Even if Admiral Daniel personally led the formation and caught up with it at the maximum speed of eighteen knots, it could not shorten the distance in a short time, and it was not until thirty minutes later that the two leading battleships were able to open fire at a distance of seven thousand meters.

But shelling at this distance was doomed to be useless.

Looking at the two battleship formations in front of them with heavy losses, and more importantly, those damn Great Heng people, so far, only one Klan-class armored cruiser was hit by two three-hundred-millimeter shells and was heavily damaged, and the others were still intact.

The opponent's strength is still there, but the own side has already suffered heavy losses.

If you continue to fight, even if the third battleship formation goes up, it will not be an opponent!

Will we continue to fight in this situation?

Even if Admiral Daniel is no longer reconciled, he also knows that he can't continue like this, otherwise, the elite main force of the Gafia Imperial Navy will most likely be completely buried by him!

With a face full of anger, Admiral Daniel still gave the order to turn and evacuate!

At the same time, he ordered his own light formations, especially large torpedo boats, to venture forward and cover the withdrawal of the main formation.

Seeing that the other party turned sharply to evacuate, Admiral Weng Zhexi did not intend to let them leave easily!

Their third battleship formation has a high speed and a long distance, so it is naturally very easy to evacuate, but it is not so easy for the battleships of their first two battleship formations to evacuate smoothly.

Weng Zhexi snorted coldly: "Since you're here, don't think about going back." ”

"Let the light formation also come up, stop their lightning strike ships, and let Ren Jiangjun lead the patrol formation to entangle their low-speed formation, in this battle, except for their high-speed formation, don't think about running!"

Admiral Weng Zhexi is very Qingcuo, the opponent's third formation can't stay, but the two low-speed formations can keep them.

The naval battle between the two sides continued, but it was not the same as the forty minutes of fierce fighting that had taken place before.

Now one wants to run, the other wants to intercept, and at the same time, the battle is also fragmented, and many of the opponent's warships have already broken away from the formation in order to get out of the battlefield, but have been evacuated separately.

Sixty-eight minutes into battle, another second-class battleship of the Gaphians was sunk.

In the seventy-sixth minute, in order to cover the evacuation of other battleships, the third battleship formation led by Daniel himself also stepped forward to respond, during which a high-freeboard cutting-edge armored cruiser was heavily damaged by two 300-millimeter shells, resulting in serious water ingress and serious tilting, although it had not sunk yet, but it was also helpless, and after the Gafia abandoned the ship, they were forced to launch torpedoes with their torpedo boats and sink the battleship.

After more than two hours of fighting, the capital ship formations of both sides still did not disengage, and although the battle was not as fierce as before, the naval fleet of the Gafia Empire continued to be attacked.

During this period, the cruiser formations and destroyer large torpedo boat formations of the two sides had an extremely tragic confrontation!

In order to cover the smooth withdrawal of the main formation, and its bravery, which can even be called a suicide attack, the light formation of the Gafia launched several large-scale lightning strikes in succession.

Although the secondary artillery of the Daheng Navy is intensive, and it is assisted by its own light formation, it still needs to temporarily avoid the edge in the face of dozens of light warships rushing over the opponent.

After this was blocked three times, the capital ship formation of the Daheng Empire gradually separated from the opponent's formation, and Admiral Daniel personally led the third battleship formation with the main force to cover the rear of the palace, so that the occupation fell into a stalemate stage.

And in order to cover the withdrawal of the main formation, the light formations of the Imperial Navy of Gafiya paid a heavy price, and numerous high-speed cruisers and large torpedo boats were heavily damaged or even sunk.

Thus, it can also be seen that the main formation of the Daheng Navy was attacked intensively at that time!

At the height of the situation, almost each of the four Daheng battleships, which were the largest targets on the battlefield, were attacked by several large enemy torpedo boats.

At that time, the battleship Jingzhou did not have the heart to engage the enemy's capital ship formation at all, but was bent on carrying out anti-lightning operations, with a large number of 150 mm and 75 mm secondary guns firing at full power, plus the assistance of a Zhendong-class second-class cruiser and three destroyers, which stopped the opponent's offensive and sank four large torpedo boats and a high-speed lightning cruiser on the spot.

At the same time, Ren Zhongping's patrol formation also had to dispatch four Crane-class armored cruisers to help intercept the opponent's decisive charge with powerful rapid-fire gun fire!

Although the light formation of the Gaphians patrolled heavily, it also had a profound and incomparable impact on the generals of the Daheng Navy.

Wouldn't it be bad if these madmen would dare to play like this in the middle of the day, and when it was night, these madmen would get dozens of torpedo boats and large torpedo boats, cruisers, and the like!

The light formation of the Gafia people proved to the Great Heng people with their own blood that the rise of the Gafia Empire was by no means a fluke, and their naval officers were not cowardly!

Even if there is a gap in strength between the main formations of the two sides, their light formations still have the ability to inflict heavy losses on the Daheng people.

"These madmen!" Weng Zhexi looked at the light formation of the Gafians who had temporarily retreated, and couldn't help but curse in his mouth!

This kind of lightning strike combat in broad daylight, under the fire of their own powerful medium and large-caliber rapid-fire guns, is no different from suicide, but the other party dares to play like this, and it has also achieved certain results.

While the Gafiya light formation suffered heavy losses, a Zhendong-class cruiser on the side of the Daheng Navy was also sunk, and several Yuanlin-class destroyers were sunk.

Luckily, the capital ship didn't suffer any actual damage!

After all, there is no big technical gap between the light formations of the two sides, everyone is a protective slag, and the firepower is fierce, which is actually a radius of eight taels.

In fact, without the help of a large number of secondary artillery firepower of the capital ship formation, my own light formation may not be able to defeat it!

In the intermittent pursuit, the engagement of light formations, several hours passed quickly, and by the afternoon, in fact, the capital ship formations of both sides had completely disengaged.

To chase or not to chase?

Admiral Weng Zhexi hesitated for a while, but finally decided to accept it as soon as he saw it, and the results of today's battle were already great enough, and there was no need to let his own capital ship formation fall into a crisis in order to expand the results. 、