Nearly an hour before the time receded, at the first moment when the battleship "Duke Suvorov", the flagship of the Second Pacific Fleet, suffered a devastating heavy damage, when it was hit by a shell under the command tower and nearly half of the officers in the command tower were killed, Vice Admiral Rozhestwinsky, the fleet commander, did not think of continuing to command the battle, as the fleet commander, his first reaction was to abandon the ship!

Ditch your own flagship!

After Vice Admiral Rozhestvinsky, the commander, got on the destroyer "Prunui", his panic and even his spirit of despair was much better, and his first order was to "transfer the command of the fleet to Nebogatov, and at the same time order the battleship "Duke Suvorov" not to lower the general's flag. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

But what about the transfer law now?

No one knows where Nebogatov is?

No one even knew whether he was alive or dead - because the second order given by Lieutenant General Rogerstinsky was to "turn", in other words, to escape!

As a destroyer with only a few hundred tons, the "Prunui" can be said to be extremely flexible, and it only took a few minutes to complete the turn, almost at the fastest speed, towards the exit at the other end of the strait, because the ship is not equipped with a radio station, so in order to convey the "first order", it had to find a destroyer that was also desperately trying to escape the strait, and sent a signal with a flag:

"Vice Admiral Rozhestvinsky is on our ship, and now the command is transferred to Rear Admiral Nebogatov, order your ship to quickly turn back and find Rear Admiral Nebogatov to convey this order."

Although at this time, half an hour had passed since Vice Admiral Rodgerstwinsky boarded the destroyer "Prunui", although at this time the Russian fleet had begun to turn around, it was after all the third largest navy in the world. The command system of the Russian fleet still works, and it is in this situation of confusion in the whole army. The hapless destroyer obediently turned around and returned to the battlefield from which it had managed to escape, looking for Rear Admiral Nebogatov to convey the commander's orders.

At this time, the destroyer flotilla pouring out from behind the iceberg had already begun to launch a torpedo attack on the Russian fleet, which was in a state of confusion, and the results of the torpedo attack were brilliant - in less than half an hour of lightning strikes. Five cruisers, as well as four auxiliary ships and three destroyers, were sunk, and the battleship Alexander III was torpedoed into the stern and lost power.

While the eleven destroyers of the destroyer fleet were attacking from multiple directions and using high speed to launch torpedo attacks, the destroyer "Prunui" on which Vice Admiral Rozhestevensky was aboard suffered a mechanical failure, because its boiler was boiling seawater, and the large amount of scale produced caused the output to decrease and the speed plummeted, so that the remaining coal was no longer enough for them to reach the ports of neutral Argentina.

Just when the captain of the destroyer "Prunui", Lieutenant Commander Kolometchev, was dizzy and busy with troubleshooting. He stumbled upon the Chief of Staff, Major General Cologne, who was directing Rogerst Winsky's entourage, to mess with a tablecloth, which was white.

"What are you doing?"

Facing the mud that was tearing off the lace of the tablecloth, Captain Kolomychev asked with some puzzlement.

"Prepare the white flag!"

The chief of staff of Qiulong explained justifiably.

"This is a direct order from His Excellency the Commander!"

As soon as he heard this, Kolomychev's whole face immediately turned red with anger, and he roared loudly:

"I swear to God, I am the captain of the Russian Navy, there is only fight and death on my warship, I will shoot all the surrendered naval servicemen!"

At this time. For Kolometchev, there are no more commanders, chiefs of staff. There was only a Russian Navy soldier left in his eyes, and after saying that, he snatched the tablecloth and threw it into the sea.

Even when it was coming, he specially ordered the captain to lead the sailors and take up weapons.

"Who surrendered. Kill whomever you want! ”

At the same time that Kolometchev gave this order, a cruiser and two destroyers happened to pass by, and the "Prunui" immediately contacted them with the flag language, ready to transfer Rozhestwinsky and his retinue to the cruiser, despite the extremely harsh words of Tyulometchev. But he knew very well that he did not have the right to shoot the commander, and it was better to hand him over to someone else than to force him to surrender!

