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"What do you know? He was shooting from a long distance without aim, and wanted to die with our ship at close range. Can I give him this chance?" Xiaoman Liichiro said proudly.

"The general is wise, I will give the order."

The "Nanxiang" was still advancing at a high speed, and when it saw the retreat of the "Qiujinzhou", it became more courageous.The attack of several consecutive shots seemed to be on target again, and exploded on the armor plate of "Qiujinzhou", which could not be penetrated due to the long distance.It didn't do any harm.

But the hits of these few shots seemed to confirm Koman Liichiro's guess, and he rushed to be complacent about his retreat order.

"Reporting to the general, the Speed ​​Wave sent a semaphore requesting our ship to sink the Qing cruiser Nanxiang. According to the current direction and speed, the ship is heading for the Speed ​​Wave."

"Oh?" Liichiro Xiaoman picked up the binoculars and looked at it, silently calculating.Turning around suddenly, he ordered: "Tell Sulang to go forward at full speed and ignore other things. I will naturally sink Nanxiang."

"Hai." The communications soldier turned and left.

It has to be said that the 26-knot speed of "Qiujinzhou" played a huge role on the battlefield, and it appeared on Nanxiang's advancing channel in an instant.

"My lord, what should I do if Qiu Jinzhou is still haunted?" the adjutant asked eagerly.

"Run into it and see if he gives way. Prepare the main gun with two ammunition, and stop firing now. Give him a fatal blow within a distance of 3000 meters!" Zhou Zhan quickly ordered: "Tell the main gunner that the gunner cannot be shot within a distance of 3000 meters." Hit the target and engage in military law."

"Yes."

The "Nanxiang" did not reduce its speed because of the "Qiujinzhou"'s blockage again. The muzzle of the black hole was aimed at the "Qiujinzhou" but did not fire a single shot, and it still drove forward desperately.

Threats, naked threats.But what is ridiculous is that a Japanese cruiser that is currently the number one in Asia and is intact was threatened by a Qing Dynasty warship whose main gun was in a semi-mute state and ate hundreds of tons of seawater and was injured.

"Fire." Koman Riichiro nervously gave the order.

"boom……"

Another shell fell into the sea water, and the jet of water hit the Qing soldiers on the deck.At this time, Zhou Zhan also came to the deck, and saw that "Qiujinzhou" in the distance seemed to keep such a distance from him.

"Rush over and get closer. The main gunner is ready to fire." Zhou Zhan ordered to the communication soldier beside him with a dark face.

"Yes."

Finally, "Nanxiang" and "Qiujinzhou" entered a zero distance called death in a naval battle.Before entering this distance, it does not matter whether the warships of both sides are damaged or intact.Once at this distance, it only takes one shell to be fatal.

"Fire the cannon." Zhou Zhan seemed to have seen the moment of miracles. He sank the "Qiujinzhou" with his seriously injured body, which really created the biggest naval battle miracle since the war between China and Japan.

"boom……"

Before the main gun of "Nanxiang" fired, the "Qiujinzhou" on the opposite side had already fired first, amidst the roar of the cannon.The soul of Nanxiang returns to the sea.All the more than 200 soldiers on board were killed.

Three Japanese cruisers quickly came to the rear of their own formation. Facing the devastation of the five Qing cruisers, the Japanese gunboats that attacked terror at close range could not get close at all. Now four of them have been sunk, one Played the banner of "our ship is seriously injured, withdraw from the battle" and retreated to the northeast.The torpedo ship saw that the cruiser that could not hurt the Qing Dynasty had already moved forward to reinforce the besieged "Kyushu".

The "Daqing No. [-]" and "Daqing No. [-]" are still entangled with their opponents. It stands to reason that these two [-]-ton battleships captured from the United Kingdom are far more advanced than the battleships sold to Japan by the United Kingdom, regardless of artillery density and speed. Leading the Japanese battleships of the same type.But until now, the two sides have been entangled, and even faintly fell into a disadvantage.

