[Chapter Word Count: 2782 Latest Update Time: 2014-12-0212:00:00.0]

Lin Fei heard Deng Shichang's order, took a deep breath, hid his body behind the guard, and grabbed the handrails with his hands.

The Zhiyuan and Yoshino ships were getting closer and closer, and Lin Fei could even clearly see the Japanese sailors on the Yoshino ship and see their panicked and stunned faces. At this time, the Zhiyuan ship had tilted to the left twelve degrees, the chimney was emitting black smoke, and there was smoke and flames all over the body, in the eyes of the Japanese sailors: the Zhiyuan ship would sink at any time, no one dared to believe that such a battleship actually broke through the barrier of shells and torpedoes and came to the Yoshino ship!

The captain of the Yoshino ship, Kawara, had a blue face, he knew very well what would happen if the Zhiyuan ship collided with him, and the bow of the Zhiyuan ship at this time was exactly aimed at the hull of the Yoshino ship, and once it collided, the Yoshino ship only sank! Kawahara wanted to command in a loud voice: "Right full rudder!" Forward three! ”

Kawahara's purpose of issuing this order is very simple, accelerate, turn the rudder, and avoid the Zhiyuan ship that is fighting to the death, but unfortunately: although the Yoshino ship is the fastest cruiser in the world in this era, its acceleration is not enough for it to avoid the impact in an instant, Kawahara wants to look at the Zhiyuan ship that is getting closer and closer, and he can't help but be stunned in his heart: "Our Yoshino ship is the most advanced cruiser in the world, why were we hit by the warship of the Shina people?" ”

At this time, Lin Fei, who was hiding behind the guard, felt a slight shock from the ship's hull, and a slight metal friction sound came from the deck, Lin Fei understood that the collision angle of the Zhiyuan ship had already hit the Yoshino ship with huge inertia! The impact happened! Immediately afterward, a strange sound came from the deck, which was extremely sharp and piercing, as if a steel knife was scraping the eardrums, and it was the sound of the horns piercing the armor.

The crash horn pierced the armor, but the hull continued to move forward, and the bow of the ship, with the weight of several thousand tons of the entire Zhiyuan ship, slammed into the Yoshino ship, making a loud noise that shook the ground and the mountains, and shook Lin Fei and the sailors of the two ships into the air. The Yoshino ship, which had been hit hard, did not stop because of the impact, it still maintained its original course, and the collision angle of the Zhiyuan ship was like a sliding knife, cutting a hole in the Yoshino ship fiercely, until the collision angle stuck on the stern keel.

There was a high-pitched cheer on the Zhiyuan ship, from the Battle of the Yellow Sea to the present, the Beiyang Fleet's Yangwei and Chaoyong ships were sunk, and only one of the Japanese Combined Fleet, the Saikyo Maru, was heavily damaged and had not yet sunk, everyone in the Beiyang Fleet held their breath, and at this time, the Zhiyuan ship collided with the Yoshino ship, and the stuffy breath in everyone's chest finally spit out.

In the ramming tactics, once the ramming is successful, the ramming ship must immediately reverse and retreat, completely withdraw the ramming angle from the enemy ship, and let the sea water rush in from the breach, at this moment, Deng Shichang's voice sounded throughout the ship: "Brothers! The transmission compartment of the Zhiyuan ship has been hit, and now the Zhiyuan ship can no longer be reversed, we have no choice but to sink with the Japanese ship! ”

Lin Fei scolded in his heart: "What a confused Deng Shichang! Even if the Zhiyuan ship can't reverse, it doesn't have to sink, isn't it good to put down the dinghy and escape? Thinking of this, Lin Fei looked up at the middle of the ship, and saw that the place where the boat should have been placed was empty, where was the shadow of the boat?

Lin Fei then remembered that before the Battle of the Yellow Sea, Ding Ruchang, the commander of the Beiyang Fleet, in order to cut off the escape of his subordinates, left most of the boats at the Port Arthur base before departure, so there was no lifeboat on the Zhiyuan ship, if there was no lifeboat, the sailors would be very dangerous after falling into the water, and it was impossible to wait for other warships of the Beiyang Fleet to come to the rescue, because the warships were busy fighting and had no time to take care of the sailors who fell into the water, and the sailors did not dare to swim rashly near their other warships after falling into the water. As soon as the propeller is sucked into the propeller by the wake of the battleship, it will be beaten to minced meat by the propeller alive!

Lin Fei was thinking about countermeasures, and suddenly heard a loud "boom" coming from underwater, this sound was very similar to the explosion of the cannonball, but it was much louder than the explosion of the cannonball, Lin Fei immediately felt the hull of the ship shake violently, and involuntarily fell to the ground, before falling to the ground, he saw the Yoshino ship slamming suddenly, as if it was pushed by a big hand, and a stream of white vapor sprayed out from the center of the hull, lifting up various parts of the mast.

