It can be said that Tsuboi Kozo was the biggest contributor to Japan's victory in the Battle of the Yellow Sea, and the fiasco of the Beiyang Fleet also accelerated the defeat of the Qing Dynasty. But Tsuboi Kozo didn't end well in the end, and in history, Tsuboi Kozo was promoted to lieutenant general after the end of the war and awarded the baron! Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, and he was soon assigned to the Yokosuka Town Guard Mansion to be the commander, saying that he wanted to track down why the first guerrilla team did not turn back and follow the home team when he was in the Great East Valley, but was always in the opposite position with the home team. The real reason for this problem is that the signal flag hung by Ito Yuhiro is incomprehensible, but Ito Yuhiro was born in the Satsuma Domain, so no one has to investigate the responsibility of repeatedly hanging the wrong signal flag in battle, delaying the fighter, and not daring to find the enemy, and being cowardly as a mouse, and arguing with Tsuboi Kozo is clearly unloading the mill and killing the donkey, and as a result, Tsuboi Kozo died of depression at the age of 55 less than a year after taking office. Who let Tsuboi Kozo was born in the Choshu domain, and at that time, the navy of the Satsuma domain controlled zhì hated the army of the Choshu domain.

Of course, the current Kozo Tsubori is still in the post of commander of the First Guerrilla Force, and he looks forward to how bright his future will be. In front of him is another opportunity to make meritorious contributions, and Tsuboi Hangsan is a person who is good at seizing opportunities, so he will naturally not waste the opportunity sent to the door in vain.

In the command room of the Celestial Empire, Yu Kun, the commander of the Tiger Ben Army, put down his binoculars, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, "It's the No. 1 guerrilla force in Japan!" If I remember correctly, it was in this sea area that the first guerrilla unit of the Japanese Combined Fleet sank Guangyi of the Beiyang Naval Division and forced the landing on the Caojiang River, and the most infuriating thing was that the wave sank the Gaosheng troop transport, and hundreds of people on board died in the belly of the fish! And at that time, Lord Ren fell into the water on the Gao Sheng! Since we have met us today, it is just time to avenge Lord Ren and the hundreds of compatriots who died! ”

"Look, Commander, the Japanese fleet is also escorting troop carriers! There are four troop carriers! Zhang Haitian, the new captain of the Celestial Empire, who was standing next to him, couldn't help but shout excitedly.

"You mean to hit the troop carrier first?" Yu Kun couldn't help frowning, to be honest, Yu Kun still wanted to fight the first guerrilla first, first, he was afraid that these turtle grandchildren would run away when they saw the situation, and it was not a long-faced thing to come and fight the troop carrier with a battleship after all.

"Commander, you think! These four troop carriers are not small, there are at least three or four thousand little devils on them, once these little devils are allowed to go ashore, it will be a big trouble! What's more, the order that Lord Ren gave us was to try to stop the Japanese reinforcements! Zhang Haitian hurriedly reminded, "What's more, Lord Ren once said that war is to win by unscrupulous means, as long as the final victory can be achieved, it is okay to use any means." What's more, the little devil hit our troop carrier first, and we are just a tooth for a tooth! ”

"You reminded me of that!" Yu Kun suddenly realized, "As soon as I saw the First Guerrilla, I was so angry that I forgot the mission of our trip, but this First Guerrilla Force is really hateful, if it weren't for their Yellow Sea Naval Battle Beiyang Naval Division, they wouldn't have been defeated so badly!" But this time listen to you, hit the troop carrier first, and if they don't run, we'll clean them up when we go back. ”

The herald ordered the fleet to form a battle formation, quickly pass through the Japanese fleet formation, and then pursue the Japanese troop transports with all their might. Yu Kun ordered with a stern face.

"Yes!" Zhang Haitian answered, turned around and ordered someone to go to convey the order.

"Look, Commander, the Japanese fleet is changing formation!" Zhang Haitian pointed to the Japanese fleet in front of him and said loudly.

"It's too late to think of changing formations now!" A sneer appeared at the corner of Yu Kun's mouth. The four Japanese warships were supposed to protect the four troop carriers in the middle, but they didn't expect to meet the enemy in a hurry, and Tsuboi Kozo hurriedly ordered it to become a column all the way to meet the enemy, but at this time the distance between the two sides was already very close, and it was really too late to change the formation. The Tiger Flotilla was cruising normally at that time, and the three warships were also lined up in a column, although they were also in a hurry to meet the enemy, but they didn't need to change their formation at all and rushed over directly.

Soon the distance between the two sides was reduced to less than 5,000 meters, and at this time the battle formation of the Japanese fleet had not yet fully unfolded, more than 4,000 meters, although the distance was a little far, but it was already within the effective range.

"Hit Yoshino first!" Yu Kun saw the opportunity and decisively gave the order to open fire.

"Boom! ~"With a few cannon sounds like muffled thunder, the Jinghai, which was at the forefront of the horse, took the lead in firing the cannon. The two 150-mm guns in the bow of the Jinghai were the first to fire.

However, due to the distance, both shells missed without incident. But even so, our army took the lead in firing artillery, which made Tsuboi Kozo nervous, because the Japanese army had not yet formed a battle formation. The Yoshino rushed to the front, Takachiho followed behind Yoshino, and the two battleships Naniwa and Akitsuzu were inserted diagonally behind the Yoshino, and the four Japanese ships formed an irregular herringbone.

Such a formation is naturally not the battle formation that Tsuboi Kozo wants, but the Jinghai has already opened fire, and the Japanese army has no time to change formations. In desperation, Kozo Tsubori could only order the Yoshino to speed up its rush forward to attract local firepower and buy time for the fleet.

Just a few minutes later, the main gun in front of the Celestial Empire also began to roar angrily, and its target was also the Japanese flagship Yoshino, which greatly increased its accuracy as the distance closed. Several shells had already landed around the Yoshino, including a 105-millimeter shell that hit Yoshino, but unfortunately this one did not hit the vital point.

The Yoshino also began to fire back, and the "Yoshino" ship was heavily equipped with large-caliber rapid-fire guns, which at the time were called fast guns in China. The main gun is 4 6-inch 40 times caliber rapid-fire guns produced by the British Armstrong company, with a gun bore length of 6096 mm, a warhead weighing 45.4 kg, a muzzle velocity of 671 m/s, an effective firing range of 8600 meters, and a rate of fire of 7 rounds per minute. Two of them were installed on the decks of the bow and aft buildings of the warship, and the bow door was the first to start the Battle of Toshima. The other two guns are installed in a special position, arranged in the ear stands on both sides of the main deck at the end of the first floor, obviously out of the traditional design idea of obtaining the maximum firepower when fighting the enemy in the bow of the ship, because in this way, the "Yoshino" ship can get the firepower of three 6-inch main guns in the bow direction, in order to make the forward firing range of the two 6-inch guns installed in the ear platform more open, the first floor and the tail of each inward cut off a piece, this unique design, is also an important appearance feature to identify the "Yoshino". From the ear mount where the 6-inch main gun is installed, there are as many as 8 earrings between the two sides of the warship and the stern, each equipped with a 4.7-inch 40 caliber rapid-fire gun, forming a dense broadside fire, these rapid-fire guns are also made by the British company Armstrong. At this time, the three 150mm rapid-fire guns in the bow of the Yoshino took the lead in concentrating on attacking the Jinghai! Soon the Jinghai was hit by a 150-mm shell.