Having detailed intelligence, coupled with direct observation of aircraft at high altitudes, allows the Chinese Navy to intuitively understand every move of the Russian Navy, which allows the Chinese Navy to come prepared in the most favorable formation for itself. The First Battle Fleet, Bai Qi, Li Mu, Wang Jian and Lian Po, was the right wing, and the commander was Li Liang; The Second Battle Fleet, four ships, Haichen, Haichou, Hairui, and Haining, was the left flank, and the commander was Liu Buchan; The first heavy patrol fleet, six ships of Chaohai, Qianhai, Le Yi, Tian Dan, Xiang Yan, and Zhao Hao, followed by the first battle fleet, commander Lin Yongsheng; The second heavy patrol fleet, the four ships of Ninghai, Jihai, Haiqi, and Lanfang, followed the second battle fleet, and the commander Ye Zuqi; The light patrol formation, six ships of Dinghai, Zhenhai, Jinghai, Pinghai, Jianwei and Jian'an, rushed to the front, commander Zhou Haicheng; The first patrol formation consisted of ten destroyers, five of which were seaplane support ships, at the rear of the fleet, and the other five were on guard on the perimeter; The second patrol formation consisted of fifteen destroyers, and under the command of the radio, they followed the Russian fleet far below sea level to prevent the defeated Russian ships from escaping. Wu Deren, commander-in-chief of the campaign, Feng Qi, chief of staff, the goal of the campaign: to completely defeat the Russian navy, and the highest goal is to sink or capture the Russian ship and prevent a single Russian ship from escaping. The seven tactical formations of the Chinese Navy proceeded in an orderly manner according to the pre-war plan.

But Roger Stewinst on the opposite side jumped up, he estimated that the Chinese Navy should be nearby, but no matter how Ruru could not imagine that the main force of the Chinese Navy would come head-on, which means that he thought he was clever but did not want to fall into the trap of the Chinese. He didn't have time to think about why the Chinese didn't worry about him actually attacking Pontianak, and he now had to face the fact that the Chinese navy was coming at 18 knots, and he couldn't escape no matter what. In that case, let's go ahead and fight. But the good news is that the Chinese planes are no longer rushing down to make trouble.

Although his ships have not been maintained for more than half a year, they are superior in numbers. The First Squadron, commanded by Roger Sterwin, had four battleships of the Duke Suvorov class, which were the most selected in Russia. The flagships Duke Suvorov, Alexander III, Borodino, Eagle, and the Crown Prince were also included in the first squadron, and these five were the most advanced battleships in the Russian Navy, and their performance was comparable. This is also the strongest force in the hands of Roger St. Winster, and it is under his personal command.

Nobergatov was originally the commander of the Third Squadron, but due to the serious illness of Fox Hill, Nobergatov became the commander of the Second Squadron. He had under his command six battleships of acceptable performance, including the Osriojabia, the Navarin, the Admiral Nakhimov, the Peresvet, the Victory, and the great Sisoy. At this time, the same as the first team, on the left flank.

The seven old or already poor warships, including Nicholas I, Admiral Apraksin, Admiral Xeniavin, and Admiral Ushakov, were all organized into the Third Squadron, commanded by Falk Hill, and located on the right flank of the fleet.

The cruiser detachment was commanded by Rear Admiral Enkvist, who took the Orzy as the flagship and organized eight cruisers, including the Aurora, the Diamond, and the Azov, into a sub-flotilla, which followed closely behind the third squadron. Seven other ships, including the Pearl, the Emerald, the Diana, and the Venoch, were organized into the second squadron and dragged behind at the rear of the entire fleet. And 10 destroyers in the rear.

And in the middle of the entire fleet is the transport fleet.

At this moment, Roger Ste Winster, who had always been cautious, suddenly burned the blood of the Slavs in his body at this moment. He did not give the order for the cruiser to sortie. Not even changing course, but giving the order to speed up, or at full speed.

