[260] Naval blockade

With the help of surface search radar, the third detachment of the North Sea Fleet quickly spotted the fleeing Russian warship.

Under the command of Li Lu, the two 037 hunting submarines broke the waves and charged, pulling the snow-white wake straight into the enemy ship.

When the Russian warship entered the maximum range of 12 kilometers of the 57mm twin-mounted main gun of the two 037 hunting submarines of the third detachment, the 037 hunting submarines with a standard displacement of only 375 tons went one after the other, and made a detour to the side of the Russian fleet, and when the course was at an angle of 45 degrees to the target, Li Lu ordered the cannon to be fired, and the distance between the two sides was only 9 kilometers at this time.

Thanks to the help of the fire control radar, the distance, the included angle, and the relative driving speed are all calculated by the fire control computer. The first salvo of twin 57mm guns, with a rate of fire of four rounds per second, hit the sea just 70 meters away from the Russian warship Duke Sarif.

The observer saw it with a telescope on the bridge and immediately reported it to Li Lu.

"Keep course and fire continuously!" Li Lu ordered.

Outside the Amur Bay, the southeast wind blew slightly, and the sea was as clear as a sapphire in the afternoon, and the Russian warships that had escaped from the eastern and western ports of Vladivostok lined up in neat columns, like a forest of chimneys, billowing soot, and fled eastward with maximum horsepower.

According to the idea of the fleet commander Borisovich, the well-supplied fleet had two options, one was to go north to the port of Olga, which was also in the Far East, which had thawed in the spring, and the other was to sail directly to Japan for refuge.

Considering the all-out Chinese offensive in the Far East and the lack of supplies in the port of Olga to maintain the fleet, Borisovich finally chose to go to the Japanese port of Hakodate.

When there was a water-like explosion of shells on the sea not far away, the Duke of Sarif, the flagship of the Russian Far East Fleet, suddenly exploded, and the Russian sailors who had just escaped from the smoke of Vladivostok were in a mess and once again nervously entered a state of combat readiness.

On the towering watchtower on the bridge, the observation sentry shouted into the brass microphone connecting the bridge: "Enemy ship found!" It's a Chinese speedboat! 46 degrees in front of the left, the distance is about 9 km! ”

Borisovich suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, he had long heard that the Chinese artillery had an extremely long range, and in the defensive battle of the Vladivostok fortress, the artillery of the Russian defenders was vulnerable under the long-range heavy artillery of the Chinese, and there was no way to fight back, and it was beaten by the Chinese artillery ten kilometers away.

To put it bluntly, the land artillery is a simplified version of the naval artillery, and the naval artillery is an upgraded version of the land artillery, and Borisovich certainly understands this truth, how far the range of a country's land artillery is, how far the naval gun firing range is.

"Keep full speed and rush over! All the cannon doors are open and ready for a decisive battle! Borisovich shouted in despair.

Deputy Captain Liu Huyu put down the binoculars in his hand and said to Li Lu with a smile: "The black smoke from the chimney of the enemy ship is thicker, the Russians want to fight a decisive battle, they haven't changed their course, and they want to wait for us to get closer." ”

Li Lu said contemptuously: "Decisive battle? Just those three ironclad ships and a dozen sailboats? The Russians are trying to run. ”

Liu Huyu graduated from Fuzhou Maritime College, which was rebuilt from Fujian Mawei Shipbuilding School, and he smiled in a mouthful of Fujian-style Mandarin: "Run? There is no fleet in the world that can be faster than our Chinese Navy! ”

Compared to the 18 to 20 knots of the navies of the world in this year, the speed of the 037 hunting submarine exceeds 30 knots, which is like a 100-meter race between an Olympic sprinter and a primary school student. The 12-kilometer range of the Shuangliang 57mm main gun is comparable to the current 6 to 8 kilometers range of the world's navies, just like Yao Ming and Guo Jingming boxing.

"Detachment leader, do you want to order the Fish# Mineboat to attack." Liu Mingyu asked.

