At one o'clock at noon, another battle also had a result.

The destroyer Kuroshio, which was separated by Nishimura Sanglong, was originally intended to return to Colombo. But at twelve o'clock, the Japanese captain had already discovered that he was cornered.

Zheng Xuechang led the main fleet, a full six warships, and blocked the devil's way back. The first thing the devils discovered were the three destroyers of the Naval Resistance Army.

The three Tengu-class destroyers of the Maritime Resistance Army came prepared, and the Japanese army, a lone destroyer, could only respond to the battle in a hurry.

The weather conditions were not good, visibility was poor and the sky was rainy. The Naval Resistance Force did not have a radar for ships, and the Japanese army could only rely on Maoyan. Therefore, when the two sides found each other, they were already less than fourteen kilometers away.

The three Tengu-class destroyers of the Maritime Resistance Force were the first to open fire. The number of warships is three to one.

IF WE TALK ABOUT FIREPOWER, THE NAVAL RESISTANCE ARMY IS TWELVE 127MM GUNS. The Japanese destroyer Kuroshio had a total of three twin turrets with a total of six guns. The two sides are 2 to 1.

In terms of technology, the three destroyers of the Naval Resistance Force are all a quadruple turret. The Japanese army was a twin turret.

The advantage of the naval resistance army is that the output fire continuity of the quadruple turret is good. The Japanese army's twin turrets were more flexible in use.

The difference between prepared and unprepared is that by the time the guns were fired, the three Tengu-class destroyers of the Maritime Resistance Force had already seized the horizontal position of the T-shaped front.

Therefore, in the three minutes of the start of the battle, the Japanese destroyer Kuroshio was not able to form an effective counterattack at all. Only one bow turret fired, which did not do much at all. Unless you're lucky, the chances of success are slim to none.

And the three destroyers of the Naval Resistance Army fired at least a hundred shots in three minutes.

The quadruple turret used by the Tengu-class destroyers was removed from the battleship Atlantic. In World War II, the French were the only ones in the world to use a quadruple turret. Most of the warships of other countries are twin or triple.

During the firing process of the quadruple turret, the four guns are loaded together, but they are not fired at the same time, but sequentially fired with a single gun. The time interval between the periods is extremely short. Only a few tenths of a second. Such an artillery process reduced the recoil of the artillery to a minimum. It's a masterpiece of the French. (By the way: the main guns of the Japanese battleship Yamato were also fired sequentially.) In most countries, two or three guns are fired at the same time from the same turret. The so-called salvo is not fired by several turrets at the same time, there is actually a time difference in between. ）

Although the performance of the Tengu-class destroyers was poor, the Japanese destroyers suffered a big loss at that time due to mental calculation and unintentionality. ALTHOUGH THE HIT RATE OF THE DESTROYERS OF THE SEA RESISTANCE ARMY IS NOT HIGH, FOR A DESTROYER WITH ALMOST NO ARMOR, TWO 127MM ARMOR-PIERCING SHELLS ARE ALREADY EXTREMELY DAMAGING.

One of the destroyers in the tail of the devil was hit twice, and a turret was blown up, killing and wounding a mess. Smoke billowed out.

Don't say it, the little devil didn't surrender under such a weak situation, and it can be regarded as a good performance. But in fact, the captain of the Kuroshio did not know that there were three more warships of the Naval Resistance Army. His plan was to use his speed advantage to escape Ascension.

The devil fled westward. Naturally, the Naval Resistance Army wanted to pursue and fight fiercely. Three Tengu-class destroyers hoisted behind the Japanese destroyer Kuroshio and chased after them.

After chasing for half an hour, the shadow of the Japanese destroyer in the field of vision was already a little blurred. Officers and men of the destroyer of the Naval Resistance Army for this result. Depressed. There is no way. Of course, Li Guangqiao's warships cannot be compared with the regular warships of the devils, and the speed difference between the two is five knots.

The little devil thought that he had escaped from the ascension, and he had not had time to catch his breath. I didn't see the battleship, but I heard the sharp whistling of shells.

A huge bomb exploded not far away, stirring up a column of water dozens of meters high, and the sound was terrifying.

The Japanese captain was experienced. It was immediately judged that this shell was neither capable of being fired by a destroyer, nor with the power of a cruiser, and was definitely a battleship.

