At this time, Ding Ruchang had already sat down on a Taishi chair that his subordinates had brought for him, ready to continue to command the battle on the deck. He looked at Huang Zhi and Xiaofeng in front of him with unkind eyes, and was thinking about how to deal with these two soldiers who forcibly grabbed the letter flag.

Huang Zhi saw that stealing chickens and rice was not successful, and he was very angry in his heart, if he had to suffer "military punishment" because of this, it would be really a shame to give him the "social" skills he had given to the dream world. Fortunately, the Zheng Cannon surnamed Li had already died in the accident just now, and he had a countermeasure at the moment.

He hurriedly pulled Xiaofeng, who didn't know why, to kneel on one knee together, and said respectfully, "The subordinates failed to fulfill the last wish of Lord Ben, protect the flag of the sailor, and ask Lord Admiral to surrender!" ”

Thinking of the Zheng Cannon who had already died in the line of duty, and thinking that these two soldiers were just acting on orders, Ding Ruchang was a little relieved when he heard this. At this time, seeing Huang Zhi constantly aiming at the bridge that had been blown up on half of the side, he couldn't help but look back, only to see that the location where the original letter flag was located had already been blown into ruins.

Even if these two soldiers didn't snatch it, the letter flag would not be able to be saved. In this way, these two people still risked their lives to protect the flag, which can only be said to be meritorious but not faulty. Thinking of this, Ding Ruchang was also relieved, now that he is fighting with the Yue Army, it is the time to employ people, and it is really not appropriate to punish these two people.

Ding Ruchang waved his hand helplessly and motioned for the two to retreat. A crisis that should not have happened was finally eliminated with Huang Zhi's efforts, and all members of the East China Sea Team were also taken away by the ship's sailor chief and arranged to work separately.

The next battle basically returned to the trajectory of history, and the Beiyang Fleet, which had lost its unified command, could only run blindly like a headless fly, allowing the orderly command of the ships to divide and eat them. Due to the different understandings of the battle situation of each ship, as well as the differences in the abilities of each person, the fleet could not even maintain its original formation, let alone temporarily change formations, and after a while, they fell into separate battles.

At 3:30 p.m., under the pretext of penetrating the water leakage, those who were as cowardly as Fang Boqian abandoned their comrades and took the lead in driving the 2,300-ton protective cruiser "Jiyuan" to withdraw from the battlefield, and their wingman 1,296-ton iron-ribbed wood-hulled cruiser "Guangjia" also waited for an opportunity to break away from it. After the ship "Zhiyuan" caught fire, it launched a suicidal charge against the ship "Yoshino" and wanted to die with the enemy ships, but as a result, it was bombarded by several ships with concentrated firepower, resulting in the torpedo tubes being hit and a torpedo that could not be launched in time to be detonated, and the cruiser with a displacement of 2,300 tons finally sank unwillingly to the bottom of the Yellow Sea. There are a total of 252 people on the ship, from Deng Shichang and below, and none of them survived.

Two-thirds of the ships participating in the Battle of the Yellow Sea exceeded 16 knots, and the average speed of the First Guerrilla Force was as high as 19.4 knots, and there were three high-speed ships with a speed of more than 20 knots. However, the ships of the Beiyang Naval Division were generally slow, with only two 18-knot protective cruisers, namely "Zhiyuan" and "Jingyuan", and in addition to this, there was only one domestic torpedo cruiser "Guangbing" with a displacement of only 1,000 tons.

The loss of the "Zhiyuan" suddenly put the already passive Beiyang Fleet into a situation where it could only be beaten. Deng Shichang is brave, and the overall coordination and cooperation are really lacking. This is the evil result of the Qing Dynasty's century-old maritime ban, resulting in a fault and lack of navigation and naval warfare talents, and can only rely on today's group of young pipe bands who have only been trained for a few years and hurriedly taken up their posts.

Before the battle situation completely deteriorated, Sima Fuqiang still had a way to try to change the situation of the battle again. The method was to let a certain teammate with a good water surname swim to another Dingyuan-class ironclad ship "Zhenyuan", and falsely sent an order to let Lin Taizeng, the ship's pipe band and the chief soldier of the left wing, take over the temporary command of the Beiyang Naval Division. It can even be done a little more extremely, directly commanding the entire fleet in the name of Ding Ruchang.

In this way, the Beiyang Naval Division will not be fighting separately as it is now, and no matter how bad it is, it can reduce some losses.

