Chapter 190: The First Battle of the Yellow Sea

The shells fired by the "Yi Sunsin" fell behind the Yoshino, and three of the four torpedoes did not hit because the altitude was adjusted too deep, and only one hit the propeller of the "Yoshino". Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoBut the "Yoshino" was propelled by a twin-propeller, and the entire "Yoshino" only shook a little when it was hit.

At the same time, after switching the power of the "Yoshino" to a propeller, after the speed was slightly reduced, there was no major danger. However, on the other hand, the overall situation of the DPRK fleet is not optimistic. In the entire Korean fleet, only two warships, "Yi Sunsin" and "Yang Manchun," are still fighting.

The battleship "Wang Jian" had already been hit by many shells, and the hull had begun to tilt and was gradually sinking, but the Japanese obviously did not want to let go of this warship, and the two warships, "Tsukushi" and "Kaohsiung," tilted their shells at the "Wang Jian," which could not move at all.

The sailors on the "Wang Jian" were also firing back with the main guns on the battleship, and no one abandoned the ship at this time, because they knew that even if they abandoned the ship now, they would die after falling into the water, because now the heavy machine guns on the Japanese battleship had begun to fire constantly at the sailors on the cruiser "Wang Jian".

Another battleship of the Korean fleet, the cruiser "Liucheng", had caught fire in the stern, and the billowing black smoke from the chimney indicated that he was quickly leaving the main battlefield, but the Japanese battleships behind him did not let him go in the slightest.

The two battleships, the "Chiyoda" and the "Akagi," were in hot pursuit, and there was not much time left for the Korean fleet on the battlefield, when the cruiser "Yi Sunsin," the flagship of the Korean fleet, waved the rescue flag against the "Yang Wanchun," which was the only one following behind the cruiser.

The "Yang Wanchun" sailed towards the "Wang Jian", which was already at a turtle speed, but the arrival of the "Yang Wanchun" only attracted the attention of the "Akagi" and "Chiyoda", but the other two Japanese warships also began to attack the "Yang Wanchun".

North Korean warships are now only able to use kerosene, a special fuel, and the speed advantage they have achieved is struggling, but now this advantage is also disappearing, because the use of oil as fuel can get higher pressure in the boiler for a short time, but the pressure on all the water pipes is even greater.

By this time, the North Korean ships were already in a state of exhaustion from slowing down and leaking boilers, and this was an irreversible state, and because of the small displacement of the North Korean ships, the North Korean fleet was almost exhausted in reserve ammunition when the battle reached the fourth round of firing.

On May 23, the first year of Guangming, at about 16:25 in the afternoon, the sea surface of the Yellow Sea was very clear, not yellow as his name suggests, and Li Jiasheng ordered the remaining three torpedoes to be loaded and prepared.

The entire ship's combatants went to the deck to turn on the offensive weapons at close range, and when the boilers were replaced at the Shanghai Military Port, Deng Shichang suggested that they install heavy machine guns and Shura rocket artillery. In the era of advocating giant artillery, equipping warships with such weapons, Li Jiasheng didn't know what the use of this was.

But now I saw that the Japanese warships, which already had absolute superiority, used heavy machine guns to strafe the sailors of the cruiser "Wang Jian" who had fallen into the water. Li Jiasheng understood the purpose of these heavy machine guns.

Now the tail of the battleship "Yi Sunsin" has caught fire, and the crew is still extinguishing the fire, but the "Yoshino" in front of it does not seem to have any intention of giving the "Yi Sunsin" any chance. At a distance of two nautical miles from the "Yi Sunsin", the "Yoshino" opened fire.

Because the Yi Sun-sin had no intention of dodging this time, it was head-to-face with the "Yoshino", and the shells of the "Yoshino" hit the main battery of the "Yi Sun-sin" front ship, the outer armor of the main battery was 350 mm armor steel plate, and the base was 480 mm armor. Although the main battery was not blown away, the soldiers inside were probably more than lucky.

But now Li Jiasheng is no longer in the mood to care about this, the shells of the main gun have been exhausted, and now he only has three torpedoes left, this is his last heavy firepower, even if it hits the Yoshino, the North Korean fleet will not escape the end of the total annihilation!

Because of the breakdown of a main driving propeller, the speed of the "Yoshino" was much slower at this time, but Li Jiasheng was constantly urging and accelerating! Hasten!

