The First Battle of the Eastern Pacific, which shocked the world, has finally come to an end. This is the first contest between a rising nation and an old empire! For the first time, the peoples of the East formally challenged the arrogant Russians. And in 1 day, with extremely exquisite tactics, 4 large warships and a large number of lightning ships of the Russian Navy were sunk, with a total tonnage of more than 40,000 tons! This sinking record is unprecedented! The Beiyang Fleet only sank 1 5,000-ton armored cruiser, and another 1 battleship and 2 cruisers were heavily damaged. When increasingly detailed reports of the naval battle reached the desks of governments and naval dignitaries, there was an uproar in the world. One of the most elite fleets of the Russian Navy, under the leadership of Russia's best naval officers, was beaten 1 to 4 by the other side! This is an absolute reversal of the traditional notion of the proud white race.

If it is said that the Beiyang Fleet won the battle with the Japanese Combined Fleet in the First Sino-Japanese Naval Battle. The Europeans were also able to console themselves with the engagement between two third-rate fleets, and when Xu Jie commanded the Beiyang Rapid Fleet to defeat the Russian armored cruiser formation led by Makanov, the Europeans were able to cover up with a small fleet engagement. So now, when the Beiyang Fleet has beaten the Russian Navy, the third largest beast in the world's warship tonnage, with just one blow, the entire world's continent must face up to the strength of this rising giant in the Far East!

At this moment, the navy of no country dares to ignore the existence of such a fleet. Maybe it's not very big yet, maybe it's still very young. However, a high-quality naval team, extremely aggressive strategy, and perfect strategic and tactical literacy are enough to win the respect of the world's naval powers!

As a North Ocean ally. The British praised the victory of the Beiyang Naval Division, and the Times claimed that the victory of the Beiyang Fleet in the eastern Pacific had already determined the outcome of the naval battle in the Far East. After the loss of a total of 4 capital battleships, including Petro Pavlov and Rurik. The Russian Far Eastern Fleet has already lost almost half of its combat effectiveness! And the remaining battleships are also scarred, for a long time, will not be able to fight in the open ocean, once the Beiyang Fleet completes combat readiness, then what awaits the Russian fleet will be blocked in the harbor, or even directly destroyed. In the article, the British even argued that after this war, no matter how the Qing and Russian sides fought on land. The Russian colonial rule in Japan was bound to end, because with the loss of the navy, the two Japanese ships would definitely be able to cover the Japanese army through the narrow Tsugaru Strait and then attack Hokkaido.

As for the French, an article published in the French newspaper "Diale di Figaro" expressed admiration for the persistence of the Russian Navy in the face of adversity. He also claimed to challenge the opponent's 14 capital ships with only 10 capital ships. And it is not easy to escape from Ascension, (well, here, the Russians also count 4 Guiyuan class as capital ships.) And ignoring the large number of mine-striking ships of the Russian Navy) Although the Russian Navy has been hit hard, but similarly, many of the main warships of the Beiyang Fleet have been heavily damaged, coupled with a long period of overseas deployment, it is inevitable to return to the base for repair and maintenance, so that. For quite some time, the navies of both sides will not be able to function? As for the Japanese Navy, the French said that the Russian Navy was no longer as powerful as it once was. But dealing with the Japanese Navy was not a big problem. (The Japanese Navy has no sense of existence!) ）

The French did not forget to insert an advertisement in it! The French devoted nearly a third of the space to emphasizing the role of 2 French battleships in this cruiser engagement! And claimed, if not for the proper command of General Essen. In the initial period of the war, the Russian Navy should have gained sufficient superiority! Even heavy damage to two Kings is not a problem! Although because of a command error. The Russians missed the chance to win, but on the way back, the Prince and the Russia still covered the entire fleet with solid armor and sharp guns, defending the glory of the St. Andrew's flag!! With such beautiful words, people can't understand whether this article is a naval battle analysis or a shipyard advertisement!

As a newly rising naval power, Germany is not willing to be lonely, and unlike the condescending attitude of naval powers such as Britain and France, who accuse others of not being right, the arrogant Germans actually put down their lofty posture. Although after the passage of the first "Navy Act", Germany's powerful industry began to build a large number of ships for the navy, so that the German navy began to expand rapidly in a short time, but Germany is still in a state of confusion about its maritime strategy and how to use its fleet to achieve this strategy. Is it to defeat the opponent in a violent and direct decisive battle, or to wear down the opponent by breaking the diplomatic relationship at sea and finally force the opponent to submit? Or is it the presence of a fleet as a threat to deter the adversary? In the face of different strategies, the Germans were a little puzzled, and they did not know what way to choose to build and use their fleet!

