When the alarm sounded, the officers and men of the ships of the Combined Fleet on the wharf of the western military port were not unpleasant. However, the biggest problem of warships in this era was that the boilers used coal-fired boilers, and the ignition was very slow after the ignition was turned off.

After a short time, the captains of the ships immediately became nervous after seeing the two gunboats patrolling the harbor in the distance exploding and sinking one after another. The gunboat patrol line was only a few kilometers away from the shore dock, which meant that the enemy ships would be killed in another ten minutes or so.

Time was pressing, so the captains of the ships immediately ordered the boiler crews to force ventilation and pressurize the rapid burning boiler to turn on the steam engine.

However, even with forced ventilation, the boiler pressurization of this old-fashioned reciprocating steam engine was very slow, and the ships were whirring black smoke, but the power was still slowly rising.

This is not enough, what is even more deadly is the layout of the military port wharf.

There were very few large-tonnage military wharves in Incheon Port under the rule of the North Koreans, and at this time, it was said that the wharf where the Navy berthed ships was still a simple wharf built to welcome the visit of the Beiyang Navy Zhiyuan Ship, and the North Korean Navy itself did not have warships of more than 300 tons, so there was no need to build a large military wharf.

After the occupation of Korea, in order to open up a supply base for the battlefield against China, the construction of a temporary military dock here began. This makes the warships very close to each other, and the bow of the ship rushes inside and outside the stern, and it is arranged tightly and neatly like a toothbrush.

When moving, you can only go out slowly by reversing, and you can't go fast, otherwise you will hit the warship next to you. The opening is at an angle of 100 degrees to the main water surface in the harbor, and up to two warships are allowed to go out at the same time.

This greatly limits the speed at which warships can escape.

Despite this, the torpedo boats of the Beiyang Naval Division came too fast, so fast that they could not cope with it.

Even if only one mine exploded on the 90-kilometer-long waterway, the navy would have at least two hours to prepare. However, at the moment they have less than ten minutes to spare.

When Ito learned of the situation, he was very bad and urgently ordered all ships to immediately enter the battle state, concentrating all the main, secondary and rapid-fire guns to block the torpedo boats of the Beiyang Naval Division. At the same time, all ships were urgently ordered to put down six torpedo boats, including Shanying, No. 7, No. 12, No. 13, No. 22, and No. 23, to block the attack of the torpedo boats of the Beiyang Naval Division.

The army was well-trained, and all officers and men were in position within five minutes, and all main, secondary, and rapid-fire guns were all loaded. However, because the ships were head-in, buttocks, and the stern was the weakest firepower, there were only a few guns and basically main guns, and there were few rapid-fire guns.

"Knock knock!" The stern guns of the ships opened fire violently, and flames erupted in the dark night, and the pitch-black sea and sky flickered like lightning and thunder.

Each ship has only one or two searchlights, and when all of them are turned on, they can only provide limited illumination, and they are already blurred four or five hundred meters away, and the warship sights at this time are only primary optical equipment, and it is difficult to see the target clearly at night.

The shells fell into the water and stirred up huge waves tens of meters high, but it was difficult to attack the torpedo boats, which weighed only a few tens of tons, because their targets were too small and fast, and the searchlights of the ships could not lock on to them at all, so the gunners could not see the target even more.

Although the confidence of the navy has recovered somewhat since the Battle of the Yellow Sea, it is said that the morale of the navy has plummeted when it is suddenly attacked, and more than eighty percent of the officers and men are nervous to death. The artillerymen who controlled the artillery fire fired blindly, trying to suppress the fear in their hearts with such a crazy way of firing.

By this time the war had been fought, the officers and men of the Navy had been spiritually defeated.

More than 20 torpedo boats of the Beiyang Naval Division were divided into eight squads to attack quickly, and each team of torpedo boats had a target; according to Wang Chenhao's foolproof plan, each team of torpedo boats was responsible for attacking one of the main ships of the Navy, and then attacking other targets after they succeeded.

Soon, the torpedo boat of Zhenyi succeeded and gave the ship Takachiho a huge chrysanthemum.

At 11:15, Zhenichi broke through the blockade of the aft guns of the Takachiho and fired a 14-inch blackhead torpedo at the stern of the Takachiho at a distance of 150 meters.

At this time, the Takachiho was slowly reversing and trying to leave the harbor, but the rapidly fired torpedo hit the rudder propeller of the stern.