The young Qing Navy showed its immaturity at this time. The artillery of the "Daqing No. [-]" class battleship adopted the advanced design of the terraced rotary cannon, but the navy even thought of adding a cover to the open-air exposed fort after capturing them back!The reason was that fast-firing machine guns began to appear on warships at that time, such as the American Gatling gun and the French five-barreled Hatchkiss gun. The sailors working in the exposed fort are a great threat.They put a large cover similar to a ship's turntable on the cannon in the exposed fort, which is called a dome-type cannon cover. The cannon cover is connected to the cannon mount through several brackets, and rotates with the cannon. play a certain protective role.In order to prevent the weight of the gun cover from being completely pressed on the gun mount, a track was laid on the top of the thick armored wall of the exposed fort, and the gun cover with wheels at the bottom was mounted on the armored wall to rotate.But after installing this big cover, it is inconvenient to aim, the smoke is not easy to dissipate, the pitch angle of the artillery is restricted again, and all the disadvantages of the deck swivel are all picked up at once.

More importantly, the cannon cover of this kind of machine gun is not thick enough, and it has no defense against large-caliber shells. If there is no cannon cover, the large-caliber shells may fly by without causing any damage. Even if they hit people, That is to say, the sailor who was hit was just unlucky himself. After using the cannon cover, although it cannot prevent large-caliber shells, it can prevent small shell fragments. Flying around inside the gun cover, causing serious damage to the personnel on the gun emplacement.In this naval battle, the Qing navy finally paid a heavy price for its extravagance. As soon as the "Daqing No. [-]" exposed fort with a dome-style canopy was hit by a Japanese shell, the sailors in the platform immediately Either death or injury, no one was spared, so that the originally powerful firepower of the "Daqing No. [-]" class could not be exerted at all.

The casualties were so severe that the original intensive firepower of "Daqing No. [-]" and "Daqing No. [-]" could only be used halfway, and more gunners died in the seemingly protected gun covers.

Yan Fu saw it in his eyes and regretted it in his heart.I regret that I listened to the words of the technical staff at that time, but who would know whether installing this dome-style gun cover is beneficial to combat without actual combat?

This is the tuition fee that the Qing Navy needs to pay, and they need to pay for the young.

"Tell Chengfeng, kill the cruiser of the Japanese devils for me. You don't need to come back for reinforcements." Yan Fu tried to calm himself down.

"However, we are already very passive here. Daqing No. [-] and Daqing No. [-] have been suppressed to the point where they can't hold their heads up." An adjutant said excitedly.

Yan Fu roared in a rare way, "I am the chief military officer, I will be responsible for anything, and execute the order."

"Yes." The adjutant was shocked by the sudden yell from the usually good-tempered superior. General Yan was under too much pressure.

Although this time he only took on the task of assisting, the real sharp knife of the emperor was the two divisions that landed in Yokohama, preparing to attack the army in Tokyo.

But after all, Yan Fu is leading the current large-scale eradication of Zhen, Ding, Wei, and Ji; all capital ships except the Siyuan ironclad ships, if they can't fight well, or if the warships suffer serious losses, it will be difficult to explain.

Competing in East Asia Chapter 144 Bloody Battle in the Sea of ​​Japan ([-])

The five cruisers "Riding the Wind", "Break the Waves", "Sail", "Flying Eagle", and "Sea Lion" basically wiped out the six Japanese gunboats, and were about to go back for reinforcements when they suddenly saw three Japanese cruisers sailing towards them. Come.

"In the sailing game, Polang followed me to the left, Flying Eagle and Sea Lion to the right, and surrounded the three cruisers of the Japanese devils." Chengfeng issued a semaphore.

Japan's "Takachiho" cruiser and the Qing's "Flying Eagle" and "Sea Lion" are sister ships. Both were produced by the Armstrong Shipyard in the United Kingdom and were manufactured before the Sino-British Burma War.

It was also the last warship that Britain sold to the Qing Dynasty, since the war between China and Britain in Burma.All the more advanced cruisers manufactured by the United Kingdom were sold to Japan, and the Qing Dynasty did not buy a single one.

Therefore, Japan has "Akitsuzhou" and "Naniwa".In the past few years, the Qing Dynasty has only developed and manufactured the "Rise", but in the East China Sea naval battle, the pride of this Qing Dynasty has been lost to the sea.

The "Flying Eagle" and "Sea Lion", which had reached the highest speed, had already come behind "Takachiho", and showed no mercy to this Japanese sister ship.Two shells flew out of the main gun muzzle 10 seconds apart.

"Boom..." "Boom..."

Immediately afterwards, "Chengfeng" and "Polang" made a detour from the left, and met their old enemies "Akitsusu" and "Namiwa". They greeted each other directly with the main cannon without any temptation.

