Captain Matsushima Omoto knew that he was sweating on his forehead and lowered his head and said:

"Because the weight of the main gun is too heavy, it is installed very low to reduce the center of gravity and reduce the imbalance of the ship's body. However, in the end, the ship's low freeboard and the upward wave problem is very serious, which greatly increases the operational difficulties of the main gun."

"If these are just this, it's not bad. The main reason is that our ship is set to be inwardly tilted inward. The hull of this shape will be tilted when turning. If the ship turns left, the main gun will also turn left, the position of the barrel will change, and the weight will move. The two factors combined to make the ship tilt left several degrees (the same is true for the right turn). The bridge overturned because the steering is too fast. Therefore, it is impossible for the gunner to aim in a state of motion. Such a series of discounts was not achieved, and it was originally designed to be one shot in ten minutes.

Yuyuki Ito snorted coldly

"So, Omoto, since the war started, Matsushima's main gun has not been fired once!"

The captain of the Matsushima, Omoto, looked at the messenger awkwardly and asked: "How long will it take for the main gun to fire?"

The messenger: "The fault of the withdrawal device is being repaired now and it will take about twenty minutes to repair it."

The atypical combat inability of the Matsudao caused typical heavy losses.

At 18:5, Songdao was about 2,300 meters away. At this time, the 320mm main gun had been repaired, and the huge gun turned slowly to strike farther. At this time, the huge 250mm double main gun that had hit Songdao, and within three minutes, it shot 8 205kg steel grenades, hitting three, one of which hit the enemy ship's main gun. After the explosion, yellow smoke rolled, covering the entire ship. My gunners were all dancing and everyone was happy. This strike gave The enemy suffered a terrible heavy blow. According to the report of the Japanese fleet, this bullet scrapped the twelve-inch Cannon-style cannon and swept the deck. The fire accumulated on the deck also exploded by the aftermath of the grenade, causing a tragic situation of stabbing one's belly with its own sharp blade. As a result, a grenade killed 49 enemy officers and soldiers and injured more than 50 people. The cannon leader was thrown into the sea from a distance, leaving only a hat and a telescope as a relic. Later, a Japanese newspaper described the tragic situation of Matsushima as follows:

"In an instant, it was like a thousand lightnings shattering, making a tragic loud noise. Then the hull shocked violently and tilted to the right, with flames burning the sky and white smoke covering the sea. Eighty-four people were killed and injured, Captain Shima Kiyoshi, the captain of the starboard artillery team, and the second lieutenant Ito Mankaji died in battle. The dead bodies were flying down to the bottom of the sea, forming a scattered deck, bones and blood overflowing, and the smell of strange smell was scattered. It was indescribable. In a moment, the fire engulfed the hull, and the thick smoke covered the sky, which was extremely dangerous. Although the whole ship tried its best to extinguish the fire, the minor and serious injuries jumped up to rescue, the sea breeze was very fierce, and the fire was still strong, just like a sea of ​​fire."

Seeing that the situation was critical, Yuuki Ito personally directed the fire to put out, and while ordering "to replenish gunners with survivors, military bands, etc.", barely counterattacked with the remaining artillery. At the same time, the ships subsequently fired guns and bombarded the far ships to divert the attention of the far ships. At 7:40 pm, although the fire on Matsushima was extinguished and the power was still there, the facilities on the ship were destroyed. The 32-cm gun tie and the hydraulic press failed and could not fire the cannon, and they had lost their command and combat capabilities. So Yuuki Ito issued a flag order to "move all ships at will", and then tried his best to get rid of the "Fighting Far", "Zhiyuan" and led the other three Japanese ships to escape southeast.

At 18:15, the Songdao completely lost its combat power and fled with the Qing Dynasty Golden Dragon Banner.

When the King Kong, Kazuge, Yamato, Kaohsiung, Chu Zi, and Haimen saw him, he wanted to attack the Qing Dynasty's guerrilla fleet with its number advantage, but the guerrilla fleet shattered the enemy's delusion with fierce artillery fire. In just five minutes, the 250mm giant cannon of the striker was majestic and sank the King Kong, Yamato, and Kazuge, and Chu Zi suffered a lot in the battle with Zhiyuan and fearlessly. Seeing that the friendly ships surrendered one after another, they immediately hung up the white flag.

In this way, during the battle lasted for more than two hours, the Qing Dynasty naval guerrilla fleet used three cruisers to fight against twelve Japanese cruisers, sunk 6, captured four, and two enemy ships sank (not long afterwards, Hashiri was salvaged out of the water and joined the Northeast Federal Fleet, with the ship name Zhaoyue).

At this time, two ship shadows appeared in the far northeast direction, the whereabouts of the two ships "Yoshino", "Yomi", "Takachiho" and "Chyoda" were unknown. You can vaguely see the Qing Royal Fleet chasing each other closely behind the speed of the Combined Fleet, but because the speed is much lower than that of the Joint Fleet, you can only watch the guerrilla fleet rushing towards the Kyuyuan.

On the flagship of the Organic Fleet of the Joint Fleet, Kawahara was filled with joy. Although Chiyoda and Takachiho" sink and descend, the Qing navy suffered greater losses. Laiyuan was stranded and Wuyan (Langsu Ship), Pingyuan, Jiyuan, and Jingyuan were seriously injured and retreated from the battle. The main ships of the Qing fleet were "Ding", "Zhen" and "Jing" three thick armored giant ships. At this time, our team should eliminate Zhiyuan and the two cruisers who came to rescue. In this way, we cooperated with the remaining two Sanjing ships of our team to eliminate the last main force of the Qing Dynasty's navy in Dagukou. It should not be very difficult?

Soon, the distance between the two guerrilla fleets was shortened to 3,000 meters, and a gust of wind blew, blowing away the heavy smoke between the Yoshino and the Kyuyuan, allowing both sides to truly see the opponent's appearance.

Inside the Biaoyuan, Zhao Gang asked in a deep voice: "What is the firepower of our ship now?"

Captain Wen, who was standing beside him, looked at the information and replied:

"At present, 7 of the 84 rapid-fire guns on our ship can be used, and the rest are all damaged. Among the two double-mounted 250mm main guns, only one can be used, but because the brake device is damaged, one shell can be fired every 3 minutes. The left side of the armored castle was seriously damaged, and almost all the armor was blown away, causing the hull to tilt by 3 degrees right. After water injection, it has become black and normal, but the speed can only reach 17 knots."

"Okay, can you defeat Yoshino in this way?"

"Commander Zhao, this is absolutely impossible."

"Captain Wen, follow my orders, the guerrilla fleet will face the Japanese guerrilla fleet."

"yes."

At the same time, Kawahara looked at the unparalleled opponent 3,000 meters away in horror. The nightmare scene three months ago surged into his heart. ‘A flame flashed, then there was endless artillery fire, Akitsunzhou, Wave Speed, these two elite warships of the empire lost their combat power within five minutes. The huge 250mm main gun fire rate actually reached the terrifying rate of fire of two rounds per minute.’
Chapter completed!