Chapter 575: Battle at Sea
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The main force of the Japanese Navy left the Tsushima Strait and headed for Pusan, at this time the Russian detachment was shelling Busan, and Heihachiro Togo would soon command the Navy to complete the outflanking of the Russian fleet. Cam Ranh Bay and the Russian Combined Fleet were attacking Sasebo, and even if they learned that the Russian Pacific Fleet was encircled and suppressed, it would be too late to come to their rescue.
Heihachiro Togo did not expect at all that the combined fleet of gold and Russia did not attack Sasebo, but sailed in the direction of the Tsushima Strait. When the Japanese fleet was about to leave the Tsushima Strait, the Russian fleet broke away from formation and entered the Tsushima Strait, and they would follow the Japanese fleet to attack.
All warships in Cam Ranh Bay, including the Vietnamese Navy and a large number of player warships, sail north from the southern part of Tsushima Island. The fleet will pass through the Korean Strait to meet the Russian fleet attacking Busan, and at the same time act as the main force against the Japanese navy, and the Russian fleet through the Tsushima Strait will complete the outflanking of the Japanese navy.
This was fairer to both Cam Ranh Bay and Russia, as it was the Tsarist fleet that acted as a decoy at first, but the main force in the decisive battle was the Cam Ranh Bay fleet. It was impossible for Chen Hao not to be wary of the Russians, and he clearly told the Tsar that if the outflanking Russian fleet delayed the attack, he would give up resistance and retreat.
The main fleet in Cam Ranh Bay is almost all new warships, and if the Japanese Navy can't catch up, the Russian Navy, which is responsible for acting as a decoy, will have to be finished. The Tsar telegraphed back that the Russian Navy would fight with all its might, cooperate with the Cam Ranh Bay Fleet to attack, and annihilate the main naval force of the Japanese in one fell swoop.
The Japanese fleet approached Busan, but the Russian fleet attacking Pusan was alert, and the ships in charge of reconnaissance reported the Japanese navy as soon as they spotted it. The detachment stopped shelling and began to retreat westward, speeding up in the direction of the Korean Strait.
Heihachiro Togo was proficient in the navy for the S, and he had long expected that the Russians might run. So Vice Admiral Yohei Ito was sent to lead a mobile fleet into the Korean Strait ahead of schedule. The fleeing Russian fleet was soon met by the Japanese detachment, and after a brief exchange of fire, the Russian fleet did not dare to fight, and continued to retreat westward at full speed.
The two fleets were entangled, but there was no large-scale engagement, but the Russian fleet would suffer a big loss sooner or later. Heihachiro Togo stood on the deck of the Kongo, a grim look on his face. In another four hours the Russian detachment will be completely annihilated. And the combined fleet of gold and Russia is still heading for Sasebo at this time, even if they defeat Sasebo, Japan will earn it.
When the Russian fleet fled to the vicinity of Geoje Island, it suddenly stopped fleeing and turned back to fight the Japanese fleet. The Russian ships, which had always avoided being entangled by the Japanese ships, began to take the initiative to entangle the Japanese ships, and the will to fight was very surprising to the Japanese. Heihachiro Togo on the King Kong was stunned after receiving the report, when did the Russians become so bloody and dare to fight to the death when they were at an absolute disadvantage.
Heihachiro Togo soon had an answer, and the combined fleet, which was supposed to be in Sasebo, suddenly drove over from the side of Geoje Island. In front of it is the super dreadnought of Cam Ranh Bay. Ferociously firing at the Japanese naval ships, they cooperated with the Russian ships to launch a counterattack against the Japanese fleet.
"Fooled." This was Togo Heihachiro's first reaction, the strength of the Cam Ranh Bay fleet was originally stronger than the Japanese Navy, and Japan had no chance of winning this battle. But the two sides are entangled, there are a large number of fast warships in Cam Ranh Bay, and if they retreat, the Japanese losses will also be very heavy.
The Japanese Navy quickly lost fourteen warships, eight of which were player ships, and two large warships in the other six. Seeing that the Cam Ranh Bay fleet became more and more courageous. Heihachiro Togo gritted his teeth and gave the order to retreat, even if he would be chased after him and beaten by someone to retreat, he would admit it.
This time it turned out to be a Japanese fleet fleeing. Cam Ranh Bay and the combined Russian fleet pursued behind, and the slower Japanese ships were sunk one after another. Togo Heihachiro's face was extremely gloomy, all the information from those waste intelligence officers was false, the navy suffered a big loss this time, and it would be even more difficult to deal with the Jin-Russian coalition forces at sea in the future.
Heihachiro Togo soon discovered that something was wrong, and the combined navy of gold and Russia was heading south at the same time. Now almost all of the pursuing ships are Cam Ranh Bay battleships, where is the other Russian fleet? Heihachiro Togo had a bad premonition, and his face turned pale in an instant, and the combination of Cam Ranh Bay and Russia had laid a trap, apparently not allowing his fleet to withdraw to Japan easily.
Heihachiro Togo's hunch soon became a reality. The Japanese fugitive warship had just entered the Tsushima Strait and ran into the Russian Pacific Fleet head-on. The Russian battleships lined up and blocked the retreat of the Japanese Navy, which was caught in a situation of being attacked from both sides.
Heihachiro Togo sat on the deck, this battle was over for the Japanese Navy, and the enemy set a big trap in order to completely annihilate the Imperial Navy. Once the navy is completely annihilated, Japan, as an island nation, will be a fish on the chopping block, and will not only lose Korea, but will even return to the era of aggression before the Meiji Restoration.
