Chapter 186 Sino-Japanese naval battle 3

Hu Chuyuan has never been a martyr, let alone a brave and fearless person. He is just very impatient and really has the impulse to die. Sitting in Sa Wuhao is just a plan to die.

At present, Hu Chuyuan was very happy when he saw the hope of survival.

The most important thing is that this fleet can't run away.

A real naval battle came. Ito Youheng's momentary hesitation made the guerrilla detachment of the Fuzhou fleet insert into the back of the Japanese standing fleet, and let the main fleet of the Fuzhou fleet meet the patrol fleet.

At this time, it was difficult for the Japanese reserve fleet to retreat peacefully, and the two sides began to release torpedo boats to prepare for a large-scale naval battle.

The sky suddenly became cloudy and uncertain, the sun was covered by faint clouds, and the sea became turbid, with larger waves surging. The thick smoke entangled over the sea, and the sound of gunfire came one after another.

Due to continuous bullets, the hull caught fire, and the Sawu began to retreat to the second line. Hu Chuyuan stepped on the command tower and watched the whole situation with a telescope.

The two sides adopted a one-word column at the same time, and were divided into two teams. One is the main force of the headquarters and the other is the guerrilla detachment. The strength of the guerrilla detachments on both sides is roughly the same, and the strength of the headquarters is too wide.

Continuous gunfire kept blowing red fire on the deck of the ship, and the moment they fired, they could also see the violent shaking of each ship.

The torpedo boat sprinted on the sea between the two sides. It basically did not hold the hope of life and charged straight forward. With the popularity of rotary machine guns and quick-fire guns, this kind of charge is of little significance.

Both sides are just sticking to such tactics and continuing to fight, hoping to meet a glimmer of life and hope.

Yidong Youheng's eyes have turned blood red, but he doesn't care about death. The Xinyangwu has been sunk. Two Langsu-class cruisers returned to the guerrilla detachment and began to fight with the Qing fleet.

However, his intuition told him that the bigger trouble was just beginning - the opponent in front of him was not the pre-expected Beiyang Marine Division at all, but the Fuzhou Fleet.

If he had known earlier, he would have ordered a quick retreat. Among China's three major sailors, the East China Sea Division is the largest, and the core of the East China Sea Division is the Fuzhou Fleet. Its total tonnage has not changed greatly, but the warships are constantly updated and the technology has been maintained at a high level. The level.

How high it is? When the Akagi was hit by a bitter and sour shell, he knew that it was as tall as the fucking empire.

The two sides constantly surround and cut each other's formation, obstructing the opponent to form a stable column, while maintaining high-speed platoon shelling between the main warships.

Since the Fuzhou fleet has completed the localization of electronic control technology, in the initial design, all secondary guns are of the same caliber, and it is easy to use this technology in all warships.

This makes the actual hit rate of the two sides very different. The hit rate of the Fuzhou fleet is about 7%, and the current standing fleet is less than 3%.

The rain of bullets is not enough to describe the cruelty at this moment.

This is a real rain.

Even the sea has unquenchable flames and yellow smoke.

Huge splashs kept exploding on the sea, and the warships on both sides were constantly hit. The special cyan and incompletely burning smoke of the DNT shells was rolling. Although there was a stench, it was not highly poisonous. The bitter and sour taste was different. The yellow smoke was unbearable.

The cyan, white and yellow smoke are rolling, the flames are constantly burning, and there are constantly huge hulls.

The two heavy artillery cruisers have almost no effect. They can't be seen firing shells at all. On the contrary, the main guns of the Zhiyuan and Jingyuan class often have amazing blows.

With a certain level of defense on both sides, the small-caliber rapid-fire gun is indeed too weak. The 240mm and 275mm main guns are obviously much more useful than the limit of 305mm in terms of firing speed and flexibility, and can penetrate the cruisers on both sides.

The explosion continued. Relying on two ironclads with a speed of more than 17 knots, Ye Zukui almost frantly cut off the Japanese reserve fleet from the middle, and then the guerrilla detachments enveloped it, clamped the standing fleet for indiscriminate bombing.

With a loud bang, no one can tell the specific reason. Ito Youheng's flagship Akagi was blown into two pieces. It may have been sunk by a torpedo in a chaotic war, or it may have been hit by Jingyuan's 275mm main gun.

It turns out that my heavy artillery cruiser can only be described as failure, although until the beginning of the war, Ito Youheng still hoped to sink an ironclad ship through his flagship.

The battle continued. After losing the command of the flagship, the battleship group did not have a systematic command for a long time. It was not until more than ten minutes later that the commander of the guerrilla detachment, Tsuboi Hang San, hung the command flag, reorganized the formation, sent two armored cruisers to the front, and the rest of the cruisers followed.

This raid plan is too risky. It is said that the standing fleet is too far from the mainland, and now it is too late to retreat. Especially on the basis that both sides have a large number of cruisers, the retreat is equivalent to being beaten all the time, allowing the opponent's main gun to attack its tail and continuously bombard the voyage of hundreds of nautical miles.

