Campbell, the captain of the Hitachi Maru, did not believe that the Chinese warships had killed all the Japanese warships, and he believed that the Chinese did not dare to make excessive moves against their ships, so he only ordered to slow down. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Dare to run!" Seeing that the three Japanese transport ships were still running, Ye Fu, the pipe belt of the cruiser "Chaowu", was a little annoyed.

Under Ye Fu's order, the "Chaowu" ship hoisted a signal flag of "stop moving, otherwise you will bear the consequences." The "Hitachi Maru" slowly stopped and anchored a quarter of a nautical mile away from the "Super Take". "Chengqing", which sailed after the "Chaowu", immediately caught up and further signaled that "drop anchor, otherwise you will bear all the consequences." Immediately after that, the "Chaowu" dropped the ship's course, anchored at a distance of 400 meters from the "Hitachi Maru," and turned the starboard side toward the "Hitachi Maru." The muzzle of the black hole in the door was eyeing the "Hitachi Maru," and the "Chengqing" caught up with the "Sanbang Maru" and the "Yougong Maru" from the other side, and fired warning shots one after another.

Seeing the murderous Chinese warship, the "Sanbang Maru" and the "Meritorious Maru" did not refuse to anchor as arrogant as the "Hitachi Maru", but obediently stopped sailing and lowered the anchor in accordance with the order.

"Tell them to surrender at once!" Ye Fu held the binoculars, looked at the Japanese army officers and soldiers huddled together on the deck of the "Hitachi Maru", and ordered loudly.

The "Chaowu" ship once again issued a flag order, and the "Hitachi Maru" also issued a reply with a flag message: "The two countries have not declared war, they are not belligerents, and they request to return to the place of departure." ”

Ye Fu saw the reply of the "Hitachi Maru", and he was angry for a while.

"Killed so many of us fucking and even said that if there is no declaration of war, it is not a belligerent!" Seeing the flag of the "Hitachi Maru", Wen Tingshan, the first mate of the "Chaowu", said angrily.

Wen Tingshan is a native of Zhenhai, Zhejiang, and many of the sailors on the "Chaowu" ship are also from Zhenhai, Zhejiang; in the Battle of Langqiao, the "Chaowu" ship was hit by Japanese gunfire, a 140-mm gun emplacement was damaged, 6 sailors were killed, and 8 were wounded, which was the largest number of casualties among the Chinese warships participating in the war. Seeing so many fellow villagers killed, coupled with learning that the Japanese army was burning, killing and looting in Taiwan, Wen Tingshan hated the Japanese to the core, and when he saw the Japanese soldiers on the boat, he couldn't help but be angry.

"Send someone over immediately to tell them to surrender immediately, otherwise, send their boatload of people to the sea to feed Wang Ba!" Ye Fu said hatefully.

Soon, the "Chaowu" ship lowered its steam sampan, and the sailor leader Dong Shengkun led ten sailors to the "Hitachi Maru" to give orders directly.

Watching the Chinese dinghy approaching at a fast pace, a commotion began on the deck of the Japanese transport.

The dinghy quickly approached the Hitachi Maru, and at that moment, a surprising scene appeared.

I don't know which officer gave the order, the Japanese Army soldiers of the brigade suddenly gathered on the side of the ship, raised their rifles, and shot at the Chinese boat on the sea!

The Chinese sailors on the dinghy did not expect the Japanese to suddenly shoot at them, and when they were caught off guard, two sailors were shot and killed on the spot, and Dong Shengkun was also shot in the chest and fell down. Seeing this, the sailors in the dinghy immediately turned the bow of the ship and sailed back to the ship.

What was even more surprising was that the Japanese sailors on board the "Hitachi Maru" actually launched a mountain cannon for the Japanese army from the cabin and fired a shot at the "Chaowu" ship!

Due to the close distance, the cannon fired by the Japanese hit the side of the "Chaowu" ship, and with a flash of fire, it made a loud noise, and the "Chaowu" ship emitted a violent tremor.

"Bastard!" Seeing this scene from the telescope, Ye Fu, who was shaken by the hull of the ship and almost fell, jumped to his feet and scolded angrily.

"Fire! Fire now! Ye Fu gritted his teeth and roared.

