There's nothing more clumsy about a warship than making a U-turn.

Although a behemoth weighing thousands of tons or even tens of thousands of tons can sail on the ocean, his turning and U-turn are also very clumsy moments.

Especially in times of war, such a U-turn by an entire fleet is likely to turn the tide of the war.

After all, according to the layout of the warship, the place where the warship installs the naval guns is generally on both sides of the warship, the number of guns at both ends of the warship will not be too much, and the relative firepower will be weaker.

Therefore, when turning around, we must also guard against the comeback of the island country's fleet, and once the warship turns halfway through the U-turn and confronts the island country's warship, even if the number is small, the chance of victory will be greatly reduced.

Admiral Witheft took the approach of turning the two battleships around first, with the six cruisers around him to escort them.

Wait until the two battleships have completely turned around before letting them protect the remaining cruisers.

This also had the advantage of choosing to abandon these cruisers in the face of extreme danger in order to preserve the battleships that were decisive in naval warfare.

The battleship is currently the most powerful warship in the world navy, and the loss of a whole six cruisers has not lost a single battleship.

As General Whithoeft had predicted, when the fleet was halfway through the U-turn, the island fleet appeared one after another, and even faintly formed a semicircle, encircling the vanguard of the Pacific Fleet.

“oh，shit!” General Witheft cursed secretly, and while asking his men to urgently call the main forces and General Makarov, he put the fleet in battle form and prepared for the next battle.

There is no advantage in terms of speed, which also means that it will be difficult for the fleet to escape.

Rather than this, it is better to drag on and wait until the main forces of the Pacific Fleet arrive. If it was the main forces of the two fleets that fought a decisive battle, Witheft was not very afraid.

He also knew about General Makarov's plans during this time, which is why General Witheft and General Makarov, both vice admirals, obeyed General Makarov's orders very much.

Just when General Witheft was forced to fight back, the main force of the Pacific Fleet led by General Makarov was also blocked outside Port Arthur.

When General Makarov saw the two battleships and more than a dozen cruisers that appeared in front of him, General Makarov knew that General Witheft was in a bad situation.

The configuration of two battleships and more than a dozen cruisers is already a third of the fleet of the island nation, especially in terms of cruisers, and even to one-half.

If it is a decisive battle, it is impossible for the island nation to send only such a small number of troops to block the main force of the Pacific Fleet.

Then they have only one purpose, that is, to use these troops to delay the main force of the Pacific Fleet as much as possible, and then attack the vanguard of the Pacific Fleet.

This did give General Makarov some headaches. Although the main force of the Pacific Fleet had four battleships, two of these four battleships were Petropavlovsk-class battleships with relatively poor performance.

Although the battleship Osilia had a relatively good speed and protection capabilities, it also lost its advantage in firepower.

The main guns of the Osilida were only four 254 mm naval guns, which were only a little higher than those of the cruisers, and were somewhat backward at the level of battleships.

Only one battleship with relatively good performance Victory can barely be compared with the main warships of the Western powers.

On the other hand, the two battleships used by the island nation to block the resistance of the Pacific Fleet are all advanced warships purchased from Britain in recent years.

Both battleships were on par with the battleship Victory, and even slightly ahead of the battleship Oslibya.

If the Pacific Fleet wants to break through the blockade of more than a dozen cruisers led by these two battleships, I am afraid it will take a lot of effort.

At least until a hard naval battle, it was impossible to repel the fleet in vain.

Thinking of this, Admiral Makarov skillfully commanded his men to put on a combat posture, and on the other hand, he secretly prayed in his heart, hoping that Admiral Witheft would hold out a little longer, and it would be better to hold out until the main force of the Pacific Fleet arrived.

On the line from the port of Arthur to the Korean Peninsula, two naval battles broke out that were sufficient to determine the balance of the war between the Tsarist Russian Empire and the island nations.

There were also some similarities between the two naval battles, in which the main forces of both sides encountered the other side's squadrons with a certain strength, and the squadrons of both sides faced a siege by the main forces of the opposite side.

However, there was also good news for the Tsarist Empire. The island nation sent almost all of its new cruisers to block the main force of the Pacific Fleet, which also left Admiral Whithoeft with only four battleships and six cruisers of the island nation.

Among them, the four battleships were the most threatening to General Witherft, and the remaining six cruisers were small or old cruisers, and the threat to battleships was not so great.

In addition, it was precisely because General Makarov did not take back the Vladivostok detachment that the island nation had to send an additional battleship and several cruisers to tow the Vladivostok detachment and not give them the opportunity to participate in this naval battle.

The naval battle took place at about three o'clock in the afternoon and lasted until six o'clock in the evening.

The naval battle was not only watched by the Far Eastern governors and island states of the Russian Empire, but also by the German Empire, the British Empire, the United States, and France, which sent a viewing group.

Although the war appeared to be a mere war between the Russian Empire and the island nations over hegemony in the Far East, in fact, it was associated with the British Empire, the United States, and the German Empire.

Both the British Empire and the United States expected the island nation to defeat the Tsarist Empire, and if not to defeat it, it would greatly damage the vitality of the Tsarist Empire.

In this way, they can better intervene in the situation in the Far East and Asia to obtain more benefits for their respective countries.

The German Empire simply wanted to win over the Tsarist Empire as an ally, at least in Europe, the Tsarist Empire was still a certain threat to other powers, and it was naturally an ally worth wooing.

Faced with the threat of the German Empire, a rival, France had no choice but to support the Tsarist Empire in order to make its allies take their hearts.

At about six o'clock in the evening of April 13, the artillery fire outside the port of Arthur finally stopped, and the two naval battles were finally won or lost.

The second update, 4,000 words today to take a leave, tomorrow 6,000 words to make up

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