In the end, the Fusang sank Dingyuan's 12-inch main gun, although it was because of too many bullets, but this 3700+ ton honest ironclad ship still floated on the water. From time to time, sailors on board jumped into the sea in life jackets. At this time, the 12-inch gun of Dingyuan was slowly aiming. At a distance of less than 500 meters, Dingzhen's 12-inch guns let out an earth-shattering roar, and two 12-inch shells tore through the armor belt of the Fusang and burrowed into the hull under a 240 main gun. A few seconds later, a burst of flames burst out from the bullet. Huge flames were scattered in all directions with fragments of the ship's hull. A lot of debris hit the hull of Dingyuan. A loud bang followed. The entire battleship seemed to be lifted from the book by a huge force, and then under its own weight, the whole battleship was broken into two ends. The whirlpool formed by the hull of the ship into the water sent the Japanese sailors who jumped into the water to escape from the sea into the sea.

"The battleship turns, support Zhenyuan and sink King Kong and Hiei too!" A smile appeared on Liu Buyun's face. The first battle in today's naval battle was achieved by him Dingyuan. However, he was not satisfied, an old warship of less than 4,000 tons had nothing to boast about. Fuji and Yashima are his targets, but before Zhiyuan's second detachment, Dingyuan still needs to help the other 3 ships eliminate King Kong and Hiei.

In fact, there is no need for Dingyuan to support, under the siege of Dingyuan, Jiyuan and Guangjia, these two old cruisers of more than 2,000 tons do not even have the power to parry. Shortly after Dingyuan sank Fusang. A 12-inch gun fired directly into the hull of the Hiei from the waterline. The Hiei, which had already been hit by bullets and leaned to the left, finally reached its limit. The hull of the ship slammed to the left, and in just a few minutes, the old ship of more than 2,000 tons capsized and sank to the bottom of the sea. And its class-level ship, the King Kong, was not spared, although it was not hit by Zhenyuan's terrible 12-inch naval guns, but too many picric acid high-explosive bombs had burned the battleship into a fireship! The King Kong, which lost its power and firepower, slowly sank to the bottom of the sea.

And just when Dingzhen and other 4 ships and Fusang 3 ships were in a bloody battle, Jingyuan and Laiyuan also got together with Gao Qianho and Izumi. Although Jingyuan and Laiyuan are known as armored cruisers, only 8 inches of steel armor can only cover a small strip of waterline. The protection is very limited, and it is not stronger than that of Izumi Takachiho. As for the firepower. Jingyuan and Laiyuan had only 2 8-inch guns and 2 6-inch guns. The side chord of the Izumi has 2 10-inch main guns and 3 6-inch guns, relatively speaking, the combination of Gao Chiho and Izumi is more advantageous.

But on the whole, the two sides are still a level of opponents, so the four warships on both sides are very entangled, this is a real battle without tricks, tactics are not used, and there are only two ships on one side in total. The competition is who has better gunnery. The gunners of Jingyuan and Laiyuan were obviously superior, but the Japanese had more artillery. Basically, the two sides began to fight on a par.

However, as time passed, the two ships gradually showed a decline. Why? The problem of the ship itself, ah, for the name of this armored cruiser. These two battleships paid too much price, and a lot of weight was used for the small strip of armor at the waterline, and this armor that was not high enough did not show much of the waterline, that is, because the height was not enough, it was actually difficult to withstand the opponent's shells. (A more striking example is the Russo-Japanese naval battle, where the Russians loaded too much coal and ammunition, causing the draft to go too deep, and as a result, the main armor belt of the battleship went into the water.) The level of protection was dropped directly from battleships to unprotected ships--! And because the armor is too heavy, the 2900-ton battleship has relatively poor soft indicators such as reserve buoyancy.

So on the whole, the dome armor of a battleship under 4,000 tons is still better than that of an armored ship, and the former can at least give better protection to the core cabin, as for the latter? Either the armor belt is not thick enough, or the armor belt is not high enough. It takes up a lot of weight. Resulting in a strict deficiency in weapons or other performance. And Beiyang suffered a loss in this regard. But fortunately, it can still hold on for now. Laiyuan always hoped that Dingzhen would support him after solving Fusang and other 3 ships, but he didn't wait for Dingzhen's support, but attracted the reserves of both sides!! …,

Just when the two sides came together. The three ships of the Beiyang Fleet, Pingyuan, Chaoyong, and Yang Wei, rushed over with a fleet of torpedo boats and gunboats. Originally, the Pingyuan ship took Li He to support Dingzhen, but seeing that the Beiyang Fleet had a big advantage over there, he went to add to the chaos. (The two sides are in a chaotic fight.) Wouldn't it be even more chaotic to add another small boat? So he sailed to the two ships that came and went. However, because of the speed and initial position problems, after fighting for half a day with Yuanyuan and Laiyuan, Li He led the team to arrive. And not long after Li He's arrival, the Japanese Tenryu and Haimen also rushed over with 3 gunboats, well, there are as many as 16 torpedo boats behind!!

If you ask which battlefield in the naval battle of Gunsan Bay has the most participating ships. It is not a sub-battlefield of Dingzhen and Fuso, nor a sub-battlefield of Zhenhai and Fuji Hachishima, but a sub-battlefield of Kokura and Izumi Takachiho! If the Dingzhen battlefield is the battle of ironclad ships, and Zhenhai is the battle of the cruiser battle line, then the battlefield that can only be called a battlefield of miscellaneous fish can only be called after a long distance.

