Soul of the Yellow Sea (1)

On the fourth day of Wu Jianian in the Gregorian calendar, it is advisable to undress and avoid taking office for promotion.

On the same day, a fierce naval battle called "the first in Asia and the ninth in the world" broke out between the Beiyang Navy and the Japanese joint fleet in the Yellow Sea near Dadonggou.

Sino-Japanese War.

After this campaign, Japan began to rise in Asia, won a series of wars such as the Japanese-Russian naval battle against Malaysia, and gradually stepped into the ranks of world powers.

After this battle, the Qing dynasty was completely reduced to a semi-feudal and semi-colonial government. Since then, the Chinese nation has been in poverty for more than half a century, hovering on the brink of national extinction.

Many angry youths were very dissatisfied with the Sino-Japanese War. If the command was proper at that time, if the navy's fighting spirit was higher at that time, if the Nanyang fleet came to reinforce, if. .

Grab it! In the face of history, any opportunist's excuse is futile.

I dare say that if this happens, the Beiyang Navy may still lose to the Japanese fleet. If the Qing Dynasty wins the Sino-Japanese War, Japan will be able to avenge itself one day.

History is the inevitable result of many accidents, and it is the intuitive expression of the essence of many reasons.

War is an intuitive manifestation of national wrestling and a resounding signal of the rise of great powers.

It has always been like this.

Before going into details, let's understand what happened on the day of the Sino-Japanese War.

On September 15, Pyongyang fell, and the Japanese joint fleet assembled 12 warships, including several main warships of the Japanese navy, such as Yoshino, Gao Chihiro, Qiu Jinzhou, Su Lang, Matsushima, Chiyoda, Yandao and Li Qiao.

In the morning, the main force of Beiyang Navy 10 warship and eight auxiliary ships arrived in Dalian Bay led by Ding.

/kloc-at 8 o'clock on the morning of 0/7, the flagship Dingyuan hung up the dragon flag and began to return.

At about eleven o'clock, beiyang fleet suddenly found several clusters of black smoke on the southwest sea. Ding boarded the deck and looked out, judging that it was the Japanese fleet. So he ordered the ship to fire, shoot with live ammunition and prepare for battle.

1 1 30: 00, Yoshino discovered beiyang fleet, and sent a signal that "more than three enemy ships were found in the northeast".

12: 20, the Japanese ship gradually approached beiyang fleet.

At noon 12: 50, beiyang fleet's flagship Dingyuan fired first, and the Sino-Japanese naval battle began.

As for how to carry out the war, I believe there are detailed instructions on the Internet, so I won't go into details here.

What I want to do next is to discuss the dark clouds behind this naval battle from the aspects of equipment, tactics and national conditions.

In view of the limitation of personal strength, the military strength and equipment of the two navies are mainly introduced by their main ships.

The capital ship of the Beiyang Navy of the Qing army was the first-class armor ship of Dingyuan, which was recognized as the maritime overlord at that time.

Dingyuan Ship and Zhenyuan Ship are 7000-ton first-class armored ships built by German Vulcan Shipyard in Qing Dynasty. They started construction at 188 1. It was launched on February 28th of the same year and the following year1October 28th respectively, and completed on 1884. These two armored ships are already very affordable, because the German government will stimulate the development of heavy industry on the one hand and increase its political influence in the Far East on the other.

The two captains are 94.5 meters long, with a width of 18 meters and a draft of 6 meters. The power is 6000-7300 HP, the speed 14.5 knots (about 26.8 km/h), the total armor weight 146 1 ton, the waterline thickness is 365mm, the waterline thickness is 305mm, and the personnel are 329-363.

Its main gun is a 305 mm tail gun from Krupp, Germany, with two turrets and four doors. The auxiliary guns are Krupp 150mm guns, two of which are installed at the bow and stern of the ship. I won't go into details about the others, including ***22 guns, 3 14 inch torpedo tubes, and two or three shipborne torpedo ships.

Details of armor and firepower will be broken down next time.

Maybe next time. When is the next time?

Who am I asking?

? -To be continued