On December 5, 1900, the Tsarist Russian Pacific Fleet set sail from Lushun, escorting a transport ship carrying 6,000 marines, and headed for Tianjin. The Russian fleet in Vladivostok was also actively moving
Carry out icebreaking in the channel and prepare to transport Lieutenant General Zarubaev's campaign reserves by sea.
Originally, Russia planned to land at Dagukou, forcibly draw up a lease, and control the Tianjin Railway Station in its own hands - just like what Russia did in the last time and space when the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded China.
But now the whole world knows that the Russian army has suffered losses in the Northeast, and the attitudes of Britain and France have also hardened. The Tsarist Russian government felt that a forced landing in Tianjin might cause problems, so it decided to land outside Tianjin and occupy Tangshan, thus achieving control of Beijing and Fengcheng.
road and intimidated the Qing government to soften.
When the Russian fleet sailed out of Port Arthur, it encountered a group of Chinese fishing boats returning home. Although it was quite unusual to have fishing boats on the sea at this time of year, the Russians did not pay much attention. Anyway, the Chinese navy could not even defeat the weak Japanese navy.
, naturally they will not be opponents of the powerful Russian Navy, they have nothing to fear.
The Russians didn't know that there was a spy ship equipped with a transmitter among the fishing boats, so the Russian fleet's itinerary was turned into radio waves and transmitted back to Lin Ji's center.
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Vice Admiral Starik stood on the bridge of the battleship Petropavlovsk. He liked to stay on the bridge late at night and drink a cup of strong coffee. This reminded him of the years when he served as a merchant ship captain.
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Although the Russian Navy has a large establishment, the entire officer system is hierarchical and rigid. Young officers are not qualified enough, and they can only wait for vacancies in the ship's officer establishment before they can be replaced. Stryker graduated from the Naval Academy because his family background is not prominent.
After that, he had no choice but to work on a merchant ship to gain navigation experience. Later, he served as land attendant for several years before finally reaching the status of aboard a ship.
After that, decades passed before Stryker finally got the position of fleet commander.
This commander's military career spanned a series of wars in which the Russian Empire participated, including the Second Crimean War, but his resume was clean, without any impressive achievements. Starik
I don't think it's shameful to rely solely on seniority to get to the top, but that doesn't mean he doesn't have a desire for results.
If he has military exploits, his ordinary appearance will be slightly more attractive to the girls in the officers' club.
That's right, Starik's awareness as a soldier was at this level. He had never thought about being loyal to his country. If the government asked him to lead an army to fight against the powerful British and French fleets, he would probably take the lead.
The first one to escape.
But now, the opponent is the weak Chinese Navy. It is said that they only have a total of six or seven armored cruisers and not even battleships. Even the equally weak Japanese Navy cannot defeat it.
So Starik was very ambitious and prepared to do something big in the Bohai Bay.
First, send the troops to the beach, bombard the Chinese towns, and then wait on the sea for the Chinese fleet huddled in the south to come and kill them.
Starik's only worry is that the Chinese fleet has been huddled in the south, and his victory will become dull.
However, it is not a bad thing to win without going through a battle. After all, any accident can happen in a naval battle. There are many admirals who are unlucky enough to be hit by the enemy's gun on the bridge and die. Starrick does not want to do that.
Become one of them.
After drinking coffee on the bridge, Starik turned up the collar of his coat and looked at the sea under the moonlight in the cold wind.
Most of the battleships at this time had open bridges, and protected armored bridges were not yet common. The entire bridge was simply exposed to the sea breeze in the cold winter months. It was really cold. The officer on duty shrank his neck and looked at the fleet commander.
, he originally planned to skip work and go to the officers' mess below deck to play bridge with his friends, but because of the actions of the fleet commander, he was unable to move. He could only stay on the bridge with the somewhat elderly Starrick to endure the cold...
"What a charming night." Starik suddenly sighed, "I never thought that the war I experienced for the first time would be so charming and elegant."
The officer on duty swallowed his saliva and excused himself: "Yes, sir."
