The remaining main warships of the French Navy's expeditionary fleet and the Russian Navy's Pacific Second Fleet will finally complete the formation of Baba's battle line in the third round of main gun salvos, and the remaining main warships of the two countries will be lined up in one battle line, and the battle lines of the two countries are almost in a straight line.

As a result, the fleets of the two sides began to hope to seize the T-shaped prefix, and the fleets of the two sides, which were originally sailing in parallel, began to sail in a figure of eight, so that the distance between the fleets of the two sides became closer and closer, and the losses of both sides became greater and greater.

At the same time, the protective cruisers, destroyers, and torpedo boats of both sides also joined the battle, and these small warships of both sides, compared with the main warships, bypassed the battle line formed by the main warships of their own fleet, and coincidentally launched an attack on the opposing battle line, and a fierce battle was launched between the battle lines of the two sides.

When the Franco-Russian combined fleet and the two fleets of the Northeast Navy were 6,000 meters apart, the Franco-Russian combined fleet had already completed the fourteenth round of salvo firing of the main guns, and the Northeast Navy had completed the sixteenth round of salvo.

With the completion of the formation of the battle line by the French Expeditionary Fleet and the Russian Pacific Second Fleet, the strength of the two naval powers has been revealed, making the two fleets of the Northeast Navy suffer very large losses.

The all-steel battleship Shih Tzu of the Italian Navy, which was originally captured by the Northeast Navy, was hit by one 305-millimeter shell in the underwater armor, blowing up a large hole of about 5 meters, and another 305-millimeter shell fell into the sea water about 2 meters next to the hull, and a large opening of more than 8 meters was torn open.

The captain of the Shih Tzu led the officers and men of the Northeast Navy on the warship to work hard to rescue, and closed many hatches one after another, but still did not block the continuous influx of seawater, so that the angle of inclination of the Shih Tzu became larger and larger, because the sea water could not be blocked, that is, the seawater was injected into the other side to maintain the balance of the Shih Tzu, and it was too late, so the captain of the Shih Tzu held back his grief and ordered the officers and men of the Northeast Navy of the whole ship to abandon the ship. In the end, the 820 people on board the Shih Tzu successfully evacuated 775 people. Soon after, the Shih Tzu was under enemy fire and fell into the sea on one side.

The Guifei, the flagship of the Second Fleet, was of the same class as the Shih Tzu and captured the all-steel battleship of the Italian Navy, and was hit by a 305-mm shell that hit the 203-mm waterline armor, not only blowing up a large hole of more than 5 meters above the water's surface, but also blowing up the pipes of the nearby power compartment and igniting a skyrocketing fire. The boilers on the Chaise were divided into 2 power bays, and this shell caused the Chaise to lose half of its power.

In the next round of main gun salvo fire from the main warships of the French and Russian navies, the Guifei, which was slowing down, received two more 305-mm shells, one of which actually blew up the pipes of another power compartment of the Guifei, causing the Guifei to lose power and could only float at sea.

Jiang Chen, the commander of the Second Fleet, and the captain of the Guifei saw the situation of the warship, so they reluctantly ordered all the personnel of the Guifei to abandon the ship immediately.

Sure enough, in another round of salvo fire from the main guns of the Franco-Russian combined fleet, the Guifei was hit by five 305-mm shells in a row, and the explosion of one of the shells detonated the ammunition compartment of one of the main gun shells of the Guifei, and the Guifei was interrupted into two by a violent explosion and quickly sank to the bottom of the sea.

The Guifei, which also had 820 people, also successfully evacuated nearly 700 people, and more than 100 people remained on the Guifei forever, and sank to the bottom of the sea with the Guifei. Jiang Chen, commander of the Second Fleet, was picked up by a torpedo boat on the beauty-class all-steel battleship Feiyan, and continued to command the fleet to fight, and Feiyan became the new flagship of the Second Fleet of the Northeast Navy.

The large fast-armored cruiser Xingzhong of the Second Fleet of the Northeast Navy was hit by a 193-mm shell that penetrated the 50-mm deck armor, directly penetrated the ammunition compartment of a main gun shell in the hull of the Xingzhong, detonated hundreds of 203-mm shells inside, and quickly sank the Xingzhong into two parts, and none of the nearly 500 naval officers and men on the warship could successfully escape, and all of them died heroically, and the Xingzhong sank to the bottom of the Ussuri Bay.

The large fast armored cruiser Xingning of the same class was unlucky to be hit by two crooked 305 mm main gun shells, not only the hull was leaking, but the fire also made the officers and men of the Xingning unable to extinguish, and the captain of the Xingning saw the situation of the warship, so he ordered all the officers and men of the ship to abandon the ship immediately. After nearly 400 officers and men of the Xingning successfully evacuated the warship, the Xingning fire burned to an ammunition compartment for the main gun shells, and after a violent explosion, the Xingning sank to the bottom of the Ussuri Bay.

