The small movements of the Japanese fleet did not hide the eyes of Lin Yongsheng and Ye Zuqi and others, and when Kurama and Yoshino began to speed up and prepare to separate, Ye Zuqi tried to give a signal to Ding Ruchang, Liu Buyun and others to pay attention. At the same time, in order to take care of the two tasks of pursuing the enemy ship and defending against lightning strikes, Lin Yongsheng decided to break away from the battle column and pursue the Kurama and Yoshino alone, while the Zhenhai stayed behind to cover the already injured battleships behind to deal with the lightning strikes of the other side.

"Let's go, Lord Xu has always wanted to sink Kurama and Yoshino, and we are the only battleship that can suppress the opponent in terms of speed, and success or failure is here." Lin Yongsheng said proudly, and then the Guiyuan and Kaiyuan began to accelerate, and the boilermen worked harder to send the Welsh anthracite into the furnace. (Don't make a fuss, during the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese used Welsh anthracite!!) The pressure of the boiler continued to rise, and the smoke coming out of the chimney formed a smoke band, like a fluctuating dragon.

"We'll take care of the rest of the ships." Ding Yuqian looked at the battleships that had been injured and were struggling in the flames and smoke and sneered. Everyone likes to beat the water dogs, although Ding Yuqian thinks that it is a bit overkill to use an 8,500-ton cruiser to fight the damaged second-class dome cruiser, but he doesn't mind adding the names of such a few battleships to his credit book at all!

"Lord Ding, let's hurry up and deal with those hateful torpedo boats." The first mate on the side reminded.

"That's right, order the whole fleet to move at the same speed, open the distance, and Zhiyuan and the Sea Dragon cover the injured Laiyuan. Get ready to take on the torpedo boats! Looking at the torpedo boats that were interspersed through the gaps in the Japanese fleet, Ye Zuqi ordered.

The Japanese torpedo boats were like bloodthirsty piranhas heading towards the Beiyang Fleet not far away, a total of 6 ships, 12 torpedoes, and they had to sail to a distance of less than 300 meters from the other side before they could launch torpedoes. And also pray that the torpedo will not go wrong! However, the officers and men of the Japanese fleet, who had been brainwashed by militarism, were still immersed in the memory of the great might of the torpedo boats in the Battle of Gunsan Bay, but they seemed to have forgotten that the battle was very different from the fighting situation at that time.

In the Battle of Gunsan Bay, the Japanese torpedo boats faced a lone Beiyang battleship. And the sunken Beiyang battleship has already been heavily damaged in the engagement with the Japanese fleet! Firepower was greatly reduced. With a great numerical advantage, besiege the Beiyang lone battleship. In this way, the Japanese torpedo boat units still paid a great price.

And now? The Beiyang 4 ships still maintain the integrity of the battleship, and all the battleships can still support each other. Although the two sides went through a fierce artillery battle, the battle lasted only 20 minutes. Although many of the two sides were hit by bullets, the number of artillery pieces still remained large. So the firepower is basically not much weakened.

The Japanese Navy launched a torpedo attack with only six torpedo boats on the opponent's well-maintained fleet of more than 14,000 tons, which was undoubtedly self-defeating! The same is true for the three ships that attacked Tianjin, and the same is true for the battle line composed of four warships including Zhenhai. It's just a little slower to die.

A torpedo boat rushing ahead was hit almost instantly by two 8-inch guns, and a huge explosion smashed the small boat directly into the sea. All that came up was a few broken fragments and stumps. It was only half a minute after that. Another torpedo boat was hit by a large number of 3-pounder and 6-pounder shells. The Japanese soldiers on the torpedo boat finally understood what he was going to face, and before the torpedo could be fired, they hurriedly turned to evacuate the battlefield, but a subsequent 12-pound shell left it behind, and the shrapnel from the explosion cut its steam pipe, leaving the ship in place like a dead fish.

Then another torpedo boat was hit by a barrage of shells. Directly blown to pieces. But the remaining 3 torpedo boats finally rushed to a distance of 500 meters. The Japanese Navy, which was already mentally crumbling, could not wait to fire the torpedoes it carried, but it was unfortunate. Two torpedoes sank to the bottom of the sea as soon as they entered the water. The other two were directly missed, and the two torpedoes, which were the most widely hoped for by the Japanese, were dodged by Zhiyuan and the other passed under the hull of the Sea Dragon, which frightened the officers and men above into a cold sweat. …,

However, this torpedo boat assault also entered garbage time, and although the three torpedo boats after firing the torpedo tried their best to evacuate the battlefield, under the intensive artillery attack, this could only become a luxury. In just two minutes, there were three more piles of wreckage on the surface. At this point, there were only 3 torpedo boat formations left in the Japanese Combined Fleet!

This Japanese assault was not in vain, and during this time, the Mikei, Izumi, and Chiyoda had distanced themselves from ships such as the Jinkai ship. And Kurama and Yoshino fled the battlefield quickly, and they were about to join up with the two Japanese capital ships of Fuji Hachishima!

The abnormal movement of the Japanese fleet was seen by Ding Ruchang and Liu Buyun, and when they saw Kurama and Yoshino coming this way, Liu Buchan and the others' first reaction was that Xu Jie's fleet had come. And this is a miscalculation! Liu Buyun didn't expect that before Xu Jie's fleet arrived, Inoue Liangxin had already felt that the situation was out of control and chose to retreat in advance!

