"Report, the fleet of the East China government changed the direction of turn. ”

"What?" Owen had just returned to the headquarters, and had not yet sat firmly in his seat, and after hearing this report, he stood up at once, and hurriedly came to the porthole on the right side to look, and sure enough, he saw a warship behind the KPA turning to his side, and the style of this warship should be an armored cruiser.

Owen couldn't help but be surprised, it turned out that he also saw that several battleships of the People's Army would be the first to withdraw from the combat zone, so although the first few British battleships were heavily damaged, the latter battleships would be against the armored cruisers and protective cruisers of the People's Army fleet. With the cooperation of the destroyers, and then a decisive battle with the battleships of the KPA fleet, then there is still a lot to be done in this battle.

However, the KPA fleet obviously did not follow Owen's script, and the armored cruisers changed direction and steered to bite their battleships that had been heavily damaged, and it has to be said that the commander of the KPA fleet not only had a very sober mind and tactical adaptability, but also had a very clear grasp of the overall situation. If he were the commander of the KPA fleet, he would have made the same choice.

And as a result, the battleships that had left the combat zone also had to meet the armored cruisers of the KPA fleet first, and then think about how to win the battle.

After the Jinan completed its turn, the Old Man Star had already sailed past the battle zone with him, so the Goliath was fighting against the Jinan. In fact, in the battle just now, the damage of the Goliath was heavier than that of the Old Man Star, the rear main gun turret was destroyed, a chimney was bent, the smoke exhaust capacity was reduced by half, the deck was washed by more than a dozen small and medium-caliber shells, most of the ship's weapons were damaged, the number of people died no result, the side side was torn open two cracks, and even the hull was seriously damaged, and at this time nearly 500 tons of seawater had poured into the ship, and the right rudder was also damaged by some impact in the battle just now, so that the speed dropped to 15 knots, and it continued to decline.

However, the Goliath still used the only remaining guns on the ship to fire fiercely at the Jinan, hitting the surrounding water column of the Jinan, not only the threat to the Jinan is not great, and the Jinan also carried out a stronger return fire, the four 200 mm main guns on the side of the side, four 155 mm secondary guns, and four 105 mm guns are also full fire, and in comparison, the accuracy of the Jinan is much higher, in more than 2 minutes, hit Goliath 2 200 mm shells, 4 155 mm shells, 11 105 mm shells, of which 1 155 mm shells hit the crack on the side side and exploded in the cabin, not only penetrated the horizontal armor, but also ignited the ammunition depot inside the ship, causing a huge explosion, and the entire middle and rear parts of the warship were almost blown into ruins.

The Goliath's return fire only hit the Jinan with 1 100 mm shell, one 88 mm shell, and the 100 mm shell hit the waterline on the side side, but failed to penetrate the armor, and the 88 mm shell hit the unarmored protection zone on the side of the bank, blowing up a large hole more than 1 meter wide, killing and injuring more than 10 soldiers in the rudder.

Owen could see very clearly on the bridge of the Old Man Asterisk, and he couldn't help but close his eyes, not daring to look any further, and he knew very well in his heart that the Goliath was finished.

At this time, another armored cruiser of the People's Army fleet, the Tianjin, also completed the turn, and the opposite was the battleship Haiyang of the Far East Fleet, and the Haiyang was better damaged in the battle just now than the Old Man Star and the Goliath, and the four main guns were still intact, and after seeing what happened to the Goliath, the Ocean did not dare to be careless, and the guns of all sizes on the ship were full of firepower, desperately bombarding the Tianjin; and the Tianjin was naturally not to be outdone, and fought back hard, and for a while the artillery of both sides roared, and the battle was very fierce.

In more than 2 minutes of engagement, the Tianjin hit 2 200 mm shells, 2 155 mm shells, and 9 105 mm shells, causing many injuries to the Ocean, and the Ocean returned fire, and also hit the 4 guns of the Tianjin, one of which 152 mm shells hit the side armor belt of the Tianjin, penetrating a crack more than 1 meter wide.

On the other side, the Jinan has crossed the Goliath, which is not yet dead, and caught up with the old man's asterisk, the speed of the Bi Jing armored cruiser is faster than the battleship, the maximum speed of the Jinan is 22 knots, and now it has accelerated to 20 knots, and the old man's superstar was also damaged in the battle just now, and the current speed is less than 16 knots, so it is naturally quickly caught up by the Jinan.

However, it was precisely because of the speed of the Jinan that it had been fighting with the Old Man Star for less than two minutes, although it also hit more than 10 shells of the Old Man Star, but none of the 200 mm main guns hit, and the counterattack of the Old Man Star also hit the Jinan 1 gun, destroying a 105 mm turret.

