In the first half of the month of the Battle of Ulsan, the Russian cruiser attacked the Chinese Empire ships sailing on the Korean coast 12 times, sinking various merchant ships,

The transport ship, one of the Chinese Empire's troops transport ships, the Yantai, was sunk, causing considerable casualties and losses to the Chinese Empire.

On November 13, the Vladivostok squadron launched the ninth attack since the war started. The five ships of the Russians, Admiral Nashimov, Azo Memorial, Monomach, and the Twelve Apostles formed a formation to move south and search for prey separately. At 8:00 on the 15th, the Russian ship Russians found a Chinese imperial ship Yantai, a transport ship transporting wounded soldiers from Ulsan, returning from Ulsan, on the sea near Jeju Island on the west coast of North Korea. The Russian ship Rossman was the fastest, and rushed forward to fire artillery and sank Yantai. Except for 152 people on the ship, all 263 people were killed.

Immediately after the "Yantai" sinks, the 2nd Team of the Chinese Empire has arrived in a hurry, but only saw the bodies of the Imperial soldiers floating on the sea. Although the Second Team then conducted a large-scale search, it found nothing. It was for the "Yantai" incident.

After the Yantai incident, the Russian ship attacked the wounded ships of the Chinese Empire, which made the Chinese Empire extremely angry. The Pacific Fleet, which was responsible for defending the shipping, was criticized. The commander of the Pacific Fleet, Lin Jianzhang, immediately ordered that it was necessary to find the Russian fleet and eliminate them.

Starting from November 14, the Imperial Navy Pacific Fleet sent the First Squadron, the Fifth Squadron, and the Sixth Squadron, as well as the Second Destroyer Hunter, a total of more than 30 warships blocked Vladivostok.

In this way, the Russian Navy Vladivostok fleet, which was cruising off the sea and waiting for an opportunity to harass the ships behind the Chinese Empire, could not return to Vladivostok, and could only travel upstream.

Although the Vladivostok fleet had sufficient coal and no supply was needed for a short period of time, food, water and shells could not last long. Essen led his Vladivostok fleet so he chose to quietly resupply at the coastal ports of Japan, the French and Korean Concession, and the Jeju Island base in Germany. However, the ammunition standards of the French, German and Japanese navies were different from those of the Russian navies, so that the Essen fleet could only supply food and water sources but could not supply ammunition.

On November 15, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Chinese Empire notified France, the German ambassador to China and the Japanese Consul General to China, and made solemn representations to the three governments on the grounds that the Russian navy attacked the ships transporting wounded by the Chinese Empire. Seeing that the Chinese Empire had achieved a huge victory in the war on the Korean Peninsula, France and Japan had to give in and make concessions and promised not to provide any supply to the Russian cruiser squadron. Before the war between China and Russia began, the right-wing forces in Japan shouted that they had allied Russia to China, but Russia's disastrous defeat in North Korea caused the arrogance of the right-wing elements in Japan to be suppressed. The peace faction led by Matsukaya Matsukaya Cabinet again gained the upper hand and officially announced that Japan strictly adhered to neutrality and no longer provided any form of supplies to Russia.

In this way, since the occupation of Japan, Essen and his Vladivostok cruiser could no longer get food and freshwater supplies from Japan, Germany and France. They had to run back to Nikolayevsk from afar. Vladivostok was blocked, and the ammunition supplies from the Russian fleet needed to be transported to Nikolayevsk to provide the Essen fleet. In this way, it took more than ten days for the Essen fleet to travel back and forth, and the ports in the far north had already begun to freeze, which had a huge impact on the Essen fleet, so the raid mission was very unsuccessful.

At the most intense time of the battle of Ulsan, General Alekseyev, the commander-in-chief of the Russian Far East, decided to let the remnants of Ulsan's Russian Far East Fleet sail to Magadan and preserve his strength. In order to ensure the successful breakthrough, Essen led the Vladivostok squadron to respond to Ulsan. However, because the connection between Ulsan and Vladivostok had been interrupted, the two fleets could not coordinate their actions. When the Russian Far East Fleet began to break through on November 25, the Vladivostok fleet was still in the port of Nikolayevsk. During the melee, a torpedo boat broke through to Hirado in Japan, and then sent a report from there: "The Ulsan Fortress is in danger, and the squadron is breaking through and fighting against the enemy."

