The battle was extremely fierce. The Pikachu had already been hit by three shells. Although the damage to the hull was not significant, five more crew members were wounded.
Su Qing reminded Zheng Xuechang, "After the war started, the Japanese only managed to escape with one merchant ship."
Yes, the Japanese had five merchant ships, but at the start of the battle, only four were engaged in combat. The fifth merchant ship had already left the battlefield, and Zheng Xuechang saw all of this.
The Japanese have now adopted a tortoise-like strategy, putting up a stubborn resistance. It's absolutely impossible to say that the Japanese are completely brainless; their initial battle formation was fundamentally correct. It's just that their merchant ships were too slow to effectively utilize thei
