After a short time, the Marine Corps officer who led the team returned to the "Fujing" and handed over the Saber of Fukushima Keinori to Hayashi Yoshi-cheol. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Lin Yizhe took the saber and only glanced at it, then handed the knife to Pei Jinquan.

"After receiving the enemy ships, return to Fuzhou." Lin Yizhe looked at the ironclad ship "Longxiang" that had not completely dissipated and said.

Pei Jinquan understood what Lin Yizhe meant, nodded excitedly, and gave the order loudly.

Soon, steam sampans sent by the Chinese warships were loaded with landers, sailors and officers heading for the Japanese ship, and after the marines boarded the Japanese ship, they quickly took over all the vital departments of the Japanese ship. After a short time, the takeover was completed, and the three captured Japanese ships each raised the flag "can set sail".

"Lao Lin, why hasn't their notification ship come back yet?" At this time, Pei Jinquan noticed that the sound of the cannon on the sea in the distance had disappeared, and muttered something in a low voice.

"Wait for them later." At this time, Lin Yizhe returned to his former calm and calmness.

About half an hour later, three high-speed notification ships appeared on the sea, and Lin Yizhe and Pei Jinquan both raised their binoculars and noticed that after the three notification ships, there was no shadow of the Japanese ship.

"Could it be that they sank that Japanese soldier ship?" Pei Jinquan put down the binoculars, and a look of disbelief flashed in his eyes, "Or let it run away?" ”

"Signal, ask them." Lin Yizhe said.

The sailors quickly raised the flag: "Where are the enemy ships?" ”

Seeing the flagship's question, the "Flying Thunder" led by the ship quickly replied: "The enemy ship has been sunk, and the person who fell into the water has been rescued." ”

"There's really them!" Thinking that the high-speed notification ship equipped with only 75 mm guns actually sank the "Yangchun", Pei Jinquan couldn't help laughing, "I don't know how they sank the enemy ship!" ”

"Go back and let them write the report, and you'll know." Lin Yizhe smiled and looked into the distance.

In the bilge of the "Ryuchamp", Shiki Kayama, who had been firmly tied up by the sailors with a rope again, was still scolding vigorously.

"You life-hungry bastards! Detective! Traitor! All of them are going to court-martial! You're all going to be hanged! ”

"The navy is all cowards! Soft eggs! Pigs! ”

"Shame on you empires! Surrender to the enemy! You don't deserve to be Japanese! ”

"You're all going to have to be hanged!"

Several sailors were scolded by Shiki Kayama, and one of the sailors stepped forward and slapped Shiki Kayama twice.

"If it weren't for the blind command of you bastard, we would have all been able to defeat the enemy! You're the one to be hanged! The sailor kicked Shiki Kayama again, "You still want everyone to accompany you to your death!" You bastard! ”

"We are not afraid of bloodshed and sacrifice! I am also willing to dedicate myself to the emperor! But we are not willing to die for nothing for the stupid pig-like general! Another sailor glared angrily at Shiki Kayama and said. His head and hands were bandaged, and he was already red with blood.

"Coward! Detective! There's no need to defend yourself there! Kayama Shiki's hands and feet were tied and he couldn't move, so he could only smack him hard.

The surrounding Japanese sailors were furious when they saw this, and they came forward to punch and kick Shikiki Kayama, Shiki Kayama shouted and scolded himself, and a Japanese sailor was eager to find something that could be used to gag him, so he took off his socks, formed a ball, and stuffed them into Shiki Kayama's mouth.

Shiki Kayama's mouth was blocked, and the pungent stench almost smoked him to faint, and a pair of eyes widened, and he couldn't stop rolling his eyes upward.

Looking at the appearance of Shiki Kayama, the Japanese sailors had a lot of evil anger in their hearts, and some sailors actually laughed.

The Chinese sailors who had already boarded the ship did not notice this scene in the corner of the bilge, and what they were most interested in at this time was that they found something they did not expect in a hidden cabin of the "Longxiang".

"It's a Chinese character on it...... Isn't this our Qing silver? ”

"It's still a big ingot of fifty taels ......"

"But it doesn't look like an official bank......

"It may have been snatched from a merchant ship, alas, I don't know who was so unlucky......"

The leader of the team picked up a silver ingot, looked at it, put it in his arms, and then coughed dryly, and glanced at his subordinates.

Several Chinese sailors understood, and each took a silver ingot and put it in his arms, but after all, it was a large ingot of fifty taels, which was too heavy, and after walking a few steps, the silver fell out of his arms and fell on the floor, making a crisp sound.

Seeing this scene, the soldier's face turned a little pale, he sighed, and reluctantly took the silver ingot out of his arms and put it in the box.

Seeing the movements of the soldiers, several sailors looked at each other. Some of them, like the soldiers, put the silver back into its original place, while two or three sailors seemed to be unwilling, still holding the silver ingots in their hands, and hesitated there.

"What are you doing? Put it back in a hurry! The soldier shouted.

"My lord, just put the money back like this...... Why don't we get some flaves and use them? One of the sailors suggested, but in exchange for a scolding from the commander.