Unlike Starik, who rose to the top based on seniority, the officer on duty was the kind of person who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. He was promoted faster than someone like Starik, and the process was simpler, and therefore he was more interested in Starik.
With a certain degree of contempt - in private, he laughed at the commander's arty attitude in his heart, and agreed with the commander's views without hesitation. No matter what, after the war, he had one more person who could coax the officers in the officer's club.
The noble goddess girls were chatting happily. From this point of view, it is not a bad thing to give Starrick a little face now.
The officer on duty was just about to say something more to continue to please the commander, when the tremor from the deck beneath his feet threw him to the ground, and he fell together with the commander.
The ceramic coffee cup in Starrick's hand shattered into six pieces on the deck, and one of the fragments even scratched the slightly fat commander's hand and neck.
"Iceberg?" Starrick yelled, then realized how shameful his judgment based on the experience of a merchant ship captain was.
The response of the officer on duty was much more professional. He quickly climbed up, grabbed the "loudspeaker" fixed on the bridge guardrail, and shouted at the lookout post above the mast: "Where is the enemy? Where are the enemies?"
Yet?"
The lookout post also shouted back with the same loudspeaker: "Didn't see it, sir!"
"An enemy?" Starik looked frightened. "Is it an enemy, Alexander Vasilyevich?"
The officer on duty, Alexander Vasilyevich Kolchak, frowned, suppressed his dissatisfaction, and replied: "It's the enemy, Lieutenant General. This violent tremor can only be caused by the enemy hitting us."
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At this moment, a report came from the sound tube on the bridge: "This is the engine room, and the ship's hull is flooded with water. Repeat, the ship's hull is flooded with water!"
After hearing this, Starik finally struggled to get up from the ground and loudly issued his first combat order into the sound tube: "Block it, block the breach!"
"Sir, the enemy's weapon exploded under the keel. We suffered heavy losses and were unable to block it. Please order the marines on board to join the emergency repairs..."
The words coming out of the sound tube were replaced by a new explosion. This time, the explosion point was right at Starik's feet. The sea surface near both sides of the battleship was lifted up by the powerful impact, and a large amount of seawater rushed into the air like a fountain.
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Starik was almost thrown off the bridge by the violent impact, but the lone clock standing in the middle of the bridge saved his life.
When he struggled to stand up despite the severe pain, a shocking fact instantly took away his ability to think.
The deck is tilting.
Starik finally reacted. He threw himself at the guardrail behind the bridge, lying on the guardrail and staring with wide eyes as the middle part of his battleship slowly twisted and deformed.
The cables used to fix the chimneys were broken one by one, turning into steel whips that beat the naval soldiers running around on the deck to bloody pulps. The wooden decks laid above the main armor belt were breaking one by one amidst the crackling sound, and were smashed by huge
The wail of steel twisted by the torque gave Starrick goosebumps.
"Oh my God, they broke our keel!" Although he was a mediocre general, but faced with such a situation, the Tsarist Russian Navy Vice Admiral unexpectedly made the correct judgment, "This ship is going to sink, abandon the ship, quickly
Abandon the ship. Let the goddesses on the ship take off immediately, quickly!"
At this moment, the Petropavlovsk's boiler room exploded. The violent explosion completely broke the already severely damaged hull. The Tsarist Russian Navy flagship began to sink at an alarming speed...
In this case, all orders were ineffective. The navy soldiers who were still trying to rescue the battleship rushed into the sea and ignored the screams of the officers who were still sticking to their posts.
Starik snatched the loudspeaker from Kolchak's hand and shouted at the top of his lungs at the increasingly tilted deck: "Keep order. If you jump into the water like this, you will be pulled down by the whirlpool when the ship sinks.
, If you want to survive, follow the instructions and release the lifeboat! If you want to survive, just...oh my God..."
Stryker saw the ship's goddesses walking onto the deck from the hatch of the central armor building. The girls were still wearing beautiful dresses. It looked like a happy battlefield dance was going on in the officers' mess below the deck.
