In order to keep the mouth of the Pacific Rim, Russian Emperor Alexander urged the Baltic Fleet to form the Second Pacific Fleet, appointed Lieutenant General Rozhestvenski as the commander of the fleet, and led the fleet from the Baltic Sea to Lushunkou to reinforce the troops stationed in Hong Kong.
Tougou Heihachirou, the Japanese general, immediately abandoned his plan to attack the Japanese army in Lushunkou and shifted the focus of the attack from Lushunkou to the Russian fleet.
In order to meet the reinforcements of the Russian Second Fleet in the Pacific Ocean, General Dongxiang assembled the main force of his joint fleet in Nanwan, the north shore of Ma Haixia, and then conducted intense emergency training. The battle plan drawn up by Dongxiang is that before the Russian Second Pacific Fleet arrived in Vladivostok Port, Japanese warships took advantage of their long voyage, disrepair of ships and fatigue of personnel to fight a decisive battle with the huge Russian fleet in the Sea of Japan, so that the Russian troops stationed in Lushun Port completely surrendered without help.
In order to achieve this goal, Tougou Heihachirou adopted a series of camouflage measures. He quietly hid his huge fleet in Ma Haixia, and sent some large merchant ships disguised as armored ships to cruise in the waters north of Taiwan Province Province on purpose, causing the illusion that the main force of the Japanese navy will intercept the Russian army in this area, and inducing the Russian fleet to turn to Ma Haixia and passively avoid war.
As expected, the Russian fleet was recruited. In late May, when the Russian Second Pacific Fleet sailed to the waters north of Taiwan Province Province, it found the Japanese disguised fleet. Rozhestvenski mistakenly thought that this was the main force of the Japanese navy and decided to avoid it temporarily. After arriving in Lushunkou and consolidating the harbor defense, it is not too late to fight the Japanese army. So he turned to Ma Haixia and went straight to Vladivostok. Where would he have expected that his diversion just got into the pocket array set by Tougou Heihachirou, thus making Dongxiang famous in the history of naval battles.
In the early morning of May 27th, the Russian naval fleet entered the calm Japanese joint fleet commanded by Ma Haixia and Tougou Heihachirou, and suddenly appeared in front of the Russian fleet. Rozhestvenski almost exclaimed, "My God, where did they come from? Isn't the Japanese fleet still cruising in Taiwan Province Strait? " ? Why is there a huge fleet practicing here? "
In the first round of war, Japan's flagship "Miki" was first hit by a bullet and caught fire. Dongxiang, standing in the command module, calmly commanded. He let the fleet go ahead at full speed, close to the Russian ship, in order to destroy the enemy in close combat, and then frequently bombarded the Russian ship with already modified rapid-fire guns and shells filled with yellow explosives. The firing rate of rapid-fire gun is much higher than that of ordinary gun, and the advantage of yellow explosion over black explosion is that the former can dissipate quickly without blocking the line of sight, while the black explosion is foggy and disappears for a long time, which greatly affects the continuous shooting.
The Russian vanguard warship "Osriabia" was shot and sank, and the suvorov and the second "Alexander III" were also badly damaged, and pieces of bodies were thrown into the shallows. After two days of fierce fighting, the battle ended with the victory of the Japanese navy and the collapse of the Russian fleet. In the First World War, Russian troops lost eight armored ships, five lightning ships and several transport ships, and Lieutenant General Rozhestvenski was injured and captured. Only three ships broke through to Vladivostok, six fled to a neutral port, 5,000 soldiers died and 6,000 were captured. The war destroyed almost all the property and essence of the Russian navy. However, the Japanese navy only lost three lightning strike ships, killing and injuring 700 people.