Although everyone on the battleship knew that it was already the fastest speed, no one objected to the captain's order, as if at this time everyone's heart was calling, come on!

Let the last moment come soon!

Looking at the "Yoshino" approaching closer and closer, the North Korean "Yi Sunsin" drove straight towards him, and the heavy machine guns of both sides on the deck began to sound, and the soldiers at each firing point were suddenly beaten to pieces.

After the gunfire stopped for a few seconds, it immediately appeared that the fighters rushed up, so in the moment when the two battleships met in a short time, the heavy machine gun fire points of the two ships were piled up with corpses!

At the closest distance to the "Yoshino," Yi Jiasheng ordered the torpedo to be fired, and when the "Yoshino" and the "Yi Sunsin" were facing each other, they realized that the DPRK's behavior was very strange, and it approached the "Yi Sunsin" 20 seconds before it approached.

Captain of the "Yoshino", Kawagen wants to give an order to the right full rudder, and the right full rudder roars!

Luckily, one of the three torpedoes hit, once again hitting the left rear of the "Yoshino"!

On the smoke-soaked "Yoshino". The Japanese crew let out a terrible shout, and then there was the sound of objects falling into the sea, and then the Korean officers and men in the command cabin of the battleship "Yi Sunsin" began to shout, "Yoshino" is worth burying the "Yi Sunsin" to death!

At this time, the cruiser "Daijong", which was parallel to the Yoshino, stood out and headed for the "Yi Sunsin", and the "Yi Sunsin", which was no longer depleted of shells, could only use its own hull as a cannonball. With the determination to die, the officers and men of the whole ship rammed into the Japanese battleship "Dazong" at full speed!

At this time, the smoke and dust outside the "Yoshino" gradually dissipated, and it was particularly conspicuous in the sunlight, and after the whole hull shook twice, the "Yoshino" started slowly again. This time the torpedo broke the broken oars completely.

The broken oar got stuck on the other oar, causing the Yoshino to lose power temporarily, but as the propeller vibrate, the broken propeller fell off, and the Japanese flagship Yoshino moved again.

This caused all the officers and men of the North Korean fleet to fall into the ice cave again at once. At this point, almost all of the Korean fleet was already incapacitated, but the Japanese fleet was only wounded, not one was sunk and did not lose its combat effectiveness.

At the time of the sixth encounter, the hull of the "Yi Sunsin" had already begun to tilt, and the speed had dropped to 14 knots, less than half of the original, at which time the Japanese fleet began to reassemble in formation, which was the final blow to the Korean fleet.

At this time, the "Yoo Sung-ryong" of the North Korean fleet had already withdrawn from the main battlefield, so there were only two warships left on the main battlefield, the "Yi Sun-sin" and the "Yang Manchun", which were covered with bullet marks. At this time, the cruiser "Wang Jian" had completely sunk, and the "Liu Chenglong" rescued his comrades-in-arms on the sea, although the soldiers of the North Korean fleet knew that they would definitely die!

On May 23, the first year of Guangming, at about 16:15 in the afternoon, the sunset was already linked to the sea, and the sea in the west was already fiery red, mixed with oil and water, mixed with the blood of the soldiers, and fell along with the waves!

In order to maintain the formation with the flagship of the Second Combined Naval Fleet of Japan, the Yoshino. The other Japanese warships began to slow down, and at this time the "Yoshino" remained in the flagship position of the fleet, forming a V-shaped formation, heading towards the Korean fleet!

The soldiers of the Korean fleet, looking at the Japanese fleet heading towards them, knew that the last moment had come, and they all held their robed hands and began to sing the song that they had learned to be trained in Weihaiwei!

Blood! Blood! Like that red sun!

Courage is like iron, bones are like King Kong!

Heroic!

Men should be self-reliant!

......

At this moment, a huge whistle sounded on the surface of the sea!

In the direction where the whistle came from, it was the Second Combined Fleet of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire, which was in a three-column formation.

At the forefront is the flagship of the Second Fleet, the "Dingyuan Ironclad Ship" commanded by Deng Shichang! "He was followed by the cruiser "Weiyuan".

The head ship on the left flank is the "Xinyuan ironclad ship" commanded by Xia Weishan! He was followed by the cruiser "Zhiyuan" commanded by Lin Luzhong.

