At 5 o'clock in the morning of the 19th, the soldiers at the lookout post of the Dagu dock lighthouse, when they got up in the morning and urinated, were surprised to find that a large number of straight smoke beams appeared on the eastern sea in the faint morning light.

Straight into the blue sky.

At 5:30 a.m., standing on the lighthouse lookout post, the outline of a huge ship group could already be seen from the single-hole telescope, and the target was biased in the direction of Tanggu in the northwest.

At 6 o'clock in the morning, the telegram was transmitted from the dock telegraph office of the Dagukou dock of the Beiyang Navy Division to the Yamen telegraph office of the governor of Zhili.

At 7:35, Wang Wenshao, the deputy minister of Beiyang, got up to wash up, ate a bowl of hot eight-treasure porridge, and was shocked to see this telegram when he came to the signing room.

At 8 o'clock, Wang Wenshao, who was full of fear, hurriedly went to the headquarters of the Dagu Fort and told all the forts not to send artillery waves.

At the same time, the telegraph was quickly transmitted to the Tongzhou Telegraph Office, which was controlled by the Japanese army, and only a corner belonged to the Qing Dynasty.

A few unlucky Zhang Jing, who had been assigned to the Tongzhou Telegraph Office, were also shocked when they saw it, and immediately arrived in Beijing as soon as possible.

At this time, the radio station of the Japanese 1st Army also passed through the Tongzhou telegraph network, obtained contact with Weihaiwei and Seoul, and learned that the combined fleet escorted the 8,000 troops of the 11th Mixed Brigade and would land in the vicinity of Jinmen to reinforce the 1st Army.

At 9:30 a.m., Wang Wenshao's telegram reached the joint office of the Prime Minister's Yamen and the Military Affairs Office of the Superintendent.

The group of guys changed color in shock!

Tens of thousands of Japanese troops here are still besieging Yanjing City, and there is a large group of ships in the east, what do these Oriental Luo Circle Legs want to do?

I have to hurry up and play it to the emperor - Lafayette who is sitting in the back, let Lafayette come up with an idea.

Just when the famous 'bullhide' and 'football' competition in Yanjing City was about to start, the competition between the Dagu artillery group and the eight capital ships of the Japanese fleet was also officially staged.

At 9 a.m., after some bargaining, several owners of the Western cargo ship left the Songdao with satisfactory compensation and small gifts.

Reparations are eight white slips.

Under the strategy of 'Witty', Ito used the eight gold, jade, gemstone and jade gadgets confiscated in the Weihai Commander's Mansion to bribe eight Western captains and punch eight white slips signed by Ito Henyou.

On February 19, 1895, due to the fighting between the Qing Dynasty and Japan, the artillery fire of the fort damaged the British cargo ship Ganges and shelved the cargo of the ice wharf, which was equivalent to 18,533 taels of snowflake silver in the Great Qing Dynasty. If the Qing government refuses to pay compensation, it will be paid by the Combined Fleet. - Shosuke Ito'

'On February 19, 1895, due to the fighting between Qing and Japan, the French cargo ship Marseille was damaged by artillery fire and the cargo was stranded at the ice dock,——

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Looking at the eight Western cargo ships turning southeast and heading towards the Dongying Wharf in Ludong, Ito Henyou's face forcibly put away his annoyed anger, took out his pocket watch and took a look, it was already 9:26 in the morning.

This farce, inside and out, delayed the fleet's attack time for at least an hour, and gave the Qing army batteries more preparations.

However, for the combat power of these garbage Qing troops, Ito Hengyou has long been extremely disdainful at this time.

It was precisely because he had figured out some things that he had the patience to be fearless just now, wasting time with the captains of these Western cargo ships, and letting the Qing army in the fort prepare.

In the short thirty miles that the ship group sailed from Beitang to Dagukou, Ito Henyo and Izuba were far away, and Omoto knew that the three of them had a little discussion and came to a correct conclusion.

The reason why the Qing army in Beitang Fort was about to collapse at the first touch was because Zhili had no soldiers, and all they found were a group of recruits who had not gone through the system to fill up.

