Chapter 481: The Bloodstained Ocean (1)
"Stick to your posts, fight to the death, fight to the death!"
The huge hull of the "Weichen" suddenly shook twice in a row, and it was obvious that the Japanese warship that was charging had already approached the side of the "Weichen", and when he thought of this, He Ming was in a hurry, and rushed to the left side of the ship where the vibration came while holding a knife and shouting loudly.
"Fight to the death, fight to the death!"
The soldiers of the Qing Dynasty, who had been besieged by the warships of the Japanese State, knew that the result of this battle was already fierce and auspicious, and there was no side, just one word - far water could not quench the thirst of the near, and when the main fleet of their side was freed up, the "Weichen" had already fallen, even so, the soldiers who were facing the almost mortal situation did not have the slightest fear, and raised all kinds of blades in their hands and roared loudly, and a tragic and heroic spirit suddenly rose.
"Bah, Bah, Bah......"
He Mingfang had just led the guards to rush down from the bridge, and before he could rush to the port side, the gunfire was already loud, but he saw that more than a dozen Marine officers and soldiers guarding the port side had already raised their guns and fired indiscriminately under the ship, after the rifle was finished, they didn't even care about loading, and picked up the revolver and fired indiscriminately, while the Japanese soldiers on the Japanese warship returned the color with bows and crossbows, and the result of the competition between the two sides was naturally that the Japanese side suffered a big loss, and dozens of people were killed by random guns, while only two people in the Qing army were hit by arrows. One of them fell to the surface of the sea, and the other was hit by an arrow in the shoulder and temporarily lost his combat power.
"Whoosh ......"
The firepower of the Qing army marines is fierce, but the area of defense is too large, and it takes time to reload bullets, a few rounds of fighting, although many Japanese soldiers were killed, but it was difficult to stop the two Japanese warships on the many soldiers in turn to impact, the bullets were not long before they were consumed clean, and the Japanese soldiers who had no obstruction swarmed up again, threw out hooks and ropes, hooked up the side of the "Weichen", and climbed to the ground like ants.
The port side is in an emergency, the starboard side is also in an emergency, the personal guards led by He Ming can only become firefighters, rushing around to support the defense of more and more difficult places, but when the manpower is finally poor, with a burst of cheers on the sea at the bow of the ship, finally a number of Japanese slaves with samurai swords turned onto the deck of the "Weichen", the battle has come to this point, for the "Weichen" soldiers, it has reached the most critical moment!
"General He, the Japanese slaves have boarded the 'Weichen'!"
On the other side of the southeast battlefield, the "Zhenhai" has relied on the huge hull of the ship, forcibly squeezed through the interception of the Japanese naval division, and the "Weiyuan" together, arranged in a line, and cooperated with each other to use naval artillery bombardment to drive away the Japanese warships that were cruising around. The lookout post on the main mast of the Zhenyuan suddenly exclaimed loudly.
"Damn! Leave the 'Weichen' alone, take your place, defend! ”
Hearing the sound wrong, He Lin hurriedly turned his head and looked at the place where the "Weichen" was, and saw that more than a dozen Japanese warships had all leaned on the sides of the "Weichen", and a group of Japanese soldiers were climbing along the hook rope to the "Weichen", and his heart couldn't help but tremble, because the commander of the "Weichen" was his brother-in-law He Ming, like this danger, the possibility of He Ming's survival was extremely low, He Lin really wanted to rush over to rescue, but he wanted to think about it, but he couldn't do it, In desperation, he could only stomp his feet and scold, no longer paying attention to the besieged "Weichen", but instead focused on commanding the joint defense of the "Zhenhai" and "Weiyuan".
"Order: Ito Masayoshi immediately lead the warships of his headquarters to attack, delay the reinforcements of the fleet in China, and make sure to buy enough time for the main fleet, and in addition, the rest of the ships immediately launch a strong attack, regardless of the cost, in order to divide the connection between the two enemy ships."
Although the Qing army's vanguard fleet was already trying its best to move forward, it still failed to reach the southeast battlefield before the main fleet of the Japanese state, which was still two miles away from the location of the battlefield, and Sakata Yokozo, who led his troops to the battlefield, did not go all out to attack, but ordered his general Ito Masayoshi to lead one-third of the fleet to attack to delay the Qing vanguard fleet, and he himself commanded more than 150 warships of the main fleet to put into the attack on the "Zhenhai" and "Weiyuan". The battle situation has further deteriorated for the first detachment of the Qing army, and it is really difficult to say whether it can hold on to the help of its own vanguard fleet.
"All ships obey the order, rush to Lao Tzu, and those who dare to stand in the way will all be sunk!"
