"Report to the captain, the flagship sent an urgent telegram, asking if our ship can support it, if not, immediately withdraw from the battlefield."

Under the main mast of the "Zhenyu", the captain of the ship, Rear Admiral Lin Xudong, watched the many sailors nervously extinguishing the fire all over the deck, and the mood was extremely bad. On the contrary, it was his own ship that was beaten and caught fire everywhere, which really made the arrogant Lin Xudong angry, but what annoyed him even more was still to come, no, the fire on the deck had not yet been extinguished, and he saw a herald rushing out of the cabin, and after making a standard military salute, he reported a telegram that made Lin Xudong angry.

"Call back, our ship is fine, no need to exit!"

Quit? Just quit the war? Lin Xudong can't afford to lose such a face, even if the battleship has been damaged at this time, it is far from being unable to fight, how can Lin Xudong be willing to withdraw from such a decisive battle.

"Yes!"

Seeing that Lin Xudong's voice was wrong, the herald who came to report didn't dare to delay a little, so he hurriedly answered, turned around and ran to the cabin.

"Wait! Inform the first officer, second officer, and gunner commander of the telegram, and convey it to the whole ship, tell them, no matter how bad the fight is, let Lao Tzu go! ”

Before the herald could turn around, Lin Xudong had already added another order in a cold voice.

"Yes!"

As soon as he heard Lin Xudong's words, the herald's expression suddenly turned grim, but he didn't dare to say more, so he simply made a military salute neatly, and hurriedly went to convey Lin Xudong's order without mentioning it.

"His grandmother's, bastard boys, listen to Lao Tzu, whoever can't fuck it again, the master will stuff the cannonball into someone's stomach!"

"Give Lao Tzu the spirit, bastard things, shame all thrown to the commander!"

"Aren't you bastards very imposing when you practice on weekdays? At this time, I will give Lao Tzu a, bastard things, and if you can't hit it again, you will jump into the sea by yourself! ”

……

As soon as the telegram from the other end of the flagship reached the third-tier gun deck, the first officer, the second officer, and the gunner, who were in charge of commanding the battle, were all furious, and they all had black faces and severely reprimanded the gunners.

Hit, hit hard! The "Zhenyu" has always been one of the strongest in the Bohai Fleet, and every time it exercises, all its achievements are always in the forefront of the whole army, but now, it has actually fallen to the point of being embarrassed, and how can the officers and men of the "Zhenyu," who have always been proud, endure it? All the gunners showed their life's skills, and with red eyes, they slammed all kinds of shells into the opposite Combined Fleet.

One man is desperate, ten thousand people are difficult to beat, not to mention that the hundreds of gunners of the "Zhenyu" are well-trained, so the launch is ruthless, the results are undoubtedly brilliant, first hit the "Hundred-Eyed Giant" two heavy guns, five medium-sized flowering shells, hit the "Hundred-Eyed Giant" everywhere, the casualties are not small, followed by a salvo, six heavy artillery flowering shells and ten flowering shells hit the British medium-sized battleship "Iceberg", directly sinking this not too big medium-sized battleship on the spot, and then, In the exchange with the Dutch battleships at the bottom of the Combined Fleet, another salvo hit the Dutchman's third-class battleship "Tulip" with three heavy explosive shells and four medium flowering shells, discounted the "Tulip" rear mast, and destroyed four medium guns on its upper gun deck, and more than a dozen Dutch sailors who were sailing on the deck were blown to human minced.

The fact that the "Zhenyu" was able to achieve such brilliant results was of course the result of the courage of the officers and men of the whole ship, but it can also be said to be related to distance -- the battle line of the combined fleet was not parallel to the line of the Qing army's array, but was deviated 20 degrees forward, so as to get close to the Qing army's array and try to reduce the Qing army's advantage in artillery, which made the "Zhenyu" move forward and get closer to the battle line of the combined fleet, although it would be more vulnerable to the combined fleet's shelling, but at the same time, the "Zhenyu" On the other hand, the traditional artillery shells used by the combined fleet, although the power has increased with the reduction of distance, compared with the heavy explosive shells of the Qing army, it is too far behind, even though the gunners of various countries may not be worse than the Qing army, and the hit rate is not too low, but they cannot achieve the effect of immediate sinking.

