On the sea

The battleship "Duke Suvorov" was in flames, and only two rounds of artillery fire were hit hard, and a minute later, the third round of Japanese artillery fire roared, and several huge fires exploded on this steel giant ship that had just been launched last year.

In the ferocious ravages of Japanese artillery fire, the battleship "Duke Suvorov" was bombed with thick smoke and flames, and the entire hull rushed to one side crookedly, already more than 400 meters away from the battle line, and moved sideways in a whirlwind.

The fool also saw that the flagship "Duke Suvorov" had been scrapped, not only the power was lost, but also the direction could not be controlled, the left freeboard was tilted due to the massive influx of seawater, and the five 76-mm rapid-fire guns on the side were covered by the waves, and they had completely lost the ability to fire.

At this time at night

With a wave height of 9 meters and a wind speed of 50 knots, Vladivostok is a harsh climate on the western Pacific coast, but it is only normal in the stormy Atlantic.

As a battleship designed for use in the open ocean, it should be able to overcome such bad weather and continue to fight.

The battleship "Duke Suvorov" was directly destroyed by three rounds of artillery fire, and all the main and secondary guns could not fire, because of a large amount of water, one side of the side was immersed in seawater, and the side side was raised high in the air, more than 20 meters above the water surface, completely finished the calf.

Here, we have to talk about the design flaws of the "Borodino" class battleships, which belong to the problems of the womb.

The "Borodino" class battleships are five of the first large-scale construction of cutting-edge battleships in the Russian Empire, and their design drawings are derived from the "Crown Prince" battleship built by France for Tsarist Russia and the "Sofin" battleship for the French's own use.

The freeboard of the French battleship "Sofin" was very high, but due to the inward tilt of the bow, the seaworthiness was not good, that is to say ~ serious waves on the deck.

It is said that sometimes when the side of the board is hit by a triangular wave, the waves can even reach the top of the superstructure.

At this point

The "Metropolitan" class battleships under the British Ocean Empire faced the ocean-going sea area, and in order to adapt to the harsh sea conditions, they adopted a high freeboard and a large-angle bow float design, which was very good at suppressing the wave situation on the bow of the ship, and did much better than the French.

In order to reduce the center of gravity of the hull, the French designers improved the long bow of the battleship "Sofin", omitting the weight of half of the deck, and the loss of freeboard had a serious impact on seaworthiness, which was also inherited by the Russian battleships of the "Borodino" class.

Here's the problem

Russia is not the same as France, the main force of the French navy is in the Mediterranean, which is basically calm, and it is a long time with Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, etc., while Russia is facing a vast ocean.

The "Borodino-class" battleships, after copying the design of the stable center of gravity at the expense of the French freeboard, were also disturbed in design by the size and capacity of the dry dock in Port Arthur, and the hull became narrower and shorter, which had a serious impact on the artillery arrangement.

The Arthur dock is only 14,000 tons, so the "Borodino-class" battleships can only be built up to 13,500 tons, which is a dead bar indicator that cannot be broken, otherwise once the ship needs to enter the dock, it can only go south to Manila Port for maintenance.

The Russians not only lowered the height of the aft deck, they also cut the thickness of the main armor belt.

The 7.5-inch side armor belts were not originally intended by the Russians, and although the strength of the armor has leaped forward due to the use of new materials and technologies, it has not yet reached the point where such a thickness can be guaranteed.

The original design was to install 10-inch thick broadside armor on the "Borodino", but this expectation was blown up due to tonnage reasons. After cutting the thickness of the main armor belt by 2.5 inches and significantly reducing its coverage area, the side armor belts were only 1.83 meters above the waterline.

The design of the Borodino had already allowed it to squeeze into the already cramped dockyard of Arthur, and the modification had laid a deep concern for its fate.

After the second round of heavy Japanese shelling, the port side of the battleship "Duke Suvorov" poured into a large amount of seawater, and only the side armor belt, which was 1.83 meters above the waterline, submerged and became an underwater armor belt.

In the third round of shelling, the Japanese 305-mm shells exploded near the ship, and the maximum water pressure instantly tore through the unarmored left hull of the ship, forming a large crack up to 17 meters long, and finally caused all five 76-mm secondary guns on the port side to be submerged in the sea, losing the last resistance force.

In more than four minutes, the Fuso Combined Fleet fired three rounds of artillery bombardment, severely damaging the flagship battleship "Duke Suvorov", and the Tsarist Russian fleet fired two rounds of artillery bombardment one after another, without accomplishing an inch.

The Japanese then concentrated the fourth round of artillery fire on the battleship "Borodino" and launched a fierce bombardment on it.

The sound of cannon roared and filled the dark night with carnage and blood.

After seizing the T-shaped prefix, the Fuso Combined Fleet took advantage of its high speed and side to give full play to its firepower, and frantically poured fire on the Russian warships lined up on the battle line, and after lightly damaging the battleship "Borodino", it concentrated its fire on the flagship of the Second Squadron, "Osliavia", which was bombarded by six Japanese capital ships and suffered heavy damage.

It sank about 1 hour and 45 minutes after the battle began, and only about 300 of the 900 officers and men on the ship survived.

Having lost command and fearing the ferocious blows of the Japanese capital ships, the main battleships of the Tsarist Russia lined up in the battle line were already scattered in formation, and the shells fired were scattered and inaccurate, and they could not inflict fatal damage on the other side.

