This battle can be divided into three phases, the first stage, the Draco ship found the Japanese fleet, the two sides immediately began to chase, the Japanese fleet also sent torpedo boats, launched an attack on the Draco, only to be sunk by the Draco ship.

In the second stage, the Huaxia Imperial Fleet, under the command of Lin Fei, seized a favorable position and launched strikes against the Takachiho, Naniwa and Qiujinzhou ships.

In the third stage, after defeating the three ships including the Takachiho ship, the Huaxia Imperial Fleet fought a decisive battle with the Sanjing ship.

In the three-stage campaign, the Chinese Imperial Fleet sank two Japanese ships, the Takachiho and Akitsu Zhou ships; Heavily damaged four Japanese ships, the Naniwa, Matsushima, Itsukushima and Hashidate, and captured the flagship Matsushima; Six torpedo boats were sunk, but no warships were sunk, killing and wounding more than 1,700 Japanese naval personnel.

The Battle of Penghu has far-reaching significance in world history, and in terms of political significance, this battle marked the collapse of Japan's naval power built since the Meiji Restoration.

This battle also marked the official entry of the Chinese Empire's maritime power into East Asia, and due to the total annihilation of the Qing Beiyang Fleet, the Japanese fleet was greatly damaged, and the Chinese Imperial Fleet became the maritime hegemon of East Asia.

In terms of military significance, this battle was the first time that radio communication equipment was applied to naval warfare, and radio communication equipment was the key to the victory of the Chinese Imperial Navy, so to speak, without radio communication equipment, the outcome of this battle would have been reversed, but except for Britain, no country knew that Lin Fei had radio communication equipment.

At 2 p.m. on October 5, Lin Fei instructed the Imperial Propaganda Department to issue a notice to the three major European news agencies in Manila: On October 2, the Chinese Imperial Fleet inflicted heavy damage on the Japanese Navy's Southern Dispatch Fleet in the waters off Penghu, sinking two of its warships and six torpedo boats, and severely damaging the remaining four warships, of which the flagship Matsushima was captured by our fleet.

Although this news was sent out after a period of three days, in this era of extremely backward means of communication, this time interval is already considered short.

Lin Fei also sent a photo of the Matsushima to the three major European news agencies, and the photo showed a banner running across the hull of the Matsushima with Chinese characters and Japanese written on it...... I am the Matsushima ship, and I am a prisoner of the Shina pig. Lin Fei specially used "China Pig" here, just to satirize the Japanese.

The three major European news agencies were well aware of the value of this photograph, and they specially sent a special person to Singapore by boat to print the photograph on the newspaper using the photolithography equipment of the British.

As soon as this news was issued, it shocked the world, compared to the people of other countries who were shocked by the results of the naval battle, the Japanese were shocked that their flagship Matsushima ship was captured by Lin Fei, the Japanese have always regarded being captured as a great shame, and ordinary soldiers would rather commit suicide than be captured, and now a battleship, or the flagship of the grand Japanese Imperial Combined Fleet, was captured by the lowly and inferior Shina pig...

The Japanese did not dare or wanted to believe this news, but there were photographs and ironclad evidence, and they could not be allowed not to believe it, and the Japanese felt extremely humiliated, so that everything that had anything to do with "Matsushima" was affected. "Matsushima" is a major surname in Japan, and many people with the surname "Matsushima" changed their surnames after this incident; "Matsushima" is also a beautiful place in Japan, and this incident has made that landscape sparsely populated, and the entrance is full of birds.

In the history books of the Japanese in later generations, this incident also became a "sensitive event", and historians either avoided talking about the capture of the Matsushima or mentioned it in a passing paragraph, and some historians simply denied the existence of this incident, and always added the words "there are unreliable rumors" when recounting the capture of the flagship.

The Japanese felt extremely ashamed, but the Chinese felt proud, and more people defected to the Chinese Empire, Vietnam, Siam, Burma, Java, Sumatra, and the Chinese Empire became the center of the Chinese in Nanyang for a time.

On October 7, the fifth day after the end of the battle, at 9 a.m., Ito Yuhiro gathered all the captains, but the captain of the Matsushima, Arisugawa Weihito, the captain of the Takachiho, Nomura Sada, and the commander of the torpedo boat fleet, Makoto Suzuki, could never come again.

The atmosphere in the conference room was extremely oppressive, even more oppressive than the sneak attack on the transport ship of the Fourth Brigade, everyone bowed their heads, and no one spoke.

