The tactical intent of the Beiyang Fleet is rather special, because there are warships with bows facing the enemy and warships facing the enemy on the side chord, so as a last resort, the Beiyang Fleet will be divided into two parts of the battle, in which the high-speed fleet dominated by Zhenhai will try to block the course of the Japanese fleet, and use the sidestring artillery to launch an attack, while covering the flank of the first detachment. The first detachment headed by Dingzhen and the Pingyuan ships were full of chaotic battles. Cut into the opponent's formation, then pour some of the opponent's ships into the scramble.

Compared with the relatively chaotic formation in the Beiyang, the warships of the Japanese fleet were the product of side-chord engagement, and a single column could maximize the fleet's firepower. But the Japanese fleet also had its own problems, and Fuji Hachishima in front could reach speeds of about 14 knots all the way up to Takachiho and Izumi. (The boiler problem of the Sankei ship in the main plane has been solved) but the ships such as Fuso Hiei in the back cannot reach such a high speed, which means that these battleships will definitely be left behind in the engagement.

Since the end of the Battle of the Izu Islands, the Japanese fleet has also conducted a special test of the speed of its own ships, and found that if the war resumes, both the fleet and the guerrilla fleet will still have the problem of inconsistent speeds, which will cause loopholes. This is a hardware issue that cannot be solved at all. So after research, Shiki Kayama and the others decided that since the battleships behind could not keep up, they would throw it away. As a decoy, it attracts the firepower of Dingzhen and other ships, and then the main fleet uses this time to eat the opponent's cruiser. After eating the opponent's cruiser formation, go around to Dingzhen and wait behind the ships to attack.

Thus, in Gunsan Bay, the two most powerful fleets in East Asia fought the first decisive battle since the First Sino-Japanese War. The two sides rushed towards each other because of the gods of war who came out of ancient times. The big war is imminent!!

Under the leadership of the flagship Fuji, the Japanese fleet swept at high speed from 5 kilometers in front of the Beiyang Naval Division like a swimming dragon, while the two detachments of the Beiyang Fleet were deployed on the left and right, the second detachment headed by the Zhenhai advanced at full speed to cut off the opponent's route, and the first detachment, which had completed the formation, wanted to cut the column of the Japanese fleet. History is similar and not so similar at this moment.

Although the speed of the Beiyang ships, which have improved power and have high-quality coal, has decreased due to the long service life, even Dingzhen can run at a speed of more than 12 knots! However, the speed of the Japanese Navy's Fuso Hiei King Kong III has not increased much, and even when the Japanese Navy deduced before the war, they did not expect that these old ships in Beiyang Dingzhen could still drive such a high combat speed! When the Dingzhen Second Ship of the Beiyang Fleet stabbed into the Japanese formation like a knight's spear, it was not only the Fuso Third Ship that intercepted it. Even the Izumi and Takachiho, who were in the team, failed to keep up with the previous team.

"Commander Kayama, Gao Chiho and the Izumi didn't follow, don't intercept it." The captain of the Fuji, Katsumi Mizen, looked anxiously behind him.

"Leave them alone, let's defeat the enemy in front of us first." Shiki Kayama gritted his teeth and looked at the Zhenhai that was coming to intercept in front of him.

The Japanese fleet, which had been cut off from the front team, seemed to be in chaos for a while, and the Takachiho and Izumi originally planned to continue to catch up with the front team by bypassing the Dingzhen No. 2 ship by virtue of their speed, but with the passage of the left flank of Dingzhen, the two armored cruisers were in place. Once again, the route of the Takachiho and Izumi was jammed, and the 10-inch cannon from the bow of the Takachiho opened fire, firing the first shot of the naval battle of Gunsan Bay.

At the same time, the Fusang 3 ship, which was knocked down due to speed problems, made a shocking tactical maneuver in the face of Dingzhen Jiyuan and Guangjia, with Fuso taking the lead in the two ships of King Kong Hiei, and immediately turned in a vain attempt to pass through the middle of the Beiyang Fleet!