It turned out that the boiler of the Yoshino ship exploded, and the location of the impact of the Zhiyuan ship was close to the boiler room of the Yoshino ship, and a large amount of seawater poured into the boiler room, and the scorching furnace touched the cold sea water, and it suddenly exploded, and the water vapor rushed out of the explosion, and an explosion occurred! At this time, the speed of the Yoshino was as high as 18 knots, and such a speed was completely driven by high-pressure water vapor, and the pressure of the water vapor can be imagined, and the explosion was naturally extremely violent.

The boiler explosion opened a bigger hole in the side of the Yoshino ship, and more seawater poured into it, and the Yoshino ship tilted instantly, and in less than a minute, the tilt angle had reached ten degrees! The shock wave of the explosion also injured the dying Zhiyuan ship, and the Zhiyuan ship sank faster, but the impact angle of the Zhiyuan ship was still stuck in the hull of the Yoshino ship, so the Zhiyuan ship sank with the Yoshino ship.

Lin Fei looked at the two sinking warships and secretly said in his heart that something was wrong, at this time, Lin Fei felt the deck tilt to one side, Lin Fei stood unsteadily, fell heavily on the deck, and then slid into the water.

It turned out that a large amount of water entered the watertight compartment on one side of the Zhiyuan ship, and the ship turned on its side, Lin Fei fell on the deck, Lin Fei instinctively waved his arms, trying to grab something, but he didn't catch anything, Lin Fei quickly crashed into the guardrail, and rolled directly from the guardrail into the water.

Lin Fei's body was supported by the buoyancy of the water, and he instantly thought, "Now I need a lifebuoy!" With a lifebuoy, you don't have to spend time surfacing for ventilation. He was searching for a lifebuoy when he suddenly felt something flying above his head, and before he could look up, he felt a heavy blow on his head, and his eyes were dark, and he didn't know anything.

I don't know how much time has passed, Lin Fei felt his body shake, slowly opened his eyes, and saw a person sitting in front of him, holding his shoulder and shaking, after a closer look, this person was the first mate of the torpedo on the Zhiyuan ship - Liu Daming, Liu Daming saw Lin Fei wake up and said: "Lao Lin, you are awake, you are not a spy, I blame you." ”

Lin Fei gently rubbed the blood clot on the top of his head and asked Liu Daming, "What is this place?" ”

Liu Daming sighed and turned his head, and then a stiff Chinese voice came from the side: "Mr. Gunner, we have all been captured by the Japanese warship Xijing Maru here." ”

Lin Fei turned his head to look, and saw a blonde and blue-eyed Englishman standing in front of him, wearing a military uniform similar to his own, but his armband was a boiler, Lin Fei suddenly thought that the chief engineer on the Zhiyuan ship was an Englishman, named "Yu Xier", and it should be the person in front of him.

Lin Fei looked around—the painted bulkheads, the watertight doors, and knew that this was indeed a cabin, and Lin Fei asked, "How could we be captured?" ”

Yu Xier said: "After the sinking of the Zhiyuan ship, we all fell into the water, the Japanese sent out a small boat to catch us, we were not opponents, we were captured, you were knocked out by something, floating on the water, the Japanese saw that you were the captain of the gun, so they caught you." ”

Lin Fei saw that there were only himself, Liu Daming and Yu Xier in the cabin, and couldn't help but ask, "Did the Japanese only arrest the three of us?" ”

"They separated the officers and sailors, and the sailors were all held in other cabins. ”

Lin Fei asked, "What about the Deng pipe belt?" ”

Yu Xier shook his head and said: "I don't know, I fell directly from the boiler room, I don't know about the command tower, and Senior Officer Liu shouldn't know either, because he fell into the water from the torpedo cabin." ”

Lin Fei thought for a while and asked, "Then where are we going now?" ”

Yu Xier shook his head and said, "I don't know. ”

Lin Fei said: "No matter where we go, we must be prisoners of war anyway, Lao Liu, Lao Yu, the most important thing we should do now is to find a way to escape." ”

Yu Xier shook his head and smiled bitterly, and said, "Mr. Gun Commander, how can we escape?" The hatch is watertight, sealed from the outside and can't be opened from the inside, we can't dig a hole in the bulkhead to escape, right? Even if we can dig a hole in the bulkhead, it is useless, there are hundreds of Japanese troops on the whole ship, and we will not be able to fight. ”

Lin Fei said: "This ship can't be floating on the sea all the time, right? It's always going to come to shore, and we're going to go ashore, and I think we'll run away when we get ashore. ”

Yu Xier smiled bitterly again and said: "You were unconscious when you came in, so you don't know that when the Japanese army escorted us, the bayonet was on our backs, and we couldn't escape at all." ”

At this time, Liu Daming said on the side: "Lao Lin, Lao Yangyu, we don't have to bother thinking about ways to escape, in my opinion, we have a better way than to escape!" ”

Lin Fei was stunned for a moment and asked, "You don't want to surrender to the Japanese Invaders, do you?" ”