At this time, the steam engines of the three ships were fully operational and were rapidly leaving the dock.

Unexpectedly, the speed of the Tenryu was slow, and the wrecks of Itsukushima and Takachie were flanked on both sides, and thick black smoke was emitting from the hull of the exposed part of the sea, which made the Tenryu unable to see the channel clearly, and the speed was even slower.

As a result, the Matsushima suddenly burst out of the smoke and hit the starboard side of the Tenryu. Because most of the warships of this period had ramming angles, after the Matsushima collided with the Tenryu, the Tenryu sank quickly and blocked the passage of the Matsushima, so the Matsushima was trapped next to the pier and could not get out.

Akitsu was lucky enough to sail out of the docks, but his luck was only temporary.

At 11:35, the torpedo fleet retreated to the waters south of the port of Incheon and hid in the darkness to deploy from the new formation. There were also eight torpedo boats and 12 torpedoes, and Wang Chenhao assigned the torpedoes to the twelve torpedo boats and organized them into four teams, focusing on attacking the second ship of Matsushima and Akitsuzu, and the Tenryu was placed last because it was an old-fashioned warship that did not pose much of a threat.

At the same time, other torpedo boats formed a disturbance detachment to attract the ship's firepower and create an opportunity for torpedo boats with torpedoes.

At 11:55, the torpedo fleet sailed out of the darkness again and went straight to the three ships Matsushima, Akitsuzu and Tenryu.

The vision was not good at night, and when the lightning strike fleet approached, it was found that the dragon had sunk, and Matsushima was trapped inside and couldn't get out, and only Akitsu Island was hanging around the periphery.

But Akitsusu didn't leave, because he wanted to protect the Matsushima, after all, it was their flagship.

The Akitsu Zhou blocked the way of the Beiyang Naval Division's lightning strike fleet, and was immediately besieged from all sides. Twenty torpedo boats rushed towards the Akitsu from all angles, and the fear of the more than 300 officers and men of the Navy above the Akitsu Island escalated, because they were now only interested in firing and firing again, and they no longer knew where the shells had gone.

Just after the early hours of the morning, two torpedo boats, "Lei Zhen" and "Lei Xun", each fired a torpedo, but one of the torpedoes missed and exploded on the shore in the distance. Another torpedo broke down again, and halfway through the fire was dumb.

At 18 o'clock in the morning, the 26-ton "Lei Zhen" torpedo boat, because of its small size, broke through the fire net of Qiujinzhou and fired a 14-inch black-headed torpedo at the port side of Qiujinzhou.

With a loud "boom," a huge wave several dozen meters high erupted outside the port side of the Qiujinzhou, and the hull of the ship was seriously tilted to the starboard side by more than ten degrees, and then it swayed from side to side, with the result that the artillery on the ship could not stabilize and open fire.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! "The starboard side of the Qiujinzhou was hit by three 14-inch torpedoes in succession, and the violent explosion instantly blew the Qiujinzhou into two, and a mushroom cloud rose into the air, and immediately turned into a larger mushroom cloud and soared into the sky, with smoke hundreds of meters high.

In an instant, the flames flew and the smoke covered the sea, and the Akitsuzu sank rapidly at the speed that was seen.

One Akitsuzu actually wasted six torpedoes, so there were only six torpedo boats left in the Thunderstrike Fleet that could fire torpedoes.

At this time, a large number of troops had been gathered on the shore of the port wharf, and the commander of the Second Army, General Daesan-yam, immediately mobilized all 108 artillery pieces of the Second Army and rushed to the wharf to help in the battle.

When he arrived, he saw that the Akitsuzu had been sunk by a group explosion, and that only the flagship Matsushima of the Combined Fleet was left trapped in the waters near the docks. All the other ships were sunk, revealing only part of the island and masts. A fleet that had been built up with a tired belt and a thrifty economy was over, and the army of Rao, who was at odds with the navy, couldn't help but sigh and weep.

Dashan Yan looked at the smoke and fire near the dock, and the stench made him nause, who was used to seeing death. Thousands of casualties were killed, and the howl of the soldiers who had survived for a long time chilled all the soldiers of the army who arrived on the shore.

"Bastard!" Oyama Rock had a bruise on his forehead, and immediately ordered all artillery to be aimed at the sea inside the harbor and carry out a fierce artillery bombardment.

