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In the war room of Shikishima, the flagship of the Sasebo Combined Fleet, a young officer recounts the news from the telephone, and the high-power radio station at the Sasebo base is responsible for receiving the telegram and finally transmitting it to the war room of the Shikishima.

"An express telegram from the commander of the Southern Fleet:

"Iwami" opened fire ......, "Fuji" fired ......, "Yasuen" was returning fire ......, "Yasumi" was hit ......, "Yasumi" was hit again, "Iwami" was hit ......".

Everyone in the war room listened attentively to the report, and they could almost imagine how the battle was going on. When the guns of the "Jingyuan" were turning and aiming, the shells fired by the "Iwami" fell one after another around it, and before the "Jingyuan" opened fire, the salvo of the "Fuji" also stirred up countless water columns around it.

As soon as the "Jingyuan" opened fire, with a loud bang, a shell hit the second turret in its stern. The blast rushed onto the bridge with debris, and the buildings on the bridge were instantly destroyed. Everywhere there were twisted horns, pillars, and disorganized fragments; Among the broken steel and broken iron, there are many corpses lying on the ground, and there may even be Tang Tinglong wearing a medal.

And from the telegram, the damage to the Iwami that was constantly mentioned, everyone can imagine how powerful the firepower of the Jingyuan was, and it was still able to exert superhuman imagination in combat power when it was besieged by seven ships.

The young officer, who was also on the phone, continued to report on the progress of the battle: "...... the bow deck of the 'Jingyuan' broke out, the 'Jingyuan' was hit ......, and the 'Jingyuan' was hit again......

Good news, all the good news came from La Er, which somewhat made Dongxiang's whole person relax a lot, and this will Akiyama Mayuki was eating fried beans with his head down, he frowned from time to time, as if he had sensed something.

"General Hidaka, they did a fantastic job"

The entire war room was filled with excitement and excitement, and what a great result it was to sink Jingyuan and sink the most advanced and powerful warship in the world.

"In less than two minutes, they will sink the 'Jingyuan'."

"A special express telegram from the "Fuji","

The officer reported at the microphone at the same time, apparently trying to hide his excitement and feigning a calm look. However, suddenly, his calm expression disappeared without a trace, and his face instantly became extremely pale, as if he was about to shrink.

"What's going on, repeat the message quickly"

The face of the subordinate made Togo Heihachiro's heart ominous, and he urged. However, he stood in front of the microphone in a daze, unable to speak for a long time.

"Perform Your Duties"

Togo let out a low roar with a serious expression.

The young officer turned his face to him and said to him in a miserable manner.

"The Iwami exploded"

"What?"

Heihachiro Togo looked incredulous at first, then he snatched the telegram and listened to the report on the other end of the phone, his face changed.

"The Iwami exploded."

Togo, who put down the phone, said in a deep tone,

"What ......, what ......"

Chief of Staff Shima Hasao stammered that he could barely believe his ears, the Iwami was sunk?

Togo glanced at him indifferently, and the people around him stood there stunned.

And Akiyama Shinyuki, who had been holding his head down until then, let go of the fried beans in his hand and recklessly pushed away the combat officer who was standing next to the chart.

"Baga, get out of the way"

He snapped, his eyes fixed on the charts. …,

"Iwami" sank" Iwami "sank" "

After repeating it twice, Togo raised his head sharply and looked at the people around him.

"Go back to your posts, we still have a lot to do."

In an instant, Dongxiang returned to normal, and even emphasized it specifically.

"Hidaka they did a very good job, they worked hard, and there will always be losses in the war"

At this time, the young officer pulled himself together and reported the message from the other end of the phone.

"An express telegram from the Izumo."

He then reported in a pitch-shifting voice.

"Iwami sank. They are concentrating their fire on the Jingyuan. ”

"Oh, the Fuji, they might be able to deal with it, and we still have a firepower advantage."

Togo will say to Mayuki Akiyama, who was standing by the chart and had been silent all the time, not so much as asking.

But Akiyama Shinyuki shook his head and said.