"It's just in time, the main gun is ready!" Liu Buyun looked at the prey sent to the door and sneered. 12-inch shells weighing 800 pounds were fed into the chamber by the gunners. Silent gunpowder, weighing approximately 174 pounds, was then placed in the chamber. Then, as the gunner aimed at the target according to the gun table, and with the order of the gun commander embroidered with crossed halberds on his back, the four 12-inch/35L giant guns of the Dingyuan let out his first roar in the naval battle, Dingzhen, these two battleships like sea gods in the Far East, finally let out their first roar on the battlefield after 9 years of service! …,

The battlefield was instantly filled with a loud sound like a thunderclap, and orange-red flames rushed out of the muzzle, and huge shells flew towards the enemy ship Fuso at a distance of 3.5 km. A few seconds later, four huge columns of water rose into the air around the Fuso, and the captain of the Fuso, Arai Yuko, visibly felt the battleship shake a little. The originally calm heart immediately felt like something was grabbing it. "Amaterasu bless." The captain prayed silently. SHORTLY AFTER DINGYUAN OPENED FIRE, THE FUSO'S 240MM HEAVY GUNS ALSO BEGAN FIRING. Then Hiei and King Kong behind Fusang also opened fire, and the Beiyang Fleet Dingyuan Town, Yuanjiyuan and Guangjia were also in full fire! The two sides hedged head-on. The first battle of the sub-battlefield in the Battle of Gunsan Bay began.

The firing distance of the two sides was only 3.5KM and the relative speed of the two sides was nearly 20 knots, in this case, the distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer, and the accuracy of the two sides became more and more accurate, and only 3 minutes after the battle, the Fuso, which was at the head of the line, was hit by a 6-inch rapid-fire cannon shell. The powerful cannonball directly opened a hole in the old steel armor of the Fuso, and with a loud bang, a puff of green smoke suddenly erupted from the middle of the Fuso.

THEN ANOTHER 203MM SHELL HIT A CORNER OF THE CENTRAL GUN ROOM OF THE FUSO, AND THE 100KG SHELL IGNORED THE PROTECTION OF THE ARMOR OF THE GUN ROOM AND FIRED STRAIGHT INTO THE 240MM MAIN GUN ROOM, AND THE HUGE EXPLOSION MADE THE 240MM HEAVY GUN WEIGHING MORE THAN 20 TONS RETREAT FROM THE GUN POSITION. Scattered shrapnel and violently burning picric acid explosives filled the entire gun chamber in an instant. The casual flying at high speed even pierced the next door of the gun room, knocking the entire wall into a sieve. A high column of smoke rose into the air in an instant.

AT THE SAME TIME, A 240MM SHELL ALSO HIT THE BOW HOSPITAL IN DINGYUAN. There was no armor protection here, and the shells exploded in the hospital after penetrating the outer sheet. However, unlike in history, before the war, the Beiyang Navy Division had removed all kinds of textiles, wood, and other flammable materials from the hospital. Although it still caused a fire, the fire was quickly brought under control and had little impact.

During the exchange of fire, the two sides approached again. The Fusang was about to pass through the middle of Dingyuan and Jiyuan, and at this time, the Beiyang Fleet was faced with such a problem, although the distance between the two sides was close, but at such a close distance, the design of the two sides was very likely to hit the friendly ships on the other side. Seeing this situation, Liu Buyun decisively ordered Jiyuan and Guangjia to speed up and attack Birui and King Kong from the right flank. Instead, Yuan dealt with the Hiei alone. And Zhenyuan, who cooperated with Dingyuan, also accompanied the turn, attacking Biei and King Kong with left fire. As a result, the entire formation was completely chaotic, and the two sides became a chaotic battle formation with two ships or a single ship fighting independently.

