Section 43: The Fateful Showdown 1
For a time, the Qing Dynasty royal fleet changed from an inconspicuous young man to a general dressed in a banquet. The bright flags fluttered high in the sea breeze, and various signal flags were dotted among them, competing to shine, as spectacular as holding a grand ceremony.
However, under this beautiful coat, there is infinite murderous intent inside. The warriors with curly hair, naked upper body, and as strong as a mountain are divided into gunners, the first reserve gunner, the reserve gunner, and the loader stands upright beside the deck gun, waiting for the fight. Fine sand is sprinkled everywhere on the deck to prevent slipping during duty. In the upper structure, the abdomen of the ship, the ammunition pulley, the ammunition hoist and the torpedo room are in their place.
In addition, some supply soldiers lie down around the deck, holding more than tens of pounds of medicine bags, ready to fire after firing. In order to make the cannons agile, these supply soldiers are arranged neatly. This is to spread the ammunition on the deck to prevent a pile of grenades from being hit and exploded (It is a taboo to stack shells, especially grenades on the deck. The Matsushima ship was severely damaged by Zhenyuan because of this, and it is very easy to arouse the anger of people under the deck. On the deck, you can witness the advancing enemies and observe the changes in the situation, but under the deck, there is nothing to know except waiting for the battle to begin and observe the enemy bullets entering from the side.)
The Royal Fleet of the Qing Dynasty gradually approached. After the last naval battle, the crew were calm and calm. A second lieutenant climbed to the top of the foremast, measured the distance with a sextant, and kept waving the small signal flag. Every time the distance was reported, the gunner lowered the ropes by the ruler, and each gunner pulled the ropes and maintained the launching posture. The steam barrel made a sound through the ventilator. This was to seize the opportunity to carry out fire fighting when a fire broke out, and connect the rubber tube to inject water in advance. At that time, the distance between the enemy and us was about four nautical miles, and it was rapidly reduced to 6,000 meters, 5,800 meters, 5,600 meters, and 5,000 meters.
Five hundred meters, gradually decreasing. Now it has reached 5,400 meters, and the crisis is approaching. All soldiers have raised their courage, but at the beginning, they are still very scared and their heartbeats are getting faster and faster. Suddenly, with a roar, rolling white smoke comes out from the starboard turret of Dingyuan, and the morale of the whole ship is greatly boosted. The shells flew towards Chicheng and landed near the side of the side, splashing high water columns. Then Zhenyuan also made a second shot according to the flagship. It was 3:00 pm, and the enemy and us were 5,200 meters apart. Dingyuan fired the cannons about 5,300 meters, and the main guns of each ship of the Royal Fleet of the Qing Dynasty fired one after another.
At this time, the Japanese Combined Fleet had already completed its entire fleet and lined up to prepare for the Royal Navy formation. Although he saw the Royal Fleet open fire first, he still kept Chen Mo and allowed the opponent's artillery to abuse him.
Finally, in the fourth volley, Pingyuan's main artillery hit Fengxiang 2,800 meters away. At this time, Fengxiang was not the aircraft carrier with a displacement of 9,052 tons, a speed of 25 knots, and a capacity of 26 aircraft. It was just a small gunboat with a displacement of 316 tons of wooden hull. The 240mm thick pine hull was lost after 0.02 seconds. The 260mm shell instantly tore the small gunboat more than 30 meters long into pieces, and 65 people in the ship were killed.
At 16:13 on September 30, 1894, the first group of victims were born in the Dagukou naval battle, and it would definitely not be the last group. The gate of hell was opened, and the god of death was flying in the sky, cheering for the large number of elites who were about to join.
The commander of the Joint Fleet, Yuuki Ito, was completely shattered. In the last naval battle, the Beiyang Fleet did not use grenades. Some were armor-piercing bombs, most of them were training bombs, and they were not very lethal. Therefore, the Joint Fleet dared to use battle lines to fight against the enemy in order to exert its vitality advantage. As we just saw, the Qing Dynasty fleet was fighting grenades, and fighting against relatively fixed battle lines would inevitably cause major casualties. The formation must be adjusted immediately when the distance was still far away.
Soon, the joint fleet dispersed its formation and divided into four parts of the first guerrillas, the first group of our team, the second group of our team, and the gunboat lightning strike formation.
The first guerrilla team
"Yoshino" river source needs 4216 tons 22.5 knots Armstrong Arsenal
"Takachiho" Nomura Sadaki 3709 tons 18.5 knots Armstrong Arsenal
"Yasami" Hikarutoko Uemura 4568 tons 22.8 knots Armstrong Arsenal
"Chionida" Uchida Masatoshi 2439 tons 19 knots in the UK J. Brown factory
The first team of our team:
"Matsushima" flagship Aomoto knows 4278 tons 16-kit French Mediterranean Shipyard
"Hashi" is a tall and powerful man who is 4278 tons per day. 16-part Yokosuka Naval Shipyard
The second group of our team:
Hiei Sakurai rules 2284 tons 13.2 sections of British Hewen Shipyard
King Kong Youma Xinyi 2284 tons 13.7 knot Armstrong Arsenal
Fusang Xinjing has tribute 3777 tons 13 knots`SamudaBros Shipyard in the UK
Katsuki Oda Yuki 1502 tons 13-section Yokosuka Naval Shipyard
Yamato Moriki Taro 1502 tons 13-section Onohama Marine Shipyard
Musashi Akamatsu Taro 1502 tons 13-section Yokosuka Naval Shipyard
Kaohsiung Guitian until 1770 tons 15-kilometer Yokosuka Naval Shipyard
Build purple three goodnesses and self-restraint 1350 tons 16.4 British Armstrong Company
Haimen Shiba Miyahaha 1381 tons 12-section Yokosuka Shipbuilding Station
Yaeyama Orida Taro 1584 tons 20.7 Yokosuka Shipbuilding Station
Gunboat Lightning Strike Group:
Akagi 622 tons 10.25 Onohama Marine Shipyard
Maya 622 tons 10.25 Onohama Marine Shipyard
Tori Sea 622 tons 10.25 Yokosuka Naval Shipyard
Atago 622 tons 10.25 Yokosuka Naval Shipyard
Oshima 630 tons 16-section Onohama Shipyard
Iwaki 656 tons 10.5 Yokosuka Naval Shipyard
Ryuka 656 tons 10.5 Section Yokosuka Naval Shipyard
Lightning Boat No. 10~19 54 tons 20 Onohama Shipyard construction
Chapter completed!