Chapter 251: Seven Stages of Warfare

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Heihachiro Togo returned to the war room and unfolded Mayuki Akiyama's battle plan, which he went through several times from beginning to end.

Looking at this battle plan, Heihachiro Togo nodded approvingly, but he was still a little dissatisfied with himself.

I always feel that although this battle plan is full of genius imagination, it is still a little reassuring, it seems that such a plan is very good, but it is just a work of art, and there are still some flaws in its application to actual combat.

Heihachiro Togo touched his beard and paced back and forth in the room, rehearsing in his mind the decisive battle of the Japanese and Russian navies in the Sea of Japan according to the battle plan.

He suddenly felt that there was a fatal flaw in this battle plan, and this flaw might bring the decisive battle to a stalemate, until the Japanese fleet was defeated due to the disparity in strength. This would be completely contrary to the strategic thinking of the Japanese Combined Fleet's quick battle and sneak attack.

This is because the total number of ships of the Japanese Combined Fleet is less than that of the Russian Pacific Fleet, and if there is confusion in the U-shaped turn, it is very likely that it will be severely damaged by the Russian army.

It is almost impossible to solve this Russian fleet in a single T-force formation.

Then, how to solve this problem will be another crucial link in this decisive battle, and if this problem is not solved, it can almost be concluded that this battle plan is undoubtedly a failed battle plan.

Togo Heihachiro was a little anxious, pacing back and forth in the room, and inadvertently knocked down the hanger behind the door, he squatted down and wanted to lift up the hanger, but the wooden hanger was broken into several sections, and Togo was just about to ask the guards to help him change one, suddenly, he stopped, and rushed to his combat command platform nervously, looking at the model of the Russian army's one-word column, and looked at it for more than ten minutes.

Heihachiro Togo looked at it and smiled, he breathed a sigh of relief and looked out the window, the sky was already bright.

Heihachiro Togo walked out of the room and saw from a distance that Mayuki Akiyama stumbled over.

Shinichi Akiyama shouted as he ran, "General Togo, General Togo!" ”

Heihachiro Togo looked at this eccentric Akiyama Mayuki, he seemed to have guessed something, so he ignored him, but turned around and walked into the room, muttering, "Isn't it, this guy sleepwalks again?" I'll hide for a while. ”

"General Togo! Didn't you hear me calling you? Akiyama Mayuki panted and chased after him.

"Oh, Staff Officer Akiyama, is there anything wrong with you running over so early?" Heihachiro Togo asked him only after confirming that Mayuki Akiyama was not sleepwalking.

"Your Excellency, I didn't sleep all night last night, because, my plan for a decisive battle in the Sea of Japan doesn't seem to be too perfect, I thought about it all night, and finally found out some of its shortcomings, so I came over early in the morning to disturb you, please forgive me!"

"Tell me, Akiyama Shinyuki, what did you think of?" Togo Heihachiro looked at Akiyama Shinyuki, an operational staff officer who is often a little different but has a genius military thinking, he admires it very much, although his popularity is not very good, but his talent and professionalism in naval tactics are still very recognized by everyone.

Akiyama Mayuki calmed down, came to the operational command platform, pointed to the Japanese and Russian teams on the table, and said: "Your Excellency, the Russian fleet warships are mixed with old and new, and the performance gap has caused the maximum speed of the whole queue to be only 11 knots; The maximum speed of the main force of the Japanese fleet can reach 16 knots, and the maneuverability undoubtedly has an absolute advantage.

However, the overall strength of our ships is far inferior to that of the Russian Pacific Fleet, so it is absolutely impossible for our fleet to conceive of defeating this fleet at one time.

So, I thought about it all night last night, and I decided to fix the problem of forming a T-shaped formation and keep the plan of turning back in front of the enemy.

However, considering that it was not possible to conceive that a single artillery battle would be able to knock the entire Russian fleet underwater, I changed the battle plan this time to a tailgating and entanglement, and constantly created a T-shaped formation in the middle of the battle, attacking the Russian army seven times, or even many times.

I redrew a plan, and I called the proposed battle plan "Seven-Stage Operation."

This plan was to prepare a total of seven attacks along the narrow Sea of Japan, from the Tsushima Strait to Vladivostok, starting with the exchange of fire between the main warships of both sides, and two more if needed. Why seven times? I calculated it on the basis of the time and effective number of strikes of each attack on the Russian fleet by our combined fleet.

First of all, our combined fleet sought to ambush the Russian fleet on the Goto Islands south of the Tsushima Strait and west of Nagasaki Prefecture, and seek an opportunity to engage in a decisive battleship battle with it. This time, in the decisive battle, our combined fleet will carry out a U-turn for the first time, and set up a T-shaped ship formation to strike the first blow at the Russian army, and this blow is very important, because this blow will hit the morale of the Russian army, and also increase the confidence of our fleet's confidence in this formation.

Immediately after that, the formation of our second T-type ship formation. After completing the first strike on the Russian troops, our fleet went north and carried out a sneak attack on the Russian troops by destroyers and torpedo boats south of Tsushima.

During the day of the second day, our fleet fought another daytime battle with the Russian fleet in the western waterway of the Tsushima Strait, and this encounter was the third time that our fleet used the T-type ship formation to strike at the Russian fleet, and it is possible that the battle was already settled in this battle.

If there is still a living force in the Russian fleet, our fleet will continue to pursue it, and after resting and recuperating on the night of the same day, it will continue to carry out night battles in the evening.

During the day on the third day, our fleet followed the Russian fleet all the way to the vicinity of Ulleungdo, looking for an opportunity to continue attacking it. That night, the Russian fleet at this time was basically entangled and attacked by us and lost confidence, and our fleet was full of energy, never gave up, and continued to fight at night.

During the daylight of the fourth day, our combined fleet annihilated the living forces of the Russian fleet in one fell swoop off Vladivostok, completely shattering the strategic objectives of the Russian army.

General Togo, this plan is indeed extremely wonderful, but at the same time, it is also extremely difficult.

The difficulty lies in the fact that this is not an ambush formation, but rather a number of warships of the same combined fleet moving in parallel with the Russian fleet along the Sea of Japan starting from the Tsushima Strait, pestering the Russian fleet to carry out repeated attacks, and if they are not careful, they will lose everything. ”

General Heihachiro Togo looked at Staff Officer Akiyama with a smile and did not speak, and Akiyama Mayuki looked at him with a strange expression in confusion, at a loss.

"General Togo, do I have any questions?" Akiyama Shinyuki looked at Heihachiro Togo, who had been smiling and silent.

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