This is actually a mistake in range measurement. The Pakistani rangefinder made in the UK is not a first-class product. Although the heavy rains stopped, the remaining rain still hangs in the sky like a curtain, as hazy as if a layer of fog. This situation made the first mate of the gun and cannon anger. After correction, he shouted again in a sharp voice, "The main gun, test-firing target, sixteen sections, left angle, test-firing one shot! The distance is 7,100."

"The rear main gun, test-firing target, sixteen sections, left angle, test-firing one shot! The distance is 7,100." Pan Wenzhi's voice was repeated by the command soldiers, and it was transmitted to the rear main gun turret. Next to it, a clock-like disc was held in the hands of another sailor, with the clock pointing to seven minutes and one minute to prevent misreading the distance.

"...Test-firing target, sixteen sections, left angle, test shot one shot! The distance is 7,100." The gunner in the turret repeated the order. As the deputy cannon bare shouted "adjusted", with the cannon bare Yang Deji's fire, the eight-inch main cannon suddenly shocked, and the cruiser's anger erupted again.

The East China Sea Battle, which took place 270 nautical miles east of Wenzhou, was recorded in the second year of Shenwu. [In order to avoid..., the text will be recorded in the middle-aged man. If there is any inconvenience, I hope I will understand it!] It started at 5:23 on August 23. Faced with the obstruction of Japanese cruisers, Haiqi fired the gun first, but the two guns in the front were air-fired under the wind and waves. At this time, the Takama and the New High, which entered the six-inch naval gun range, also began to shoot. The targets of the two ships were Haiqi, and the Kashima behind them were also trying to speed up the pursuit, trying to narrow the distance to within 10,000 meters of the main gun. Unlike the last passive avoidance battle, this time Hairong had no mechanical failure. The three main guns also began to shoot with all their strength when the Haiqi was tested, but its target was the New High in the east.

A series of 45 kilograms of six-inch shells fell around Haiqi, and the splashed sea water hit the sailors' hands and faces violently, causing pain. At 5:29, a shell finally landed on the outside of the commander tower. Although the generals had plugged their ears with cotton, the sound of shrapnel blowing from the shell hitting the commander tower's six-inch armor still shocked the eardrums.

At 5:34, another shell hit the front main gun of Haiqi. The cannon leader Huang Tianyou and several gunmen around him were instantly penetrated into blood by shrapnel. The blood of body temperature splattered Yu Ren's face, and the front main gun suddenly silenced. After the news of the front main gun being hit reached the commander's tower, without waiting for Lieutenant General Moffit's order, Cheng Biguang, whose eyes were red, jumped up with trembling all over and shouted: "Now! Substitution immediately! Immediately! Fire the gun immediately! Yuan Peizhuo! Yuan Peizhuo! Yuan Peizhuo! Yuan Peizhuo!"

Yuan Peizhuo was the leader of the gun and cannon teaching on the Haiqi. At this time, the main gun was in the cannon. Cheng Biguang thought of this person without thinking. Just as he shouted hard, the gun and cannon teaching teacher Yuan Peizhuo had already rushed to the front deck with a few sailors. He moved away the injured body and put out the fire ignited by the shells with the sailors. Five minutes later, the main gun began to fire again in anger.

Unlike the small wind and waves during the battle in the Philippine Sea, all the shells of Haiqi were empty in the wind and waves. Moffett was estimating the hit rate of both sides. After some silence, he felt that if he did not get closer to the Tsuma, he would not be able to hit the enemy ship in another half an hour; but if he got closer, if Tsuma began to use armor-piercing bombs, his fragile power system would be very likely to be hit and damaged. Once the Haiqi was forced to slow down, the end would be tragic. Whether to get closer or not, this is a problem. When he was hesitant, at 5:45, another six-inch shell hit the Haiqi chimney. The shell hit the upper part of the front chimney and exploded violently, causing the upper half of the chimney to explode. The black smoke protruding from the boiler immediately spread across the ship.

"Left rudder forty-five." Lieutenant General Moffett finally made up his mind to get close to Takama in order to injure or sink it.

