"The Beiyang Fleet is finished!" The battle was over, and when the nerves that had been tense under the stimulation of artillery fire and blood suddenly relaxed, Ding Ruchang looked at the battleship that was already in disarray, and looked at the only four battleships behind him, and a line of muddy tears flowed down his face. Nearly 20 years of hard work in the Beiyang Fleet has today's scale, and all the efforts and efforts of the entire Beiyang at sea finally came to naught in one day! This blow is too big! It's almost overwhelming!

"This is war!" On the Kaiyuan again, Count Spee and Hippert looked at the Kaiyuan, which was also scarred, and looked at each other speechlessly. To be honest, this war is also a test of their psychological endurance! This time it's different from the last time I beat a broiler! When the last stage of the battle, 4 British cruisers came all the way, and the Germans also beat drums in their hearts!

"We need at least three weeks to repair the damaged superstructure and hull." Count Spee said, looking at the burned cabin, the chimney that had been half blown off by the shells, and the main gun emplacement, which had been stuck in the back.

The high-explosive bombs of the Japanese were really powerful, and the unprotected areas above the deck were washed enough! Everywhere you can see the ashes and twisted brackets left behind by the flames, fragmented partitions and complete armor plates are also everywhere, and the 88mm anti-lightning guns in the upper part of the 6-inch gun gallery are almost completely lost, and these light protective gun positions can only defend against shrapnel, and cannot stop the direct hit of the shells at all.

"I'm afraid it's going to be worse." Hipper shook his head, his tone full of helplessness. He pointed to a rolled steel plate at the front of the battleship and another hull with a piece of the hull plate peeled off. Although the British 9.2-inch and 8-inch guns were few in number and had a slow rate of fire, they were not very good purely in terms of projection effect, but in fact they did much more damage than ordinary 6-inch guns!

The 6-inch artillery shell will make a pit at most when it explodes on the armor belt, and if you don't have time after returning to port, you don't have to pay attention to it, except that it is not beautiful, it is not a big problem. It doesn't matter if two shells hit one place at a time, but 9.2-inch shells and 8-inch shells are different, although theoretically they can't penetrate the main armor belt, but people can penetrate the 3-inch armor belt at the beginning and end! And according to the kinetic energy formula, the kinetic energy of an 8-inch shell is almost 2 times more than that of a 6-inch shell! A strong impact has a high probability of causing the cracking of the back sheet and the overall collapse of the hull plates. This then leads to a certain amount of water ingress, which is very difficult to repair if you want to repair these damages.

This battle made the two future senior German admirals understand in advance that fighting a war is not a dinner party, it is a heavy price to pay. It also made them have a greater awe of war, and on the battlefield, in addition to striving for victory, they also had to bring more comrades back alive! Although the Mainz was well defended, more than 100 people were killed or wounded after this bloody battle. Among them, the people who operated the anti-lightning guns naturally suffered the most losses, but at the same time the stokers also suffered great losses, not so much because the British shells penetrated the defenses of the boiler room, but because a chimney was destroyed, which caused exhaust gases to backflow and smoke a large number of them.

There were not many Germans on the ship, and under the arrangement of Count Spee and Hipper, it was quickly dealt with, and Yang Yonglin, as the captain, was very busy, the so-called exhaustion, Yang Yonglin whether in history or in this plane, the behavior fully interpreted the true meaning of these three words, comforting comrades-in-arms, rescuing the wounded, repairing equipment, plugging loopholes, after he was busy, he even had time to discuss the future of the war with Count Spee and others, if it came to this time, If anyone still has the courage to go to sea to fight again, then Yang Yonglin is definitely one of them!

This can't be blamed for the weakness of the Beiyang Fleet, after all, the fleet has not collapsed after being beaten to such an extent, and it is already worthy of this military uniform! And the main force of the Beiyang Fleet is over, although it is still very beautiful in tonnage, but it is really impossible to fight in the big fleet. It's not that there is no courage, but that there is no ability! However, the better thing than history is that a considerable number of people were eventually rescued, so the loss of personnel was smaller than in history, and a small number of these people went to other countries after the war and continued to write their legends in other countries!

After the battleship returned to Port Arthur, the first thing to be repaired was naturally the number one hero of the naval battle, the armored cruiser Kaiyuan, who was first put into the dockyard and then thoroughly refurbished and maintained. And the rest of the Beiyang Fleet must also think about what to do with the road ahead.

And just after the Beiyang Fleet returned to the port, the Japanese fleet also dragged its scarred body back to the Wonsan anchorage. The losses of the fleet were so great that the Japanese were embarrassed to say that they were the victors! If we look at the losses alone, the Japanese fleet is completely defeated except for the number of ships sunk, whether it is the loss of personnel or tonnage, or the quality of the lost battleships! This battle also broke the hearts of the Japanese!

In addition to the completely sunken battleships, the remaining Japanese battleships must also return to Hong Kong for overhaul, starting with the strongest Kasuga and ending with the old Kongo battleship! This also means that the Japanese Navy will not be able to send the Grand Fleet to carry out missions at sea for at least 2 months!

"The probability of another large-scale sortie of the Beiyang Fleet is already very low, they only have 4 ships, and the speed of the two warships in Dingzhen is very slow, the only worry is to open far and reach far, the size of our fleet does not need to be too large, gather all the fast warships, cruise on the Yellow Sea, and then let the slow warships escort the transport ships." The Japanese are still very smart, they have calculated the other side's intentions, and they have taken precautions that they think are sufficient, of course, the specific situation depends on the actual battle.

Eventually, a new fast fleet was formed! There is a fast fleet of six warships, Kasuga, Takasago, Naniwa, Takachiho, Chiyoda and Akashi, responsible for cruising in the Yellow Sea, looking for and attacking the possible Kaiyuan, up to now, the two sides have an overwhelming advantage in the strength of the sea that can fight, no matter how powerful Kaiyuan and Zhiyuan are, they can't beat these 6 ships!

"Kaiyuan must leave as soon as possible, leave the Yellow Sea as soon as the necessary repairs are completed, and then engage in the East China Sea, or even off the coast of Japan, and jump out of the encirclement before the Japanese react!" Yang Yonglin made this suggestion to the second day after the fleet returned to Hong Kong, and his proposal was supported by Deng Shichang, and Deng Shichang said that his Zhiyuan was willing to accompany him to sea!

"Deng Guanband is a true warrior! Even in the face of an unbeatable opponent, he still rushed forward without hesitation! In the diary, Hipper commented on Deng Shichang!

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