The "Chaowu" ship started slowly, and the blood-red battle flag was raised on the mast, and in an instant, the "Chaowu" ship began a salvo on one side, and one 190-millimeter gun and three 140-millimeter guns spewed out a stream of fire.

Due to the proximity of the distance, and the fact that the Chinese gunners had long been ready to take aim at the target, the shells hit the target with the first salvo.

As if the sky was falling apart, the boiler of the "Hitachi Maru" was hit and exploded, and the hull of the ship immediately began to sink, and the steam and soot emitted from the boiler filled the space like purgatory.

Perhaps because it was facing a merchant ship transporting troops, and because the other side fired first in a despicable way, the "Chaowu" ship fired four 190-mm shells and 12 140-mm shells in a short period of time. The "Hitachi Maru" was suddenly filled with gunsmoke and flames, mixed with the sound of ghosts crying and wolf howling, and the "Sanbang Maru" and "Yougong Maru" not far away really witnessed this tragic scene.

Seeing the "Chaowu" ship firing, Bei Shanquan, the pipe band of the "Chengqing" ship, was hesitating to fire at the two Japanese troop carriers in front of him, but he saw that the "Sanbang Maru" and the "Yougong Maru" could not wait to raise the white flag!

"Yagayalu! Detective! Traitor! Shigeo Sameshima, who was directing the Japanese soldiers to move the cannons out of the cabin on the deck, couldn't help but curse when he saw the "Sanbang Maru" and "Yougong Maru" with white flags erected.

He originally thought that the soldiers on the two transport ships would follow and attack the enemy ship after seeing the exemplary actions of the "Hitachi Maru", but he didn't expect that they would be greedy for life and afraid of death, and put up a white flag!

Since the "Hitachi Maru" carried an artillery brigade and two infantry squadrons, and carried artillery, it was the Japanese soldiers who moved the cannon out of the cabin for the first time, but what they didn't expect was that before they could prepare the artillery, their destruction came.

Accompanied by the terrifying sound of "dong dong" and "sudden rush," a terrifying stream of bullets and fires were fired from near the flybridge and on the mast of the Chinese warship, and all the 40-mm Haqikaisi five-barreled machine guns and single-barreled machine guns and Lin's machine guns equipped on the "Chaowu" opened fire.

The machine guns fired by the Chinese gunners first hit the gun emplacements of the army mountain guns at the stern of the "Hitachi Maru", not only shattering the artillery carriage of the cannon, but also beating the gunners around the cannon to the flesh and blood, and then the machine gun shells flew to another cannon that the Japanese had just moved out on the deck.

A series of explosions sounded, and Shigeo Sameshima saw that the gun carriage and wheels of the cannon were instantly shattered, and the heavy cannon body fell on the deck, running over the legs of a Japanese gunner who could not dodge, and the gunner screamed loudly, pushing the barrel hard, trying to push the barrel away, but the cannon was too heavy and did not move at all.

Two Japanese soldiers rushed up and pushed the cannon together, and at this moment, it seemed that they were hit by a machine shell, and Sameshima Shigeo saw in horror that almost instantly, blood was splashed everywhere, and the upper body of the three Japanese sailors disappeared at once!

Shigeo Sameshima felt the hot rain falling on his face, his hands, his body, he looked at his hands a little blankly, and found that they had turned red.

On the flybridge of the "Chaowu" ship, Ye Fu held a telescope, looked through the smoke of gunpowder on the sea, and looked at the tragic situation on the "Hitachi Maru" that had begun to tilt and sink opposite, and the anger in his heart was still unsubsidy.

"There are Europa whites on the flybridge of enemy ships." First mate Wen Tingshan put down the binoculars, turned his head to Ye Fu and said, "Do you want to warn them and give them time to leave the ship?" ”

Ye Fu turned his telescope to the flybridge of the "Hitachi Maru", and at this time, on the flybridge, he saw several foreigners dressed very differently from the Japanese. At this time, these foreigners, like the Japanese, were holding rifles and shooting at their warships in a rage!

"No need." Ye Fu said in a deep voice, "Tell the machine gun, shell the enemy ship flying bridge!" ”

Wen Tingshan was stunned, hesitated, and said, "That's ...... Won't there be any trouble......"