"Left rudder forty-five!" The driver Zheng Choxiong repeated the command loudly. The signal leader also hung a signal flag according to this command to instruct the fleet to turn left.

On the cruiser of Tsuma, the captain, the third tricycle of the third tricycle, immediately discovered that the Haiqi was turning left. He muttered: "Does the Chinese people want to fight to the death? Turn the rudder left and keep a distance from the Chinese ship."

He turned left and also turned left to Lieutenant General Moffett's attempt to get close failed. He immediately ordered the driver to drive the rudder back to the north. After Haiqi was hit again, he looked at Wu Fan, a political commissar of the submarine force, and asked loudly: "When will your swordfishes get to the bottom?"

The maximum speed of the submarine surface can reach 19 knots. But Wu Fan cannot reveal the maximum speed of the submarine. In addition, the sixth submarine formation has two submarine main engines that have problems. The specific combat arrangement is: the fleet first walks north for forty minutes, then turns left and walks west forty minutes forty minutes. While the fleet is doing this, the five submarines take the 45 degrees northwest from the breakup point as the direction, and sail straight to the place where the fleet will arrive after 80 minutes. I believe that the Japanese ships must come with the fleet at this time. Therefore, the submarine formation can calmly obtain the shooting angle to sink and injure several Japanese ships. The plan is simple, but now it has only been more than 30 minutes, and the Haiqi has been hit seven times. Can it really be dragged until fifty minutes later?

Wu Fan, who knew that the submarine would definitely arrive at the preset position in advance, looked at the anxious faces of everyone and nodded, "They can definitely arrive early. Lieutenant General, we can turn left now, but be sure to pay attention to the route that cannot be deviated. If the Japanese ship does not enter the ambush circle, they will have no shooting position and will be difficult to achieve the effect."

"I understand! I understand!" Lieutenant General Moffett shouted loudly in the rumbling cannon. "I know where those swordfish will wait for us. We will definitely bring the Japanese into their ambush circle!" He looked at the pocket watch again, and when the time had come, he ordered a left turn again, "Left rudder ninety, heading 270!"

"The left rudder is ninety, and the sailing is two-seventy!" The driver Zheng Chou Xiongye shouted loudly.

With the movement of the flagship, the fleet turned left and west completely. Haiqi made such a move, which cut a T-head in front of Tsubasa. The Hairong on the east side of the fleet lost its shooting position because of the two main guns in front of the left turn, and only the fifteen-centimeter main gun behind was still fighting the trailing New High.

"The Chinese are going to escape!" Captain Kobayashi Kenzo Nakasa shouted happily. The shooting target of the Xingao was the flagship of the Chinese fleet, the Haiqi, the flagship of the Chinese fleet. The three main guns of the Hairong, which had no artillery interference, had extremely high hit rate. The shells hit the Xingao one after another. Now, when it turned left, the main gun lost its firing angle, and the pressure on the Xingao people suddenly relaxed.

Major General Nakaya Kazuhachiro, the commander of the Third Fleet, who was in the New Taka, agreed with Captain Kenzo Kobayashi's judgment. Only the Fleet Chief of Staff Colonel Kuroda was puzzled by the actions of the Haiqi. He asked the radio liaison officer next to him, "Does the Chinese Navy have ships in the west water?"

"Your Excellency, the Chinese Navy's Haichou and Haichen have already gone to the Philippine Sea." The liaison officer had not answered yet, and Captain Kobayashi Yanzo spoke first. "There will not be a Chinese warship to support it. I think our biggest problem is how to stop the merchant ship from sinking."

The Sino-Japanese War has begun, and the Japanese Navy Province doesn’t care whether it is a storm or not. It directly sank the Chinese warship. Seizing the hydraulic press is the best choice, which is why there are no shells on the Lieutenant General’s merchant ship after a long battle.

"But why do they go west?" Chief of Staff Hsuki Iida thought: "If it were me, then I should have thought about how to support the fleet until dark..."

"They might want to sink a little closer to the mainland of China." Unlike the Chief of Staff's doubts, Commander Ming and Major General Yahachiro thought it was nothing strange for the Chinese commander to make such a decision. If it were him, he would also want to die a little closer to the Japanese mainland.

