In the bridge of the ironclad battleship Zuizuru, Heihachiro Togo then said to the first mate: "Now that the six ironclad ships of the Second Battlefleet have all been destroyed, there is no way for our combined fleet to achieve victory!" Immediately send a flag to Commander Ito Yuko, and build a combined fleet to retreat immediately, otherwise if this continues, our combined fleet is very likely to repeat the mistakes of the Italian expeditionary fleet and be completely annihilated here! ”

The first mate nodded immediately, and then arranged for the flag soldiers to send the flag to the flagship Fengxiang!

When the flagship Fengxiang received the flag of the Zuizuru, the first guerrillas and the second guerrillas who charged the naval fleet of the Naval Academy on the order of Ito Yuxiang were entangled by the five cruisers of the second fleet of the Naval Academy! The distance between the two sides was less than 1,000 meters, almost like a bayonet mounted on a cannon.

The second guerrilla squadron's protective cruiser Chiyoda, which was remnant after the Battle of the Yellow Sea, was pierced through the hull by a main gun shell from the medium fast armored cruiser Tachikai as soon as it was engaged, and exploded near the ammunition compartment of the Chiyoda, detonating the shells in the ammunition compartment. The Chiyoda became the 11th warship sunk by the Combined Fleet.

Of the 5 warships of the Navy of the Naval Academy and the remaining 6 protective cruisers of the combined fleet, none of them were uninjured in a short time, and all the warships were on fire!

The commander of the Combined Fleet, Ito Yusuk, has already received the flag from the Zuizuru, and he is now very unwilling in his heart! Last time in the Battle of the Yellow Sea, he led the Combined Fleet to a crushing defeat to the Beiyang Naval Division, losing a large number of warships.

This time, Britain sold a large number of warships to Japan, bringing the main warships of the Combined Fleet to 28 with a total displacement of 195,000 tons, and this was after the Beiyang Naval Division snatched 2 powerful ironclad battleships!

Could such a powerful combined fleet once again be defeated at the hands of the Beiyang Naval Division? And this is still when the Beiyang Naval Division's own team did not participate in the war, and the combined fleet only faced the fleet under Lin Daxin.

Although Ito Yuxiang was not reconciled, he saw that there were only 3 ironclad battleships and 4 old ironclad ships with a displacement of 6,100 tons left on the battle line. Looking at the 6 ironclad battleships on the battle line of the naval fleet of the Navy Academy on the opposite side, and the 5 large armored cruisers that are also lined up in the battle line, plus there are still I don't know how many enemy submarines under the sea, Ito Yuxiang thought about it for a moment and was ready to listen to Togo Heihachiro's construction and choose to retreat.

At this moment, the armored cruiser Mogami of the Combined Fleet, which had just extinguished the fire on the ship and had restarted the formation battle, was mortally damaged!

1 260 mm shell pierced the hull of Mogami, exploded in the power compartment, and then detonated Mogami's boiler, making Mogami a big fireball, and there were constantly Japanese naval soldiers with fire on their bodies jumping into the sea from Mogami to escape, and soon after, Mogami's ammunition compartment was also detonated, and after another deafening explosion, Mogami disappeared into the sea and became the 12th warship sunk by the Japanese Combined Fleet!

The sinking of the Mogami strengthened Ito's idea of retreating, so Ito ordered with difficulty: "Order the battlefleet and armored cruiser fleet to turn west!" Order the 1st and 2nd guerrillas to turn south! Disengage from the battle with the Beiyang Naval Division! ”

After receiving the order from Ito, the surviving Japanese naval officers and men breathed a sigh of relief and immediately began to flee in two directions at full speed, leaving the battle for only one hour and 25 minutes.

Lin Daxin watched the start of the Japanese Combined Fleet to escape in 2 directions from the bridge of the Flying Bear, and immediately sneered: "You can fight if you want!" Just go if you want! How can it be so easy! ”

Immediately, Lin Daxin ordered: "Let the Bayonet and Sharp Knife submarines pursue the main force of the Japanese Combined Fleet!" Let them release all the torpedoes for me! 5 large armored cruisers of the 1st and 2nd fleets pursued the main forces of the combined fleet together! Let the 4 protective cruisers of the Second Fleet, the Tatsumi and the Sun, Moon and Stars, try to pursue the cruisers of the Japanese Combined Fleet as much as possible, and leave as many as they can! Stay safe! Be careful not to get bitten back! Let the Lushun garrison fleet clean up the battlefield and rescue the Japanese naval personnel who fell into the water, and don't let those foreigners watching the battle say that we are inhumane! ”

A close naval battle, because of the existence of 2 cross-era submarines, evolved into a pursuit battle!

