Volume 3 Wind and Rain Founding a Nation Volume 25 The Battle of Vladivostok (Part 1)
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The First Far East Fleet composed of cruisers is extremely powerful i|Prince", the battleship "Queen Elizabeth" battleship "Hangora" was recruited to the Northeast Fleet after emergency repairs. In order to avoid any greedy polar bear reaching his hand to his sphere of influence, the British acquiesced to this recruitment activity.
The fleet includes two Bohai battleships
The "Shengjing" flagship (formerly the British special-mix fleet "Prince Maid") has two 305 dual-units, 12 152mm rapid-fire guns, and 16 76mm rapid-fire guns
"Jilin" (formerly the British special-mix fleet "Queen Elizabeth") is the same as the boarding ship
Six Dongting Lake-class cruisers
Xinmin (formerly British special mixed fleet ‘Hangora’) 2240mm artillery, 10152mm rapid-fire gun, 16 75mm speed
Tieling (formerly Killing Yuan) 2 dual-mounted 250mm cannon, 8475mm rapid-fire cannon
Bengang (formerly Japanese Combined Fleet Hashiri) 16 120mm rapid-fire guns
Qianshan (formerly Japanese Joint Fleet Wave Speed) 12 120mm rapid-fire cannons
Fushun (formerly Japanese Joint Fleet Gao Qianhui) 12 120mm rapid-fire cannons
Dandong (formerly Japanese Combined Fleet, 10 120mm rapid-fire guns
All are ships with guns. Only half of the firepower can be put into place at most.
And six Liaohe-class light cruisers (consisting of 1700~: triple-mounted 120mm rapid-fire guns) can put fire in any direction.
Fleet Commander Tan Fenglin stood on the flagship Shengjing, unable to help but sigh at the magic of creation. He was a prisoner of the British a few months ago, but now he has become the commander of the largest naval fleet in East Asia to attack the weak Russian navy.
However, three more battleships joined the Russian Far East Navy, three Caterina II-class battleships, with three 305 double-equipped units and 7 152mm rapid-fire gun armor of 460-640mm; in 1895, they were the newest ships second only to the British ship's "magnificent class". In order to suppress the powerful Northeast Navy, the new Tsar actually ordered three warships to escort the Arctic Ocean by several icebreakers. This adventure was successful. The three battleships came to Vladivostok basically without any damage, and the several icebreakers escorted were all sunk to the bottom. This means that if you cannot win, then these three latest warships will have nowhere to escape. Of course, in the Tsar's view, the three battleships plus the remaining strength of the Far East Fleet are enough to gain an overwhelming advantage, and the Russian Pacific Fleet believes in this.
In this way, when the two fleets met 40 nautical miles outside Vladivostok, they seemed very panicked. The expected easy main force cruise actually encountered comparable opponents. The Northeast Fleet had no accurate shooting for the first time, and the Russian Pacific Fleet performed worse. After a few minutes, a small number of small-caliber rapid-fire cannons began to respond.
Soon, the two majestic battleships began to turn around and changed from bows to hulls to hulls toward the enemy, so as to concentrate on bombarding the Russian army in the shape of T-shaped. The Russian army's +||+ seized the artillery position, and the already messy formation of the fleets on both sides began to completely scatter. The battleships were mixed with light cruisers and heavy cruisers, and neither was ready for combat.
Seeing this, Tan Fenglin made an extremely bold decision, "Each ship is free to move, and the target is caught and fires." After giving the order, he posed a banner and called the "Jilin" to attack the three Russian battleships opposite him with him.
Intentionally or unintentionally, the two navy soldiers used the battleships and cruisers separately, and the cruiser battlefield immediately turned into a pot of congee. The Russian army had six main cruisers.
Liulik: displacement 7690 tons, main gun 4203 meters, 8 secondary guns 152 mm, 6 gates 12 mm, 1047 mm.0mm
280, main gun 4203 mm, secondary gun 4152 meters, 2475 mm. Armor 210 mm
3. Grid number: displacement 4500, main gun 6152 mm, secondary gun 1275 meters, 8 doors 47 mm, 6 torpedo launch tubes, 573.180 mm
431 tons, main gun 8152 mm, secondary gun 1275 meters, armor 150 mm
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605, main gun 6 152 mm, secondary gun 875 mm, armor 150 mm
There are also several light cruisers, but they are all old cruisers, no
power.
