Chapter 163 Cold and Hot

In the combat room of the Sasebo joint fleet flagship "Shikishima", the young officer is repeating the news from the phone. The high-power radio station in the Sasebo base is responsible for receiving telegrams, and finally sending it to the "Shikishima" combat room by phone.

"Emergency telegram of the commander of the Southern Expeditionary Fleet:

The "Shimi" opened fire... The "Fuji" opened fire... The "Jingyuan" was returning... The "Jingyuan" was hit... The "Jingyuan" was hit again, and the "Shijian" was hit..."

All the people in the war room listened attentively to the war report. They could almost imagine how the battle was going on. When the "Jingyuan" gun was rotating and aiming, the shells launched by the "Shijian" fell around it one after another. Before the "Jingyuan" opened fire, the volley of the "Fuji" also aroused countless water columns around it.

As soon as the Jingyuan fired, with a loud noise, a shell hit the second turret of its swer. The explosive air waves rushed to the bridge with debris, and the buildings on the bridge were immediately destroyed. There are twisted irons, pillars and messy fragments everywhere; among the broken steel and iron, there are many corpses lying horizontally, among which there may even be Tang Tinlong wearing medals.

From the telegram, everyone can imagine how powerful the firepower of Jingyuan is, and it can still exert the superman's imagined combat effectiveness when it is besieged by seven ships.

The young officer in front of them on the phone continued to report the progress of the battle: "Jingyuan's bow deck caught fire... "Jingyuan" was hit... "Jingyuan" was hit... "Jingyuan" was hit again..."

Good news, La Er three times in a row came with good news, which more or less relaxed Dongxiang's whole body a lot, and now Akiyama Zhenzhi ate fried beans with his head stuffy. From time to time, he frowned, as if he had felt something.

"General Gao, they did a great job!"

The whole battle room is full of excitement and excitement, sinking Jingyuan and sinking the most advanced and powerful warships in the world. What a great result.

"In less than two minutes, they will sink the Jingyuan."

"Emergency telegram from "Fuji","

The officer reported at the same time by the microphone. Obviously, he was trying to hide his excitement and pretended to be calm. However, all of a sudden, his calm expression disappeared, his face became extremely pale in an instant, and his whole body seemed to shrink.

"What's going on? Retell the message quickly!"

The face of the subordinates made Dongxiang Pinghachiro's heart ominous and urged him to say. However, he stood in front of the microphone and couldn't speak for a long time.

"Do your duty!"

Dongxiang roared seriously.

The young officer turned his face and said to him miserably.

"The Ishimi" exploded!"

"What?"

At first, Dongxiang Pinghalang looked unbelievable, and then he grabbed the telegram. After listening to the report on the other end of the phone, his face changed.

"Ishimi" exploded."

Dongxiang, who put down the phone, said in a low tone, "What..., what..."

Suo Shima's chief of staff stammered that he could hardly believe his ears. Did the Iwomi sink?

Dongxiang looked at him indifferently, and the people around him stood there like a wooden chicken.

Akiyama Zhenzhi, who had been stuffy before, let go of the fried beans in his hand and recklessly pushed away the combat officer standing next to the chart.

"Bak, get out of the way!"

He shouted sharply while staring at the chart.

"Shijian" sank!" "Shi Jian" sank!"

After talking twice, Dongxiang suddenly raised his head and looked at the people around him.

"Go back to your own posts. We still have a lot of things to do."

In an instant, Dongxiang returned to normal, and even deliberately emphasized a sentence.

"They have done a very good job. They have worked hard, and there will always be losses in the war!"

At this time, the young officer cheered up and reported the message from the other end of the phone.

"Emergency telegram from Ikumo."

Then he reported in a tone-changing voice.

The "Shijian" sank. They are concentrating their firepower on attacking Jingyuan.

"Oh! They may be able to deal with the Fuji, and we still have a firepower advantage.

Dongxiang will say to Akiyama Zhenzhi, who is standing on the side of the chart and looking at the chart silently. It's not so much a questioning.

