Chapter 191: The Disaster at the Port of Incheon

On May 23, the first year of the Chinese Empire, at about 17 o'clock in the evening, half of the sunset had already hidden under the sea, and the fiery red sun dyed half of the sea red, and with the weakening of the sun's afterglow, the sea breeze gradually became larger. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

The two remaining warships of the DPRK withdrew from the battlefield very interestingly, and almost all the officers and men of the DPRK Navy were already soaked, but none of them felt cold, and all of them watched the two iron currents that were fighting fiercely.

At this time, the Japanese fleet saw the arrival of reinforcements, and they were all for a while, and the soldiers on the battleship Yoshino, which had lost power, began to run back and forth on the deck like crazy, and they were shooting at the warships of the Chinese Empire from the small cannons above.

However, the sinking of the Yoshino was irretrievable, and the battleships "Yoshien" and "Shinen" gave their gifts very kindly when they passed by this Yoshino Yoshino, and then followed behind the "Dingyuan" ironclad ship. Sailed towards the Japanese battleship that had just arrived.

There were seven battleships in front of the Dingyuan ironclad ship, and when Deng Shichang saw the battleship in front of him clearly, he couldn't believe his eyes at all, what was Japan going to do!

The main force of the Second Combined Fleet of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire, after the first firing of the six battleships, none of the battleships turned back, which made the Japanese battleships that still had combat effectiveness feel very ashamed!

After the first round of firing with the Huaxia fleet, the two remaining Japanese warships, the Yaeyama and the Akagi, all turned around with their right rudder full, turned around as quickly as possible, and continued to fight with the Huaxia fleet. But after they turned around, all they saw was the ass of the Chinese Imperial fleet.

At this time, the Japanese warship "Chiyoda" had begun to sink, and according to Japanese military regulations, the crew could leave their combat posts only after the captain gave the order to abandon the ship, and they had to keep it in order and not disgrace the Japanese Navy.

But at this time, the captain of the Japanese cruiser "Chiyoda", Masami Uchida, had already flown out of the sky to see his god of sunshine, and all the officers in the command room were dead, and those who did not die were already dying.

The Japanese sailors who did not receive the officer's order were carrying out the final order given by the commander to drain the seawater that entered the hull, and now the steam engine and internal combustion engine, including the electric motor, have lost power, so these Japanese sailors are using buckets, basins and other tools to scoop the seawater out of the battleship.

At that time, it was very obvious that all their efforts were in vain, "Chiyoda! "Inevitably, it's going to sink!

Some of the crew began to jump into the icy water and began to save themselves, but the captain of the battleship was not equipped with any life-saving equipment at all, and in order to ensure the morale of the army to win, the Japanese never trained in survival and escape skills.

At this time, the Japanese battleships "Yaeyama" and "Akagi" had already come to their side, but these two battleships had no intention of stopping at all, and they were chasing the main force of the Chinese Imperial Fleet with all their might. Aimed at the three ironclad ships of Huaxia in the back!

Just as the "Yaeyama" locked the battleship "Yiyuan", which had entered the range of fire, the hull of the "Yaeyama" shook violently, accompanied by loud noises and shaking. The propellers behind the Yaeyama also began to make a strange sound of metal rubbing, followed by the sound of metal crashing.

Then the speed of the Yaeyama began to slow down, and then the captain of the Yaeyama, Shio Shio, spoke; "Is this a submarine? Is there also a submarine in the Second Fleet? What do the intelligence services do! These damn guys! ”

Higashii Shio really complained and could only complain in the command room, and at this time, the "Akagi" next to the "Yaeyama" also exploded, accompanied by a strong vibration.

Higashii Shioma ordered the torpedo to prepare and fire at the drop where the sound came, but at this time the "Yaeyama" and "Akagi" did not know where their enemies were!

And there was also an explosion around the "Chiyoda", which made the warship, which was already tilted, roll over faster, and soon the "Chiyoda" finally turned over, and he had never seen the sun's belly turned over.

