PS: (Thank you for the precious monthly ticket voted by the fifth in the world)

After entering January 1905, Chen Hao could not continue to stay in Guizhou, and he had to return to Cam Ranh Bay. The Russian Second Pacific Fleet had already departed and arrived on the island of Madagascar, and soon to be resupplied in Cam Ranh Bay, and he had to prepare accordingly.

The Battle of Tsushima was about to break out in four months, and the Russians were completely defeated in this battle, 21 ships were sunk, 9 were captured, 270,000 tons of ships were lost, 4,830 were killed, and 5,917 were captured; The Japanese lost only 3 torpedo boats, less than 300 tons, 117 killed and 587 wounded.

Japan's unprecedented victory was a classic example of winning more with less, and objectively speaking, the performance of the Japanese Navy can be described as perfect. The war paved the way for the Portsmouth Peace Treaty three months later, and from then on it became the world's leading naval power in the Far East.

The Russians lost too badly in the Battle of Tsushima, and it was even more difficult to change this plot, Chen Hao had to prepare in advance. If you want the war between Japan and Russia to go on for a long time, the Battle of Tsushima is the only chance, even if you lose some warships because of participating in this naval battle, Chen Hao has to do his best.

The Russo-Japanese War made a bet on Japan's national fortunes, and if the outcome of the Battle of Tsushima were to be rewritten, Japan's fate in the game would be completely different. Historically, the Japanese have inflicted the greatest damage on the Chinese nation in modern times, and if the outcome of the Battle of Tsushima has affected its development, the fate of China will also change.

The more extensive the game's story missions, the more difficult it becomes, and the task of changing the outcome of the Battle of Tsushima, which involves the fate of several countries and nations, is also the most difficult. In Chen Hao's memory, no one could do this kind of plot before the game time 1940, and now he relied on his memory to obtain Captain Gint's treasure in advance, and he wanted to work hard.

It is no exaggeration to say. The Russian Pacific Second Fleet is Adou, which cannot be supported, and it has been defeated so completely. Even so, in order to continue the Russo-Japanese War for a long time, Chen Hao had to work hard to see if he could help Adou up.

In 1904, the war between Japan and Russia was stalemate, and the Russian Army was limited by the transportation capacity of the Trans-Siberian Railway. Reinforcements from Europe were slow. The Russian commanders were incompetent, they had not been able to achieve a decisive victory on the battlefield, and the cold winter was approaching, and the battle in northeastern China was even more miserable.

Although the Japanese won successes, the casualty rate was high, especially in the attack on Lushun, where the Third Army under the command of General Nogi Noshinori almost stepped through the trenches filled with the corpses of his fallen comrades before taking Lushun. The problem of the Japanese army is that it has not been able to intercept the main Russian fleet and give it a head-on attack, and if the war drags on for a long time, the Japanese economy will inevitably be dragged down and collapsed.

The Japanese were desperate to deliver a heavy blow to the Russian army in order to end the Russo-Japanese War as soon as possible. Historically, in June 1904, due to the poor performance of the Russian Pacific Fleet and the dilemma of defending Arthur. Tsar Nicholas II decided to send reinforcements of Russian ships from the Euro-Russian region. It was this reinforcement, seized by the Japanese and the complete defeat in the Tsushima Strait, that allowed the Japanese to win the war.

In the 19th century, Russia was pressured by Britain to promise in the Treaty of London that the Russian Black Sea Fleet would not pass through the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus and enter the Mediterranean. That is, the Russian Black Sea Fleet is a completely defensive fleet, which has no other role than cruising the Black Sea in the depths of the interior, so the only naval force available to Russia is the Baltic Fleet.

After the Tsar decided to send the European and Russian fleets to help, the original Pacific Fleet was renamed the First Pacific Fleet. The Baltic East Reinforcement Fleet was appointed as the Second Pacific Fleet, and Vice Admiral Rozdvinsky was appointed commander of the Second Pacific Fleet.

What was in front of Lieutenant General Rozdesvensky was a mess. The bureaucratic habits of the tsarist government were serious, and there were many procedures to go through to apply for supplies, which was extremely disturbing, and what was even more worrying was that the main ship of the Second Pacific Fleet, the Baltino-class battleship, was still three unfinished.

Seeing that the Russian fleet in the Far East was trapped in Arthur, the military situation was as anxious as a spark, but the Russian bureaucracy still did not change its consistent attitude. Time dragged on day by day. Since most of the elite officers and men of the Russian Navy were in the Far East, Rozdesvensky had to recruit veterans and peasants who had never seen the sea to serve as sailors to retrain, which had a great impact on the overall combat power and laid the groundwork for the fiasco of the Battle of Tsushima.

Game time September 1904, ships three and four of five Borodino-class battleships. The Duke Suvorov and the Eagle were completed and put into service. After more than 4 months of preparation, Rozdvinsky finally assembled a decent fleet.

