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The formation fired a salvo at a distance of three thousand yards and hit five shots in a row, but they were all bounced off the opponent's armor? Vice Admiral William's face is already difficult to see, after all, the single tonnage of the six warships of the Chinese Empire is placed there, and it is inevitable that the skin and flesh are thick, and now Vice Admiral William has already regretted why he has to gnaw on this hard bone like a ghost!

However, what surprised Vice Admiral William even more was that the speed of the opponent's fleet was much higher than that of his own fleet? This frustrated his idea of using the advantage of mobile surnames to fight a war of attrition around enemy ships, and Vice Admiral William was extremely shocked in the face of this new type of ship with a very strong targeted surname!

High speed, superior armor protection for heavy cruisers, with the displacement and firepower of a battleship and the speed of a light cruiser? The Chinese Empire simply built a batch of so-called heavy cruiser killers!

Without waiting for Vice Admiral William's relatively specific countermeasures, the Chinese Imperial War Patrol Formation began the first round of firing, and from a distance of 3,600 yards to 1,200 yards, the seven Burmington-class heavy armored protection cruisers of the second battle column of the British Royal Navy completed three rounds of salvos. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Jia Wuji looked at the scratches at the position where the main turret in front of the Nanling was hit, the training of the British Royal Navy was indeed what he expected, but although the three salvos of the British Royal Navy formation hit many shots, none of them caused losses to the Nanling, and the biggest loss so far was that the starboard lifeboat of the Nanling was blown away.

"Order the ships to shoot after the flagship!" At a distance of 1,000 yards, Jia Wuji decisively gave the order to bombard, because 1,000 yards was the so-called course meeting point of the two formations, and the Imperial Chinese Battlecruiser Formation only had this chance to fire a salvo, and the 308 mm caliber naval guns were far longer than the 180 mm naval guns equipped with the British Royal Navy's Bloomington-class heavy armored protection cruisers.

It can be said that at this distance, the naval guns of both sides are using the subtract of the ruler coefficient to enter the direct aiming mode, boom! As the front main guns of the flagship Nanling fired, the front main guns of each ship locked on to the opposing flagship, and the rear main guns freely selected the mode for firing.

"Consecutive hits!" The observer loudly reported the location of the enemy ship's bomb, and due to the magnification of the telescope, Jia Wuji could only see a puff of smoke and dust rising from the middle of the British flagship?

Rumble! A violent explosion suddenly erupted from the inside of the Mangrove, because the first salvo was filled with extremely powerful armor-piercing blasting shells, and the location where the Mangrove was hit may include its ammunition depot, the Mangrove was directly twisted by a giant hand, the huge explosion made the entire warship half-jump out of the water, and the detonated ammunition flew like fireworks, and the violent explosion exploded the entire warship from the middle into two sections, sinking to the bottom of the sea at a very fast speed.

The scene of the sinking of the Mangrove made Vice Admiral William's heart split, the other party was equipped with a three-hundred-millimeter naval gun, obviously the information he got before was very different, and the current Vice Admiral William has no time to estimate the real surname of the intelligence source, obviously he was misled by continuous wrong information, the other party is not a fat sheep at all, the so-called fat sheep is the Indian Ocean dispatch fleet under his command.

However, the fate of the British was far from over, and the ships of the British Second Battle Column were dodging on their own because of the sinking of the Mangrove, and at 12:15 p.m., the British Royal Navy's watchtower heavy cruiser was hit in the boiler room, and the ship lost power, and at 12:28 p.m., the British Royal Navy heavy cruiser Kokang was hit by seven consecutive 308 mm shells, the entire bridge was razed to the ground, and the British troops on the Kokang, who had lost its bridge and command system, began to abandon ship. Because like the watchtower that lost power, the Kokang was also a very good target, and most British sailors did not have a good habit of being a target, but there were also a small number of officers and men who insisted on shelling at the gun position, and the ship guns that lost their observation, ranging, and fire control command simply relied on the human eye to aim at the hit rate can naturally be imagined, and even if it was hit, it was difficult for the British 180 mm naval guns to penetrate the armor protection of the Nanling-class battle cruisers.

The British finally tasted the bitter fruit of their own brewing, because in the military expansion bill, the selection of armaments, the construction and processing, etc. are an invisible process, most of the arms factories and large shipyards are owned by noble parliamentarians, so the huge investment in armaments is naturally regarded as a huge cake by these nobles, and the most reasonable way to eat as much of the cake as possible is the problem that the noble parliamentarians of the British Empire think about the most every day.

