Chapter 125 Duel at Sea
12 o'clock? That's the landing time of the Japanese!" Liu Yongfu looked up to the sky and laughed: "Well, I'll let you live another half an hour. At 12 o'clock sharp, if I can't see the Zhang Jun you mentioned, I will kill you and fight with the Japanese again!"
As soon as the words fell, a personal soldier pointed to the sea in the distance and shouted, "Marshal, a ship is coming!"
On the sea level in the distance, four or five black spots appeared, arranged in a row.
Shannian laughed: "Liu Yongfu, you fucking see it clearly. My Zhang Jun is coming!"
Liu Yongfu put his hand on the pergola and stared at it, but there was a sneer: "Grand Year, you opened your dog's eyes and see clearly. Who is that?"
Shan Nian looked up and felt a burst of depression in his heart.
The Japanese sun flag is flying on the ship on the sea!
That's the Tainan detachment of the Japanese army!
"Brothers, kill the grand festival flag, and then fight with the Japanese!" A big shout in the grand year.
The grand year shouted, "Liu Yongfu, it's not fucking twelve o'clock! You can't keep your word!"
Liu Yongfu looked at his pocket watch, 1145, and there were still 15 minutes to 12 o'clock.
"Is it meaningful to live 15 more minutes in the grand year?" Liu Yongfu scolded.
"It's meaningful, so meaningful!" The urgent shouting of the grand year.
As soon as the words fell, the Japanese warships on the sea spit out a mass of black smoke.
Countless shells cut through the silent sky and landed in the port under the fort. In the violent explosion, Anping Port shook the mountains! The ships moored in the port were blown up and a fire soared.
The Japanese landing battle has begun!
The huge Japanese ship stopped on the shallow sea one kilometer away from the beach and put down countless landing boats. The Japanese marines jumped on the boats and rushed to the beach like locusts.
Yoshino and Hashidate cruisers are sideways, concentrating large-caliber naval guns and shelling at the beach.
In Anping Port, there was a sea of fire.
The soldiers hurriedly shouted, "Please go to the bunker to avoid the cannon."
Liu Yongfu stood still: "Avoid a fart cannon! Quan'anping only has us No. 30 people. These little Japanese can walk over and trample us to death. What the hell do you have to do? These little Japanese son of a bitch think highly of me, Liu Yongfu! I'm not going anywhere. I'm here to watch the Japanese walk past my body!"
In fact, the Japanese also know that there are only dozens of defenders in Tainan. However, the landing of the Japanese army still had to make a big deal, shelling and charging, which made a lot of trouble. The reason is nothing more than to confuse the public and appear that the war is fierce, so that they can go to the base camp to ask for credit.
More than 30 personal soldiers stood around Liu Yongfu, facing the roaring shells without fear.
Liu Yongfu took out his pocket watch, put it in the palm of his hand, and said hatefully, "At 11:50, in the grand year, you can still live for ten minutes!"
Shannian said angrily, "Liu Yongfu, you are so confused. At this time, you are still fucking thinking about me!"
"I don't think about you. What I think about is those corrupt officials in the Qing Dynasty! Son of a bitch, even those bastards buried me and Taiwan! I can't reach them. Shannian, you are unlucky, even if you die for them!"
It turned out that Liu Yongfu regarded Shannian as the general representative of corrupt officials in the Qing Dynasty!
A shell hit the chest wall of the battery, and the huge battery was shaken.
"Fire back!" Liu Yongfu shouted.
"Major General, none of us will operate the Armstrong cannon." A personal soldier shouted.
Liu Yongfu sighed, "Then shoot!"
"The enemy is not within range of the rifle! I can't fight."
The small boats of the Japanese Marine Corps are densely scattered on the sea, 500 meters away from the beach and farther away from the fort, completely beyond the range of rifles.
"If you can't fight, you have to fight!" Liu Yongfu stared at his blood-red eyes: "When their cannons blow us up, we will not even have a chance to shoot!"
Anping is bound to fall, and Tainan is bound to fall, but Liu Yongfu still has to shoot, which is the last resistance of the Black Flag Army! You can't let the Japanese occupy Tainan without firing a shot!
The soldiers rushed to the chest wall, picked up their rifles, and shot blankly into the sea.
Another shell fell on the chest wall, and the two soldiers were blown up, and the gravel, blood and blood splashed on Liu Yongfu.
Liu Yongfu stood still and shouted with his pocket watch: "Eleven five minutes left!"
"Fuck you!" He gritted his teeth in a grand year.
Another shell fell from the sky, the fort was blown up in a mess, the flagpole was broken, and the lonely yellow tiger flag fell down and was soon burned to ashes by the fire.
The small boat of the Japanese Marine Corps had rushed to the beach. The Japanese commander pulled out his sword and howled to command the soldiers to jump off the boat. The soldiers picked up the bright bayonets and rushed into the harbor. They soon found that there was no one in the harbor.
The sound of gunfire on the fort attracted the Japanese army.
In the huge Anping Port, only the enemy is resisting on the fort.
The Japanese army attacked the fort like a tide, and there was a thunderous shout of "Hil Long Live the Emperor" in Anping Port.
Liu Yongfu didn't look at the howling Japanese soldiers, and his eyes were always fixed on his pocket watch: "1:19, 30 seconds, 40 seconds, 50 seconds..." Finally, he simply began to read seconds: "5, 4, 3, 2..."
