Seeing that the Russian fleet had been defeated, Hirahachiro Togo did not order a pursuit, but immediately withdrew his troops again. It turned out that Hirahachiro Togo had received a message from Incheon Port and knew that the entire People's Army Navy was dispatched.

As soon as the People's Army Navy left the port, it was found out by Japanese intelligence personnel located in Qingdao and immediately issued a power to Japan. After receiving it, it was shocked and quickly sent another power to Incheon to inform Hirahachiro Togo and asked him to prepare early. But at this time, the joint fleet had already left the port, but fortunately there were still several notification ships in the port. They hurried out to the sea, rushing towards Lushun, while sending wireless telegrams desperately.

Although the radio telegraph transmission distance in this era is limited, people can finally find a way to arrange ships equipped with radio telegraph equipment within the radio telegraph transmission distance and then perform relay transmission. Although it is a little troublesome, it is feasible after all. Since it is engaged in combat at sea, it is impossible to use wired transmission, so such radio communication is still of great value. However, when it comes to Heihachiro Togo, through Qingdao to the east, and through Incheon, it is almost 5:30 pm.

Hirahachiro Togo did not dare to be careless. Although the East China government has provided Japan with 5 batches of supplies, with a total weight of more than 30,000 tons, saving Japan a lot of manpower and material resources, Hirahachiro Togo has always regarded the People's Army Navy as a potential opponent in Japan. Once it defeats Russia, Japan's next enemy must be overseas Chinese. Therefore, in addition to fighting against Russia, he has also been paying attention to the movements of the People's Army Navy. At this time, what should the entire People's Army Navy do? Hirahachiro Togo naturally had to be more guarded at this time. Fortunately, he has defeated the Russian fleet now, so he immediately ordered the reorganization of the team and ordered the 1st destroyer to go out to inquire about the movements of the People's Army Navy, and the other warships returned to Incheon Port.

At 6:20, the People's Army Navy received a message from the Xiangyang ship. It had discovered that a Russian warship had broken through the interception of the Japanese fleet and rushed towards Qingdao, demanding that the fleet prepare for interception.

At 6:45, the Xiangyang ship sent another message that the Japanese fleet had retreated and confirmed that a batch of fleeing warships had been confirmed, including the cruisers Ascolid, Di'an, and a destroyer.

It turned out that the People's Army Navy conducted multiple reconnaissances on the fleets of Japan and Russia, collecting all the radar signal characteristics of the main warships of both sides. Therefore, the full warship can be determined by radar scanning alone.

Ascolid and Deanna are both large protective cruisers. Ascolid has a displacement of 5,900 tons and a speed of 24 knots, and its main gun is 12 152 mm caliber guns; Deanna has a displacement of 6,600 tons and a speed of 23 knots, and its main gun is 8 152 mm caliber guns. The destroyers of the Pacific Fleet are all small ships with a speed of 3,50 tons, so there is no careful determinant of radar signals.

At 7 o'clock, the Xiangyang ship confirmed another batch of warships, with a total of 4 ships, led by the cruiser Novik and 3 destroyers. Novik is a small protective cruiser with a displacement of 3,000 tons, a speed of 24 knots, and a main gun is 8 125mm caliber guns.

After receiving the notification from the Xiangyang ship, Wang Hailong immediately ordered the takeoff of the Yueyang ship's carrier-based helicopter, focusing on searching the range mentioned by the Xiangyang ship. At the same time, he ordered the 1st cruiser team to lead the 1st destroyer team to intercept the Ascolid and Di Aina, and ordered the 2nd cruiser team to Dengzhou and Laizhou to intercept the Novik. These two batches of Russian ships must not be allowed to run away.

At 7:20, news came from the Xiangyang ship that this time the flagship of the Pacific Fleet was discovered, and the Qingzhou and Yizhou were following the Crown Prince.

After hearing this, Wang Hailong couldn't help but shine. The Crown Prince is no better than other warships. It is a battleship and the flagship of the Pacific Fleet. This is really a big fish. If it can capture the Crown Prince, it will be extremely beneficial to the East China government in both military and political terms.

So Wang Hailong immediately ordered the battleship team to attack and intercept the Crown Prince. He also ordered the Dongchang and Jining of the 2nd cruiser team to assist.

The Crown Prince is a battleship purchased by Russia from France. It has a displacement of 13,000 tons and a maximum speed of 18.5 knots. The main gun is two dual-mounted 305mm guns. It is installed in the most advanced electric armored turret at this time and can be loaded at full rotation angle, so the main gun has a faster fire rate.

The biggest feature of the Crown Prince is that it uses the latest French invention of high-strength nickel steel in the armor material, but the entire ship has nearly 4,000 tons of armor and extremely strong defense. Not only does it have too much armor, but also the tall superstructure, the Crown Prince's center of gravity is too high, which will affect the stability of the hull when turning. However, overall, the Crown Prince is still a very excellent warship and the strongest warship in the Pacific Fleet.

