Chapter 213: The Battle of the Yellow Sea

Ito led the remaining Japanese capital warships, freed from the entanglement of the battleship Xuanmu, and they sailed towards the port of Incheon in Korea. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoAs long as we can sail to the port of Incheon, this ocean voyage will be a success.

Although this ocean voyage has already placed Japan in the Chinese Empire spies, undercover agents, and meticulous work, and even those who are already high-ranking officials in the Chinese Empire, they have completely forgotten that they are Japanese and used all the intelligence system.

But Ito knows that everything Japan does will be worth it as long as the plan succeeds. As long as the Chinese Empire can be brought to its knees, as long as the Chinese Empire is made to recognize the benefits that Japan has now obtained, all the efforts now are worth it.

After breaking away from the battleship Xuanwu, Ito Yuhiro believed. In the absence of cruiser escorts, the battleship Seiryu would not have ventured to pursue the combined fleet of the Japanese Empire. So Ito ordered the fleet to move at a constant speed in order to save fuel.

At the same time, because of the two months at sea, the sailors and officers on the entire Japanese battleship were already very tired. All the fighters were almost on the verge of collapse, so the rotation rest was already something that had to be done.

In the deep blue sky, the stars shine. On the vast sea, the night was rippling with the ebb and flow of the waves, and the wind and thin clouds were rolling over the fleet. The endless darkness did not make Ito feel the slightest depression, but brought him a sense of security.

He still can't forget the scene where the battleship Aoru crushed the cruiser Takachiho. This scene is far beyond Ito's imagination. But his nightmare is far from over.

It was when Ito Yohyung was able to calm down and close his two red eyes. A loud cracking sound streaked across the sky and landed in the middle of the Japanese fleet's formation. Hit the Japanese cruiser Chino, the cruiser Chino with a displacement of 1897 tons under the blow of the main guns of the battleship Xuanwu.

The steel plate on the aft end of the starboard side was torn directly, and the boiler at the aft end was hit. The piston system above the boiler is still running by inertia. The rocker arm hits the side wall of the boiler with a high-pitched metallic sound.

The whole quiet night, torn apart!

The ammunition on the cruiser Chino was ignited, and the continuous sound of explosions made all the nearby Japanese warships that originally wanted to go to the rescue dodge one after another, and many sailors on the cruiser Chino jumped into the icy sea with the flames on their bodies.

This was the first enemy battleship to be sunk by the main guns of the battleship Xuanwu, and the Xuanwu suddenly began to accelerate at this time, like a lion, seeing the sheep in front of it. I couldn't suppress the excitement in my heart, and I pounced at full speed.

At this time, Ito Youheng was very remorseful, why should he slow down! Isn't this unlucky, and I met this battleship again. At that time, Ito was still sane, and the Meiji Restoration in Japan was very difficult.

It is not easy to save such a fleet, and it must not be destroyed here. Therefore, Ito Yuhiro ordered the cruiser Sulang and the cruiser Akitsushu, which had been wounded, to be sure to entangle this Huaxia battleship, and the other battleships to attack the battleship Xuanwu on the periphery.

The captain of the cruiser Shoro was Heihachiro Togo, who was a legend of the Japanese Navy later, but he had no chance to continue his legendary life, and his heroic history ended tonight, on the vast Yellow Sea!

The speed of the cruiser Showa at full speed was 24 knots, which was second only to the cruiser Akitsushu at 26 knots. Ito knew that the other warships could not quickly give the Xuanwu battleship the effect of a strike, so he sent two such main warships.

The two battleships, the Sulang and the Qiujinzhou, headed side by side towards the battleship Xuanwu. Moses aimed his main gun fire at the Shona, intending to eliminate the nasty guy first, and then deal with the Akitsushu.

At about 4:50 a.m. on April 7, 1895, the eastern sky was already white, and the clouds floating on the gray skyline began to flash red.

The Xuanwu, the second battleship of the Chinese Empire, finally saw the lights of the Japanese Combined Fleet after a night of pursuit in the waters of the Yellow Sea. In fact, Jia Zhongshan's heart was very excited at this time, but there was a trace of worry.

