On the undulating Yellow Sea, with the roar of cannonballs, the smoke of gunpowder, and the loud sound of explosions like summer thunder, two huge fleets, two destined enemies, began their battle of life and death.

One side with the glory of defending dignity, the other side with the absoluteness of killing the future, with steel, with flesh and blood, with life on the sea of the origin of life, killing in the flying shrapnel, in the raging flames, one cannon after another let out the roar of death, no one flinched, no one cowardly, because everyone knew that this is a decisive battle, this is a decisive battle between two peoples, the winner will win the future, and the loser will be sent to hell.

Before this battle, Li Hongzhang even went to Liugong Island in person to make a grand trip for the fleet, because all his elites had been bet on North Korea, Nie Shicheng, Ye Zhichao, Zhang Gaoyuan, Xu Bangdao plus Liu Shengxiu and others in Pyongyang, it can be said that the main force of the Huai Army was all bet on this war, and if he failed in this battle, he had to lose all his capital, not for the future of the country and the nation, but for Beiyang, for the Huai army, for his own future, he must win.

The first division of the Japanese army has already reached Daejeon, if the naval battle is defeated and the logistics are cut off, the ammunition consumption of the front-line armies will not last for half a month and they will run out of ammunition and food, what will they use to resist the more than 20,000 Japanese troops at that time? The 2nd Division of the Japanese Army on the Northern Front has also landed in Wonsan and is rushing to Pyongyang day and night, plus Song Qing and Liu Shengxiu will not have more than 20,000 troops in Pyongyang, how can they fight with 30,000 Japanese troops without ammunition?

"For the sake of our Huai army, this battle must be won!" Like he commanded the cavalry back then, Ding Ruchang, who was standing on the deck brandishing a saber and directing the cannon to fire, only had Li Hongzhang's words in his mind at this time.

The tactics of the two sides have not changed, in fact, this is also the best tactic they can choose, from the beginning of the firefight, the four ships of the first guerrilla fleet of Dongxiang cut to the right flank of the Beiyang Naval Division, and sank Chao Yong with the fastest speed, but unfortunately it was not possible to achieve the thousand instructions to him lying on the hospital bed before leaving.

"Gotta go around behind them!" The Dongxiang military god was also echoing in his mind at this time, and the roar of his predecessor was echoed.

Konima, how do you let me get around? He looked at the two jaw-dropping destroyers that had burst out from the front, and he couldn't help but roar with grief and indignation.

Today, these two small destroyers are like maggots with bones staring at him and the first guerrilla fleet, originally because these two ships have been wandering in the distance, did not join the Beiyang formation, he also thought that those foreign mercenaries did not want to fight hard, who knew that he had just sunk Chaoyong, and these two guys were killed. Although the eight 76 naval guns were not a threat, the amount of ammunition projected close to 200 rounds per minute turned Gao Chiho into a sea of fire in an instant, and if it weren't for the fact that the four ships at the same time turned all the fire of the head and tail guns attacking the Jingyuan ships, they would have directly rushed into the range and fired torpedoes at Gao Chiho.

But Takachiho was saved, but the price was that Chiyoda lost more than half of the artillery in the concentrated fire of Jingyuan and Laiyuan, and the two culprits turned around and left the battlefield at a high speed of thirty-six knots, and when they tried to go around the rear of the Beiyang Naval Division with the fleet again, they drilled out from directly in front of them to attack head-on, and the three 152 guns in the bow of the Yoshino ship were directly overwhelmed by their rate of fire.

Just when the First Guerrilla Fleet was entangled with the three destroyers and two destroyers, the combined fleet suffered a heavy blow, and the 305 mm picric acid shells were too powerful, and less than two minutes after the battle began, the Itsukushima ship was torn open by a near-missable explosion, because the hull of the ship had already tilted.

And Dingyuan, opposite it, has been shot more than a dozen times now, but it can almost be said to be unscathed, seeing this scene Ito Hengyou hated the roots of his teeth, but unfortunately he had nothing to do about this outrageously thick armored giant ship. Even if the 152 cannon was loaded with picric acid, it was almost like a mosquito bite for the 30-centimeter-thick steel-faced wrought iron armor, and the only ones in his hand that could cause fatal damage to Dingzhen were two 320 Ghana guns. Matsushima's last time it was directly damaged by a single shot and lost its repair value, and it has been replaced by a 152 rapid-fire gun, and now there is only one Itsukushima and Hashitachi, but after these two cannons have fired a shell, it is still far away when the next shot will be fired!

Just when Ito Hiroshi looked at the Dingzhen Second Ship and gritted his teeth, suddenly there was an earth-shattering huge explosion, he looked in the direction, but saw that a huge fire ball was rising in the sky at the waterline of the Kongo ship, the weakest of his men, and the fragments of the hull that were blown away in the fire were clearly visible. This ancient ironclad ship had just been torpedoed by Fulong, and its opponents were Guangjia and Guangbing, the two weakest iron-ribbed wooden ships, although it had just destroyed Guangjia in cooperation with another antique Fusang, but it was spotted by Cai Tinggan's torpedo team and ventured to a distance of less than 100 meters to launch a black-headed torpedo.

