Unlike the previous encounters between the two sides, this time the battle did not last long, and the Kaiyuan was quickly at a disadvantage in the fierce fire at close range, although the armored gun gallery could avoid most of everyone, but there were still cases where the gun barrel was hit and blown up or vibration caused the gun gallery to malfunction.

When a 234MM shell on the Kasuga exploded under the bow turret of the Kaiyuan, and the fragmented shrapnel directly stuck the turret, there was no suspense in the battle, at least the Japanese thought so, at this time, there were only 2 rapid-fire guns above the medium caliber that could be used by the Kaiyuan combat flank, and such firepower could not be destroyed even by the weakest Chiyoda!

It was a very difficult task to completely destroy a well-defended cruiser with artillery, and the Japanese didn't seem to have to wait long, because the lookout at the top of the lookout had already spotted the battleship approaching in the distance, "We can't be sure if it's a British or German battleship, or a neutral warship, so we can only destroy the opponent in the simplest and most direct way!" Afterwards, Birch Hill Ziji recalled.

Because it was a long-distance pursuit operation, the Japanese did not bring torpedo boats at all, and the final lightning strike could only be carried out by cruisers, but considering the performance of torpedoes at that time, the effective range was only within 1000 meters. And before the final lightning strike, the Japanese cruisers still need a final round of close shooting! In this attack, the Japanese fleet was less than 1500 meters away from the Kaiyuan!

"Right now!" After engaging for about 1 hour at a speed of about 8 knots, the Kaiyuan cruiser, which had almost lost all of its firepower, suddenly accelerated, and at the same time, the battleship turned sharply about 135 degrees on the sea! The steam engine, which had been running at a low speed by ventilating pressure, suddenly began to move at full speed! Although the maximum speed of 13 knots at this time was just the standard of combat speed in a normal engagement, but under the surprise of surprise, this battleship was still much faster than the Japanese fleet on the opposite side! And when the battleship turned quickly, the Japanese fleet did not have time to think about it, and still sailed according to the original course!

"We had a very good grasp of the time, and when we turned to finish, it was right between Takasago and Chiyoda! 1500 meters, almost exactly the right voyage is already a short distance for a battleship! "After the war, when Count Spee recalled the situation again, he was still very excited, this sudden turn of attack was very successful, began to show weakness, and then suddenly accelerated to take advantage of the disadvantage that the navigation state of the opponent's fleet was not easy to change, and successfully inserted into the sequence of the Japanese fleet!

"Angle of Attack!" When the huge hull of the Kaiyuan was about to cross Chiyoda's channel, Uchida Masatoshi subconsciously ordered the battleship to maneuver in reverse and accelerate to escape, this decision was equal, at this time the Kaiyuan was turning counterclockwise, and Chiyoda was turning clockwise, so that the course of the two warships was as far away as possible.

"It's dangerous!" After all, the Chiyoda has a smaller tonnage and a smaller hull, so the steering speed is faster and more flexible, but it is not that the battleship, which has been heavily damaged and has entered more than 600 tons of water, can keep up, and the speed advantage at the beginning of Kaiyuan has not been transformed into the final result.

The course of the two battleships became a parallel maneuver in the opposite direction. The Japanese dodged this fatal impact with superior steering speed!

"Goodbye!" When the Japanese thought that they were safe, Yang Yonglin finally showed a smile on his face! Therefore, at this time, the distance between the two warships was only 700 meters! And because of the high-speed steering at the same time, the power is mainly used to provide angles, but the speed is further reduced, and the speed after driving far away is rapidly reduced from 13 knots to 8 knots, and Chiyoda, who has accelerated even later, is directly reduced to 6 knots!

Two slender gray figures flew out from the sides and stern of the Kaiyuan's hull, and then plunged headlong into the water, this was the Kaiyuan's last chance! At a distance of 750 meters, two torpedoes quickly jumped towards the target! The torpedo made a small splash when it entered the water, and then a cloud of air bubbles was removed from the back of the torpedo, forming a long wake, but compared to ordinary torpedoes, this torpedo has a somewhat large wake and is really fast.

Rumble! With the collision between the torpedo and the cruiser's hull, a huge column of water slashed sideways like a giant sword at the poor battleship! However, the cruiser of more than 2,000 tons is so fragile under the 90KG picric acid charge! The violent explosion and the resulting high-temperature and high-pressure bubbles directly tore apart the fragile hull plates, and the almost useless compartment was directly blown to pieces, and then under the violent vibration and distortion, the cracks of the entire battleship continued to expand, and then spread to the entire hull!

The violent explosion directly lifted the battleship slightly from the middle, but even so, the gravity of the bow and tail of the hull still became the last straw that crushed the cruiser Chiyoda! With a tooth-aching sound of metal twisting and breaking, the Japanese cruiser broke in two in the middle!

"Crazy guy!" Kayama Shiki didn't understand how the other party did it until the Chiyoda was sunk, it came too fast, too suddenly! The performance of the Kaiyuan is very similar to that of the Kaiyuan in the last battle when the fast fleets of the two sides broke the game, but this time, there was no Zhiyuan to make up for the Kaiyuan!

One of the two torpedoes at 700 meters away hit the moving target, this hit rate is still too terrifying for the current torpedo, even after the war, people think that the performance of the Kaiyuan in the last battle is too chatty! Or maybe luck makes this battleship! After all, the maximum range of compressed air powered torpedoes at that time was about 1 km! Even some people in later generations thought that Yang Yonglin was really risky to pin his last fight completely on unreliable torpedoes!

But a few decades later, when someone looked through the secret archives of the German Navy that had been declassified, they found a clue from it, and in one document, the torpedo on the Kaiyuan cruiser was described as a non-aerodynamic torpedo! In other words, it was not compressed air that provided the power, and combined with the situation in later generations, some people speculated that it was a hot power torpedo that sank the Chiyoda cruiser in the end!

"It's all over, we can go!" Yang Yonglin said with satisfaction. "Dear German colleagues, please put on your life jackets, the ship over there should be a British cruiser, I will sink the battleship, and you should be rescued, I will send you off here for the last time!"

Kaiyuan has finally completed the last lore in its short but glorious life! And after completing the attack, the Kaiyuan opened the sea-opening valve at the bottom of the hull and sank the battleship!

"Kill it! Go up and take him out with a torpedo! Kill them all! After a brief shock, the Japanese were furious! They can't imagine that they can lose when they have a good hand! This dying lion tore a wild wolf to shreds before it fell! And under the huge stimulus, the Japanese fleet launched the final attack on the Kaiyuan like a pack of mad dogs!

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