The artillery fire of the Royal Fleet of the Qing Dynasty was sparse but powerful. As the distance approached, all the main guns fired guns to fight. Thereafter, there was a constant rumbling sound. From a distance, the Qing Dynasty fleet erupted huge shells like a volcano. The shells of the Royal Fleet of the Qing Dynasty fell in front of the united fleet at the beginning and disappeared in the white waves. Soon, as the ballistic approached, a 305mm giant cannon in Zhenyuan hit a certain ship in the Japanese rear team (it should be the transport ship "Tiangui Maple". Because of the temporary requisition of merchant ships, the remodeled model could not be recognized at that time), and everyone applauded and cheered. However, the "Tiankui Maple" did not catch fire and explode (afterwards, it was believed that the "Tiankui Maple" originally belonged to a merchant ship, with iron on the outside and pine wood inside, and the strength was not enough, so the 305mm shell did not detonate, and only a big hole was smashed at the gang of ships)

In the captain's room of the Flying Ship, the fleet commander was standing beside Zhao Gang and guiding him on the formation of the Japanese Combined Fleet. Zhao Gang was attentive when he heard it. Seeing the joint fleet changing formation, Zhao Gang said with a smile:

"It's time to fight a naval battle. I, an amateur, get out of the way quickly to avoid affecting your war."

"Just know, you play very well on land, and even Rudendolf admires you. But at sea, you should watch our performance!"

Sheer did not give Zhao Gang face either. At the same time, he sent an order to "Dingyuan formation go forward to fight against the enemy guerrillas, and the Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far-Far

Advance as planned? Or perform maneuvers in front of the enemy's whistling shells? The First Guerrillas immediately took the safest method to speed up the breakthrough from Dingyuan, and safely avoided the sparse barrage of the Qing Dynasty Royal Navy under the protection of a speed of up to 18.5 knots.

The fleet chief Heyuan should look at his guerrillas with satisfaction without any damage, enter the back of the Qing Dynasty Royal Navy, and form a front and back attack with the team. Everything seemed to be a repeat of the last naval battle. This time the commander seemed to be stronger than the last time, and he was very predictive to shrink his formation and form a relatively thick double-row column.

But unfortunately, the distance between the two columns is a bit larger. In this case, if your fleet is inserted into it, the columns of the two columns will inevitably throw themselves into danger, and your fleet can freely choose the target of focal fire.

Heyuan must contemplate the possibility of success and finally decided to start suppressing enemy ships at 1,300 meters away from the enemy. According to the information, there are only 9 caliber rapid-fire guns in the enemy fleet, while the largest of the small caliber rapid-fire guns is only 57mm, and it is impossible to penetrate the 32mm armor plate of Chiyoda, the weakest guerrilla armor, within 1,300 meters.

On the other hand, the 44 medium-caliber rapid-fire guns owned by his guerrillas will fire at the cruiser in the tail section at a speed of 400 rounds per minute. Under such firepower, it will be easy to sink the enemy! Heyuan wants to kill "each ship moves with the main ship and gathers fire and shoots at 1,300 meters."

2500 meters, 2300 meters, 2100 meters

Suddenly, the sound of artillery in the Qing Dynasty fleet became much louder. A rain of bullets rose from the fleet. After a distance of 2,000 meters, it found its own home in one second. The rain of bullets included 217 75mm caliber shells, 50 57mm shells, 22 47mm shells, 190 37mm shells, a total of 479 shells, with a total weight of 1.3 tons (of which the weight of the 75-speed guns was ejected to 0.98 tons), and it could be fired 20 times per minute, with the weight of ammunition ejected per minute reaching 27 tons.

The combined fleet's ejection per minute is only 21 tons, while the previous Beiyang fleet's ejection was 12 tons. Of course, simply speaking, the ejection weight cannot be converted into the corresponding power. A 305mm shell hit any warship in the Combined Fleet will immediately weaken the combat effectiveness of the warship by more than half, and even directly sink it; but the same weight of 37mm shells will only add some craters at most, and warships with pockmarks can continue to fight lively.

Most of the Japanese warships were optimized for the Beiyang Fleet. Even ordinary cruisers were more than enough to resist 37mm shells. 47mm shells were ineffective for most ships, and 57mm shells were ineffective for new ships. However, because the Beiyang Fleet did not have 75mm rapid-fire guns installed, all Japanese ships did not specifically design the 75mm rapid-fire guns, so... a tragedy happened.

The "Achihe" ship of the joint fleet caught fire first. This 622-ton ship (strictly speaking, it is not a ship at all, and can only be called a ship) escaped the attack of Dingyuan and Zhenyuan's four 305mm shells. However, a 75mm shell was directly hit by the engine room by a 75mm shell, losing its power and becoming an excellent fixed target. Soon, more than a dozen 75mm shells patrolled the head of "Achihe". Two of them hit the ammunition depot almost at the same time. The violent explosion tore the ship open a 1-meter-wide hole, and it sank in less than five minutes in the cold sea water of the Bohai Sea. All 118 people on the ship were killed.

At 16:25, the joint fleet "Akagi" was gone.

At this time, Lieutenant General Ito Yukihiro, the commander of the joint fleet, was in a dilemma. He had ordered the gunboat lightning strike formation to move forward, hoping to restrain the mobility of the Qing fleet with a numerical advantage. If he was lucky, he would carry out a torpedo attack at close range; even if he was not lucky, as long as he restrained most of the firepower of the Qing fleet, he could create opportunities for the team and the First Guerrillas.

But the ruthless reality once again shattered him. The firepower of the Qing fleet was so powerful. "Fengxiang" sank for less than ten minutes. "Chiacheng" was also sunk. In this way, the gunboat lightning strike formation may have been completely shined by the opponent's rapid-fire cannons before it even ran to the other side.

What puzzled Ito Yuyuki was that in the naval battle that had been held before, if the Beiyang Fleet had also exerted such power! No!! Only 60% of the power was needed, the combined fleet would inevitably suffer the fate of failure. Why was there such a big gap between that time and this time?

While Ito Yukihiro was stunned, his subordinates cheered, and a fire broke out from a warship of the Qing Fleet, which seemed to be Zhiyuan. A large amount of smoke came out of the damaged turbine room, forming a thick column of smoke. All ships of the Joint Fleet noticed the Zhiyuan and began to concentrate on shooting the 2,300-ton cruiser.
Chapter completed!