The Xinyu did not perform a miracle, and under the fire of thousands of bullets, wood chips soon flew on the hull, and billowing smoke rose. Ding Shengping couldn't see the situation on the ship from the rear, but the ripples left by the Spring Rain were already full of dim smudges, and there were even stumps and the corpses of sailors.

The battered Xinyu did not give up, its mast still fluttering its battle flag, and the main gun in the bow of the ship was still roaring fiercely. Finally, less than a kilometer away from the Gemini, a 110-pound shell hit the bow of the Xinyu, and the Xinyu quickly entered the water and sank, inevitably disappearing into the sea.

The Xinyu, which was only more than 470 tons, used its own sinking to gain a respite for the formation, and the damaged ships took the opportunity to adjust the formation. However, the opportunity won by the Xinyu did not give the remaining fleet an advantage, and when it began to shoot again, the formation of the remaining fleet became even weaker. The Xiangchen, Wuxi, Yujie, and Yancao were lined up in a weak formation, and the Jiang Feng, whose power system was damaged, was completely left behind, and was left alone and withdrew from the battle.

"Boost your horsepower and go full throttle!" The fleet was already in turmoil, but Ding Shengping's attention was not all focused on the confrontation. After comparing the speed of the two formations, he found that the British ships were overtaking their own fleet, and if this continued, the other party would seize the T head again, and this time the remaining fleet would have no option to turn and escape.

"Mr. Ding, the boiler is overheating and can't run!" The captain of the Xiangchen, Kwong Guangren, gave a desperate answer.

The formation of the remaining fleet, from the beginning of the retreat, was running at full speed, and it had already used its strength to eat. Now that I have been running at full speed for too long, the entire powertrain has been overloaded, and not only can I not accelerate again, but the speed is still decreasing. If you run regardless of it, it is likely to cause the boiler to explode, and then it will not be impossible to run, but unable to run.

"Mr. Ding, the Wuxi is no longer good!" Kuang Guangren did not have any good news, but pointed to the rear and informed Ding Shengping of an even worse news.

In the process of firing at Wuxi, the boiler was hit and caused a fire, which was just extinguished. After running with the formation for a while, the damaged boiler could not bear anything, and the Wuxi was becoming slower and slower at a speed visible to the naked eye, and it seemed that it would stop at any time.

"Fuck me!" Kuang Guangren snorted again.

Before Ding Shengping could figure out how to deal with another capital ship that lost power, the Yancao was also hit by a large-caliber shell from the British ship, and a big hole was torn open on the starboard side of the hull, and sea water was constantly pouring in. Moreover, this time the British army used blasting shells, and not only was the hull of the Yancao torn apart, but many sailors near the gap were also killed, resulting in no one to do emergency response at the first time. The Yancao stopped following up and began to spin on the sea, the watertight compartment of the small ship was not enough to cope with such a large trauma, Ding Shengping knew that the Yancao was about to sink.

When the Swallow Grass also disappeared on the sea level, the British flagship Alekautte, the Welshman and the Gemini and other capital ships had completed the outflanking of the formation and successfully seized the position of the T-head. The British fleet took advantage of its numerical superiority to form a semi-encirclement of the remaining fleet, the British fleet formed an L-shape, and the left-behind fleet formed an I-shape, which was completely wrapped in it, and the British began to bomb the remnants of the fleet from three directions. The strength of the left-behind fleet was already weak, and now the three capital ships of the British army have circled directly in front of the formation, and the left-behind fleet with weak bow firepower is even less powerless.

When Ding Shengping was in despair, the Shanxiao, which had disappeared for a long time, finally returned to the battlefield and won another respite for the formation. Gilette was not without the idea of the Shanxiao suddenly leaving the battlefield at high speed, but all the officers of the British ship did not care, they thought it was just a cowardly Chinese who abandoned their comrades and fled. After all, judging from the overall level of the left-behind fleet, the Shan Xiao couldn't play any tricks, even if he suddenly came back from that corner, he couldn't shake the British fleet.

Xu Hongxing, who ran to the front and picked a head, didn't think so, he came back to turn the tide, but the original plan had to be changed. Xu Hongxing originally planned to go around the back of the British fleet and use the firepower advantage to disrupt the British ship formation, but because of the deviation of the formation's course, Xu Hongxing's Shanxiao almost headed head-on to Ding Shengping's Xiangchen. He was behind the British ships, but only behind the British flagships, the Ellecourt, the Welshman, and the Gemini, but on the left front of most of the British ships. Fortunately, the three main British ships are all big and also block the firing range of friendly ships, otherwise Xu Hongxing will become the target of the entire British fleet as soon as he returns.

The cruiser Shanxiao has the purest North Manchurian blood, and its basic characteristics are unreasonable design and poor materials, but it also has the advantages of fast speed and fierce firepower. Shanxiao is not as good as the cutting-edge sea wolf, sea lion and other super era products personally designed by Guo Xing'a, but it also has its own characteristics in design. In terms of speed, because the Vladivostok shipyard absorbed a lot of nutrients from American ships, it particularly favored the hull design of scissor sailing ships, and most of the ships they produced were long and narrow, with high-power high-pressure steam engines, which could naturally run at a high speed of 16 knots. In terms of firepower, it reflects an era, when everything was created in Northern Manchuria, there was no special naval artillery system, so the army long-barreled artillery of various calibers became the main firepower of the fleet. The Shanxiao's firepower system was also modeled after army guns, with four 152-mm cannons, eight 88-mm cannons, and ten 12.7-mm heavy machine guns.

