Chapter 90: The Great War Ends
"The Yoshino is finished!" The violent shaking directly threw Togo Heihachiro off the floor, and when he fell to the floor, he could feel the battleship tilting rapidly, maybe capsized in a few minutes! "This is already the second battleship, what a scourge I am!" Togo said to himself mockingly.
And just when Togo Heihachiro was considering whether to learn from some of his predecessors and live and die with the battleship, the Japanese fleet also achieved achievements during this time, and under the blow of the two cruisers, Takasago and Akashi, the Jingyuan also came to the end of its life! The ship's personnel suffered heavy losses, all the guns above the medium caliber were lost, the fire could not be contained, and when the Yoshino was sunk, the only thing Jingyuan could do was to evacuate the station line and then run aground.
After a fierce battle, Yang Yonglin's fleet finally leveled the situation! Kaiyuan and Zhiyuan against the three cruisers of Kasuga, Takasago and Akashi, in a short period of time, at least five or five, after a long time, it is estimated that it is also five or five open, the combat effectiveness of the Zhiyuan ship is greatly reduced, and with the fierce shooting, Kasuga is not without losses! Both sides realize that it will be difficult to destroy their opponents before they run out of ammunition and manpower.
Both fleets have reached the point of exhaustion, and not only the fast fleet, but also the fight between the main fleets has also entered garbage time! However, unlike the rapid fleet, in which the Beiyang gradually drew its inferiority, the main fleet turned the Beiyang Fleet from an advantage to a tie.
It's not that the Beiyang Fleet didn't fight well, but as time went by, the three battleships Matsushima, Takachiho, and Chiyoda rejoined the battlefield after completing self-rescue, so that the only 5 remaining battleships of the Beiyang Fleet were gradually at a disadvantage! No way, the number gap is too big!
The Heiyuan was the first to hold out, and the battleship, which had been previously cared for by the Japanese Rapid Fleet, was soon sunk under the attack of the Matsushima and Hiei. At this time, the Japanese side had already lost two warships, Fuso and Kaohsiung. The situation at this time was that the two ironclad ships of Beiyang Dingzhen took Pingyuan and Jingyuan against the Japanese Matsushima, Takachiho, Chiyoda, Kongo, Hiei, and Tsukushi 6 battleships, as well as a bunch of torpedo boats!
The two ironclad ships in Dingzhen are indeed powerful, and the Beiyang Fleet with these two battleships as the core is fully capable of resisting the siege of the remaining Japanese fleet. Historically, the Japanese fleet did not solve these two battleships in the final stage of the naval battle in the Yellow Sea, and in this plane, the Japanese fleet had no way to face the fixed town after the enhanced firepower, and it was difficult for the simple rapid-fire guns to completely destroy it, and the torpedo attacks were again and again defused by the two cruisers.
HOWEVER, DINGZHEN CAN AT MOST PROTECT ITSELF, THE SCARCE NUMBER OF 120MM RAPID-FIRE GUNS THAT LACK PROTECTION ALSO LOSES MORE THAN HALF AS THE BATTLE CONTINUES, AND THE DISADVANTAGE IN SPEED ALSO ALLOWS DINGZHEN TO ONLY REPEL THE OPPONENT BUT CANNOT EXPAND THE ADVANTAGE, AFTER THE FIERCE BATTLE, THE BEIYANG FLEET IS ON THE DEFENSIVE. And the Japanese cruisers in the distance are like wolves, ready to come up and tear a piece of meat at any moment!
The speed advantage of the three Japanese fast cruisers gave them the right to choose to engage, and the main gun positions of the two ships in Dingzhen were really a bit painful, which gave the other side a chance to ask the Japanese, and when the old battleships led Dingzhen, the three Japanese fast cruisers went around the rear and covered the rear gun emplacements of Dingzhen with dense high-explosive shells,
And in order to cover the two most powerful warships in the Beiyang Fleet, the Jingyuan bravely blocked between Dingzhen and the Japanese fleet! High-explosive bombs rained down, and the already scarred Jingyuan traveled through the firestorm, shielding his allies with his body.
