"My lord, what do you want?" The first mate asked puzzled.

"Matsushima, the Japanese flagship, has suffered heavy losses twice in succession, and if we can make up a few more cannons for him, this ship will sink! Immediately turn to the Japanese ship Matsushima, and be sure to sink it for me! Yu Kun gritted his teeth and ordered.

On the Matsushima, Ito Yuhiro, who had just finished bandaging, asked anxiously, "How is the battle situation now?" ”

"Returning to Your Excellency Commander, the fire has been contained, and the three ships Itsukushima, Hashidate, and Fuso are pursuing the enemy ships." The adjutant hurriedly replied.

"Baga Ya Road! This battleship must be sunk, definitely! Ito said through gritted teeth.

"Report to Your Excellency the Commander!" At this time, a Japanese officer suddenly ran in and said, "Your Excellency, the enemy ship has suddenly turned around, passed by the three ships of Itsukushima, Hashidate, and Fuso, and is now coming straight for our ship. ”

"Baga Ya Road!" Ito scolded angrily and got up and left the infirmary. Ito raised his binoculars, and sure enough, he saw that the Celestial Empire was rushing towards this side, and a puff of black smoke billowed up from the deck of the Celestial Empire, obviously the Celestial Empire also paid a certain price when passing through the Japanese formation, but these costs were worth it, at least now the three Japanese warships have been left behind by the Celestial, and now they are in a hurry to turn around!

"Evade it now! Notify Itsukushima, Hashidate, and Fuso to return immediately! Ito hurriedly issued an order.

But at this time, the Matsushima was continuously damaged, and some of the boilers had been blown up, and the speed had been significantly reduced a lot.

"Boom! Rumble! The explosions continued to sound, and the Celestial Empire kept firing artillery at the Songdao while pursuing, and the distance between the two sides was constantly narrowing.

Chiyoda, who had just extinguished the fire not far away, saw that the Matsushima was in distress, and the captain Uchida Masatoshi did not hesitate to order to rush up to protect the flagship.

The Matsushima escaped most of the Celestial's attacks with its coquettish positioning, but due to the obvious decrease in the speed of the Matsushima, it was unable to get rid of the Celestial's pursuit at all. And Itsukushima and the other three ships were unable to relieve Matsushima in time for a while.

Chiyoda continued to bombard the Celestial Empire on the side, trying to attract firepower, but the Celestial Empire was always unmoved, and still bombarded the Matsushima as always, seeing that Matsushima was in danger, Uchida Masatoshi could no longer care about the danger, and ordered Chiyoda to rush forward, trying to block Matsushima in front of Matsushima as a shield.

However, Matsushima, who fled in a hurry, obviously did not notice that Chiyoda was coming to block the shells for himself, and in a panic, the two ships collided together. At this time, Chiyoda, which had a displacement of only more than 2,000 tons, obviously suffered a big loss, and a large hole was torn below the waterline on the port side, and the sea water rolled in. And Songdao is not much better, it has already been damaged, and the fire has not been extinguished, which is tantamount to adding insult to injury.

"Good! That's great! Just kill two birds with one stone! Seeing that the two ships actually collided together, Yu Kun immediately shouted excitedly, "Concentrate your firepower and hit me hard!" ”

"Boom! Rumble! "The Matsushima was hit more than ten rounds in succession, and the smoke and fire almost enveloped the entire Matsushima, and then a series of violent explosions occurred on the Matsushima ship again, according to later estimates, because the fire spread to the ammunition room, causing a martyrdom, the starboard side of the Matsushima tilted, slowly sinking to the bottom of the sea!

After Chiyoda was hit by the Matsushima, due to a large amount of seawater inflow, the hull had begun to tilt to the left, at this time, a 320 mm huge bomb hit the port side, and the violent explosion almost caused Chiyoda to capsize directly, Chiyoda's port side ignited a raging fire again, and the hull began to sink slowly. Several 150-mm shells then landed on Chiyoda, who had stopped there like a dead target, sending Chiyoda directly to the bottom of the sea.

"Captain, now that the Hiei and Saikyo Maru have sunk, and Chiyoda has finished playing, it looks like Matsushima is going to sink too! And we have already lost dozens of brothers, the hull has been damaged to a certain extent, and the ammunition is almost depleted, so let's retreat quickly! The first mate in the command room of the Celestial Empire, blackened by the smoke of gunpowder, anxiously persuaded.

"Yes! That's enough! Order to retreat immediately! Return to Incheon. Yu Kun nodded slightly and said. The Celestial Empire then turned and headed northeast. Although Itsukushima and other ships had the intention to pursue, the speed of the Celestial Empire was comparable to the speed of Itsukushima and Hashidate, and they could not catch up at all. In the end, Itsukushima and other ships could only return to rescue Matsushima and Chiyoda, but the two ships were damaged and did not escape the doom of sinking.

The battle lasted two hours, and the Celestial Empire successfully sank four Japanese ships, Matsushima, Chiyoda, Hiei, and Saikyo Maru. Although the Celestial Empire was able to achieve such a huge victory, it was somewhat lucky, first at the beginning of the war, the Celestial Empire was inevitably suspected of a sneak attack, and secondly, after the Battle of the Yellow Sea, several warships of the Japanese Combined Fleet were heavily damaged, including the sunken Matsushima, Hiei, and Saikyo Maru. But even so, the glorious record of the Celestial Empire is indelible.

This naval battle was called the Battle of the Yellow Sea by later historians and the Battle of Dadonggou. Therefore, the Battle of the Yellow Sea not only became the first naval battle of steam turbine ironclad ships in human history, but also opened the prelude to the era of giant ships and cannons in advance because of the participation of the Celestial Empire, making one giant ship after another appear in advance.

That night, the Celestial Empire successfully returned to Incheon Port, and after Ren Chao got the news, he came to Incheon Port again to personally celebrate the achievements of the Celestial Empire. Ren Chao first replenished the Celestial Empire with full troops, and then used the power of the system to repair the Celestial Empire. Fortunately, the Celestial Empire was not badly damaged, and it was easy to repair.

Since he sank four Japanese ships and accumulated millions of system coins for Ren Chao, Ren Chao did not hesitate to exchange two more cruisers. The cruiser Zhenhae, with a displacement of 4,300 tons, was equipped with two 203 main guns (one in the front and one in the rear), 10 120-mm rapid-fire guns, 12 47-mm rapid-fire guns, 4 37-mm machine guns, and five torpedo tubes.

The cruiser Jinghai, with a displacement of 3,000 tons, is equipped with 3 150 mm 40 times diameter Krupp rapid-fire guns (one on the left and right bows and one in the stern), 8 105 mm 40 times diameter Krupp rapid-fire guns (four on each side), 6 37 mm Habekai machine guns, 6 8 mm Makqin machine guns, 1 60 mm Krupp camp guns, and 3 14-inch torpedo tubes (one of which is an underwater launch tube).

At this point, Ren Chao's naval fleet has begun to take shape, with three main warships and more than 1,000 officers and men, the only regret is that this fleet does not even have a regular base, so it can only temporarily condescend to stay in the civilian port of Incheon.