This move by the Russian army not only stunned a series of commanders of the Chinese Navy, but also overwhelmed the multinational observers watching the battle. At this time, you should command the fleet to turn to a line formation and prepare for the battle on the T-shaped side, right? Because Roger Steinster was killed on the battlefield in the end, no one can ever know what Roger Ste Winster really thought, so much so that many researchers think that Roger Ste Winster's performance is because he is too scared. That's why when he was in battle, he suddenly burst out of courage to fight to the death. Wu Deren was the only one who thought Roger Winst was right to do so, because the Chinese navy ships were faster than the Russian navy. Moreover, the Chinese Navy has always maintained a high hit rate in long-range artillery bombardment, so after approaching quickly, it turns to the battle line and fights a decisive battle with close shelling, which can not only improve the accuracy rate, but also offset the speed advantage of some of the Chinese Navy. In doing so, it would be advantageous for the Russian Navy, which had a numerical superiority. If it were him, Wu Deren would make the same choice. It's just that Roger Ster, Winster forgot one thing - formation speed.

After 15,000 nautical miles around the world, the average speed of the Russian fleet has dropped to an unbearable 14 knots. The best first team can reach a full speed of 16 knots, the second team can only reach a speed of just over 14 knots, and the old warships of the third team are less than 12 knots. Perhaps his idea was good, but the problem was that he forgot that his fleet was not as fast as the Duke Suvorov at his feet. How difficult it would be for such a large fleet, with uneven speed and low maneuverability, to turn again in engagement.

At the same time, Roger St. Winster gave another order: to order the transport fleet to withdraw from the queue, to order the fleet to form a battle formation, the two brigades on the right flank to accelerate to the left, and drive in front of the 3rd group on the left flank, and the whole fleet to form a single row (column). However, the speed of the ships varied, and Roger Stwins, in a hurry to prepare for a confrontation with the Chinese navy, forgot to order another column to slow down at the same time, and as a result, the formation of the entire Russian fleet fell into confusion. The second Sentai flagship, the Osri Yabia, was even forced to stop moving forward and turn right to avoid colliding with other ships.

The Chinese Navy did not give the Russian Navy a chance to sort out the formation, and as soon as Wu Deren gave the order, the light patrol formation, which was already in the vanguard, pounced like a wolf. The Dinghai No. 4 ship was replaced with the latest steam turbine, and the Jianwei No. 2 ship was replaced with a reciprocating steam engine nominally used for battleships purchased from Germany to cover people's eyes, but it must have been an old ship in recent years, and after the hull reinforcement, it could only maintain a maximum speed of 26 knots. But this rushed in front of the Russian fleet, which was only eleven or twelve knots, as if it were flying. The light patrol formation made a slight turn and appeared on the right flank of the Russian fleet. Now the distance is 10,000 meters.

"Open fire-" Zhou Haicheng gave an order, and the Orzi, which was squeezed out of the queue, became the first target of the Chinese Navy.

'Boom-' The Chinese light patrol formation let out a series of roars, and the shells flew towards the Orzi. But it was the first shot that scared Enkvest half to death, as smoke of various colors rose from the front and right sides of the Orzi.

"Straddle shot?!" Enkvist was almost shouting the order: "Left rudder at full speed." At this point, he no longer cared if he would hit the other ships.

What it means to straddle the shot. It means that he has already taken aim, and he is only a little bit of luck away from hitting, can he not be afraid? The first round of salvo fire is mainly to measure the distance, there are very few combat cases that hit in the first round, I did not expect the Chinese Navy to shoot across in the first round, when did the Chinese shell level be so high? It's just that he doesn't know that it's not a high level, but a high skill.

In order to minimize rangefinder shelling. The Chinese Navy proposes that when the formation is shelling, each ship can be adjusted to different degrees according to the telescope ranging parameters, so that multiple shelling parameters can be obtained in one round of shooting, providing more accurate shooting elements for subsequent shelling. This time, the light patrol formation took the No. 3 ship as the benchmark, and the first two ships did the subtractive shelling, and the last three ships did the additional shelling, which is equivalent to hitting six shelling parameters at the same time. When an artillery shell falls into the sea and explodes, these parameters are quickly summarized into the flagship fire control room with an improved radio-specific communication code. After a quick calculation by six hand-cranked computers, a minute and a half after the first shells were observed to fall into the sea, the second salvo could be fired. The warships of the various countries watching the battle from the periphery could clearly see the bombardment of the distance and the distance, but the officers and men on the Orzi saw that the ship was surrounded by the shells of the enemy ships.

