If the Bohai Sea is seen on the map as a sea area surrounded by the Liaodong Peninsula and the Shandong Peninsula in China's arms, Goxinga named Botun's fleet the Bohai Fleet instead of the Yellow Sea Fleet, with the original intention of requiring this fleet to guard the inland sea. Although the Bohai Fleet later went abroad to expedition to the South Seas, the mentality of the North Manchurian government not wanting to cause trouble at home did not change, and in the face of the unreasonable British, it still focused on defense.

Northern Manchukuo has laid a solid industrial foundation, but in the hearts of Guo Xing'a, Pi Runmin and others, they can also bully and bully Lao Maozi from afar, and they are still a little weak in the face of the world's first British Empire. There are still a lot of finished industrial products in North Manchuria that need to be imported from the UK, and they need a lot of money and technology brought by British businessmen, so although the British are a bit of a bully, it is better to try to talk about it, and try not to fight as much as possible. The high-level had high-level considerations, but they killed Ding Shengping, who was stationed in Lushun, and the affairs on land were under the control of Tár, but the affairs at sea were under his control.

Ding Shengping is one of the hundreds of pioneers selected by the Gu'an Army to study abroad, born in Qufu, Shandong, and his ancestors are said to have been champions. Ding Shengping may also have inherited the excellent genes of his ancestors, and he is the best learner in the foreign school, claiming to have emptied the Royal Naval College in Greenwich with his brainpower. So after returning to China, he did not become the commander of the main fleet, but became the dean of the Lushun Imperial Naval University, responsible for training future naval talents for North Manchuria. A group of people in the North Sea Fleet have also studied under him, of course, a group of old people in the North Sea Fleet only agree with the technical things brought back by Ding Shengping, and the British naval tactics he admires are regarded as rubbish.

After Bo Dun took the main force of the Bohai Fleet to the south, the sea frontiers of Lushun and Dalian, Yingkou and other places could not be ignored, and Ding Shengping, a second-line personnel, became the commander of the left-behind fleet and the captain of the Qingchen, but the belongings left by Bo Dun to him were really a bit shabby. The old foundation of the Bohai Fleet was the fleet given to Goxinga by the British, as well as the Aspen fleet that was forcibly robbed, all foreign trade warships, and later, in order to weaken the strength of the North Sea Fleet, Botun rowed several cruisers and destroyers from the North Sea Fleet. The task of Botun going south was relatively heavy, so he naturally had to pick a good ship to take away, and after picking and picking, he left Ding Shengping with a total of eight warships, including five cruisers and three destroyers.

The establishment of the left-behind fleet sounded okay, but Ding Shengping really took over a mess. Because Botun was also sent from a foreign army, and the ships of the North Sea Fleet were really undesirable at that time, Botun took away almost all the foreign trade warships that were in good condition, and what was left for Ding Shengping were all second-rate cargo and broken ships of the North Sea Fleet, including the Qingchen that was almost sunk by merchant ships.

When the Aspen fleet first arrived, Guo Xing'a did not have much money in his hand, so the fleet transformation could also come first with the capital ships, and naturally some small-scale ships remained unchanged, including the three cruisers and three destroyers left by Bodun to Ding Shengping. The reason why Ding Shengping knew that there was a problem with the condition of the Qingchen ship and drove it to pick up Shanyu was because the Qingchen was the strongest firepower output in his hands. Now the Qingchen has stopped on the shore and is waiting to turn into firewood, and the warships in Ding Shengping's hands with the North Manchurian-style weapon system are only one wooden cruiser Shanxiao, which originally belonged to the North Sea Fleet, and the others are all pure British goods, and the weapon systems are all old-fashioned Armstrong guns. Moreover, the tonnage suffered a big loss, the name destroyer was completely Guo Xing'a's personal invention, and the definition was not clear, and the four destroyers in Ding Shengping's hands were actually all medium-sized gunboats of about 500 tons.

There is a very powerful Seawolf-class destroyer Cuiliu in Dalian Port, but Cuiliu is under the establishment of the North Sea Fleet, and people are here to assist in the defense of Dalian Port, and it is not under Ding Shengping's control at all. If Ding Shengping let go of the face of the Liuyang faction and asked Hu Chaoxiu for help, Hu Chaoxiu would not ignore him, but Ding Shengping couldn't pull this face at all. And Ding Shengping's personal judgment is that he will not fight, so there is no need for him to lose that person.

After Ding Shengping, with the Shanxiao as his flagship, went to sea to meet the enemy, he circled the waters off Dalian and the Far East Fleet of Gillett a few times, and although the atmosphere was very tense, it was still very peaceful on the whole. However, when Ding Shengping was considering whether to return to Hong Kong for dinner, a move by the army decided the outbreak of a naval battle.

