My Italian: Chapter 484 Lushun besieged

Italy's blending has not yet come to fruition, but the war waits for no one, and neither Japan nor Russia can stop.

First of all, after the Japanese attacked Lushun Port, they immediately sent troops to land in Busan and Incheon on May 9th and 12th, and quickly took control of the small Korean court.

Then on June 2, more than 30,000 members of the Japanese First Army, carrying more than 100 artillery pieces, under the leadership of General Kuroki Weizhen, landed from Nampo, North Korea and headed north. In late June, the landing Japanese army arrived on the left bank of the Yalu River without encountering resistance, eyeing the Russian troops stationed in the Northeast.

At this time, Russia has already taken action. First of all, General Stark, who showed his incompetence in this Japanese sneak attack, was dismissed and replaced by Lieutenant General Makarov, the last famous Russian general.

Makarov is worthy of being a famous general. As soon as he took office, he took a series of emergency measures to strengthen the operations of the Lushun fleet.

First, he decided to lay mines along the coast of the Liaodong Peninsula to prevent the Japanese from landing and threaten the Lushun base from behind. At the same time, improve the defense of Lushun port, speed up the repair of damaged ships, often send fleets to sea activities, and strengthen combat readiness training. He also ordered the Vladivostok fleet to actively harass the Japanese sea line of communication in the Sea of ​​Japan in order to disperse the Japanese pressure on Lushun.

This series of actions quickly restored the morale of the Russian naval officers and soldiers, especially after he personally led the attack several times in succession and repelled the attack of the Japanese fleet, he was even more recognized by the Russian naval officers and soldiers. I believe that if you give him some more time, the Russian Pacific Fleet will definitely cause the Japanese Combined Fleet a headache.

In fact, after Makarov's arrival, the United Fleet felt a headache for him. To this end, the Japanese Combined Fleet Commander Togo Heihachiro and the Chief of Staff Akiyama Shinyuki and others came up with a solution that is not a solution. Since the Russian Lieutenant General Makarov is so difficult to deal with, then shoot people first and shoot horses to capture thieves first. To capture the king, first get rid of Lieutenant General Makarov.

For this reason, the United Fleet made careful preparations. First, it dispatched warships to secretly lay mines outside Lushun Port in the middle of the night on June 2, and at dawn the next day, it dispatched warships of the third battle group to lure the enemy outside Lushun Port.

At that time, the Russian destroyer returned to Hong Kong from activities abroad and was besieged by the Japanese destroyer. Makarov dispatched the battleship "Bayan" to rescue him, but was besieged by warships of the Japanese Third Squadron. So, Makarov personally led the fleet out of the port to meet, and chased the retreating Japanese ships.

When it was discovered that the main Japanese fleet was already in formation, they made a decisive decision and ordered the ships to return. On the way back, the battleship Victory he was on unfortunately hit a mine 15 kilometers away from Lushun, and the violent explosion severely damaged the Victory. However, thanks to Italy's good underwater defense system, the Victory was only severely damaged, and the Victory, which was struggling to return to Lushun, was seen.

Dongxiang Heihachiro led the main force of the United Fleet and beat the Victory all the way. During half an hour of fierce shelling, the Victory suffered heavy losses, 7 secondary guns and 2 main guns. More than half of the officers and soldiers on board were killed or injured, and the whole ship was covered with scars. If it weren't for the excellent performance of the Krupp armor steel on the Victory, and the structure is also very reasonable. Any other Russian warship would have been sunk long ago.

The Victory, which was covered in scars, finally hid in Lushun Ganzhong under the dumbfounded gaze of the officers and soldiers of the Japanese fleet.

At this time, Lieutenant General Makarov, who didn't know that he had escaped a murder, only suffered some minor injuries. However, he looked at the seriously injured Victory with a sad expression on his face. Because the current 7 battleships of the Pacific Fleet, the Crown Prince and the Perthwaite were hit by torpedoes and are still undergoing emergency repairs. Now that the Victory is seriously injured, there are only four battleships left in the current fleet.