"Boom, boom, boom-" Before the Russian navy could begin to return fire, the second round of artillery shelling by the Chinese navy -- three rapid fires began.

The volley of shells fell again in front of and behind the Orthie. The Dinghai-class light cruiser has 12 naval guns, and the Jianzi 2nd ship is a 2-ship Asama and Tokiwa built by the British captured from Japan, each ship has 10 naval guns, and each gun has a rate of fire of 6 rounds per minute. The Chinese light patrol formation was equivalent to projecting 204 152mm shells at the Orji in half a minute. The shot was still missed. However, 204 water columns were punched on the surface of the sea, encircling the Orzi in the middle. Seeing this, the other Russian ships accelerated their turn to force concessions. The attacks of the Chinese were too ferocious.

"Shoot back, shoot back—" Enkvist ordered in a panic, but the Orji and Ben could not take aim, and the column of water from the shells fired by the Chinese warships was like a curtain of water that hindered the Orji's observation, and their movements were slow.

Just half a minute after the second round of shells fell into the sea, the third round of shelling of the light patrol formations of the Chinese Navy began. Six rounds of fire at full speed in one minute. 408 shells flew into the air, and the Orji was drowned in the rain of bullets from the Chinese Navy before it could even turn its guns.

"Boom, boom, boom-" The Orthi was not lucky enough to escape the shelling this time, and the explosion exploded on the fore and aft decks and on the side side. The unmissable shells sent more columns of water around the perimeter, and the Orji was like a boat in a raging storm. There are also sparks in between.

"Concentrated artillery fire can greatly increase the hit rate." Filimant, who was watching the game from afar, muttered silently.

"Furious, ferocious, swift, precise, one shot with momentum. The Chinese are playing well-" Tirpitz said excitedly, holding the telescope in one hand and patting the railing with the other.

George Dewey, who was sent by the United States to watch the battle, led the American Pacific Squadron from the East Coast of the United States to Japan, and then diverted to Guangzhou, only to find that the Chinese had taken the lead when he attempted to occupy Luzon. With the outbreak of the Spanish-American War, George Dewey bypassed the pursuit of the Spanish fleet and then followed all the way to the Mediterranean, where he was finally defeated and taken prisoner. But all this did not become a political black spot for him, but was greeted heroically when he returned to the United States after the war. With China's resounding victory at the Battle of Arthur, he was reappointed commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet with the best knowledge of Asia, and the Sino-Russian naval war broke out just as his ambitious preparations were in full swing. The victor's side would become the greatest enemy of his fleet in the future, so he came to the Far East to watch the battle for himself. But he never thought about it, but this look made him speechless. This is only the first attack of the Chinese Navy, or the attack of the lightest warship of the Chinese Navy, it is already so furious, so when the main battleship of China attacks, how fierce it must be. He could not imagine when his fleet was hit by such a storm by the Chinese Navy. What to do. At this moment, the Chinese and Russian navies have just engaged in the war, and he has already decided that the final winner of this battle must be China. It was also at this moment that his heart sank to the bottom of the sea.

The Chinese navy in the heat of battle did not have time to think about this, and once the war began, their only thought was to sink the enemy ship on the opposite side.

"Hit, hit. Full fire. Full fire--" The gun commander of the flagship Dinghai gave the order to shell. This order meant that within three minutes all the ship's guns were fired at full speed, and 1,224 shells were smashed into the Orthi like a barrage. In just three minutes, the Orthic was full of flames, explosions sounded everywhere on the Orji, and the fire was so dense that it was impossible to see who hit the ships, so that after the war, each of the six ships could only be counted once as a collective third-class merit.

The Chinese shelling lasted three minutes and had to stop, because the water column blown up by the shells completely blocked the view of the Chinese fleet like a water curtain. By the time the water had fallen, the Orzi, which was in the shelling zone, had lost its speed and its hull began to tilt. The mottled hull was full of marks blackened by the explosion, and cracks that tore through the hull of the explosion abounded. Fortunately, the fire from the explosion was extinguished by a denser column of water, and only puffs of black smoke proved that the Orji had just been ravaged. Before the commander of the Russian cruiser, Enkvest, could issue even a decent order, his flagship was crippled. Everybody knows that the Orje is finished.