"Immediately order the southern fleet to return, it's late, it's late, it's not in a hurry."

"What"

The sea is blue, the blood is red, the sea is cold, the blood is warm, the sea is salty, and the blood is salty.

400 meters seems to be very close, but for Wei Lanqing and his nearby comrades-in-arms who are in the seawater, the short 400 meters of torpedo navigation takes tens of seconds as long as decades.

His eyes were fixed on the clearly visible Izumo, and Wei Lanqing's heart, who was injured in his leg, was clenched into a small ball, and he was praying and praying to the heavens.

Gotta hit it

Watching the Fuji turn from evasion to battle column, Tang Tingguang's eyes drooped slightly as he stood in the gunsmoke-filled command tower, and the excitement of hitting the Iwami earlier did not last long.

The torpedo attack failed

There was another violent explosion, and the shock wave of the explosion even rushed into the command tower.

"Port side shot loss left 3 gun"

"Artillery is ready"

The lights of the main guns are on.

So Tang Tingguang immediately picked up the telescope and stared at the silhouette of the "Fuji", if he sank him again, it would be enough.

"Fire"

In front of the conning tower, the 346-mm gun was turning, the muzzle gradually rising to the maximum elevation angle, followed by an earth-shattering loud bang and violent vibrations.

Another salvo began, brown smoke erupted from the muzzle of the gun, quickly dissipated as the wind dissipated, and the shells flew out with the mission of spreading death.

At the moment when the first salvo aimed at the "Fuji" was issued, suddenly Yangshuzhuang saw the armored cruiser with three chimneys behind the "Fuji", it was the Izumo armored cruiser, and the four chimneys were the battleship Aso.

Suddenly, a huge wall of sea swelled up on the port side of the Izumo, and it was...... Then there was another wall of sea

"The torpedo attack was successful, they hit Izumo"

The excited roar of Yangshuzhuang, who did not wait, spread all over the place, and suddenly the starboard side of the Jingyuan shook violently, and the shock wave of the explosion was almost about to overthrow the Jingyuan, but the impact of this explosion, anyone understands, must be a large-caliber cannonball hitting the starboard side of Jingyuan.

Violent tremors were still felt on the bridge. The phone rang, and the officer on duty took it.

"Sir, water enters the No. 3 boiler room"

The raging sea water poured into the boiler room along the cracks in the blasted planks, and the sailors of the loss team kept stuffing canvas into the cracks and wooden beams to block the influx of seawater.

"Fast, top beam ......"

Just as a sergeant roared, another violent explosion exploded near the waterline, and the wave shock wave driven by the violent explosion slammed into the already cracked plank, and dozens of rivets were instantly broken. …,

"Bang, bang, bang......"

The rivets that burst out one after another flew in the No. 3 boiler room, and when they hit the lost soldiers, with a miserable scream, there were blood red in the seawater, and the cracks that were originally the size of a palm expanded enough to fit a person, and the knee-deep water in the boiler room almost instantly did not pass over the heads of the sailors, and the sailors scrambled to swim towards the hatch overhead.

"Shut down the watertight compartment immediately"

When the sea was about to pour out of the hatch of the No. 3 boiler room, the hatch was closed, although there were still sailors in the cabin who had not escaped, and at this time the battleship Jingyuan began to tilt.

"Sir, 7 degrees to the left"

"The starboard side of the 1,200-ton battleship was leveled"

A bland command spat out from Tang Tingguang's mouth, and as the port side was filled with water, the battleship, which had been tilted, quickly regained its balance, and the main gun, which had been silent before, rang out again.

"The torpedo boat team hit Izumo"

Cheng Keran, who was covered in blood, walked in the rickety aisle, listening to the good news coming out of the loudspeaker, and finally squeezed out some smiles on his face full of gunsmoke, he had sunk the battleship Iwami before, and now the torpedo team had sunk the armored cruiser Izumo, if he continued to fight like this, maybe Jingyuan would be able to clean up the entire southern fleet.

