Several cruisers even out extra sailors to guard the prisoners, and at the same time drove the ship back to Yingkou Port, while other warships continued to pursue. However, due to the delay of receiving three old ironclad ships, most of the main forces of the Japanese Navy fled, only Chiyoda
The unprotected cruiser was sunk.
"Let the Yoshino run away." Zhang Haiyang hammered his fist hard on the table. The high speed of the Yoshino is a hidden worry for the Chinese territorial navy, but he still lets him run away.
The first mate on the side scratched his head and said, "We really want to have a new weapon called torpedo, isn't it useful." Zhang Haiyang said annoyedly: "Yes, I've never used this kind of thing. I forgot it when I'm anxious, but this
The torpedo has a short range and a slow speed, so it is not very useful."
After all, this is the first time that the Chinese fleet has fought. The officers and soldiers from top to bottom are all novices, so they are inevitably nervous when fighting. It is normal to have such omissions. The Japanese Navy also has no combat experience. This time they did not leave enough because of insufficient experience.
The self-defense shells caused such a result.
When later historians wrote this paragraph, they analyzed: "The Chinese territorial navy, with a chance opportunity, made the soldiers feel the atmosphere of real naval battles with miraculous victory, and made them complete the transformation from new recruits to veterans.
, while Japan, which is also a new recruit, paid a heavy price. In this operation, the Japanese Navy paid high tuition fees for their inexperienced, which made the Japanese Navy unable to recover from then on."
Although some of the joint fleet escaped, the battle was not over yet. All Chinese leading warships began to assemble towards the Seto Inland Sea.
The flagship of the Japanese Joint Fleet, the "King Kong", dared not stop after breaking through the encirclement, ran back to Yokosuka Military Port with scars, and several other warships returned here one after another with various injuries.
Seeing that the warships that came back were only "Kingang", "Kuzuru", "Kagigi" and "Yoshino" four cruisers, "Matsushima" and "Imashima" two ironclad ships, "Ito's heart was twisted
It hurts. This time I was defeated so unjustly. I was chased and beaten by others because of the lack of shells.
When Ito thought of this, he felt a cramp in his heart. A mouthful of blood was spurted out, and the officers on the side hurriedly carried Ito out of the commander's tower and rushed to the hospital in the port.
"Have you all assembled?" Zhang Haiyang asked. The observer on the side said, "Report to the commander to arrive all the warships." Zhang Haiyang said, "All warships will lower the warships, replace the incendiary bombs, and target Etashima."
The flagship signal flag was hung out, and the other ships started to move. Five cruisers and three gunboats began to turn and head towards Edashima.
At this time, it was dinner time. After a day of study, all the students were concentrated in the restaurant and had a happy meal while talking. The one who talked the most here was naturally the United Fleet of Japan that had already set sail.
"Our fleet will definitely return with great victory." A fat male classmate yelled with his chubby fists, and a short boy next to him also excitedly suggested: "When the joint fleet comes back, we will all go to greet us.
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While talking, a boy ran into the restaurant in a hurry and said, "Everyone, come out and see, our fleet is back." The students who were eating all threw their bowls and ran to the beach with a bang.
Seeing the crowds of people, Zhang Haiyang was a little puzzled. Why didn't these people hide but came to the warships? Are they not afraid of death? After looking at their own ship, Zhang Haiyang suddenly realized that it was because he was not exposing his target.
The flag of the Chinese leader was not hung out, and the other party mistakenly thought it was his own fleet.
Looking at the crowded crowd, Zhang Haiyang showed a cruel smile on his lips: "All artillery began to load incendiary bombs and fire freely."
Just as the students were cheering for nonchalantly, all the muzzles turned around. Seeing the muzzles turned around, the students thought that the warships were going to salute them, and the cheers in the crowd became louder, and some students even threw their hats on them.
The sky.
'Room' A burst of cannons sounded, and the incendiary bomb exploded in the team. The picy sour splashed everywhere and ignited the clothes of nearby students. The continuous explosions came one after another, and the students were stunned. They had no idea what the warships were going to be.
What are you doing?
The awakened students quickly began to flee, but the Chinese fleet's shells were mercilessly shooting, storming everyone into the sea of fire.
The high temperature flames and chorionic acid, the unique yellow poisonous smoke, turned Edashima into a hell on earth. When the search and rescue troops arrived on the second day, it had turned into ashes. No one on Edashima, which was small, survived.
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"It's so good to fight." Zhang Haiyang did not pity these students because their predecessors caused heavy casualties in the Imperial Fleet. Among those people, many of their predecessors and teachers are unknown now. If they do not destroy these people, they will be in the future.
He would do the same thing to himself. "The blood is not enough." Zhang Haiyang gritted his teeth and said, "Order the fleet to advance towards Wugang."
