At this time, the Chinese fleet, which consisted of nine warships, was in a single vertical formation, rapidly heading towards the Japanese fleet, while the five Japanese warships that had just lifted anchor did not form any combat formation.

Lin Yiqing knew that although the Japanese navy already had a foundation in the shogunate period, started earlier than the Chinese navy, and had experienced the "Awa Chong Naval Battle" and the "Miyako Bay Naval Battle" and had a certain amount of actual combat experience, he had no experience in organizing fleet operations.

Due to the different qualities of the captains and sailors of the Japanese ships, and the time it took for the Japanese ships to lift anchor, Lin Yiqing noticed that the gunboat "Rijin" was the fastest to anchor, followed by the flagship "Dong" ironclad ship, then "Meng Chun" and "Fengxiang", while the paddle gunboat "Kasuga" was the slowest, falling behind the entire Japanese fleet.

Soon after anchoring, the Japanese fleet began to change formations, and the Japanese commanders seemed to intend to line the Japanese fleet in the same single column as the Chinese fleet, and carry out a one-sided salvo. However, due to the fact that the Japanese ships were different from the old and new, the speed was different, and the relevant cooperation had not been carried out before, the Japanese ships after receiving the signal were chaotic for a while, and they were barely lined up in a single column, but the formation of the Japanese ships made them fall into chaos before they could engage in battle.

In order to form a single column formation as soon as possible, the flagship "Dong" issued a flag signal for the formation according to the position of each ship at that time, and as a result, all ships moved closer to the flagship "Dong" one after another according to the order; when the final formation was formed, the order of the Japanese ships was the ironclad ship "Dong," the patrimon gunboat "Kasuhi," the large gunboat "Rijin," and the small gunboats "Meng Chun" and "Fengxiang."

The Japanese commander lined up the oldest paddle gunboat "Kasuga" behind the "To" and in front of the large gunboat "Nisshin", probably in an attempt to cover the weakest warship with the most powerful "To", but when the Japanese fleet was finished, the Japanese discovered that this slowest warship, located in the middle of the fleet, would slow down the pace of the entire fleet.

Lin Yiqing, who is familiar with the history of the development of the modern navy, knows that the column tactics adopted by China and Japan at the beginning were the simplest battle line engagement tactics based on the formation of columns. This time-honored tactic was once widely used in the era of sail warships, and the main feature was that the fleet was arranged in a column formation, so that the guns on the densely packed side of the gunboard could face the enemy to the greatest extent and carry out broadside firefights. After the advent of the era of steam ironclads, the Italian-Austrian "Battle of Lisa" made the ancient column tactics almost replaced by the horizontal column tactics designed with the bow cannon, but the column tactics that were conducive to broadside firepower did not disappear from the historical stage. Most of the warships of the Chinese fleet are relatively new, have strong maneuverability, and have exceptionally strong broadside firepower, which is suitable for broadside confrontations. The original intention of the Japanese fleet was to repeatedly maneuver and turn around in front of the enemy fleet, and to engage with broadside firepower in order to exert all its firepower.

However, seeing that the Chinese fleet was approaching at high speed, the Japanese fleet realized that it was unfavorable and wanted to change its formation again.

Although the fleets of the two sides were still approaching and did not fire, Lin Yiqing had already keenly discovered that the Chinese fleet was extremely fast!

After seeing the appearance of the Chinese fleet, which was marching in a uniform and high-speed manner, the Japanese probably realized that if the Japanese fleet was engaged in a column engagement, the overall speed of the Japanese fleet would be slow, and in addition, the paddle gunboat "Kasuga" would be dragging its feet, and it would inevitably be in an extremely disadvantageous situation. Immediately began to change formations.

Lin Yiqing looked down from the air and saw that after the "Spring Day" began to retreat, the "Dong" and the "Rijin" seemed to be about to merge into one team, and the "Meng Chun" and "Fengxiang" were combined into one team, and the detachment met the enemy and attacked the Chinese fleet.

He immediately understood that the reason why the Japanese fleet changed its formation so much was because the Japanese wanted to use the tactics of "chaotic warfare".

Chaosa war is a new term that emerged from the field of world naval tactics after the Italian-Austrian "Battle of Lisa". The general pattern of this tactic is to adopt an overall formation formation to approach the enemy fleet, and then dissolve it into scattered tactical detachments, break through the enemy's ship formation at multiple points, engage in a melee, and win in chaos.

Lin Yiqing understood that the real intention of the Japanese should be to keep the horizontal formation of each detachment at the same time to meet the enemy, and then the two two-ship tactical detachments will attack from two different directions, and at the same time break through the column formation of the Chinese fleet, and then repeatedly rush in and out, keeping the side of the ship always aiming at the enemy ship and firing, so as to completely disrupt the formation of the enemy fleet. When the Chinese fleet was in great chaos, the Japanese side could use the relatively flexible combination of the two-ship detachment, either acting in a single team or coordinating with multiple teams, to seek opportunities to attack lone enemy ships, using both artillery weapons and ramming angles. This tactic of chaotic warfare is almost a replica of the "Battle of Lisa".

Another advantage of using chaotic tactics is that it relies less on the unified command of the flagship, and mainly relies on the indomitable execution of tactical intentions by the tactical detachments. However, if this tactic, which was considered very effective by the navies of various countries at the time, was to be successfully implemented, several factors needed to be at the same time: each tactical detachment must have a high degree of courage to charge directly into the enemy's position despite enemy artillery fire; When each tactical detachment breaks through, it is necessary to choose coordination as much as possible and launch at multiple points at the same time to prevent the enemy fleet from breaking off and not dispersing; After the breakthrough of the tactical detachments, they had to do everything possible to disrupt the formation of the enemy fleet, and in addition, they needed to have some good luck like the Austrian navy at the Battle of Lissa (that is, it depended on "character", and then it turned out that the Japanese had done too much to lack virtue and had a very poor character), because in the midst of the melee, no one could predict what would happen.

At this time, the five warships of the Japanese fleet were changing formations on one side, and rushing towards the Chinese fleet under the soot in the distance.

The Japanese fleet staggered forward and turned into a "two-two-one" detachment, and the commander of the Chinese fleet should have quickly understood the intentions of the Japanese.

As the "Fujing" was raised in a series of flags, the Chinese fleet began to divide into two groups, the first group of five cruisers swooped straight for the "Dong" and "Rijin," and the second group of four gunboats swooped down on the "Meng Chun" and "Fengxiang."

――――Dividing Line――――

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