The Russian Far East Governor Alexeyev immediately ordered the Essen fleet to go south to meet the Far East Fleet. It was the afternoon of December 26 when the order arrived in Nikolayevsk. However, the Vladivostok fleet was not ready at this time. They thought they could get orders before the Far East Fleet was ready to set off.

Despite this, Essen ordered the cruisers to start adding coal immediately to prepare for sailing, and just before the Essen fleet,

Less than a day after leaving the port of Nikolayevsk, Ulsan Fortress fell and the Russian Far East Fleet had surrendered.

The Essen fleet, which was not notified by the Russian Command, continued to move south. At the same time, the Chinese Emperor team learned from the captured Russian Far East Fleet Command that the Essen fleet was heading south.

On December 28, General Lin Jianzhang, commander of the Pacific Fleet of the Imperial Navy, immediately decided to destroy the Essen Fleet, so the Pacific Fleet set up pockets at the Japanese sea and waited for the Essen Fleet to drill in.

On December 29, around 9:00 a.m., Essen led five warships, the Russians, Admiral Nashimov, Azov, Monomach, and the Twelve Apostles, to enter the Japanese and Japanese Sea. Because according to time, if the breakthrough is successful, the Far East Fleet should have arrived at the Japanese and Japanese Sea. Because the radio system equipped by the Essen fleet was limited in communication distance and the signal was not good, and the contact was not successful, the five Russian ships sailed in a horizontal lineup of 3 to 5 nautical miles at a speed of 14 knots to expand the observation fan and increase the possibility of encountering the Russian fleet breaking out from Ulsan.

That night, the Vladivostok squadron arrived at the waters they were expected to meet and continued to search south for a whole day, but no trace of the Far East Fleet was found. Despite extreme disappointment, Essen ordered the fleet to continue traveling to the south, hoping to find the Far East Fleet before night on the 31st.

At the same time, the Chinese Empire Navy War Room has broken the fleet channel communication password of the Russian Far East Fleet from the codebooks in the captured Russian Far East Fleet battleship through complex calculations and interrogation of Russian military officers.

The Pacific Fleet then used the Russian Navy Fleet channel to send radio signals, leading the Essen Fleet to come.

At dawn on the 31st, the Russian fleet arrived at the northern entrance of the Tsushima Strait. At this time, it would be very dangerous if the Russian ships continued to move south. However, Essen went directly to the "Contact Signal of the Russian Far East Fleet" and became more and more urgent, so he had to order the fleet to continue traveling south.

At the same time, the Imperial Navy Pacific Fleet, which received Essen's reply, was tightening the fishing nets and surrounding them from all directions of "reserved joints".

At around 11 o'clock in the morning, the weather on the sea at the north entrance of the opposite strait was clear, the wind was calm, and the visibility was good.

At 12:50, the Chinese Empire fleet recognized it as the prey they had been searching for for two months, and the entire fleet was immediately cheered.

The Russian fleet only has five armored cruisers, while there are more than 60 imperial Chinese naval warships around them, including five main battleship battleships, nine large armored cruisers, nine armored cruisers, two brigades of thirty-six hunting ships, and five West Lake supply ships.

Such a huge fleet, once the siege is completed, the Essen fleet cannot escape at all, and the fate that is waiting for them is destined to be destroyed.

At 13:5, the "Dengyun" issued a radio signal of "the entire fleet encirclement" while raising the battle flag. The warship entered the battle speed of 17 knots and approached the Russian fleet. At the same time, the teams of other squadrons also entered the battle speed one after another, approaching the Russian fleet from all directions.

What Essen discovered was the first team of the First Squadron of the Imperial Navy's Pacific Fleet, which happened to be located in the north of the Russian fleet, and cut off the Russian fleet's way back to Nikolayevsk. Essen knew very well about the figure of the Dungyun-class battleship of the Imperial Empire. The Russian ship in his hand had no chance to defeat the other side. Essen ordered the fleet to turn southeast, trying to use high speed to avoid the battleship squad of the Imperial Navy's Navy.

However, soon discovered the Fourth Corps of the Second Squadron of the Chinese Empire Navy near Tsushima Island ahead. Leaded by the flagship Wind Catcher, the Fourth Corps of the Wind Catcher and the Chengfeng,

The armored cruiser fleet composed of the four ships of the Hunter and Gangyong was extremely fast and quickly approached the Essen fleet.

