Chapter 014 Opportunity

Zhang Jun on the Golden Mountain Fort was not relaxed by the retreat of the Japanese army. The artillery of the Japanese warships not only did not weaken, but strengthened.

The Japanese army is going to make full preparations for the attack before dark. They hope to consume the Zhang army on the fort as much as possible.

On the sea, all the artillery of the three Japanese ships were red, but there was still no sign of stopping.

The Golden Mountain Fort is already a mess, and two cannon positions have been hit.

Zhou Charter is waiting on Maxim's machine gun position and is explaining the tactical principles of heavy machine guns to the soldiers.

Markin is a new thing. Although the soldiers have tasted the benefits of heavy machine guns, they are not very clear about the tactics of heavy machine guns. Zhou Charter should take advantage of the battle interval and try his best to let the soldiers master the tactical essentials.

Yao Xi hurried over: "Brother, another Japanese warship is coming!"

Zhou Charter stood up and looked up at the sea.

On the dark sea, there is still the last light before dark.

Four dark shadows appeared on the distant sea.

Zhou Charter shouted, "Order, all the officers and soldiers of the direct battalion, put on the bayonet!"

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On the sea, the three Japanese ships braved Zhang Jun's fierce artillery fire and fired tenaciously. The huge muzzle spit out flames, illuminating the gradually dim sea at dusk.

The hull of the Tsukushi gunboat has tilted 20 degrees to the starboard side, and 120 crew members, including the captain, were killed, but two carrier-borne guns were still firing shells.

The frigate Chicheng was hit with six bullets, including a 30cm heavy gun. The mast was broken, and a raging fire broke out in the cabin. The bow of the ship rose and was slowly sinking. The captain and the five surviving sailors refused the rescue of the Waves, held on to the 12cm turret on the bow of the ship, and continued to fire. The sea water was immersed in the turret and soon flooded the whole turret. The cannon of the Chicheng finally fell silent.

Only the artillery on the Wavespeed continued to maintain intensive firepower, and all 8 cannons adjusted their muzzles to port, including the 26cm artillery that had been hit by the Golden Mountain Fort at the rear. After emergency repair, they regained their vitality.

The cruiser Naniwa has been able to persist until now, thanks to its high speed and thick armor. It is the fastest warship in the joint fleet, with a speed of 18 knots, while the displacement is twice as small as it, and the speed is only 11 knots. Such a speed can ensure that the Speed Wave can quickly shift its position and avoid enemy artillery attacks. And its heavy armor makes it able to withstand the bombardment of heavy artillery. In the two-hour artillery battle before dark, at least ten shells hit the wave speed ship, and more than 50 sailors were killed. However, it survived.

The sun is sinking in the west, and the sky is gradually getting dark. The golden mountain fort is still in the afterglow of the sun, and the sea is already dark and hazy.

This is beneficial to the Speed Wave, which can use the last light before dark to fire at the Golden Mountain Fort, while Zhang Jun on the fort can only vaguely judge the position of the Speed Wave through the flame of the Fire Wave.

The pressure on the Wave gradually decreases.

Dongxiang Pinghachiro stood in the command module, staring at the Golden Mountain Fort in the afterglow.

The glass window in front of him has been broken. In the artillery battle, a shell hit the deck in front of the command module, and the violent explosion shattered the window glass. The second officer and three sailors standing in front of the window were killed, and blood splashed on the window.

On the south side of the Golden Mountain Fort, there was a sudden sound of violent explosion, and then there was a burst of fire.

Dongxiang Hirahachiro raised the telescope.

The Armstrong cannon on the south side of the Golden Mountain Fort stopped roaring, and the flames devoured the body of the cannon.

There were cheers on the speed wave.

In an instant before dark, the 26cm gun of the Wave finally hit the Armstrong cannon position, and the shell detonated the shell library on the position. This position, together with the Armstrong cannon, was extinguished in a violent explosion.

It was this cannon that hit the Zhuzi and Chicheng!

Hirahachiro Higashigo put down his telescope and looked at the nearby beach. Among the reefs on the beach, there was also a cheer of "Huge the Emperor". There, the landing troops were building fortifications based on the reef and waiting for darkness.

Dongxiang Pinghachiro breathed a sigh of relief, and today's task is about to be completed.

However, he suddenly heard a rapid motor sound coming from the eastern sea.

Dongxiang Pinghachiro suddenly turned around and looked east.

On the starboard side of the Wave, four black silhouettes appeared, like four ghosts, rushing towards the Wave.

The harsh siren sounded through the waves.

Dongxiang Pinghachiro was desperate for a while.

Those are four torpedo boats, less than 200 meters away from the Wave.

This is an inescapable distance for cruisers.

Because this distance exceeds the range of the naval gun, but it is the attack range of the torpedo.

The only hope is that these are four Japanese torpedo boats!

However, Togo Hirahachiro desperately found that the dragon flag of the Qing Dynasty was hanging on the other party's mast!