The Shan Xiao was facing the British ship Welshman, with the British flagship Alekette in front on the right and the Gemini in front on the left. The main guns of the Shanxiao were all arranged on the bow and the side of the ship's waist, which was also appropriate, seeing that there were three wrecked ships left in his formation, Xu Hongxing did not hesitate to order and fire at the three British ships at the same time.

A former deserter suddenly appeared behind him, and Gilette was not alarmed, but he wondered why this guy came back to die at this time. The British ships are still following the tradition of the era of sail battleships, and the guns are all arranged on both sides, so everyone is the same on both sides, and the so-called back is just a relative position. Now the firepower of one side of the three capital British ships is used to strike at the three wrecked ships of the remaining fleet, and the firepower on the other side is basically idle, and someone came to send it to death, just using his spare time to solve it. However, Gilette did not expect that the Shanxiao was far out of the effective range, so he launched an artillery bombardment on them, and they could really hit them.

In just two rounds of shelling, one 152-millimeter shell hit the bridge of the Welshman, killing the captain of the Welshman, Colonel Brian, and the deck was also thrown into disarray by a huge explosion, and the Welshman was almost incapacitated in a short time. The Gemini was hit on the starboard side by an 88-millimeter shell, and the invincible 88 cannon was a copy of the German artifact of Goxinga, and its power was amazing. The Gemini's light armor was almost indistinguishable from the papier-mâché, easily torn apart, and the massive explosion created a twenty-foot square opening.

Gilette hurriedly commanded the British to return fire, but the Shanxiao kept swinging back and forth on the border of the effective range, and the British artillery bombardment stirred up countless columns of water, but it did not hurt the Shanxiao in the slightest. The Shanxiao nailed the Welshman, who was powerless to fight back, and the Gemini, which had already begun to enter the water, and began to pour fire on the two ships in a frenzy. The Gemini received another shot of eighty-eight artifacts and one shot of one hundred and fifty-two calibers, and a huge gap appeared on the starboard side, and the water ingress was already irrepressible, not only did it stop firing, but the hull also began to tilt.

The Gemini was basically going to stay in this area, and Gilette hurriedly ordered the formation to march in an S shape, trying to get closer to the Shanxiao, in order to close the distance and regain the disadvantage. The S-shaped formation began to move, but a little splash was in the distance, and the destroyer Yujie of North Manchuria, finally did not survive to the end, and after being hit by three 68-pound shells in a row, it unwillingly sank to the bottom of the sea. Ding Shengping commanded the last two cruisers, and with the fastest rate of fire, began to shoot at the eleven unarmored British ships, trying to share the pressure of the Shanxiao.

Ding Shengping and Xu Hongxing's original plan has been wiped out. Although Xu Hongxing disrupted the British formation, his own formation had withered and was unable to launch an effective offensive against the British army. The naval battle reached a critical juncture, but it became the Shanxiao to fight against the entire Far East Fleet of the British army on its own.

When the S-shaped formation encapsulated the Shanxiao, Shanxiao had already lost all his advantages, although he had the advantage of speed, he could not get rid of the entire formation, and he could no longer wander outside the enemy's range. Gillett's flagship Alekaut still did not hit the Mountain Xiao, but was hit by the Mountain Xiao with five shots, all but one dud of eight or eight cannons, all of which brought heavy losses to the Alekaut. A large hole was torn open in the bow of the Ellecourt, and 70 percent of the buildings above freeboard were blown away, and even Gilette was wounded. The Welshman was not much stronger than the Ellecourt, as the main target of the Shanxiao, the Welshman was hit seven times, the captain, first mate, and second officer were all killed, and the strong and porous hull was even more unrecognizable.

However, such a formidable Shanxiao was actually ended by a small gunboat, and a forty-eight-pound cannonball fired from a smoothbore gun hit the port side of Shanxiao by luck. A shell that had exceeded the effective range was nothing in the eyes of everyone, and Gilette did not have any expectations, but the port side ship of the Shanxiao was disintegrating. Ships on both sides stopped firing, and the "click" of the wood breaking seemed to ring in everyone's hearts. The cruiser Shanxiao, which single-handedly damaged three main battleships, was so severely damaged by the small cannons on a small gunboat. The hull of the Shanxiao has tilted, but all the officers and men below Xu Hongxing have not abandoned the ship, they are shooting hard in the last time, and they cherish every second of their last moments.

"Remember these warriors! Tenacious, they did all the duty of a soldier! "Gillett, whose left arm has been hoisted, solemnly saluted the Shanxiao in the midst of the artillery fire in the sky! It was a British tradition for the captain to sink with the ship, so they also admired these brave oriental warriors.

When the mast of the Shanxiao also disappeared into the sea, a sail-powered battleship suddenly appeared behind the side of the British formation, and also made a desperate charge. The battleship abandoned its useless guns and silently rammed the badly wounded battleship Welshman, as if to use primitive ramming tactics to fight it out.