Wu Port is the second largest port in Japan and the location of 80% of the country's shipyards. The sky darkened again. After a day of fighting, the sailors of the fleet were exhausted, but they still stood on their posts without any slacking off.
Wan Yong personally directed the "Baishan" to approach Wugang under the night to investigate. After returning, he immediately took a boat to the flagship "Tongjiang".
"Report to the commander, the Japanese joint fleet is not in the port." Wan Yong reported. "No?" Zhang Haiyang frowned. He originally planned to annihilate the remnants of the joint fleet, but he could not find it.
Several captains were waiting on the flagship, and Feng Ju said: "I think the Japanese fleet must have been scared to the farthest Yokosuka military port."
Sun Xiaohu said: "What should we do now? If we go to the Yokosuka military port, we will continue to go deep into the Seto Inland Sea. When we get there, it will be dawn, and the situation will be very unfavorable."
Gao Tonghui also agreed: "The channel deep in the Seto Inland Sea is narrow, and our warships cannot move there, not to mention that we don't have many shells. If we are entangled by the Japanese defensive fleet, we can't stand it even if they are all wooden ships."
Li Weiguo suggested: "It's better for us to attack Wugang."
Wan Yong said: "What's the point of fighting in Wugang? There is not even a bigger ship."
Li Weiguo smiled and said, "We built a shipyard and fired all our incendiary bombs. It is more meaningful to completely destroy Japan's shipbuilding capabilities than to strike a fleet."
"Yes, just hit their shipyard." Gao Tonghui nodded. Zhang Haiyang said: "Okay, then everyone starts preparing and starts shelling in half an hour."
Due to the lag in communication, Wugang has not received any news of the defeat of the joint fleet so far, and there is no sense of defense here at all.
In fact, even their defense is not very effective. Wugang has a wide view, flat terrain, and no danger. Therefore, the forts here are built on the plains. In addition, the Japanese iron ore is poor and there are not so many steel cast cannons, so here
There are few shore cannons.
The eight warships led by the Chinese have been lined up, and all the main guns are aimed at Wugang in the dark. "Fire." With Zhang Haiyang's order, the main gun of the "Tongjiang" began to roar first.
Then the artillery of several other warships also began to bombard.
In order to avoid the danger of shore artillery, Zhang Haiyang did not let the fleet approach Wugang, but instead attacked with the main gun outside the range of shore artillery. The firepower of the sixteen 203mm cannons was not very dense, but the power of picy sourness was
But it is undoubtedly revealed.
Most of the buildings in Japan are made of wood. Once these buildings are stained with bitter and sour flames, they will immediately burn. It happened that the west wind was strong tonight. The wind took advantage of the fire and could not help but be the shipyard area near the dock, and even the residential areas north of the dock were successively
When a big fire broke out, people ran to put out the fire, but many people were smoky with the bitter and sour smoke, and then burned to death by the spreading flames.
It was not until the nearby garrison arrived and dug out an isolation belt outside the fire site that the fire gradually became smaller. By the time the fire finally went out, the entire Wugang Wharf had turned into ashes, with residential areas and industrial areas in the city.
More than 70% of them were destroyed, and the wharf and the fortress had been destroyed. When the sky was bright, the Chinese fleet had already driven at full speed and returned to Yingkou Port.
The great victory at sea is not the whole of the battle. Japan did not only send fleets to attack the Imperial Navy. Another merchant fleet escorted by twenty-one old sailing warships carried 20,000 Japanese infantrymen and they set sail at the same time.
The goal is the Hanping Kingdom, a vassal state of the Lanfang Empire, which is not far from Japan.
Hanping Country is not large in area and has a population of only a few thousand square kilometers and a population of only hundreds of thousands, but this is indeed a peninsula extending from the Eastern Continent. As long as it is occupied, Japan will have a springboard to attack the mainland, their dream of the mainland.
There is a possibility of realization.
Although the sailing fleet was slower, the distance from the land of Japan to Hanpingguo was much shorter than that of Lushun Port. Just when the Japanese Joint Fleet shelled Lushun Port, the fleet was already unprepared for Hanpingguo.
Next, you have landed in Busan Port.
Busan Port is located at the southernmost end of Hanping Country. It is also the closest large port to Japan. However, Hanping Country, which has never paid attention to maritime power and has a loose military equipment, only a few small sailing warships here, plus an army of less than a thousand people.
The troops were stationed and caught off guard, and the troops fled after only half an hour of support.
The Japanese army quickly boarded the dock and occupied the port of Busan. When the vanguard fleet succeeded, the subsequent fleet began to transport troops and supplies here continuously. After a day, Fang Xiaoyu received the news that the Japanese had landed in Hanpingguo, and the Japanese army
It has advanced thirty kilometers forward with the Busan Port as its base.