Makanov is angry now, unusually angry! The Japanese Navy, which had its backbone broken in the war four years ago, actually made a mess of the entire transportation lines of the Sea of Japan when the Russian Navy was weak! Is it true that the Russian Navy does not exist? The old dog still has a few teeth! In the tragic Russian Navy is not something that the Japanese can afford to provoke!

That being said, the actual implementation of it took a lot of effort for Makanov. First of all, the first point is that the number of warships of the Russian Navy is obviously insufficient! These warships are all decisive battleships, and it is okay to fight fleet battles, but if these warships are sent to the Sea of Japan to find the opponent's attack ships, they are not able to catch them. In the end, it took a long time to catch a few shrimps, and the gains outweighed the losses. Secondly, Makanov must ensure the safety of the sea lines of communication, now that the war is tight, the Japanese theater of operations is huge, which determines that even if the Russian Navy finally destroys all the Japanese attack ships, it will be useless if there is no supply on land! The ultimate criterion for judging the outcome of a war is whether the strategic intent has been achieved.

In the eyes of ordinary people, securing one's own sea lines of communication is exactly the same as destroying the opposing party's attack ships, but in reality this is not the case! The assault ships will be destroyed, and as long as the Russian fleet is serious about doing it, sooner or later it can sweep away the Japanese raiding ships in the Sea of Japan, but the Russian army cannot wait, they urgently need to replenish their troops and ammunition. And although Makanov personally believes that the Beiyang Fleet will not intervene in the engagement in the Sea of Japan, this is only his personal judgment, if the Beiyang Fleet intervenes before his own fleet destroys the Japanese raiding ships, or even covers the landing of the Japanese in Hokkaido, then the entire Russian army and the Far East Fleet in Japan will be finished! Therefore, it is necessary to solve Japan's maritime power in the shortest possible time!

"By the way, there are two big guys who can't let go!" Makanov rubbed his temples, which were a little tight, and then wrote in Russian the names of the two Japanese armored cruisers, Kasuga and Hyuga! "It seems that we need to be careful, otherwise we may be bitten by these two big guys!" Makanov said to himself that the current Russian Navy can no longer afford to lose its capital ships.

The Azov type is definitely not good, the combat effectiveness is not as good as the new Japanese cruise, the remaining two battleships are not good, the speed cannot keep up, and the only ones who can eat the spring and the hyuga are the prince and the Russian. Once encountered. The Japanese fleet will be defeated, but how to search for the Japanese fleet in the vast sea? That's a problem.

"General, in fact, the Japanese are more dependent on sea transportation, why don't we follow the example of the Japanese and also break diplomatic relations at sea? Essen whispered. Before the start of the war, the Admiralty had mentioned following the example of the Americans in modifying a large number of merchant ships to harass the sea transportation lines in the Beiyang. And for this purpose, some special merchant ships were specially deployed in the Far East in case of emergency. At that time, Makanov wanted to fight the Beiyang Fleet with a decisive battle. Therefore, he did not care about this, but because of the face of the Russian Admiralty, he took a resigned attitude to improve these special merchant ships.

But with the defeat of the decisive battle, the Russian navy has lost the opportunity to compete for supremacy at sea. Since you can't fight head-on, you can only attack the lines of communication. In addition, the battleships are under repair, and a large number of crew members are idle, which is just the right time for them to exert their spare heat on the raiding ship! As a result, this batch of attack ships prepared for Beiyang was used against Japan first!

Compared with the pure merchant ships of Japan, the special merchant ships of the Russian Navy are much stronger. First of all, in terms of water tightness and reserve buoyancy, it is much stronger than Japanese ships, the latter has a reserve buoyancy of up to 30%, while Japanese goods are generally only 20%. Although there is also no waterline armor, a layer of 70 dome armor is still arranged at key points. Of course, this is just ordinary structural steel, not hardened armor. In terms of firepower, Russian ships are generally equipped with four 6-inch or 47-inch guns, arranged in a cross shape on the deck. There were also a number of 6-pounder guns, all of which were protected by gun covers and fire doors in the delivery lanes. In terms of speed and endurance, the Russian assault ship with an average tonnage of about 5,000 tons has a maximum speed of 16 knots, and the endurance reaches 6,000 nautical miles and 10 knots. This is enough in the Far East.

Makanov divided the entire battlefield into two. A war in the Sea of Japan, mainly used against broken warships. And the other is to launch a naval blockade of Japan in the eastern Pacific! For those Japanese raid ships disguised as Russian ships in the Sea of Japan, Makanov made such an arrangement.

"Ordered that there could not be a single Russian transport ship in the sea of Japan before September 3, before September 3. All raiders and cruisers must reach their assigned positions, and your character is to kill all non-friendly ships you can encounter in the Japanese Sea! It's better to kill by mistake than to misplace! Makanov said categorically. The biggest advantage of camouflage attack ships is camouflage, if you want to determine the identity of the other party and then engage in battle, the other side will have already run away. The most important thing is to let the other party take the lead and even kill you, for this reason. Straight-line thinking Makanov came up with this solution, there are no other ships at sea except my warship, this can't be wrong, right?? Launching a general attack on September 3 does not mean that there is no action before September 3, these ships lead a Russian shipping schedule before departure, and before the general attack, they will be responsible for keeping an eye on suspicious ships, of course, if there is an initiative provocation that is not long-sighted, it is okay to kill it, but the premise is that you try not to startle the snake!

