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"Maybe you're right, but I'm sorry, Your Excellency, Commander, I can't give such an order!"

The captain stooped down to pick up the hat on the deck, flicked it lightly, and the corners of his mouth showed a faint hint of disdain.

"What?" Barushka looked at the captain of his own flagship, who had always been relied on by him and once regarded as a rebel, as if he didn't know him, "Lieutenant Colonel Korcha, you're not talking in your sleep, are you?" Without massacre, where did your promotion to lieutenant colonel come from? ”

"You're right, Your Excellency." Lieutenant Commander Korcha, the captain of the "Tsaritsyn", put on his military hat and straightened the brim, "I am a soldier, and for the sake of our Tsar and the Empire, I will never be soft in the face of my enemies." Unfortunately, not now. I would rather sink into the sea with my warship than fire a cannon at my companions. ”

"Pigs!" Barushka turned her head and let out a vicious curse from between her teeth. Then, he raised his binoculars, looked at the North Shore Battery, which was still in the dark, and cried out loudly, "Major Bouboni, you will now take over Mr. Corcha's duties at once, he is tired, and he needs to go to the bottom of the cabin to rest well." ”

"Yes, Your Excellency, Commander!" Adjutant Bugoni pulled out the short gun in his waist and waved it at the sailors on deck, "You go and escort Mr. Lieutenant Colonel down to rest, and the others take their places, send a signal, and the whole fleet will immediately enter the combat state." ”

Damn, it's really a hot and cold world, and at such a critical moment, there will be a centrifugal scum like Korcha! Barushka hated in his heart.

In the lens of the telescope, there was another fire. He saw that the men and horses of the Taiping Red Army had begun to pour into the fort and engage his gunners in close combat. Yes, in the end, there is a good one, although the coastal fort has suffered due to the loss of the land route behind it, but at the critical moment, at least it has not been crushed with a single blow.

It's about time! Barushka felt a burst of excitement in her heart. Let you be mad, and see how I teach you. He wanted to turn the whole battle situation and his anger at the Korcha people into a stormy shell on the battery on the north bank, and he wanted to turn the cunning and vicious Chinese into powder under artillery fire.

Balushka left the telescope with her right hand, intending to raise it, intending to take it seriously. Suddenly, a rumbling cannon sound from behind made his arm stop in mid-air, his mouth was half-open, and the loose muscles on his face suddenly became stiff.

His "Tsaritsyn" faced north and south, and the "Volga Daddy" was lying there dozens of yards behind his buttocks, which had tried to steal chickens on the south bank but had been hit hard. Due to injuries, it was difficult to undertake future naval combat tasks, and the naval guns on the "Volga Daddy" had already been dismantled in half and replenished ashore in accordance with his orders. Now, it was the first to fire, which did not surprise Barushka. To his surprise, the cannon rang out, but he did not see the sight of the shells falling on the batteries on the north bank.

"Sir, the Volga Daddy has sent a signal that the enemy fleet has been spotted in the south!"

The watchman's voice was almost a cry, and the cry was hoarse, almost not scaring Barushka to paralysis. His whole body was full of excitement, and the telescope still in his left hand fell into the dark sea in front of him.

"I had just been escorted to the door of the cabin by two sailors, and when I heard this shout, it was as if I heard a death knell ringing in my ears, and the two sailors beside me were stunned. I was also shocked. As soon as the war began, they said that the fleet of the Red Navy would definitely not participate in the war, because there were American and French fleets supervising it. So, for two days, half of the guns on the battleships in the fleet were almost dismantled and used to reinforce the land forces on the shore. Today's Third Fleet has long lost the majesty of the past, not to mention that because there was still no wind at that time, all the warships could not move at all. ”

After being educated in a prisoner of war camp and a prisoner of war training school, he later became an instructor at the Naval Academy of the Red Army University, and Lieutenant Commander Kolcha, the former captain of the "Tsaritsyn". Hehe, soldiers, sometimes it is always hoped that in the fairest environment, the two sides will have a real duel. But can there be such an environment?

