Chapter 167: Incheon Slaughterhouse

As Akiyama Shinyuki said, Xu Jie naturally would not give up the fat to his mouth, and after dealing with the miscellaneous things, Xu Jie didn't say a word and rushed to Incheon with the fleet, but when he arrived at Incheon. It's almost gone. The Japanese gunboat Chicheng actually came out of the port of Incheon slowly, and waved the flag, asking the Beiyang Fleet why it was here?

"It seems that there is a history of each other in the Japanese army." Xu Jie sneered in his heart. Historically, the Battle of Toshima was not authorized by the upper peak, and the later 918 Incident and the Nomenkan Incident were all carried out by a small group of people in the army. And today, Xu Jie let the Japanese taste the bitterness in advance.

"My lord, how do you answer?" Lin Yongsheng couldn't hold back a little, covered his mouth and smiled.

"Get closer, a wave of artillery will sink it!" Xu Jie didn't want to let go of this opportunity!

I saw 3 light armored cruisers of 5000 tons slowly approaching the Akagi, and then suddenly turned the turret, and 9 main guns and 12 6-inch guns opened fire almost simultaneously! "The Qing people have opened fire." The distance was so close that Xu Jie and the others could hear the screams of the sailors on the Akagi! At a distance of less than 1KM, 21 medium-caliber guns and a certain number of 3-inch guns rained down a solid rain of bullets on the Akagi, which was only 644 tons! Almost simultaneously, two 8-inch shells hit the boat, which had no protection. "From the beginning of the shelling, the boat did not hold out for even 5 minutes. The first round of shells decided its fate. One 8-shell hit the middle of the hull, presumably in the boiler compartment. And then there was the constant explosion. Streams of white steam and flames erupted from the middle of the ship. The whole ship lost control in an instant, and the hull quickly tilted to the left. A large amount of seawater poured in, and after 1 minute, the boiler should have completely shut down. At that time, the gun commander of the Guiyuan recalled. Just after a fatal breakdown decided the fate of the gunboat, several hits of 6-inch and 8-inch shells accelerated the silence of the battleship, and in only 4 and a half minutes, the Japanese battleship sank into the sea with a full body of flames, and set a record for the fastest sinking speed of a participating ship in the Sino-Japanese War!!

And the Japanese battleships Tsukushi and Yamato in the harbor did not have time to mourn in silence for the fate of the Akagi, and soon it would be their turn. How so? If the Akagi is a close-range moving target, then Tsukushi and Yamato are long-range fixed targets! The reason is very simple, the average age of these two ships is more than 10 years old, and they use old-style boilers, and they have to be calculated in hours when they are lit up and anchored. In the case that there are three new cruisers such as Takasago cruising outside the port, the officers and men on these two ships are naturally not prepared to make fires, but now, if you light a fire in front of the three cutting-edge cruisers, isn't that asking for a dead end? When the two battleships could not move, they had to use their own meager firepower to symbolically fire a few cannons, these inaccurate and powerless shells naturally could not pose any threat to Xu Jie's fleet, so in essence, the ending of these two battleships and the 5-minute silent Akagi must be the same, but they mostly held on to the ship for a while.

The first to hang up was the Tsukushi, which was completed in 1882, and after 10+ years of baptism, the hull was already very old, and compared to the Yamato, Tsukushi's firepower was strong, so it became the object of attention. An 8-inch shell accurately hit the bow of Tsukushi's ship, and the entire bow seemed to be slammed with a heavy hammer, and the bow of the ship sank instantly. Then came a lifetime explosion. The entire bow of the ship was almost cut off from the hull, and a large amount of seawater was poured into the bow in an instant, and the battleship quickly captized. The sailors on the Tsukushi desperately drained the water and put out the fire, but the increasing number of hits made a qiē useless, and after being hit by several 6-inch shells and 3-inch guns, the entire battleship was in flames, and the hull was burst into flames, and the hull was burst from time to time. And the wooden parts of the battleship became the best fuel for the fire. "Abandon the ship. No chance. Captain Tsukushi ordered. …,

And another battleship, the Yamato, how to say it, also left its own "brilliant" mark in this Sino-Japanese War, he was the first battleship to be "killed in seconds" by a single shot! When concentrating firepower on Tsukushi, the Beiyang ships only used 75 guns to "take care" of the Yamato, which had no firepower and no power, and after the Tsukushi was destroyed, when Guiyuan was about to turn the turret to knock out the Yamato, an 8-inch shell fired from the Suiyuan pierced the unprotected hull of the Yamato and directly hit one of the Yamato's guns. It stands to reason that there should be no problem in hitting artillery, but Japan has a "tradition" of piling up shells and propellants on gun emplacements. Takasago and other 3 ships consume a huge amount of blessing, and the shells piled up on the running position were consumed before they were hit, and nothing happened, but Yamato is different, the shells didn't hit a few rounds, and the shells were piled up next to the gun position, and whether it was picric acid or nitrocellulose propellant, it was arson! ! So, an 8-inch shell that hit the gun position gave the Yamato a painful break. After the explosion that "looked like a hundred thunders and thousands of lightning cracks", the 1,500-ton protective cruiser was directly broken into two and sank on the berth. At this point, there were no more Japanese warships in the vicinity of the port of Incheon.

If the warships are gone, then it will be the turn of the army on land, and the navy will not be able to withstand the shelling, what can you do with the army, which has only a few battalion guns at the most? As early as the time when the Akagi was destroyed, there were already relatively clever Japanese officers who ordered the troops to prepare for a quick withdrawal, and the materials and supplies that could be taken away were taken away quickly, as for those that were too heavy. Then leave it behind, or what else can you do? Hanging with supplies? But the Japanese fleet sank too fast, and did not leave much time for the 9th Mixed Brigade at all, a large number of military supplies, horses, weapons. As well as the soldiers who were recruited and helped with the transportation, they were crowded into the chaotic port of Incheon. It's like ants moving.

