Due to the distance, the first shell of the Dingyuan ship did not hit the German ship, but nevertheless, this gun also gave the German ship a lot of shock, and the huge Langhua set off by the 305-mm shell shocked everyone's heart.

The distance is gradually shortened to 4000 meters, this distance is the effective range of the Dingyuan ship and the Zhenyuan ship, the guns of the two ships are aimed at the other party's flagship at the same time - the Elector, the shells of the two ships use black powder, this gunpowder has been relatively backward in the world at that time, the same quality of gunpowder, the power of black powder is small, and the black powder will produce a very strong smoke, these smoke will have a great impact on the follow-up operation of the gunner.

The main gun covers of the two ships have been removed, not only to let the smoke clear as soon as possible, there is a lesson in blood, in the Battle of Toshima, fragments of Japanese shells drilled into the gun covers, and high-speed flying fragments bounced on the walls of the gun covers, killing and wounding a large number of people on the gun positions.

Despite the removal of the gun cover, the smoke did not dissipate, and the gunners endured the pungent smoke to load the few high-explosive grenades into the breech, reload the propellant, and after preparation, fire a salvo.

The idea of German warships when designing protection was: as long as the battleship was unsinkable, it could be towed back to port for refurbishment, so on the Brandenburg-class battleships, the thickness of the main armor was as high as 400 mm, which far exceeded the 355 mm armor of Dingyuan and Zhenyuan.

Several shells hit the side of the ship near the waterline, and the steel composite iron armor laid on it played a role, this armor is harder steel on the outside and softer iron on the inside, due to the different physical properties of the two layers of materials, the incoming shells will change direction on the interface surface, so the protective performance of this composite armor is better than that of homogeneous armor using only one material.

The impact of the shell shook the hull, but it did not pose a fatal threat to the hull, but the building on the upper deck of the German warship was not protected, and a shell passed through the deck and hit the sailor's cabin, and the violent explosion immediately caused a fire, and the German ship had to send part of the personnel to extinguish the fire; In addition to this, the main gun located in the bow of the ship suffered a devastating blow, the powerful blast wave of the explosion and the flying shrapnel broke the barrel of the twin-mounted 260-mm gun in the bow, and the personnel on the gun position suffered heavy losses.

In naval battles in this era, it is impossible for anyone to sink the opponent when the first shell is fired, so the key to determining victory or defeat is not only who hits people harder, but also who can be beaten more. With its high speed, the German ships quickly pulled the Dingyuan and Zhenyuan ships into their range, and although the 35 times caliber guns and 40 times caliber guns on the Brandenburg class needed to calculate different ballistic elements, the German sailors still showed superb military quality, and they quickly completed the calculations, and immediately, three Brandenburg-class battleships fired shells at the Dingyuan ship, the flagship of the Beiyang Fleet.

The Dingyuan ship and the Brandenburg-class battleships are of the same door, both of which are made by the Volkeng factory in Germany, and the composite armor on them is the same, so the Brandenburg-class shells were not able to penetrate the armor of the Dingyuan-class ship, but the buildings on the deck were hit, and the gunpowder used in the Brandenburg-class shells was not black powder, but picric acid gunpowder, which was far more powerful than black powder.

The chemical name of picric acid is "2-4-6 trinitrophenol", where 2,4,6 indicates the position of the nitro group on the benzene ring, this substance can be chemically processed to make a powerful explosive, commonly known as yellow explosive, and the explosive used on the Brandenburg class has been specially improved, and can form an extremely high temperature in the center of the explosion, claiming that even steel can be melted.

After the shell hit the deck of the Dingyuan ship, a fire broke out, the wooden deck burned violently, and the smoke that rose tightly surrounded the watchtower, and the observers were no longer able to observe the target, and the ballistic data were solved, and the main guns of the Dingyuan ship were already unusable.

Just when the Dingyuan ship and the Great Elector Hou were shelling each other, the four warships, including Zhiyuan and Jingyuan, which were located on the right flank of the Dingyuan ship, had already sailed into the range of the other side and inserted into the opponent's column formation, and the two sides had formed a chaotic battle situation.

This kind of chaotic war situation is not uncommon in naval warfare in the steam-powered era, the two sides have no fixed formation, fighting separately, and the sea is full of smoke, in this case, it is difficult for the flagship to command and control the overall situation, so the commanders of the fleets of the two sides - Ding Ruchang and Dietrich coincidentally ordered to fight separately.

In this situation, the high speed and high rate of fire of the German ships gave full play to their great advantages, and the ships of the Beiyang Fleet rained down bullets for a while, and the four cruisers of the German fleet were like four fierce wolves, trapping the Pingjia cruiser Jingyuan in the core.

The so-called flat-armored cruiser is different from the dome-armored cruiser in that the flat-armored is not as flat in the middle as the dome-armored structure, with only one layer of flat steel armor to protect the ammunition depot and engine room. This armor has a fatal flaw, this layer of armor is located below the waterline, and once the outer hull is breached, sea water will rush into the hull, so that the water will accumulate in the hull above the armor, and the warship will sink.

This fatal flaw was soon manifested in the battle, under the siege of the German ship, the ship was hit by dozens of cannons, the hull began to enter the water and tilted, the engine room began to enter the water, and in order to prevent the boiler from exploding, the pipe belt of the warlord had to order to extinguish the boiler in the compartment of the water, with the increase of water intake, the boiler of the warship was all extinguished, and the warp finally lost all power.

The tilt of the hull accelerated the sinking of the ship, and in the end, the pipe belt of the warp had to give the order to abandon the ship.

In the process, the Beiyang Fleet also carried out continuous strikes against the German fleet, and due to the generally slow rate of fire of the Beiyang Fleet's guns, it always fell behind throughout the engagement.

The naval battle lasted four hours, and with the sinking of the Jingyuan ship, the German fleet was the first to withdraw from the battlefield, and the Beiyang fleet was also evacuated.

The first ironclad fleet encounter in human history, known as the "Battle of the Yellow Sea", came to an end, and on the German fleet, one cruiser lost its combat effectiveness, and the rest of the warships were damaged to varying degrees; In terms of the Beiyang Fleet, the Jingyuan ship sank, and the Zhiyuan ship damaged in the naval battle of Jiaozhou Bay lost its combat effectiveness, and it is worth mentioning that: according to post-war statistics, the Dingyuan ship was hit by as many as 187 shells, but none of the shells penetrated the armor.

The German fleet went all the way south and entered the British colony of Hong Kong, and the British immediately made a diplomatic posture of mediation, actively mediated, and the Qing court, which wanted to calm the people, finally agreed to compensate the military expenses of 5 million taels of silver, and dismissed Deng Shichang, the "initiator" of the conflict, from his post, and stripped him of the name of "Gelsa Baturu" and exiled him to the island of Taiwan.

On November 25, Deng Shichang stood on the ship bound for Taiwan, and through the porthole, he looked at the island of Taiwan shrouded in the vast clouds and mist, just as when he was 38 years old, when he received the Zhiyuan ship and returned to China, he looked at the land he loved so much on the vast Bohai Sea.

From the moment he joined the navy, he thought about the fate of the admiral who would inevitably die in battle, but he couldn't think that he was exiled to Taiwan as a prisoner.

If you want to put your heart into Yaoqin, there are few bosom friends, and who will listen to the broken strings!

He doesn't know what to do, and soon he will meet a captain who shares his patriotic feelings, and he will carry out his ambitions in another strange place.