Yes, I'm going to be able to clean them up

At this time, the entire aisle of the cabin was either filled with a pungent smell of gunsmoke or a strong smell of blood, and the damage management team was constantly running back and forth in the cabin, and in the aisle, it was either sea water or blood water, and after an hour of fighting, the Jingyuan ship had already suffered heavy losses.

Water entered many places, and it was once filled with water and leveled.

According to the military order of the Zhenyang Fleet, even in peacetime, only during the flag raising ceremony, it is necessary to salute the captain of the fleet, and in peacetime, only the direct commander needs to salute, and in wartime, the salute is also exempted, which is a compulsory course for every sailor when he gets on the ship.

There was a foul smell everywhere, and wounded sailors were everywhere, but there was no such huge breach as imagined by the shells that had penetrated and exploded. After turning and turning around, Cheng Keran appeared in front of him a section of steel stairs.

He took a deep breath and walked up in pain......

Pushing open the heavy hatch, the pungent smoke came to his face, and Cheng Keran's ears were extremely clear to hear the rumbling cannon sound from a distance and the battleship, but it was blurry in front of him, the smoke blocked all vision, and there were constantly injured sailors on the deck and screaming, but more sailors were there shouting for their comrades.

"Hmm"

From the telescope, after losing a battleship and an armored cruiser, Hitaka Zhuangcheng, whose expression was extremely dignified, could clearly see that the flames were still rising on the Jingyuan battleship, and the upper perch of the Jingyuan, which was once regarded as the most beautiful appearance, had completely changed its appearance, and at this time its speed had slowed down significantly, and after the naval battle lasted for an hour, even if it was an unsinkable battleship, it would suffer heavy losses after being attacked by multiple ships, not to mention that it was not an unsinkable battleship.

"Enemy ship speed"

Verse 21

"Command ......"

"Your Excellency, the Combined Fleet sent an urgent telegram ordering our fleet to return immediately?"

"What?"

Hitaka snatched the telegram.

"The purpose of the campaign has been achieved, immediately evacuate the commander of the combined fleet on the battlefield, Heihachiro Togo"

"Sir"

The captain of the Fuji and the officers in the command tower all turned their eyes to Hidaka Strong, but Hidaka Strongman fell into silence, and in front of the command tower, the Fuji's 305 main gun was once again aimed at Yasuto and fired a salvo, and the deafening cannon sound and the shock wave when the cannon was fired only shocked Hidaka Strong's heart.

Damn Togo, is he trying to take away his glory? Just lost two warships, and he was going to retreat on his own...,

"Sir, hit the main cannon in front of Jingyuan"

The sudden report made Hitaka Zhuangcheng immediately pick up the telescope and look at Jingyuan, Jingyuan in the thick smoke was already crumbling at this time, and occasionally when the smoke faded, he could even clearly see that the armor steel plate of the Jingyuan was open, and Jingyuan had been severely damaged.

Damn Togo

He didn't know the situation here at all, and in an instant, the recklessness of the tall and strong man came into play at this time.

"Order the Takasago, Kasaki, and Chitose to break away from the battle group and approach the enemy ships to carry out a torpedo attack on Yasuen."

"Sir"

"Execute Command"

"Hi"

At this time, the last trace of darkness before dawn finally dissipated, and the curtain faded.

The sea was still rumbling, and at this time the Hairong protective cruiser had already joined the battle, and the three 152 mm naval guns were better than nothing, firing shells at the enemy ship 8.5 kilometers away, and this dome cruiser with a displacement of only 2,680 tons, under the protection of the Jingyuan, it was even difficult to become a target for the enemy ship.

The cannon rumbled, from night to dawn, the hour hand turned, the sirens went off incessantly, and the cannon rumbled through the sea and sky.

"Enemy cruiser was found to have broken away from the battle"

"Enemy cruisers are approaching Jingyuan"

In the last trace of darkness before the sun rose, the three high-speed cruisers, Takasago, Kasaki, and Chitose, all gave orders to use strong pressure ventilation at the expense of the life of the steam engine, and were forming an encirclement of the "Jingyuan".

