After a few moments, he began to lean towards fighting, and there were four reasons for this decision:

First, if you back down, morale will suffer;

secondly, he believed in the strength of the fleet, albeit less numerous, but more advanced;

Thirdly, he believed that as long as he fought for a while, the fleet in the harbor would come to reinforce him;

Fourth, and most importantly, now that the navy's hole cards have been turned over, if there is no decisive battle today, wait until Japan calms down, makes a cruel and decisive decision, abandons the Japanese army on the Shandong Peninsula, and the navy withdraws from the country on all fronts, at that time Emperor Bixia's Jihua will suffer a major setback, and the fleet's long-term secrecy and ambush will be in vain, and this responsibility will be great.

Liu Buyun looked back at the fierce demeanor of the fleet, gritted his teeth, and gave the most important order in his life: fight!

At this point, there is no need to disguise, the fleet has all raised the red dragon flag, the soldiers have been waiting for this day for a long time, all the training, planning, glory, it depends on today! The top and bottom are united, the momentum is like a rainbow, and they are all determined to fight a decisive battle, and they would rather die than retreat!

In order to show their determination, all the warships threw their sampans, boats, life rafts, lifebuoys, etc., into the sea, indicating that the ship was in the people, the ship was sunk and the people were killed, and they would never escape by stealing their lives, and they would never surrender with humiliation!

At this time, it was exactly twelve o'clock in the afternoon, because the sea vision was extremely wide, the telescope could already see, but it would take two or three hours for the two sides to really get close, and the soldiers made preparations before the battle:

On the deck of the warship, as well as inside the cabin, sandbags were piled up to two layers thick to reduce the impact of enemy shells. Key places, such as ammunition depots, boiler rooms, conning towers, etc., are piled up layer by layer, and if sandbags are insufficient, coal bags are used instead;

The important parts of the cabin are tied with blankets in hammocks, which can reduce the damage when being shot;

All the partition doors in the ship are closed to prevent fireworks from going down the wind, especially the windows and waterproof doors are locked, and the ventilation pipes and ventilation cylinders are transferred to the cabin;

All wood, rigging, glass, etc., which had nothing to do with the battle, were also thrown into the sea, and all the necessary items that were flammable were moved below the waterline;

The decks were pre-equipped with fireproof equipment, and thoroughly cleaned, and sprinkled with a lot of sand to avoid slipping caused by blood;

According to the convention, everyone should go to take a shower so that even if they are injured, they can minimize infection;

……

All of this has been rehearsed countless times, and in less than an hour, all the preparations are ready.

At 13 o'clock, Liu Buyun ordered: All officers and soldiers should start eating, and if necessary, they can smoke freely to stabilize their minds.

At 14 o'clock, Liu Buyun ordered again, and the team began to fine-tune and change the formation, the Suzaku and Xuanwu two ships in the front moved forward at a constant speed, and the four cruisers behind all accelerated and went around to the right side of the two ironclad ships.

This is a long-planned "clock tactic", that is, four fast cruisers are assembled, with two ironclad ships as the core, and rotate clockwise or counterclockwise, as if it were a huge clock, giving full play to the heavy armor of the ironclad and the flexibility of the cruiser.

The bell rang, the steam engine in the boiler room made a huge roar, and the connecting rods moved back and forth, getting faster and faster, and then drove the huge propellers on the left and right sides, stirring the sea, and the turquoise sea at the stern of the ship soon rolled up. At the same time, the huge chimney spewed out thick black smoke, and the engineers in the depths of the hull had isolated the engine room, implemented strong pressure ventilation, and reserved full firepower and steam power for use in battle.

At 14:05, Liu Buyun ordered the whole army to enter the combat post, make Zuihou preparations, and load all the cannons.

In the exposed turret under the dome gun cover, a shell weighing nearly 300 kilograms was loaded on a bomb delivery block, lifted up from the ammunition depot below deck, and then transversely translated into the tray of the ammunition hoist, which was lifted up to the muzzle of the gun, and the gunner filled the shell into the chamber with the help of an electric hook, stuffed the bullet into the depth of the chamber with the feeding stick, and then loaded the cartridge and closed the bolt.