On the sea in the thick of the night

A scuffle ensued between the 3rd and 4th Fuso squadrons and the Russian cruiser detachment. During the battle, 3 cruisers of Fuso were heavily damaged, and several Russian auxiliary ships were sunk,

The sea route was chaotic, the artillery smoke was filled, and the cannon rumbled non-stop, which was simply a pot of porridge, and the two sides began a big melee.

The 5th and 6th Fuso squadrons then went into battle, and soon after, the Russian cruiser "Svetlana" was sunk, and another old cruiser, "Donskoy", stubbornly resisted the siege of six Fuso cruisers, and damaged two of them, "Naniwa" and "Otowa", before being sunk by the opposing side.

In the melee

The battleship "Eagle" ventured close to the flagship "Duke Suvorov" floating on the sea, rescued the fleet commander Vice Admiral Rozhestvensky and dozens of others, and then scrambled to dodge the dense artillery fire fired by the Japanese ships.

Before he fell into a coma, Vice Admiral Rozhestvensky, who was seriously wounded, gave the order to "break through separately", and this order saved many battleships.

At this time, the battleship "Alexander III", which was being smashed by increasing fire and being riddled with holes, sank, and all the crew members were killed.

Ten minutes later, the ammunition depot of the "Borodino" was hit by the Japanese "Fuji", the ammunition depot was destroyed, and the boiler exploded violently, and the high fire ball soared into the sky for more than 100 meters, and the battleship immediately sank, sinking to the icy bottom of the sea in just a few minutes, and only one officer and men of the whole ship were rescued.

The flagship "Duke Suvorov", which was stubbornly floating in the sea, was still shelled by the Japanese side, and the Japanese destroyer fired a torpedo to finally sink the "Duke Suvorov", and the whole ship survived 20 people.

No matter how fierce and accurate the Japanese artillery fire was, after all, this naval battle broke out at night when the line of sight was poor, and the heavy gunpowder smoke after the artillery fire was fired, plus the main force of the Japanese side was only 4 battleships and 6 cruisers, and the 305 mm caliber main ship guns were limited, so it was impossible to intercept all the enemy ships.

"Nicholas I", "Admiral Apraksin", "Admiral Xeniavin", and "Eagle" and other 4 battleships fled into the port of Vladivostok at night.

, "Sisoy-Viliki", "Admiral Nasimov", "Navarin", "Admiral Ushakov", and the old armored cruiser "Monomakh" also took advantage of the chaos to break through the encirclement and enter the port of Vladivostok.

The cruisers "Diamond" and "Emerald" and some destroyers also entered the port of Vladivostok in the early hours of the morning.

Until 7:15 a.m. on June 2

In this battle, the capital ships of the Tsarist Russian Expeditionary Fleet lost more than half of them, the flagships "Duke Suvorov", "Borodino", and "Alexander III" were sunk one after another, "Nicholas I" was seriously damaged, and "Admiral Apraksin", "Admiral Xeniavin" and "Eagle" were slightly damaged.

Seven battleships, three sunk, one seriously wounded, and the remaining three were all wounded of varying severity, and there was no dock in the port of Vladivostok capable of repairing battleships, and the dockyard in Port Arthur, capable of repairing battleships, had already fallen into the hands of the Japanese.

This meant that the fleet could not be restored, and like a wounded beast, it could only hide in the port of Vladivostok to survive.

In this battle, 16 of the 38 Russian warships were sunk, 7 were captured, 4 were detained by neutral countries, 11 returned to port, a total of 170,000 tons of ships were lost, 2,730 were killed, and 1,106 were captured; The Japanese lost only two cruisers, one destroyer, three torpedo boats, 525 killed and 413 wounded.

Fuso achieved an unprecedented victory, and the whole country rejoiced.

With the brilliant results of the Battle of Vladivostok, the Fuso Navy has since stepped into the ranks of the world's naval powers, and has been unanimously recognized by the European and American powers, ranking only behind the Royal Navy of the Ocean Empire, behind Britain, Germany, France, and the Ocean, ranking fifth in the world, and ranking before the Citigroup Navy.

The Tsarist Russian army was defeated back to its original shape by this war, and was ridiculed by the powers of all countries in the world, which repeatedly detonated large-scale civil strife in the country, which made St. Petersburg anxious for a while.

Native Australia

Daming Palace

Li Fushou held this Far East war report in his hand, but his face showed an inscrutable look, the corners of his mouth curled slightly, as if he had thought of something funny?

If nothing else, the losses on this war report turned out to be very different in history, and still retained part of the blood and bones for the Tsarist Russian Navy.

It turned out to be historical

In the Battle of the Tsushima Strait, 21 of the 38 Russian warships were sunk, 7 were captured, 6 were detained by neutral countries, 3 returned to port, 270,000 tons of ships were lost, 4,830 were killed, and 6,106 were captured.

After this battle

The elite strength of the Tsarist Russian Navy was almost completely wiped out, and since then it has been in a slump, and it has not been relieved until the Second World War, and in the past few decades, there has been no Tsarist Russian Navy in the world's oceans.

The Japanese lost only 3 torpedo boats, less than 300 tons, 117 killed and 583 wounded.

The comparison of the two numbers is indeed interesting.