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Since then, after a short period of "peace", in the Yellow Sea south of the Jiaodong Peninsula and east of northern Anhui (the Celestial Empire exchanged northern Jiangsu and southern Anhui, northern Jiangsu was assigned to Anhui, and southern Anhui belonged to Jiangsu), the Third Fleet of Tsarist Russia, which had been refueled by Muravyov, and the Red Navy of the Celestial Empire, began a continuous naval struggle again. Especially after the Red Army of the Celestial Empire controlled the entire northern Anhui, the navies of the two sides fought in successive "big fights".

As the Red Navy's maritime strategy, it is necessary to first seize the initiative in the Yellow Sea south of the Jiaodong Peninsula and provide a barrier for the Red Army's operations in Shandong in the next step. As for the large-scale construction of the Tsarist Russians in the Weihai Naval Port, the Red Navy does not seem to want to embarrass the Tsarist Russians too much. It is precisely for this reason that, except for the final stage, when the Red Navy has completely grasped the initiative in the Yellow Sea, will a small number of torpedo boats take advantage of the cover of night to occasionally run over to make trouble, make a small profit, and then torture the tired Tsarist Russians by the way, the Red Navy seems to be more willing to lure the Russian warships far away to fight.

Of course, with the exception of the occasional large-scale head-to-head confrontation with the Tsarist Russian naval formations as a last resort, the Red Navy often adopted the tactics of naval guerrilla attacks that could be fought and run away if they could not, in order to wear down the overall strength of the Tsarist fleet little by little. The reason is very simple, now for the Third Fleet of Tsarist Russia in Barushka, his warships are not as fast and powerful as the warships of Britain and France, not to mention the second-hand warships that have been purchased from Western countries one after another after being modified by Shanghai Oriental Industry and Tianjing Ordnance of the Celestial Empire.

Many times, if Barushka's fleet went out to patrol with fewer ships and encountered a ghostly Red Navy formation, it was doomed to go home. But once they had an absolute numerical advantage, the Red Navy would turn around and run, and even dare to run along the coastal waters that the Russians felt belonged to them, which was faster than a rabbit on land, in Barushka's words.

When Barushka led the Tsarist Russian fleet to pursue the Red Navy warships that "fled in the wilderness" in front, and had to put them to death in order to get back quickly, they often chased to the end, and embarrassing things came out. In the middle of a reef, or behind an inconspicuous island, or even a plain fishing boat, a few "little tadpoles" will suddenly burst out and run faster, like a sharp sword, the most headache and chill for them, they never say a word, a crackling piece of torpedo will be sent to you, and then turn around and run away without a trace. Taking advantage of the damage of your fleet and the panic, the Red Navy fleet, which had fled quickly, may turn around and kill another horse pistol, and then fight a cheap hand.

The Red Navy's torpedo boats took sea guerrilla tactics to the extreme.

For the sake of these headache "little tadpoles", Barushka racked his brains a lot, but he never got the point. On several occasions, he concentrated all the forces of the Third Fleet in an attempt to sweep away the "red trouble" in the Yellow Sea, but unfortunately he never did and could not do so. On the ocean off the coast south of Jiaodong, his Third Fleet once had the courage to sweep back and forth like a grate, but in the end, even he felt helpless. Because some of the islands were still peaceful when I swept over, the strange thing was that when I turned around and walked back, I met the damned tadpoles that were hiding somehow.

In any case, because the overall strength of the Tsarist Russian Navy was still stronger than that of the young Red Navy, in the fierce naval battles again and again, judging from the surface of the battlefield alone, the two sides actually had their own victories and defeats.

Especially later, because Barushka wanted to destroy the Red Navy's new torpedo boat base in Haizhou, and forced the Red Navy to engage in another unprecedentedly tragic war with him, although his original goal was not achieved at all, and although his fleet was almost half-disabled, Barushka was still excited for a long time. Because his fleet finally succeeded in sinking several main warships of the Red Navy, including the third main force of the Red Navy, the "Dinghai", the tadpoles were not less beaten by him. What made Barushka even more proud was that his old opponent, Xu Zongyang, commander of the Wusong fleet of the Red Navy, was riding the flagship "Humen", which was also beaten by his dense fleet artillery fire and withdrew from the battlefield with billowing smoke. If it weren't for the rebels, if it weren't for the insistence on getting rid of the rebel Haizhou base, which was not destroyed in the end, and as a result, it would have been unlucky to be in the hands of those "little tadpoles" again in the night, and the balance of victory and defeat in the war might have completely tilted to his side.

