When naval warfare and ship guns fired, sailors always thought that they had more shells than the enemy, because the enemy shells exploded around them, and even if their shells hit the enemy ships, there was no big deal, unless the ammunition depot was detonated or a fire was ignited. Therefore, when Lieutenant General Moffett communicated with the Gunners' Chief Deputy Pan Wenzhi in private, he reminded him to find ways to arouse morale in the naval battle to enhance the confidence of the gunners. For this reason, he could lie when necessary.

Logically speaking, Lieutenant Colonel Pan Wenzhi should have waited for the Hairong to approach the launch of the ship and fired the guns before lying about military information. However, the second round of artillery shells of Haiqi was too far off. He knew that this was not a technical reason. Since Lieutenant General Moffett took over the navy, the fleet's training funding was five times that of the past, and the gunner's hit rate has also been greatly improved. Even if many shells fail, they are not too far from the target. However, the Haiqi shells are now shooting further and further, which makes him lie in advance to increase the gunner's confidence.

The benefits of not firing front and rear main guns were brought out at this time. When the front main gun was firing, the rear main gun was loading. When the rear main gun was firing, the front main gun was adjusting according to the latest distance. Everyone only saw that their shells were missed. Everyone thought that the shells fired by another main gun hit the enemy ship. Under Pan Wenzhi's lies, the gunners' confidence increased greatly. Only a few secondary guns on one side saw that their shells only stirred up waves and did not hit the enemy ship, but they did not say anything, but were worried that the eight-inch shell hit by the ship's headquarters just made them anxious. Compared with the eleven-four centimeter armor of the main turret, the armor of the secondary gun was only five-point one centimeter. Such thin armor even if the Japanese use not armor-piercing bombs but only high-explosive bombs, the lethality is difficult to resist.

The fire at the ship's position was quickly extinguished with the efforts of the sailors. Perhaps it was because the sky was dark. The Japanese shells never hit again, but their sensitive shells would explode violently even if they hit the sea. In the night, water splashes and flames kept rising from the black sea at the same time, and the scene was indescribable.

The 20-minute round of shooting, including the test-fire of the Rijin, fired a total of six rounds of artillery shells, with twenty-one rounds. Only one of the third round hit the Haiqi, and the other shells were shot in the sea. At 6:34, amid the constant cursing of captain Lin Baoyi, the Rijin cruiser had approached seven thousand meters of its own. The main gun on the Hairong had just conducted a test-fire and was hit by the fourteen six-inch sub-air artillery on the Rijin. The position of the bomb was the main gun at the stern of the ship. After the violent explosion, there was no casualties or substantial damage, but it still scared everyone in the commander's tower.

Taking advantage of the fire of the Haiqi again being shot and exploded in the distance, the first mate Chen Jiliang looked at Lin Baoyi, whose face changed a lot and said, "Women, foreigners want us to die, so we can't move forward any more."

Moffett, Tian Shijie, Wu Fan, and Cheng Biguang all knew the specific combat plan. But except for them, the officers and soldiers on the Hairong did not know what the final purpose of their battle was, especially the Hairong. The order he received was to follow the flagship and insist on 30 minutes to retreat. But now it has only been twenty minutes. As soon as he entered the range of the Rijin sub-cannon, the Hairong was shot as soon as he fired. Thinking of the Rijin 14 six-inch cannons on the Rijin 1. Lin Baoyi's scalp was a little numb, and he did not scold Chen Jiliang's inappropriate complaints. In the next round of Rijin 1 volleys, he asked a little uneasy: "What time is it? What is the distance from the Japanese now?"

"At 6:37, the distance was 6,800 yards just now." Someone replied.

"Is the flagship still moving forward?" Lin Baoyi asked again.

"No. Now they are trying to draw the distance away, but Rijin is too close." The voice just now replied in the darkness, as if to remind me something, the voice said: "The maximum speed of Haiqi can reach twenty-two knots, but we..."

