.On the other side of the battlefield, the battle has long since entered a white-hot stage.

While the Japanese lightning strikes, the Chinese military uniform patrol formation and the Japanese military uniform patrol formation carried out complex course changes at sea. In order to shorten the distance, the Japanese formation kept turning and trying to take advantage of the process firepower. The Chinese army formation took advantage of its speed and changed to travel in the same direction as the Japanese ships, opening up the distance, and maintaining the advantages of long-distance firepower. Since the overall speed of the Chinese army formation was as high as 25 knots and the Japanese army only had nineteen knots, the Japanese army was unfortunately at a disadvantage in this competition.

However, the unique weapon shooting command plate of the Chinese warship can only shoot more accurately without more than ten degrees of rotation. Therefore, when the two sides unfolded more violent formations, the Chinese army's hit rate also began to drop sharply until the two armies became in the same direction.

On the Japanese side, after the Panshe temporarily withdrew from the battle line, the new pilot ship Changlu was also severely damaged by the Chinese army Guilin and Lijiang, followed by the concentrated attacks of the Cheetah and Snow Leopard, and the speed of the entire formation also dropped by more than a quarter. Then several three-five armor-piercing bombs and grenades were hit by more than 600 tons of water on the starboard side. The superstructure was in a mess and the speed dropped sharply. Then a three-five grenade was cut off by the chimney No. 2. The thick black coal smoke immediately covered the fore deck and bridge under the south wind, causing the sighting of the entire ship to be greatly affected and forced to withdraw from the battle line.

As for the Chinese army, because they have been on the edge of the effective range of the Japanese 254 mm main gun, the damage suffered is not too great, except for the fact that they were caught in some near-missile bombs, the steel armor was squeezed, and some sailors were injured by the explosion of the water waves, and almost no fur was damaged.

The flagship of the second fleet of the Japanese Joint Fleet, Asama.

The Chief of Staff of the Fleet, Tomosaburo Kato, had no beginning to calm down. He looked at the Chinese army formation that was faintly visible in the distance with a blue face, and said in a daze: "What's this... fast speed, long range, accurate shooting. Relying on the speed, driving in the same direction as our army, maintaining a long-distance battle, and bombarding my pilot ship with the main gun at the stern of the ship... If this continues, we will be knocked off one by one, and we can't continue like this..."

He seemed to have made up some determination and turned to the commander Hiroshinosuke Uemura and said, "Commander, you can't hesitate anymore. Taking advantage of the lightning strike formation, the enemy has already stuck, and our fleet quickly turned to retreat and the battle cannot continue like this."

Hiroshinozera Uemura shook his head and patted Kato Tomosaburo on the shoulder: "Kato, you, the artillery expert, have you lost your confidence? It seems that our situation is really dangerous. But, do you really think we can escape? Don't forget the enemy's speed and long-range shooting advantages, we can't escape... Instead, we sacrificed our lightning formation in vain."

"There is only one way now, which is to stick it all over." He said calmly, "The lightning strike formation has already rushed forward. No matter how fast the enemy is, it is always faster than our destroyers. As long as they are busy dodging lightning strikes, the speed will be slowed down and the formation will be chaotic, and we will have a chance. As long as we get close to the shooting, our second-level main gun and secondary gun can play to our advantage, and the Chinese will have to fight hard with us."

At this time, the Japanese destroyer troops holding the smoke screen had already rushed towards the Chinese military uniform patrol formation like a pack of wolves, but the departure of four small Japanese cruisers also added to the fighting spirit of the Chinese two mine-branched cruisers. The two warships turned around and rushed towards the Japanese destroyer formation.

Japanese destroyers are not in love with war.

Buzhihuo and Xiwu shot out four torpedoes, and the one-five-speed fire cannons also opened fire. After all, the two ships of the Chinese army, Meihua and Taohua are mine-branches. Compared with the main battle light patrol, they are somewhat inferior in armor and firepower. Under the attack of eight destroyers, they were also a little busy for a while. Soon, the two sides had already started a battle, but the Japanese destroyers were not in love with the battle. They just shot and ran towards their target-the four Chinese army armored cruisers. During the fierce firefight, the front main turret of the Meihua was hit, and the rotation was restricted, the bow of the ship was knocked away, the rear chimney of the Peachhua was blown away, and the port side cracked.

