Lin Yuan would not do anything to kill a thousand enemies and lose eight hundred, so he told Deng Shichang before setting off that when the Japanese warships pulled you into their range, you could retreat.

The Fuji ship opened fire first, and the shells set off huge Lang flowers on the sea, Deng Shichang immediately ordered, the fleet turned eastward, and withdrew from the battlefield at full speed, at this time, the last batch of missiles also fell on the head of the Japanese fleet, the boiler of the Asahi ship exploded, the engine room was located at the bottom of the hull, below the waterline, a large amount of seawater poured in, and the Asahi ship slowly sank.

The starboard side of the cruiser Kasuga was hit by six missiles in succession, and the magazine of the starboard secondary gun was almost all detonated, and the entire part below the starboard waterline was almost torn open, and the starboard side quickly sank into the water, and then the battleship capsized and sank into the water with the bottom facing the sky.

The stokers of the four Ryukyu warships added coal to the furnace as if they had gone mad, and the coal was also specially made and crushed into small pieces, so that the fire was more sufficient, and the battleship quickly increased to its maximum speed and galloped eastward.

Togo Heihachiro saw that in less than half an hour of engagement, the battleships on his side were sunk without even firing many guns, which he could never have dreamed of, and in anger, he just wanted to tear those four battleships to pieces! Heihachiro Togo didn't care whether he would be ambushed or not, and ordered his cruiser to pursue at full speed. The position of the Ryuchamp, Takasago and Asama was the closest to the four warships, and soon a small detachment was formed to pursue the Ryukyu fleet, and the rest of the battleships followed behind, and the three battleships were entangled with them after catching up with the Ryukyu battleships, and waited until the follow-up battleships arrived, and then annihilated them in one fell swoop!

The warships could not maintain their maximum speed for a long time, so Deng Shichang's fleet reduced its speed to fifteen knots after twenty minutes of travel at the top speed, and the Japanese warships behind him were in hot pursuit.

Chasing after the front is the Asama ship, its captain Yuki Kano turned out to be the captain of the combined fleet Saikyo Maru, the Saikyo Maru was originally a cruise ship, in order to cope with the Sino-Japanese War, it was reluctantly changed to a gunboat, in this war, Yuyuki Kano finally became the captain of a real warship as he wished, bent on sinking the enemy ship and establishing meritorious service.

But what he didn't expect was that his battleship had not fired a single shot, and the Yashima, Asahi and Kasuga ships were sunk, and it was only when Togo Heihachiro gave the order to pursue him that he felt that the opportunity to make meritorious service had come, and thirty-five minutes later, he found that the speed of the battleship in front of him had been reduced to ten knots, and the bow of the ship had been turned seventy degrees to the north.

Yuyuki Kano calculated in his heart, if he continued like this, in another twenty minutes, his battleship would be able to pull the opponent into the range of fire, and he felt a surge of qi and blood in his chest, and the moment of meritorious service was coming!

At this moment, he suddenly heard a "boom", and then felt the battleship hit hard, and he was unsteady on his feet, and fell forward heavily.

Lu Ye Yuki hurriedly got up, didn't bother to wipe the blood off his face, and roared angrily: "What's the matter? ”

After the chaos, a staff officer replied: "We have hit the rocks!" ”

For a ship, whether it is a civilian ship or a military ship, it is a terrible disaster to hit the reef, when the ship hits the reef on the bottom of the sea with huge kinetic energy, the bottom of the ship will be ruthlessly torn apart, followed by the influx of seawater, what is even more terrible is that the ship will not stop after hitting the reef, because the propeller and engine are still working, if the reef is huge enough, it will cut the entire bottom of the ship like a knife, so that the ship will inevitably sink!

Seeing that the ship was still moving and did not continue to collide, he said that they were lucky enough to smash the reef by this collision, and he hurriedly ordered: "Check the damage to the ship's hull!" Decelerate! ”

After the order was given, Kano asked angrily, "What about the navigator?" How? How can you hit the rocks? ”

It turned out that the ships were in accordance with the charts, the charts marked the location of the reef and the hydrological conditions, and the place without the charts was absolutely not allowed to go, the navigator found that they did not have the charts of the sea area they were about to sail into, so he reported to the captain, but was stopped by the deputy captain, he saw that he had suffered heavy losses, and he was also angry, and said to the navigator: "What does it matter if there are no charts!" And the soul will bless us! In the war history materials of the Japanese side, from time to time you see things like "our army stubbornly overcomes a strong enemy with the soul", the effect is similar to that of the Boxer brothers' invitation to the gods, and they are all spiritual hypnosis.

In this way, with the blessing of the soul, the Asama ship hit the reef, and Kano Yuki only learned from the navigator at this time that they did not have a chart of the nearby sea area, he hurriedly ordered the reverse car to retreat, wanting to leave this sea area, but after all, the battleship weighed thousands of tons, and it was impossible to go back all at once, and the battleship hit the reef again in the process of rushing forward, and the reef was extremely huge, directly cutting a hole more than fifty meters long on the port side, and the falling stones hit the propeller, The blades of both propellers were broken.

As soon as the propeller broke, there was nothing left on the spindle all of a sudden, and the speed rushed up directly, but the bearing could not stand it, and the high temperature of friction burned out the bearing, and the engineer saw that the situation was not right, and hurriedly stopped, and in this way, the Asama ship lost power and slowly stopped at sea.

The other warships saw that they did not have a chart, so they turned one after another, and Shikano Yuyuki saw that the battleship was constantly sinking, and hurriedly ordered urgent repairs and repaired the breach, and many sailors took off their clothes and blocked the breach; The pumps were running at full capacity to drain the water that had entered the hull, but the boilers were no longer in use, and the pumps' backup power was quickly depleted.

After two hours of tossing, Kano Yuzhi reluctantly gave the order to abandon the ship, he knew that his military career was over, and if there was such a big accident, the military court would not let him go easily, he refused the advice of his subordinates, stayed on the bridge, and wanted to sink with the battleship, which is derived from the tradition of the Western Navy, the ship is in the captain, and the captain is dead!

But his men didn't give him such a chance, they knocked him unconscious and took him to the lifeboat, where he was still thinking bitterly before he fell unconscious: "Why didn't the Ryukyu warship hit the reef?" Are their charts more detailed than ours? "This route full of reefs, in fact, Lin Yuan chosen, with the help of a powerful underwater acoustic detection system, the Beijing ship reconnaissance of the reef situation in the sea area here, there is another important reason for the choice of this route, that is, after the modification of the warship, the weight has been reduced a lot, so the head and acceleration have been improved, in the reef waters can be more handy to dodge and move.

The battle, which lasted less than 30 minutes, ended in the complete defeat of the Japanese fleet, with the Ryukyu fleet losing two battleships, one cruiser, and one cruiser sinking on the reef.

Suffering such a shameful defeat, the Japanese fleet wanted to keep it a secret, but there were many Westerners in the ports where they berthed, and there was no way to keep such a major event secret.

With such brilliant results, the whole world can't wait to see the true face of the Ryukyu Fleet!