The Haiqi actually has a maximum speed of 24 knots, but that was when it was shipped. Now more than ten years have passed, the maximum speed is only 22 knots, while the Hairong was shipped, and the maximum speed was only 20:75 knots, which is more than ten years have passed. It is good to have a speed of 19 knots. The first mate meant to remind Lin Baoyi that if he retreated in half an hour, the same distance would definitely fall behind because the speed of the Hairong was slower. Now the Rijin shells were basically fired towards Haiqi. Once they were retreating, the shells would all fall on the Hairong.

The commander's tower was silent, and only the first mate of the guns and cannons on the mast in the sound tube was anxiously heard, "The distance is 6,600, can you fire the cannon? Can you fire the cannon?"

"Don't fire for the time being... No! Fire at the slowest rate of fire." Captain Lin Baoyi ordered. At this time, countless thoughts were circulating in his mind. He originally wanted to not move with the Haiqi to widen the distance from the Rijin, but now the navy is very strict. Once he leaves the Haiqi, it is no different from escaping in the last battle. He knows the fate of Du Xigui, the former captain of the Hairong. Yang Jingcheng is simply a ruthless and unrighteous person. If he offends him, he is seeking death. Therefore, the best way is to fire less.

The naval battle in the Philippines at 6:00 p.m. on August 21, 1913 was extremely strange. The Rijin fired his gun while desperately trying to get close to the Haiqi. In the dark night, this cruiser with more than 7,000 tons was like a fire-breathing monster, constantly spitting out anger at the Haiqi. The two main guns of the Haiqi were fighting hard, only the Hairong followed the Haiqi side like a shadow. Its fire rate was slower than the main gun of the Haiqi. According to the calculations of Pan Wenzhi, the first mate of the Haiqi gun cannon, they fired every five minutes.

"What's going on with Hairong? Why are their firing speed slow?" Lieutenant General Moffett not only looked at Rijin, but also stared at Hairong beside him. He immediately discovered the problem and asked Major General Cheng Biguang.

What else can happen? It's night now, and only the firelight from the muzzle can reveal the position of its ship. Without firing or firing less, the Japanese will not be able to accurately aim. Major General Cheng Biguang muttered in his heart, but he didn't want to, and actually he didn't dare to tell the truth. Liu Guannan, the head of the Haiqi system, is from Fujian, and there are many Fujianese in other positions. If he says that the Hairong is deliberately avoiding war, then in a few days, all Fujianese will know that he was shooting their report behind their back. He had no choice but to bite the bullet and said: "Sir. The Hairong just now was shot, maybe it was a mechanical failure."

"Mechanical failure?" Lieutenant General Moffett said suspiciously. He was a little disbelief. He was hit by the main gun just now by Hairong, but Hairong's main gun was single-mounted, and he still had two more lost one shot.

While everyone in the commander's tower secretly speculated, Pan Wenzhi on the mast revealed the answer. After reporting the speed of the enemy ship as usual, he only heard him scolding angrily: "Don't lose his mother! Stop! You can get out of the way if you don't want to hit it!" He subconsciously said to himself and was heard by the whole ship through the sound tube. Just when the Haiqi gunner also wanted to slow down the rate of fire, his voice became louder again, "It hit! The main gun behind our ship hit the turret in front of the enemy ship. Ah, the Japanese are on fire! It's on fire!"

At 6:44, at the 30th minute after the artillery battle, the seventh round of shooting of the Haiqi finally hit the main gun in the front of the Japanese-Russian Naval Battle. In the Japanese-Russian-Directory Battle, the main gun was hit by 12-inch shells in succession, and even if the shells were repaired, their defense was still not as good as before. Although the shells did not penetrate the armor, they caused the entire turret to move slightly, and the explosion flames ignited nearby wood. The flames strung on the Hiji-Tire made the whole ship look straight, and with the guidance of the flames, a shell from the Hiji-Tire also hit the Hiji-Tirectory, but the fifteen-centimeter shells did not achieve any results.