After more than half a year, although the Red Navy lost only slightly less than Tsarist Russia in terms of the overall number of ships, the total tonnage lost was far lower than that of the other side. More importantly, it is difficult for the warships lost by Tsarist Russia to be replenished in the short term, and the Red Navy is different. The Red Navy's torpedo boats fought more and more in naval battles, and now they have changed from the original three squadrons to four squadrons of the Red Navy's maritime assault group. Similarly, the "Dinghai" sank, but the new Red Navy warships continued to show off their might on the ocean, and they were more ferocious than the "Dinghai" of the past, which Barushka himself had to admit in his heart.

Barushka could do his best to demonstrate his great naval power in front of the Manchu "expeditions", but the remnants of his current fleet did not dare to show themselves in the waters south of Rongcheng. Fortunately, there is a Wei Navy Port, otherwise, he would not have fled to Dagukou, but would have to run to Lushun.

Now, in the Yellow Sea south of Jiaodong, it is not Tsarist Russia that has the final say, but Xu Zongyang's Celestial Empire Red Navy. That's the real result.

Now, as soon as the large-scale offensive of the Red Army of the Celestial Empire in the central and western parts of Shandong began, Colonel Barushka naturally first focused his attention on the southern seas, and the fleet maintained a high degree of alert, waiting for another large-scale naval battle to break out. For Barushka, this is actually a minimum of military common sense, although it is said that for the benefit of His Majesty the Tsar, the headquarters of the dispatch army in China is speeding up to reach some kind of understanding with the government of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but Barushka still prefers to be prepared, "Since the rebels have launched an offensive on all fronts, they will definitely not sit idly by and watch the Russian army in Jiaodong, their hearts are bigger than the sky, even God may let them be divided." What's more, the strength of their Red Navy may not be weaker than our Third Fleet, we ...... It will be difficult for us to get a supplement from the headquarters of the dispatch army. Barushka had to say so in front of his staff, and his expression darkened.

Indeed, Balushka's Third Fleet now has only more than 30 large and small warships left, and his second capital ship, the "Volga Aunt", also became a ghost under the sea in the battle of Haizhou, and the two fleets entrenched in Dagukou and Lushun are even worse, even if they are added together, I am afraid that they will not be able to make up 30 battleships that can fight. The elite of the navy of the dispatch force stationed in China has been almost consumed unconsciously.

The second thing Barushka was worried about, of course, was that he was afraid that there would be an offensive from the Red Army of the Land Celestial Empire.

If Barushka was already a little uncertain about the possibility of a Red Army attack from the sea, he was even less sure about the possible war on land. The reason is simple, just look at the hapless soldiers under Colonel Dasamov, and he understands it. Seeing them, he didn't even have the slightest appetite.

In the barracks, almost every officer and soldier stuffed under their beds were bags of looted things from the people's homes, porcelain, homespun cloth, the head of the Buddha that had been smeared with gold ornaments in the severed temple, and even the women's floral cloth shirts and useless little shoes. What kind of soldiers are these, they are simply a bunch of scoundrels and filthy prisoners (as he likes to call Dasamov's men), only robbery and rape are what they can do and be able to do, and guns can only scare and frighten the unarmed civilians.

When it comes to the common people, Barushka now feels even more terrible. The ordinary people who he had never paid attention to before, now all the people who could run are gone. And those who stayed, as soon as he saw him and his soldiers, he didn't have to speak, he didn't have to ask the other party what he thought, as long as he looked into the other party's eyes, he understood that there was a kind of hatred that couldn't eat them alive immediately.

"My God, what do you see your soldiers do?" When Balushka was inspecting the two county towns of Wendeng and Rongcheng, he looked at the few ordinary people rarely seen on the street, as well as the dilapidated street scene, and once shook his head and sighed to Dasamov, "We have come to a strange place, it is difficult to gain their trust, and your soldiers will add fuel to the fire, once the rebels come to kill, they will be piles of dry firewood, which will burn us." ”

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