Chapter 211: The Battle of the Bohai Sea

In the second year of light, on April 6, the morning and afternoon did not alternate. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info This is the East China Sea, and the sun has risen to the height of a chopstick. The bright sunlight shone on the deck of the all-white battleship Xuanwu, and the whole battleship looked extraordinarily white, but the soldiers facing the sea breeze still felt a little cold.

The battleship Xuanwu, as the backup ship of the Chinese Empire, has not yet officially entered the naval sequence of the Chinese Empire. Rear Admiral Jia Zhongshan, vice president of the Imperial Naval University, led a group of students from the Naval University to train.

The frigates in the Shanghai military harbor were also only two cruisers of 2,000 tonnage, or because these two battleships were not in good condition, they were not suitable for ocean voyages. That's why the frigate will remain in Shanghai.

But now the time has come for the crisis, and as the only active warship on the southeast coast at present, it is their duty to defend the maritime frontier. Because the three fleets of the empire were strong enough, this made the two battleships in Shanghai not sufficiently prepared.

Even when he received Li Hongzhang's order, the captain of one of the battleships was no longer on the battleship. In this way, when the personnel and battle situation were not clear, the Shanghai reserve fleet of the Chinese Empire sailed south after leaving Chongming Island to find the Japanese navy.

According to intelligence, these Japanese warships have been replenished with coal on the port of Taizhou. Originally, all this coal was transported from Lianyungang and stacked on the port. The Japanese warships attacked Taizhou, which was not a strategic location, for the purpose of burning coal.

The situation is already very obvious, there must be a traitor or a Japanese spy hidden in the Chinese Empire, otherwise how would these Japanese warships know that Taizhou can be replenished with coal. Now the NSS and the CIA are going crazy, it's a shame!

On the lookout at the highest point of the battleship Xuanwu, two young sailors under the age of twenty wore it. They were dressed in all white sailors with dark blue stripes, and they were in charge of lookouts. One of the sailors opened a box of canned luncheon meat.

A large piece was dug out with the key to open the iron lid and brought to the mouth of the comrade holding the binocular, and the soldier opened his mouth directly, and a can of luncheon meat was stuffed into his mouth. The two of them settled breakfast on the lookout in this way.

Because there were not enough people on the battleship, and most of them were interns, as well as Jews who had already joined the nationality of the Chinese Empire. There are also American, British, and German instructors, and the entire Xuanwu should be equipped with the same seamen as the battleship Qinglong, but now all the people together are only 637 people.

Because these foreign naval officers who served as instructors in the Chinese Empire, their military ranks and military orders were the same as those in China, so the military ranks on the current Xuanwu battleship are very high.

From the vice admiral who is already close to the age of sixtieth year, and the students who have just arrived at the Naval Academy to study, the age difference is very large. The nationalities are even more varied, and the entire battleship Xuanwu is like a joint warship of the international community.

At this time, the soldiers holding the telescope found something, about 20 degrees due south of the sea level, and thick black smoke rose from the sea level. The warrior had no way to swallow what was in his mouth, so he opened his mouth and spit out what was in his mouth. And then it comes to; "Alert! Alert! ”

The other soldier also saw the smoke on the sea, so he didn't care about eating any more, and directly tapped the canned food box in his hand on the mast that passed down. The sound of the knock immediately shocked the captain and first mate on the control tower.

Jia Zhongshan saw the huge black pillar in the south, and Jia Zhongshan was very familiar with this scene. At that time, the Beiyang sailors used such poor coal, the flame was not big, but the smoke was really large. Since the Emperor of Light succeeded to the throne, the condition of the navy has slowly improved.

Therefore, Jia Zhongshan was very sure that the front was Japan's combined fleet. Jia Zhengshan looked at the tall blond man with blue eyes next to him, and the first mate of the Xuanwu at this time. Moses from the United States. Garindell instructor, mainly teaching artillery shooting.

Because the time was too urgent, the other major officers of the Huaxia Empire each had their own warships to manage, and there was no way to transfer personnel at all, so this student of the Naval Academy who was unemployed after graduating from the US Naval Academy.

In the Chinese Empire, because of the stormy situation, he became the first mate of the battleship Xuanwu. The other instructors were older than the young man, but none of them were members of the combat department, one was a mechanic, and the other was in charge of logistics.

After seeing the Japanese fleet, Jia Zhongshan ordered the whole ship to enter the battle state, and at the same time ordered to send a message to the other fleets of the empire, ordering the other two battleships to be on the right side of the Xuanwu battleship.

Because now we have a small number of warships, we only need to drag this fleet and wait for the arrival of the main battleships of the empire, which will be considered a victory. Jia Zhongshan spoke to Moses in Chinese; "You command the main turret!"

