Another violent explosion sounded, and the hull of the "Hitachi Maru" tilted even more, and then a shell hit the mast of the "Hitachi Maru", and the mast was blown off at once, and the captain of the battle, Shigeo Sameshima, watched the broken mast fall into the sea with the sun flag.

Seeing the sun flag floating on the water, Shigeo Sameshima may suddenly realize that he still has an important thing to do, and he staggered into the cabin, and Heihachiro Togo subconsciously followed him.

Shigeo Sameshima opened the cabinet for a while and rummaged through the military flag.

Shigeo Sameshima stared blankly at the military flag in his hand, let out a beastly wail, took out a lighter, and lit the military flag.

At this time, several Japanese army soldiers rushed into the cabin to avoid the artillery fire, and they were all stunned when they saw Sameshima Shigeo kneeling there, staring blankly at the burning military flag.

They realized what had happened and all fell to their knees with tears streaming down their faces.

"Sir......

"I am not worthy to be your commander, I have betrayed the trust of His Majesty the Emperor, and I must apologize for my seppuku......" Shigeo Sameshima looked at these subordinates and cried and said, "You, who wants to be my medicho (referring to the mending knife who beheaded the seppuku suicide in the Japanese seppuku ceremony, so that the seppuku can die faster and avoid the pain and torture)?" ……”

"I do, sir......" A samurai-turned-Japanese soldier tearfully pulled out his katana at his waist.

Shigeo Sameshima didn't ask his name, but nodded.

Seeing Jieguo standing behind him with a knife raised, Shigeo Sameshima took a deep breath, sat upright, unbuttoned his clothes, exposed his abdomen, and then pulled out the saber at his waist, took out a handkerchief to wrap the blade, stabbed the tip of the knife at his stomach, and then forcefully crossed everything.

Probably unbearable for such a sharp pain, Sameshima Shigeo let out a painful roar, and the Japanese soldier behind him burst into tears, screamed, raised his knife with both hands and swung it hard, and cut off Sameshima Shigeo's head.

Suddenly, a red light flashed, and the last thing Heihachiro Togo saw was rising flames and smoke, engulfing everything around him.

A shell hit the ammunition compartment of the "Hitachi Maru", and in a series of violent explosions, the "Hitachi Maru" broke in two.

The "Hitachi Maru" had broken and sunk, but some of the Japanese army soldiers on board still held rifles in their hands and went into the Qianguo warship to shoot. However, this ineffective attack soon stopped, and in a short time the "Hitachi Maru" was completely sunk into the water, and the nearby sea was full of floating and struggling people, and the cannons on the "Chaowu" ship stopped roaring, and the machine guns also stopped firing.

Heihachiro Togo once again floated on the surface of the sea.

He turned his head to look around, and there were Japanese Army soldiers struggling desperately in the sea.

Seeing that the "Chaowu" had stopped firing, the Qianguo sailors on the steam sampan operated the dinghy to approach their warship, and at this moment, I don't know who fired a shot on the sea, and a Qianguo sailor on the sampan fell down with a scream, and saw that he was about to fall into the sea, but fortunately, his companion was in a hurry and grabbed him.

Seeing this, the wounded Chinese officer sitting there on the sampan was furious, and he pulled out his revolver and fired several shots at the Japanese soldier who was half-floating on the surface of the sea and holding a rifle, and the Japanese soldier sank into the water with a scream, bursting with black blood.

Seeing this scene, the Haqikaisi machine guns and Lin's machine guns on the "Chaowu" soon resumed firing, although the shooting was at the Japanese soldiers who were still alive in the water, probably because the dry army shooters hated the Japanese so much that they did not have the slightest sympathy and mercy. In a short period of time, the gunners of the machine guns fired almost a thousand shells.

Probably for the purpose of saving shells, soon, one by one the small boats were put down, and the navy soldiers of the Qianguo Shipbuilding and Navy in red uniforms aimed their rifles at the figures in black military uniforms struggling in the sea, and kept pulling the triggers of their rifles.

Heihachiro Togo watched in horror at the massacre, and soon the blood of Japanese Army soldiers stained the entire sea.

Togo Heihachiro saw a Qianguo sailor in a dinghy raise his rifle and aim it at himself, at this moment, the deep-set eyes of this Qianguo man looked extremely indifferent.

"Nope! - Heihachiro Togo couldn't help but put his hand in front of him, and shouted in horror.

In an instant, the Qianguo sailor and everything around him disappeared.

Heihachiro Togo sat up from the bed suddenly, only to realize that everything he saw just now was a scene from a dream.

But Heihachiro Togo knows that those are more than just illusory dreams.

There are many scenes inside that he has witnessed!

Those scenes of blood and fire are something he can never forget!

The window was blown open by the wind, and in the dark night, a gust of cold wind blew in, and Heihachiro Togo felt the chill on his body, only to realize that his vest was soaked with cold sweat.

Heihachiro Togo took a towel and wiped the sweat from his face and body, stood up and walked to the window, trying to close it, but in the bright moonlight, the figure of a warship caught his attention.

It was the gunboat "Mt. Fuji".

The "Mt. Fuji" is a large gunboat with a displacement of 1,000 tons and 12 80 mm breech guns, but it is an old ship that has been in service for almost ten years, and its top speed is only 7 knots.

After being captured by the Qianguo Navy, Togo Heihachiro was later released, and he returned home on this warship.

Heihachiro Togo was born in Kagoshima in the first year of Kaei, Japan, and his childhood name was Nakagoro, and he changed his name to Heihachiro Minori at the age of fifteen. He studied literature and martial arts since he was a child, and later devoted himself to the study of artillery. Bunhisa participated in the Sa-British War against the British in the third year (the gunner who opened fire on the fort that day was Oyama Iwa, and the people who carried the shells were not only Togo Heihachiro and Yamamoto Gonbei). In the second year of Keio, the Satsuma Domain established a navy, and Heihachiro Togo joined the navy and began to enter the military world.

During the Civil War, Heihachiro Togo supported the emperor and advocated unification and the establishment of an imperial government. At the beginning of the fourth year of Keio, as a naval non-commissioned officer, he fought at sea with the shogunate's naval commander Takehiro Natsumoto's battleship "Kaiyo" in Awa Oki, which was the beginning of modern naval warfare in Japan.

In the naval battle, although "Kasuga" fired 18 shells at "Kaiyang", only one shell hit the opponent (the clumsiness of the Japanese navy's gunnery at that time was obvious), and it was slightly wounded. Heihachiro Togo was a third-class noncommissioned officer in charge of operating the artillery at the "Kasuga" at that time, and the poor gunnery of the Japanese ships at that time had already made the idea that "a cannon with 100 shots is better than a cannon with 100 shots and 1 shot" took root in his mind.

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