As soon as Wen Tingshan's words fell, a shot was fired from the flying bridge of the "Hitachi Maru" on the opposite side, and the ghost made a miracle that hit the signal cable of the "Chaowu", interrupting the signal cable, and then a string of flags fell.

"I said it, shelling enemy ships flying bridges!" Ye Fu shouted.

"Shelling enemy ships flying bridges!" Wen Tingshan no longer hesitated this time, but repeated Ye Fu's order loudly.

On the "Hitachi Maru", Shigeo Sameshima, who had been in a trance by the explosion of the shells, stood up from the deck covered with blood, when suddenly a series of cannonballs from the enemy ship swept past the deck beside him, flew upward, and went straight to the flybridge.

Shigeo Sameshima subconsciously looked up at the flybridge, only to see that the head of the American captain Campbell, who was shooting at the Chinese warship with a rifle, burst out and disappeared in an instant.

Shigeo Onishima stared blankly, only to see Campbell's left shoulder suddenly shattered, and then a huge blood hole appeared in his chest, and his right arm flew into the sky with the blood splattering.

Watching several Americans on the flybridge dismembered and shredded in an instant by some terrifying and magical force like puppets with broken strings, Shigeo Sameshima could hardly believe his eyes.

His ears, which had been shaken by the sound of the explosion, suddenly returned to normal, and the surroundings were filled with heart-rending screams for a while. Shigeo Sameshima turned his head to look and saw the stumps of Japanese soldiers everywhere, soldiers who had not lost their breath crying out in pain in pools of blood, some shouting the names of their parents and relatives, some reciting Buddha there, and others scolding the emperor, believing that the emperor had sent them to death.

At this time, the deck of the "Hitachi Maru" was no longer a scene in the world.

Another violent explosion was heard, and the hull of the "Hitachi Maru" tilted even more, and then a cannonball hit the mast of the "Hitachi Maru", and the mast was blown off at once, and Shigeo Sameshima watched as the broken mast fell into the sea with the sun flag.

Seeing the sun flag floating on the water, Shigeo Sameshima suddenly realized that he still had an important thing to do, and he staggered into the cabin and rummaged through the flag.

Shigeo Sameshima stared blankly at the military flag in his hand, let out a beastly wail, took out a lighter, and lit the military flag.

At this time, several Japanese army soldiers rushed into the cabin to avoid the artillery fire, and they were all stunned when they saw Sameshima Shigeo kneeling there, staring blankly at the burning military flag.

They realized what had happened and all fell to their knees with tears streaming down their faces.

"Sir......

"I am not worthy to be your commander, I have betrayed the trust of His Majesty the Emperor, and I must apologize for my seppuku......" Shigeo Sameshima looked at these subordinates and cried and said, "You, who wants to be my medicho (referring to the mending knife who beheaded the seppuku suicide in the Japanese seppuku ceremony, so that the seppuku can die faster and avoid the pain and torture)?" ……”

"I do, sir......" A samurai-turned-Japanese soldier tearfully pulled out his katana at his waist.

Shigeo Sameshima didn't ask his name, but nodded.

Seeing Jieguo standing behind him with a knife raised, Shigeo Sameshima took a deep breath, sat upright, unbuttoned his clothes, exposed his abdomen, and then pulled out the saber at his waist, took out a handkerchief to wrap the blade, stabbed the tip of the knife at his stomach, and then forcefully crossed everything.

The unbearable pain came, and Sameshima Shigeo let out a painful roar, and the Japanese soldier behind him burst into tears, screamed, and raised his knife with both hands and swung it hard, cutting off Sameshima Shigeo's head.

Shigeo Onijima saw that the scenery around him was instantly upside down, and at this time he was already separated from his head, and although there was still a trace of consciousness left in the fallen head, he could no longer make any sound.

A flash of red light flashed, and the last thing Shigeo Sameshima saw was rising flames and smoke, engulfing everything around him.

"Hit the ammunition compartment of the enemy ship."

On the "Chaowu", Ye Fu looked at the "Hitachi Maru", which was broken in two by a series of violent explosions, and there was not the slightest pity in his eyes.

