"Woo-"

After the meeting, in the afternoon of the same day, the Beiyang Naval Division Dingyuan, Jiyuan, Guangbing, Zhendong, Zhenzhong, Fulong torpedo boats, and Zhongjia torpedo boats, slowly sailed out of the tiger's tail and headed for the mouth of the Bohai Sea.

So far, in the abandoned land of Weihaiwei, only the Zhenbian gunboat, Kangji, Haijing, Weiyuan, Meiyun, and Zhenhai five training ships, the Liyun and Haijing transport ships, and four Dingyi, Dinger, Zhenyi, and Zhenyi torpedo boats with a displacement of only 16 tons, were left.

Lushun Military Port, the pier restricted area entry checkpoint.

Chen Shijie stood in front of the nine members of the anti-Japanese army propaganda team and was giving the last lecture.

All nine of them are members of the 'Guardian Society',—— young, sharp, resolute, uncompromising, unyielding, and full of great ideals.

"I have said everything that should be said, and I will say only two words, remembering, 'We are helping them to open their eyes from the darkness of slavery and ignorance, and to awaken them is to strengthen our own great ideal.'" Disband! ”

"Kill!"

The nine members of the preaching team shouted in unison.

"To help them open their eyes from the darkness of slavery and ignorance, and to awaken them is to strengthen our own great ideals, brother, you said it so well, it is too imposing!"

Seeing the nine team members lining up to enter the forbidden area of the dock, Tang Feng, who was standing on one side, walked over with a 'look of admiration'.

"Am I wrong? Helping those who force their eyes to open their eyes to the world is helping to strengthen our great ideals, and there is nothing wrong with that. ”

Chen Shijie looked at Tang Feng with a puzzled expression and asked.

"Uh-"

Tang Feng belongs to the kind of person who has a sharp and clear mind, although he is full of ideals, but he is not indulged in it.

So seeing Chen Shijie with a calm face and looking strangely at his question, Tang Feng felt that he didn't know what to say.

Dingyuan ship, bridge.

The fleet sailed southwest along the frozen coastline, drawing a graceful arc at the headland of Lao Tie Mountain, and turning due west.

Liu Buyun looked at the ice belt that stretched into the sea from the headland of Lao Tieshan, and suddenly said: "The situation in Lushun is a little strange, have you noticed the military gate, Jiang Guidi and Cheng Yunhe did not show up today. ”

"It's not surprising, Jiang Gui is a martial artist, he doesn't know a basket of big characters, he has always disliked participating in these things, and Cheng Yunhe's level is still a little worse; Wu has Jiang Zikang, and Wen has Song Xi, which is enough. ”

Ding Ruchang looked at the Bohai Sea that he was entering, and his heart was full of humiliation.

Although the traces of the Japanese fleet disappeared on the Penglai side these days, the fleet entered the Bohai Bay as a precaution, and still secretly entered the coastline of southern Liaoning, and did not dare to sail through the main channel of the Bohai Sea.

"Military Gate, five nautical miles to the north, there is a gunboat!"

The lookout soldier standing on the watchtower of the Dingyuan ship, as soon as the Dingyuan ship bypassed the headland of Lao Tieshan, he clearly saw a lonely gunboat cruising about five nautical miles to the north.

"It's a gunboat!"

Ding Ruchang and Liu Buyun, who were standing on the bridge of the boat, exclaimed at the same time, at this time, at this place, except for the gunboats of the Japanese people, it is impossible for other ships to appear in this sea area.

"Are you sure it's just one, it's a gunboat?"

Ding Ruchang strode to the bottom of the watchtower, raised his head and shouted.

"Tell the military gate, it's a ship——, it's fleeing north!"

The lookout above was also excited.

Ding Ruchang and Liu Buyun glanced at each other, and they both saw the excitement in each other's eyes.

"Pursuit! Order the fleet to pursue at full speed! ”

Liu Buyun roared and rushed towards the cockpit.

Combined Japanese fleet, gunboat Pancheng.

