Near noon on July 26, the scorching sun shone on the battleships USS South Carolina and USS Mindasuni, which were under the cluster attack of Chinese army fighters for more than three hours, and even the five main turrets of the battleship South Carolina were damaged to varying degrees......

The more serious losses occurred in the underwater armor belt of the battleship, and the battleship South Carolina was hit by 3 mines again below the waterline, but fortunately they were all concentrated in the bow position, but a large amount of water permeable to the outside had no fatal effect, in order to maintain the balance of the battleship, Rear Admiral Evans had once again ordered the watertight compartment at the rear of the hull to be filled with 1,500 tons of water, which barely allowed the battleship to move at a speed of 8 knots on the water. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

The damage of the battleship Mindasuni was only slightly better than that of the flagship, but the bottom bilge was far more permeable than that of the South Carolina battleship, after all, it was an early Connecticut-class dreadnought, although it had a relatively complete watertight cabin, but after encountering a 21-inch torpedo attack, the degree of deformation of the bilge keel was significantly greater than that of the South Carolina battleship, which directly led to the battleship's bottom bilge being nearly 1 meter permeable.

At 11:50, Rear Admiral Evans, who was standing in the command tower with a gloomy expression, heard the report of the enemy attack again from the top cabin microphone, at this time, the battleship had no heavy firepower that could fight against the air, and the soldiers who could organize only a small amount of light firepower, but they could not gain a foothold on the upper layer of the battleship at all, and the tactics of the Chinese were already very clear, and they all came up with dive bombers to carry out the first wave of surface bombardment, and almost at the same time, the opposing torpedo planes completed the approaching strike.

The only way to save the battleship was to rely on the battleship to constantly maneuver and evade, but it was obviously unrealistic to hope for evasion, and seeing that the fleet officers and soldiers had lost their fighting spirit, he finally made a decision before the final judgment came......

Wu Hongyuan, who was keeping an eye on the U.S. fleet on the periphery, saw the white flag hanging from the cage lookout of the battleship South Carolina for the first time, and this pursuit battle, which made him feel a little tired, finally came to an end!

The telegram quickly spread the news of the victory in the defense of the Guam base, and Wu Hongyuan had to temporarily put aside the idea of returning to the base to resupply and set off again, after all, there were two American battleships waiting to be accepted, this thing was useless, but it was a rare trophy, in addition to the small two thousand prisoners to dispose of.

At 12:20 p.m., Liuhetu, which was maneuvering toward the south of Guam, also received the news of the destruction of three US battleships, but the three reconnaissance planes that had previously departed from the Guam airfield unexpectedly did not find the US Grand Fleet that had broken away on the predicted course.

But that's it, after searching all the way to the west for 150 km, the American fleet still did not find it on the intended route...... The maximum reconnaissance distance of the naval reconnaissance plane is generally not more than 200 kilometers, after all, it needs to stay in the air for a long time and repeatedly sail in a curve, so after the two-hour reconnaissance and return home, Lin Yongsheng had to ask the army aviation flight group that had already returned to the sea to send more personnel to conduct reconnaissance in more directions.

After all, nearly 5 hours have passed since the evacuation of the American Grand Fleet in the morning, which is enough for the American fleet to run out at least 100 kilometers or more, if the Yankees escape at full speed, 18 knots of speed means that it is already 150 kilometers away at this moment, considering that the Yankees fleet also has injured warships, so Lin Yongsheng took the early morning battle site as the origin and drew a 120-kilometer reconnaissance range.

After the departure of the six reconnaissance planes, Lin Yongsheng was still not at ease, and he again sent two torpedo planes to reconnoiter in the southwest direction with no load, and he was also worried about whether the Yankees would run to rendezvous with the British.

Later, Liu Hetu also received a telegram from the Guam base, and he also replied to Lin Yongsheng, asking to find out the evacuation direction of the Americans before dark, which obviously had a great deal to do with the decisive battle he was planning, at this moment, the Grand Fleet had sailed into the sea area 400 kilometers east of Guam, and Tang Town, which was fighting against the Royal Fast Fleet under the command of Lord Dieters in the southern seas, ushered in the real first crisis!

