Unlike in history, this time, the Beiyang Fleet completed the change of formation ahead of schedule, and the 9 warships of the team became 4 combat squads, which cooperated with each other in a fish scale formation. And Yang Yonglin's fast fleet is on the left flank of the fleet, ready to step forward to intercept the Japanese fleet at any time!

"Tell Yang Yonglin to act! The affairs of the team will be taken care of by the old man! Accompanied by Ding Ruchang's order, a series of flags were waved on the Dingyuan. And then, the Beiyang Fast Fleet, which received the order, rushed towards the opponent like a sharp arrow under the leadership of Kaiyuan!

Almost at the same time, the Japanese fleet itself was already in a linear formation, ready to cut diagonally from directly in front of the Beiyang Fleet. And 4 fast cruisers, led by Kasuga, rushed to the right flank of the North Ocean! The two sides are like two boxers, and the fleet, mainly fast warships, takes the lead in action and delivers a sharp blow!

The two fast fleets staggered across the sea, and the distance between the two sides was once shortened to about 5 kilometers, but they ignored each other's opponents, but rushed towards the set goal, and for this phenomenon, Beiyang's understanding is that the main fleet wants to lead the opponent into a chaotic war, and the fast fleet has a greater role in blocking and dividing the opponent, while the Japanese are acting with speculative ideas! Whether it is the commander of the fast fleet, Heitsumi Kozo, or Heihachiro Togo, who has learned the combat effectiveness of the Mainz, they are not willing to touch this mold too early!

"They're going to stop us!" The fast fleet went to the weak ships on the flank of the main flank of the Beiyang Fleet as planned. Then the cruiser Songdao, which is at the head of the team, will first face the three fast cruisers under the command of Yang Yonglin! The main team of the Japanese fleet is mainly battleships engaged in flanks, and when the three Beiyang cruisers are about to cross the front of the main team of the Japanese fleet, Ito Youheng suddenly has a crisis of consciousness!

To be honest, the theoretical speed of the Sanjing ship led by the Matsushima is not bad, even if the actual speed is considered, the speed of the Sanjing ship is faster than that of the two Zhiyuan! However, the speed of the old ships behind the team is too slow, and the maximum theoretical speed is only more than 13 knots! After more than ten years, it would be nice if these ships could run at 11 knots! According to the principle that the speed of the fleet is determined by the slowest ship, it is very good that the Japanese fleet can maintain a speed of 11 knots, and this speed cannot run away at all!

The Japanese fleet, which incorporated the old ships into its own team in order to increase its strength, could only swallow this bitter fruit by itself! Now Ito Youheng only has two options, one is to speed up the maneuver and pass through before the opponent can block it, and the other is to turn the fleet and aim the fire of the entire fleet on the three cruisers!

After a short period of thought, Ito chose to speed up the maneuver and risk splitting the entire fleet into two parts to avoid the deadly interception of the other side! After all, if the opponent is left at the head of his team, then one Matsushima will face the ferocious side-firing fire of 3 cruisers! According to the lessons of the Battle of Toshima, it takes more than twenty minutes at most to beat Matsushima into parts! What is the standard of protection of the Matsushima, Ito Youheng is very clear!

And if the fleet turns, then it is very likely that the second half of the turn will be bitten by the main forces of the Beiyang Fleet before the turn is completed! The team will still be split into two parts, and instead of this, it is better to separate as soon as possible, and then liberate the mobility of the battleships in front!

Soon, Ito's order was transmitted to the other warships through the signal flag, and the slightly faster warships led by Matsushima and followed by Itsukushima, Hashidate, Takachiho, and Chiyoda began to speed up! and the other 5 slow warships in the back gradually opened the distance!

