Seeing that the six Chinese armored armored cruisers in the rear were catching up at high speed, the captain of the Trafalgar, which was located at the rear of the main British fleet, was immediately anxious, and hurriedly sent flags to many ships in front.

But at this time, it is useless to be in a hurry.

In order to avoid being attacked from the left and right, the British fleet began to turn sharply, but the Imperial fleet also followed, a fleet that was close to the British!

At 9:35 a.m., Vice Admiral Wang Liyong's mobile fleet had already caught up with the main fleets of both sides in front, and the two front main guns of the Ziyuan, as well as the single main guns on the left and right, a total of four main guns, began to fire at the Trafalgar in front.

At 9:40 a.m., the Trafalgar was already shrouded in barrage, and several large holes had been opened in the second half of the waterline, and a large amount of seawater was pouring in.

Besieged by several Imperial warships, the Trafalgar soon followed in the footsteps of its sister ship, the Nile, and sank into the icy waters, with a large number of British sailors jumping off the ships in an attempt to escape.

Vice Admiral Wang Liyong looked at the Trafalgar that was sinking, and his face was still smiling and kind, and he couldn't see the excitement of sinking the enemy ship at all!

At 9:56, Vice Admiral Wang Liyong's mobile fleet caught up with and cooperated with the capital ship to severely damage an old British battleship, causing the battleship to ignite a fire.

Vice Admiral Wang Liyong also did not care about this British battleship that had lost its combat effectiveness, but led the fleet to continue to move forward!

At this time, the British had already discovered that something was wrong, and the ships had already increased their speed by a large margin, and began to retreat to the southern seas, but Lin Tongshu and Wang Liyong could not let the British retreat easily.

From six o'clock in the morning to four hours of fierce fighting now, the Imperial Navy, after suffering many losses in the early stage, finally managed to reap the fruits of the battle, how could it easily let the cooked ducks fly away!

When the battle is at its most intense, it is often the time when the future is uncertain, and once the winner is decided, whether it is the winning side or the losing side, there is no excitement like before.

Although the officers and men of the Imperial Navy were excited, they calmly accepted the sinking or damage of one British warship after another.

The British and Spaniards, on the other hand, watched in silence as their ships were sunk or damaged, but they didn't say anything, they didn't do anything, they just kept the ships at maximum speed, and then fled all the way to the southwest!

One chase and one escape, this pursuit lasted for two days and two nights!

In the morning and afternoon of the same day, Lin Tongshu led the fleet to sink a number of warships, but then the British began to retreat with thick smoke, resulting in a large drop in the hit rate.

In the early morning of the next day, that is, at one o'clock in the morning of January 31, an imperial battleship detachment encountered the main fleet of the British at close range.

The next morning, Vice Admiral Wang Liyong's mobile fleet caught the tail of a British detachment and sank a British first-class protected cruiser and an old battleship.

In the evening of the same day, the main fleet led by Lin Tongshu caught up with the British detachment, and after a fierce battle, sank one of the British's cutting-edge battleships, the second-class battleship Captain Centennial.

However, the Imperial Navy was also a little unlucky this evening, one of the new battleships, the Yellow Emperor, was severely damaged, and the fire was too fierce to extinguish, and finally had to abandon the ship.

It is worth mentioning that in the previous naval battles, the three armored cruisers of the Spaniards who had not been on the front line were completely annihilated by Vice Admiral Wang Liyong's mobile fleet.

And by this time, the remnants of the British fleet had finally fled back to Singapore!

When Lin Tongshu arrived in Singapore with a large fleet, he looked at Singapore's many shore defense guns, hesitated, and then gave up the tantalizing idea of shelling its land batteries and then entering the port to completely annihilate the British East India Fleet.

After all, although the British East India Fleet said that it had suffered heavy losses in the previous two years of fighting, there were still more than a dozen warships of more than 7,000 tons, and the two Sovereign-class battleships were still intact!

rushed up rashly, and it is estimated that there is a possibility of capsizing in the gutter!

"That's fine, this victory has been decided, and I'm afraid the British will no longer dare to leave the port in the future!" Lin Tongshu looked at Singapore in the distance, and then said to the adjutant beside him: "Order the Fifth Squadron to let them lay mines, since we can't get in, then they should never think of it." ”

With the transmission of Lin Tongshu's order, the Fifth Fleet, under the cover of the main fleet, swaggered to carry out a large-scale minelaying outside the port of Singapore, and this minelaying did not want to leave a channel, so it was an irregular, large-scale and intensive minelaying, and if the British wanted to come out in the future, it was estimated that it would take a long time to clear the channel.

Since the British couldn't hide, and Lin Tongshu didn't plan to go in, the Imperial Navy was also divided into two routes, the situation was intact, there was no damage, and the Rear Admiral warships, which were relatively fast, mainly cruisers, continued to stay off the coast of Singapore, monitored the ports of Singapore, and by the way, blocked the Strait of Malacca.

The rest of the more seriously injured ships, especially Vice Admiral Wang Liyong's mobile fleet, were not fatally wounded, but each one was potholed and in urgent need of repair.

If the British were found trying to clear the port, the main fleet of the Imperial Navy would arrive as soon as possible, and the Imperial Navy would completely block the British East India Fleet in the port of Singapore.

And when Lin Tongshu led the main fleet back, the news of the naval victory had already spread all over the empire!

Through wireless telegraphy, on the morning of the 29th, when the battle situation was laid and the British began to retreat, Lin Tongshu had already reported the matter to China, and used the words "victory is decided", and in the afternoon of the same day, Lin Zhe sent a telegram to the Pacific Fleet, congratulating the navy on its victory in the South China Sea, and hoping that the officers and men of the navy would continue to fight bravely and get more and greater victories! (To be continued.) )