Chapter 319 Completely wiped out the Pacific Fleet
Besides, Song Hu led the battleship Qin Shihuang and two cruisers to pursue the escaped Commander Stark of the Rakshasa Kingdom.
Although Stark escaped for a period of time in advance, due to the speed of the Rakshasa Kingdom battleship, he was still quickly overtaken by the fleet led by Song Hu.
Starck looked at the enemy battleships getting closer and closer on the warship, his face full of clouds. He originally thought of using a few cruisers as bait so that he could escape safely, but he did not expect that the opponent's speed would be so fast.
He caught up with himself.
But since I can't escape, I can only fight to the death.
The reason why Stark had such confidence was because he saw that although the Qin Shihuang battleship he was chasing was huge, there were three battleships on his side. As long as he could severely damage the opponent's battleship, he would be able to escape.
opportunity.
Therefore, Starck ordered the three battleships to begin to draw an arc on the sea, forming a battle line on one side, forming a situation of overwhelming the battleship Qin Shihuang.
Song Hu had already seen through the telescope that the opponent had changed its formation, and it seemed that he was bullying himself because he had fewer people and wanted to attack him.
Song Hu saw the other party's wishful thinking. What he was thinking was that this time, you made the wrong idea.
So Song Hu ordered the battleship Qin Shihuang under his command to reach its maximum speed, draw a beautiful arc on the sea, and use the advantage of speed to appear at the rear of the enemy.
What Song Hu faced here was an enemy ironclad ship with two 305mm old-fashioned artillery pieces at the tail.
But what he owns are nine new cannons with a caliber of 406 mm.
After two rounds of shelling, the ironclad ship was hit by two 406 mm caliber shells. It immediately became unable to hold on and finally tilted and sank to the bottom of the sea.
At this time, the leading battleship Poltava also reluctantly completed the turn and aimed its four 305 mm naval guns at the battleship Qin Shihuang.
Following four loud noises, artillery shells were fired and quickly approached Qin Shihuang.
Since the two sides had entered a state of hand-to-hand combat, the distance was very close. Miraculously, two of the four shells hit the battleship Qin Shihuang.
However, even if he hit the Qin Shihuang, the battleship did not pose any threat to this behemoth. It only dented the side armor of the Qin Shihuang battleship.
But Qin Shihuang immediately counterattacked him, and then three shells accurately hit the battleship Poltava.
Facing the 406 mm caliber giant gun, this battleship had no way to support it.
A cannonball was shot from the front deck and exploded directly inside, and then a flame formed in the front turret. Then, as the fire spread, the shells stored in the front turret exploded.
You can imagine the power of the explosion of dozens of large-caliber shells. This huge ship of more than 10,000 tons immediately opened several large holes, and seawater poured in crazily.
Song Hu saw that this battleship could no longer continue, so he changed the target and launched a final attack on the enemy's only remaining ironclad ship.
After three rounds of shelling, a shell finally hit the enemy's flank accurately.
This shell immediately opened a large hole of nearly three meters in the side of the armored ship. With the crazy influx of sea water, the battleship's originally low speed immediately dropped to 5 knots.
After that, Song Hu became leisurely. He drove the battleship Qin Shihuang and circled around the two warships that had not yet sunk.
Every time it draws an arc on the sea, a round of artillery fire will be launched on the two warships.
After several rounds of shelling, the two battleships finally failed to hold up and sank into the ocean.
However, Stark, the commander of the Russian fleet, was very good at escaping. He even got into a lifeboat before the battleship sank.
Now the commander of the Russian Far East Fleet is floating on the sea with two staff officers.
Because Stark's military uniform was very obvious, he was quickly discovered by the people on Song Hu's side.
A staff officer pointed to the distance and reported Lesdalk's whereabouts to Song Hu.
Song Hu looked at the other party's embarrassment in the telescope, and the smile at the corner of his mouth became bigger and bigger. He ordered Yamamoto Gonbei who had been following him: "Send someone to pick up the commander. This is a big road."
fish."
After hearing this, Yamamoto Gonbei immediately went to the deployment department, and soon two lifeboats approached Stark.
Now, although Stark knew that the other party was here to capture him, he did not put up any resistance, so he pulled him into the enemy's lifeboat, and then all the way to the battleship Qin Shihuang.
After boarding the battleship Qin Shihuang, Starck didn't have time to take a look at the giant ship that defeated him. Instead, he straightened his soaked clothes first.
Next, Song Hu met the subdued commander in his command cabin.
The first thing Stark said when he met Song Hu was: "I hope to get treatment worthy of my status."
After Song Hu heard about the other party's meeting, he did not discuss the reasons for the failure of the battle. Instead, he first cared about his own treatment and shook his head speechlessly.