Pa Xiali did not say a word in Changchun, and his daily negotiations with Zou Degui were mainly based on threats, threatening to occupy Dalian and Yingkou at every turn and completely destroy the southern economic zone of North Manchuria. Pa Xia Li said every day, and finally told Guo Xing'a and others about Mao, Guo Xing'a and Pi Runmin also felt that the economic zone was a little unstable, in case the British really dared to do it! Therefore, Guoxinga dispatched four divisions from the three provinces of Dongjiang, Songjiang, and Jilin, which do not border Russia, as well as the banners of eastern Mongolia, and took a train to southern Liaoning overnight. There were about 16,000 people in an integrated division in North Manchuria, and more than 72,000 people in four divisions in one guy, plus the original 11,000 Japanese mercenaries and policemen, the garrison in the southern Liaoning economic zone surged to more than 80,000 overnight.

With such a large-scale military mobilization, the Qing army did not make any changes under the pacification of Tepchin, and the British could not stand it, and the military mobilization capacity of North Manchurian was too strong, if it was not suppressed again, how could it be obtained in the future. And they also have a North Sea Fleet with more than 30 capital ships in Vladivostok! In the event that the North Sea Fleet went south to join the Dalian Fleet left behind, Gillett would not have a good time. Therefore, Pashali, who had obtained the authorization of the plenipotentiary minister, brazenly ordered Gillet to go to war, no matter what the outcome was, to destroy the remaining fleet in Dalian first, and give Goxinga a powerful look. Gilette also did not have a radio, and the news he got was transferred from the Qing army-controlled area by small boat, but the timing was very coincidental, when Gillet was ordered to raise the battle flag, it was when Ding Shengping was considering whether to eat.

"I'll go, raise the battle flag, and fight with all arms!" Before preparing to return to port, Ding Shengping subconsciously raised his telescope and glanced at the British Far East Fleet again, and then he saw the battle flag raised by Gillett. As a good student of the British, Ding Shengping knows the meaning of those flags too well, the teacher has already shown the blade, and the students have to accept the recruitment no matter how unwilling they are.

However, although Ding Shengping found out very early, because he was not ready to fight at all, the remaining fleet still lost the first move. The British flagship, the large ironclad ship Ellecourt, and two lightly armoured fifth-class battleships, the Welshman and the Gemini, had already led the fleet out of the horizontal formation, and four other sixth-class battleships and five gunboats were also quickly following up, preparing to seize the T-head in the open sea.

The importance of the T-head, Ding Shengping knows it too well, the British teacher has taught him countless times, the importance of the T-head in the naval battle, and now he has no choice. The seven warships left behind in the fleet were originally fighting against the Far East Fleet, and the whole army was deployed in a V-shape with the flagship Shanxiao as the core, and now it was too late to change the formation to seize the T-head.

Because with a few broken ships in his hand, the remaining fleet would definitely not be able to defeat the Far East Fleet, so Ding Shengping also had a plan. In his plan, the remaining fleet would never start a war with the Far Eastern Fleet in the open sea, and once the Far Eastern Fleet insisted on going its own way, the remaining fleet would retreat into the harbor and lead the Far Eastern Fleet to the vicinity of Dalian or Port Arthur, and then the fleet would cooperate with the shore artillery to repel the enemy ships. Now that even the T head is about to fall into the hands of others, naturally there is nothing to say, so Ding Shengping immediately ordered that the fleet follow the direction of the British ship's attack, turn right, and prepare to retreat to the port to seek shore artillery support.

Ding Shengping's plan was basically successful in the early stage, and the turning radius of the remaining fleet was smaller than that of the British army, so the fleet successfully left the British ships behind and began to retreat towards the port at high speed. But it didn't take long to fold, because the speed of each ship was different, the flagship Shanxiao was actually thrown out of the formation, and the original V-shaped formation became two verticals plus a point. The six battleships that retreated side by side were not only almost at the same level as the Far Eastern Fleet chasing behind, but also the three battleships on the outer side also blocked the firing range of the three innermost friendly ships. The leading Shanxiao didn't block anyone, nor was it blocked, but it was alone in front, and it couldn't form a combat force at all, and the fleet couldn't be completely annihilated, and the flagship ran back with its own ship!

The two sides chased for about 30 nautical miles, and Ding Shengping knew that he could not safely withdraw to the vicinity of the port. Because except for the Shanxiao, which was born in the North Sea Fleet, all the other ships could not compare with the British ships in terms of speed, and they were gradually caught up by the British ships. After the formations of the two sides were basically parallel, the flagship of the Far Eastern Fleet, the Ellecourt, took the lead in firing guns and began to lead the formation to bombard the wooden cruiser Jiang Feng, which was leading the way on the outside of the remaining fleet. In the face of the concentrated fire attack of thirteen or fourteen enemy ships, Jiang Feng did not even mix up two rounds of artillery bombardment, and was hit twice, probably because the power system was damaged and the speed was greatly reduced.

