Chapter 496: The Last Naval Battle in the Far East IV
After 5 a.m. on April 2, the remaining Tsarist Russian Navy Combined Fleet in the Far East slowly fled towards Tsarist Russia's northern base. However, at 9 a.m., it was once again surrounded by the Far East Navy's Yellow Sea Fleet. Finally, amid fierce shelling, it served as
Rear Admiral Negatov, deputy commander of the Tsarist Russian Navy's Combined Fleet, decided to surrender unconditionally.
In this battle, the Far East Navy finally captured three battleships: "Borodino", "Eagle Catching Chicken", "Prince Suvorov", "Admiral", "Owsley",
Seven cruisers "Navarin", "Donskoy", "Monomakh", "Dmitri" and "Svetlana", as well as one severely damaged destroyer.
The remaining warships fled to neutral ports such as Manila. In the end, only the heavy cruiser "Adamantine" and another destroyer escaped back to Russia's northern base. At this point, the last naval battle in the Far East ended, and the result of this naval battle was astonishing.
The impact is still spreading.
With the unprecedented victory of the Far East Navy, which resulted in the annihilation of the Tsarist Russian Navy's High Seas Fleet and the Asian Fleet, the Tsarist Russian Imperial Navy completely fell from its position as a naval power overnight, because in this naval battle, the Tsarist Russian Navy included
Auxiliary ship included,
The Imperial Navy of Tsarist Russia lost more than 300,000 tons of ships. Of the 12 main battleships, 9 were sunk and 3 were captured. Of the 11 heavy cruisers, 3 were sunk and 7 were captured. Only 1 escaped back to Tsarist Russia. Tsarist Russia
5,810 naval officers and soldiers were killed and 3,917 captured.
As for the results achieved this time, the Far East Navy only paid a small price of five torpedo boats, the sinking of one battleship, and the death of 319 officers and soldiers.
It was precisely because of the failure of this naval battle that Tsar Nicholas II completely lost all domestic support, and also pushed the already very high revolutionary movement in Tsarist Russia to a climax.
At the same time, there was also the ongoing stalemate in the Second Northeast War. Tsarist Russia was on the verge of exhaustion of domestic resources at this time. Even if it succeeded, the result would be the same. So with the mediation of the United Kingdom and the United States, the Far East Agreement was finally signed in Berlin.
Peace Treaty. According to the provisions of the peace treaty, the Tsarist Empire restored the autonomy of the Siberian region, recognized the jurisdiction of the Far East in the Siberian region, and compensated 150 million pounds in war compensation. This officially ended the land and sea war in the Far East.
Although this naval battle in the Far East was not the largest naval battle in the age of steam and steel for mankind, it had a profound and long-lasting impact on the future situation in Asia. In this naval battle, although the giant ships and cannons of the Tsarist Russian Navy once again demonstrated their
Unstoppable power
Although they are powerful, the 10,000-ton armored battleships in the Far East can still defeat them. This embarrasses the "Dreadnought-class" battleships that the British authorities are building vigorously, and everything seems to be just a new beginning, another round of new armaments.
The competition has begun.
But in this naval battle, the tactics of the Far East Navy attracted the attention of all countries, because the Far East Navy once again proved that it can defeat any enemy with its "high mobility, fast speed, and flexibility" tactics.
But a bigger political game has just begun. Why Nicholas II, who was full of confidence this time, dared to place such a heavy bet on the Far East Naval War was mainly due to the promises of Britain and the United States. But until the end of the war, both Britain and the United States
No action was taken because Li Ningyu settled everything for them.
In this political struggle, Li Ningyu racked his brains because he knew that the last thing Britain and the United States wanted to see was the Far East Group dominating Asia.
Therefore, he avoided the truth and adopted a roundabout strategy. Among them, William II helped him a lot, and Li Ningyu also gave William II enough benefits, including the sale of aircraft manufacturing technology, and Li Ningyu also
This secret transaction was disclosed to the British and American authorities.
This shocked Edward VII. If Germany possessed the production technology for aircraft, it would mean that Germany would be able to manufacture aircraft immediately, while Britain would still need to wait for the first arms purchase from the Far East to arrive before it could start research and production. In this way, both sides
The gap will appear immediately, which is a scene that the British do not want to see.
Therefore, after Edward weighed the pros and cons, he chose to make concessions on behalf of the United Kingdom, while the American authorities insisted on opposing the Far East. This also led to the all-out war that broke out at Midway between the Far East Army and the American authorities a few years later.
However, due to the intransigence of the Americans, the domestic Anti-Japanese War became very difficult. Fortunately, the British were still defeated, otherwise the consequences would be even more difficult.
One month since the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the Far East Army has switched from defense to offensive. However, due to the disparity in strength, the Far East Army has still adopted steady and steady measures. However, now the 300,000 recruits temporarily recruited in the country have entered and are ready to participate in the war at any time.
status.
Kong Xiaoping's Corps and Cai Songpo's Corps have completely annihilated the Second Corps of the Japanese invaders through repeated cooperation. Zhang Zuolin's Corps has also marched to Hankou, ready to launch an attack on the Japanese army at any time. However, in order to avoid causing innocent casualties, both sides are still
In a state of confrontation.
In order to give color to the U.S. authorities, two squadrons of Air Force bombers currently deployed in the Hawaiian Islands have begun flying over Midway Island day and night and dropping "bombs!" one after another.
But not attack bombs, but word bombs.
Every once in a while, the Far East Air Force will drop a stack of documents over Midway Island, which contains various crimes committed by the Japanese invaders, as well as the actions of the U.S. authorities in this matter, the disasters it brought to the Chinese nation, etc.
, of course the most important thing is to disclose some scandals of the US authorities.
This matter had to last until the year before the Midway Island outbreak, because after the U.S. authorities deployed air force on Midway Island, the bomber fighter squadrons in the Far East could no longer continue to enter the sky over Midway Island with arrogance. However, during this period
The word bomb caused a headache for the US authorities, but they had no choice but to resort to numerous diplomatic protests and small-scale military actions.
But with the addition of the East China Sea Fleet, the strength of today's Far East Pacific Navy Fleet has obviously reached a higher level. It is no longer the Pacific Fleet that can only patrol coastal waters, because the East China Sea Fleet has more than ten 10,000-ton ships.
Naval formation of mini battleships and five heavy cruisers.
In addition, the strength of the original Pacific Fleet is enough to be on par with the U.S. Pacific Fleet. However, if the United States sends a home fleet, it will still be a deterrent to the Far East Pacific Fleet, but the U.S. authorities dare not do this.
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