The opponent's four low-freeboard battleships were equipped with only 300 mm and 30 times the caliber of the main guns, and their rate of fire was only three minutes per shot.

The opponent's two cutting-edge high-freeboard battleships are still in the layout of open batteries, and they still use half-rapid-fire gun mounts, and the rate of fire is only one shot in two minutes.

On the other hand, our own 200 mm and 40 times caliber rapid-fire guns seem to have a small caliber, but the rate of fire is high, and it can shoot four or five shells in one minute.

In the case of armor-piercing bullets, the penetration ability is good at the same time.

In order to ensure the effectiveness of the protection, the area needs to be made very large, and when the weight is limited, the area of their main armor belt is actually very narrow.

This is because as long as their own 200 mm main gun shells do not hit their narrow and thickest armor belts, command towers, gun mounts, etc., they can effectively penetrate in other places.

All these gave Ren Zhongping confidence and made him determined to lead the fleet and the enemy's battleship formation to fight another battle with the four Crane-class armored cruisers as the core main force.

If you can successfully complete the turn and finally bite the enemy's tail, you may not be able to knock out one or two of their warships.

At 7:13, the two sides successfully completed the first round of turning, showing a situation of fighting on the side of the side, and at the same time, the distance was also shortened to about 6,000 meters.

As soon as the steering was completed, the 200-millimeter main gun of the armored cruiser Crane was the first to complete the turn, and then the other three Crane-class armored cruisers also fired with their main guns.

Just a minute later, at 7:14, the Gaphians returned fire with their first 300-millimeter guns, and the 300-mm and 350-millimeter guns of the six battleships opened fire one after another.

And by the time the Gaphians fired back, the Great Constant Patrol Formation, which had already fired out multiple rounds of shells, had gradually achieved hits.

Two-hundred-millimeter shells began to fall on the enemy battleships, and inevitably some of them hit the thickest part of the main armor belt, or hit the gun mounts and conning towers without success.

But the rest of the battleship of the Gafians could not stop the bombardment of two-hundred-millimeter shells!

At this time, after the two sides fought, the Gafians actually lost the upper hand, because their main guns only had time to fire one round of shells, and did not get any hits, but several of their own battleships were shot one after another.

This situation made Vice Admiral Gerald a little nervous.

It's hard to say that it didn't fight before, but now that it really starts, it really feels the huge difference in the rate of fire of the main guns of the two sides.

It takes two or three minutes for one's own main gun to shoot one shell, which is enough time for the opponent's 200-millimeter main gun to hit more than ten shells!

What made him vomit blood even more was that the second round of main gun shelling of the ships failed to achieve any results.

On the other hand, their own battleships were already pitted, but fortunately, the opponent's 200-millimeter naval guns were effective, although they were hit by many shells, causing a lot of losses, but the core part was not damaged.

But at this time, those damn constant barbarians continued to turn, which was obviously running towards their own tails.

What to do?

In desperation, he could only turn to the left again and try to pull the formation back to the side to engage.

However, those damn constant barbarian fleets also continued to turn.

Because the speed of the voyage was not as fast as others, although Vice Admiral Jerrod had rested several times to recuperate, he could not get out of this embarrassing situation, and it was difficult to even get the opportunity to face the enemy on the side side.

In the process, the two sides continued to engage in an ultra-long-distance naval battle at a distance of five or six thousand meters, although the hit rate of both sides was not good.

However, the 200-millimeter main guns of the Klan-class armored cruisers of the Southwest Fleet of the Daheng Navy had a faster rate of fire and relied on more ammunition projection to get a lot of hits.

Although the power of the 200-mm shells was effective, it still brought great damage to the battleships of the Gafians, and with the cooperation of the 150-mm rapid-fire guns, after a few rounds of fierce fighting, one of the opposing battleships was completely dumb.

The Dampier, a low-freeboard battleship that fell behind the opponent, was even knocked down and plunged into the water.

The early low-freeboard battleships still used wrought iron armor, which was even less protective and almost defenseless in the face of the blows of 200-millimeter rapid-fire guns.

After some entanglement and fighting between the two sides, the time was already noon, and Ren Zhongping saw that the ammunition of each ship was almost exhausted, so he ordered the fleet to retreat and leave.

The Daheng fleet took the initiative to retreat, and the Gafians naturally did not dare to continue fighting, and they also accelerated their withdrawal, and before leaving, they torpedoed and sank the immobile Dampier.

At this time, the Battle of Beauva, which lasted for two days and one night, came to an end.

The two sides began to contact each other at noon yesterday, and fierce fighting broke out between the two sides in the afternoon, and they avoided it at night, and today at noon, a fierce battle broke out again, which lasted for more than 20 hours.

