The sunset sets, and the light gradually fades away. A pale white moon gradually emerges on the pale blue sky.

On the bluestone road hidden under the blue trees, the German Empire Prime Minister Bernhard Bilo walked slowly forward with great worries. When his eyes wandered, there were several times when the hanging willow branches could not flash. With the sound of leather boots stomping on the stone slab, Bilo gradually walked to the courtyard where William's study was. He knocked on the door gently, then got up and walked into the room.

There are six bookcases in the purple wood floor, with beige walls. There are six bookcases in the room of dozens of square meters. Books of all sizes are neatly arranged on them, forming a continuous paper-page palace wall. The 45-year-old emperor was sitting quietly in his seat. When Bilo arrived, a smile appeared on William's face. He put down the quill in his hand and said, "Bernhard, is there anything happened?" Bilo nodded slightly, handed a document to William, and whispered: "Your Majesty, the latest report of the Russo-Japanese War has been heard from the Far East. Five days ago, Japan and Russia broke out in the Tsushima Strait and the Western Pacific waters adjacent to the Japanese archipelago respectively; the frontal battle lasted for 5 hours, and finally ended with victory from Japan."

William raised his brows slightly, and a little excited expression appeared in his eyes. He took the thick document from Bilo and said, "To be honest, I have been worried about whether these dwarf-like yellow-skinned monkeys can withstand the attacks of the Russians for the past few days. I was afraid that their combat power would be crushed to pieces by the Little Nicki's roller in an instant. If this is true, not only will our 300 million-mark usury loan be greatly reduced, but a stronger Russia is not a situation that Germany is willing to see. Now I feel relieved. Uncle Edward's ally in the Far East is really good, and he knocked Little Nicki to the ground in the first battle." William laughed gloatingly for a moment, then raised the document in his hand and said, "Is this the detailed report of the two naval battles given by our observers?"

Bilo replied softly: "Yes. Not only are our observers in the Russian fleet, but also German naval officers on the Japanese flagship Mikasa. This document was compiled after combining reports written by both sides. Unfortunately, among the seven officers we sent as observers, two were unfortunately killed in the naval battle of artillery fire, and one was seriously injured and it took half a year to recover. For this matter, General Alfred was attacked by members of parliament and all walks of life. The members of the parliament agreed that the military should immediately stop such a task that allowed German officers to be put into this extremely dangerous task and had no connection with their country, and let the nearly 100 observers who were still staying in the Japanese and Russian army return immediately."

"Why are so many people killed?" William was shocked, and his arm turned his pages stopped in mid-air. "How did this nearly half of the casualty rate appear in the naval battle?"

Bilo smiled bitterly and said, "Your Majesty, please read this report. The naval battles between these two Japanese and Russian battles, especially the naval battle adjacent to the Japanese archipelago, were far more tragic than the world-famous Qing-Japan Dadonggou confrontation 10 years ago. Even the commander of the Russian Pacific Fleet, Makarov, almost died in the battle. In comparison, it is already very lucky that there are 5 people left in our observation team of 7 people!"

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On March 17, 1904, the Japanese and Russian navies broke out in the Western Pacific, which shocked the world. In this two-day battle, both sides used a total of 20 main battleships and more than 50 auxiliary warships, involving 30,000 troops. In the past half century since marine ships entered the steam era, the number of warships used, the heavy casualties, and the fierce battle situation can be regarded as unprecedented in scale and unprecedented in history.

In the fleet decisive battle between the Japanese and Russian fleets, the Russian Pacific Fleet, which had 10 battleships, suffered heavy defeats. Although Makarov used the westward shooting of the sunset light to make the Japanese fighter unable to fight back for the 20 minutes of the initial battle, creating an extremely excellent opportunity for the Russian fleet to output with ease. However, since the Japanese battleships generally had large-scale hardened armor, the Russians caused only skin breaking and bleeding during this period, which was far from the point of injury. When the Japanese recovered, the Russian fleet, which was strong outside and flew at the most severe blow.

