The huge sound of cannons shook the entire ship, and Hu Chuyuan sat in the cabin silently, indifferent, without any feelings, like a corpse, but a little arrogant.

It's hard for others to understand how he's feeling at the moment.

Think about it, what a great honor and what a great sorrow it is for a country to start a war to assassinate you.

What are the prospects for the future of life?

As long as you dare to stand up, the guns of others will always be aimed at you.

He sat silently, and others waited silently, silently observing him.

Hu Chuyuan lifted his watch and looked at the time, it was 12:09:27 p.m. on March 17, 1890.

Die, die.

From the moment he knew that he really wanted to kill him so much, he had already given up his reason and died here.

Yes, that's what he thinks, there's nothing to care about, and he's forced to be extremely irritable.

Suddenly, he remembered a famous poem, and sighed coldly: "Who has not died in life since ancient times...... Keep Dan in mind! ”

Everyone in the cabin was slightly stunned, and Lan Jianshu hurriedly said, "My lord, I'm afraid it's not ...... yet!" ”

Before he could finish speaking, the hull shook violently and suddenly, as if two shells had been hit in succession.

On the sea, the Ankang ship is at the forefront, followed by the super weapon ship and the Sawu ship, and the three ships are facing off against the four Chaofeng-class cruisers. He said that he was completely using the cruiser as the main force to fight, and they frantically lined up all the decks with rapid-fire guns of 120 mm caliber, and the shells fell on the three ships of the visiting fleet like a rain of bullets.

In the distance, in the north, two Naniwa-class cruisers ran after the Shinyangwu, using the tactics of outflanking left and right, and in the south, the standing fleet of the original was gradually approaching, and they had two heavy artillery cruisers and two ironclad cruisers.

The heavy artillery cruiser is said to be his own invention, and they are all built by themselves, and the huge guns of the battleship are installed on the basis of the ordinary dome cruiser, and the main value is to deal with the two Dingyuan-class ironclad ships of the Beiyang Naval Division, and the three Jingyuan-class ironclad ships of the Nanyang Naval Division.

Lin Yongsheng kept making the visiting fleet detour and retreating while fighting, however, for Ito Youheng, the commander-in-chief of the Standing Fleet, both the visiting fleet and Hu Chuyuan were just dead bodies, and it was only a matter of time before they sank to the bottom of the sea.

Under the command of Kozo Tsuboi, commander of the First Pioneer Guerrilla Force of the Standing Fleet, the four Asakaze-class cruisers of the guerrillas had already outflanked the retreat of the visiting fleet, and Heihachiro Togo, who was further north, had already led the Naniwa-class lead ship, the Naniwa, in pursuit of the Shinyangmu.

At this moment, Ito Youheng's thoughts were extremely expanded, as if he had spread his wings, and both he and Yumoto were about to truly spread their wings and soar.

Hu Chuyuan.

In this book, it is called "Toakizuki" according to the transliteration of the word, and sometimes it is also referred to simply as "Akizuki".

Unlike most of the people himself, Ito is a very handsome middle-aged man, forty-seven years old this year, with a very solemn look.

Standing on the command tower, commanding the battleships to besiege and patrol the fleet, a thought flashed in his heart from time to time.

From the 14th year of the Meiji era, in 1881, Shibusawa Eiichiro proposed ...... Hu Chuyuan will inevitably become an obstacle to the development of the book, and in the sixteenth year of the Meiji era, Hu Chuyuan began to unify the silk industry in the south of the Yangtze River in China, and the silk industry that was booming in China suddenly suffered a heavy blow.

It was not until 1885 that Bunsen silk relied on exports to France to gain some life.

"Dongxiang-kun, it's all up to you!"

Ito Yuheng silently prayed in his heart, he hoped that this time he could truly complete the highest combat goal issued by His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Empire - to kill "Toakizuki" and let it sink to the bottom of the sea permanently.

According to the plan of the headquarters, even if it did not hesitate to formally declare war with China, without Hu Chuyuan, the Qing court would not be able to support it for too long, as long as it used the first wave of the war to annex Korea and enter into peace talks, it was not appropriate to pursue more results, so as not to be dragged down by China like France.

In short, the dismemberment of China and the occupation of China are the responsibility and duty of an entire generation, not the responsibility of any year or war.

I firmly believe that as long as we continue to put it into practice, do it again and again, and complete the set goals again and again, we can eventually occupy the whole of China, so that my future and the next generation will be born in China, and the Central Plains will become the land of Yueben.

As Toyotomi Hideyoshi said, move the capital to Yenchyo.

…… If Hu Chuyuan knew that one of the two warships chasing the cruiser Xinyangwu was commanded by Heihachiro Togo, he would have laughed out loud.

Sneer, definitely sneer.

Unfortunately, he didn't know.

A lot of the time, he doesn't care either.

With the assistance of the French, they mastered the new picric acid shells faster than expected, and not all warships used picric acid as explosives, mainly the two Itsukushima-class ironclad cruisers.

It turns out that intelligence is capable of deciding the fate of a country.

Without intelligence, the outcome of the Battle of Deland would have been difficult to predict, and without intelligence, the outcome of the First World War would have been even more unpredictable.

In short, intelligence is always the most critical.

