Around this sunken ship, there is also a phenomenon that experts can't fully explain so far. Chen Yue said that archaeologists found that the entire deck of the sunken ship was covered with a layer of stones, and these stones were very huge. Why did these big stones appear on the deck of the sunken ship?
Sassou said that it is possible that Japan pressed the hull with stones to prevent the sunken ship from being washed away by the current. However, Chen Yue agrees with another view, that is, Japanese people use stones to suppress the geomantic omen in China. Chen Yue said that some experts suggested that the Japanese were familiar with the geomantic culture in China, and putting stones on the boat would destroy the geomantic omen in China, which also meant that Beiyang Navy and even China would never turn over. It is said that in the process of annexing North Korea after the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, Japan also nailed steel bars into the palaces and mountains of North Korea in an attempt to cut off the "Long Mai" of North Korea.
Sassou disagreed with this statement, but Chen Yue also put forward another explanation: At that time, there was a way to salvage the sunken ship, which was to dump the stone carving first and then float it by the gravity of the stone carving. So these stones may have been used by the Japanese in salvaging the sunken ship, but after the salvage plan was cancelled for some reason, all the stones were dumped on the ship.
Chen Yue said that more archaeological excavations and literature interpretation are expected to solve the mystery of the stone carving on this Sino-Japanese sunken ship.
Can the boiler cover solve the mystery of Zhiyuan ship sinking?
The Yellow Sea decisive battle, Zhiyuan ship sank, shocked the ruling and opposition parties. Emperor Guangxu once wrote an elegy for Deng Shichang: "This day is full of tears, and there is a strong naval force!" However, how Zhiyuan Ship sank is still a mystery. It is widely circulated that the torpedo sank, that is, during the war, Deng Shichang led the ship to Hiyoshino, but Zhiyuan was hit by a torpedo and sank. However, when the Zhiyuan ship sank, the distance from the Japanese ship had not yet entered the effective range of the torpedo, otherwise the Zhiyuan ship might have launched a torpedo attack on the Japanese ship.
In recent years, research and analysis show that the sinking of Zhiyuan ship is probably due to the fact that the boiler was hit by Japanese large-caliber artillery near the waterline that day, which led to a big explosion and sank. Another explanation is that the Zhiyuan ship sank because there was too much water in the ship, and seawater flooded into the boiler room, causing a big explosion.
Coincidentally, in the previous underwater archaeology, a boiler cover with a diameter of 2 meters was also found, and this cover was found 30 meters away from the hull. Chen Yue said that the real cause of Zhiyuan's sinking needs to be discovered and proved.