Li Kai saw the Borodino ship coming on the display screen, and immediately notified Lin Yuan, who then ordered: "Adjust the target and knock out the Borodino ship." ”

Yao Feng then turned the muzzle of the gun and fired at the Borodino ship, the Borodino ship had just been hit by a bullet, so he gave up the plan to save the Fuji ship, turned the bow of the ship and fled, Togo Heihachiro took advantage of the power system of the Fuji ship to still work, and hurriedly ordered the bow to be turned and fled beyond the range.

Lin Yuan then ordered Yao Feng to fire on other ships within the range, and soon, several more warships were damaged, and the Japanese-Russian forces sailed out of range in a hurry.

The Fuji ship fled in the desert and waited until there were no shells to fire, but by this time the fire had been burning for nearly an hour, and there were gray and black marks everywhere on the ship's hull, and black smoke kept coming out of the cabin.

The stern turret has been completely damaged, the stern structure of the ship has been almost completely destroyed, the watertight compartment at the tail has been flooded, the draft of the entire warship has increased by a full meter, and the warship has been tilted very seriously towards the stern, and it has almost lost its combat effectiveness, and the loss of coal has also been lost, and one-third of the more than 1,000 tons of coal stored on the Fuji ship have been burned.

The damage to the hull can be repaired, but the loss of personnel cannot be repaired, and the crew of the Fuji ship is 637 people, and more than 300 people died in the fire, many of whom are elites in various positions.

Heihachiro Togo didn't have time to be sad, so he received a message from Makarov asking him to go to a meeting on the Russian flagship, the battleship Petropavlovsk.

As soon as Heihachiro Togo boarded the flagship of the Russian army, he saw the faces of several Russian captains who were like mourners, and Makarov said: "Your Excellency, General, I know that your Fuji ship has suffered heavy losses, and our Russian losses are not small, our Borodino, Warrior and Russian are all seriously damaged, and they are ......."

When Makarov said this, he said with a solemn expression: "The troops we sent to land have been completely wiped out, and not a single one has returned. ”

Heihachiro Togo nodded and said, "How the hell were we hit by the Chinese?" ”

Makarov shook his head and said: "This is really a huge mystery, we can't figure it out, how can the Chinese see us in the smoke?" And the shells hit quite accurately. ”

Heihachiro Togo also frowned, and a Russian captain complained again: "It's not just accuracy, but it feels like their shells are chasing us, and they seem to have demonic abilities to know where our warship is about to go." ”

When Heihachiro Togo and Makarov heard this, they glanced at each other and said one sentence in unison: "Could it be that this is an automatic tracking cannon?" ”

Heihachiro Togo said: "Impossible, our intelligence officers have confirmed that there is no such thing as an automatic follower cannon!" ”

Maklov said: "Your Excellency, with all due respect, you should indeed ask the country if there is a problem with your intelligence agency, according to the progress of the war situation, none of our intelligence seems to be accurate, first of all, the mine distribution map, then the strength of the battery, and the last is the automatic tracking gun." ”

Heihachiro Togo nodded and said, "I'll ask the country, what should we do next?" ”

Everyone was silent, and Makarov said: "Our strategic goal of attacking Tianjin and Beijing will not change, what we need is only tactical adjustments, and I think that our tactics of opening up the landing field are very correct, so we should stick to it." ”

Just when everyone was silent, Heihachiro Togo suddenly said, "Actually, we didn't lose tonight's battle!" This sentence is really amazing, the voice has not fallen, several Russian captains have already exclaimed, when everyone looked at Togo Heihachiro, Togo Heihachiro said: "Everyone think about it, even if the Chinese really have an automatic tracking cannon, but is it a real weapon of the Chinese today?" Their real weapon tonight is the fog on the river! "I don't know if everyone has calculated, in fact, there are not many shells that really fall on our warships, which shows that the Chinese have very few such weapons, and if they fight us, they are not our opponents at all, so they came up with a way to create fog, as long as we attack in a fog-free time, can't we take advantage of it?" Several Russian captains said: "However, if we choose to attack during the day and the tide does not rise, the place where we land will be far from the coast." ”

Heihachiro Togo said: "The Chinese have no fortifications on the coast, even if the beach is more difficult to walk, our soldiers can walk more." ”

The Russian captains nodded one after another, and Makarov said: "I see that we don't need to rush to land, many of the guns on our warships have a large caliber, exceeding the Chinese's shore defense guns, and our propellants are better than theirs, so although they are at a high place, the range is still not as far as ours, so we bombard them at a distance for a while, and wait until their batteries are almost destroyed, and then we land." ”

Several captains spoke happily, at this moment, there were a few sneers from the crowd, and everyone was stunned, on this occasion, the highest ranks were Makarov and Togo Heihachiro, and the plan was agreed upon by the two of them, who was so bold that he dared to sneer at this time? As everyone followed, an officer in the crowd stood up and said, "No matter how well your plan is designed, our army will not carry it out." ”

Only then did everyone see that this person was the commander of the landing force, Mikhail Popov, because the Marines were completely wiped out when they pretended to be British, so the landing operation could only be carried out by the army, and the army was directly under the jurisdiction of Grogerko, so although this Popov only had the rank of brigadier general, he never accepted Makarov.

Makarov could do nothing about him, and Popov continued: "In the landing operation just now, a battalion of our army was completely wiped out, do you know how they died? They were all killed by the cannons in the battery! Didn't your intelligence say that more than half of the artillery in the battery was unusable? ”

Makarov said: "General Popov, not only your army has losses, but our navy has suffered greater losses than yours!" ”

Popov said: "That's your navy's business, I don't want to care, but our intelligence is obviously a big problem, and we still have to attack according to these wrong intelligence, don't you think it's ridiculous?" ”

Popov's words angered several captains, and one said: "You still have the face to say these words, if it weren't for the fact that your army was beaten by the Chinese in the northeast, would we have come all the way here?" Popov was exposed, his face suddenly couldn't hang up, he raised his voice a few times, and said angrily: "It's not my troops who are fighting in the northeast, isn't our defeat this time all due to the inaccuracy of your navy's intelligence?" ”

Popov quarreled with the captain for a few words, then turned the muzzle of the gun, aimed it at Heihachiro Togo, and said: "Your Excellency the Japanese general, why is your intelligence so inaccurate, is this the only ability of your intelligence officers of the Great Japanese Empire?" ”