Chapter 493: The Last Naval Battle in the Far East 1
The second detachment consists of four heavy cruisers of 8,000 to 9,000 tons, "Admiral", "Oxley", "Sisoy", and "Navarin".
The third detachment, the flagship 21,000-ton battleship "Nikolai I", and four old 13,000-ton armored battleships "Admiral Ushakov", "Admiral Senyaven", "Navy"
Admiral Apraxian", "Admiral Aurora".
The fourth detachment, whose flagship is the 21,000-ton battleship "Prince Suvorov", and eight 5,000-ton cruisers, "Oleg", "Donskoy", "Monomach", "
"Dmitry", "Svetlana", "Adamantine Gem", "Black Stone Pearl", "Green Gem".
In addition, the Tsarist Russian Navy Combined Fleet is equipped with more than 10 destroyers and 8 large auxiliary ships. The entire Tsarist Russian Navy Combined Fleet can be said to be extremely large, with a total tonnage of up to 450,000 tons, but it is also the main battleship of the Tsarist Russian Navy. In other words, the Niku
Ra II prepares for a last-ditch battle.
The main composition of the Far East Yellow Sea Fleet is:
First combat unit, flagship: 18,000-ton improved Taishan-class ironclad battleship "Beijing", equipped with six 14,000-ton Huanghe-class battleships "Harbin", "Shenyang", "Changchun", "Shijiazhuang", "
"Hohhot", "Urumqi".
The second combat detachment: flagship 16,000-ton Taishan-class battleship "Tianjin", equipped with 6 Yellow River-class battleships "Lanzhou", "Kunming", "Chengdu", "Xi'an", "Xining", "Zhengzhou"
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The third combat detachment: flagship 16000-class Taishan iron-clad battleship "Shanghai", equipped with three 8,000-ton Yangtze-class heavy cruisers "Huangshan", "Lushan", "Yandangshan", and four 4,000-ton Baichuan-class light cruisers
"Changde", "Xiangtan", "Zhuzhou", "Yueyang".
The fourth combat detachment, the flagship improved 16,000-ton Yellow River-class ironclad battleship "Hangzhou", is equipped with 15 3,000-ton Huaxia-class destroyers, "Ningbo", "Shaoxing", "Jiaxing", "Wen"
The Sixth Combat Detachment, the flagship improved 18,000-ton Taishan-class ironclad battleship "Chongqing", is equipped with four Huanghe-class battleships, "Lhasa", "Yinchuan", "Hong Kong", "Macao", and 5 Yangtze River battleships
-class heavy cruisers, "Wutaishan", "Jiuhuashan", "Emeishan", "Putuoshan", "Fanjingshan".
There are also two submarine formations, Swordfish and Dianyu, as well as 45 kiloton-class torpedo boats and three large supply ships.
Although the Far Eastern Navy severely damaged the Asian Fleet of the Tsarist Russian Navy during the Eight-Power Allied Forces incident, the main force of the Tsarist Russian Navy is still alive, so the Tsarist Russian Navy ranks 4th in the world navy rankings. This time, the Russian Navy was sent to fight against the Far East Army.
An extremely powerful naval fleet, this special mixed formation composed of the Asian Fleet and the High Seas Fleet, has a total of 32 10,000-ton battleships.
But you can’t just look at the superficial appearance of anything. In fact, the Tsarist Russian Navy’s combined fleet has huge problems: The first is one of the most common problems of the naval fleet. There are different old and new warships, the formation speed is relatively low, and
Some sailors are not yet fully familiar with the equipment of the new maritime warships;
Secondly, because the Tsarist-Russian combined fleet set out from the northern seaport to fight in the Far East, it had to go through a long process on the way, with a voyage of nearly 1,800 nautical miles. Such a long voyage caused great damage to the warships and the participating sailors, and the entire fleet was greatly reduced.
Seriously, morale is extremely low.
At the same time, during the voyage, there were very few ports where the Tsarist-Russian Combined Fleet could get coal, so they had to load all the places on the warships with coal. This was the same situation as when the French High Seas Fleet went to South Asia to fight against the Far East Navy.
As a result, the speed of the entire fleet will inevitably be slower, and the living environment of the sailors will become extremely harsh. Third, after the departure of the Tsarist-Russian joint naval fleet,
At present, the situation in Tsarist Russia has been in an unstable state, which has also greatly affected the sailors, making many people in the Tsarist-Russian combined naval fleet unstable, full of war-weary and war-fearing emotions; the fourth Tsarist Russian naval fleet was temporarily put together
As a result, coupled with the lack of running-in training, the sailors had severe fear and were often surrounded by enemies along the way.
The Fifth Tsarist-Russian Combined Navy warship looks very powerful on the surface, but the rate of fire of the warship's artillery is far behind the large number of new warships in the Far East. In addition, the quality of the shells is also very poor. At this time, the average ammunition load of the Tsarist Russian Navy warships is
15 pounds, while Far East artillery shells are generally 105 pounds. In large-scale naval battles, if artillery shells often fail to explode, the consequences can be imagined...
All of these seemed to be doomed to the ultimate fate of the Tsarist-Russian combined naval fleet. Therefore, after the naval battle began, the Tsarist-Russian combined naval fleet suffered successive defeats. Although it had outstanding naval generals, in order to reverse the unfavorable situation in the battle against the Far East naval fleet, it re-established
To regain control of the sea in the Far East, the government of King Nicholas II of Tsarist Russia decided to increase the fleet and form a new task force to support the Far East.
But this fleet took a full 2 months to complete. Although the fleet consisted of 7 10,000-ton battleships, 6 armored heavy cruisers, 9 large destroyers, and some auxiliary ships in the Atlantic Fleet of the Russian Navy, it was
Named the United 2nd Fleet, commanded by Vice Admiral Rozjis, it finally embarked on a voyage of no return.
The situation of the Far East Yellow Sea Fleet is completely different. After experiencing the Sino-Japanese War of Sino-Japanese War and two Yellow Sea Wars, as well as the naval battle with the French High Seas Fleet in the South China Sea, the morale of the entire Far East Yellow Sea Fleet was extremely high. In addition, it faced the Tsarist Russian Combined Navy.
The fleet's first battle was a great victory. The officers and soldiers in the fleet were united. In addition to having sufficient combat experience and daily training,
Well-trained, in order to prepare for the upcoming all-out naval battle, the Far East Yellow Sea Fleet also conducted almost crazy accelerated training. In just one week, the practice of live ammunition used up almost half of the reserved artillery shells. At the same time, the total tonnage of the Yellow Sea Fleet was also reduced.
, the Far East Yellow Sea Fleet also has obvious advantages in many aspects such as speed, artillery firing rate, and sophistication.
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