In the early morning of the 22nd, the Chinese Pacific Fleet sailed out of Zhoushan Port, and more than 30 warships carried the hopes of hundreds of millions of people and the burden of the country's rise, and the young Chinese Navy resolutely rushed to the Pacific Ocean.

As early as June 18, the reconnaissance submarine of the Navy's submarine group spotted the traces of the Japanese Combined Fleet and followed it ever since. After gradually entering the Tsushima Strait, it was discovered that Japan had laid a large number of mines nearby, so it did not dare to approach. When the naval battle broke out in the Tsushima Strait between the Japanese and Russian fleets, the meritorious submarine "Tuna" was lurking under the sea about 20 nautical miles from the battlefield.

The information of the Tuna was accepted by Lu Hai, commander of the Chinese fleet, and adjustments were made accordingly. The first is to inform the General Staff, and then to ask the fleet to move towards the Tsushima Strait. Whether or not it can be inserted into the battlefield at the right time and like a scalpel is the key to whether Lu Hai can lead the fleet to a complete victory, so accurate and timely intelligence from the battlefield is very important.

In addition to the "Tuna," 11 submarines were also gathered around the battlefield, and they were distributed over a radius of more than 300 kilometers to give back battlefield information to the General Staff and the fleet as soon as possible.

The Z-shaped flag on the battleship Mikasa, the flagship of the Combined Fleet, flew in the wind, the steering gear of the Duke Suvorov, the flagship of the Russian First Fleet, failed and tilted eight degrees to the left, and the fleet commander, Vice Admiral Winsky, was wounded and fell into a coma; The second squadron's flagship, the Oslyabia, lost power, and the entire ship was engulfed in flames. The Japanese army's improved Shimose gunpowder greatly increased its lethality, and the accurate hit rate of the Japanese soldiers led to heavy losses for the Russian fleet.

The Japanese army's pre-war training was frenzied, using up half of its ammunition stockpile, and played an important role in the battle, almost reaching the point of "every bullet must hit".

June 23, 1905 at 10:30. The Oslyabya was sunk, and in the thick smoke, the Russian fleet desperately fled to the north, and the Japanese fleet lost the figure of the Russian ship for a time, but sometimes recaptured the main force of the Russian fleet. The 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th Japanese warbands, which had previously served as scouts, concentrated their firepower on Russian cruisers, destroyers, and supply ships.

At 1:15 p.m., the battleship Alexander III was shot in several places and finally sunk. At 2:20, the Japanese battleship Fuji lost its original historical good luck in the duel with the Russian battleship Borodino, and was hit by the Borodino in the boiler room and exploded, sinking instantly. It was the first capital ship sunk by Japan since the war.

Unfortunately, the joy of the Russians lasted less than an hour, and the flagship battleship Suvorov was damaged in many places, leaving only one 75mm tail gun still firing back, and finally sank at 3:08 under the attack of the Japanese torpedo boat fleet.

It was still a long time before it got dark. The commander of the comatose Russian fleet, Vinsky, could not command the battle, and the commander of the second combat team, Rear Admiral Falk Hill, took the command. In this case, if the Russian fleet blindly flees, it is extremely necessary to withstand the sinking of more warships before dark, and it is better to fight to the death.

And Falk Hill was also decided, Lao Maozi's bloody nature suddenly broke out, and the fighting nation finally showed a tenacious fighting spirit at sea. Rear Admiral Falk Hill gathered the remaining capital ships and engaged in a head-on battle with Togo's Combined Fleet.

At 3:50 p.m. on the 23rd, the Russian fleet Navarin sank. At 4:11, the Admiral Nasimov was sunk. Four thirty-two minutes. The battleship Hiyachido was sunk. At this time, the ratio of the capital ships of the two sides was 8 to 10, Japan was ahead, and the madness of Lao Maozi made the Japanese miserable, but they still gradually took the initiative, and the morale of the Russian army was shaken again, and the commander of the third team, Major General Nobergatov, asked to withdraw from the battle. After returning to Vladivostok, he made another plan, but was rejected by Falk Hill. It turns out that if Norbergatov retreats according to his ideas, the Russian fleet is likely to be completely wiped out as in the original history.

At 5:22 p.m. on the 23rd, the great Sisoi of the Russian fleet was sunk. Ten minutes later, the battleship Nicholas I, the flagship of the Third Sentai Group, was sunk, and only 6 capital ships of the Russian fleet remained. But before the sinking of Nicholas I, the third Sentai frantically besieged the Japanese Second Sentai flagship Izumo armored cruiser, and the Izumo's high speed and rapid-fire guns made the Russian Third Sentai return in vain, but accidentally sank the Japanese No. 1 Sentai Shikishima battleship in the battle.