"Zhenyu" is of course brilliant, but its own losses are also not small, nothing else, as the first ship of the array line, was originally the number one target of the opponent's attack, because of the gunners' loading speed of artillery, not every time they encounter a battleship will open fire, usually, it is a salvo every other ship, but as the first ship of the striker, but almost every ship, will be bombarded once, if not, the Spaniard's "Federly" will not be sunk by the Qing warships as soon as the war starts, "Zhenyu" Although it was not as unlucky as the "Federly", it was already hit by more than 20 bullets after the battle line was hedged, and the battleship was damaged everywhere, and it was no longer able to keep up with the pace of action of the large force, so it had no choice but to withdraw from the battlefield and be protected by eight cruisers such as the "Shunfeng" that was swimming outside the battlefield for emergency repairs.

"Order: Our ship, 'Weiming', and 'Weishun' will let go of the current enemy, and the two ships will speed up, move closer to our ship, and prepare to gather fire on the enemy's flagship!"

Two flowers bloomed, each with a branch, just when the "Zhenyu" had to withdraw from the battlefield after the glory, the flagship of the Qing Army's Chinese army "Zhenyang" happened to travel to the position near the middle of the battle line of the combined fleet, on the small high platform of the main mast, Wang Yanxia, who was holding a monocular and observing the battlefield situation, silently estimated the lower shape, and then raised his hand, and gave the general order coldly.

"Order: 'Hood' and 'Kelly' let go of the current enemy ship, accelerate to our ship, and concentrate on attacking the enemy flagship!"

Perhaps because of his heart, almost at the same time as Wang Yanxia gave the order, Edward Vernon, who was standing under the main mast of the "Brave", also issued almost the same order, and also mobilized the next two ships, intending to set fire to the flagship of the Qing army, the "Zhenyang".

"The whole ship is there, fire!"

"Call me!"

……

At the end of the day, on the sea filled with gunsmoke, the "Zhenyang" and "Brave" that were rushing towards each other finally faced each other, and the distance between the two sides had been narrowed to about 620 meters, for the Qing army, at this distance, the power of heavy artillery was still amazingly high, and for the British, although the distance was a little farther, the power of heavy artillery could not be fully displayed, but it was not difficult to play a six, seventy percent, and the generals on both sides were obviously very confident, without the slightest hesitation, and almost at the same time issued the order to attack.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

The gunners on the two flagships had been on standby for a long time, and as soon as the order was issued, they began firing almost simultaneously, first with heavy artillery, and then with the medium artillery of the Qing army and the medium and light artillery of the Britons also began to roar in turn.

The navy of the Britons is known as the first in the world, it is really not fun, but it is really strong, whether it is the sail technology or the gunners' marksmanship is the best in this era, despite the short time of the two ships of the meeting, it actually did two rounds of salvos, on average, the time of a salvo is less than two minutes, although there is a super-level play factor, but there is no usual rigorous training, how can it be done, what is more breathtaking is the level of the sails of the Britannians, in such a dense salvo, The whole battleship did not have too much translation and shock, which fully guaranteed the full play of the gunners, and the hit rate was naturally quite good - the first round of shelling down, there were enough three heavy artillery shells smashed on the side side and the foredeck of the "Zhenyang", and eight medium flowering shells and six light shells also hit the target, as for the second round of shooting, because of the rush for time, coupled with the shaking of the battleship, the hit rate decreased, and there was only one heavy artillery shell, Three medium flowering shells, as well as four light shells, hit the Zhenyang.

Although the officers and men of the "Brave" had already played at a higher level and had an exceptionally high hit rate, the losses caused to the "Zhenyang" were not as great as expected because of the distance, although they also caused thick smoke to billowing on the "Zhenyang" and more than 20 casualties among the sailors and gunners, but it did not make the "Zhenyang" lose the ability to fight again. The momentum was exhausted, and most of the shells only bounced on the deck or side of the board a few times before they were silent, and as for the medium-sized flowering shells, nearly half of them exploded, bringing some casualties to the "Zhenyang", but unfortunately the power was very average, and it only ignited some fires, but the four heavy artillery shells were fiercely on the side of the "Zhenyang" and on the upper deck and the shipbuilding, gnawing a few huge gaps, if it were not for the distance of 620 meters was too far for the Britons artillery. This round of shelling alone is enough to cause the "Zhenyang" to suffer heavy damage!