After the main force of the naval fleet captured the Japanese ship Mizuho and two old armored cruisers Mikuma and Kumano, the submarine Bayonet and the submarine Jiandao sent a telegram to Lin Daxin, informing him that the two submarines were no longer torpedoed and had lost their combat effectiveness, and requested to return to the Lushun military port base.

Lin Daxin is very satisfied with the table of the two submarines, in the face of a Japanese combined fleet with a displacement of nearly 200,000 tons, the Navy of the Naval Academy can win so easily, thanks to these two submarines!

Now the two submarines have exhausted the battery-powered torpedoes purchased in modern time and space, but Lin Daxin has asked the arsenal to start developing steam gas torpedoes based on the information he provided.

Steam gas torpedo is a kind of thermodynamic torpedo, fuel and water enter the combustion chamber at the same time, and steam is generated after combustion, which pushes the transmitter and drives the propeller to rotate and propulse, and the steam after work is directly discharged into the seawater, producing a wake. This torpedo is fast, usually above 50 knots; At the same time, the firing range is long, it can reach 4-5 kilometers, and even exceed 8000 meters. Its disadvantage is that it has poor concealment, and it is easy to be discovered by the opposing ship due to the formation of a track due to the discharge of gas during the voyage. There is also the fact that it cannot be used for great depths.

However, these shortcomings can be ignored in the face of the advantages of steam gas torpedoes, if the new torpedo is successfully developed, 2 submarines can still be used as Lin Daxin's killer feature!

After Lin Daxin used the radio to let the two submarines return to the Lushun base, he no longer pursued the three Japanese ships that had slipped through the net, but transferred some naval soldiers from each ship, and boarded the three surrendered Japanese ships in lifeboats in full armor.

At this point, the second large-scale naval battle between the Beiyang Naval Division of the Great Qing Dynasty and the Japanese Combined Fleet came to an end, and the naval fleet of the Naval Academy of Naval Divisions suffered heavy damage to the Japanese Combined Fleet at the cost of sinking one of the old ironclad ships, the Yunhai.

Of the 28 warships that had been in the combined fleet, only 8 warships escaped back to the Japanese port of Sasebo. Only the flagship Ironclad Battleship Fengxiang and the Ironclad Battleship Zuihe remained in the First Battlefleet of the Combined Fleet. The Second Battlefleet's six old ironclad ships with a displacement of 9,700 tons were all destroyed. The Third Battlefleet, 6 old ironclad ships with a displacement of 6,100 tons, were all destroyed.

Only the armored cruiser Hashidate remained in the 1st Panzer Cruiser. Only the protective cruiser Naniwa remained in the 2nd partisan detachment.

Only the four protective cruisers of the 1st Guerrilla Detachment, Takanami, Murayu, Kakaze, and Ishikari did not suffer losses, and all of them fled back to the Sasebo military port.

The naval fleet of the Naval Academy sank a total of 17 Japanese ships and captured 3 Japanese ships, which can be described as a great victory!

Observing the ships of the naval battle on the edge of the battlefield and seeing that the naval battle had come to an end, the naval observers of the various countries above could not help but sigh that a powerful Japanese combined fleet was defeated so quickly, and most of the warships were lost!

However, observers from various countries finally knew why the Italian expeditionary fleet was completely wiped out, and it turned out that the Beiyang Naval Division was equipped with submarines! Moreover, this submarine and the torpedoes equipped on the submarine are very advanced, although the observers of various countries have not seen the true appearance of the submarine, but from the sunken warships of the United Fleet, it can be inferred that the submarine equipped by the Beiyang Naval Division and the torpedoes on it are more advanced than the submarines and torpedoes of various naval powers!

Observers from various countries began to think about how to get such advanced submarines and torpedoes as the Beiyang Naval Division of the Qing Dynasty!

After the naval fleet of the Sailor Academy reassembled in Jinzhou Bay, Lin Daxin said energetically in the bridge of the Flying Bear: "Send a telegram to Wu Peifu!" Sue him, the navy has won a big victory! Ask if the Army is ready? ”

On land, the Japanese troops of the Southern Route Army were waiting for the news of the victory of the Combined Fleet, and had already sent the Japanese Second Division and the Twelfth Division to the periphery of Dalian, only waiting for the victory of the Combined Fleet to support the two divisions of the Army with naval guns to attack the Dingbei Army in Dalian.

The Northern Army is more confident that its naval fleet will surely achieve the final victory! So the Dingbei Army made preparations for a comprehensive counterattack against the Japanese army!

Wu Peifu, who was anxiously waiting for the results of the naval battle at the Dalian headquarters, jumped up with joy as soon as he received Lin Daxin's telegram, and then ordered loudly: "The whole army is ready to attack!" Send a report to the principal, saying that the counterattack force of the Northern Army has been prepared! ”

After receiving Wu Peifu's telegram, Lin Daxin ordered the fleet to sail to the waters near Dalian.