On the opposite side, the Japanese destroyer of the Burnsky was bombed on the sea, and the main turret of the Xiwu-1 was knocked away, and a large fire ignited, and it seemed only a matter of time before it could sink.

Cheetah.

"It's four to six now, and our disadvantage is not so obvious." Guo Zhenlin frowned and said, "Commander, will they flick a shot and then retreat?"

"Can they retreat?" Sa Zhenbing touched his chin. "Not to mention the two platoons that left the battle line, they were their own team, with a speed of four knots less than ours. Instead of escaping in vain, it's better to come over and fight once. As long as we maintain maneuver and firepower, the enemy's battle line will be constantly weakened."

"However... I can't escape melee battles. The enemy's lightning strike formation has rushed over. Let's prepare..." Sa Zhenbing said solemnly, "I inform the guerrilla formation to operate mobile operations and our entire fleet is preparing for lightning strike operations."

The remaining six Japanese destroyers advanced forward in the shape of a large Z under the fierce artillery fire of the Chinese army.

The 152nd sub-cannons and 75mm rapid-fire cannons of the Chinese Armored Cruiser Column began to roar one after another. The Huajun sub-cannon turret, which was concentrated in the swell of the hull, produced fiery firepower like a volcano erupting. The six Japanese destroyers braved the rising water columns and advanced extremely tenaciously. In order to avoid lightning strikes, the Chinese army was forced to use the Z-shaped maneuver, and the formation began to scatter. The Japanese uniform patrol formation on the other side took the opportunity to approach at full speed and quickly narrowed the distance.

Soon, the Japanese destroyer had broken through to a distance of only 800 yards from the Chinese military uniform patrol. Looking at the Japanese destroyer approaching madly, the Chinese Navy's gunners were also red and shot fiercely like crazy, trying to stop the other party's advance.

On the sea, the sun gradually sets westward. With the explosions one after another, the Japanese destroyers Chunyu and Qiuyu have turned into burning torches, but six Japanese destroyers have launched their torpedoes and completed their mission.

Cheetah.

Deputy Captain Xiao Mo looked at the port side as if he was possessed. Seeing that he was dodging left and right, a torpedo finally hit him.

With a sensation, the torpedo was hooked by the lightning protection net. Xiao Mo finally breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, the lightning protection net was hung in time... At this moment, the torpedo exploded violently.

Originally, the distance was so far, and there was a lightning protection compartment. The water pressure came over and it had little effect on the cheetah with thick skin. But Xiao Mo suddenly felt that the hull shocked suddenly and the speed decreased sharply.

He didn't care about anything else and quickly yelled at the sound transmission horn in the engine room: "What's going on?"

After a long time, the chief engineer's voice came: "It seems that something has been involved in the propeller... the speed has dropped to twenty knots."

Xiao Mo's body shook, and the captain Ning Guoping next to him sighed: "It must be part of the lightning protection net that was blown in. These things should have been thrown away when they set sail..."

"Fuck, what luck did you step on today?" Xiao Mo couldn't help but curse, "What's the matter with this lightning protection network? It's better to be successful than to lose things..."

"Notify the commander." Ning Guoping smiled bitterly, "The maximum speed of this ship is revised to twenty knots."

Cheetah, battle bridge.

The bad news from the Nautical Bridge put the entire command center into silence.

The original combat plan was to use high speed to drive distances, drive in the same direction with the t-shaped line, and use the tail cannon to bombard the enemy one by one at a distance. If the enemy turns around and escapes, chase them, and use the main turret of the ship's head to bombard the enemy from a distance, which failed.

Sa Zhenbing looked at the crowd who was at a loss and said calmly: "This is the case with war. There will always be some things outside of control. This is also the charm of war... Since that's the case, let's put the whole team on the side of the enemy. It's worth mentioning the Japanese. Let them know that if we don't rely on speed, we can overwhelm them on the front. I believe our officers and soldiers, and please believe them."

"Imperial Navy - Will Win"

The Chinese armored cruiser dodged left and right, and after completing the formation, the speed had dropped to twenty knots. At this moment, the fleets of both sides completed the formation turning and marched in the same direction in parallel, with a distance of six thousand yards.