In the previous battle between the two sides, Tang Zhen found that the British had always maintained a resolute attack posture, which made some of the means he originally planned to lure the enemy unnecessary, originally he thought that the British would definitely make some responses after learning the news of the defeat of the American Grand Fleet, but the problem is that the other party actually tried to teach himself a lesson without scruples!

This also stimulated Tang Zhen's fighting spirit at the same time, and the two sides fired nearly 200 shells at a distance of 15,000-18,000 meters, of course, due to the fact that both sides were very cautious, the British were able to join the battle group only 4 dreadnoughts and 2 battle cruisers, and the other 4 front dreadnoughts had been pulled away due to the difference in speed, and there was nothing to be done at all.

In this case, Tang Zhen did not have any timid meaning, and was also looking for fighters from time to time, among which Guangzhou and Shanxi also fired a few rounds of salvos, but the hit rate of both sides was really bad, each only had 1 hit and less than 3 close misses, and one shot from both sides was not in a good position......

The Guangzhou fired a beautiful salvo before, and fired a straddle shot at the battleship Monarch that was deflecting and trying to dodge, and the observation position clearly saw that the cannonball that crossed the bow of the battleship Monarch accurately hit the deck in front of the bow, and after the shell penetrated the horizontal armor belt of the deck, it exploded next to the armor on the right side of the bow, and the detonated shell blew up a two-meter hole on the right side of the Sovereign, and lit a large fireball of more than ten meters, but it was immediately extinguished by the other party.

The large hole of the explosion was located almost 3 meters above the waterline, and for the battleship there was hardly any substantial damage......

And the British battleship Reckless fired a round and a half salvo of calibration orders a little later, and one of the shells also directly hit the main armor belt of the rear side chord of the Guangzhou battleship, but the shell of the Reckless was not a cap-piercing shell, but an ordinary delayed fuse shell, although it penetrated the main armor of the Canton on the side chord, and the explosion only blew a large hole in the armor, but failed to penetrate the armor.

As for the other near-misses on both sides, the effect was even more minimal......

At 12:17, the Shanxi battleship seized an opportunity, and when the Invincible was patrolling behind the single-shot school firing side, the first school projectile hit a good score, and the shell landed less than 400 meters in front of the Invincible side, and the gun commander Sun Heng immediately reflexively issued an order for two rapid salvos.

The nine shells that had not yet been fired by the Shanxi immediately roared out, and the gun positions did not wait for further observation, and immediately quickly loaded the shells hoisted in the lifting channel...... When the 9 shells detonated a series of water columns at the end of the sighting telescope, the sighting officer immediately and accurately determined that the Invincible Patrol was near the salvo landing boundary that was stuck in front of the side of the enemy!

Immediately after less than 40 seconds, on the fire control platform in the commander tower of the battleship Shanxi, the red lights that had been prepared for the salvo of the gun position had been fully lit, Sun Heng glanced at the horizontal dashboard out of the corner of his eyes, and pressed the electronic ignition launch button without hesitation, and the white smoke ejected from the fierce cannon flames suddenly obscured the vision of the command tower, and the next moment, the Shanxi quickly jumped out of the smoke.

Feng Chao, the commander of the battleship, stood at the observation window of the command tower, looking at the two British battle cruisers that were almost unrecognizable on the sea level in the distance with a slightly serious expression.

In the previous engagements, the Shanxi has been the preferred target of the two British battle cruisers, and there is also a British dreadnought on the other side, the Collingwood battleship is also constantly firing at itself, fortunately, they make full use of their speed to constantly change course, in this situation, the British fire control system seems to be inefficient, while their own dragon integrated fire control can make some more effective predictions, all they need is patience......

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A series of orders came from the loud barrel, Feng Chao didn't pay attention to these at all, he had absolute confidence in his soldiers, what he needed now was the results of the battle, the results of the battle to open up the situation!

Suddenly, a black cloud rose in the distance! (To be continued.) )