"Dongdongdongdongdongdong!"

The Second Squadron of the Chinese Empire Navy occupied a favorable attack position from the beginning. When it was about 6,000 meters close to the Russian fleet, the flagship Squadron, the Wind-Catcher, took the lead in firing. Then the Fourth Fleet ships opened fire one after another. In an instant, hundreds of shells roared at the Russian ship, forcing the Russian fleet to 13:15

Turn eastward and sound the battle alarm.

The Essen fleet did not fight back. At a distance of more than 6,000 meters, the Russian artillery basically had no accuracy. And Essen did not intend to fight and was eager to escape.

However, Essen soon discovered that he and his fleet were surrounded. Then Essen's fleet turned several times, and found that the southwest and northwest were occupied by warships of the Imperial Navy in the directions of the southwest and northwest respectively.

After a round of the Essen fleet, he immediately decided to break through. Essen tried to choose a relatively weak Chinese Empire squadron, but what made him sad was that the Chinese Empire Navy did not give him the opportunity to carefully choose. In a hurry, Essen chose to break through from the southwest and happened to meet the Fourth Team of the Pacific Fleet. It was not that enemies would not gather, but the four ships of the Fourth Team of the Wind Catching, Wind Chasing, Wind and Hunter were all warships designed for large Russian armored cruisers. They were better than the ships of the Essen fleet in terms of speed, firepower and armor.

The Essen fleet was led by the Russians. Monomach and the Twelve Apostles were cut off, preparing to forcibly break through the interception of the Chinese Emperor's ship. Seeing the Russian fleet turn, Dengyun immediately ordered the Fourth Team of the Second Squadron and the Fourth Team of the Third Squadron to sail southeast and southeast, and the five ships of the Wind Catching, Wind Chasing, Wind Hunter, and Gangyong to press on from the left side of the Russian fleet. The four ships of the Sixth Team, Hai Shi, Haibin, Ocean, and Haigu intercepted from the right side, forcing the Russian ship to turn around. The four ships of the Fifth Team, Hairong, Haichou, Haichen, and Haixi, led by the Third Squadron flagship, Haiqi, attacked the Moromach and the Twelve Apostles behind the Russian fleet from the rear.

The first team could not keep up with the Russian fleet's speed, so they could only cooperate with the two hunting ship brigades of the Fourth Squadron's on the periphery to block the periphery and wait for an opportunity to act.

Because the Fourth Team and the Russian fleet were almost parallel and had little speed difference, each ship attacked the corresponding targets in the opponent's queue.

At 13:10, the two sides approached 5,500 meters. The 203mm main gun of the Fourth Navy of the Chinese Empire opened fire first, and the Russian ship immediately fought back. The calm sea surface suddenly roared and gun smoke filled with smoke. As the distance between the two sides gradually approached, their respective 1mm cannons also joined the battle.

Compared with the slow and lethal alternating shooting of the main guns between battleships, the high-speed medium-caliber artillery between armored cruisers is more tragic. The five Russian ships have a total of 12 203mm guns and 48 152mm guns, and the five Chinese ships have 20 and 80 respectively. Hundreds of shells fell down on both sides. However, because the main guns of the Russian ships are distributed on both sides, the midship has almost the advantage of z1 in side firepower. Under the dense shooting of the midship, the Russian ship quickly lost its support, especially the Twelve Apostles quickly caught fire in many places, and the front bridge was destroyed.

But what is even more fatal is that after the Sixth War Team, Haibin, Haiyang and Haigu ships detoured from the right, they seized the "t" position of the Russian fleet, and fierce starboard artillery fired at the Russian ship, the Russian, forcing the Russian commander Essen to order emergency evasion.

The Russian suddenly turned, and the ships behind also followed the flagships, but at this time, the Haiqi led the fifth team's Hairong, Haichou, Haichen and Haixi suddenly made a big "u" turn. They rushed to the middle and rear of the Russian fleet, forcing the Russian ships Mah and the Twelve Apostles to turn and avoid it. As a result, the second ship immediately separated from the other three ships and was "encircled"

come out.

