When Japanese warships provoked, the Beiyang Navy was not blindly indifferent. When the opponent was small, they attacked and scared the opponent.

Ding Ruchang sent Dingyuan and Zhenyuan to patrol the sea. Zhiyuan and Jiyuan were protected from the side. The four ships formed a formation to drive away Japanese ships in the waters near Lushun Port, and at the same time covered the mine camp and increased the mine laying area to prevent Japanese ships from sneak attacking the port.

The purpose of the Japanese ship was to consume ammunition from each ship of the Beiyang Navy, so the Japanese ships were only harassed in the distance, and the two ships in Dingzhen were rough and thick in flesh, and were not afraid of enemy ship artillery bombardment.

Since the flowering ammunition can only be imported and the inventory is not large, the two ships in Dingzhen dare not use it easily. They only use their own solid armor-piercing bombs to occasionally fight back to scare the Japanese ships, but the effect is good.

On that day, after the Mine Battalion arranged the floating thunder in the outer port, the two ships patrolling the outer port were then formed to return to Lushun Port.

At this moment, when the Zhenyuan ship was turning, a violent explosion suddenly occurred near the port side ship, and an accidental scratched a suspended anchor thunder.

The mines were naturally not from their own family, but were secretly arranged by the Japanese fleet after observing the patrol route of the Dingzhen two ships last night to block the sea outside Lushun Port and restrict the activities of the Beiyang Navy.

Obviously, the Beiyang Navy was only concerned with the arrangement of mine defense to prevent Japanese ships from attacking, but he did not expect that Japanese ships could also use the arrangement of mines to counter the Beiyang Navy's patrol.

The Zhenyuan ship was quite lucky. She just scratched a small mine, which had much less destructive power. If the bow hits the front, it would have sunk on the spot without any suspense.

But even so, the Zhenyuan ship was too far from the port, and there were no shallows nearby for stranding, so she had to sink before returning.

Lin Taizeng was so angry that he hurriedly ordered the sailors to rescue him, using large baffles to block the gap, and trying to prevent the sea water from pouring back. The only thing he could do now was to delay her sinking time.

However, as an excellent naval officer, he knew that it could not be restored. It was a critical moment of the war, and although he did not know the detailed plan that the Beiyang Navy was deploying, he also understood its importance. At this time, if the Zhenyuan ship, one of the largest main ships of the Navy, sinks, it will bring great passiveness to the Beiyang Navy.

"If you die, you will be punished!"

This sentence is the oath of the officers of the Beiyang Navy ships. Although not everyone will really implement it, for Lin Taizeng, he has decided to slaughter himself after losing the Zhenyuan ship.

The officers under their command knew Lin Taizeng's temper and could not stop them. The only thing they could do was to drive back with all their might, then try to block the gap and reduce the backflow of sea water, try to extend the sinking time, and wait for a miracle to happen.

The Zhenyuan ship quickly dropped the Zhen1 and Zhen2 torpedo boats and rushed back to Lushun Port for help. They hoped to find a salvage boat to stop Zhenyuan from sinking.

All the officers and soldiers on the Zhenyuan ship began to abandon heavy objects such as ammunition, coal, etc. on the ship, and try to exchange them for some buoyancy to delay the sinking speed.

At this moment, Wang Chenhao gave up following the Japanese ship and returned home, but found that the Zhenyuan ship was hit by the mines that were sinking.

"I'm going crazy!" Wang Chenhao couldn't help but sigh. Lin Taizeng accidentally crashed into the reef when he returned to the base at night, and ended up committing suicide and apologizing. Now Wang Chenhao has changed history, but Lin Taizeng hit the mine again with his back.

No matter how small the mine is, it is powerful. Although the Zhenyuan ship is a 7,000-ton giant ship and has strong explosion resistance, it is difficult to get rid of the tragedy of sinking.

