Chapter Seventy-Nine: Leaving Yoshino behind

Ito Henyoke ran away, although it was a bit uninteresting to abandon His Excellency the Minister, but the problem was that his battleship was more important than His Excellency the Minister, and besides, there were countless outstanding imperial soldiers in this battle, and he didn't care about one more minister, so Matsushima Gobune didn't even have the embarrassment to reply to the flag and left directly, and now Shiki Kayama was dumbfounded.

"This, this, this bastard!" The stunned Minister muttered for a long time before he could hold back such a sentence, and then the two shameless destroyers appeared again, and the surrounding torpedo boats immediately became vigilant, but they could not let these outsiders take the credit, and a torpedo boat led by them immediately raised a flag to demand that the Saikyo Maru surrender, and at the same time, each boat made a posture to make up for the torpedo, and after twisting for a while, the Saikyo Maru finally hung out the white flag.

Soon the ships of the Beiyang Naval Division appeared in the distance, as for the poor Fusang, the result is needless to say, seven capital ships besieged one of it, and there was no other result except sinking, Ding Ruchang dragged the Guangjia and Guangbing, which had been completely destroyed, and escorted the Japanese Navy Military Commander to return to the division victoriously, he didn't know that this naval battle was not over.

Poor Commander Ito rushed towards Nagasaki with his remaining five capital ships, he lost, the Japanese Navy lost, and lost the decisive battle to decide the dominance of the Yellow Sea, but the Japanese Empire had not yet lost, with these five capital ships plus dozens of torpedo boats, as well as the remnants of gunboats and old wooden cruisers, he had enough ability to hold the Korean Strait, as long as this vital waterway could be blocked, the army could be transported to Korea in a steady stream, and then fight the Chinese on land.

Speaking of torpedo boats, he was particularly depressed now, in fact, the strength of the Japanese Navy's torpedo boats far exceeded that of the Beiyang Naval Division, they had a total of more than 20 torpedo boats, and there was even a large torpedo boat that should be considered a destroyer according to the current level. But the problem is that the task of the Combined Fleet this time is to go outside Asan Bay, block the supply lines of the Qing army, and then force the Beiyang Naval Division to come out for a decisive battle.

Moreover, because the whereabouts of Yang Feng and the fleet are unknown, in the case of the main force of the combined fleet, he must leave a part of the troops to watch the house, otherwise it will be bad if the military port is bombarded by people when he goes to sea here, but when he thought of Yang Feng, his mind suddenly moved, and then cold sweat broke out.

Where is Yang Feng now?

As for his five capital ships covered in bruises, if he encounters his five battleships with incredible speed at sea, I am afraid that he will have to shed his skin if he does not die, you must know that there is a high-speed armored cruiser that is stronger than Yoshino.

"Turn, we will not return to Nagasaki, and we will go north to the crane dance along the coast of North Korea." As soon as he thought of this, Ito Hyukuk immediately shouted, although he didn't understand why his commander had issued such an inexplicable order, but the Japanese ships still quickly turned to the northeast, and what they didn't know was that Ito Hyungyu's order almost saved them.

Of course, it's just a little bit, outside the port of Nagasaki, Boss Yang is sitting leisurely on the deck of the Nautilus, basking in the sun while reading books with relish, as a great poet and writer, it is normal for him to read books, and even on a French merchant ship that escaped from the port in a hurry, the captain is holding a telescope, holding Yang Feng's poetry collection with adoring eyes, while hesitating whether he came to him to sign or something.

Of course, if he knew what book he was reading now, maybe his world view would collapse, Yang Feng really didn't expect that Lao Xue Tou, who was full of learning and Confucianism, could still find forbidden books, and what he was looking at now was the vinegar gourd that came from this old man.

And the four high-speed destroyers behind him were chasing the Japanese torpedo boats all over the sea, and Ito Hengyou's most proud Kitty Hawk large torpedo boat, now there is still a chimney exposed on the sea, such a good opportunity to raid the house Boss Yang must not be missed, after receiving the information on the position of the main force of the combined fleet in his hands from a German merchant ship at sea that showed favor to him, and then transferred to his hands, this cargo immediately took the warship to Nagasaki.

The Kitty Hawk torpedo boat that stayed here was killed with more than a dozen torpedo boats, and then it was directly brutally abused, and now there are still six ships left that are using their own navigation skills to provide Yang Feng's destroyer sailors with a rare opportunity to hit moving targets, and the Marauder, as the flagship, is under the command of Luang Weili, with the ultra-long range of the 130 cannon, outside the range of the Japanese coastal defense guns Roulin Nagasaki Port.

Now this small port has been beaten into a sea of fire by him with white phosphorus**, and all non-Japanese merchant ships are fleeing in a hurry, while those Japanese are struggling in the sea of fire.

