In order to understand the real situation of the decisive naval battle, Li Hui asked the "venture capital company" to make a request to Li Hongzhang on the grounds of "understanding the performance of the weapons sold in actual combat" and sent some people to the ships in Beiyang in order to watch the battle nearby, although because of Lao Li's vigilance, only 6 people were on board the ship in the end (2 from Dingyuan, 2 from Zhiyuan, and 2 from Pingyuan). But it was already possible to tell Li Hui that the whole process of this naval battle was described on the message board of the system, but before the battle started, they sent back not very good news

"It doesn't seem to be the same as in history", Li Hui began to speculate about the Japanese warships participating in the battle based on the information on the message board, and his brows gradually furrowed, "There are no ships that are obviously one size smaller?" It's all warships, and it doesn't look like a target for civilian ships? In this case, neither the historical gunboat Akagi nor the substitute cruiser Saikyo Maru, which was converted from civilian ships, came? However, the Japanese army still had 15 warships participating in the battle, and the Japanese combined fleet was pouring out? Didn't the devil carelessly underestimate the enemy because of the outcome of the Battle of Toshima? ”

What Li Hui never expected was that the reason for such a situation was actually because he reminded Li Hongzhang and caused the spies sent by Japan to China to be exposed in advance or retreat to protect themselves, but the result was that the Japanese Navy did not receive the wrong information as it did in history.

The Japanese Navy is now coming with the purpose of finding the main force of the Beiyang Naval Division for a decisive battle, and naturally it will not have any reservations as it has in history, and Shikinori Kayama, the head of the Japanese Navy's Military Command, will not come to watch the battle as he thought would be won as he did in history, but he was forced to pretend and almost gave up his life

After discovering the main force of the Beiyang Fleet, the commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet, Ito Yuhiro, was ecstatic, and he brought out all the fifteen warships that could be used for decisive battles in the open sea, with a total tonnage of 45,000 tons, nearly fifty percent higher than that of the enemy, and the general age of the ships was relatively new (the Japanese fleet did not bring the Tsukushi, which was of the same level as the Chaoyong Yangwei, but the Beiyang Fleet also used the Chaoyang 2 as the main force, and the gap was obvious.) ), and with the advantage of rapid-fire guns, it clearly has the upper hand in hard power.

As long as the main force of the Beiyang Naval Division can be eliminated here, the Japanese Navy can completely control the sea in the Yellow Sea, and no matter what the land battle looks like, Japan will at least be undefeated, and he Ito Yuhiro will also become Japan's greatest hero in this war!

And when the lookout found out that there were only eight warships of the Beiyang Naval Division (the fast fleet went to other directions to be on alert, at this time there was mist on the sea, and the Japanese were far away, so they could not be seen for the time being. After that, Ito Yuhyung's confidence skyrocketed, "The strength is not as good as ours, and I haven't brought all the warships yet, this must be the blessing of Amaterasu!" ”

As in history, the Japanese army's tactics were to divide their troops into two routes, using their own team to contain the main force of the Beiyang Fleet, especially the two giant ships of Dingzhen, in the front, while the four high-speed cruisers of the First Guerrilla Group took advantage of their super-fast speed to detour back to the right flank of the Beiyang Naval Division, break through it, and then go around the back of the Beiyang Fleet and attack the Beiyang Fleet on both sides, in order to completely defeat the Beiyang Naval Division.

It should be said that this is a good strategy, even if there is an extra ironclad ship Pingyuan that is not so easy to sink between Chaoyong and Yangwei, it is still much easier to deal with than Laiyuan, which is an ironclad ship on the left wing itself and is close to Zhenyuan.

However, the Japanese army did not expect that the Beiyang Naval Division had already understood their plans and made careful preparations before the war

However, as in history, the Japanese were surprisingly lucky, and within minutes of the start of the war, a 120mm blasting shell fired from the Matsushima coincidentally hit the Dingyuan mainmast, causing the signal rigging to catch fire and burn to the ground.

As a result, the battle had just begun, and the Beiyang Naval Division lost its unified command! Li Hui, who learned of this sudden situation on the message board, couldn't help but sigh deeply, "Sure enough, 'the time comes and the earth work together', the luck of the Japanese in the process of rising from the First Sino-Japanese War to Japan and Russia is really not ordinarily good!" ”

Fortunately, Liu Buyun, who was actually in charge of the command, was in danger, and came up with a solution, "Anyway, our tactics have already been decided, even if we can't communicate through the flag, as long as the ships of the team follow the flagship in accordance with the established tactics, then we can still indirectly command the team through the actions of the Dingyuan."

As a result, with the acceleration of the Dingyuan to the right, the five warships of the Beiyang Naval Division's own team began to break away from the three ships of Yangping Chao on the right flank of the horizontal team, and rushed towards the front of the Japanese army at full speed!

After Ito Yuhyung noticed the abnormal movement of the Beiyang Fleet, he thought at first that there was confusion in the enemy queue, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed, but it didn't take long for him to realize that something was wrong, "Why is the Qing warship so fast?" By the way, without the burden of the three slowest ships, the formation has been shortened a lot, so it's no wonder that the steering is not fast! Not good, at this rate, perhaps, in a quarter of an hour, they will rush into our queue! Want to emulate the Battle of Lissa? ”

Ito Youheng was shocked for a moment, but if he ordered to adjust the formation and course at this time, he was likely to mess up, and Ito Yuheng thought that his own strength was superior, and even if he fought in a chaotic battle, he might not lose, so he simply turned his heart sideways, and decided to respond to all changes with the same, giving up the idea of adjusting tactics, but ordered all the naval guns in his team to concentrate on attacking the Dingyuan that rushed to the front, and the bullets rained down for a while.

The Dingyuan was hit several times in just one minute, and one of the 120mm blasting shells hit the flying bridge, killing Ding Ruchang, the commander of the Beiyang Naval Division, who did not listen to dissuasion and insisted on standing in a conspicuous position in the open air to "boost morale."

Although he has always been very dissatisfied with Ding Ruchang's "layman leading insider", and even today's death in battle is largely due to Ding Ruchang's own recklessness, when Liu Buyun saw Ding Ruchang's incomplete body, he couldn't help but be angry in his heart.

Facing the microphone, Liu Buyun roared, "Avenge Ding Junmen!" Avenge all the fallen brethren! ”

Under his encouragement, the Dingyuan was indistinguishable from top to bottom with hatred for the enemy, and bravely fought back against the fierce artillery fire of the Japanese army as dense as a torrential rain

Compared with Liu Buchan, who got up on the battlefield, Li Hui, who was hiding in the room and watching the live text broadcast at this time, was obviously much more realistic and ruthless, after learning that Ding Ruchang was unexpectedly martyred, he was first worried about affecting the morale of the Beiyang Naval Division, and then he was faintly happy, "Everyone has been martyred, I may not be a little kind to think so, but as long as it does not affect the outcome of this battle, Ding Ruchang's death is actually not a bad thing." Historically, Ding Ruchang's performance during the First Sino-Japanese War was really not good, although he was not as afraid of death as Fang Boqian, but he never made any active decisions from beginning to end, all of them were passively coping, no different from Lao Jiang's performance during the Anti-Japanese War, such a person is not capable of leading the navy. What's more, Ding Ruchang is still Lao Li's cronies, and his death like this should be beneficial for me to win the Beiyang Naval Division in the future."