Chapter 242: Encroachment
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Then on the local battlefield on the right flank, it was also the 4 weak ships of the naval division to face the 4 strong ships of the Japanese army.
It's still not the slightest advantage.
And in this way, the formation of the sailor division is chaotic, which is equivalent to the broken right arm of the herringbone wedge formation.
It became Dingyuan, Zhenyuan charged forward as an awl head, and the left flank followed 4 battleships obliquely to attack the 8 battleships of the Japanese army.
Then 6 to 8 is also out of disadvantage.
"Command, be mighty, be superb, speed up to the left flank, and come closer to the distant ship; Don't get entangled with the Japanese ships, try to get rid of them. β
Liu Buyun issued orders loudly.
As long as the wedge formation broke through the Japanese ship's main team, he immediately ordered the whole team to turn right, and cooperated with Pingyuan, Guang Bing and 4 torpedo boats who rushed from the northwest to cripple the Yoshino ship first!
"Bang, bang, bangβ"
As soon as Liu Buyun's order was given, all of a sudden, he saw patches of sparks splashing everywhere in the bow of the ship.
It turned out that it had sailed directly in front of the Dingyuan ship, less than 2,000 meters away from the Japanese Matsushima, and the five 47mm caliber light Habekaisi rapid-fire guns on the starboard side fired loudly.
Shells rained down on the bow of the Dingyuan ship, tearing more than a dozen unsuspecting soldiers to pieces.
"Boom-"
At this moment, a Japanese artillery shell suddenly hit the main mast of the Dingyuan ship, which was actually a flowering shell, which immediately exploded and attached to the main mast and burned.
"What kind of flowering bomb is this, and it can actually burn?"
Liu Buyun's heart trembled, and then he was even more angry to see that the ship's signal rigging was also burned in the flames.
"Bitter!"
At the same time, Ding Ruchang, who was looking up at the same time, roared, and a stream of blood spurted out of his mouth.
At this point, the command system of the Beiyang Naval Division was completely out of order, and they began to fight separately.
"Advance at an accelerated pace, bow main gun, secondary gun, continue to follow up and bombard Matsushima; The left and right flanks of the Haggais machine guns, aimed at the enemy ships on both flanks, and fired at me. β
As soon as Liu Buchan saw this situation, he completely stopped thinking about the matter of the super-brave ship, and ordered the ship's guns to continue to bombard Songdao.
At this time, the Songdao had already swept past Dingyuan, the bow of the Zhenyuan ship, and rushed towards the Jingyuan, which was 1,200 yards away from the two ships in Dingyuan and Zhenyuan.
It became Chiyoda, Itsukushima, Hashidate, and the flanks of Matsushima facing Dingyuan and Zhenyuan, and firing at each other.
"Yu has to have, Yu has to have!"
Majifen, who was suppressed by the Japanese army's dense Habekaith rapid-fire guns, couldn't raise his head, angrily yelled at the foremast far from the town: "Fire, fire!" β
However, there was still no movement on it.
Majifen didn't care about the bullets, and rushed forward angrily, but was shocked to see that the steel plate of the mast was beaten into a honeycomb shape, and the two rapid-fire guns inside were surrounded by blood and severed limbs.
All six sailors inside were killed!
"Boom!"
The Habekaith rapid-fire gun on the starboard side of the stern of the Matsushima, which was rapidly passing by, was suddenly hit by a 150mm solid bullet.
The tremendous force directly fixed this statue firmly on the steel deck of the Matsushima, and smashed and twisted and rotated away from the deck.
The slender steel frame and the long chain of bullets thrown out, like the claws and tail whips of peerless beasts, instantly cut the three gunners and one signal soldier standing by the cannon into several pieces.
"Attack the 4 enemy ships behind!"
Because the two ships Hiei and Fuso had to protect the armed merchant ship Saikyo Maru and the small gunboat Akagi, which was more than 600 tons, they opened a large gap of 1,000 meters with the team.
Dingyuan, Zhenyuan, Jingyuan, Zhiyuan, and the four ships, which saw the opportunity, adjusted their guns one after another, and bombarded the shells towards these four Japanese ships.
It was already 1:15 p.m.
Temporarily divided into three separate combat zones above the sea surface.
The four battleships of the Japanese First Guerrilla Brigade and the right flank of the Qing army, Wei Yang, shot at each other bravely, and used the flowering shells of Shimose gunpowder to constantly ignite raging fires on the decks of the two Qing ships.
