Chapter 254: U* Turn
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readx; On the Zhennan ship, the flagship of the Hainan Fleet, Chen Zhong was calculating every period of time in the decisive battle between Japan and Russia against Ma. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info Le Wen Novel|
In the battle plan he designed, he was to order the Hainan fleet to attack Tokyo after the first shots were fired by Japan and Russia.
Chen Zhong looked at the time, and the hour hand pointed to two o'clock in the afternoon. He ordered the First Guerrilla Formation of the Hainan Fleet, the Iron Lion (cruiser), the Blue Star, the Red Devil, the Taishan, the Qinghai, and the Dongshan (battleships) to advance to Tokyo at full speed.
The rest of the ships, arrayed near the southern side of the Tsushima Strait, near the island of Kyushu, awaited a decisive battle of the Japanese Combined Fleet.
On the left, the second battle group of our Hainan Fleet, the "Hainan Ship" (7,567-ton armored ship), the "Zifeng Ship", the "Lingyun Ship", the "Cheetah Ship" (a 3,240-ton cruiser), the "Taihang Ship", the "Qingfeng Ship", the "123 Romance Ship", the "Huangshan Ship" and the "Nanling Ship".
In the middle are the 'Zhennan Ship' (flagship 7,800-ton armored ship), the 'Goshawk Ship' and 'Taishan Ship' (3,240-ton cruiser), the "Tiger Ship", the "Longxiang Ship", the "Overlord Ship", the "Yangtze River Ship", the "Yellow River Ship" and the "Fengyun Ship" of the first battle group.
On the right side of the first battle group are the Hainan Fleet's mobile attack battle formations 'Shichang', 'Hurricane' (7,800-ton armored ships), 'Qingyun', 'Five-Star Ships', 'Black Mountain', and 'Guan Gong'.
In Chen Zhong's plan, after the Japanese Combined Fleet defeated the Russian army in the third quarter of their plan, the first guerrilla formation of the Hainan Fleet could begin to carry out shore attacks on Tokyo, Japan.
Chen Zhong certainly knew that the time of surrender of the Russian army was around fifteen and a half past fifteen in the afternoon of the second day, and at the same time, Vice Admiral Rozed Stfansky of the Russian fleet was captured.
According to Chen Zhong's plan, he ordered the First Guerrilla Formation of the Hainan Fleet to advance to Tokyo at full speed at this moment, and after arriving, it began to attack Tokyo on the afternoon of the second day, forcing the Japanese Combined Fleet to sail out of the Sea of Japan to Tokyo for rescue.
After the Japanese Combined Fleet defeats the Russian troops, they will receive a rescue signal from Tokyo as soon as possible, so when the Japanese troops sail out of the Tsushima Strait toward Tokyo, the Hainan Fleet, which is waiting on the south side of Kyushu Island, will be able to directly occupy a favorable position and immediately attack the Japanese ships.
At this moment, the commander of the Japanese fleet in the Sea of Japan, Heihachiro Togo, began to order the ships to turn to the port side at 16 o'clock in turn. This surprised both the Japanese officers and the Russian fleet.
Because of this move of the Japanese army, it was simply a kind of attack style of gambling with life, so that the ship that turned behind would only hinder the shooting of the warship that did not turn to it, and that turning point made the Japanese ship that was turning the target of the Russian ship.
The commander of the Russian army, Rozed Steffansky, was the first to give the order to open fire, but the Japanese warships still turned in turn and were attacked by the Russian ships, and at the U-shaped corner, the Japanese armored cruiser Asama was hit by three shells in the stern, and the ship's steering gear also failed.
As a result, the Japanese armored cruiser Asama was forced to withdraw from the battle, and other Japanese ships were also damaged to varying degrees.
The commanders of the Russian ships saw the U-shaped turn of the Japanese fleet in front of the battle, and the flagship of the Russian fleet, the Duke of Suvorov, continued to fire at the Japanese fleet.
The Russian artillery shelling is still very fierce, but unfortunately, the hit rate of the artillery is very low. Faced with a group of lunatic-like Japanese combined fleets, the Russian army seemed to see a group of shirtless Japanese samurai.
Under the intensive artillery fire of the Russian army, the Japanese fleet methodically carried out a rapid 180-degree rotation in turn.
In the process of turning, the Japanese Combined Fleet calmly faced the hit ships, as if none of this had happened, and the Japanese army was not afraid to complete their established strategic plan, giving the Russian army a great psychological attack.
I'm afraid of this kind of deathless when I fight. What's even more terrifying is that this opponent is not only dead, but also has brains, then it will be miserable!
If an army like the Japanese Combined Fleet is frightened by his playful posture, you can basically conclude that it is impossible to defeat them in this battle.
If there is no determination to resolutely carry out the battle plan, if there is no firm belief in their battle plan, they will certainly be able to deal a fatal blow to the opponent after completing the U-shaped turn, and if there is no strict and hard training before the battle, if in such a big battle, this kind of U-shaped giant turn in front of the formation will not be able to play at all.
If the operation is not done properly, it is almost self-defeating, and the opponent can kill the flagship of the enemy ship without doing too many fancy actions, and after that, it is completely possible to disrupt the enemy formation in turn, at that time, let alone complete the U-shaped turn, the entire ship formation is in chaos.
This kind of battle plan can only be thought up by Mayuki Akiyama, who is almost childlike and a little mentally abnormal, and only a war gambler like Heihachiro Togo dares to use such a desperate style of play.
However, when you sit down and analyze it carefully, this is not the case.
The reason why Heihachiro Togo activated Akiyama Shinyuki's battle plan was precisely because all the plans had no chance of winning.
Because, due to the disparity in the strength of the Japanese and Russian navies, according to the traditional way of fighting, the Japanese fleet will not be able to take advantage, and it may even be completely annihilated in the decisive battle in the Sea of Japan.
Since other so-called rigorous playing styles are not sure to win, why not use this kind of first use part of the price in exchange for the final victory?
History often prefers the kind of gambles that dare to be made after sober thinking, and once these gambles are entered, they will either achieve glory or be wiped out.
Heihachiro Togo's gambling nature is precisely the root of his past successful experience.
No one knows what tomorrow will bring, and since we have chosen to move forward, what will we fear again? It's not called gambling, it's the courage to charge, and courage is a necessary prerequisite for all victories.
In the dense but low hit rate of the Russian artillery bombardment, the Japanese Combined Fleet finally completed a 180-degree turn after three minutes. The Japanese fleet, for the most part, had turned to finish and began to fire back with heavy artillery fire.
The flagship of the Japanese Combined Fleet, the Mikasa, began to fire back, and the main warships of the Japanese and Russian forces began an artillery battle at a distance of 6,000 meters, and the real decisive battle of the Battle of Tsushima began.
The first four warships of the combined fleet concentrated on attacking the Duke Suvorov, the flagship of the Russian First Fleet, and the last six attacked the Osriojabia, the flagship of the Russian Second Fleet.
The hit rate of the Japanese artillery was extremely high, while the shells fired by the Russian troops in the panic almost missed.
Under the artillery fire of the Japanese army, which had an extremely high hit rate, the servo of the Duke Suvorov, the flagship of the Russian army, failed, tilted 8 degrees to the port side, and lost the ability to command.
At this time, the Russian fleet was attacked due to the flagship, which caused the other warbands to be in chaos, and the Osribi lost power and the whole ship was shrouded in fire.
In the first attack on the Russian fleet, the Japanese Combined Fleet finally completed the U-shaped turn, and at the cost of some ship damage, it seized the T-shaped crosshead and completed the first T-shaped ship attack.
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