After determining the opponent's flagship, Deng Shichang of the Fuzhou guerrilla detachment led the fleet to intercept the opponent and ventured to intercept the opponent. After the fleet covered for a distance, the Chunyu instantly accelerated and faced the opponent's flagship Qianhui to launch two torpedoes.

Pingjing Hangsan is a real genius. He realized the special surname of Chunyu very early. It clearly has the defensive ability of ironclad ships, but it is included in the sequence of guerrilla fleets. It is very doubtful that he has maintained a very high level in terms of speed and flexibility for a long time.

Even so, he still didn't expect that Chunyu had a higher acceleration ability, which could increase at least two speeds in a short distance of 600 meters, all of which made Pingjing Hangsan feel incredible.

The temporarily mobilized firepower poses little threat to Chunyu, especially when the main shells of the Japanese fleet are only 120 mm.

Death is less than one meter away from this man, known as the genius of the navy. It is two particularly fast gas torpedoes.

There was a roar. The second flagship Qianhui was sank by Chunyu. Lu Hongjie himself was also in a cold sweat. He ventured out of the opponent's array and relied on the artillery cover of the Fuzhou headquarters fleet to avoid the siege of the two warships.

For the Spring Rain, everyone is tacit. It is absolutely impossible for the Spring Rain to sink in this naval battle.

If it really sinks, it will self-destruct and explode immediately.

The death of Pingjing Hangsan made the Japanese standing fleet fall into new chaos. The artillery fire was endlessly venting, releasing the anger of the Fuzhou Fleet and releasing the disdain and contempt of the Chinese against the Japanese since ancient times.

In the loud sound of artillery fire, the Japanese warships continued to sink one by one.

The Fuzhou Fleet's own warships continued to catch fire and slowly withdrew from the second line, and the Sawu, where Hu Chuyuan was sitting, rejoined the battlefield after extinguishing the flames of poisonous smoke.

At this time, both sides had no way out, and Hu Chuyuan could only ask himself about his fate.

The battle was so fierce that the fierce battle of an hour and a half gradually ended. Four cruisers of the Fuzhou Fleet were severely damaged and one sank. In the Japanese standing fleet, there were only three traumatic cruisers left, and the rest of the warships were sunk one after another. Because the power system was severely damaged, only one warship could maintain 1 At a speed of 0 knots, the other two are just floating on the water.

It has reached 2:03 p.m. on March 17, 1890.

The Fuzhou Fleet flagship Zhiyuan played a flag and asked the other party to surrender. After being rejected, Ye Zukui played the flag to ask Ankang, but Ankang could not reply.

Until this time, Ye Zukui also thought that Hu Chuyuan was on Ankang with the best protective power.

At this time, Hu Chuyuan asked Sa Zhenbing to hang the flag of the Prime Minister's government, announced that he was on the samurai, and issued a flag order to Ye Zukui to annihire the enemy.

2:17.

After the last 12 minutes of bombing, all the warships sank.

In the distance, two cargo ships of Sikoo International Shipping Company flying the British flag passed through the site of the incident. Under the escort of warships, two cargo ships were forced out of the sea... 322 sea soldiers and generals were captured!

The Fuzhou Fleet finally anniled a total of ten warships, the first detachment of the current standing fleet, at the cost of sinking two ships and hitting four ships.

The gap between the two sides is only two words - defense and firepower.

This is still the era of heavy armor and heavy firepower. It is only a shortcut to try to win by relying on cruisers' accelerated guns. In the case of roughly equal rate of fire between the two sides, the stronger the armor, the stronger the survivability, the larger the artillery caliber, and the greater the greater the attack power.

Of course, we should also consider the opponent's defense level. In the face of a group of cruisers, the 240mm and 275mm tube retreating cannons are terrible enough.

The Battle of the Yellow Sea is over.

Hu Chuyuan stood silently at the stern of the Sawu, looking at the smoke that had not dissipated in the distance and the gloomy sea, he couldn't help but have all kinds of thoughts in his heart.

He almost died here.

However, he also proved two things. First, he will not let him go after all. Second, there is no shortcut in the world. Shortcuts may take risks to succeed, but may also pay all the price.

Even if there are two more armored cruisers in the first detachment of the reserve fleet, they can at least get a fiasco and be completely anniled.

Facts once again prove what an extreme nation Japan is. Once they identify a goal, they do not intend to give up. In fact, they can make better use of nearly 100 million pounds of foreign debt and the assistance of Britain and France. Don't rush to defeat China, don't rush to expand, and develop the country as stable as Americans. Economy.

If there are no raw materials, they can peacefully negotiate with Qingzheng Axe and import raw materials from China and North Korea.

They didn't choose this road. They just learned one thing from the great power history of Britain and Spain, that is, to defeat other countries to directly obtain raw materials.

They chose to take risks again and again, and in the end, they lost.

If you lose only once, you will lose a lot, including the opportunity to rise.

You think they are crazy, but they feel that they have made the right choice.

(to be continued)