The Japanese fleet also knew that their 320-mm heavy guns were unreliable, and the reason for their unreliability was not only the defects in the artillery equipment, but also the defects in the gunners; during the attack on Weihaiwei, the base of the Beiyang Fleet, the 320-mm guns of the Sanjing ship fired more than a dozen shells at the coastal batteries, all of which were stationary targets, and in this way, not a single shell could hit.

In fact, this is not caused by the Japanese army's lack of hard training, on the contrary, the Japanese army is the most hard-trained army in the world, and the reason why they can't hit the target is also related to the heavy artillery itself, which will cause the hull to be unstable when it rotates, and the gun is installed on the hull, and the instability of the hull means that the aiming line changes, and the aiming line has changed, how can the artillery be accurate?

Therefore, the three captains of the Sankei, as well as Ito Yuhiro and Togo Heihachiro, did not have much hope for the heavy guns of the Sankei, and they pinned their hopes on the 120 mm rapid-fire guns on each battleship, of which the Matsushima and Itsukushima ships had twelve each, and the Hashidate ships had eleven guns.

The heavy guns of the Sanjing ship broke down after one shot, and the gunners could only eliminate the fault first and then fire the next shot, and during this time, the four ships of Tianlong, Yunlong, Tenglong and Qianlong all fired shells at a distance of 4,000 meters.

The distance of 4,000 meters was still too far for the 120 mm naval guns, and the shells deviated greatly, but the ships fired all cloudburst shells, which had the advantage of large coverage, so they also caused some damage to the three battleships, and the flames and heat waves burned some of the sailors on the deck.

The Sankei ship did not turn like the Takachiho and the Naniwa ship, because the three captains had already seen it very clearly in the naval battle just now, and the Huaxia Imperial battleships preemptively lined up in a straight column and concentrated the maximum firepower in one direction, and the Sankei ship turned like the Tachiho and Naniwa ships to die...

So the Sanjing ship went straight into the Chinese Imperial Fleet like the Qiujinzhou ship, just like three sharp steel knives, they were inserted forward at high speed, and they also used the rapid-fire guns in the bow direction to continuously shoot at the Chinese Imperial fleet, and the sea was full of rising water columns for a while, but the Sanjing ship could concentrate only nine guns, and there was still a big gap between the twenty-four guns of the Chinese Imperial Fleet.

The distance between the Sanjing Ship and the Huaxia Empire Warship was shrinking, and the corners of Lin Fei's mouth actually showed a smile, and then he laughed out loud.

At this time, the Chinese Imperial Fleet sank two Japanese ships and severely damaged one under the command of Lin Fei, although it was said that it had achieved a phased victory, but there was still a distance from a complete victory, and the combat effectiveness of the Sanjing ship was not weak, at this time the Japanese fleet still had a chance to turn around, how could Lin Fei laugh at this time?

Everyone was very surprised, but they didn't dare to ask, but Liu Daming dared, he glared at him and said, "Lao Lin, what are you laughing at?" I haven't won yet..."

Lin Fei said with a smile: "The Sanjing Ship dares to rush at my formation, this is looking for death, they are coming to send death, how can I not laugh?" ”

Liu Daming was stunned for a moment and asked, "Why did they rush to our formation and die?" ”

After Lin Fei finished speaking, he picked up the microphone of the Jade Bird machine and said loudly: "Attention of the whole fleet, the right rudder is fifteen, and the course is set for the third of the cave..."

The commander of the fleet actually gave the whole fleet an order to turn the rudder, which was really unusual, and the captains of the four warships did not have time to ask more, so they immediately turned the rudder according to Lin Fei's request, and then set the course in the required direction, at this time Liu Daming suddenly understood that the fleet turned like this, and the direction of the Sanjing ship was staggered by an angle, and the difficulty of the Sanjing ship inserting into our fleet increased sharply.

The combat speed of the Sanjing ship is only twelve knots, while the Dragon-class cruiser has sixteen knots, and the gap of four knots is enough to make the Sanjing ship unable to insert into the interior of the Huaxia Imperial Fleet, and the two sides can only compete for firepower at a long distance, the Huaxia Imperial Fleet can concentrate twenty-four guns at this time, but the Sanjing ship can only concentrate nine guns, and the Dragon-class cruiser also has the advantage of artillery rate of fire, shell power and fire control system, this battle is won and not lost... This is also the reason why Lin Fei laughed.

The distance between the Sanjing ship and the Huaxia Imperial fleet was quickly shortened to 3,000 meters, Lin Fei picked up the microphone of the Jade Bird machine, and said loudly: "Tianlong ship, Daqiaoli ship, Yunlong ship, Qianlong ship, Songdao ship, Tenglong ship, Yandao ship." "Lin Fei is assigning targets to the fleet to avoid a situation where all the warships hit the same battleship, and a certain battleship is vacated and no one is killed, so that it can fire comfortably.

This is precisely the extremely strong advantage brought by radio communication equipment, Lin Fei can use the radio to allocate targets for the fleet, while the Japanese fleet has no means to allocate targets at all.

After Lin Fei's target was assigned, a wave of shells was fired, and the Matsushima, Itsukushima, and Hashidate ships were all affected by the flames of the cloud burst bombs, although they were not seriously damaged, their combat effectiveness was weakened by a certain extent, and in the next twenty minutes of artillery battle, the three Jingjing ships were shot one after another, the most tragic of which was the flagship Matsushima, which was taken care of by two battleships and was hit by six shells.

