After Zhiyuan sank, Ji Yuan, who was near Zhiyuan, immediately fled the battlefield when he saw this, and accidentally bumped into Yang Wei on the way. "Yang Wei has run aground and can't turn, Jiyuan hit it, cracked a big hole, and the water gradually gurgled in." Soon after, it sank over the Yellow Sea at 123 degrees 40 minutes and 9 seconds east longitude and 39 degrees 39 minutes 3 seconds north latitude. The pipe belt Lin died in anger and died in the sea. The officers and men on board all died heroically, except for 65 people who were rescued by the torpedo boat on the left. Shortly after the naval battle, the Military Aircraft Department sent a telegram to Li Hongzhang: "When the battle began on the 18th of this month, after the Zhiyuan charge was sunk, the deputy general Fang Boqian of the Jiyuan Guan led the first to flee, causing the fleet to be disrupted. At 5 a.m. on September 29, Fang Boqian was beheaded on the execution ground west of the large dock at the foot of the Golden Mountain in Lushun.

Guangjia and Jiyuan were organized into a team, and Guangjia Guan led Wu Jingrong to see Jiyuan retreating, thinking that there was an example to help, so he fled. Fearing that the enemy ships would pursue him, he fled to the reef outside Sanshan Island in Dalian Bay and ran aground. Wu Jingrong led the crowd to set fire to the ship and fled for his life. The day after the naval battle, the Beiyang Fleet sent Jiyuan to tow Guangjia back to the port, but he couldn't afford to drag it out, at this time several Japanese ships arrived, Jiyuan hurriedly retreated to Dalian Bay, and Guangjia was shattered by Japanese ships. Seeing that Jiyuan and Guangjia had withdrawn, the Japanese No. 1 Guerrilla Force pursued them vigorously. However, because the distance was too far to catch up, they turned back and concentrated their firepower to besiege Jingyuan, which was located on the right flank of the Beiyang Fleet. "First torpedoes, then clusters of shells". Jing Yuan was shot and caught fire. Lin Yongsheng, the pipe band, commanded the whole ship, bravely resisted, "fired artillery to attack the enemy, and rushed water to fight the fire, still in order." With one to four, he refused to fight for a long time. Suddenly, the enemy artillery suddenly came and hit Jingyuan. Lin Yongsheng was hit by the cannon and died with a split head. "The fire intensified, the smoke scorched, and the hull of the Orr gradually tilted to the port side." Soon, "the port bow sank into the water." At the critical juncture when the ship's hull had sunk, the officers and men of Jingyuan continued to calmly respond to the battle and persevered until the end. At 4:40, finally on the sea surface at 123 degrees 40 minutes 7 seconds east longitude and 39 degrees 51 minutes north latitude, the bow of the ship turned east, the port side capsized, and finally sank near the old manshi reef in the south of Heidao in the Zhuanghe River. In addition to 16 people who were rescued, nearly 200 people were martyred.

The Beiyang Fleet's Chaoyong, Yangwei, Zhiyuan, and Jingyuan sank one after another, and Jiyuan and Guangjia fled one after another, losing a total of six ships and greatly reducing their combat effectiveness. On the Japanese side, although some of the three warships Hiei, Akagi, and Saikyo Maru withdrew and some lost their combat effectiveness, these three ships were all weak ships, and they only had little impact on the fleet's combat effectiveness. In fact, the burden was lightened and I was able to travel lightly. In this way, Japan turned from a disadvantage in the first stage to an advantage, and the development of the war situation became more favorable to Japan.

Due to the loss of six ships in succession by the Beiyang Fleet, the Jingyuan, Laiyuan and other ships also temporarily withdrew from the battle due to injuries and fires. Therefore, in the final stage of the naval battle, only Dingyuan was left to fight, and the two giant ships of Zhenyuan insisted on resisting. However, all the patriotic officers and men of the Dingyuan and Zhenyuan warships had no fear in the face of the superior enemy. They persisted in fighting, tried their best to save the situation, and vowed to fight the enemy to the end.