Amid the rumbling sound of cannons, Lieutenant Colonel Tian Shijie, who had been watching time in the commander tower, found that the better time had come and the ambush submarine. He said to Lieutenant General Moffett, who had a smile on his face, "Lieutenant General, the time has come."

"Okay! Heading 080. Speed ​​19, get out of here." Lieutenant General Moffett ordered. "The signal station sends a signal to the Hairong. Be sure to follow the flagship to move together."

"Termination 080, speed 19!" Driver Zheng Choxiong repeated Lieutenant General Moffett's order loudly, began to turn the rudder, and evacuate the battlefield according to the scheduled route.

As soon as the flagship moved, the Hairong immediately followed, and Yu Sanbao, the captain of the merchant ship who had watched the battle from a distance, put down his telescope and ordered the servo to turn. In less than five minutes, the Chinese ship turned around and widened the distance from the Hijin. Colonel Kuzuki, who was closely watching the battle on the bridge, shouted excitedly: "The Chinese people have escaped, follow up at full speed, and chase the Chinese fleet!"

At the beginning of the war, the fleet was in the west. During the artillery battle, the two sides kept turning, which made the fleet now on the east side. In fact, this was also the strategy of the Rijin, which was to prevent the fleet from approaching the west and north, so that the fleet would fall into the encirclement of the Japanese fleet. Everyone had expected the Japanese plan. For the Rijin, the best result was to sink or injure its own ships. If not, block the way and let the fleet rush back. Because of this, the ambush circle of twenty-five submarines was chosen to be in the east.

The merchant ship was in the front, followed by the Haiqi and Hairong, and the last one was the Rijin cruiser. Huqinzhai, who was at the depth of the periscope, could only see the fine firelight in the east and heard the explosion sounds after the shells fell into the water, but what was the situation there? He could not see the hiding underwater.

Under the white light, the people on the side of the command platform stared at the face of the audio officer. I don’t know how long it took, but the audio officer said: “The merchant ship is here…there are two more ships behind him, but it’s not three warships!”

The sound of the merchant ship motor was familiar to the listener, but he couldn't tell the sound of the warships very clearly. Especially the sound waves emitted by the explosion of shells on the sea, stimulating the listener's fragile eardrums. Every time the shell exploded into the water, he felt his ears as if something was hammering and buzzing.

The explosion of Japanese artillery shells not only stimulated the listeners, but also stimulated the entire submarine. After each shell exploded, the sound waves spreading in the water would make the submarine shake. This made Huqinzhai think of the weapon called deep water bombs taught in the submarine school. He couldn't help but worry that if the Japanese invented the deep water bomb, he would be miserable.

The explosions on the water were getting closer and closer. At this moment, Colonel Kuzumi Misaki Masao, who saw that he could not stop the China from escaping, began to order the artillery wizard to adjust the target of the artillery to the merchant ship, which was what he wanted to sink. However, the merchant ship was 15,000 meters away from the Rijin Ship from beginning to end, which made the eight-inch main gun on the ship completely unreachable.

"Where are the Ibuki horns now?" I was worried that the Chinese people would escape further and further, Kyutsu asked the first mate impatiently when Colonel Masao.

"They are on the way to come, which should be only about thirty or forty nautical miles. The Major General ordered us to hold the Chinese people for another two hours." The first lieutenant replied.

"Yoxi!" The colonel finally felt a little satisfied. He felt that the shelling of his ship was very bad tonight. But even so, his goal was almost achieved. The culprit who made the entire joint fleet futile will be explained here tonight.

I didn't understand the situation of the Japanese, and the submarine commanders who had formed an ambush circle kept asking the pilot to keep their level. After the motor of the merchant ship passed, Huqinzhai was surprised to find that he seemed to be on the side of the fleet's navigation, which means that the Japanese ship would also pass along this channel. This is an excellent shooting position. Just as his cruiser was rushing through the submarine, he shouted: "Preparation from Torpedo 1 to 4!"

"Preparation from Torpedo 1 to 4!" The captain's order was repeated by the commander, and it was passed to the torpedo compartment at the bow of the boat one after another.

