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The 100,000 troops of the Russian army were severely damaged by the First Army of Kawakami Caoliu in Hiroshima, with more than 30,000 casualties, and the Russian Minister of War and commander of the Eight-Nation Alliance, Kuropatkin, felt very faceless, so he hurriedly ordered the commander of the navy, Rozhdestwinsky, to immediately lead the remaining 50 or so combat ships of the Pacific Fleet to Hiroshima Harbor and attack Japan's three warship detachments, a total of 30 warships, of which 25 are Japanese warships with a tonnage of less than 3,000 tons.

At that time, the sea conditions in the port of Hiroshima were bad, the winds were strong, the turbid waves in the western Pacific Ocean were rolling, and the swells like small mountains rose and fell one after another, and the difference between the crests and troughs was as high as six or seven meters, which was not suitable for fighting at sea at all.

Tsarist Russia at that time had 3 fleets, the Far Eastern Fleet, the Baltic Fleet and the Black Sea Fleet. The Pacific Fleet was adapted from some of the ships in the original Far East Fleet and the Baltic Fleet, and the capital ships included four 10,000-ton battleships, including the Duke of Suvorov, Alexander III, Borodino and Eagle, which had a displacement of about 13,000 tons, and were known as the heaviest battleships in the world at that time.

Before the expedition, Tsar Nicholas II, the current capital of Estonia and an important base of the Baltic Fleet at that time, inspected the Pacific Fleet that was about to go on an expedition, and looked at these giant warships of the sea, Nicholas II proudly said to the Russian Navy: "Warriors, go to the East and bury those Japanese Oriental heretics in the sea."

As a result, these warships set out from what is now Liepaja, Latvia, and began an expedition of 10,000 nautical miles. The newly appointed fleet commander, Rozhest Stevensky, was originally only a rear admiral. Two days before the expedition, he had just been promoted to lieutenant general by the tsar. Rogerstinsky is the kind of "favored courtier" that is often found in the ancient Chinese court, with German royal blood, slender figure, and is extremely favored in the tsar's court, although the Russian ruling Count Witte has a very low evaluation of him: "It is difficult to find a fool like Rogerstinsky", but it could not stop Nicholas II from favoring Rogerstvinsky's handsome face and chic figure.

Tsar Nicholas II still resents the slash he was made in Otsu during a visit to Japan in 1891. And "not an inch of land", when his extremely favorite military attache Roger Stevensky, in order to be able to get further favor from the Tsar, stood up and expressed his willingness to take the Pacific Fleet to participate in the Eight-Nation Coalition led by China to exterminate the Japanese, Tsar Nicholas II was full of joy and immediately ordered the quasi-play.

Count Witte admonished: "Rogerstwinsky is only a rear admiral, and has no experience in fighting at sea, so it may not be appropriate to be the commander of this Pacific Fleet." ”

Nicholas II was furious and rose from the throne. "What? Roger Stevensky is just a major general? Rear Admiral can't be the commander of the fleet? Who dictates this? What am I? I am the sky! I immediately used talents in an eclectic manner, promoted Vice Admiral Rozhestwinsky, and when he returned to Moscow in victory, I will appoint him as a general, a generalissimo of the navy! You just wait to be envious! ”

Nicholas II roared like this, and Count Witte stopped talking. No one from the other ministers came out to oppose it, but a few shameless patriotic ministers stood up and shouted: "The tsar is always right!" Russia is invincible! "This is the arrogance and stupidity of the **, and it will never be possible to hear the truth.

None of the ministers dared to object. Tsar Nicholas II nodded in satisfaction and personally saw off Rozhest Stevensky on the expedition.

As the saying goes, "the incompetence of the commander exhausts a thousand troops", and a favored courtier led him on the expedition, and since the departure of Liepaja, the officers and men of the Pacific Fleet have been terrified. Vice Admiral Rozhest Winsky had never had experience in naval warfare, and he himself was no less afraid than anyone in the fleet.

The fleet sailed together, and Rozhest Stevensky gave an order to all the officers and men of the fleet: "You are not allowed to undress when you sleep." All the main and secondary guns were stripped of their armor, loaded with live ammunition, and aimed at every approaching ship". Because every ship could be a Japanese destroyer or a torpedo boat!

During the five days and five nights that sailed out of the Baltic Sea, the entire Pacific Fleet suffered in an indescribable and extreme fear of a sneak attack by Japanese warships. Because the Baltic Sea is an inland sea, and the various ships of Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Britain and other coastal countries are shuttling non-stop, and each ship may be a small Japanese destroyer that has come to destroy such a large fleet, this accumulated fear and fatigue finally broke out.

After sailing out of the Baltic Sea, the fleet passed through the North Sea. The North Sea is a large fishing ground, crowded with fishing boats. On the sixth night, as the Russian fleet passed through a section known as the "Dogo Shoal", the workboat Kamchatka, which had been left behind due to a mechanical failure, suddenly sent a wireless telegram: "Attacked by Japanese destroyers." Rozhestvinsky immediately asked: "Quickly report the number and location of enemy ships", and Kamchatka's answer made the entire fleet gasp: "** ships, from all sides." ”

Suddenly, all the ships turned on the searchlights and shone indiscriminately, and under the illumination of the searchlights, there were indeed black shadows of a group of small boats on the sea.

