Chapter 184 The War that Everyone Is Concerned About

For warships, nothing is more clumsy than turning around.

Although warships, which weigh thousands of tons or even tens of thousands of tons, can sail on the ocean, their turning and turning around are also very clumsy moments.

Especially in wartime, such a turn of an entire fleet is likely to reverse the situation.

After all, according to the layout of warships, the places where warships install naval guns are generally on both sides of the warships. The number of guns on both ends of the warships will not be too many, and the relative firepower will be weaker.

Therefore, when turning around, we must also guard against the comeback of the island fleet. Once the warships are halfway through turning around and facing the island warships, even if the number is small, the chances of winning will be greatly reduced.

General Wittheft took the approach of turning around the two battleships first, and the six cruisers around him were responsible for escort.

After the two battleships turned around completely, they were asked to protect the remaining cruisers.

There is another advantage to doing this, that is, in the face of extreme danger, you can choose to abandon these cruisers to preserve the battleships that play a decisive role in the naval battle.

Battleships are currently the most powerful warships in the world's navy. Losing six cruisers is not as painful as losing a battleship.

Things really happened as General Wittheft expected. When the fleet turned around halfway, the island fleets appeared one after another, and even formed a semicircle, surrounding the vanguard of the Pacific Fleet.

"Oh, shit!" General Wittheft cursed secretly, while asking his men to urgently call the main force and General Makarov, and at the same time let the fleet put into combat form to prepare for the next battle.

There is no advantage in speed, which also means that it is very difficult for the fleet to escape.

Instead of doing this, it is better to drag it out until the main force of the Pacific Fleet arrives. If the main forces of the fleets of both sides are engaged in a decisive battle, Wittheft is not very afraid.

He also knew General Makarov's plan during this period, which is why General Wittheft and General Makarov are both vice admirals of the navy, but they obey General Makarov's orders very much.

Just when General Wittheft was forced to fight back, the main force of the Pacific Fleet led by General Makarov was also blocked outside the Port of Lushun.

When General Makarov saw the two battleships and more than ten cruisers appearing in front of him, General Makarov knew that General Wittheft was in a bad situation.

The configuration of two battleships and more than ten cruisers is already one-third of the island fleet, especially in terms of cruisers, it has even reached one-half.

If it is a decisive battle, the island country cannot send out only such a small army to stop the main force of the Pacific Fleet like a mantis trying to stop a car.

Then their purpose is only one, that is, to use these troops to delay the main force of the Pacific Fleet as much as possible, and then attack the vanguard of the Pacific Fleet.

This really gave General Makarov a headache. Although the main force of the Pacific Fleet has four battleships, two of these four battleships are Petropavlovsk-class battleships with relatively poor performance.

Although the Oslibiya battleship has good speed and protection capabilities, it has also lost its firepower advantage accordingly.

The main artillery of the Oslibiya is only four 254mm naval guns, which are only slightly higher than the cruiser level, and are somewhat backward at the battleship level.

Only the Victory battleship with relatively good performance can barely be compared with the main battleships of Western powers.

On the other hand, the two battleships used by the island country to block the resistance of the Pacific Fleet are all advanced warships purchased from Britain in recent years.

The level of these two battleships can be compared with the Victory battleship, and even slightly ahead of the Oslibiya battleship.

If the Pacific Fleet wants to break through the blockade of more than ten cruisers led by these two battleships, it may take some effort.

At least before a hard naval battle, it is impossible to repel this fleet for nothing.

Thinking of this, General Makarov skillfully commanded his men to get into fighting posture, and secretly prayed in his heart, hoping that General Wittheft could hold on a little longer, preferably until the main force of the Pacific Fleet arrived.

From Lushun Port to the Korean Peninsula, two naval battles broke out that were enough to determine the balance of war between the Russian Empire and the island country.

These two naval battles also have certain similarities. The main forces of both sides encountered the other side's squadrons with certain strength, and both squadrons had to face the siege of the main force of the opposite side.

However, there is also good news for the Russian Empire. The island country sent almost all of its new cruisers to block the main force of the Pacific Fleet, which also resulted in General Wittheft facing only four battleships and six cruisers of the island country.

Among them, the four battleships posed the greatest threat to General Wittheft. The remaining six cruisers were all small or old cruisers, which were not that threatening to the battleships.

In addition, it was precisely because General Makarov did not take back the Vladivostok squadron that the island nation had to send an additional battleship and several cruisers to tow the Vladivostok squadron, not giving them the opportunity to participate in this naval battle.

The naval battle took place at around 3 pm and lasted until around 6 pm.

It was not only the Far East Governor of the Russian Empire and the island country that paid attention to this naval battle, but also the German Empire, the British Empire, the United States and France, which sent observation groups.

Although this war seemed to be just a war between the Russian Empire and the island country for Far East hegemony, in fact, it involved countries including the British Empire, the United States and the German Empire.

Both the British Empire and the United States hoped that the island country could defeat the Russian Empire. Even if it could not defeat it, it would seriously injure the Russian Empire.

In this way, they could better insert themselves into the Far East and Asian situation to gain more benefits for their respective countries.

The German Empire simply wanted to win over the Russian Empire as an ally. At least in Europe, the Russian Empire was still a certain threat to other powerful countries, and naturally it was also an ally worth winning over.

Faced with the threat of the German Empire, a rival in love, France had no choice but to support the Russian Empire to make its allies come to terms.

At about six o'clock in the evening on April 13, the sound of gunfire outside the Port of Lushun finally stopped, and the two naval battles finally had their winners and losers.

Second update, today I will take a leave of absence for 4,000 words, and I will make up for it with 6,000 words tomorrow