Battleship. Except for the Germans, who were eccentricly fond of knightly solitary sorties, no country's navy would have made a trick of a thousand miles alone. The little devil also did not think that it was a separate battleship that was encountered.

Therefore, the captain of the Kuroshio turned around and headed north again.

Zheng Xuechang was very satisfied on the battleship Atlantic. That's exactly what he wanted. If the devil dared to take the risk and continue westward, he really wouldn't be able to take out the Japanese destroyer. You know, the battleship Atlantic carried only two pickup-class air defense destroyers.

A Pika-class air defense destroyer once sank a Japanese destroyer in the Battle of the Arabian Sea, but that was definitely a special exception, an accident. Under normal circumstances, the pickup-class destroyers would not be able to stop the Japanese Yangyan-class destroyers at all.

If the devil takes the risk of escaping, maybe he will escape.

Once the Japanese destroyer went north, it didn't take long for the little devil to find that there was no chance of turning back.

The Maritime Resistance Force has six warships: one battleship, three Tengu-class destroyers, and two pickup-class destroyers. Dead stop Mannar Bay.

This kind of formation is obviously driving the dog into the poor alley, and the devil deeply feels that it is more auspicious to the north. The Japanese commander was a little dizzy, and he couldn't understand why he was in a daze.

If he was clear-headed, he would rather risk his death to charge, and he would not want to be chased into such a desperate situation.

Actually, if you want to blame, the culprit is Jizaburo Ozawa. Jizaburo Ozawa was about to retreat, and his advice to Nishimura Kuryu and the captain of the Kuroshio was that he could run if he couldn't beat him.

Therefore, the idea of escaping was like a seed that penetrated into the mind of the captain of the destroyer Kuroshio. After encountering three Tengu-class destroyers, the seeds of escape began to sprout, and he chose to flee.

When met with the shelling of battleships, the escape had grown into a towering tree that completely occupied his mind.

At this point, if he didn't know that he was surrounded, he really became a fool. There were no options available to him. The only little hope in my heart is to be able to meet the pro-tide number of Nishimura Sanglong. As for what the convergence could be, he had no time to think about it, so he could only say it again.

As soon as he fled, he couldn't muster up the courage to turn back and fight a decisive battle with the Naval Resistance Army.

In the end, the destroyer Kuroshio was not sunk by the naval guns of the Maritime Resistance Army, but hit a mine with a charge of about 200 kilograms.

A destroyer hits a mine, and the fate can be imagined. It didn't even take ten minutes to carry it, and it had already sunk to the bottom of the sea. What is even more bleak is that after the destroyer was hit by a mine, it turned over and sank into the sea.

The Yangyan-class destroyer has an establishment of two hundred and thirty-six people. More than 170 people were suffocated to death on the spot. Only sixty or seventy people were captured by the Navy.

Afterwards, some good people calculated that exactly half of the Japanese soldiers died in this battle. Note that it is not a casualty, the economic conditions of the Maritime Resistance Army are not good, and there is not much medicine to waste.

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That night, Zheng Xuechang led the fleet to shell Colombo. The battleship Atlantic opened fire with impunity, blasting a strip of no-man's land two or three kilometers wide and seven or eight kilometers long on each side of Colombo. As a result, the attack of the 21st Division of the Japanese Army was interrupted, and more than 500 devils died under the ship's guns.

Li Guang has a sentence that tells the cruel truth of a war. Unlike the views of domestic military strategists, he believes that he is fighting on the territory of his opponent. It's easier to win. Because the reason is very simple, on the enemy's territory, all kinds of tactics can be used unscrupulously, without worrying about civilian casualties and property losses. If morality is a little bit of a point: that is, there is no need to worry "too much" about people's casualties and property losses. Of course, there is no need to think about their livelihood in the future.

Zheng Xuechang bombed indiscriminately, and the Japanese army died five or six hundred. As for the casualties of others, it is impossible to count. It can only be written in the report: or there is a mistake.

Zheng Xuechang's naval artillery support. It was clear that the pressure on the British army in Colombo was relieved. It seemed that the situation began to favor the Allies, however, a strange scene appeared.

Because one of the biggest results of this battle was that the British army's retreat route by sea was unblocked.

