Makanov is very angry now. He is extremely angry that the Japanese Navy, whose back was broken in the war 4 years ago, actually messed up the transportation lines of the entire Japanese Sea when the Russian Navy was weak. He really pretended that the Russian Navy did not exist.

How many teeth does the old dog still have? Even in the tragic Russian Navy, the Japanese cannot afford to offend them.

Having said that, the actual implementation has given Makanov a lot of thought. The first point is that the number of warships in the Russian Navy is obviously insufficient. These warships are decisive battle warships. It is okay to engage in fleet battles, but if these warships

Sent to the Japanese sea to look for the opponent's attack ships, but failed to catch them. In the end, it took a long time to catch a few

Xiami would lose more than he gained. Secondly, Makanov must ensure the safety of the sea lines of communication. Now the war is tense and the Japanese theater consumes huge amounts of money. This determines that even if the Russian Navy eventually destroys all the Japanese attack ships, there will be no gains on land.

It's useless without supplies. The ultimate criterion for judging the outcome of a war is whether strategic intentions are realized.

In the eyes of ordinary people, ensuring one's own sea lines of communication and destroying the other party's attack ships are completely equivalent, but in fact it is not the case that the attack ships will be destroyed. As long as the Russian fleet does it seriously, sooner or later it can sweep away the Japanese ships in the Japanese sea.

Japanese attack ships, but the Russian Army cannot wait. They are in urgent need of replenishing soldiers and ammunition. And although Makanov personally believes that the Beiyang Fleet will not intervene in the battle in the Japanese Sea, this is only his personal judgment. If in his own fleet

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If the Beiyang Fleet intervenes before Japan attacks the ship, or even covers Japan's landing in Hokkaido, then the entire Russian army stationed in Japan and the Far East Fleet will be completely destroyed. Therefore, Japan's maritime power Japan and Japan must be eliminated in the shortest possible time.

Ri pointed out the names of two Japanese armored cruisers. "It seems that we have to be more careful, otherwise we may be bitten by these two big guys." Makanov said to himself, the current Russian Navy has repeatedly

No more battleships can be lost.

The only ones facing Japan and Japan are the Prince and Russia. Once they encounter Japan, the Japanese fleet will be defeated. But how to search for the Japanese fleet on the vast sea? This is a problem.

"General, in fact, the Japanese are more dependent on sea transportation. Why don't we imitate the Japanese and start breaking diplomatic relations at sea? Essen whispered. Before the war, the Navy Ministry had mentioned the idea of ​​imitating the Americans and massively modifying merchant ships to harass the Beiyang.

sea ​​transportation lines.and

For this purpose, some special merchant ships were specially deployed in the Far East to prepare for emergencies. At that time, Makanov wanted to fight the Northern Fleet through a decisive battle. So he was not interested in this, but it was also in the face of the Russian Navy Ministry, so

So they improved these special merchant ships with a resigned attitude.

However, with the failure of the decisive battle, the Russian Navy has lost the opportunity to compete for supremacy at sea. Since it cannot win in a head-on battle, it can only attack the lines of communication. In addition, the warships are under maintenance and a large number of crews are idle, which is just enough for them.

As a result, the remaining heat was used on the attack ships. As a result, this batch of attack ships prepared for Beiyang were first used against Japan.

Compared with Japan's pure merchant ships, the Russian Navy's special merchant ships are much stronger. First of all, they are much better than Japanese ships in terms of watertightness and reserve buoyancy. The latter's reserve buoyancy is as high as 30, while Japanese ships are average.

That’s 20. Although there is also no waterline armor, a layer of 70mm dome armor is still deployed at key points. Of course, this is just ordinary structural steel and not hardened armor. In terms of firepower, Russia

Chinese ships are generally equipped with four 6-inch or 4.7-inch guns, arranged in a cross shape on the ship. There are also some 6-pound guns. All the guns are protected by gun hoods and are equipped with fire doors on the bomb delivery channel.

.In terms of speed and endurance, the Russian assault ship with an average tonnage of about 5,000 tons has a maximum speed of 16 knots, and the endurance reaches 6,000 nautical miles and 10 knots. This is enough in the Far East.

Makanov divided the entire battlefield into two. One was the Japanese Sea War, which was mainly used to deal with destroying warships. The other was to launch a naval blockade against Japan in the Eastern Pacific and deal with those ships disguised as Russian ships in the Japanese Sea.

For the Japanese attack ship, Makanov made such an arrangement.

"The order is that before September 3rd, there cannot be a Russian transport ship on the Japanese sea. Before September 3rd, all attack ships and cruisers must arrive at the designated positions. Your characters are to kill all the Japanese ships that can be encountered on the sea.

"It is better to kill unfriendly ships than to misplace them," Makanov said categorically. The biggest advantage of camouflaged attack ships is camouflage. If you want to confirm the opponent's identity before engaging in battle, at least the opponent will have escaped, or at worst, let the opponent take advantage of it.

First

The machine will even kill you. For this reason, Makanov, who thinks in a straight line, came up with this method. There is no other ship on the sea except my warship. This will not make a mistake. Launching a general offensive on September 3rd does not mean that,

No action will be taken before September 3rd

, these ships will lead a Russian shipping list before departure. Before the general attack, they will be responsible for tracking suspicious ships. Of course, if there is an unsighted provocation, they can kill them easily, but the premise is to try not to alert the snake.

