When the alarm sounded, the officers and soldiers of the Japanese Combined Fleet ships on the military port dock in the west were very fast. However, the biggest problem of warships in this era was that the boiler used a coal-fired boiler, and it was very slow to ignite it after the fire was turned off.

Soon, the captains of each ship became nervous when they saw the two gunboats patrolling in the distant port exploded and sank one after another. The gunboat patrol line was only a few kilometers away from the shore pier, which means that the enemy ships would come in about ten minutes.

Time was tight, so the captains of each ship immediately ordered the boiler troops to force ventilation and boost the boiler to burn the boiler quickly and turn on the steam engine.

However, even with forced ventilation, the boiler boosting speed of this old-fashioned reciprocating steam engine is very slow. The warships are whispering black smoke, but the power is still rising slowly.

This is not enough, and what is even more fatal is the layout of the military port terminal.

There are very few large-tonnage military docks in Incheon Port under the rule of the Koreans. At this time, the docks where the Japanese Navy berthed ships were still simple docks built to welcome the visit of the Beiyang Navy's Zhiyuan ship. The North Korean Navy itself does not have more than 300 tons of warships, so there is no need to build large military docks.

After Japan occupied North Korea, in order to open a supply base on the battlefield against China, a temporary military dock was started here. This made the Japanese warships parked very close to each other, and the bow rushed inside and the stern outside, and were arranged tightly and neatly like toothbrushes.

When moving, you can only move slowly by reversing and not fast, otherwise you will bump into the warship next to you. The opening is at a 100-degree angle to the main water surface of the harbor, and up to two warships are allowed to go out at the same time.

This greatly limits the speed of escape of warships.

Despite this, the Beiyang Navy's torpedo boat arrived too fast, so fast that they could not handle it.

Originally, even if only one mine exploded on the 90-kilometer-long channel, the Japanese Navy would have at least two hours of preparation time. However, at this moment, they only had less than ten minutes.

When Yuki Ito learned about the situation, he felt very bad and urgently ordered the ships to enter the combat state immediately, concentrating all main guns, secondary guns and rapid-fire guns to block the Beiyang Navy's torpedo boats. At the same time, he urgently ordered the ships to lower six torpedo boats, including Yamahawk, Boat 7, Boat 12, Boat 13, Boat 22, Boat 23, Boat 23, Boat 2 to block the attack of the Beiyang Navy's torpedo boats.

The Japanese army was well-trained, and all officers and soldiers were in their place within five minutes. All the main guns, secondary guns and rapid-fire guns were loaded. However, since each ship rushed out of the inside and the stern, the stern was the weakest firepower, there were only a few guns and were basically the main guns, and the rapid-fire guns were pitifully few.

"Dongdongdongdongdongdong!" The main guns of Japanese ships opened fire violently, and flames spewed out from the dark night. The dark sea surface and the sky were flashing like lightning and thunder.

Each Japanese ship has only one or two searchlights, and after all, it can only provide limited lighting. It is already blurred four or five hundred meters away. At this time, the warship sights are just primary optical equipment, and it is difficult to see the target clearly at night.

The Japanese ships kept firing, and the shells fell into the water to stir up huge waves of dozens of meters high, but it was difficult to attack torpedo boats weighing only a few dozen tons, because their targets were too small and fast, and the searchlights of the Japanese ships could not lock them at all, so the gunners could not see the target.

The Japanese ships tilted the shells wildly. Although the Japanese Navy's confidence since the Yellow Sea War has recovered a little, it was suddenly attacked and its morale plummeted. More than 80% of the Japanese officers and soldiers were nervous. The artillery soldiers who controlled the artillery fired even blindly, trying to suppress their fear with such crazy artillery fire.

At this time of the war, the Japanese naval officers and soldiers were mentally defeated.

More than 20 torpedo boats of the Beiyang Navy rushed to attack in eight teams. Each team of torpedo boats had targets. According to Wang Chenhao's foolproof plan, each team of torpedo boats was responsible for attacking a Japanese naval battleship, and then attacking other targets after success.

Soon, the torpedo boat in Zhenyi succeeded and gave the Japanese ship Takachiho a huge chrysanthemum.

At 11:15, Shinichi broke through the blockade of the stern artillery fire of the Takachiho ship and fired a 14-inch black-headed torpedo at the stern of the Takachiho ship at a distance of 150 meters.