"the fart! It's only a few bucks! Let's go to Futai to repay the merits! Lord Futai has always been generous, can you not give some rewards? Isn't it much more than flashing! Granite head melon seeds! ”

Several sailors suddenly realized, and hurriedly put the silver ingots back again.

"Set sail! Mr. Captain! ”

A Chinese naval officer saw the corner signal from the flagship and said to Keinori Fukushima.

Keinori Fukushima nodded with some effort and gave the order in a hoarse voice.

Soon, the whistle whistled, and the "Longxiang" slowly set sail. The "Tsukuba" and "Mt. Fuji" also set sail with anchor pulled, following behind the "Ryuchamp". The eight Chinese cruisers were divided into two groups and lined up on either side of the Japanese fleet, and the whole team formed a formation of three columns and headed for Fuzhou.

This battle, known as the "Battle of the East China Sea" or the "Battle of the Ryukyu Sea" (the Japanese side called it the "Battle of the Satsuma Sea" or the "Battle of the North Taiwan Sea"), came to an end.

In this naval battle, the three main battleships of the Japanese Navy, the ironclad ship "Ryusho", the gunboat "Tsukuba", and the gunboat "Mt. Fuji," were captured, the gunboat "Yangchun" was sunk, 172 officers and men were killed, 183 were wounded, and all officers and men, including the commander Vice Admiral Shikinori Kayama, were captured. The Chinese Navy, on the other hand, did not lose a single ship, and five warships, including the flagship "Fujing," were wounded, and 24 officers and men were killed and 32 wounded.

The "East China Sea Naval Battle" was the first large-scale naval battle in the world since it entered the era of steel steaming, and it profoundly affected the direction of the development of the world's navies. The victory of the Chinese shipbuilding fleet over the Japanese fleet was not simply a victory or defeat between the navies of the two countries, but meant the rise of a new naval tactic in the form of a column formation and a large number of warships equipped with large-caliber breech guns capable of firing quicklyAnd column tactics are just a new theory that has not been tested in actual combat. From the day of the Battle of the East China Sea, a new page was opened in the history of the world's navies, and the influence of columns, broadside gun configurations, and breech-loading guns capable of firing quickly will continue and be further innovated.

Although the Japanese fleet, which has two ironclad ships that are unique in Asia, is outwardly superior to the Chinese shipyard fleet, its technology and equipment lag far behind China, and this is undoubtedly an important factor in the defeat of this naval battle. In naval warfare in the late 19th century, artillery was the main weapon for attacking the enemy and defending itself, and the Chinese fleet was equipped with advanced breech-loading guns, which could fire quickly, while the Japanese fleet was mostly equipped with old-style breech-loading guns with a slow rate of fire, and the rate of fire was extremely slow. According to the British navy, which watched the battle, the firepower of the Chinese fleet at that time exceeded that of Japan by more than three times, and in connection with the fact that during the naval war, the Chinese warships repeatedly concentrated their firepower to attack certain Japanese warships, and the firepower advantage in the actual confrontation was even greater. Such a comparison of firepower can no longer be summed up by a simple gap, and the Chinese shipbuilding fleet has an overwhelming advantage.

In addition, a large number of Chinese warships were also equipped with a large number of new machine guns that were rarely equipped by the world's navies at that time, and after these machine guns hit the Japanese warships, they could cause terrible casualties, and more seriously, they would cause a decline in morale, which is why the Japanese warships chose to surrender after the naval battle ran out of ammunition at the end, but this point was attributed to the fact that most of the shells used by the Japanese fleet were solid shells that could not be exploded. Unless these shells hit the waterline of an enemy ship and cause water ingress, they will cause at most a small number of casualties after hitting the target. The most powerful ammunition in the Japanese fleet was the flowering shell, which at that time mainly relied on imports, but when attacking the batteries and urban areas, the most powerful shells in the Japanese fleet were so wasted that when the Japanese fleet faced the Chinese fleet, the flowering shells were seriously insufficient to effectively damage the Chinese warships.

Since the beginning of modern times, due to the defeat of this naval war, which had a great impact on Japan's national fortunes, most of the researchers in Japan have attributed the blame to the poor quality of the Japanese Navy's soldiers, but a slight comparison of the proficiency of the Japanese Navy's soldiers, another aspect of artillery shooting, shows that the quality of the Japanese Navy's soldiers has actually been greatly improved from the Mumo era to the Meiji Restoration, and the Japanese Navy's gunner skills are not bad. It was only because the Japanese gunners operated heavy breech guns, taking the "Longxiang" as an example, in actual combat, the 165-mm guns of the "Longxiang" were faced with a large number of gunner attrition, the constant interference of fragments and machine gun fire, as well as the damage of the guns themselves, insufficient ammunition and many other unfavorable factors, and its actual rate of fire greatly exceeded the training in peacetime, and it has to be said that it was inseparable from the training degree of the Japanese naval officers and men in peacetime and their heroic performance in wartime.

