Because of the Hawaii dispute, the United States currently has a rather bad relationship with Japan, but at the same time it is afraid of China's unfathomable development potential, so it hopes that both sides will lose and lose, unlike other powers that are more or less biased.

Therefore, Henry's comments were not mixed with many tendencies, and were the most objective among the Western officers, but what he did not know was that the Japanese did not carry torpedoes at all

Due to the weakness of the torpedo in the Battle of Toshima that was too close and unreliable, and considering the consequences of the torpedo being killed and detonated by enemy fire, the Japanese Combined Fleet did not bring a single torpedo with it before going to sea.

Therefore, even if it is now found that the ironclad ship is far more resistant to attack than they expected, the Japanese can only continue to rely on artillery as their only weapon.

Well, ramming is also an option, but the sinking of the Fuso has fully demonstrated the consequences of getting too close to the Dingzhen 2nd ship, and the Japanese will not fight hard until they have no choice, especially now that they have regained the advantage of the situation, there is no need to take risks.

However, compared to the desperately strong Dingzhen 2nd ship, the Jingyuan, which had been shot in many places, was undoubtedly a much softer persimmon, so it was only natural that almost all the Japanese naval guns within reach of it were aimed at it and opened fire fiercely.

I saw that there were constantly water columns rising into the sky near the Jingyuan, and the fire on the ship was further expanding, and there were gradually signs of getting out of control, and because the unprotected part of the water was shot into the water, the narrow waterline armor belt also fell to a very dangerous position

Chen Rong, the first mate of the Jingyuan, is a brave and fearless person, and he also knows that it is not suitable for the Jingyuan to retreat now, but based on his own duties, he still truthfully reported the current situation of the warship to Lin Yongsheng, "Lin Junmen, if you don't immediately withdraw from the battle column to extinguish the fire and plug the leak, as it is now, even if it hasn't sunk in ten minutes, it will be impossible to drive back to Weihaiwei."

Hearing the report of the first mate, Lin Yongsheng shook his head as expected, he didn't know that none of the Japanese ships had torpedoes, so he was naturally worried that after he retreated, the second ship of Dingzhen would lose cover and would be struck by the enemy's approaching lightning, at least he had to hold on until Pingyuan came over to take over, so he could do so, right?

Thinking of this, Lin Yongsheng immediately ordered the flag soldiers to send a signal to the flagship, suggesting that the Beiyang team take the initiative to move closer to Pingyuan, otherwise with Pingyuan's slow speed, he didn't know when he would be able to join the battle.

The only thing worth being happy about is probably that the Pingyuan will arrive earlier than the Qiujinzhou anyway, after all, after discovering that the Qiujinzhou returned to the battlefield, the Dingyuan has been driving in the opposite direction with the warships of both sides, plus the Qiujinzhou is originally farther away from the main battlefield than the Pingyuan, even if the former continues to drive the strong pressure ventilation despite the injury, it will have to run for a while!

Although the signal flag of the Dingyuan was destroyed and no order could be issued, the flag sent by the friendly ship could still be seen, and Liu Buyun was silent after hearing the report, worried that he would be chased by the enemy and beaten violently.

However, Liu Buyun soon thought that there are currently three warships left in the team, among which the design of the second ship in Dingzhen is not afraid of rear-end collision at all, so even if it is rear-ended by the Japanese ship, it will only lose the firepower of the Jingyuan, accounting for about 10% at most, and such a price should be affordable.

Originally, under the circumstance that he could only be indirectly commanded by the actions of the Dingyuan, Liu Buyun had to worry that a sudden left turn would collide with the friendly ship on the left, but the spacing in the formation of the short horizontal team was relatively large, and the spacing left after the escape of the Guangjia had not been completely filled, so Liu Buyun no longer had any concerns about this, and immediately issued an order after making up his mind.

As the proposer of the suggestion, Lin Yongsheng just saw that the Dingyuan was beginning to turn, so he immediately ordered the Jingyuan to turn left as well, and at the same time ordered the ship to drive up the speed at full speed.

In order to maximize the powerful firepower of the Dingzhen Second Ship, the Jingyuan, which can run to 14 knots at the earliest, was arranged to the right flank of the team, and it can only slow down to about 11 knots, but now with such a left turn, the speed advantage of the Jingyuan can finally be shown.

The sudden reversal of the three Beiyang ships caught the Japanese off guard, especially the three weak ships that were already behind them, but now they were going to face to face with the three Beiyang ships, and because of the crossing, the distance between the two sides was quickly shortened!

Although for the purpose of suppressing the firepower of the four major anti-patrol forces of the Japanese army, the seven 305mm guns on the Dingzhen No. 2 ship (one of which was destroyed by Japanese artillery fire) did not have time to deal with these three unprotected warships playing soy sauce, but the situation of the Jingyuan was different.

After turning, due to the change of angle, her front main gun and the secondary guns on both sides could not attack the four defensive patrols, so naturally she could only take out the three weak Japanese ships in front of her now, so the latter cupped

Less than 3 minutes after the Keiyuan began to turn, the Musashi, which was at the end of the line of the three Japanese ships, was hit by a 150mm blasting shell and burst into flames, and before it could turn and withdraw from the battle column, another shell of the same shell hit the waterline, and the musashi's hull began to tilt and its speed dropped significantly. Immediately after being hit by a 210mm caliber blasting projectile, the blazing silver flame and powerful shock wave generated by the explosion of more than 20 kilograms of silver explosives dealt a fatal blow to this unprotected warship with a standard platoon of less than 1,500 tons.

Although no shells hit the warship after that due to the continuous turn, the Musashi was completely sunk nine minutes later, and less than 50 of the 231 officers and men on board were rescued.

On the other hand, the unexpected turn of the three Beiyang ships also caused the Jingyuan to gradually move away from the four major Japanese defense patrols, and the density of artillery fire to bear was rapidly reduced, Lin Yongsheng hurriedly ordered his subordinates to seize the opportunity to extinguish the fire and plug the leak.

As a result, the Jingyuan, which had seemed to be dying, was relieved again, at least the situation did not continue to deteriorate, which can be regarded as a surprise.

At the same time, Ito Yuhiro, commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet, found himself in a very embarrassing situation, because the four major defense patrols were in the outer circle, and the line was a column, and the radius of the circle was much larger than that of the three Beiyang ships, if they wanted to give priority to killing the Jingyuan, the prey that could be eaten at a glance, they could only take advantage of the situation to turn a big circle and get out of the battle first, and then chase after the Beiyang three ships after they had completely turned around, which would inevitably take a lot of time.

If they wanted to save time, the Japanese column would have to immediately reverse to stick to the three Beiyang ships and avoid getting out of the battle, but in that case, the closest to them would become the Zhenyuan, which had strong ships and guns