However, the two ships of Weiyang and Chaoyong were not afraid, and they fought hard with the 4 warships of the Japanese army.
The four warships of the main formation, led by the Matsushima, quickly swept in front of Jingyuan and Laiyuan, and fired at it 4 to 2.
As the abandoned sons, Xijing Maru, Akagi, Hiei, and Fuso were caught and beaten by the six cruisers of the Beiyang Naval Division, Dingyuan, Zhenyuan, Jingyuan, Zhiyuan, Jiyuan, and Guangjia.
Hiei, who rushed to the front, was crippled by the combined efforts of the 6 Beiyang ships in a short time, and was surrounded by the 6 ships.
Desperate, Biei had no choice but to rush to Jingyuan in reverse, and although he was lucky to break through, the fire on the ship was monstrous, not only suffered heavy casualties, but also completely lost his combat effectiveness, and hung out the signal of "this ship is out of the battle column by fire", and turned to flee.
Seeing that Hiei had escaped from the encirclement and had completely lost its combat power, the Beiyang 6 ships no longer cared about it, and immediately rushed to the Xijing Maru, Akagi, and Fuso 3 ships like a wolf.
For a time, although the three weak ships of the Japanese army fought back bravely, they were still beaten and fled from all over the place, and it was difficult to parry.
Soon after, the gunboat Akagi turned around and fled south with heavy casualties and the death of its captain Hachiro Sakamoto.
At this time, the prestige and super courage of the original right flank of the Beiyang Naval Division were also disabled by the 4 ships of the Japanese First Guerrilla Army.
On the ship's torn hull, a Japanese shell pierced the cabin, and Shimose gunpowder ignited a raging fire in the cabin.
In an instant, the whole ship was shrouded in black smoke, and because the ship was a wooden hull, there was a fire in the cabin and could not be rescued, and soon the starboard side began to tilt and sink.
However, Huang Jianxun and all the soldiers on the ship still insisted on being on the ship, firing at the Japanese with artillery, trying to drag the Japanese ship and cover the Yangwei to evacuate the war zone.
At this time, a raging fire also broke out on the deck of the Yangwei ship, and the pipe leader Lin Luzhong had to order the warship to turn northward and evacuate the war zone to the shallow water to save itself.
And the Yoshino 4 ship was willing to give up easily, biting the Yangwei ship tightly and bombarding it desperately.
At this stage of the battle, one battleship of the Beiyang Naval Division sank, one fled westward, and the Japanese Hiei and Akagi also completely lost their combat strength and fled.
The battleship loss ratio was roughly equivalent to 2 to 2.
The six warships of the Beiyang Naval Division are working together to encircle and suppress Fuso and Saikyo Maru, and Fuso and Saikyo Maru, who are in disarray, are more than lucky.
Judging by the overall situation, the Beiyang Fleet is slightly ahead.
On the bridge of the Saikyo Maru, Vice Admiral Shikiri Kayama turned blue with anger. Lips tremble.
As the head of the Navy's military command, he was just here to suppress the battle and supervise the battle, but who would have thought that Ito Yuhyung, a bastard, would dare to treat him as a bait and an outcast!
"Yaga!"
Shiki Kayama is now alive and well, but he doesn't have the slightest consciousness of wanting to die, and immediately yells and ordered: "Send a signal, order Ito, this bastard, the fleet will turn around immediately and come back to the rescue!" β
"Report, the Saikyo Maru sent a signal asking for reinforcements!"
On the Matsushima, Ito heard the signal soldier's warning, and after a little muttering, he began to give a new order: "Order the 1st Guerrilla Brigade to stop the pursuit of the burning enemy ships, return to the sea and continue to attack the right flank of the Qing ship group." β
In Ito's opinion, the Imperial fleet at this time had achieved a complete tactical victory.
With 4 garbage warships, it successfully attracted the firepower of 6 warships of the Qing army, including Dingyuan and Zhenyuan.
And his own No. 1 guerrilla group had already defeated the first squad on the right flank of the Qing warship group with an absolute advantage of 4 to 2.
The next step was to use the four warships of the First Guerrilla Group as the left hook fist and the four warships of his own team as the right hook fist, and severely attack the second squad on the right flank of the Qing warship group.
Perform cannibalization one by one!