In Uemura's field of vision, the entire Russian fleet suddenly split into two parts, one of which was composed of two old battleships, they continued to turn, and then headed in the opposite direction of the Japanese fleet, while the huge steel spearhead composed of the Borodino-class battleships turned slightly to the west by half a compass point, so that it became the Russian fleet to cut the Japanese fleet in reverse!

It doesn't matter if the Russians start using this tactic, even if they get entangled with Uemura Hikonosuki's fast fleet, the battleship formations behind can still find an opportunity to cut the opponent from the opposite position and then flank from both sides, but now, because before the smoke screen appears, the judgment direction of the main fleet is that the Russian fleet turns to the northeast, so the main fleet turns ahead and intercepts the opponent on the predetermined channel. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

And this turn did not matter, the Russians gained more time to adjust the formation, and the two old battleships and several destroyers were crossed between the main fleets of the two sides, and the smoke from the smoke canisters of the opposing ships also hindered the firing range of the Japanese main fleet! The course of the Japanese main fleet is actually the opposite of that of the Russian main fleet, and they need to turn and take out the two obstructive Russian cannon fodder ships before they can re-pursue Makanov's main fleet, and this will take time!

A drop of cold sweat fell from Hikonoshi Uemura's head, if Heihachiro Togo's fleet was only likely to lose a chance to intercept his opponent, then his fleet had reached the moment of life and death! The Russians in front of them did not seem to have any intention of escaping from the temporarily weakened encirclement network, and the steel spearhead led by the Borodino-class battleships was already aimed at the Japanese cruiser! More than a dozen 12-inch guns and dozens of 10-inch guns have been aimed at Hikonoshi Uemura. Asama is good, but the opponent is stronger!

"Only by crippling the Japanese cruiser will we have a chance to escape! For Russia, for home! "The infectious voices of the officers echoed through the fleet, there is a saying in Europe that you don't stand in the way of a fleet coming home, and a saying in China that a dog jumps over a wall. And these two sentences are just right for the Russians!

The speed of the Japanese cruiser formation was too large, and as long as they were there, it was impossible for the Russian fleet to really escape, so Makanov's plan was not to blindly dodge at the beginning, he was like a lone wolf who was forced into a corner, although he was in danger, he was always ready to bite the other party!

Rumble! For the first time since the Crimean War, the Russian fleet showed its terrifying power! The four battleships and four armored cruisers under the command of Makanov fired a dense rain of bullets at the six Japanese cruisers, and the muzzle flames from the guns were almost one, and countless shells whistled and flew towards the target, and from a distance, the entire Russian fleet looked like an erupting mobile volcano. The armored cruiser Asama, which was at the head of the team, was the first to take care of it, and the two Borodino-class battleships concentrated their fire on the flagship of the fast fleet!

The concentrated firing of more than a dozen large-caliber guns at a distance of 5 kilometers will definitely make any battleship in this era unable to eat and walk around! The 12-inch and 10-inch shells struck the Asama like hammers, and the shells that hit the armor belt could bounce off or leave a crater. But the shells that hit the superstructure could have brought disaster to the battleship. A storm of steel and flames swept across the ship's superstructure, and in addition to the armored conning tower, the Asama's superstructure was shattered in a short period of time, especially when a few shells landed in the middle of the battleship, which not only blew a chimney to pieces, cut off signal flags and other means of communication, but also caused a large fire.

As for the counterattack of the Asama, let's just ignore it, in the case of a larger circle of artillery caliber and twice the number of the opponent's guns, the Asama can't make any waves at all, and the other 3 ships of the same class of the Asama are also stared at by the Russian fleet that temporarily has a numerical advantage, as a high-imitation version of the Rurik-type fast battleship, it is definitely not something that Asama can deal with, and the 6 10-inch guns of the remaining 4 American-made cruisers are at least at the same level as the Asama class.

However, it was not the Asama that was the first to have problems, this battleship produced by the Brom-Foss shipyard was still excellent in quality, although ten minutes of storm-like strikes caused the Asama to lose three 8-inch guns and one 10-inch gun on the combat side, but the entire armor box structure was still intact, relying on the thickness and height of conscience, as well as the strength of the back plate, the cracks caused by the impact of the heavy artillery were not very large. In other words, although it was cut badly, it would not sink ...... for a while.

The first problem is the original Spanish battleship Tsukuba that was captured by the Japanese and renamed, although this battleship is also a high imitation of the German battleship, but it still has not learned the essence, for example, German battleships are generally not equipped with torpedoes, even if there are, the torpedo compartment is below the waterline, and there is relatively thick armor for protection, but I don't know whether the Japanese fleet is lightly armed this time, the torpedo compartment is above the waterline, or for other reasons, A 12-inch shell from the battleship Hawk, which had caught the Tsukuba, successfully penetrated the torpedo compartment in the bow of the Tsukuba and detonated dozens of bottles of compressed air .......

With a loud bang that resounded throughout the fleet, the bow of the Tsukuba seemed to leap upwards and then slammed into the water, followed by a series of explosions from inside, and the violent explosion of the compressed air cylinder caused a fire and detonated the torpedo placed in front! Although the Tsukuba only carried 4 torpedoes, such a violent explosion was also quite deadly for a battleship in its early 10,000s! The torpedo detonation made the entire hull twist and break, and half of the bow seemed to be twisted by a huge force, forming an eerie angle to the hull behind it. And thousands of tons of seawater poured into it along countless breaches. To anyone's surprise, after the battle began, the first battleship to sink turned out to be a Japanese capital ship!

"Damn it! Let Togo hurry up, if he doesn't want to collect the body of the Japanese Navy for me! Hikonosumi Uemura shouted as he looked at the battleship Tsukuba, which had fallen seriously and was gradually out of formation. The first 6 to 8 is already a huge disadvantage, and now it's 5 to 8, no, it's 4.5 to 8, his Asama has been half-crippled, and now it's a lucky thing to have a radio left to contact Togo!

"Makanov really deserves to be the veteran of the Russian Navy, although he is at an extreme disadvantage, he can still have such an outstanding performance." At the very place where the great battle broke out in the Russo-Japanese fleet, the armored cruiser Mainz, the flagship of the German Far East Fleet, was watching the battle not too far away. And Hipper, as the commander of the fleet, has just seen this wonderful scene.

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