Although the last rays of the sun will soon be gone!

Around the "Yoshino", two deep whirlpools also appeared, and in the direction of the whirlpool, black lines shot out, and the black lines exploded at the edge of the "Yoshino" shipstring, and the "Yoshino" lost power, and there was no way to dodge.

At this time, Kawagen was going to issue an order to shoot all the torpedoes and shells on the battleship, and no longer expected to be able to leave here, and at this time, the crew of the "Yoshino" began to go crazy, desperately firing cannons, loading shells, opening cannons, loading shells!

Although there is no goal at all ahead!

"Yoshino" is one of Japan's main warships, is one of the few Japanese ironclad ships, this war "Yoshino" luck is a little bad, if not hit his propeller, "Yoshino" ironclad is very durable!

At this time, the sky was completely dark, and the Japanese warships came out of the "Yoshino" and stopped well outside the sea, and the other three warships; "Chiyoda" has already gone to the bottom of the sea to "sleep". The other two warships, the Yaeyama and Akagi, had already begun to tilt and sink.

By this time, the whirlpool around the Yoshino had increased to four, and by this time the sky had completely darkened, and the dark clouds in the sky were so thick that even a little starlight was not willing to give the sea. Four whirlpools began to approach the Yoshino!

At this time, the "Yoshino" had already fired all the shells and torpedoes, and it was quietly waiting for the arrival of the left rear moment, and about 500 meters from the "Yoshino", the whirlpools stopped.

The torpedo fired at the Yoshino sounded on the strings of the Yoshino, but the Yoshino showed no signs of sinking and tilting at all! It seems that the ironclad is really not bragging!

The fire of the "Yoshino" had not yet been extinguished, and by the faint light, the whirlpool on the starboard edge of the Yoshino disappeared, and a Japanese sailor who had fallen into the water felt something under his feet. Finally, the plank he was lying on was lifted high.

A piece of "land" appeared out of thin air under his feet, and this "land" was very slippery, and there was a loud noise from inside. The Japanese sailor did not dare to stand up, he lay on it and shouted loudly; "Mama-san! I'm home! Mommy San! I'm home! ”

At this time, the lid of the submarine's platform opened, and a person crawled out of it, and he slowly looked outside, and heard the outside "Cover up!" After the voice, he knew that there was someone outside, and it was a Japanese.

When he came out, he didn't have his own matching gun, and at this time there was a "Nightingale pistol!" "This pistol is smaller, easier to carry, and much lighter than the" Desert Eagle "!

He stood on the top floor of the ladder in the platform, looked at the Japanese soldier lying on the submarine, raised his gun to aim, and then fired three shots! The Japanese soldier slipped into the sea, and the submarine sailor came to the front of the platform, equipped with a heavy machine gun, and began to fire at the Japanese scattered in the sea!

Then another man came out of it, and a white man with blond hair and blue eyes, seeing such an action, immediately came up to stop it, and spoke in fluent Chinese; "You're not right, they can't resist anymore!"

Then there was a burst of gunfire! At this time, the "Yoshino" fired a heavy machine gun in the direction of the sound, and the blonde white man was bleeding from his mouth, and his chest was shattered.

When the "Dingyuan", "Yiyuan", and "Xinyuan" saw the seven battleships in front of them, they didn't know what to say in their hearts, and these seven battleships began to fire first after seeing the "Dingyuan".

The 120-mm howitzer was on the port side of the "Dingyuan", and the Dingyuan vibrated a little. There was one more crater on the port side of the "Dingyuan"!

Looking at the seven warships in front of him, the largest one did not exceed two thousand tons, and these warships were very obviously converted from merchant ships, and the bellies of these ships were too big to move and turn quickly!