Ito Yuhyung slapped the table and said loudly: "Victory and defeat are common things in soldiers, this is a truth that even the pig understands, why are you all downcast?" Is there still the appearance of an imperial samurai? ”

Everyone's expressions were a little more uplifted, and Ito Yuhyung continued: "Okay, let's not talk about this, everyone cheer up, we still have a chance to get revenge... Let's discuss where we have failed and how we can improve in the future, who will say first? ”

The captain of the Akitsu Zhou ship, Hikoyuki Uemura, raised his hand, and Ito Yuhiro nodded and said, "Uemura, you can speak first." ”

Uemura Hikonojo said "yes", and then said: "I feel that we have been completely defeated by the mysterious weapons of the Chinese Empire. ”

"Mysterious weapon?" Ito Yohyung frowned and said, "Are you talking about that kind of fireball shell?" ”

Uemura Hikonojo first nodded, then shook his head again, and said: "Not exactly, although that kind of fireball shell is also very mysterious, but it is exposed on the surface, it is obvious that they still have something hidden in the shadows, when our Akitsu Zhou ship rushed towards them, they were originally concentrating their firepower to bombard the Naniwa ship, but I didn't expect that after they discovered us, they actually concentrated their firepower on us, it was the same concentrated firepower, I really can't figure it out, how did they give the order?" ”

Ito Yohyung nodded solemnly and said, "This matter also bothers me, they adjust the formation very quickly, obviously there is something at play that we don't know. ”

Everyone nodded in agreement, but no one knew what this thing was, Ito Yuhyung sighed and said: "Forget it, don't talk about this matter anymore, leave the matter of intelligence to General Chiyo Masahiro, I believe he will have a way." ”

After saying this, Ito raised his head and looked at everyone, and then said, "What else do you have to say?" ”

Heihachiro Togo raised his hand and said: "I specially analyzed the shells and artillery of the Chinese Empire, and I found that the artillery of the Chinese Empire has a very fast rate of fire, it should be a special structure, and their shells are obviously more powerful than ours. ”

Ito Youheng frowned, and said in a skeptical tone, "How can this be?" ”

Heihachiro Togo nodded solemnly, and then said: "Both the Itsukushima and Hashidate ships have explosive residues after explosions, and I have already asked explosives experts to collect them, and they will send the explosive residues back to the mainland for research, which should be a lot of gains." ”

Ito Yuhyung nodded with satisfaction, said "Good job", and then said to everyone: "This battle shows that the naval strength of the Huaxia Empire has surpassed ours, we need bigger warships, faster artillery, I have prepared a petition, this petition is to ask the empire to buy warships, I hope everyone will sign it." ”

Ito Yuheng said and asked one of the attendants to take out a petition and hand it to the captains to sign one by one, Ito Yuheng looked at the captains who were signing, and thought viciously in his heart, damn the Huaxia Empire, damn Lin Fei, let's go and see...

The captains quickly finished signing, and Ito turned his head to look at an old man with two jet-black mustaches and the rank of major general on his shoulders.

Ito Yuheng smiled and said to the old man: "Our southern fleet is about to return to Keelung, Nogi Noshinori and his second brigade will also go back, and the defense of Penghu Island will be handed over to you, the Chinese Imperial Fleet has been near Penghu Island, and it seems that it is going to attack Penghu Island." ”

It turned out that this old man was a major general of the Japanese Army...... Yoshiki Hishijima, in March 1895, it was he who led the Japanese reserve 1st Wing and other troops from the Sasebo Military Port to attack Penghu Island, the Qing army defender of Penghu Island...... Zhou Zhenbang, who did not defend the favorable terrain and did not fight, actually abandoned Penghu Island and fled back to the mainland, and Yihui of Bizhi Island immediately occupied the entire Penghu Island.

Yoshiki Hishishima is a guy who doesn't smile, he just nodded slightly in the face of Ito Yuhyung's smile, and said, "Don't worry, with me, no one can take Penghu Island away from the hands of the empire." ”

Ito Youheng said: "Very good, you must defend Penghu, we also have Taipei and Keelung, there are these three places, enough to compete with the Chinese Empire." ”

After Ito had arranged the matter, he led the remnants of the fleet, the Itsukushima, Hashidate, and Chiyoda, to Keelung, accompanied by the transport ships of the 2nd Division, and as for the Naniwa, the injuries were too serious to sail anymore, so Ito ordered the use of explosives to sink it.

The three warships could only barely maintain a speed of about seven knots, and slowly sailed towards Keelung, during the voyage, everyone in the fleet was worried, they were worried that the Huaxia Imperial Fleet would rush out again, with their current warship condition, it was absolutely impossible to defeat the Huaxia Imperial Fleet.

However, their worries were unnecessary, Lin Fei had no intention of annihilating them, because they had already been hit hard and could no longer pose a threat to the Huaxia Empire, Lin Fei set his sights on Penghu Island, and during this time, he had been preparing to attack Penghu Island.

Penghu Island is the largest island in the Penghu Islands, located in the Taiwan Strait between the mainland and Taiwan, and has always been the gateway to Taiwan.

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