On the sea

The battleship "Duke Suvorov" was burning flames, and it was severely damaged in just two rounds of artillery fire. A minute later, the third round of Japanese artillery fire roared again, and several huge fire balls exploded on the giant steel ship that had just been launched last year.

Under the fierce ravage of Japanese artillery fire, the battleship "Duke Suvorov" was blown up by thick smoke, and the flames soared into the sky. The entire hull rushed to one side with a crooked slant, and had already left the battle line for more than 400 meters and moved away in a swirling horizontal direction.

The fool also saw that the flagship "Duke Suvorov" had been destroyed. Not only did it lose all its power, but the direction was also uncontrollable. The freeboard on the left side was inclined due to a large amount of seawater pouring into the sea, and the five 76mm rapid-fire cannons on the side were covered by waves, which completely lost the ability to fire.

At night

The waves in Vladivostok outer port are 9 meters high and the wind speed is 50 knots. It has a harsh climate along the Western Pacific coast, but it is only normal in the Atlantic Ocean where the storm is raging.

As a battleship designed for ocean-going operations, it should be able to overcome such bad weather and continue to fight.

The battleship "Duke Suvorov" was directly killed by three rounds of artillery, and all the main and secondary artillery were unable to open fire because of a large amount of water. One side was immersed in the sea water, and the other side was lifted high in mid-air, more than 20 meters high from the water surface, completely complete.

Here, we have to talk about the design defects of the "Borogino" class battleship, which are the problem of fetal belts.

The Borodino-class battleships are five types of battleships, which are the first new battleships built in large quantities by the Tsarist Russian Empire. Their design drawings are derived from the "Crown Prince" battleship built by France for Tsarist Russia and the "Sofen" battleship used by the French. The designs of these three are in line with each other and are not much different.

The French battleship "Sofen" has a high freeboard, but due to the inward inclination of the bow, the airworthiness performance is not good, which means that the waves on the deck are severe.

It is said that sometimes when triangular waves are slapped on the side, the waves can even wash over the top of the superstructure.

At this point

The "Metropolis"-class battleships learned from the British Ocean Empire faced the oceanic sea area. In order to adapt to the harsh sea conditions, high freeboard was adopted and the bow was floating outwardly designed at a large angle, which greatly suppressed the waves on the bow and did much better than the French.

In order to reduce the center of gravity of the hull, French designers improved the long forecastle type of the battleship "Sofen", saving the weight of the half-deck. The loss of freeboards had a serious impact on the airworthiness capability. Tsarist Russian "Borodino"-class battleship also inherited this shortcoming.

The problem is

Russia is different from France. The main force of the French navy is in the basically calm Mediterranean, which is relatively short and short with Germany, Italy, Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the Ottoman Empire, while Russia faces a vast ocean.

After copying the stable center of gravity design at the cost of the French sacrificed freeboard, the "Borodino-class" battleship was also disturbed by the size and capacity of the Lushun Port dry dock, and the hull became narrower and shorter, which had a serious impact on the arrangement of the artillery.

The Lushun Dock is only 14,000 tons, so the "Borogino-class" battleship can only be built to 13,500 tons, which is a dead bar indicator that cannot be broken through. Otherwise, once the ship needs to enter the dock, it can only go south to the Port of Manila for maintenance.

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

The 7.5-inch side armor belt is actually not intended by the Russians. Although the strength of the armor has already leaped due to the use of new materials and technology, it has not yet reached the point where it can be guaranteed to be as safe as long as it is so thick.

The original design was to install 10-inch thick side armor on the "Borogino", but this expectation failed due to tonnage. After reducing the thickness of the 2.5-inch main armor belt and greatly reducing its coverage area, the side armor belt was only 1.83 meters higher than the waterline.

The design of "Borogino" has enabled it to barely squeeze into the already narrow dock of Lushun, and this modification has laid deep hidden dangers for its fate.

After being hit by the second round of fierce artillery attacks by the Japanese army, a large amount of seawater surged into the port side of the battleship "Duke Suvorov" and the side armor belt, which was only 1.83 meters above the water line, was submerged underwater, becoming an underwater armor belt.

In the third round of artillery bombardment, the 305mm shells fired by the Japanese army exploded near the ship. The maximum water pressure instantly tore the left hull without armor protection, forming a large crack of 17 meters long, and eventually caused the five 76mm secondary guns on the port side to sink into the seawater, losing their final resistance.

In more than 4 minutes, the Fusang Combined Fleet launched three rounds of artillery, severely damaging the flagship "Duke of Suvorov". The Tsarist Russian fleet successively launched two rounds of artillery, but failed to achieve success.

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

The rumbling of cannons filled this dark night with killing and blood.

After the Fuso Combined Fleet seized the T-head, it used its higher speed and sidewalk to exert all its firepower, and crazily poured out firepower on the Tsarist Russian warships lined up on the battle line. After slightly injured the "Borodino" battleship, it concentrated on fire to attack the flagship of the second team, the "Osriyavia", which was hit hard by the concentrated bombardment of six Japanese main battleships.

