The Japanese troop carriers hurriedly fled beyond the Bohai Bay, and the Japanese made a major mistake before sending their troops, their troop carriers did not have an escort fleet! The landing operation at the division and regimental level did not have an escort fleet, and later historians lamented this!

The army and navy in the Japanese army have always been incompatible, in this battlefield, the commander of the First Army, Oyama Iwa, and the commander of the combined fleet, Ito Youheng, are of the same rank and have no subordinate relationship, so Oyama Iwa cannot command the ships of the combined fleet, and what is even worse is that there is no command in charge of the army and navy on this battlefield, so if you want the navy to dispatch ships to cooperate with the army operations, Oyama Rock needs to let the staff headquarters coordinate, and half a month has passed after the process, but on the battlefield, the fighter plane is fleeting, How can it last so long!

Since the main ironclad ships and cruisers of the Beiyang Fleet were all wiped out, the remaining torpedo boats and shore defense gunboats have been cowering in the base of Weihaiwei, not daring to move, and before the Japanese army set off, the fleet carefully arranged the route to ensure that it was not caught by reconnaissance personnel on land. Therefore, Dashan Rock did not coordinate with naval ships.

But they forgot that in the corner where they didn't know the road, the Beijing ship was monitoring the battlefield all the time, and the unmanned ship was always monitoring the movements of the two ports of Lushun and Incheon, and they knew that if the Japanese army wanted to complete any landing operation, the departure place would definitely be Lushun, because Lushun was the closest to the battlefield, so as soon as the Japanese troop carrier left Port Arthur, it was tracked by the drones on the Beijing ship.

Now that the troop carriers are retreating to Lushun, how can the Beijing ship not know what to do, through the communicator, Lin Yuan ordered, Deng Shichang's Ryukyu First Fleet was dispatched to annihilate the Japanese troop carriers!

Finally, it was Deng Shichang's turn to make a move, he had always wanted to fight with the Japanese, and now he finally seized the opportunity, under the command of the Beijing ship, the original Japanese Combined Fleet's Yoshino, Lang, Akitsu, and Chiyoda ships rushed towards the Japanese troop carriers.

These warships are among the best high-speed cruisers in the Japanese Combined Fleet, among which the Yoshino ship, as the flagship of the first guerrilla force of the Japanese fleet in the Battle of the Yellow Sea, can reach a maximum speed of 23 knots, while the maximum speed of the Lang speed ship, the Akitsuzu ship and the Chiyoda ship are also about 18 or 19 knots, while the speed of the Japanese troop carrier is only 7 or 8 knots, so for the fleet led by Deng Shichang, this is a battle between tigers and sheep!

Because the ships used high-quality coal, the first Japanese troop carrier found Deng Shichang's fleet within three thousand meters, but none of the ships in Deng Shichang's fleet were under the national flag, so the Japanese troop carriers did not know which country they belonged to.

This is also one of Lin Yuan's strategies, not flying the national flag on the warship will bring a lot of convenience to his actions.

The Japanese troop carrier immediately waved the flag, asked Deng Shichang about the nationality of the fleet, and said that he was a ship of the Great Japanese Empire, Deng Shichang saw the flag and sneered: "Return to the Great Japanese Empire, it is you who fight!" ”

Deng Shichang ignored the inquiries of the Japanese warships, and he gave orders to all ships to attack the Japanese ships at full speed!

When Sakuma saw that the other party's ships did not reply to him with a flag, and accelerated towards his own ship, he vaguely felt that these warships were not good, so he ordered the five troop transports to disperse and return to Lushun along the coast in different directions.

The displacement of these troop carriers is smaller than that of warships, so when they are in the near sea, the enemy warships may be afraid of running aground and dare not pursue, the Japanese army's wishful thinking is very good, but Deng Shichang does not allow them to escape easily, the Yoshino ship first increased the speed to 21 knots, like a tiger out of the cage to the front of the Japanese troop carrier, the Japanese troop carrier is equipped with more than a dozen 20 mm Gatling machine guns, although these weapons can not sink Deng Shichang's warship, but the Japanese still hope to use these weapons to do the last fight.

Two kilometers in front of the first Japanese troop carrier, the Yoshino turned the rudder to the right, the bow turned an angle to the left, and the two 150-mm rapid-fire main guns in the bow also turned to the starboard side, and at a distance of one kilometer, the starboard side of the Yoshino was already aimed at the troop carrier, and the four 120-mm rapid-fire guns on the side were aimed at the Japanese troop carrier.

The Yoshino was the best cruiser in the world at the time, and its main guns had an effective range of more than 6,000 meters, so the reason why it had to approach a distance of 1,000 meters to launch an attack was to be able to develop its firepower more accurately.

The two 150mm guns fired first, and in the naval battles of that era, it was not easy for the shells to hit the enemy ships, and as for where to hit it was not something that people could control, the Yoshino ship was lucky, and its first shell hit the compass compartment at the top of the bridge in the middle of the Japanese troop carrier.

The building like a tall building on a ship is the bridge, for civilian ships, the top is usually a compass compartment, and for military ships, the top is often arranged with ranging equipment or air defense observation equipment.

A ship is sailing on the vast sea, as far as the eye can see, there is a blue sky and a blue sea, there is no reference, if you want not to lose your way, you have to solve two things, first, where is yourself? Second, which side is north?

The compass cabin is where these two problems are solved, so the compass cabin is like the brain of a ship, which is generally equipped with a sextant and a magnetic compass. A sextant can determine the position of a ship by measuring the position of a celestial body; The magnetic compass is the use of the geomagnetic field to determine the bearing, and the compass, one of the four great inventions of ancient China, is the prototype of the modern magnetic compass.

The thin bulkhead was powerless to stop the menacing shells, the shells exploded in the cabin, the shell charge of the Yoshino's main gun was about 50 kilograms, and the shock wave generated by so many explosives blew up the sextant in the cabin, magnetic compass and other equipment into pieces, and there were many seafarers here, who were also lost in the explosion.

Due to the small charge load, the trajectory of the second shell was a little lower than that of the first, it drilled through the deck of the compass compartment, along the bridge all the way down, until the crew's cabin did not explode, the crew were at their respective posts at this time, so this shell did not cause casualties, but the high temperature caused a fire, flames and smoke enveloped the cabin in an instant, just when the crew rushed to pull out the fire pipe and draw water to extinguish the fire, a strong vibration made them almost fall to the ground.

It was the 120mm rapid-fire guns on the side of the Yoshino that were fired, and these guns were specifically aimed at the position of the ship's Grimm machine guns, and the shells exploded on the deck, and several Grimm machine guns were blown to pieces!

The captain of the troop carrier knew very well in his heart that his ship was like a little sheep in front of a tiger in front of the other party's warship, but the little sheep still had to struggle to escape, so he ordered to move forward at full speed to the sea near the shore!

The next minute after the order was reached, the hull of the ship shook violently, and the captain fell to the ground at once, and before he fell to the ground, he thought, "I didn't hear an explosion just now, where did this earthquake come from?" Moreover, this earthquake could not have been caused by an explosion at all, what a powerful cannonball that could make the hull of the ship shake so violently! ”