"There are obviously fewer Russian ships these days. ,!” One of the Awa Maru's gun commanders said as he looked at the rising red sun.

"This is normal, this is already the backyard of the Japanese Navy, and the big ships of the Russians have been scrapped by the Beiyang. Our raiders can happily kill the poor stupid ducks who are slow, the Russians will not transport them regardless of losses, and no one will be able to restrain us until the Russians' capital ships appear in the Sea of Japan. A major said excitedly holding the 120 rapid-fire gun on the bow of the ship.

"And what if they sneak in?" The gunner said uninterestingly.

"It doesn't matter, they have a limited number of warships, and we are camouflaged ships, it is impossible for the Russians to search every single ship. There are radios on the ships operating near the Tsugaru Strait, and if something happens, they will notify us! As for the ships that did not have radios, it was that they were unlucky and had nothing to do with us. The Major said with a smile.

The Japanese thought of a possible retaliation from the Russians, but did not think of how the Russians would retaliate! After tossing and turning on other people's lines of communication for so long, can the Russians endure it? For Mao Zi, who comes out to make a small amount of money, it is really sorry to send all these broken ships that are robbing everywhere into the navy!

With the Tatar protective cruiser in place, Makanov once again adjusted his plan, and the five auxiliary cruisers and gunboats deployed in the Sea of Japan were all assembled in the southwest of the Sea of Japan, and formed a blockade line with the notification ship, and the area outside the blockade line was responsible for this fast cruiser, and he would destroy all the ships that appeared in this sea area, because in this sea area, there were no Russian gunboats or Russian transport ships, except for a small number of notification ships, the rest could only be Japanese attack ships! And in order to prevent a gap between the Japanese, the Tatars entered the Sea of Japan from the direction of Hokkaido, instead of returning to Muroran Port to replenish first! And just like that, in the ignorance of the fate of the Japanese raiding ship, death struck!

Just when the two Japanese were chatting with each other. Suddenly, a looming figure appeared from the sea level from the backlit direction, and because of the backlight, the ship was not spotted in time by the lookout on Awa Maru. And when an officer pointed to a warship speeding in the distance, the Tatar's side chords full of rapid-fire guns were already aimed at the poor Japanese assault ship!

"Brothers, we must use the blood of the Japanese to comfort every Russian who died in these seas. We don't need mercy. We don't need prisoners, we just need to wreck every Japanese ship we come across! Captain Urbasha said, pointing to the Japanese assault ship in front of him.

The whole engagement was very short, facing a battleship that had absolute superiority in all aspects. The Awa Maru's only few rapid-fire 120 guns could not withstand the fire of the opponent's 2 8-inch guns, 5 6-inch guns, and 6 3-pounder guns! A rain of bullets covered the Japanese assault ship, which had been flaunting its might in the Sea of Japan a few days ago. The Tatar quickly approached to a distance of 1500 meters, at this distance. All artillery pieces can be used to the maximum firepower! A dense rain of bullets turned the ship into a moving flare in 3 minutes.

The explosion of shells, the wails and curses of Japanese sailors, and the sound of the mast collapsing and the hull cracking resounded across the sea, and in just a few minutes, the Awa Maru was transformed into a hell floating on the sea! In this case. The Japanese did not give up, they fought back frantically, braving the flames and pungent poisonous smoke to operate the battleship stubbornly. They know that the Russians will not forgive them, not to mention that the Russians are born to discriminate against the yellow race, and that the Russians have 10,000 reasons to kill them all because of what they have done in the Sea of Japan! So no Japanese is left to chance!

"Rush up and sink him." The almost crazy Japanese captain, who had been tortured by the tremendous pressure, pointed to the Russian protective cruiser that was pouring bullets not far away, and shouted hysterically! The Awa Maru, already battered, dragged its broken body through the rain of bullets and slowly turned around and rushed in vain with the Tatar, which was drawing an arc at sea. Dodged the other party's charge and sent an 8-inch shell into the Awa Maru's ammunition depot at a distance of 1km!

"Boom!" As an orange fireball erupted from the middle of the hull, the Awa Maru broke in two, and the bow sank into the sea with a limited bow, and then the stern was raised high. The propeller was still spinning in vain. Soon, the raid ship, which had once crisscrossed the Sea of Japan, sank into the icy waters in 2 minutes, and none of the 210 crew members on the entire raid ship survived! And even more tragic is that the radio room was destroyed by intensive fire at the beginning of the battle. The Awa Maru didn't even send a complete telegram! The battle ended in less than 20 minutes, and the sea was calm. But this battle was only the beginning of the Tatar killing!

