<h1>Chapter 260 Maritime Blockade</h1> [260] Maritime Blockade With the help of surface search radar, the Third Detachment of the North Sea Fleet quickly discovered the Russian warship fleeing the port. Under the command of Li Lu, two 037 hunting submarines charged through the waves, trailing snow-white tails directly into the enemy ships. When the Russian warship entered the maximum range of 12 kilometers of the 57mm twin main guns of the two 037 hunting submarines of the third detachment, the 037 hunting submarines with a standard displacement of only 375 tons moved one after another to the side of the Russian fleet. When the course When the target was at an angle of 45 degrees, Li Lu ordered the artillery fire. At this time, the distance between the two sides was only 9 kilometers. Thanks to the help of the fire control radar, the distance, angle, and relative driving speed are all calculated by the fire control computer. The first salvo of twin 57mm main guns with a rate of fire of four rounds per second hit the sea just 70 meters away from the Russian warship Prince Salif. The observer used a telescope on the bridge to see clearly and reported it to Li Lu immediately. "Keep the course and fire continuously!" Li Lu ordered. Outside the Amur Bay, the southeast wind was blowing gently, and the sea in the afternoon was as clear as sapphire. The Russian warships that had escaped from the east and west ports of Vladivostok lined up in neat columns, with forest chimneys emitting billowing soot. Horsepower fled eastward. According to fleet commander Borisovich¡¯s idea, the fully-supplied fleet has two options. One is to go north to the Port of Olga, also in the Far East, which has already thawed in spring, and the other is to head directly to Japan for refuge. Considering China¡¯s all-out attack on the Far East and the lack of supplies in Olga Port, which made it impossible to maintain the fleet, Borisovich finally chose to go to Japan¡¯s Hakodate port. When a water-like explosion of artillery shells appeared on the sea not far away, the Russian Far East Fleet flagship Prince Salif suddenly exploded. The Russian sailors who had just escaped from the smoke-filled Vladivostok port were in a mess and nervously entered into battle preparations again. state. On the towering watchtower on the bridge, the observation sentry shouted into the copper tube microphone connected to the bridge: "Enemy ship found! It's a Chinese speedboat! 46 degrees to the left front, about 9 kilometers away!" Borisovich was suddenly shocked. Breaking out in a cold sweat, he had long heard that the Chinese artillery had an extremely long range. During the defensive battle of Vladivostok Fortress, the Russian defenders' artillery was vulnerable to the Chinese's long-range heavy artillery. They were unable to fight back from a distance. It was beaten to a pulp by Chinese artillery ten kilometers away. To put it bluntly, land artillery is a simplified version of naval artillery, and naval artillery is an upgraded version of land artillery. Borisovich certainly understands this truth. The range of a country's land artillery is as far as the range of naval artillery. "Keep full speed and rush over! Open all gun doors and prepare for a decisive battle!" Borisovich shouted desperately. Vice-captain Liu Huyu put down the telescope in his hand and said to Li Lu with a smile: "The black smoke from the enemy ship's chimney is getting thicker. The Russians want a decisive battle. They have not changed their course and want to wait for us to get closer." Li Lu said contemptuously Said: "Decisive battle? Just with those three armored ships and a dozen motor-driven sailing ships? The Russians want to run." Liu Huyu graduated from Fuzhou Maritime College, which was transformed from Mawei Shipbuilding School in Fujian. He laughed in Fujian-style Mandarin: "Run? There is no fleet in the world that can be faster than our Chinese navy! "Compared to the speed of 18 to 20 knots at most by navies around the world these days, the 037 submarine hunting speed of more than 30 knots is simply like the difference between an Olympic sprinter and a primary school student. 