While the Haiqi turned, under the leadership of Captain Ouyangge's u-49, the sixth submarines took straight lines and headed straight to the junction point. One of the five submarines, the main engine of the u-26, had insufficient power, and the speed could only be maintained at twelve knots. Although it could also reach the junction ambush point according to calculations, the team leader Ouyangge still put it at the end.

When the rainstorm was about to begin, Huqinzhai and several non-commissioned officers kept reconnaissance around with telescopes to prevent Japanese warships from appearing on the nearby sea. However, there were only hazy drizzles and boundless waves in the telescopes. Nothing else was seen. At 6:18, the first boat U-49 sent a signal indicating that it had reached the converged ambush point. Under Ouyang Ge's arrangement, u-49 and u-52 were ambushed in the north of the route, while u-53 and u-40 were ambushed in the south of the route. U-26, which had not yet arrived, was also arranged in the south. However, in order to prevent being discovered by enemy ships, to avoid alarming the snakes, the team leader Captain Ouyang Ge even ordered u-26 to only advance underwater after 6:25.

The sea is surging, but the seabed is calm and thirty meters below the sea. The ability to set up enemy ships on the East China Sea gives Hu Qinzhai more confidence. This is not because this is home. But even if the submarine is sunk by the enemy ship, the seabed is only sixty or seventy meters. Such a depth is safe for the submarine.

While he was thinking about it, the listener made a quiet gesture, and several sailors who were laughing and guessing that they could sink several Japanese ships this time were silent. A few minutes later, the listener shook his head and said, "I heard it wrong, it's just the sound of cannons."

The sound of shells exploding on the sea surface could be heard far away. Although Hu Qinzhai knew that there was nothing on the sea surface, he still came to the periscope and started searching in the east. I don’t know how long it took, but just after the scheduled time, he began to worry that Haiqi and Hairong had been sunk by the Japanese Navy. A fire-covered warship suddenly broke into the periscope’s sight. All he saw was his heart shrinking, but he recognized it. It was Haiqi!

At this time, the hull of Haiqi should have been in water, tilted slightly to the left, and its speed was greatly reduced. There were only fourteen knots. One of the two masts had broken, and the other one made a strange twist in the fireworks. It seemed that the entire mast was bent. The huge chimney was no longer visible now, and even the bridge was blown away. It can be confirmed that the superstructure of the entire warship had been flattened by shells. There was no sign of firing on the ship, and there was no sign of movement except sailing forward. But even so, the shells continued to shoot at it, some hitting the sea surface on the side of the ship, and the splashed sea water extinguished some flames, and some hit the ship's body. The flames burst out loud at the moment of explosion, and the height of the flames even exceeded the remaining mast.

If Haiqi is a dead ship on fire, then the Hairong, which was moving forward quickly in front of him, was a frightened fire-breathing hedgehog. Three main guns and eight auxiliary guns were fired violently. Lin Baoyi, who felt that the Japanese would solve the problem after solving the Haiqi, finally began to use all his strength. He personally climbed up the mast to direct the shooting of the guns. As the situation became more and more critical, the Hairong shells continued to hit the enemy ships. Unfortunately, these fifteen-centimeter and ten-centimeter shells did not cause substantial damage to the Japanese ships.

Seeing this scene, Hu Qinzhai, whose blood was boiling all over his body for a while, finally blinked his stagnant eyes. He came to his senses and ordered: "Right rudder ninety, sail for zero for zero, and the host will move forward at full speed."

"The right rudder is ninety, the sailing is zero ninety, and the main engine is moving forward at full speed." The chief of the envoy repeated his order loudly.

As the rudder turned eastward, the shooting formation that had been set was immediately abolished. While the officers were puzzled, Hu Qinzhai's order came again, "Torpedo 1 to 5 are ready."

"Preparation from Torpedo 1 to 5." The order was repeated, and Hu Qinzhai couldn't figure out whether he could have a good shooting position after he passed, but seeing the tragic situation of Haiqi, he still wanted to go there.

