Black smoke billowed on the entire battlefield, and the Nanrui ship took the lead in rushing to the ships Katsuragi and Akagi that were operating on the right flank of the Fuso, and the results of today's battle have completely reached Lu Hong's expectations, of course, if the results can be expanded, of course he will not hesitate to implement them immediately, but the naval battles of this era are far from being as swift as the imaginary martial arts masters.

Pursuing the two ships that were firing guns 3,000 meters away, there was still a small obstacle in this, after all, the Fuso ship was still floating on the water, although it was broken through the rear cabin and caused water ingress, this battleship has been difficult to move, but it is definitely not easy to be silent in a hurry.

In fact, the more than 200mm armor of the Fuso ship's waist gun room has not been fatally hit by any real surname so far, and the only problem may be that the fire caused smoke to billowing in the gun room, and the 240mm gun in the gun room, although the rate of fire is a little slower, but it is undoubtedly extremely threatening to the thin-skinned Nanrui, Nanchen, Jingqing and other ships.

Even Lu Hong had to carefully consider the problem of small losses and big losses, and the next pursuit of the three ships in the South Seas had to detour to the right flank, which wasted 5 precious minutes, of course, this wasted time was not without gain...... The Fuso ship had obviously lost power due to water ingress after this moment's effort, which meant that the battleship could not even make a simple turn, nor could it continue to threaten the siege of the three ships in the South Seas.

Of course, the three ships of the Nanyang Naval Division, which had obvious superiority in the barrels, naturally gained more hit points, and the rapid-fire artillery groups of Nanrui and Nanchen projected nearly 25 shells, while the main guns of the three ships and the Krupp secondary guns of the Jingqing ship projected 16 shells, while the ships Katsuragi and Akagi counterattacked with 14 and 4 shells respectively.

However, in the long-distance shooting close to 3,000 meters, even the training score will not exceed 10%, and this time there is obviously no accident, the ship Katsuragi was shelled 3 times, but they are all 120mm small-caliber flowering shells, but the position of the hit is not good, except for a bunch of fires in the bow of the ship, killing several sailors, did not play a special effect.

The counterattack of the Katsuragi and Akagi ships was far inferior to that of the Nanyang Fleet, and only one 120mm shell hit the lifeboat on the side chord of the Namrui, and the fire that ignited damaged some cables was quickly extinguished by the deck soldiers! At this moment, the two ships Yoshino and Naniwa in the distance had already accelerated, and billowing black smoke was already dense between the sea and the sky in the distance...... The time left for Lu Hong is six or seven minutes at most.

Lu Hong took the binoculars and looked at Yoshino and Naniwa in the distance, and very resolutely pointed to the ship Katsuragi who was dodging in front of him, "Lin Guandai, we can't let Yue himself gather, otherwise it will be difficult for us to achieve the victory of deciding the surname...... Of course, if you can sink this ship, it will be a good lesson for me! ”

The destroyer Katsuragi was built in 1885 by the Navy Onohama Iron Works, an ironwaki-hulled battleship, and the iron-hulled warship, wooden hull, steam engine, and boiler required for the battleship were purchased by the British.

However, there is no doubt that the construction of this warship was very successful, and perhaps what made the Chinese people feel more emotional was the great role played by 40 shipbuilders hired from China, and these engineers were lost from the Jiangnan shipyard, which had completely abandoned the construction of independent ships, and the Chinese engineers trained and manufactured the first generation of domestic boilers and single-barreled neat engines for Yue, and these equipment were used in the 660-ton Akagi gunboat.

Seven years later, in 1**2, the armored cruiser Akitsusu, which represents the latest technology of the Navy, was also launched at the Navy's Onoha Shipyard, and this time, even the British shipbuilding technicians also commented that the armored ships built by the Akimoto have the same build quality as the British shipyards!