"Sue the brothers. Don't skimp on shells. Within an hour, these things must disappear, and if they can be limited to 45 minutes, I will give everyone a meal! If you can complete it within half an hour, I will give you a bonus!! Xu Jie said as he shook his hand with a swiping stroke, and pronounced the fate of the Japanese troops in Incheon Port.

Since the boss has an order, the following naturally dare not be ambiguous, plus there is a heavy reward. And there is really nothing on the shore that can threaten the survival of the fleet. The three cruisers in Beiyang quickly approached, not only 8-inch guns, 6-inch guns could reach, but even 3-inch rapid-fire guns, which could only be used as secondary guns, also joined the ranks of ground attacks. With the roar of the huge cannons, the three Guiyuan-class cruisers opened fire in full force, and the orange-red flames sprayed from the side of the ship basically covered the entire hull. The artillery was like a seeding machine, firing a fine rain of bullets into the port of Incheon, and everything on the shore, whether it was supplies, weapons or personnel, whether it was Japanese or traitors. In a dense rain of bullets, they turn into flaming fireballs or are burned to ashes. Many people tried to escape from this Shura hell, but the grenades of the 3-inch rapid-fire cannon told these lucky Japanese how ignorant and ridiculous their ideas were. Some tried to rely on some of the sturdy structures inside the harbor to escape the fate of death. BUT HOW CAN A 45-INCH SHELL WEIGHING 6 KG AND AN 8-INCH SHELL WEIGHING UP TO 100 KG BE ABLE TO WITHSTAND THESE HASTILY CONSTRUCTED BUILDINGS? Lin Yongsheng saw with his own eyes that a 6-village shell directly penetrated the wall of a warehouse, and then with a muffled sound, a tongue of fire burst out of the hole, and then rushed out of the door of the warehouse A few moving fireballs, and when he looked carefully with a telescope, he found that they were several people who were burned by picric acid charges. Some of the sailors turned their heads in reluctance, but their work did not slow down. Continue to deliver deadly shells to the Incheon port area.

Later, a foreign reporter asked bitterly after learning about this, since you have mercy, why don't you leave a way for the other party to live? What's more, many people are just husbands, and they have no weapons in their hands. And the answer of one of the gunners of the Beiyang Fleet who participated in the shelling made the reporter almost go down. The soldier replied: "First, we have no mercy for these two-legged beasts who oppressed the Koreans without declaring war. What they did in Korea proved that the Japanese army was nothing more than beasts in the cloak of civilization. We have no mercy for wild beasts. Even if they are just what you call a husband, they are still enemies, and there are only two situations in which we can let them go, one is that the other party has died in battle, and the other is that they obediently raise their hands and walk into the prisoner of war camp. There are no three situations. Second, as for why we can't help but turn our heads away. Because the brothers did a good job, Mr. Xu gave us more food, and the scene at that time was very appetizing, so, you know. The soldier couldn't help but laugh out loud at this. It seems that the small country in the east has really violated the scales of the dragon of the Qing Dynasty, and even though Japan seems to be strong, it still has not defeated this large country that has stood in the east for thousands of years. The reporter couldn't help but shudder after hearing this. …,

People who can move can't run, and even more so immobile materials and low-IQ livestock. In the midst of the artillery fire, all kinds of weapons and materials piled up in the harbor finally turned into a form, that is, burning fragments, accompanied by the sound of ammunition detonation from time to time. There was a sea of fire in the port, and after 30 minutes of shelling, even if the Beiyang Fleet was no longer fighting, the fire that lost control was enough to wipe out the entire port of Incheon. Almost all of the heavy equipment, most of the supplies, and more than half of the recruits of the 9th Brigade were lost in this shelling. A gust of sea breeze blew, filled with the pungent smell of bitter acid after burning, as well as the burnt smell of some unknown things, and a trace of blood smelled into the command room of the Guiyuan, Lin Yongsheng looked at the scene outside and asked in a low voice: "Forget it, my lord, it will be a waste of cannonballs to fight any longer." Xu Jie looked at the shore and looked at it for a few minutes, but after he couldn't find a complete item or person, he bowed his hand and said, "Tell sù below, you can retreat, by the way, also, report the ammunition consumption." ”

"Mr. Xu, the ammunition is out. Less than 30% of all the main guns and 6-inch guns were shelled. Lin Yongsheng said.

"So many fights? There should be more 3-inch guns left, right? Xu Jie frowned and asked.

"THIS, EVEN THE 75MM SHELLS IN THE OFFICER'S BATH HAVE BEEN EXHAUSTED." Lin Yongsheng said with some embarrassment. (It is said that in the Battle of Tsushima, Maozi put coal in the bathtub in order to carry more coal, and the author is spoofing it here~~)

"Hey, I didn't plan to go back to Weihai, it seems that this time I must go back to Weihai to resupply before we can continue to fight, by the way, after I go back, I will send a telegram to Boss Peng and them, telling them that the robbery can begin, of course, don't forget about providing supplies for my fleet when making money." Xu Jie sneered.

"One more thing, when do you think this bounty will be cashed out?" Lin Yongsheng smiled evilly.

"Didn't you play for 35 minutes?" Xu Jie asked in surprise.

"But the gunners and pipes of each ship agreed that it was 29 minutes!! This soldier's heart must not be lost! Lin Yongsheng said with embarrassment.

"Ugh." Xu Jie was completely speechless.

Thank you for the reward of the frozen wolf~~~. Let's give it some strength, there will be a more ~~ later today. Everyone's support~~