The overwhelming shells made Wang Chenhao have to choose to avoid the limelight for the time being, after all, the rapid-fire guns and torpedoes of their torpedo boats could not hit the shore, so they quickly retreated into the shadowy sea.

The lightning strike fleet had just retreated, and Ding Ruchang commanded the main warships of the Beiyang Fleet to enter the interior of Incheon Port through the main channel.

The arrival of the main fleet immediately made Wang Chenhao and the others very excited, and they shouted loudly.

The officers and men of the Beiyang Naval Division on the capital ship also responded with shouts, which meant nothing more than saying, "You guys rest for a while!" We'll pick up the rest! ”

At 35 o'clock in the morning, Ding Ruchang sat on the Dingyuan ship and ordered the ships of the Beiyang Naval Division to form a "Sichuan" formation, and the second ship of Dingzhen was placed at the forefront to act as a meat shield to block the artillery attack of the local army, and the other ships quickly fired artillery to bombard the artillery unit of Dashanyan.

Due to the fact that the fleet artillery was generally stronger than the army artillery, and the Dingzhen No. 2 ship served as a meat shield, the enemy's shells hit the armored and iron battleships like tickling, and they could not break through the heavy armor at all.

On the other hand, this time, Ding Ruchang almost wiped out all the stocks of imported and self-made flowering bombs of the Beiyang Naval Division, and the purpose was to fight to the death. Therefore, the combined firepower of the two ships of Dingzhen alone was enough to suppress the land artillery of the Yue army (eight 305 main guns, 4 150 secondary guns, and 8 75 sampan guns on the broadside), plus the fire support of the main guns and auxiliary guns of more than a dozen other warships, adding up to more than 200 artillery pieces of various kinds, and the land artillery position of Dashanyan was razed to the ground in less than half an hour.

At the same time, the 16 37-barreled machine guns of the Dingzhen No. 2 Ship aimed at the army units on the dock on the shore, and a large number of shells poured down on them, and suddenly there was a sea of fire on the dock on the shore, and the smoke and smoke covered the sea, and the army suffered heavy casualties.

Seeing that his subordinates had suffered heavy casualties, Oyama Iwa knew that he was powerless to protect the Matsushima, so he immediately ordered the army to retreat and retreat beyond the range of the naval guns of the Beiyang Naval Division.

In this way, the Beiyang Navy Division took full control of the port of Incheon.

Subsequently, the ships of the Beiyang Naval Division maneuvered into a fan shape and carried out heavy artillery strikes on the Songdao.

Originally, some Beiyang generals hoped to capture the Songdao, but Ding Ruchang thought that the navy would choose to sink itself, so he ordered it to be completely sunk.

More than a dozen warships opened fire violently around a non-moving Matsushima, and in less than three minutes the Matsushima burst into flames, and after 10 minutes there were heavy casualties, the main guns could not be turned, and the secondary guns were all destroyed, and it had lost its combat effectiveness.

The commander of the Combined Fleet, Ito Yuhiro, was completely desperate and ordered the sinking of the Matsushima and the retreat of everyone, while he committed suicide by disembowelment in the captain's room.

At about half past one in the morning, the Matsushima was beaten and sunk, and the main force of the combined fleet was destroyed.

Subsequently, the ships of the Beiyang Naval Division dispersed and shelled the troop carriers on the right side of the military port. However, it saved the shell money of the Beiyang Naval Division.

Then, the ships of the Beiyang Naval Division began to shell the civilian port in the eastern part of the port, and there were hundreds of ships of various kinds in it.

Now that Korea has been occupied by the Chinese army, these ships may be used by the Chinese army in the war of aggression against China, so they are all destroyed.

At the same time, a large number of arsenals, granaries, and coal warehouses that had been hoarded on the shore were all destroyed by shelling.

After the shelling, which lasted for more than three hours, the area around Incheon Port was surrounded by fierce fires, and smoke and dust were billowing and spreading for dozens of miles. The navy and army personnel suffered countless casualties, and the blood stained the entire harbor red, and it was like a hell on earth under the glow of the raging fire on the shore.

And with the violent explosion of the last warehouse where ammunition was hoarded, the attack was pushed to the top and the raid came to a successful end.

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