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The Fulong took the lead and rushed out of the narrow mountain waterway. Behind it, there is one on the left, two on the left and three on the left.

It was a good luck to sink Yaeyama and Nishikyomaru, and the two Japanese transport ships were not escorted by warships. This can only be a special case on the battlefield.

Cai Tinggan, an American-educated person, does not think that such luck will last too long. In the United States, the huge social progress brought about by the Industrial Revolution has made people generally believe that according to the fateful view of Oriental mysticism, it is a conservative and backward superstition. Today, with the rapid development of science and technology, it should be thrown away. It's time to abandon fatalism.

Cai Tinggan ordered the torpedo boat formation to quickly leave the battlefield, rush out of the Changshan waterway as soon as possible, and rush to Lushun.

Because, in the narrow Changshan waterway, if you encounter Japanese warships, even ordinary gunboats, torpedo boats will face extinction.

However, when the Fulong rushed out of the Changshan waterway, he suddenly found that his luck could also continue.

The sky will be dark, and the Golden Mountain Fort has become a huge silhouette.

In this silhouette, the fire comes one after another,

The three Japanese ships are engaged in a fierce artillery battle with the Golden Mountain Fort. This includes the main cruiser Naniwa, the main cruiser of the Combined Fleet.

Cai Ting is too familiar with the Wave Speed.

In daily training, the Waves is one of the main warships of the Japanese army that every belt of the Beiyang Marine Division must be familiar with. Cai Tinggan is not only familiar with the firepower, armor, speed, carrier and tonnage of the Wavespeed, but also with the captain of the Wavespeed, Heihachiro.

Ten years ago, when the Beiyang Marine Division visited Nagasaki, Japan, Cai Tinggan had a friendship with Heihachiro Togo.

At that time, Togo Heihachiro was still an unknown naval staff officer. Togo Heihachiro studied in Britain for eight years. After his return, he, who had always been not good at words, had no friends in the Japanese military and seemed to be very isolated, but he talked happily with Cai Ting, a naval officer of the Qing Dynasty.

The language used by the two people is English. Perhaps it is because they gave up their mother tongue and used English, eliminating the gap between them, and increasingly highlighting what they have in common.

Dongxiang Pingbalang stayed in the UK for eight years. Cai Tinggan grew up in the United States. Both of them are admirers of Western democratic ideas and have a common language.

Ten years later, Heihachiro Togo has become the captain of Japan's main battleship, while Cai Tinggan is only the captain of the torpedo boat Fulong.

The reason is actually very simple, which is the attitude of the two governments towards foreign students.

Determined to completely westernize Japan, vigorously promote foreign students. In the eyes of the Japanese, foreign students represent advanced technology and ideas and are the leaders of Japan's future development.

In the Qing Dynasty, foreigners were regarded as dangerous. The Western technology and ideas they mastered were a challenge and impact on the value system of ancient civilization and a great danger to the ruling structure. Therefore, bureaucrats at all levels in the Qing Dynasty always belittle those foreigners intentionally or unintentionally.

The scale of foreign students selected by the Qing Dynasty was not as large as that of Japan, and most of the foreign students were not reused after returning to China.

This difference in attitudes towards foreign students makes the gap between the Qing Dynasty and Japan wider and wider in the process of modernization.

Cai Tingan rushed out of the Changshan waterway and immediately found the Langsu. At the same time, he also found that God had given him another excellent opportunity.

Nansu is a giant heavy armored cruiser with extremely strong artillery and defense capabilities.

Under normal circumstances, it is impossible for a small torpedo boat to enter the effective attack range of the Wavespeed. Two kilometers away, the torpedo boat will be sunk by the heavy artillery on the Wavespeed.

Usually, if the torpedo boat wants to attack the cruiser, it must have its own cruiser as fire cover. When the enemy cruiser is unable to separate, it must rush into the enemy ship within 200 meters and launch a fatal blow to the enemy.

And now, there is no cruiser around Cai Tinggan.

In the face of the powerful Wave Speed, he had no chance at all.

However, God created an opportunity for him.

All the naval guns of the Wavespeed are firing against the Golden Mountain Battery, and the fierce artillery battle has made its attention all on the Golden Mountain. At this time, the sky will be dark, and the moment before the sun sets, the sea is dark and the visibility is extremely low. Cai Tinggan found the Waves by the afterglow, but the Waves were unaware of the torpedo boats on the eastern sea.

Cai Tinggan knows that the alert of Heihachiro Yixiang will not let this opportunity last for too long.

As long as the shelling on the Golden Mountain Fort weakens slightly, Dongxiang Pinghachiro will immediately notice the danger behind him.

Cai Tingan did not hesitate to give the attack order, and the four torpedo boats rushed to the Japanese ship in the fierce battle.

As long as one of the three Japanese ships finds them, they will immediately be exposed to the huge cannon field, with no room for manoeuvre.

This is a gamble!