The fierce battle continued until 0:45, and after the "Hisato" caught up, the second main team was restored to its full formation.

It's just that the situation is already terrible.

Probably thinking that the "Imuro" had been beaten badly enough, after 0:30, three other "Longxing" class battleships shifted their targets.

It's a pity that it's not worth rejoicing at all.

Because the "Hinato" had not yet caught up, within about 15 minutes the No. 2 and No. 3 ships of the main detachment were firing at the No. 2 enemy ship, the "Fusang." Don't forget, at that time it was necessary for the "Fusang" to forward the combat orders of the high temple instead of the "Imuro".

Interestingly, the "Fusang" actually fired back at two "Longxing" class ships at the same time!

According to the battle records, after being set on fire by the second and third ships of the opposing side, the captain of the "Fusang" ordered the three turrets in front to aim at the No. 3 enemy ship and the three turrets in the rear to aim at the No. 2 enemy ship.

Isn't that a joke?

Although in these 15 minutes, the "Fusang" fired nearly 10 and a half volleys, but none of them hit, and even a straddle shot was formed.

The counterattack of the "Fusang" was a complete waste of shells, and it did not even interfere with the enemy ships.

To say, the staggered half-salvo of the six main gun turrets in the front and rear made the officers and men of the two "Longxing" class very puzzled and did not understand what the enemy ship was going to do.

In these fifteen minutes, the biggest gain of the second main team was not to hit the opponent a few times, but to successfully distance themselves from the opponent.

In fact, this is also the key to the order to turn left.

Don't forget that Gui Boyong's main detachment sailed in a northeasterly direction, and after Takaji gave the order to turn left, the second main team sailed in a southwesterly direction.

In addition, during this period, Takaji also issued an order to Takeo on the "Sotakaka" through the "Fusang".

Attack the enemy's main detachment, to be precise, after approaching, attack with torpedoes.

Don't forget that each of the four "Secao" class has four quadruple torpedo launchers, capable of firing eight heavy oxygen torpedoes to one side at a time.

After a tactical turn, eight more can be fired.

It's a big killer.

As long as it hits, one can be paralyzed and even sink a 10,000-ton battleship, and theoretically only three can sink a battleship.

Of course, Takaji did not expect to sink the battleship with a torpedo, but only hoped to gain time to make adjustments.

At 0:45, the "Longxing" took the lead in turning.

At this time, about ten kilometers to the east, the four "second high" class ships of the Fifth Cruiser Squadron were also turning around and immediately attacking.

That's right, to fire torpedoes at the main detachments!

What is Takeo doing?

With the "spear" oxygen torpedo day by day?

Even if the "Lance" oxygen torpedo has amazing power and range, but at a distance of 10 thousand meters, will the attacked battleship not evade it?

In the circumstances at the time, either Takeo did it on purpose, or the "Fusang" made a mistake when sending the report.

It's just that the problem was handed over to Gui Boyong at once.

Although there was no exchange of fire with the Fifth Cruiser Squadron, the lookout of the "Longxing" kept an eye on that side, always keeping a close eye on the movements of the four heavy cruisers. When the four "second high" class ships were spotted suddenly turning to the right and returning to their original course after about three minutes, heading southwest, the lookout raised an alarm to alert the captain that the enemy ship might have fired a torpedo.

Two consecutive opposite turns are the standard action for firing a torpedo.

Subsequently, the "Zizhou" of the heavy patrol detachment also sent a telegram, claiming that it had observed four enemy ships firing torpedoes, and asked the main team to pay attention to prevention and evasion.

How to circumvent it?

The discovery of a torpedo from an enemy ship is not at all the same thing as the discovery of a torpedo.

Besides, no one knows in which direction the torpedoes were fired from the four heavy cruisers.

The only thing that is certain is that as long as it is hit by a torpedo, even the battleships of the "Longxing" class will be finished, and they will have to go back to the shipyard for at least a few months.

Besides, who wants to let their battleship get beaten?

Gui Boyong put so much effort into avoiding damage as much as possible by taking him by surprise and not giving the enemy a chance to fight back.

It was precisely in this way that Gui Boyong gave the order to turn left.

What do you mean?

Distance yourself from the 5th Cruiser Squadron!

Although some people have made a deduction, according to the situation at that time, even if it is not attacked by the Fifth Cruiser Squadron, the main detachment will also choose to turn left, keep a distance from the second main squadron, and gradually leave the Watchman Strait, but if there is no threat from the Fifth Cruiser Squadron, the main detachment will only make a tactical turn, will control the turning radius to a minimum, maintain visual contact with the second main squadron, and continue to exchange fire with it.

Threatened by torpedoes, the main detachment made not a tactical turn, but a turn plus evasion.

As a result, the steering radius is more than five kilometres.

If it's during the day, it's nothing.

It's nighttime, and five kilometers is too far!

Aside from any personal grudges, Takeo's decisive attack did save Takaji and gave him valuable time to complete tactical adjustments.

In addition, at the time when Gui Boyong gave the order to turn, the fire on the "Rixiang" was about to be extinguished.

When the main detachment completed the turn, it once again broke away from visual contact with the second main team.

The clouds that had been on the side of the main detachment had also drifted to the south, blocking the moonlight.

At that time, Gui Boyong regretted it.

At 0:55, after the torpedo impact time had passed and the torpedo attack alarm had been lifted, the enemy in front of Gui Boyong was left with only the Fifth Cruiser Squadron, which was still advancing.

In addition, the heavy patrol detachment is approaching this direction and has been firing at four "second high" class ships.

Probably fearing another torpedo attack, or perhaps being angry, Gui Boyong personally made adjustments and ordered to open fire on the four heavy cruisers.

Takeo definitely didn't expect that the four "Longxing" class, which were like prehistoric monsters, would take such small shrimp as the "second high" class in their eyes.

Don't look at the Sagai Navy's treatment of heavy cruisers as secondary capital ships, but to really put it mildly, cruisers are no match for battleships at all. And that's just heavy cruisers, the battlecruisers that dominated the last war were vulnerable to battleships.

As a result, four "second high" class ships were shelled by four battleships and four heavy cruisers at the same time.

Can you still live?

The lookout on the "Longxing" accurately recorded what happened next.

Just after one o'clock, the "Miaogao" was hit by a bullet and caught fire, followed by a violent explosion, sinking in about 1:50 minutes. At six o'clock, the "Nazhi" was directly hit by a 400-mm armor-piercing projectile, the bridge was almost wiped out, and it sank after more than ten minutes. At 1:14, the "Foot Soldier" exploded without warning, and then sank in less than a minute. At 1:17 a.m., the "Yuhei" raised its white flag and sank itself more than 10 minutes later when it was set on fire by eight warships.

Of the four heavy cruisers, only the officers and men of the "Haguro" were relatively lucky, and most of them survived.