Lin Daxin led seven high-speed naval academy ships, escorting four Italian ironclad battleships, and after joining up with the ships brought by Ding Ruchang, they continued sailing towards Weihaiwei Port.
When the mighty fleet returned to the battleground at Dadonggou, the only ships on the surface were the heavily damaged old ironclad Yunhai, the Jingyuan which had lost power and was floating on the surface, and the Guangyi and Guangbing which had taken on water and whose speed had dropped to less than 8 knots.
There were also the Ankai and Rikkai that had been chasing the Japanese ships Yoshino and Naniwa, and now they had returned to the Dadonggou. However, the Yanghai had not returned. But what surprised Lin Daxin was that the warship between the Ankai and Rikkai was actually the Jap
