Chapter 22: The Decisive Battle at Sea

At this time, the blood on the sea had spread out, turning into a faint red streamer, Lin Yizhe looked at it for a while, but he still didn't see the girl's body, his body shook, and he almost fell down again. Seeing this, the commander quickly reached out and helped him.

When Lin Yizhe and the commander re-boarded the flybridge, the sailors and gunners on the deck were all in place, and Lin Yizhe mechanically turned his head to look at the red battle flag, a battle signal that had been raised on the mast, and wanted to look past the telescope and look at the stern side of the ship.

The two Dragon Flag warships that followed closely behind also raised the red flag at this time, and Lin Yizhe put down his binoculars and looked at the bow of the ship.

Lin Yiqing, who was in the air, saw that the gunners had pushed the huge breech gun to the gun door on one side and began the reloading operation.

The bow and stern of this Dragon Flag battleship each have a huge breech gun, Lin Yiqing visually measured the caliber of about 200 mm, using a changing mast type, the bow can shoot forward when facing the enemy, when firing to one side, the gunners only need to push the cannon mount along the circular metal slide rail to the side of the gun door, to complete the gun turn.

Lin Yiqing knew that in this era when the turret had not been effectively developed, this was a very advanced and mature design.

China in this time and space actually has such a powerful warship!

At the same time as the bow main gun was prepared, the main gun on one side of the ear platform and the stern main gun were also turned.

With the gunner's command, the gunners completed their aim at the cliff, and after the gunner's loud order, the gunners jerked the arquebus.

The bow gun of the Dragon Flag warship was the first to let out a roar, a dark red fire shot out from the muzzle, followed by a large cloud of black smoke, and after only a few seconds, the main gun on the ear platform opened fire, and then the main gun in the stern also roared.

At the top of the cliff, a huge cloud of smoke rose in an instant, and I saw that the trees and gravel on the top of the cliff were scattered and flying for a while, and the pursuers who couldn't dodge were instantly blown up into the sky, and the severed hands and stumps that were blown off fell to the bottom of the cliff one after another.

The pursuers obviously did not expect to be hit by such a terrible blow, and immediately lost their ferocity just now, but before they could disperse, more shells fell on their heads.

After the Dragon Flag battleship led by the leader completed a salvo with a single side of the gun, the two Dragon Flag battleships that came behind also began to fire a salvo, and for a time the cliff was completely shrouded in rising black smoke.

Not long after, two more Dragon Banner battleships joined the shelling.

Lin Yiqing stared at the cliff, and soon, the sea breeze blew away the smoke, and he saw that the cliff was full of the corpses of the pursuers.

And just when the three Dragon Flag battleships completed the first salvo, and the battleships that arrived later had not had time to fire, the huge cliff may not be able to withstand such a fierce artillery bombardment, and it collapsed with a bang!

Lin Yiqing couldn't help but shout excitedly when he saw a large number of rocks and cliffs falling into the sea, setting off huge waves that soared into the sky.

This is true revenge!

After completing the vengeful bombardment, the Dragon Banner battleship raised the signal flag again and began to turn, heading towards the distant coast. The rest of the battleships turned in turn, following behind the flagship.

At this time, Lin Yiqing completely forgot that he was in the air, and he stared intently at this powerful Chinese fleet that completely appeared on the surface of the water - this is a fleet composed of 5 cruisers and 4 gunboats.

His eyes followed the dragon flagship, and soon he saw five Japanese warships flying the sun flag quietly moored on the sea not far away. The Japanese fleet was covered with black smoke from burning coal, unaware that the Chinese fleet was sailing at high speed to their northwest.

Lin Yiqing carefully identified the Japanese warship on the sea, and he quickly recognized the figure of the "East" ironclad ship. The remaining four Japanese warships were the paddle gunboat "Kasuga", the large gunboat "Nisshin", and the small gunboats "Meng Chun" and "Fengxiang".

The characteristics of these warships in Japan's recent history are so obvious that he can recognize them at a glance.

The two fleets kept approaching, and soon the Japanese fleet sirens sounded, indicating that they had spotted the Chinese fleet.

Almost at the same time, the Chinese Navy also discovered the Japanese fleet.

Lin Yiqing wanted to see more clearly, but as his mind moved, his body fell rapidly, and the battleship in front of him continued to grow larger.

He clearly read the names of the ships on the nameplates of the battleships of the Dragon Flagship: the five cruisers were "Fujing", "Jianjing", "Princess Heshuo", "Chaowu" and "Chengqing", and the four gunboats were "Fusheng", "Jiansheng", "Fuxing", and "Jianxing".

Looking at these familiar and unfamiliar names, Lin Yiqing's heart was excited.

Because among these warships, the ones he is familiar with are no longer what they were in history.

Today, they have become even stronger!

As a series of signals such as "anchoring" were raised at the crossbow truss end of the Japanese fleet's flagship "Higashi," five Japanese warships carried out anchoring operations one after another. Japanese sailors worked diligently to lift the heavy iron anchors from the sediment of the seabed. On the bow deck, the departmental officer was commanding loudly, and soon, the Japanese warships were launched one after another.

At this time, on the masts of the ships of the Chinese Navy, a huge red yellow dragon flag was replaced, and in the modern navy, this large-size battle flag was replaced, which means "combat". Lin Yiqing saw that as the officers' orders were issued, the sailors carried out various operations in an orderly manner, and the whole process was like a well-functioning machine, interlocking. One by one, the Chinese warships began to accelerate, and the propellers on the bottom of the ships spun at an accelerated pace, stirring up large swaths of surging water.

Like the Chinese warships, the masts of the Japanese warships were also replaced with huge sun flags, and the Japanese sailors worked hard to transport the shells and propellant packs to the main deck by sled, and the distribution was piled up at each gun position. In addition to the captain and first mate, some senior officers were assigned to various important positions on the ship to supervise the battle, and the Japanese sailors in white uniforms had already completed the loading of the first shells and stood by the guns.

At this moment, Lin Yiqing saw that Lin Yizhe's figure standing on the flybridge of the cruiser "Fujing" was unusually firm.

Lin Yiqing can be sure that what appears in front of him now is the main force of the new steam fleet of the Chinese Navy in this era, and the Japanese fleet opposite is almost two-thirds of the main ships of the Japanese Navy at that time.

It's going to be an out-and-out matchup!

――――Dividing Line――――

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