The Navy is a military branch with many foreign affairs activities. It often goes out for communication, visits, and participates in military exercises, so it has high requirements for foreign languages. The officers and soldiers of the Chinese Navy can basically conduct general daily conversations and communication in English. There are also a considerable number of officers and soldiers who master two or three foreign languages. In addition to English, there are the most officers and soldiers who know Russian and Japanese.

Because in European countries, they can basically communicate in English. Before the escort fleet traveled, Sino-Russia relations were in a very good period, with close military exchanges between each other and often held joint military exercises and training. Therefore, many soldiers learned Russian to facilitate better communication with the Russian side. Learning Japanese was out of vigilance against Japan, and it was gradually becoming better and different from Sino-Russia relations. Sino-Japanese relations can basically be regarded as the worst time since the establishment of diplomatic relations. Many Chinese military operations were aimed at Japan as the hypothetical goal, and learning Japanese could better understand Japan's situation and prevent Japan's ease. In the fleet, many soldiers were able to master Japanese proficiently.

The Yueyang ship is equipped with two lifeboats and eight rubber boats. As lifeboats are used as lifesaving equipment, each lifeboat can accommodate up to twenty-five people. Wang Hailong ordered two lifeboats to be put down, each boat is equipped with four soldiers. In addition to the driver, the other three soldiers carried a Type 95 rifle and a Type 9 pistol to rescue the Japanese soldiers who fell into the water. The Yueyang ship and Xiangyang ship completed a 180-degree turn and drove at full speed to chase after the Akitsusu, Akishishi and Suma escaped.

Because it was an escape, the three Japanese ships did not maintain the formation of the column. The Akashi and Suma, one left and one right, were sailing side by side behind the Akitsusu, and the three warships formed a triangle.

At this time, on the Akizu Aki, Iwasaki's master had received a report from the lookout platform. He knew that the Yueyang ship and the Xiangyang ship had completed the turn and were chasing him. Therefore, Iwasaki's master immediately ordered the lookout platform to measure the distance between the two sides.

After a while, the lookout reported: "Sir, the enemy ship is about 1. km away from us."

After hearing this, Iwasaki Master was a little relieved. After all, it was a little less than ten kilometers away, so it was not easy to catch up. Therefore, Iwasaki Master said again: "What is our current speed?"

The officer in charge of driving said, "Sir, it's 15th day."

Iwasaki master was at the beginning. The maximum speed of the Akitsusu was 19 knots, while the maximum speed of the Akishi and Sumosu was 0 knots. However, in the battle just now, the three cruisers suffered varying degrees of damage, which naturally had a certain impact on the speed. Moreover, the Akishisu and Sumosu were better. One of the boilers of the Akishisu was damaged, and the cabin was inflowed by more than 60 tons, and the speed dropped sharply. Although the water inlet was basically blocked after the emergency repairs of the soldiers in the tube, the water inlet was basically blocked, and the water inlet in the hull was also pumped out, but it was still possible to avoid driving at a speed of 15 knots.

Iwasaki Master made a silent estimate in his mind, believing that driving at the current speed would be enough to get rid of the other side's pursuit and flee back to Dagukou. Because in this era, the speed of battleships was 16-18 knots; the speed of armored cruisers was 18-0 knots; and the speed of protective cruisers was generally around 0 knots. For example, the speed of Japanese warships of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-18, the speed of the Yoshino reached an astonishing knot. In this era, it was a rare high-speed cruiser.

The place where the battle is now not far from Dagukou, only more than 30 kilometers. Even if the speed of these two warships reaches the same speed as the Yoshino, it will take about 40 minutes to chase after it about 5,000 meters away. This period is enough to allow three Japanese ships to sail within the waters of the Dagukou port ten miles, so that they can get support from other ** ships parked in the port. At this time, there were also several medium and large warships parked in Dagukou, and even one or two battleships reaching 10,000 tons, with considerable combat power.

But at this moment, I just listened to the report from the observation deck from the microphone: "Sir, the distance between us and the enemy ship is now 1.1 kilometers."

Iwasaki Master was stunned for a moment. How much time has passed? I'm afraid that it's not even five minutes, and the other party caught up with more than 1,000 meters. Although Iwasaki Master had no time to calculate what impact this speed would have on him, there would definitely be no good results, because the other party did not have to catch up with him completely. The other party's artillery had been firing at a place seven thousand meters away just now. Therefore, Iwasaki Master immediately said: "Calculate the speed of the other party immediately?"

