Ding Ruchang saw that the Japanese ship Tsukushi was sunk by a cannon shot by the Zhenyuan ship, and he waved his fist excitedly, laughed at the officers and soldiers of the naval division in the bridge and said: "Haha! Lin Tai was good! I have made a good start for my Beiyang Naval Division! Sue the ships to the old man to kill the enemy bravely! Today, Admiral Ben is going to take the Japanese Combined Fleet to sacrifice the flag for my Beiyang Naval Division! ”

In the bridge of the Dingyuan ship, Liu Buchan, the pipe of the Dingyuan ship, looked at the excited Ding Ruchang and smiled bitterly, in fact, Liu Buyun had not been very convinced by Ding Ruchang.

As an army commander who did not understand naval warfare, Ding Ruchang actually became the commander of the most powerful fleet of the Qing Dynasty and the Beiyang Naval Division, which made Liu Buyun, who graduated from the Fujian Shipbuilding School and studied the navy in the United Kingdom, very unconvinced.

In the past, Liu Buyun was looking for opportunities to oppose Ding Ruchang everywhere, and even the British instructor Lang Weili, whom Ding Ruchang particularly trusted, was squeezed out of the Beiyang Naval Division by Liu Buyun because of the "flag withdrawal incident" caused by Liu Buyun when the Beiyang Fleet went south to Hong Kong to avoid the freeze.

But now Liu Buyun has to bow his head in front of Ding Ruchang, who let Ding Ruchang have a daughter who is like a flower, and Lin Daxin, who is fascinated, is dizzy.

Liu Buyun was completely convinced by Lin Daxin, he was one of the few people in the Beiyang Naval Division who knew that the second fleet of the Beiyang Naval Division existed, and it was a fleet that was even stronger than the Beiyang Naval Division's own team! Let Lin Daxin buy it with his own money! Lin Daxin was obedient to Ding Ruchang because of Ding Ruchang's daughter, and Liu Buchan had no choice but to obey Admiral Ding Ruchang, and no longer worked against Ding Ruchang everywhere!

Liu Buyun glanced at the Japanese warship in the distance, picked up the walkie-talkie, and shouted inside: "The people in the artillery crew have aimed at me!" Isn't it usually quite good to blow! Now everyone has sunk a Japanese ship far away! If none of your Japanese ships can be sunk, see how Lao Tzu cleans you up! ”

A loud voice came over the intercom: "My lord, don't worry!" The little ones must not embarrass us for Dingyuan! I'm aiming! Fire! ”

Lin Daxin, Sun Xitao and Jiang Chen on the Xinghai saw Zhenyuan sinking the Japanese protective cruiser Zhuzi with one shot, and they all jumped up with joy, and Sun Xitao shouted excitedly: "Good sign!" It's off to a good start! ”

Jiang Chen pounded the thick armored wall of the bridge and shouted, "Wow!" It's so enjoyable! ”

Lin Daxin looked at the excited two, and said with a smile: "The Beiyang Naval Division's team has achieved results!" Our Sailor Academy is also going to work hard! Although we are rookies, we can't let the predecessors of the Beiyang Navy Division look down on our combat effectiveness! ”

The two nodded yes, and continued to command the Xinghai and the rest of the First Fleet's warships, firing at the Japanese ships.

When the warships of the two sides were 3,000 meters apart, the landing points of the shells of the two sides were getting closer and closer to the other warships.

At this time, the 1st Guerrilla Group and the 2nd Guerrilla Group of the Japanese Combined Fleet had already galloped to both sides of the Beiyang Naval Division and the 1st Naval Fleet of the Naval Academy.

A 200-mm shell from the side guns hit the protective cruiser Yaeyama in the First Guerrilla Squadron of Japanese ships, which had just arrived on the side of the First Fleet of the Navy at the Naval Academy, and hit the middle of Yaeyama at once, penetrating the armor in the middle, and only exploded inside the hull, damaging 3 boiler compartments, although it did not cause the explosion of the boiler, but it also caused the Yaeyama to begin to seep water strictly, and almost lost power, and slowly stopped on the sea.

The 4 warships on the cruiser line of the First Fleet of the Naval Academy saw that the Japanese ship Yaeyama had lost power, and immediately beat the water dog and bombarded the Yaeyama with shells.

After a while, two 200-mm shells from the protective cruiser Tachikai and one 260-mm shell from the armored cruiser Yasukai hit Yaeyama.

