Wang Guocheng's artillery burst into succession, which greatly shocked the Japanese army, but the real blow still came from the 303mm heavy artillery.

A shell from the Xuanwu hit the Fusang, piercing through its proud armor and exploding in the officer's room near the powder magazine, piercing the hole in steel plates more than eight inches thick, shattering all the bedding and flying projectiles everywhere. The officer who managed the ventilation of the powder magazine was hit in the abdomen, his intestines flowed out, and he collapsed in a pool of blood. Broken planks, clothing, etc., were on fire. The powder magazine was right in front of it, and the door was open, and the whole warship was in danger of being blown into the air. The ship had to deal with the dead, bandage the wounded, and put out fires, and it was busy for a while.

The Suzaku aimed at the Kongo, and two heavy guns in a row almost destroyed the superstructure on its deck, and the control tower was even beaten into hell on earth, with cracked pipes and twisted metal everywhere, moans and screams one after another, scattered on the deck, broken limbs and stumps thrown everywhere, and pools of blood and oil everywhere. The captain Minoru Saito's entire face was sliced off by shrapnel, and his bloody face had no facial features, only a few holes remained, and staff officer Uchida Masatoshi helped him free himself with a pistol.

The Japanese ships continued to suffer heavy losses, but their counterattack deliberately avoided the Suzaku and the Xuanwu, because the previous battle had shown that with the current firepower of the Japanese army, it was impossible to destroy the two steel monsters, and they concentrated their firepower on the slowest Beidou, and several Japanese ships braved the rain of bullets and desperately besieged them.

The Hokuto fought back while desperately dodging in circles, and Zuihou sank because of too many bullets, but before sinking, he still blew up the Yamato, which was already seriously injured. Until the hull of the ship has entered the water, the flag is still hung on the mast: "All you work hard and fight for the country!" ”

All the officers and men of the Chinese Navy were moved by this scene, both sad and angry, roaring and firing their artillery and fierce attack, fighting desperately with the Japanese ships. It didn't take long for Oshima and Amagi to be sunk one after another, and the captains Yusumu Kano and Keinori Fukushima were both uncertain.

The King Kong, which was already dying, was finally surrounded and sunk by the Kunlun and Canghai ships, and the acting captain of the Kongo, Uchida Masatoshi, before he died, hung out a flag to advise Ito to withdraw his troops.

Ito Yuheng saw that it was indeed not good, and if he went down, the whole army would be annihilated, so he had to hang the flag and retreat to the northeast, but at this time, the entire formation had been disrupted, and the retreat was completely out of order, and he was completely fleeing in chaos, and on the other side, Togo Heihachiro also commanded Naniwa and Gao Chiho to flee due east.

Liu Buyun ordered the division of troops to pursue, and Lin Taizeng, the captain of the Kirin, commanded the four major cruisers to bite the two Naniwa ships, and he himself led the rest of the warships to follow the Japanese army.

At this time, it was already 18 o'clock, it was dark, but the distance between the two sides was less than a thousand meters, and the Chinese fleet turned on all 8,000 candlelight intensity and 20,000 candlelight intensity searchlights, and dozens of searchlights firmly locked the direction of pursuit.

This is the Yellow Sea, and it will take at least two days to escape to Japan, and the Japanese army is in a hurry and embarrassed, and for the first time in their lives they realize that the road home is so long, slim and endless, and the hungry "wolves" behind are in hot pursuit.

As time passed, the slower ships of the Japanese began to fall behind. First of all, the Maya and Chokai gunboats, which had the slowest speed and only 12 knots, were intercepted by Chinese warships, both of which were weak ships of only more than 600 tons, and were already in danger of being doomed at this time.

Due to the slow speed of the Qinglong and Baihu ships, Liu Buyun ordered the second ship to stay behind to deal with the enemy, and the rest of the warships continued to catch up. Lin Luzhong and Shen Shoukun commanded the ironclad ship, and it didn't take long to sink the Torikai, and its captain Kawara was about to sink with the ship.

The other Maya, after being shot twice, lost power and drifted with the tide at sea, and the captain of the ship, Michiyu Yokoo, was unwilling to surrender and ordered the ship to be scuttled and sunk.

Half an hour later, the flagship Fusang, which had a speed of 13 knots, and the gunboat Gecheng were also blocked, and Liu Buyun ordered the Xuanwu ship commanded by Deng Shichang, as well as the Canghai and Kunlun second ships to continue to chase, and the Suzaku ship under his own command, as well as the Kaiji ship, stayed behind to strangle the enemy.