Rogers, who was kicked out like a ball, unexpectedly refused to go to the cruiser Dmitry? Donskoy, but another destroyer, the Petervie, was chosen, and his reasons were so obvious that any naval officer could understand his reasons - the speed of the destroyer was higher than that of Dmitry, who had a speed of only 17 knots. The Donskoy is faster, and much faster.

Almost all the naval officers were contemptuous of the commander's move, but they were unable to do anything, and the first thing that Rozhest Stevensky, the naval commander, had when he got on board the "Peterwig", stunned everyone on board.

"Is there a white flag on the ship?"

Of course, no warship will have a white flag on it, and no country will tolerate the "storage" of a white flag on its fleet, because for any navy, all they can accept is victory or sinking into the sea, and surrender is never something that naval officers should do.

In this way, after learning that the ship did not "prepare" a white flag, Rozhestvinsky, who was extremely disappointed, had no choice but to order the warship to continue moving, to move as fast as possible, and to throw away the "Dmitry? Donskoy", the cruiser, quickly moved forward in order to rush out of this strait full of death.

At this time, after completing the first round of lightning strikes, Qian Fakui did not waste time on the Russian fleet, but ordered the destroyers to sail at full speed towards the exit of the strait, at this time, behind him, the main fleet had sailed out of the iceberg, and they would cut off the retreat of the Russians, but not all warships - there were more than a dozen warships, with high speed and maneuverability, rushed towards the exit of the strait.

As the leader ship of the destroyer's fleet, the destroyer "Shanhaiguan" had been extremely unlucky in the previous battle, launching two torpedo attacks, but failed to hit even one warship. Actually, this is normal, after all, after the torpedo is launched, it is often all about luck.

In the process of sailing at full speed to the exit of the strait, there was nothing to do, and it can even be said that he was bored with Major Qian Fakui. With a telescope in his hand, he looked around for traces of the Russian destroyer, that's right, this is his goal, for the "Shanhaiguan", which has only three 105mm guns, it is by no means an opponent of the cruiser, but it can fight with the Russian destroyer! After all, compared to the destroyers of the Russians, he has a greater tonnage and "stronger" firepower.

"As long as you can sink a ......"

As the leader of the ship, Qian Fakui hopes to achieve some results. Otherwise, how could he raise his head in front of his comrades-in-arms in the future? As he prayed inwardly, God seemed to hear his prayer - two Russian destroyers with four chimney brigs sailing in the distance came into his sight.

Qian Fakui, as the captain of the ship, immediately gave an order.

"Prepare for battle!"

When the sailors heard the order, they immediately howled excitedly and prepared to continue the battle, and the breath that had been held for a day was now ready to come out, and the gunners were aiming at the enemy in the distance, waiting for the coming battle, and the destroyer "Seoul", which was immediately following the "Shanhaiguan", was also ready for battle.

Almost at the same time. The Russian destroyers also discovered the two Chinese destroyers with a larger tonnage, and the destroyer "Grosna," which was walking behind, was even more ready for combat at the first time. Every sailor was full of will to fight, but at this moment the destroyer "Petervig" in front sent a signal.

"Full speed ahead to Argentina!"

The banner did not even say to that port, where, and Rogerst Winsky, who gave this order, did not know where he should go, for him. He knew that he would only be safe now by hiding in the territory of a neutral country.

In terms of international law, a warship also represents a country. Now both sides are destroyers, both two. It's such a shame to run away without firing a shot, and the captain of the destroyer "Grosna", Lieutenant Commander Shevsky, decided to leave him alone and fight with his own destroyer, for the honor of the Russian Navy!

But just as the "Grosna" was about to turn around and fight desperately with the Chinese who were chasing after him, the destroyer "Peterville" once again put out a new signal, and the content of the signal was very simple.

"Fleet Commander Order: Follow Me!"

