At 10:00 and three o'clock in the evening, the tide came on time. Ding Ruchang immediately ordered the Beiyang Navy ships to enter the main channel, take advantage of the tide to rise, and pass through the Feiyu Gorge waterway and reef beach that were usually narrow and accumulated silt, and head towards Incheon Port.

Before the main fleet was moving, the lightning strike fleet had entered the main channel an hour ago and followed Wang Chenhao's mine fleet along the navigation mark.

When Wang Chenhao's mine fleet cleared the last mine on the main channel, it was still 12 kilometers away from Incheon Port. At such a long distance, the Japanese army did not even lay mines, which shows that their mine-braking team must have been lazy.

At the beginning of the moon, the moon and the stars were not very bright at night. Wang Chenhao's thunder fleet did not dare to turn on the lights. He was moving forward all the way, and he slowly moved forward with the insufficient starlight.

Of course, the vanguards are always hard, and the luminous beacons they left behind can only facilitate the teams behind.

Everything was carried out according to the plan. Wang Chenhao seemed to be influenced by later military concepts and required that all planning links must be carried out on time according to the schedule, not early or late.

Most of the waters in Incheon Port are pitch black, with only the occasional dim lights on the docks on the shore.

To the east is a civilian wharf, with various ships moored, endless. To the west is conquered by the Japanese army as a military wharf for Japanese warships to dock and supply.

The military dock is divided into two parts. On the left are the Japanese Combined Fleet ships berthed, and on the right are more than 40 troops.

At this time, the Japanese Joint Fleet anchored in the port include Akizusu, Matsushima (Combined Fleet Flagship), Chiyoda, Takachiho, Hashiri and Itsujima; and Katsuki (Xihai Fleet Flagship), Kazuki (Xihai Fleet Flagship), Chizuru and Tenro. In addition, the warships were equipped with torpedo boats Yamahawk, Boat No. 7, Boat No. 12, Boat No. 13, Boat No. 22, and Boat No. 23; the gunboats Ato and Maya were responsible for patrolling the port.

Originally, the Yamato and the second ships of the West Sea Fleet were still in the port at noon, but were suddenly transferred back to Sasebo. Wang Chenhao did not pay attention to missing these two warships, which made them escape by chance.

At 11 o'clock in the evening, the 26 torpedo boats of the Beiyang Navy's lightning strike fleet were divided into eight attack teams and quietly entered Incheon Port in batches.

At this time, the main fleet had already reached half the distance of the main channel, and according to the plan, it was possible to start the operation.

As the deputy commander-in-chief, Wang Chenhao immediately ordered the lightning fleet to take action on time. The eight torpedo boat teams led the target instructions assigned to them by Wang Chenhao and quickly sailed towards the enemy fleet.

Most of the officers and soldiers on each ship of the Japanese Navy have already fallen asleep, but each ship has patrol personnel. Although the Beiyang Navy's lightning strike fleet's torpedo boats tried to slow down as much as possible to prevent huge noise from alarming the enemy, after all, in the late night, when it was late at night and when people were quiet, 26 torpedo speedboats suddenly appeared on the sea surface, and the sound was still very loud.

Since the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894, the gunboats Atago and Maya have been following the joint fleet, serving as ports and anchor guards. When the war broke out, they were still relatively diligent, but as the Beiyang Navy avoided fighting, they found that they didn't have to worry at all, and they were not very alert at this time.

In the dark night, as the Beiyang Navy's lightning fleet approached the Japanese fleet, the two ships Atago and Maya, who were alert on the outside of the fleet, finally heard an abnormal situation.

On the Maya bridge, the corporal on duty at the Kojima was the first to hear the roar of the motor near the ship. In the darkness, the visibility was less than a hundred meters, and he could not see the situation in the distance, so he had to wake up the others immediately and quickly turn on the searchlight.

With the banging sound, as several searchlights on the bridge were turned on one after another, Xiaodao and the others immediately saw the torpedo boat approaching.

No, to be precise, it is a torpedo boat group.

So many torpedo boats rushed at high speed, and the distance was less than 400 meters. They immediately scared all the Japanese sailors on duty, including Kojima.

"Enemy attack!" Kojima screamed suddenly.

When the clanging gong sounded, the length and length of each knocked six times represent the emergency alarm in the Japanese naval sirens. At this time, the Japanese army was still poor and could not be equipped with a hand-cranked sirens. However, the penetration of the gong at night cannot be underestimated. The Japanese army was well-trained and got up immediately after hearing the emergency alarm.

The Japanese army was alert, but unfortunately it was too late.

The Beiyang Navy's lightning strike fleet immediately pushed the motor to the highest level and rushed towards the Japanese ship at a speed of maximum output horsepower.

The extreme speed at this full power output can only last for more than ten minutes, and it will wear hugely on the hull, which is almost unnecessary in normal times, and is only used at the most critical moments of the battle.

Undoubtedly, the Beiyang Navy's torpedo boat group has entered a critical moment, so it uses the extreme speed gear.

When the Japanese naval soldiers on the Maya rushed out and ran towards the combat position, the Beiyang naval torpedo boat Fulong, which was the first to approach, opened fire.

"Dadada!" The bunker-shaped commander tower on the bow of the Fulong boat was equipped with a carrier-based Hakikas 37mm five-barrel rapid-fire cannon. It immediately exhaled its tongue and shot at the Japanese ship Maya.

The first fire was to stop the Japanese ship from counterattacking fire. Both sides were small boats, so close that half a pound was against eight taels. Whoever fired first would take advantage of it.

Sure enough, the Japanese sailors on the Maya were attacked violently before they even entered the battle throne, and six or seven people were killed or injured.

With a "bang", the fastest Fulong, the first to enter the range of 200-meter torpedo attacks, was the first to fire the first 14-inch blackhead torpedo under the cover of the carrier-based rapid-fire gun.

Immediately afterwards, the Fulong turned right urgently, splitting a huge wave several meters high, and drew a huge "l"-shaped trace to stay away from the Japanese ship. Because the torpedo's explosive power was huge, it was quite dangerous within 200 meters.

Five seconds later, the torpedo floated from one hundred meters away to a depth of 2 meters from the water surface, dragging long bubbles and rushing towards the port side of the Maya at a speed of 28 knots.

"Torpedo!" Someone suddenly screamed on the Maya.

The Japanese naval officers and soldiers had just rushed into the shooting position, and some people couldn't wait for the officer to order and fired on their own.

"Da da da!" The carrier-based Hakikas 37-speed gun on the Maya gunboat hurriedly aimed at the torpedo that was speeding up, but after only five or six seconds of pulling the trigger, the torpedo had already hit the Maya.

With a loud "boom", the black-headed torpedo with a charge of 140 kilograms exploded, instantly shattering the Maya. The violent explosion shock wave wrapped with thick smoke waves and a radius of hundreds of meters, and the huge fiery red mushroom cloud that rushed up was as high as more than 100 meters, instantly illuminating most of Incheon Port.

The Japanese sailors on the Maya did not even have time to jump into the sea to escape and were swallowed by the explosion.

Almost at the same time, another warning gunboat, Agao, a mile away, also exploded violently. It was hit by a 14-inch torpedo launched by the flagship China A torpedo boat of the second Beiyang Navy's Navy, but it was happier than the Maya. The reason was that the torpedo launched by the China A hit the bow of the Atago ship. After the explosion, half of the stern of its ship was left, and five or six Japanese sailors on it were able to jump into the sea to escape, unlike the Japanese sailors on the Maya who were killed instantly.
Chapter completed!