Ryan Meade, the captain of the Dreadnought battleship Giant, hesitated for a moment when he heard that Commander Bridget asked the navies of various countries to send some warships to stop the pursuing Imperial Chinese Navy fleet, and said: "Commander, is it appropriate to let the navies of various countries keep their warships, which is equivalent to letting these warships stay and send them to their deaths?" ”

Although Ryan Mead hopes to leave this hellish battlefield as soon as possible, but let so many warships of various countries, including many warships of the British Navy, stay and break off, Ryan Mead still feels a little unbearable in his heart, after all, the warships that stay after the break are basically inseparable from here, and even the entire joint expeditionary fleet is no longer the opponent of the main fleet of the Chinese Imperial Navy, and the remaining warships cannot do anything except block it, and these remaining warships want to retreat again, It's definitely harder, and the chances are slim.

Bridget coughed and said in a resolute tone, "Ahem...... At this time, we can't hesitate, if the naval battle that broke through Hong Kong a few years ago hadn't finally broken some small warships and a few seriously damaged battleships, cough cough ...... Maybe the entire British Navy, the French Navy and the German Navy will be wiped out at that time, and not a single warship of the three navies will be able to escape the pursuit of the Northeast Navy at that time, so just follow my orders! Oh yes, ahem...... Let's keep the few remaining ironclad battleships behind, and have them to buy more time. ”

The British Navy sent a total of 8 ironclad battleships to join the joint expeditionary fleet, after the bombing of the Sea Hawk bombers and the bombardment of the main guns of the Chinese Imperial battleships, there are still 6 of the 8 ironclad battleships of the British Navy, and none of them have been seriously damaged. It also maintains its combat effectiveness.

The reason why there are so many ironclad battleships left is also the battleships of the Chinese Empire and the Sea Hawk bombers. Prioritize the 2 British Navy ironclad battleships that were sunk on the dreadnought battleships and all-steel battleships of the Combined Expeditionary Fleet. It can only be considered bad luck.

Bridget then ordered some of the British Navy's fast protection cruisers, destroyers, and torpedo boats, as well as six ironclad battleships, to turn their bows and attack the main fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy, which was chasing behind. In order to ensure that the remaining capital warships of the British Navy were evacuated from this place as much as possible, someone had to make sacrifices.

Of course, Bridget knows that blind pressure will not work. He told the British officers and men of the ironclad battleships, fast protection cruisers, destroyers, and torpedo boats who remained behind that if there were warships that were unwilling to stay behind and could continue to retreat north with the main force, that is, on the warships that stayed to block them, and if there were British naval officers and men who were unwilling to break off, they could also move to other retreating British warships as soon as possible.

The officers and men of the British warships who received Bridget's orders, especially the captains of these warships, could not help but curse in their hearts, saying that they could retreat if they were unwilling, but according to the practice of the British Royal Navy. They did not follow the orders of Commander Bridget, and even if they returned safely to the British mainland, they could not avoid the fate of court-martial.

Moreover, the officers and men of the Navy who did not want to stay on the warship could be transferred to the retreating warship, but there must be time for them to be transferred. Now all the warships of the British Navy are speeding up their retreat, and if they want to be transferred, they must take the lifeboats on the warships, but the lifeboats need to be rowed by manpower. How can you catch up with a warship sailing at high speed!

Bridget's words are tantamount to not saying, and the matter has come to this. Those British Navy warships that were selected could only stay and fight hard.

The British Royal Navy's will to fight is still commendable, no matter what the officers and men of these British Navy warships that have been left behind and cut off think. Anyway, after Bridget's order was conveyed to the selected fast protection cruisers, destroyers, and torpedo boats, as well as the six ironclad battleships, all these British Navy warships that received the order did not hesitate to turn around and kill the main fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy that was chasing behind.

