Although Lin Yuan ordered the defenders of the fort closest to the coast to evacuate, he still left a part of the observation posts, which sent back the news at this time.

Luo Rongguang picked up the phone, and the observation sentry on the phone said: "Lord Chief Soldier, the foreign devil is not a**!" This is when the cannonballs are like raindrops, one after the other, without stopping. ”

Luo Rongguang hurriedly asked, "Is the artillery damaged?" What about bunkers? ”

The scout said: "Our artillery is all sunken guns, so the enemy's shells did not hit directly, but the tops of our fortifications, two of which were hit by enemy shells, have been blown up, fortunately, Lin Shuai ordered us all to withdraw, otherwise the brothers will die inside!" ”

When Lin Yuan heard this, he thought that he had predicted well, and the enemy's cruisers and battleships really adopted this style of play.

Twenty minutes later, the observation sentry near the mouth of the river sent back a message: "Report to Lin Shuai, the enemy fleet has come in!" ”

When Lin Yuan heard this, he hurriedly walked to the observation window, raised the telescope in his hand and looked near the estuary, and at a glance, he couldn't help but be taken aback, in Lin Yuan's prediction, the minesweepers would all be in front, and the destroyers would all be behind, but the formation adopted by the enemy was that the minesweepers and destroyers were crossed.

Lin Yuan hurriedly adjusted his strategy and ordered the defenders of the battery to calculate the speed and direction of the enemy's destroyers! As soon as the destroyer is knocked out, the minesweeper will be blocked in the estuary and completely turned into a target.

Lin Yuan glanced at his watch, and at 4:15 p.m., after receiving the information that each running position was ready, Lin Yuan then ordered the battery to open fire.

In this era, the development of minesweepers is still very backward, like the towed minesweepers commonly used in modern warfare have not yet appeared, let alone sonar mine detection devices, the minesweepers at this time, in fact, are civilian ships and warships with a relatively shallow draft, moreover, a ship can not sweep mines, every minesweeper needs two ships to cooperate.

Due to the annihilation of the Russian army pretending to be British, the Japanese-Russian coalition forces in the open sea did not know the location of the mines, so as Lin Yuan expected, as soon as they entered the estuary, they began to clear mines, ten minesweepers in groups of twos and twos, driving to parallel positions, between the two minesweepers there is a rope, this cable is the minesweeping tool.

There is a depth fixer on the iron cable, so the iron cable can be fixed at a certain depth under the water, when the two ships drag this iron cable forward, the iron cable will hit the rope, the material of the iron cable is generally hard, and there is a cutting edge on it, so when the iron cable touches the rope, it is possible to cut the mine cable, the mine itself has a floating device, so the mine floats to the water, and the minesweeper is also prepared with a small machine gun, when the mine floats up, it will be blown up.

However, there is another possibility, that is, the iron cable did not cut the cable, so that the iron cable will follow the mine to the ground, touch the tentacles of the mine, and then detonate the mine, but the minesweepers do not want to see such a scene, because the explosion of the mine may blow the iron cable off. The destroyers in the middle of the Japanese army also began to aim at the batteries on the shore, and the four destroyers were all Japanese, and Togo Heihachiro, who sent them, was very unhappy, because he knew that the Chinese were different from before, especially the things related to the navy, although they did not have a naval fleet, but they were more powerful than when they had a naval fleet. But Togo Heihachiro had no choice, Makarov's reason was very good: the minesweeper is yours, so naturally you want your ships to escort it, our ships have not cooperated with you, and there will definitely be problems at that time, and our minesweepers are still parked in Vladivostok, so you can't let us go back and get it.

Heihachiro Togo secretly told the captain of the destroyer and the captain of the minesweeper that if the Chinese fire was too fierce, you would withdraw.

The batteries were full of 280 mm heavy guns, and the gunners opened fire quickly, and suddenly a puff of green smoke rose in the battery, and the shells made an elegant arc and flew towards the destroyer, and a shell pierced the hull of the ship through the bridge and exploded in the sailors' lounge, although there were no casualties, but it also shocked the whole ship.

The gunners on the destroyers were ready, and they opened fire without waiting for the captain's order, but the guns on these destroyers were only one hundred and twenty millimeters in caliber, and the shells were not powerful enough, and several shells fell near the gun emplacements, and the explosion caused almost no damage.

When the two sides shelled each other, the problem that Lin Yuan once said became apparent, the battery gun position was unreasonable, so there were only ten guns that could play a role against the enemy, and if there were more, the Japanese destroyer would have sunk a long time ago.

The minesweeper was clearing mines in the sound of artillery fire, because the battery was aimed at the destroyer, so the minesweeper was not much threatened, at this moment, something was hung on the iron cable, and the personnel on the boat cheered excitedly, and finally swept the mine! The iron cable cut the rope, a mine floated up, and the machine gun on the boat immediately opened fire, blowing up the mine, and the Japanese army moved forward one after another, destroying more than a dozen mines. The news of the Japanese army's successful mine destruction was quickly reported to Lin Yuan, who was taken aback and thought: "If the blow to the destroyer goes well, the minesweeper will not succeed in mine sweeping, what happened ahead?" ”

At this moment, Lin Yuan saw that Luo Rongguang received a phone call, and then his face changed greatly, and Lin Yuan hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Luo Rongguang was embarrassed for a while, and said hesitantly: "No, it's nothing." ”

Lin Yuan said sharply: "Tell me quickly, what's wrong?" ”

Luo Rongguang reported to Lin Yuan: "Lin Shuai, the front battery sent a message, saying that the enemy's fire is very fierce, and the artillery on one of the gun emplacements has been destroyed!" Lin Yuan thought to himself: "How is this possible, with the power of their artillery, this situation is impossible." Lin Yuan hurriedly walked out of the command post, stood in the open space, raised the telescope and looked in the direction of the fighting battery, and found the problem, it turned out that the Japanese destroyer used the strategy of concentrated fire, and the four destroyers were hitting the same battery, which destroyed a gun position.

At this time, a loud noise came from a gun position, and a violent explosion lifted the top cover of this gun position into the sky, and Lin Yuan knew that it must have been a Japanese shell that detonated the ammunition in the gun position.

Lin Yuan looked at the enemy's destroyers again, and saw that the shells fell very evenly around the four destroyers, Lin Yuan suddenly understood, it turned out that his order was to hit the destroyers first, but how to hit them was not something he had to consider, so the commander of the battery divided the artillery into four groups, each group to fight a destroyer.

Lin Yuan made a quick decision and hurriedly ordered the defenders of the fort to concentrate their firepower and sink a destroyer first.

With an order, the commander of the battery immediately selected a destroyer, ordered the defenders of the battery to turn the muzzle, more than a dozen guns concentrated their firepower, and the destroyer suddenly couldn't stand it, in order to obtain the highest possible speed, the destroyers of this era were not strong in defense, and the armor of these destroyers was only a thin layer, so a few shells broke through the armor and exploded inside the hull.

A shell hit the transmission compartment, which was equipped with a transmission shaft train and transmission gear, the explosion broke the main shaft of the propeller, the warship suddenly lost power, another bomb broke the rudder rod in the stern, the huge rudder blade fell into the water, without the rudder, the whole warship lost control.