Chapter 2: Crossing the First Day [Second Watch Asking for Votes]

"Knock knock!"

The thunderous sound of cannons was incessant, and the already gloomy sky was filled with gunsmoke, as if on a black and white landscape painting.

"Got a war?"

Wang Chenhao looked far away, but he couldn't see it clearly from a distance. So he hurriedly found the military high-powered telescope, which immediately startled him.

In the distance, warships were speeding through the waves with puffs of black smoke, tossing and swaying in the huge waves of shells.

Among the two warring parties, Wang Chenhao was the first to recognize the plaster flag. However, if you look closely, it is not the 88th Fleet of the Maritime Self-Defense Force, but the Amoto Fleet, which uses primitive artillery to engage in battles.

Then, Wang Chenhao saw the other side.

A long dragon flag fluttering in the wind, navy gray livery, and a two-dragon water play symbol in gold paint on the bow of the ship.

This is the Beiyang Naval Division!

"Are you dreaming?" Wang Chenhao pinched his arm, and suddenly screamed in pain, it was not a dream.

"Could it be that we have crossed over?" Rows of question marks appeared in Wang Chenhao's mind, and countless people dreamed of the good thing of crossing every day, but now it fell on Wang Chenhao, but it was not worth his joy.

This is the naval battle of the Yellow Sea in the first year of the First Wu Dynasty, which haunts and entangles Wang Chenhao's soul the most.

At this time, because the speed of the two warships of the Beiyang Naval Division in the direction of Okashima in the northwest was too slow, they were besieged by four warships of the First Guerrilla Group of the Fleet, and the other one accidentally ran aground on the reef again.

After Wang Chenhao observed, he could tell that it was the Chaoyong and Yangwei that caught fire, and it was the Yangwei that ran aground.

"This should be the beginning of the naval battle!" As a military enthusiast, Wang Chenhao is familiar with this history, and he is both excited and sad.

He was excited that he had the opportunity to witness this naval battle and see with his own eyes the officers and men of the Beiyang Naval Division fighting bravely.

However, how could he not be sad when he knew the outcome of this naval battle?

At this time, a warship in the distance was moving rapidly from west to east, and its huge hull could be seen clearly.

The dome armor protection, the bridge that runs through the front and rear main decks, the black hull identification line, and the plaster flag that Wang Chenhao hated in his dreams.

"Damn it! This is the Yoshino! Wang Chenhao immediately recognized this warship, which owed China a lot of blood debts.

It was one o'clock in the afternoon of September 17, 1894, and the slower ships Hiei, Fuso, and Akagi in the second group of the main group of the combined fleet became the targets of the Beiyang Naval Division. Hiei and Akagi were attacked by the main Beiyang battleships Dingyuan and Zhenyuan, and were severely damaged.

The commander of the Combined Fleet, Ito Youheng, urgently ordered the First Guerrilla Force to abandon the attack, and the incapacitated Chaoyong and the stranded Yangwei to quickly come to the rescue. At the same time, the first group of Matsushima, Itsukushima and Chiyoda of the first group of ships of the team were ordered to turn to the right and form a flanking formation against the main force of the Beiyang Naval Division.

At this time, the Yoshino, as the flagship of the First Guerrilla Group, quickly sailed east to rescue the heavily damaged Saikyo Maru.

The Zhiyuan ship intercepted the Yoshino under the command of Deng Shichang, and covered the Jingyuan to attack the Xijing Maru.

Zhiyuan and Yoshino PK, Wang Chenhao knew the ending, and immediately became nervous, and hurriedly drove the Jiaolong to dive over, hoping to help.

The Jiaolong had no torpedo armament, and the only harpoon could not help at all. Wang Chenhao complained why he didn't drive a nuclear submarine through the ......

Wang Chenhao didn't dare to get too close to the warring sea, because any short-range arrow bomb was enough to severely damage or even sink the Jiaolong.

After some observation, Wang Chenhao drove the Jiaolong to stop in the blind spot of the Zhiyuan and Yoshino 2 ships, and raised the periscope to watch the battle, while thinking about how to help.

At 1:30, Deng Shichang, who was known for his bravery in the Beiyang Naval Division, led the Zhiyuan to take the initiative to attack the Yoshino, and the twin 210-mm main guns in the bow and the 210-mm main guns in the stern opened fire at the same time.

"Knock knock!"

Fifty-kilogram shells roared towards the Yoshino, stirring up a huge column of water dozens of meters high, and the waves flew hundreds of meters away, very violently.

