About 12 kilometers off Incheon, North Korea, a strange fleet of six armored ships is cruising here, and this naval formation of six armored warships is none other than the British Far East Fleet under the command of Rear Admiral Philliman.

And less than a kilometer south of this fleet, there is another mixed fleet consisting of two ironclad battleships and several hybrid training ships.

"General, it's the naval fleet of the South Seas Seris!" On the battleship St. Vincent, First Officer Austin was holding up his glasses to observe this strange "friend" who was watching the battle with his fleet on the sea not far away.

Phileman nodded, but did not speak.

In fact, the heart of this fleet commander was far less calm than he seemed, looking at the two Seris battleships equipped with six 12-inch cannons not far away, Philiman mentally compared the strength of this Seris fleet with several of his own warships, but the result made him feel depressed.

Although he didn't want to believe it in his heart, Philliman, as the commander of the fleet, had to admit that if the two sides clashed, his warships could easily sink the training ships in the Ceris fleet opposite, but the six old armored ships on his side were definitely not the opponents of the two Ceris battleships equipped with 12-inch naval guns.

Shaking his head, Philiman turned his attention away from the Ceris fleet and continued to observe the naval battle between Qing and Japan......

"How did the Qing Beiyang Fleet do it, and why did it fight with the Japanese fleet?"

"Yes! With the range of their large-caliber naval guns, they can safely destroy the opponent at a greater distance. ”

"No, no, no!! None of you have figured it out that it is the Japanese fleet that has the advantage in speed......"

The naval battle between the Qing and Japan continued......

At this time, both sides have already killed each other!

Following the sacrifice of Deng Shichang of the "Zhiyuan" ship, the "Pingyuan" under the command of Li He of the Qing State Administration was also sunk by the Japanese ship "Qiujinzhou" in order to cover its main force in the battle, and most of the 145 officers and men of the ship were killed except for a few sailors who escaped.

At 9 o'clock in the morning, the two capital ships of the Beiyang Fleet, "Dingyuan" and "Zhenyuan," finally made meritorious contributions one after another.

In a short period of time, the 12-inch front guns of the two ships hit the Japanese ships "Chicheng" and "Saikyo Maru" respectively!

The short "Saikyo Maru" was hit by a powerful 12-inch shell on the side of the ship, and was directly blown into two pieces from the middle and sank on the spot, but the Japanese ship "Chicheng" was lucky to escape the catastrophe, and when the rear deck of the ship was hit and caught fire again and again, its sailors opened the water valve in time to rescue it, and finally maintained the hull on the sea.

The wounded "Chicheng" miraculously regained its speed after emergency repairs by Japanese sailors, but at this time the "Chicheng" was no longer capable of fighting.

More than 20 ironclad warships on both sides chased each other on the open sea off Incheon, the flames were shining, the guns were in the sky, the entire Yellow Sea seemed to be about to be capsized, and the battle of the Yellow Sea reached its climax. In comparison, even the Battle of Trafalgar a hundred years ago was not so spectacular.

At 9:57, the "Itsukushima", one of the three Japanese ships, and the Qing "Jingyuan" ship directly opposite hit each other almost at the same time!

At the same time as the ammunition compartment of the Japanese ship "Itsukushima" was killed, the life of the "Jingyuan" of the Qing Dynasty, which had been in battle for a long time, finally came to an end, and the hull of the "Zhiyuan", which followed its sister ship, slowly sank into the water.

At 10:22, the Beiyang flagship "Dingyuan" hit the bridge of the Japanese "Hashidate" with one shot, but then he was also hit on the foredeck by the "Takachiho" ship on the right, resulting in damage to the main gun!

At this time, both the Beiyang and Japanese fleets transferred their flagships to the "Zhenyuan" and "Naniwa" respectively.

Compared with the first battle, the situation on both sides has begun to change again.