After several rounds of artillery fire, the cruisers of both sides crossed together, and the Russians tried their best to sort out their warships. But even if Wilson was resurrected, there was no way to solve this situation. Simple flag words could not command such complex maneuvers, but instead made the situation even worse. In the end, the Russians had to give up this stupid idea and let all warships fight maneuver.
The Tieling (formerly the Fighting) is now majestic. In the environment where the enemy and us are mixed with thick smoke, the Tieling has become the best blocking ship. It has the largest number of artillery (84) and the largest caliber artillery (250mm) in the cruiser, so that the Tieling can cope with enemies from all directions.
After easily eliminating a Russian light cruiser, the Tieling encountered the "Ascord". The two sides were almost parallel. Shortly after the fire broke out, the Ascord was suppressed by the firepower of the Tieling. The three gates of Ascord were 152 meters and 5 meters were much weaker than the 4275mm of the Tieling. Several 75mm cannons were soon ~.2mm rapid fire > 150mm thick armor was spared. However, all the personnel on the deck suffered a rapid storm baptism. One thousand shells were fired at the "Ascord" every minute, and more than 200 shots hit the "Ascord". The weak armor on the head and tail of the ship was riddled with holes, and fires were ignited in many places, and the counterattack firepower was also weak.
When the Tieling was about to go up and use a 250mm cannon to give it a fatal blow, a giant ship appeared 2,000 meters behind the Tieling. The Liulik: displacement 7,690, the largest cruiser, exposed the sharp catch like a wild wolf.
With a command, 03mm, 52mm, 6 doors, 120mm, and 1047mm fired together. The distance of 2000 meters made these shells extremely hit rate extremely high, and one of the 203mm shells exploded near the waterline, causing a large amount of water inlet. The warship began to lean back, and the tail rudder could not be used normally. The warship could not turn around to respond to the enemy, so it had to advance at full speed to get rid of the pursuit of the enemy ship.
When the Ascold saw it, he was willing to let go and chased him hard. Soon after, the Tieling was hit by another 203mm shell. Fortunately, it was bounced away by the armored belt, but this can only be said to be a lucky person. On the battlefield, you cannot win by luck.
The front suddenly became empty. It turned out that the Tieling had unknowingly broke out of the battleship ground of the cruiser and broke into the battlefield of the battleship duel. Here, the five giant ships were trying their best to defeat the other party, but because of the thick skin, when three sank and four seriously injured appeared on the cruiser battlefield, the battleship had just finished warming up. After the two sides massaged each other, it was confirmed that the other party was indeed a noble battleship, and the formal dance party was about to be staged.
You can imagine how strange the Russians were when the Tieling rushed over. But if the noble battleship was allowed to condescend to deal with a cruiser, the Russians were still happy to serve. However, when they saw the two "Magic Class" battleships in front of them, the Russians could only choose to fight against the Magic Class.
On the surface, it seems that the "Magic Class" two 305 joints, 12 152mm rapid-fire guns, 16 76m rapid-fire guns are not much advantageous compared to the 3305 dual-unit of the Caterina Ii-class battleship, and 7 152mm rapid-fire guns. However, in fact, the 305mm cannons at the Magnificent level are new 35-caliber artillery, and they use smokeless guns. The rate of fire is twice as fast as the 25-caliber 305mm cannons at the Caterina Ii class, and the penetration is half greater. In terms of the power of cannons of any caliber, the majestic level overwhelms the Caterina Ii class. The Caterina Ii class can only gain a slight advantage by its number.
In this way, the three Catherine Ii class did not pay too much attention to the Tieling on the back, and focused on fighting the battleships opposite. This seemingly correct approach was quickly rewarded.
After emergency repairs, the Tieling finally controlled the water inflow. As a large amount of water was discharged from the ship, the hull was lifted back and the hull resumed its steering. Originally, with the advantage of speed, the Tieling could easily get rid of the enemy ship, but when he saw the three huge battleships in front of him, Captain Wen made a decision that he felt crazy.
‘Turn left 6 degrees, keep the ship facing the enemy, and drive against the tail of the enemy ship. The 250mm cannon is ready to shoot! Half of the 75mm cannons are used as damage personnel,
Chapter completed!