The victory of the Russians and the tragic fate of the Japanese navy soon spread throughout the world, and when the detailed information was sent to Xu Jie, Xu Jie's first reaction was that the Russians were about to launch a war to break the diplomatic relations in Beiyang, and a major battle between the two sides did not completely defeat the Russian navy into a fleet. In such a short period of time, the two Russian fast main warships have returned to sea to fight, on the one hand, it shows that the damage to these two warships is not as serious as Beiyang speculated, and on the other hand, the Russian Far East Fleet can now maintain a high maintenance efficiency!

What made Xu Jie even more depressed was that the Russians actually replenished 2 cruisers during the war. Although these two cruisers were very weak and would not change the balance of strength between the two sides, this trend made Xu Jie feel very uneasy. Since the French and Chileans can openly provide warships for the Russians in the event of a war, if Beiyang does not react, I am afraid that other countries will follow suit, such as the United States!

Xu Jie never took the private agreement with the U.S. government too seriously! Let's not talk about the supremacy of the interests of countries. Just from the form of the treaty signed by the two parties, Xu Jie can't rest assured, secret agreement! What is a Secret Covenant? Everyone agreed on it in private. Its biggest feature is that it is not public, and even if one of the parties violates it, it will not be condemned by morality and international law! If the Americans think that the Russian Far East Fleet can cause great trouble to the Beiyang, Xu Jie believes that the US government will directly throw the secret treaty into the wastepaper basket and immediately provide the Russians with new warships!

One may ask, even after getting two cruisers, the strength of the Russian Far Eastern Fleet is still far less than before the war, and at the height of the Far Eastern Fleet, Makanov was still beaten all over the ground by the Northern Fleet, and now even if it has recovered to a certain extent. Will Makanov go to war with the North Seas with a clear disadvantage?

"Whether or not to engage is determined by the battlefield situation, not simply by the comparison of the strength of the two sides!" Xu Jie answered those people's questions like this. For example, in the last war, the Russian Far East Fleet originally chose to retreat, wanting to wait until the Beiyang Fleet was exhausted and automatically evacuated. But because the Beiyang Fleet covered the landing of the Japanese Army at Hachinohe, it was equivalent to putting a dagger on the throat of the other party! In this case, the Russian Far Eastern Fleet will inevitably fight to the death!

The same thing. At present, if Beiyang does not take any action, Makanov and his Far East Fleet will tacitly clean up the Japanese in Japan. But is it possible that Beiyang will not act? In Xu Jie's plan, the next stage of the battle will revolve around Vladivostok! The Beiyang Army will completely capture this earliest base of the Russian Far East Fleet! Thus partially recovering the territory of our country occupied by the Russians! As soon as the Beiyang Army launched an offensive, then Makanov had no choice. The Russian Far East Fleet will inevitably try its best to fight to the death with the North Ocean!

It's impossible to do it again. Makanov is not so stupid. Since the fleet cannot win the decisive battle, then the only tactic that can be chosen is guerrilla warfare! And now the Russian Navy has 6 cruisers, and if they can all be dispatched, it will be too difficult to catch them as soon as they spread out in the Far Eastern Ocean! Naturally, the Prince and the Russian do not need to say much. Whether it is a break of diplomatic relations or a fleet war, there is no ambiguity. Although the Vostok and Tatar fleets fought poorly, they were fast enough that it would be difficult to catch them for a while and a half! As for the two armored cruisers of the Sea of Azov type, it is also a trouble to put them at sea.

So now let's see what the Beiyang Fleet and the Foreign Ocean Fleet have. The Guiyuan had sunk in battle, and the bow of the Ninghai was badly damaged. It will definitely not be able to come out in a short period of time. Damage to the hull structure can be much more difficult to repair than damage to the superstructure and artillery. And the two armored cruisers, which were badly damaged in the last war, have also been almost repaired. In this way, the Beiyang Fleet had 2 battleships, 7 armored cruisers, and 3 light armored cruisers at its disposal. It looks like a good hand, but it's not!

First of all, Xu Jie needs to use part of this fleet to deal with the fortifications of Vladivostok Fortress! In the preparatory work some time ago, the Northeast Armed Guards specially deduced the attack on the Vladivostok fortress, although the garrison of Vladivostok had dropped sharply. However, as an important Russian fortress and city in the Far East, this fortress could recruit a large number of manpower from among the citizens. Therefore, the amount of power that can really be used is definitely not only the less than 20,000 defenders! There may be tens of thousands of Russian civilians! And after all, it is a naval base that the Russians have been running for decades, although they don't pay much attention. However, its defensive strength still exceeded Beiyang's prior estimates.

The outlying positions are easy to sweep, with the 6-inch guns and 8-inch short guns that accompany the army, and in the case of insufficient troops, the Russians will not do too much entanglement on the periphery. They will retreat to the permanent fortress near the military port of Vladivostok. These fortifications, made of concrete, were not at all so strong that an 8-inch mortar could break through. It was too difficult to transport 10-inch or 12-inch guns by land. The labor and cost required are not something Xu Jie is willing to bear! So Xu Jie decided that since the land artillery can't solve these concrete covers, then use the naval guns!