"Open the torpedo tube!" Hu Qinzhai stared at the periscope with his eyes tightly and issued an order again.

"Open the torpedo tube"! The order was passed in the boat. In the torpedo compartment, the sailors who had been filled with torpedo tubes were shaking the handle of the torpedo tube lid. In the gear bite, the front end of the torpedo tube had been opened, and the sea water poured into the torpedo tube with a "wow" sound.

He tried hard to find the Japanese ship in the periscope, but he saw a darkness in the periscope, and even the waves in front of him could not see the true meaning. If you want to know the location of the enemy ship, you can only wait for it to fire the next fire. It was not too long. The Rijin, who was chasing at full speed, fired again. The flames at the muzzle made the wolf pack on the sea determine the location of its prey.

"The head of the boat is zero, one zero, the speed is eighteen, the distance is two thousand four, the depth is two, and the torpedo speed is thirty." Hu Qinzhai gave the order in one breath, and he felt that his heart was about to jump out. When the messenger repeated his order, he said again: "Left rudder No. 5, No. 1, No. 3, ready to launch!"

"Left rudder No. 5.1 and No. 3, ready to launch!" the messenger repeated.

"No. 1, launch!" Hu Qinzhai shouted, and his voice was like a wolf biting his prey.

"No. 1, launch!" The messenger's voice also rose. With his order, the sailor of the torpedo tube pulled the trigger. As the bubbles at the tail of the torpedo rushed out, the torpedo also left the tube and ran towards the prey.

"No. 2, launch!" The voice of the messenger reached the torpedo compartment again, and another trigger was pulled down, and the No. 2 torpedo also came out of the tube.

"No. 3, prepare to launch!" The messenger passed the order over again.

"No. 3 is ready!" responded.

"No. 3, launch!" The order came again, and the No. 3 torpedo also shot out.

"Stop shooting!" As the Japanese ship fired again, Huqinzhai seemed to have seen the periscopes of several other submarines. Only then did he remember the commander's previous order, which was to save torpedoes as much as possible.

After Hu Qinzhai gave the order, he turned around and looked at the listener who was holding the pocket watch to count down. The listener fully understood what he meant, and said to him and others who looked at him, "I will know the result soon."

If a torpedo wants to hit an enemy ship, it must be a certain point at the front end of its route. It is a speed of 30 knots. The torpedo travels fifteen-four-three meters per second, and a distance of 2,400 meters. Even the torpedo takes 155 seconds to a straight line. To shoot the front end of the enemy ship route, the torpedo must travel more than 2,400 meters, and it is very likely to reach 3,000 meters. This will take more than 190 seconds, and it will take more than three minutes to reach more than three minutes. If it is daytime, the white tracks triggered by the torpedo bubbles will definitely be discovered by the enemy ships. These three minutes are enough for them to adjust their navigation. However, in such a dark night, it is an emergency tracking. Can the Japanese discover it?

In seconds, he kept ticking forward, and then turned around again and again. While everyone was holding their breath, the sailors on the Rijin finally discovered an abnormality. Several white tracks appeared on the sea near the ship. He immediately shouted, "Torpedo! There are torpedoes!" He shouted, "Torpedoes! There are torpedoes!" He shouted loudly on the port side, and there were torpedoes on the starboard side. Colonel Kuzuki, who was staring at the Chinese fleet with a telescope, finally put his eyes on him. "Baga!" He subconsciously cursed and was as stunned as a wooden chicken, without giving orders to avoid the torpedoes, because he could not avoid it at all. This was a sea of ​​torpedoes!

Seeing that Masao was shocked by the dense torpedoes on the sea, the master beside him also saw the torpedo trajectory on the sea. When he was shouting "Sir", a torpedo hit the tail of the Rizhao. With a slightly dull "boom", the Rizhao seemed to be lifted up heavily by a big hand at the bottom of the water, and then fell heavily. Before it was completely finished, it was hit by the next torpedo. This time it hit the battleship unit, but the explosion of the flames had not yet fully bloomed, and another torpedo followed... Four minutes later, the cruiser, which was still showing off, broke into two pieces and sank into the seabed. More than 500 officers and soldiers on the ship were buried with him.

