Under the deliberate avoidance of the remaining seven super dreadnought battleships of the Sharad Navy, the battle line formed by the seven super dreadnought battleships of the Sharad Navy and the battle line formed by the first battleship formation and the second battleship formation at the front of the independent fleet were stretched to a distance of about 18,000 kilometers.

The distance between the battle lines of the two sides just now has been reduced to less than 17,000 kilometers.

Wang Chengliang, the commander of the independent fleet, saw the actions of the Sharad Navy, the corners of his mouth turned slightly, and immediately turned his head to Yuan Fan, the captain of the Yongxiang, and said: "Order three battle lines to move towards the Sharad Navy, they want to distance themselves, they have to ask us if we agree or not!" ”

The three battle lines mentioned by Wang Chengliang refer to the first battle line composed of twelve super dreadnought battleships, the second battle line composed of eight quasi-super dreadnought battleships, and the third battle line composed of twelve battle cruisers.

In this naval battle, in addition to the above three battle lines, the independent fleet also had the fourth battle line composed of nine Jizi-class dreadnought battleships of the fifth battleship formation, the fifth battle line composed of the fifteen Huzi-class dreadnought battleships of the ninth battleship formation, and the sixth battle line composed of eight ironclad battleships of the twelfth battleship formation.

At the outbreak of the naval battle, the six battle lines of the independent fleet were lined up in a parallel column of battleships.

However, at this time, the Sixth Battle Line had already separated from the battleship column of the Independent Fleet, and led more than 100 warships of other types in the Independent Fleet, and more than 200 small and medium-sized warships of the navies of the three countries.

"Boom-" Denis, the commander of the Second Expeditionary Fleet of the Sharad Navy, only felt the soles of his feet shake, and then his head hit the steel wall next to the observation window of the bridge, and Denis knew that it must have been hit by a large-caliber shell.

"Commander, your forehead is bleeding!" The captain of the Ares exclaimed.

"Quick! Count the losses, it doesn't matter if I'm injured! In addition, let the God of War, as well as other God of War and Knight classes, hurry up and drive in a 'Z' shape! Denis shouted urgently.

Soon the loss of the Ares was reported, and the Ares was not hit by the main parts, although the explosion of the shells caused a fire and caused more than 20 casualties, but the fire had been controlled by the damage management personnel of the Ares of War, which made the commander Denis and the captain of the ship, Rofeyer, both breathe a sigh of relief.

"Commander, those super dreadnought battleships and battlecruisers on the other side have now caught up, and they are keeping around 18,000 kilometers with our super dreadnought battleship formation, we must find a way to change this situation, and carry out a confrontation at this distance, the super dreadnought battleships of our Shalad Navy are at a loss." The captain of the Ares said with a frown.

Dennis then said in a deep voice: "Immediately send a telegram to Gordej of the Gisk Navy and Mihailo of the Orenza Navy that if the battleship formations of the two navies do not encircle the Baron's fleet, then our Sharad Navy will immediately withdraw from this naval battle!" The wording of the telegram must be harsh! ”

In the bridge of the Holy Sword, the flagship of the First Fleet of the Gisk Royal Navy, Gordjey, the deputy minister of the Admiralty of the Gisk Empire, received this harshly worded telegram from Dennis, and said to Nikono, the commander of the First Fleet, with a wry smile: "It seems that it is not possible not to work hard, if the Shalad Navy really withdraws, then only our Gisk Navy and the Orensa Navy will not be the opponent of this Baron Fleet." ”

Dennis's harshly worded telegram finally came into play, and the main forces of the Gisk Navy and the Orensa Navy began to quickly encircle the battleship columns of the Independent Fleet from the left and right directions.

In order not to be surrounded by the navies of the three countries, the independent fleet immediately changed direction on several battle lines, shifted the target of attack to the Gisk Navy, and soon shortened the distance to 18,000 kilometers with the battle line of the Gisk Navy, and bombarded the 14 dreadnought battleships of the Gisk Navy.

After a while, the Salad Navy and the Orenza Navy surrounded again, and several battle lines of the Independent Fleet changed direction again, and began to close the distance with the battle line of the Orenza Navy, and launched an artillery bombardment on the eighteen dreadnought battleships at the front of the Orenza Navy.

The battleship column of the Independent Fleet, relying on many changes of direction, only bombarded the battleship formation of one enemy country for a long time, and brought considerable losses to the navies of the three countries.

And because the first, second, and third battle lines of the Independent Fleet have always maintained a sufficient distance from the enemy's battle line, the twelve super dreadnought battleships, eight quasi-super dreadnought battleships, and twelve battle cruisers of the three battle lines of the Independent Fleet basically have no losses.

In response to this tactic of the Independent Fleet, all the battleships of the three navies finally turned their bows to the battle line of the Independent Fleet, and at the same time launched a charge.

At 11:30 p.m., the battle line of the navies of the three countries, after paying a heavy price, could be regarded as the battle line with the independent fleet, which was about 10,000 meters closer, and formed a semi-encirclement posture against the battleship column of the independent fleet.

By this time, the navies of the three countries had sunk eleven battleships, and many battleships were seriously injured and had to temporarily withdraw from their own battle lines.

As for the independent fleet, in order to block the attack of many light cruisers, destroyers, and torpedo boats of the three navies, the losses were not small, and when the battle line of the three navies and the first battleship formation and the second battleship formation at the front were closed to about 10,000 meters, the independent fleet had already torpedoed two ironclad battleships, one large armored cruiser, two medium armored cruisers, four light cruisers, and seven destroyers sunk by torpedoes.

Of course, the light cruisers, destroyers, and torpedo boats of the three navies suffered even greater losses, adding up to hundreds of them, while the remaining 100 or so small and medium-sized warships of the three navies had already given up the attack on the battle line of the independent fleet and withdrew to the rear of their own battle line.

Using the tactics of kite flying, the independent fleet can be said to have reduced the strength of the combined fleet of the three navies by at least two or more CDs, and the nine most powerful super dreadnought battleships in the combined fleet of the three navies are currently sinking three times and seriously injured, and only five are left that can continue to fight.

When the navies of the three countries paid a huge price and narrowed the distance between the battle lines of the two sides to about 10,000 meters, it was already difficult for the independent fleet to implement the tactics of flying kites, unless it was willing to endure the situation of being passively beaten for a period of time.

However, at this time, the number of battleships of the independent fleet was not so bad, and the number of super dreadnought battleships of the independent fleet had an absolute advantage, so Wang Chengliang, the commander of the independent fleet, did not choose to continue to distance themselves from each other, but ordered several battle lines of the independent fleet to bombard multiple battle lines of the navies of the three countries.