The four battleships of the Third Fleet of the Celestial Star Empire and the three battleships of the Newport Fleet all wanted to seize the T-shaped and occupy a favorable position, so the routes of the two fleets slowly formed a "figure eight", constantly shortening the distance between them.

And when the battle line formed by the battleships of the two sides was narrowed to about 14,000 meters, the eight 380 mm main guns of the Bavaria-class battleship Yongxiang of the Newport Fleet launched a salvo on the Zhenlong, the former dreadnought battleship of the Celestial Star Empire, although not a single shell hit the Zhenlong, but it scared the entire Third Fleet of the Celestial Star Empire enough, and the nearest shell was less than 300 meters away from the Zhenlong.

"It can't be! Now at a distance of at least fourteen thousand meters, even the most powerful Princess Alice battleship in the Yingroba Empire could not fire at such a distance! Li Dongyan, commander of the Third Fleet of the Celestial Star Empire, shouted with a shocked expression.

The Princess Alice-class battleship is the latest dreadnought battleship in the Yingroba Empire, with a full load displacement of more than 25,000 tons and 10 343mm guns.

Before the Princess Alice class battleships were put into service, the main gun caliber of the dreadnought battleships of the navies of various countries was 305 mm, and the service of the Princess Alice-class battleships made several major naval powers in the world start a new round of arms race, and various countries began to design and build dreadnought battleships with a main gun caliber of 343 mm.

Jia Zhongyang, the captain of the Xinglong, said with a nervous expression: "Commander, the caliber of the main gun of the enemy's dreadnought battleship may even exceed 343 mm, and its displacement is even larger than that of the Princess Alice class battleship of the Yingroba Empire, and our Third Fleet has encountered a very powerful enemy. ”

Li Dongyan shouted a little angrily: "Which country made this?" Why doesn't our Celestial Star Empire have any information about this dreadnought? ”

Jia Zhongyang pondered for a moment and said, "Commander, the threat posed to our Third Fleet by this dreadnought battleship of the enemy is too great, and I suggest that we retreat immediately." ”

Jia Zhongyang's words made Li Dongyan's face show a tangled color, Li Dongyan felt that it was too much to give the order to retreat like this, but if he continued to fight, the Third Fleet was likely to suffer unbearable losses.

Just when Li Dongyan felt a little dilemma, the eight 380-mm guns of the Yongxiang launched another salvo, and the second salvo was less than a minute away from the first salvo.

The second salvo of the Yongxiang's eight main guns was successful, and one of the 380 mm shells directly penetrated the side armor of the Zhenlong, a former dreadnought battleship of the Celestial Star Empire, and penetrated into an ammunition bin of the Zhenlong before exploding, instantly detonating hundreds of tons of shells in this ammunition warehouse.

"Boom-boom-boom-" After a violent explosion, the Zhenlong, with a full load displacement of 16,500 tons, was blown into two pieces and quickly sank to the sea, and the Bavarian-class battleship Yongxiang completed a fatal blow to the dreadnought battleship Zhenlong in front of the Celestial Star Empire in the second round of main gun salvo.

Li Dongyan, commander of the Third Fleet, stood in front of the observation window of the bridge of the Xinglong, looking at the Zhenlong broken in two in disbelief, impossible! It's absolutely impossible! I must be dreaming!

"Commander, give the order to retreat! If it doesn't retreat, the Xinglong will probably not escape its fate, it is not an ordinary dreadnought battleship, but a super dreadnought battleship! Jia Zhongyang, the captain of the Xinglong, shouted loudly in horror.

The look of shock in Li Dongyan's eyes at this time has been replaced by fear, "Quick! Order all warships of the Third Fleet to immediately turn around and retreat to the east! Get out of here at full speed! ”

Just as the more than 30 warships of the Third Fleet of the Celestial Star Empire turned their bows and prepared to flee, eight 380-mm shells from the Bavaria-class battleship Yongxiang fell from the sky again.

This round of main gun salvo, Yongxiang chose to attack the target, is the flagship of the Third Fleet of the Celestial Star Empire Xinglong, although this round of eight 380 mm shells did not hit the Xinglong, but the commander of the Third Fleet Li Dongyan, and the captain of the Xinglong Jia Zhongyang, the face turned pale with fright, the two of them glanced at each other, they both had a deep fear at this time, maybe they would never be able to return to the Celestial Star Empire.

The premonition of the two people was very accurate, and a 380-mm shell fired in the fifth salvo of the Bavarian-class battleship Yongxiang hit the side side below the waterline near the front main turret of the Xinglong, which happened to be the location of the forward torpedo compartment, and dozens of torpedoes in the torpedo compartment caused an explosion in an instant.

The bow of the Xinglong was lifted away from the sea within a few seconds of the explosion, and then smashed into the sea, and a large amount of water entered the bow of the ship that had been shattered, and then the entire rear half of the Xinglong slowly cocked, so that the Xinglong quickly sank vertically into the sea.

