Chapter 273: Destroy the cruiser Yoshino

After the unprotected cruiser Yaeyama sank, it was the turn of the armored cruiser Chiyoda to be shrouded in the Huaxia munitions net, but it sank to the bottom of the sea in a few minutes to feed the fish.

The Yoshino led the Takachiho and Akitsuzu to lose any fighting spirit and fled at maximum speed.

However, the speed of the Takachiho is only 18 knots, and the speed of the Qiujinzhou is only 19 knots, where can the Huaxia warships with a speed of more than 20 knots at every turn.

Soon, the armored cruisers Takachiho and Qiujinzhou were surrounded by the warships of the Huaxia Army, and they couldn't fly out of their wings.

The commander of the 1st Guerrilla Force, Kozo Tsuboi, and the captain of the ship, Kawara, wanted a good order to the Yoshino to abandon the Takachiho and the Akitsuzu and escape alone at a speed of 23 knots.

At this time, the Kailei happened to arrive with 11 destroyers, and crossed in front of the Yoshino, blocking its way.

Without saying a word, Geng Huoyan ordered a heavy shelling of the Yoshino.

The Yoshino could only continue to break through by shelling and escaping.

In terms of artillery armament, the Yoshino with a displacement of 4,216 tons is the Kailei with a displacement of more than 3,200 tons.

The Kailei and the destroyer only blocked it, and several Huaxia Army cruisers behind rushed into the range of the main guns and fired heavily at the Yoshino.

The Yoshino, which was besieged, had no choice but to rush towards the Qilei in front, using the angle of attack tactics used by Deng Shichang on the Zhiyuan, in an attempt to break through a bloody road.

At this time, the power of the Yoshino's steam boiler was increased to the limit, and the speed exceeded the usual best time of 23.6 knots.

At this time, Tsuboi Kozo and Kawahara were commanding the Yoshino, and finally felt how sad and angry Deng Shichang was when he drove the Zhiyuan to attack the Yoshino.

"The destroyer fires a torpedo!" Geng Huoyan watched the impact of the Yoshino and calmly ordered the destroyer that had already advanced to the flank of the Yoshino to fire a torpedo.

The Yoshino had no time to pay attention to these destroyers buzzing like flies.

But the "flies" used a trick at a distance of about a kilometer: 7 destroyers on the left and 4 destroyers on the right, fired torpedoes almost simultaneously, and 22 torpedoes formed a huge network of crossed waterlines and rushed towards the Yoshino.

If it was just six or seven torpedoes fired from a kilometer away, the Yoshino could easily avoid dodging. But these twenty-two torpedoes saturated the attack, and the Yoshino can still dodge it, but there are really ghosts.

In the Yoshino's dodge, three torpedoes hit the Yoshino almost simultaneously, except for one of the torpedoes that was delayed due to a fuse. The remaining two torpedoes exploded in the bow and stern at the same time.

The massive impact lifted the 4,216-ton Yoshino three or four meters above the surface before the fuse-delayed torpedo exploded, crushing the Yoshino into the water with gravity.

At this time, another torpedo hit the side deck of the Yoshino and exploded. Accelerated the sinking of the Yoshino.

After the Yoshino sank to the surface, out of nowhere, a huge unknown part appeared, and then another belated torpedo hit the part, causing a huge explosion that completely sank the last part of the Yoshino.

The sinking of the Yoshino was faster than the sinking of the Takachiho and Akitsuzu in the heavy enclosure.

Seeing the sinking of the Yoshino, the Japanese officers and soldiers on the Takachiho and Akitsuzu were full of grief and indignation, and the bushido spirit in everyone was stimulated to the point that it almost erupted, but in the face of powerful steel and artillery fire. It didn't work at all, but it was a few minutes later than the Yoshino, and they were all sunk by the heavy artillery bombardment of more than a dozen Huaxia warships.

At this point, all the cutting-edge warships of the combined fleet of the Japanese countries were sunk, but the 15 old warships, including the Fuso, Katsuragi, Yamato, Musashi, Takao, Hiei, Kongo, Akagi, Maya, Chokai, Atago, Amagi, Tsukushi, Kaimon, and Nisshin, which were heavily encircled, persisted for a longer time because they were not the targets of the Huaxia warships.

After the sinking of the Takachiho and Akitsuzu, these old warships knew that their end had come, and under the command of the captain, the entire crew chanted slogans such as "Long live the Emperor" and "The Imperial Martial Arts will last forever". Charge the Huaxia fleet.

However, no matter how high the morale of these Japanese warships was, with most of them sailing at speeds below 15 knots, they could not even commit suicide, and could only become target ships of the Huaxia Army. One by one, they were sunk.

The Beiyang Naval Division finally rushed out of the port of Liugong Island at a slow speed, but with its fleet scarred and slower than the Japanese fleet, it could not even talk about the excitement, and could only watch the excitement outside the encirclement of the Huaxia warships.

In the end, all the old warships of the Japanese Kingdom were also turned into a large piece of garbage on the sea, and countless Japanese naval soldiers were struggling in it.

Although the Beiyang Naval Division was helpless against the Japanese warships. The weapons on the battleship were able to kill the Japanese soldiers, so the officers and men of the Beiyang Naval Division, who were fed up with the evil spirit of the Japanese army, used both guns and cannons, and as long as they saw that there were still moving Japanese soldiers on the sea, they would hit them fiercely.

Some people even used cold weapons such as bows and arrows, oars, etc., and killed many Japanese soldiers.

Hu Zhen, who was watching the battle in the sky, saw this situation, but he did not have the slightest idea of dissuasion, and even came up with the idea of rewarding the officers and soldiers of the Beiyang Naval Division.

Because his ideal is to annihilate all the naval forces of the Japanese state, and to make the Japanese state have no plates to go to sea in a hundred years, so that this is the greatest security guarantee for China.

In order to get out of the evil spirit of the past few days, the fishermen on Liugong Island also followed the sampan rowing, using oars, long bamboo poles, and wooden sticks to beat the water dogs.

In this battle, not a single Japanese navy was captured.

Everyone in the Huaxia army knew that whether it was fighting against the Dutch fleet, the Spanish fleet, or the most recent battle with the Mi fleet, the Huaxia warships would receive Hu Zhen's order to salvage the prisoners for ransom for the prisoners of the enemy country.

But when the Japanese ** team captured Lushun, they carried out a massacre that exterminated tens of thousands of people in the city, and Hu Zhen made a series of reports in the media of the Huaxia Guild at this time, so that everyone knew it, so everyone hated the Japanese army so much, so no one took the initiative to salvage the Japanese prisoners.

At sunset, the destroyer pursuing the seven Japanese torpedo boats returned intact and reported that all seven Japanese torpedo boats had been sunk.

This time, all the ships besieging Weihaiwei by the combined fleet of the Japanese state were annihilated, which also meant that more than eighty percent of the naval forces of the Japanese state were annihilated.

Whether it was the officers and men of the Huaxia Navy or the officers and men of the Beiyang Naval Division, they were all jubilant when they heard the news. (To be continued.) )