"It's Takasago, Kasaki, and Chitose"

On the bridge of the Hairong protective cruiser, the captain Deng Haohong and the navigator stared at the three enemy cruisers approaching at high speed, and immediately realized the threat they posed to the Jingyuan, the Takasago was the sister ship of the same class as the Yoshino that showed its might in the naval battle of the Yellow Sea, and the Kasasaki and Chitose were also similar to Yoshino, perhaps the single 203 mm main guns and 10 120 or 152 mm naval guns of these three high-speed cruisers did not pose much threat to the Jingyuan, but they were able to disperse Jingyuan's firepower, and even close to Jingyuan to carry out torpedo attacks

"It can't go on like this,"

Staring at the three cruisers that had increased their speed by at least 23 knots, Deng Haohong said to the navigator beside him.

"Order the boiler room to implement strong pressure ventilation, increase the speed to more than 20 knots, we have to catch up"

"Yes"

"Pressure ventilation"

Without any hesitation, the Hairong, which had been a "bystander" before, immediately threw itself into this naval battle with a disparity in strength, and the battleship, which had been in service for seven years, increased its speed after the implementation of strong pressure ventilation, and approached three Japanese cruisers with firepower and tonnage several times that were several times that of its firepower at a speed of 21.5 knots.

In the early hours of the morning, the wind rose on the calm sea, and the Hairong, which was sailing at high speed, could barely withstand the impact of the giant * and sailed forward with bumps. However, the environment is still quite difficult for those who are uncovered in the open air, and the waves set off by the waves constantly crash on the warships as they sail at high speeds.

At this time, the enemy ship also discovered this warship, which was beyond its own strength and even suspected of using its mantis arm as a car, and for a while shells began to rain down around the Hairong.

"Right full rudder, target Fuji"

Deng Haohong, who was staring at the Fuji, squeezed out some smiles on his face when he gave this order, and the age was only in his thirties, and the baby-faced Captain Deng Haohong may not be so conspicuous there, but his identity in the Zhenyang fleet was extremely special, because his father was Deng Shichang, who ordered to ram the enemy ship and die in the first afternoon.

It would be a big mistake to think that this young officer from his own naval family was underestimated by nepotism, he was an outstanding graduate of Mawei Shipbuilding Haitang, who seemed to have a baby face, but in fact he was a naval soldier with a calm personality that was almost cold. He immediately ordered the "Hairong" to turn the rudder, and when he was about to meet the enemy, he turned the rudder and pounced in the direction of the Fuji. …,

If an airplane had risen into the air at this time, it would have been able to see that in the sea less than five nautical miles between the two battle lines, a white track was first rushing at high speed towards the three oncoming tracks, and in an instant, it turned its rudder sharply and turned to another target, a larger target.

"What is Deng Haohong going to do?"

In the command tower filled with gunpowder, Tang Tingguang almost couldn't believe his eyes, from beginning to end, he had no intention of letting Hairong go into battle, and even as early as when he received the telegram, he thought that if Jingyuan could not support it alone, he would order the Hairong to return to the sea, no matter what, but now, when the enemy cruiser attacked, the Hairong took the initiative to meet it, and then another scene made him even more stunned.

In the column of water blown out by the shells, strong pressure ventilation was implemented, and the speed increased to more than 21 knots, like Don Quixote rushed towards the huge Fuji battleship, and at this time, the Japanese officers and soldiers on the Fuji and Aso also noticed this little guy who was not able to do anything, and immediately concentrated all the gunwales and auxiliary guns to fire ammunition at the Hairong, and in just a few minutes, multiple small-caliber shells fell on the Hairong, but Deng Haohong was still standing there silently.

"Sir, the Takasago, Kasaki, and Chitose have changed the rudder."

Hearing this, Deng Haohong's heart suddenly relaxed, and then turned to look at the Takasago chasing behind the port side.

"Concentrate firepower on Takasago's shipship" ......,