What is the concept of 3 Dante-class battleships, 3 King-class armored cruisers, and three Guiyuan-class light armored cruisers? If you compare it with the Japanese fleet in the Russo-Japanese War on Xu Jie's plane, the combat effectiveness of the 6 10,000-ton capital ships in front of you is at least 70% of that of the Japanese 68th Fleet (6 battleships and 8 cruisers)! You must know that these 6 main battleships are all full turret main guns, while Japan's Fuji and Yashima were still terrace guns, and the 4 battleships behind can only reach a rate of fire of 40 seconds per shot! The firepower of 18 turret guns was definitely not weaker than that of 6 Japanese battleships with 24 12-inch guns.

In terms of patrolling, in addition to the 2 10-inch 40L Armstrong guns of the Japanese Navy, (the same as the main guns of the Garibaldi-type armored cruisers on this plane), the rest were all 8-inch rapid-fire guns. More importantly, in this plane, due to the early use of cap-piercing shells, the 5-inch and 7-inch armor of Japanese armored cruisers were not unbreakable, which led to the possibility that Japanese cruisers could be penetrated at medium and close ranges. On the whole, 3 King-class armored cruisers can reach 6 to 7 percent of the Japanese armored cruiser fleet that year!

Of course, Xu Jie's plane still has more than a dozen protective cruisers in the Japanese Navy, as well as a large number of mine-strike ships as auxiliaries, and Beiyang is still far from being able to do so in this regard. But now, in 1899, the Russians did not run a very complete system of Vladivostok fortresses. The blow of these 9 warships to this Russian military port was absolutely fatal! Russian coastal defense artillery simply could not withstand such a powerful shelling!

"Within the range of naval guns, it is invincible!" As Liu Buyun said, the entire Vladivostok trembled under the roar of the giant artillery, and the two fleets under the command of Liu Buyun and Lin Taizeng sprinkled the rain of death on the coastline of Vladivostok, cleaning up all the ring-firing batteries that could pose a threat to the direction of the army one by one, and as for those medium-caliber guns and small-caliber guns, the Beiyang Fleet was not in a hurry. When the occasional 6-inch cannon hits a battleship, it is often just a ball of fire. A dense rain of bullets combed through the entire fortress group.

"From above, the attacked Russian batteries would soon be shrouded in a black curtain of rubble, smoke and flames. Our firepower is too high. There was even a bit of waste, starting with 3 battleships attacking a group of fortresses, but as the battle continued, we soon discovered that the smoke from such a dense shelling even affected the viewing seconds. And the counterattack firepower of the Russian army is really weak. The Taipei was once hit by two 10-inch shells, but according to the officers and men above, the ship was shaken, and then nothing happened. As a result, cautious long-range shooting became a close-range design, and as the density of firepower increased, the fleet readjusted its tactics to two warships attacking one target in one group, or even one battleship attacking one target in one group! An officer in charge of observation from a hot air balloon commented leisurely on the battle in the Navy.

The record of one side in war is often built on the suffering of the other! Just when the artillery of the Northern Fleet attacked the fortress of Vladivostok in turn. Both the fortified area and the city of Vladivostok were shrouded in flames and smoke. "The guns of the Beiyang Fleet are constantly hammering at our fortresses, and their bombardment is very accurate. With the help of balloons in the air, they calmly corrected their trajectory and fired lethal shells into our gun positions! Those heavy artillery guns that gave up the top defense for the sake of the shooting boundary were taken care of first, in the smoke and explosions, our soldiers fought back bravely, but whether it was a 10-inch gun or an 8-inch gun in the face of these behemoths, we could only watch the gun emplacements being destroyed one by one, one by one the rotating gun mounts were blown away, and the huge barrels were slanted to the side, this was an unfair battle, we could only cower in the fortress and wait for death to come. "In the midst of the roaring shelling, a Russian officer left such a suicide note in a trembling bunker, and then pulled out his gun and committed suicide because he could not withstand such pressure!

If the attack on the fortress made the Russian army feel desperate, then Lin Yongsheng's attack on the warehouses and other targets in the city made the Russian residents in Vladivostok feel the horror of war for the first time, 3 Guiyuan-class light armored cruisers swept the target unhurriedly with their own 8-inch guns, after each round, before receiving the signal from the balloon, all the gunners of the battleship even had the opportunity to chat, which was simply not fighting, some personnel who had nothing to do, such as cooks, The handymen even stood on the deck and pointed at the smoking city in the distance. There is no good feeling for Russia, which is aggressive, from top to bottom in the Beiyang. This way of fighting, which can slowly destroy the opponent, makes almost all the Beiyang sailors feel comfortable.

In this way, the shelling of Vladivostok by the Beiyang Fleet lasted for 3 days, during which the Beiyang Fleet fired hundreds of tons of ammunition in front and back. Almost all of the battery emplacements of Vladivostok that could be fired were blown to pieces, and the remaining secondary emplacements were destroyed by the continuous blows of concrete armor-piercing shells.

And this is only a military loss, in terms of personnel and materials, the losses in Vladivostok are even greater, several granaries and material warehouses were destroyed by 8-inch shelling, many materials that were piled up in warehouses and did not come and transferred were reduced to ashes, among which there was even a powder magazine that was ignited, and a huge explosion directly destroyed a block! "We didn't expect the Beiyang Fleet to come so quickly, they actually reached the fortress before the army and launched a fierce artillery bombardment, we didn't have enough manpower, and the opponent's artillery fire was too fierce, so a large number of weapons were destroyed without transfer!" Afterwards, the commander of the Russian garrison in Vladivostok, Bildelinger, later defended himself.

After three days of attack, looking at the devastated fortress and city in the distance, Yang Yonglin ordered the marines and their engineers to land north of Vladivostok, and then began to erect siege artillery. In this way, the Beiyang Naval Division actually launched an operation earlier than the army! WHEN NIE SHICHENG RUSHED TO VLADIVOSTOK WITH TENS OF THOUSANDS OF ARMY SOLDIERS, NIE SHICHENG FOUND THAT THE MORTAR CANNON DIRECTLY UNDER THE NORTHEAST ARMED GUARD ARMY HAD BEEN ERECTED, THE SHORT AND THICK 280MM HEAVY GUN WAS PLACED ON THE WOODEN ROTATABLE GUN MOUNT, AND THE CORRESPONDING BUNKERS AND COMMUNICATION TRENCHES HAD ALSO BEEN COMPLETED. And this has already made Nie Shicheng, Peng Yi and others quite faceless.

Thank you for the reward of the constellations that soar in the universe~~~. (To be continued.) )