In addition to being a decoration, these soldiers can have a trace of use, but in actual combat, they will either be defeated in a fight, or they are useless cannon fodder.

Since this is the case in Beitang, the Dagu Fort, which is only 30 miles apart, should be the same.

"Order, the ship group is divided into two elliptical reciprocating attack battle types; The 1st Guerrilla Brigade was responsible for cleaning up the South River Battery, and this team attacked the North River Battery ,—— blew up their dock! ”

"Woo-"

Under the banner of the flagship signal corps, the Japanese fleet began to complete two 'one' formations, which sailed diagonally towards the Dagukou artillery group.

The first group leaned to the southwest and approached the Dagu Artillery Taipei Artillery Group.

A group marched in parallel, only slightly approaching some of the Dagu South Artillery Group.

Matsushima.

1 320mm Ghana main gun, because of design flaws, the average rate of fire can only shoot one shot an hour, except for scaring people in the first launch, the combat power can be basically ignored.

11 120mm 22 times caliber Armstrong rapid-fire guns, with an effective firing range of 3,000 meters and a theoretical rate of fire of 10 rounds per minute.

5 47mm Habegkaisi single-barreled rapid-fire guns with an effective firing range of 4575 meters and a rate of fire of 20 rounds per minute.

10 47mm light Haqikaith rapid-fire guns with an effective firing range of 2020 meters and a rate of fire of 70 rounds per minute.

1 8mm5-barreled Nordenfeld machine gun, effective firing range of 2000 meters, rate of fire 360 rounds / min.

4 360mm torpedo tubes.

The 'Three Keiship', the same type as the Matsushima, the Itsukushima, the Hashidate, and the ironclad cruiser Chiyoda, all have similar weapon configurations.

It's just that the Chiyoda directly abandoned the large and useless main gun, and the main attack weapon was 10 120 rapid-fire guns loaded with Shimose gunpowder shells.

In this way, the Japanese army's own group of warships must sail within 3,000 meters of the North Group Batteries at Dagukou in order to carry out an effective strike.

The Yoshino, the 1st Guerrilla Force of the Japanese Army, was equipped with 4 203mm Armstrong rapid-fire guns, with an effective range of 8,600 meters and a rate of fire of 7 rounds per minute.

10 152mm Armstrong rapid-fire guns with an effective range of 7000 meters and a rate of fire of 7 rounds per minute.

22 single-barreled rapid-fire 47mm Habegkais.

Naniwa, Takachiho, the main weapons equipped on the ship are 2 260mm Krupp main guns of the 1880 type, and 6 guns of the 1880 150mm Krupp frame, with an effective firing range of more than 8,000 meters.

There were 4 152mm Armstrong rapid-fire guns and 6 120mm Armstrong rapid-fire guns on the Akitsu Island.

Although the effective range of the 120 gun was only 3000 meters, the range of the 152 gun reached 7000 meters.

In this way, the First Guerrilla Detachment was able to attack the Qing Army's southern artillery group in an elliptical position without advancing at a distance of 5.55 kilometers from the sea at this time.

Because before the war, the spies of the East had obtained the data of the Dagu Battery, so whether Ito Henyo's own fleet was attacking the northern artillery group or attacking the southern artillery group, they could not avoid the attack distance of a large number of Krupp 75 guns of 5,222 meters.

Not to mention the 14 120 guns.

However, now that the team chooses the northern artillery group, it will face the 13 120-krupel guns of the northern artillery group, so the southern artillery group faced by the first guerrilla group can carry out long-distance crushing and bombardment.

"Order each ship to take 5.3 kilometers as the central axis of the ellipse, with a short radius of 200 and a long radius of 1,000 meters, to carry out a circular attack."

The cunning and shameless Shark Island personnel rule, in this order given to the 1st Guerrilla Group, is almost the end of the effective range of the 75 guns of the Southern Artillery Group.

According to what he meant, he was not afraid that if he went a little further, the accuracy of the artillery fire would be outrageously inaccurate, and the artillery shells of the empire would be consumed in vain.

He could insidiously drive the fleet completely out of the firepower of the Qing army's southern artillery group, and hit the southern artillery group one by one for fun.