Chapter 244: The End of Dadonggou

These brothers, who were alive and well just now, are now either dying in the fire or dying heroically under the fire of Japanese ships!

Two tears flowed down from the corners of Huang Jianxun's eyes. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 ο½‰ο½Žο½†ο½

"Poof!"

"Poof!"

With Huang Jianxun's order, the sailors of the Chaoyong jumped into the sea one after another holding the broken planks on the ship, and swam desperately in the northwest direction.

"Poof!"

Huang Jianxun fled directly into the sea.

"My lord, give you the plank!"

A sailor on the ship saw that Huang Jianxun did not hold the plank, and hurriedly threw the plank in his hand over.

"No, the ship is here, the ship is dead!"

Huang Jianxun yelled in the seawater: "You all swim away quickly, don't be dragged down by the whirlpool!" ”

"The ship is in the people, the ship is dead!"

Weng Shouyu, the first mate of the Chaoyong, listened to Huang Jianxun's words in the seawater, laughed, and jumped directly into the sea with a 'poof'.

Then Weng Shouyu surfaced, swam to Huang Jianxun's side, laughed and shouted: "Pipe belt, on the Huangquan Road, I will accompany you!" ”

"Okay, okay, let's drink two cups to drive away the cold!"

Huang Jianxun was also in the sea, looking up to the sky and laughing.

"Yoshino of the Japanese army is coming, turn the muzzle of the gun and bombard them!"

At this time, the 8 warships of the Beiyang Naval Division, after seeing that the Yoshino 4 ship sank Chaoyong on the right flank of the naval division formation and defeated Weiyang, actually carried out a 180-degree large loop in front of the formation, and came to rescue the Japanese ships Saikyo Maru and Fuso.

They no longer cared about the two Japanese ships that had been beaten to death, and mobilized their guns to bombard the 4th ships of the Japanese First Guerrilla Army.

Yoshino and Gao Chiho's 4 ships also did not show weakness, and they fired artillery to fight against the Qing army.

For a while, the artillery fire rumbled, and the warships of both sides were constantly hit by each other's shells, and the deck was full of flesh and blood and stumps.

However, the Qing army mainly used domestically produced solid bullets, which were far less lethal than the Japanese ships, which were mainly flowering bombs.

And the fire like fire like fire oil splashed with gunpowder and the billowing poisonous yellow smoke made the soldiers on the Qing ship even more miserable!

Seeing that the Qing army changed its muzzle, suffered heavy casualties, and the hull was in tatters, Fusang and Xijing Maru, like an amnesty, hurriedly exerted all their strength to leave the war zone.

At this time, it was already 2 o'clock in the afternoon, and the second round of the battle between the Qingri ship group began.

The eight warships of the Qing warship group were firmly tied together, continuing in a wedge-shaped formation, moving forward at a constant speed of 8 knots.

The 4th ships of the 1st Guerrilla Force of the Japanese Army had already swept over Jingyuan, and the bow of the ship from Yuanyuan was directly in front of it, heading towards Dingyuan and Zhenyuan.

The four warships of the Japanese army had just returned to the ships that had come to the distant and far aways, and continued to bombard them with the starboard rapid-fire guns and the tail guns of the Qing ships.

At 2:30 p.m., Pingyuan, Guangbing, and 4 torpedo boats finally rushed over, and at a distance of 2,000 meters, the 260mm main gun in the bow of Pingyuan hit Songdao.

Matsushima, who was in a state of anger, immediately slowed down, and the four warships of this formation concentrated on bombarding Pingyuan and Guangbing.

Shimose gunpowder then caused a fire on the Pingyuan ship.

Pingyuan withdrew from the war zone to temporarily avoid extinguishing the fire, and Cheng Biguang, the leader of the Guang C ship pipe, ordered Guang Bing to retreat with Pingyuan.

And Fulong, the first from the left, several torpedo boats happened to meet the escaped Saikyo Maru, and immediately began to pursue.

After repelling the Qing reinforcements, the four warships of the Japanese army no longer had any worries, and then began to advance eastward, starting from the Jingyuan on the far right flank of the Qing warship group, and carried out a fish-through attack.

Jingyuan, there was no heavy artillery in the stern of the ship, so it had to return fire with the 37mm/47mm caliber light Haqikaisi rapid-fire guns on the flanks, and at the same time, it was diagonally towards Dingyuan, Zhenyuan, and approached.

At the same time that the bow and the Yoshino 4 ship were desperately bombarding, the 150mm secondary gun in the tail was also desperately shooting towards the Matsushima.

"Bang!"

The gunner of the 150mm secondary gun in the bow of the Zhenyuan ship was suddenly shot in the head by a Haggais shell, and immediately the bones and brains were scattered, and the cannon on the side immediately moved the corpse away and continued to fire back without fear.

"Boom!"