The navy of the Great Heng Empire won an undisputed victory!

None of the four Crane-class armored cruisers participating in the battle sank, not even heavy damage, only some minor injuries.

Two second-class cruisers of the Charin class, one was heavily damaged and one was slightly damaged.

Two cruisers of the third rank of the Yuchi class, each with minor injuries.

Of the eight Yuanlin-class destroyers, one was sunk, two were heavily damaged, and the others were all wounded, but they still maintained their combat effectiveness.

Of the sixteen torpedo boats of the A series, two were sunk, and one was sunk by itself in the night chaos.

According to preliminary statistics, more than 100 officers and soldiers were killed and more than 300 were wounded.

But what about the Imperial Navy of Gafia?

One battleship was sunk, one armored cruiser was sunk, two dome cruisers of the first rank were sunk, another battleship, one armored cruiser was completely paralyzed and severely damaged, and two more cruisers and four large mine-striking ships were sunk.

More than a thousand officers and soldiers were killed and thousands were wounded.

Although it seems that there are still four intact battleships on the side of the Gafians, and it seems that the main force is not damaged, you also have to look at the comparison of the warships participating in the battle.

On the side of the Great Heng Imperial Navy, the main force is only four 8,000-ton Klan-class armored cruisers, and what about the Gafians,

There were 11 capital ships, including two 14,000-ton battleships with 350 mm guns; four old battleships of about 11,000 tons and 300 mm; Two 9,000-ton cruisers and three 7,000-ton 1st class dome cruisers.

The second- and third-class cruisers, destroyers, large mine-striking ships and other auxiliary ships on both sides were also significantly more of the Gafians.

However, in the case of the overall superiority of the Caphist navy in terms of number and tonnage, it was a great defeat in the army!

It is not known what impact this battle will have on the Gafia Empire and the Daheng Empire in the Lieji Kingdom Incident, but it scared the military attaches of the third country who watched the battle!

The Great Heng Imperial Navy used four capital ships against eleven new and old capital ships of the Gafia Imperial Navy, but the result was a complete victory on the side of the Great Heng Imperial Navy.

Why?

This is what the military attachés of the navies of various countries urgently need to know!

Anyone knows that after the Battle of Bova this time, the navy will inevitably set off new changes, but how to change and how to deal with it, this is the problem that the navies of various countries need to face.

Now, they must comprehensively and carefully analyze and study the causes and consequences of the Battle of Beauva, any details of the naval battle, try to analyze effective information from it, and use it as a theoretical basis to promote the development of their own navy.

However, no matter how the future changes, the development of naval warfare in the past few years is definitely outdated.

Several of these important features are also accepted by everyone.

The first point is that the role of rapid-fire guns has been further expanded, and the role of large-caliber rapid-fire guns is more obvious, and the Daheng Imperial Navy was able to obtain such great results in this battle, and its 150-millimeter rapid-fire guns and 200-millimeter rapid-fire guns are inseparable from the excellent performance.

The second point is that in the future, the battleship must use hardened armor to expand the protective area, and the protective area of the main armor belt must be further expanded.

The third point is the problem of torpedo boats, the current torpedo technology is too scummy, the torpedo boats in the past can still rush through in the face of small-caliber rapid-fire guns, but now in the face of a rapid-fire gun interception network composed of 75 mm and 120 mm, they simply cannot rush over and launch torpedoes, torpedo boats need to be further expanded, and at the same time need to improve torpedo technology, especially to increase the range of torpedoes, otherwise, in the future, torpedo boats can only play night sneak attacks.

It didn't take long for the Admiralty of the Kingdom of Krull to receive a front-line report on the Battle of Beauva, which was written by its front-line military attaché himself, with a large number of real-time records.

The analysis is extremely detailed, from the formation of both sides, speed, protection, firepower and many other elements are analyzed one by one.

At the end of the report, several important points were also put forward, among which some front-line officers believed that it was necessary to make rapid-fire guns larger, and that the caliber of the battleship's second-class main gun or the main gun of an armored cruiser should not be too small, at least not a 200-millimeter rapid-fire gun with a petty family spirit like the Daheng people.

Because they believe that when facing a capital ship like a battleship, a mere 150 mm rapid-fire gun is not enough to see, and even a 200 mm rapid-fire gun is enough, and it is necessary to have a rapid-fire gun of a larger caliber to inflict heavy damage on the enemy battleship.

They firmly believe that the future naval battle will be a duel of large-caliber rapid-fire guns, and the side with the lead in large-caliber rapid-fire guns will be able to gain absolute superiority.