From the early morning of the next day, the British troops began to withdraw en masse. At first, it was the general public who were evacuated, and they waited until the 30th. British troops also began to withdraw.

The British did not notify the Naval Resistance Army of their evacuation, which made Bao Gang extremely angry. But the British would not listen to Bao Gang.

Zheng Xuechang was a little crying and laughing because of the consequences of this battle. Where could he have thought that there was a way back. The British army immediately lost the courage to fight a war. It is difficult to be a good man, and he helped the British army, but Bao Gang was forced to bear all the pressure of the Japanese army alone. Zheng Xuechang is sorry.

As a last resort, Bao Gang began to withdraw his troops and blew up all the bridges from the west of Ceylon to the east in order to prevent the Japanese from Colombo from attacking Don Harbor.

On 1 July, the Japanese occupied Colombo.

In the first battle of Colombo, the Japanese suffered nearly 8,000 casualties. The total number of British casualties was around 17,000. Nearly four thousand were captured.

As for the Naval Resistance Army, because the battles were on the periphery, the scale was not large, and the casualties were not more than 100.

The situation in Ceylon was also improved by the withdrawal of the Japanese fleet.

First, the Naval Resistance Army arrived at Tang Port with a thousand recruits who arrived with the fleet.

Second, with the arrival of the fleet, there were also six P40 fighters, and the number of fighters of the Maritime Resistance Force reached twelve, and the air power was strengthened.

Third, after 20 days of construction, the fortifications in the three directions of Tanggang have begun to take shape.

As for ammunition supplies, Tang Port did not lack anything in the slightest. Therefore, even if the Japanese army still had a total of more than 15,000 troops, Bao Gang still had full confidence to hold Tanggang.

Bao Gang sent a telegram to Li Guang on 1 July, saying that he could withstand the Japanese attack. Therefore, Li Guang hurried back to Madagascar from Pearl Harbor and received good news.

As for the reason for the withdrawal of British troops from Ceylon, it was not that the British army did not pay attention to Ceylon. Rather, it was because the British were seriously underarmed, especially the navy, which could not draw enough troops.

First of all, the effect of the installation of snorkels on German submarines in 42 years was really revealed, and it was like a ghostly situation, and if there was no news of the sinking of the allied merchant ships one day, it would be great news, and the British fleet had greatly increased the pressure on escort and had to occupy a large number of warships to escort the ship.

In addition, on June 21, on the battlefield in North Africa, the famous German general Rommel won a decisive victory and captured Tobruk. The next target is Cairo.

If Rommel's offensive could not be stopped, the Mediterranean would soon become the Mediterranean of the Axis powers. Therefore, the North African battlefield could not afford the British to relax slightly. More navies and armies had to be mobilized.

All in all, it was not possible for the British army to withdraw the fleet in ten days and a half months. Since there was no navy, the commander of the Anglo-Indian army, General Alexander, naturally would not throw the army into Ceylon, the dead place.

Until the British Empire Navy returned to the Indian Ocean, the British would not fight alone in Ceylon.

As a result, the British army withdrew from Ceylon. However, the British troops only crossed the Pauk Strait and camped on the Indian mainland, across the sea from Ceylon, but did not withdraw far.

The opinion of the British army is not unreasonable, if the Japanese army cannot be defeated at sea, then it does not make much sense to fight to the death with the Japanese army in Ceylon.

The British are very good at calculus, but in the future, the Naval Resistance Army will bear all the pressure of the Japanese army, which is a terrible thing for the Naval Resistance Army. You must know that the little devil is not just so many troops, and just bringing in another division is enough for Bao Gang to have a headache.

This evacuation, like the Dunkirk evacuation, was carried forward by the British, and the spirit of treating funerals as happy events reached an unprecedented level and was widely publicized throughout the world.

However, in this propaganda, the Naval Resistance Army is the focus of it, one is that the Naval Resistance Army has indeed relieved the siege of the British army, and the other is that there is a British calculation behind the propaganda.

Li Guang was not at all interested in the honor he won this time. You don't need to use your brains, Li Guang also knows that Churchill is the best at disguise, and Britain's propaganda is clearly good, isn't it just that he hopes that the Maritime Resistance Army can be killed in Ceylon? (To be continued......)

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