The two Charlin-class cruisers, whose decks had been completely washed by the rapid-fire guns of the Gafians at the Battle of Beauvois, were back, but they were very miserable.

The Xialin was completely dumb after only half an hour of engagement with the enemy ship, and the upper deck, including the gun emplacement, was hit with potholes, flesh and blood flew everywhere, and the personnel suffered heavy losses, and finally it was forced to retreat to fight, and the other ship was also damaged a lot, so that the follow-up combat effectiveness could only linger in the rear, and basically did not participate in the follow-up main battle.

After the Battle of Beauvois, the two warships first underwent emergency repairs at the Lane military base, and then set off to return to China to undergo overhauls, and after returning to China for inspection, the engineers thought that the Charin was too badly damaged, and there had been a serious fire, and it would take at least half a year to repair, and the cost was enough to build half a cruiser with the latest tonnage.

In this case, the navy has decided to abandon the repair work of the Charin and only repair another Charlin-class cruiser.

The second-class cruiser of the Xialin-class is unusable, and although the second-class cruiser of the Zhenbei class is more advanced, it is still a dome cruiser, and the speed is not fast, only twenty-two knots, and this performance is a little inferior to the performance, and it will die very miserably if it acts with the patrol, and it can't keep up with the speed of the destroyer formation.

In order to avoid accidents, Weng Zhexi simply threw the four dome cruisers to the rear and went to the rear of the palace.

In fact, the embarrassment faced by the second-class dome cruisers of several thousand tons had already been discovered by the Daheng Navy a few years ago, otherwise it would not have stopped the construction of this type of warship, but embezzled all the funds to the Crane-class armored cruisers, and at the same time expanded the construction scale of the Yuchi-class cruisers and Yuanlin-class destroyers.

However, the Crane-class armored cruisers are armored cruisers after all, while the Yuchi-class and Yuanlin-class are still a little smaller.

The Daheng Imperial Navy still needs a medium-tonnage cruiser that can effectively cooperate with armored cruisers, especially large armored cruisers.

The initial plan is to imitate the armored cruiser and build a light armored cruiser of four or five thousand tons, with side armor, and at the same time able to reach a speed of more than 25 knots, and equipped with a 150-millimeter rapid-fire gun as the main gun, the plan is called the "light armored cruiser".

This design idea of light armored cruisers has appeared a few years ago, and has been tested on the Yuchi-class cruisers, but the Yuchi-class cruisers say that they have the same armor box as the armored cruisers, and have side armor belts, but their armor is very weak, and there is no difference between them and nothing......

After all, the design idea of the ship is to emphasize high speed, 25 knots, with contemporary technical conditions, it is impossible to achieve such a high speed without sacrificing protection performance.

Now, the designers of the navy plan to make a compromise based on the experience of the Yuchi-class cruisers and the experience of the Crane-class armored cruisers, and see if they can build a warship of four or five thousand tons, with a certain amount of side armor, and a speed of twenty-five knots.

However, if you want to make it, it will definitely be a few years later, and even if you start work now, it will take several years before it can be put into service.

Under the leadership of Weng Zhexi, the first mobile fleet in battle formation was deployed, covering a vast sea area, and slowly headed for the Bowa military base.

At the same time, about 100 nautical miles to the right of the First Mobile Fleet, a fleet of the same size, was slowly approaching.

This fleet was naturally the second fleet reorganized by the Gafians, and in order to deal with the menacing Daheng Navy, the Gaphians transferred most of the main warships of the first fleet.

Among them, there are four high-freeboard new battleships and three 10,000-ton armored cruisers that were built after the Orr War, and there are many more low-freeboard battleships that were built before the Orr War, including eight old 10,000-ton battleships, five 8,000-ton armored cruisers, six 7,000-ton second-class coastal battleships, and three first-class dome protection cruisers.

In addition, there are more than 10 cruisers of various second and third classes, and more than 20 large mine-striking ships of several hundred tons.

Their fleet was larger in size than the First Mobile Fleet, with twelve old and new first-class battleships and fourteen armored cruisers or second-class battleships.

On the other hand, the First Mobile Fleet had only four battleships and eight armored cruisers.

In terms of the number of capital ships, the navy of the Gafia Empire, which has the main force, has an absolute advantage.

But the reason why the Gafias didn't directly attack the Ryan military base before, and didn't swagger directly outside the Bowa military base, is because even they know that there are too many old warships in their fleet, and because rapid-fire guns only started to produce equipment last year, only a part of the new warships have been reloaded in the past half a year, and many old warships have not even been reequipped with rapid-fire guns.

In this case, Rao is own side has a larger number of capital ships, but the former commander of the First Fleet of the Gafians, the current commander of the Second Fleet, Admiral Daniel, did not take it lightly, and it can even be said that he was very cautious!

He sent a large number of light ships out to search and patrol the flanks, while grouping together a large number of old capital ships with slower speeds, and grouping four battleships and three armored cruisers with higher speeds into separate groups.

But it is worth noting that he did not put the high-speed formation in front, but in the side rear!

He actually let a whole bunch of old warships with slow speed take the lead!

Admiral Daniel, too, learned the lessons of the last Battle of Beauva.

Vice Admiral Gerrod, the commander of the Second Fleet at that time, let the high-speed cruiser fleet take the lead, but it was ruthlessly packed up by the enemy's loading and patrolling formation, so that when the two fleets were engaged in a melee later, they both lacked a high-speed patrol formation to deal with it, which eventually led to the fiasco of the battleship formation.

So this time, he didn't plan to let three 10,000-ton armored cruisers form a high-speed formation to take the lead, and he wouldn't let four cutting-edge battleships take the risk.

He put these seven cutting-edge capital ships in the back, and let a dozen old capital ships in the front.

Avoid being like before, the new battleships ran in front, but they were hit by the opponent's new capital ships, they couldn't beat them, they couldn't run away, and the old battleships in the rear couldn't come forward to support in time, which finally led to a fiasco.

According to his assumption, after the two sides meet, it doesn't matter if the other party has an advantage such as speed, anyway, he is on the other party's way to the Bowa military base, if you want to come over, you can fight, but if you come, just go back!

And as long as the fight starts, then more than a dozen of your old capital ships will be able to entangle their capital ships, creating opportunities for your own cutting-edge capital ship formation.

After your seven cutting-edge capital ships come out from the flank and rear positions, you can completely establish the victory.