On October 15, 1904, the Second Pacific Fleet departed from the Reburg base, and the commander of the first fleet was concurrently Rozdvinsky, under the command of the new Baltino-class warships such as the Duke of Kensuvorov, Alexander III, Borodino and Eagle, among which the Duke of Suvorov and the Eagle were officially commissioned on September 10 and became the flagship of the Second Pacific Fleet.

The second team was led by Rear Admiral Fokker Hill and included the battleships Osri Yabia, Navarin, and the armored cruiser Admiral Nakhimov. The third team was led by Rear Admiral Ankwest, and had eight cruisers, including the cruisers Olji and Aurora, as well as a number of armed merchant ships and supply ships.

The Second Pacific Fleet, with a total of forty-two warships, outnumbered the Japanese in tonnage. In addition to the NPC fleet, some Russian player forces with warships received the mission to participate in the Battle of Tsushima, sending a total of forty-eight warships, large and small.

The number of warships in the Second Pacific Fleet reached ninety, and although most of the player's warships were cruisers and destroyers, the strength of the Russian fleet was also greatly enhanced. Despite the historical defeat of Russia at the Battle of Tsushima, these players participated in the mission, hoping that the player's warship would change the story mission after the battle.

In the game, it is easier for Russian players to buy warships than Japanese players, so Russian players have more warships in quality and quantity than Japanese players. If all Russian forces participate in the story mission, the Second Pacific Fleet can add more than 100 player warships, but because many Russian players do not see that their own NPC fleet is not participating in the mission, the number of warships participating in the mission between Russian players and Japanese players is not much different.

Japan's top players, the Yamamoto family, the Matsushita family, and Ishihara Kika, suffered heavy losses in their battle for the treasure, so none of the fleets of these three were involved in the mission. The Japanese took part in the mission with a total of thirty-five warships, but twenty-eight were destroyers and torpedo boats, and only eight cruisers.

Of the 48 warships that the Russian player is involved in, there are as many as 22 cruisers, so the Russians have the upper hand in the player's fleet. The Russian players who participated in the mission fantasized that so many player warships would join, and the Chinese player Chen Ba first took away one of Japan's main battleships and cruisers, and tried to change the story mission of the Battle of Tsushima.

Chen Hao scoffed at the fantasies of Russian players, the battle between NPCs The Russians were completely defeated, and Russian players did not have the main battleship to participate in the mission, how could it be so easy to change the plot mission? Even if the Russian players have some advantage over the Japanese players, by the time they win the Japanese players' fleet, it is estimated that the Russian Second Pacific Fleet will be finished.

Chen Hao had the largest fleet of players, the main battleship Qin Shi Huang, and a number of advanced armored cruisers, and he didn't dare to participate in it. If he wanted to change the outcome of the Battle of Tsushima, he had to have a stronger fleet, and when Silva ordered the warships, he demanded that they be completed by February 1905, for which he did not hesitate to add an additional half million pounds.

The Dreadnought-class battlecruisers and Invincible-class battlecruisers had already been launched, and the shipyard would soon be sent to Indochina to hand over to Silva, which caused a stir. There was a lot of discussion in the forums of various countries, and it was unanimously agreed that Silva's purchase of warships was to deal with the threat of the Chinese fleet in Cam Ranh Bay, and they discussed who had the advantage in the competition between the two players.

"The French player Silva was lucky enough to complete the Dreadnought and Invincible-class battlecruiser missions, buying the most advanced battleship early in the game at a modest price. Although his fleet only has three warships, he has surpassed Chen Baxian, a Chinese player in Cam Ranh Bay, to become the most powerful player fleet. ”

"The Chinese player Chen Ba first had a fleet that was not weak, and the French who were developing in Indochina felt the pressure, so they preemptively built the fleet. The French fleet is superior in quality, and the Chinese still have a numerical advantage, but as long as the French spend some more money to buy all kinds of destroyers to cooperate, the Chinese are definitely not opponents. ”

"Dreadnought-class battleships are epoch-making warships that are now in the game, and the first to have them is the player. The combat power of this Jumbo class battleship is definitely equivalent to that of more than two mainstream battleships. The cost of the Invincible-class battlecruisers also exceeds that of the current battleships, and the combat effectiveness is not weaker than the battleships in the slightest, and I personally think that the fleet of my country's player Silva will definitely defeat the fleet of the Chinese. ”

The French media were the most excited, and they were also the most optimistic about these three warships, believing that these three warships could completely defeat Chen Hao's fleet. Chen Hao very much agrees with their views, according to Mahan's theory of sea power, battleships in this era have an irreplaceable supremacy in naval warfare. The most important thing in naval warfare is firepower and speed, and as the most advanced battleship at present, the Dreadnought-class battleship can definitely play an incomparably huge role.

Chen Hao agreed with the French media report, so he was looking forward to what the French would feel when Silva handed over the three warships to him. After learning that the Dreadnought-class battleships and the Invincible-class battlecruisers were launched at the same time, he immediately rushed from Guizhou to the Beihai Sea in Guangxi and returned to Cam Ranh Bay on a merchant ship. (To be continued......)