On the bridge of the Helgolan-class dreadnought battleship Helgolan, the flagship of the German naval fleet, the German commander of the naval fleet, Tessim, after receiving Bridget's order to let all countries leave behind the warships, sighed and said to Tolebad, the captain of the Helgoland: "Select a part of our German Navy's fast protection cruisers, destroyers and torpedo boats, stay behind and break the rear, and block the main fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy that is chasing us. It will be difficult for our entire Combined Expeditionary Fleet to evacuate the battlefield. ”

Tolebad nodded with a lonely expression and said, "It seems that this is the only way to go, but it is impossible for the warship we left behind to leave." ”

From the observation window of the bridge, Tessim glanced at the remaining dreadnought battleships and all-steel battleships of the German Navy, and shook his head helplessly, at this time there were only 7 dreadnoughts left in the entire German Navy, including 2 Oldenburg-class dreadnought battleships, 1 Westphasia-class dreadnought, 2 Helgoland-class dreadnought battleships and 1 Nassau-class dreadnought, and 1 Nassau-class dreadnought-class battleship, as well as 1 seriously damaged Nassau-class dreadnought.

In addition to the serious damage of 2 all-steel battleships, the German Navy only has 6 all-steel battleships left, namely 1 Wiecchersbach all-steel battleship, 2 Braunschweig-class all-steel battleships, and 3 German-class all-steel battleships.

However, the main fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy clung to it, and there was no way to let some fast protection cruisers, destroyers, and torpedo boats stay behind to block the attack.

Tessim gritted his teeth and said: "The empire will not forget these broken naval officers and sailors, in order to let the remaining main warships evacuate as safely as possible, they had to sacrifice them, and let the remaining 6 ironclad battleships also stay, only relying on fast protection cruisers, destroyers and torpedo boats, it will not delay much." ”

The German Navy also had 8 ironclad battleships join the Combined Expeditionary Fleet. Coincidentally, like the British, there are 6 ships that are still in combat effectiveness. Only 2 ships were sunk in the engagement.

The quality of the officers and men of the German Navy was no less commendable, after the order of Tessim. The warships that were selected did not hesitate to turn their bows and kill the main fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy behind them, just like the warships left behind by the British Navy.

In the bridge of the French Navy's flagship Provence-class dreadnought battleship, the French Navy fleet commander François received Bridget's order, sighed and said to the captain of the Brilliant: "Now our French Navy has maintained its combat effectiveness except for the Brilliant Dreadnought battleship, and there are only 2 wounded Provence-class dreadnought battleships left." Counting the 2 all-steel battleships that were seriously damaged, we also have only 2 Republic-class all-steel battleships, 2 Liberty-class all-steel battleships and 2 Dandong-class all-steel battleships, a total of 6 all-steel battleships, in order to return these dreadnought battleships and all-steel battleships to France. We'll have to follow General Bridget's orders. ”

Rizaram smiled bitterly and said: "It seems that there is no way for us to think of anything other than this method, just the people who stay, alas-"

Subsequently, the remaining three ironclad battleships of the French Navy, as well as a number of fast protection cruisers, destroyers and torpedo boats, also changed direction and rushed straight towards the main fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy, which was pursuing behind.

At this time, not all the navies of all countries could make such sacrifices, the commander of the Russian naval fleet, Vladienovich, the commander of the Italian naval fleet, Erebet, and the commander of the Austro-Hungarian naval fleet, Rustit. After receiving Bridget's order, he did not do so, and not a single warship was left behind.

The naval losses of Russia, Italy and Austria-Hungary were extremely heavy, and now only one dreadnought battleship remained in Russia and Italy. Austria-Hungary did not even have a single dreadnought battleship, and the commanders of the naval fleets of the three countries were unwilling to let their warships continue to be lost. So ignoring Bridget's order, all the remaining warships of the 3 countries. Continue to desperately flee to the north.

Russia currently has 1 Valdo-class dreadnought battleship, 1 Peresvet-class all-steel battleship and 1 Borodino-class all-steel battleship, 2 large fast armored cruisers, 8 fast protection cruisers, 7 destroyers, and 12 torpedo boats, and its strength has been weakened a lot. I also complained about the commander of the Russian naval fleet, Vladilenovich, and even one warship did not want to stay behind.

