'The Imperial Navy defeated the Japanese Navy fleet in the East China Sea, annihilating more than 60 enemy ships and killing thousands! ’

'Fifteen years of sharpening a sword, avenging the success of the 'Beiyang' soldiers! ’

'The First and Second Fleets of the Imperial Royal Navy fought together and defeated the main fleet of the Japanese Combined Navy in the East China Sea! ’

In the early morning of April 29, 1910, the entire Chinese Empire was completely boiling, and various newspapers withdrew the originally scheduled headline news and instead published the latest intelligence information on the front page, with a clear look of pride and a faint hint of excitement in the words. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The headlines of each newspaper are different, but the content and results are roughly the same, the Imperial Daily is the official newspaper, so they have more intelligence channels and more stable authenticity, so today's Imperial Daily headlines use a whole page of content to report on the naval battle in the East China Sea.

In addition to the manuscript prepared by the reporter, on the front page of the newspaper, there were two blurry pictures of the enemy warship in the distance, a thick puff of black smoke in the air, and the scene of the enemy ship appearing to be exploding. Another picture is of an Imperial fleet pursuing the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy.

The warships of the Imperial Navy can be clearly seen in the photo, and even the traces of some warships after being damaged can be vaguely seen, but this still does not stop them from continuing to pursue the Japanese Combined Fleet.

The Chinese have been waiting for this moment for many years, the war on land, they have long been victorious, and the Japanese army has run far behind, but' The Beiyang 'sailor' is an eternal pain in the hearts of the Chinese, the first naval fleet in Asia was defeated by the second Japanese combined fleet in Asia, and it was a disastrous defeat, even one of their most powerful ironclad ships, the Zhenyuan became a prisoner of the Japanese, and what is even more ironic is that the Zhenyuan is still in the formation of the Japanese Navy's combined fleet, and it is also the main warship of the Japanese.

Countless Chinese are looking forward to the day when they can stand up again, defeat the Japanese, and regain everything that originally belonged to them.

Therefore, in their work, they always work harder, if they are all doing it for the sake of patriotism, then it is absolutely nonsense, even if they are patriotic, the family has to eat, no salary, there are indeed people who are willing to contribute, but the development of the empire will definitely not be like now.

The newspaper only mentioned the emperor in one sentence, but it had nothing to do with this naval battle, but it still could not affect the people's respect for the emperor, if it were not for the emperor, they would not have such a good life today, if it was still the Manchu court on the stage, now I am afraid that it is not that they are looking for revenge on their former enemies, but that more and more powers are coming to the door to bully them.

To sum up, the newspaper only said three things: First, the First and Second Fleets of the Imperial Navy held joint training in the waters of the East China Sea in an attempt to strengthen the capabilities of the fleets in joint operations. The second incident was that during the training, he was suddenly attacked by the Japanese Combined Navy, and at two o'clock in the afternoon of April 27, the Vice Admiral of the Imperial Navy, Sa Zhenbing, was forced to order the fleet to return fire. Thirdly, under the brave battle of the Imperial Navy, they defeated the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy, won more than 10 enemy ships, and sank more than 60 enemy ships.

The newspaper only gave a general mention of the situation of the naval battle, but there was no omission of specific information, but the newspaper also pointed out that more details about the naval battle would continue to be reported in the next few issues, because the main fleet had not yet returned, and only a few seriously wounded warships had returned to port, bringing back some valuable news.

Although there were not many reports in the newspapers, the people all over the country went crazy, and many people even wanted to go to the port to see the Imperial Admirals who had defeated the Japanese Navy, but they did not know which port the fleet would enter.

Port Arthur did know that it was the largest military port of the Chinese Empire so far, and it was also the station of the First Fleet of the Imperial Navy, where half of the warships of the entire Chinese Navy were located. But Lushun Port is fully enclosed, not to mention close to the port, that is, within ten kilometers of the port, you can't enter, and most of the people living in Lushun City are also military dependents, it can almost be said that the entire Lushun Peninsula, as long as there are strangers entering, will soon be stared out.

Therefore, it is unrealistic and absolutely impossible to go to Lushun to see the naval fleet.

While the outside world was still discussing which port the fleet would enter for rest, a rumor suddenly spread in society that the six warships that had been forced to withdraw from the battle and return home due to injuries had entered the Shanghai shipyard last night, and the injured ships had also entered the dock this morning for repairs.

