When Xu Jie led the fleet to arrive, Xu Jie, Lang Weili and the others suddenly found that the battle here was nearing the end! The Zhenhai ship took Zhiyuan to pursue Songdao and Itsukushima. And Izumi and Chiyoda are fleeing in the other direction. After a short period of flag contact, Xu Jie finally led the fleet to evacuate in the direction of the retreat of the main force of the Japanese Navy. And when they joined Zhenyuan Jiyuan, they did not find Dingyuan and Suiyuan Kaiyuan 2 ships. This made Xu Jie very uneasy. But then the liaison officer who came up from Zhenyuan let Xu Jie and the others know everything.

"Liu Buchan, this is reckless, this is overstepping his authority!" Upon learning what had happened, Luang Weili was furious.

"This is not the time to be held accountable, and now that the Fuji has not gone far, we can still catch up. Even if there are only 3 battleships, if Japan dares to fight, none of them will be able to run! Xu Jie was also very angry, but he knew that the most important thing to do now was to plug the hole that Liu Buyun had poked out, instead of discussing how to deal with the other party, and from the original meaning, Liu Buyun did not make a mistake in charge, so now is not the time to be guilty!

Then Xu Jie led the fleet to chase in the direction where Fuji Yashima and other ships fled. At the same time, Lin Taizeng was asked to quickly take over the Suiyuan and Kaiyuan ships to escort the Dingyuan, and let Lin Yongsheng free up his hands to pursue the other Japanese ships, after all, at this time, the Guiyuan class, which has good speed and firepower, is definitely a good hand at chasing and killing!

At the same time, Shikinori Kayama, who had temporarily thrown off the Beiyang Fleet, did not cheer for escaping and ascending to heaven like the others. There are two reasons for this. First, whether or not he was able to lead the fleet out of the city, the defeat of the Japanese Combined Fleet was already a fact. After this battle, the Beiyang Fleet, in addition to being afraid of the mine array in the Korean Strait, will hold the sea supremacy of the entire Yellow Sea in its hands! Even the coastline of mainland Japan has become unsafe! This is undoubtedly fatal for Japan, which relies on sea freight! How can this battle be fought?

Second. [Literature] That is, Shiki Kayama thinks that he is not safe now, although he hit Dingyuan hard before evacuating. But the Fuji and Yashima were also damaged, and there was a lot of water, and in this case the speed was only 14 knots at most. And this speed is for the Garibaldi class, which has a speed of more than 20 knots. The distance between the two sides is not irreparable. After all, the time it takes to get rid of the Beiyang Fleet is estimated to be about half an hour!

"Akiyama-kun, you immediately get on the transport boat, go to the Kurama and tell the third commander of the Tsuboi Airlines, and say that if the three Garibaldi follow up, then let Kurama and Yoshino go first." Suddenly, Shiki Kayama turned around and said softly to the staff officer beside him.

"Yes, Your Excellency, I'll let the signalmen send the signal." Mayuki Akiyama didn't move.

"I mean let you go, you don't have to come back, and go back to Japan with the Kurama." Kayama Shiki said with some sadness. He's already figured it out. If the Beiyang Fleet catches up, leave the Fuji and Yashima to fight the pursuers. Let the faster Kurama and Yoshino escape from the battlefield.

"For the sake of the Japanese Combined Fleet, for the sake of Japan, Akiyama-kun, you must live well. Bring my saber back and help me hand it over to my family. : Shiki Kayama has already begun to arrange the aftermath. And Sanzen Katsumi and the others also handed over some of their belongings to Akiyama Shinyuki and asked him to help bring them back.

At the same time, Xu Jie and Lang Weili were deducing the situation on the battlefield, although because of Liu Buyun's mistake, the Beiyang Naval Division lost the possibility of completely encircling and annihilating the Japanese fleet. But from now. The situation is not too bad.

