" Commander, what is this?"
The communications officer, Takeda Takeshi, pointed at the oval-shaped objects floating on the surface of the sea.
"Could this be a water mine?"
Ito looked at the densely packed water mines that looked like floating corpses and could not help but feel his scalp tingle. He didn't know when his opponent had laid down so many torpedoes and was at a loss.
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"Yang Junmen, you actually set up so many mines?”Ma Jifen put down the binoculars and was extremely surprised. She stared at Yang Yonglin in a daze.
"Lord Ma Jiefen, I'm not a beautiful woman, why are you looking at me like that?”Yang Yonglin made a rare joke, and the soldiers around him laughed.
"So, you drove the speedboat out to sea a few days ago to set up torpedoes? But why didn't these mines have any anchor cables?”
Of course, Ma Jifen didn't know that these torpedoes were directional torpedoes that Yang Yonglin had exchanged from the system. They were many times more advanced than the torpedoes of the same era.
They deserved the bad luck of the Japanese warships!
Wave Speed, who was eager to win, crashed into a mine, and a big hole was blown out under the hull.
Captain Higashi had no choice but to give up the attack and turn back.
Witnessing this scene, Ito helplessly gave the order to retreat.
After all, under the illumination of the high-powered searchlights of Liugong Island, the Japanese fleet would become a live target as long as they approached the coast. With so many torpedoes, it was impossible to pass through.
As for the Torpedo Boat Troops in the south, they could only leave it to fate!
"Let's go! Go south!"
Yang Yonglin had deterred the Japanese Combined Fleet with the directional floating mine. Now, it was time to clean up the Japanese Torpedo Boats.
At the mouth of Liugong Island, high-powered searchlights illuminated the narrow sea area as if it was daytime.
More than 30 coastal defense cannons fired furiously. The Japanese Torpedo Boats that were trapped in the bay and unable to advance or retreat hurriedly returned fire. One after another, they were damaged and sank!
At the same time, the Jiyuan and Pingyuan ironclads had undergone system repairs and were equipped with six 150mm Hutch Rapid-Fire Cannons. They were lying in ambush on both sides of the mouth of the sea to specifically bombard the escaping torpedoes.
There were almost no survivors under the muzzle!
"What's going on? Why is the enemy's artillery fire so fierce?”The first echelon, Senior Captain Suzuki Koutarou, drove the torpedo-boat in despair and rushed towards the Jiyuan warship.
" Long live the Japanese Navy!"
Suzuki Kantaro's eyes spurted blood as he charged at full power.
Even if it were to sink a warship of the Northern Navy, it would be considered a great merit!
However, his wish was dashed!
Accompanied by the mechanical creaking sound, the main cannon of the Jiyuan warship slowly fell. The black muzzle rumbled with thunder, and huge cannonballs were fired furiously.
Boom!
A shot from the Jiyuan warship hit the ammunition chamber of the No. 6 Torpedo Boat, causing a series of terrifying explosions.
The fireball shot up to a height of more than ten meters, like a divine punishment from the sea god.
Suzuki Koutarou and his men were buried in the sea of fire!
After Suzuki Kantaro, Captain Mitsui of the second team also failed to escape his fate.
The coastal defense cannons of Liugong Island seemed to have eyes. They fired one after another, hitting the Japanese Torpedo Boats and sending them all into the cold sea.
The first rays of the morning sun shone brightly.
The sea was filled with black smoke, and the wreckage of several Japanese Torpedo Boats was still burning on the shoal.
After a night of fierce fighting, more than 20 Japanese Torpedo Boats, including the Kitty Hawk, sank.
These torpedoes had once wreaked havoc in the Yellow Sea and Weihaiwei naval battles, injuring and sinking many ships of the Beiyang Navy. Now, they finally suffered retribution.
After losing all the torpedoes, the Japanese Combined Fleet was no longer able to attack Liugong Island. They went north in the middle of the night and returned to Lushun Port to repair and replenish their ammunition.
Liugong Island welcomed a rare good time!
Even though there were more than 20,000 soldiers stationed on the south and north banks, they could only sigh at the vast ocean.
On the contrary, the Beiyang Navy would occasionally drive their warships to the coast and bombard the Dongyang Army, angering the Dongyang Army until they were fuming but helpless.
"Yang Junmen, this is the draft report. Please take a look!”In the Admiral's manor on Liugong Island, Sa Zhenbing handed over the memorial that he had drafted.
As a top student who graduated from the Fujian Provincial School of Political Affairs, this memorial was quite satisfactory.
Yang Yonglin frowned and looked at it for a long time!
Writing memorials in ancient times was definitely a skill. Even though the Beiyang Navy had sunk Bi Rui and Titan and annihilated the Japanese torpedo-boat fleet, the situation was still grim.
The enemy of the navy was not only the Japanese army, but also the politicians in the court.
For example, the governor of Shandong, Li Bingheng, had repeatedly obstructed them. In the process of sending reinforcements, he pretended to comply, but he secretly went against it, causing the Qing army to lose the south and north bank forts too early.
This vicious move pushed the Northern Navy into a dangerous situation!
Now that the Japanese Combined Fleet had retreated to Lushun for repairs, Shandong was still under the control of Governor Li Bingheng. This person had a feud with Beiyang Minister Li Hongzhang and had been secretly taking revenge against the Beiyang Navy.
Thinking of this, Yang Yonglin added this sentence to the memorial.
"With the Empress Dowager and His Majesty's blessings, I fought alone on the isolated island and was lucky enough to sink the Endurance, Titan, and all the other torpedoes. Although we have severely damaged the enemy fleet and raised our national prestige, the enemy army is still eyeing the Shandong coast. We should plan as soon as possible! All the soldiers of the Beiyang Navy are looking forward to the early recovery of the entire Shandong territory."
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