Chapter 495: The Last Naval Battle in the Far East III
The entire naval battle has begun. The Yellow Sea Fleet Vice Admiral Commander Huang Haitao, who is stationed on the flagship of the First Battle Squadron "Beijing", will naturally not let himself relax. The First Squadron of the Yellow Sea Fleet is equipped with six 14,000-ton Huanghe-class battleships. Although the Huanghe-class It is the first generation battleship of the Far East Navy, but in terms of firepower and speed, it can still be tied with the battleships of the Tsarist Russian Navy's combined fleet, so Huang Haitao immediately ordered the three ships "Harbin", "Shenyang" and "Changchun" The battleship and the "Shijiazhuang", "Hohhot" and "Urumqi" formed two sharp knives, and the "Beijing" he was sitting on raised the flag without hesitation.
In naval battles, the commander's flag naturally represents the position of the soul of the entire fleet, but it is also the main target of the enemy's attack. Therefore, after the "Beijing" raised the commander's flag, the First Squadron and the Third Squadron of the Tsarist Russian Navy Combined Fleet The squadron came to outflank the First Fleet of the Yellow Sea Fleet.
The first and third squadrons of the Tsarist Russian Navy's combined fleet each have two 21,000-ton medium-sized battleships "Alexander III" and "Nicholas I", but the target of Huang Haitao's risky move is not these two flagships, but They are four old-fashioned 13,000-ton ironclad battleships of the third detachment of the Tsarist Russian Navy, "Admiral Ushakov", "Admiral Senyavin", "Admiral Aprakshin", " Admiral Aurora".
The six Yellow River-class battleships "Harbin", "Shenyang", "Changchun", "Shijiazhuang", "Hohhot", and "Urumqi" formed two sharp knives under Huang Haitao's order to attack the Tsarist Russian Navy. Four older battleships of Division III.
Huang Haitao's purpose in doing this is obvious. He is providing opportunities and time to his teammates, but he is also risking sacrifice at any time, but he resolutely chooses to continue on.
Sure enough, when the "Beijing" under the personal command of Huang Haitao was fighting one against five, the six Huanghe-class battleships of the Yellow Sea Fleet's First Squadron successfully outflanked the four old-fashioned battleships of the Tsarist Russian Navy's Third Squadron, and the artillery battle lasted for an hour. , the six warships of the Yellow Sea Fleet concentrated their firepower and bombarded the four old battleships of the Tsarist Russian Navy. Soon after, the "Beijing", which was outnumbered by one against five, was finally attacked by the Tsarist Russian Navy's "Borodino" because of its bow near the waterline. " was hit by an armor-piercing round.
The opened cracks caused a continuous influx of large amounts of seawater. Finally, the bow of the "Beijing" began to slowly sink. So Huang Haitao immediately ordered the "Beijing" to withdraw from the battle. The command of the Yellow Sea Fleet was transferred to the captains of each squadron, and continued to follow. Enter the previous battle plan and fight.
The naval battle was still in progress, and the time came to around 5:30 pm. With the sinking of four old battleships of the third squadron of the Tsarist Russian Navy's Combined Fleet, the first squadron of the Far East Navy's Yellow Sea Fleet immediately moved to fight the first squadron of the Tsarist Russian Navy. Fleet, under the circumstances of timely rescue, all 900 officers and men on board the "Beijing" survived, but the "Beijing" sank in the end. It was not until the end of the last naval battle in the Far East that the Far East Army began to salvage the "Beijing", but the "Beijing" From then on, it was withdrawn from the Far East Navy's battle sequence and became a work of art, placed on Diaoyu Island for future generations to visit.
At this time, the Third Squadron of the Tsarist Russian Navy Combined Fleet had been completely wiped out, and only the flagship was merged into the First Squadron. So under the command of Vice Admiral Rozhdjes of the Tsarist Russian Navy, the battle continued with the Far East Yellow Sea Fleet. Two medium-sized ships Battleships, four 16,000-ton main armored battleships, "Prince Suvorov", "Borodino", "Eagle Catching Chicken", "Oslyabya".
The First Squadron of the Far East Yellow Sea Fleet, six Yellow River-class battleships "Harbin", "Shenyang", "Changchun", "Shijiazhuang", "Hohhot", and "Urumqi" have now formed a sharp knife. Spread all attacks on the first target "Osiliabia".
Five minutes later, just five minutes later, the "Oslyabiya" caught fire and sank. The time quietly came to around 6 p.m. At this time, the defeat of the Tsarist Russian Navy's combined fleet was determined, and the originally planned attack on the Vladivostok channel had been completed. It was completely blocked by the Far East Navy. Since the fleets of both sides often lost contact in the smoke, the route also became very chaotic, and the melee had already begun.
At 6:15, the sky had begun to darken. As the fifth and sixth fleets of the Far East Yellow Sea Fleet were withdrawn from the battle to annihilate the Tsarist Russian Navy's supply fleet, they sank the Tsarist Russian Navy cruiser "Svetlana" shortly after joining the battle. , and another old heavy cruiser "Donskoy", although it resisted tenaciously, was besieged by six destroyers of the Far East Yellow Sea Fleet, and only damaged two of them ("Tianmen", " "Jiuhuashan"), and finally scuttled it on its own to avoid being captured by the Tsarist Russian navy crew.
The Tsarist Russian navy's "Oleg" and "Avora" failed to break through, and finally went south, trying to escape to the Philippines and enter the Pacific waters, but were captured by the Far East Sea Fleet.
The Far East Yellow Sea Fleet and the Tsarist Russian Navy Combined Fleet, all the main warships of both sides met twice at 6:15 and 6:55, but in the end because of the Tsarist Russian Navy Combined Fleet, many warships were severely damaged and could not continue to launch a powerful attack. attack, and as a result, three more battleships were sunk by Far East Navy battleships.
The time progressed until about 7 p.m., when the flagship of the medium-sized battleship "Alexander III", which was riddled with holes by the Far East Navy warships, finally sank. Less than 10 minutes later, the ammunition depot of the battleship "Borodino" was destroyed. The Far East Navy battleship "Tianjin" was hit, the ammunition depot was directly destroyed, and caused continuous boiler explosions. Finally, it sank immediately, and only one person on the ship was rescued.
The Tsarist Russian squadron flagship "Prince Suvorov", which was still floating on the sea, still responded with artillery fire. Finally, under the adventurous approach of the Tsarist Russian Navy destroyer "Furious", all the wounded on the flagship were rescued, including the squadron commander. Twinsky.
At 7:10, five destroyers of the Yellow Sea Fleet, "Ruian", "Yueqing", "Cixi", "Yichang", and "Shiyan", surrounded the battleship "Prince Suvorov", and finally the entire ship The remaining 220 survivors surrendered.
At around 7:35 p.m., all large warships of the Far East Yellow Sea Fleet began to withdraw from the battlefield, and the torpedo boats and destroyers of the Yellow Sea Fleet continued to launch night attacks. At this point, all the daytime battles came to an end.
From 7:30 that night to 5:00 the next morning, 23 destroyers, 38 torpedo boats, and 22 attack submarines of the Far East Yellow Sea Fleet launched torpedo attacks on the remaining Tsarist Russian Navy Combined Fleet.
The squadron had never received anti-torpedo training, so the entire Second Squadron was sunk.
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