The torpedo smashed through the aft blast net of the Takachiho and exploded on the daisy-shaped propeller. The violent explosion instantly smashed the stern of the Takachiho to pieces, revealing a huge black hole with a diameter of five meters. As the blast wave spread out in all directions, thick smoke and flames erupted from the blast gap, and seawater poured into it violently, and the stern sank rapidly.

There were more than 300 officers and men of the Navy on board the Takachiho, and most of them were in their respective posts when the stern was hit, and only a few of them immediately jumped into the sea when they saw that the situation was not good.

When the hull of the ship sank rapidly, the people inside fled frantically, and countless of them were trampled to death.

If the ship's amidship part is damaged, damage management can also be carried out, and the left and right water traps can be activated to balance the hull and delay the sinking speed. However, after the stern was blown out, the seawater went straight to the engine room and boiler room.

Seawater poured into the Takachiho at a rate of tens of tons per second, and in less than two minutes, the entire stern sank completely, and the ship's amidships were all filled with water, and the 91-meter-long battleship was actually cocked by the huge weight, and the bow was several meters above the water.

The sailors who had just crawled out of the interior could not balance their bodies and fell from various positions on the warship, killing and injuring countless people when they collided with hard and sharp objects on the warship.

The sailors above desperately held on to all the supporting things so that they would not fall, and some of the brave wanted to jump directly into the sea to escape, but most of them fell to their deaths before falling into the sea.

The bow of the warped Takachie ship was first upturned, but then fell back to the surface of the sea, and in the frightened ghost crying wolf, the only remaining sailors of the Yue army plunged into the icy sea water along with the hull, and most of them died from the sea water slapping and drowning.

Five minutes later, the Takachiho sank completely to the bottom, because the water in the harbor was not deep, so one-third of the island and the mainmast were exposed on the sea, and there were more than a dozen people on the mainmast who said that the sailors were holding on to it and did not dare to come down.

At the same time that the Takachiho was torpedoed and sank to the bottom, the nearby Chiyoda, Hashidate, Itsukushima, and Katsuragi were exploded by more than a dozen torpedoes at the same time, which was similar to the sinking of Takachiho, basically the stern sank rapidly, and the bow was cocked and slowly sank. Only Chiyoda was killed and sunk because of the simultaneous attack of six torpedoes.

But the most eye-catching is the Itsukushima, when its bow is cocked, a large number of ammunition piled up on the deck rolls down, I don't know what the reason is, most of the shells exploded in the tumble, and somehow detonated the ammunition depot As a result, when the entire hull was warped, suddenly the ship's ammunition depot exploded, and the entire hull was blown up and broken into two, and the bow pierced into the bottom of the sea, and the stern that had previously penetrated the bottom of the sea burned violently, Wang Chenhao jokingly called it the burning big pants.

The difference in the sinking speed of the four ships has a lot to do with the ability of the naval soldiers inside, and the warships that urgently lock the hatch sink slowly, and there are more sailors who escape, and vice versa.

After the first wave of surprise attacks by the torpedo fleet of the Beiyang Naval Division, five warships were sunk. 26 torpedoes were fired from 23 torpedo boats, of which 5 torpedoes were misfired. Fulong fired four torpedoes in a row in one go, and several torpedo boats also fired two.

However, their great success has also come at a great cost.

Among them, the "third from the left," "the second from the right," "the first from the right," "the second from the ding," "the second to the gan," "the second to the mine," and "the six torpedo boats," "to be hit by the gun," and "to be the third from the left," "the second from the right," "the second from the right," "the second from the right," "the second from the right," "the third from the left," "the second from the right," "the second from the right," "the third from the left," "the second from the right," the "third from the left," "the second from the right

In addition, four torpedo boats were entangled in the Mountain Eagle, No. 22 boat, and No. 23 boat lowered by the navy and could not release the torpedoes. Soon after the torpedo was released, the torpedo boats turned around to reinforce the friendly forces, and a dozen of them hit a few, and soon the three torpedo boats were sunk.

The other three carrier-based torpedo boats of the Navy, No. 7, No. 12, and No. 13, sank along with the mother ship before they could be put down, and the flagships of the Combined Fleet, the Matsushima, Akitsuzu, and Tenryu, were also saved in the first wave of attacks because they lowered their torpedo boats to block them for a while.