Of course, there is another theory that there are only four warships that were injured, and the other two are auxiliary ships, and it is those four warships that really enter the dock for repairs. And these four warships were also killed and wounded, and the scene was very bloody and terrifying, and even many shipyard workers did not dare to come forward to take a look.

Most of the warship was also dyed in two colors, one was the black mark left by the high temperature burning after the shell exploded, and the other was the blood of the officers and men after being wounded, which became dark red after being dried.

Rumors spread from the outside world, but they have never been confirmed, but many people want to go to the Shanghai shipyard to see if the truth is as tragic as the outside world said, but when they are about to walk to the shipyard, they find that the entire shipyard has been cordoned off, and no one is allowed to enter without a traffic order.

And the vigilance of the military has also made more people believe the rumors of the outside world, no matter how tragic the situation is, at least one thing that can be proved is that there are indeed injured warships back, and the injured warships are in the Shanghai shipyard.

But what if you know? They could only stand at a distance, hoping that a warship would enter next, and then look at it from afar.

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In the Shanghai shipyard, an old man with gray hair was dressed in a gray robe, with two tufts of white whiskers falling from the sides of his mouth.

The old man looked at the warship in the dock, and shook his head helplessly, the warship that appeared in front of him that was badly damaged was naturally the Yang Yonglin ship that was towed back by the supply ship, most of the officers and soldiers on the ship went to the other warships in the fleet, and only a small number of people were retained to follow back.

At the end of 1887, under the auspices of Wei Han and others, China's first ironclad ship "Longwei" was officially launched, in addition to Wei Han, Wei Han also participated in the manufacture of China's first steel-armored torpedo ship "Guangyi" and the first minehunter "Jianwei".

In 1904, the second month after the founding of the empire, Wei Han was transferred to the Fujian Shipping Administration as the general office, responsible for leading the trainees to study new ships. In July 1906, Wei Han, who had been in Fujian for two and a half years, was transferred to the Shanghai Shipyard as the chief designer, and led a group of young designers who returned from studying abroad, as well as Wei Han's family members to take root in the Shanghai Shipyard, and finally lasted one year and nine months, and successfully designed the Shanghai-class light destroyer in June 1908, that is, the Yang Yonglin ship.

There are a total of seventeen destroyers of the same class, four more are under construction and five are in preparation. Because shipyards elsewhere had other tasks, the Shanghai shipyard was only responsible for the construction of Shanghai-class light destroyers.

At present, the empire only has this class of destroyers, after leading many scientific researchers to study the Shanghai-class destroyer, Wei Han began to study the next generation of destroyers, and the next generation of destroyers can be said to be an enhanced version of the Shanghai-class destroyer, that is, higher speed, more fierce firepower, stronger defense, and is still under development.

And yesterday when Yang Yonglin and other ships entered the shipyard, Wei Han was meeting friends outside, and hoped to get some relevant design inspiration from old friends, but I didn't expect that as soon as I came to the shipyard today, I heard that Yang Yonglin's ship was beaten into a sieve, and it almost sank, and several other warships were also very unlucky, but Yang Yonglin's ship was the most unlucky.

Wei Han sighed first, and then looked at the explosion opening, and then had the answer in his heart.

"The shallow water torpedo attack was caused by the fact that the internal water trap was not closed in time, so the internal water pressure was too high, and it was too late to close the trap later. Look closely at the wound, if it is a 533-mm torpedo that we are armed, it will blow a hole at least six meters wide. But this hole is not as big as expected, but this does not mean that our warship is very defensive, I suspect that the torpedo that hit her should be a defective product, or a torpedo under 300 mm, but at present the world is not equipped with torpedoes below 300 mm. Wei Han pointed to the wound and explained the reason to the researchers around him.

"Let's go, let's get on board first and see how it goes." The external situation was like this, Wei Han could see it at a glance, so he led a group of people to board the warship.

It was cluttered with water, and there were signs of flooding in many places, and it was obvious that she had almost sunk. Then Wei Han entered the cabin again, but it didn't take long for him to come up, almost all of the underneath was soaked in water, after entering the dock yesterday, the shipyard had already begun to pump water, but now a third of the place was still filled with water.

In fact, this warship is no longer worth repairing, because repairing it does not save much effort than building a new one. Even the upper conning tower had to be demolished, which alone was a big project.

Therefore, Wei Han has already sentenced Yang Yonglin to death, he does not plan to repair this warship immediately, but he will not leave it alone, in fact, after entering the cabin, Wei Han already has an idea, this warship might as well stay in the shipyard, let those apprentices and new technicians study. (To be continued.) )