But Akiyama Zhenzhi shook his head and said.

"Immediately order the Southern Expedition Fleet to return. It's too late. If it's too late, I won't be in a hurry!"

"What!"

The sea water is blue, the blood is red, the sea water is cold, the blood is warm, the sea water is salty, and the blood is also salty.

400 meters, which seems to be very close, but for Wei Lanqing and his comrades-in-arms nearby in the sea, the torpedo sailing of the short 400 meters takes dozens of seconds as long as decades.

His eyes stared at the clearly visible Izumo, and Wei Lanqing's heart, which was injured in his leg, was clenched into a small ball. He kept praying to heaven.

You must hit it!

Watching the Fuji turn from evasion to the battle line, the eyes of Tang Tingguang standing in the smoke-filled command tower drooped slightly. The excitement of hitting the Iwami before did not last long.

The torpedo attack failed!

Another violent explosion, and the shock wave of the explosion even rushed into the death tower.

"I was shot on the port side! Lose the three starboard guns!"

"The artillery is ready!"

The indicator light of the main gun is on.

So Tang Tingguang immediately picked up the telescope and stared at the profile of the Fuji. If he sank him again, it would be enough.

"Fire!"

In front of the conning tower, the 346mm gun was rotating, and the muzzle gradually rose to the maximum elevation, and then made a loud noise and violent vibration.

Another s shot begins! Brown smoke spewed out of the muzzle and quickly dissipated with the strong wind, while the shell flew out with the task of spreading death.

At the moment of aiming at the first round of sangulation of the Fuji, Yang Shuzhuang suddenly saw the armored cruisers with three chimneys after the Fuji, which were the Izumo armored cruisers, and the four chimneys were the warship Asu. The I saw that the Izumo armored cruiser was maneuvering. What was he hiding from.

Suddenly, a huge sea wall surged up in the port side of the Izumo, which was... and then another sea wall!

"The torpedo attack was successful! They hit the cloud!"

The excited roar of Yang Shuzhuang spread all over the place. Suddenly, the starboard side of the Jingyuan shook suddenly. The shock wave of the explosion was almost to push down the Jingyuan, but the impact of the explosion, everyone knew that it must be a large-caliber shell hit the starboard side of Jingyuan.

There is still a violent vibration on the bridge. The phone rang, and the officer on duty answered the phone.

"S sir, there is water in the No. 3 boiler compartment!"

The turbulent sea water poured into the boiler chamber along the cracks in the blown sailboard, and the sailors of the damage management team kept stuffing canvas into the cracks, pushing wooden beams to block the influx of sea water.

"Quick, the top beam..."

Just as a sergeant roared, another violent explosion exploded near the waterline. The wave shock wave driven by the violent explosion hit the shipboard with cracks, and dozens of rivets were broken in an instant.

" Bang, bang, bang..."

The rivets that burst out one after another flew in the No. 3 boiler chamber. When hitting the damaged management soldier, accompanied by the tragic horn, a group of blood red appeared in the sea. The cracks of the original palm were wide enough to be stuffed into a person. The water in the boiler chamber, which was originally knee deep, almost missed the top of the sailors' heads in an instant. The sailors scrambled to turn their heads. The hatch on the top swims.

"Close the watertight cabin immediately!"

When the sea was about to gush out of the hatch of the No. 3 boiler tank, although there were still escaping sailors in the cabin, the hatch was still closed, and the battleship Jingyuan also began to tilt.

"S sir, lean left 7 degrees"

"1200 tons of water on the starboard side! The warship has been flattened!"

The plain order spit out of Tang Tingguang's mouth. With the water injection on the port side, the originally tilted warship quickly regained its balance, and the previously silent main gun sounded again.

"The torpedo boat team hit Izun!"

Cheng Keran, who was covered with blood, walked in the swaying aisle. Listening to the good news from the loudspeaker, he finally squeezed out some smiles on his face full of gunpowder smoke. Previously, he sank the battleship Ishimi, and now the torpedo team has sunk the armored cruiser Izumo. If it continues like this, Jingyuan will not be able to Clean up the whole southern fleet.

