The "General" ran up to a soldier with bloodshot eyes in his eyes

"Tell the fleet to change the formation and rush up to meet the cruiser in front," Yan Fu decisively gave the order

"Yes...... But general, what about the gunboats and torpedo ships in the back? The soldier asked worriedly

"Let them all move forward, follow the Daqing No. 1 and Daqing No. 2, and whether they can rush over can only be at the mercy of heaven" Yan Fu looked up to the sky and sighed, in order to avoid the annihilation of the fleet, it was only like this

"Yes," the soldier gave a standard military salute before turning away

In an instant, the ten warships of "Changsheng", "Undefeated", "Daqing No. 1", "Daqing No. 2", "Guangjia", "Guangyi", "Guangc", "Jingyuan", "Laiyuan", and "Jingyuan" suddenly rushed forward, after all, after the two battleships of the Daqing Dynasty were seriously damaged, they could not give full play to the power of the sidestring artillery, and these ten warships could not even support one hour, and it was estimated that they might be completely destroyed

"General, the Qing ** ships are lined up and rushed towards us"

"Look for death, order 'Qiujinzhou' and 'Lang' to intercept the Qing army's gunboats, fish and torpedo ships, and the four large battleships must sink the opponent's two battleships" The commander-in-chief of the Japanese fleet, the captain of the flagship Kyushu, Rear Admiral Takayama

The cruisers such as "Riding the Wind" and "Breaking the Waves" that had just shown great lethality against gunboats and torodo ships are now also vividly displayed on the two cruisers "Akitsuzu" and "Lang".

"Boom ......"

In the Beiyang Fleet, known as the town of Yuan, but the production process is much rougher than the Zhenyuan, first of all, the splicing method of the armor belt, the thickest part of the armor belt of the "Jingyuan" waterline belt has reached a very considerable 254mm, which seems to have a strong protective force, but this circle of steel "wall" is divided into three layers, the thickness of the top layer is 254mm, and the degree is 152mm. The handover of the three layers of armor is similar to the accumulation method of stacking arhats, and once the joint of the handover is hit, it is very easy to cause the terrible consequences of cracking the armor belt and entering the water

And this time, the disaster occurred when the British sold to Japan the "Akitsuzu" type protective cruiser "Akitsuzu" was hit by a frantic shelling, the "Jingyuan" port side of the waterline belt armor was hit, the part of the bullet was just at the junction of the armor belt, the armor belt immediately cracked and even partially fell off, the Japanese ships could even see the "Jingyuan" ship's exposed steel beam ribs, and soon the Japanese artillery shells caused 23 serious fires on the main deck of the "Jingyuan", the whole ship was surrounded by fire, thick smoke billowed out, and the crack in the armor belt caused a large amount of sea water to pour in." Inside the Jingyuan, the hull of the ship was irretrievably tilted to the left

While all the warships were rushing forward together, only this "Jingyuan" was lying on the surface of the sea, but it was still firing shells at the Japanese cruisers, although it did not do any damage at all

Watching his companions fall on the way to the charge, he could only silently watch and wish them well all the way

Although the secondary guns of the "Daqing No. 1" and "Daqing No. 2" are basically idle, and there is no extra artillery to control, the main guns in the bow of the ship are still sharp, and when they charge forward with full horsepower, they will continue to suppress the powerful firepower of the four battleships of "Kyushu", "Yamato", "Musashi" and "Gecheng" that intercept it head-on

Under the cover of two 10,000-ton battleships, the "long victory" and "undefeated" also rushed forward very quickly

At this time, an unexpected situation once again arose on the battlefield

The Japanese cruiser "Akitsuzu", which had just sunk "Jingyuan", just wanted to turn around and continue to pursue the remaining Daqing gunboats, but suddenly found that the rest of the gunboats of Daqing did not continue to rush forward, but came back to themselves

This situation surprised Ryuichiro Koman, and hurriedly ordered: "Right full rudder, quickly, get out of here quickly" As the captain of the ship, he clearly knew that the voyage reached the terrifying 26 knots, and the protective ability of this "Akitsu Island" was also terrifying

What's more, those gunboats of the Qing Dynasty are known for their powerful close-range artillery, and the Dagu Fort just built in the Qing Dynasty in Tianjin dares to say that it can sink all the warships within 5,000 meters, because there are 20 coastal defense gunboats inside, as long as this kind of gunboat enters the distance of 5,000 meters, once hit, it can produce huge lethality

"General, there are underwater fish and torpedoes shuttling within a distance of 1,000 meters, and you can't get up at all," said a soldier with a gray face

"Even if you encounter a fish toro, it's better than being entangled by a gunboat of the Qing Kingdom, so hurry up, go quickly with a full rudder on the right," Ryuichiro Koman roared like crazy

At this time, "Jingyuan" and "Laiyuan" had already entered the range they were accustomed to

"Boom ......"

Although it was not within the effective firing range, in order to create the necessary pressure on the "Qiujinzhou", which had almost no defense, it continued to fire cannons, and the continuous artillery suppression, so that the "Qiujinzhou" quickly retreated, and at the same time, the gunboats of the Qing Dynasty responded to the shells aimlessly

"Boom ......"

There was a loud noise from the bottom of the sea, and the "Akitsuzu" finally encountered a fish and torpedo released by the "Hiroka" at random during its hasty retreat, and the bottom of the ship broke and began to enter the water, but the displacement of 3,150 tons was still able to make the "Akitsuzu" continue to retreat without interruption

However, it was obvious that the "Qiujinzhou" had swallowed hundreds of tons of seawater in its stomach and its degree had been significantly reduced, and besides, it had to avoid those fish and pedoes as much as possible if it widened the distance from the Daqing gunboats, and it was not fun to hit another one

Although the gunboat degree of the Great Qing Dynasty was only 12 knots, it actually pulled the distance into it again during the full drive

This siege was not an order issued by Yan Fu, but in the face of the encirclement and interception of the Japanese cruisers, the gunboats with only 12 knots knew that they could not rush through at all, or that they might have been sunk after rushing over

So they simply approached the Japanese cruiser to break the net

"Boom ......"

Another burst of artillery sounded, "Qiujinzhou" was hit by the Qing gunboat again, this time hit the storage room under the floor, the thin deck directly penetrated by the shells, in the storage room was full of medium and large caliber shells, the 203-meter caliber shells that flew from just hit here, with the explosion of the shells, burst out a huge fireball, followed by poisonous yellow smoke billowing up, the ammunition piled up on the deck was surrounded by the deadly flames that ignited, and also exploded and burned one after another, and the stern of the "Qiujinzhou" ship became a world of fire in an instant

This cruiser like a fly, the terrifying 26-knots sail played an immeasurable role in the entire naval battle, no one thought that it capsized in the gutter, and was solved by the most inconspicuous gunboat in the entire naval battle, and the gunboat "Laiyuan", which was only 2,000 tons, became the hero of the entire naval battle, and in the past two hours, "Nanxiang" and "Jingyuan" have been destroyed under its cannons

At this time, the last cruiser in the Japanese fleet, "Lang", also fell at the same time, but in the face of the impact of "long victory" and "undefeated", "Lang" still chose to avoid it very Meiji, otherwise what was waiting for it was likely to return to the sea