Hiroko Uemura slowly let out a breath and roared: "The whole ship starts fire."

The six Japanese main battle armored cruisers immediately looked like a volcano erupting. The sound of cannon erupting was heard, and dozens of small suns suddenly appeared on the sea surface. The remaining flames of the ten-inch and eight-inch main guns spewed out of their old age. The heavy bullets like raindrops flew towards the Chinese armored cruisers with a sharp roar.

The Trafalgar-style ship battle finally returned to the oceans of East Asia at this moment.

At this moment, the Japanese army had six armored cruisers. There were sixteen two-three main guns that could be fired normally, eight two-four millimeter main guns, while the Chinese army had four armored cruisers, and the twenty-four three-five main guns were still intact.

The two sides adopted similar key strike strategies. The Japanese shelling strategy was to follow the British Navy's strategy and concentrate firepower to attack the weakest link of the opponent. The thick-skinned Cheetah and the Snow Leopard were obviously not welcomed by the Japanese, and the armored belts of the Guilin and Lijiang were no longer effective defense against the ten-inch and eight-inch main guns at this distance. Therefore, except for the pilot ship Izumo and the Chinese army's pilot ship Cheetah, the second ship Takaba and the Huajun II Mimi Snow Leopard, the other three ships Asama, the fourth ship Yama, the fifth ship Oma and the sixth ship Ome, concentrated their firepower in pairs to focus on the Guilin and Lijiang of the Chinese army.

Correspondingly, the Chinese army also adopted fire shooting. The Cheetah, the No. 1 ship, and the No. 2 ship, the Snow Leopard, concentrated on attacking the Izumo, which was in the No. 1 position, with weak protection and strong firepower, while the No. 3 ship, Guilin, and Lijiang, the No. 4 ship, concentrated on attacking the Japanese ship, the No. 3, the flagship Asama.

With such close combat, the Japanese army's hit rate increased sharply. Coupled with the advantage of the Japanese 2O3mm gun and the number of secondary guns, the sharpness of Shimose Gunpowder and Ijiyuan Non-Travel Gunshu, the Chinese military uniform patrol immediately suffered the test of steel and flames.

After all, the Guilin-class is the first generation of fuel-powered equipment patrol in the Chinese army, and is a work that has accumulated experience in the shipbuilding industry in the Chinese Empire. Therefore, its performance is much worse than that of newcomers like the Cheetah-class, especially the technology of many new concepts is still immature, and it inevitably brings some side effects after application.

After only three minutes of the battle between the two sides, two heavy bombs were hit by the swelling of the Guilin area, a chimney was interrupted, and the bridge trembled violently several times. The Xiase gunpowder, known for its fierce burning, splashed everywhere, and everything went. The firefighters on the Guilin were busy like worker bees, but the explosions were still coming one after another, and the fierce flames had turned the upper deck of the entire warship into a real purgatory.

The Guilin was not outdone. The Sanwu main gun hit the Asama commander tower as early as the third round. The powerful Sanwu armor-piercing bombs blew the Commander Tower into a sea of ​​hellfire. All the personnel in the command center lost consciousness in an instant. After a long time, Chief of Staff Tomosaburo struggled hard, and what he saw was already like a Shura Field: the commander tower was full of corpses, the commander Hikaru Kamiura was covered in blood, and a huge shrapnel was inserted in his temple, his right leg was torn apart, and the blood was flowing into a river, and it was obviously no longer alive. The warship had a big breath on the starboard side, the port side had been filled with water, the main turret of No. 1 was blown up, and the main gun was twisted by the flames. The ammunition depot below avoided the explosion due to the bravery and decisiveness of a sergeant. However, the speed of the entire ship had dropped to 16 knots and was forced to leave the battleship.

At this moment, Colonel Rokuro of the Izumo had already fired the commander's flag and led the ships to continue fighting with the Chinese army.

On the other hand, the four Chinese armoured cruisers could still maintain a speed of 23 knots and a unified battleship. The Sanyu main gun was still like a death-hunting drum, hitting hundreds of kilograms of heavy bullets at the Japanese warship. Suddenly, the Japanese ship No. 1 ship Izumo shocked suddenly, and it suddenly stopped at the sea like a dead fish. It was obviously broken by the Chinese armour piercing bombs. The Chinese army's Cheetah and Snow Leopard took the opportunity to pour more intense artillery fire onto the Izumo.