Later generations of foreign scholars said that the battle of this sub-battlefield was a battle that was worse than each other, just to see whose ship was worse. The Tenryu was launched in 1883, while the Haimen was launched in 1882. Originally, it was not his turn to go to the battlefield, but some time ago, the unprotected cruisers of the Japanese ships had already made Xu Jie almost knock out, so he could only pull out the general in the short man. Sent him to the front. However, there is no ambiguity on the Beiyang side. Chaoyong was launched in 1880. In terms of shabby, the two sides are really half-hearted! On performance? Everybody gets it. But this battle between antique ships has also been full of twists and turns! Carry somebody away!

On the Japanese side, there were 2 unprotected cruisers and 4 gunboats, and on the Beiyang side, there were 1 coastal defense ships plus 2 unprotected cruisers and 2 gunboats. I feel that the Beiyang side should have the advantage. But that's not the case at all. Let's talk about gunboats first, the two ships in the town and south of the town in Beiyang have a displacement of 430 tons. It was armed with one 11-inch gun and two 12-pounder guns, as well as a small number of machine guns. The 11-inch cannon looks mighty, but in reality? This 11-inch gun is actually a breech gun! And because the cannon is too big for the town. The ship had to be stopped when the cannon was fired! Do you say this cheating daddy is not a cheat?

On Xu Jie's plane, these gunboats didn't play any role, and now this plane still has no role! This ship is really bad, and it can't be reversed by manpower!! On the other hand, the three Japanese gunboats had a displacement of more than 600 tons. IT IS ARMED WITH 4 120MM RAPID-FIRE GUNS. THERE IS ALSO A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF 47MM GUNS. This firepower is obviously more than one level higher than the Zhenzi gunboat in Beiyang!! (Historically, only the Oshima gunboat was equipped with rapid-fire guns, and the remaining 3 were all 120MM breech guns, in this plane, the Japanese fleet had to work small ships because of heavy losses in the early stage, so in order to increase combat power, it had to work small ships, so some small gunboats were equipped with rapid-fire guns.) ）

And these three small gunboats with rapid-fire guns brought great trouble to the old ships of Beiyang!! There is no need to pay attention to the formation of the battle between the boats, and the two sides immediately turned into a chaotic battle once they came into contact, the two battleships of Chaoyong Yang Wei and Tianlong Haimen fought each other, and the Pingyuan was surrounded by 3 Japanese gunboats in the middle of a violent beating, as for the Zhenzi gunboat, Japan directly ignored it, and the two gunboats actually had no sense of zài!

Relatively speaking, Chaoyong Yang Wei and Tianlong Haimen are still half a catty. THE OLD 10-INCH GUNS IN THE FRONT AND REAR HAVE BEEN REPLACED WITH 150MM RAPID-FIRE GUNS, AND THE OLD 40-POUNDER GUNS HAVE BEEN REPLACED WITH NEW 120MM GUNS. THE HAIMEN IS ONE 170MM MOUNT GUN AND SIX 120MM RAPID-FIRE GUNS. (Tianlong is 4 doors) As for protection, both sides are unprotected cruisers, wooden hulls, and a piece of picric acid will be burned as soon as it is fried!

The four unprotected cruisers with blades and no armor were extremely miserable as soon as they fought. Each hit shot sent a huge fireball over the hull, and the fire spread rapidly. Soon it spread, and sailors on both sides rushed up to extinguish the fire with water hoses or other fire-extinguishing tools braving the strafing of various small-caliber shells. At first, it was still under control, but as the distance got closer, both sides found that the fire was gradually getting out of control! …,

THE SADDEST THING IS THAT ONCE YOU GO OUT, YOU MAY NOT RUN TO THE FIRE POINT, AND YOU WILL BE SWEPT TO THE GROUND BY AN 11MM MACHINE GUN OR 25MM MACHINE GUN. Once the powerful 25MM cannon hits, it will directly blow people apart, and the more the two sides dare not push out the battlefield to extinguish the fire, because at this rate of fire, if you want to go, I am afraid that you will be caught up and killed by the opponent before you can open the distance, so this is a test of will. Let's see who can hold on!!

A 4.7-inch shell arced through the air and hit a 120mm gun emplacement. With a loud bang, the gun, which weighed more than 2 tons, was blown into two pieces. The gunners on the side were either swept down by the scattered shrapnel or burned to the ground by picric charges. The Haimen Chai Sanzhongzuo, who had severely damaged the enemy ship, was extremely excited, and there was only one 6-inch gun and one 4.7-inch gun left in the side-chord gun emplacement. And their own artillery basically had little to lose. That's a great deal. So he closed the distance and prepared to deal a heavy blow to the Super Brave. The crew of the Haimen howled as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, and the stokers poured more coal into the boilers. The Haimen rushed up like a hungry wolf that had found a fat sheep.

And Huang Jianxun, the pipe band of the Chaoyong, looked at the Chaoyong, who had lost half of his firepower, and there was nothing he could do, his own hits were obviously more than the opponent's, but none of the hits were at the gun position, although the opponent was also hit by a bullet and caught fire, but the firepower did not have much impact. Looking at the surrounding form, he found that his super bravery was not the worst, and the Pingyuan was already a little unable to support it under the siege of 4 gunboats. And looking at the Haimen approaching in the distance, a bold, almost desperate idea gradually formed in his mind.

Thanks to the book friend Xiaofeihu 0211 for the tip. The Great War has just begun. Everyone's a little bit stronger~~、