According to the general rule, the Northeast Navy will never be able to gain sea supremacy over the southern coast of the Qing Dynasty in the face of such a powerful opponent, and if the joint expeditionary fleet of European countries arrives in the southern waters of the Qing Dynasty, the Northeast Navy will undoubtedly lose if it chooses a decisive battle.

Clear-sighted people thought at a glance that the only chance for the Northeast Navy was to have a slim hope of victory before the arrival of the joint expeditionary fleets of the European countries, Britain, France, and Japan, had a single defeat of the navies of the three countries that were currently in Asia.

But Lin Daxin did not let the Northeast Navy act rashly at all, as if he was waiting for the arrival of the joint expeditionary fleet of European countries, ignoring the gathering of the naval forces of the Eight-Nation Alliance, which made many people very surprised by Lin Daxin's move, but Lin Daxin was afraid, and was no longer ready to take into account the southern part of the Qing Dynasty, and was ready to preserve the strength of his Northeast Navy in front of the powerful navy of the Eight-Nation Alliance.

The Qing court was extremely worried about Lin Daxin's actions, and sent a telegram to Lin Daxin twice in three days, asking why Lin Daxin had not sent troops south, and the troops of the Eight-Nation Alliance could stay in Fuzhou City in Fujian Province!

Lin Daxin told the Qing court, you don't understand the things of the war, don't command indiscriminately, it's all under the control of someone in my Lin, so that the Qing court has no choice but to hope that Lin Daxin will be credited, after all, Qinghai, Tibet and Gansu have already given Lin Daxin.

The British were actually going to add a powerful battleship to the joint expeditionary fleet of European countries, that is, the British had just completed the painted battleship Intrepid, but the sudden declaration of war by the Qing Dynasty disrupted the plans of the British Navy, and the battleship Intrepid that had not yet undergone sea trials was removed from the list of joint expeditionary fleets of European countries.

However, the battleship Dreadnought has not yet undergone sea trials. It caused a shock among the various naval powers, and the British originally wanted to keep the battleship Dreadnought a secret. However, the intelligence services of European countries were extremely strong with each other, and the battleship Dreadnought was overboard. Its numbers were known to all European countries.

The battleship Intrepid has a standard displacement of 18,110 tons and a full load displacement of 21,840 tons, adopts a long bow ship type, cancels the bow underwater impact angle, and adopts 10 unified models of 45 times caliber 305 mm main guns with consistent ballistic performance, 5 twin-mounted main gun turrets, one in the bow and stern, and one behind the boiler room in the middle of the hull, which is arranged on the center line of the hull. Between the two boiler compartments, one on each side of the two sides is arranged symmetrically. The maximum firepower of the ship's side is 8 main guns, and the forward fire is theoretically 6 main guns, and the firepower advantage is doubled compared with the previous all-steel battleships.

For the first time, the Dreadnought used 4 steam turbine crews on a large battleship, which was faster than any previous battleship, and could maintain high speed and maintain good reliability for long periods of time while increasing its maximum speed to 21 knots. The Intrepid defensive armor was no less impressive than any previous warship, with case-hardened armor and a new armor thickness of 280 mm in important areas. Provides comprehensive protection capabilities. The watertight compartment under the waterline of the hull compartment has canceled the horizontal contact door, strengthened the watertight structure, and improved the anti-sinking ability of the warship.

The battleship Dreadnought has been innovated in terms of armament, power, and protection, especially the firepower and power plant have become revolutionary designs. Let the navies of various countries suddenly wake up like a dream, although the battleship Intrepid has not yet been tested in actual combat, but its strength is beyond doubt. Such a powerful battleship is what countries need, compared to the battleship Dreadnought. The former all-steel battleships, that is, the former dreadnoughts. All of a sudden it all became a bit outdated, and the various naval powers began to prepare to build their own dreadnought battleships.

However, these countries don't know that in the far east, there is a bad boy who already has 13 dreadnought battleships in his hands, 7 of which are still super dreadnought battleships, ready to let the eight-nation alliance sent to the door taste the feast of this dreadnought battleship.

However, before Lin Daxin was ready to let the navy of the Eight-Nation Alliance taste the feast he had concocted, Lin Daxin decided to strike preemptively on the long border with Russia, and was not prepared to wait for the combined armies of European countries to gather on the border between Russia and his own territory, and then attack his own territory.

At about 9 a.m. on May 24, 1902, the seventh day of the official declaration of war between the Qing Dynasty and the Eight-Nation Alliance, the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 7th, and 8th field armies of the Dingbei Army, which were waiting on the border with Russia in Xinjiang, Outer Mongolia, Baikal, and Saisi provinces, crossed the border without warning and launched a surprise attack on the Russian army in Russia.

