Hu Chuyuan has never been a martyr, let alone a heroic and fearless person, he is just very impatient, he really has the urge to die, and his own presence in the Sawu is just a plan to put himself to death and live later.

Now that he saw the hope of survival, Hu Chuyuan was very happy.

The most important thing is that this nest is said that this fleet will not want to run.

When a real naval battle came, Ito's momentary hesitation caused the guerrilla detachment of the Fuzhou fleet to intervene in the rear of the standing fleet, and let the main fleet of the Fuzhou fleet headquarters meet the patrol fleet.

At this time, it was already difficult for the standing fleet to retreat safely, and the two sides began to release torpedo boats to prepare for a large-scale naval battle.

The sky suddenly became cloudy, the sun was obscured by faint thin clouds, the sea became cloudy, and larger waves swelled. Billowing smoke filled the sea surface, and the sound of artillery fire continued one after another.

As a result of successive bullets, the hull of the ship caught fire, and the Sawu began to take a back seat, and Hu Chuyuan walked up to the command tower and watched the development of the whole situation with a telescope.

At the same time, the two sides adopted a one-line column and divided them into two teams, one being the main force of the headquarters and the other being the guerrilla detachment, and the strength of the guerrilla detachments on both sides was roughly equal, but the gap in the strength of the headquarters was too large.

The continuous cannon fire continued to explode crimson flames on the deck of the ship, and the violent shaking of each ship could be seen at the moment when all the guns were fired.

The torpedo boats, braving the impact of death, rushed across the sea between the two sides, basically without any hope of survival, and charged straight forward, which was no longer of much significance with the popularization of revolver machine guns and rapid-fire guns.

Both sides are just sticking to such tactics and continuing to fight, hoping to meet a glimmer of life and hope.

Ito's eyes had turned blood-red, but he didn't care about death, the Shinyangwu had been sunk, and the two Naniwa-class cruisers returned to the guerrilla detachment and began to fight to the death with the Qing fleet.

However, his intuition told him that the bigger trouble was just beginning - the opponent in front of him was not the Beiyang Naval Division that he had predicted in advance, but the Fuzhou fleet.

If he had known earlier, he would have ordered a quick retreat, among the three major Chinese naval divisions, the East China Sea Division is the largest, and the core of the East China Sea Division is the Fuzhou fleet, its total tonnage has not changed dramatically, but the warships are constantly updated, and the technology has been maintained at a very high level.

How tall exactly, when his Akagi was hit by a picric cannonball, he knew it was as tall as the fucking Daishomoto Empire.

The two sides constantly surrounded and cut each other's formations, preventing the opponent from forming a stable column, while maintaining a high-speed platoon-gun artillery bombardment between the main battleships.

Since the Fuzhou fleet has preemptively completed the localization of electronic control technology, in the initial design, all secondary guns are of the same caliber, and it is easy to use this technology in all warships.

As a result, there was a very large difference in the actual hit rate between the two sides, with the Fuzhou fleet having a hit rate of about 7 percent and the standing fleet of the Fuzhou fleet less than 3 percent.

The rain of bullets is not enough to describe the cruelty of this moment.

This is a real cannon rain.

Even on the surface of the sea there are flames and yellow smoke that cannot be extinguished.

Huge splashes continued to explode on the sea, and the warships on both sides were constantly hit, and the smoke of the special cyan incomplete burning of the DNT shells was rolling, although there was a smell, it was not highly toxic, and the picric acid was different, and the yellow smoke was unbearable.

Cyan, white, and yellow smoke was rolling, flames were burning, and huge hulls were constantly flawed.

The two heavy artillery cruisers had almost no effect, and they were not seen firing shells at all, but the main guns of the Zhiyuan and Jingyuan classes often had amazing hits.

Under the condition that both sides have a certain level of defense, the small-caliber rapid-fire guns are indeed too weak, and the 240 mm and 275 mm caliber main guns are obviously much easier to use than the extreme 305 mm in terms of firing speed and flexibility, and they are enough to penetrate the cruisers of both sides.

The explosion continued, relying on two ironclad ships with a speed of more than 17 knots, Ye Zuqi almost frantically cut off the standing fleet from the middle, and then the guerrilla detachment outflanked it, clamping the standing fleet and bombing indiscriminately.

There was a loud bang, and no one could tell the specific reason, Ito Yuhiro's flagship Akagi was blown in two, probably by a torpedo sunk in the chaos of the battle, or by the 275 mm main gun of the Keiyuan class hit the ammunition depot.

As it turned out, his heavy artillery cruiser could only be described as a failure, although until the start of the war, Ito wanted to sink an ironclad ship with his own flagship.

The battle continued, and after losing the command of the flagship, the battleship group did not have a systematic command for a long time, and it was not until more than ten minutes later that the commander of the guerrilla detachment, Tsuboi Kozo, hoisted the command flag, reorganized the formation, and sent two ironclad cruisers to the front, with the rest of the cruisers following behind.

This time, the raid plan was too risky, and the standing fleet was too far away from the mainland, and it was too late to retreat now, especially on the basis that both sides had a large number of cruisers, and retreating was tantamount to being beaten all the time, allowing the opponent's main guns to attack their tail, and continuously bombarding the voyage of several hundred nautical miles.