"Fly, girls!" Starrick turned on the loudspeaker, "Please, fly quickly!"
But the only response to Starik was the confusion on the faces of the goddesses.
Most of the goddesses do not have the ability to fly when they are not equipped with amplifying wings. In this chaotic situation, everyone is busy protecting themselves. Who has the intention to go down to the storage below the deck to get the amplifying wings for the girls?
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"Oh God...God forgive me..." Starik held his head.
As if to echo his despair at this time, the Crown Prince, which was following the Petropavlovsk and accelerating to come up for rescue, suddenly exploded. Immediately afterwards, a huge rocket rose from the port side of the Ascodel armored cruiser.
water column.
There is no doubt that someone is attacking this fleet flying the flag of Saint Andre, but no matter how the Russian sailors widened their eyes, they could not see even a shadow of the enemy on the sea under the bright moon.
The goddess on duty in the sky landed next to Starik. The young girl who looked like she was only twenty years old saluted the commander who was fifty years away, and then said in a hurried tone: "Your Excellency, Commander, I will pick you up in accordance with the order."
You go to the second flagship, the Perest."
Starik's lips trembled. He hesitated in the girl's gaze for ten seconds and pushed away the girl's outstretched hand.
"Leave me alone and save your sisters! That is the essence of Russia!"
The girl's look at Starrick immediately became extremely complicated. She didn't know if she was regretting that she had neglected the unattractive-looking commander when he was still on the shore. She respectfully paid tribute to Starrick again.
He saluted, then turned around and flew towards the goddesses who were trapped on the deck with an increasingly outrageous slope.
However, the rescue operation of the goddess on duty triggered a new commotion. I don't know if it was Starrick's shouting that reminded them or something else. Many sailors found that flying to the sky was a surefire way to save their lives, so they prepared to fly to the sky with their sisters.
The empty goddesses rushed towards him.
The officers surrounding Shenji fired, but still could not stop the sailors, so the two Shenjis who were slow to take off were pulled back to the deck by the sailors together with the six Shenjis they brought with them.
Starrick screamed at the deck, but was unable to change the situation that was completely out of control. He could only watch helplessly as the soldiers tore the girls' dresses apart.
Finally, a goddess activated her ability, and the flesh and blood of the Russian sailors were shattered into countless pieces that exploded on the deck. Maybe the goddess who took action was also frightened, and she could not control it well.
Instead, the officers who tried their best to fend off the sailors and protect them were also killed.
Seeing the last two goddesses finally take off and leave, Starik let out a long sigh of relief.
Almost at the same time, the bow of the Petropavlovsk began to rise at an extremely fast speed, and eventually became straight into the sea.
At this time, the water depth where the fleet was located reached 55 meters, and the fleet armored ship (which is the Russian name for battleship) that was broken into two pieces sank into the dark sea water...
Starik was dragged into the water by the whirlpool where the battleship sank. Just when he was about to lose consciousness, he saw someone rushing into the sea and grabbed his hand.
It was Miss Shenji who just wanted to transfer him to the second flagship.
The girl used her ability to form a bubble near her head to maintain her breathing, and used her amplifying wings to drive seawater to fight against the vortex that caused the ship to sink.
Saved - just as Starik thought this, a terrifying black shadow broke into his field of vision.
The outline of the black shadow looked like a crab, but Starik didn't know there was such a big crab in the world, let alone which kind of crab had a single eye that shone red like a demon.
The flames of the battleship Kronprinz burning on the sea shone through the sea onto the shell of the giant crab in the water, allowing Starik to clearly see the number composed of English letters and Arabic numerals: m**-02.
Under this series of numbers, the newly adopted military emblem of the Chinese Navy is printed.
When the black shadow approached, Starik felt paralyzed all over. Almost at the same time, the goddess who came to save him lost consciousness after a spasm of body.
So Starik once again fell into the dark abyss of despair... The last sight he saw was the huge, artificial crab stretching out its claws towards him.