In the outer waters of Dalian, Lin Daxintong Guò Flying Bear Bridge observation window, with a high-powered telescope to see the Japanese temporary barracks in the distance of the outer fortifications of Dalian, now the Japanese army has discovered the naval fleet of the Naval Academy on the sea, the commander of the Second Division, Yoshida Shoichi, and the commander of the Twelfth Division, Sato Yukie, looked at each other, and both saw frightened eyes from each other's eyes.

The 2 division commanders immediately ordered the whole army to retreat to Jinzhou, but there was no hurry!

Lin Daxin put down the binoculars and gave an order: "Target the Japanese barracks outside Dalian!" All the naval guns of warships with a caliber of more than 100 mm are beaten to me hard! ”

"Knock-knock-knock-" Hundreds of naval guns with a caliber of more than 100 mm in the entire naval fleet of the Naval Academy immediately began to bombard the Japanese barracks outside Dalian!

"Boom-boom-boom-" Countless shells fell in the Japanese barracks, especially the large-caliber shells fired by the main guns of the ironclad battleships, and after one shot fell, not a single Japanese soldier could survive in the surrounding 100 square meters. The Japanese soldiers who were close to the landing point of the shells were blown into flesh, and the Japanese soldiers who were far away were all shocked and bleeding, and their internal organs were also shattered, and they were shocked to death!

The entire Japanese barracks were bombed and flesh flew sideways, and the surviving Japanese soldiers fled to the barracks for their lives!

At this time, the artillery unit of the Dingbei Army also began to use 105-mm howitzers that secretly moved forward to cooperate with the navy to bombard the Japanese barracks. There was also a land-facing artillery battery in Dalian, on which six 120-mm cannons were also operated by the Dingbei Army and began shelling two Japanese divisions outside Dalian.

The shelling lasted for half an hour before it stopped, 2 Japanese divisions were heavily damaged, the commander of the 12th Division, Yukie Sato, was killed, and the surviving commander of the 2nd Division, Yoshida Shoichi, immediately organized the remnants of the 2 divisions to retreat in the direction of Jinzhou!

At this time, the loud charge sounded in the outer fortifications of Dalian of the Dingbei Army, and the third, sixth, seventh and eighth divisions of the Dingbei Army, the troops of four divisions, began to attack the remnants of the Japanese army of two divisions!

The remnants of the Japanese army have been bombarded by the artillery fire of the fleet and the Dingbei Army, and they can't organize resistance at all, so they only know how to flee in the direction of Jinzhou!

The Dingbei Army of 4 divisions pursued it until it was under the city of Jinzhou before it stopped the pursuit!

Li Qingyao took his company and ran to the foot of Jinzhou City with his company panting, and Liu Xiaotian, who has now become Li Qingyao's guard, asked: "Company commander! Why don't you let us rush into Jinzhou City in one go! Wipe out all the Japanese Southern Route Army! ”

Li Qingyao scratched his head, he himself wondered why his superiors didn't let him attack Jinzhou, and said, "How do I know what the above thinks!" Inform the platoons to build a field position right here! ”

The 4 divisions of the Dingbei Army began to build field positions at a distance of 5 miles from Jinzhou! Moreover, they began to collect the Japanese troops captured by various units, and in the last count, nearly 3,000 Japanese soldiers from the Second Division and the Twelfth Division of the Japanese Army were captured!

Yoshida Shoichi, the commander of the 2nd Division of the Japanese Army, fled into Jinzhou City with the remnants of the 2 divisions. 2 fully formed divisions, a total of 40,000 elite officers and soldiers of the Great Japanese Army, followed Yoshida Shoichi to flee into Jinshu Castle less than 4,000 people! That's really one in ten!

Yoshida Shoichi almost crawled into the headquarters of the Southern Route Army in Jinzhou City, and after seeing the commander Oyama Yan, Yoshida Shoichi knelt on the ground with a "whoosh", and said while crying: "Woo woo! Commander! Finished! It's all over! Woooooo The 2nd Division and the 12th Division are finished! The Combined Fleet is also finished! Woooooo ”

At this time, Dashanyan, who had already received the news, turned unusually pale at this time!

For the Southern Route Army, which had the second, third, eighth, ninth, twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, and 7 divisions, it lost 2 divisions, and it did not reach the point of breaking its muscles and bones! But the defeat of the Japanese Combined Fleet was catastrophic for the whole of Japan!

And without the support of the Combined Fleet at sea, the Southern Route Army's plan to capture the fortress of Arthur has been shattered!

Oyama Iwa shouted at Yoshida Shodai, "Yoshida-kun! You get up! You are a division commander of the Great Japanese Empire! It shouldn't be a coward who only knows how to cry! ”

Hideo Fukuda, commander of the 8th Division, and Masao Fujita, commander of the 9th Division, quickly helped Yoshida Shokazu up and sat on the chairs in the headquarters.