Yes, you can definitely get rid of them!

At this time, the whole aisle of the cabin was either filled with a pungent smell of gunpowder smoke or a strong smell of blood. The damage management team kept running back and forth in the cabin. In the aisle, it was either seawater or blood. After an hour of battle, the Jingyuan ship had suffered heavy damage.

Water was injected into many places, and once the water was poured and flattened.

In the aisle, the sailors shuttled back and forth, but no one saluteed the lieutenant Cheng Keran. According to the military order of the Zhenyang Fleet, even at ordinary times, it is only necessary to salute the fleet commander during the flag-raising ceremony. In peacetime, you only need to salute the direct subordinates. In wartime, the salute is also exempted. This is every A compulsory course for sailors to board the ship.

There is an unpleasant smell everywhere here, and injured sailors can be seen everywhere, but there is no huge breach caused by the explosion after being penetrated by shells. After seven turns and eight turns, Cheng Keran's steel stairs appeared in front of him.

took a deep breath and walked up with pain... Pushing open the heavy hatch, pungent smoke came to his face, and Cheng Keran's ear could clearly hear the rumble of cannons from a distance and fired by the warship, but his eyes were blurred, and the smoke blocked all the sight. On the deck, sailors were constantly injured and screaming, but more sailors were shouting comrades-in-arms there.

"Hmm!"

From the telescope, after losing a battleship and an armored cruiser, Gao Zhuangzhicheng, with an extremely solemn expression, could clearly see that the flames were still rising on the Jingyuan warship. The upper Habitat of the Jingyuan, which was once regarded as the most beautiful appearance, completely changed its appearance. At this time, its speed has been Obviously slowed down. After the naval battle lasted for an hour, even if it was a non-sinkable warship, it would suffer heavy losses after being attacked by multiple ships, not to mention that it was not a non-sinkable warship.

"Enemy ship speed!"

"21 knots!"

"Command..."

"Your Excellency, the joint fleet is urgent! Order my fleet to return immediately?"

"What?"

It is said that Gao Zhuangzhicheng grabbed the telegram.

"The purpose of the campaign has been reached, withdraw from the battlefield immediately! Commander of the Combined Fleet, Togo Heihachiro"

"Your officer!"

The captain of the Fuji and the officers in the command tower all looked at Gao Zhuang's prime minister, while Gao Zhuang's prime minister fell into silence. In front of the command tower, Fuji's 305 main gun once again aimed at Jingyuan with a volley. The deafening sound of the cannon and the shock wave when the cannon was fired only made Gao Zhuang's heart. God shocked.

Damn Dongxiang, is he trying to take away his glory? He just lost two warships, and he had to retreat by himself!

"Son, hit the main gun of Jingyuan!"

The sudden report made Gao Zhuangzhicheng immediately pick up the telescope and look at Jingyuan. Jingyuan in the thick smoke was already shaking at this time. Occasionally, when the smoke faded, he could even clearly see that the armored steel plate of Jingyuan was open, and Jingyuan had been hit hard.

Damn Dongxiang!

He didn't know the situation here at all. In an instant, Gao Zhuangzhicheng's wantonness was exerted at this time.

"Order Takasago, Kasagi and Chitose to leave the team and approach the enemy ship to carry out a torpedo attack on Jingyuan!"

"Your officer!"

"Execute the command!"

"Hi!"

At this time, the last trace of darkness before dawn finally dissipated, and the curtain faded.

The gunfire was still rumbling on the sea. At this time, the protective cruiser Hayong had joined the battle line. Three 152mm naval guns fired shells at the enemy ship 8.5 kilometers away, and this dome cruiser with a displacement of only 2,680 tons was even difficult to become an enemy under the protection of Jingyuan. The target of the ship.

The sound of the cannon rumbled, from night to dawn, the hour hand was turning, the alarm kept ringing, and the sound of the cannon rumbled through the sea and the sky.

"I found that the enemy cruiser broke away from the team!"

"The enemy cruiser is approaching Jingyuan!"

