When the Japanese fleet turned the bow, it was found that the four mysterious battleships had turned their bows and headed east, and the original four battleships had also strengthened their acceleration and rotation after reducing their weight, so the turning radius had been reduced a lot, so they turned their heads faster than the Japanese warships.

Deng Shichang ordered four warships to sail slowly at a speed of ten knots, and Heihachiro Togo did not directly order the faster cruisers to chase after him, he was worried that these four warships were just decoys for the enemy, so he asked the ships to maintain formation and ignored the provocations of these four warships.

In this way, the four warships left the sight of the Japanese fleet, and during this time, the merchant fleet of the Qing Dynasty had escaped from the city at full speed, and Togo Heihachiro had to abandon this merchant fleet.

In the next three days, Deng Shichang led the fleet to attack the Japanese fleet three times, and on the fourth day, when Deng Shichang's fleet turned and retreated eastward, Heihachiro Togo could no longer bear it and led the fleet to pursue it. Fearing an ambush, Heihachiro Togo did not let the cruiser go forward, but let them be behind the side of the battleship, monitoring the situation on both flanks, and slowly, the two sides approached Ocean Island, where fifty air-launched versions of Red Arrow missiles, Red Arrow 10K, had already been arranged.

The goal of the Japanese fleet was to catch up with the Ryukyu fleet, and the purpose of the Ryukyu fleet was to lure the enemy deeper, so neither side fired a gun, and the speed was about fifteen knots, and the speed of the Japanese fleet was slightly faster, and the distance between the two sides was six thousand meters.

The effective range of the Red Arrow 10K is 8,000 meters, so Deng Shichang had to turn the bow of the ship when the Japanese fleet entered its range and make a posture of facing the enemy for a decisive battle. Deng Shichang ordered to slow down and turn the rudder, these two actions were deliberately shown to Togo Heihachiro, if he wanted to make the ship's guns accurate, the speed of the ship could not be too fast, because as soon as the speed of the ship was fast, the force of the water on the hull of the ship would become greater, and the hull would shake more violently, so the ship in a state of pursuit, once it slowed down, it meant that the decisive battle was about to begin. Seeing that the four Ryukyu warships dared to slow down and fight with him, Heihachiro Togo thought to himself, "Does the commander of the Ryukyu fleet understand naval warfare?" Four small ships, how dare they confront my nine battleships! ”

Heihachiro Togo immediately ordered the fleet to slow down, remove all the artillery jackets, and all the men were in position and ready to fight!

By the time the Japanese fleet reduced its speed to ten knots, the Ryukyu fleet had already turned around, and the distance between the two sides was four thousand meters.

The Japanese fleet had an absolute advantage in terms of the number of ships, the quality and the formation, and everyone in the Japanese fleet felt that the victory was in their hands, when the Yashima suddenly felt a shock to the hull, followed by a dull explosion from the cabin.

Everyone on the Yashima ship was shocked! Shot!

At a distance of four thousand meters, no one could see whether the shells were fired from the Ryukyu warships, and they instinctively believed that they had been hit by the artillery of the Ryukyu fleet!

The Yashima ship quickly reported the news of being hit, and Heihachiro Togo was taken aback, and at a distance of four thousand meters, one shot hit the target, what advanced techniques did the warships of the Ryukyus use?

What the Japanese don't know is that this is a missile laid on the bottom of the sea! The small detachment that controlled the launch, right on four warships, saw that the first missile hit the target, and then activated the other missile.

When the radio signal reached the missile, the retainer loosened the missile, and the sea water rushed up, in order to prevent the seawater from entering the missile body through the tail nozzle, the technical personnel on the Beijing ship adopted an ingenious design, and found a carpenter in the Ryukyus to sharpen a few wooden stoppers, which were pressed against the tail nozzle under the pressure of the seawater, so that the seawater would not penetrate into the missile body.

The missile was accelerated in the air tube, broke through the sealing cloth of the nozzle, and flew into the sky, at this time, the wooden plug, due to the lack of water pressure, automatically detached from the tail nozzle, and the launch control team immediately issued an ignition order.

The Red Arrow 10K is equipped with a solid-fuel engine, which is made of a solid block of propellant and placed in the combustion chamber, so that the problem of liquid propellant filling and storage is eliminated, so this engine is light in weight and simple in structure, and under its strong thrust, the missile flies towards the Japanese fleet.

When the missile crossed the Ryukyu fleet, the control team once again aimed the Yashima ship with a laser designator, and the laser receptor on the missile seeker received the reflected laser signal, constantly adjusted the direction of flight, and finally hit the hull of the ship.

The hull is equipped with 457 mm composite armor, steel on both sides and wrought iron in the middle, this armor is stronger than homogeneous armor, but on the Red Arrow 10K, there is an armored nemesis, a tandem warhead. This kind of warhead is a combination of several warheads, modern composite armor, the middle is installed with reactive explosives, can use the energy of the explosion to offset the energy of the incoming missile, compared with the composite armor of the Yashima ship, it is like the light of fireflies and the bright moon compete with it!

The Red Arrow 10K is more than enough to deal with modern composite armor, and even more so against the armor of the Yashima ship! The first to detonate is the armor-piercing warhead, which has an arc-shaped metal armor that turns into a metal jet that is so fast that the armor looks like a thin piece of paper in front of it.

After the armor was torn apart, the rear high-explosive warhead entered the hull, the position of the bow, there were no coal bunkers on both sides, and the warhead directly faced the magazine of the main gun, and the high-explosive warhead contained fifteen kilograms of Black Sorkin and Tientia, which detonated the shells in the magazine at the moment of explosion.

The Yashima ship was equipped with 354 mm heavy guns, and the power of the supporting shells was not to mention, the violent explosion lifted the main gun turret high into the sky, the bow of the ship exploded a large hole, a large amount of water in, because the tail gun and the auxiliary shell magazine took complete protective measures, so they were not detonated.

There was a lot of water in the bow, and soon the hull was tilted, and the captain Omoto had to order to fill the watertight compartment at the stern with water, hoping that this would balance the hull.

However, the first missile had blown up the water-filled control mechanism, and the Yashima ship was planted headfirst downward, and the captain of the ship, Omoto Chikamichi, looked regretfully into the distance, in the direction of the Ryukyu fleet, such damage would not sink the Yashima ship, but it would also make it lose its combat effectiveness, and Omoto Chimichi ordered the flag soldiers to issue the flag slogan "I am wounded, withdraw from the battle", so he slowed down and withdrew from the formation and retreated to the rear.

Togo Heihachiro saw that in a short period of time, one of his main battleships had withdrawn from the battle sequence, and in a rage, he ordered the fleet to speed up and outflank the Ryukyu fleet.

Three more explosions came from behind Heihachiro Togo, and the Yashima ship was hit again, one of its chimneys was blown up, and the ship was full of flames.

Heihachiro Togo could only order the nearby Takasago ship to go to the rescue and help transfer the personnel on board, but at this moment, several more explosions came from the Asahi and Springfield, and the Fuji ship where he was was also hit by a bullet, and a secondary gun was blown away. Togo Heihachiro's lungs were about to explode, and before he fired a single shot, one of the main battleships was sunk! But here comes his chance for revenge: the Ryukyu fleet is finally in its own range!