"If nothing else, Lord Lin's two battleships should be able to pursue one of the routs based on the smoke of the damaged battleship, the power system of the Sanjing ship itself is unstable, and it has been damaged, it is estimated that it will not be able to escape." As he spoke, Xu Jie ticked the name of the Sanjingjian off the paper. …,

"It is said that the Hashidate retreated first, which is a variable. It should not be counted as a battleship that will be lost. Luang Wiley disagreed.

"Then we'll get rid of Hashitachi first." Xu Jie nodded and continued: "Izumi and Chiyoda should have no chance to escape, the speed is low, the protection is poor, and the firepower is not good. ”

"In this way, I'm afraid that only the four battleships Fuji Hachishima and Kurama Yoshino are left, and they ran 4 big fish nets to catch a bunch, which is really a miscalculation." Luang Weili shook his head.

"I can't run away. As long as we don't go on the wrong course, Fuji and Yashima have absolutely no chance of running away, as for Kurama and Yoshino. They really can't do anything about it. Xu Jie said helplessly.

If you want to ask who regrets the most at this time, it is not Kayama Shiki or Pingjing Hangsan, but Liu Buyun, the chief soldier of the right wing of the Beiyang Fleet. Looking at the incomplete deck and the various bullet holes in the hull of the ship that were burned by the flames, Liu Buyun felt a trace of bloody things surging up from the corners of his mouth.

"Maybe I did get carried away." Recalling the scene just now, Liu Buyun still had a trace of fear in his heart, like a raindrop of high-explosive bombs slashing his head, and all places without adequate armor protection turned into a sea of fire. The proud armor could not prevent the loss of combat power of the Dingyuan. If Lin Yongsheng hadn't arrived in time, I'm afraid he would have been finished, right?

What's even more terrifying is that because of their own mistakes, the Beiyang Fleet let the 4 most threatening battleships in the Japanese fleet run away! The biggest task of the Beiyang Fleet in this battle could not be completed because of his own mistakes, and when he thought of this, Liu Buyun couldn't help but think of his colleagues who died in the naval battle of Qunshan Bay and those Beiyang warships that sank in battle. Those sunken warships seemed to be cruising in the territorial waters of the motherland again, while the comrades who died in battle above looked at them coldly.

"Mr. Liu, you have disappointed me so much." Suddenly, Li He on the Pingyuan ship said coldly, his tone was full of helplessness and disappointment.

"No, I'm not going to disappoint you. I swear. Liu Buyun hurriedly said.

"Junmen, Admiral Ding has woken up." An officer next to him said.

"I, I'll go over immediately." In an instant, the battleship in front of him and the sacrificed comrades-in-arms disappeared, and Liu Buyun saw an officer with a bloody face.

"You can go and bandage it first." After Liu Buyun finished speaking, he immediately walked to the hospital on the warship.

"Zixiang, how is the fight?" Ding Ruchang, who was lying on the hospital bed, asked with difficulty.

"Lord Xu's fleet has already come over and is cleaning up the pieces." Liu Buyun concealed the situation of Fuji and other ships against his will.

"Well, let the damaged battleship go back." After speaking, Ding Ruchang quietly closed his eyes and fell asleep.

"All the wounded warships are assembled, and the town is far away to cover the retreat, if you can meet Lord Ye or Lord Lin Yongsheng, tell them that the sin minister Zixiang will lead the injured fleet to take the first step, and wait for your victorious return at the predetermined assembly point." Speaking of this, Liu Buyun sighed and said.

At this time, if you want to say that the busiest ones are probably Ye Zuqi and Lin Yongsheng, Liu Buyun is retreating, Xu Jie is pursuing, and Huashan Shiki and Pingjing Hangsan are fleeing for their lives, and no one on either side has met anyone. But Lin Yongsheng has already bitten the Izumi and Chiyoda.

And almost at the same time, in another battlefield, Ye Zuqi and Ding Yuqian had already caught up with Matsushima and Itsukushima in the Sanjing ship. It stands to reason that the theoretical speed of Matsushima and Itsukushima is not low, but it can't withstand the attack of the 8-inch Armstrong cannon of Zhiyuan, and it has the problem of too heavy weapons.

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