That night, on board the "Chashalevich," the flagship of the First Pacific Fleet, Rear Admiral Wittgeeft, the commander of the fleet, summoned the captains of all the existing warships to discuss the way out of the fleet.

"Tomorrow the enemy's air forces will inevitably continue to attack during the day, and as soon as the warships leave the port, they will be attacked by the superior forces of the enemy fleet, and we have only two ways left: the first is to disperse and break through the Tsushima Strait directly, enter the Philippines or Indochina for refuge, and seek an opportunity to join the Second Pacific Fleet; Secondly, in order to avoid unnecessary losses, after dismantling all the dismantling guns, removing all ammunition and evacuating all personnel, the only remaining battleship 'Chashalevich' was stranded or sank, and the remaining five destroyers left the harbor during the day to avoid air raids, and continued to carry out minelaying missions at night - we must not give the enemy's fleet the opportunity to get close to the fortress and shoot indiscriminately......"

As he spoke, Wittgeft took off his military hat.

"Now vote, whoever agrees to take the second way will take off his hat, and whoever agrees to take the first way will keep his hat on his head."

Within thirty seconds, all the captains in the conference room had their brains exposed.

The Chief of Staff of the Fleet, Colonel La Peruz, raised his military hat: "I have an idea that we can use the" Chaisharevich "as a decoy to attract the enemy's air forces. ”

"What do you mean ......"

"Anchor the emptied ships in the middle of the harbor, deploy as many anti-aircraft guns and machine guns around them as possible, and if necessary, gather the riflemen of the naval infantry units, and tomorrow the enemy's air forces will surely concentrate all their forces on attacking our only remaining fleet armored ship, and we will seize this opportunity to deal the greatest blow to the enemy...... Rather than sinking the warship in vain, it makes sense to use it as a decoy to destroy the enemy, that's what I think. ”

"I agree with Colonel La Perouse, do you have any objections to this?"

Seeing that everyone was silent, Wittgeft immediately made a final decision: "Let it be done, I will go to the commander of the fortress now, gentlemen, and I will summon you before 12 o'clock." Colonel Peter Vidino, I order you to start leading your men in artillery dismantling and shell removal now. ”

Colonel Peter Vidino was the captain of the "Chashalevich".

A few years later, Peter Vidino wrote in his memoirs: "As long as we don't go to sea to break through, [we] don't care what we do...... Since the death of General Makarov, the fleet has been effectively destroyed, and we are only going on a journey of death that was not completed a few months ago......"

Within 10 hours, 30 guns of various calibers mounted on wooden annular anti-aircraft platforms that could rotate 360 degrees and more than 30 single-barreled and multi-barreled machine guns mounted on modified anti-aircraft machine gun mounts were redeployed around the port, and more than 4,000 naval and army infantry armed with Mosin Nagant rifles also landed on the heights and rooftops around the port, and all the gunners, machine gunners, and riflemen knew that their task was not to protect anything, but to shoot down as many enemy aerial weapons as possible before the decoy was destroyed.

The bait floated quietly in the middle of the harbor, and by 8 a.m. on 1 June, the "Chaisharevich" was empty, all weapons except the 305-mm guns had been removed, and all shells, including 305-mm shells, had been removed......

At 9 o'clock in the morning, the clouds cleared and the fog cleared, and the No. 101 "Qiangyun" command airship aboard Major General Guo Zhifei, commander of the Chinese Army's Vladivostok Air Front, swaggered over Vladivostok.

"It's a good day again...... It's a rare good weather, and if it's this kind of good weather every day, you will definitely live for twenty or thirty more years. "As the leader of the Airship Party, Major General Guo Zhifei was obviously in a serious state of well-being, which was really an unbelievable sight, because he was standing next to the leader of the Airship Party, his chief of staff, Brigadier General Wang Shengping.

As a matter of fact, just yesterday evening, the two generals who are usually in tat-for-tat confrontation reached an agreement on the use of troops, deciding that in the next battle, the planes would take the lead, and after the planes had damaged the enemy ships and lost power, they would then have large airships carry out the most devastating strikes against the enemy ships at a low altitude of 200 to 500 meters. In addition, at the request of the Navy, part of the floating forces will perform the task of destroying the enemy's shore artillery positions.

"Hopefully, today we can solve all the problems at once." Wang Shengping squinted his eyes and put on the binoculars, and the 24 "Qingfeng Reform" light bombers of the First Air Bombing Group suddenly shook into his field of vision.

"Yes, definitely." Guo Zhifei emphasized.

Three red signal flares were fired from the port side of the No. 101 airship, and the curtain of the second day of the "swarm bee" operation officially opened.

