The mine battalions are equipped with trigger mines, which only explode when the ship touches the shell of the mine, which has five long protrusions, as if the mine has five antennae, and these tentacles contain glass tubes, which contain dilute sulfuric acid.

When the glass tube is broken, the dilute sulfuric acid inside will flow into the carbon rod and the zinc ring, so a simple galvanic cell is formed, and the current generated will quickly detonate the detonator in the detonator, and the detonator will then detonate the explosive.

In order to prevent the mines from breaking through the glass tube during transportation and storage, a layer of lead is added to the outside of the glass tube, but this shield is very thin and cannot prevent the collision of hundreds of tons of hull.

Lukin's ship hit the mine hard, the lead shield and the glass tube were broken, the dilute sulfuric acid inside flowed out, the explosion occurred instantly, the huge pressure generated by more than 100 kilograms of explosives in the mine pushed the water flow to the hull, the steel plate on the surface of the hull, and the supporting ribs inside the hull were blown off, and a large hole with a diameter of nearly ten meters appeared on the hull, swallowing the sea water like a greedy mouth.

After the bow of the ship entered the water, the hull of the ship suddenly tilted towards the bow, and the entire hull tilted towards the sea and sank, the marines in the cabin hurriedly ran out, and Lin Yuan, who was on the shore, handed the binoculars in his hand to Luo Rongguang and said: "Look at it, I will say that the ship is full of Russian soldiers." ”

Luo Rongguang couldn't help but secretly exclaim: "Lin Shuai is Lin Shuai!" ”

The marines on the ship understood at this time, where is this Chinese shell, this is clearly a Chinese mine! The old sailor who was in charge of proofreading the position of the mine was also stunned, thinking that there was no problem with his pilot, why did there suddenly have more mines underwater?

The soldiers on the ship didn't have time to think about it, because the ship was about to sink, and if they didn't abandon the ship and run for their lives, they were afraid that it would be all over, but the order to abandon the ship had to be given by the commander, which meant that only Lukin could give such an order, but they were surprised to find that Lukin was gone.

At this time, the hull of the ship leaned even more towards the bow, but I was afraid that after a while, the hull would no longer be able to stand on the hull, and the soldiers didn't care whether Lukin gave the order or not, so they put down the lifeboat on the boat and scrambled to jump onto it. However, there are only a few lifeboats, and suddenly there is a situation where there are more wolves and less meat, in order to compete for the position on the ship, there are even ** fights, and some people shoot.

At this time, the hull has been tilted to the bow of more than ten degrees, almost straight into the water, people who did not get on the boat can not take care of much, directly jumped into the water, this time is winter, in previous years here will be frozen, this year's climate is warmer, so there is no freezing, even so, the water temperature is low enough, only about zero degrees, such a temperature, people can survive in the water for four or five minutes.

The Russian soldiers were all veterans, of course, they knew this, but they did not give up hope, because other ships were not far from them, as long as they sent small boats, they could rescue them, but soon their hopes were dashed, because other ships were also mine-hitting.

With the sound of explosions, five of the fifteen ships in the flotilla had already hit mines, and the entire flotilla was waiting for the commander Lu Jin to give an order, but Lu Jin was still nowhere to be found.

It turned out that when the explosion occurred, Lukin was standing in the wheelhouse of the bow, and the huge shock caused by the explosion directly lifted him up, flew from the wheelhouse to the deck, and fell heavily near the anchor stopper, the explosion occurred in the bow of the ship, just blowing up the anchor chain compartment, and the anchor weighing several hundred tons fell quickly to the bottom of the sea. The function of the anchor is to prevent the anchor from falling, but unfortunately, the violent explosion broke the bolts connecting the anchor and the hull, and the anchor chain directly pulled the anchor on the deck and moved, this time, the heavy anchor stopped on Lukin's head, and Lukin sank to the bottom of the sea with his smashed head with a scream. However, the people in the fleet did not know that Lukin was dead, and they were still waiting for Lukin's order, so the fleet continued to go into the river, and soon, another ship hit a mine, and the ship that touched the mine basically had no chance of surviving, and the only thing that awaited them was to sink.

When all nine ships in the flotilla were struck by mines, the ships in the flotilla that had not touched mines began to be afraid, and they turned their bows and ran back, regardless of whether they had orders or not, but they were already in the minefield, and when they turned their bows, they hit mines again, and in less than an hour, all 15 troop carriers were struck by mines and sank.

Lin Yuan, who was in the fort on the shore, said to Luo Rongguang when he saw the first ship hit the mine: "You quickly send a few small boats to rescue the Russian soldiers who fell into the water." ”

Luo Rongguang said: "Lin Shuai, your subordinates know that you are kind-hearted and can be called a Confucian general, but these Russians are innocent of death, why do you want to save them?" ”

Lin Yuan said: "Leave them, I have my own use, you go quickly, people die quickly in the cold water, and it will be too late if you don't go." ”

Although Luo Rongguang didn't understand what Lin Yuan meant, he still sent three small boats to the vicinity of the Russian fleet, these boats are not big, they are powered by oars, and there are many oars, and they can advance and retreat freely in the river, known as the "hundred-oared centipede boat", when the Russian troop carriers all sank, these three small boats rushed to their side, and the Qing soldiers in the boats threw the ropes into the water and wanted to pull the Russian soldiers up.

The marines in the river are carefully selected by the Russian army, and they are all elites like the Iron and Blood Regiment, but at this time, they are soaked in the river water at zero degrees, and the heat in their bodies is constantly lost, and their body temperature has dropped to below 30 degrees.

The Qing soldiers pulled them up and put them in the warm cabin, and it took them a long time before they recovered, and when they reached the shore, the Qing soldiers came to report to Lin Yuan: "Qi Lin Shuai, sixty-eight of them were rescued, and thirty-two of them did not carry them, and they died on the boat." ”

Lin Yuan said: "Very good, take good care of those who are alive, they are still of great use." ”

The Japanese-Russian forces outside the mouth of the river were surprised to see that all 15 troop carriers had been damaged and sunk, and the commander of the Russian fleet, Makarov, hurriedly held a meeting, and the commander of the Japanese fleet, Heihachiro Togo, was among them.

Makarov first asked: "Our fleet has all sunk, where is the problem?" ”

The chief of staff of the fleet said: "I think it was a problem with their navigation that led to a minefield. ”

The navigation veterans on the troop transport ship were all sent by the navigation department of the fleet, and as soon as the chief of staff said this, he put all the responsibility on the navigation department, and the chief of navigation was of course unhappy, and the chief of navigation said angrily: "I think there is a problem with your intelligence, and all of our navigation veterans have more than ten years of experience, how can it be wrong!" ”

"Our intelligence is sent by our allies, who have been collecting intelligence in China for many years, and they can't go wrong!" ”

Heihachiro Togo saw that someone had put the blame on him, so he said, "Now is not the time for us to discuss sharing responsibility!" ”