Li Lu shook his head again and again: "Give me continuous shelling!" This is the first battle of the 037 submarine hunting after equipping our army, but it is not a target for usual training, the opportunity is rare, how can you give the fish # torpedo boat. ”

Liu Mingyu laughed and said, "I think so too. ”

As the two 037 hunting submarines one after the other, they bypassed the flank of the Russian fleet like a dragon and a phoenix, and the Russian Far East Fleet was shot one after another. A 57mm high-explosive incendiary # incendiary bomb and a high-explosive anti-personnel bomb burst out from the front and rear shells of the two 037 hunting submarines at a rate of fire of 210 to 240 rounds per minute, cutting iron into the hull of the Russian warship, paralyzing the Russian warship one by one.

As for those wooden battleships that are not even ironclad ships, under the ravages of 57mm high-explosive ignition # incendiary bombs, a raging fire suddenly ignited, and the high-speed shells even pierced the wooden hull. The boiler of the steam engine that was hit exploded, and the hot steam flowed through the hull at high speed, steaming the Russian sailors.

Borisovich, commander of the Russian Far East Fleet, was stunned as he watched the ultra-high rate of fire attack of the Chinese express ship on the sea, and the red muzzle flame of the 57mm twin guns equipped with the Chinese express ship was almost uninterrupted, firing small-caliber shells with powerful lethality like machine gun fire.

The battle at sea lasted only half an hour, and 12 warships of the Russian Far East Fleet caught fire and anchored one after another, the bridge of the Duke of Sarif where Borisovich was located was almost flattened, and the front turret was completely blown away.

Seeing that he couldn't fight and couldn't run, after being attacked in a circle by two 037s around the entire fleet, Borisovich ordered to hang the white flag and announced his surrender.

At this time, almost every ship of the Russian Far East Fleet was injured and the shape was miserable, but the two 037 hunting submarines of the Chinese Navy were not even injured by oil skins, and they took the fish # torpedo boats that were watching the battle from a distance, and gave an order to the Russian fleet with great momentum, asking it to sail into the Amur Bay and anchor at the port of Vladivostok to be surrendered.

This is an all-out offensive, and artillery fire is ravaging not only Vladivostok, but also Khabarovsk, Blagoveshchensk, Chita, Irkutsk, Ili, Kashgar and other places, and these Sino-Russian borders are now shrouded in the power of Chinese army artillery.

By April, the Chinese Revolutionary Army had taken control of the entire area east of Lake Baikal after taking Vladivostok and the four Far Eastern fortresses of Khabarovsk, Blagoveshchensk, and Chita.

The Beijing Theater on the middle route and the Lanzhou Theater on the west route have also crossed the steppe and the Gobi Desert, and are approaching Irkutsk, Almaty, and Dushanbe.

On the outskirts of Irkutsk, the 1st Siberian Army of the Russian Empire and more than 20,000 infantry urgently recruited were engaged in a fierce exchange of fire with the 7th, 29th, and 30th armies of the Beijing Theater attacking from Kulen (Ulaanbaatar).

"General, the Chinese have already attacked Sherekhov!" An officer with the rank of colonel in sloppy uniform and stained with mud rushed into the headquarters in the Irkutsk fortress, shouting in terror.

The commander of the Russian Siberian Front and the commander of the 1st Siberian Army Malinov was furious when he heard this: "Nikolayevich, I order you to recapture Sherekhov at any price!" ”

Colonel Nikolayevich's face was full of haggardness, weakly took a glass of vodka from the guards soldiers of the headquarters and drank it, then hung his head and said in a numb tone: "It's over, my brigade is all over." The artillery of the Chinese was so fierce that they would destroy a qiē, and the soldiers would turn into powder before my eyes, it was too tragic...... They still have planes, and the hell is hovering over our heads all the time, and they have completely mastered our troop deployment and artillery positions...... Once the Chinese planes circled for a while, shelling ensued! The Chinese shells seemed to run out, and the power was so great that I saw with my own eyes that an infantry regiment assembled on the side of the road was hit in the center by a shell, and hundreds of people were killed...... General, hell ahead, hell made by Chinese......"

General Malinov sternly interrupted Colonel Nikolayevich's babblings: "Order the 1st Guards Regiment and the 4th Column to assemble, and you guys will come with me to fight those damned Chinese guys back." Until reinforcements from Moscow arrive, we must hold Irkutsk. ”

"The Commander-in-Chief is here!" The herald shouted.

