At the same time as attacking the "Dong" ironclad, the Chinese cruiser fleet sailed between the "Dong," the "Rijin" formation, and the "Kasuhi," and the Chinese cruiser could fire the whole ship's guns at this time, and the five-barreled heavy machine guns equipped on the first side of the "Fujing" and the Gatling machine guns on the mast poured down bullets on the "Kasuga" ship. The "Jianjing," "Princess Heshuo," "Chaowu," and "Chengqing," which followed immediately after the "Fujing," also opened fire in the same way, and the five Chinese cruisers fiercely attacked the "Dong" and "Rijin" with the main guns on one side.

The "Kasuga" was attacked by an unexpectedly fierce attack, and the Japanese naval officers and sailors on this old warship probably never dreamed that the firepower of the Chinese fleet would be so strong. In the dense rain of bullets that came from the head and face, the paddle gunboat was constantly shot, and in less than a few minutes, the hull plate was pierced in many places, and a large number of Japanese naval officers and men on the deck were beaten to the ground.

After completely suppressing the deck of the "Kasuga" with the secondary artillery fire on one side, the five Chinese cruisers had already moved rapidly to the stern direction of the "East" and "Nisshin".

In fact, 5 Chinese cruisers have already seized the "T" prefix in the tail of two Japanese warships!

Seeing this scene, Lin Yiqing was shocked.

At this time, the Chinese fleet already knew how to use the "T" tactical operation!

The secondary gunners of the Chinese cruisers came from one gun emplacement to the other (each main gun emplacement was equipped with a set of gunners, and the secondary gunners had only one gun emplacement), and took advantage of the fact that the Japanese ship's guns could not fully play their role, concentrated the secondary gun fire, and together with the main guns, attacked the large gunboat "Nisshin", which was located behind the "East". For a time, the rain of bullets fired by the five Chinese cruisers was all concentrated on the "Rijin".

Under the extremely fierce fire of the Chinese cruisers, the "Rijin", which had no tail guns, desperately completed the turn and fought back with its broadside guns, but the armor-piercing shells fired by the breech guns of the Chinese cruisers easily tore through the thin hull plates of the "Rijin".

The hull of the "Nisshin" was suddenly enveloped in thick black smoke. Due to the large number of wooden components used in the interior of the warship, the inside of the hull of the "Nisshin" was quickly blown into a mess after being hit by bullets one after another. Fires broke out in some places, forming billowing black smoke.

The heavy guns of the Chinese cruiser mercilessly struck the hull of the "Rijin", and some of the shells swept across the deck, and some passed directly through the hull, and soon, the "Rijin", which was constantly hit in the artillery battle, became a purgatory on earth, and the hull of this large gunboat was chiseled through by the shells and turned into a huge sieve.

Lin Yiqing watched the scene of the Chinese cruiser violently shelling the "Rijin", and felt an inexplicable shock from the bottom of his heart.

As a soldier, this is the first time he has seen such a battle scene.

Witnessing the painful struggle of the "Nisshin" on the sea, the ironclad ship "Dong" tried their best to fire guns to support the "Nisshin", but to no avail. Under the intensive artillery fire of the Chinese cruiser, the "Rijin" continued to tilt while the ship also ignited a catastrophic fire, and gradually showed signs of being unable to support it.

At this time, the ferocious firepower of the Chinese cruiser fleet was completely displayed in front of the Japanese.

The current situation of the war has shown that the tactics that the Japanese want to adopt in small squad chaos can no longer be effective.

Because the Japanese ships were weak in their gun positions and slow in rate of fire, they were unable to inflict great damage on the Chinese warships in a short period of time, and the Japanese ships were not able to make a result when the Chinese cruiser fleet crossed their own front, and as the distance between the warships of the two sides gradually approached, the Japanese ships had lost the advantage of using large-caliber guns to attack the enemy at a long distance. Now the Chinese cruisers had moved to the best distance conducive to artillery battles, and began to give full play to their ferocious firepower to conduct artillery battles. However, as far as the Japanese fleet is concerned, due to the overall slow speed, it will not be able to approach the Chinese fleet in a short period of time to engage in a chaotic battle that cuts into the enemy's position, and the Japanese will have to temporarily put aside the chaotic battle tactics of completely taking the initiative to attack, and will be forced to first engage in an artillery confrontation with the Chinese cruiser fleet, in which they have no advantage in the slightest.

Seeing that the "Rijin" was already showing signs that it could no longer support it, Lin Yiqing saw that the Japanese were desperate to give full play to the advantages of the "Dong" ironclad ship's strong armor and thick armor to resist the shells of the Chinese fleet for the "Rijin" and buy time for the "Rijin" to save itself.

Lin Yiqing knew that the main armor belt on the side of the "Dong" ironclad ship was 150 mm thick, the draft armor belt was 120 mm, and the armor plates at the bow and stern were 90 to 120 mm thick, which could withstand the bombardment of large-caliber shells. Now the thick iron armor on the "East" has become an important weapon for the Japanese to defeat the enemy.

The plan of the Japanese should be to use the "East" to attract the firepower of the Chinese warships, and when the Chinese warships approached, they should take the opportunity to launch an attack with large-caliber main guns, so as to deal the Chinese warships with the greatest possible blow.

Soon, the ironclad ship "Dong" was horizontally in front of the "Rijin", which was constantly tilting and had lost its ability to resist.

In the face of the onslaught of the Chinese warships, the Japanese warships fought hard, and Lin Yiqing saw that two shells fired from the direction of the "Dong" and the "Nisshin" accurately hit the rear deck of the "Fujing" one after another.

Lin Yiqing looked down from the sky and saw that two Chinese sailors carrying the shells had fallen in a pool of blood, and several others were injured. When he saw that the wounded sailor still had no intention of evacuating, but gritted his teeth and continued to transport shells, his heart couldn't help but be enthusiastic.

The soldiers of this era are also so brave and tenacious!

Although the artillery battle had just begun for only a few minutes, it was already very intense, because the "Fujing" armored cruiser was the flagship of the Chinese fleet, and therefore at the beginning of the battle, it was also the focus of the Japanese ship's artillery bombardment; at the same time as the shell fired by the "East" (it should have been a small shell fired by a 70-pounder gun), the main gun of the "Nijin" also fired a shell and hit the "Fujing" before the "East" completely blocked the "Rijin."

Taking advantage of the opportunity of being completely blocked by the ironclad ship "To", the Japanese naval officers and men on the "Nisshin" began to fight the fire and save themselves.

Lin Yiqing remembered that the "Nisshin" was a wooden-hulled gunboat with a displacement of 1,468 tons, which was ordered from the Netherlands for Naomasa Nabeshima, the lord of the Saga domain, and was equipped with six 160-mm breech-loading guns with a speed of 9 knots. After completion, it returned to Japan, and was "consecrated" to the Meiji government by the Saga Domain, becoming one of the main ships of the Japanese Navy.

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