During this period, a 305-mm bomb from the Zhenyuan ship hit the Japanese flagship Matsushima, and all the guns on the side of Matsushima were destroyed by the ammunition explosion, temporarily losing their combat effectiveness, and they could only make each ship act independently.

The five ships of the Japanese team concentrated their firepower to storm Dingyuan and Zhenyuan. The bullets on the two ships in Dingzhen rained down and the flames were blazing, but our Beiyang officers and men fought back while fighting the fire, and always insisted on fighting. to 17 p.m.; At about 30 minutes, the Japanese army continued to besiege for nearly two hours, and the two ships in Dingzhen were still immovable, and the Japanese side was deeply desperate. At this time, "Jingyuan and Laiyuan returned to the team after completing repairs, and the Pingyuan, Guangbing, and torpedo boats also turned back." The Jingyuan pipe led Ye Zuqi, and Liu Guanxiong knew that the Dingyuan mast was destroyed and had no way to command, so he took the initiative to replace the flagship Dingyuan to raise the flag and assemble the team.

The commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet, Sukehiro Ito, feared that if the stalemate continued, he would be attacked by torpedo boats at night, so he ordered an evacuation. The Beiyang Fleet will catch up with the remaining ships. However, the Japanese ships were at full speed and flew away to the southwest, and it was far away. The Beiyang Fleet was originally slower than the combined fleet, and even if it wanted to catch up at this time, it couldn't catch up at all, so it had to close the team and return to Lushun.

At this point, after five hours of naval battle in the Yellow Sea, the Beiyang Naval Division lost four warships: Zhiyuan, Jingyuan, Chaoyong, and Yangwei (at this time, Guangjia only ran aground on the reef and had not sunk). Lai Yuan was seriously wounded, with about 600 officers and soldiers killed and wounded; The Japanese fleet of five ships, Matsushima, Yoshino, Hiei, Akagi and Saikyo Maru, was seriously damaged and suffered 239 casualties.

After the Japanese fleet withdrew from the battlefield, it immediately divided into two routes, and the combined fleet could only return to Japan due to the damage caused to several warships. The four warships of the 1st Guerrilla Detachment, after a short rest, returned to the battlefield again the next day to look for fighters, and it was on this day that the Japanese fleet found the stranded Guangjia and sank it!

Several warships of the Japanese Combined Fleet closely protected Matsushima, the flagship of the damaged Yan Zhan Zhòng, in the middle of the formation, and the three weak ships of Hiei, Akagi, and Saikyo Maru were also injured Yan Zhan Zhòng, which was already slow, and at this time it was even worse, and they had to hang dead in the back of the fleet.

After a night's travel, when the Japanese Combined Fleet sailed to the sea west of Baeknyeong Island in Korea on the 18th, there was a warship southeast of the sentinel on the mast of the Japanese ship.

"Report to Your Excellency Commander, a warship has been spotted in the southeast, approaching our fleet."

"Oh!" After Ito Yuheng got the report, he immediately went out to command, came to the deck, raised the binoculars, and sure enough, he saw a ship approaching in the distance, with his experience, Ito Yuheng could conclude that this was a warship, but because the distance was too far, Ito Yuheng could only judge that it was a warship.

"Inform all ships to be on alert!" Although it was impossible to tell whether the other party was an enemy ship, Ito gave the order to strengthen the guard after careful consideration.

"It can't be a battleship of the Northern Fleet! We just fought them yesterday, and their ships can't be here! The adjutant next to him said confidently.

"Yaga! As a commander, you can't be careless at any time! Do you understand the drops? Ito reprimanded loudly.

"Hay! Your Excellency the Commander has taught you a lesson! The adjutant said respectfully.

"Report to Your Excellency the Commander! The sentry has already seen clearly, the other party is flying the British Royal Navy flag! ”

"Nani! The warships of the British? Ito asked with a puzzled expression.

"Hay! The sentinels see it clearly! ”

"What are the British sending warships over for this time? Is it here to watch the battle? Ito couldn't help frowning, and began to wonder in his heart about the purpose of this sudden British warship coming here. However, Ito did not believe that the British had come to intervene in the war, as the Japanese had reached some kind of agreement with the British, and the two sides were plotting to form an alliance.

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