At 6:30 p.m., the Russian fleet had only four capital ships left, and it was in danger under the siege of nine capital ships of the Japanese Combined Fleet. The naval battle showed that the eight armored cruisers of the Japanese army played a key role, in the battleship bombardment, the Krupp hardened armor has been popularized and behaved against the sky, while the new armor-piercing shell with a hard-backed cap has not yet been born, and the large-caliber shells of a battleship cannot play the advantage of depth penetration, and the armor-piercing shells without caps are smashed in front of the Krupp hardened armor. Moreover, most of the battleships on both sides were not equipped with the new turrets that accompanied the servos, except for the Japanese battleship Mikasa, which was equipped with this turret, and the rest of the battleships took a long time to fire their main guns. Therefore, the Japanese armored cruisers, with excellent protection, powerful firepower, and 20 knots of unified maneuverability, were like bumblebees freely coming and going among the bees until the entire Russian fleet was killed.

Fortunately, the Russian fleet finally lasted until nightfall, and Rear Admiral Falk Hill led the remaining four capital ships to sneak into the night and escape in the direction of Vladivostok. Heihachiro Togo entrusted the pursuit task to the torpedo boat detachment, and all the remaining Japanese ships withdrew from the war zone and assembled at Ulleungdo the next day.

Prior to this, Rear Admiral Enkovist, commander of the cruiser detachment of the Russian fleet, had left the battlefield long before nightfall and led the cruisers Orzi, Aurora, and Pearl to the south in an attempt to enter the port of Canton to seek refuge.

The battle on the sea was fierce and high-spirited, and the submarine group lurking under the surface of the sea transmitted the information to the rear completely and accurately. Lu Hai did not care about the fate of the Russian fleet, and with heavy losses, they would completely lose their right to speak in the Far Eastern Seas. He was concerned about the target of the operation, the Japanese Combined Fleet.

According to intelligence, the main forces of the Combined Fleet were gathering in the direction of Ulleungdo at night, and they lost three battleships, namely Fuji, Yashima and Shikishima, all three of which were relatively old battleships and did not have much impact on the Japanese Combined Fleet. In particular, the armored cruisers of the Combined Fleet did not suffer losses, and the main forces were relatively well preserved.

In the early morning of June 23, 1905, a group of sea wolves slowly converged and surrounded the main force of the Japanese Combined Fleet. The sea wolves in the night are like sharks that have found their prey, sniffing the smell of blood, and thirty submarines will be the first attack group to take the lead in launching an attack on the Japanese Combined Fleet.

"Your Excellency General, after this war, the Japanese Empire will become the third navy in the world, and Your Excellency's outstanding martial arts will spread all over the world and become the god of war of our people!" Rear Admiral Sotaro Misu, who served as commander of the First Fleet, and he and other generals boarded the flagship Mikasa, and in the face of Admiral Heihachiro Togo, Rear Admiral Misu's words seemed to be reassuring. For these admirals, Sansu's words are not an exaggeration, the Togo in front of them is their god of war!

"The words of Rear Admiral Misu represent the voice of everyone, Your Excellency, after the telegram was sent back to Japan, Yamaguchi Aritomo, Ito Hirobumi and other leaders personally replied, congratulating the Combined Fleet on its glorious victory, and the great emperor also expressed his excitement and excitement about our battle, this is the victory of Japan's national fortunes, our supreme glory, after this battle, the glory of His Excellency the Admiral will shine on the whole of Japan!"

The excitement of everyone is understandable, this battle has placed too many things, the battle of national fortune! With such a huge difference in national strength, it was not easy for Japan and Russia to win a complete victory in the war. The pressure on these generals is not small, and the compliment to themselves at this moment is actually a catharsis of pressure.

"Ladies and gentlemen, victory in the naval battle is imminent, there are still four main ships of the Russian fleet that will escape, and its cruiser detachment and destroyer detachment have not been completely defeated, and you must continue to work hard. After the war, I will personally ask the Emperor for credit to you, please! Togo Heihachiro's bow made the generals and soldiers present return the salute in awe, but they did not know that because the battle was almost over, eight of the nine capital ships were in a state of light-on, but the Mikasa in the center did not, but was brightly lit because it had to transfer patients to the medical service next to it. This provides an excellent opportunity for a submarine to lurk in.

Although as early as 1864 in the American Civil War, submarines sank frigates, and in 1898, the French submarine "Gustav" sank the British battleship "Macita" with a torpedo, which aroused strong concern about submarines in various countries, because it could not dive underwater for a long time and carried a small number of torpedoes, so it could only undertake tasks such as protecting its own coast and patrolling near its bases.

Therefore, on this day in 1905, no one has yet realized that submarines will sneak attack the main fleet on the rough sea, and the navies of all countries lack the necessary anti-submarine means, let alone think that there will be submarines in this world with a displacement of more than 2,000 tons, a diving depth of more than 100 meters, a maximum underwater speed of nearly 10 knots, a cruising capacity of 10,000 nautical miles, and more than 20 torpedoes. Not to mention the submarine brigade of Seawolf-class submarines equipped with snorkels, they will deal a fatal blow to the Japanese Combined Fleet! (To be continued.) )