This is what the aggressor deserves!

The "Hitachi Maru" had broken and sunk, but some of the Japanese army soldiers on board still held rifles in their hands and shot at the Chinese warship. However, this ineffective attack soon stopped, and in a short time the "Hitachi Maru" sank completely, and the nearby sea was full of floating and struggling people, and the cannons on the "Chaowu" stopped roaring, and the machine guns also stopped firing.

Seeing that the "Chaowu" stopped firing, the Chinese sailors on the steam sampan approached their warship, and at this moment, I don't know who fired a shot on the sea, and a Chinese sailor on the sampan was in the middle, and the Chinese sailor fell down with a scream, and saw that he was about to fall into the sea, but fortunately, his companion was quick and grabbed him.

Dong Shengkun, who was wounded on the sampan and was lying there, was furious, and suddenly pulled out his revolver and fired several shots at the Japanese soldier who was half-body floating on the sea and holding a rifle, and the Japanese soldier sank into the water with a scream, flooded with black blood.

"Machine guns and repeater guns continued to fire. The target, the enemy who has fallen overboard on the surface of the sea. Ye Fu ordered, and at this moment, his deep-set eyes looked unusually indifferent.

No one raised any objections, and soon the Habekais machine guns and Lin's machine guns on the "Chaowu" began firing again, although it was the Japanese soldiers who had fallen into the water who were still alive, and because the shooters hated the Japanese, they did not have the slightest sympathy or mercy. In a short period of time, the gunners of the machine guns fired almost a thousand shells.

"Stop shooting." Ye Fu waved his hand and ordered in a deep voice, "Put down the boat, and the foreign gun team will go down and clean them up with rifles." ”

Hearing Ye Fu's order, Wen Tingshan knew that he was completely angered by the enemy, so he would behave like this.

He ordered to put down the dinghy and carry the foreign gun team down to single the Japanese with guns, not to give the Japanese a good time, but to save shells!

Since the Japanese themselves want to find death, they can't blame others!

Soon, the boats were put down, and the shipmasters and sailors in red uniforms aimed their rifles at the figures in black uniforms struggling in the sea, and kept pulling the triggers of their rifles.

Ye Fu stood on the flying bridge, indifferently watching this massacre, the blood of the Japanese army soldiers quickly stained the entire sea, and only more than 100 Japanese soldiers on board the "Hitachi Maru" survived, and the rest turned into lonely ghosts on the sea.

At the same time that the "Hitachi Maru" was sunk by the "Chaowu", the "Sanbang Maru" and "Yukomaru" were also captured by the "Chengkei", and the captain of the "Sanbang Maru", Katsuichi Mishima, and the captain of the "Kokomaru", Tatsunobu Hayakawa, panicked and had no claim, and ordered the flag to be lowered and the white flag was raised to surrender. Under the reminder of the American first mate Lenbert who was aboard the "Sanbang Maru," all the code books and important documents carried on board the ship were burned, but before the 100,000 yuan of silver yen could be thrown into the sea, the Chinese officers on the "Chengqing" boarded the "Sanbang Maru" and took full control of the Japanese transport ship.

After destroying most of the Japanese troops who had fallen into the water, the "Chaowu" joined up with the "Chengqing" and the "Princess Heshuo" who arrived later, and together escorted the "Sanbang Maru" and "Yougong Maru" back to the temporary anchorage. In the ridicule and scolding of the Chinese people, they marched silently, "so that they parade through the streets, and after the tour, they will be put in prison to show ****".

The officers and men of the French ironclad ship "Normandy," who had been watching the battle in Taiwan waters, witnessed the entire process of the "Hitachi Maru" incident, which became widely known in the future. The French military correspondent Brand, who was aboard the "Normandy," was puzzled by the terrible tragedy caused by the Japanese troops on the "Hitachi Maru" firing at the steam sampans sent by the Chinese warships.

"It's a complete tragedy, and it shouldn't have happened. …… We have the impression that the Chinese navy, which has been trained and equipped by the West, has always been praised by Western European countries for its courtesy and helpfulness, but the brutal aggression and unscrupulous acts of war of the Japanese provoked them, which eventually led to such a tragedy......"