"Woo~!" The shrill siren suddenly remembered, which surprised Tsuboi Hangsan, "What's going on?" ”

"Report to Your Excellency the Commander! An unknown warship was found in the left front, three in number, at a distance of 10,000 meters! A Japanese officer hurriedly ran into the command room and said loudly.

"Baga Ya Road! How did I not find out until now. Pingjing Hangsan shouted loudly in anger, 10,000 meters is ten miles, this distance is not too close on land, but at sea, for the naval fleet, this distance is already quite close. But Tsuboi Kozo came to his senses, it was morning, and the dense fog of last night had just dissipated, and even now the visibility was not very good, and it was quite good to be able to spot enemy ships at a distance of 10,000 meters.

"Your Excellency, the sea is too foggy, so~" The Japanese officer hurriedly argued.

"That's it! I don't want to hear these explanations! Do your best to find out the specific situation of the opposing fleet! Pingjing Hang ordered in three voices.

"Hay!" The Japanese officer answered and hurried out.

Ha Yuan said with a frown, "Your Excellency Commander, these three battleships are likely to be the three main battleships of the Beiyang Naval Division in Incheon, because there are no other fleets in the nearby waters at all!" ”

"Yo Xi! If it's them, great! We can just take revenge on the last time! Tsuboi said angrily.

"But our mission this time is to escort the army to land!" Heyuan couldn't help but remind.

"Signal flags, let them take shelter for a while! Command Naniwa, Takachiho, and Akitsu to immediately move closer to me and form a battle formation! Pingjing Hang ordered in three voices.

"Your Excellency General, in case the troop carrier fails, how can we explain to the base camp." Heyuan said hesitantly.

"Now that the enemy is right under our noses, should we avoid the fight?" Pingjing Hang asked rhetorically, "Execute the order, Heyuan-kun, let's avenge Matsushima together!" ”

"Hay!" Although Kawagen Yaoyi still has doubts in his heart, he is a soldier, and he is a top student who has studied in Germany, and he is deeply influenced by German military concepts.

The four cruisers on the Japanese side began to accelerate, and Naniwa and other ships also began to move closer to the flagship Yoshino. As for the four troop transports, they began to turn their rudders very wisely and broke away from the fleet, so as not to be affected in the following naval battle.

"Report to Your Excellency the Commander! It has been found that the three ships in front are indeed the Beiyang Fleet Beiyang, and the other two are the New One and New Two cruisers found in Incheon! A Japanese second lieutenant ran into the command room and reported loudly.

"Yo Xi! Sure enough, it's them! There was a hint of excitement on Tsuboi's face. The Beiyang mentioned by the Japanese is the battleship Celestial Empire, the flagship of the Tiger Army, because the Celestial Empire is flying the flag of the Beiyang Fleet, and Japan mistakenly thinks that this is the newly customized flagship of the Beiyang Fleet, but because they have not received any information about the Celestial Empire, the Japanese temporarily named this battleship the Beiyang. As for the new one and the new two, they were the temporary code names given by the Japanese side to the two cruisers, Zhenhai and Jinghai. At that time, the Japanese spies found these two cruisers in the port of Incheon, and took pictures from a distance, and the information was quickly transmitted to the Japanese mainland, after the Japanese Navy saw the photos, although the shooting distance was too far away, it was not clear to see, but the Japanese naval experts could still roughly judge that this should be the Qing Dynasty from Germany or Britain customized new cruisers, because they did not know the specific information of these two cruisers, the Japanese side temporarily named the two cruisers Xinyi and Xinyi.

What has puzzled the Japanese side is that the Qing Dynasty secretly ordered these three warships, and the Japanese side has never received the slightest information, and the Qing side has not spread any news, even after the Battle of the Yellow Sea, the Qing Dynasty has always been secretive about these three warships, so that the Japanese side still does not even know the names of these three ships. The Japanese side also dragged the personnel stationed in China from Britain and the United States to find out the tone of the Qing Dynasty, but Li Hongzhang did not leak any flaws, as if these three warships did not exist at all. As everyone knows, Li Hongzhang is also surprised where these three battleships came from, and he is sending someone to secretly investigate! The Japanese naturally couldn't know this, and it was okay if the Qing Dynasty didn't leak it, and since these three battleships belonged to the Beiyang Naval Division, why didn't they return to Lushun, but stayed in Incheon, which has always made the Japanese puzzled.

However, these are not the things that Tsuboi Kozo should consider, and now the only thing that Tsuboi Kozo thinks of is how to defeat this Beiyang Fleet, these three battleships are the most advanced warships of the Beiyang Naval Division, if they can sink them all, the Beiyang Naval Division will inevitably lose its vitality, and it will no longer be able to fight with the Japanese Combined Fleet. In the First Battle of Dadonggou, the Japanese Combined Fleet won a complete victory, especially the vital role played by the First Guerrilla Force. Tsuboi's tail was about to go to the sky, and as for the Japanese Combined Fleet that was later defeated by the Celestial Empire, and finally sank four Japanese warships, in the eyes of Tsuboi Kozo, it was just an accident, or it was because of Ito Yuhyun's incompetence! In the battle of Dadonggou, Ito Yuheng had hung the wrong signal flag more than once, so that Tsuboi Kozo couldn't understand Ito's intentions at all, if he commanded it, Dadonggou could have achieved greater results, anyway, Pingi Kozo himself thought so.

"Hurry up and drop! Get in battle formation now! Tsuboi Hangsan urged, the distance between the two sides was constantly narrowing, and the battle formation of the Japanese fleet had not yet been expanded, which made Tsuboi Hangsan faintly feel uneasy.

In fact, the Japanese side had long been preparing to fight against the Qing Dynasty, and if they wanted to defeat the Qing Dynasty, they had to defeat the Beiyang Naval Division first. Before the Battle of Dadonggou, there had never been a large-scale decisive battle of the steam turbine fleet in the world, and there was no front line to follow. Kozo Tsuboi, who was the president of the Naval University at the time, came up with an idea: let the captains get on small motorboats and go back and forth in the Seto Inland Sea to test what position would be easiest to maintain. In this way, it was discovered that the easiest formation to maintain was the one-line column. There was no need to consider anything about the ships in the rear, speed, course, as long as they firmly followed the ships in front, but the naval battle theory at that time was that the horizontal column was given priority, and advocating that a single column was risky, so he conducted confrontation drills, and the result was that a single column won the victory every time, and from then on he ordered that this formation must be maintained regardless of cruising and reconnaissance, which is why the Japanese Combined Fleet later adopted a one-column formation in the naval battle of the Yellow Sea.