The Jingzhou-class battleship with a full load displacement of 16,000 tons was a well-deserved giant at that time in this naval battle, with the largest tonnage, the most powerful firepower, and the best protection among the warships of both sides present!

Combining excellent protection and strong firepower, while also maintaining a high speed of eighteen knots, the Jingzhou-class battleship has a comprehensive combat power that is enough to kill the battleships of the Gafias on the opposite side in an instant.

In fact, this class of ships is also the third best warship in terms of comprehensive combat effectiveness among the current active warships on the Blue Star.

At least until the battleships of other countries with hardened armor entered service, the Gyeongju-class battleships were in third place.

As for the better active battleships, they naturally belong to the Gaoqing mixed main gun battleship and the Jinghe full-rapid-fire main gun battleship, as for which of these two battleships is the first and who is the second, it is still inconclusive.

It is more difficult to say if it is relaxed to the warships under construction that have not yet entered service, and the Navy of the Krull Kingdom started construction last year on a new generation of battleships with hardened armor and mixed main guns, and their secondary guns with large-caliber rapid-fire main guns.

If you close your eyes, you can guess that the new battleship under construction in the Krull Kingdom will definitely not be as good as that, and the ship of this class with a second-stage main gun may be stronger than the Jingzhou-class battleship.

However, compared with the newly built series of six-gun battleships of the Daheng Imperial Navy, it is difficult to say which is stronger or weaker.

Even the top brass of the Daheng Imperial Navy believed that before the unified fire control was brought out and equipped with these six-gun battleships, in fact, these six-gun battleships were not necessarily as good as the battleships with mixed main guns or full-rapid-fire main guns.

However, unified fire control is under development, and multiple subsystems are being integrated, and it is estimated that it will be about the same in a few years.

At that time, these battleships with six main guns will be much stronger than battleships with mixed main guns.

When the four powerful Jingzhou-class battleships, one closely following the other, sailed in front of the Gafian fleet in a one-column formation, a total of sixteen 300-millimeter and 35-caliber naval guns opened fire one after another.

Equipped with smokeless gunpowder and new armor-piercing shells, this gun is enough to penetrate the armor belt of any ship of the opposing Gaphians!

At the same time, the ships of this class also have the secondary fire of dense 150-mm rapid-fire guns.

What's more, their armor is thick enough!

The Jingzhou-class battleships that adopt hardened armor and implement the concept of comprehensive protection are much stronger than those armored cruisers, and their side armor belts have reached more than 200 millimeters of hardened armor, and have a certain angle of inclination, which is enough to resist the armor-piercing shells of the opponent's 350 mm and 30 times the caliber main guns fired at medium and long distances.

Although the main gun on the Jingzhou-class battleship is already a seven-year three-hundred-millimeter main gun many years ago, it still uses a half-rapid-fire gun mount, even if it has a mechanical loading structure, which can increase the rate of fire to one round in two minutes, but the actual rate of fire is still very slow.

However, this main gun is equipped with smokeless guns, which is more powerful than 350 mm and 30 times the caliber of naval guns.

Coupled with the unique armor-piercing bullet of the Daheng Imperial Navy, which has been kept secret, its power is quite good.

Relying on their excellent protection capabilities, the fighting mode of the four Jingzhou-class battleships is completely different from that of the patrol formation, which is the capital ship that uses high speed, occupies a favorable formation, and concentrates the rapid-fire firepower of multiple warships to attack the enemy.

However, the capital ships of the Jingzhou class were bombarded by the main guns of as many as six or seven battleships of the other side, and they used their main guns to name the opponent's battleships one by one!

In this process, the four Jingzhou-class battleships were naturally attacked intensively, and the leading Jingzhou was hit by two 300-millimeter shells by the Gafian warship, but both of these shots hit the main armor belt, and the Jingzhou was unscathed!

And the cannonballs fired by the Jingzhou, as long as they hit the opponent, they can hit the opponent hard!

The main gun can't penetrate the opponent's armor, and your own armor can't block the opponent's main gun, which is the huge threat faced by the Gafian battleship formation!

And this threat brought about one battleship after another, and even sank!

Eighteen minutes after the two sides fought, the first sunken capital ship appeared on the battlefield!

The battleship Arden, the first capital ship formation of the Gafians, was pierced through the main armor belt by the 300-millimeter main gun shells of the battleship Nanhaizhou, and exploded deep into the ammunition compartment inside, and the explosion directly triggered the explosion of a large amount of ammunition and ammunition in the ammunition depot of the battleship Arden!

The power of this explosion was much more powerful than the explosion of a mere 300-millimeter armor-piercing projectile, and its violent explosion power directly blew the battleship in two, so that this low-freeboard battery battleship, which had only been in service for eight years and had a displacement of more than 11,000 tons, sank completely in less than a minute.

In the 37th minute of the battle, the battleship Arthur, which also belonged to the 1st Battleship Formation of the Gafia Navy, was also hit by a number of 300-millimeter shells in succession, causing a huge hole in the side to be torn open and seriously sunk in the water.

This battleship Arthur, and the previously sunken Alden are still sister ships of the Unity class, and the service time difference is only three months, and there are only two ships of this class, but the two ships were sunk in the first twenty minutes!

By this time, there were a total of eight battleships in the first battleship formation of the Gafia Navy, two of which had been directly sunk, two of which were paralyzed and evacuated after firepower, and one was hit and hit by multiple bombs and seriously entered the water, although it had not yet sunk, but the speed had dropped to less than ten knots.

The first battleship formation of the Gafia Imperial Navy, composed of eight first-class old battleships, has already lost two sunk, two were evacuated after being paralyzed by firepower, and one was greatly reduced in speed, and only three remained in combat effectiveness, but its superstructure was basically pitted, strictly speaking, it had been severely damaged.

The first battleship formation, so to speak, is already in name only.

At the same time, the second battleship formation of the Gafians was also engaged with Ren Zhongping's patrol formation fifteen minutes after the start of the battle, and the second battleship formation was based on the second-class battleship as the main force, and its strength was even worse, even in the face of Ren Zhongping's battleship was powerless, and they were sunk a second-class battleship in the twenty-first minute of the battle, and another battleship was sunk in the thirty-four minutes after the battle began.

As for the capital ship formation of the Gaphians, the Third Battleship Formation, this so-called high-speed capital ship formation consisting of four new high-freeboard battleships, three high-freeboard armored cruisers, and five other old armored cruisers.

Although the strength of this formation is good, in fact, after the battle between the capital ships of the two sides broke out, because the rear deployment has always been too good to participate in the battle, the role it played is not great.