About two or three minutes later, the lookout replied: "Report to the commander, the speed of the enemy ship should be between 5 and 6 knots."

Iwasaki Master was shocked when he heard this. The speed of 5-6 knots was simply impossible. At least in the knowledge of Iwasaki Master, he didn't know that the warships of that country could reach this speed. From this point of view, the countries or factories that built these two warships not only had advanced artillery and aiming technology, but also developed a more advanced steam engine. So what other technologies do these two warships have that they don't know?

Just when Iwasaki's name was stunned, the lookout reported that the distance between the two sides had been narrowed to 10.5 kilometers.

Now the master Iwasaki couldn't hold back and immediately ordered: "Press and ventilation, drive as fast as possible, inform Akashi and Xuma, to drive at the maximum speed, and escape back to Dagukou."

Warships and ships in this era use coal as fuel and use strong pressure ventilation to strengthen the combustion value of coal, thereby generating greater power and obtaining high speed. Therefore, when warships use strong pressure ventilation, they can often travel at speeds exceeding their maximum speed. However, strong pressure ventilation is to overload the warship's overload and maintain the time for too long. Generally, no more than one time, and the wear of the warship's power system will greatly reduce the service life of the power system and cause failure and damage. Generally, warships will not use strong pressure ventilation when they are absolutely forbidden.

Now is the time to be absolutely forbidden, so Iwasaki master ignored the wear and tear of the power system and asked all three ships to travel under pressure and ventilation to obtain the maximum speed and escape back to Dagukou as soon as possible.

However, the power of the Akashi is damaged now, and even if it is used for ventilation, it will not be fast. Therefore, if all ships are now traveling at their fastest speed, the Akashi may be thrown off. But at this time, Iwasaki masters didn't care much about it. They would always give up a warship, which would be better than all three warships here. The most urgent task now is to rush back to Dagukou and pass the news back to Japan.

After the order was issued, the three Japanese warships each drove at the maximum speed they could reach and ran for their own strength. In just less than ten minutes, the difference in speed showed that the speed of the Akashi ship could not increase by 15 knots, and they could only be gradually thrown off by the Akitsusu and Sumo.

Although the front deck of the Sumo was seriously damaged and even the front main gun was blown away, the power system was basically intact, and the front main gun was blown away to reduce weight. Therefore, after using strong pressure ventilation, the speed soared to 1.8 knots. Although the Akizusu also used strong pressure ventilation, its speed was always limited to 0 knots. As a result, the Sumo not only threw away the Akashi ship, but also caught up with the Akizusu. Of course, the Japanese officers and soldiers on both ships are praying for the blessing of Amaterasu. At this time, the steam engine and boiler must not fail. This is not uncommon under the pressure ventilation.

Both the Yueyang ship and the Xiangyang ship are powered by two diesel engines, with a maximum speed of 7 knots. At this time, they chased the fleeing Japanese ships at a speed of 5 knots.

The first thing to catch up was naturally the Akitsushi, which was thrown off by the Akitsushi and Sumo. However, Wang Hailong could also see that the Japanese fleet obviously planned to throw off the Akitsushi to ensure that the Akitsushi and Sumoshi could escape from the battlefield. However, this time the mission was to sink or capture all the Japanese ships, and none of them could be let go. Therefore, Wang Hailong immediately made a decision and ordered the Xiangyang ship to deal with the Akitsushi who stayed behind, while the Yueyang ship bypassed the Akitsushi and Sumoshi to continue chasing the Akitsushi and Sumoshi in front.

In fact, at this time, the Yueyang ship and the Xiangyang ship were less than 6,000 meters away from the Akitsuki, and the Sumo ship was only more than 10,000 meters away from the Akitsuki in front. Therefore, after the Yueyang ship detoured, the Xiangyang ship immediately fired a cannon and attacked the Akishi.

After four consecutive rounds of artillery attacks, first of all, Akashi's tail hit three rounds of shells, and the 15mm main gun at the tail was destroyed, which basically lost its resistance. Then another shell hit the bridge command room from the rear of the hull. Although the armor in the command room was the thickest on a warship, the armor in the command room was basically concentrated on the front and both sides, and there was no armor protection behind it. As a result, it exploded at the rear of the command room of Akashi, with countless injuries and deaths. Another round of missing bomb fell into the sea water about three meters at the tail of Akashi. After the shell exploded in the sea water, it caused huge impulse pressure and destroyed one of the propellers of Akashi. Therefore, Akashi's speed suddenly dropped to only maintaining about six or seven knots.
Chapter completed!