It was not the battleships of either side that were the first to engage, but the faster cruisers and destroyers of both sides were the first to come into contact with each other on the periphery of the battleship. Among the weapons of cruisers and destroyers, neither naval guns nor torpedoes have a high range, so the combat of these warships can be considered almost hand-to-hand combat. The dense sound of artillery and the scurrying torpedoes were intertwined, and more than 400 small and medium-sized warships fought each other at close range, and the scene was extremely tragic.

This kind of battle was intentional by Marshal Scheer, he knew that Jericho was good at using destroyers to raid operations, so he first put cruisers and destroyers on both wings, forcing the cruisers and destroyers of the Entente to engage, as long as they could be entangled, this threat was much smaller, if the other side did not engage, his small warships could surprise the opposing battlefleet from the flanks, such a flank attack was quite dangerous for battleships.

Marshal Jericho was also well aware of Marshal Scheer's plan, but he relied on the superiority of his own warships, and he could not ask for such a soldier-to-general battle, so he also ordered cruisers and destroyers to rush forward.

No matter how tragic the battle between the cruiser and the destroyer was, it could not determine the direction of the battle, and the battleships that could really make the final decision were still on the battleships, at this time the battleships of the two sides were getting closer and closer, but the first wave of attack was not the battleships of both sides, but the twelve 'Haviland' bombers that took off from the four motherships of the Saar Imperial Navy.

When the battlefleets of the two sides were still eight nautical miles away, twelve bombers had already come to the sky above the Allied fleets, and bombs were intensively thrown at the Allied battleships, and huge water columns rose one after another. The Yaman fleet, which was equipped with a small amount of anti-aircraft fire, immediately organized an anti-aircraft fire network, but the Sahr's intensive bombing still quickly achieved results, and the two bombs exploded on the deck of the battleship 'Speer' one after another, opening two large openings of nearly one meter in diameter on the deck of the battleship.

Because the 'Havilland' bombers were too large and bulky to carry out dive bombing, and low-altitude horizontal bombing was too dangerous, they all chose high-altitude horizontal bombing. In order to make up for this shortcoming, the planes could only carry more small bombs to make up for the lack of hit rate in number, so the bombs carried by these planes were only 50 kilograms, and their power can be imagined.

Despite the lack of power, the dense bombs hit four battleships one after another, and although the losses were not large, they were quite damaging to morale. The bombs ran out, the twelve bombers had to return home, and the battleships on both sides were still the protagonists, and when the artillery battle at sea began, in order not to accidentally damage their own warships, the bombers could not attack. Therefore, for the first time in the history of the Western Continent, a frontal naval duel in which carrier-based aircraft participated, the symbolism was greater than the practicality.

In the face of the approaching opposing battleships, Marshal Jericho and Marshal Scheer gave the order to open fire almost at the same time, and the main guns of more than a hundred battleships roared, and in an instant, dense large-caliber shells filled the sky, and the shells of both sides met in the air, and even collided together by coincidence, and the shells detonated in the air burst out like a salute. Almost simultaneously, huge columns of water rose from the sea near the two fleets, drenching the battleships of both sides, and the huge hulls were shaken by the recoil of the main guns.

The 'Zhonghua' class battleships imported by the Yaman Navy from the Chinese Empire are different from other battleships on both sides, and almost all kinds of warships on both sides belong to the storm ocean ship type, these warships are shorter and thicker than the Eastern Ocean ship type mainly used by the Chinese Empire, this shape is to adapt to the greater wind and waves on the storm ocean, so that the warships can sail more stably, and the guns can also be aimed more stably, but the problem is that their speed is relatively slow.

Because the Chinese Empire used a flying scissor bow on this kind of battleship, the part below the waterline used a bulbous bow, in addition to its design of two rudders, three oars and stabilizer fins, so that even in the stormy ocean, its stability is very high, and the speed is significantly higher than that of other battleships, the eight "Zhonghua" class battleships first entered the effective range.

Thirty-two 330 mm bow guns roared at the same time, although this caliber of artillery has little advantage in today's rapid development of the navy, but the larger diameter of the Chinese imperial naval guns made up for its lack of caliber, and the kinetic shells still gave the Allied fleet a head-on blow.

The front-loading battleship "Gladun" was hit by a cannonball at the waterline of the bow, this former Chinese ship with a displacement of only 9,000 tons was shocked by the huge momentum of the shells, the old warship was not good in terms of sinking resistance, and the Chinese-class battleships used shells imported from the Chinese Empire, these shells with TNT charges exploded powerfully, making the hole in the bow of the "Gladun" too large, exceeding the limit of the battleship's bearing.

With the ability of the "Gladun", there was no possibility of plugging this loophole, and a large amount of water quickly entered the breach, how could the "Gladun", which has a displacement of only 9,000 tons, be able to withstand the weight of so much seawater, its stern was quickly upturned by the seawater, and then the entire warship slowly sank into the water.

The Allied navy was the first to win and boost their morale, as the two fleets were interspersed at high speeds, and the eight 'Zhonghua'-class battleships could not turn to attack with their side guns, so they had to pass between the opposing ships, and the two sides engaged in hand-to-hand combat.

There were so many giant warships in this small sea area that there was simply not enough space for the warships of both sides to line up in a neat battle line for long-range artillery battles, so they had to resort to the most primitive tactics to let the battleships launch a close-range combat attack.

The fleets of the two sides approached rapidly, and the overly dense artillery fire and the closer and closer distances caused the battle losses of the two sides to skyrocket, and even the eight solidly armored 'Zhonghua'-class battleships soon appeared in many holes, and the naval battle had reached a white-hot stage.

At this time when the naval battle was raging, the naval fleet of the Chinese Empire had approached the sea off Pools Port, and when it was twenty nautical miles from the coast, the fleet formed a battle formation, and all the carrier-based aircraft began to rise into the air one after another, flying towards their respective set targets.