Dingyuan and Zhenyuan have always relied on each other to fight each other, and they can exert their maximum attack and defense by blocking each other's differences. If Zhenyuan sank, then Dingyuan will struggle alone and will find it difficult to survive the Japanese siege.

If that were the case, the war would be confusing again.

The Jiaolong approached the Zhenyuan ship. Wang Chenhao saw that although the gap was more than two meters long, it might not sink if it was repaired.

So Wang Chenhao asked the maintenance sailors on the ship how to repair the gap. The maintenance soldiers just smiled bitterly and shook their heads, telling Wang Chenhao that they could only drag them into the dock for repair, because their maintenance soldiers could only block the gap with baffles from the inside of the ship. However, the water pressure was too high and the water flow at the gap was too strong. Even if the manpower could withstand it, it would soon be swallowed by the sea water.

At this time, more than a dozen sailors desperately used baffles to block the gap, but the water had already submerged to their waists, and they would soon be drowned. By then, no one would be holding the baffles and the sea water would flow back faster.

The best way is to use a huge baffle to cover the gap from outside. Although there is electric welding in this era, there are no underwater welding tools. Therefore, once this happens, the only way is to find a place to get stuck, otherwise you will be waiting to sink.

"It would be great if there was a water welding machine!" Wang Chenhao muttered, and suddenly realized that modern ships all had emergency repair tool boxes, and water welding machines were obviously a necessary tool for any ship.

As an unexpected surprise, Wang Chenhao really found a tool box in the Jiaolong tool room, which contained basic maintenance and emergency repair tools, and he found a water welding gun. Unfortunately, because the Jiaolong space is limited, there is no large water welding machine, only a pocket-sized water welding gun, and there are not many welding rods. However, it can help the Zhenyuan ship repair it, at least it can support her until she returns to the dock of Lushun Port.

Time didn't wait for anyone, Wang Chenhao hurriedly called the Zhenyuan ship and told Lin Taizeng.

"Can you fix her?" Lin Tai once looked at Wang Chenhao in disbelief.

"I don't have time to explain!" Wang Chenhao just nodded and said that he would do his best.

Lin Tai once felt that he was a life-threatening person anyway, and he felt that he could do anything about Wang Chenhao.

The Zhenyuan ship stopped, and Wang Chenhao drove the Jiaolong to the gap in the Zhenyuan ship and ordered people to put down a huge iron plate and block it in the gap. Then Wang Chenhao took a small water welding gun for welding operations.

At this moment, everyone was stunned. The thing in Wang Chenhao's hand was undoubtedly electric welding, but it was the first time he had seen electric welding that could be welded underwater.

However, they no longer care about anything else, but just hoped to repair the gap as soon as possible and prevent the warship from sinking.

Wang Chenhao's welding technology is really bad. It can be said that the welding is messy and ugly. But in the end he still fooled it. Although some places were welded and left rows of holes and still water inflow, the amount of water inflow was already reduced by more than 90%. The water pump on the warship could handle the remaining small amount of water inflow. In this way, the Zhenyuan ship got rid of the doom of sinking and could safely return to the dock.

When Wang Chenhao completed all this work, all the officers and soldiers on the Zhenyuan ship cheered warmly. Lin Taizeng, a seven-foot man, hugged Wang Chenhao and burst into tears, and even prepared to kneel down to thank him.

"It's not possible!" Wang Chenhao hurriedly grabbed Lin Taizeng and thought in his heart that if someone who was 150 or 60 years older than him would make him lose his life.

Lin Tai once said excitedly: "Brother Chen Hao, saving Zhenyuan is equivalent to saving Lin's life. From now on, if you have the advice, Lin will go up the sword mountain and fall into the sea of ​​fire and will never refuse!"

OK! Wang Chenhao admits that he likes to hear this sentence very much!

After coming to this world, Wang Chenhao had saved two powerful generals in a row, and these two powerful generals were undoubtedly extremely grateful to him. If there was anything in the future, it would be much better to have them help.
Chapter completed!