Jiang Yuan, Henghai, and Guangjia have all been heavily damaged by enemy ships, Jiang'an was hit by fierce artillery fire and only one-third of the hull was still exposed on the sea, the young pipe band Zhou Jun was covered in blood, standing on the top of the tower, forcefully waving the flag, playing the flag of "killing the enemy to serve the country, generosity and righteousness", all the Chinese sailors who saw this flag could not help but be moved, and then more than a dozen shells fell from the sky, blowing up the Jiang'an to pieces, Zhou Jun and more than 500 officers and men of the whole ship were all killed.

The bow main guns of the three ships of Jiang Yuan, Henghai and Guangjia were almost paralyzed, and they used the zero boundary angle of the steering to force their bodies to turn around, and launched a fierce attack on the Imperial Power class battleships "War Weyer" and "Sevane" with their side guns, and at the same time, when the three ships completed the turn, they became facing the British with a wide side side, and the bomb area was larger, and the situation would become more serious.

Seeing the sinking of the Jiang'an with his own eyes, the three warships were beaten to pieces, Liu Buyun's heart was as uncomfortable as being pricked by a needle, Yang Yonglin said to him angrily: "Zixiang (Liu Buyun's words), you can't do it like this anymore, our side artillery fire is not as strong as the enemy ships, if this continues, Henghai, Guangjia, and Jiang Yuan will be sunk in a short time." ”

"You want to do that?" Liu Buyun's face was gloomy, and his eyes stared at Yang Yonglin faintly.

"Send a tactical detachment to rush over, as the Austrians did in the Battle of Lisa, and disrupt the British column." Yang Yonglin's eyes shone with sparks. In 1866, the then weak Austro-Hungarian Navy used horizontal tactics to ram the Italian fleet in a T-shaped formation, sinking the Italian flagship Italia in one fell swoop. Thus the winning game was laid. Almost all officers of the Chinese Navy had learned this example, and Yang Yonglin was going to use this method to rush through the middle of a column discharged by the British, completely disrupting the enemy's formation.

Liu Buyun snorted, glared at Yang Yonglin and said: "Adopt a horizontal team tactic, if it succeeds, it's fine, if it is detected by the British in advance, we will sacrifice a tactical detachment in vain, the price is too great." At present, two Dingyuan-class and two Emperor-class ships have entangled the enemy's eight Emperor-class ships, and I want to take this opportunity to send a tactical detachment to rush to the front of the British fleet, seize the T-shaped position, and then storm the Dreadnought with close-range artillery fire. However, the risk of doing so is too great, and I am afraid that they will be sunk before they can seize the advantageous position. ”

"General, Jiang Yuan, Guangjia, and Henghai have all played flags!" A sentry said, pointing in a southeastern direction.

The three warships waved the flag and wanted to storm the T-prefix, hoping that the rest of the ships would do a good job of artillery cover. Looking at the three dilapidated battleships, Liu Buyun tightly locked his brows, and shouted in a hoarse voice: "Send ten gunboats and five torpedo ships to quickly plug in, Kaiji, Yangwu, and Zhaohe aim their guns at the Dreadnought, and hit them hard!" ”

The Jiangyuan was blazing with fire in the inner compartment and deck, and Lin Guoxiang, the pipe leader, organized the soldiers to throw all the wooden structures on the ship that could be dismantled into the sea, and ordered the sailors of the fire brigade to lift the cumbersome fire pump to the appropriate position, connect the long rubber water pipe, and also block the underground drains on the outer deck, and store water on the deck to prevent the fire from spreading further.

At this moment, the engine room located at the bottom of the warship has long become a purgatory on earth. In order to prevent fire from entering the engine room, all the passages to the upper deck were closed, and the heat scorched every officer and soldier here, and the hair had long since curled up, and everyone's skin was flushed. The chief pipe wheel also pulled his neck and shouted: "Add more coal, don't stop, don't touch the bulkhead......"