"The Japanese fleet is fleeing! Admiral Ding can only catch the second half! "When Hipper saw that the Japanese fleet was speeding up and was about to pass through the front of his own fleet, he immediately realized the seriousness of the problem! The core tactic of the Beiyang Fleet is to suppress the formation of the Japanese fleet, so that they cannot smoothly exert their sidestring firepower, and in the current situation, at least half of the Japanese warships can avoid the deadly collision of the Beiyang main fleet!

"Kaiyuan go first and stop Matsushima! Let Zhiyuan and Jingyuan hurry up and keep up! Yang Yonglin decisively issued an order that might put his own warship in a desperate situation! Block five of the opponent's ships with one battleship! If you make a mistake, you will fall into a situation from which you will never recover!

After a short hesitation, the Mainz began to accelerate, more than twenty boilers delivered sufficient high-temperature and high-pressure steam to the engine room, and the battleship began to accelerate, gradually increasing its cruising speed from 15 knots to 19 knots! The Kaiyuan stood in front of the wolves like an angry lion! Even if we are outnumbered, what is there to fear?

When the Kaiyuan successfully blocked the ship in front of the Japanese fleet, the Matsushima had just entered the Kaiyuan's intensive side-firing fire range! When the two sides gathered about 3,500 meters, the artillery group on the side chord of the Kaiyuan let out a deafening roar! More than a dozen rapid-fire guns of various calibers fired a dense barrage, completely enveloping the Matsushima in an extreme event!

A series of dazzling red points of light erupted from the steel behemoth in the distance, and a dense explosion was heard from all around! Columns of water enveloped the Matsushima, and violent explosions and flames rolled over the Matsushima's hull like a rolling firestorm.

THE MAIN GUN OF THE MATSUSHIMA FELL SILENT AFTER FIRING A SHELL, AND IT TOOK ABOUT 15 MINUTES FOR THE POWERFUL 320MM HEAVY GUN TO FIRE A SHELL, SO THE ONLY THING IT COULD REALLY RELY ON WAS THE 4.7-INCH RAPID-FIRE GUNS ON THE SIDE CHORD, AND THE MATSUSHIMA TRIED ITS BEST TO COUNTERATTACK, AND ITSUKUSHIMA, WHICH WAS IN SECOND PLACE, IMMEDIATELY AIMED ITS GUNS AT THE TARGET. The sparse rain of bullets from seven rapid-fire cannons couldn't stop this terrifying beast. The other warships were also shooting with all their might because of the distance, but they had no other use than to blow up the expensive shells into the water columns!

Because of the gunpowder of this era, when the Kaiyuan crossed the inevitable path of the Japanese fleet, only the two protective cruisers Matsushima and Itsukushima could fight against it, and the Japanese Navy had already proved with tears and blood how powerless the two second-class dome cruisers were in the face of the Kaiyuan!

Countless high-explosive shells pierced through the fragile hull plates of the Matsushima without hindrance, and the scorching flames and deadly shrapnel reaped everything inside the ship's hull like the scythe of death! The seemingly powerful side-chord rapid-fire guns of the Matsushima were as fragile as paper under such a fatal blow, they did not have enough armor protection, and there were no armored compartments between the gun corridors, and there was even a situation where a 6-inch shell was reimbursed for two gun crews at the same time.

Under the concentrated attack of the Kaiyuan, the hull of the Matsushima was surrounded by fire in just ten minutes of the firefight, and the 6 rapid-fire guns on the side chord lost 4 in an instant in the fierce fire! The Matsushima's armor failed to complete its mission, as two 6-inch armor-piercing shells pierced through the connecting parts of the armor, pouring into the boiler room with a large amount of debris and flames, cutting off several important steam pipes!

Thankfully, however, the Japanese fleet had the upper hand, and when the Matsushima withdrew from the battle to save itself, the other two Sankei ships came up! However, in general, the Japanese Navy was at a disadvantage in this local battlefield, Takachiho and Chiyoda were entangled by the two Zhiyuan-class cruisers behind, and the two Sankei ships faced the Mainz just repeating the previous process!

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