Following Kurama and Yoshino were Hayashi's two cruisers. The latter pursued 3,000 meters behind the Yoshino's side. And seeing the arrival of Kurama and Yoshino, there was also a similar miscalculation to Liu Buyun in his mind, that is, the Asahi 3 ship responsible for intercepting has been completely wiped out, and Xu Jie's fleet has been killed! According to the analysis of the battle report of the Beiyang Fleet afterwards, the Asahi 3 ship had indeed been destroyed, but Xu Jie's fleet had not yet arrived. The difference in time is about 20 minutes.

Now that the Asahi 3 ship has been destroyed, then the Japanese fleet will be at an absolute disadvantage. At this point, it is no longer a question of how to destroy the Beiyang Fleet, but a question of how to escape, and in front of this sword of Damocles hanging high above his head, Shiki Kayama did not think about whether Xu Jie's fleet had really arrived, nor did he think about what would happen to the remaining warships of the Japanese fleet. His intuition told him that because of his miscalculation, the Japanese fleet chose to stay instead of withdrawing, and by now, the interception fleet had been destroyed, and he could not delay any longer, and the blood of the Japanese Navy was in his own hands, and no matter what, he had to run out!

The idea is decided, then all that remains is to execute. After signaling the Kurama to return immediately, Fuji and Yashima prepared to leave the battle at full speed. "Rush up. Truncate their routes. "The Dingzhen No. 2 ship, which has always maintained a distance of 2,000 meters from Fuji and Yashima, will naturally not let go of these four Japanese warships that escaped by seizing the road. Taking advantage of the fact that the Kurama and Yoshino had not yet converged with the Fuji Hachishima two ships, Dingyuan led the team to the gap between the two!

According to Liu Buchan's idea, after the three battleships are inserted into the opponent's formation, they can block the convergence of the other party and divide and surround each other with Xu Jie's fleet who arrived later, which is a good idea. But the gap between ideas and reality is huge. First of all, as the commander of the fleet that had been leading the fleet at a speed of less than 15 knots, he underestimated the speed of Kurama and Yoshino.

Even if people go around. You can get around, too! Secondly, at the moment of intersperse, Dingyuan and other ships will be attacked by the opponent's 4 warships with a total of 20,007 tons! The pressure is enormous. And this miscalculation. This led directly to a serious error!

This is clearly a bold move. At this time, the best way to do it at the end of the battle is to delay and seek stability, and lead 3 warships to continue to play Taiji with Fuji Yashima, waiting for the arrival of Lin Yongsheng's fleet, so that it is easier to drag the opponent, but I don't know whether Lu Dao is a little carried away with victory in sight or in order to achieve greater results, Liu Buyun decided to lead the fleet to intersperse. In a hurry, he didn't even say a word to Ding Ruchang! to act on their own, both in terms of discipline and tactics. Liu Buchan has made a big mistake!

"At that time, I felt that both sides of the battleship were covered by a rain of bullets at the same time. The Fuji and Yashima, Kurama and Yoshino were sandwiched from both sides, and my ears were filled with the explosion of cannonballs, and all in front of my eyes were the flames of the explosion of picric acid**. It seemed that in an instant, the Dingyuan ship was in hell. The flames, the pungent poisonous smoke, the stumps, and the wails of the sick seemed to be the entire world. Afterwards, the American foreigner Magifen recalled. …,

In just a few minutes, the Dingyuan did not know how many shells hit the road. The fire and cover covered the entire hull, and even Ding Ruchang, who was on the lookout, was hit in the chest by the flying shrapnel and fell to the ground. Temporarily unconscious. The injury of the chief officer and the damage to the battleship made Liu Buyun confused for a while.

He really didn't expect that the dying Japanese fleet would burst out with such a strong combat power in a short period of time! The Dingyuan ship, which had already cut in, was also forced to withdraw from the battlefield to save itself, and the three torpedo boats at the back of the Japanese fleet quickly approached like hungry wolves smelling rotting flesh.

The Dingyuan ship withdrew from the battlefield, Zhenyuan and Jiyuan naturally did not dare to chase after each other, they could only obstruct the other party's withdrawal, and Lin Yongsheng's fleet was not the time to consider the pursuit now, the Dingyuan ship temporarily covered by the fire needed him to protect, in terms of distance, Dingyuan and Lin Yongsheng's fleet were opposite, and it was easier for the two sides to converge, in terms of speed, the speed of the two Guiyuan class was faster! Therefore, the task of protecting Dingyuan from torpedo boat attacks fell to Lin Yongsheng. And calculating the pursuit, two 5,000-ton warships are chasing four warships with a total tonnage of 27,000 tons, and they are not afraid of being eaten by the opponent in one bite? So even if you chase it, you don't dare to get too far away from Zhenyuan and Jiyuan!

At this time, the three Japanese torpedo boats showed a fairly high quality, and they did not go up directly to lightning strikes like their colleagues, because after witnessing the crushing defeat of their colleagues, they knew how to face the escort of two Guiyuan-class cruisers. There is no chance of going up on your own. So 3 Japanese torpedo boats just lingered from afar, stalling for time.

Lin Yongsheng didn't have the courage to chase it, because even if he was more than 90% sure of this, the status of the flagship was too important. Lin Yongsheng can't afford this responsibility! What's worse is that Lin Yongsheng, who accompanied Dingyuan to evacuate the battlefield, is getting farther and farther away from the Xu Jie fleet that is coming, which directly leads to the inability of the two Guiyuan class ships to join Xu Jie's fleet!

Without the suppression of Dingyuan and the 2 Guiyuan-class, Zhenyuan and Jiyuan obviously did not pose a threat, and the 4 capital ships of the Japanese fleet at this time finally got rid of the fate of being encircled and annihilated temporarily. They began to retreat, as for what will be the final result? No one knows what to do. No one has time to think about these things.

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