"Attack Hiei!" AND JUST WHEN THE SITUATION GRADUALLY TILTED TOWARDS THE JAPANESE FLEET, A 305MM SHELL FROM ZHENYUAN HIT THE SLIGHTLY CLOSER HIEI, AND A HUGE FIREBALL ROSE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE HULL, AND THE RAGING FLAME STORM MIXED WITH SHRAPNEL COMPLETELY SWEPT AWAY THE ENTIRE BOILER ROOT! The flames then poured into the boiler room along with the smoke of gunpowder, causing several boilers to shut down, and Hiei, who was alive and kicking up a minute ago, immediately became a dead fish floating on the surface of the sea!
Once a battleship of more than 2,000 tons loses its mobility, then it is only a matter of time before the distance sinks! In the face of the approaching Dingzhen battleship, it is impossible for this battleship to even move! AT A DISTANCE OF SEVERAL HUNDRED METERS, THE SIDESTRINGS OF THE HIEI, WHICH WAS ALREADY UNCONTROLLABLE, FACED THE POWERFUL 305MM GUNS. The Japanese above even jumped into the sea in despair, and after the last rounds of shooting, accompanied by violent explosions. Several huge breaches in the waterline of the hull allowed the battleship to sink in a matter of minutes.
And this almost 1-for-1 fight did not end the battle on this battlefield! When the figure of the Hiei disappeared from the sea, the Japanese fleet launched a final wave of attack! More than 10 torpedo boats of various kinds began to attack Dingzhen from all directions, and the Jingyuan, which had been attacked by three Japanese cruisers for more than 20 minutes, slowly sank into the water, and when the Japanese lightning attack troops launched an attack, there were only three warships in the Beiyang team! And the only cruiser, Pingyuan, was also scarred!
The two ironclad ships of Dingzhen rushed out of the encirclement like angry beasts, and the torpedo boats of the Beiyang Fleet also rushed up to intercept them, and these small warships fought hard with machine guns and rapid-fire guns in the early 1,000s or even 500 meters! Torpedoes and shells scattered in the air weave into a web of fire in the sea and in the air! From time to time, torpedo boats were torn to shreds by raging flames.
Although the Beiyang Fleet tried its best to block the opposing torpedo boats, with the overwhelming new superiority of the Japanese cruiser with the fire support, there were always some torpedo boats close to the target, and the Kitty Hawk torpedo boat was the best, fastest and largest torpedo boat in the Japanese Navy! After destroying the torpedo boat No. 1 on the left of the Beiyang Fleet, the torpedo boat finally approached the heavily damaged Pingyuan and fired 2 torpedoes at a position of 500 meters!
With a loud bang, the Pingyuan finally ended his combat career! The cruiser, which was no more than 2,000 tons, was half of its stern destroyed by a powerful torpedo. THEN SAT DOWN AND SANK TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA, BUT THE KITTY HAWK ALSO DID NOT ASK FOR THE SCYTHE OF DEATH, AND WHEN IT TURNED TO EVACUATE, A 150MM CANNONBALL FROM DINGYUAN DESTROYED HIS STEAM ENGINE, AND THEN, A 305MM CANNONBALL FROM ZHENYUAN SMASHED THE ASSASSIN IN HALF LIKE A HEAVY HAMMER!
The Japanese fleet was about to intercept it, but when the Dingyuan shoved a 305mm shell into the side of the Chiyoda, leaving a deep scar, all the Japanese battleships realized that the monster was tired, but still terrifying! After the torpedo boats used up almost all of their torpedoes, it was simply impossible for the remaining Japanese battleships to do anything with them!
As in history, the Japanese finally decided to retreat, and after the opening of the 14 warships of various types, only 8 were left, and 6 were sunk! And the Beiyang Fleet is even worse in terms of numbers! Only 4 of the 12 battleships returned home! The remaining 8 ships were all sunk!
The second is more ~~~. Yesterday's collection data is very good, the author is very pleased, if today's data can be better than yesterday, the author will be more tomorrow!