In a short period of time, on the one hand, although the Manchu Qing Dynasty did not completely abandon independent shipbuilding under the promotion of the Westernization Movement, due to the short-sightedness of the Ministry of Household Coastal Defense Funds, it reduced its investment in coastal defense and shipbuilding year by year, but the result was that the shipyards that were originally the first class in Asia, such as Mawei Shipyard and Jiangnan Shipyard, had no technological progress in ten years for ridiculous reasons......

On the other hand, on the morning ship, the Onohama shipyard 10 years ago was not even a shipyard in Japan, but a small British shipyard, but after being forcibly acquired by the military department, it quickly rose to become a first-class warship manufacturing factory in Asia in this era.

For Lu Hong's request, Lin Jianzhang obviously knew that it was not easy to do it, if it were not for the contempt of the Fusang ship for the Nanyang Naval Division, coupled with the fleet's deliberate concealed combat intentions, this successfully made the other party fall into the trap, and at this moment, the tragic situation of the Fusang ship that he witnessed with his own eyes, Xiao Yue on the Katsuragi is probably not a fool, and he will definitely not easily approach him!

"Turn the rudder 40 degrees to the left, pursue Akagi at full speed, shelling!" Lin Jianzhang immediately put down all his tactical concepts, but pointed to the direction in which the ship was dodging, and pounced on the flanks of the two ships, seeing that the reinforcements were coming, he had to make a decision immediately, and use the small advantage in speed to close the distance, and at the same time keep the side chord firepower fully open, this is already the most optimized plan, and pointing at Akagi is undoubtedly a small trick

The Nanyang 3 ship has another special advantage, the average speed of the Nanrui, Nanchen, and Jingqing 3 ships is 14 knots, and in contrast, the Katsuragi cruiser, as the first self-made cruiser, in fact, the speed is not up to the standard, compared with his sister ships Yamato, Musashi, the speed is half a knot, only 13 knots, and the Akagi gunboat, with a steam engine and boiler learned from Chinese technology, the speed is only 11 knots.

That is to say, at this moment, the maximum speed of the battleship formation is at most 11 knots, not to mention, this maximum speed, in fact, requires strong ventilation and pressurization of the boiler to run out of the speed, in fact, at this moment, the two ships were desperately chasing the Fusang, and indeed ran out of the highest speed, but on the whole, the Nanyang 3 ship has a good advantage in the fleet speed!

Sure enough, the 3 ships pointed directly at the small gunboat Akagi, and immediately dragged the Katsuragi cruiser's previous intention to open the distance from the Nanyang Fleet, and with the fierce fire of the 120mm rapid-fire guns on the side chord of the Natsuri, the commander of the Akagi gunboat, Hachitaro Sakamoto, immediately realized the huge crisis...... He was an unprotected gunboat of more than 600 tons, and a single shot could be fatal, so he immediately ordered, "Speed up, get close to Katsuragi quickly, and be sure to hold on until the Yoshino ship comes to help!" ”

However, this time the siege of Akagi played a wave of small **, and the three Nanyang ships with obvious speed were outflanked from the right flank, and fully exerted the striking power of the side fire, although it only narrowed the distance of less than 500 meters, but only in the third round of firing 1 minute later, a 120mm shell hit the front deck of the Akagi.

The violent explosion of the cannonball directly overturned the 120mm main gun in front of the Akagi, and the two teams of soldiers who were desperately resisting on the deck were immediately engulfed in flames, and several living people jumped off the side of the ship to try to save their lives, but ...... The ending can be imagined! What's worse is that this time, I made the same mistake again.

Several shells under the gun mount were killed in the explosion at the same time, causing a violent explosion again, the explosion directly destroyed the front deck structure of the Akagi, and the fire caused by the explosion directly rushed into the lower cabin, directly causing the entire gunboat to be shrouded in dense black smoke, and the first mate in the cockpit could not even see the target in front clearly!

The two consecutive rounds of shelling by Nari and Nanchen also directly hit the side-chord armor belt of the Akagi, and the wooden armor was obviously unable to resist the 120mm rapid-fire shells at a distance of 2,500 meters. (To be continued.) )