The seven warships of the Navy of the High Speed Naval Academy led by Lin Daxin, with four Italian ironclad battleships, converged with the warships brought by Ding Ruchang, and continued to sail in the direction of Weihaiwei Port.

When the mighty fleet returned to Dadonggou, the sea area of the naval battle, in addition to the seriously injured old ironclad ship Yunhai, the Jingyuan, which lost power and floated on the sea, and the speed of the hull into the water dropped to less than 8 knots of Guangyi and Guangc.

There are also the pursuit of the Japanese ships Yoshino and Naniwa, and now they have returned to the Yasukai and Lihai in Dadonggou, but the Yanghai did not come back, but what surprised Lin Daxin was that a warship between the Anhai and the Lihai turned out to be the Japanese Yoshino!

It turned out that the captain of the Yoshino, Kawara, and the captain of the Naniwa, Heihachiro Togo, felt that the current position of the two ships was no longer realistic to meet the Italian warship!

Therefore, instead of obeying the order of the commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet, Ito Yukuto, he headed east to join the Italian warships, but headed south. The Yasukai, Tachikai, and Yangkai pursued Yoshino and Naniwa and also rushed south.

Yoshino and Naniwa saw the pursuers behind them and immediately separated and fled.

The armored cruiser Yaskai, which had a top speed of 22.25 knots, kept chasing the Yoshino, which could reach a speed of 23 knots, while constantly firing guns at the Yoshino, while the 18.3 knots dome cruiser Tachikai and the 18.35 knots torpedo cruiser Yokai pursued the 19 knots Japanese ship Naniwa.

In the course of the pursuit, the Yanghai was unfortunately hit by a 150-mm shell from the Naniwa on the emplacement of one of the main guns, which not only destroyed the emplacement, but also detonated several 195-mm main gun shells in the emplacement.

Although Yang Haihe did not sink immediately, the power of the shell explosion also caused the hull to be lost, and the turbulent sea water continued to pour into the cabin of the ship, and the hull tilted more and more strictly, and there was no way to maintain balance!

The young captain of the Yanghai had to give the order to abandon the ship, and the Lihai also gave up the pursuit of the Japanese ship Naniwa because it wanted to rescue the Yanghai, and the Naniwa fled at full speed!

The Yasukai pursued the Yoshino closely, and according to the speed and distance of the two warships, the Yoshino should have been able to escape, but the Yoshino suddenly ran aground near a small island in Tongguò!

Seeing that Yoshino was stranded, the Yasukai immediately approached the Yoshino and demanded that the Yoshino surrender with a flag.

As soon as the captain of the Yoshino, Kawahara, saw that the Yoshino could not escape the fate of being sunk or captured, he ordered the Yoshino to lower the Japanese flag and raise the guns of the Yoshino to the highest angle, and Kawahara ordered the Japanese naval officers and men on the ship to surrender to the Yasumi!

Immediately, Captain Kawara was in the captain's room of the Yoshino and ended his life with a gun! At this time, the Japanese had not yet begun to promote the spirit of bushido, and the captain Kawahara was about to surrender as soon as he was ordered, and the other crew members of the Yoshino honestly surrendered to the Yasumi!

The Anhai sent cadet naval soldiers to board the Yoshino in lifeboats in full armor, and after controlling the entire battleship, they dragged the Yoshino out of the shallows with iron chains and returned to the waters of the Great East Ditch in the great battle just now.

Observers from various countries aboard the British cruiser saw the curtain come down on this thrilling naval battle and could not help but sigh that a powerful Far Eastern Fleet, the Beiyang Naval Division, had risen in this naval battle and had become an important force in determining the pattern of the Far East!

In particular, the Beiyang Naval Division captured 4 Italian ironclad battleships with almost no damage, and its strength soared, and observers from various countries looked sympathetically at the Italian observers who had turned into bitter gourd faces. 4 ironclad battleships with a displacement of more than 10,000 tons were captured by the Beiyang Naval Division, and the strength of the Italian Navy fell to a new level in an instant!