In addition to the 4 main warships that sank, many of the remaining main warships of the Northeast Navy were seriously damaged, and even the Shenyang, where Lin Daxin was located, was destroyed by a 305-mm shell of a double-mounted 40-fold 305-mm main gun turret, losing half of the main gun firepower.

In these dozen rounds of main artillery firing, the losses of the French expeditionary fleet and the Russian Pacific Second Fleet on the battle line were not small, and 4 main warships were also sunk.

The Emperor Charlemagne, the lead ship of the French Navy's Emperor Charlemagne's all-steel battleship, was seriously injured in the airship bombardment, and its speed dropped to 12 knots, and the Emperor Charlemagne, whose speed slowed down, was hit by three 305 shells in a row, causing a fire that burned to the ammunition compartment of a main gun shell, and blew the all-steel battleship with a displacement of 11,100 tons into two pieces and sank into the sea, and the French naval officers and sailors on the ship only jumped into the sea and successfully escaped more than 30 people.

The French Navy's Cecilia-class all-steel battleship Bernice was already seriously damaged, and its speed dropped to 15 knots, and the slowdown made Bernice easier to hit, and sure enough, it was hit by two 305 mm shells in a row during the main gun fire, one of which hit the bow of the Bernice, detonating dozens of 381 mm torpedoes in the torpedo launch bay in the bow, so that the capital of the Bernice was blown to pieces, and it sank into the sea without holding out for long. Less than 50 French naval officers and sailors on board the warship escaped and drifted on the surface.

The large fast armored cruiser Cama of the French Navy, which had been seriously injured and whose speed dropped to 15 knots, was hit by two 210 mm shells, one of which penetrated the 152 mm waterline armor of the Cama, exploded in the hull of the Cama, detonated 8 boilers in the nearby power compartment, and blew up one-third of the bottom of the hull, and soon the Cama sank into the sea, and more than 200 French naval officers and sailors on the warship successfully escaped.

The Russian Navy Yegoryevsk, which was seriously injured in the bombing of the airship, was hit by a 305-mm shell on the waterline armor, and as a result, the explosion detonated the nearby ammunition compartment, and hundreds of 305-mm shells were detonated at the same time, and it did not take long for the all-steel battleship with a displacement of 13,500 tons to sink into the sea, and all the Russian naval officers and sailors on the warship entered the bottom of the Ussuri Bay with the warship.

Most of the main warships of the other Franco-Russian combined fleets were also damaged, and the dozen rounds of fire between the main guns of the two sides could be said to be evenly divided, and no one took advantage.

However, in the fierce battle between the battle lines of the two sides, those protective cruisers, destroyers and torpedo boats, but the Northeast Navy occupied an absolute advantage, although the small warships of the Northeast Navy were not as numerous as the other side, but the small warships of the Northeast Navy relied on the new steam gas torpedoes, the high speed of the warships and the new gun mirrors on the artillery, and occupied the absolute upper hand in the entanglement with the small warships of the Franco-Russian combined fleet.

At the cost of sinking 4 protective cruisers, 4 destroyers and 8 torpedo boats, it sank 9 protective cruisers, 8 destroyers and 29 torpedo boats of the French Navy, sank 5 protective cruisers, 7 destroyers and 12 torpedo boats of the Russian Navy, not only intercepted the small enemy warships of the combined Franco-Russian fleet rushing to their battle lines, but also sank most of the enemy's small warships, and the two torpedo boats of the Northeast Navy also broke through the interception of the enemy's small warships. Rushed to a distance of 1000 meters near the battle line of the combined Franco-Russian fleet and fired 4 torpedoes of 533 mm.

Although the two torpedo boats of the Northeast Navy were immediately sunk, the torpedoes fired by them actually sank the French Navy's ironclad battleship Codman and the Weaver ironclad battleship at once.

Another destroyer, No. 3, broke through the interception of the enemy's small warships, torpedoed and sank the French Navy's ironclad battleship Martel, and then torpedoed and sank a Russian Navy's protective cruiser on the way to turn around and escape.

When the two fleets of the Northeast Navy and the Franco-Russian combined fleet were engaged in a fierce battle, another fleet appeared on the sea in the direction of Vladivostok, and it was the Third Fleet of the Northeast Navy that was waiting for the Russian fleet in the port to come out for a decisive battle in the waters outside the port of Vladivostok.

As a result, the Third Fleet of the Northeast Navy discovered from the radar on the warships that the Russian fleet in the port of Vladivostok was bombed indiscriminately by the airships of the Northeast Air Force when it was in the port of Vladivostok, and the remnants of the Russian warships retreated to the port of Vladivostok.

Therefore, Jiang Hui, commander of the Third Fleet of the Northeast Navy, immediately ordered the main force of the fleet to sail south to support the First Fleet and the Second Fleet, which were fighting against the combined Franco-Russian fleet. R1152