The group of small ships were about forty or fifty British trawlers fishing for cod in the North Sea, all of them only about 100 tons. The fishing boat "Xianhe", which was closest to the Russian fleet, was the most unlucky, being sunk, and the captain and another crew member died.

At this time, the signal from the battleship Eagle was sent out again, "the enemy cruiser has been discovered and is attacking us", it turned out that the Eagle darkly regarded the cruiser "Aurora" on the side as a Japanese warship, and then transferred the muzzle of the gun and opened fire on Aurora, "Aurora" of course would not be restrained, and quickly returned fire, and a rolling random artillery bombarded the waves of the harbor, and a soldier and a chaplain on the Russian fleet were killed.

Roger Stevensky suddenly felt that something was wrong when he heard the phrase "the enemy cruiser was found", ordered a ceasefire and turned on the lights, turned on the searchlights, and at a glance realized that his own warship had beaten his own warship, and then looked at the opposite side, it was some poor small British trawlers!

The next morning, the whole of Britain was boiling, and the fishermen of the empire on which the sun never set were actually robbed by Russian polar bears in the North Sea on their doorstep, and the British Foreign Office immediately sent a note to the Russian ambassador in London: "Until the matter is properly settled, the fleet is not allowed to continue sailing, otherwise the British Empire will enter a state of war with the Russian Empire in a week." ”

Rodger Stevensky's troubles were far more than that, Russia was full of revolutionaries, their enemies were the Tsar and the Tsar**, and the work ship Kamchatka, which had lied about its military situation in the Dorgo Shoal, had been out of the ranks shortly after leaving Dakar with the signal of "mechanical failure". In fact, the Kamchatka, which concentrated the engineers of the whole fleet, had no mechanical problems at all, and there was a protest riot on the Kamchatka, and the requisitioned firemen and the engineers who enjoyed the treatment of officers fought, and the captain quickly hung up the fault flag to attract the attention of the whole fleet.

The events of the Kamchatka spread like a plague throughout the fleet, and from then on, day and night, the light signals reporting the rebellion of the soldiers and the firemen were continuously sent to the flagship "Duke Suvorov", and Rozhestvinsky, like a gendarmerie corporal, constantly issued orders for repression and punishment, so that the captains of the ships played the role of the president of the military court, prosecutor and defender all day long.

If such a fleet with chaotic command and no cohesion or combat effectiveness attacked the Japanese fleet, which had long been on guard, the outcome can be imagined. Before the Russian fleet reached the port of Hiroshima, Heihachiro Togo, commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet, summoned his subordinate commanders and ordered all 30 warships to leave the port that night to meet the Russian ** ships.

Rogerstinsky did not expect that the Japanese would dare to take the initiative to attack from the port, and the searchlights on the Russian warships illuminated the entrances and exits of the inner harbor clearly. Until the Japanese began to open fire, the Russian fleet did not take the necessary protective measures and rushed to the battle.

Later, Rogerst Winsky listened to the advice of the general's assistant and put out the ancient scale formation, and Togo Heihachiro immediately ordered the Japanese fleet to form a single column and implant it in three columns, which was the nemesis of the scale-breaking formation. Twenty ships were sunk by the Japanese fleet, more than ten ships were captured, and the "Duke of Suvorov", which he himself was riding, was struck by a mine on the way to escape, and a large number of people entered the water, and finally sank, killing Rodzhestwinsky.

The army and navy of the Russian army were so vulnerable that they were successively severely damaged by the Japanese army, which did not have a numerical advantage, and Kuropatkin's ability was doubted by the generals of various countries, and he had to resign from the post of commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, and Wang Shizhen took his place.

Wang Shizhen sent a telegram to Song Xiaofei to report on the situation of the two wars between Japan and Russia, Song Xiaofei completely recognized the combat effectiveness of the Russian army, he secretly deployed troops to the northeast, and prepared to wait for the Japanese soldiers to clean up, and immediately began to turn the guns and cannons to kill the Russian soldiers, and take back the 1.5 million square kilometers of land ceded to the Russians in the late Qing Dynasty by force, otherwise, when the Russians built the Trans-Siberian Railway and their strength increased greatly, it would be difficult to clean up!

In terms of fighting against the Japanese army, in view of the tenacious fighting of the Japanese army and its strength is not weak, Song Xiaofei decided to send a "secret weapon" to appear, that is, the newly established tank corps, Duan Qirui personally led 2,000 soldiers and dispatched 50 tanks, which were transported to Nagasaki by fast warships, ready to give the Japanese an unexpected blow! Song Xiaofei ordered Wang Shizhen to concentrate the superior firepower of the coalition navy first, kill the Japanese fleet, and then take Hiroshima. The end of the Japanese army is coming soon!