Chapter 4: Dragon Bear Battle Three Hundred Okhotsk Battle 2

The ship's side gun has some obvious shortcomings, which are particularly obvious on the ironclad ship. Because the ironclad ship's waterline is too deep and the hull balance performance is poor, the ironclad ship's hull shakes very violently when firing. This is the reason why an ironclad ship capsized and sunk in the Second Sino-British War. As the second generation ironclad ship, the Tianjin has taken these factors into consideration. In order to increase the balance performance of the ship, the Tianjin's displacement reached 4ooo tons. The firepower of its naval gun also reduced the side guns and added bow guns and stern guns.

Compared with the Tianjin, the other two ironclad ships under Peng Yulin were just 2ooo tonnage ships, and their firepower was not as good as the seven wooden sail battleships that accompanied him.

The first Russian fleet was the lookout sailor of the battleship Yangwei in front. Soon the same signal came from the Tianjin Jia and Zhenyong.

Peng Yulin took out his pocket watch and looked at it. It was 10:00 am on April 29, 1855.

In the eyes of the officers and soldiers of the Beiyang Navy Fleet, the Russian Far East Navy and the Okhotsk Regional Fleet. This fleet fought with Chinese water teachers and students in 1833 earlier in 1833. The battle caused the Russian Far East Navy to lose three warships and earned the power of the blasting bomb. 22 years have passed, and the strength of the Okhotsk Regional Fleet has improved greatly at this time, at least they have begun to use blasting bombs.

Twelve Russian warships seized the limelight in front of Peng Yulin, and the currents seemed to be beneficial to the Russian army. This made the Russian Navy Lieutenant General Aprakhin, who stood on the battleship of the Shark, very optimistic. Unfortunately, the Far East and the Black Sea areas were so far away. If Aprakhin knew the methods used by General Nasimov in the 1854 war when facing a coalition fleet powered by propellers and steam engines, he would have changed his approach and would not foolishly show the full strength of the Okhotsk region fleet to the Chinese navy, and acted like a flock of sheep preparing to fight with wolves.

On the contrary, Peng Yulin knew that Nasimov had taken the measures to deal with the British and French coalition forces, Nasimov painfully sank the four 12o gun battleships and 12 84 gun battleships owned by the Black Sea Fleet, and removed all the artillery on the ship and used it in the defense of the Sevastopol Fortress. In this way, the Black Sea Fleet wisely sank into Nasimov's hands and waved his remaining heat. The defense of the Sevastopol Fortress, the base of the Black Sea Fleet was greatly enhanced.

Peng Yulin knew all this not only because of the popularity of wires and telegrams between Britain and France. What is important is the Kingdom of Piedmont-Satinian on the Italian Peninsula. He joined the camp with the British, French and Turkish coalition forces at a critical moment. This made Russia face almost half of the world's enemies, like a polar bear walking alone in the snow, clumsy and madly resisting threats from all directions.

At this time, Peng Yulin had no time to think about it. He decisively let the fleet use columns to attack freely. Compared with the Russian fleet, the Chinese navy's warships spread out to the surroundings. No one would foolishly drive the warships to the front of the arc-shaped horizontal formation of the Okhotsk region fleet.

Apraksin was surprised to see the Chinese fleet scattered. The dogmatic general suddenly realized that the enemy did not act according to his own ideas, and he became a little overwhelmed. If he attacked freely, the battle would undoubtedly turn into a rogue fight that could not exert the power of the warship array. After hesitating for a while, Apraksin decided to siege the Chinese fleet with the Yellow Dragon Banner.

At 11 o'clock, the Russian Okhotsk region fleet was about to separate formations, and the dispersed Chinese ships launched an attack first. The Russian fleet's warships were directly hit by the Chinese subway armored ship, and the sound of the roar of the Russian ship was broken and the bottom cabin began to enter. At the same time, the Chinese ship's ground bow cannon began to fire.

A naval battle began like this.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           �

There were no particularly surprising plans in this naval battle, nor were there any sudden and brave deeds. The victory of the Chinese fleet was just because of its technological advantage, just like when General Nasimov of Russia led the Black Sea Fleet to attack the Turkish fleet not long ago. Because of its technological advantage, the Turkish fleet had no power to fight back. In one day, seven Turkish frigates and two light cruisers were sunk near the Turkish port.

At around 6 pm, five of the 12 warships of the Russian Okhotsk Fleet sank into the sea and three were captured. “The white flag was cast, and two were dragged to the Okhotsk base with rolling smoke.

Peng Yulin squinted his eyes in the setting sun and looked at the Russian escape ship gradually hiding into the horizon in the distance. He felt relieved. It seemed that his opponent today was the weaker of the Western powers.

Because it annihilated the main force of the Russian Okhotsk fleet, the Central Team controlled the sea power of the Sea of ​​Okhotsk. Zuo Zongtang tasted the benefits of sea power for the first time. The infantry and supplies of the Zhennan Army were transported by warships. The 6th route was promoted by three cavalry towns. Therefore, the Zhennan Army's attack was the fastest, and in June the Zhennan Army captured Okhotsk. Zuo Zongtang then sent the Kaizhen to attack Yakutsk on the plateau along the Lena River, and captured Yakutsk before winter was approaching.

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Muravyov still had no news about St. Petersburg, and he began to curse the vast territory of the empire for the first time.

Since the heavy army of the Central ** team has been in panic, Russia's entire Far East has fallen into panic. Although the territory of the Far East is vast but sparsely populated. In Muravyov's archives, there are 420,000 people in Siberia, and the population of East Siberia under Muravyov's jurisdiction is less than 10,000. Moreover, there is no industry in the entire East Siberia, and the only thing that can make profits is fur.

Russians who immigrated to the Far East were mainly concentrated in the Extra Baikal region, because only Russian immigrants here could obtain cultivated land. But the Chinese also liked this land, and immigrants from China came in a large number of them. As the governor of East and West Siberia of the Greater Russian Empire, Muravyov naturally had to exercise his powers and safeguard the interests of the Russian Empire. In the process of expelling Chinese immigrants, the relationship between the two countries became increasingly tense.

When China was trapped in the war in the south, this tension did not cause any trouble to Muravyov. But after Russia fell into the war in Europe, this trouble came out.

When he received the news that the Russian Okhotsk fleet was annihilated, Muravyov's heart sank sharply.
Chapter completed!