Ito houng-hyung craned his neck and waited all night, but the ten speedboats that ran out did not launch the expected surprise attack. On the contrary, his entire fleet had been careful with the embankment, and as a result, his energy was wasted.

At four o'clock in the morning, not long before dawn, they were all on alert, but after waiting for an hour, they found nothing.

What's going on? Could it be that the other party's purpose is just to let those ten boats run away?

Ito couldn't figure it out. He knew that those boats had speed and artillery that could not be underestimated, and he had also calculated the Combined Fleet with mines at the beginning. Now that they have the advantage of numbers and the familiarity of the local sea conditions, they actually do not take the initiative to attack, are they very sure of the defense of the land?

Thinking about it like this, he couldn't help but worry about whether he was going to encounter some strange conspiracy again.

In fact, he didn't know that it was not because he didn't want to attack, but because the officers and men of the Beiyang Navy who had just boarded the ship had difficulty getting familiar with the operation of the new ship for a while. Most of them were in charge of the engine room, and they had never seen a diesel engine or a different steam engine.

Just learning and getting acquainted with it is not a momentary process. In addition to sporadic close shelling during the day, at night they can ensure safe and smooth operation. Fighting a night battle with the Japanese army? Isn't that a joke?

As a result, Ito and the Combined Fleet were suspicious and uneasy.

At five o'clock in the morning, the sky was twilight, the view on the sea was gradually clear, and the Japanese ships moved forward again, imminent to shoot.

But this time they had just completed their maneuvering course from south to north, when they were approaching the port of Shijiu. There was a fierce explosion from behind the cold ass! Ito turned his head and saw that the shells were actually coming from the sea on the south side of the shipyard, and the density was surprisingly high!

The cruiser "Hiei", which ran at the rear, was clumsy and deadly, and was caught off guard by hitting seven or eight 130 deflagration bombs in a row! Not only did it shatter the deck, but it also caused the fire to spread quickly everywhere, turning into a torch shining on the sea in the blink of an eye!

This not only turned the ship into a particularly dazzling live target, but also significantly exposed the rest of the ships not far from it.

The artillery fire from that shore suddenly increased wildly as if it had taken some kind of medicine, and a series of ballistic trajectories swept across the sea, galloping for more than 9,000 meters, and then smashed into the hull of the ship!

Amazing precision. Amazing explosion. The astonishing density stunned Ito and the Japanese ships when they landed!

"They...... When did the movement get there?! It's just a night and I haven't heard any movement, how is this possible?! ”

Ito Yohyung regretted it very much. A few dinghys were not sent to sneak ashore during the night. Even if it loses some manpower. At the very least, it will be possible to further ascertain the disposition of the enemy's troops.

has followed back to the fleet, and at this time, Saburo Nakazaki, who is an intelligence consultant, is sweating profusely, and a string of bubbles have formed on his mouth. This situation. He hadn't even found out before! The kind of big action of arranging artillery positions cannot be concealed from people at all.

But it is even more impossible to convince Ito that the other party has built so many artillery positions just overnight.

The only explanation is that they have been preparing for a long time, and they have not detected it.

For a while, many people doubted the accuracy of Saburo Zhongzai's information, and even doubted whether the traitor Mu Hong was sent by the other party to mislead them undercover!

Mu Hong can be the leader of the pirates and run rampant in the sea for many years, so he naturally has enough brains. As soon as he saw this, he knew that the time had come to show his loyalty, and immediately said to Saburo Nakazaki: "If you can't trust me, you can send a small boat to send me and my brothers up, and fight a bloody way for you!" ”

Saburo Nagasaki said hatefully: "Do you want to give you a chance to escape?" ”

Mu Hong drew a knife and threw it in front of him: "If you can't believe it, just stab me to death!" ”

Saburo Nakazaki was shocked, but he couldn't make up his mind, so he went to ask for instructions layer by layer.