A loud and earth-shocking sound suddenly sounded on the sea!
There was a "buzz" in Liu Yongfu's ear.
He has lived for most of his life and experienced countless battles, but he has never heard such a loud noise.
The sound was like a collapse of heaven and earth, which shocked Liu Yongfu and couldn't help raising his head.
On the distant sea, the huge hull of the Japanese flagship Yoshino jumped out of the sea, interrupted into two parts in mid-air, and emitted a firelight in mid-air. Then, it fell into the sea and never appeared again.
The explosion of the Yoshino caused huge waves. The light cruiser Akizu, not far behind his side, was hit and swayed violently by the sea waves. Before Akitsushima stabilized the hull, the light cruiser was covered by rain-like shells!
Liu Yongfu looked at the sea blankly and muttered, "12 o'clock sharp!"
"Zhang Jun is coming!" The grand year is shouting.
On the sea level in the distance, there are dense ships, and wolf flags are flying on the mast of each ship!
A group of wolves came to the sea!
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On the command tower of the Zhenyuan ship, Cai Tinggan stood holding a telescope and looked at the sea full of gunpowder smoke.
The main Japanese cruiser Yoshino has disappeared. On the sea where it sank, there was a huge whirlpool, and countless Japanese sailors struggled in the whirlpool.
The light cruiser Akitsuzhou was completely covered by the artillery fire from Zhenyuan, Laiyuan and Zhendong, and became a floating object full of fire on the sea. There was no power to fight back. The ship had tilted and was slowly sinking. Sagami Maru, Yuanshan Maru transport ship and Omi Maru mine mother ship are driving at full power and galloping towards Anping Port. The only way is to sail into the port as soon as possible and let the marines on board land quickly. Otherwise, everyone can only fall into the sea to feed Wang Ba.
"Commander, we succeeded!" The first mate shouted excitedly.
Cai Ting didn't even expect that this battle would be so clean and neat.
The heavy armored cruiser Zhenyuan is not only equipped with a 36cm large-caliber artillery, but also has four fish launch tubes. Just five minutes ago, Zhenyuan suddenly appeared on the starboard side of Yoshino. Yoshino was supporting the landing of the Marine Corps with all its naval guns. When Hikasa Uemura found the Zhenyuan, Zhenyuan had entered the best firing distance of the torpedo. Cai Ting gave an order, and four torpedoes rushed into the sea towards Yoshino. The number rushed over.
Yoshino, the crystallization of this British empire ship-building technology, combines the most cutting-edge ship-building technology in the 19th century. Although its displacement is not as good as Zhenyuan, it is the fastest, thickest armored and strongest warship in Asia and even the world. In the Battle of the Yellow Sea, Yoshino sank Deng Shichang's Zhiyuan cruiser and super brave gunship, wounded Jingyuan and came to the far cruisers, forcing three warships of the Beiyang Marine Division to withdraw from the battle. It can be said that in the Battle of the Yellow Sea, Yoshino was the mainstay of the victory of the Japanese army! In the naval battle of Miao Island, when the flagship of the joint fleet was sunk by the Beiyang Marine Division, the whole army was about to be destroyed. Yoshino took the lead and fought hard to kill, saving the decline of the joint fleet in one fell swoop, and finally forced the Beiyang Marine Division.
This great warship was once the hope of the Qing Dynasty. Its name should not be Yoshino, but Taiyuan! It should have become the mainstay of Beiyang Marine! However, the Empress Dowager asked for silver to build the Summer Palace and pushed Yoshino, who had driven to the gate of the Qing Dynasty, to the Japanese!
The bitter wine brewed by the Empress Dowager Buddha asked the officers and soldiers of the Beiyang Marine Division to taste it with their lives!
Yoshino is the enemy of Beiyang Marine Division!
Cai Ting is not going to let go of this enemy!
Four torpedoes rushed to Yoshino like lightning!
When Uemurahiko found the torpedo, he made an almost crazy decision!
He did not order Yoshino to turn the rudder to avoid the torpedo, but ordered the ship to stay still, transfer all the naval guns, and fire at the Zhenyuan ship.
Uemura Hikaru is a helpless choice and the bravest choice.
Yoshino has no time to avoid torpedoes. Even if it can avoid one or two, it can't avoid three or four.
When avoiding torpedoes, it will definitely affect the firing of naval guns, and Yoshino will no longer have a chance to launch a final attack on Zhenyuan.
Therefore, with the determination of death, Uemura Hikonosuke launched a final duel against Zhenyuan at the last moment before the torpedo touched Yoshino!
However, Uemura Hikonosuke failed to achieve the goal of die with Zhenyuan. The town is too close to Yoshino. The shells fired by large-caliber artillery can only fall behind Zhenyuan, and the firepower of the machine gun cannot penetrate the thick armor of Zhenyuan.
Four torpedoes hit Yoshino's port almost at the same time.
The two torpedo holes in front penetrated Yoshino's armor, and the torpedoes that followed directly penetrated into the cabin and exploded in the ammunition depot and engine room.
The torpedo and ammunition depot exploded at the same time, and Yoshino was cut off, and hundreds of officers and soldiers on the ship sank to the bottom of the sea.