After the five Haiqi-class armored cruisers separated the Moruo Mah and the Twelve Apostles, they immediately circled them around. Among these two Russian ships, the Moruo Mah was an old-fashioned armored cruiser built in 1890, while the Twelve Apostles was a relatively new armored cruiser built in 1894. The displacement of the two ships was about 4,000 tons. Although the number of armor and artillery was roughly similar to that of the Haiqi-class, most of them were old single-mounted slow cannons. Compared with the Haiqi-class, all of them were rapid-fire guns, the Russian ships fired more than four times less shells per minute than the opponent, and they were at an absolute disadvantage.

In less than fifteen minutes of the battle, the Mah and the Twelve Apostles were shot hundreds of times in succession. After a large number of high-explosive warheads hit, they had great destructive power and caught fire in many places. Captain Colonel Trusov, deputy captain Lieutenant Colonel Khlodov and most officers were killed one after another, and dozens of people were injured.

At 13:50, the Chinese Empire warships with superior speed had exceeded the Russians, and the Russian ship turned south to avoid them. However, at this time, the island of Moromah was attacked by six warships of the Fifth and Sixth Teams one after another. The island was hit by more than a dozen 203mm shells. The island was razed to the ground in a violent explosion. More than 20 officers and dozens of soldiers below the captain were killed. Moromah lost command and lost combat effectiveness. Similarly, the Twelve Apostles were destroyed by a shell, and the ship failed to control the steer.

Ten minutes later, Essen, who received the report, directed the other three ships to turn rudder and sail to the northwest at 180°, and opened fire at the Sixth War Team to attract the opponent's firepower to cover the repair of the Twelve Apostles. The Fourth War Team then turned parallel to the Russian ship, and the artillery battle started again, making the Russian ship unable to attract the artillery fire of the Sixth War Team.

The Sixth and Fifth Teams continued to maneuver quickly, approaching Russian ships with rapid-fire cannons and bombarding Russian ships with close range.

At 14:08, the Haiqi troops approached Mah and fired an old black sorcerer torpedo.

With a loud bang, the starboard waterline of the ship Moruo Mach was directly hit by a torpedo, and the torpedo with a charge of 200 kilograms of Hei Sojin instantly exploded the ship Moruo Mach into two pieces.

At 14:10, the Mah Mah quickly sank in a series of sacrilegious explosions. The Russian officers and soldiers on the ship had no time to escape, and none of the 213 people survived. At the same time, the Twelve Apostles, who had lost their direction, were besieged by five warships of the Chinese Empire Navy. The ship caught fire on a large scale, and 16 artillery pieces were lost. The rest of the artillery was unable to be fired due to the fire. The Haixi approached and fired all the Russian soldiers who were busy repairing the rudder.

At 14:15, the Twelve Apostles lowered the battle flag and raised the white flag to surrender. The Seaside continued to shoot. The Russian commander urgently raised the dragon flag of the Chinese Empire and shouted in a pouting accent: "Surrender!"

Three minutes later, the flagship Haiqi of the Third Squadron issued an order to attack the Twelve Apostles, and then two hunting ships arrived at high speed and boarded the ship to take over.

Less than an hour after the war began, the Russian fleet lost two warships, which undoubtedly added to the injury to Essen, and the salt was removed from the wound.

Subsequently, the 18 armored cruisers of the Imperial Empire Navy continued to siege the remaining three warships of the Russian fleet. The three remaining warships in Essen were large armored cruisers of 8,000 to more than 10,000 tons. They had stronger combat power and were more harsh and thick-skinned and more resistant to beating.

At around 14:40, the Hunter's front main gun hit the front of the Russian ship, causing the ammunition piled on the deck to explode. The violent explosion shocked the bob wrapped in flames and fragments to attack the bridge's deputy captain and three staff officers died on the spot. Essen urgently ordered the warship to turn right to avoid it.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of the Russian being shot and avoiding it, the two ships Hunter and Wind suddenly turned right and all the artillery on the port side were fired at the Navy, forcing the Admiral to turn left and separate from the Russian.

At the same time, the two ships Zhuifeng and Chengfeng also turned right and forced the Azov Memorial to leave the team under the artillery fire of the Azov Memorial.

In this way, the three warships of the Russian fleet were divided, allowing the Chinese Empire Navy to further divide and encircle and annihilate them.

In the next half hour, the three Russian ships were attacked by an average of six Chinese Empire Navy warships, and the situation was extremely miserable. At first, the Russian ship could fight back a few cannons and were quickly suppressed by shells from all directions.