Adhering to this principle, the Russians ordered transport ships to depart from Sakhalin Island and enter the Pacific Ocean to bypass supplies, while collecting a large number of supplies from Sakhalin Island in order to maintain the consumption of Russian troops stationed in Japan. Of course, there are many restrictions on this kind of emergency action, the first of which is that it cannot last long. Whether it is collecting supplies on the spot or detouring them, it will bring great side effects, the former will not only harm the interests of many people, but the latter will be more time-consuming and laborious. So it's just a stopgap measure. What the? Why do you say the Russians stopped collecting supplies from Hokkaido? They have all started to take things from their own homes, and the occupied areas have naturally been squeezed clean!

"In addition to attacking all ships bound for Japan and carrying prohibited supplies, your other mission is to search for two Japanese armored cruisers. Quickly report to the fleet after discovering enemy ships, I need you to keep track of the Japanese armored cruisers. Once you've spotted your target, ditch all other tasks until they're annihilated or they're anchored in the harbor! "Makanov was still very jealous of these two armored cruisers.

Not so much to say how much damage these two ships could inflict on the Russian Far East Fleet. Instead, they are worried that once Beiyang appears in the Sea of Japan here, once the two Japanese armored cruisers join forces with the Beiyang Supervision, then the fast fleet alone will be enough to wipe out the remaining Russian Far East Fleet. And on the other hand, these two battleships involved too much energy from Makanov! Without these two battleships, the Russians would have been able to deal with the Japanese assault ships with only auxiliary cruisers, but because of the presence of these two behemoths, Makanov had no choice and had to draw two battleships from the already quite strained main fleet to deal with the Japanese loadouts.

"Before the Beiyang Fleet returns to this sea area, we must deal with the Japanese fleet once and for all!" Before General Essen set out, Makanov repeated the order again on his flagship!

Recently, the Russian Far East Fleet has been quite unlucky, but that doesn't mean there is no good news! The Russian Far East Fleet finally received a new battleship, and one of the two ships was the French armored cruiser Pothuau, which was ordered with the Dauphin before the war, and the battleship was named Vostok. It was a 6,000-ton light armored cruiser with two 76-inch guns and 10 55-inch guns, with a main armor belt of 6 inches and an upper armor belt of 4 inches, and a speed of 22 knots. Originally, the battleship was to be delivered with the Prince. But because the ship was not in the military port at that time, it was delayed for a while, and after the outbreak of the war, the battleship arrived belatedly! And after arriving in the Far East, in the face of the Beiyang Fleet swaying in the coastal waters of Japan, the Russian officers who led the team really did not dare to go any further! It can only be parked in Cam Ranh Bay with the French flag. And after the end of the war, the Russian fleet, which suffered heavy losses, continued its warships, and under the strict orders of the tsar, after seeing the return of the Beiyang Fleet to port, the Russian battleship flying the French flag finally set off, and before General Essen departed, left Cam Ranh Bay for Muroran Port!

And the other battleship came from South America. This is a relatively famous battleship in Xu Jie's plane. The name is the White Lang Guen Karada. This battleship was originally a 4,600-ton protective cruiser that Chile claimed to be sold to the Qing during the Sino-Japanese War, and this dome cruiser equipped with two 8-inch guns and 10 six-inch guns reached a maximum speed of 228 knots, with a horizontal thickness of 15 inches and an inclined thickness of 3 to 4 inches, and was launched in 1893. This battleship was a good ship in Xu Jie's plane, at least in 1900 it was a qualified protective cruiser, but now, this battleship can only be used for guerrilla warfare, there is no waterline armor, and artillery protection is weak. Sora has good performance on paper, but quickly kneels under high-intensity confrontation!

Originally, Chile planned to sell nearly 7,000 tons of the Prader to the Russians, but the Russians were not stupid, the ship's firepower was not good, the protection seemed good, but in fact the armor belt was only a narrow section. What's more, the speed is not good! With a speed of less than 20 knots, facing a fast cruiser in the North Ocean in the Far East is looking for death! It's not as affordable as buying a 4,600-ton protective cruiser, at least it's enough to escape! Why is Chile suddenly willing to transfer its capital ships? This actually has something to do with Xu Jie!

Originally, in that plane, the Chilean Navy and the Argentine Navy were evenly matched, but with Xu Jie's intervention, after the Argentines had the Garibaldi-type armored cruiser in this plane, Chile's original goods were immediately insufficient! Faced with a grim situation and a not-so-bulging wallet, the Chileans decided to sell their old ships and buy new ones! As a result, the Russians, who were fighting hard to find a ship in the Manchurian realm, decisively entered the trap. Spent 350,000 pounds on a protective cruiser!

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