In modern naval warfare, the rate of fire of artillery depends to a large extent on the proficiency of officers and men, and it can be seen from the battles that the combat quality of the officers and men of the Japanese Navy, especially the officers and men of the two ironclad ships that are the main force of the fleet, is not much worse than that of the officers and men of the Chinese Navy.

After understanding that the victory in the naval battle in the East China Sea was mainly a victory of new technology over old technology, the Japanese should have a deeper understanding of the reasons for the defeat of the Japanese fleet in the naval battle. When faced with the new Asian No. 1 ship, the Chinese shipbuilding fleet, which had risen in 1874 and won the crown of being the No. 1 in Asia, had a huge gap in technology and equipment, and this gap was fatal for the modern naval warfare, which was mainly based on technology and equipment as the carrier and full of technological competition, and it meant that even if the soldiers of the two countries made the same effort and sacrifice, the final result would be completely different.

Because this naval battle ended with the defeat of the Japanese navy. In some studies of the Japanese Navy and the naval battles in the East China Sea, which have a deep tradition of "shame culture", they have been unable to technically explain the failures, and have blindly attributed the reasons for the failure of the Japanese Navy to the timidity and incompetence of the naval personnel. A few captains (the surrender of several captains such as Keinori Fukushima was unforgivable in the eyes of the Japanese indignant youth) or a group of soldiers could have won the battle. However, when it is objectively understood that the Japanese fleet is completely inferior to its opponent in terms of the style and speed of its warships, the number and rate of fire of its guns, and the supply and effectiveness of its shells, people cannot imagine that a change of commander, a change of captains, or a change of a group of soldiers can have a qualitative impact on the outcome of this naval battle. It is true that soldiers are born to win, but there are some battles that soldiers cannot win no matter how hard they try, and this is the gap in technology. In the War of the Fall of Japan, which overthrew the Japanese shogunate, when the Japanese knights wearing gorgeous armor and holding their swords high fell in batches under the Gatling machine guns of the Meiji government army, and when the Satsuma samurai in the jungle of Taiwan were crushed in front of the Qing army's Krupp breech cannons, Habekaith machine guns and Lin's machine guns, history has made it very clear that this is no longer an era in which courage alone can win the war, and in this case, who is responsible for the defeat of the Japanese soldiers?

The clouds are open, and the surface of the East China Sea flashes sparkling. The Chinese fleet and the captured Japanese fleet are slowly returning to Fuzhou, except for the monotonous work of the engines on the warships, there is almost silence, the Chinese naval officers and men are silently recalling everything that happened today, the victory of the captured three Japanese warships did not make them excited, they are mourning the fallen comrades-in-arms and villagers, these simple officers and soldiers do not know that in a few days, the story that happened in the East China Sea will shake the whole world.

Lin Yizhe sat in his office under the main deck of the flagship "Fujing", and although he had won a brilliant victory, his heart was still full of sorrow.

After all, no matter how brilliant the victory is, it can't get back the lives of dead relatives!

Lin Yizhe's hand looked at the fragments of the two silver bracelets fixedly.

"Aya ......"

He whispered the name of the woman who had brought him great joy, tears streaming down his face.

"Are you alright......"

"I miss you so much......"

"It's all my fault, I shouldn't have let you go...... If you don't leave Fuzhou...... I won't be gone......"

"In this world, there is really no regret medicine...... Something...... Once you do something wrong, you can't get it back......"

"Isn't it cold in the sea...... Before...... It's all you who make clothes for me...... You've been gone for so many days...... I haven't even been able to bring you a piece of clothing......"

"Are you going to the House of the Ancestral Spirits? How are you all there......"

"Today...... I've won another battle...... I don't know if it's revenge for everyone......"

"Probably not yet...... Your murderer is still hiding in the jungle...... But...... It doesn't matter...... I'll be able to use my hands on them in no time...... Now their navy is all finished...... None of them can escape...... I will kill them all, and I will sacrifice their heads to your heroes......"

"And the old people who forced you to leave my hometown...... I promise you...... None of them will die well...... I won't let any of them go...... I want them to taste the pain I've been through......"

Lin Yizhe muttered softly, hiding his face and lying on the table.

I don't know how long it took, but there was a soft knock at the door.

"My lord, Lord Pei asks to see you." The voice of a guard was heard.

"Please come in." Lin Yizhe put away his tears, put the fragment of the silver bracelet into a small box, and said in a slightly hoarse voice.

As soon as the door opened, Pei Jinquan walked in.

"Min Xiu is here, sit." Lin Yizhe pointed to the chair beside him and said.

Pei Jinquan noticed that Lin Yizhe's eyes were slightly red and swollen, knowing that he remembered the dead forehead again, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, he wanted to say a few words to comfort Lin Yizhe, but he didn't know how to speak for a while, and his face was slightly embarrassed.

"Is there anything wrong with Min Xiu?" Lin Yizhe asked.

"Oh, that's right." Pei Jinquan said, "Just now, Captain Chen of the Marine Corps came to report that a lot of silver boxes had been found on the Japanese ironclad ship, and they were full of silver. ”

"There's silver on a Japanese ironclad ship?" Lin Yizhe couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this.