However, considering the scene of Xiaofeng being "chased" by shells just now, anyone who has experience on the battlefield knows the "crater theory" that two shells will not land in the same crater, but the scene just now vividly broke this convention. Even such unconscionable things happen, which shows the determination of the dream world to preserve history.

Sima Fuqiang believed that if he tried to change the outcome of the Battle of the Yellow Sea again, then the Dream World would definitely take the same drastic measures to correct it. Maybe when the teammate he sent was swimming in the water, a group of sharks would suddenly appear and surround him, and gnaw him until there was not a single bone left.

At this time, the time had come to one o'clock at noon, and under the attack of the four high-speed ships of the First Guerrilla Squadron of the Chinese Army, the 1,350-ton ramming cruisers of the right wing of the Beiyang Fleet, "Chaoyong" and "Yangwei", were stripped out of the Beiyang Fleet's array, and soon caught fire. The two cruisers, built by the British company Armstrong, had to withdraw from the battle after half an hour and sank one after another.

At this time, the defeat of the Beiyang Fleet had already appeared, and even if Sima Fuqiang had the intention of changing the situation of the war, he was already unable to do so.

At about two o'clock in the afternoon, the main squadron of the fleet went around the back of the Beiyang Fleet and formed a front and rear encirclement with the first guerrilla force against the Qing army. In the ensuing engagement, Deng Shichang's "Zhiyuan" ship and an armored cruiser with a displacement of 2,900 tons "Jingyuan" were sunk one after another. The two foreign ships, "Jingyuan" and "Laiyuan," also temporarily withdrew from the battle due to excessive bullets and took refuge near Oshikashima to urgently repair the damaged machines.

At this time, the two capital ships "Dingyuan" and "Zhenyuan" were surrounded by the Yue Legion and were baptized by artillery fire. Fortunately, both ships were ironclad ships with 12 to 14 inches of armor produced by the German Fu Keng shipyard, and the threat posed by the army's rapid-fire guns was not so bad that they were not broken, but there were many fires on the ship, and if they were not extinguished in time, they would be in danger of being burned.

In the dream of the Tokai team, the people of the Tokai team were assigned to the temporary fire fighting team by the chief sailor chief, and rushed to various fire points to put out fires. This was also the most dangerous job at the moment, as the firefighters had to go to and from the deck under the threat of artillery fire, and every now and then a sailor would be shot and fall to the ground.

The Donghai team members had to run cautiously under the artillery fire, and Zhang Wei was responsible for judging the landing point of the shells, avoiding them if they could, and when they couldn't avoid them, Sima Fuqiang used a tower shield to protect their teammates. Even so, several people were injured by shrapnel and had to be treated by Lisha.

At this time, Ding Ruchang was still calmly sitting on the Taishi chair amid the gunfire, directing the "Dingyuan" ship to fight. His composure was like a needle that minimized the uneasiness in the hearts of the officers and men on the ship, and they fought resolutely under the encouragement of the veteran to lead by example.

Looking at this scene, people in the dream couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed. However, life matters, no one wants to joke about this kind of life-threatening matter, and there is still no ambiguity when it is time to avoid artillery fire.

At 3:30 p.m., the 305-mm main guns of the "Zhenyuan" ship hit the flagship "Songdao" twice in succession, causing its No. 4 turret to explode. As a result, the "Matsushima" tilted 5 degrees and caused a fire, and had to withdraw from the battlefield ahead of schedule.

At this time, the "Jingyuan" and "Laiyuan" that had been urgently repaired also returned to the battlefield in time, and finally repelled the Yue army whose flagship had been damaged, and after a short pursuit between the two sides, the naval battle in the Yellow Sea ended before 6 p.m.

In addition to the four ships that were directly sunk, the "Guangjia" ship that escaped from the battle ran aground and had to be blown up by itself after today to avoid being captured by the Chinese army.

From the very beginning, the Tokai team was committed to changing history, but in the end it was unsuccessful, and because they had invested most of their energy in the defeat of the flag, they were unable to gain any elements to improve their ratings, and finally left the Yellow Sea naval battle with a pitiful 100 basic points on average.

If you have to comfort yourself, it is that Li Sha's proficiency in "healing" skills has improved a lot, because there are too many wounded on the "Dingyuan" ship, and they have not been able to treat them until the East China Sea team gets out of the dream.

(To be continued)