"Really...... Dogs can't change their eating. ”

Yang Hao watched a lively scene from not far away, and pouted disdainfully. For people like Fang Boqian, he hated it from the bottom of his heart. Escaping from the battle is more hateful than being afraid of dying. I knew that Li Hongzhang actually let this guy out to harm people, and he should have been killed directly.

is such a goods, in the battle twice in a row to hang the white flag and escape, and especially shouted injustices everywhere. You died unjustly, so those people who were killed by you can't even return their bones, and they are still sinking to the bottom of the sea after more than a hundred years, who are you going to call for injustice?

The recruits on the steam gunboat didn't know where Yang Hao's anger came from, but they felt very disdainful of a coward like Fang Boqian.

They were all trained to work together from the very beginning. On a ship that requires the cooperation of many people to function, anyone who makes small calculations and ignores the bigger picture is doing a trick on the other of his comrades. Such a bastard thing, if killed a day earlier, is equivalent to saving more people's lives.

Letting out a breath of turbidity unpleasantly, Yang Hao commanded the gunboats to chase the fleet and rush up. Behind him, three other gunboats of the same kind also followed, forming a longitudinal line, running wildly all the way at thirty knots, and in a short time they overtook the "Dingyuan Ship" and rushed to the front.

From the left, the mighty ironclad is relatively clean. But when he turned to the right, the terrifying picture immediately caught Yang Hao's eyes!

The deck of the "Dingyuan" is relatively low, and it looks like it is floating on the water. But at this moment, the surface of the hull on that side is full of shocking potholes, black and gray. In addition, there are crumbling dents that have been blasted out by large-caliber shells!

The lifeboat hanging on the deck was crumbling into a pile of planks; What the superstructure could see, was basically destroyed. Still under the burning flames, a scene of disaster after being swept away by a hurricane.

Even so, the sailors are still rushing to the rescue. This is more exciting than the army battle.

"Sure enough, the navy is the destination of brave men!"

Yang Hao has to admire the people of this era, often in a battle, a boat sinks, and there are only a few left of hundreds of people. The kind of military that if nothing happens, it will be a catastrophe as soon as it happens, and it is really not capable of ordinary people.

Fortunately, through the efforts of the whole ship, the fire of the "Dingyuan" has been brought under control. It won't take long to completely extinguish it. Yang Hao couldn't help much. sent a telegram to Liu Buyun, asking them about their next move, which was to turn the rudder right and move westward.

This is to once again storm the Japanese fleet head-on.

Speed, an irreparable flaw. So that the entire Beiyang Fleet simply could not take advantage of the victory to pursue. After a sudden attack like an axe crushed the 1st guerrillas. The lethality of this team is particularly insufficient.

The Japanese army can increase the speed in an all-round way. Turning around again, he lined up a long snake formation and cut across the front of the Beiyang Fleet. A baptism of madness with dense side artillery. It is foreseeable that in the near future, as long as the other party turns back, it will definitely be an unprecedented fierce battle!

Liu Buyun did not choose to flee immediately, but continued to attack, this courage is really admirable.

Probably he also knows that if he runs back now, he will definitely not be able to run away, right?

Yang Hao sighed and telegraphed back to Liu Buyun that he would lead four fast gunboats to open the way in front of them, so as to harass the Japanese troops as much as possible and delay the time for their formation to complete and turn. Let the Beiyang Fleet get ready as much time as possible.

At the moment, the sea is still dark, but the fog has lightened a little, and it is expected that the sea conditions will be completely better before dawn arrives. At that time, the advantage of a qiē will be completely gone.

The four gunboats made a splash and rushed forward at great speed, and fifteen minutes later caught up with the Japanese fleet, which had all increased to about 16 knots.

Including the "Qiujinzhou" and "Sina Speed", which had been damaged before, after controlling the fire injuries, they lowered their speed and came back from a distance, and were about to rendezvous with the "Izumi" and other ships.

Because most of them are right-hand artillery, the new formation they formed will inevitably attack with the left-hand artillery. Then it would have to turn left to the south and turn around and cut across the front of the Beiyang Fleet, which was undoubtedly the fastest.

Probably also taking this approach into account, after the Japanese army turned the rudder left and rushed out of the triple hunting array, they followed one right to the northwest and accelerated forward to widen the distance between them.