The losses of the Italian Navy did not let the eyebrows go, and now there were only 1 Dante-class dreadnought-class battleship, 3 Queen Margaret-class all-steel battleships, 4 large fast armored cruisers, 8 fast protection cruisers, 9 destroyers, and 7 torpedo boats.

The Austro-Hungarian navy had only 2 large fast armored cruisers, 4 fast protection cruisers, 3 destroyers, and 6 torpedo boats left.

Bridget had no choice but to rely on the warships left behind by Britain, Germany and France to block the pursuit of the main fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy, and as for the navies of Russia, Italy and Austria-Hungary, they could only take advantage of them.

And the 2 dreadnought battleships of the Ottoman Turkish Empire were sunk, and even the commander of the Ottoman Turkish Imperial Naval Fleet, Ismail, was killed, and the other warships of the Ottoman Turkish Imperial Navy After such a long naval battle, there was only 1 large fast armored cruiser, 1 fast protection cruiser, 2 destroyers, and 4 torpedo boats. Bridget did not even inform the temporary replacement commander of the Ottoman Imperial Navy, allowing the Ottoman Imperial Navy to leave behind the broken warships.

The Imperial Chinese Navy soon discovered that the Joint Expeditionary Fleet had split up a part of the warships, turned the bow of the ship and killed a horse gun, and it was obvious that the Combined Expeditionary Fleet was going to abandon the car and protect the commander.

In the middle of the Combined Expeditionary Fleet, the British Navy selected 6 ironclad battleships, 12 fast protection cruisers, 16 destroyers, and 20 torpedo boats to kill the detachment in the middle of the Chinese Empire.

On the left side of the Combined Expeditionary Fleet, the German Navy selected 6 ironclad battleships, 9 fast protection cruisers, 10 destroyers, and 14 torpedo boats as warships. The French Navy on the right sent 3 ironclad battleships, 4 fast protection cruisers, 4 destroyers, and 8 torpedo boats as the force to block the main fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy.

Sun Xitao, the commander-in-chief of the naval battle of the Imperial Chinese Navy, saw a part of the warships of the Combined Expeditionary Fleet in the bridge of the super dreadnought battleship Fengtian, sighed with a little regret in his heart, and then ordered: "Leave the Combined Expeditionary Fleet to eat all these warships after the break." ”

Yin Jian, the captain of the Fengtian, frowned and said, "With these broken warships, it is impossible for us to leave the entire United Expeditionary Fleet. ”

Sun Xitao shook his head and said: "I'm not so greedy, vainly trying to leave the entire Combined Expeditionary Fleet behind, the naval battle is going on here, although the Joint Expeditionary Fleet has suffered very large losses, but there are still dozens of their dreadnought battleships and all-steel battleships combined, and the strength is still there, and the 4 mythical-class aircraft carriers The Sea Hawk bomber group there has lost too much, and it is impossible to carry out a large-scale bombing of more than 100 bombers again, if you insist on leaving them behind, The losses of our dreadnought battleships and all-steel battleships must also increase a lot, in that case it is not what I want, so I will take it when I see it! The Entente and the Central Powers did not just own these warships, and perhaps in the near future, we will have to fight against the second joint expeditionary fleet of the Entente and the Central Powers! ”

After the fourth round of bombing of the Joint Expeditionary Fleet, only 89 of the 137 Seahawk bombers successfully landed on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier, but if the Seahawk bomber group was allowed to carry out the fifth round of bombing, only less than 70 Seahawk bombers would be able to take to the skies for combat, and some of the Seahawk bombers who returned to the aircraft carrier were injured and were not suitable to take off again immediately.

Yin Jian looked at the 3rd Route Detachment of the Combined Expeditionary Fleet in the distance, and said with a sigh: "It seems that after this naval battle is over, our Royal Navy will not be able to capture many warships of the Entente and the Central Powers, and those big guys have all run away." (To be continued.) )

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