In fact, after the Qing Dynasty and the Eight-Nation Alliance declared war on each other, the Russian army entered a state of combat readiness, always on guard against the opposite Dingbei Army to launch the first attack, in the past two years, the Russian army has also built a large number of fortifications on the border line bordering Lin Daxin's territory, and many fortifications have also been built in accordance with permanent reinforced concrete fortifications, but the border between the two sides is too long, that is, the fortifications built by Lin Daxin's side are not all reinforced concrete fortifications, and the Russian side is relatively less.

Lin Daxin occupied 5.12 million square kilometers of Russian land in the last war, so that Russia not only hated Lin Daxin very deeply, but also had scruples about Lin Daxin, so Russia deployed heavy troops on the border between the two sides, adding up to about 1.2 million Russian army, all of which were deployed within 10 kilometers of the border in Russia.

If it is said that the Russian army's attack on the Dingbei Army was expected, but the Russian army's attack on the Dingbei Army was never expected.

At 9 o'clock in the morning of May 24, the Russian officers and soldiers in the fortifications on the west bank of the Lena River walked out of the dark and damp pillboxes and anti-artillery holes in twos and threes, basking in the sun in or outside the trenches.

Outside the trench, a Russian soldier who was very young and less than 20 years old asked a Russian veteran in his 30s next to him: "Vitalaevich, do you think the Qing Dynasty people on the other side will attack us?" ”

Vitalaevich, who was in his 30s, sighed and said: "It's very likely, I can't say for sure, but Ilyich, I have a very bad premonition recently, if the Dingbei Army on the opposite side comes, you kid learn to be smart, don't be stupid!" ”

The young Ilyich said unconvinced: "I've heard you say many times, what Dingbei Army is extremely powerful, what Dingbei Army's equipment is many years more advanced than ours, my ears are going to hear cocoons, aren't you raising the morale of the Qing Dynasty army and destroying our own prestige?" It's a good thing the officers didn't hear it, otherwise they would have whipped you. ”

Vitalaevich pursed his lips and said, "If it weren't for the sake of our fellow countrymen, I wouldn't care about you kid!" You know, I lived through the war a few years ago, crawling out of the pile of corpses. ”

Ilyich smiled and said, "Then you walked into the prisoner of war camp of the Qing Dynasty and were not released back to China until after the war. ”

Vitalayevich said disapprerovitically: "We have more than 650,000 captured officers and soldiers, and this is only possible to return to Russia after the war, and the captured officers and soldiers who died for various reasons are not counted, you know how badly we lost, the number of army casualties alone is more than one million, I really don't want to fight against that Dingbei army again." ”

Ilyich said: "But our Russia has joined the Eight-Nation Alliance this time, and has declared war with the Qing Dynasty, and we will definitely fight with the Qing Dynasty army opposite, oh, called the Dingbei Army, and now part of our European army, as well as the armies of Germany, France, Austria-Hungary, Italy and Britain, are rushing to our border, and then our Russian Empire can take revenge and take back the 5.12 million square kilometers of land that the Qing Dynasty seized from us. And to occupy more land of the Qing Dynasty as compensation. ”

After Ilyich finished speaking, a look of excitement appeared in his eyes, Vitalaevich looked at him, and shook his head helplessly, he was too young, so that as soon as those officers were agitated, they became unaware of the height of the sky, Vitalaevich knew very well the strength of the Dingbei Army, how could it be so easy to say!

At this moment, Vitalaevich suddenly heard a strange voice, "Huh, what is this sound?" Ilyich heard the voice as well.

Then the two people noticed that the sound was coming from the sky, and the two people looked up at the sky and found a group of fast-flying things in the air, flying towards the sky above their heads.

"Vitalaevich, what's that?"

"Ilyich, I don't know, but I have a bad premonition that something bad is about to happen!"

"Vitalaevich, I really convinced you, you have to have a premonition seven or eight times a day, and I don't see which one of your premonitions is accurate!"

Just when the two people were talking, the group of fast-flying things in the air had arrived at the Russian army positions on the west bank of the Lena River, and dispersed, and soon the two people heard the sound of "whoosh-whoosh-whoosh-whoosh-", Vitalaevich, who had experienced airship bombing a few years ago, suddenly changed his face, and dragged the stupid Ilyich into the trench with a rolling belt, Ilyich was about to ask Vitalaevich what he was doing, and suddenly "boom-boom-boom-" continuous explosions, Help Vitalaevich gave a good answer.

There are a total of 48 planes responsible for air strikes on the Russian military fortifications in Yakutsk, including 30 Yellow Sparrow fighters and 18 Blue Eagle bombers, and the Northeast Air Force also has 9 groups of planes of this size to bomb other key targets on the Russian border. (To be continued......) R1292