"Commander, please rest assured that you will be treated appropriately."
Next, Song Hu was not in the mood to chat with the commander anymore. He waved his hand and asked the soldiers to lock him in a separate cabin.
After the commander went down, Song Hu said to Yamamoto Gonbei who was following him: "No wonder the Rakshasa Navy is so vulnerable. With such a commander, even the most advanced warships cannot withstand their torment.
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Yamamoto Gonbei nodded repeatedly on the side. In fact, the Rakshasa Navy was not at much of a disadvantage in this battle. If the opponent fought desperately, it might be able to cause great losses to his side.
The next task is to rescue the crew at sea. Naturally, this task does not require the battleship Qin Shi Huang. The two armored cruisers following the Qin Shi Huang take over this task.
After rescuing the crew at sea, the small fleet took the battleship Qin Shihuang as the lead and began to turn.
They sailed southward for dozens more times to return the favor, and finally met from the big ship to Orange Heart.
After the fleet rendezvous, the first thing Song Hu saw was a large hole on the side of the Fuji.
Seeing this situation, Song Hu frowned, then pointed at the Fuji and asked Yamamoto Gon's position: "Is this the talent you recommended?"
Yamamoto Gonbei also saw the situation of the Fuji. He did not expect that with such an advantage, Togo Heihachiro would cause such heavy damage to a Japanese battleship.
Now Yamamoto Gonbei is also disappointed with Togo Heihachiro.
So he was speechless in response to Song Hu's question and didn't know how to answer it at all.
Song Hu thought for a while, and then asked Heihachiro Togo on the Fuji through a semaphore to send personnel to the flagship to report the loss of the battleship.
Soon a Japanese staff officer came aboard the Fuji and arrived at the Qin Shihuang.
After the staff member's report, Song Hu finally understood the situation at that time. It seemed that Togo Heihachiro was really not to blame.
This was a surprise attack launched by the other side after surrendering. This completely violated the principles of maritime warfare. No wonder Togo Heihachiro was not there to rescue those crew members who fell into the water.
Yamamoto Gon, who was on the side, finally breathed a sigh of relief, understanding that the loss of the Fuji was not due to Togo Heihachiro's command error.
Although Togo Heihachiro has unshirkable responsibility for the damage to the Fuji, at least it was not caused by his ability, so the impression on Liu Hai would not be too bad.
Next, Song Hu maintained Togo Heihachiro's policy and stopped rescuing the Rakshasa Kingdom sailors on this sea.
After that, Song Hu led a dozen warships to Port Arthur in a mighty manner.
At the beginning of this sea, these Rakshasa sailors who fell into the water were still desperately approaching any floating wooden planks nearby, hoping to survive by relying on these floating objects.
But above the sea, they could not preserve their body temperature at all, and soon the sailors who fell into the water died one by one.
At this point, this war concerning sea control in the Far East is finally over.
After this battle, the Far East Fleet of the Rakshasa Kingdom could be said to have been completely wiped out, and it no longer had the ability to threaten the maritime lines of communication between the Qing Kingdom and the Japanese Kingdom.
At this time, on land, the Rakshasa army did not know that the navy had been completely wiped out. They were still confronting the Japanese army outside Shengjing City.
Both sides are waiting for the situation of the battle to change so that they can defeat the other side together.
On November 20, 1898, shocking news came from the two armies.
The Rakshasa Kingdom's Pacific Fleet was completely annihilated.
This news was a heavy blow to the Rakshasa Army.
The original combat goal of the Rakshasa Kingdom was to use the Pacific Fleet to destroy Lushun, a large port in the northeast of the Qing Dynasty, before the main force of Liu Hai's Nanyang Fleet arrived in the Far East.
This would slow down the Qing's troop mobilization and at the same time cause chaos in their logistical supplies.
As a result, the goal was not achieved, and instead the entire Pacific Fleet was annihilated.
Judging from the current situation, if the confrontation continues, with more and more Qing reinforcements, we will be at a greater disadvantage, and may even be in danger of being surrounded.
At this time, Yevgeny Ivanovich Alexeyev, the commander of the Far East region of the Rakshasa Kingdom, made a wrong judgment.
Although the commander had judged that he was at a disadvantage, he did not retreat to Harbin, which was more advantageous.
They just evacuated back to the Changchun area. Here, as the commander Yevgeny Ivanovich Alexeyev, he did not consider this withdrawal from a military perspective, but considered how to withdraw to Harbin.
, the St. Petersburg side will definitely be angry.
So the Rakshasa Kingdom simply retreated, several hundred miles back to Changchun.
Although the Rakshasa Kingdom has retreated a bit, their logistical supply is still very difficult, and it has not fundamentally solved their current situation of long logistics and difficult supply.