At noon on 16 September, the six submarines of the submarine formation had already crossed the East China Sea and arrived safely in the Yellow Sea, and were now heading to the vicinity of Dadonggou to lay an ambush.

091 boat captain Wang Wei, was appointed as the captain of the submarine formation, responsible for commanding and coordinating the entire submarine formation operations and marching position, he has long been favored by Wang Lin, perhaps because he was a family five hundred years ago, or maybe because this person is really a talent, no matter what, Wang Lin has always appointed him as the captain of the 091 boat and the captain of the formation.

At this time, on the 091 boat, Wang Wei sat in the captain's command room, with a map and several documents on the table, and a microphone next to him, he was very curious about this thing, and he was sitting here talking and the whole crew could hear it, which saved him a lot of trouble, and at this time he was about to sit here to announce the voyage mission.

"Ladies and gentlemen, it has been four days since we set sail, and we are now in the Yellow Sea, and we will arrive at the predetermined location in about three hours, I think you must be curious about what our mission is this time. Now I can tell you that we are here to fight, according to the inside information, tomorrow morning, the United Fleet will attack the Beiyang Fleet, and our main task is to preserve the strength of the Beiyang Fleet in the melee and sink the warships of the United Fleet to the greatest extent.

Said I am not a good bird, they want to come to occupy our land, although it is just the beginning, but this can not hide their ambitions, although most of us have been extremely disappointed with the performance of the Qing court, but this does not affect our heart to serve the country, we are loyal to the Qing court is not [***], but the Chinese nation, but our district chief Wang Lin, the district chief can't bear to see the Chinese children die like this, so they will send us, because those people will be our comrades-in-arms in the future, China needs them to be strong. Wang Wei's speech was very passionate, stirring up the blood of many soldiers, and now the entire 091 boat has already been waiting for a while, just waiting for an order to kill the combined fleet, this is exactly the effect Wang Wei wants, and it is also the effect that Wang Lin wants.

Some smart people also smelled a different flavor from Wang Wei's words just now, will the Beiyang Navy be their comrades-in-arms in the future? According to Wang Lin's habit, unless we can unify the whole of China and make us submit to the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, let alone Wang Lin, no one here can do it, they don't want to watch their military expenses being taken away by the one above to build a garden, let alone watch the expenditure of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver a day, while their own side has little soup.

There were all excited voices in the six boats, after so many years of hard training, it was finally time to show their skills, and what they never imagined was that not only did they have a chance to show their skills, but Wang Lin also gave them a chance to show their face.

The entire submarine formation has been at the predetermined position for a long time, and is quietly lurking fifty meters underwater, only at night can they take advantage of the night to surface to breathe fresh air, as for the day, forget it.

The 091 boats, 092 boats, and 094 boats were arranged to ambush near Dadonggou, and the 093 boats and 095 boats were arranged to be in charge of guarding the sea area where the Japanese military fleet was expected to appear, notifying friendly forces when they came, and being responsible for blocking the return route of the Japanese military fleet when they left. The 096 boat secretly followed the Beiyang Fleet, informing the submarine formation of its position at all times and correcting the ambush position of the submarine formation.

The sea breeze at night was cool, but it was much better than staying in an airtight submarine, and many fighters took turns to go up to the submarine to breathe fresh air, which would be their last breath of fresh air before the battle, and although they believed in their own strength, they still looked in the direction of their hometown on this night, silently praying for themselves and their comrades.

After several years of intense training, they were able to rest at any time, but they were never able to fall asleep on this peaceful night tonight, perhaps because of psychological excitement, or maybe because of the people who were going to witness history and change history, and finally they could only rest quietly at the forced request of the officers.

On the morning of September 17, when the sea level gradually rose red light, Wang Wei knew that the Qing army must have landed at this moment, right? And in a few hours the Beiyang Fleet should also return.

At 8 o'clock, as in history, the flagship Dingyuan ship hoisted the dragon flag and began to return, and the Beiyang Fleet lifted anchor and left in an orderly manner, everything indicated that they were a well-trained naval fleet, and they were the eighth largest navy in the world.

At 9 o'clock, the 095 boat came with news that it was discovered that the military fleet was heading in the direction of the Beiyang Fleet, and met about two hours later. Wang Wei immediately ordered all boats to prepare for battle and find their own advantageous combat positions.

At 11 o'clock, the Beiyang Fleet met with the Combined Fleet.

Ding Ruchang, Wang Lin can't say whether this person is good or bad, he was originally born in the Taiping Army, and finally surrendered to the Hunan Army soon after he was changed to the Huai Army, and was later transferred to Beiyang Haiphong by Li Hongzhang, and finally led more than 200 generals to the UK to receive Chaoyong and Yangwei two ships back to China, and then he was the commander of the Beiyang Naval Division.

The result of such a senior officer, who came from the army and had no experience in naval warfare, to command a fleet against a fleet led by the same well-trained, but high-ranking generals, was a professional naval talent, and the results were conceivable. As for putting sandbags on the warship, Wang Lin didn't want to worry too much about it, after all, he was still a backbone person from the fact that Ito Youheng, the commander of the Combined Fleet, later committed suicide by poisoning after refusing his persuasion to surrender.

At 12:50, the Beiyang Fleet, which had been chased for nearly two hours, had already broken its voice and cursed, and on the Dingyuan ship, Ding Ruchang sat on the bridge, looked at the roaring Yueben Combined Fleet not far away, and finally gave the order to open fire.

For a time, the entire Yellow Sea area was full of cannons, and only ten seconds later, the Zhenyuan ship also began to open fire, and the Beiyang Fleet saw this and opened fire at the same time, and for a time hundreds of huge cannons from each ship on both sides were fired together, and the smoke of gunpowder was filled with and the sea water was boiling.

The four submarines that had been waiting for the end had also entered their best offensive position, slowly rising, Wang Wei stood next to the periscope, grabbed the handle and observed the situation outside.

Although the periscope is not very large, it is not conspicuous at all on the sea, but it is still seen by the warring parties, Deng Shichang picked up his monoculars and looked at the small black dot on the sea surface, and from time to time he found that there were four such small black dots around. I thought to myself: What is that?

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