Although there are still four battleships left, they are all four with poor performance. The three Petropavlovsk-class battleships can only reach a maximum speed of 16 knots, although 2 twin-mounted 1895-style 305mm L/40 guns; 4 twin-mounted and 4 single-mounted 1892 The firepower of the annual 152mm L/45 secondary gun looks good, but the tonnage of the standard displacement of 10,960 tons leads to insufficient defense of the ship. Although the defense is good on paper, the waterline armor belt is 254-368mm, but its armor The width can be imagined, it must be a very narrow armor belt.

As for the other Oslibia, the speed protection of the ship is not bad, but the firepower of the 4 254mm main guns and the 11 152mm secondary main guns is not too weak?

It can be said that the three most combat-capable warships in the current fleet are damaged and repaired, and the idea of ​​letting Lieutenant General Makarov continue to attack can only come to an end.

On the side of the United Fleet, the Victory was seen struggling back to Lushun Port under the siege of the ships. To the disappointment of the United Fleet and others, Togo Heihachiro, as the fleet commander, immediately sent a telegram to Tokyo, demanding that the government not allow the Russians to obtain Italian warships, especially the three Genoa-class battleships, which were too resistant.

Of course, Togo Heihachiro gave very high praise to the two purchased Garibaldi Patrols. Although the cost of the ship is extremely high, its performance is too powerful. With a displacement of 15,000 tons, it can actually run at a high speed of 23 knots. What's more, the eight 254mm main guns it is equipped with are even more powerful and can be called cruiser killers.

As long as you are seen by it, don't even think about running away. So these two patrols were commanded by Hikonojo Uemura, and with several other patrols, they were going to capture the cruisers of the Pacific Fleet in Vladivostok Port.

However, although the Japanese patrol formation is ready, but the Russian warships hiding in the port of Vladivostok will not come out at all, let you do everything possible, I am as stable as Mount Tai.

Hikonojo Uemura has nothing to do with this kind of countermeasure of being willing to be an otaku at home. He can't possibly rush into the port with a patrol.

Hikonojo Uemura had no choice but to stay outside Vladivostok for a long time, so he could only leave first. But as soon as the front foot left, the Russian cruiser formation slipped out on the back foot, and wandered around the sea off Japan, sinking and capturing several merchant and fishing boats, which made Hikonojo Uemura feel angry. As a result, when he led the fleet to pursue them all the way, The opponent returned to Vladivostok again, which made people jump anxiously.

At this time, the Japanese navy was a little uncomfortable. The Russian fleet was hiding in the port and could not come out, and there was nothing they could do about it. Fortunately, Japan still has an army, and the help of the army is needed at this time. But if the army wants to help, at least temporarily block the threat of the Russian navy.

So for Combined Fleet Commander Heihachiro Togo, this is a tricky question. Because the Russians are not stupid, you can block the port of Lushun if you want to block it. He has sent two batches of ships to block the port before and failed. It is very difficult to block the port without the sight of the Russians.

But this time, in order to ensure that the army can land on the Liaodong Peninsula, Togo Heihachiro became ruthless, and took out more than a dozen ships in one go for blocking purposes, so on the night of July 4th ~www.mtlnovel.com~ more than a dozen Japanese blocking ships , under the control of the Death Squad, they swarmed directly towards the waterway of the port.

Although they were subjected to heavy shelling by the Russians and blockade by sea mines on the way, these death squads rushed past the interception without hesitation, and five boats rushed to the mouth of the waterway. Immediately afterwards, five ships loaded with blockages opened the sea gate, and directly blocked the waterway with sunken ships.

Now, even a famous admiral like Makarov has no choice for the time being.

Taking advantage of the Russian navy being blocked in the port, Japan launched an offensive from the Yalu River on the one hand. Within two days, the Dongman detachment of the Russian army retreated from Jiulian City and retreated in the direction of Liaoyang.

At the same time, more than 40,000 Japanese Second Army, commanded by General Ao Baogong, landed from Piziwo in the southeast of the Liaodong Peninsula on July 9 in an attempt to capture Lushun from the north.

On July 13, the Second Japanese Army arrived in Jinzhou, where the 4th Infantry Division of the Russian Army was in charge of defense. After some fighting, the 4th Infantry Division was defeated and retreated all the way to the surrounding area of ​​Lushun to stabilize the line of defense. The Japanese army took the opportunity to occupy Jinzhou and Dalian. At this time, Lushun, a strategic point, was completely surrounded.

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