Deng Shichang put down the telescope and slapped the command platform fiercely; "Omoto knows where this old bastard is! Where is the Matsushima! ”

Fang Yiyi, who was closest to Deng Shichang, didn't have time to pay attention to the captain's boring words at all; He shouted loudly into the microphone; "The main cannon fires! Annihilate this fleet, not a single one is left, and if we let go of one, it will be a shame for our second fleet! ”

The main guns of the "Dingyuan" opened fire, and the arc that crossed the air fell on the edge of the Japanese battleship, and after seeing the scene in front of them, the "Yiyuan," "Xinyuan," "Zhiyuan," "Jingyuan," and "Weiyuan," and the battleships all began to open fire.

A 305-mm howitzer main gun of the ironclad ship "Shinyuan" hit a Japanese warship, which was like a white radish rolling on the ground, directly overturned its belly in the ocean, and then turned back under the huge inertia!

Such a scene was staged in front of Deng Shichang three times, and in the third confrontation, the naval fleet rebuilt from Japanese merchant ships was overturned, and none of them could sail out of this sea area.

Deng Shichang returned to the "Yoshino" with the fleet, and the warship had no intention of giving in under the blows of four submarines.

At this time, the four submarines were far away from the "Yoshino", and at this time the submarines all made a loud noise, if only the "Yoshino" and the artillery party were still there, follow the sound and launch, none of these submarines should want to run away!

These submarines are dual-powered submarines, and when they are underwater, they need to be powered by electric motors, but the endurance time under water is very short, only two to three hours, so now they are all floating on the surface and using the engine to drive the motor to generate electricity!

At this time, the Dingyuan took the other warships and sailed to the edge of the "Yoshino"!

The Dingyuan turned on the lights and began to persuade Heyuan to surrender with the flag!

But when the Bannerman was only halfway through his movements, a gunshot rang out, and the Bannerman fell off the high mast lookout!

Fang Game was very angry when he saw that his soldiers were killed, and said to Deng Shichang; "Commander! We've done our best! ”

Deng Shichang put down the binoculars and rubbed his swollen temples with both hands! He was thinking about something, and did not answer the question of Fang Game!

At this time, the 305-mm main gun of the "Xinyuan" ironclad ship fired, and then the main gun of the "Yiyuan" ironclad ship, and the other battleships also opened fire together. Because the "Yoshino" could not move, the Huaxia Empire practiced this battleship as a "target".

Six battleships frantically tilted their shells at the Yoshino battleship!

At 18:55 p.m. on May 23, Japan's main battleship in the Yellow Sea, the ironclad ship "Yoshino", was sunk, and three cruisers, "Chiyoda", "Yaeyama", and "Akagi", were sunk in the same area.

The Huaxia Empire dealt a devastating blow to the Japanese Second Fleet that came to support, but it was too dark for the Huaxia Second Fleet to be sure whether it had completely sunk these warships, as if it had not allowed them to escape!

After Ding Ruchang saw such a report, he couldn't cry or laugh! In the later comment it is written; "The merits of the war are uncertain, how to determine the merits of the war! Unsolved cases too! ”

It was not until the "Xinping 34" year that the Chinese Empire conducted a thorough survey of the battle area of that year, and only then did it determine the results of the night battle at sea that year. Of course, at that time, all the witnesses were no longer alive.

Deng Shichang came to Dehe with his fleet and submarines under the water, and the supply ship of the Chinese Empire "Chaohu" was waiting for Deng Shichang's fleet in this sea area, and at this time the "Yi Sunsin" of the North Korean fleet was also moored in this sea area!

Now the battleship "Yi Sunsin" is full of sailors, the "Yang Wanchun" has sunk in the nearby waters, and the other battleship "Liuseonglong" is nowhere to be found, so the current North Korean fleet is left with one battleship, not the entire army.

The supplies carried by the "Chaohu" supply ship can be replenished to the Second Fleet at most once, and then "the supply ship itself will return to its home port and carry supplies again to follow the battleship to fight together!"

In the first year of Guangming, at 10 a.m. on May 24, the Second Combined Fleet of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire, the supply ship "Chaohu" was brightly lit! The largest consumption of the Chinese Empire this time is the cannonball, and the hit rate of the cannonballs in the naval battle is very low, so the carrying volume has become one of the most important indicators to measure the performance of warships.