The head ship on the right flank is the "Yiyuan ironclad ship" commanded by Qiu Baoren! Behind was the cruiser "Jingyuan" commanded by Wu Jingrong.

Looking at the rapidly approaching Chinese Imperial Navy, Heyuan knew that it was now inevitable.

Immediately the flag was raised, ignore these useless North Korean Navy, reorganize the formation, and take the initiative to attack. And at this time, the speed of the "Yoshino" had dropped a lot, and it could no longer lead the fleet into battle, so at this time the "Yoshino" lowered its flagship flag!

Therefore, the cruiser "Chiyoda", which had been following the "Yoshino", began to accelerate, adjusted its direction, and rushed towards the fleet of the Chinese Empire, and the other four Japanese battleships also followed closely behind the cruiser "Chiyoda"!

The first mate of the Dingyuan ironclad put down the binoculars and shouted loudly towards the microphone; "Prepare the main gun!" The first layer of secondary artillery in the rear is ready! Torpedo loading ready! And so on for a few columns of commands!

Then he raised his head and looked at Deng Shichang, now it has gradually sailed towards the Huaxia fleet, and the distance is gradually shortening!

Japan's "Chiyoda" has already entered the range of the Dingyuan ironclad ship, but at this time, Deng Shichang still did not put down the single-pass telescope in his hand, and he did not mean to give the order to open fire at all.

So Fang Yi shouted loudly into the microphone; "Fire!"

The 305-mm howitzer, after the shouts of the square game, waited for 43 seconds, and it was an incomparably long time!

The sound of breaking through the air sounded, and the shells made a graceful arc in the air and floated towards the Japanese cruiser "Chiyoda", which rushed to the front, and the foredeck of the cruiser "Chiyoda", with a total displacement of 2,439 tons, was overturned.

The main gun in front of him is gone, maybe it fell into the sea, or it is still flying in the air, at this time, "Yiyuan ironclad!" "The ironclad ship of Hexinyuan!" They all fired, but there was no result!

The battleship Dingyuan was still moving forward, and it reached the edge of the cruiser "Chiyoda" that was still heading towards the Dingyuan because of inertia. The "Dingyuan ironclad" fired two torpedoes at him, and the torpedoes were fired at a very shallow depth, almost close to the surface of the water. But at this time, the "Chiyoda" had no way to dodge at all.

The torpedo exploded on the left line of the "Chiyoda", and the huge wave could almost splash on the Dingyuan ironclad!

After passing the cruiser "Chiyoda", the Dingyuan faced other Japanese battleships, but at this time, the Dingyuan ignored these battleships, and continued to accelerate towards the "Yoshino" and quickly approached!

In order to deal with the two ironclad ships of Dingyuan and Zhenyuan, Japan specially found a designer who designed Dingyuan and Zhenyuan in France, and this designer specially designed ironclad battleships for Japan according to the characteristics of Dingyuan and Zhenyuan!

The "Yoshino" ironclad ship is one of them, so when the time came to test the performance of the battleship, all the officers on the Dingyuan looked at the "Yoshino" in front of them very excited. Come on! Baby, each loves you!

As soon as the head of the "Yoshino" understood the intention of the "Dingyuan", he ordered the main gun to be prepared, the speed to be increased to the maximum, the torpedo to be prepared, and so on!

This time, it was the "Dingyuan Ironclad" that fired the main gun first, and then the "Yoshino Ironclad" also fired. Didn't hit the other side!

Both China and Japan are equipped with rapid-fire equipment, that is, using electric motors as power, can semi-automatically load and unload huge shells, which can greatly speed up the shell firing speed of the fort, and the main gun of the "Dingyuan" sounded once after one minute and 31 seconds.

During the time when the "Dingyuan" and "Yoshino" intersected, the two sides fired at each other a total of five times, but neither of them hit each other, and at this time, the "Dingyuan" and the Yoshino had already missed each other!

Fang Game shouted at the microphone, "Right full rudder!" "Order!

But at this time, Deng Shichang rushed to the side of the microphone and shouted loudly; "Don't turn! Straight ahead! Burn the wind! ”

At this time, Fang Yi immediately raised the telescope, and in the telescope, the shadow of the warship appeared again!

One! Two 。。。。。。