Wu Deren, who was watching the shelling from afar, immediately ordered after receiving the report from the Dinghai: Continue the shelling until it sinks completely. Wu Deren wanted to sink not only a Russian cruiser, but also the Russian will to fight. But in the eyes of others. The Chinese are not dead hearted, and they must directly sink the Orzi.

The light patrol formation turned the muzzle slightly. Another round of shelling began. The explosion sounded on the hull, and the water column rose around the hull, and the crew of the Orzi did not even rush to escape by jumping into the sea. Five minutes later, only one stern of the Orzy was left on the surface of the sea, and he was surrounded by fluttering Russian sailors. And whether Rear Admiral Enkvest, as the commander of the cruiser's fleet, escaped without a hurry or was finally brought to the bottom of the sea when the hull sank, no one knows. Because none of the few survivors saw Enkvest himself.

The ships watching the battle were shocked by the way China attacked. Roger Ster, Winster's eyes were red-eyed. The Russian fleet was defeated by the cruiser flagship without firing a single shot, and even the commander was now uncertain, and what made Roger Stwinst even more annoyed and angry was that during the entire attack on the Orzi, not a single Russian warship came forward to help. Instead, they all fled to the outside, which could not be tolerated. Roger Sterwinster hurriedly ordered the fleet that had just been lined up to turn to the right, hoping that the battleships would shelter the cruisers, and on the other hand, the main force of the Chinese Navy was coming in two columns, and his turn was exactly the T-shaped side.

The idea is good, the reality is cruel. The Chinese light patrol formation, which sank the Orzi, aimed its guns at the nearest Diamond, and the first salvo appeared to the Diamond to be another straddle. Frightened by the frenzied blows of the Chinese, the Diamond turned left at full speed and leaned over to the middle of the formation, and he accelerated past the Azov next to him, this time the Azov was exposed to the outermost. Azov is not happy now, is it difficult to achieve you, will you run Lao Tzu? I also turned left.

This amused everyone in the command cabin of the Dinghai. As a light patrol, it was not the main force of naval warfare, and the purpose of letting the light patrol attack first this time was to bully the slow speed of the Russian fleet, and deliberately let the light patrol go around from the front of the Russians to behind them to surprise the Russian light ships and disrupt the Russian deployment. As soon as the Russian light ships began to be confused, the impact of the Russian army's planned battleship decisive battle on our side was minimized.

"Let him run, tell the artillery crews to switch back to rangefinder shells, and shoot at the Azov." Zhou Haicheng decisively shifted the target. Since his mission has caused chaos in the Russian light ship branch, it is naturally best to use the least cost, and China is not rich now.

"Boom, boom, boom-" The Chinese light patrol formation finally fired at the Aurora, as the Azov also turned inward. The Aurora watched the bombs rain down from the sky, and he quickly turned left to dodge.

Because the Orzi, the leader of the cruiser formation, was sunk, it had caused the subsequent ships to slow down and turn left to avoid it, and the ships were gathered together, and the formation was already chaotic. The abrupt turn of the Diamond and the Azov had completely confused the formation of the 1st Cruiser Detachment, and it was all piled together. However, at this time, the Chinese light patrol formation was still shelling separately according to the requirements of range-measuring shelling, so the entire position of the Russian 1st Cruiser Detachment from right to left was full of all kinds of smoke from the explosion of the shells of the Chinese fleet.

The one who should have run still couldn't run away, and the fastest diamond was still hit by a bullet. One of the rangefinder shells fired by the Jian'an, the No. 6 ship of the formation, happened to hit the tail turret of the Diamond, and a puff of green smoke rose over the Diamond.

"Speed up, rush over—" The captain of the Diamond was frightened by this cannon, thinking that the Chinese light patrol formation was staring at him to the death. So on his orders, the Diamond crossed into the battle line, just blocking the course of the Pearl Pearl, the flagship of the 2nd cruiser detachment, which had been incorporated into the battle line. In order to avoid a collision, the Pearl had to slow down and turn left to avoid it, which in turn forced the other cruisers to slow down. At this moment, the formation of cruisers at the tail of the Russian battle line was completely confused.

"Go around behind the Russian ships and drive them forward." Zhou Haicheng commanded the light patrol formation to circle the Russian ship at high speed, and fired the third round of range-finding bombs at the Russian destroyer at the very end. (To be continued.) )