Ito Youheng was irritable and on fire, watching the shells in the rear continue to smash one after another, but the shelling back seemed to be useless, and he felt helpless for the first time! A bad feeling of being at a dead end and being flooded at both ends has taken over my heart.

He did not immediately agree to Nakazaki Saburo's request, and calmly ordered the battleship to continue to move forward, but then, a large number of shells came unexpectedly in front of the left!

The unprecedentedly dense cannonballs, whistling like a meteor shower, aimed at the "Sina Express" that opened the way ahead, and smashed down with a slash on the head and face!

The rumbling explosion was as dense as the thunder of war drums, and the continuous explosion and fire were intertwined into a fire net covering a kilometer, submerging the battleship in the middle when it landed, and from time to time a ball of fire was particularly distinct, it was a hit!

"Bastard! Bastard! How did their artillery become so powerful! ”

With the Ito Youheng Guò telescope, you can clearly see the faint mist rising from the launch site, which is sparsely distributed and the explosion point is clear, which is clearly a good thing done by a few artillery!

That can only show one thing, the rate of fire they saw yesterday was just that the other party deliberately misled and hid its true strength!

As if to confirm his opinion, the 305 cannon, which he had been playing slowly for a day, suddenly after the first shot, only a minute later, the second shot burst out!

The rumbling roar like a tsunami crossed the air, and a high-explosive grenade suddenly erupted at a distance of only 100 meters from the "Sina Speed"! In the thunderous roar, a large number of fragments roared forward, cutting off two cables of the mast behind it, and the fluttering flags were like fallen leaves in the wind, tattered and blown away by the wind!

Ito was stunned!

How much strength is hidden by the other party, how can the current table be the same as yesterday?

Doubling the rate of fire, increasing the accuracy of large blocks, is this another trap? Or is it the last bit of scaring power that the enemy has put on to scare people?

He was a little dazed, but he didn't want to come out, and he looked at the shore like a frozen statue. It wasn't until a shell suddenly hit and exploded not far from the battleship that he suddenly woke up, and in the face of everyone's shocked faces, he said categorically: "Don't pay attention to their bluff." Go ahead and bombard the predetermined positions! ”

How did things come to be like this? He just couldn't figure it out.

Turning around, Ito ordered the marines accompanying the ship to immediately send people to escort Muhong's group of pirates, plus Saburo Nagasaki, to look for an opportunity to rush ashore and attack the artillery position.

"If they can't find out the enemy situation thoroughly, they won't come back!"

The "New Yaeyama" and several other attached warships, which served as a communications ship, immediately maneuvered from the rear to the front. When approaching the coastline, the torpedo boat carrier "Tensei Maru" released the ship. Cover more than 300 Marines. Together with Mu Hong and a dozen of their pirate spies, they attacked the south coast of the county from the rear of the fleet.

They didn't dare to go to the Taoluo Pass, which was bound to be heavily guarded, but they just touched up the downstream of Jiacang Town at the mouth of the Fu Xi River, hoping that the cannon that was bombarding the tail of the fleet at this time could not see them.

From departure to arrival near the coast. It seems that a qiē is very smooth.

And at this time. Ito's fleet is in an unprecedented predicament!

Deploy as he would have been. Hit the shore diagonally from south to north, and when approaching within five kilometers, turn the rudder flush with the probe on the right. Get the most out of the side fire and get a gorgeous all-round fire wash.

But now, as soon as they launched the attack, they were attacked by the opposite side from the beginning to the end, and the dense cannonballs pinched the head and tail, this is the rhythm of ending them in one pot!

However, he still stubbornly believes that this is just the last madness, and it is absolutely impossible to last long. Therefore, the remaining ten warships are still unswervingly fighting back against artillery fire while bravely moving forward!

However, the people on the other side didn't want them to get close again!