This time the Sulang and Xuanwu opened fire almost simultaneously, but neither side hit the other. The main gun of the Qiujinzhou opened fire and hit the starboard side of the Xuanwu, but fortunately, the 1.5-meter-thick extra layer of armor was made of special products refined by Wuhan Iron and Steel Company, leaving a permanent pit on the battleship Xuanwu.

The guns on the battleship Xuanwu were firing in full force, and as the two battleships got closer and closer, the guns on the battleship Xuanwu hit the aft deck of the cruiser Sulang. The rear end of the Showa immediately caught fire, and the proud speed of the cruiser Showa dropped in one fell swoop.

At this time, a sudden Qiujinzhou became the key target of the Xuanwu battleship. Under the blow of the double-layer main gun fire of the battleship Xuanwu, the Akitsushu always moved forward with the waves set off by the shells.

The Akitsu Prefecture, which had finally overcome all difficulties, came to a place only 800 meters away from the Xuanwu, and at this time both sides began to use torpedoes, sharp weapons of close naval warfare. Japanese sailors pushed out torpedo launchers from the ship's hold.

But because of the 36 heavy machine guns on the artillery fire on the battleship Xuanwu, it was able to cover almost every corner of the cruiser Akitsushu on the opposite side. There were also 12 20-mm lightspeed guns, so the Japanese sailors on the deck of the cruiser Akitsushu simply did not have the opportunity to operate the torpedo launchers on the side of the ship.

At this time, on the lowest deck of the battleship Xuanwu, the sailors operated eight torpedo launchers on the left line of the man in a tight time. There is no unified command, each launcher is under the command of a seedling quasi-officer, coloring, loading, firing, reloading, such orders. Almost all the soldiers were exhausted.

Each launcher, three torpedoes were fired in the shortest possible time. Akitsu watched the torpedo coming towards it, because the torpedo at this time still relied mainly on the force sent out when it was launched, and the speed of sailing in the water was not fast.

Especially when the kinetic energy consumption of the torpedo is about to end, if the speed of the battleship is fast enough, it can dodge the attack of the torpedo. The cruiser Akitsu dodged the first wave of torpedoes, but the two torpedoes of the second wave concentrated it.

Just as the Akitsu was working hard to repair it, the third wave of torpedo blows had already arrived. This time the good use of the cruiser Akitsu was finished, and six torpedoes in a row exploded on the port side of the Akitsu Prefecture.

The cruiser Akitsushu first leaned to the right side with a loud explosion, but as the explosion ended, the entire left compartment of the cruiser Akitsushu began to flood. The entire battleship began to tilt to the left, and in less than ten minutes, the cruiser Akitsushu fell asleep on the surface of the sea like a tired old man.

In less than thirty minutes, the cruiser Akitsushu sank into the Yellow Sea!

But all this did not stop the Japanese battleships from continuing their attack, and they began to sail around the battleship Xuanwu, trying to use the superiority of the guns of many ships to attack the battleship Xuanwu.

But now Ito Yuhyung can't easily take out the bait. So the battleship Genwu began to be picky in the Japanese fleet of combined battleships, and who was next!

The battleship Xuanwu chose the cruiser Fusang, in fact, Jia Zhongshan at this time didn't have time to think about it at all, and he couldn't honestly let this Japanese fleet fight! It's like being beaten up by a group!

At this time, the most rational choice is to catch the guy who is beaten in the group, and you don't care about other people's fists and feet, at this time you beat this guy honestly, and the other guys will not dare to do it.

So the Xuanwu chased the ass of the Fuso at full speed and began to attack, and the Fuso witnessed the sinking of the Akitsushu, so it still had the guts to confront the battleship Xuanwu. Run! Moreover, the cruiser Fuso ran next to Itsukushima and Matsushima, the two main Japanese warships.

This disrupted Ito's strategy, and he still had the strength and opportunity to fight to the death with the battleship Genwu, but now, as a soldier, Arai Yusu, as the commander of the cruiser Fuso, actually made such a stupid decision.

The new well here has a supply for the heart, and I am also very aggrieved! Come and help me, I've attracted him, hit him, hit him!

When I started a great chase at sea, when the Japanese battleships were far away from the Xuanwu battleship contact, the Xuanwu made a very strange move, after chasing the cruiser Itsukushima for a while, the Xuanwu battleship suddenly stopped turning around, and he accelerated directly to the northwest sea.

