In mid-1904, a large fleet set off from the Baltic Sea, sailed 30,000 kilometers through the North Atlantic, South Atlantic and Africa, and then slowly sailed across the Indian Ocean towards the Russo-Japanese battlefield.

Because the Russian army in the Far East was in a stalemate, and the army of Tsarist Russia was unable to achieve a decisive victory because of the limited transportation volume of the Trans-Siberian Railway, the slow pace of reinforcement from Europe and Russia, and the incompetence of the generals.

The cold winter is coming, and fighting in Northeast China is even more miserable, but on the Japanese side, compared with Russia, although the Japanese army has won one after another, its casualty rate has remained high, especially in the attack on Lushun, the Third Army under the command of Nogi Noshinori almost stepped through the trenches filled with the corpses of his fallen comrades before capturing Lushun.

In addition, the Japanese army has been troubled by the fact that it has not been able to intercept the main force of the Russian ships and give them a head-on attack, if the war drags on for a long time, the Japanese economy will inevitably be dragged down and collapsed, so the Japanese army eagerly hopes to give the Russian army a heavy blow in order to end the war as soon as possible.

So on June 20, 1904, because of the poor performance of the Pacific Fleet and the dilemma of defending Arthur, Tsar Nicholas II decided to send Russian ships from Europe and Russia to reinforce it.

But the only naval force available to Russia at that time was the Baltic Fleet.

After the Tsar decided to send the European and Russian fleets to reinforce, the original Pacific Fleet was renamed the First Pacific Fleet, and the Eastern Fleet was given the Second Pacific Fleet, and Vice Admiral Rozdvinsky was appointed commander of the Second Pacific Fleet.

What is even more worrying is that there are still three Baltino-class warships, the main ship of the Second Pacific Fleet, which has not yet been completed, and the Russian fleet in the Far East is trapped in the defense of Arthur, and the military situation is as anxious as a spark, but the imperial Russian bureaucracy still has a consistent attitude of not changing the schedule, and the time is dragging on day by day.

In addition, since most of the trained officers and men of the Russian Navy were in the Far East, Rozdesvensky had to recruit veterans and peasants who had never seen the sea to serve as sailors and retrain, which had a great impact on the overall combat effectiveness.

By September 10, 1904, the third and fourth ships, Duke Suvorov and the Eagle, of all five Borodino-class battleships, were completed and put into service.

After more than 4 months of preparation, Rozdvinsky finally assembled a decent fleet.

And on October 15, 1904, the Second Pacific Fleet departed from the Reburg base, and the commander of the first fleet was concurrently Rozdvinsky, under the command of the new Baltino-class warships such as Duke Kensuvorov, Alexander III, Borodino and Eagle, of which the Duke of Suvorov and the Eagle were officially commissioned on September 10.

The second squadron was led by Rear Admiral Fogker Hill and included the battleships Osriyabia and Navarin, and the armored cruiser Admiral Nakhimov.

The third team was led by Rear Admiral Ankerwest and had eight cruisers, including the Orji and Aurora. In addition, there were a number of armed merchant ships, supply ships and other logistics ships, and the Second Pacific Fleet, which had a total of 42 ships, set off in this way.

After the departure, rumors spread in the Russian fleet that Japanese warships would sneak attack along the way, causing panic among the people.

In the early hours of 22 October, as they passed the British coast of Dogle, the Russian fleet mistook the British fishing boats for Japanese torpedo boats in the dark of night, and opened fire, and then the 1st and 3rd Squadrons, sailing side by side, opened fire on each other, and it took 15 minutes to distinguish between friend and foe. During the shelling, one fishing boat sank, several fishing boats were wounded, and the cruiser Aurora of the Third Squadron was also injured, which fully demonstrated the morale of the Russian army.

This incident caused serious protests in Britain, and there was even the intention of invoking the provisions of the alliance with Japan to go to war against Russia, which greatly caused Russia to panic. The matter was later mediated by Germany and France and referred to the International Tribunal, but was eventually resolved.

Britain had no choice but to solve the problem with its own strength, but it was afraid that Britain and Russia would start a war, so that other powers such as Germany and France would take advantage of the situation, so they only monitored the Russian fleet along the way to protect the safety of British fishing and merchant ships, and did not stop until North Africa.

The distance from the Euro-Russian Baltic base to Arthur is almost half the world, and because the tonnage of Russia's main warships is relatively large, it is impossible to shorten the voyage through the Suez Canal, so it can only extend the African coast southward, bypass the Cape of Good Hope, and enter the Indian Ocean.

Along the way, due to the influence of neutrality regulations, and the fact that Russia had no overseas bases to provide supplies, everything had to rely on the fleet's own supply ships to support everything. It was a long time, and the countries of the world did not believe that the Russian Navy could reach Arthur safely from the beginning.

In order to meet the large amount of coal needed for long-distance voyages, Russia leased up to 70 coal ships from the German Hamburg-American shipping company to replenish them along the way.

Germany and France even secretly helped the Russian fleet by allowing Russian ships to dock at the ports of the overseas colonies, which, of course, inevitably caused a wave of protests.

The fleet of the Russian Navy, after receiving the help of Germany and France, both openly and covertly, lived a much better life than before, and was able to spare a little time from time to time to train at sea, eating and drinking with the help of the two allies of the French and the Germans, which was many times better than what Wang Bin knew in history.

Under these circumstances, the morale of the Russian Navy was finally raised, and the warships of the Russian Navy were adequately replenished and maintained during the road to Canada, and the sailors found time to hold balls in their free time, and it was strange that morale was low!

On April 14, 1905, the Russian Second Pacific Fleet arrived at Cam Ranh Bay in French Vietnam, where it received orders to await the Third Pacific Fleet.

In desperation, Rozdvinsky had to rest in Cam Ranh Bay for a while, and it was at this time that Rozdvinsky received the situation of the fall of Arthur, and after receiving this information, Rozdvinsky wanted to immediately set off for the Far East, and before the Japanese fleet recovered from the Lushun blockade, a decisive battle would be held as soon as possible, so as to be completely annihilated, but the Russian government did not agree and insisted on the convergence of the Third Pacific Fleet.

Finally, on May 9, 1905, the Russian Third Pacific Fleet and Rozdvinsky's Second Pacific Fleet rendezvous.

Then, on May 14, 1905, the Second and Third Pacific Fleets left Cam Ranh Bay and sailed to Vladivostok, and the Battle of Tsushima slowly began.