Yang Haiwei connected the two artillery positions by phone and ordered everyone: "Don't let the Japanese ship approach!" All artillery fire! The 152 guns and 203 guns opened fire, as long as there was a three-point certainty, aimed and hit hard! ”

Zhang Peilun, who had just seen the power of the army artillery and had a little confidence in holding the position, couldn't hold his breath at this time and exclaimed: "Why don't you continue to lure the enemy?" Wouldn't it be possible to bombard them a little more if they got closer? If this is scared away, it will be wasted! ”

Qiu Baoren saw the way out of the door, and replied with a smile: "The Japanese army was unloaded from the north and south at the same time, and the number of troops ashore has exceeded 1,000. If it drags on any longer, I'm afraid that the Japanese artillery shells will hit the shipyard and the county seat! ”

Zhang Peilun will be skeptical, but he can also understand that once the civilian is severely damaged by the naval artillery, this matter is tantamount to dereliction of duty. Even if the enemy ship is forced to retreat, it is a credit!

Ito Yuhyung didn't wait for the news of the successful landing, and a large cloud of smoke and dust suddenly rose in the distance, but it made his heart cold, so he couldn't bear his back!

Four 152-plus howitzers and two 203 heavy howitzers, which had been silent, lifted their camouflage and suddenly opened fire!

The maximum 17.5-kilometer army mass killer is facing the towering and remarkable target on the sea, aiming again and again, and suddenly attacking!

The tail of the B-4 heavy artillery is stable, the heavyweight chrome-vanadium steel one-meter-long warhead, the trajectory is stable, there is almost no sway after discharge, and it accurately fires at the nearest and most conspicuous target -- the "Akitsu Island", which is running in second place in the fleet!

Two heavy guns locked onto a target, fired with a bang at an interval of one second, and after seven or eight rounds, that is, the enemy ship had just moved forward for more than a kilometer, it hit with a bang.

It can penetrate the terrifying armor-piercing force of the concrete fortress four meters behind, and easily penetrate the side and deck of the "Akitsu Island" through a large hole in one fell swoop! This was followed by a massive explosion that set off a spectacular column of fireworks from the bow and stern!

The hole in the bow of the ship, which was one meter in diameter, not only penetrated two consecutive compartments, but also detonated the ammunition pile of the main gun in the bow, and the explosion almost shattered the entire bow.

The cannonballs poured into the stern went straight into the power compartment, destroying the two large shafts, and the whole ship suddenly lost its propulsion power, and moved crookedly on the sea surface by inertia, becoming a dead target that no one could save!

Of course, the extremely powerful 152 kill bomb will not miss the perfect opportunity, and more than forty rounds will be smashed in a row, = almost sweeping the remaining deck superstructure! The Japanese soldiers who were smoked out of the fire did not have time to flee for their lives, and even if they jumped into the water, they were killed and injured by the raging shrapnel!

The "Hashidate" that followed closely behind it was covered by a lot of shrapnel, which made the people in the command tower almost unable to raise their heads.

Ito Youheng was so shocked by the big explosion in front of him that his heart stopped, and his eyes were about to burst, but he was scared as if he had entered the thirty-nine days shirtless! He finally understood that this was still a deadly trap!

Terrible cannons! Terrible rate of fire, terrible accuracy!

All the variables converged into an unsolvable dead end, all their warships were still sprinting towards the shore, and the interception of the other party was so resolute and ferocious! Where did so many cannons come from?

He instinctively ordered all the battleships to immediately turn the rudder right and escape from the strike range, but Captain Shimamura Naniwa strongly objected: "Commander, I very much doubt that the range of these cannons will be fifteen kilometers!" We were too slow to get out of it. The only chance is to storm their harbor and get close to the shore to destroy them in one fell swoop! ”

Straight to the port?

Ito looked at the average speed of his own fleet of less than 8 knots, and then looked at the distance of a full nine kilometers. Just by turning a corner, they will have to take at least a few hundred shells. At that time, how many can you save? Will there be more artillery as we approach?

He only thought about it for a moment, and then flatly refused: "No! Disengage immediately and turn the rudder right with all your might! I don't believe that their artillery can hit farther! ”

He didn't know that such a decision was in Yang Haiwei's hands! (To be continued......)

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