In the blue sky, green mountains and blue sea, 24 "medium-sized pig skeletons" made an annoying "buzzing" sound, and swooped down in two groups with eight wedges, one group directly took the huge battleship "Chashalevich" that was stationary in the center of the harbor, and one group attacked the five destroyers that were setting sail and fleeing outside the harbor.

When the first bombardment squadron first launched an attack on the "Chaisharevich" from the north of the harbor, when they descended to an altitude of 200 meters, the team members saw that "the ground was suddenly covered with sporadic muzzle flames", and they began to "count the increasing bullet holes in the wings with concern", and soon, the squadron and squadron leader lost control and "rolled and fell into the sea less than 200 meters away from the 'big guy'", and the other two planes of the squadron had to drop bombs hastily. With countless bullet holes, he fled back to the base in fear and shame."

When descending to an altitude of less than 50 meters, the leader and No. 3 of the squad smoked and stopped their engines, and collided with the sea and the ground respectively at a speed of more than 100 kilometers per hour, and the surviving No. 2 plane was forced to pull up, skimmed the "Chashalevich" at an altitude of more than 200 meters and dropped bombs, both of which landed on the sea one or two hundred meters in front of the bow.

The second bombing squadron A and B launched attacks from the east side of the harbor with their backs to the sun, and all six planes successfully dropped bombs, one of which directly hit the stern of the "Chaisharevich," but in the process of breaking away, each plane of the two squadrons was hit more than once, of which the No. 2 plane of the A squad was seriously injured and crashed into the sea on the way back, and the No. 2 plane of the B squad turned over when it landed, and the plane was scrapped, and only one of the three crew members was bruised!

The other four squadrons were at a loss in the face of the small and flexible Russian destroyer at first, and none of the bombs dropped hit, and the captain and squadron leader of the third bombing squadron A was shot down by the machine gun fire on the Russian destroyer "Lightning" instead, so the other two planes of the angry squad A dived down more than once after dropping the bombs, and fiercely strafed the "Lightning" with their airborne machine guns The thin deck of the ship was suddenly full of bullet holes, and the crew on the deck suffered heavy casualties, and the captain soon lost the will to fight, and ordered the small destroyer with a displacement of only 70 tons to be driven to the shore and ran aground, and half an hour later, this small thing, which can only be regarded as a "torpedo boat" in the Chinese Navy, was blown up by a 250-kilogram bomb that exploded 5 meters away, and it was scrapped.

At 9:30 a.m., 21 planes of the 2nd Air Bombardment Group rushed to the battlefield and immediately launched an attack, of which 3 squadrons of the 4th Bombardment Squadron with a total of 9 planes were responsible for attacking the "Chaisharevich," and the other 4 squadrons were scattered to attack the enemy destroyers.

Lieutenant Colonel Zhang Dong led the 4th Bombardment Squadron to attack the sun from the east side of the harbor in three waves, and Lieutenant Colonel Zhang Dong led the 4th Squadron A to rush to the front, swept past the "Chai" ship at an extremely low altitude of 30 meters, and of the six bombs dropped, one bomb directly hit the bridge and one exploded near the bow. Although none of the bombs dropped by the follow-up B team hit, they did not lose a single person. The No. 3 plane of the squad lost control when it was still 500 meters away from the enemy ship and crashed into the city of Vladivostok, and the squadron leader and No. 2 continued to advance in the face of a blazing hail of bullets on the ground. Lieutenant Huang Yan's "Qingfeng" bomber, which fell at a speed of more than 100 kilometers per hour, easily disintegrated like a toy on the 300-millimeter-thick steel armor of the "Chai" ship, and it took several seconds for the two 250-kilogram bombs on board to explode one after another on the starboard side of the "Chai" ship. The bomb dropped by Squad C's No. 2 aircraft missed, and the aircraft lost control when it disengaged, crashing into the shore and catching fire, leaving no survivors of the crew.

The 4 squadrons of the 2nd Squadron, which were responsible for attacking the destroyers, did not achieve any results except for the overturning of the grounded small destroyer "Lightning".

At around 10 o'clock, nine "Qiangyun" large attack airships of the 1st Floating Assault Group and 24 "Qingfeng Gai" of the 3rd Air Bombing Group appeared over Vladivostok almost simultaneously.

"I don't think something is right."

Major General Guo Zhifei, who was sitting on the No. 101 commanding airship, seemed to have noticed something at this time.

"The battleship?" Brigadier General Wang Shengping also woke up slightly, "Indeed, it has not been touched since the beginning...... It doesn't mean to dodge bombs at all......"