Chapter 65 Victory!
The battle in Shanghai was in full swing on the Yellow Sea, and the Beiyang Fleet was gradually losing support. Tang Jian walked around in annoyedly in the command room of the Longwei Bridge. (eng.com)
"Have Chu Zhaoliang's large submarine force arrived?" Tang Jian turned around and asked a staff officer.
The staff officer shook his head and replied: "Commander, Chu Zhaoliang's submarine force is heading towards the Siberia!"
"It's too late!" Tang Jian cursed in his heart. When Chu Zhaoliang arrived, the situation of the war would probably worsen even more. Unfortunately, the Dragon Wei was dragged down by several Russian warships at this time. If this continues, the outcome of this naval battle will be hard to say.
"Commander, look!" Cheng Biguang handed Tang Jian a telescope and pointed at the direction of the northeast of the Longwei 1st clock.
Tang Jian took the telescope and looked at it, and said in surprise: "It's Haichou!"
In the telescope, the Haichou rushed straight towards the location where the Siberia was in a rain of bullets. Judging from this desperate posture, the Haichou did not seem to be supporting the Siberia, but used its hull to impact the Siberia!
"What's going on?" Cheng Biguang asked in confusion, "Isn't Fang Boqian responsible for the command of this sea chip? Why..."
Fang Boqian had already betrayed Yuan Shikai and was in a sympathy with the Russian Pacific Fleet at this time. It was impossible for him to do such a move.
Tang Jian thought for a moment and immediately realized that it must be Li Guozhen, and it must be Li Guozhen who controlled the Haichou!
Cheng Biguang also reacted and said, "Is it because Haichou is controlled by Li Guozhen?"
Tang Jian nodded, looking at Haichou's crazy attitude, other explanations were simply incomprehensible.
"But, if this happens, won't they all know..." Cheng Biguang couldn't bear to say this obvious result.
"Immediately order Chu Zhaoliang to go to rescue, and it counts to save one person!" Tang Jian shook his head helplessly.
The Haichou and the Hairong are cruisers of the same level, and their speed is high among cruisers of various countries. If this continues, at such a close distance, within ten minutes, the Haichou will definitely hit the Siberian.
"Send me a signal to Fang Boqian right away, what's going on?" Lovstowski looked at the Haichou that rushed towards this side and asked in disbelief.
"Report to the commander, HaiChou No response!" The communications soldier passed the news to Lovstowski.
Luofstsky's head was spinning rapidly. He also understood what was going on in a short period of time. Haichou may no longer be under Fang Boqian's control!
"Damn Fang Boqian, I have said that I would shoot those soldiers. Now, it has not only harmed himself, but also the Pacific Fleet!" Lovstowski regretted that he should not agree with Fang Boqian's request to release these soldiers from the Beiyang Fleet back to the HaiChou, but there is no regret medicine in the world.
"Commander, now..." The captain of the battleship of the Siberia hesitated and finally asked.
"Are you a stupid pig? Avoid it immediately. Do you have to wait until this damn Haizhe Chop hits it?" Lovstowski could only keep roaring.
A moment later, even stronger smoke columns suddenly rose from the tall chimneys of the Siberian battleship. This was the Siberian's rapid coal increase acceleration, and it wanted to avoid the fatal impact before the arrival of the Haizi.
The deck on the HaiChou was already bleeding like a river, deck, railing and cabin door were filled with the bodies of Beiyang soldiers, while other Russian sailors on the ship were hurried to the bridge room with their weapons.
But when they arrived at the bridge room, they found that the hatch door of the bridge room had been locked tightly from inside. More than a dozen other Russian soldiers nodded, and tried to knock open the hatch door and enter the bridge with their bodies.
Zheng Dong and a dozen other Beiyang soldiers also used their bodies to block the cabin door tightly to prevent Russian soldiers from rushing in. Zheng Dong said anxiously: "Brother Li, we can't stop it anymore!"
Li Guozhen let go of the rudder plate. At this moment, the turn was completed. The Haichou can no longer manipulate the rudder plate. At this time, the Haichou was rushing towards the Siberia at full speed. It only took ten minutes before the Haichou could hit the Siberian battleship.
Li Guozhen walked up to Zheng Dong and asked, "Brothers, are you afraid of death?"
"Not afraid of death!" Zheng Dong replied firmly with a red face.
Li Guozhen smiled slightly, took out a few cigarettes from his shirt pocket, and gave them a little bit to the Beiyang soldiers in the bridge, and finally lit them for himself.
Li Guozhen took a beautiful sip and said with relief: "Brothers, after taking this cigarette, our mission has been completed! We can get on the road with confidence, hahaha."
"Li Guozhen, let me go, after all, we are brothers!" Fang Boqian said after struggling for a few moments.
"Hmph, brothers, what about those brothers who died in Lushun? Are they not brothers with you?" Li Guozhen snorted coldly and walked slowly to Fang Boqian.
"I miss you fought with us and was our captain, so I'll let you die with us!" Li Guozhen turned around and walked to the helm.