100-meter race. The 12-kilometer range of the Shuangliang 57mm main gun is compared to the current range of 6 to 8 kilometers for the world's navies, which is like a boxing match between Yao Ming and Guo Jingming. "Captain, do you want to order the torpedo boats to attack?" Liu Mingyu asked. Li Lu shook her head repeatedly: "Give me continuous bombardment! This is the first battle after the 037 submarine hunting submarine was equipped with our army. It is not a target practice in normal training. The opportunity is rare, how can it be given to a torpedo boat?" Liu Mingyu laughed and said : "I think so too." As two 037 hunting submarines came in tandem, bypassing the flank of the Russian fleet like a dragon playing with a phoenix, the Russian Far East Fleet was hit continuously. Rounds of 57mm high-explosive incendiary bombs and high-explosive anti-personnel bombs shot out from the front and rear shells of the two 037 hunting submarines at a rate of fire of 210 to 240 rounds per minute, and penetrated into the Russian warship like iron. The hull of the ship was crippled with Russian warships one by one. As for those wooden warships that were not even ironclads, they were ravaged by 57mm high-explosive incendiary bombs and suddenly burst into flames. The high-speed shells even penetrated the wooden hulls. The hit steam engine boiler exploded, and hot steam flowed at high speed through the hull, steaming the Russian sailors. Commander Borisovich of the Russian Far East Fleet looked at the ultra-high-speed attack of the Chinese fast ship on the sea and was stunned. The 57mm twin naval guns equipped on the Chinese fast ship spit out red muzzle flashes almost without interruption, like a machine gun. It fires powerful small-caliber cannons like strafing fire.?. This sea battle only lasted half an hour. 12 warships of the Russian Far East Fleet caught fire and broke down one after another. The bridge of the Prince Salif where Borisovich was located was almost flattened, and the front turret was completely blown off. . Seeing that he could neither fight nor run, after being attacked by two 037s in a circle around the entire fleet, Borisovich ordered the white flag to be hung and announced his surrender. At this time, almost every ship in the Russian Far East Fleet was injured and in terrible shape. However, the two 037 hunting submarines of the Chinese Navy were not even injured, and they were showing off and showing off the torpedo boats watching the battle in the distance. The Russian fleet was ordered to enter the Amur Gulf and anchor in the port of Vladivostok to surrender. This is a comprehensive attack. Artillery fire is not only ravaging Vladivostok, but also Khabarovsk, Blagoveshchensk, Chita, Irkutsk, Ili, Kashgar and other places. These Sino-Russian borders are now shrouded in China Under the power of the army's artillery. By April, after the Chinese Revolutionary Army captured the four Far Eastern fortresses of Vladivostok and Khabarovsk, Blagoveshchensk, and Chita, they had effectively controlled the entire area east of Lake Baikal. ¡°The Beijing Theater on the middle route and the Lanzhou Theater on the west route have also crossed the grasslands and Gobi Desert and arrived at Irkutsk, Almaty, and Dushanbe. On the outskirts of Irkutsk, the First Siberian Army of the Russian Empire and more than 20,000 infantrymen urgently recruited are engaged in a fierce battle with the 7th, 29th, and 30th Group Armies of the Beijing Theater Command attacking from Kulun (Ulaanbaatar). Firefight. "General, the Chinese have invaded Sherekhov!" An officer with the rank of colonel, whose military uniform was scrawled and stained with mud, rushed into the headquarters in the Irkutsk Fortress, shouting in panic. Malinov, commander of the Russian Siberian Front and commander of the First Siberian Army, was furious when he heard this: "Nikolaevich, I order you to recapture Sherekhov at all costs!" Colonel Nikolayevich's face was filled with emotion. Weak and haggard, he took a glass of vodka from the guards at the headquarters and drank it down in one gulp. Then he lowered his head and said in a numb tone: "It's over, my brigade is all over. The Chinese artillery is too fierce. , they will destroy everything, the soldiers turned into powder in front of my eyes, it is too tragic They also have planes, that ghost thing has been hovering above our heads, our troop deployment and artillery positions are completely controlled by them Once the Chinese planes circled for a while, artillery fire followed! The Chinese artillery shells seemed to be endless and extremely powerful. I saw with my own eyes that an infantry regiment assembled on the side of the road was hit by a shell in the center. , hundreds of people were killed General, there is hell ahead, a hell created by the Chinese" General Malinov seriously interrupted Colonel Nikolayevich's raving: "Order the 1st Guards Regiment and the 3rd Guards Regiment. The four columns gather, and you come with me to fight back those damn Chinamen. We must