Seeing this scene, all the Chinese naval officers in the command tower of the cruiser "Fujing" cheered loudly. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

But unlike his elated subordinates, Lin Yizhe held a telescope and watched this scene quietly, but his brows became tighter and tighter, as if he was in deep thought.

At this time, the ironclad ship "Higashi", the flagship of the Japanese fleet, was still being hit by shells fired by Chinese warships one after another, and explosions continued to occur, and the hull of the ship began to tilt, and it looked as if it was about to sink. The jubilation of the officers and men of the Chinese Navy can be imagined, whether as the commander of the Japanese fleet or as one of the only two ironclad ships in Japan, the "East" ironclad ship has pinned too many expectations on the Yamato nation. It can be predicted that once this warship, which was built at a huge cost of national funds, sinks, it will bring a terrible mental disaster to the Japanese Navy.

At this moment, the inside of the "East" ironclad ship has completely turned into hell, "Looking at the enemy ironship from afar, under the bombardment of our ship's bullets, the hull of the ship has tilted, the smoke of gunpowder rises, the four sides are dark, the waves are surging, and the suspected whale salamander is frightened and flees." …… The explosion of a huge bomb caused the gunpowder to explode, like a hundred thunderbolts falling suddenly, and black smoke filled the whole ship......"

At this time, the artillery fire of the "Dong" had completely ceased, and the deck of the Chinese warship was able to walk safely, Zhang Zhihe, the painter of the "Dianshizhai Pictorial", came to the flybridge, looked at the "Dong" shrouded in smoke and flames, and wrote these words next to the drawing.

Rising flames raged on the deck. Black smoke filled the entire gun deck, and "the electric lights, electrical circuits, intercom pipes, water pipes, steam pipes, and elevators were all broken and deformed, and the two ladders were shattered, and everything hung down like grass vines." In the explosion and smoke, the detachment commanders, Navy Lieutenant Akira Ueno, and Second Lieutenant Kunihiko Takagi, who were in charge of directing and supervising the battle on the gun deck, a total of 15 people were killed instantly, and the death was extremely tragic. "The other seriously wounded were 42 men, including the captain of the fleet's guns, Miura Goden, who escaped immediate death suffered a pain worse than death, unlike the first death, which was torn apart by shrapnel and shock waves, most of the wounded were burned by the flames, "some of their hair was burned to ashes, and their bodies were as black as ink; Some were cut by shrapnel; Some have ruptured abdomen; Some of their siblings were lost, and they screamed in grief. "The soldiers were sobbing and couldn't help themselves." Of those, 22 died. The 135-man "East" lost more than one-third of its crew in an instant, and if we take into account that there were still a large number of engineers in the warships of the steam age, the "East" ironclad lost almost all the gunners on the deck, and "the gunners and ammunition depot workers on the deck were either killed or wounded." ”

What is even more terrifying is that, according to the account of Heio Okada, the gunner of the ironclad ship "To", the fire on the gun deck was about to be introduced into the ammunition depot below, and he witnessed the terrible sight of the flames spreading near the ammunition depot. In the face of the raging fire and the black smoke on the deck, the firefighting and damage management personnel of the "East" mustered up the courage to rush into the rescue under the shouts and reprimands of the officers. Fortunately, a strong wind was blowing on the battlefield at this time, and the direction of the wind was also favorable to the "East", "fortunately, the wind blew in some fresh air from the broken side, and the black smoke became thin." The fire brigade was able to extinguish the fire as best they could. When the fire brigade rushed into the ammunition depot, they were greeted by the following scene: "The head, hands, feet, and intestines of the deceased were scattered everywhere, and the face and back were blown out so that it was difficult to distinguish them." The muscles on those broken bones have long been burned, like cremated white bones, sticky blood flows along the direction of the ship's inclination, dripping blood and still trembling slightly The flesh sticks to the cannon body, and has not yet cooled......"

Witnessing the terrible scene on the deck, Ito Yuma's heart tightened.

"How...... So many enemy ships! Hidematsu Tsunoda pointed out the window and said in horror.

Ito Yuma was taken aback, he suddenly raised his binoculars, looked in the direction pointed by Hidematsu Tsunoda, and immediately found that there were three more Chinese cruisers on the sea filled with gunsmoke!