Seeing the Japanese ship chasing him suddenly hit the torpedo one after another, the sailors on the two cruisers all jumped up, and in exclamation, someone shouted Mazu's blessing. The sailors finally knew why they wanted to shoot against the Sunjin, which was stronger than them. This was simply to lead them into the trap, please get into the trap. Thinking that the Chinese Navy had never sunk a Japanese ship, the old men on the ship suddenly burst into tears!

The sea cheered and the sea was filled with joy. Although only the two torpedoes in front could tell who shot it, the officers and soldiers on the submarine heard the hulls of the Japanese cruiser and the sound of the broken dragon bones being like the sound of nature. This was the first warship sunk by the submarine force. Even if they did not sink themselves, they were still sunk by their teammates. Even if they had no results now, they would definitely have results in the future.

Amid the joy of the commander tower, Lieutenant General Moffett drew a cross piously on his chest, and his heart was finally let go. When he was chasing just now, a shell of the Japanese ship hit Haiqi again. The vibration of the explosion caused the boiler to leak air, and Haiqi's speed suddenly slowed down. If the submarine sinks the Japanese ship five minutes later, the approaching Rijin will likely sink itself here. After the brief prayer, Lieutenant General Moffett looked at the people with joy and shouted: "Gentlemen, it's time for us to go home." After that, he ordered: "Left full rudder, heading to 240, and the ships follow the flagship together!"

With the order of the Lieutenant General, Haiqi turned 180 degrees, and the Hairong, who had been following him, also followed him. The merchant ship in front also came over under the signal. The three ships sailed west again in formation. Thinking that the Japanese were driving around at full speed, Lieutenant General Moffett, who felt that his speed was decreasing, said again: "The shipment reported the loss."

"The pipe wheel reports the loss." Captain Tang Tingguang repeated the order in the sound tube.

After a long silence, the voice of Liu Guannan, the head of the headquarters, came from the sound tube: "It has been repaired, but the speed is best not to be eighteen knots!"

Haiqi is a warship that has been in excess of ten years, and is also a warship with improper maintenance. Take coal as an example. The qualified coal used by warships is Welsh hard coal, but this coal costs 20 taels per ton. In the audit price of the Navy, the warship uses coal to report 20 taels per ton of Welsh hard coal, but in the inner tent of the fleet, the fleet uses twelve taels per ton of coal that is strictly selected, and the horses of Prince Chun’s mansion can control the fleet to supply coal.

Mr. Zhang Yi - it was this person who sold the Kaiping Mine to Britain at a low price. He relied on the identity of Prince Chun's mansion and collected 12 taels per ton of coal from the Navy, but he also bought three or four taels per ton of Japanese coal from the Navy. No one dared to say anything about such a personal bag. After all, the emperor is from Prince Chun's mansion today, and the Navy Minister Zaixun is also from Prince Chun's mansion. If Zhang Yi really annoys, then the navy will not be able to do it.

After more than ten years of Japanese coal burning down, and insufficient maintenance, the warship boilers left by the Qing Dynasty all had air leakage and corrosion problems. Even if the pursuit just now did not have the gun-shocking boiler, the high speed could not last too long. It can be said that it was just right that the Rijin was sunk by torpedo.

After hearing that the engine was fine, everyone was finally relieved. Lieutenant General Moffett began to count his own battle results. Not to mention the Hairong, the Haiqi fired a total of seven rounds of thirteen shells in the half-hour battle, only hitting one Japanese ship. However, in the later pursuit, his side hit the Japanese ship once again. In this way, it was 19 shots and two shots, with a hit rate of 10.5%, which was much higher than the Japanese forty-three shots and three shots... The Lieutenant General was shocked by the number he calculated. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, the novel is better and faster!
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