After the flagship of the Pacific Fleet, Peter Pavlovsk, sank from the thunder, the Crown Prince became the new flagship of the Pacific Fleet. In this breakthrough battle, the Crown Prince naturally led the way, fighting against the flagship Mikasa, the Joint Fleet's flagship Mikasa during the battle, and fully utilized its advantage of fast firing speed. In the battle, the main gun hit Mikasa four times in a total of four times, and one of the guns hit the front bridge of Mikasa, so that the captain Ichijiro, staff officer Kenyo Ueda, Kiyoshi Okura, and others were seriously injured, with corpses everywhere on the deck. Fortunately, Hirahachiro Togo was safe and sound. After the war, the Mikasa killed a total of 32 people and injured 78 people. The Mikasa almost completely lost its combat effectiveness.

However, Russia's luck was too bad. It was also hit by the bridge. The commander of the Pacific Fleet Witgeft and several officers around him were killed and destroyed the steering device, causing chaos in the entire fleet. A few minutes later, the command room was shot again. The main commanders, including Captain Ivanov, Navigation and Artillery, were killed and injured. Chief of Staff Matssevic could only take over the command of the warship. However, the Prince still relied on heavy armor protection to successfully break through the encirclement and sail southward in the rain of bullets of the Japanese warship.

"His Excellency Chief of Staff, the Japanese warships did not catch up, but the two warships still followed us."

Major General Matssevic looked to the left side of the warship. In the dusk light, you can still see that there were two warships on the left distance of about 7 kilometers, one in front and the other in parallel with the Crown Prince.

Although the Crown Prince suffered a heavy blow in the afternoon battle and paid the heavy price of the fleet commander and captains being killed, the power of the warship was not damaged. Therefore, after highlighting the blockade of the Japanese warship, Matssevic ordered the warship to accelerate its advance, and even using strong pressure ventilation, the speed of the warship soared to nearly 20 knots.

But at some point, two warships appeared on the left side of the Crown Prince, always following the Crown Prince. At the beginning, Matssevic thought it was a Japanese warship, but soon Matssevic knew that it was not a Japanese warship, because the light was still good at this time. From the side, you can clearly see the head of the large oblique flying scissors.

The Japanese and Russian navy had been fighting for half a year. Russian officers were very familiar with Japanese warships. Of course, there was no such type of warship. Matssevic knew that there was only one warship of this type, which was the People's Army Navy of the East China Government.

The three warships were running side by side for nearly two hours. Although some people suggested to Matssevic that it would be better to fire a few guns to scare away or sink the two warships, Matssevic considered it for a while and rejected this suggestion because the distance between the two warships was very clever, just at the maximum distance of the naval gun strike. At this distance, the hit rate was extremely low, and it was almost 8 o'clock in the evening. Although it was mid-August, the day was long and the night was short, and it was darker later on the sea, but it was almost dark after all, and after dark, you could get rid of the pursuit of these two warships.

In fact, Matssevic had another idea in his mind. He was the chief of staff of the Pacific Fleet and naturally knew more. Before the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War, Russia also tried to pull the East China government to differentiate the cooperation between the East China government and Japan. Although the East China government provided Japan with a large amount of supplies after the war, it did not participate in the war. The Russians did not dare to touch the East China government's business in Lushun, which is also an important reason.

Moreover, the current situation of war has always been unfavorable to Russia, so it is naturally unfavorable to Russia to openly offend the East China government at this time. Moreover, Matssevic cannot be sure of what the other party is intended. After all, the Yellow Sea also belongs to the Shandong sea area. The East China government has warships in this area, so it is not surprising that it is cruise, and it is not surprising that the warships and ships that are surveillance.

Sure enough, after about ten minutes, it became dark. When I looked around, I could no longer see the silhouettes of the two warships. Therefore, Matssevic breathed a sigh of relief and finally got rid of the pursuit of these two warships. Now I have to take advantage of the night to run as far as possible. Although it is very dangerous to sail at high speed in the night, because it is in unfamiliar waters, Matssevic still ordered the warship to maintain a speed of 15 knots.

After sailing for nearly an hour, the sky was completely dark. The sky was as dark as ink, with stars all over the sky, and a crescent moon appeared. Although it was not impossible to see the five fingers, even if there were stars and moonlight, the visibility was no more than hundreds of meters.

At this time, Matssevic was also very calm and was about to check the navigation chart to avoid going in the wrong direction in the dark, but at this moment, two sparks suddenly burst out in the sky ahead. Matssevic's heart trembled, knowing that it was a flare. As the range of the spark expanded, it suddenly illuminated a large area of ​​sea, and the shadows of six warships appeared, blocking the Crown Prince.
Chapter completed!