At 14:30, the change of formation had been completed, and the distance between the enemy ships in front was already less than 5,000 meters. The fleets of the two sides are like two trains rushing in the opposite direction, and they are about to collide head-on.

4500 meters, 4000, 3500 meters.

At 14:43, Liu Buyun ordered: "Enemy ships in front, main guns in front, prepare, put!" ”

With an angry roar, the whole ship felt a tremble, orange flames came out of the muzzle of one of the main guns on the right, and a Krupp 305mm caliber shell flew away with a roar.

A naval battle broke out in the Yellow Sea between China and Japan.

The shells fell 100 meters to the left of the Japanese ship Tsukushi, which was at the head of the platoon, and the sea splashed with eight-story waves, and scattered water droplets flew in the air, shining crystal clear in the sunlight. But the Japanese did not have time to appreciate such a beautiful scenery, and they were amazed by the tremendous power of the shells, and their eyes were dazzled.

Ito decided to once again resort to his established tactics, that is, to use a mobile formation, outflanking the enemy's rear. He personally commanded the flagship armored cruiser Tsukushi, the Yamato, and Musashi, three British cruisers of the same type, to form the "First Guerrilla Force," which rushed sideways at a high speed of 18 knots, preparing to turn an arc in front of the Chinese fleet, turn to the right of the Chinese, and flank the enemy with his own team.

Soon, the first guerrilla detachment had already begun to cross the front of the Chinese fleet, Liu Buyun looked at it and smiled, isn't this a queue for a "review"? This outflanking tactic emperor has been reminded countless times, relying on nothing more than speed.

He immediately raised the flag and ordered the four fast cruisers on the right to carry out the clock tactic, and immediately rotated clockwise at high speed from the rear of the two ironclad ships, like a huge pendulum, and the target was directly taken by the Japanese army, while the ironclad ships only faced forward and used their bow heavy guns to "name one by one" the Japanese ships that crossed ahead.

At this time, the distance was only 3,000 meters, and the Suzaku and Xuanwu two ships, with an open battery on the left and right sides of the bow, each with two batteries, a total of eight 303mm Krupp heavy guns, like howling monsters, continuously spit out orange flames, and fired a fierce salvo at the head of the Tsukushi.

The high quality of the Chinese officers and men was fully displayed, and the gunners were all dressed in short clothes, with their shirts coiled around their waists, and some of them simply went into battle shirtless, skillfully lifting the shells from the ammunition depot with the bomb lifter, and then feeding them into the barrels together with the cartridges. As soon as the bolt was closed, the huge artillery began to rotate with the commander's command, and the long barrel began to move horizontally and pitch up and down under the action of the hydraulic press. The shell then flew out of the muzzle with a "bang". Then, the bolt was immediately pulled open, the cartridge case exited the chamber, and the next shell was fed into the chamber.

With a "boom", a shell hit the upper part of the turret of the bow cannon of the Tsukushi, blowing up the cannon rotating device, killing three gunners on the spot, and also bursting the water pressure pipe, turning the turret into a fountain.

But the next few shots missed, and the water around the Tsukushi splashed one after another, almost killing it.

Then there was the Tsubi, which was also hit by two shots, but its armor was so thick that only one mast was broken.

Then there was the Yamato, which was even more lucky than the Yamato, and passed through the fire net unscathed, which surprised both the enemy and us, and it can only be said that the luck was too good, a shell actually pressed against the top of the tower of the conning tower, and the squeaky and dumb sound of tooth-aching metal friction scared the captain Nomura Sadaosa and the staff officers into a cold sweat.

This result made Liu Buyun smoke and scolded the gunner on the bridge: "You fuck, your eyes are confused!" ”

Maybe the luck was exhausted, maybe the Chinese gunners had found their senses, and Zuihou's Musashi was out of luck.