivostok, even if it is to conquer Vladivostok, it will cause heavy casualties to the 8th Infantry Division, not to mention that there are also warships of the Russian Pacific Fleet in the Vladivostok military port, if the battle breaks out, the guns of these warships will be aimed at the 8th Infantry Division, giving the 8th Infantry Division huge casualties.
No matter how strong Vladivostok was under the management of the Russians, it was useless, and the Royal Air Force of the Chinese Empire was to send a bomber formation consisting of one Kunpeng-8 heavy airship and four Kunpeng-7 medium airships to assist the 8th Infantry Division in attacking Vladivostok.
500 kilograms of aerial bombs are enough to knock out the hard shell of Vladivostok and reimburse the Russian Pacific Fleet by the way, but in order to avoid accidents, the Air Force has also brought the largest 1,000-kilogram bomb currently carried by the Air Force.
Vladivostok is so far away from the European region of Russia that it will take months or even longer to travel by sea or land, and in this case, Vladivostok will not have any other means to resist the airship except to build some bomb shelters to avoid the bombing of airships.
The 8th Infantry Division was already slowly approaching Vladivostok, and the Russian troops in Vladivostok also noticed the arrival of the enemy and hurriedly retracted their defenses.
Although Vladivostok has 20,000 Russian troops, no Russian will believe that they can defeat the Chinese with advanced weapons, but there are examples of 100,000 army defeats there before, if there are no strong fortifications, the Russians believe that it will not take long for Vladivostok to be finished.
The 8th Infantry Division was getting closer and closer to Vladivostok, but when the 8th Infantry Division reached an area, it stopped, because the 8th Infantry Division advanced further and came within range of the guns of the Russian Pacific Fleet warships.
In the distant sky, five black dots slowly streaked by, and if you looked closely, it was five huge airships.
Five airships crossed over the 8th Infantry Division and advanced towards Vladivostok.
"Damn, that's a yellow-skinned monkey airship, get into the bomb shelter." The Russians shouted.
"Oh no, the airship is coming, start the battleship." The commander of the Russian Pacific Fleet, Starke, also discovered the airships of the Chinese Empire, and the warships of the Pacific Fleet have no means inferior to airships, and if they are parked in the military port now, they will definitely be easily sunk by the airships.
Stark was doomed to be disappointed, the steam-powered battleship started very slowly, and by the time the five airships arrived over the military port, the battleship had just started fire and could not be started at all.
"Get out of the battleship, and if you don't want to die, leave the battleship." After seeing the airship on their head lowering the altitude to find the target, the captains of some warships have understood that these battleships cannot escape the fate of sinking, but the Russian naval soldiers and officers cannot accompany the battleship to the death, maybe some Russian naval captains will live and die with their warships, but most of them want to continue to live.
Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!
Five airships, the five largest warships of the Russian Pacific Fleet, dropped five 500-kilogram aerial bombs, and then five violent explosions spread around, because the battleships of the Pacific Fleet did not start, and the height of the airships was low enough, and the five battleships were either blown in two, or were blown to pieces, and slowly sank.
Seeing such a tragic scene, the naval soldiers and officers on the other Russian battleships did not continue to hesitate, and jumped directly into the water, if they hesitated for a while, the next bomb blew up their battleship, and everything would be over.
The Russians in Vladivostok watched the destruction of the Pacific Fleet in a daze, and there was nothing they could do to stop it from happening.
After the five airships wiped out the Russian Pacific Fleet, they turned around and flew over the city of Vladivostok, this time it was Vladivostok's turn to be baptized with bombs.