"What should we do?" By the time the Pearl had left, Ivanovich had already seen their end. In the face of 3 Guiyuan-class cruisers, the Admiral and the Leda are just two lambs to the slaughter. There will be no point in fighting any more than proving your bravery. Prove your bravery with the blood of officers and soldiers? Isn't that a bit too high? Ivanovich was suddenly taken aback by his own thoughts!

"Your Excellency, Captain, the Qing fleet is rushing over again!" The first mate shouted as he pointed to the three Qing cruisers in the distance.

"Prepare to meet the enemy!" Ivanovich shouted. Then the Admiral and the Leda lined up in a column and waited for the arrival of the Guiyuan 3 ship!

"At this point in the war, we already know our end. We have no chance of victory, not at all. We are waiting, waiting for death to come. But when the last moment came, I didn't expect that our wills would be so fragile under the blow of artillery fire! "On a piece of half-burned paper, there are words like this.

The first round of shelling of the Guiyuan 3 completely crushed the will of the Russian officers and men on board the Leda. Countless shells slid through the air, and the sound of shelling was continuous. You can't distinguish a single cannon sound, you can only feel a continuous roar in your ears, and then a few seconds later, columns of water envelop the Leda. As the distance approached, more and more shells hit the Leda. Powerful shells kept hitting the battleship, which was only more than 3,000 tons. The already scarred lateral line finally couldn't hold it anymore.

After an 8-inch shell hit the middle of the hull, the fragile hull finally reached its limit! The hull of the ship began to expand under the double blow of impact and flames at the breach, and cracks visible to the naked eye appeared near the breach, and quickly expanded. This was followed by the impact of a large amount of seawater, the creaking of metal breaking and the sound of the steel frame collapsing came from the hull and became more and more dense. A few minutes later. The Leda's deadline has finally arrived. With this loud bang. The Leida's hull was broken in two. And sank into the sea a few minutes later. A large number of Russian sailors did not have time to swim away before they were carried to the bottom of the sea by the huge whirlpool created by the silence of the battleship. The two giant whirlpools act like a gate to hell, bringing all nearby life into the arms of death!

"The Leda is finished!" A sailor looked at the whirlpool in the distance and said blankly.

"Maybe in a few minutes, it will be our turn. Damn Admiralty, damn politicians, did we run more than half the world just to send us to death? A bearded sailor next to him cursed in a low voice.

"Now the battle is meaningless, and if you continue to fight, you can only die!" Another sailor shouted.

"Quiet, go back to your respective posts, we are still fighting, if you still want to see the sun tomorrow. Then keep fighting! A junior officer shouted as he pulled out a revolver.

And at this time in the conning tower. Looking at the rapidly approaching Guiyuan 3 ship, Ivanovich knew that his time in this world could only be calculated in minutes and seconds. With the roar of the Guiyuan cannon, the final judgment has finally begun! The Admiral, on the other hand, struggled in a dense hail of bullets.

The emplacements of the side chords, in the course of a long engagement, were either destroyed or could not be effectively aimed because of the smoke from the hull. The Admiral, which was equipped with more than a dozen 6-inch guns, had no strength to fight back at this time. Like a boat in a storm, it can sink at any moment. Burning flames, twisted steel beams, and blood and debris all over the ground. Turned the entire battleship into an Shura field. And the final judgment did not make the battleship wait too long, when an 8-inch gun, from the stern into the battleship's wheelhouse, accompanied by a loud bang, the entire wheelhouse turned into a burning box. So far. The Admiral Korninov has lost everything it should have as a battleship, and both the power and weapons systems have collapsed. The 5,000-ton warship floated at sea like a dead fish. Moves slowly under the impetus of ocean currents. …,

"Send them a signal that if they surrender and promise not to destroy the ordnance, we can treat them like prisoners of war." Lin Yongsheng looked at the battleship in the distance and said.

A few minutes later, Admiral Korninov was in the command room. Silence is terrible. The artillery outside had stopped roaring. Everyone was silent, it was a time of dilemma, and there were two things in the balance in everyone's hearts, one was the lives of hundreds of people on the ship. When they came, they promised to send the mustaches back to their hometowns safely in front of the family members standing in the harbor. And the other is the glory of St. Andrew's flag, which, if surrendered, would be the largest captured battleship in the Russian fleet! So, what do the officers need to face? All of them understand very well. And everyone knows the way, and there is no point in fighting any longer.

"We can sink our ships and surrender." Said sharply.

"The prerequisite for the Qing people is to prohibit us from destroying warships." Ivanovich said with a sigh.

"They should treat us in accordance with international practice." A young officer suddenly remembered something.

"Russia and the Qing Dynasty have not declared war, so they can not treat us people as prisoners of war, we will abandon our sons, and if we fail, any protective clauses applicable to prisoners of war will not be applied to us, and all the efforts we have made will not be recognized by the state." The reaction of the co-captain was fierce.

"Okay, this war is over, tell the Qing people, we surrender, all the responsibility will be borne by me alone, I will use my life to compensate for the loss of glory of St. Andrew's Banner, but these young men, should not die senselessly." As if he had suddenly figured out something, Ivanovich ordered.

"They surrendered!" After waiting for 10 minutes, Lin Yongsheng finally got a satisfactory answer, "Send someone over and take over the battleship." Subsequently, three small boats were put down on the three Guiyuan-class warships to carry the marines of the Beiyang Naval Division attached to each ship (historically, the Beiyang 300 marines were assigned to each ship after the fleet sailed in peacetime. On the one hand, law enforcement, and on the other hand, response to possible landings or embarkations. ）

And just after the first batch of marines of the Beiyang Naval Division boarded the Admiral Korninov, a gunshot rang out from the conning tower. Ivanovich saved a boatload of people with his own life. And this is also the first foreign capital ship captured by the Qing State since 1840.

"Lin Guandao and Zhao Guandao asked what to do next?" The herald on the side asked.

"The loss of the Suiyuan is a bit big, let him take the Admiral Kornino to join the Beiyang Fleet, we continue to look for Lord Xu and the Russian fleet, if you are lucky, you may be able to catch up!" Lin Yongsheng said after pondering for a moment.

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