On a warship, the captain is the absolute authority, especially at the moment of deciding life and death, the captain's orders must be obeyed.

The helmsman on the Dingyuan immediately swung the rudder to the left side, and the huge battleship turned desperately, and finally at the moment when the torpedo was about to hit the Dingyuan ship, the huge splash of water split in the bow made the torpedo turn around, and the torpedo slid like a disappointed swimming fish towards the sea area without ships.

The officers and men on the Dingyuan let out a high-pitched cheer, on the contrary, there was a sigh on the Haver, and the Havol was just about to fire the second torpedo when the armored cruiser in charge of the command gave the order to retreat!

Six British warships, braving the artillery fire of the Beiyang Fleet, turned from the diagonal direction of the Beiyang Fleet and withdrew back. The speed of the four torpedo destroyers, including the Havol, can easily reach more than 20 knots, and the speed of the two Brute-class armored cruisers is also about 15 or 6 knots, so it is easy to throw off the Dingyuan and Zhenyuan ships of the Beiyang Fleet.

However, the armored cruiser Barbarian retreated backwards at a speed of less than ten knots in a hurry, and Admiral Ding Ruchang of the Beiyang Fleet immediately ordered the fastest Zhiyuan and Jingyuan ships to pursue first.

At this time, the Beijing ship was fifteen nautical miles away from the battlefield, Lin Yuan and the combat staff officers were nervously watching every move on the battlefield, and the drone transmitted the real-time footage back to the Beijing ship.

Seeing the retreat of the British fleet, Lin Yuan couldn't help but say: "It's not good, the British fleet is trying to lure the enemy deeper!" They want to lay siege to the Beiyang Fleet! ”

Since Xu Feng's whereabouts are unknown, a new pilot was selected as the commander of the carrier-based aircraft unit, his name is Yang Yu, at this time, he said: "Captain, give an order, let our planes take off and sink those British warships." ”

Lin Yuan hesitated and didn't speak, Han Mingguang suddenly said, his tone was frighteningly low, "We can't take off to save the Beiyang Fleet!" ”

Yang Yu was puzzled and asked, "What is it for?" We have plenty of flying hours, fuel and ammunition! ”

Han Mingguang said: "We can save the Beiyang Fleet once, twice, can we save them forever?" ”

Yang Yu said, "What do you mean by this? ”

Han Mingguang said: "As early as the First Sino-Japanese War, the Beiyang Fleet should have been wiped out, and then there was a change in the law, and then there was a series of changes, and the Qing Dynasty would perish, and we saved the Beiyang Fleet, which is equivalent to extending the life of the Qing Dynasty, but the Qing Dynasty is already dying, with our current strength, how can we save it?" Even if we save the Beiyang Fleet, it will eventually be doomed, and we might as well let the Beiyang Fleet be wiped out, and maybe we can still find a glimmer of life. ”

Yang Yu said: "Could it be that we just watched the officers and men of the Beiyang Fleet being killed? The strength of this British fleet far surpassed that of the Beiyang Fleet, and the Beiyang Fleet went to them to die! ”

Han Mingguang said: "In any case, this is the times, and with us now, we can't change it." ”

Yang Yu said: "Since that's the case, why do we attack the Japanese Combined Fleet when we come back from the crossing?" ”

Han Mingguang was speechless for a while, at the beginning of the crossing, no one thought that it would be so difficult to change the fate of the nation!

At this time, Lin Yuan said: "Don't say it again, take off and strike at the British fleet!" Now we can't change the destiny of the nation, but we can't now, it doesn't mean that we will never be able to, we have now developed and grown. The day is not far off when the destiny of the nation will be changed! ”

A J-24 roared into the air on the deck of the Beijing ship, carrying four anti-ship missiles in its magazine, and flew over the British fleet.