At this time, Takachiho was slowly reversing and trying to leave the port, but the torpedo was shot rapidly and the rudder propeller was in the middle of the stern.

The torpedo knocked open the explosion-proof net of the stern of the Takachiho and exploded on the chrysanthemum-shaped propeller. The violent explosion instantly smashed the stern of the Takachiho into pieces, revealing a huge black hole with a diameter of five meters. As the explosion shock wave spread around, thick smoke wrapped in flames spewed out from the explosion gap, sea water poured violently in, and the stern of the ship quickly sank.

There were more than 300 Japanese naval officers and soldiers on the Takachiho. When the stern was hit, most of them were on their respective positions. Only a few people jumped into the sea immediately when they saw that the situation was not good.

When the hull sank rapidly, the people inside fled wildly, and countless people were trampled to death.

If the ship's part is damaged, the pipe can be damaged and the left and right water compartments can be activated to balance the hull to delay the sinking speed. However, after the stern of the ship is exploded, the sea water passes through the turbine room and the boiler room is unobstructed.

The sea water poured back into the Kaoqiansui at a speed of dozens of tons per second. In less than two minutes, the entire stern of the ship sank completely and the ship was completely flooded. The 91-meter-long warship was pressed up by a huge weight, and the bow of the ship was several meters high from the water surface.

The Japanese sailors who had just crawled out of the inside could not balance their bodies and fell from various positions of the warship. During this period, countless people were killed or injured by hitting hard and sharp objects on the warship.

The Japanese sailors above hugged all the supporting objects so that they would not fall down. Some brave people wanted to jump into the sea to escape, but most of them fell to death before they even fell into the sea.

The bow of Gao Qianhui, which was raised, first raised upwards, but then fell back to the sea. In the terrified howling of ghosts and wolves, the remaining Japanese sailors plunged into the cold sea water along with the hull, and most of them died of the sea water.

Five minutes later, the Takachiho completely sank and hit the bottom. Because the water in the harbor was not deep, one-third of the ship island and the mainmast were exposed on the sea, and there were more than a dozen Japanese sailors holding them on the mainmast and they dared not come down.

While Takachiho was sunk by torpedo attack and hit the bottom, the nearby four ships Chiyoda, Hashita, Itsuki, and Katsuki were exploded by more than a dozen torpedoes at the same time, similar to Takachiho's sinking. Basically, the stern of the ship sank quickly sinks, and the bow rises slowly sinks. Only Chiyoda directly sanks because he was attacked by six torpedoes at the same time.

However, the most eye-catching thing was the Itsushima. When its bow was raised, a large amount of ammunition piled on the deck rolled down. For some reason, most of the shells exploded one after another in the rolling down, and somehow detonated the ammunition depot. As a result, when the entire hull was raised, the ammunition depot suddenly exploded. The entire hull was exploded and broke into two pieces. The bow pierced into the seabed, and it burned violently with the stern that had previously pierced into the seabed. Wang Chenhao jokingly called it the burning shorts.

The sinking speed of the four ships is of great importance to the ability of the Japanese naval soldiers inside. The warships that urgently locked the cabin doors sink slowly, and there are more sailors who escape, and vice versa.

After the first wave of raids of the Beiyang Navy Torpedo fleet, it sank five Japanese warships. 26 torpedo boats fired 23 torpedoes, of which 5 torpedoes were silent. Fulong shot four torpedoes in one breath, and several torpedo boats also shot two.

However, they also paid a great price after their great success.

Among them, the six torpedo boats, "Three on the left", "Two on the right", "Ding One", "Gan Two", "Lei Gan" and "Lei Kun" were unfortunately hit by the Japanese blind-fired artillery fire during the impact. Because Ding Ruchang ordered the torpedo boat to carry an additional torpedo, the already fragile torpedo boat exploded and sank immediately after being hit by the shells. The officers and soldiers above died heroically without any time to react.

There were also four torpedo boats that were laid down by the Japanese Navy, the No. 22 and No. 23 who were entangled and unable to release the torpedo. The torpedo boats of the two sides launched a rapid-fire gun showdown. As a result, the Beiyang Navy's torpedo boats had an overwhelming advantage in the number of torpedo boats. Soon after the torpedo was released, the torpedo boats turned around to reinforce friendly forces, and more than a dozen were killed, and the three torpedo boats were quickly sunk.
Chapter completed!