Now that the Chinese Empire has supply ships, it also has the ability to sail in the ocean, and this is where the advantage of the Chinese Empire lies. The replenishment was carried out according to the importance of the battleship, and before the Dingyuan returned, no matter how much Li Jiasheng pleaded, the Chaohu did not issue him supplies and ammunition.

After the warships of the Chinese Empire were replenished with ammunition, they were all resurrected with full blood, Li Jiasheng came to Deng Shichang, and almost begged Deng Shichang with a crying voice, in fact, if he didn't come, Deng Shichang would also give him supplies and ammunition, after all, the current situation in Incheon Port is unknown, and Incheon Port is the home port of the North Korean fleet!

The cruiser of the North Korean fleet "Yi Sunsin" was replenished by the supply ship "Chaohu", and the waterline of Chaohu was increased from the original 8 meters to 3,1 meters. At this time, the supply ship of the "Chaohu" still looked quite large.

At about 7 o'clock in the morning of May 24, the Second Fleet of the Chinese Empire was divided into two directions, and the battleship "Weiyuan", which had been wounded, escorted the "Chaohu supply ship" back to Lushun Military Port for repairs.

Deng Shichang led other warships towards Incheon Port, and at a distance of about 20 nautical miles from Incheon Port, a large number of oil stains and hull garbage fragments appeared on the sea, as well as the corpses of North Korean Navy soldiers and sailors scattered on the sea, but there was no trace of the cruiser "Liuseonglong"!

All signs indicate that "the cruiser 'Yanagi Dragon' escaped from the battlefield, and failed to escape the entanglement of fate, he still sank!" ”

There is no sign of life on the surface of the sea, not a single living person!

At this time, the North Korean battleship "Yi Sunsin" sounded the whistle first, and the sound echoed on the sea!

At this time, they should stop, salvage the bodies of the seamen, collect the information on the corpses, and then hold a ceremony of sea burial, so that they can go on the road with peace of mind, but the cruiser "Yi Sunsin" did not stop, and the DPRK will know very well about the waiting!

"Brothers! Wait for me, we'll be here soon! ”

Incheon Port appeared in Deng Shichang's eyes, where the fire was soaring, black smoke rose from various places in Incheon Port, and the sound of guns came from time to time, but it was obvious that the confrontation above the hostility at this time was not very fierce.

At this time, several warships rushed out in the direction of Incheon Port, and their flagpoles fluttered the sun flag of the Japanese Navy, welcoming the sea breeze, like a stubborn child, rushing towards Deng Shichang's flagship!

The four cruisers "Honyoshi", "Takecheong", "Kata", and "Sashimma" helped the Japanese army to seize the port of Incheon yesterday, and the original plan was that the "Yoshino" led the other three warships to destroy the Korean Navy, and then the two fleets turned around at the port of Incheon.

I didn't expect to wait all night, but it was the person they didn't want to see the most! But Japan would not give in, so under the leadership of the "Benyoshi", these four Japanese warships rushed towards the Dingyuan without fear!

Looking at these lovely Japanese battleships, the Dingyuan was the first to send out a greeting, and the main and secondary guns on the Dingyuan battleship opened fire at the same time, and the graceful posture of the shells was accompanied by a loud sound of breaking the air, sliding towards the Japanese flagship "Benyoshi" cruiser!

Ignoring Deng Shichang's order, the "Yi Sunsin" rushed to the front of the queue with full horsepower, firing shells at the approaching Japanese fleet, and the two fleets outside the port of Inchon were scuffled without any delay, and after three rounds, the Japanese warships began to flee to the open sea, and the second fleet began to chase behind!

The "Yi Sun-sin" sailed towards its home port, but just as the sailors on the "Yi Sunsin" thought that they could finally go home, the shore defense artillery fire actually opened fire on the cruiser "Yi Sunsin"!

Deng Shichang's worst fear still happened!