The successful solution of the eight British ** ships at the mouth of the Yangtze River was very exciting and surprising to the Chinese Navy.

The four British ** ships in the Yangtze River were much more cunning, and when the Chinese fleet at the mouth of the Yangtze River went upstream and asked the British ships to stop for inspection, they decisively refused.

What else to say, the four battleships immediately stepped forward and bombarded the British ** ship,

The Chinese fleet, the North Sea Fleet from Weihaiwei, originally had six battleships, no, one more was captured, seven, one of the sub-fleets searched and intercepted the enemy's other two warships, and is still patrolling in the southeast direction of the Yangtze River estuary, attacking the British ** ships that may come forward, in this way, the four battleships are the most powerful firepower,

The British ** ship dared to refuse, because it did not know that the war between the two countries had broken out, and it was just a high-flying habit cultivated by rampage in China for many years.

This was the first real battle of the Chinese Navy, the four battleships bombarded forward almost side by side, the 180 mm caliber breech main gun, the heavy shells roared over without limit, most of the huge shells hit the Yangtze River current, splashed up the sky-high column of water, and shook the British ** ship violently,

After all, the British sailors were the most powerful army in the world, they were well-trained, skilled, well-organized, and quick to respond to the battle.

When the battle lasted three minutes, two shells were fired on a Chinese battleship, 18 soldiers were killed and wounded, and flames broke out on the ship, and the officers and men rushed to put out the fire.

At four minutes, two battleships hit a British ship at the same time, a solid shell penetrated the deck of the British ship, and a flowering shell

The enemy's breech main battery was destroyed, and several British soldiers were torn to pieces by the air wave of the shells.

When the explosion ended, the deck was full of tattered minced meat, and the British sailors who were still alive around them were already frightened.

The British cruiser of about 2,000 tons, attacked by four Chinese warships with a maximum displacement of at least 5,000 tons and a maximum displacement of 8,000 tons, was certainly not an opponent.

Ten minutes later, the Chinese battleship was again bombarded by five shells, and there were some new damages, but the British had already had one warship damaged, and the cavity caused by the huge explosion destroyed all the efforts of the British damage control personnel, and the warship was sinking rapidly, and the captain had to order the ship to be abandoned.

Nearly 200 British officers and soldiers rushed to the edge of the deck like a tide, and without hesitation, they raised their arms and jumped into the Yangtze River.

"Hurry, hurry, hurry."

The British escaped while calling for their friends, jumped into the river, looked back at the sinking warship, and shed tears.

The tragic British ** ship sank one, and the sinking speed was extremely fast, so that the British naval officers and men who had just jumped off suffered from it, and the sinking caused a huge river whirlpool, spinning many British sailors who could not escape into it, and since then, they have never been seen again.

Another warship was damaged, and the British sailors on board suffered heavy casualties, and the sky-high fire wantonly swallowed huge thick cyan smoke on the warship, and the fire flashed from time to time, drowning out the exclamations of some soldiers.

Finally, on the last relatively well-preserved British ** ship, a white flag was played, and the British title was given.

The Chinese warship impromptu approached the enemy, and then, lowering the boat, sending manpower, accepting the surrender of the British army, and also helping the British, rescuing the sailors in the Yangtze River who were not dragged into the water by big fish, showing a high level of humanitarian quality.

When the battle was over, the British sailors, with their heads hung down in frustration, were escorted up to the riverbank, and then picked up by troops on land and transferred to the prisoner of war camps.

The flames on the battleship have long been extinguished, and in relation to the huge hull, that is, small destruction, which does not affect the new battle,

The fire on the three captured British ships was also extinguished,

The officers and men of the Chinese North Sea Fleet, jumping happily on the deck, shouting, celebrating their victory, this battle is their debut, a real surface battle, with the guns of battleships and the enemy bombardment, although everyone won very hard, but also had a huge advantage, but to be able to defeat the navy of the British Empire, is definitely a myth,

The southward detachment of the North Sea Fleet continued to advance, and at the same time, the British fleet on the Wuhan River also received news that although Luo Yang had already ordered the cable telegraph from Shanghai to Wuhan to be cut off, it did not stop the analysis of the clever British intelligence officers, and the large arrest of the British merchants in Wuhan attracted the attention of the British sailors, and they were vigilant.

Refusing to board the ships of the officials of the Huaxia Heavenly Kingdom government, naturally refusing to board the troops for inspection, therefore, the troops of the Huaxia Heavenly ** in Hankou could only implement a new set of plans, General Chen Kunshu ordered, the army's artillery bombarded the riverbank, attacking the British fleet,

In the spring, the water in the Yangtze River is at a very low level, so it is unrealistic for the battleships of the Chinese North Sea Fleet to go up the river to fight with their brains, so General Chen Kunshu adopted the tactics of fright.

More than 50 cannons, which had been prepared for a long time, carried out a fierce bombardment of the British ** ship in the middle of the river, and in more than two years, China's weapons and equipment have been greatly improved, especially the Shanghai arsenal has long met the demand for the production of cannons.

The largest of these cannons was a fifty-pound shell, and once a cannonball hit a British battleship, it was not fun, and these cannons, of all kinds, could be used with power,

On the other side of the position of this artillery regiment, on the south bank of the Yangtze River, there is another artillery regiment attacking the British ** ship, this artillery regiment, all small mortars, more than 70 mortars, with a range of more than 2,000 meters, once fired, pieces of missiles emerged from the entire position, flying high in the air, drawing a beautiful arc, and then falling down and smashing into the Yangtze River, or the British warship,

This is another attack, when Luo Yang instructed the commander of the military region, he said that he should not talk about discipline with Western devils, and whoever talks about discipline is an idiot, so the officers abandoned their psychological burden, eliminated all difficulties, and fought for victory.

The bombardment of more than 100 cannons put the six British ** ships in a dangerous situation in an instant, they suffered a lot of shells, especially the mortar shells that were not very powerful, but quite effective for human body killing, made them scattered, they had never seen such a strange shell.

The British army is naturally not vegetarian, and the counterattack is also very fierce, but in the Yangtze River, they were attacked from both sides, and they were extremely passive and dangerous, so they retreated downstream very rationally.

On the Yangtze River, there were many British merchant ships, or ships transporting British goods, all of which were carried downstream by these six warships.

The British fleet, feeling bad, quickly marched eastward, and on the evening of the fourth day, it was intercepted by the Chinese army, and a fierce battle broke out again.