Just when the Fusang finally avoided the four 12-inch cannons in the bow in order to rush to the side chord of the Dingyuan, she secretly rejoiced. The Dingyuan's central axis was not limited to 5 6-inch rapid-fire guns (one in the bow and one in the stern, three in the middle. Finally told this old ironclad ship that the improved Dingyuan sidechord firepower is not something it can resist! 6-inch rapid-fire guns, 12-pounder rapid-fire guns (replaced by the original 75mm Krupp sampan gun), and the Hatch Chase rapid-fire gun on the rear mast also rained down on the terrifying bullets! (The mast on the foremast has been knocked off as in history, and a certain Ming Beiyang Shui Yong on the mast became the first person to die in the naval battle of Qunshan Bay!) ）

AT A DISTANCE OF LESS THAN 1KM, BOTH SIDES HAD EXTREMELY HIGH HIT PERCENTAGES. The guns of both sides swept at the faces and bridges of each other with the maximum rate of fire. Shells ejected from the chamber of the gun at a rapid pace. Small-caliber shells danced in the air in a series of fiery snakes. Then he plunged into the enemy ship not far away. And the medium-caliber rapid-fire gun, under the operation of the tireless gunner, actually fired a high rate of fire of 5 rounds per minute! For a time, a dense network of fire was formed between the battleships Dingyuan and Fuso. Such a high-intensity confrontation competition is not only a firepower projection, but also a test of the protection of both sides! And in this never-ending duel, the Fuso, which is older and has a smaller displacement, basically has no chance of winning. …,

The Fuso's 170 guns hit at least twice in the counterfire, one hitting Dingyuan's main armor belt, but it was ricocheted off by the 14-inch thick steel-faced iron armor. The other shot hit Dingyuan's bulwark. and knocked a 12-pounder rapid-fire cannon in the back into a parted state. The 240 gun also had one hit, hitting the mount of the starboard main gun of the Dingyuan, but it was deflected. And small shells are countless.

"The Dingyuan lit fire points one after another, the sailors in charge of the damage management braved the rain of bullets to extinguish the fire with water hoses, and some people picked up the newly invented foam fire extinguishers and rushed to the fire points, I saw with my own eyes that a soldier just rushed out less than 3 meters before being swept down by flying shrapnel. Then another soldier immediately rushed forward, picked up a fire extinguisher and rushed to the fire. Waited for 10 minutes and didn't come back. The soldier in third place picked up the fire extinguisher with a blank face and rushed to the fire point at the bulwark. It seems that the rain of bullets and poisonous smoke have nothing to do with him. I never saw these 3 people again. But their backs are something I will never forget. "At that time, the American foreigner Magifin wrote in his memoirs afterwards." They were the real braves, and they were the backbone of the Qing Kingdom in that era. As if it weren't enough, Magiffen added another sentence in his memoirs.

And the Fuso was even more tragic in such a fierce firefight. The raining down of small-caliber shells had already turned the Fuso's surface into a sea of fire. All exposed personnel barely survive for less than 2 minutes before being killed by shrapnel or flames.

And the real blow of Yan zhòng was the 6-inch cannon of the Dingyuan side chord. The rate of fire of up to 4 rounds per minute is enough for Fuso to experience what a steel storm is, and more than 20 shells per minute are combined with a high hit rate at close range. In just 5 minutes, the Fuso was hit with 7 shots! Two of the guns entered the Fuso's gun room, destroying two guns, and the other two hit the waterline armor and penetrated directly into the boiler room, accompanied by a muffled sound. The Fuso slammed into the hull and spewed puffs of water vapor from the breach in the hull. The entire battleship also slowed down suddenly. A large amount of seawater poured into the boiler compartment from the breach. The battleship lost power and flooded one side. The Fuso began to tilt. The dividing line is the waterline, above which is the fire, and below the waterline is the boiling sea water flowing into the hull. Generally fire, generally water.

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