Essen tried to order the Russian ship to get close to the other side. If the warships in the Chinese Empire in other directions were worried that they would stop attacking if they hurt their warships so that the Russian ship could get less shells.

However, what made Essen sadly was that he actually chose to get close to the Hunter during the melee. The overall design of the Hunter was aimed at the Russian ship's second close range.

The Russians were immediately hit by destruction.

At 15:13, the Russian ship was penetrated by a 203mm shell, which penetrated the three decks and exploded in the coal compartment. The high temperature and flames of the explosion instantly ignited the coal compartment, causing a fire.

Fires and smoke spread around the Russians, causing Russian soldiers to be unable to work.

Essen ordered the firefighting team to put out the fire urgently, but the fire was too big, so he had no choice but to order water to fill the coal compartment.

During this period, the Russians maintained a combat speed of 22 knots for a long time. The backward Russian workers finally got flawed at this moment. The fire inside the ship made the metros unable to work, so that the transmission shaft overheated and quickly overloaded, and the speed dropped sharply to 15 knots.

With the Russian speed dropping, Hunter can easily seize the advantageous shooting position. Faced with the fierce attack of Hunter, no matter how Essen avoids it, Hunter, which has the advantage of speed, once again occupies the advantage of favorable shooting position in less than a minute.

At 15:23, a firepower volley of the Hunter, four 152mm shells hit the waterline of the starboard ship of the Russian, and tore open four large holes with a diameter of half a meter. At this time, the starboard of the Russian had been shot through more than a hundred holes, and the Russian sailors inside kept blocking the holes and pumping water. At this time, the water pump was seriously overloaded, and the four new huge holes were not available to be filled, and the cordon was exceeded at sea. The sea water that quickly poured in flooded the sailors' necks, and the maintenance soldiers immediately gave up repairing.

At 15:27, the Russian hull was tilted seriously right, and the starboard artillery could no longer fight back. Facing the Hunter's gunfire, Essen had to sigh and ordered the abandonment of the ship.

However, the Hunter did not give the Russian army a chance to abandon the ship and escape. The Russian could not open fire on the starboard side, so the Hunter quickly approached, and the port side rapid-fire gun opened fire violently, slaughtering the Russian officers and soldiers in panic on the enemy ship.

At 15:29, the Hunter and the Wind Catcher, who caught up, each fired a torpedo, instantly sending the Russian into the sea. 188 Russian officers and soldiers, including Essen, were buried in the sea.

Only three people were rescued.

At the same time, the Admiral and the Azov Memorial were even more miserable. The firepower, speed and armor protection of the two ships were far lower than that of the Russians. They were besieged by six or seven times the warship and were soon crippled.

However, the second ship was very lucky. With the sinking of the Russians, they could no longer obey Essen's orders to fight to the end, so they surrendered one after another.

At 15:35, Lin Jianzhang accepted the surrender of the two ships, and the Battle of Ma Hai ended. The Russian Vladivostok fleet that raided the supply of the routes of the Empire of China ended with the sinking of the Russians and the Mah, the second ships of the Twelve Apostles, the Azo Memorial, and the Admiral Nashimov, ended with the great victory of the Empire of China.

At this point, the Russian Far East Fleet was wiped out, and the Chinese Empire Navy achieved a comprehensive victory in maritime operations against Russia in the Far East and completely controlled the sea control.

After the Battle of the Tyrannosaurus, General Alekseev, the Supreme Commander of the Far East, was heartbroken. The fall of the Korean Peninsula, the entire Far East fleet was wiped out, and the rapid loss of the Far East sea power made him aged more than teenagers in an instant.

After the Battle of Tsuma, Alekseyev further strengthened the fortifications of the Vladivostok fortifications and arranged a large number of anti-logging devices on the beaches around Vladivostok, focusing on defending the landing of the Imperial Chinese Army near Vladivostok.

However, Alekseev did not give up the maritime disturbance against the Chinese Empire. On the third day after the Battle of Ma, Alekseev sent the "Lena River" coach cruiser to the Pacific Ocean and continued to disturb the Chinese Empire's maritime transportation line. The purpose was only to emphasize that the Tsarist Russian Empire still had maritime power, which was the ultimate manifestation of desperate face.
Chapter completed!