The Sanjing ship is a typical example of "small boats carrying cannons", its design displacement is only more than 4,000 tons, such a small hull wants to carry a heavy 320 mm heavy gun, can only weaken the hull defense, so the armor of the Sanjing ship is not thick, it can not withstand the armor-piercing shells, high-explosive bombs and cloud burst shells in turn, the Matsushima ship suffered six shells, the three boilers were forced to shut down, the speed was reduced to seven knots like a turtle climbing, the hydraulic rudder mechanism was damaged, and the heavy steering wheel could only be manually moved if you wanted to turn the rudder.

As the flagship of the combined fleet, the Songdao ship was "taken care of" by the Beiyang Fleet in the Battle of the Yellow Sea, and the heavy guns of the Dingyuan and Zhenyuan ships almost hit it, so the Songdao ship suffered a lot of injuries, and these old injuries were caused by new injuries, and the battleship entered a large number of waters, and the waterline dropped by two meters.

Itsukushima and Hashidate were not much better, the heavy guns of the Hashidate were hit by a high-explosive shell, the turret was almost blown away, the ship's mast was blown off, and the observers all died in the sea.

Togo Heihachiro frowned, and said to Ito Yuhyung: "General, we can't fight like this anymore, the enemy's artillery shells are obviously more than ours, and the power is stronger than ours, and if we continue to fight, we will definitely be wiped out..."

Ito Yuheng gritted his teeth tightly, his face was pale, the pride and self-esteem of the Imperial Japanese Navy made him unable to accept defeat, but in front of the more powerful Lin Fei, he had no choice, Ito Yuheng said in a deep voice: "Hang out the retreat flag and withdraw from the battle." ”

The captains of the three battleships couldn't move, and when they saw the retreat flag hung out, they immediately ordered the fleet to slow down and turn and withdraw from the battle, and the movements of the Japanese ships naturally couldn't escape Lin Fei's eyes, Lin Fei picked up the microphone of the Jade Bird machine, and said loudly: "The enemy ships are going to escape, and now the ships report the remaining ammunition." ”

"The Draco ship reported that there were 45 cloudburst shells left, 48 armor-piercing shells remaining, and 65 high-explosive bombs remaining."

"The Yunlong ship reported that there were 56 cloudburst bombs left, 55 armor-piercing shells remaining, and 45 high-explosive bombs remaining."

"The dragon ship reports, 3 cloudburst bombs remain......"

"Bastard..."Lin Fei scolded without waiting for Shangguan Yunlong, the captain of the Tenglong Ship, to finish speaking, "Why did you run out of cloud burst bombs for me?" When it doesn't cost money? ”

Shangguan Yunlong said aggrievedly: "You didn't say that you wouldn't let the cloud burst bomb be hit. ”

Lin Fei said "forget it", and then after listening to the reports of Shangguan Yunlong and Gao Longcheng, he found that there were not many shells left in the fleet, so he calculated in his heart, and immediately decided not to pursue the enemy ships, if half of the ammunition in the pursuit was exhausted, it would become a live target for the Japanese ships, and there were four torpedo boats in the Japanese fleet, which had strong lethality.

Lin Fei picked up the microphone of the Jade Bird machine and said loudly: "Attention all ships, concentrate their firepower on the Songdao ship, and sink their flagship for me." ”

The four battleships immediately turned their guns and poured shells on the Matsushima, and the shells around the Matsushima suddenly doubled, and for a time two more armor-piercing shells hit the Matsushima below the waterline, and the waterline of the Matsushima instantly dropped by another meter, and the sea water flooded a boiler room, and the Matsushima could only turn off one more boiler.

The Matsushima ship has only six boilers in total, and now it has been forced to shut down four of them, and the speed of the ship has dropped so much that the Matsushima ship has only four knots left for a while, and the hull is still flooding, and all the water pumps on the ship are turned on to the maximum power, which barely keeps the hull unsinkable.

The house leak happened to rain overnight, and the generator of the Matsushima ship broke down again at this time, and all the pumps stopped working, and the sinking speed was even faster.

The captain of the ship, Arisugawa Weihito, knew that the Matsushima ship could not be saved, and said gloomily to Togo Heihachiro and Ito Yuhiro: "I must order the ship to be abandoned, and ask the two leading command officers to leave the ship quickly..."

Although Togo Heihachiro and Ito Yuhiro did not want to see such a situation, they had no choice but to leave the Matsushima ship, and the Itsukushima and Hashidate ships saw that the Matsushima ship had put up the flag of abandoning the ship, and immediately sent a small boat to meet Togo Heihachiro and Ito Yuhiro on the Matsushima ship.

At the time of the withdrawal, the shells were still hitting the Matsushima, which would undoubtedly bring great danger to the withdrawal of the ship, so Ito ordered the torpedo boat fleet to attack to attract the fire of the enemy ships.

At the time of the artillery battle of the main fleet just now, Ito Yuheng abandoned the torpedo boat fleet and did not use it, which made Suzuki Makoto very depressed, and now he saw that Ito Yuheng let himself attack, and immediately led the remaining four torpedo boats to rush towards the Chinese Imperial fleet.

When Lin Fei saw the menacing torpedo boats, he was worried that the remaining shells would not be enough to knock them out, so he ordered to stop the shelling of the Songdao ship and concentrate its fire on the torpedo boats.

Half an hour later, the four torpedo boats sank under the blow of artillery fire, and at this time the Matsushima ship also completed the abandonment, and the officers of the fleet command such as Heihachiro Togo and Ito Yuhiro got on the Itsukushima ship, and the Itsukushima ship and the Hashidate ship were like two defeated roosters, slowly sailing in the direction of Penghu, and the Matsushima ship, the flagship of this glorious time, slowly sank to the sea.

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