Moses. Girindell said; "Yes! My Commander! ”

Jia Zhongshan ordered; "The whole fleet! Full speed ahead! We are fearless, the brave are invincible, and the Chinese Empire will win! ”

As the battleship Xuanwu accelerated, huge smoke rings rose above the huge chimney. Ito Yuhiro also saw the battleship Xuanwu, but he felt very lucky, because he thought that the battleship Seiryu in front of him had only two frigates with it.

This is truly an opportunity given by God to the Japanese Empire!

So Ito raised a flag, "The flag says that the empire is rising and falling here!" ”

All Japanese soldiers knew what this meant! So the entire combined fleet of Japan was ready to serve the empire loyally.

On the eve of the turn of the century, two thousand-year-old neighbors, separated by a sea, once again broke out into a fierce conflict. At this point, the thousand-year-old master-apprentice relationship between the Chinese Empire and Japan was exhausted, and the arrogant Japan had to pay a heavy price.

Although there were only three battleships, the battleship Xuanwu still raised the flagship flag, and with the flagship flag raised by the battleship Xuanwu, Ito Youheng was even more convinced that the battleship in front was the central flagship of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire, the "Qinglong battleship!" ”

Ito Yuhiro ordered; "Matsushima!" "Itsukushima!" "Hashidate!" The four battleships of the "Takachiho" besieged the battleship "Blue Dragon!" "The other battleships were responsible for striking the other two cruisers.

The second year of the Chinese Empire, that is, April 6, 1895. At about 8:30 a.m., the mixed fleet of the reserve navy of the Chinese Empire and the fleet of Japan met in the sea area where the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea meet.

At about 8:33, the battleship Xuanwu of the Chinese Empire took the lead in firing at the Japanese fleet, and then the Japanese Matsushima also fired at the battleship Xuanwu.

But the shells all made it to the vicinity of the battleship, and the whole battleship rose and fell with the huge waves. In the boiler room of the battleship Xuanwu, an old German man with a big beard shouted in English at the beginning: "Loss of Kray!" Lose Cray! Lose Cray! ”

Most of the Chinese students can understand, so let the students who fill the fuel be faster. But when a great shaking of the hull was felt, then the old sailors knew, and now the fire had been handed over, and the lives of these sailors at the bottom of the ship were handed over to the commander on the batteries above.

At the same time, for the sake of their own lives, everyone on the entire battleship has to do their own work, because no matter what goes wrong with that station now, it will be fatal to the people on the Gengge battleship.

So the old man himself took the lead, wielding a shovel, and with standard movements he swung coal and asphalt-like mixtures into the boiler, and when these fuels were thrown into the furnace, there was a pungent smell coming out, but the flames were even more vigorous.

Jia Zhongshan, who was in the command room of the battleship Xuanwu, saw the formation of the Japanese fleet, and he knew that his battleship must be the focus of the Japanese fleet's attack, and then the attack of the battleship Xuanwu must be focused.

So Jia Zhongshan ordered Moses to let his main gun always choose the Japanese flagship Matsushima as the target of attack. Moses replied in a microphone in fluent Chinese; "The last general understands!"

At this time, the cruiser Hashidate, commanded by Hidaka Natsunojo, rushed to the front of the Japanese fleet. The cannonball he fired hit the starboard side of the Xuanwu, but it did not have much effect on the Xuanwu.

At this time, Moses also began to adjust the gun position, and began to return fire towards the Hashidate, and the cannonball hit the front end of the port side of the Hashidate, because the foredeck was made of wooden planks, so the planks at the upper end of the deck began to break under the huge impact, and the sections of several planks were broken and supported, all of which made Moses see in his eyes.

It was an incredible thing that the Japanese battleship, known as the cruiser, turned out to be only an iron shell, and the rest of the parts were actually made of solid wood. This was an eye-opener for Moses, so Moses began to adjust his gun positions and try to attack the foredeck of the Japanese ships.

8 is about 55 minutes, the two fleets are completely scorched together, and the naval battle is not like on land, neither side can stop. The Xuanwu and two frigates began to take the Japanese fleet around the sea.

The battleship Xuanwu was like a king on the dance floor, first dancing with a dance partner, and before he finished the dance, he just turned around and found another dance partner waiting for him. The heavy armor of the battleship Xuanwu was overwhelming for a while with Japanese firepower.

The Japanese battleships were afraid of the firepower of the battleship Xuanwu, and the battleship Xuanwu also maintained a state of imminent separation. But Ito knew that time would not give Ben any advantage, and that the flagship of the Huaxia Imperial Navy must be sunk in order to achieve the strategic goal of giving Huaxia a major blow.

So, Ito Yuhiro played the order on the flagship Matsushima, the lore attack!

This time, it was the cruiser Takachiho who rushed towards the battleship Genwu desperately, and Ito wanted to stage "Replace the commander with a pawn!" "The trick!