On the evening of August 2, 1841, the Pacific Fleet of the Russian Empire Navy set out to cross the Tatar Strait and head to the Sea of Okhotsk to join the Northern Fleet.
The Northern Fleet had basically completed its rest and replenishment and was ready for battle.
On the afternoon of August 5, the Pacific Fleet and the Northern Fleet of the Russian Empire Navy joined in the waters east of Sakhalin Island.
Admiral Zhigarev, commander of the Northern Fleet, and Major General Gorshkov, chief of staff, arrived at the battleship Anna I, the flagship of the Pacific Fleet of the Russian Empire Navy, by transport boat and met with Admiral Kuznetsov and Major General Sergeyev.
According to the orders of the Navy Department and the General Staff of the Russian Empire, in this battle, the Northern Fleet mainly cooperated with the Pacific Fleet. Therefore, Admiral Zhigarev and Major General Gorshkov were very humble.
After all, the Pacific Fleet is much stronger than the Northern Fleet, which is also a reality.
The two sides communicated about the next combat deployment. The Northern Fleet had no objection to the safety of the Pacific Fleet and expressed full cooperation.
At 03:00 that evening, the Pacific Fleet and the Northern Fleet of the Russian Navy were ready to follow the planned plan and pass through the Kuril Islands along the eastern waters of Sakhalin Island and enter the Pacific Ocean.
In order to attract the attention of the Japanese Navy and the Lighthouse Navy, the Pacific Fleet of the Russian Navy was located in the front. The Northern Fleet was located 100 kilometers behind the Pacific Fleet.
During the entire operation, the Northern Fleet will maintain radio silence. When the Russian Navy is exposed and attacked by the Japanese and the Lighthouse, the Northern Fleet will take off carrier-based aircraft to assist the Pacific Fleet in resisting the attacks of the Japanese and the Lighthouse.
In order to resist the attacks of the carrier-based aircraft of the Japanese and the Lighthouse, the aircraft carriers of the Northern Fleet and the Pacific Fleet of the Russian Navy will focus on air defense. That is, the decks of the aircraft carriers are mainly parked with carrier-based fighters. Dive bombers and torpedo attack aircraft were parked in the hangar.
In this way, once attacked, the two fleets of the Russian Empire Navy would immediately launch a large number of carrier-based fighters for air defense.
Under such circumstances, even if the Eastern Empire Navy and the Lighthouse Navy dispatched a large number of carrier-based aircraft, it would not be so easy to break through the Russian Empire Navy’s air defense network and attack the Russian Empire Navy’s aircraft carriers and warships.
Not to mention anything else, the Russian Empire Navy’s aircraft carriers and escort warships, as well as those main battleships, also deployed a large amount of anti-aircraft firepower.
With thousands of carrier-based aircraft of the Eastern Empire Navy and the Lighthouse Navy. It is simply a delusion to want to destroy the Russian Empire Navy’s Pacific Fleet in one fell swoop, especially the Pacific Fleet that has been prepared for air defense.
On the evening of August 6, the Russian Empire Navy’s Pacific Fleet took the initiative to break the radio when passing through the Kuril Islands.Silence. Although it was short, as long as the Navy of the Eastern Empire and the Navy of the Lighthouse Country were not deaf, they would be able to monitor this radio signal. Then, they could naturally respond immediately.
As the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Empire Navy passed through the Bashi Channel and entered the Pacific Ocean. This made the main fleet of the Russian Empire Navy closer and closer to the battlefield.
And this naturally put great pressure on the Navy of the Eastern Empire and the Navy of the Lighthouse Country.
Even if they gathered a large number of forces, they were strong and powerful. However, the consequences of this battle were too serious. Once they failed to destroy the Russian Empire Navy as expected. Then, it would be even more difficult for them to defeat the Russian Empire in this battle.
If things go wrong, the Eastern Empire will be attacked by the Russian Empire, and the entire Eastern Empire will be in an irreparable situation.
And the Navy of the Lighthouse Country may have to give up the Far East Pacific Ocean and retreat to the Xiaweiyi Islands and the eastern Pacific Ocean.
The Russian Empire will gain a huge advantage in this battle.
Even, it will not be too far away for the Russian Empire to completely win this battle.
So, whether it is the Orientals or the Lighthouse, they will do their best to win this battle.
At dusk on August 6, the Oriental Empire Navy Combined Fleet and the Lighthouse Navy Pacific Fleet had left the Sasebo Naval Port and entered the Pacific Ocean.
The carrier-based aircraft lost by the two fleets in the previous battle have all been replenished. (To read the violent novel, go to Feilu Novel Network!)
Although the carrier-based aircraft of the Orientals and the Lighthouse cannot be compared with the MiG-37 fighter of the Russian Empire Navy in terms of performance. However, they firmly believe that this is only temporary.
The Lighthouse Country is already using the BF-109 fighter of the Third Reich for modification and use on aircraft carriers. The Oriental Empire Navy will also introduce this fighter.
By then, they will have fighters that can compete head-on with the carrier-based fighters of the Russian Empire Navy. In naval battles, they will not suffer so much.
And in the current war, they can only make do with it.
On the battleship Kii, the flagship of the Combined Fleet, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the commander of the Combined Fleet, and Rear Admiral Seiichi Ito, the chief of staff, are discussing the current operations with Admiral Hasben Kimmel, the commander of the Lighthouse Navy, and Rear Admiral Spruance, the chief of staff.
"General Kimmel, General Spruance. The Russian Black Sea Fleet has entered the Pacific Ocean. At present, although we don’t know their specific location. However, it can be inferred that it should be in the waters near the Ogasawara Islands. We have already dispatched warships, submarines and reconnaissance aircraft to conduct searches. It is expected that the Russians will be found soon.
And the Russian Pacific Fleet should also be ready to slip out of the Whale Sea and prepare to join their Black Sea Fleet.This is their only chance to fight us. If we miss it, they will be defeated one by one.
Therefore, we must also seize this opportunity and never let the two Russian fleets merge. That would bring us great trouble.
We must first eliminate one Russian fleet, and then concentrate our forces to attack the other Russian fleet. In this way, our chances of winning will be greater!"
Commander-in-Chief of Staff of the Combined Fleet, Major General Ito Seiichi, introduced.
He had just replaced Colonel Fukudome Shigeru and became the Chief of Staff of the Combined Fleet. Naturally, he hoped to perform well in this battle.
