The destroyer tactics beloved by the inland river faction are actually a way of showing off operations. Bian Changdi hoped that his captains could command the fragile destroyers, dodge flexibly with their coquettish positions in the enemy's fierce artillery fire, and then kill the enemy with their super attack power. They have used this method for a long time, and they cannot say that they are invincible, and they have not encountered any major setbacks. But this time when I encountered the cutting-edge battleship of the British, the consistent style of play was a little unscathed.

The Indomitable-class battleships and the Sovereign-class battleships are both rough and thick-skinned, and their actions are not very flexible, but they are absolutely resistant to beating. The furious artillery fire of the sea wolves and * could not move them at all, except for some damage to their superstructure, and the Indomitable, Royal Oak, Resolve, and Counterattack were all injured by the fish they had seen for the first time in actual combat.

It's not that the British don't know how to fish lei, and the British engineer Robert Whitehead made this thing twenty years ago. It's just that the practicability of the world's mainstream fish lei is not strong at present, and it is not as advanced as the fish lei in Manchuria. At present, the mainstream fish lei in Europe is slow and has poor practicability, so everyone is using more reliable rod mines. Although the British didn't know how the Manchurians made the fish lei so good, they knew the power and principle of the fish lei, so they knew how to hide.

In the first hour of the war, the Manchurian sea wolves opened the way with fish lei, forcing the big guys of the Far East Fleet to retreat one after another, and they made a big splash, and then their fish lei almost shot out. As soon as Yulei's offensive stopped, the embarrassed big guys regained their senses, and Curtis commanded the battleships to regroup and once again put out a mighty battle line. The Great Wall of the Sea is in force again, and the sea wolves are embarrassed, and the guns of the British ships of various calibers almost form a fire net on the sea, and those who are embarrassed to avoid immediately become sea wolves.

"The enemy ships have a tendency to merge, stop them and break up their formation!" Ding Shengping, the commander of the Sea Tigers, found that the centurions with only nine remaining ships on the opposite side had a tendency to retreat and join the main force of Curtis, and immediately reported to Bian Changdi, and then Bian Changdi jumped up.

Bian Changdi, the leader of the Inland River faction, who was once complacent and bent on playing his prestige, is now also sweating. Bian Changdi, who was on the Xiaomeng, was a little far away from the battlefield of the sea wolves, and he couldn't see the situation on the battlefield at all, but he could hear the voices of the ships on the radio clearly, and he knew the situation of the sea wolves very well. If the nine centurions also withdrew, and let the monarch, the unyielding, the centurion, and the third-class battleships form a large battleship formation, then the trouble for the sea wolves will be even greater.

Bian Changdi shouted in a hurry, but it was too late when he found out something. The battle between the sea tiger and the centurion was like a blind man and a blind man rock-paper-scissors, and every movement of the British army was expected by the sea tiger, and then the sea tiger was pressed and beaten everywhere. The centurion still insisted on a battle-line duel and guarded his formation. The Sea Tiger commanded by Ding Shengping took advantage of his speed and the relatively close distance between the two sides to directly launch a surprise attack, and immediately broke up the centurion's line. Although Ding Shengping, who has been in the north for a long time, adheres to his idea of staying in the foreign faction, he has also absorbed a lot of the advantages of the inland river faction.

After the flagship of the Sea Tiger formation, the Yupan, went straight to the center of the centurion formation, it immediately took advantage of its rate of fire to fire in two directions at the same time, and forcibly formed the centurion formation into two sections. Before the Centurion formation made adjustments, all the sea tigers swarmed up, and with absolute firepower and tonnage superiority from the side and rear, they crushed the six Centurions that were isolated in front of them, sinking three in one fell swoop and severely damaging three. The Yupan relied on its armor superiority and resisted all the firepower of the six centurions behind. Of course, because all the bows of the six centurions behind them met the enemy and blocked each other, the actual firepower of the Yupan was not as fierce as imagined.

When the six centurions behind quickly turned left, ready to turn the hull sideways and fire at the sea tigers, Ding Shengping completed a very beautiful action. The four Sea Tigers, including the Yupan, retreated at high speed and reversed to the right, forming a T head behind the Centurion. The remaining eight Sea Tigers left behind three seriously wounded Centurions, rushed at full speed in front of the Centurion, and completed a left turn in front of the Centurion formation, forming a T head in front of the Centurion. Then the centurion was embarrassed, and they turned to the enemy with the bow and stern of the ship, and fell into the flanking attack of the sea tiger. It was at this time that the Centurion formation received an order from Curtis to move all out towards the main fleet.

The position of the centurion formation is very bad, and if they turn around and join up with Curtis's main force, they will have to bear the fire of the Sea Tiger formation from both directions, but if they carry the casualties and rush hard, the Sea Tiger formation on both sides will really not be able to stop them. The centurion formation did not hesitate, they were attacked from both sides by people whether they moved or not, and they were all beaten anyway, it didn't matter! The six centurions that kept the formation and the three centurions that were scattered further away all gritted their teeth and rushed towards Curtis's battleship formation in the face of the fierce attack of the sea tigers.