In the last trace of darkness before the sun rises, the three high-speed cruisers, Takasago, Kasagi and Chitose, were fundamentally ordered to ventigate at the expense of the life of the steam engine at the expense of the steam engine, and were forming an encirclement of the Jingyuan.

"It's Takasago, Kasagi and Chitose!"

On the bridge of the protective cruiser Hairong, Captain Deng Haohong and the navigator stared at the three high-speed approaching enemy cruisers and immediately realized their threat to Jingyuan. Takasago was a sister ship of the same class as Yoshino, which showed its silver power in the Battle of the Yellow Sea. Kasagi and Chitose were also similar to Yoshino. Maybe these three The single 203mm main gun and 10 120 or 152mm naval guns of a high-speed cruiser pose little threat to Jingyuan, but it can disperse Jingyuan's firepower and even approach Jingyuan to carry out torpedo attacks. "It won't go on like this,"

Staring at the three cruisers with speeds of at least 23 knots, Deng Haohong said to the captain next to him.

"Order the boiler cabin to implement strong pressure ventilation, and increase the speed to more than 20 knots. We want to welcome it!"

"Yes!"

"Strong pressure ventilation!"

Without any hesitation, the Hairong, who had been a "bystander" before, immediately threw himself into this disparity naval battle. After implementing strong pressure ventilation, the speed of this warship, which had been in service for 7 years, was improved at a speed of 21.5 knots towards the three cruisers with firepower and tonnage times its speed. Approaching.

In the early morning, there was a wind on the calm sea, and the high-speed sailing Hayong could barely withstand the impact of the huge waves and sailed forward. However, for those unobstructed people in the open air, the environment is still quite difficult. When the warships are sailing at high speed, the waves continue to beat on the warships.

At this time, the enemy ship also found this warship that was overestimable and even suspected of being a car. For a moment, raindrop-like shells began to fall around the Hairong.

"Right full rudder, target Fuji!"

When Deng Haohong, who stared at the Fuji, gave this order, he squeezed out some of the desired smiles on his face. Captain Deng Haohong, who was only in his thirties and had a baby face, may not be so eye-catching there, but his identity in the Zhenyang Fleet was extremely special, because his father was in Jiawu. Deng Shichang, who hit the enemy ship and died in the country.

It would be a big mistake for anyone to think that they rely on nepotism and underestimate this young officer who came to his naval family. He is an excellent graduate of Mawei Shipzhenghaitang. He seems to have a baby face, but in fact, he is a naval soldier who is calm to almost cold. He immediately ordered the "Hai Rong" to turn the rudder. When he was about to catch the enemy, he turned the rudder and rushed in the direction of the Fuji.

If a plane is launched at this time, it must be seen that in the sea between the two battle fronts, nearly 5 nautical miles, a white track is first rushing towards the three oncoming tracks at a high speed, which can turn in an instant, but it suddenly turns the rudder and turns to another target, a larger target. .

"What is Deng Haohong going to do?"

In the smoke-filledsi ling tower, Tang Tingguang could hardly believe his eyes. From beginning to end, he was not willing to let Hairong go into battle. Even as early as he received the telegram, he had thought that if Jingyuan could not stand alone, he would order the Hairong to return. In any case, he could not let it go, but now However, Hairong took the initiative to meet the enemy cruiser when he attacked, and then another scene stunned him.

In the water column blown out of the shell, strong pressure ventilation was carried out, and the sea capacity increased to more than 21 knots, rushing towards the huge battleship Fuji like Don Quixote. At this time, the Japanese officers and soldiers on the Fuji and Aso also noticed this powerless small home. The gang immediately concentrated all theboard guns and secondary guns to fire ammunition at the Hairong. In just a few minutes, many small-caliber shells landed on the Hairong, while Deng Haohong still stood there silently.

"S sir, Takasago, Kasagi and Chitose have turned the rudder!"

Hearing this, Deng Haohong's heart suddenly relaxed, and then turned around and looked at the Gaosha after the port side.

"Focus on the hull of Takasago!"

(to be continued)