That's right, Chinese cruisers! At this moment, these Chinese warships are approaching at high speed, and like other Chinese warships, the dragon flag is flying high on the mast!

Ito Yuma let out a long sigh, put down the binoculars, and looked at Ito Yuhiro, whose face was already dead at this time.

At the same time, aboard the "Fujing," Lin Yizhe also spotted three Chinese cruisers that had just arrived on the battlefield, and he raised his binoculars to look at them for a while and recognized them as the "Weiyuan," "Henghai," and "Kangji" ships that had been assigned to Beiyang.

When Lin Yizhe sent a letter to the coastal provinces to repatriate the ship's warships stationed in key ports, the three "Weiyuan"-class cruisers "Weiyuan," "Henghai," and "Kangji," which had already been assigned to the Beiyang side, were conducting formation combat exercises on the high seas under the leadership of Japanese and Italian foreign personnel. After the "Feihong" rushed back to Fuzhou to report the news of the Japanese invasion of Taiwan, the news quickly spread to Beiyang, and Li Hongzhang, the governor of Zhili and minister of Beiyang, was so anxious that he immediately asked the "Feiying" high-speed notification ship in Tianjin to set off to look for the three Beiyang ships, and brought his warrant to order "the three ships to leave for the Taiwan Strait immediately to find a brigade to help in the war." The "Flying Eagle" pipe belt Ye Zugui immediately led the "Flying Eagle" to set off and found the three Beiyang ships in the sea area of the exercise on the high seas.

After learning that the main fleet had already started a war with the Japanese Navy, the commanders of the three Beiyang ships were also Zhang Cheng, the new commander of the "Weiyuan" warship, Lu Lunhua, the "Henghai" warship, Qiu Baoren, the "Kangji" warship, Ye Zugui, the "Flying Eagle" warship, and the foreign officers who helped with the training, such as Riyige, An Letao, and Sigongseg, who had helped with the training, decided that the "Flying Eagle" would go to Tianjin to report back, while the three Beiyang warships would immediately set off to help in the battle in the Langqiao waters of Taiwan.

In order to rush to the battlefield as soon as possible, the three Beiyang ships advanced at full speed, and finally arrived at the battlefield in time, and just when the three Beiyang ships had just sailed to the sea off Langqiao, a paddle gunboat appeared in front of the three Beiyang ships!

This paddlewheel gunboat is none other than the Japanese Navy's "Kasuga".

At the beginning of the war, the "Kasuga", which was beaten by a volley of artillery from the Chinese cruiser fleet, knew that it was completely a target in this battle, and the captain of the "Kasuga" Inoue Yoshishin Shaosa did not fall in love with the battle, but chose to retreat. Although the "Kasuhi" suffered a lot of shells in the encounter with the Chinese cruiser, fortunately they were all small-caliber machine shells, and although many sailors on the deck were killed, fortunately the hull was not seriously damaged, and the engine was intact, so that the Chinese cruiser fleet besieged the "Dong" and "Rijin", and the Chinese artillery fleet besieged the "Fengxiang" and "Meng Chun", all of them had no time to take care of their old ship, and the cover of the billowing gunpowder smoke on the sea, and escaped from the battlefield.

Just when Inoue Ryoshin had just breathed a sigh of relief, the three Chinese cruisers that suddenly appeared in front of him suddenly made his heart sink again.

Seeing this paddle gunboat with the Japanese flag, the three Chinese cruisers immediately began to bombard unceremoniously, Inoue Yoshishin commanded the "Kasuga" to resist with all its might, but under the absolute superior firepower of the three Beiyang ships, it was soon shot in many places, first the paddle wheel on one side was damaged, and it circled on the sea, and then all the guns on the ship were destroyed, and a large fire was ignited, and a large amount of water entered the side of the hull, and it soon capsized. Most of the Japanese naval officers and sailors on the ship, including Inoue Yoshio, fell into the water, and a few sank with the ship, and 32 people died after the incident, and the rest were rescued by the Chinese warship lowering the boat.