"Brothers, it's easy to walk on the road to the underworld, and I have a good idea to take care of you. My only regret is that I can't follow the commander to gallop on the sea again to fulfill his dream." After Li Guozhen said that, he lit the ** on his chest with the cigarette between his fingers.
"Are you crazy?" Fang Boqian widened his eyes. According to this weight, the entire bridge would be razed to the ground.
In addition, the Russian officers and soldiers screamed, desperately trying to break free from the rope.
With a "bang", the cabin door of the bridge room was suddenly knocked open by the Russian soldiers outside. However, before they had time to have time to be happy, they saw the fuse on Li Guozhen's chest "sizzling" with blue smoke. The Russian soldiers who broke into the bridge shouted and ran back.
Li Guozhen glanced at Zheng Dong and several other Beiyang soldiers. Everyone had a relaxed and calm eyes, and was not afraid of the approaching death.
The last thought in Li Guozhen's mind was: "Commander, our soldiers of Haichou did not lose their eyes for the Beiyang Fleet, nor did they embarrass you!"
Then, amid the desperate shouts of Fang Boqian and other Russian officers and soldiers, a loud "boom" sound, and the bridge room of the Haichou instantly turned into a sea of fire, and a huge cloud of mushrooms rose above the Haichou.
Lovstowski looked at the bridge of the Haichou in surprise and instantly exploded. However, the Haichou rushed towards Siberia with constant speed.
After a moment, the surprise in Lovstowski's eyes turned into deep fear. He found that the Haizhe was getting closer and closer, and the speed of the Siberian could not avoid the impact of the Haizhe.
"Commander, abandon the ship!" Colonel Chalf, the adjutant of Lofstowski, advised helplessly.
Lovstowski was hesitant for a moment, and then his reason defeated his fear. He quickly rushed out of the bridge with a staff officer in the bridge and rushed towards the location of the Siberian lifeboat.
Lovstowski knew that the Pacific Fleet was defeated this time, and it was completely defeated. Once the Siberian sinks, the entire Pacific Fleet will fall into a state of headlessness again. At that time, there is no possibility of the Pacific Fleet turning the tables.
When Lovstowski left the bridge, he gave the last order to the Pacific Fleet; the ships of the Pacific Fleet immediately left the battlefield and returned to Vladivostok!
Lovstowski had just boarded the lifeboat, and there was a loud bang, and the bow of the Haichou hit the Siberian part of the ship.
Then, the armor of the Siberian bell was torn apart like a piece of paper by the Haichuang. The sound of steel tearing and friction was heard constantly. The Siberian battleship was tilted by the huge impact force, and a series of dull explosions were made in the cabin of the Siberian.
Five minutes later, the raging sea water surged into the huge gap in the Siberian ship. The bow of the Haichou was also hit by a huge gap of five meters in diameter. The Siberian and Haichou ships that were stirred together slowly sank at the same time.
Lovstowski, who escaped from the Siberia, had just boarded a torpedo boat with the help of Chalf. Another loud bang, and another huge explosion occurred in the blazing fire.
This explosion directly accelerated the sinking speed of Siberia and Haizou. In just fifteen minutes, the second battleship in the Pacific Fleet also sank into the bottom of the Yellow Sea with the impact of Haizou.
Tang Jian witnessed this extremely tragic impact on the bridge of the Longwei. The mushroom clouds rose from the Sea Chop to the sinking of the Siberia were only half an hour.
Just half an hour later, the naval battle on the sea outside Weihaiwei took a one-sided situation. After receiving the last order from the flagship, the ships of the Pacific Fleet began to turn the bow and leave the battlefield and flee towards Vladivostok.
Tang Jian couldn't help but salute in the direction of the sank of Haichou. Other officers on the Longwei bridge followed suit and gave a solemn military salute in the direction of the sank of Haichou, watching the last bit of the sank of Haichou sinking into the sea.
"Order the Beiyang Fleet's main lineup, the first battleship squadron, and the second battleship squadron immediately encircled and suppressed the Russian Pacific Fleet!" Tang Jian ordered with a little wet eye.
Good, HaiChou! Tang Jian said in his heart.
This naval battle lasted until dusk. When the setting sun in the West was about to fall to sea level, the Beiyang Fleet had completely occupied the initiative on the battlefield. The Pacific Fleet, which had no flagship unified command, was about to collapse at a touch, and they all took advantage of the melee to flee to the Tsushima Strait in the northeast.
After the war, Tang Jian quickly gathered the fleet, and before he could count the casualties, he selected several cruisers with sufficient combat effectiveness, plus several destroyers and supporting gunboats and torpedo boats, forming a cruiser pursuit fleet and chasing them in the direction of the Pacific Fleet's escape.
In addition, the Beiyang Fleet located in the outer sea of Weihaiwei rescued damaged ships while rescuing soldiers who fell into the water. It also sent four destroyers to search for the lonely Pacific warships in the nearby waters. Once discovered, it did not accept surrender and immediately dispatched a submarine to sink.
Since then, the main decisive battle between the Beiyang Fleet and the Russian Pacific Fleet in Weihaiwei ended with the complete victory of the Beiyang Fleet.
Chapter completed!