Volume 1: The Battleship Yitian Changes into the Sino-Japanese War of 1894 Chapter 30 We Victory
Sun Gang ran to Ding Ruchang and supported him. Most of the shrapnel on the old general's body had been removed and his wounds were bandaged. He looked at himself silently and asked with difficulty: "We won, didn't we?"
Sun Gang looked at him nodding excitedly and replied, "Go back to the army gate. They only took four boats. The rest should be piled up here!"
As soon as he finished speaking, there was thunderous cheers around him. The sailors outside were cheering loudly and excitedly, and the officers covered in blood were hugging each other excitedly. In the distance, excited shouts came from other warships. The cheers of victory suddenly resounded through the sea and sky.
In an instant, tears flowed from the veteran's eyes again.
Sun Gang supported him silently, letting the tears flow down his face, his heart filled with excitement.
History has really been rewritten like this!
"Give my order, let's go back to Lushun." Ding Ruchang finally calmed himself down, patted his hands and said.
Sun Gang wiped his tears, his charred hands were wet with tears, and he felt unspeakable pain at this moment. He realized that his hands were already burnt and rotten, and some places seemed to have exposed bones. He stood up while enduring the severe pain and looked at the sea. In the distance, there were two burning Japanese ships parked diagonally on the sea. He thought for a while and said, "The general has an order! All ships patrol the battlefield and rescue those who fall into the water. Use torpedoes to sink Japanese ships that have not yet sunk! Take the 'Zhenyuan' as the flagship and lead the team back to Lushun!"
The officers ran to pass the message, and Ding Ruchang nodded with relief. Sun Gang asked two guards to help him back to the cabin, and two sailors came to bandage his hands. "If that shell was thrown into the sea a little later, the Senator, Lord Liu, and General Ding would all be finished." The sailor must have seen the scene of him throwing the shell, and looked at him with admiration and said.
"Those who survive a great disaster will surely be blessed in the future." Sun Gang said with a smile and looked at the sea. Not far away, "Jiyuan" and "Guangjia" were slowly approaching the Japanese ships that were still on fire and unable to move ( they seemed to be "Hiei" and "Fuso") and fired torpedoes at them. The two wreckage ships exploded violently again and disappeared from the sea in a moment.
He silently looked at the "Jiyuan", and was happy for Fang Boqian. The fierce Japanese artillery fire and the instantaneous destruction of the "Zhiyuan" and "Yoshino" must have made him feel extremely scared, so he thought of running away. Even the captain of the "Guangjia" Wu Jingrong followed his example, but I don't know what kind of struggle he had in his heart afterwards. He finally chose to come back and fight with everyone, and severely damaged the "Yandao". Maybe this is another unexpected result of this butterfly effect? What awaits him should not be a beheading for deserting the battlefield.
Sun Gang looked at the rays of sunlight shining through the smoke, and his excited heart gradually calmed down.
The Beiyang Fleet finally won the naval battle, but will history develop as he hoped?
Will Japan, which was rising like the rising sun, eventually sink to the west because of the failure of this naval battle? And will the Qing Dynasty, a first-class warship that has been decayed and in need of reconstruction, finally sail into the harbor of victory?
He suddenly realized that he would probably face many more problems in the future.
Will this tiny soybean of his continue to create one butterfly effect after another?
The feeling after the victory in the naval battle did not make him feel relieved, but instead made him feel heavy.
"Report to the Senator, after the Yang Wei sank, the torpedo boat rescued 65 people, but Lord Lin was not among them." An officer's report pulled Sun Gang back from his thoughts.
Lin Luzhong also died. Thinking of the scene when the "Yang Wei" sank, Sun Gang's heart tightened again, and his nose began to ache involuntarily. Only then did he realize that he still had not made a perfect plan! If the two old ships "Chao Yong" and "Yang Wei" were not allowed to follow the fleet in advance, then Huang Jianxun, Lin Luzhong and so many outstanding officers and soldiers on the ship would not have died!
And there is Deng Shichang.
Whenever he thought of him, Sun Gang felt as if his heart was being stabbed by a knife.
"Send a signal, let Lord Lin Taizeng take over the command and lead the whole team back." He tried his best to control his emotions and said calmly: "Ding Ruchang and Liu Buchan on the Dingyuan are now seriously injured and unable to manage. The remaining senior officers are dead or injured. He is the only one with a slightly higher rank. He has become the temporary commander of the fleet for no reason because of Ding Ruchang's words! He dared not After exercising part of the admiral's authority to deal with some aftermath matters, he still handed over the command. Who knows if the Japanese still have a reserve fleet? Will they come back?
After a while, according to his request, the officers counted the battle results. In this naval battle, a total of eight Japanese ships were sunk, namely "Yoshino", "Matsushima", "Iwashima", "Hashidate", "Akagi", "Hiei", "Fuso" and "Saikyō Maru". Japan's famous "Three Kingdoms Ships" were all destroyed in this battle.
According to the rescued Japanese soldiers who fell into the water, the commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet, Ito Yuheng, refused to escape when the battleship sank, tied himself to the railing and sank with the ship. The "Akagi" and "Saikyō Maru" were hit and caught fire and fled the battlefield, but were surrounded by a fleet of torpedo boats and were all sunk by torpedoes. The Japanese Chief of Staff Kabayama Sukenori, who was watching the battle on the "Saikyō Maru", was also killed.
This thrilling naval battle can be said to have achieved a glorious victory, but the price paid was also huge. Three ships of the Beiyang Fleet, "Zhiyuan", "Chaoyong" and "Yangwei" sank, and more than 500 officers and soldiers including Deng Shichang, Huang Jianxun and Lin Luzhong were killed, and more than 300 were injured. His heart was filled with sorrow. He had not known them for a long time, but the living people disappeared from his sight in an instant. Having never experienced the test of life and death, he still could not accept all this in his heart.
In a trance, the cute and lovely figure, which now completely belonged to him, appeared before his eyes again.
If one day, I also sacrificed myself on this vast ocean like Deng Shichang, would she be heartbroken when she knew it?
He remembered again the sad look she had given him last time.
He shook his head, trying not to think about it anymore.