Looking at the roaring plane, Lin Yuan couldn't help but think in his heart: "Political Commissar Han is right, even if the Beiyang Fleet is saved, what will the Qing Dynasty do?" ”

At this moment, the situation map of the battlefield showed that the Beiyang Fleet had entered the ambush circle of the British fleet, and at the same time, the meteorological department reported the weather conditions, the fog on the sea surface was thicker, and the shooting effect of the unmanned reconnaissance aircraft was also affected.

In the communication channel, the pilot of the J-24 suddenly said: "Report to the captain, it is impossible to strike at the enemy ship!" ”

Lin Yuan grabbed the communicator and said, "What's going on?" ”

The pilot said: "The fog on the sea surface is too great, and the fire control part of the radar has no way to accurately lock on to the enemy ship, and besides, the fleets of the two sides have already fallen into a melee, even if they use the infrared guidance mode, it is easy to accidentally damage the ships of the Beiyang Fleet." ”

Lin Yuan sighed and shook his head when he saw Han Mingguang.

After all, the images of the reconnaissance planes could not see the situation on the sea like monitors, not to mention that the thick smoke emitted by the artillery made the battlefield even more difficult to observe, so the tragic battle that took place under the dense fog was not entirely clear to the Beijing ship.

After falling into a melee, the Dingyuan and Zhenyuan ships of the Beiyang Fleet were quickly taken care of by the opponent's artillery, and the artillery of the British fleet far surpassed the guns of the Beiyang Fleet in terms of rate of fire and power, so a one-sided situation soon appeared on the battlefield.

A cannonball accurately hit the bridge of the Dingyuan ship, the bridge was directly blown up, and the fleet commander Ding Ruchang, who commanded on the bridge, was shot and killed, and the soldiers of the Dingyuan ship still shot at the British ship with all their strength despite the raindrops of shells on their heads, but the main armor on the side of the Junquan-class battleship was 457 mm thick in the middle and 356 mm at the weakest point, and such an armor thickness was difficult to penetrate with the main guns of the Dingyuan ship.

Soon a shell hit the military hospital in the bow of the Dingyuan ship, and the fire and smoke that rose into the sky made it impossible to see the entire bow direction, let alone shoot! In this case, a torpedo destroyer approached to a distance of 300 meters and launched a torpedo, the huge explosive force of the torpedo directly tore through the side armor under the waterline, the sea water poured into the hull, the hull began to tilt, and sank twenty minutes later, in the moment before sinking, the pipe belt Liu Buyun refused the strong advice of his subordinates, watched his subordinates board the lifeboat, changed into his most beloved official uniform, thought of the direction of Beijing and knelt down and kowtowed, and then committed suicide with a gun.

The Zhenyuan ship was besieged by three armored cruisers, and a number of shells exploded in the armor near the waterline, and the violent explosion finally tore open the armor of the Zhenyuan ship, and the coal bunker under the armor suddenly caught fire, threatening the ammunition depot, and a soldier who was blown off his legs endured severe pain and desperately closed the watertight door of the coal bunker, and the Zhenyuan ship escaped the catastrophe, but the firepower of the British fleet was too strong, and the Zhenyuan ship sank quickly, and Lin Tai once swung his sword to kill himself.

It is worth mentioning that the collision with the cruiser Chaoyong ship, Guan Belt Weng Shouyu saw the Dingyuan ship and the Zhenyuan ship sinking, his own warship was hit by several bullets, the whole ship was on fire, shrouded in billowing black smoke, he knew that he was in a catastrophe, he personally steered the rudder, and crashed into the British Savage, the British ship attacked with all his might, the hull of the Chaoyong ship was tilted up to 40 degrees, and he was still attacking the British ship with the front main gun.

The Chao Yong ship hit the armored cruiser Barbarian with a ramming angle, forcing the other party to withdraw from the battlefield, and soon, the Chao Yong ship also capsized and sank, Weng Shouyu shouted: "The whole ship is gone, how can I be born!" "Jump into the sea.

By the time the fog cleared, the Beiyang Fleet had been completely annihilated.