Almost at the same time, the lookout sailors rang the alarm gate around them, and the sharp alarm echoed over the Suidong, Wu Xiaoliang was woken up by the siren, turned over and continued to sleep, but a second later suddenly jumped up, dressed neatly and went straight to the command room,

The senior officers of the whole ship rushed to the command room almost at the same time, Wu Xiaoliang had a bad premonition, this time it may not be as false as during the day, Petrov raised the telescope and looked at the sea that was still dark in the distance, only the sky was faintly gray, indicating that the sky was turning from black to bright,

At this moment, the other ship is not visible, it should be far away, but just by the black clouds rolling in the sky, it can be judged that this is by no means a civilian ship, and the tonnage is definitely above 10,000 tons, and there is more than one,

Wu Xiaoliang judged from Petrov's gloomy face that the situation should be very unoptimistic, so he asked:

"How, it's an enemy ship?"

Petrov nodded heavily: "Most likely, Japanese battleships." ”

Wu Xiaoliang's intuition was dizzy, he learned on Malinovsky's telegram for help that the Japanese fleet had two battleships, could it be that they got the news that they were intercepted from the south, the situation was critical, the second division of the Suidong Army tens of thousands of people loaded three transport ships, and they must be evacuated immediately.

"Telegraph the three transport ships, inform them of the encounter with the Japanese warships, and order them to board the 6 at the right time without delay."

Then, turning to Petrov, he said: "Cover the 2nd Division to ascend to the 6th, and as soon as the login is completed, immediately retreat and return to Vladivostok." ”

Wu Xiaoliang's order deeply hurt Petrov's self-esteem as an elite of the imperial navy in the past, but judging from the current situation, even if he wanted to withdraw, if he didn't fight up and down, the enemy fleet would probably not let him run away.

Now we can only hope that the opposing warship is driven by an old-fashioned reciprocating steam engine, the voyage is low, and the Suidong can leave the battlefield with high maneuverability, and at the same time, the transport ship begins to turn around and sail towards the coastline at full power.

Half an hour later, the chimney with billowing black smoke finally reached the horizon, and gradually revealed its full picture, a battleship armed to the teeth, and soon followed by a slightly smaller battleship, the same black smoke billowed out, and the hideous Japanese naval sun flag on the mainmast hunted in the wind,

The battle was unavoidable, Petrov immediately ordered the Suidong ship to turn to the left with full horsepower, and the hull quickly deviated from the established course, but the steering did not stop, but drew a large circle on the screen within a few kilometers, and it was actually heading towards the south.

Wu Xiaoliang was in this situation, he didn't know anything about naval warfare, and he wanted to sit and watch the battle, but when he saw Petrov order the battleship to turn around, he wanted to flee the battlefield, if so, the troop carrier with a voyage of only 12 knots would be caught up by the Japanese naval fleet and destroyed.

Unexpectedly, without waiting for Wu Xiaoliang to open his mouth to question, the hull of the ship continued to turn around a semicircle, and sailed from west to east, he was puzzled, what kind of tactic is Petrov, but he has at least determined that this is by no means an escape, thinking of this, he couldn't help but look apologetically, this Russian bearded man with bright eyes,

At this time, two Japanese warships suddenly appeared on the coastline, and soon they appeared Suidong, flying the flag of the Japanese Navy, and were confused by its strange movements, and played the signal light of inquiry, Petrov's eyes kept observing the actions of the enemy warships, and ignored the Japanese inquiries, so far, their reactions were still in his expectations, so now it was necessary to race against time to complete the tactical action when they entered the range of the 3o5 mm main gun,

As time passed, the Japanese battleship finally appeared clearly in the telescope field of vision, Petrov immediately judged that the ship was the Suidong ship, that is, the sister ship of the Hanoi, the Settsu, the only difference was that the Setzu experimentally changed the vertical bow to the flying scissor bow, and then looked at the slightly smaller battleship behind, Petrov's heart jumped suddenly, isn't this the Mikasa, the flagship of the Pacific Fleet of the Japanese army,

At that time, his ship was sunk by the battleship Mikasa, so after more than ten years, he can still recognize this "enemy" at a glance, but Petrov still recognized the wrong "person", the one that is exactly the same as the Mikasa ship is his sister ship Asahi battleship,

The ranging tower in the command room quickly sent back information that the other party had sailed within 40 kilometers of the Suidong ship and reached the maximum firing range of the 3o5 mm main gun.

"Right rudder, steering...... All turrets are turned to starboard and reload for ......"

With Petrov's series of orders skillfully issued, the hull of the Suidong ship deviated, and a circle was drawn from east to west on the sea, so that a big S shape was formed with the previous one, and the whole ship sailed westward.

After passing the vertical line of the bow of the Setzu, Petrov finally ordered: "All turrets on the starboard side, listen to my orders, open fire." ”

As soon as the words fell, Wu Xiaoliang only felt that the entire hull of the ship trembled violently like never before, and then the deafening sound of cannons continued to roll, and the flames and smoke filled half of the sky on the starboard side.

Eight 3o5 mm shells landed on the picture around the two Japanese battleships and exploded, stirring up 8 huge columns of water, and the battleship Settsu was the first to react, but his combat posture was extremely unfavorable, the bow was facing the starboard side of the Suidong ship, so he could only have three turrets and 6 guns fired at the same time

In retaliatory response, the six naval guns of the Settsu, also of 3o5 mm caliber, also opened fire in unison a minute later, but they also missed, stirring up six high columns of water,

In naval warfare, the first shell hit is extremely rare, due to various factors to shoot the elements set is not accurate, in most cases, the first shot is to provide the role of correcting the impact point of the next second gun,

Just when Petrov was anxiously waiting for the turret to send the information that the reload had been completed, the battleship Settsu opened fire again, and at this moment the advantage of the well-trained Japanese sailors was fully revealed, so they took the lead and the sailors of the Suidong Army finished loading the ammunition in one step and fired first, but the six 3o5 mm caliber shells all missed again,

Petrov heard the sound of the explosion, the hull did not tremble at all, he knew that none of the opponents hit, at this time, there was a flurry of reports on the completion of the reload from the microphone, the corners of his mouth turned up, and he snorted coldly: "All the turrets on the starboard side are fired." ”

After the order was issued, the eight guns fired a salvo, and the flames and smoke dissipated, Petrov clearly saw that the Setzu was intact, and was secretly anxious, if he did not sink a Japanese ship, and waited for the two warships to adjust the battle formation, he would fall into an extremely passive disadvantage, and would have to face the simultaneous attack of two 3o5 mm naval guns of the Asahi ship and eight 3o5 mm caliber naval guns of the Setzu ship, a total of ten cannons, at the same time.

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