Ding Shengping's sea tiger kept enveloping the centurions from both sides like a big pocket, and continued to pour fire on them, but only barely sank one, and finally eight centurions still joined Curtis's formation. Then the sea tiger also fell into a situation of embarrassment and dodging, and the three hundred and forty-three mm guns of the Indomitable and Sovereign classes could not be carried by their armor. Ding Shengping had to command the sea tigers to make a roundabout evasion, trying to use his speed advantage to seize a T head or something. But the battleship has dominated the world for hundreds of years, and it really is not covered, the fan-shaped firepower of this thing covers a very wide area, and although the sea tiger's speed has an advantage, it is difficult to break through for a while, so it can only temporarily retreat and disengage from contact.

On the Manchurian Navy, seven Seawolves have been sunk and three Seatigers have been seriously injured. On the British side, four first-class battleships, the Indomitable, Royal Oak, Determination, and Counterattack, were seriously damaged, four Centurion-class second-class battleships were sunk, and eight light cruisers and destroyers were sunk. Both sides suffered heavy casualties, and although the Manchurians had the upper hand slightly, the British had moved back to the situation, and if the two sides had disengaged, the battle would have ended. But there is another battlefield where the two sides end up with only one round of contact.

The tonnage of the Nelson-class, Brute-class, and Orlando-class armored cruisers is between 8,000 and 10,000, which is considered a small second-class battleship, and the difference is only in the caliber of artillery. The formation of this kind of warship is definitely a very terrifying existence, and it will not be particularly difficult to kill Li Hongzhang's Beiyang Naval Division. The twelve sea lions faced them, except for the advantage of speed, all other aspects were stretched. But two huge Brute-class battlecruisers can move everything back.

The huge body of more than 20,000 tons of the Brute Whale class is an easy target to aim, but the speed of 32 knots is enough to get rid of most of the shells. Moreover, although the Barbarian Whale class is a battle cruiser in the definition of Goxinga, it is definitely a large battleship for the British, and his armor is too thick. Thirty-three armored cruisers hit more than 430 guns of the Xiaomeng and Ape Sheng, and these two big guys are still no big deal. The superstructure is constantly smoking, but the two giants not only have the same firepower, but also run fast.

At the beginning of the battle, Xiaomeng and Ape Sheng formed a battle line under the command of Li Gen, only the battle line of the two battleships was a little thin, but the firepower of the large-caliber artillery salvo was sufficient. The advanced radar fire control system gave the Savage Whale-class battlecruisers extremely high accuracy, and the first salvo hit rate was more than 50 percent. Needless to say, the power of the 320 mm caliber cap * was almost no different from the armored cruisers of the British army and the wooden-hulled ships, one shot was seriously damaged, and more than three shots were sunk. The two brute whales, with thick skin and strong firepower, clashed back and forth in the British army's array like Zhao Zilong, and the British army had no temper at all.

Ma Erwei's twelve sea lions took the route of yin damage, and they never intervened in the frontal battlefield, as if they were just watching the whale show. However, as soon as the British army focused on the brute whales, Ma Erwei immediately commanded twelve sea lions to fight around one of them. The armored cruiser Barbarian was blown up by Ma Erwei and his people, and was greeted by rapid-fire guns with no less than 500 cannons. The ship did not sink, but everything that should have been damaged was damaged, even the steering gear was blown away. The Savage is not alone, and there are five British ships that were blacked out from behind by Ma Erwei. The huge figures of Xiaomeng and Ape Sound have become Ma Erwei's protective umbrella, and they will fight when they are free, and they will run away when they hit, and the British army will not be able to divide their forces to arrest him.

By the time the British fleet of armored cruisers also moved closer to the main force, the British had lost eleven armored cruisers, seven of which were seriously damaged, and only fifteen were able to continue the battle. Bian Changdi wanted to take advantage of the victory to pursue, but Curtis's battleship formation was well defended, and it was okay for Xiaomeng and Ape to bully children, and they had to weigh the 340 mm main guns of the first-class battleship. At this point in the battle, the two sides were completely disengaged, and each licked its own wounds.

The two sides were separated by about 30,000 meters and maintained a four-hour standoff situation, the British army did not plan to retreat, and the Manchurian army still maintained vigilance, and everyone understood that the battle had to continue. The sea wolves replenished the fish, the brute whales also sorted out their battered hulls, and the British army completed the reorganization of the battle line, and everyone rolled up their sleeves and prepared to start the second round.

"Wounded ships and light ships are moving closer to the coastline, all battleships form a battle line, we can't lose the whole battlefield in one afternoon!" Curtis believed that he had regained the initiative and that his fleet still had an advantage.

"The sea tiger put down the seaplane, and the aviation is ready to attack! Brute whales and sea tigers form battle lines, sea wolves and sea lions are preparing for an assault, and we are going to end this damn war this afternoon! Bian Changdi took out all his family resources and was ready to give it a go.