The idea proposed by Rudnev of a simultaneous battle in different geographical points of two Russian squadrons and a separate detachment of ships with the Japanese fleet could lead to victory in the war. Admiral Togo is forced to divide his forces, and at the Eliot Islands, only four enemy battleships confront Makarov's seven battleships. At the same time, at the Sangar Strait, Rudnev's armored cruisers converge chest to chest with a formidable enemy - the squadron of Admiral Kamimura. It was conceived beautifully. Only the outcome of the battles does not please our naval commanders: the enemy did not suffer fatal losses, and the Russian fleet is still divided into the Port Arthur and Vladivostok squadrons. Our enemy is brave and steadfast, and the goddess of fortune is still on the side of the Japanese. But the reinforcements collected in the Baltic and the Black Sea under the flags of Chukhnin and Bezobrazov are already on their way to the theater of operations. And in order to decisively win, not relying on volatile fortune in the future, the command of the Russian Pacific Fleet needs to unite the efforts of all its squadrons, not allowing the Japanese to defeat them one by one.