Rise of Australia

Chapter 183 Encountered an Ambush
April 1904, 4, Lieutenant General Makarov's 13th day as commander of the Pacific Fleet.

For more than a month, Vice Admiral Makarov managed the Pacific Fleet very well, and carried out many mine-laying missions, effectively blocking the transportation lines between the island country and the Korean Peninsula and the Far East, and also giving way to the port of Lushun. The pressure on the main force of China's Pacific Fleet is not that great.

It was an ordinary day for the Pacific Fleet.Under Lieutenant General Makarov's order, the two cruisers set off from Lushun Port, harassed the island country's transportation lines to a certain extent, and at the same time set up a minefield in a specific area, and successfully returned to Lushun Port.

This also put General Makarov in a very good mood. The minefield laid out by the two cruisers happened to be where Makarov decided to have a decisive battle with the island nation's navy in the future.

Make arrangements in advance now, and in the future naval decisive battle, maybe these mines can be used to make the island country drink a pot.

Just as General Makarov was about to receive reports from the two destroyers, someone suddenly reported that several warships from the island country were chasing and attacking the two cruisers of the Tsarist Empire. At present, a cruiser of the Tsarist Empire has suffered Injured, urgently requesting assistance.

As a famous naval admiral of the Tsarist Russian Empire, Lieutenant General Makarov naturally has a violent temper, otherwise he would not criticize the officials of the Ministry of the Navy very straightforwardly.

Under the order of General Makarov, he personally led two battleships and four cruisers to help.

Just as General Makarov was about to board the battleship Petropavlovsk, he suddenly thought of something, let the chief of staff of the fleet, Lieutenant General Wittheft, lead the leading troops, and General Makarov himself went to the battleship Summon all the main forces of the Pacific Fleet in the port of Lushun to guard against the main fleet of the island country that may ambush in the rear.

Because all preparations have been basically made, General Makarov does not rule out a decisive battle with the island navy now.

In the past month or so, the Pacific Fleet has laid out at least a dozen minefields, and this will also be the best place to kill the island countries and the United Fleet.

It is worth mentioning that Lieutenant General Wittheft will be the new commander of the Pacific Fleet after General Makarov.

However, Lieutenant General Wittheft took a series of conservative measures after he took office as the commander of the Pacific Fleet, which also caused the Pacific Fleet to completely lose its advantage in the face of the combined fleet of island countries.

The two cruisers of the Tsarist Russian Empire were not far from the port of Lushun, and General Wittheft led the leading troops and soon arrived at the place where the battle was fought.

The fleet entangled with the two Russian cruisers is the second fleet of the island nation's combined fleet, with a total of one battleship and three cruisers.

This is also the reason why the two cruisers of the Tsarist Russian Empire were beaten and could only ask for help. The current cruisers still have no room to fight back against the battleships, not to mention that the Second Fleet still has three cruisers.

The Tsarist Russian Empire was already very hostile to the island countries that had grown into their competitors. In addition, the Tsarist Russian Empire was attacked in this war, which made the Russians even more hostile to the island countries who did not follow any rules.

As the saying goes, when enemies meet, they blush.After seeing the warships of the island nation's Second Fleet, General Wittheft didn't even need to give any orders. The vanguard directly joined the battle, and various shells flew towards the island nation's warships as if they didn't need money.

This time the advantages on the battlefield were reversed in an instant. The Tsarist Russian Empire had two battleships and six cruisers, while the second fleet of the island nation only had one battleship and three cruisers, which was a full double the gap.

The Second Fleet was beaten up by the vanguard of the Tsarist Russian Empire, and finally fled towards the rear in a panic.

General Wittheft was overjoyed. He felt that he had seen the first victory since the war, so he quickly ordered all the warships to keep up and strive to wipe out all the warships of the island nation.

General Wittheft, who was dazzled by the victory, did not notice the unusualness of the Second Fleet, nor did he notice that the vanguard had gradually moved away from Lushun port under his orders.

After chasing for about ten minutes, General Wittheft finally sensed something was wrong and ordered the fleet to slow down.

In terms of the speed of warships, many warships of the Tsarist Russian Empire have been in service for several years or even more than ten years.

The warships of the island countries are basically new warships within ten years, at least in terms of speed, they are ahead of the Russian warships.

But now, the frantically fleeing island fleet has maintained a delicate balance with the vanguard of the Tsarist Empire.It will not be too close to enter the attack range of the Pacific Fleet, nor will it be too far away, so that the Pacific Fleet will lose the target of pursuit and give up this pursuit.

According to various indications, this pursuit seems to be leading a snake out of its hole. General Wittheft originally thought he was a hunter, but now it seems that he may not be so.

"How long has it been since we set off from Lushun port?" General Wittheft asked with a serious expression.

"It's been over an hour, General," replied the man.

General Weatherhoft felt badly.Judging from the normal speed of the fleet, the main fleet should not be too slow, and has even caught up with the pace of the vanguard.

After all, the naval battle before the vanguard also took a lot of time, and this time is enough for the main force to catch up.

"Turn around immediately and return to Lushun port. The enemy may have laid an ambush ahead, this is a trap!" Wittheft said decisively.

In the previous sneak attack on the island country, two battleships in the Pacific Fleet were damaged, namely the Crown Prince and the Perswaite.

If the two battleships led by General Whitheft encounter an ambush, and if there is any damage to the two battleships, the number of battleships that can be dispatched by the Pacific Fleet will be reduced to only four, and there will be no advantage in facing the island nation's fleet. Even fell into a huge disadvantage.

Such a loss is unacceptable to the Pacific Fleet. Once the few maritime advantages are lost, the Tsarist Russian Empire will be even more vulnerable on land.

Leaving aside the issue of weapons and equipment and combat effectiveness, just judging from the number of people, the Far East Army of the Tsarist Russian Empire with a scale of less than 10 people cannot be an opponent of the island country.

The most elite part of the Tsarist Russian Empire is in Europe, and the Far East is not too large in terms of numbers or soldiers stationed.

Coupled with the fact that the Trans-Siberian Railway has not been fully opened to traffic, any loss of the Tsarist Empire in the Far East will face a logistical cost several times higher than that of the island country.

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