In the course of the British fleet, it suddenly changed its tactics, and on the left flank of the fleet, a group of battleships suddenly opened up at full speed and rushed towards the front, with such a fast speed that it quickly widened the distance between it and the ordinary fleet group.

The British officers and men all looked at this column of warships, light eleven warships, two columns, diagonally facing forward, swept in front of the British ** ship, and then turned back, and then rushed in another direction, running in front of it in a zigzag trajectory, such a tortuous distance was actually faster than the speed of ordinary fleets,

Admiral Halder smiled profoundly,

This is one of his secrets, hidden for a long time, this is a big killer weapon of the British Royal Navy, in the Grand Fleet, a fast fleet was arranged, as a vanguard guerrilla, to disturb the enemy,

These battleships are the latest type of warships, with sufficient horsepower and ridiculously fast speed, and the battleships are equipped with rapid-fire guns, with the highest frequency of twelve rounds per minute, which were developed by the British.

Dividing the Grand Fleet into two parts is a good way to bewilder the **, and the dazzling performance of the Forward Fleet also has the intention of attracting the attention of the enemy, in short, Admiral Halder is extremely confident,

At a distance of two thousand meters, the British opened fire first, and the rapid-fire cannons on the fleet, although the caliber was not large, but the speed was amazingly fast, and I saw these battleships trembling for a while, swallowing out pieces of shells, and tilting towards the Chinese fleet,

In the first round of bombardment, three Chinese warships were shot, and there was also an explosion, causing a fire, and the British army scored first,

The Chinese Navy then opened fire and bombarded the British fast fleet,

Several heavy cruisers at the front angrily made the strongest voice of the Chinese Navy,

The battle lasted ten minutes,

Near the mouth of the Yangtze River, the smoke of gunpowder was permeated, covering the clear sky in the morning, even the British fast fleet, which was also covered by the smoke of its own bombardment, and there was also countless smoke in the sky above the Chinese fleet, and there was no wind today, so the smoke of gunpowder was very strong, and many officers and men on the deck who were observing the results of the battle coughed violently.

A cannonball, which hit one of the battleships of the British fast fleet, and the thirty-two pound shell pierced it through a large hole, but, despite the ensuing explosion, did not sink the enemy ship, on the contrary, the fellow fought back more fiercely,

The squadron still cheered, but later, they hesitated, they couldn't imagine that the enemy's light battleship that hit it directly was still fine.

Yes, it's okay, the internal compartments of the British fast battleships have also been reworked, and even if there are serious injuries, they cannot be directly sunk,

The new technology gave the British army a considerable advantage,

The British artillery shells rained down on the heads of the Chinese fleet, wounding and killing a large number of Chinese naval officers and men, although Zuo Zongtang ordered half of the fleet in the front line to bombard the enemy's twelve warships, it was still impossible to gain an advantage, on the contrary, the enemy had far more shells than himself, and it was his own fleet that was passively beaten.

Zuo Zongtang was annoyed, and after the fleet continued to advance, and the distance became shorter and shorter, the warships of the whole army bombarded the enemy's fast battleship clusters.

Five minutes later, the huge group of the British naval fleet also gradually arrived and took part in the battle,

The British fast fleet was even more frenzied, the battleships were moving and shooting frantically, and their movement made it impossible for the Chinese fleet to aim, and their shells, as many as hail, were so fast that they were unrecognizable, and they were almost like a tide and poured down on the Chinese battleships, while the Chinese fleet shells were sparse,

The officers and men of the squadron were stunned, how could there be such a thing,

In this battle, the Chinese fleet was extremely passive, four light cruisers were damaged, two were sunk, one heavy cruiser was damaged, and five battleships were hit by an average of three shells, killing and wounding twenty officers and men.

Not to mention the main fleet of the British army, even these twelve fast light warships, all of which made the Chinese Grand Fleet disgraced and dizzy.

The squadron was angry, and naturally returned fire angrily, and finally, one enemy ship was sunk and two were damaged.

Fortunately, the enemy's fleet suddenly ran out of shells, and suddenly returned and retreated towards the sea to the east, so that the huge fleet of main warships of the British Navy was pressed up in an instant.

At a distance of 1,500 meters, the two sides opened fire on each other, and the Chinese battleships disturbed by the British vanguard fleet, because of emotional problems, did not play well, and the British divided the fleet into two parts, each with six battleships as the vanguard, leading the fleet, outflanking left and right like wolves, and pounced,

The heavy artillery on the battleships of the British army did not hesitate to bombard,

The officers and men of the two armies, with all their might, began a desperate struggle',

But seeing that at the mouth of the Yangtze River, the cannon was rumbling, the smoke of gunpowder was filled, and countless warships were rampage, the two fleets were still keeping their distance at first, and then they rushed into chaos, and even broke into each other's camp.

Only the officers and soldiers who participated in the battle knew how fierce the battle was, many were deaf by the explosion of the shells, many were directly cut by the enemy's shells, and the dense sound of the shells, as dense as the sound of gunfire, was simply indistinguishable,

During the fierce battle, there are many people watching the battle on the banks of the river and the shore of the sea, especially the reconnaissance and defense personnel on the riverside, who are even more concerned, even they, using high-powered telescopes, cannot confirm the clear position of the battlefield and confirm the situation of the battle between the enemy and us, which is too chaotic.

There were flames on many warships, and the flames were raging, like angry lions, but fortunately there was no strong wind, otherwise the ships would have burned down long ago.

Choking smoke, even drifting to the riverbank,

After an hour of fighting, the Chinese fleet began to retreat because of the basic warning of the shells, but the retreat at this time was forced and loose, and the fleet was already in chaos and could not maintain an adequate lineup.

Only half of the medium-sized ** ships that can retreat,

Six battleships, four heavy cruisers, sixteen light cruisers, and more than twenty gunboats, all of them went into battle and went out in their nests, but, after two rounds of fierce fighting, only half of them were able to retreat to the west in the piercing trumpets.

Three battleships, three heavy cruisers, six light cruisers, were able to retreat to the west, and the rest of the battleships were either sunk or braved the skyrocketing fire, and the officers and men had to abandon the battleships and escape by throwing themselves into the sea.

The British fleet immediately pursued, and Admiral Halder had already seen the problem, that is, the attack of the fast fleet had already predicted the outcome of the battle until now, and now, he immediately gave the order to pursue and destroy the remnants of the Chinese fleet,

"We must not let the Chinese fleet run away, this is the result of our battle, we must eat them in one go, completely open the mouth of the Yangtze River, and then, from here, kill the heart of China's economy, let this barbaric giant bleed to death."

The British were in hot pursuit, and the cannons of the fleet were bombarded without stopping, and soon, a Chinese heavy cruiser was sunk on the way to retreat,

If you look at the British fleet, the Chinese fleet is indeed in danger of extinction, that is, the only three remaining battleships, two heavy cruisers, six light cruisers, and two small gunboats that suddenly came back to life are all emitting thick smoke and fire, and it can be confirmed that they were all shot and wounded without exception.