The three Petropavlovsk-class and three Perryvest-class battleships built by the Russians are the garbage goods built by the two levels. The height of the armor belt exposed to the water is simply outrageous; that's fine, their freeboards are still tall and majestic, with a huge bounce surface. As the saying goes, you won't die if you don't kill. These two-class battleships are completely typical of silence. Faced with the dense shooting of Japanese shells like sky fire and thunder, they only lasted for 40 minutes to 2 hours on the sea surface, and were completely sunk without any suspense. There were also two protective cruisers and two lightning strike ships that sank with them. The majestic and majestic flagship Prince also

The tree attracts wind, and was besieged by several Japanese battleships at the end of the battle. Almost all parts on the main armored castle were completely destroyed by the explosion caused by Shimose gunpowder. The entire battleship became a torch burning with blazing flames. The fleet commander Makarov was also penetrated by flying shrapnel while transferring from the commander tower to the internal core compartment. He was bleeding profusely, almost repeating the tragic situation in history of dying before he could succeed. Makarov, who was seriously injured, forced himself to his sick body, turned around again when the night came, and turned around with the remaining defeated generals to Dalian as the target, and finally left the Japanese fleet with difficulty and embarked on the way back.

In this service, the Russian fleet lost more than half of the ships of tonnage, and the formerly majestic Pacific Fleet was left with only four battleships covered with bruises and barely supporting the facade; and since Dalian only has a large dry dock for battleships, this means that in the next six months, the main force of the Russian fleet will no longer have the ability to attack.

The main force of the joint fleet, which Japan had come out in full swing and tried to achieve its contribution, ended in victory in the battle, suffered great losses. Before the two sides officially fought, the Japanese fleet took a bath under the fierce artillery fire of the other side, and its combat effectiveness was greatly weakened; while when the Japanese fleet fought head-on with the Russian fleet, Hirahachiro Togo, who had originally despised the Russian fleet, had appreciated the shocking power of the Borodino and the Emperor.

Since the ship was designed, it was equipped with a new rangefinder produced by Zeiss, and the terrifying firepower of 4 305mm guns and 6 254mm guns directly shot the Japanese fleet: the damaged Hatsuse and Mikasa were at an absolute disadvantage in firepower as soon as they contacted these two Russian battleships Fang. If it weren't for the limited ammunition reserve and too many enemies, they could not pour shells like a joyful deluge, the already injured Japanese battleship could not last for 30 minutes. The vast number of shells hit their large-area armor belts of 190mm thick, and no one could effectively penetrate them.

A light white round crater was left behind. Under the thunderous counterattack caused by two Borodino-class battleships leading the Russian fleet, the Japanese fleet also suffered huge losses: Fuji, Yashima, and Asahi three battleships were sunk by countless star-like artillery fire, and only six survived the 16 torpedo boats, Mikasa, Hachise, Kato and Yakumo were all severely damaged. After this battle, the eight battleships and two equipped patrols brought by Togo instantly remained with the relatively lightly damaged Shikishima, Kashima and Iwate three main battleships, which were able to return to the battlefield again in the next month.

But for both sides, the heaviest loss was not the sinking of the warships, but the officers and soldiers who died in the two armies.

Today, when the armor-piercing bombs are in full swing, the shells fired by the two armies cannot penetrate the core compartment of the opponent's warships with hardened armor protection, and the hitting effect is very small. Therefore, the fierce battle between the Japanese and Russian fleets continued until the dark night, almost all the shells in the ammunition depot were empty. Although the overwhelming shells could not penetrate the armor in the core area, they could cause great damage to the officers and soldiers on both sides on the unprotected bridge, the open-air deck and the front and rear freeboards. Shields and soldiers were shown off 10 years ago in the Dadonggou Naval Battle, and the Russian fleet was even more powerful. In this battle, the high temperature flames produced by the shell explosion, the shrapnel and toxic gases raged across the Russian warships, leading countless Russian officers and soldiers to see God. Even the armor protection area was armored.

The widest domain of Borodino and the Emperor were suffering at the last moment when the six battleships on their side sank, facing the Japanese artillery shells flying from all directions. If the Russian team had not prepared a set of strict fire prevention measures in advance and prepared a set of strict fire prevention measures, perhaps the two ships would have been left behind. The 11,000 officers and soldiers of the Russian fleet were finally able to escape without 5,000. Most of the dead were the 6 sunken battleships and the officers and soldiers on two protective cruisers, and the death tolls in the Japanese side also exceeded 2,000. In a few days, a group of sharks danced in the battle waters and swallowed corpses with the waves. Even the sea water was dyed a slight scarlet red, which looked particularly weird and charming.

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