If Li Hui had just crossed over, then he might have thought that Fang Boqian's history as a deserter might have been because he couldn't bear the pressure and made a wrong choice, so it was not too surprising to make the opposite choice between this thought of time and space.

But Li Hui has been traveling for more than a year and a half, and almost a year of that time has been spent in the Weihaiwei base (even the construction of those roads and mines, Li Hui has basically entrusted the biochemical soldiers to be responsible.) He was already quite familiar with the main generals of the Beiyang Naval Division, and knew that Fang Boqian was greedy, selfish and quite afraid of death, such a person, Li Hui did not believe that he would suddenly have a sense of responsibility and take the initiative to sacrifice himself to cover the friendly army.

If it was just a warning to the two transport ships, it would be a bit of a possibility, and he would never have been able to give up hope of escape and desperately entangle the pursuers, such a fearless action would never have been possible

"So what's going on?" , Li Hui is a very curious person, knowing that it doesn't matter whether the answer to this question can be found, but he still can't help but be distracted and think, "Compared with the Battle of Toshima in history, what is the difference between the Jiyuan and the Battle of Toshima in history?" Know more about the enemy? No, this will only make Fang Boqian even less courageous to face the three ships in one tour. What kind of difference is there besides this? The gun carriage and shells have been replaced, and the combat effectiveness of the Jiyuan has been much stronger than in history, but even so, it is still absolutely impossible to defeat the three Japanese ships, with Fang Boqian's cleverness, he should not be unable to figure this out. There is also the fact that the command tower of the Jiyuan has been reinforced, at least shrapnel and small-caliber shells will definitely not be able to fly in, by the way, the problem is here! In history, not long after the Battle of Toshima, Shen Shouchang, the first mate on the Jiyuan, and Ke Jianzhang, the second officer with the highest status in the second officer, were killed in the command tower by shrapnel flying in. After the transformation and reinforcement, this kind of tragedy will not be there again, so Shen Shouchang and they will not die early, so it is! ”

As mentioned above, the first mate of each ship of the Beiyang Naval Division has considerable authority, and if he can also get the support of the gun chief officer with the highest status among the second officers, he has every right to resist the captain's erroneous orders, and if the captain's prestige is not enough, it is not impossible to be overthrown by him.

The key reason why Fang Boqian was able to do that in history was that not long after the battle began, the two officers who could stop him were killed. And in the Battle of Fengdao in this time and space, Fang Boqian had no chance even if he wanted to be a deserter

Thinking of this, the mystery in Li Hui's heart was finally solved, "It should be like this, Fang Boqian can't be a deserter if he wants to, so he can only fight hard." In addition, he may have thought that even if the warship is sunk, he has hope of being rescued, this guy is not the kind of captain who will live and die with the warship! It's a pity that I ran into Heihachiro Togo, a rare butcher in the naval world."

However, even if he figured out why the Jiyuan was so different from the performance in history, Li Hui didn't intend to say it, on the one hand, he had no evidence, and on the other hand, Fang Boqian was dead after all, so what did it matter if he was asked to bear the false name of a hero?

In a sense, Fang Boqian's "heroic benevolence" has aroused the courage of the officers and soldiers of the Beiyang Naval Division more and more, the reason is very simple, even Fang Boqian, a recognized coward, is so heroic, are others embarrassed not to fight to the death?

However, if the influence of the spiritual level is excluded, the losses of the Beiyang Naval Division in the Battle of Toshima are far greater than in history, although the Jiyuan is the weakest warship in the Beiyang Naval Division except for the Chaoyang 2nd Ship, but it is also a protective cruiser with a displacement of more than 2,000 tons, and it was sunk at the beginning of the war, and it also took nearly 200 mostly experienced naval officers and men, which is still very heart-wrenching.

In addition, although the survivors of the Jiyuan boasted that they had damaged two Japanese ships, according to the intelligence collected by venture capital companies in Japan, the Jiyuan did not hit the target with even a single large-caliber (more than 100mm) shell, and the three Japanese ships only carried out normal maintenance after returning to port, and showed no signs of injury at all.

After knowing this information, the generals of the Beiyang Naval Division were somewhat frustrated, and some even began to doubt Li Hui's previous judgment of the naval strength of the two sides

After hearing Lin Taizeng's question, Li Hui smiled and asked with a little sarcasm, "Is Lin Junmen scared?" ”

"I'm not afraid! It's nothing more than death, so what's there to fear? It's just that if the enemy situation is not judged accurately, it will be misunderstood! Of course, Lin Taizeng will not admit that he is indeed a little timid in his heart, and he hopes that Li Hui's request to give an explanation is also reasonable, if Li Hui blindly avoids it, then the upper echelons of the Beiyang Navy Division will be shaken in confidence. Although even if they know that they will be defeated, most of the pipe bands of the Beiyang Naval Division will still fight to the death, but after all, it is better to fight with the confidence of victory, and the depressed mentality will make people's thinking rigid, and it will seriously affect the performance of the technical arms

"Lin Junmen can rest assured, although the result of the battle of Toshima is a little ugly, it is not out of my estimate. It would have taken little effort for three of the most elite high-speed cruisers of the Japanese army to besiege one of our weakest protective cruisers, so the actual battle would not have lasted too long, estimated at most three quarters of an hour. In such a short period of time, the Jiyuan was only able to fire more than 40 rounds of 150-mm shells and more than 50 rounds of 210-mm shells; Considering the fact that the hull of the ship was tilted and the front and rear main guns could not fire after suffering heavy damage, even if the possibility of the main guns being destroyed early was ignored, the Jiyuan could only fire fifty or sixty large-caliber shells at most in battle. What was the hit rate of the Jiyuan shelling during the last big parade? Li Hui stopped and asked, and after getting the answer, he continued to analyze, "Six percent, in the actual combat environment, or by the opponent's undeclared sudden attack, if you can play half of it, even if you can play well, then it is three percent; However, in the Battle of Toshima, the number of outnumbered people was extremely large, and the firepower of the Japanese ships was dozens of times that of our side, and under the suppression of its dense rain of bullets, it was difficult for our gunners to calmly aim and shoot, and the accuracy must have been greatly reduced, but the halving was considered a very good performance, then it was 1.5 percent. All of this is still counted in many miles, so it can be deduced that even if the Jiyuan is very lucky in this naval battle, it will probably be able to hit a shot, so if the luck is not so good, it is not surprising that a shot will not be missed"

"Do you want to say, with such a low hit rate, I really don't know how you can be so confident in the main decisive battle?" , Li Hui looked at the expressions of Liu Buyun and Lin Taizeng, easily guessed the thoughts in their hearts, and said with a smile, "Actually, I said at the beginning, our Beiyang Navy looks like there are eight far aways, but in fact, except for Dingzhen, the other six are just a few of them, not to mention the old and unbearable Super Yong Yangwei Second Ship." It can even be said that eighty percent of our strength is on the two ironclad giants in Dingzhen, so ah, don't be frightened by the result of the Battle of Toshima, as long as Dingzhen fights, the situation will be qualitatively different. I'll leave it here now, if the Japanese rely on artillery fire alone, even if they besiege Dingzhen for five hours, they won't want to sink them! And how many shells are we supposed to fire in those five hours? Although our rate of fire is slow, we can't stand the caliber! I am convinced that a single 305 mm caliber bomb (of course, a blasting shell loaded with silver explosives) can at least render any Japanese protective cruiser incapacitated, so we will never lose the decisive battle! ”