The surviving warships of the Beiyang Navy Division and the Navy Academy fleet, with five trophies of war, found five transport ships carrying more than 4,000 elite Huai Army elites and a large amount of ordnance and materials that had been hiding in the coastal waters at the beginning of the war, and continued to escort the five transport ships to the coast of Sinuiju in northern Korea.

At the same time, the four warships of the Beiyang Naval Division, namely the Jingyuan, Laiyuan, Jiyuan, and Zhiyuan, escorted the seriously damaged Jingyuan, Guangyi, Guangbing, and Yunhai, as well as the Japanese naval prisoners salvaged after the naval battle, to return to Weihaiwei first.

The four seriously injured warships, the Guangyi, Guangbing, and Yunhai, were okay and could sail on their own, while the Jingyuan, which had entered nearly 1,000 tons of seawater and was still pouring seawater into the cabin, had lost power and could only let the Jingyuan ship be dragged by iron chains and sail towards Weihaiwei.

It's a pity that the Jingyuan ship still didn't hold out to Weihaiwei, and it was less than 50 nautical miles away from Weihaiwei, because of too much water, and finally sank into the sea.

The warships of the Beiyang Naval Division and the Naval Academy fleet arrived at the coastal port of Sinuiju in northern Korea in the evening, and the next day the personnel and ordnance on board the transport ship were transported to the coast of Sinuiju in North Korea by barge, and the huge fleet returned to the direction of Weihaiwei with the smoke of the battlefield.

A naval battle began with Ding Ruchang ordering the Dingyuan ship to open fire, to the end of the 4 Italian ironclad battleships choosing to surrender, a total of nearly 5 hours, the Japanese Combined Fleet was heavily damaged, 23 Combined Fleet warships, only 9 damaged warships returned to Japan, one of the flagship Sankei armored cruiser Matsushima lost half of the 12 secondary guns, 16 57 mm rapid-fire guns were left, the entire hull was hit with potholes, fortunately the power system was not damaged, and a batch of naval guns was replaced, It is also possible to go to sea to fight.

The armored cruiser Hashidate, one of the three scenic ships, lost 4 120-mm secondary guns, and nearly half of the small-caliber rapid-fire guns.

The protective cruiser Fuso was seriously injured, 4 240-mm main guns, 2 were destroyed, 2 170-mm secondary guns were all damaged, the hull was also damaged, the hull seeped into many places, it had to be overhauled, and it was impossible to go to sea for a while!

The protective cruiser Chiyoda was also not badly damaged, 10 120-mm rapid-fire guns were damaged in the main guns, 4 were lost, and the hull also had several water seepages, which also required major repairs.

The protective cruiser Naniwa was lucky, received some minor injuries, lost several small-caliber rapid-fire guns, and its combat effectiveness was not affected! Moreover, the Naniwa stood out in the naval battle, sinking 2 warships of the Qing Dynasty, Yanghai and Chaohai. The captain of the Naniwa, Heihachiro Togo, became famous in the Japanese Navy. It paved the way for Heihachiro Togo to take over as the new commander of the Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet.

The four warships of the protective cruisers, the Takanami, Murayu, Kikaze, and Ishika, were also not seriously injured, and after simple repairs, they were able to restore 100 percent combat effectiveness in a short period of time.

Of the 12 warships lost by the Japanese Combined Fleet, 11 were sunk, including the protective armored ship Itsukushima, one of the three scenic ships, two old ironclad ships, the Asagiri and Hatsuyuki, the protective cruisers Takachie, Hiei, Kongo, Takao, Tsukushi, and Yaeyama, the gunboat Akagi, and the armed merchant ship Saikyo Maru.

Captured by the Hokuyang Naval Division the high-speed protection cruiser Yoshino.

The foreign aid found by the Japanese Navy, the 4 Italian ironclad battleships of the mercenary fleet, finally became prisoners of the Beiyang Naval Division due to insufficient ammunition!

More than 4,200 people were killed, more than 400 were wounded, and 710 people were captured, some of the captured people were Japanese naval personnel of the Yoshino, and some Japanese naval personnel who jumped into the sea to escape after sinking were finally rescued by the warships of the Beiyang Naval Division and became prisoners!

Although the Japanese Combined Fleet suffered heavy casualties, because nine warships escaped and returned to Japan, the control of the sea was not completely lost.