At this time, the main gun of the Matsushima fired a flowering projectile into the Dingyuan hull, causing a fire, and the Dingyuan ship was eager to extinguish the fire, and the offensive weakened.

Seeing that Dingyuan was damaged, the Yoshino 4 ship showed off its might in front, and continued to attack the Beiyang ship group unscrupulously, and the eyes of the Zhiyuan ship with Deng Shichang were on fire, and he ordered to bombard Yoshino while accelerating at full speed, breaking away from the formation, and ramming the Yoshino.

"It's stupid!"

Captain Nakamura Shizuka shouted in surprise: "Commander, clear the ship group in a chaotic formation, what a chance!" ”

"This kind of adversary deserves respect, but it's a pity that modern naval warfare is no longer the era of ship collisions."

Tsuboi Hangzo said with a smile: "Order all ships to attack the Zhiyuan with all their strength and sink it!" ”

Immediately, the fire on the Zhiyuan ship was monstrous, and several flowering bombs directly broke through the steel plate at the waterline of Zhiyuan.

Zhiyuan then began to sink.

"Bitter!"

On the Jiyuan, Fang Boqian shouted: "As soon as Zhiyuan sinks, we who are isolated out of the formation are the next target of the Japanese ship groupβ€”β€”"

With a distorted face, he ordered: "Immediately turn 180 degrees to the left and get out of the battle!" ”

"Pipe Tape!"

Shen Shouchang, the assistant first mate of the Jiyuan ship, was shocked: "Don't escape!" ”

"If I don't run away from you, I'll die today," Fang Boqian yelled, "Listen to my orders, turn immediately, turn around!" ”

At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the Qing army Jiyuan escaped from the war zone without authorization, and the Guangjia ship, which was difficult to hold on, also fled with it under the order of Wu Jingrong.

After sinking Zhiyuan, the Japanese First Guerrilla Force began to pursue Jiyuan.

Because the distance was too far, he then gave up, and performed a 180-degree loop in front of the Qing warship group, went around to the right flank of Dingyuan, and concentrated his firepower to attack the Jingyuan ship.

Soon, the Jingyuan, which was under continuous artillery fire, began to sink.

So far, in the second round, the Japanese ship group has won a big victory, and the Qing army is only left in the war zone, Dingyuan, Zhenyuan, Jingyuan, and Laiyuan 4 ships.

And the Japanese Combined Fleet also had 8 capital ships, which were fired at it.

At 3:30 p.m., Jingyuan, which was attacked by eight Japanese warships, suffered heavy damage and had to temporarily withdraw from the war zone to save itself.

At this time, only Dingyuan and Zhenyuan were left in the entire theater of operations, and they had to face the attack of the Japanese ships and wolves alone.

form and its criticality!

In order to protect Dingyuan in the firefighting, Zhenyuan bravely drove the ship to the front of Dingyuan to resist the bombardment of the Japanese ship.

Soon after, after the Dingyuan ship extinguished the fire, seeing that the situation was critical, it took out a Western 305mm flowering bomb that had been pressing the bottom of the box for more than ten years and bombarded Songdao.

The first one missed.

The second one miraculously hit the deck of the Matsushima, and immediately the entire ship of the Matsushima was plunged into a sea of fire, with severed hands, heads, feet, and intestines everywhere, and 84 people died on the spot.

It's a terrible place on the deck, like hell!

At the same time, the hull of the Matsushima was also seriously damaged, and the steering gear was destroyed and failed, completely losing the ability to continue fighting.

Ito Yuheng looked depressedly at Dingyuan, Zhenyuan, who couldn't sink anything, and scolded the Germans in his heart, but he was helpless and had nothing to do.

At this time, Ito Yuheng saw that Jingyuan, Laiyuan, had repaired the warship, and was rushing with all his strength, and estimated that the ammunition of each ship should be almost exhausted, so he immediately issued an order to retreat.

It was already 5 p.m. sharp.

At this point, in the afterglow of the setting sun, the Battle of Dadonggou was completely over.

The Beiyang Naval Division lost Zhiyuan, Jingyuan, Chaoyong, Yangwei (was burned through by fire under the waterline, sank into shallow water, and committed suicide by throwing himself into the water in the pipe belt forest), Guangjia (burned after running aground), 5 battleships.

The remaining 4 capital ships were all scarred.

And the combined fleet of the Japanese army was Nishikyo Maru, Akagi, Fuso, Hiei, Matsushima, 5 ships were heavily damaged, and the rest of the ships suffered losses.

So far, after the Japanese army won a great victory in Pyongyang, the Japanese navy won a great victory in the Battle of Dadonggou!

At this time, the Qing Dynasty was already like a young woman who had been stripped of her thick cotton clothes and cotton pants, waiting for the next wave of bullying from the wolves.

(Some brothers said that they digressed, and indeed yes, so they accelerated the progress; I mainly want to write about the real situation of the Dadonggou naval battle, and I won't go off topic in the future. οΌ‰