Of course, for Yang Feng, it is purely a rainy day to beat the child, and idleness is also idle, the real goal of Boss Yang is to wait here for Ito Hengyou, who is waiting to return, anyway, no matter whether they fail or win, they have to come back first to pass Yang Feng's pass.

"The Beiyang Naval Division defeated the combined fleet, sank six Japanese ships, captured the Japanese Navy's military commander Shiki Kayama, and Ito Shosuke led five ships Matsushima, Hashidate, Yoshino, Naniwa, and Takachiho to escape." Sister Caiyi walked over with a telegram and said, and then let Boss Yang sit on her lap all of a sudden, and then blushed with shame from the thing below.

This is indeed good news, Boss Yang immediately ordered the Marauder to stop the shelling of Nagasaki Harbor, anyway, there is nothing worth wasting shells in this kind of small broken place, and then the fleet set sail north to meet Commander Ito, and after giving the order, he immediately ran to the cabin with his sister in colorful clothes.

However, when this thing got up from the little girl in colorful clothes and the little Persian slave girl with two black circles under his eyes the next morning, he was surprised to find that he had not met Commander Ito until now, and it should have happened at this time.

"Tell the destroyers to disperse and search!" Boss Yang gave an order, of course, this order did not have to wait for him, Lang Weili had already scattered the four destroyers, but even so he still did not find Ito Hengyou.

It was not until almost noon that he received a telegram from Shanghai that a Russian merchant ship had encountered the Combined Fleet in the Tsushima Strait.

Yang Feng immediately understood that his dark little psychology was guessed by Commander Ito.

"Chase! Ma's, just a dozen knots of speed still want to escape from Lao Tzu's palm, Lao Tzu asked him to run for a day to catch up. The creature said viciously.

The Marauder Fleet, or in the current official term, the Naval Division Battalion of the General Military Office of Taiwan Town, the five warships immediately accelerated to twenty knots, turned around and ran north to the Tsushima Strait, his current position was south of Jeju Island, the distance was not more than 100 kilometers, and by the evening, the smoke traces of the combined fleet had been found in front, and the four destroyers immediately accelerated to thirty-six knots and pounced on them from behind.

Ito Hengyou couldn't figure it out, how did this guy find himself in the vast sea, he didn't know that any European and American merchant ships encountered along the road could make a cameo spy, all the companies under Boss Yang had already issued a notice, and all those who provided intelligence to Yang Feng would be rewarded by the Yang consortium, and this reward might even be an opportunity for cooperation, and now the merchant ships of all countries have regarded the combined fleet as a fat sheep, including their encounter with the Beiyang Naval Division, which is also the result of these shameless profiteers.

It's useless to think about these now, let's think about how to deal with the next battle, the five ships of Songdao immediately formed a herringbone formation on the sea, relying on each other with all their artillery and waiting for each other, but their opponents were not in a hurry to attack, but relied on high speed to keep attacking around, waiting for the Marauder behind to catch up, as for Yang Feng's Nautilus, at this time, it had already jumped over, looking at the combined fleet in the distance more than ten kilometers away.

Only then did he realize that these Japanese seemed to be very tightly guarded, and if they forcibly attacked, they would suffer losses, after all, these destroyers had no armor protection, and in addition, the tonnage was small, and it was very likely to be sunk if there were too many picric shells.

Forget it, leave a few warships for them, otherwise the Korean battlefield will not be able to fight, and it will be too cheap Li Er Devil and Cixi Old Witch, not to mention that if the Japanese Army is not transferred out of Lu, how will Tokyo and Osaka be robbed in the future. The cargo thought for a moment very sinisterly, and then said to the sister in Caiyi who was standing aside: "Go and inform the destroyer, tell the Japanese in flag, and leave Yoshino!"

In the combined fleet, only Yoshino can catch up with his landing ship, and if he doesn't kill this guy, it will definitely pose a threat to future pirate plans.

"What do you mean?" Looking at the flag sent by the enemy, Commander Ito was at a loss, what is this for, playing heads-up? Can't be fooled like this, leaving Yoshino will definitely be a dead end, no matter how strong it is, it can't kill these five hungry wolves, and these guys are too fast, even if they hit Yoshino and chase themselves, I'm afraid they can still catch up, this must be a conspiracy.

By this time, the Marauder had already arrived, and after understanding his boss's thoughts, Luang Weili immediately sent a flag to the Japanese, leaving Yoshino behind, and he promised in the honor of British rear admiral that he would not continue the pursuit.

"Let's fight like a true samurai! I assure Your Excellency in the honor of Fleet Commander, Rear Admiral of the Royal Navy, that this is a battle between us, between the Marauder and the Yoshino. ”

When the signal soldier was half tired and passed the stinky and long flag, without waiting for Ito Hensuke's order, Togo Heihachiro on the Yoshino immediately replied in agreement, and at the same time raised the Z-shaped flag on the mast.