At this time, the four high-speed armored cruisers of the Japanese ships "Naniwa", "Takachiho", "Akitsuzu", and "Chiyoda" had completely crossed the Beiyang Wild Goose formation and gradually turned to the right side of the opponent, plus the remaining three battleships on the left, "Hashidate", "Fuso", and "Hiei", and the Beiyang Fleet of the Qing Kingdom began to fall into the predicament of being attacked by the opponent on both sides!

At 10:27, the temporary flagship of the Beiyang "Zhenyuan" was hit by the concentrated fire of the Japanese ships on the rear deck and boiler room, and the battleship lost its speed at sea!

The battleship "Jingyuan" commanded by Lin Yongsheng, the right wing of the Beiyang Front, was shot and wounded in many places, and even though the first mate Chen Rong and the second mate Chen Jingying died one after another, they still bravely fired back with their guns.

However, at 10:33 a.m., the right side of the ship was seriously flooded and could not be rescued, and as a last resort, the whole ship crashed headlong into the Japanese ship "Fuso" that was passing by opposite under the command of Lin Yongsheng, the pipe belt!

Although the "Fuso" had strong firepower in the Japanese fleet, it was already an old ship of the 70s, and when it was moving slowly, it was caught off guard and sunk by the "Jingyuan" commanded by Lin Jiusheng, the Beiyang Pipe Belt!!

After such a sudden situation, the "Jingyuan," which was also seriously damaged, also slowly capsized on the sea, and the more than 200 people on the ship, except for 16 who were later rescued, the rest were buried in the sea.

At 10:37, the Japanese ship "Chicheng" rushed close to the Beiyang "Zhenyuan" and fired a torpedo sneak attack, but missed, but was hit head-on by a 12-inch howitzer in Beiyang, and then sank.

"Boom!! -- Ten minutes later, the Japanese warships "Chiyoda" and "Takachiho" opened fire one after another and hit the "Jiyuan" ship on the right flank of Beiyang.

At this time, as the battlefield gradually moved eastward, the two fleets began to enter the waters off Woody Island off the coast of Incheon.

I don't know if it's lucky or unlucky, the "Jiyuan" accidentally ran aground in the water when the hull of the ship began to gradually capsize!

Several Japanese ships abandoned this target one after another and joined the siege of the Beiyang flagship "Zhenyuan".

At this time, with the withdrawal of "Jiyuan" from the battle, only five battleships were left on the Beiyang side: "Dingyuan", "Zhenyuan", "Chaoyong", "Yangwei", "Guangjia" and "Guangbing", and the hulls were seriously damaged. However, the Japanese fleet still had six armored warships with relatively light injuries: "Naniwa", "Takachiho", "Akitsuzu", "Chiyoda", "Hashidate", and "Hiei".

The temporary flagship of the Beiyang "Zhenyuan" was damaged by the previous boiler, and it gradually fell into a dangerous situation when it lost its speed at this time.

As more and more shots were hit, the hull of the "Zhenyuan" began to catch fire gradually......

At 10:45, the Japanese ship "Akitsuzu" suddenly approached and fired a torpedo at "Zhenyuan", which was still floating on the sea, braving artillery fire!

At the critical moment, the Beiyang Fleet pipe leader Cheng Biguang drove the ship "Guang Bing" and suddenly rushed out and blocked the torpedo with his own hull.

"Boom, boom, boom!! ――”

In the violent explosion, the 110 officers and men on the ship, together with the "Guangbing" ship management and Cheng Biguang, were all martyred!

At this time, the "Dingyuan" ship, which had previously damaged the bridge, also rushed up to the scene when it saw the crisis of the sister ship, because the front main gun was damaged, the "Dingyuan" turned slightly to the left, stopped in front of the "Zhenyuan", and began to use the main guns on the rear deck to return fire on the Japanese ship.

At 11:05, the Beiyang Fleet's "Chaoyong" made several 150mm shells in succession, damaging the Japanese ship "Hashidate" and forcing the other side that caught fire to withdraw from the battle.

At this time, the "Zhenyuan", which was supported by various friendly ships in its own fleet, also gradually eased up.