After sinking the "Kasuga", the three Beiyang ships continued to sail towards the battlefield, and at this time, the Japanese fleet had no warships floating on the sea except for the "East" ironclad ship.

"There's no point in continuing to fight," Ito Yuma looked at the deck of the "East", which had been stained red with blood, raised his head and looked at the warships of Britain, France, and the United States that were gradually sailing into the battlefield to watch the battle, sighed, and said, "Raise the white flag and surrender!" ”

"No!" Ito Yuhyung listened to his brother's words, and his originally gray face suddenly turned the color of pig liver, "I will never surrender!" ”

"Yaga! Do you want everyone to die here in vain with you? Ito Yuma was furious and stepped forward and slapped Ito Yuhyung hard.

Ito glared at his brother angrily, as if he was about to breathe fire in his eyes. And at this moment, the guns of the "East" sounded again.

"I'd rather die in battle than be a prisoner of the Qing people!" Ito Yohyung roared, turned his head and strode out of the command tower, but a series of machine shells exploded in front of the command tower, and he subconsciously stopped,

At this time, the deck of the "East" was no longer a scene of the world. There were corpses and wounded lying everywhere, the sound of shell explosions and painful moans and screams resounded, it may be that the enemy's artillery fire was too terrifying, some Japanese sailors actually held their heads and shrank in the corner, screaming desperately, and some people sat there, clasped their hands together, and chanted "Nam no Amitabha"! There were only a few gunners, who were still insisting on the operation of artillery firing.

Ito's heart was full of despair, and then he suddenly saw that several foreign warships that had been watching the battle also sailed into the battlefield at this time.

Seeing the French ironclad ship "Normandy" at the front, Ito turned his head and looked at the Chinese warships with strong French style that were pouring artillery fire on his battleship, and his heart was full of resentment towards the French!

If it weren't for the French secretly helping the Chinese, the Chinese would not have been able to have these new steam warships!

At this time, Ito seemed to have forgotten that the ironclad ship "East" under his command was an authentic French cargo.

As if they were in the same mind as Ito Youheng, and seeing this French ironclad ship proudly sailing in size that surpassed all the warships present, several Japanese gunners actually fired a shot at it!

Seeing a 70-pound shell flying far away, it landed not far from the bow of the "Normandy" and exploded, and the commanders of the tower Ito Yuma and Tsunoda Hidematsu looked at each other in horror.

"What's going on? What do the Japanese want to do? ”

Colonel El, the captain of the "Normandy", brushed away the small droplets of water that had splashed on his body, and said with a frown and annoyance.

"They see us as enemies." Commodore May, the French admiral who was also on the flybridge, also frowned, "Savage Japanese! ”

"Don't they know that we are here to watch the battle, not to fight them!" El said angrily, "This is a serious violation of international conventions! ”

"Yes, we need to protest to the Japanese government." Maye sneered and said, "These barbarians must be made to understand what the consequences of this are." ”

At this time, Lin Yizhe and the Chinese naval officers who were on the "Fujing" also noticed this extremely strange shot by the Japanese. Seeing the crazy actions of the Japanese, Pei Jinquan and the others were very surprised, only Lin Yizhe immediately guessed what was going on, and couldn't help but snort coldly.

It seems that in this era, whether it is China or Japan, there is no shortage of brainless and angry youth!

Seeing the foreign warship approaching, Lin Yizhe, Pei Jinquan and others all raised their binoculars to look, and when Pei Jinquan saw clearly who the captain was standing on the flybridge of the British warship "Oedisha", he couldn't help but be stunned.

"Sir, do you see that? The captain of that British warship ......"

"It's Lieutenant Colonel Coles who is making things difficult for us." Lin Yizhe remembered the past in the UK and nodded quietly.

At this time, not only Lin Yizhe and Pei Jinquan, but also Lu Wenjing on the "Jianjing" also recognized Coles. Several people unanimously said in their hearts, "It's really a coincidence, and there is no book."

"That French captain is also an old man." Lin Yizhe put down the binoculars and said.

Pei Jinquan raised his binoculars and looked at the "Normandy" and immediately recognized the figure of Colonel El.

"It's Colonel El!" Pei Jinquan said happily.