At this time, if he resisted the order again, it would be no less than a mutiny, and even if he knew that such an escape would bring him close to the honor of the Russian Navy, Lieutenant Commander Shevsky still had to order to continue to advance with the "Peterwig" instead of fighting.

In this way, the "Grosna" had to follow behind the "Petrovie" again, and the two Chinese destroyers followed at full speed, which was undoubtedly faster than the Russian destroyers. The two warships with different speeds separated from each other, the "Seoul" chasing the "Grosna" and the "Shanhaiguan" chasing the "Peterwig." An artillery battle took place between the "Seoul" and the "Grosna," but the hit rate of the small destroyer, which had a tonnage of only 1,000 tons, was very low in the sea at full speed; more importantly, the wind and waves at sea were very fast, and the artillery battle lasted for nearly an hour, and the distance between the two warships increased from 4,000 to 6,000 meters, and the "Seoul," which had a speed of 37 knots, not only did not catch up with the 26-knots "Grosna," but let the "Grosna" run away, and as for the "Grosna" How the ship was able to run away is simply a mystery, even as the captain of the "Seoul", Kim Pyong-il, the first captain of the Northeast Navy, is also puzzled, obviously his speed is very fast, but he can't catch up with the opponent, and in the end the other party escaped from under his nose.

In fact, one thing that Kim Pyong-il did not notice was that Lieutenant Commander Shefsky, as the captain of the "Grosna", constantly adjusted his position during the long-term pursuit battle, and finally, when he realized that his strength was weaker and might even be sunk, he took advantage of the opportunity to widen the distance, and under the cover of the waves, he "broke into" the narrow bay of the burning island, while the "Seoul" still thought that he was in front and kept pursuing forward.

On the other side of the river, the "Shanhaiguan" also opened fire, but unlike the desperate resistance of the "Grosna", the "Petervie" did not return fire in the face of enemy shelling. At first, Qian Fakui secretly admired that the Russians could calm down, because the destroyer's shelling at a distance of four thousand meters was completely meaningless, so the Russians would not bother to shoot back, they were waiting for the distance to close, but soon Qian Fakui could see something strange in the telescope - the "Petervie" was not ready to return fire at all, and he did not even take off his gun suit.

It was Rogerst Winsky's idea to cover the artillery with a cannon, and his reasons were very simple.

"Because there are wounded on board, this can be said to be a hospital ship, so that the Chinese warship cannot attack the ship."

But now, after three hours of fighting, there are no wounded on that boat? This was not a reason not to be attacked at all, so Vice Admiral Rozherstvinsky came up with the idea of covering the cannon with a cannon coat to indicate that "the ship is unarmed" or "the ship is not armed".

After the destroyer "Shanhaiguan" began its attack, in strict accordance with the provisions of international law on the method of confirming the surrender of warships in naval battles, after stopping the engine, a white flag made of white tablecloth was hoisted at the same time as a signal flag.

"There are wounded on our ship!"

In this way, the destroyer "Peterwig" surrendered, and ten minutes later, Lieutenant Zhao Guoli, the navigator of the Shanhaiguan, took ten people to board the "Peterwig." When inspecting a cabin, the Russian sailors guarding the door first refused to let them in, and when they saw that the Chinese did not pay attention at all and insisted on breaking in, they changed to a pleading tone.

As a naval officer, Zhao Guoli could speak fluent English, but he didn't know Russian at all, but a pronunciation similar to "Amiral" caught his attention, and he boldly pointed to the person lying in the cabin and asked.

“ishetheadmiralrozhestvensky？ (Is that General Rogerst Winsky?) )”

He didn't expect the answer to be.

“yes”。

Lieutenant Zhao Guoli, who couldn't believe his ears, hurriedly rushed to the deck to raise the hand flag, Qian Fakui was also stunned by the news, how could this be possible, how could the commander of the Russian fleet be on the destroyer! More importantly, according to his knowledge, he believed that it was impossible to capture the commander of the fleet of a country, and that a commander of the fleet could be killed, that he might commit suicide, how could he be captured alive? So his reply became:

"Confirm again." (To be continued.) )