The "Yangfan" in the middle is the French first-class defensive cruiser Cinrilands captured during the Sino-French War, although the speed is only 16 knots.But the defensive power is still quite guaranteed, and after finally entering the battlefield, he directly attacked "Takachiho".

Facing the siege of the three ships, "Takachiho" suddenly felt the pressure increase in vain.The continuous shots on the left and right side strings were all caused by large-caliber main guns.In an instant, the fire ignited, and in order to get rid of the predicament of being surrounded, "Takachiho" didn't even have any counterattack, and quickly retreated.

The "Flying Eagle" and "Sea Lion", which belong to the same sister ships, are not slower than "Takachiho" in terms of speed at all, but now "Takachiho" which is slightly flooded and in the process of retreating cannot exert its highest speed of 18 knots at all.

During the retreat, it was bombed by "Flying Eagle" and "Sea Lion" for several consecutive rounds, and the bow of the ship was buried in the sea.But half of the body floating in the sea is still retreating rapidly backwards.

"boom……"

After a main gun of the "Sea Lion" hit the sidestring of "Takachiho", the Japanese cruiser slowly fell into the embrace of the sea with regret.

On the other side, watching "Takachiho" being sunk so quickly.When the three cruisers of the Qing Dynasty had already turned around towards them, "Akitsusu" and "Naniwa" had already driven to the highest speed and quickly approached their own fleet.

In the main battlefield, "Daqing No. [-]" and "Daqing No. [-]" were successively hit by artillery shells, and the four [-]-ton battleships "Kyushu", "Yamato", "Musashi" and "Katsuragi" had all abandoned their battleships. The opponent, aimed at the only two battleships of the Qing Dynasty and opened fire.

At this time, the two battleships formed a "equal", relying on each other, fighting the fire while continuing to shoot, without showing the slightest timidity.There was even a period of time when the two ships almost stopped sailing completely and came to a standstill, competing with the Japanese warships, just like the British army who defeated the French cavalry in the Battle of Waterloo with the Hedgehog Array and braked statically.

"The Japanese fleet ignored the other ships and used all four battleships to encircle the two ships. Under the pouring of shrapnel, fires were repeatedly caused. The deck of the 'Da Qing No. [-]' caught fire, and the flames raged, almost engulfing the entire ship. The front deck of the 'Daqing No. [-]' almost became a fatal fire. The generals gathered soldiers to put out the fire. Although the projectiles rained, they were still willing to do it, and they resolutely extinguished the fire in a narrow escape..." The battle clerk recorded everything that happened in the war with a pen .

The officers and soldiers of the Japanese fleet were completely shocked by the sight in front of them. The two battleships of the Qing Dynasty were almost covered with bruises, but the depth of none of the bullet holes could exceed 2 inches. The thick armor of "Qing No. 4" and "Da Qing No. 2" made the British ships helpless. After all, these were two of the latest first-class battleships, and their defense was undoubtedly the most powerful among the Japanese warships present.Japanese officers and soldiers who were originally arrogant and believed that victory was at their fingertips.After more than [-] hours of fighting, they caused great damage to "Daqing No. [-]" and "Daqing No. [-]". The two battleships, Love Ship, did not show a little bit of color in the rain of bullets, and they were still fearless to accompany them to the end. At this time, most of the Japanese officers and soldiers felt helpless and desperate. They felt that they were facing two warships that could never be sunk...

At this time, Japan discovered that in other parts of the battle, "Takachiho" had been sunk, and another four gunboats returned to the embrace of the sea, and one was seriously injured and left.

On the Qing side, except for the two cruisers "Nanji" and "Nanxiang" which were sunk, all other ships were intact, and only the two battleships "Daqing No. [-]" and "Daqing No. [-]" were seriously damaged. s damage.But as long as there is no heavy artillery bombardment at close range, there should be no fatal damage.

In order to sink the "Daqing No. [-]" and "Daqing No. [-]", the desperate Japanese fleet did not take into account that its other warships were chasing and intercepting the Qing warships.

Fortunately, there was no loss, and the Japanese commander let out a long breath.

At this time, the timely return of "Akitsuzhou" and "Naniwa" also made the number of Japanese warships in the main battlefield overwhelm the Qing fleet again.At this time, the five cruisers "Chengfeng", "Breaking Waves", "Yangfan", "Flying Eagle", and "Sea Lion", which were preparing to attack front and back, were intercepted by two ironclad ships "Hiei" and "Fuso".