Chapter 781: The Falling Sun-Your Fleet Commander is Crazy

When describing Port Arthur, people often use a word, that is, natural form wins, because Port Arthur is located in the Yellow Sea and the Bohai Sea, guarding the throat of the Bohai Strait, and is a natural barrier for the Liaodong Peninsula and even the entire North China region. Moreover, the topography of Port Arthur is also very strong, surrounded by mountains, the east side of the port is the Golden Mountain, the west is the Tiger Tail Peninsula, and the narrow waterway is connected with the open sea. The harbor has good concealment and windproofness, and is a natural ice-free harbor in the north.

After Guoxinga began to operate Lushun, he invested heavily in this small place, more than 100,000 workers and more than 1,000 technicians, and repaired it day and night for two years before building the first fortress in the Far East. The defense group around Lushun is composed of 56 coastal defense fortresses and 83 coastal defense batteries, with 1,200 artillery pieces of caliber of 150 mm or more, and countless other small-caliber guns and heavy machine guns.

The Yellow Sea Fleet dared to pour out of the nest, leaving only two destroyers to watch the house, relying on the confidence of the first fortress in the Far East of Arthur. No matter who wants to attack Arthur, it is nothing more than two options: land attack and sea attack, and the result will be very miserable. If you attack from land, the first step is to face the siege of more than 100,000 garrison troops in southern Liaoning, and then the seven outer defense lines of Lushun composed of 56 fortress groups, and you don't want to see what Lushun looks like in two years. If you come to attack at sea, you will even more want to die, the terrain of Port Arthur is a natural barrier, not to mention, eighty-three batteries are eighty-three giant battleships, and Guo Xing'a has placed terrifying and abnormal 420 mm caliber cannons on these batteries, which is exciting to think about. Moreover, because of the special terrain of Arthur, no matter how the enemy fleet broke through or sent marines to seize the beach, as long as they entered the Port Arthur area, they would fall into a situation of being beaten on all sides.

Lushun Military Port is mighty and domineering, but after being built for so many years, the cannons have been replaced several times because of maintenance problems, but the war has not been experienced once. No foreign enemy has ever been able to reach Lushun, and there has never been a second cargo who dares to come to the core base camp of the Manchurian Navy to find it uncomfortable. When the radio transmitted the information of the British Far East Fleet's attack back to Arthur, and the sirens sounded in the camps, everyone was swearing, and everyone thought that this was another boring exercise. Because they have experienced too many such exercises, the British Atlantic Fleet has been here twice, and a Far Eastern Fleet is even more indifferent.

"Order the Baiyushan Battery, fire a warning shot, and the rest of the batteries will continue to be hidden, if the enemy ships have not invaded the port area, they will not be considered sinking for the time being!" Because of the war, Thar, the commander of the Marine Corps, who ran back to Lushun on duty, had already entered his command post.

How did the British Far East Fleet run like a convulsion, and Tal couldn't figure it out when he said that he was dead, so he could only try his best to drive away first, and at the same time prepare for the worst. Tal had sent an urgent telegram to Changchun asking for advice, but there was no reply. He could only urgently contact Zheng Qifeng in Dalian, hoping that the civil officials would hurry up to the British Consulate in Dalian to ask what they meant. There were only three battleships and a dozen cruisers in the Far Eastern Fleet, and the Tal did not take them seriously at all, but the consequences of this start of the fight were too serious. The two destroyers can only be regarded as a skirmish, and it is a normal dispersion behavior, which is very easy to fool the past. But if the battery is fired, it will be different, not to mention that the Far Eastern Fleet will be thrown all at Arthur, and there will be only a few ships left.

"Boom ......" The small and medium-caliber artillery of the Baiyushan Fort began to fire warning shots, hoping that the approaching Far Eastern Fleet would be able to accept it as soon as it saw it. But the sailors were very relaxed, they were playing their guns with grace, and they didn't care at all, and the Far Eastern Fleet, which could already see the outline with the naked eye, was nothing more than some target ships made of wood in their eyes.

"Our two destroyers have all returned to the harbor, and the enemy ships are still approaching, and they have crossed the anchorage outside our harbor and approached the tiger's tail!" The combat staff quickly reported the latest situation to Tár, who also crouched in front of the high-powered telescope, staring at the approaching British fleet.

Tal is very incomprehensible, and the British don't look like they are going to attack Lushun! They seemed to be chasing the two destroyers, and they just wanted to visit the harbor. Tal couldn't understand Kent's frustration, the latest battleship that had just appeared, and without even having a chance to fight back, he was beaten by a destroyer with less than a quarter of his tonnage, and Kent was almost mad. And Tár's warning gave Kent a very wrong impression.

"Lushun is known as the first fortress in the Far East, but their batteries are too few, the caliber of the shore defense cannon is too small, and the accuracy is even worse and scary, it is not worth mentioning at all!" The Northern Manchurian division inherited Guoxing'a, and he liked to hide everything, so the fort was hidden, and the cannon was in the cave. Kent only saw the small cannon on the top of the white jade mountain, and then he fooled himself.