The cruiser, with a displacement of 1,584 tons, built by the Yokosuka Shipyard in Japan, slowly sank to the bottom of the sea as it was hit by these shells.

Vice Admiral Ito, commander of the Combined Fleet, saw that in a short period of time, two cruisers on his side had been sunk, and he was secretly shocked in his heart, but he still ordered with a calm face: "Order the first guerrilla group and the second guerrilla group, use the high speed and the rate of fire of the side guns to give priority to attacking the old ships and small ships on both sides of the enemy, all the warships of this team, keep an appropriate distance from the main battleships of the Qing Dynasty, and entangle the main battleships of the Qing army at any cost!" ”

Ito Yuhiro, commander of the Combined Fleet, hoped to use the tactics of the Taji horse race and the warships of the Japanese Navy's First and Second Guerrillas to first destroy some of the old and small ships of the Beiyang Naval Division, and then join up with his own warships to destroy the huge ships of the Beiyang Naval Division.

And Ito Yuheng secretly thought proudly in his heart, the Beiyang Naval Division would not have thought that the Japanese Combined Fleet would have a killer feature, Ito Youheng looked back at the sea area on the left, they are about to arrive, and the end of the Beiyang Naval Division is coming! Our Great Japanese Empire is about to win this naval battle that will determine the fate of the two countries!

The Takanami, Murayu, Kikaze, and Ishikari of the Second Japanese Guerrilla Force came to the side of the Beiyang Naval Division's main squadron and immediately concentrated their artillery fire on the two weak ships of Chaoyong and Yangwei on the right flank of the Beiyang Fleet. Although the two ships tried their best to resist, the three cruisers on the right flank, the Jiyuan, the Zhiyuan, and the Jingyuan, also tried their best to help the two ships resist the four Japanese ships, but under the superior fire attack of the enemy's four cruisers with a displacement of more than 4,000 tons, Chao Yong and Yang Wei were finally hit by bullets and caught fire.

Although Chaoyong and Yangwei were hit and caught fire by the Japanese Second Guerrilla, they did not stop fighting. The officers and men continued to fire while fighting the fire. In particular, the Chaoyong hull has been tilted to the left, and it is still firing non-stop with the gun fire at the front of the bow.

In the end, the Chaoyong was hit by a 200 mm shell from the Japanese ship Gao Nanami on the left side of the ship, so that the Chaoyong, which had already leaked on the left side, blew up a gap of about 1 meter in the hull below the surface of the water on the left side, and the turbulent sea water instantly poured into the Chaoyong, and the Chaoyong rolled over on its side and slowly sank in the sea, becoming the first sunken warship of the Beiyang Naval Division.

The Chaoyong ship took Huang Jianxun and the surviving crew of the Chaoyong, and after the Chaoyong overturned, they reluctantly chose to abandon the ship and jump into the sea to escape.

When Ding Ruchang saw that the Chaoyong had sunk and the Yangwei was on fire, he immediately ordered the ironclad ship Zhenyuan, the armored cruiser Laiyuan, and the armored cruiser Pingyuan, regardless of the main squadron of the Japanese Combined Fleet, which was rushing over, to hit the Takanami, Murayu, Kabukaze, and Ishikari of the Second Guerrilla Force. and ordered the Yangwei to step back and put out the fire.

The Japanese No. 1 Guerrilla Force sank the Yaeyama, leaving only 3 high-speed cruisers Yoshino, Naniwa, and Takachie, and the 4 cruisers on the left side of the Naval Academy, engaged together, but because of the sideside firepower of the flagship of the Naval Academy, the Xinghai, they continued to support the 4 Naval Academy's cruisers, plus the armored cruiser Yasumi with a displacement of more than 4,000 tons and excellent performance was in charge of the 4 cruisers, and the 3 Japanese high-speed cruisers did not take any advantage.

The main squadron of the Japanese Combined Fleet, when charging the main battleship of the Beiyang Naval Division, lost another warship, and the protective cruiser Kaohsiung, with a displacement of 1,750 tons, was hit by two consecutive 260-mm main gun shells of the Dinghai, and the keel of the Kaohsiung was broken, and the Kaohsiung was broken in two and quickly sank to the bottom of the sea.

With the passage of time, the warships of both sides were damaged, the Japanese combined fleet sank 3 cruisers, and the Beiyang Naval Division sank 1 cruiser, and the result at this time was 3:1, and the Beiyang Naval Division had a clear advantage.