After several shots, the Katsuragi floated on the surface of the water with thick smoke, and the Kaiji lowered its torpedo boat and sank the half-dead Katsuragi with a torpedo. The captain of the ship, Izuha Shigeyuan, did not know whether to live or die in the dark.

The Suzaku pierced through the medical cabin of the Fuso, and a large number of wooden components in the cabin soon ignited a catastrophic fire, and thick smoke continued to rise outward from the bullet hole, covering the entire front of the warship, causing all the guns facing the bow direction to be unable to aim and shoot.

However, Tsuboi Hangzo still used the stern cannon to hit the Kaiji, and the captain Jiang Chaoying was killed on the spot, and the Kaiji was injured and could not continue the battle, so he had to slowly return to Weihaiwei.

But this is the madness of the Fuso Zuihou, the Suzaku aimed, and fired the guns continuously, not only the four huge guns on the exposed batteries on both sides, but also a 150mm Krupp secondary gun in the bow and stern, and four 75mm Krupp guns.

At a distance of 300 meters, the Suzaku fired a ferocious shot, a thunderclap-like bang, the muzzle of the cannon spit out orange-red fire, and a large cloud of smoke came out, scattered in all directions, and the color gradually turned gray, faded, and slowly dispersed with the wind. The Fuso, which was swaying and nearly out of control, slammed on the surface of the sea, and a huge explosion came from below deck, almost all the cabin portholes shattered at the same time, and billowing black smoke gushed out of the broken portholes.

Now it was the time for Zuihou, and all the Japanese officers and soldiers who were still alive were trembling and colorless. Suddenly, the sound of military songs came from the command platform. It turned out to be Kozo Tsuboi, a famous naval general who was born in the Changzhou Domain and studied in the United States, and the Japanese fleet has always used a single column formation, and it is precisely because of his persistence that he has the reputation of a Japanese naval tactical reformer, and today it can be regarded as coming to an end.

At this moment, he stood upright on the command platform, holding a saber in his hand, and encouraged morale with his singing. But before the song was finished, a 150mm caliber shell at the stern of the Suzaku hit the command platform directly with a bang, and the scattered shrapnel hit the head of Tsuboi Kozo, and suddenly his brain and blood splattered, staining the charts and compass red, and Tsuboi Kozo died on the spot, and most of the officers around him also died.

The remnants of the Japanese army gathered around, looking at the corpse of Tsuboi Kozo, all of them were relatively silent, and everyone was sad. I don't know who it is, and softly sang "Jun's generation"

Staff officer Shichiro Kataoka took over the command, and he ordered the rudder to flee south, but the remaining power could only maintain a speed of 3 to 4 knots, and the Suzaku pursued unhurriedly behind, firing a series of cannons, knocking out all the masts of the Fuso, and the superstructure was completely destroyed, Shichiro Kataoka was also seriously injured, lying on the ground panting, and the whole ship was riddled with holes, and finally did not move.

Zuihou Suzaku put down the torpedo boat and gave the other party a blow, and with a shocking bang, the Fuso, which was once the most powerful warship in Asia and the first ironclad ship in Asia, was torn in half in the explosion, and slowly sank with its head and tail cocked, and no Japanese soldiers on the ship escaped.

At this time, it was 19:34 in the evening, and in the distance ahead, Deng Shichang had also caught up with Ito Youheng.

In desperation, Ito ordered the captain of the Tsukushi, who had fled together, to Arai Yugong, "Things are no longer harmonious, and they will flee separately to disperse the enemy's forces", and then the Tsukushi turned to the northwest.

Seeing the enemy's division of troops, Deng Shichang knew that the second Kunlun ship was not fast enough, the firepower was not fierce, and there was no chance of winning any one of them, so he simply ignored the Tsukushi, and only bit the Japanese flagship Yibang.

Seeing this, Ito Yuhyung secretly complained bitterly, but he was helpless.

In less than ten minutes, the Xuanwu was only more than 1,000 meters away from the other party, and immediately opened fire, and the cannonball crossed the bow of the Yibang, only more than 20 meters away from each other and exploded. Ito Yuhyung knew that there was no way to escape, so he ordered to turn, knowing that he would not be able to fight.

The road to escape has come to an end, and the battle at sea has also come to an end.