When Ren Zhongping's patrol formation began to speed up, it was slightly behind, and the battleship formation led by Weng Zhexi himself also increased its speed.

The entire capital ship formation of the 1st Mobile Fleet maintained a speed of sixteen knots.

At the same time, as the distance between the two sides gradually narrowed, the Gaphians on the opposite side also began to speed up, but their warships were originally at a low speed, and it was not yet the time to fight, and they did not turn, so it was naturally impossible to directly reach the maximum combat speed, so their formation speed was only thirteen knots.

Time passed little by little, and it didn't take long for Ren Zhongping to once again order the patrol formation to speed up to twenty knots!

During this period, Admiral Daniel, who was on the opposite side, also ordered to enter the state of maximum formation speed and continue to advance at a speed of fifteen knots.

When the power system of the battleship gradually increased the power output, and continued to accelerate to 20 knots, the distance between the two sides was only 8,000 meters.

At this time, the course of the two sides is very interesting, after the deliberate adjustment of the two sides, in fact, the course of the two sides is to present a straight collision course, but not a left and a right, if both sides do not change the course, then in the end the fleets of both sides will directly collide together!

But this is obviously not possible!

Because as the battle speed was raised to the maximum speed, the distance between the two sides continued to approach to about seven thousand meters, Vice Admiral Ren Zhongping gave the latest order.

"The ship immediately turned ninety degrees, the side faced the enemy, and the ships of the formation followed the ship closely!"

"Let the Tong'an follow the ship, and first concentrate its firepower to take out the No. 1 flagship they lead!"

In an instant, the Fengyang drew a sharp turning track on the sea, because of the high-speed turn, the entire battleship was seriously tilted, and the ships in the rear also followed!

At this time, Admiral Daniel on the opposite side saw this scene, but he snorted coldly and wanted to turn to seize the T-shaped head before playing the formation?

And then force us to follow the steering, and finally lead to you always being able to occupy the T prefix and press us to fight? Think beautifully!

Since you have high speed, you can grab the T-prefix, but what's the harm of giving the T-prefix to you!

Admiral Daniel snorted coldly: "The first and second formations keep course and rush over at maximum combat speed!" ”

At the same time, the Fengyang, which was making a high-speed turn, was in a state of serious tilting, and the sea water continued to pour onto the deck, but even so, the officers and men of the Daheng Navy at various posts still stuck to their posts.

"Six thousand seven hundred meters!"

"6,500 meters"

At the same time, the distance between the two sides was gradually shortening, but with its high maneuverability, the Fengyang finally succeeded in passing the direction, the battleship stabilized again, and in the two 250 mm main turrets that had been prepared, the gunners had also prepared according to the gunner's analysis of the shooting elements!

"Fire!" With the order of the artillery staff officer, the front main turret of the Fengyang freed up white smoke for two days, and there were two loud noises along with the white smoke.

Two 250-millimeter armor-piercing shells rose into the air, spanning a distance of more than 6,000 meters, and landed near the flagship of the leader of the first formation of the Gafians, stirring up two huge columns of water.

Immediately afterwards, the rear main gun of the Fengyang also opened fire, and two huge water columns were stirred up in the distance.

At the same time, the gunnery staff officers in the two turrets were quickly calculating the design parameters for the next round and quickly making corrections.

Just over twenty seconds later, the main gun of the Fengyang opened fire again!

With a great advantage in the rate of fire, the Fengyang was stunned to fire three rounds of shells in the first minute.

And the landing point of these shells was also getting closer and closer to the battleship led by the Gafians, until they entered the normal dispersion range of the ship's guns.

A minute after the Fengyang took the lead in firing, the battleship Cohen, the flagship of the first formation of the Gafia Navy, also used its front main guns to open fire, and the first thing they fired was the 300-millimeter naval guns!

However, it is naturally difficult to get hits in this first round.

However, after their front main guns fired, they came to a standstill, the ship was not a new warship, although the tonnage was more than 11,000 tons, but it was a low-freeboard battleship built before the Orr War, and the gun carriage used was also an older gunboat, and the rate of fire of the main gun was only three minutes per shot.

While their main guns were busy loading, the Fengyang continued to fire, and the armored cruiser Tong'an, which had followed after the turn, also opened fire.

A total of eight 250-millimeter naval guns fired shells at the Cohen at a rate of fire of two to three rounds per minute!

In this tense two minutes, Ren Zhongping found that the other party had no intention of turning, but continued to rush forward, in order to avoid being interspersed by enemy ships, and then disrupt the entire patrol formation, and even disrupt the formation of the follow-up battleship formation, causing the entire operation to fall into a melee.

After taking a deep breath, Admiral Ren Zhongping once again ordered the patrol formation to turn around, and to continue to turn to the left, and at the same time let the six ships behind the patrol formation turn at a large angle in advance, and inform the battleship formation in the rear.

After receiving the news from Ren Zhongping, Admiral Weng Zhexi in the rear also ordered the battleship formation to turn ahead of time.

After two consecutive turns, in fact, the course of the entire formation was no longer due east, but northeast, which was almost a big U-turn!

And after two successive left turns, the two capital ship formations of the First Mobile Fleet of Daheng were actually heading about the same as the Gaphians, and were ahead of them.

This means that you can use the broadside fire of most of your ships to keep fighting with the enemy ships!

And a large number of warships in the rear position of the enemy fleet were too far away to engage the battle.

After seeing the fleet of the Great Heng people continue to turn, Admiral Daniel, who was sitting in the third battleship formation, his face changed instantly, he had not been worried about this situation before.

But he didn't think that the other party would be able to turn smoothly, you must know that the maneuverability of the battleship is very high, a little slower, then the fleet of the Great Heng people may be directly disrupted by his two battleship formations, and then a melee between the two sides will break out. 、

However, he obviously underestimated the maneuverability of the capital ships of the Great Heng Imperial Navy and the swiftness of Ren Zhongping's decision.

In just three minutes, Ren Zhongping ordered the turn twice, and decisively let the other ships that had not yet caught up with him turn in advance, and after this big turn, the formations of the two sides immediately underwent a huge change.

The three battleship formations of the Gafians had already erupted into a formation of about fifteen knots, rushing forward, trying to disrupt the formation of the capital ship formation of the Daheng Navy, and then gain the opportunity to fight.