"How long will it take for the fleet to strike again?" Xu Jie asked. ,!

"Except for the Ninghai, it will take about 10 days for the other warships to complete the most rearmament." Yang Yonglin on the side said.

"Nanyang replied? Did they agree to cover the convoy of convoys heading north? Xu Jie continued to ask. In order to provide escort for the transport fleet as much as possible, Xu Jie decided to adopt the method of centralized escort, gathering a large number of ocean-going ships and ships transporting important materials, and attaching them to a relatively powerful escort fleet. However, Beiyang is not strong enough now, so it can only pull in the Nanyang Fleet.

"They agreed, and they will set off tomorrow to meet the fleet heading north." Yang Yonglin said with a smile.

"That's fine. We can't block the Russian fleet in the harbor before it's ready, so we'll have to defend it first! Xu Jie sighed, shook his head and said.

"The losses of the Russian fleet are greater than ours, and the infrastructure is not as good as ours, why can the repair process surpass ours?" Yang Yonglin asked with some suspicion.

"They will decisively abandon the repair of two battleships and spend all their resources on cruisers, and it will take us a while to get from Arthur Weihai to Hokkaido, so time is on their side." Xu Jie pouted and said.

"If we can't block each other in Muroran Port, then we'll be busy here. It seems that the old method can only be used, and the three Guiyuan-class battleships operate separately to search for the enemy ship. Stalk and wait for friendly forces to arrive after spotting a target. 2 battleships were also unable to go to the Sea of Japan for a short time. Yang Yonglin said.

"Disassemble the two battleships and cooperate with the third-class protection cruisers to form an independent escort group to provide cover for the fleet transporting important supplies." Xu Jie gritted his teeth and decided to split the battleship formation first. Dante-class battleships were not fast enough to pursue armored cruisers, but rather used to provide cover for transports. Because of the fear that the Prince and the Russian of the Russian fleet would be grouped together. Therefore, Xu Jie needs to provide sufficient deterrent power for important transport fleets. One battleship plus several cruisers of the third rank should be enough!

For these attack ships, Xu Jie did not dare to take it lightly. On his plane, Essen's three cruisers almost changed the course of the Lushun offensive and defensive battle, sending 18 Japanese 11-inch siege guns and 1 regiment of soldiers into the sea at once! You must know that the 11-inch howitzer that besieged Lushun back then was only this number! If it were to do it again, the Japanese Army would not fight Lushun! And now, a large number of materials and troops in Beiyang have to be transported from the south to the north, the railway network is not perfect, and the main transportation can only rely on sea. So he honestly asked Liu Buyun to disband the battleship formation to cover the sea transportation line.

As for the arrangement of the remaining fleet strength, Xu Jie is like this. The remaining 7 cruisers were mixed into three battle groups, one King-class with two Garibaldi-class into one battle group, and the remaining 2 PISAs and 2 King-class ships were organized into two battle groups. As a mobile fleet, it is deployed in the sea area from the north to the southeast of the mountain to Shanghai, and as for why the battle group is not deployed in the sea area south of it, the reason is simple. The Russians did not dare to start an unrestricted war, there were too many civilian ships on the sea in the south, and it would be nice to have one of the ten ships to transport supplies to the North Sea! Zhili is at war, but the south can live as it should be, and economic activities have basically not been affected! And most of them are civilian ships from countries such as Britain and Germany. Although theoretically, it is possible to strike at any ship that transports supplies to the enemy. But the Russians must think about how to end up once they offend all the great powers of Europe! Even in Xu Jie's plane, the cruising range of the Essen fleet is strictly limited! As for the result of breaking the engagement without limits? World War I Germany will tell you. That's to be beaten by a group of people!

In this way, the entire Beiyang Fleet and the Foreign Ocean Fleet will shrink all their forces to the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea, and this force density is already strong enough. And, of course, the accompanying escort provided by the Nanyang Fleet. In this way, in Xu Jie's opinion, it should be enough! Although the Nanyang Fleet is sad, it also has two large ships and one three-view ship!

In this way, the entire northern sea was reorganized into a large net, and all fleets were contracted, protecting the lines of communication, and the other side would never stay away from the lines of communication without attacking them. Anyway, once an attack on the Russian mainland is launched on land, the first ones who can't sit still will definitely be the Russians! When the time comes, you'll be waiting to hit this protective net! Of course, if the Russian fleet is exhausted and has to go back. It's not bad, anyway, Xu Jie is not in a hurry to clean up the Russian fleet. Once the delivery of important materials is completed, the Beiyang Fleet will personally block the outside of Muroran Port!

In this way, both sides are preparing for a collision in the near future. The Beiyang Fleet stepped up its rearmament and deployment. The Russian fleet, on the other hand, concentrated its efforts on the remnants of Japanese attack ships in the Japanese Sea. At the same time, the Japanese transport ships that could be found were also packed up. The Prince and the Russian even "visited" several Japanese ports and sent a bunch of shells as a "generous gift". Japan's nightmare lasted for a week, during which time Japan lost at least 200,000 tons of merchant ships in its maritime transport capacity. Not counting the supplies and personnel above! Such heavy losses not only caused Japan's national strength to plummet, but also had to slow down the offensive on land. The entire Japanese theater of operations began to stabilize, and the armies on both sides were exhausted. And the Russian Navy also returned to the port of Muroran to prepare for the next stage of the battle.

The situation at sea is again calming, but in the northeast. The Northeast Armed Guards, which had been gathering momentum for a long time, had already completed the most difficult preparations for the war. The Northeast Armed Guard Army divided its more than 70,000 troops into two large battle clusters. Among them, more than 20,000 field troops concentrated in Huma are ready to cross the river, and the Zhouqiao Regiment under the Wuwei Army has prepared enough equipment to support the group's crossing of the Heilongjiang River. Their battle will be divided into two phases, the first of which is to quickly pass through the Heilongjiang River and complete the campaign, followed by an attack on Svobodney. Then cooperate with the troops holding on to Hailanpao to flank the Russian troops on the northern front. After eating this part of the Russian army, in the second stage, they will expand the results of the battle and sweep away the remnants of the Russian northern front. One part marched to the northwest, while the main force attacked Burley to the southeast.

And the remaining more than 40,000 army troops will be personally commanded by Xu Jie to launch an attack on the front line of Vladivostok in Shuangchengzi! The campaign will also be divided into two parts, the first of which will quickly isolate the connection between the two cities and Vladivostok, and try to annihilate their forces on the periphery to prevent them from concentrating into the city. And the second stage is to cooperate with the navy and fight the Vladivostok fortress! Xu Jie's purpose is simple! After this war, Russia will no longer have a military port on the Asian continent!

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