"I looked up at the bhuboni on the podium. How arrogant he was just now, now he has become a mud tire. Soon, I saw him start moving, but instead of trying to react, he collapsed on the guardrail of the podium. I even guessed at the time that his feet must have strained on the deck, well, the feeling of longing to be able to propel the ship forward...... Either way, this should probably be the best outcome. We have traveled thousands of miles to get here, and all we have brought to the people here is endless suffering, and if the warships could really move at that time, then there would be no place for me today......"

The "Volga Daddy" did not face the main warships of the Red Navy, but only the forward boats of two torpedo boat assault groups.

According to the deployment of the entire Weihai Campaign, when the Red Navy fleet appears in the waters near Weihai Navy Port before midnight on 20 May, friendly forces on land will clear the threat to the Red Navy fleet from the coast. Then, the torpedo boat assault group cooperated with friendly forces on the south bank battery to blockade the south entrance of the Wei Naval Port. The main battleships led by Xu Zongyang himself will blockade the north entrance of the Wei Navy Port, thus completely annihilating the Third Fleet of Tsarist Russia in the military port.

There is no wind on the sea, this rare good phenomenon made Xu Zongyang, who was about to rush to the battlefield, feel refreshed. He immediately changed his preconceived idea of fighting as soon as he engaged, and instead wanted to capture as many Russian warships as possible. It is difficult for the Celestial Empire, and it is also difficult for the Red Navy, and it is something that no one can hope for to get dozens of warships overnight.

Therefore, Xu Zongyang first wanted to demonstrate to the Tsarist Russian warships in the military port to deter them.

Torpedo boats No. 002 and No. 004 came to demonstrate. Since the battery group on the north shore had not yet signaled that it had been completely occupied, the main fleet outside the north entrance was not in a hurry to approach Liugong Island, and the task of the demonstration naturally depended entirely on the "little tadpoles" who came in from the south entrance.

The captain of the "Volga Daddy" discovered the quietly approaching torpedo boats No. 002 and No. 004 by pure chance. The order sent by the flagship to prepare to follow the flagship to fire at the Beishan Fort on the north shore made the captain suddenly at a loss. The north shore battery has not yet been lost, and there are officers and men reinforced there by his ship, once the cannon is fired, the consequences are unimaginable. Sure enough, as soon as he conveyed the order sent by the flagship, many officers and men on the ship became in an uproar.

"Can't fire!"

"Who *** gave such a damn order? Lao Tzu's brother is still holding on to the fort......"

The commotion of the officers and men made the captain at a loss. If he really dared to fire at the fort, he believed that someone would definitely shoot him in the back. Headache! The captain had a headache like an ant on a hot pot, spinning around. Coincidentally, in the midst of the chaos, he suddenly noticed that on the surface of the sea reflected by the moonlight, about half a nautical mile from the front of his port side, there were two black shadows rapidly approaching from south to north.

He was really shocked now. Without having to go through his brain, he knew that what could come from the south at this time, except for the enemy boats, there would definitely not be a second option.

"Fire, fire, fire south!" The captain was almost jumping to his feet and shouting, and his voice was shirking. God, don't run into the "little tadpoles" of the Taiping Red Army! At that moment, he seemed to suddenly and couldn't help but think of his bitter brother, the tragic fate of the "Volga Aunt".

Less than half of the remaining half of the guns of the "Volga Daddy" rumbled in a panic of screaming and panicking.

In the seemingly blind, but extremely dangerous Tsarist artillery fire, the two torpedo boats did not flinch in the slightest, and continued to move forward in the rain of bullets.

Just 200 paces away from the "Volga Daddy", the 004 boat was the first to fire, and two torpedoes cut through the calm sea, like two water snakes, with a whistling sound, rushed to the belly of the "Volga Daddy".

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