This also included the sporadic shells that they had to dodge the extended fire of the Dongsheng. The terrifying accuracy of hitting from a distance of ten kilometers, and the power that can destroy the turret with a single shot, are too amazing to dodge at all.

After four consecutive 152mm high-explosive grenades, Ito finally understood why Tsuboi had repeatedly pursued the strange ship. Really, the artillery equipped with this guy is too weird! At such a distance, it is unbelievable to hit such precision, armor-piercing power and explosive power!

With him, the Japanese Navy has never been at ease. If a single battleship comes out, it may even be killed by its sneak attack, which is too hateful!

Because of this, the "Izumi" had to accelerate violently, and the right rear secondary gun, which was still intact, fired one after another at maximum range.

Several warships that caught up in the rear also joined in to help, blocking with continuous explosions to affect the opponent's aiming. It took ten minutes to finally pull away some distance - it was because Yang Haiwei stopped to clean up Fang Boqian.

The first to be caught up by Yang Hao was the "Xijing Maru".

This cruiser, which was converted from a merchant ship, was the seat of Shikinori Kayama, the commander of the Japanese Navy.

This man was the most staunch main battle faction in the Japanese army, and from the beginning of the planning of the invasion of the treasure island, he had always been keen to attack China and was unable to expand. Because of this, he was deeply appreciated by the Emperor Wa, and in 1890 he was promoted to Minister of the Navy. It was only taken down because it went too far.

With the resumption of war this year, he regained credibility in a series of aggressive ideas, reinstated Vice Admiral Fù, and assumed the position of high-ranking Minister of Military Orders.

This decisive battle with the Beiyang Fleet was also at his behest. Even in order to witness the whole process, he also led the staff team to sit on the "Saikyo Maru" and observe it closely.

It's just that he never expected that the planned foolproof victory would be like this. Not only did the Yoshino sink, but even the mighty Izumi had to flee to avoid the edge.

This is difficult for Shiki Kayama to accept.

On the "Saikyo Maru", he shouted hysterically for a long time. In particular, he was very dissatisfied with Ito's evasion strategy.

His staff were too embarrassed to remind him that the situation outside was far more complicated than he thought, and that it was wise to do so. Your Excellency is not a specialist in naval warfare!

His survival was so important that the "Saikyo Maru" preemptively avoided it at the beginning, so that it did not get shelled. In addition, this 3,240-horsepower merchant ship has a top speed of nearly 15 knots, which can barely keep up with the formation in front. But now, it's a little bit behind.

After running for ten minutes, not a single shell came from behind, and Shiki Kayama and his staff, as well as the battleship, thought that the most critical moment had passed.

Kayama Shikinori refused Captain Yuyuki Kano's suggestion to "go south to rendezvous with Fuso Hiei", and forced him to keep up with the fleet, and he must always stand firmly on the front line of the battle and see the final victory of the Imperial Navy!

In desperation, the ship had to continue to use its strength to keep up, but it was a bit of a tendency to pull farther and farther. Fortunately, at this time, the "Izumi" at the forefront began to turn to the left because it had joined the two ships "Akitsushu", and they did not have to continue to lag behind for long.

Directly ahead, the last battleship "Hashidate" was only two kilometers away.

The whole ship went up and down, and no one noticed that Yang Hao's gunboat came out from behind like a ghost! The 76mm cannon, which had been aiming for a while, suddenly hit the target!

Boom Boom Boom ——!

A series of explosions, one after another, erupted from the aft deck! A flood of high-explosive bombs set off a large cloud of fireworks, and any landing point was a messy swarm of fragments!

The sailors who were waiting on the deck were caught off guard, and they were blown to pieces, screaming and falling into the water.

Shiki Kayama and the others were confused by the sudden shock, and when they looked back, there was a boiling flame between them, quickly pushing forward from behind!

"Na mud!? Where did the shells come from? How could they catch up! ”

There is a lookout post on the ship. In such weather, don't you generally have to force fire within a thousand meters to be able to hit? So many shells, where did they come from?!

It's just that by this time, the lookouts had already been blown up.

Yang Hao opened fire and hit, and the other three gunboats followed, marching in unison, jumping lightly on the rippling waves, and drowning the "Xijing Maru" with a string of cannonballs flying like meteors, hulala's splitting head and covering the face! (To be continued......)