After the two guerrillas of the Japanese Combined Fleet received the order to retreat, the six protective cruisers that were all wounded immediately began to flee southward, and the four protective cruisers of the Navy of the Navy of the Naval Division, the Anhai and the Sun, Moon and the Stars also began to pursue the Japanese six protective cruisers with injuries, and soon the Fuso, which had a maximum speed of only 13 knots, fell behind, and was shelled by the five warships of the Second Fleet of the Naval Academy almost surrounded the Fuso, and finally the protective cruiser with a displacement of 3777 tons was beaten to tatters. The fire detonated the torpedo in the torpedo launch compartment under the bow of the ship, blowing the bow of the Fuso to pieces, and soon sank into the sea, becoming the 13th warship of the Combined Fleet to sink in the naval battle!

However, the Fuso attracted the attention of the five pursuing naval warships, and by the time they sank the Fuso, the five combined fleet's protective cruisers Takanami, Murayu, Kakaze, Ishikari and Naniwa had already fled!

The submarines Bayonet and Sharp Knife received Lin Daxin's order and immediately sneaked to chase after the main force of the Combined Fleet.

The main warships of the Combined Fleet, except for the ironclad battleship flagship Fengxiang and the ironclad battleship Zuizuru, can reach a speed of 18 knots, and the armored cruiser Hashidate can reach a speed of 17.5 knots, and the speed of other warships is very slow, especially the remaining 4 old ironclad ships with a displacement of 6100 tons, their maximum speed can reach 11 knots!

Soon after, 2 submarines took advantage of the speed that surpassed the 4 old ironclads of the Japanese Combined Fleet, and fired 400 mm battery-powered torpedoes at the 4 old ironclad ships with torpedo tubes in the stern!

2 submarines fired 8 torpedoes in one go, exactly 2 torpedoes from an old ironclad ship!

After the successive explosions, the Autumn Wind among the 4 old ironclad ships was directly detonated and the ammunition compartment was blown into two and sank into the sea, and the other 3 Chaofeng, Yufeng, and Chufeng were all severely damaged and floated on the sea at an angle!

When Lin Daxin chased after him with the main force of the Naval Academy, the Japanese naval officers and men of the Japanese ships Asakaze, Yukaze, and Hatsukaze had already abandoned the ship and floated on the sea in lifeboats.

As soon as Lin Daxin saw that half of the three old ironclad ships had not entered the sea and had no value to be captured, he asked the Flying Eagle and the Flying Wolf, which were relatively slow in the First Fleet, to stop the pursuit, and sent the three old ironclad ships of the Japanese Combined Fleet on their last journey to casually rescue the Japanese naval personnel who had fallen into the water.

The ironclad battleship Flying Eagle and the ironclad battleship Flying Wolf sailed to a distance of 500 meters from the three old ironclad ships, and shelled them at close range with 450 mm main guns, and with a huge explosion, all three old ironclad ships sank into the sea. The losses of the Japanese combined fleet amounted to 17 ships!

The Bayonet and Sharp Knife submarines are now only 6 533-mm torpedoes in the bow combined, relying on the radar on the submarine to keep chasing the remaining warships of the Combined Fleet!

Among the Japanese ships, the ironclad battleship Mizuho and the two old armored cruisers Mikuma and Kumano, all of which could only reach speeds of 14 knots, were soon overtaken by two submarines and came within a kilometer of the best range.

The captains of the two submarines used the radio to contact and decided to give the remaining 6 torpedoes to the 3 Japanese ships that were dragged behind, so soon there were 6 loud noises on the sea, and the 6 torpedoes fired by the submarines accurately hit the 3 Japanese ships, and each ship hit 2!

Fortunately, the three Japanese ships were not sunk immediately, but two large holes were opened under the waterline of the hull, and seawater poured into the three Japanese ships, and the Japanese naval officers and men on the three ships immediately closed part of the cabins that entered the water.

And because the hull was tilted, they had to pour water into the other side to keep the hull balanced, so that the speed of the three Japanese ships immediately became less than 8 knots, and they were surrounded by the four ironclad battleships of the First Fleet of the Naval Academy and the five large armored cruisers of the Second Fleet.

Lin Daxin asked the flag soldiers to send flags to the 3 Japanese ships, so that they would surrender immediately, and Lin Daxin could guarantee their lives! Otherwise, what awaits them is the shipwreck!

At this time, the Japanese soldiers were not as strict as the bushido spirit that they later had, and the captains of the three Japanese ships discussed with the flag for a while, then raised the white flag, extinguished the boiler, raised the ship's guns to the highest angle, and chose to surrender to the naval fleet of the Naval Academy!