After all, it will be dark in a few hours, and once it gets dark, the opponent's light formation will attack, and it is not easy to predict what the situation will be at that time, in case it is too unlucky, it is also very possible for the other party to take advantage of the darkness to come in and kill a few capital ships.

Therefore, Admiral Weng Zhexi decided to retreat temporarily, but it was not to run back directly, but to stay away from the sea area, and at the same time send a light formation to continue to pursue the other side, and if there is a chance, his own side will also launch a night lightning attack.

At the same time, after dawn the next day, you can continue to look for opportunities to fight, and leave a few more capital ships of the opponent.

When Admiral Daniel watched the main formation of the Great Heng people begin to turn to evacuate, he was finally greatly relieved!

But thinking about the huge losses in this battle, his heart became heavy again.

In the previous engagement, as many as five ships of the First Battleship Formation were sunk, and only three of them escaped, and these three were also heavily damaged. Of the other five, three were directly sunk during the battle between the capital ships, one of them caught fire after being heavily damaged, and lasted for more than three hours, and finally was forced to abandon the ship and was sunk by its own torpedo ship, and the last one was too badly wounded, resulting in a significant reduction in speed, and was sunk by the opposing destroyer's destroyer who rushed up and fired a torpedo.

The second battleship formation was not much better, only three of the six old second-class battleships remained, and the other three were sunk!

The third battleship formation was better, only one high-freeboard armored cruiser was heavily damaged, and several other battleships were slightly damaged, but none of them sank.

The losses of the light formation were also very large, sinking one dome cruiser of the first class, four cruisers of the second and third rank, seven large mine-striking ships, and as many as a dozen torpedo boats with a tonnage of only one or two hundred tons.

Preliminary statistics put at least 3,000 people dead or missing, and thousands of wounded.

On the other hand, the Daheng people on the opposite side [ ] sank a cruiser and two destroyers when they died.

This battle was undoubtedly a great defeat for the Gafia navy!

Admiral Daniel could already predict that after returning home, he might not end well.

But everything is like this, and Admiral Daniel has no choice.

In today's battle, it seems that there are more warships on their side, but in fact, their comprehensive strength is not as good as that of the other party, not to mention anything else, the opponent's four Jingzhou-class battleships are on top of most of their own capital ships!

Not to mention that the other side also has a high-speed loading patrol formation, and these loading patrols are completely different from the active installation patrols in other countries.

Their Fengyang-class armored cruisers have a standard displacement of more than 12,000 tons, and while the large-caliber rapid-fire guns are very fierce, the protection is better than their own battleships, and the speed is very fast as Nima!

Its comprehensive combat effectiveness is stronger than its own four latest high-freeboard battleships and the more than 14,000-ton Dilan-class battleships!

As for those Klan-class armored cruisers, they are weaker, but their large number of 120 mm rapid-fire guns are basically ineffective against them, although the main guns can also be hit hard, but the rate of fire of the main guns is too slow, and the main guns of their own side have just fired two rounds of shells, and the opponent's large number of 200 mm and 150 mm rapid-fire guns can wash the superstructure of their battleships from beginning to end......

The opponent's four battleships and eight armored cruisers were armed to the teeth, with fierce firepower, excellent protection, and a particularly fast speed!

What can you do for him Daniel, he's desperate!

It is already very good that he can smoothly withdraw with the third battleship formation, and by the way, he can bring back a few old battleships.

However, it is estimated that the bureaucrats in China will not listen to their own explanations, and even in order to shirk their responsibilities, they are willing to bear all the responsibility for the defeat themselves.

Thinking of this, Admiral Daniel just sighed!

At this point, he didn't have any good way, he was expecting the other party to continue to catch up, and wait until the night to launch a lightning strike operation to sink a few of the opponent's capital ships to save some face, but the other party was very cautious, and there were still several hours before dark, so he did not hesitate to evacuate.

There is a high probability that this night lightning strike operation will be useless.

With the separation of the capital ship formations of the two sides, although the light formations were still entangled with each other for several hours, they had no impact on the overall situation.

On this night, although both sides wanted to launch a night lightning attack, both sides were prepared in advance, using light formations to intercept and shake off the track, so the lightning strike formations on both sides once again flew into the air.

At dawn the next day, Admiral Weng Zhexi also tried to continue to search for the opponent's main formation, and also tried to search several western ports of the Republic of Kean, but the opponent's fleet was not found.

After searching for a day and failing to find it, Weng Zhixi judged that the other party was estimated to have returned east overnight, and maybe this would have already run back to the western coastal ports of their Gafia Empire.

The enemy fleet could not be found, and the high-intensity combat was maintained for several days, the officers and men were exhausted, and the ammunition was almost consumed.

Immediately, Weng Zhexi ordered the fleet to return to the Bowa military base!

As Weng Zhexi guessed, Admiral Daniel did lead the fleet all the way all the way overnight, and when Weng Zhexi searched for them, the remnants of Gafia's fleet had already fled back to the home military port of the Gafia Empire, under the protection of the strict shore defense artillery fire in the military port.

And the fiasco of the Second Fleet's return voyage naturally caused a shock within the Gafia Empire, and even this news quickly spread all over the world with the cable telegraph, not counting the relay transmission!

When Weng Zhexi was still leading the fleet back to sail, in fact, many places had already received the news of the great victory of the Daheng Navy in the Second Battle of Beauva.

Weng Zhexi had just led the fleet to Bowa, and even the capital division of the Daheng Empire had already received the news about the naval battle, well, this news was still learned through the Krull people, who had a submarine telegraph cable connecting Daheng and the West Continent, and after the news was transmitted from the Southwest Continent to the West Continent, it was transmitted to the Krull Kingdom through the submarine cable.

Later, it was transmitted to the side of the Great Heng Empire through the submarine cable between the Krull Kingdom and the Great Heng Empire.

At this time, Weng Zhexi's fleet, in fact, was still outside Bova, and he had not yet had time to report the relevant news to the country.

But it doesn't matter, the cruiser of the Krull Kingdom, which has been following the fleets of both sides and watching most of the battle throughout the naval battle, has already sent out the general situation, and now basically everywhere in the world has telegraphed, everyone knows that in the second Battle of Beauva, the Navy of the Great Heng Empire defeated the Navy of the Gafia Empire.

This also caused a violent shock around the world!