"I can't go, raise the battle flag and fight with the Far Eastern Fleet!" Xu Hongxing, the captain of the North Sea Fleet, saw that Jiang Feng was shot, and he couldn't wait to turn around immediately to rescue.

"Humiliating the country! Be loyal to the general today! Ding Shengping looked at the Jiang Feng, which was basically immobile, and knew that he would not be able to retreat at all today. Ding Shengping, who had also fought bayonets on the battlefield in his early years, would not leave his comrades-in-arms, and if he continued to run, there would definitely be a second or third Jiang Feng, and the family that stayed behind the fleet was lost, so what was the use of him escaping back.

"Raise the battle flag, organize the formations of the ships, and fight them here! Even if we lose, we can't lose the prestige of our Manchurian soldiers! Ding Shengping still lacks confidence, he knows that he is doomed.

"Mr. Ding, please move to another ship to command the formation to fight!" While Xu Hongxing ordered the flag to be raised, he also asked Ding Shengping to walk, but he also studied at the Lushun Imperial Naval University, so he used the tone of a student.

"What are you going to do?" As the commander of the fleet, Ding Shengping was a little confused, and Xu Hongxing couldn't rebel.

"The hull of the Shanxiao is fragile, but ......" Xu Hongxing wanted to explain his reasons.

"Bastard! Ding is a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death, from the moment he put on a military uniform and led a horse for the general, Ding had already put life and death out of the way! Ding Shengping interrupted Xu Hongxing, his reluctance to go to war was a rational analysis, and he still had the courage of a soldier.

"Sir misunderstood! What the students meant was that the Shanxiao was fragile, but its firepower was the strongest in the fleet, and the current situation was not suitable for fighting in formation. So please sir move to command the formation of another ship, and the student will lead the Shanxiao to directly attack the enemy formation and strive for the advantage of the fleet! "Xu Hongxing is a person of the North Sea Fleet in his bones, so he is not interested in the battle line tactics, and now he is fighting according to the battle line formation, and the remaining fleet is dead, so it is better to give it a go.

"Bo Ran, let's go ......" Ding Shengping called out Xu Hongxing's words, he had commanded the Qingchen, and the wooden warships made in Vladivostok could not resist the merchant ships. The Shanxiao rushed into the formation of the Far East Fleet, and nine times out of ten there was no return.

"Before the death of the general!" Xu Hongxing patted his left chest and talked about the oath he made when he joined the army.

"Cherish, send a dinghy to take me to the Xiangchen!" Ding Shengping had the intention of going with Xu Hongxing to attack the enemy ship formation, but he knew that his fleet needed him more, and now was not the time to be rash.

After Ding Shengping transferred to the Xiangchen, the six foreign trade warships of the fleet left behind in North Manchuria quickly adjusted their formations and formed a horizontal formation. The horizontal formation was led by the new flagship Xiangchen, the wounded Jiang Feng was at the end of the formation, the three smaller destroyers were wrapped in the middle, and hundreds of Armstrong guns of various calibers on both sides began to fire frantically. The artillery is the same cannon, and the training of personnel in North Manchukuo is not lagging behind, but the ships are different, and the number of artillery is too different. The flagship of the British army was a second-class battleship, and the others were also fifth- and sixth-class battleships, which were the standard for battleships. Although he is not comparable to the battleships of later generations, the number of guns, caliber, and tonnage of his own hull are very terrifying. Especially the flagship Ellecourt, as well as the Welshman and Gemini, the Armstrong guns could only leave a mark on their armor and could not penetrate their armor at all. And their sixty-eight pounder and one hundred and ten-pounder guns could smash the wooden warships of the remaining fleet to half cripple with just one shot.

The Shanxiao tried to use its speed advantage to go around the back of the Far East Fleet, which was a good option, but this big circle could not be completed in a moment. Before the Shanxiao reached the expected position, the wooden cruiser Xiangchen, the wooden cruiser Wuxi, the destroyer Yujie and Yancao had been shot one after another, and the Wuxi was also hit in the boiler, causing a large fire. The only surviving destroyer, the Xinyu, actually ignored Ding Shengping's order, withdrew from the formation without authorization, and rushed straight to the Gemini, the British capital ship closest to him, and played a decisive charge of the North Sea Fleet.

The courage of the Xinyu is worthy of recognition, but it is so prominent that it has unsurprisingly become the target of the Far Eastern Fleet, and all the artillery fire is aimed at it. Like a lonely boat in a storm, the New Rain struggled in the white waves that rushed to the sky, and it seemed that everyone was about to see the picture of it being hit and capsized.