This time, the performance of the Beiyang Fleet showed the Germans how to use their fleet! Concentrate your forces, use strategy and tactics to create a favorable situation, and then break the opponent's backbone in the simplest and most direct way! In Tirpitz's view, there are two biggest highlights in this naval battle, the first is that Beiyang has arranged the main fleet in the open sea in advance, and the implementation of anti-encirclement tactics is refreshing. In the case of guessing that the Russian Navy might use the decoy enemy fleet, it boldly transferred the main fleet to the periphery of the battlefield, and then cooperated with the reconnaissance to attack the tactics of attacking it unprepared, and the Russian Navy was caught off guard.

Another highlight is the quality of the Beiyang Fleet, this quality is reflected in two aspects, first of all, the fleet commander has a very strong sense of the overall situation, especially the Kaiyuan ship commanded by Isaac Zhenbing is particularly prominent, after encountering the Russian armored cruiser, Sa Zhenbing first judged the other party's intentions, and then looked for the Russian main fleet, and resolutely broke through the encirclement of the Russian cruiser under extremely dangerous circumstances, and finally found the Russian battleship and sent the intelligence back, it can be said that Sa Zhenbing is the eyes and ears of the entire Beiyang Fleet! The second point is that the officers and men of the Beiyang Fleet are extremely dedicated, whether it is Lin Tai who once ordered the other two King-class battleships to concentrate on attacking the Rurik when the flagship was in an unfavorable state, or the single ship Sa Zhenbing searched for the enemy fleet alone, or the most reluctantly Liu Guanxiong commanded the Guiyuan ship to block torpedoes for the Ninghai, the bravery and decisiveness of the officers and men of the Beiyang Naval Division were vividly and vividly displayed! This is the soul and spirit of a country's navy! It is a treasure as important as the fleet!

Relative to the three countries that preceded them, the Italians are the most low-key. Even the Italian Admiralty did not say much about the engagement. Regarding this situation, Marquis Vittorio, the chief designer of the Italian Admiralty, explained it this way: "All this is what I expected, it is normal for the Beiyang Naval Division, equipped with the advanced warships of the Kingdom of Italy, to achieve such a result under the leadership of an excellent commander, and we have no need to be surprised. But in fact, the Italian designer with a keen sense of smell has already put his energy into the new warship design, whether it is the long-range gunnery that Lin Tai used this time, or the powerful combat power of the Dante class.

"A warship equipped with a large number of large-caliber naval guns and using advanced archery techniques to obtain long-range hits will definitely replace all the current active warships, a sufficient number of long-range artillery plus scientific gunnony and new armor-piercing shells will surely change the combat mode of the navy, and a large number of secondary main guns and secondary guns will be equipped with a large number of combat modes that pursue projection. A new era is coming. In a letter to the Secretary of the Admiralty, Brin, Vittorio wrote.

Just when the comments of other countries were boiling, Beiyang and Russia, as the two sides involved in the war, remained silent, Beiyang is really inconvenient to express its position, even the center and the Russian army have not yet settled, and their own fleet has not yet returned to rest and recuperate, how can there be spare time to fight. As for the Russians, what else can be said? Don't be dizzy, and let out a few hard words to support the façade? "Will we send more fleets to the Far East?" "What? That's a bargain.

Tsar Nicholas II was furious at the defeat of the war, and after venting his air gun on the flowers and plants in the garden, the king who did not match his talent and appetite returned to his ministers weakly. "Tell Makanov and the guys in the Far East that if they don't like they're sent to Siberia, then take advantage of the rest of the opportunities! The Empire's footsteps in the Far East will never stop. That's what God means! Then he said to the Chancellor of the Exchequer: "With another 10,000,000,000 gold rubles allocated for the war, I don't want to see the expansion of great Russia in the Far East hindered by a vassal town of that backward empire." ”

In this way, Russian diplomats once again ran between countries in need of new warships. The British and Italians don't have to think about it, as allies in the North Seas, they will not sell even a single iron nail to the Russians. Although the Frenchman had a kitchen knife in his hand and waited for the Russians to stick out their heads, the helpless Russians really had to stick their heads over and wait for the knife to fall.

At the same time, Nicholas II refocused on the army, unlike the navy that was broken the backbone, the situation of the Russian army in Inner Mongolia was still very good, a large number of cavalry and Outer Mongolian servant army had entered Inner Mongolia, although limited by supplies and could not quickly launch an offensive, but the troops of Beiyang Zhili were also forced to take a defensive position because of lack of mobility, the navy is a technical branch, and the losses caused cannot be made up in a short time, but the army is different, for those "gray livestock" in the eyes of the nobles Giving them some food can make them desperate, and no matter how much the tsar dies, he will not feel the pain of flesh, so in the eyes of Nicholas II, opening a gap from the land is not a solution!

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