In the process of escaping, the Fairya and Queen Augusta quickly distanced themselves from the Goddess of Peace and Princess William. The Xiangyang and Huaihua ships, which were holding back their breath, chased after them from behind and launched a round of fierce artillery bombardment on the Goddess of Peace and Princess Wilhelm, with the result that the two ships were each hit by more than 10 shots, and the entire stern of the ship was almost destroyed, and the German soldiers on the ships jumped off the ships one after another to escape, and the two ships quickly sank into the sea.

After sinking the Queen Victoria Louise, the Kunming did not participate in the attack on the other four German ships, because the Xiangyang and Huaihua ships were enough to deal with these four German ships. The attention of the Kunming ship is still on the overall situation.

At this time, the Count Bismarck, the flagship of the German fleet, had fled more than 10 kilometers away from the battlefield, and it seemed that it was stepping up repairs, and the other lead ship, the Brandenburg, was also far away from the battlefield, and the Yueyang and Sanya ships, which were responsible for annihilating the German transport fleet, fired another torpedo at the battleship Wools, which had first been hit by a torpedo.

It turned out that in the battle just now, the Yueyang ship and the Sanya ship attacked the battleship USS Wools, The Wolfenberg ironclad ship each fired a torpedo, and the place where the Wolfenberg was torpedoed was exactly the bottom of the ship, although the Wolfenberg was an old ironclad ship, and the defense of the side armor was quite strong, but the bottom of the ship was very fragile, of course, not only the Wolfberg, but also other warships, even if the side armor would extend below the waterline, but it would never lay armor at the bottom of the ship, so after being hit by a torpedo, the bottom of the ship was suddenly blown open a large gap five meters wide, and more than a dozen sealed cabins around it were cracked, and seawater poured into the ship like a spring, and a warship of nearly 8,000 tons sank in less than 20 minutes。

The other battleship USS Wools hit the side side, although it was also heavily damaged, but it could not sink for a while and a half, and the German troops on the ship also tried their best to save the warship from sinking, but the speed slowed down significantly.

But now the Yueyang and Sanya ships were going to attack the German fleet, so they had no time to slowly wear up with the Wools, so they added a torpedo to the Wools. Originally, the Wools only had half a life left, and with another torpedo, it still held up, and suddenly slowly sank into the sea. The Yueyang and Sanya ships passed by the Wools at full speed and rushed towards the German convoy.

The German fleet consisted of 11 ships, four escort ships, and one British ship with no friend or foe. It was about ten kilometers away from the fleet, and although the Yueyang and Sanya ships were only traveling at a speed of 20 knots, they appeared in front of the German fleet in less than ten minutes.

At this time, the naval battle had only lasted for more than half an hour, and the thirteen German warships were defeated by the five warships that crossed the fleet, and five were sunk and five were wounded, so that it was not even clear how they were defeated.

The British ship Endymion originally wanted to follow the German fleet and pick up some points, and at the same time to see how the performance of the German warships and the combat level of the German navy were. Because since the German Emperor Wilhelm II ascended the throne, he abandoned the flexible and pragmatic continental policy of Bismarck, the iron-blooded prime minister, and was determined to build a powerful fleet and go to the sea to compete for land under the sun, which naturally aroused the vigilance of the British Empire, which regarded the sea route as a lifeline.

On April 10, 1898, the Reichstag passed the 1898 Naval Act, which planned to invest a construction budget of 408.9 million marks, and an annual equipment maintenance fee of 5 million marks, which was planned to be valid for 6 years, and by 1904, the fleet size should reach the scale of 19 battleships, 8 coastal defense armored ships, 12 large cruisers, and 30 small cruisers.

Only two years later, on June 20, 1900, the Reichstag passed the 1900 Naval Act, which planned to double the size of the fleet to 38 battleships, 14 large cruisers, and 38 small cruisers by 1917.

These two naval bills greatly stimulated the nerves of the British Empire, because the navy was the basis for the British Empire's hegemony, so Britain also specially formulated the famous two-power standard naval strategy, that is, the number and tonnage of the British Royal Navy should not only maintain the world's first, but also exceed the world's second navy and the world's third navy combined. But if Germany really completed the 1900 Navy Act, then by 1917 the size of the German Navy would reach about seventy or eighty percent of the size of the British Royal Navy, and at this time, Germany's industrial strength and economic scale had surpassed that of Britain, and it was fully sufficient economic and technological strength to complete this naval act.

In other words, if Germany really completed the 1900 Naval Act, then Britain's second-power naval strategy would be completely bankrupt, and the British Royal Navy would lose its absolute superiority at sea, and Britain would also completely lose its status as a world hegemon. Naturally, Britain did not want to see such a situation happen, and therefore regarded Germany, which was the German navy, as a potential adversary.