Although the fire was temporarily controlled, it was impossible to completely extinguish it, not to mention that the enemy's shells were still firing frantically in this direction, and they seemed to have made up their minds to sink the battleship on the verge of collapse first.

"My lord, abandon the ship, it will be too late if you don't leave." A sailor persuaded Lin Guoxiang.

Lin Guoxiang, who had a smoky face, put down four words: "The ship is here!" "Turn around and run to the position of the command tower.

Lin Guoxiang stared ahead and said to the sailor in charge of driving: "Full rudder left, sail 40 degrees to the northeast, and rush over with full horsepower!" ”

"My lord, the power compartment is overheating, and turning on full horsepower may cause the boiler to explode." The sailor reminded.

"Don't care so much, listen to my orders, and drive at full speed!" Lin Guoxiang accentuated his tone.

Both the Guangjia and the Henghai saw the flag of the Jiang Yuan, and in a short moment, the two ships commanded almost simultaneously: "The left is full of rudders, sail to the northeast, and drive at full power!" ”

By this time, the fog had lifted, and a red sun rose from the sea, dyeing the entire sea golden.

On the sea, the three ships Jiang Yuan, Guangjia, and Henghai rushed to the huge Dreadnought at the fastest speed with billowing smoke and flames, and many British sailors saw this scene and thought that the Chinese were crazy.

"Three Chinese warships swooped down on this side at a speed of 15 knots." A sentry reports to Hamilton.

"Concentrate artillery fire, be sure to sink them before they arrive." Hamilton said gloomily.

Because the three ships were in the process of high-speed driving, and the bow of the ship was facing the enemy head-on, the bomb area was very small, and although many of the naval guns at that time had a range of more than 10,000 meters, due to the sea turbulence, recoil, etc., the hit rate of the shells was not very high, and the effective distance of the real guns was within 5,000 meters, therefore, many of the shells fired from the British ships hit the sea, and at the same time, the artillery offensive composed of Kaiji, Yangwu, and Zhaohe was extremely fierce, attracting a lot of firepower from the other side. It played a great role in covering the three ships of Jiang Yuan.

Lin Guoxiang's eyes were red, staring at the Dreadnought giant ship, listening to the report of the rangefinder sailors.

7300 m ......

6700 m ......

5000 m ......

4400 m ......

At the same time, one of the power boilers of the Jiang Yuan finally exploded because it could not bear the pressure of high-load driving, and the huge shock wave directly tore open the two sealed cabins, and made a hole more than one meter wide in the bottom of the ship, and the sea water poured in frantically, although the sailors quickly closed the water blocking gate, but the pressure of the sea water was too huge, and the gate could not be supported, and the entire hull began to slowly tilt to the left. Hiroka and Yokokai, who were closely following behind it, had also been battered by the shells.

"Fire!" Lin Guoxiang decisively gave the order, and the only remaining main gun on the Jiang Yuan finally spewed out angry tongues of fire, and Guangjia and Henghai also responded with cannons, but the average 195 mm main guns of the three ships were insignificant in front of the fully armored design of the Dreadnought, and the shells could not even penetrate the thickened steel plates of the Dreadnought.

"Keep going!" Lin Guoxiang said calmly.

Even Liu Buyun, who had been baptized by war, did not expect that the three warships could pass through the heavy artillery fire of the enemy ships with an unstoppable momentum, and he ordered Jingqing and Huantai to immediately participate in the artillery cover to attract the artillery of the ships around the Dreadnought.

At this time, in the middle of the fire network intertwined with heavy shells, the Jiang Yuan, which was burning with raging fire, actually came to a deadly distance of 1350 meters, Lin Guoxiang was ecstatic, and he immediately ordered the right full rudder to turn the entire hull, he believed that within this distance, most of the well-preserved rapid-fire guns on the starboard side could tear through the thick armor of the Dreadnought.