The second target of the Tatars was an attack ship named Asami, and it has to be said that the Japanese captain who commanded this attack ship still had a very high combat quality, and he had already noticed anomalies from the situation at sea in the past few days, such as the pitiful lack of Russian ships, such as some unidentified small ships following him. On the day of September 3, he had decided to return immediately. Unfortunately, the previous night, a Russian notification ship had already informed the Tatar of its location. And this raiding ship, which has been fighting at sea for a long time, has not been able to shake off the terrible hunter of the Tatars!

When the lookout of the Asami saw the Tatar approaching at high speed from the northeast, the Japanese captain gave only two orders. "Dispatch, non-stop, demanding the immediate evacuation of all attack ships in the Sea of Japan. Until we are sunk! "Bring those Russian sailors to the deck, if the Russians dare to open fire on us. Then the first thing they killed was their own compatriots! ”

The Japanese move seemed to be very effective, the Russians were somewhat jealous, the Tatar protective cruiser did not fire after approaching the target, the two sides were about 1km apart, there was no one on the deck of the Russian battleship, they were all on standby below deck or in the gun position, but they did not fire, the Japanese were also very nervous, except for a few sailors who stood behind the Russian prisoners and "maintained order" with rifles with bayonets, the rest of the people were also waiting in the battle position, waiting for whether to fight or draw.

"Lay down your arms, release the hostages, surrender." Soon, the lookout on the Asami read the following information from the other party's flag.

"Surrender? What a joke, the result of our release of the hostages is to be exterminated immediately, tell them to let us go, we have 150 Russians on board, even if we die, we will take them to the funeral! The Japanese captain sneered.

"Release the hostages, surrender, we can give you prisoner of war treatment!" A moment later, the Russian battleship responded.

"Release some of the hostages and let us go!" The Japanese then replied that at the moment when the Russians retreated, almost all the Japanese had a glimmer of hope for survival, and they themselves did not dare to imagine what would happen if they fell into the hands of the Russians, just like the result of the Russians captured in the war in Japan, the old and weak would be killed, and the young and strong would be sent to factories and mines to work as coolies, without any guarantees, they could only work desperately, and the average survival time of a strong man in the mine was only 3 months.

"In the mines, they become emaciated in a week, dull-eyed in a month, covered in scars, sick and wounded like demons that cannot be escaped, and in two months they become like zombies, and there is little human consciousness left in them, they are only mechanically carrying and toiling, and they are as thin as skeletons wrapped in skin. And after three months they will be completely freed, or they will die and be buried, or they will be buried alive when they have a breath left. An Englishman wrote in his diary what happened to the Russians who unfortunately fell into the hands of the Japanese. As the Japanese Navy, of course, they knew the fate of those Russians, and they could even imagine what kind of doom awaited them once they were captured by the Russians!

"Release half of the captives, the old and the wounded first, and then when you reach the Japanese-controlled zone, we will allow you to land." The Russians quickly replied again, this time on more reasonable terms, first release a group of prisoners, then follow the Japanese raider to the Japanese-controlled waters, and then the Japanese release the other prisoners of war, while the Japanese could land and flee for their lives, of course, the ship must have confessed. How could this episode be like the political offensive of the police in the face of robbers in later generations!

Faced with this rather "operable" suggestion, the Japanese wavered, and some Japanese sailors who had been temporarily called up in the army began to look forward to returning to their hometowns. But those veterans vaguely felt that there was a hint of conspiracy in it! Although they don't know what the Tao is for. But the Russians, they believe, are not so kind! However, the offer to hand over the old and wounded captives in exchange for temporary safety was a good idea, and the wounded and sick should die in exchange. The Japanese were not stupid either, and while agreeing to this condition, they demanded that the Russians cover all the ship's guns with canvas and pull the elevation angle to the maximum. The Russians actually agreed, but in order to prevent the other side from cheating, they insisted on maintaining the operational state of the machine guns.

The Japanese thought for a moment and agreed, and laid down 3 transport boats for the transfer of the wounded. The whole process lasts 20 minutes. After the last group of 15 wounded was transferred to the Russian battleship, the Asami began to sail back, and the Russians did not take any action, but just followed, and the artillery did not even get the tarpaulin off! Even some of the Russians walked on deck, and the Japanese finally relaxed their tense nerves. On the face of it, the two sides really have the intention of fulfilling the agreement. But is that really the case? Could it be that the Russians have really changed sex?!

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