"Qing fleet! Captain, the Qing fleet appears on the headland of the old Iron Mountain! ”

The Pancheng gunboat was slowly cruising around Yingchengzi, monitoring the waters of the Bohai Bay in southern Liaoning, when the lookout soldiers on the watchtower suddenly reported in fear that a Qing fleet appeared from the headland of Lao Tieshan.

"Baga, it's really the Qing army fleet going to Jinmen!"

Captain Honda didn't need to listen to the report of the lookout, and looked at the dozen or so pillars of black smoke that went straight into the sky from the side of Lao Tie Mountain, and he also knew that the Qing army was coming.

It turned out that the Qing warship group was really going to Jinmen, but it was only a week later than previously expected, and it was only a detachment of fleets.

"The ship immediately dodged at high speed to the north!"

Honda's hearts were beating wildly, and he yelled and gave the order to escape.

His gunboat was an old ship built by the Empire sixteen years ago, with a crew of 122 people, a displacement of 700 tons, 659 horsepower, carrying 7 old racked copper tube iron-bore guns, and a top speed of 10 knots, while the aging boiler can only run about 8 knots at most.

Pointing to this kind of old ship, there is only one dead end.

Immediately, black smoke billowed from the chimney of the Pancheng, and the gunboats increased their horsepower and fled northward.

"Dingyuan, captain, it's Dingyuan, it's Dingyuan! They're turning, they're turning toward us! ”

The lookout shouted again in terror.

For the two warships of Dingyuan and Zhenyuan, the entire Japanese naval circle, it can be said that everyone knows it.

Especially in the Battle of Dadonggou four months ago, the entire fleet surrounded these two warships and bombed indiscriminately, but Dingyuan and Zhenyuan were like two giants besieged by a group of small men, rushing left and right and never sinking.

Until the end, Vice Admiral Ito, the commander of the fleet, lost confidence and had to lead the fleet to abandon the voyage.

"Yaga!"

At this moment, the captain of the Pancheng, Honda Qinmin Shaozo, was disheartened to death.

"The gunboats stopped moving north, all the gunners were in position, and turned around and fought a decisive battle with the pigs."

At this time, Honda's people already knew that the gunboat was already a dead end, not to mention other clear ships, just Dingyuan, which could crush the Pancheng to pieces.

"Empire's navy, since death cannot be avoided, let us choose to die bravely; Long live the Emperor! ”

Honda has a fierce look of desperation on his face.

"Long live the Emperor!"

The Japanese navy on the Pancheng also knew that death was inevitable at this time, and they all rushed to their respective posts with desperate faces to complete the last battle of their lives.

"Boom!"

At a distance of nearly four nautical miles, the 150mm bronze gun in the bow of the Pancheng gunboat opened fire first, firing a solid armor-piercing projectile towards Dingyuan.

For the old junk gunboats like the Pancheng, the Combined Fleet brought out ordinary merchant ships that were used to deal with the Qing Dynasty in addition to being cannon fodder and minesweepers.

Therefore, the expensive Shimose bombs were not rationed to the Iwajo at all, and all the solid armor-piercing shells carried by the ships were eliminated.

The whistling cannonball landed 300 places in front of the starboard side of the Dingyuan ship, smashing out a snow-white column of water.

"When firing artillery, all domestic solid bullets are used; Sink it! ”

Seeing that the Japanese ships knew that there was a dead end and still resisted stubbornly, Ding Ruchang gave up his plan to force him to surrender and ordered an artillery attack.

"Boom!"

With the issuance of the order, Dingyuan, Jiyuan, Guangbing, and the guns on the ship roared in unison, and the white smoke covered the sky and the sun.

Countless cannonballs fell around the Pancheng, blowing up huge columns of water, making the Pancheng shake like a small leaf in a huge wave.

"Boom-"

A 150mm armor-piercing bullet hit the cabin of the Pancheng, easily broke through the wall, and actually smashed into the boiler of the Pancheng, blowing the boiler apart.

"Ahh

The rushing boiling water and hot steam suddenly turned the boiler room into hell, and the Japanese soldiers who were desperately filling coal and burning the boiler inside were burned to death in an instant.

The Pancheng then lost power completely and drifted adrift on the surface of the sea.