The commander of the joint fleet, Yuuki Ito, was in a dilemma. If the unified action revolves around, then due to the obvious disadvantage in speed, the Qing Dynasty's guerrilla fleet would arrive at Dagukou earlier than the team. The unpreventive army would suffer a disaster.

However, if you advance at full speed, those old cruisers will land behind you. For a period of time, the Songdo will face two powerful cruisers, an almost invincible ironclad ship, which will most likely be unable to escape the misfortune. Once the Songdo, the backbone of the fleet, is no longer there, the old cruisers will not last long.

After some painful struggle, Yuki Ito's order, the entire fleet accelerated its turn and ordered the second group of the team to try their best to reduce the speed of the guerrilla fleet. The Matsushima attacked at full speed and entangled the Qing guerrilla ships. However, Yuki Ito obviously did not notice the quality of the joint fleet. The two orders were issued almost at the same time, causing chaos in the joint fleet itself. (Of the 9,000 Japanese joint fleet, about 3,000 were newly joined naval interns, and these people were just theoretically I have mastered the technology of driving warships, but I have not actually operated the keys. However, compared with these people, there are nearly 3,000 people who have not even had the technology of driving warships. They have only driven merchant ships. Some people have not even driven any ships. They have been forced into the joint fleet because they have worked in the shipyard. There are no more than 2,000 people who have truly worked in a warship for more than five years. Most of them are on new warships, and only a few people are backbone on old ships, while the rest are rookies.)

Two seemingly reasonable orders were made. The joint fleet was in a mess, accelerated the steering and tried its best to reduce the speed of the guerrilla fleet. This order, which I think is very easy to understand in Yuki Ito, was understood as several versions. Among them, Hiei understood it as accelerating the pursuit of the guerrilla fleet, turning to the guerrilla fleet on the side to exert firepower on the side.

This misunderstanding took the life of "Hire". "Hire" was built in March 1878 and belonged to the early second-class iron-clad ship. It has an iron-strangled wooden shell and is equipped with 88-137mm armor. After fifteen years of baptism, it has long lost its aura and has become a last-rate cruiser. However, because of its thick armor, it is listed as a combat ship.

Its own firepower is only three 170mm Krupp guns, and there are no large-caliber artillery. The small and medium-caliber artillery are old-fashioned artillery fired, and only a few shells can be fired every minute. It can be basically negligible. After being fired by fearless close, a 127mm shell directly blew the boiler room into the sky. Then, the 250mm shell "strike" hits one after another. The 2250-ton "Hirui" struggled for 10 minutes and then sank.

At 17:25, 287 people on the Birui ship, 219 people were killed and 68 were rescued.

"Hirui" was not a worthless sinking. The joint fleet took advantage of the attack on Hierui and stepped back on the battle line, but the hasty formation was a little scattered.

"The Japanese are really brave, but they are arranged in a row like this without the corresponding powerful firepower to protect them. Such courage is just a strategy of courage!"

Captain Wen, who was "Kuiyuan", said to himself. He ordered the main gun to aim at the nearest "Fusang" ship to open fire. The 250mm dual main gun of the "Kuiyuan" ship also roared. Huge water columns kept rising in front and behind "Fusang". Captain Akira Ai was frightened and hurriedly ordered the Zizhi route to avoid the opponent's powerful artillery fire.

However, in the narrow Dagukou sea area, he collided with the friendly ship "Mushashi" in panic. The two ships were embedded in each other and could not move. The firepower of the artillery blocked each other and could only exert 1/4 of the firepower, and could not effectively deter the Qing royal fleet from approaching. Seeing this good opportunity, the Fighting Far simply approached to a distance of only 1,200 meters. Within three minutes, twelve 250mm shells directly sent the two warships to the bottom of the sea.

At 17:45, 234 people and 229 people were killed on the Fuso ship, and only 5 were rescued.

At 17:45, all 231 people on the Musashi ship were killed.

At this point, the only remaining Songdao, King Kong, Kazuge, Yamato, Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, Zhuzi and Haimen were left. The three warships of the Qing Dynasty Navy guerrilla fleet were also scarred, with only 13 remaining 84 rapid-fire cannons on the Kyuyuan, and the two double-equipped two double-equipped 127mm rapid-fire cannons on the Kyuyuan ship were also blown up, and the fierce battle situation was evident.

The American merchant ship "Columbia" that followed the Japanese troop transport fleet to Dagukou was ranked last unloading because the materials were mostly loaded with artillery and other materials that were not easy to transport. After the outbreak of the Dagukou Naval Battle, in order to ensure the safety of the ship, the "Columbia" did not flee rashly from the battlefield, but wisely sailed on the coastline, mooring hiddenly in a small harbor on the coast, and the crew landed, and witnessed the sea battlefield scene at around 17 o'clock:

"...We were paddling close to the shore, about a nautical miles and a half before we reached the side of the battle site. The increasingly heavy rumbling sound was deafening. We landed on a high ground, climbed to the highest point we could find, and with the help of a high-power telescope, the battlefield was clear. It was indeed very terrible - a large and thick black smoke, which was blown away without the wind; through the smoke, the shaking appearance of the huge warships appeared faintly, and it was difficult to distinguish clearly. They were like many angry dragons spewing flames; and several warships were also burning because they were already caught in the cannons; and what overwhelmed the cannons were shocking, like lightning, and the sounds were endless..." - James; Allen "Under the Dragon"

At this time, the comparison of tonnage is 15,000 tons to 10,000 tons, and the comparison of artillery is 349 to 128. Sometimes tonnage and artillery are deceptive. A ship ten years ago may not even be able to exert half of the force of the formation ten years later. The united fleet is composed of such a bunch of garbage ships. Since old ships cannot exert their combat effectiveness, what is the new heavy cruiser Songdao doing?

The main gun of "Songdao" is mounted at the rear and the secondary gun is placed in front, and the Japanese obviously plan to form a combat unit of the three scenic ships. When chasing, two main guns can be used; when being chased, one main gun can still be used. If you can trap "Dingyuan" and "Zhenyuan" in the shape of a font, it would be even better.

However, when the Sanjing Ship and two ships were sunk, the situation in Songdo seemed a bit embarrassing, and he had to use the method of stern fighting against the enemy to operate the only 320mm caliber cannon.

Because the opponent's three giant ships covered heavy armor, the 120mm rapid-fire cannon could not give the opponent a fatal blow, So Yuyuki Ito placed all his hopes on the 320mm giant cannon. However, what made Ito Yuyuki extremely upset was that the giant cannon was unable to enter the state for a long time. Yuyuki Ito asked in a low voice:
Chapter completed!