In terms of main guns, although three of the Yoshino's four 152mm guns could be flanked at the same time, it was no match for the Zhiyuan. However, the 47mm rapid-fire guns on the side of the Yoshino were 20 more than those of the Zhiyuan, and the firepower suddenly surpassed that of the Zhiyuan.

Like old enemies, the two sides entered a fierce battle as soon as they met, with all the artillery firing in a clumsy manner, and countless shells fired at each other.

In an instant, the cannon roared, the smoke of gunpowder filled the air, and huge water columns shot straight into the sky, and the sea water suddenly boiled.

Whenever the shells of the Zhiyuan ship hit the Yoshino, Wang Chenhao suddenly shouted hello. On the contrary, when the Zhiyuan ship was hit by the enemy's shells, he would always tremble nervously.

"What to do? What to do? What to do? ”

Wang Chenhao scratched his ears and cheeks to find a way, he knew that the biggest problem between the Zhiyuan ship and the Yoshino PK was not the difference between the tactics of the two sides and the accuracy of the gunners, but that the amount of ammunition of the Zhiyuan ship was not as good as that of the enemy.

The Yoshino is 4,255 tons, while the Zhiyuan is only 2,300 tons, and the tonnage gap leads to a large gap in the ammunition base and reserves. With such a reckless fire fight between the two sides, the ammunition of the Zhiyuan ship will be exhausted in less than an hour.

When the ammunition ran out, Deng Shichang could only use a killer trick -- ramming the ship, and that was exactly what Wang Chenhao did not want to see.

"What is the weakness of the Yoshino? The speed is so fast, and all weaknesses are masked! ”

"Speed, if you slow it down, you won't be arrogant!"

"But how do you slow it down?"

"That's right! Attack its underwater propellers! ”

Wang Chenhao said to himself, look at his only property, Jiaolong, its two big pincers can be tried. It's just that Wang Chenhao knows that the pliers of the Jiaolong can't destroy the huge propeller weighing more than one ton, but will be destroyed by its reaction force.

At this time, the other three ships of the No. 1 Guerrilla Force of the Navy, which had already covered Hiei and Akagi to escape from the war zone, turned around and plunged into the rear of the Beiyang Naval Division, forming a flanking attack.

The main guns of the second ship of Dingzhen were concentrated in the bow, and there was only one 150 mm single-mounted breech gun in the stern, and the firepower was too weak, so it relied on the firepower of the Zhiyuan ship and the Jiyuan ship to assist in the defense of the side rear. Now the Zhiyuan ship suddenly intercepted the Yoshino, causing the rear firepower of the Dingyuan ship to drop sharply.

At 2:40 a.m., the No. 3 gun position on the starboard side of the Dingyuan ship suddenly hit a cannon, and fierce flames erupted from the hole that exploded. In order to keep the No. 3 artillery position, Dingyuan Guan led Liu Buyun to concentrate manpower to extinguish the fire, and the offensive immediately weakened.

The No. 1 Guerrilla Brigade quickly seized the fighters and took the opportunity to attack the Dingyuan.

Seeing this situation, Deng Shichang commanded the Zhiyuan ship to quickly move closer to the flagship to resist the ship's artillery shells.

In this way, the four warships of the First Guerrilla Group formed a favorable "T" transverse position against the Zhiyuan, and the sideboard fire was smashed into the Zhiyuan in an instant.

At 3 o'clock, the fire in Dingyuan was finally extinguished, but the Zhiyuan ship was heavily shot.

Seeing that the gunfire of the Zhiyuan ship was getting weaker and weaker, and there were more and more bullets, Wang Chenhao knew that the ammunition of the Zhiyuan ship was in a hurry, and it couldn't last long.

At this moment, his heart suddenly rose to his throat.

At this moment, the fire of the Super Brave was not extinguished, and it burned to the ammunition depot and sank.

The violent blast blast sent the entire main gun of the Chao Yong into the air, and then fell into the sea a few hundred meters away from Wang Chenhao.

A tragic roar of the Chaoyong suddenly woke up Wang Chenhao, and in a flash of light, Wang Chenhao thought of a way to save the Zhiyuan ship.

The Jiaolong's mechanical arm didn't dare to explode the Yoshino directly, but it could use something else hard - that is, the main cannon of the Super Brave to stab the Yoshino's ass - the huge chrysanthemum-shaped propeller.