"Keep going deeper, be sure to sink those two naughty little bastards, and by the way, we'll also investigate the situation inside Port Arthur!" Kent, who thought he was invincible in the world while sitting on a battleship, gave an extremely wrong order.

Ignoring the warning of the Baiyushan Battery, the Far Eastern Fleet continued to rush to Port Arthur at a very fast speed, along the wave channel left by the destroyer. Looking at the Far Eastern Fleet, which is approaching step by step, about to cross the Tiger Tail Peninsula and is about to invade the interior of the port, Tal is going crazy, these guys don't want to leave when they come in, but will leaving them cause a Manchurian and British war?

"Turn on all the tweeters and let them get out of here!" Tal can only hope for the loudspeaker, hoping that the Far Eastern Fleet will be able to restrain itself from the precipice, and not end up making it difficult for everyone.

"Rush to contact Changchun and Dalian, and ask what to do! What the fuck, to fight or not to fight! "Tal has no right to decide on a general strategy, so he can only continue to ask for instructions.

Zheng Qifeng had already found Kevin, the British consul in Dalian, but this guy didn't know anything, and he had to ask Changchun what was going on. Zou Degui from Changchun had already gone to the British Consulate General and brought out Clarke, who was drinking afternoon tea.

"Mr. Secretary, please don't be nervous, our Far East Fleet is only passing through the waters near your country on the way back!" Clark was very satisfied with Zou Degui's anxious state, and he thought that his pressure plan had succeeded, but he didn't know what Kent's situation was now, and he thought that Kent was wandering around Dalian Bay!

"They have invaded the territorial waters of our country!" Zou Degui was very serious, he saw that Clark was aware, and this was another British trick.

"The sea is a little rougher, and it is possible to deviate from the course for a while, we are a friendly country, I hope your country will tolerate some!" Clark still didn't put down his black tea, and dangled the cup in front of Zou Degui.

"Mr. Consul General, they are not crossing the border by chance, but they have already forced into the coastline of our country, which is an act of provocation and aggression!" Zou Degui suddenly found that Clark didn't seem to understand so much, don't let the Far East Fleet play big by itself!

"They may be in trouble and need to ask for help in the port of Dalian!" Clark was a little weak-hearted, he didn't know the specific location of Kent, and he was also worried that Kent was playing big.

Zou Degui and Clark were still distinguishing, and a member of the Condensation Pavilion had already hurried in and handed Zou Degui a stack of telegrams. The subordinate was very anxious, but the expression on his face was very strange, as if he had encountered something happy.

"Mr. Consul, this is the latest telegram from the country, your country's fleet did not go to Dalian for help, they rushed to the port of Arthur Army! Moreover, there has been a clash with our cruising ships, and our side has tried to restrain itself, warning them many times with words, lights, and even cannons, but there has been no response! Zou Degui almost threw the telegram down and fell on Clark's face.

"How is this possible?" Clark also panicked at this time, war was not an option for the British Empire.

No sooner had Clarke's exclamation passed, and another member of the Concentration Pavilion ran in, this time with very few telegrams, only one. However, the expression of this subordinate was even stranger, as if he had heard a big joke.

"Is the commander of your country's fleet crazy?" Zou Degui took the telegram and only glanced at it, then looked at Clark with a puzzled expression.

"What the hell is going on?" Clark could see the message, but he couldn't read Chinese and couldn't understand what it meant.

"Your country's fleet has invaded the port of Arthur and fired at our warships and batteries in the port, and the Lushun garrison has begun to return fire!" Zou Degui shook his head helplessly.

"What? Let them cease fire! Clark almost bit out his tongue.

"It's too late! We can get orders, but will the commander of your fleet receive orders? "Zou De is straight, and the result of this incident is that the Far East Fleet will be completely annihilated.

"Let your batteries cease fire first!" Clark made a very sincere request.

It's a pity that his request was only exchanged for Zou Degui's white eyes. Your fleet rushed to my house to make trouble, and you let me fight back and let them be happy? Not fighting back after being beaten is indeed the best way to protect the Far Eastern Fleet, but why didn't the Manchurian Army fight back! I don't owe you anything.

"What will be the result of the fleet attacking the battery, I'm sure you've heard about it, not to mention the first fortress in the Far East of Lushun. After this conflict, there may be a very bad outcome, but I still hope that we can talk calmly at that time! After Zou Degui left a sentence, he drifted away, leaving Clark stunned in place.

While Clark pondered who I was and where I was, Port Arthur was already in a state of fire. Kent, who had chased him into the harbor, opened fire on the two destroyers that had insulted him, and then he enjoyed a very grand magic trick of vista. Since the mountains and vegetation near Port Arthur have all moved, huge cannon barrels have appeared in unbelievable places, and then overwhelming artillery fire has come from all directions. The huge cannonball with a caliber of 420 mm instantly pierced the battleship Prince Edward, which Kent thought was invincible in the world, and the entire Far Eastern Fleet seemed to have entered an infernal hell.

After the Far East Fleet experienced a melee in which it could not even find a target to return fire, only two small gunboats of about 1,000 tons escaped with wounds under the cover of night, and the remaining 17 capital ships were all sunk in Port Arthur, and the worst defeat of the British Imperial Navy since its formation came to an end.