The nine cannons of the Wusong Fort fired a salvo without warning, although the first salvo was more of a calibration, but there was still an eight-inch cannon shell that fell on the side of the wingman Myoko, and the violent explosion stirred up a water column more than 20 meters high, and a large amount of river water was splashed onto the deck of the Myoko, which soaked the Japanese naval sailors, but what shocked the Japanese sailors more than this eight-inch shell was that the Japanese sailors actually opened fire on them.

The captain of the Izumo armored cruiser, Matsuno Shozo, jumped like thunder, "The people of Shina who don't measure themselves, they will pay for their stupidity." ”

The Chinese defenders opened fire on him as a resounding slap in the face to his previous assertion that the Wusong battery did not dare to open fire, which made him feel embarrassed and embarrassed, especially in front of the always conservative fleet commander Nomura Kichizaburo.

The timing of the firing of the Wusong Fort was quite well controlled, the Izumo had just completed the first turn of the "S" maneuver, and the entire port side was unobstructed in front of the Wusong Fort Battery like an open-minded prostitute, so that the Wusong Fort had a higher hit rate, while the Izumo and Myoko were caught in an awkward dilemma.

If Matsuno wants to fire back, he must slow down or simply stand still on the river to hit the extremely small target battery, but if this happens, the two warships are too close to the battery, and they will become a live target for the Chinese artillery, and if he turns away to complete the entire "S" maneuver, it is equivalent to giving up the return fire before re-entering the battle formation, and let the Wusong battery open fire without the slightest ability to fight back, and there are many unpredictable accidents during this period.

At this moment, Matsuno Shozo deeply realized the inferiority of the warship over the fortress battery, but the pride peculiar to the Imperial Navy quickly freed him from the dilemma in his heart, and he made up his mind in an instant.

"The Izumo and Myoko are fully maneuvering, and after re-entering the combat position, they will attack the Shina battery." He decided to take the risk of withstanding the fire of the Shina battery before completing the maneuver, and after firing the Izumo and Myoko into the right position, he would retaliate against the Shina battery in a devastating manner.

Hearing this order of Matsuno Shozo, Vice Admiral Nomura Yoshisan, commander of the Third Fleet, was very satisfied, Matsuno Nakasa's decision coincided with him, although the previous light enemy move made the Izumo and Myoko twin ship formations fall into a dangerous situation of being unable to fight back, but he can make the most suitable choice after weighing the benefits and disadvantages in the face of danger, it is very commendable, as long as they re-enter the combat position after moving away from the battery, the initiative on the battlefield will be transposed in an instant, as one of the most outstanding naval commanders of the Imperial Kingdom, Nomura still has this confidence.

However, the second salvo of the Wusong Fort knocked out cracks in Nomura Kichizaburo's originally rock-solid self-confidence, one of the eight-inch cannon shells hit the deck of the Myoko amidships, and what was even worse was that the shells did not explode on the deck, but penetrated the deck and exploded inside the warship, and the violent explosion damaged the engine room of the Myoko, and the voyage of the entire ship was immediately reduced from 3o knots to 18 knots, and thick black smoke billowed out from the inside of the Myoko, and the scene was very terrifying.

Nomura Kichizaburo's heart seemed to be hit hard by a sledgehammer, and the whole person felt swaying and unsteady, until he held on to the special handrail in the bridge, and the Myoko heavy cruiser was a treaty-type battleship that was only commissioned at the beginning of this year, and he was far superior to his current flagship Izumo in terms of performance and combat power, and losing power in front of a powerful turret was tantamount to a death sentence.

There was a burst of enthusiastic cheers in the fort bunker of Wusong Fortress, everyone did not expect that the second round of salvo fire would be able to severely damage the Japanese ships, the luck was not ordinarily good, the morale of the artillerymen was like a rainbow, they had long wanted to use the eight-inch guns and four-inch guns to fight with those little devil warships who showed off their might, and now that they had won the battle, their morale naturally went up to a higher level.

In the Shandong officer training class, the instructor had repeatedly warned all the trainees that the commander was the most taboo and did not know how to pretend to understand, and the layman commanded the insider, so he still subconsciously followed the requirements put forward by the instructor.

Suddenly, someone pointed to the sea and exclaimed, "Look, that warship is going to escape, hit him." ”

At this time, the commander of the South Battery, where Yu Sanhe was located, was the artillery captain who persuaded him not to act rashly, and he seemed to be a different person after entering the combat state.

"All the gun positions obey the order, abandon the Myoko, and go all out to fight the Izumo."

The heavy cruiser Myoko had been adjusted from 18 knots to 5 knots, which was almost equivalent to paralysis, so it had become meat on a plate and could not run sooner or later, so the wisest choice to expand the results of the battle was naturally to attack the flagship Izumo, which was preparing to escape, with all its might.

Yu Sanhe saw in the telescope that the Myoko had almost stopped, and the bow battery suddenly turned and pointed to the battery where everyone was, and almost at the same time the muzzle of the gun spit out dazzling yellow flames, and suddenly, he only felt a deafening explosion sounding in his ears, and the whole earth seemed to tremble in the distance, and the concrete residue fell on the top of the bunker, and both feet were shaken and itched.

Only then did everyone realize that the Japanese ship, which had been hit and almost lost power, had fired at the battery, and that the wheel with great luck had hit.

It turned out that after the Japanese ship Myoko was hit and the engine room was damaged, the captain felt that there was no hope of escape, so he simply stopped completely and prepared to fire at the Wusong Battery, trying to destroy the long-range artillery in the battery, so as to cover the flagship Izumo to get out of the fortress fire and re-enter the combat position, and then give the Wusong Battery a merciless shelling.

The idea was good, but unfortunately the Chinese defenders on the battery seemed to have looked down on the Myoko, a cripple that had lost power, and still pursued the flagship Izumo.

Although he decided to withstand the artillery fire started by the Shina people and stay away from the shore of Wusong, the shock of the salvo of nine heavy guns made him break out in a cold sweat for the Izumo, and at such a close distance, as long as one or eight inch cannon shells hit, it must be impossible for the Izumo to escape the doom of the Myoko.

Fortunately for Matsuno Province, all three salvos from the Shina Fort missed without a single hit, but instead the Myoko, which had been wrecked and fought against the water, successively hit an eight-inch gun position at the North Battery, causing a lot of damage, and the eight-inch gun did not fire again after the last hit.

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