This made all the Japanese battleships breathe a sigh of relief, and this guy who killed a thousand knives finally left. At this time, other Japanese warships began to search the sea, the Japanese sailors who had fallen into the water, and there were no survivors.

By this time, all the battleships had seen the flags from the flagship cruiser Matsushima. Qiyu ordered all the Japanese battleships to immediately start pursuing the battleship Xuanwu, because Ito Yuhiro already knew that the current battleship Xuanwu was running out of ammunition and food.

At this time, the only chance for the Japanese fleet, after sinking two Japanese battleships, Takachiho and Akitsushu, and damaging the Awa and Itsukushima, escaped in this way. How can it be so cheap, now take advantage of your illness and kill you!

The Japanese Combined Fleet began to organize its formation and chased in the direction of the Xuanwu's escape, and this time it chased the past, completely ruining all the hopes of the Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet and the last chance of escape for the Japanese fleet.

The battleship Xuanwu in front had already reached the point of running out of ammunition and food, and after two consecutive days of high-intensity fighting, the ammunition stock on the entire battleship was almost completely used up. When we were fighting just now, shells and bullets were consumed like running water, and dozens of torpedoes were counted every time they were fired.

Hit a "Thousand-armed Kannon!" ", although it is very expensive. But as long as one hits you, it is earned, and most of the soldiers on the current battleship Xuanwu are students, and the teacher's order is "Let's fight!" ”

It's when the bullets run out that they stop. Otherwise, the frightened and angry students themselves simply would not have enough reason to stop at such a tense moment!

At this time, a man with a silver beard unbuttoned his shirt, and his chest was covered with heart hair, which was dark and shiny, which formed a strong contrast with his beard.

He didn't wear any other uniform, but he wore a navy bud hat with a golden ribbon flowing on the back, which meant that the old man was also an officer on the battleship Xuanwu. After he came to the command tower, after seeing Jia Zhongshan, he first shouted in Chinese; "Coal! Coal! Coal! Then he started to teach his German!

Moses knew four languages, Hebrew, English, French, and Russian. But he didn't stay in Germany, so he didn't know German.

Jia Zhongshan put down the telescope in his hand. Began to answer in German, the German old man's question, but apparently did not convince the old man. The old man first waved his fist to Jia Zhongshan to speak, but found that the captain had been holding a telescope and looking at the ocean in the distance. He didn't pay any attention to him, so the old man walked towards the power room, speaking German that the other officers did not understand.

At this time, the black smoke coming out of the chimney of the battleship Xuanwu suddenly became whiter, and after a while it became black. The speed of the entire battleship could no longer maintain its top speed, which made the Japanese fleet and the Xuanwu in the back closer and closer.

Ito Youheng in the back was also observing the movements of the Xuanwu battleship for a moment, and finally in various signs, Ito Youheng could definitely judge that the battleship in front of him had not much fuel, and there was no difference between a battleship without fuel and a tiger without feet!

Ito ordered all the Japanese warships to start moving at full speed, and the time for revenge had come. The entire Japanese fleet entered into an inexplicable excitement, as if there was a pile of gold in front of it, as if there was the woman in front of it, like a roaring wolf pack rushing towards the battleship Xuanwu.

The chimney of the battleship Xuanwu, after two black smoke rises at the end, the smoke began to slowly fade, and the speed of the battleship began to slowly decrease. The sailors on the battleship could see that the Japanese fleet behind them was getting closer and closer to themselves.

So the sailors, including the wounded, but everyone who could move occasionally, rushed to the combat post, including the sailors of logistics, power, communications in the shipyard below, came to the combat post, ready for the last glorious moment!

This time it was the Japanese fleet that began to fire first, although the Japanese fleet was still far from the battleship Xuanwu!

Cannonballs, bullets, and torpedoes continued to explode around the battleship Xuanwu, and the artillery fire on the battleship Xuanwu was also fiercely returning fire, and by that time many main and secondary guns, and even heavy machine guns, had ceased fire because of the lack of ammunition.

At this time, the Japanese battleships became even more rampant, and began to frantically pour ammunition on the battleship Xuanwu, but their good fortune lasted only a few minutes!