Of course, the current German navy is still very weak, only ranked fourth in the world, second only to France and Russia, and not up to the standard of the two powers, but Germany's strong industrial and technological capabilities and economic strength have made the potential of the German navy far exceed that of France and Russia, so although Britain does not regard the German navy as its most powerful opponent, it has also begun to pay attention to the development of the German navy. This time, the German fleet went on an expedition to China, and the appearance of a group of overseas Chinese from unknown backgrounds gave Britain a great opportunity to observe the strength of the German navy.

After the battle in front of it began, the Endymion immediately accelerated, wanting to rush to the front to watch the battle, but after the Endymion overtook the German transport fleet, it found that the battle ahead was very fierce, and the Endymion did not dare to rush forward, so as not to be beaten, so it was patiently looking for opportunities. Unfortunately, before the Endymion could find an opportunity to watch the battle, the German fleet was defeated and several warships were sunk.

The British officers and soldiers on the Endymion did not see what was going on, and the remaining German warships turned around and fled backwards, followed by two warships that were probably overseas Chinese.

The British officers and soldiers on the Endymion couldn't help but be shocked, why was the German fleet defeated so quickly, and looking at the other party's warships, it didn't look like it was very powerful, although the size of these two warships was not small, but the main gun in the bow of the ship was really miserable, and the whole warship seemed to be this main gun, could it be that these two warships made the German fleet jump and run all over the sea?

However, the British are flexible, although they don't understand how the German fleet was defeated, but it has been defeated, naturally there is a reason, maybe these two warships have other weapons, if they set up a battleship or an armored cruiser, maybe they dare to go forward and these two warships to have a few tricks, but the Endymion belongs to the Edgar-class protective cruiser, although the displacement is as high as 7700 tons, it has surpassed many armored cruisers, but the protective cruiser is a protective cruiser, which cannot be compared with the armored cruiser, and the construction idea of the Edgar-class protective cruiser is relatively cheap and the performance is sufficientin order to build in large quantities to meet the needs of the British Empire's global deployment. In the case of guaranteed firepower, the armor was reduced as much as possible, so the cost of the whole ship was only 367,000 pounds.

Such a warship, although cost-effective, was not suitable for participating in the decisive battle of the fleet, since the German fleet was defeated, it was naturally impossible to find anything easy to go up by itself, so the Endymion also immediately turned around, turned around and ran.

Due to the head-on encounter with their own convoy, the fleeing German warships turned around and let the convoy pass by, and on the other hand, they also waved the banner of "retreat" to the convoy, but the Yueyang and Sanya warships did not continue to pursue the German warships, but rushed towards the German convoy.

Although I saw the retreat flag of the fleeing German warship, it was not easy for the ship to turn around, because the performance and maneuverability of the ship were not as good as that of the warship, and all of these eleven ships were fully loaded, almost exceeding the normal load, and the flexibility was naturally greater and much lower, and the speed of steering was extremely slow. The shore defense cruisers Siegfried and Heimdall, and the old ironclad ships Prussia and Caesar, bravely rushed up to meet the enemy ships and buy time for the transports to turn and escape.

It should be said that these four German ships are indeed commendable in courage, but it is a pity that they are facing modern warships more than a hundred years later, and only courage is useless. The Yueyang ship and the Sanya ship do not want to fight close combat with these warships, although the main guns on these four warships are not large, even if it is not cost-effective to take one shot, and the current distance, it is too late to launch missiles, if it is the Xiangyang ship or the Huaihua ship, you can also use artillery to deal with these four warships, but the 76 mm naval guns on the Yueyang ship and the Sanya ship are really useless at this time, so the captains of the Yueyang ship and the Sanya ship, Wang Hailong and Zhang Wei, still decided to use torpedoes and give each of these four warships one to them.

Although after the torpedo was launched, Wang Hailong and Zhang Wei were very painful, after all, this torpedo was enough to severely damage a 10,000-ton warship, and it was indeed a bit wasteful to deal with these four old warships with a displacement of only three or four thousand tons. However, the effect of the torpedo strike was excellent, and after the four warships were hit by the torpedoes, they were immediately dealt a fatal blow and soon disappeared into the sea, which also cleared the last obstacle for the Yueyang and Sanya warships.

After the loss of the four escort warships, the German convoy was suddenly exposed to the Yueyang and Sanya ships, and there was no shelter at all. The Yueyang and Sanya ships were outflanked from the left and right sides of the transportation fleet.

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