While clearing the Japanese attack ships on the sea, maritime transportation must also ensure smooth flow, and the army's supplies must also be sufficient. Adhering to this principle, the Russians ordered transport ships to depart from Sakhalin Island and enter the Pacific to bypass supplies.

Sakhalin collected a large amount of supplies to maintain the consumption of the Russian troops stationed in Japan. Of course, this emergency move has many restrictions, among which

The first point is that it cannot last long. Whether collecting materials on the spot or transporting them around will bring great side effects. Needless to say, the former will harm the interests of many people, and the latter will be more time-consuming and labor-intensive. So this is just a stopgap measure.

Plan. What? Why do you think the Russians stopped collecting supplies from Hokkaido? They all started taking things from their own homes. Naturally, the occupied areas have been squeezed clean.

"In addition to attacking all ships heading to Japan and carrying prohibited materials, the raiding ships operating in the Pacific also have another mission: to search for Japan's two armored cruisers. After discovering the enemy ships, report them to the fleet quickly. I need you to continue

Track Japanese armored cruisers. After discovering the target, immediately abandon all other tasks until the opponent is annihilated or enters the port to be stationed." Makanov is still very afraid of these two armored cruisers.

It’s not that these two warships can cause much damage to the Russian Far East Fleet. But I am worried that once Beiyang appears in the Japanese Sea, once the two Japanese armored cruisers join forces with Beiyang Supervision, the fast fleet alone will be enough.

The remaining Russian Far East Fleet will be captured in one fell swoop. Unless they don't go out, otherwise, once they encounter it, they won't even have a chance to escape.

No. On the other hand, these two battleships involved too much of Makanov's energy. Without these two battleships, the Russians could only use auxiliary cruisers to deal with the Japanese attack ships, but because of these two giants

Due to the existence of the beast, Makanov had no choice but to draw two warships from the already quite tense main fleet to deal with the Japanese armored patrol.

"Before the Beiyang Fleet returns to this sea area, we must solve the Japanese fleet once and for all." Before General Essen set off, Makanov repeated the order on his flagship.

Recently, the Russian Far East Fleet has indeed been unlucky, but that does not mean that there is no good news. The Russian Far East Fleet has finally obtained a new warship, and one of these two warships is the French armored cruiser Pothuau ordered together with the Prince before the war.

this battleship

Named Oriental. This is a 6,000-ton light armored cruiser equipped with two 7.6-inch guns and 10 5.5-inch guns, a 6-inch main armor belt, a 4-inch upper armor belt, and a speed of 22 knots. Originally this

The battleship was to be delivered together with the Prince. However,

Because the ship was not in the military port at the time, it was delayed for a period of time. After the war broke out, the warship arrived belatedly. After arriving in the Far East, facing the Beiyang Fleet wandering offshore Japan, the warship led

The Russian officials really didn’t dare to go any further and could only hang on to the French government.

The flag stopped at Cam Ranh Bay. After the war, the Russian fleet, which suffered heavy losses, continued its warship. Under the strict order of the Tsar, after seeing the Northern Fleet returning to port, the Russian warship flying the French flag finally set off, in Egypt.

Before General Mori set out, he left Cam Ranh Bay and headed for Muroran Port.

The other battleship comes from South America. This is a relatively famous battleship in Xu Jie's plane. Its name is Shiro Gunkarada. This battleship in Xu Jie's plane was originally during the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1894.

Chile claims to be able to sell a 4,600-ton protected cruiser to the Qing Dynasty. This dome-armored cruiser is equipped with two 8-inch guns and 10 6-inch guns. Its top speed has reached 22.8 knots.

The flat thickness is 1.5 inches, while the inclined thickness is 3 to 4 inches. It was launched in 1**3. This battleship was still a good ship in Xu Jie's world, at least it was still a good ship in 1900.

A qualified protected cruiser, but now, this battleship can only be used for guerrilla warfare. It has no waterline armor and weak artillery protection. It has good performance on paper, but it quickly falls to its knees under high-intensity confrontation.

Originally, Chile planned to sell the nearly 7,000-ton Prader to the Russians, but the Russians were not stupid. The ship had poor firepower and seemed to have good protection. In fact, the armored belt only had a narrow section. What's more important is that

The speed is not very impressive, less than 20 knots.

A fast cruiser with a speed facing the North Sea in the Far East is looking for death. It is better to buy a 4600-ton protected cruiser. At least it is enough for escape. Why is Chile suddenly willing to transfer the capital ship in its hands? This is actually the same as Xu Jie.

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Originally, on that plane, the old enemies of the Chilean Navy and the Argentine Navy were evenly matched, but with Xu Jie's intervention, after the Argentines had the Garibaldi-type armored cruiser in this plane, Chile's original goods

Faced with the severe situation and their weak wallets, the Chileans decided to sell their old ships and buy new ones. So the Russians, who were struggling to find ships all over the world, decided to buy one. They spent 350,000 pounds on one.

protected cruiser
Chapter completed!