Although the command platform had been reduced to ruins by the fire of the Japanese ships, with the rescue of the officers and men on board, the "Zhenyuan" still miraculously regained a little speed.

As the "Zhenyuan" ship rejoined the battle, both sides of the naval battle were once again in a state of anxiety!

At 11:14, the torpedo ship "Fulong" of the Beiyang Fleet suddenly rushed out from the left rear and sailed into the enemy position, braving the fire of several Japanese ships to fire four torpedoes in a row at the Japanese ship "Naniwa", and was sunk by the opponent's 260mm main gun after the sneak attack failed.

But the sacrifice of the "Fukulong" was not without a little fruit, in the chaos of the Japanese fleet flagship "Naniwa" in order to avoid the last torpedo in the hull of the ship when the emergency turn of the hull accidentally hit the "Hashidate" of its own fleet!

The "Hashidate" was already damaged, and the starboard side of the "Naniwa" began to enter a large amount of water after the collision, and it was forced to withdraw from the battle in the fierce battle, and the "Naniwa" itself was also bruised, and the bow of the ship was slightly damaged.

Soon after, the Beiyang Fleet's "Dingyuan" regained its prestige, withstood several shells from the Japanese ships, and hit the "Hiei", the slowest Japanese ship, with its own main guns on the rear deck of the ship!

"Boom, boom!! ――”

In the midst of the flames, the sound of the Japanese ship "Hiei" began to tilt. The Japanese ships "Takachiho" and "Akitsuzu" rushed to support one after another, and only after emergency rescue and water injection did the "Hiei" regain its balance, but it had also lost its original speed.

At 11:27, the Beiyang Fleet "Guangjia" was seriously damaged and the hull of the ship was flooded, and it withdrew from the battle under the cover of the friendly ship "Chaoyong".

After that, the remaining warships of the Japanese Combined Fleet began to besiege the two ships of the Qing "Dingyuan" and "Zhenyuan", which were also seriously damaged.

However, at this time, the only Japanese Sankei ship equipped with 320mm large-caliber naval guns sank and was injured one after another, and the remaining four Japanese ships, "Naniwa", "Takachiho", "Akitsuzu", and "Chiyoda", although the two ships frequently fired their guns at Dingzhen in the Beiyang, they never caused fatal injuries to the two absolute capital ships of the Qing Dynasty, except for causing a large number of casualties to the two absolute capital ships of the Qing State.

Although the two sister ships of the Japanese army, "Naniwa" and "Takachiho", which were also equipped with 260mm naval guns, showed their prestige in the naval battle just now, sinking and damaging several warships in the Beiyang one after another, they gradually showed their decline at this time......

The 260mm shells fired frequently by the guns of the two Japanese ships, except for hitting one crater after another on the "Dingyuan" and "Zhenyuan" hulls, never penetrated the thick armor of the other side!

The two sides fought anxiously and angrily for nearly half an hour one after another, and it was not until 11:54 a.m. that the Japanese ships were still unable to do their job, but instead were convicted, and the main artillery attack of the town was damaged one after another, that the flagship of the Japanese Combined Fleet, "Naniwa," issued a signal to "stop fighting," and the Japanese ships began to break away from the battle one after another, and in this way, under the command of the commander of the provisional fleet, Heihachiro Togo, the remaining warships of the Combined Fleet took the lead in withdrawing from the battlefield by virtue of their speed advantage.

The two ships of the Beiyang Naval Division's "Dingyuan" and "Zhenyuan" followed and pursued for a while, but the enemy's speed was too fast, and they only sank the "Hiei" ship, which was seriously injured and abandoned by the other side, and after the pursuit was unsuccessful, the two ships had to gather the "Chaoyong", "Yangwei", and "Guangjia" ships in the rear, and the fleet then sailed to the place where the "Jiyuan" ran aground.

The surviving officers and men of the Beiyang Naval Division on board the "Jiyuan" on board the "Guangjia" ship, which was the least wounded, began to embark on their return journey under the leadership of the "Jiyuan" ship with a roaring sound of the "Jiyuan" ship......