Cam Ranh Bay threw all the ships into it, the Russian Pacific Fleet went all out, and the biggest naval battle of the game broke out. Despite knowing that the chances of survival were slim, Heihachiro Togo still commanded the fleet to break through, and thanks to his efforts, the Japanese Navy escaped a total of twelve warships, eight of which were player ships.
Those who fled back to Japan were all high-speed ships, and all the dreadnoughts that Japan had purchased in Britain and the former battleships were buried in the Tsushima Strait. This fiasco surpassed the previous war, and the Japanese liked to gamble on the fortunes of their country at every turn, and this time they lost all their money, and even if the players invested a lot of money, they could not fill the huge hole.
After the victory in the naval battle, the Combined Fleet began to clean up the battlefield, and Cam Ranh Bay captured one dreadnought and four Invincible-class battle cruisers to make up for its own losses. After escorting the damaged ship back to Incheon Harbor, Chen Hao sent a congratulatory telegram to Tsar Nicholas II and proposed a battle plan to beat the water dogs.
The Japanese navy was almost completely wiped out, and the Japanese troops stationed in Korea would not be able to receive any supplies, and now was the opportunity to annihilate the Japanese forces in Korea in one fell swoop. The tsar gladly took the suggestion, and two brigades of Russian marines landed in Pusan, escorted by the Russian Pacific Fleet. Without the threat of the Japanese navy, Russia boldly transferred troops from the coastal cities of the Far East to Korea, opening a second battlefield south of Korea.
Players in the two Koreas also began to become active when they saw the successive victories of the Golden and Russian coalition forces and shouted the slogan of national independence. The NPCs in North Korea are also very active, taking the initiative to issue missions to their own players, and cooperate with Cam Ranh Bay and the Russian coalition forces to deal with the Japanese troops stationed in Korea. The Japanese troops stationed in Korea lost their own support and supplies, and their lives became more and more difficult, and they were defeated and retreated from both sides.
Russia is very wary of the participation of players from North and South Korea in the war, and even intends to suppress it, but Cam Ranh Bay is strongly supportive. This time, Chen Hao fought with Russia on the condition that he recognize Russia's rights and interests in Korea, and China could only obtain part of the land in northern Korea. Since the players of the two Koreas want national independence, he will of course strongly support it, and when the Russian European war begins, he believes that the peninsula will be very lively.
The Cam Ranh Bay Army is an angel in the eyes of the North Korean NPCs, because Cam Ranh Bay provided them with a large amount of arms, and the North Korea quickly formed a 20,000-strong NPC force. The players of the two Koreas know that Lord Chen is not well-intentioned, but at the moment their main enemy is Russia, so they can only choose to cooperate with Cam Ranh Bay.
The situation in Korea became complicated, with Cam Ranh Bay, Russia, and Korea attacking the Japanese, but Russia and North Korea were guarding against each other. Cam Ranh Bay played soy sauce in the middle, slowing down the attack on the Japanese troops stationed in Korea, allowing the Russian and North Korean troops to seize territory.
In this delicate situation, Chen put forward the proposal of landing in Japan, believing that the total destruction of the Japanese navy and now was the best opportunity to deal with Japan. On the one hand, they were very interested in Japan's four northern islands, but they were also worried that without Japan's containment, China would become their greatest enemy in the Far East, and they did not want Japan to be weakened too much.
Chen Hao only politely informed the Russian side that even if Russia did not participate, he would do it alone. After Yuan Shikai fought against Japan on behalf of the Beiyang government, China's anti-Japanese enthusiasm was high, and the revolutionary party and the Beiyang army also temporarily chose a truce. The total annihilation of the Japanese Navy by the Combined Fleet made the people even more proud of themselves, and many people called for an attack on the Japanese mainland.
The Cam Ranh Bay fleet has no opponents in the Pacific Ocean, and if the Beiyang and Revolutionary Party send their land forces to the war, landing in Japan is definitely not a fantasy. After the Russian side refused to join forces to land in Japan, Chen Hao quickly telegraphed that he would not interfere in the internal affairs of North Korea, and that the Cam Ranh Bay Army would withdraw from Korea and send troops to Japan.
Beiyang and the Revolutionary Party quickly responded, Beiyang said that it would send eight towns to participate in the battle, and the Revolutionary Party also sent four divisions of troops. In the midst of the protests of the European powers, the Chinese navy was fully dispatched and launched a landing operation of 200,000 men in Sasebo, Japan.
The Japanese elite divisions were basically on the Korean battlefield, and the combat effectiveness of the urgently dispatched troops was not strong, and Sasebo fell in half a day. The Chinese Army landed in Sasebo, and the troops marched into the interior of Japan in three ways, Feng Guozhang commanded the Beiyang Army to attack Kitakyushu in the north, and Huang Xing commanded the Revolutionary Party Army to attack Kumamoto, Yashiro and other places in the south, and the goal of these two routes was to take the entire island of Kyushu.
The Cam Ranh Bay Army, with the cooperation of the navy, attacked the islands of Nagasaki, Amakusa Islands, and Kagoshima. According to Chen Hao's plan, if the Western powers intervened forcefully and demanded that the two sides sit down for negotiations, his demand was for Japan to cede Kyushu Island and its affiliated islands. When the Russians go to war in Europe, he will declare war on Russia to control the whole of Korea and occupy Tsushima Island, so that the military bases in China will be spread all over the East.
Chen Hao commanded the troops to take Kagoshima, and when he was planning the next plan, he suddenly received a system prompt: "Player Chen Baxian, because you performed very well in the game and completed the system hidden mission 'Rescue Aliens', you can use the wealth and status redemption to help you redeem the imprisoned aliens, do you choose to redeem?" (To be continued......)