(The fifth update has arrived. Dear friends, collect it and send flowers! Your contribution is my motivation!) Near Dadonggou in the Yellow Sea, Ding Ruchang of the Beiyang Fleet received a telegram at noon and was ordered to attack two Japanese freighters, but due to Zhenyuan
The four ships, Zhiyuan, Jingyuan, and Jiyuan, went out to sea to cruise without asking for instructions. Ding Ruchang could only take the remaining five ships of Dingyuan, Jingyuan, Laiyuan, Chaoyong, and Yangwei to sea to attack.
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But all this was a plan designed by the Japanese long ago, because at this time the Japanese combined fleet was waiting for help. Then the Beiyang Fleet discovered that they had been tricked and hurriedly fought. However, not long after the battle began, the flagship of the Beiyang Fleet, the Dingyuan, had been launched for 12 years.
, coupled with the long period of lack of maintenance, after firing a 305 mm large-caliber high-explosive bomb, the bridge broke, and then a small-scale turret explosion occurred. Ding Ruchang was seriously injured, and the Beiyang Fleet suddenly faced each other without any command.
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The Japanese Combined Fleet's First Guerrilla Force, four ships, took advantage of their speed to attack the two old warships on the right wing of the Beiyang Fleet. They were extremely brave and showed off their power. Under various disadvantages in movement speed, firepower, and attack speed, the two ships were subsequently attacked one after another.
The impact caused a fire, and then it sank directly.
The Japanese flagship Yoshino was also hit by the Beiyang Fleet and caught fire, but it was quickly extinguished and the battle continued. When the Japanese Combined Fleet and the First Guerrilla Force surrounded the right wing of the Beiyang Fleet, our team also attacked the main force of the Beiyang Fleet.
, the Japanese Combined Fleet's warships Hiei, Akagi, Fuso, and Saikyo Maru were intercepted by the Beiyang Fleet Dingyuan, Jingyuan, and Laiyuan.
Subsequently, Hiei, Akagi, and Akagi were severely damaged, and the captain of Akagi, Hataro Sakamoto, was killed on the spot. The battle continued until 14:00 in the afternoon. To the right corner of the first guerrilla fleet of the Japanese Combined Fleet, the Beiyang warships Zhenyuan, Zhiyuan, Jingyuan, and Jiyuan were
, suddenly came out from behind and circled behind the main force of the Japanese Combined Fleet. They came from a distance with the Beiyang Fleet and formed a pincer attack on the Japanese ships from a distance.
The Japanese main force was violently attacked at the same time, and then the formation was chaotic. Not long after the melee, the Japanese first guerrillas arrived to rescue. Then the Zhiyuan, which the Beiyang Fleet had been charging ahead, was bombarded by the concentrated firepower of Yoshino, Takachiho and others.
, and then suffered multiple injuries and sank together with the flagship Dingyuan.
The Zhenyuan ship was also in the bloody battle that followed. Because there were many places where it was hit, a large amount of seawater sank before it could be discharged. Jingyuan continued to fight against Yoshino, but because there were no more high-explosive shells, it could only use armor-piercing shells, but in
After several attacks on the enemy ship, there was no explosion, and then it was hit in many places and caught fire, and then sank in the sea. After Zhiyuan sank, Jiyuan leader Fang Boqian ordered Lin Taizeng to be rescued from the sea first.
Deng Shichang and the others then left the battlefield and drove towards North Korea.
Then Jingyuan and Laiyuan left the battle due to too many bullets. Laiyuan ran aground and sank on the way back. Then the Japanese Navy Combined Fleet Commander Ito Yuhiro ordered the withdrawal from the Yellow Sea battlefield around 14:40 and returned to start the return voyage.
Return to Sasebo Naval Base, Japan.
In this battle, the Beiyang Fleet sank eight main ships: Dingyuan, Jingyuan, Zhiyuan, Zhenyuan, Laiyuan, Chaoyong, Yangwei, and Guangjia. Only two ships, Jiyuan and Jingyuan, escaped and were injured.