The huge intelligence system that Hu Chuyuan spent a lot of money to build has finally paid off, and this is all thanks to himself.

At 12:17 p.m., a great haze appeared in the western part of the operational sea area, and twelve warships took a column to insert themselves diagonally behind the Standing Fleet, which was still a long way away, but it was about forty nautical miles.

After discovering the figure of the East China Sea Fleet, the Weikang ship dragged behind, and the two Chaowu-class cruisers broke through to the west.

This dramatic change of surname surprised Ito Youheng extremely much, and at this moment, he could only pin all his hopes on the two Naniwa-class cruisers, leading the other warships to form a column, preparing to delay as much time as possible to ensure that the Naniwa could complete the operation codenamed "Swallowing the Moon".

In short, as long as Hu Chuyuan is killed, this battle will be the greatest victory in the history of the Great Empire, and it will be bright from now on, but he didn't expect that Hu Chuyuan was actually in front of him.

The Chaowu class belongs to a kind of [***] type of dome cruiser, on the basis of the new Yangwu class, Fuzhou Shipbuilding has specially developed a new type of waist dome cruiser between the dome cruiser and the ironclad cruiser.

The special feature of the Chaowu class lies in this, it has regained the outdated ironclad arrangement of the ship's waist, and the ironclad defense force has been increased on both sides, giving focused protection to the boilers and ammunition depots.

This makes the Super Martial Rank not as fast as the New Yang Martial Rank, but it is much better than the New Yang Martial Rank in terms of defensive power.

The shells were indeed fierce, but unfortunately, the Ankang, Chaowu, and Sawu were not sunk, especially in the covert protection of the Ankang and Chaowu, and the Sawu had enough safe space to meet the capital ships of the East China Sea Fleet to the west.

In the north, the Xinyangwu is still desperately escaping, because the boiler caught fire, and the speed was significantly reduced.

Ito believes that this time, the Shinyangmu will never be able to leave the sea again, and the two Naniwa-class cruisers will complete the mission, but he worries that the withdrawal of the standing fleet will make the Naniwa-class cruisers abandon the pursuit.

So at this moment, he couldn't help but hesitate.

In the end, he made a surprising decision - to sail north, rendezvous with the Naniwa-class cruisers, complete the final decisive battle, and even if all of them were sunk, he would sink half of the main force of the Beiyang Fleet - he thought it was the Beiyang Fleet.

The truth of the matter will definitely break his heart, and this time, he is facing the main fleet of the East China Sea Division that will definitely make him cry.

In July 1887, on the grounds that the Fuzhou Ship Administration could build ships on its own, the Qing Zheng Axe ordered the three major naval divisions and other naval divisions to stop purchasing warships from foreign countries, and the well-informed Hu Chuyuan rushed to order two additional Zhiyuan-class ironclad ships with Germany in April 87, the first one was delivered at the end of 1888, and the second was delivered in June 1889.

The Zhiyuan class is based on the Dingyuan class to absorb the high freeboard design style of the British new warship, the lines are more beautiful, and the design displacement tonnage is the same as that of the Saint-Nazaire class, which is 7,350 tons. Like the style of the battleships ordered by the Fuzhou Shipyard in previous years, the main guns were of a smaller rank and more numerous, using only 275 mm caliber, with as many as ten guns, and four secondary guns of 120 mm caliber installed.

Zhiyuan class is built in the German Volkeng shipyard, the first one uses the steel provided by the Oakland shipyard in the United States, the second uses German self-produced steel, the main armor of both is cold-pressed nickel-chromium steel, but the specific process is different, in fact, although the development of cold-pressed nickel-chromium steel technology in Germany is later than that of the United States, the real quality is stronger than the latter.

Because the two warships served very well in the Fuzhou Shipyard, in 1889, Hu Chuyuan added two Zhiyuan-class to the eight additional warships purchased by Germany, and the remaining six were Fuzhou-class ironclad ships jointly designed by the German and American Admiralties and the Fuzhou Shipbuilding, with a tonnage of only 6,550 tons.

The Fuzhou class was designed at the end of 1887, launched at the Luoyuanwan Shipyard at the end of 1888, and officially commissioned in June 1890.

Similarly, the Chunyu class and the Zhenjiang class can't catch up, these two levels are new ships that match each other, and both use new steam turbine technology, and now there is only the first one.

I can't count on it.

Even so, the East China Sea Division was still the strongest fleet in the Qing Empire, and the quality of personnel and tactical literacy was also the highest.

In order to prevent Yue himself from discovering the abnormality, the fleet that attacked this time was the main Fuzhou fleet, which was stationed in Luoyuan Bay and rarely appeared in public, two Zhiyuan-class ironclad ships, two Jingyuan-class ironclad ships, two ironclad cruisers, five dome-armored cruisers and the Spring Rain.

This is also the first appearance of the Spring Rain, and the speed will be so fast that he can scold his mother.

It also uses picric acid, but unlike the other person, the Americans wrapped a layer of kraft paper around the picric acid explosive, and only such a simple improvement solved the unstable surname of picric acid...... The exact reason for this is not yet known.

This discovery came a little late, so only picric cannonballs were used on the Spring Rain.

(To be continued)