In a hurry, he still failed to seize the opportunity, Wang Changgeng was already red-eyed, and then saw that the main fleet of the Japanese State had divided a small detachment of more than 60 warships to intercept his own troops, and he was immediately furious, and he gave a death order with a roar.
"Fire, fire!"
As soon as Ito Masayoshi led his troops around the warship, he saw that the Qing fleet was already killing at high speed, and he didn't dare to slack off, so he hurriedly adjusted his own formation, put on a frontal decisive battle, and rushed over to meet the Qing army's vanguard fleet.
"Boom, boom, boom......"
There are not many large warships among the more than 60 warships of the Japanese Kingdom, only thirteen, and the rest are medium-sized warships, but the artillery that can shoot adds up to a lot, there are as many as seventy-six guns, under the random bombardment, the momentum is really not small, but the effect is not flattering, the hit rate is extremely low, not to mention, the power is also embarrassing, there are only four shells in total that hit the rushing Qing warship, of which the "Zhenyuan" was hit by two bullets, "Weining" and "Weifa" each hit one bullet, as for the results, there is only "Weining" The unfortunate sailor on the foredeck was killed by a bouncing shell, but it had little effect, not even slowing down the Qing warship.
"No shots are allowed on all ships, go all out!"
The four warships of the Qing Pioneer Fleet were all facing the Japanese fleet at this time, and only four bow guns could fire, although they were all heavy guns, but at such a high speed, the hit rate was nowhere to talk about, but it would reduce the speed of the battleship forward due to the recoil factor.
"Spread out and attack the enemy fleet from the flanks!"
Seeing that the Qing Dynasty vanguard fleet did not care about its own artillery bombardment at all, and rushed over at high speed, Ito Masayoshi was a little panicked, no, the size of the two warships was too different, if it was really collided head-on, the warship of the Japanese Kingdom would never end up except for sinking, Ito Masayoshi was obviously unwilling to take his warship to death for nothing, so he issued a loud order to avoid.
If Ito Masayoshi really desperately took the Japanese warships to block the impact of the Qing Pioneer Fleet, although the losses would be very large, he would definitely be able to delay the forward speed of the Qing fleet with his absolute superiority in numbers, and once so, although Ito Masayoshi's fleet may be exhausted, it would definitely be able to achieve Sakata Yokozo's order, so as to create a favorable opportunity for the main fleet of the Japanese to annihilate the first detachment of the Qing Dynasty, or even make the Qing Pioneer Fleet also fall into the dilemma of being besieged, but unfortunately Ito Masayoshi was reluctant to make such a huge sacrifice, in the end, it was a very wrong decision.
"Rush, don't care about those scattered enemy ships, give Lao Tzu full speed to the battlefield!"
Wang Changgeng is worried that Ito Masayoshi will fight with himself to the end, but he absolutely welcomes his flank attack, no, the side of the Qing warship is full of heavy artillery, although the hit rate is difficult to guarantee in high-speed driving, but it is enough to intercept the docking of the Japanese fleet, besides, as for the Japanese naval division of the ship guns that are not very powerful, unless it is a close shot, otherwise, the destructive power of the Qing warships is really limited, Wang Changgeng is too lazy to pay attention to it, He drove his fleet through the passage let by Ito Masayoshi at high speed, and went straight to the core of the battlefield of the chaotic group.
"Boom, boom, boom......"
As soon as the Qing Pioneer Fleet rushed to the frontal passage given by Ito's Righteous Command, the Japanese Interceptor Fleet followed Ito's instructions and desperately opened fire, trying to delay the breakthrough of the Qing fleet. However, for the overall strength of the Qing warships, it did not have much impact, but was taken advantage of by the Qing army's vanguard fleet to break into the southeast battlefield.
"Yaga, how did Ito, this idiot, actually let the reinforcements of the Shina people rush over so quickly, damn stupid!"
At the core of the southeast battlefield, Yokozo Sakata was commanding many of his warships to besiege the "Zhenhai" and "Weiyuan", but he never expected that the vanguard fleet of the Qing army would also rush into the battlefield with the front and rear feet.
"All ships shoot freely, give Lao Tzu a hard shot!"
As soon as he rushed into the core battlefield, Wang Changgeng was no longer polite, waved his hand vigorously, and gave the order to fire loudly, and in an instant, the heavy artillery that had been silent for a long time began to roar again, and the four Qing warships were like four wolves that broke into the flock of sheep, and the Japanese fleet was caught off guard for a while. is close to the vanguard fleet of the Qing army, so there is no need to aim at all, it is really a dozen and one accurate......