Now that the Japanese Combined Fleet had sailed into the shore of Weihaiwei, Ding Ruchang had no choice but to order all warships to open fire first to 'shoot' at the Japanese Combined Fleet. --

However, Ding Ruchang was too wishful thinking, and the artillery on the main ships of the Japanese Navy has just been improved, and both the caliber of the guns and the 'firing' range have been greatly improved, especially the Japanese warships are all new ships in recent years, and their speed and 'firing' speed far exceed those of the Beiyang Fleet.

With a cruel smile on his face, Yu Heng coldly ordered: "Order, all the warships, immediately lock on their respective targets and attack with all their might, now that their warships have not anchored, take advantage of their lack of maneuverability, all of them will be sunk by me!" ”

More than a dozen main warships of the Japanese Combined Fleet launched a large-scale artillery bombardment above the port of Weihaiwei, and the two batteries in the north and south were included in the scope of the attack, and hundreds of shells were tilted out in an instant, flying towards all the warships of the Beiyang Fleet in a cruel arc.

Now all the Beiyang battleships have just caught fire, the heat of the boiler is not enough to make the battleships cruise on the sea at will, and more than ten battleships all stayed in the small space of Weihaiwei, all of them are under the fire of the Japanese army, the poor Beiyang Fleet can become the target of the Japanese army, and in an instant each ship is on the blazing fire, although the first round of shelling did not sink the fleet of the Beiyang Naval Division, but still caused it to suffer a certain degree of trauma.

Ding Ruchang shouted again and again, commanded the battleships to start firing back, especially the several 'doors' of large-caliber guns on the Zhenhai ship, opened fire with all their might, and bombarded the main battleships of the Japanese army.

It's just that so what, now the Japanese fleet is above the vast sea, and it can be evaded at will, and the shells of the Beiyang Naval Division rarely hit the Japanese fleet, and even if they occasionally hit, they did not have much impact on the Japanese fleet.

Immediately after that, the second strike of the Japanese Combined Fleet arrived, and hundreds of shells were flying and 'shooting' all over the world, and then several battleships were hit, and the Pingyuan ship, which had the most bullets, was already in danger of capsizing, and a large amount of seawater poured in, and it was already shaky and 'about' to fall, and the other ships were not optimistic, and one Jingyuan ship was directly hit by the boiler and completely lost power.

Ye Zugui, the commander of the Jingyuan ship, was stunned, and shouted angrily: "Don't start a fire, all the personnel immediately start all the artillery fire on the battleship, concentrate firepower, attack the Japanese Qiujinzhou, and give me a fierce counterattack!" ”

The Jingyuan ship was in full swing, and the seven 'guns' on the ship were fired together with fish. The shooters fired at the same time, and threw the shells towards the Akitsu Continent that was rushing forward, and the Akitsu Continent, which was moving at full speed, was defenseless and was taken by surprise, and three shells landed on the good deck of Akitsu Continent, and a fire immediately broke out on the deck, and the captain of the Akitsu Continent, Murahiko Makoto, hurriedly commanded the battleship to temporarily retreat, and ordered the soldiers to quickly extinguish the fire, and the most arrogant Akitsu Continent temporarily retreated, giving the other ships a hard respite.

But the rest of the Combined Fleet swooped up and unfurled even more. Fierce artillery bombardment, the two sides have already launched a bloody battle on the port of Weihaiwei, the Beiyang Naval Division that lost its ability to maneuver was beaten to the ground, an hour passed, the Beiyang Naval Division has four cruisers sunk to the bottom of the sea, only three battleships are struggling to support, fortunately now the boilers of the three battleships have been fully started, the battleships have recovered their ability to maneuver, and they can barely support for a while, but including the Zhenhai ship, the three battleships have suffered heavy losses, even if the Japanese army retreats in the end, these three battleships are afraid that they will need to be overhauled。

At this time, the two forts in the north and south finally began to launch a counterattack, dozens of 'doors' of large-caliber batteries on the forts began to 'fire' shells to support the Beiyang Naval Division, and the Qing troops on land and water began to fight together, and the sky over Weihaiwei constantly flew over the sky with shells of various calibers, blowing up huge 'waves' in the sea, and the Japanese warships also began to be heavily damaged and withdrew from the battle.

At this time, the main combat strength of the Japanese Combined Fleet was not damaged, and began to besiege the two batteries in the north and south, leaving only three main battleships to continue to attack Zhenyuan and other three battleships.

The battle lasted for an hour one after another, with the support of the heavy artillery groups of the north and south batteries, the Japanese combined fleet began to gradually retreat and withdraw from the battle, but now, the Beiyang Naval Division only left a Zhenhai ship that lost its combat power and a few training ships, and the rest of the battleships were all sunk, so to speak, the Beiyang Naval Division was destroyed, except for the three battleships taken away by Liu Buyun, the Beiyang Naval Division did not have a battleship left with combat power, even the Zhenhai Naval Division has been completely destroyed, floating alone on the surface of Weihai.

Ding Ruchang, who survived the catastrophe, and other generals of the Beiyang Naval Division, landed on Liugong Island, and now Liugong Island has been completely destroyed by the intensive artillery fire of the Japanese fleet, and the bullets are riddled with bullets, and in just two and a half hours, the Japanese Combined Fleet 'fired' thousands of shells and hundreds of torpedoes in Weihaiwei, and the entire Weihaiwei has been unrecognizable.

Ding Ruchang burst into tears, a huge Beiyang sailor was destroyed in his own hands, how can he be worthy of the Zhongtang Lord who is far away in Beijing, and how can he be worthy of the reuse of the imperial court? Ding Ruchang, who was 'excited' and angry, pulled out his war knife and was about to commit suicide by neck, but Yang Taizeng, the leader of the Zhenhai ship on the side, hurriedly grabbed Ding Ruchang's wrist with one hand, and said urgently: "Lord Admiral, I can't help it, now is not the time for us to be martyred!" ”

Ding Ruchang cried bitterly: "Kaishi, we guard Beiyang, the imperial court has entrusted us with important tasks, and now that the sailor is gone, what face do I have to live in the world, and if I don't apologize for my sins with death, how can I go to see Lord Zhongtang?" Lin Taizeng replied: "My lord, even if we want to die, it's not now, we need to quickly report the military situation to Lord Zhongtang, now he doesn't know the war situation here, Japan suddenly declared war, we must ask the imperial court to ask Japan, we also have to investigate the responsibility of the commander of Weihaiwei Fort, the war started more than an hour, they just began to participate in the war, until my Beiyang Naval Division ignored it, if the Admiral is martyred now, then all the blame will retreat to you, and you will not be able to rest in peace after you die." Ding Ruchang stopped his sad voice and said: "Yes, even if the old man dies, he will have to pull a group of cushions!" No one can run, this group of waste, delaying the country's major affairs, must not spare them, the order, immediately call the Lord Zhongtang, report our battle situation, and at the same time immediately land on the shore to arrest, the two commanders of the north and south forts, the old man will personally behead them, and then serve the country in a trace! ”