On the square outside the Irkutsk headquarters, the soldiers of the 1st Guards Regiment lined up in a neat line, with expressions of unease and joy on their faces, waiting for General Malinov's review.

From the beginning of the war, the Chinese army marched all the way north from Kulen, and after paying the price of more than 2,000 cavalry killed in the bloody battle of the cavalry regiment, the Russians finally captured a few Chinese prisoners, and during interrogation, it was learned that this Chinese army was an elite sent from the Beijing theater.

Before they were hanged, the Chinese captives proudly claimed that the total strength of the three armies was more than 50,000 men, with countless tanks, cars, and tractors.

As the rumors spread, the entire Irkutsk Russian army was shaken, and everyone shuddered at the unknown Chinese army, whose tanks were armed to the teeth.

Chinese rifles, grenades#, uniforms, carrying gear, water bottles, sapper shovels, and a pistol were rushed to Moscow at great cost.

The Chinese detachment apparently angered them after the surprise attack of the Russian cavalry in Ulan-Ude, and now their advance is getting faster and faster, several infantry regiments sent by the Russian army before were all annihilated by the Chinese, and now the Chinese army has attacked all the way along Lake Belga, has rushed to Sherekhov, more than twenty kilometers south of Irkutsk, and attacked the town.

Malinov didn't say much, he turned over in front of the neat queue of the Guards Regiment, and after holding himself steadily, he drew his sword.

"Stand upright." The commander of the Guards Corps shouted.

The soldiers raised their guns in unison, and the whole procession trembled.

"Long live Your Excellency General!" The soldiers shouted.

Malinov nodded gloomily and said a few words, the voice was so soft that the soldiers in the back row could barely hear it, only a few words were heard, what "brave...... Bloody battle...... Slay...... The Chinese ......".

Then the general rushed out of Irkutsk with the Guards Corps, joined up with the fourth column of the 5th, 6th, 7th, and 16th Infantry Regiments of the Siberian Corps, and marched towards Sherekhov.

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Due to the ambush of the Russian cavalry at Ulan-Ude by the 1st Cavalry Regiment of the 7th Army, the two reconnaissance detachments of the 1st Cavalry Regiment consisting of cavalry squads were unfortunately destroyed, although the 7th Army, with the assistance of the infantry and cavalry that followed, completely crushed the Russian cavalry with an invincible density of firepower, but in the post-war battlefield search, it was found that the Russian army had taken about three to five prisoners and equipment.

Liu Jinbao, commander of the Beijing Theater of Operations, was furious in the Mongolian Kulen command and ordered the Seventh Army to march to Irkutsk day and night at any cost to eliminate the Russian troops stationed there.

The Central Revolutionary Military Council was also shaken, and under strict weapons control, this was the first time that advanced Chinese rifles and pistols had been lost.

Beijing, Zhongnanhai.

Bai Xiaoqi, Minister of Intelligence, said: "Due to the particularity of the cavalry, everyone was issued with pistols, so this time the Russians also got our five-#four-style pistols. ”

Li Jun, who is currently the Minister of National Defense #, frowned at the meeting and said: "It seems that the cavalry is easy to be discovered and captured by the enemy in reconnaissance, and I think the country's allocation for the third phase of the construction of the Shandan Military Horse Farm can be slowed down, and I think the mechanization proposed by the chairman is the future development direction." ”

Yao Fan waved his hand: "The leakage of infantry weapons is sooner or later, even if there is no war, the enemy will not hesitate to spend a lot of money and do everything possible to get it, and it is already a miracle that it can be delayed until today."

The year before last, there was an incident in the Guangzhou Theater in which armed thugs stormed the outposts of the military region, and two rifles were lost and have not been recovered. Although we suspect that the British did it, the British have not yet copied the 56 and a half, which shows that our weapons are difficult to process and match ammunition for the whole world.

Advanced weapon processing is a systematic project, and high-end fixed ammunition is also a complicated processing procedure, which cannot be made at a glance. I don't think there's too much to worry about. ”

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