Because the Xinglong sank quickly, of the more than 700 officers and sailors of the Tianxing Empire Navy above, only a dozen escaped in the end, but among these dozen people, they did not include Li Dongyan, the commander of the Third Fleet, and Jia Zhongyang, the captain of the Xinglong.

The Xinglong is not bad, no matter how it is said, more than a dozen people have survived, and the other sunken former dreadnought battleship Zhenlong sank faster, and none of the more than 700 officers and sailors of the Celestial Star Empire Navy of Zhenlong survived in the end, and some officers and soldiers who jumped into the sea to escape on the Zhenlong were all brought into the sea by the whirlpool generated when the hull sank.

Seeing that even the flagship was easily killed by others, the remaining warships of the Third Fleet of the Celestial Star Empire did not have the slightest intention of avenging the flagship, but accelerated to flee to the east.

In the bridge of the Bavaria-class battleship Yongxiang, Su Yi saw that the main guns of the Yongxiang had solved the two strongest battleships of the fleet of the Celestial Star Empire with only five salvos, and he couldn't help but wave his fist excitedly and said to Wang Chengliang: "It's too accurate!" Five rounds of main gun salvo killed two big guys, and the Yongxiang is worthy of being a super dreadnought battleship! ”

The smile on Wang Chengliang's face was also very bright at this time, "Dashuai, at such a distance, it took five rounds of salvo fire to sink the opponent's two former dreadnought battleships, even I didn't expect it, it seems that today should be a lucky day for our Xingang fleet." ”

As soon as Wang Chengliang's voice fell, Su Yi suddenly received a prompt from the system, "Congratulations to the host for completing the hidden mission of 'sinking the 10,000-ton battleship', and reward the host with a golden treasure chest." ”

Su Yi immediately picked up the telescope and looked at the sea, and found that the first dreadnought battleship of the Celestial Star Empire to be sunk had completely disappeared from the sea.

Su Yi glanced at another former dreadnought battleship that was sinking in the Celestial Star Empire, and immediately asked the system in his mind: "Could it be that as long as you sink a battleship with a displacement of more than 10,000 tons, you can complete a hidden mission?" ”

The system's answer made Su Yi a little disappointed, "Host, the hidden tasks are all unique. ”

At this time, Wang Chengliang said to Su Yi: "Dashuai, the remaining warships of the Celestial Star Empire have begun to escape, will our Xingang fleet pursue them?" ”

"There are still so many cruisers and destroyers in the navy of the Celestial Star Empire, there won't be any danger for us to pursue them, right?"

"Don't worry, with the firepower of our three battleships and two large armored cruisers, it is difficult for these cruisers and destroyers of the Celestial Star Imperial Navy to get close to our five warships and release torpedoes, and as for their naval guns, they will not pose any threat to our five warships."

A cold light flashed in Su Yi's eyes and said, "Then catch up and try to keep the two ironclad battleships of the Celestial Star Empire!" People are not ruthless, we can't stand steadily, if we want to gain a foothold in Xingang City, we must be ruthless, this time we will use the navy of the Celestial Star Empire to establish power! ”

The two ironclad battleships of the Third Fleet of the Celestial Star Empire, the Sea Lion and the Seahorse, have a maximum speed of only 15 knots, and their ships are almost ten years old, so in reality they can only run about 14 knots at the fastest, so it is not easy to escape the pursuit of the Newport fleet!

What is even more tragic is that although the 30 times caliber 305 mm main guns of the Sea Lion and the Seahorse fought back against the three battleships Yongxiang, Jianwei and Jianyong of the pursuing Xingang Fleet, the main guns of the Sea Lion and Seahorse did not have enough effective range and could not pose any threat to the Yongxiang, Jianwei and Jianyong, which were always kept 8,000 meters away.

In the end, the Sea Lion was sunk by the main guns of the Bavaria-class battleship Yongxiang, and the Seahorse was sunk by the Edward VII-class battleship Jianwei.

In addition to this, the Third Fleet of the Celestial Star Empire, with two armored cruisers and one light cruiser, was also sunk by the Newport Fleet in the escape, while the three battleships and two large armored cruisers of the Newport Fleet were unscathed and won a complete victory.

The two sunken armored cruisers, both with a displacement of less than 4,000 tons and a speed of only about 19 knots, belonged to the relatively old armored cruisers, which were sunk by two large Minotaur-class armored cruisers, the Flying Eagle and the Philharmonie, respectively, and the other sunk light cruiser was sunk by the Edward VII-class battleship Jianyong.

After Wang Chengliang, the commander of the Xingang fleet, gave the order to stop the pursuit, Su Yi received another prompt from the system, "Congratulations to the host for completing the hidden mission of 'Victory in the Naval Battle', and reward the host with a golden treasure chest." ”

Unexpectedly, he had completed another hidden task, Su Yi looked at the two golden treasure chests in the item warehouse, and the smile on his face became even brighter.

And after this naval battle, Su Yi's experience became 3184/10000, an increase of more than 2,000 experience, which also indicates that more than 2,000 naval officers and sailors of the Celestial Star Empire died in the sea with seven sunken warships.