Er used to be Guba's adjutant when he was the principal of the Electric Thunder School, and when Lin Yizhe went to France to meet Guba, Pei Jinquan went with him, so he met Er and became friends.

El was one of Lone's old subordinates, who once served as the captain of the cruiser "Refuss", participated in the battle of the port of Kiel with Lone, was promoted to colonel for merit, became Lone's adjutant, and was later sent to the Far East by the French Admiralty to replace the sick Colonel René as the captain of the ironclad ship "Normandy", the flagship of the "Eastern Detachment".

After serving on the "Normandy", he often led French warships to the shipyard "Qingzhou Dockyard" in Mawei Port, Fuzhou for maintenance and repair (one of the conditions for the French side to help the shipmaster build the Qingzhou Dock was that French warships could come here for daily maintenance, and the French were actually quite shrewd in their calculations), and Lin Yizhe and the Chinese naval generals often met and became old acquaintances. is different from Lin Yizhe's "iron buddy" who is lonely, Er is almost worshipping Lin Yizhe. Because this gentleman is convinced of the "Chinese magic box" and firmly believes that this magic box is real. The reason why this is so is because his military exploits are also due to Lin Yizhe, because if it weren't for the existence of the Chinese magic box, he wouldn't know how many more years of seniority.

Thanks to the inefficient promotion system in France, this gentleman went from major to lieutenant colonel for seven years! Because of the relationship between the Chinese magic box, he was promoted from lieutenant colonel to colonel, but it only took one month! Coupled with the relationship between Lin Yizhe and Guba, it is not surprising that he is full of gratitude and admiration for Lin Yizhe.

For Lin Yizhe, the captain of the British flagship is his "rival in love", and the captain of the French flagship is his "fan".

"Order all ships to stop shelling." Lin Yizhe saw that the newly arrived Beiyang three ships fired an accurate salvo at the right time, completely dumbing the guns of the "East", and ordered.

Pei Jinquan understood that Lin Yizhe was worried about the accidental attack of his warship, so he immediately gave a loud order, and with his command, the "Fujing" raised the flag, and the artillery fire of the Chinese warship was calmed down one after another.

At this time, it was about 14 o'clock in the afternoon, and although the fire of the "East" had been extinguished, the ironclad ship was in fact no longer capable of fighting. Although it was Yoshizhe who ordered a ceasefire for all ships, he was not worried that the "Dong" would escape.

After all, around the "East", there are a whole 12 cutting-edge Chinese warships!

At 14:12, a special flag -- the "white flag" -- was raised on the mast of the "East" ironclad ship, and the meaning of this white flag was quite clear: that is, surrender.

Pei Jinquan ordered the "Fujing" to lower the dinghy, but just as the Chinese dinghy was slowly moving towards the "Dong," the white flag of the "Dong" was suddenly lowered, and then a shot was fired at the dinghy.

Seeing the Japanese shells explode not far from the dinghy, stirring up a high column of water and nearly overturning the dinghy, the Chinese officers on the flybridge were all furious.

"Fire." Lin Yizhe put down the binoculars and said calmly.

As soon as Pei Jinquan gave the order, the 40-mm Haqikaisi single-barreled machine gun and the five-barreled machine gun on the "Fujing" roared almost simultaneously, and the Lin's machine gun on the mast also opened fire. Then the 190-mm guns and 140-mm guns of the ships began to fire again.

The salvo of 12 Chinese warships could be said to be extremely ferocious, and the "East" was instantly surrounded by flames and thick smoke, and the people on the foreign warships watching the battle could not help but change color when they saw such fierce artillery fire.

The "East" simply could not withstand such a blow, and the hull began to tilt violently to the right, and Lin Yizhe noticed that the white flag was raised again on the mast of the "East", sneered, and once again ordered a ceasefire.

It is said to be a white flag, but it is actually a white sheet that is much larger than an ordinary white flag.

"Send the flag and ask them if this time is a real surrender or a correctional surrender." Lin Yizhe ordered.

Soon, a string of flags rose on the mast of the "Fujing": "Really down? Correction? ”

Not long after, a series of complicated flags were raised on the already bullet-ridden mast of the "East": "This ship sincerely surrenders." ”