The submarine headed east, and the fleet headed west. After five minutes of sailing, Huqinzhai, which was expected to be no longer forward, changed its course again: "The left rudder is one hundred, the head of the boat is one hundred and nine, and the main engine is fifty-tenths per minute."

"The left rudder is one hundred, the head of the boat is one hundred and nine, the main engine..." The order was repeated, and the submarine turned again to set the shooting position. However, Huqinzhai did not stop, and the order came again: "The enemy ship's speed was twelve, the distance was one thousand one hundred, the depth was four meters, and the torpedo speed was thirty-five... Open the torpedo tube No. 1 to 4!"

"The enemy ship's speed is 12, a distance of 1,100, a depth of 4 meters, and a torpedo speed of 35... Open the torpedo tube No. 1 to 4!" During the repeated order, the noise of the warship turbines above the submarine was getting louder and louder. In the picture signs of the listener, the three fleets of our side that should have been in line with each other have now become two, one and one. They were followed by three Japanese warships. Judging from the sound of the turbines, the middle one is the Kashima battleship, and another Japanese ship that seemed to be injured fell to the end.

Hu Qinzhai, who was staring at the periscope, could not be distracted and read more sketches drawn by the listener. He saw that many fire-covered sailors jumped into the sea on the Haiqi, and the Haiqi speed became slower and slower, so that he landed far behind the fleet. Hu Qinzhai, who had just set up his launch position, wanted to go east again, but in a hurry, he was afraid that he would not be able to find the shooting angle, so he could only wait anxiously in the spot.

More than thirty minutes ago, the ocean-going fleet had already caught up with the Kashima battleship. The Japanese naval artillery technique that had experienced the Russian-Japanese naval battle was extremely exquisite. At 6:11, the first twelve-inch shell hit the foremast of the Haiqi. The first mate of the guns and cannons, Pan Wenzhi, who was on the mast plate, and several observers, had died before the mast fell; at 6:18, another ten-inch shell hit the main gun, and the entire turret was blown away, and all sailors dozens of meters nearby were blown to death;

The biggest attack on the entire ship was at 6:24. The twelve-inch shell hitting the Commander Tower. Although the 152-mm thick Commander Tower armor barely blocked the shell, the generals in the Commander Tower suffered heavy casualties in the explosion. Captain Colonel Tang Tingguang, Submarine Force Political Commissar Colonel Wu Fan, Deputy Captain Haiqi Lie, Fleet Chief of Staff Major Qin Yulin, General Staff Staff Staff Staff Staff Staff Staff Major Zhang Zengcun, as well as several drivers and sailors, died on the spot. Deputy Commander of the Navy Lieutenant General Moffitt was seriously injured and unconscious. Only Major General Cheng Biguang, who was standing in the crowd, survived by chance, but under this circumstance, he could not effectively command the Haiqi to continue fighting. The Commander Tower could not command, and the guns on the ship were also flattened by Japanese artillery fire, so that there was no sound of artillery on the Haiqi except for the blazing fire, as if he had died.

In the naval battle, all the artillery fire of Japanese ships was concentrated on the Haiqi, while all the Chinese artillery fire was concentrated on the Takama. The main gun of Haiqi was still the first to hit the rear. At 6:03, an eight-inch shell was poured into the side of the Takama. The shell exploded at the rear mast. This was the Takama medical station. After the explosion, the ship's large military doctor, a few military doctors, more than a dozen wounded soldiers, and more than twenty sailors died immediately, and half of the rear deck was also destroyed. After this hit, Haiqi hit two Takama at 6:07 and 6:13, one of which was a shell that exploded through the starboard side and exploded in the air tank chamber, killing seven Japanese sailors while also reducing the speed of Takama.

Naval battle is a battle between giant cannons and giant cannons. Eight-inch shells were really unable to compete with twelve-inch cannons. After Haiqi completely lost its combat capability, the warship that was struggling to resist was still constantly bombarded by the already angry Kashima. Just as Haiqi passed by the U-52 submarine, another twelve-inch shell was shot through the side armor of Haiqi, causing a violent explosion inside the hull. At the moment of the explosion, Huqinzhai suddenly felt that the warship was about to disintegrate and sink. Keqing
Chapter completed!