Originally, in history, he attacked Saikyo Maru because of the torpedo depth problem, but this time this will not happen, because the draft of the King Kong is deep enough, in fact, its draft is almost on par with the Dingyuan, compared to the Saikyo Maru modified by the merchant ship, it is not a level, Ito Hengyou watched the King Kong sink to the bottom of the sea.

Stimulated by Cai Tinggan, the other torpedo boats of the Beiyang Naval Division also widened their eyes and looked for meritorious opportunities, but none of them had the strength to attack on such a large battlefield except for the left one, and it must be known that the success of Lu Dao Fulong was due to its displacement of 100 tons and a speed of more than 20 knots, and the left one had a displacement of 90 tons and a speed of more than 20 knots. But the speed of the remaining five ships is no more than fifteen knots, and it is obvious that entering such a battlefield is no different from sending them to death, so they all set their eyes on the Saikyo Maru, at this time, the Saikyo Maru and the cruiser Amagi and the gunboat Oshima that escorted it, were fighting alone outside the battlefield with Pingyuan, who was the slowest in the Beiyang Naval Division and could not join the formation!

Although one to three, it is clear that the Pingyuan is not left behind, this offshore defense ship of only more than two thousand tons, although the speed is outrageously slow, its armor protection is also outrageously perfect, the waterline armor belt, the commander tower armor fort, and there is actually a luxury horizontal armor, this is a real ironclad ship. Compared with him, the Saikyo Maru modified by the merchant ship is like a canned box, as for the firepower, the Pingyuan has a 152 rapid-fire front main gun, and a 150 Krupp secondary gun on the left and right, although compared to the dozen or so 120 rapid-fire guns on the opposite side, the firepower is much weaker, but the problem is that the cannon of this caliber will not cause damage to its armor that is more than ten centimeters thick at all.

So now, it is still difficult to solve the fight with Minister of Information and Discipline of Huashan.

And at this moment, the group of torpedo boats surrounded them, including the five with the prefix on the left and right, and even the four that Dingzhen brought with them, all of them regarded Shiki Kayama and his three warships as fat, especially the Dingzhen four boats that looked very much like small submarines. The torpedo boat, with only two torpedo tubes, quickly rushed to the Oshima, and the front town fired a bald-headed torpedo without hesitation. However, to everyone's surprise, this torpedo actually drilled under the Oshima, and before he could react, Zhenyi was sunk by the small-caliber rapid-fire guns on Oshima, and the other torpedo boats hurriedly retreated.

Li He, the captain of the Pingyuan, looked at these guys speechlessly, and then asked the signal soldiers to send a flag to inform them to adjust the depth, although this work is more tedious in this era, fortunately, the torpedo boats are not short of time, these guys quickly dodged far away, and readjusted the depth outside the battlefield, and at this time, the Yoshino four ships still couldn't get rid of the entanglement of the two destroyers.

These two guys are almost driving Dongxiang crazy, as long as they see him have a slight advantage, they will immediately jump up at high speed to sneak attack, and because of the express advantage, they can calmly choose the angle of attack, either from the front of the fleet or from the rear of the fleet. Although they have not yet had a chance to fire torpedoes, they have used the crazy rate of fire of their seven or six naval guns to beat all the warships of the First Guerrilla Fleet to a miserable degree, and more importantly, the three warships of Jingyuan in the front have never let go of this good opportunity, and even Zhenyuan on the main battlefield sometimes uses the main guns to sneak attack this side.

Now the two fleets have formed a peculiar shape, the Beiyang Naval Division Dingzhen Zhijing Guangbing five ships blocked Songdao, Itsukushima, Hashidate, Fuso, Tsukushi, as well as Fulong and Zuo one or two large torpedo boats are looking for an opportunity to sneak attack, Itsukushima has been seriously tilted, it is estimated that it will not be long before it will have to withdraw from the battlefield, the Beiyang Naval Division has a lot of bullets, the Zhiyuan fire is the most serious, but it still maintains combat effectiveness, the weakest Guangbing is losing both with the weakest Tsukushi on the other side.

On the right flank of the fleet, however, there were three ships against Yoshino's four, but there were still two destroyers loitering near the Yoshino fleet, and with their crazy speed of thirty-six knots, only the Viper had been hit by a one-two-zero shell, and the Cobra had been unscathed. However, the seven ships of China and Japan were almost defeated, especially Chiyoda, because of a 305 shell that was attacked by Zhenyuan, the tail was blown up miserably, and now it is entering the water, and the hull also began to tilt. At this time, the power of the caliber of the artillery had already been shown, no matter how many 152 shells were hit, they would not cause damage to the hulls of these small-tonnage protective cruisers such as Laiyuan and Jiyuan, but as long as one 305 shell hit, no matter where it hit, it could damage the hull structure, and even the 4,000-ton Matsushima class could not withstand it.

Outside the main battlefield, Pingyuan is continuing to challenge the three enemy ships alone, although it has been beaten miserably, but the armor protection that has been perfected to the point of being a little excessive, but it still maintains enough combat effectiveness, on the contrary, its opponents seem to have suffered a lot of losses. Especially the wooden cruiser Amagi, this poor battleship was purely a helpless move by Shoyo Ito, and he really couldn't find anyone to protect His Excellency the Minister. The Oshima was just a small gunboat, and thinking about the shattered ending of its predecessor, it was clear that a small ship like Lu Dao was meaningless, so he had to reluctantly find a cruiser that could make do with it.