The battle sank about 1 hour and 45 minutes after the battle started. There were 900 officers and soldiers on the ship, and only more than 300 survived.

Losing command and fearing the fierce attack of the Japanese main battleship, the main Tsarist Russian warships lined up into the battle line had already been scattered, and the shells fired were scattered and had no accurate heads, so they could not cause fatal damage to the other side.

On the thick night sea

The third and fourth teams of Fusang started a melee between the Russian cruiser detachment. During the battle, three cruisers in Fusang were severely damaged, and several Russian auxiliary ships were sunk.

The routes on the sea were chaotic, the gunfire was filled with smoke, and the sound of gunfire was rumbling, and it was like a mess, and the two sides began a big melee.

The Fifth and Sixth Team of Fuso then entered the battle. Not long after, the Russian cruiser "Svetrana" was sunk. Another old cruiser "Donskoy" tenaciously resisted the siege of six Fuso cruisers, injured two of them, "Langsu" and "Yinyu", and were finally sunk by the other party.

In a melee

The Battleship "Eagle" ventured near the flagship "Duke of Suvorov" floating on the sea, rescued the fleet commander Lieutenant General Roger Stevensky and dozens of others, and then hurriedly avoided the intensive artillery fire launched by the Japanese ship.

Lieutenant General Roger Stevensky, who was seriously injured, issued an order to "break through the enemy's heads" before he fell into a coma, which saved many warships.

At this time, the battleship "Alexander III" that was gradually sank and was hit by the fire and was ripped off. All the crew members were killed.

More than ten minutes later, the Borodino ammunition depot was hit by the Japanese Fuji. The ammunition depot was destroyed and the boiler exploded violently. The high fire ball soared into the sky for more than a hundred meters. The warship immediately sank and sank into the cold seabed in just a few minutes. Only one officer and soldier on the ship was rescued.

The flagship "Duke Suvorov" that floated tenaciously at the sea was still bombarded by the Japanese side. The Japanese destroyer launched torpedoes to finally sink the "Duke Suvorov" and 20 people survived the ship.

No matter how fierce and precise the Japanese artillery fire broke out, after all, this maritime war broke out at night with poor vision, and the heavy smoke of gunfire was filled with gunfire. In addition, the main force of the Japanese side was only 4 battleships and 6 cruisers, and the 305mm caliber main naval gun was limited, so it was impossible to intercept all enemy ships.

The "Nicholas I", "Admiral Aprakhin", "Admiral Zeniyvan", and four other battleships fled to the port of Vladivostok under the night.

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

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

As of 7:15 am on June 2

The tragic maritime melee that lasted six hours finally came to an end. In this battle, the main ships of the Tsarist Russian Expeditionary Fleet lost more than half of the battleships. The flagship "Duke of Suvorov", "Borodino", and "Alexander III" battleships sank one after another, and the "Nicholas I" were seriously injured, Admiral Aprakhin, Admiral Zeniyvan and "Eagle" three battleships were slightly injured.

Seven battleships, three were sunk, one was seriously injured, and the remaining three were all with different injuries. There was no dock for combat ships at the Vladivostok port, and the dock for Lushun Port, which could repair battleships, had fallen into the hands of the Japanese side.

This means that the fleet's strength cannot be restored, just like a wounded beast, he can only hide in the port of Vladivostok to survive.

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

Fuso achieved unprecedented victory and the whole country was joking.

With the brilliant achievements of the Battle of Vladivostok, the Fusang Navy has since entered the ranks of world naval powers and has been unanimously recognized by European and American powers. Its ranking is only behind the Royal Navy of the Ocean Empire, behind the British, German, French and Western countries, ranking fifth in the world, and is still ahead of the Citigroup Navy.

The Russian army was defeated by this battle and was ridiculed by the great powers of all countries around the world. It repeatedly triggered large-scale civil strife in China, which made St. Petersburg very worried for a while.

Local Australian

Daming Palace

Li Fushou held the Far East War Report in his hand, but an incomprehensible look appeared on his face. The curve of his mouth curled up slightly, as if he had thought of something fun?

For nothing else, the losses in this war report were very different in history and still retained some of the bones and blood for the Tsarist Russian Navy.

In history

During the Battle of the Tsushima Strait, 21 Russian warships were sunk, 7 were captured, 6 were detained by the neutral country, and 3 were returned to the port, with a total of 270,000 tons of ships lost, 4,830 people were killed, and 6,106 were captured.

After this battle

The elite strength of the Tsarist Russian navy was almost wiped out, and it has never recovered from it since then. It has not recovered until the Second World War. In the past few decades, there has been no Tsarist Russian navy in the world ocean.

The Japanese army lost only three torpedo boats, less than 300 tons, killed 117 people and injured 583 people.
Chapter completed!