This time the damage was not serious, and Owen was a little relieved, but then the Tianjin also caught up, at this time the speed of the old man star has dropped to below 15 knots, and the speed of the Tianjin has reached more than 20 knots, so the two sides only engaged for more than 1 minute, and the old man star was only hit 2 shots, and the Tianjin surpassed the old man star and sailed forward.

At this time, Owen had already realized that the situation was not right, although it was said that the speed of the armored cruiser was indeed faster than that of the battleship, but now the two sides were engaged in a battle line battle, what does it mean that the other side has overtaken continuously, and does not want to fight with himself? But if he does not want to fight with himself, then why change his direction? However, Owen is an experienced naval commander after all, and he quickly understands that the other side is trying to intercept him.

This is very possible, because although these battleships are heavily damaged, but compared with armored cruisers, after all, it is not a level, Jinan's sinking of the Goya is only a special case, and cannot be used as a conventional example, as long as the battleship's main gun hits the opponent's cannon, it is enough to severely damage the opponent, and even inflict a fatal blow to the opponent, so the opponent's most reasonable tactic is to use the cruiser's high speed to seize the battleship's cross, one to reduce their own losses, and the other to intercept the opponent, waiting for their battleship to come back.

But fighting for speed, the Far East Fleet is obviously not able to fight the other side, and transfer its own cruisers over to fight against the other party's cruisers, to a way, but now the radio is not working, can only use the traditional flag to transmit orders, wait for the news to reach the cruiser, and wait for the cruiser to catch up from behind, it is estimated that the two cruisers of the People's Army have already stopped in front of themselves, and now the old man asterisk has been seriously damaged, because its front main gun was destroyed, once the People's Army fleet seized the "T" With almost no power to fight back, and the speed had dropped below 15 knots, he was really unable to take on the heavy responsibility of the flagship, so Owen decided to change the Ocean as the flagship, and he also transferred to the Ocean, continued to command the operation, broke through the interception of the People's Army fleet, and evacuated the battlefield.

At this point in the war, Owen had completely given up the idea of defeating the People's Army fleet, and now he only wanted to get out of the battlefield as soon as possible and bring back as many warships as possible, so Owen ordered the Ocean to catch up and take over as the flagship, and ordered the cruiser detachment in the rear to catch up and assist in the battle, and then ordered someone to prepare a small boat for himself and transfer to the Ocean.

At this time, at the other end of the battlefield, the Cadre General was making a 45-degree turn, and it had turned about 30 degrees, but at this time, the 4th Glory of the Far East Fleet had also completed the turn, so the Cadre General could only avoid a salvo strike on the Glory, so the captain Xia Ruichen made a quick decision and decided to give up the attack on the Glory, and would concentrate firepower to deal with the Revenge behind, anyway, there were 4 battleships behind the Cadre General, and the Glory could not escape.

So compared with the Glory, the Revenge was much more unlucky, because as soon as it entered the turn, it was hit by the Cadre, and the first salvo hit the side of the Revenge, blasting the side of the side into a crack more than 2 meters wide, fortunately, it was located above the waterline, although it damaged some of the crew, but it was not a fatal wound, but as the main gun of the Cadremaster fired, the secondary guns and gunwales were also in full swing, and the shells rained down on the Revenge, and the water column around the Revenge was lined up.

Captain Martin, the captain of the Revenge, was sweating profusely in the command room at this time, not only because his warships were hit one after another, but also because the performance of the other party had exceeded common sense, if the KPA warships had a high hit rate and a long range, and they were still within the range that the British soldiers could understand, it was nothing more than training and technological innovation, and the British Navy had been developing technology to expand the combat distance to 10,000 meters, researching integrated fire control systems, and building dreadnought-class battleships, all in order to increase the effective range and improve the hit rate. It is surprising that the East China government was able to do this, but it is logically plausible.

However, when a warship is turning, it cannot open fire, which is the consensus of the navies of various countries, because when the warship turns, its own angle is constantly changing, which is not only difficult to aim, but also impossible to calculate the amount of advance at all. But now that the Cadre General is still turning, it can still maintain a fairly high hit rate, which is obviously against the common sense of naval warfare in this era.

But this is not a problem at all for the People's Army, let alone firing the cannon when turning, or firing the cannon when doing a serpentine maneuver, the hit rate will not drop significantly, because all the data, as well as the calculation of the advance amount, are done by the computer, and it can only be fired according to the data and time provided by the computer.

However, the Revenge could not only be beaten and not fight back, and it would take 2-3 minutes for the Revenge to complete the turn, and with the hit rate shown by the KPA fleet, 3 minutes was enough to inflict heavy damage and even sink a battleship. Therefore, Martin can only order the ship to fire back, even if it misses, it can interfere with the opponent's ranging and aiming, in case a person's character is bursting, hit a few shots, it will be a big profit.