The subsequent Yellow Sea battle between the Japanese Combined Fleet and the Qing Dynasty's Beiyang Fleet, which lasted for more than three hours, ended here. The Qing's Beiyang Fleet was almost completely wiped out, while the Japanese Combined Fleet only suffered minor injuries to its three ships, Yoshino, Hiei, and Akagi.
At the cost, he won the naval battle in the Sino-Japanese War of 1994. That night, the Jingyuan sailed back to Weihaiweijun Port. Then the news of the annihilation of the Beiyang Fleet reached Tianjin. After Li Hongzhang received the telegram, he spit out three mouthfuls of blood.
He suddenly fell ill at home.
However, this naval battle was not over, because there was another naval battle in the Sino-Japanese War, which was the famous Sino-Japanese War in the Far East. At this time, the flagship of the Fourth Far East Fleet, Commander of the Far East Navy, Liu Qinghui, stood on the deck of a brand new battleship, and he
In his hand, he now held a newly translated wireless telegram.
"The Beiyang Fleet is gone, the hunting operation begins!" Li Ningyu's message from Hawaii only contained these twelve characters.
Liu Qinghui then looked at the brand-new steel ships and groups of young sailors in the Far East, because he knew that some people had not experienced a formal maritime war, but they all had to withstand this encounter.
Just like Li Ningyu said: "When we meet on a narrow road, the brave will win!".
"The young master is right! Alas, I don't want to think about it any more! Let everything be based on facts!"
Then Liu Qinghui left the deck, and then countless latest combat orders came out from the flagship command tower of the Fourth Fleet of the Far East Navy. With the radio waves, they were conveyed to the commanders of each ship and to every soldier participating in the battle. All new ships
All the officers and soldiers on board not only did not feel the slightest uneasiness, but instead aroused unlimited fighting spirit.
"Rumble...!"
"Raise the first-level alarm, all personnel, prepare to fight! Stand at the gun position!" Continuous sirens spread throughout every warship in the Far East Navy. Young sailors quickly ran to the ship amid the shouts of their companions.
They went to their respective positions, and then a series of heart-wrenching voices sounded.
"The bow main gun is ready!"
"Tail main gun, ready!"
"Torpedo room, ready!"
"...!"
On each ship of the Far East Navy, the gunners stuffed huge shells into the gun barrels and shouted loudly at the copper pipes next to them. As the shouts were heard from the copper pipes to the bridge, the Far East
The ships of the Fourth Fleet quickly entered combat mode, and then everyone was sweating nervously.
"One minute to prepare for battle!"
"Thirty seconds, prepare!"
"Course 75, full left rudder, enter combat position at full speed!"
"Full rudder left, heading 75, both vehicles moving forward at full speed!" The navigator held a walkie-talkie and conveyed the captain's command orders. However, at this time, the Japanese naval combined fleet, which had just won a victory, was returning home, but they did not know that
, a huge net is waiting for them, time flies, the sea looks calm and windless, but it reveals a terrifying murderous aura...
An hour later, when the First Guerrillas of the Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet began to approach, all the gunners of the Fourth Fleet of the Far East Navy were ready.
"Directly ahead, two large fleets were spotted at 20,000 meters!" the flagship lookout shouted through the copper tube of the communication. The young man seemed to have exhausted all his strength to express his presence.
"15,000 meters!"
"13,000 meters!"
"10,000 meters!"
"9000 meters!"
"Fire for me! Hit these bastards hard!" At this time, after the Japanese Navy entered the attack range of the Fourth Far East Fleet, Navy Commander Liu Qinghui in the command tower conveyed the order in the command tower and knocked at the same time.
The steel plate in front of me was buzzing, as if I wanted to turn my hands into cannonballs to hit the enemy ships again and again, and see them completely shattered.
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