hold Irkutsk until reinforcements from Moscow arrive. "The commander-in-chief is here!" the messenger shouted. . In the square outside the Irkutsk headquarters, soldiers of the 1st Guards Regiment lined up neatly, with expressions of uneasiness and joy on their faces, waiting for General Malinov's review. From the beginning of the war, the Chinese Army marched northward from Kulun with unstoppable momentum. In Ulan-Ude, due to the bloody battle of the cavalry regiment, after paying the price of more than 2,000 cavalry deaths, Russia finally captured several Chinese prisoners and interrogated them. I learned that this Chinese team was an elite force sent from the Beijing war zone. Before being hanged, the Chinese prisoners proudly declared that the total strength of the three armies exceeded 50,000, with countless tanks, cars, and tractors. As the rumors spread, the entire Russian army in Irkutsk was shaken, and everyone shuddered at the unknown tanks armed to the teeth. The Chinese rifles, grenades, military uniforms, carrying equipment, kettles, engineer shovels, and a pistol seized at great cost were rushed to Moscow. After the Chinese detachment was suddenly attacked by the Russian cavalry in Ulan-Ude, they were obviously angered. Now they are advancing faster and faster. Several infantry regiments previously sent by the Russian army were all annihilated by the Chinese. Now The Chinese *** team attacked along Lake Baiga and rushed to Sherekhov, more than 20 kilometers south of Irkutsk, and captured that small town. Malinov didn¡¯t say much. He got on his horse in front of the neat formation of the Guards, stabilized himself and drew his saber. "Stand at attention." The commander of the Guards shouted. The soldiers raised their guns in unison, and the entire queue was shaking. "Long live your Excellency the General!" the soldiers roared. Malinov nodded melancholy and said a few words. His voice was so soft that the soldiers in the back row could hardly hear them clearly. They only heard a few words, what???"Bravebloody battlekillchinks". ¡°Then the general led the Guards Regiment out of Irkutsk, joined the fourth column composed of the 5th, 6th, 7th, and 16th Infantry Regiments of the Siberian Army, and headed towards Sherekhov. ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡ As the 1st Cavalry Regiment of the Seventh Army was ambushed by Russian cavalry in Ulan-Ude, the two reconnaissance detachments composed of cavalry squads sent by the 1st Cavalry Regiment were unfortunately destroyed. Although the subsequent arrivals With the assistance of infantry and cavalry, the Seventh Army completely defeated the Russian cavalry with its indestructible firepower density. However, during the post-war battlefield search, it was found that the Russian army took away about three to five prisoners and equipment. Liu Jinbao, the commander of the Beijing Theater Command, was furious at the Kulun headquarters in Mongolia and ordered the Seventh Army to march toward Irkutsk day and night at all costs to eliminate the Russian troops stationed there. The Central Revolutionary Military Commission was also shocked. Under strict arms control, this was the first time that China's advanced rifles and pistols were lost. Beijing, Zhongnanhai. Intelligence Minister Bai Xiaoqi said: "Due to the special nature of the cavalry, everyone is issued with pistols, so this time the Russians also got our Type 5#4 pistols." Li Jun, the current Minister of National Defense, frowned at the meeting. : "It seems that the cavalry can easily be discovered and captured by the enemy during reconnaissance. I think the state's allocation for the third phase of the construction of the Shandan Army Racecourse can be slowed down. I think the mechanization proposed by the chairman is the future development direction." Yao Fan waved his hand: "It is only a matter of time before the infantry weapons are leaked. Even if there is no war, the enemy will spend a lot of money and do everything possible to get it. It is a miracle that it was delayed until today. The year before last, there was an armed thug attacking a military post in the Guangzhou War Zone. In the incident, two rifles were lost and have not been recovered. Although we suspect that the British did it, the British have not copied the 56 and a half, which shows that our weapons have difficulties in processing and ammunition matching for the world. Difficult. Advanced weapon processing is a systematic project, and advanced custom-made bullets are also complicated in processing. I don¡¯t think you can make them at a glance. "