"The damn Victory is running away, stop it, can't let it escape!"

The Sevastopol happened to be next to the Victory when it turned sharply to escape, and the captain of the ship, Lyukopolsevsky, had a very good sense of responsibility, and he knew that if the Victory escaped, the Pacific Fleet would lose the battle, which might mean that the Pacific Fleet was finished, and decisive measures must be taken to prevent the Victory from escaping. ≧≯≯

The last shred of sanity was left on board the Victory, and Captain Takosunkov, seeing the madness of the officer with the steering compass in his hands, was in a hurry, drew his revolver and rushed to his back, firing six shots in a row, knocking him to death.

Several men rushed up with Captain Takosunkov, pushed the officer's body away, and readjusted the Victory's sailing.

Although this was only a small episode, and the unexpected action of the Victory, which resulted in the second round of shelling by the Chinese fleet, which resulted in only a few near-misses, seemed to be extremely lucky, it also caused great confusion in the ranks of the Pacific Fleet.

Hu Zhen couldn't understand what the Victory was playing, so he just ordered to keep an eye on the Victory and continue the shelling.

What is unexpected is that because the Victory tried to turn and flee just now, but was forced to turn back and return to the team, its original position was rushed in by the cruiser Varyag at 23 knots, and it happened to be hit by a 3o5 mm caliber shell from a Chinese warship.

The 65oo-ton Varyag exploded immediately after being shot in the bow and amidships.

"Hmph, there's another substitute for the dead!" As for the work of striking the cruiser, Hu Zhen felt that it was not the task of the battleship, he immediately found the data of the Victory from the viewing glasses, and ordered to ignore the struggling Varyag and continue to shell the real damned Victory.

The Victory, which had been blocked by the Varyag with a shell, returned to its original position after a period of tossing, but was immediately faced with the powerful fire of the Huaxia Army.

After several rounds of fierce volleys, the Victory was firmly hit by five shells, the ship was ablaze with fire, and the voyage reached 13 knots, and finally it was able to justifiably withdraw from the queue of the incoming battleships.

And the Varyag, which blocked the shells for the Victory, landed below 16 knots, which was seen by Geng Huoyan in the distance, and he laughed: "Brothers, we don't have our share in the giants fighting, but this Varyag is our dish, everyone rushes up and eats it together!" ”

Geng Huoyan commanded 1o cruisers and 12 destroyers, although he was exhausted after a day and a night of containment and harassment missions, but seeing his own battleships winning one after another, he was holding back his strength and had nowhere to do at the moment.

The cruisers Parada and Diana in the Pacific Fleet of the Hubei Army, as well as 4 old gunboats and 6 destroyers, also rushed up and mingled with the fleet commanded by Geng Huoyan.

The cruisers and destroyers of the Huaxia Army generally have a displacement of more than 23 knots, and compared with the Hubei cruisers with a displacement of more than 6,731 tons, the displacement of the largest cruiser is only less than 5,000 tons, but it is superior in number and navigation.

When the fast ships of the two sides were scuffling, the artillery bombardment of the battleships commanded by Hu Zhen achieved results again, hitting the Victory with five shells, making the Victory hit a total of ten bullets and was on the verge of sinking.

Hu Zhen wanted to sink the Victory, but he didn't have time, because the real flagship of the Pacific Fleet, the Retvizhan, had successfully dealt with the mechanical failure and entered the battlefield with the highest battle, commanding the remaining battleships Petropavlovsk, Poltava, Sevastopol and the large cruisers Rulik and Thunderbolt to form a unified artillery column and spray blazing bullets at the Huaxia Army.

While commanding the artillery bombardment, Hu Zhen ordered to widen the distance between him and the Hubei warships in order to maintain the advantage of long-distance artillery bombardment, and notified the warships commanded by Zheng Dingbang and Yang Yonglin to kill from behind and attack the Pacific Fleet.

When Zheng Dingbang and Yang Yonglin commanded the Zhenyuan, Dingyuan, New York, Brooklyn, and the accompanying cruisers and destroyers to appear directly north of the Pacific Fleet, Stark finally understood that not only could he not annihilate the main fleet of the Huaxia Army, but whether he could escape from the Tsushima Strait alive was a big question mark.

However, when Stark understood that the Pacific Fleet under his command had fallen into the trap of the main fleet of the Huaxia Army and could not get out, out of a natural trapped beast fighting mentality, he was able to quickly concentrate on thinking about how to fight this battle without so many distractions.

The captains of the ships of the Pacific Fleet are not stupid, although there are high and low IQs, but most of them also quickly understand that their fleet has fallen into an ambush circle, and must fight bloody battles to break out of the encirclement, and they can also forcibly calm down and command the officers and men on the battleship to operate the battleship to fight with the flagship.

Alekseev's confidant Stark, who usually behaved very mediocre, but in the midst of danger, he often waved the due level of a fleet commander, and he glanced at the flagship of the Huaxia Army, Chang'an, and shouted: "That battleship is not only the flagship of the yellow-skinned monkey fleet, but also the ship of the yellow-skinned monkey emperor. ”

Of course, Hu Zhen could see Stark's trick at a glance to attack his own flagship, but it was not easy for him to command the fleet to sink the Pacific Fleet's flagship Retvijan first, because the Ryottvizhan was the last to arrive and was now in the last position of the fleet sequence.

This is a very peculiar flagship position, in naval battles that began in the era of sails, the position of the flagship is generally in the first place in the fleet sequence, so as to facilitate command, or even do not need to command, and the other ships behind only see the actions of the flagship, and follow the action.

It was too late to adjust the position of the Retvijan at this moment, and the other warships of the Hubei army knew that the situation was urgent, and no one cared about where the position of the flagship was left.

Hu Zhen stared at the enemy fleet for a while, and then ordered: "All gather fire and sink the enemy's cruiser Thunderbolt!" ”

This cruiser Thunderbolt is a very special battleship, although it is a cruiser, it has a displacement of 1388o tons, it is the largest warship in the Pacific Fleet, and the voyage reaches 19 knots, so it is now ranked first in the fleet sequence.

When the shells of the four battleships of the Huaxia Army flew in, the Thunderbolt ignored the formation of the fleet and in panic took advantage of the navigation advantage to maneuver left and right to avoid the shells.

But the target that Hu Zhen was staring at using the data link of the nuclear submarine tracking and control, where could he escape, and soon, the Thunderbolt was hit by a 3o5 mm caliber shell, which exploded in the cabin, and a 2o3 mm main gun was overturned, causing a burst of fire. (To be continued.) )8