Thereupon. After the siege began, Xu Jieji sent a formation of battleships to Vladivostok to destroy Russian fortifications from the sea. In order to realize this plan, Xu Jie specially prepared concrete armor-piercing shells and high-explosive shells for these battleships before the battle. The former is compared with normal armor-piercing shells for anti-ship use. The shells were heavier and did not have caps. The warhead is blunt and has a little less propellant. The trajectory is more curved and is specifically designed for topping. The new high-explosive bomb has more charge than the ship's high-explosive bomb, and some flammable metal particles and rubber particles are also added. Increase its arson performance. In order to break the opponent's fighting spirit, Xu Jie didn't mind blowing up the entire Vladivostok city area into a sea of fire!

Because to deal with the fortress of Vladivostok, the most powerful battleship formation of the Beiyang Fleet would have to go to the Sea of Japan, so that the strength that could be used against the Russian partisan fleet would be reduced to 10 armored cruisers! Even 10 ships may not be enough, because of the heavy damage of the Ninghai, it is very likely that Beiyang will need to transfer one or two ships from the loading patrol to strengthen the shore attack. In this way, the number of warships that can be used for anti-breaking will be further reduced! In the vast sea, if you want to rely on a limited number of warfleets to carry out counter-breaking of diplomatic relations, this pressure can be imagined!

There is no need to think about arranging a special escort fleet, such a small number of warships simply cannot provide cover for the fleet when taking care of the enemy, and do not forget that the Russian Far Eastern Fleet has two capital ships of the armored cruiser class of lead ships! The outfit of the Beiyang Fleet can only be defeated and cannot be left behind! If the other party's two warships are together, unless Beiyang is also two main battle-mounted patrols, I don't know who will fight whom! As for the two high-speed cruisers, Xu Jie really didn't have any good way. It's impossible to finish the battle in one battle, people will run away when they see you coming, and you can't do anything at all!

At the same time, Makanov, who was far away in the port of Muroran, also changed his frustration after the battle of Hachinohe after receiving the news of the fleet's great victory! After inflicting heavy losses on the Japanese fleet, Russia's worries were gone, and now it was finally able to concentrate on dealing with the Beiyang Fleet! Although the Prince has not yet recovered to its best condition, and although the Vostok has suffered moderate damage, it doesn't matter, the Beiyang Fleet has not yet been dispatched, and Makanov has plenty of time to complete the deployment before the Beiyang Fleet reappears in the waters around Japan!

In Makanov's conception, if the North Ocean did not interfere with the actions of the Russian Far East Fleet in the coastal waters of Japan, the two sides could completely "live in peace" in the early stage! Makanov was a practical man, and he knew that the first thing he had to do was not to find trouble in the Beiyang, but how to clean up the coastal waters of Japan. After helping the Russian Army stabilize the situation, Makanov is going to find trouble in Beiyang!

But before that, Makanov needs to get 6 ships back to combat effectiveness in the shortest possible time! What the? You say that the Russian Far Eastern Fleet has a total of 8 ships? Well, Makanov directly crossed 2 battleships off the sortie list. The speed of these two big guys is too low, and the Russian fleet has lost the capital to compete head-on with the Beiyang, and all it can rely on is speed! What's more, the repair of two battleships took too long and took up a lot of manpower and material resources. So with a stroke of his pen, Makanov not only terminated the repair work on the two battleships, but transferred the personnel and guns of the two battleships to the cruisers. to speed up the repair of 6 cruisers!

And in terms of the specific distribution of the fleet, Makanov directly divided 6 cruisers into 4 groups! Among them, the Prince and the Russian are grouped together, and this fleet is not only to break the relationship, but also to annihilate the lone Beiyang warship at the right time! The existence of a deterrent force forced the Beiyang Fleet not to divide its forces too much, and then narrowed the scope of reconnaissance.

Two armored cruisers of the Sea of Azov type were grouped together, and the main targets of this fleet were convoys of transports that were larger and probably escorted by ships! In Makanov's opinion, it was impossible for the Northern Fleet to use valuable armored cruisers to cover those transports in large numbers, because these ships had too many routes and too many batches. Therefore, the only ones who can provide cover for these transport ships can only be those old ships of the South Sea Fleet. For example, the Zhenhai and Kurama, which once shone during the Sino-Japanese War!

Although Zhenhai and Kurama are products of the times, but the Vostok and Tatar are also products of the times, coupled with the tonnage problem, the two newly purchased Russian warships really can't handle two old ships, and in the face of this kind of enemy, two armored cruiser collars or two Azov-type armored cruisers are needed to deal with it! Two armored cruisers of the Sea of Azov type are the minimum requirements in the face of such an enemy! Couldn't go any lower! So these two Azov-type battleships were grouped together.

The last two groups, the Vostok and the Tatar, will attack the lines of communication on a single-ship safari, and of course, they will use the high speed to provide reconnaissance for the other two fleets.

Thank you for the reward of the constellations that soar in the universe~~.

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