After determining the opponent's flagship, Deng Shichang of the Fuzhou guerrilla detachment led the fleet to step forward and take the risk to intercept the opponent.

Tsuboi Kozo was a true genius, and it was very doubtful that the Chunyu had a special surname, which clearly had the defensive capability of an ironclad ship, but it was incorporated into the sequence of the guerrilla fleet, and maintained a very high level of speed and agility for a long time.

Even so, he still didn't expect that the Spring Rain would have a higher acceleration ability, and that it could increase its speed by at least two knots in a short distance of 600 meters, all of which made Tsuboi feel incredible.

The improvised firepower posed little threat to the Spring Rain, especially since the main shells of the fleet were only 120 mm in caliber.

Death, less than a meter away from this man, who claims to be the son of the genius of the Navy, were two gas torpedoes that were extremely fast.

There was a roar, and the second flagship Qianhui was sunk by the Spring Rain, and Lu Hongjie himself broke out in a cold sweat and risked rushing out of the opponent's array, relying on the artillery cover of the Fuzhou headquarters fleet to avoid the encirclement and pursuit of the two warships.

For the Spring Rain, everyone tacitly knows that it is absolutely impossible for the Spring Rain to sink in this naval battle.

If it's really going to sink, then it will self-destruct and explode immediately.

The death of Tsuboi Hangzo plunged the Yuben Standing Fleet into new chaos, and the artillery fire was endlessly venting, releasing the anger of the Fuzhou fleet and releasing the Chinese's disdain and contempt for the Wo Kou since ancient times.

In the sound of huge artillery fire, the battleships continued to sink one after another.

The Fuzhou fleet continued to have warships on fire and slowly withdrew from the second line, while Hu Chuyuan's Sawu rejoined the battlefield after extinguishing the flames that emitted poisonous smoke.

At this time, there was no way out for both sides, and Hu Chuyuan could only follow and ask himself about his destiny.

The battle was so fierce that the hour-and-a-half-long fierce battle gradually ended, four cruisers of the Fuzhou fleet were heavily damaged, one was sunk, and only three wounded cruisers remained in the standing fleet, and the rest of the battleships were sunk one after another, because the power system suffered heavy damage, only one battleship could maintain a speed of 10 knots, and the remaining two were only floating on the water.

It was 2:03 p.m. on March 17, 1890.

The flagship of the Fuzhou fleet, the Zhiyuan, raised a flag to ask the other party to surrender, but after being refused, Ye Zuqi raised the flag to ask the Ankang, but the Ankang could not reply.

Until this time, Ye Zuqi also thought that Hu Chuyuan was on the Ankang with the best protection.

At this time, Hu Chuyuan asked Sa Zhenbing to hang up the banner of the Prime Minister's Senior Minister's Yamen, announced that he was on the Sawu, and issued a flag order to Ye Zuqi to annihilate the enemy.

2:17 a.m.

After the last twelve minutes of bombardment, the entire battleship sank.

In the distance, two British-flagged Swire International Shipping ships passed by the incident site and were forced out of the sea escorted by warships...... 322 soldiers and generals were captured!

At the cost of sinking two ships and severely damaging four, the Fuzhou fleet finally annihilated a total of 10 warships, and the first detachment of the standing fleet was called the main fleet.

The gap between the two sides is just two words - defense, firepower.

This is still the era of heavy armor and heavy firepower, and trying to win by relying on the accelerated way of the cruiser to fire the cannon is only a shortcut, and in the case of roughly equal rates of fire on both sides, the stronger the armor, the stronger the survivability, and the greater the caliber of the gunfire, the greater the attack power.

Of course, it is also necessary to take into account the level of defense of the opponent, and in the face of a group of cruisers, the 240 mm caliber and 275 mm caliber of the new barrel cannon is terrible enough.

The Battle of the Yellow Sea is over.

Hu Chuyuan stood silently at the stern of the Sawu, looking at the smoke that had not yet dissipated in the distance, looking at the eerie and terrifying sea area, he couldn't help but have all kinds of thoughts in his heart.

He almost died here.

However, he also proved two things, first, he said that he would not let him go after all; Second, there are no shortcuts in this world, and shortcuts may be risky and successful, but they may also pay all the costs.

Even if there were two more ironclad cruisers in the first detachment of the standing fleet, they would at least get a crushing defeat, and they would not be completely annihilated.

In fact, they can make better use of the foreign debt of nearly 100 million pounds and the aid of Britain and France, do not rush to defeat China, do not rush to expand, and develop their domestic economy in a stable manner like the Americans.

If they did not have raw materials, they could peacefully negotiate with the Qing government and import raw materials from China and North Korea.

They didn't choose this path, they just learned one thing from the great power history of Britain and Spain, that is, to defeat other countries and get raw materials directly.

They chose to take risks again and again, and in the end, they lost.

If you lose just once, you will lose a lot, including the chance to rise.

You think they're crazy, but they think they've made the right choice.

(To be continued)