In the commander's tower on the Asama, Kato Tomosaburo was as if possessed, burst into tears, clenched his fists, and watched the sailors on the Izumo riding shrapnel and surging flames everywhere, and still fought back, turning the Chinese army's cheetah into a sea of ​​fire. Judging from the severity of the Izumo's injury, it is probably a little bit of danger.

Five minutes later, the Izumo abandoned the ship, and Colonel Yachi Rokuro refused to leave the ship and sank with the ship. The remaining personnel were transferred to the destroyer Shinto and were then transported to the Asama armored cruiser under emergency repair.

At this moment, the Japanese army's armored battleship had been reduced to four ships, and the Chinese army's speed had also dropped by two knots.

"The Guilin number is called, and the main turret No. 1 fails and cannot be turned."

"The Guilin port is 400 tons of water inlet"

"The water injection of Guilin Number on the starboard side has been completed"

Inside the Cheetah, Sa Zhenbing stared at the Japanese ship opposite and shouted loudly: "Concentrate on attacking the enemy's current pilot ship."

At this time, the Chang Lu and Panshe, which had already undergone emergency treatment, had already struggled to catch up and tried to re-enter the Japanese battle line.

Big Sword.

Xu Bo, who had moved here, had taken over the formation command again and ordered the formation to pounce at the Chang Lu and Panshou without hesitation.

"Zhenhai, are you going to use these ships to install patrol?" Deng Jian, captain of the Big Sword, frowned, "This is too dangerous. The main task of the light patrol formation is to counter-lightning strike, and when the main formation is unfavorable to retreat, it will cover it with lightning strikes and smoke screens. It also has to shoulder the task of laying and searching during the retreat, and blocking the enemy at night. If it is explained in frontal combat, the entire formation will have no way of retreat."

Xu Bo shook his head: "Old Deng, do you think the commander will allow the retreat? The Imperial Navy has always attacked the enemy at the sight. This time, the transition to the south has caused discussions among the navy. How much pressure did the commanders and... Xu Shuai bear?"

"Since we don't need to consider the retreat, what we have to do is very simple." Xu Bo looked at the black smoke from the warship opposite, "Sinking all the Japanese ships in front of us, we naturally don't have to worry about retreating."

He looked at Deng Jian with some doubts, and also curled his smile and said seriously: "Old Deng, I have already given the order. If you still have doubts, please send my thoughts to the commander. Now, the first thing to do is to execute the order."

The three light patrols and seven destroyers of the Chinese guerrilla forces rushed towards the Changlu and Panshou like wolves.

The Chang Lu and Panshe, which had barely carried out emergency treatment, had no combat effectiveness as they were at the beginning. Especially the main mast of Panshe broke and lost the rangefinder, and could only shoot completely with eyesight and experience. In addition, the power system was damaged and the speed was reduced sharply. Facing the maneuvering and flexible Chinese light patrols and destroyers, they were actually exhausted.

The Chinese light warships that fought to the death were not feeling well.

The Huajun Chunyu destroyer, which was the first to take the lead, was most bombed. The upper part of the hull was in a mess. A large mouth broke through the port side. The hull had been slightly tilted, but it was still struggling forward. The Chenwu destroyer suffered several rounds in the middle of the journey, the hull on the side of the hull was broken, the steering wheel was damaged, and it was forced to stop. The situation was critical.

Xu Bo was unmoved and still charged forward without moving.

At a distance of 800 yards, the Chinese warship decisively released the torpedo and used rapid-fire artillery to attack the enemy superstructure fiercely. The Panshe quickly ignited a fire. Since the chimney problem was not successfully solved, the vision and visibility of the personnel on the warship were not very good.

However, the captain of the Iwasattva, Takeshita, did not have much worry in his heart when facing the torpedo of the Chinese army that was rushing towards him.

The Japanese army's armored patrols and battleships were modeled after the main British naval warships equipped with lightning protection nets, which only took five minutes to open and close. Although the Russian side concealed, the Japanese army had previously learned about the failure of the Russian Second Fleet due to the night attack of the Chinese torpedo boats, and attached great importance to anti-torpedo operations...

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