Armstrong Artillery Factory As a new artillery factory in Britain, Sir Armstrong used all the relationships he could use to work hard for the field guns and naval guns he researched to be able to be installed in large quantities, but it was very unfortunate that the report of the Procurement Committee believed that the new special name of the Armstrong gun was multi-rifling, and the design of lead coating and rear loading was quite complex and inefficient, although it was powerful, but due to the new special surname of the Armstrong gun, its price was high and it was not suitable for mass production. And because of the artillery accident in the previous test firing called into question its reliability. Therefore, the procurement committee believes that the Armstrong gun is not suitable for the main artillery on the battlefield, and after comparison, the committee is very optimistic about the front-loading gun, because the front-loading gun technology is relatively mature, reliable and cheap, so the committee believes that the front-loading gun is more suitable for the needs of the battlefield.

However, due to the great losses suffered by the Germans in the French army that used front-loading guns in the Franco-Prussian War, the committee finally reluctantly accepted Armstrong's new rear-loading guns, but the so-called caliber and supply price ratio of the guns formulated in detail by the committee made Sir Armstrong have to make some small changes in some key parts of the artillery in an effort to save costs, and the Royal Navy believed that the eight-inch caliber naval guns of the Bloomington-class heavy armored protection cruisers were sufficient. The War Department's Commission of Inquiry considered it a waste to install a nine-inch or maximum ten-inch caliber gun on a Bloomington-class heavy armored protected cruiser.

Vice Admiral William really wanted to slap those bastards of the Investigative Committee who kept shouting about waste at this moment, and now his own 180 mm naval guns still could not effectively penetrate the opponent's protective armor at a distance of 1,000 yards, and the opponent's speed, firepower, and protection were far beyond their own fleet!

Vice Admiral William, as the commander of the heavy cruiser formation, was very fortunate to encounter the battle cruiser known as the heavy cruiser, and in the face of a battle that could not be won at all, Vice Admiral William had two choices, one was to fight to the end, even if the whole army was wiped out, and swore to defend the honor of the Royal Navy of the British Empire! The second option seems to be a little painful for Lieutenant General William, who is dedicated to his career!

Vice Admiral William had no time to feel sad and helpless for the Mangrove and Colonel Hill at the moment, thinking of this, Vice Admiral William made a decision that made him very proud, that is, the ships were scattered to break through!

Looking at the flagship's flag-hailed command, almost all the captains were stunned? After the first round of firefighting, although the Royal Navy suffered huge losses, but before the so-called last moment, the honor of the Royal Navy could not face such an open escape, and only one round of firing with the enemy had to retreat in panic? Retreat is also retreat, after all, the intricate battlefield situation is changing rapidly, and the order of the ships to disperse and break through has reached an inexplicable situation, and the dignified Royal Navy of the British Empire wants to choose the ships to disperse and break through? To put it simply, everyone run! If you can run one, count one!

As the flagship, the Poseidon Fork lowered its command flag, and quickly left the battlefield and headed southeast without looking back at the highest combat speed, and the captains who were still hesitating or even suspecting that the signal corps had conveyed the wrong signal, or that the observer had read the wrong signal, especially the three remaining battleships of the second battle column were scattered like birds and beasts.

The unusual behavior of the British immediately attracted Jia Wuji's attention, and Jia Wuji never expected that the British would hula and flee for their lives after only one round of battle line shooting?

If the opponent is the Netherlands, Portugal, some outdated naval countries, encountered a strong enemy, especially the flagship was sunk on the spot in the first round of firefight, the rest of the ships in order to avoid the annihilation of the whole army and reduce the loss of the mode of dispersing their own breakouts is normal, but the arrogant and arrogant British Royal Navy in the case of active ambush, only one round of firing after scattered and escaped? Jia Wuji was a little difficult to accept for a while, what he wanted most at the moment was to capture Lieutenant General William alive, and ask about the reason for this shameless commander, could it be that the blow he had just made was too fierce? Frightened British?

No matter what the result is, what Jia Wuji cares about is that the British have run away, and what he promised Lin Haijiang is to completely annihilate the British Royal Navy's Indian Ocean advance heavy cruiser formation, and now the British warships are fleeing in all directions, chasing? How to chase? Could it be that he is also scattered in pursuit?

The British must have some conspiracy, right? Although the Nanling-class battlecruiser has an absolute advantage over the heavy cruiser, this advantage still cannot be transformed into an invincible existence, if it is bombarded by a larger caliber naval gun, even if it is hit by a 180-millimeter naval gun, its losses will be huge, the empire still has some gaps with Britain in metal smelting and mechanical processing shipbuilding, so the ships in service of the Chinese Empire are the most valuable assets of the empire, and there is no room for any mistakes.

(To be continued)