Seeing the overall speed of the Japanese ships and maneuvering and turning, Liu Buyun knew that the best attack window was about to close. The little opportunity they had worked hard to get was basically exhausted at this point. Next, it will be the real hard battle begins!

The Japanese flagships followed the tactics with extreme decisiveness. The "Izumi" in front had just made a left-rudder stance, and in the midst of artillery fire, a tattered signal flag was raised to the top of the mast, and the battleships in the rear followed one after another to turn left, without any mud and water.

Especially the ships such as Fuso and Hiei, which are the slowest at the rear, they even broke away one step earlier, trying to spell out the last power output and escape to the southern waters early!

As a result, in front of the two columns attacked by the six main ships of the Beiyang Fleet, only Chiyoda, Mikei and Akagi remained!

At this time, the five warships unanimously chose to give up the attack, and moved outward with one mind, and every minute of increased power was used to get out of the battle.

Do you choose to take advantage of the situation to get out? Or do you want to catch up and continue the pursuit? Just a moment of hesitation, Liu Buyun decisively ordered, "Send a signal, turn the rudder thirty degrees to the right, continue to intersperse the enemy formation, and attack forward!" ”

It has reached such a point, it is useless to turn back, only to move forward, first break through the array of the Japanese army!

The "Matsushima" is just around the corner! The bow and the 120mm rapid-fire gun on the right side are firing wildly, and they can hit as fast as they can! Regardless of whether you can hit the target or not, in short, the vision ahead is blocked first!

The same is true of Chiyoda, which is following behind it. The large left turn of the hull tilted, and the firing was already quite reluctant, and it was impossible to talk about aiming. But it was still struggling to writhe its body. Staggering a little is a little!

The foredeck of the "Dingyuan". It has long been shrouded in the glow of boiling fireworks and explosions. The field of vision was chaotic, and it was not easy for Liu Buchan, who was standing in the command tower, to see the situation clearly. Thanks to the signal corps arranged by Yang Hao, he continuously submitted the external observation of the enemy's situation to him, allowing him to have a relatively clear judgment.

In such a situation, he still hit the "Matsushima" with the bow secondary gun, opening a hole in its body, but he received no less than five shells from the opponent.

The speed of "Chiyoda" in the future has been raised. At about 16 knots, not only did the distance be widened, but only half of the body was left for "Dingyuan". It was only then that the two cannons, which had been hit by 240mm grenades and had been suspended for a short time, were resuming their fù and firing at a distance of about 2 km.

The shell exploded in the water close to the swollen part of the "Chiyoda", and the fragments opened two holes in its side, and one gun was killed and dumbed. But there was no further damage, so he followed the group of ships in front and fled!

In the next few battleships, "Dingyuan" could not catch up with any of them. Maneuvering at such speeds. The four cannons were useless, and they could only watch as they pulled away again.

The other side. The "Zhenyuan Ship" set its sights on the "Matsushima" head-on, and the only chance to launch was a grenade into its foredeck, blowing up two small guns and two lifeboats, and the two small guns below the deck were also destroyed. Billowing smoke came out of the ship, accelerating its flight. As for retaliating with tail cannon aiming? That's not even a thought to be.

Chiyoda took another 150mm armor-piercing round, opened a transparent hole in the bow on the right side, and then fired a dozen 120mm shells and fled.

Further back, "Zhenyuan" also lost its results.

But later, the situation encountered by the rest of the battleships was not so rosy.

The first is to "come far"! The "Hequan" it met head-on can be described as a narrow encounter. Although he had tried his best to maneuver to the right and hid behind the ass of "Zhenyuan", he couldn't pull the distance for a while because of the course. Let it use the front main gun and secondary gun to hit an armor-piercing shell of "Hequan", but the opponent's powerful 240mm grenade hit the bow of the ship!

The twin main guns suddenly fell silent, the flames in front of the command tower were churning, and nothing could be seen, and even the exposed fort on the left side couldn't move for a while!

In the short time that passed by, the left front auxiliary turret of the "Hequan" was intact and mercilessly fired six shells on the "Laiyuan", which not only caused a big fire, but also made its deck a mess. It was also thick enough to have thick armor on this battleship, so as not to cause more damage inside.

But it wasn't their turn to be optimistic for long, and just when they completely missed out, the opponent's tail gun continued to fire, and an armor-piercing shell hit the top of the waterline, piercing through the armor and blasting into the stern!

"Come to the far ship", seriously injured!

In the rear, the second-echelon four-ship and third-echelon torpedo boat attack teams respectively gave up chasing and killing the two Japanese ships that had escaped, and when they turned around and continued to catch up with the front team, they happened to witness the scene of "Laiyuan" being submerged in the firelight. The rest of the ships did not make any maneuvers to disrupt the formation.

But Fang Boqian, who found himself very close to the huge and mighty body of the "Hequan", immediately ordered the ship to maneuver to the left to avoid it!

He Guangcheng, the second co-pilot, was angry and scolded sharply: "Lord Fang! Before the war, the military gate repeatedly ordered that no matter how you follow the flagship, you must not act rashly! If we do this, won't we be in a mess? ”

Fang Boqian took out his saber, put it on his neck, looked around everyone and shouted murderously: "Presumptuous! This official is the leader of this ship, do you want to rebel if you don't respect the order? It is common sense to act at the opportune moment, knowing that rushing forward will not cause damage to the enemy ship, but may destroy the precious ship. How can such a ridiculous thing be done? ”

He Guangcheng didn't dare to speak again, but the anger in his eyes quickly turned into flames!

The German Hafumen, the chief steward, could not stand it, and he shouted in half-baked Chinese: "Captain Fang, it is necessary common sense to obey the orders of the flagship in battle. Your actions will not only lead to the overall morale collapse, but also give the enemy a chance to take advantage of it! As a soldier, you can't hide in the face of danger, that's not appropriate! ”

Fang Boqian didn't care, snorted coldly, pushed He Guangcheng away, and personally went up to steer and turn left.

At this time, the speed of the ship is less than 12 knots, and even if it turns, how fast can it be? That is, the kung fu that had just moved the bow of the ship, and the "Izumi" approached violently. Although it began to maneuver to the left, the rear secondary gun on the right and the stern main gun still had ample range.

Seeing a flash of fire in front of me, the hull of the "Jiyuan Ship" trembled suddenly, and a grenade hit the rear deck, exploding against the edge of the rear turret, and the raging fire spread!

Fang Boqian can be regarded as finding a reason now, and he ordered the sailors to hurry up and save with his eyebrows, and at the same time did not hesitate to move the boat to the left, until he had the posture of leaving the battlefield!

At this moment, a cannonball whistled in the distance and fell into the water a hundred meters in front of the bow. Immediately after, a bright light signal shot straight in this direction, so brilliant and cold that it seemed to penetrate the thin mist.

Immediately, a loud voice came: "Fang Boqian! Return to the team! ”

The light came far away, and it was the "Dongsheng" with a mighty body that could not be inferior to a giant ship! From the top of the bridge, a high-power laser light was used to accurately aim at the "Jiyuan" a few kilometers away, like a sharp sword, against their throat!

Directional loudspeakers, which can be used as sound waves to disperse weapons. Sound waves travel faster on the surface of moist seawater, so they can still be heard clearly by people on board and around the ship in the midst of the noise.

In front of countless people who scolded him like this, where could Fang Boqian's face still hang? His face turned red and white and red, and he stared at the beam of light with hatred, and ordered with a stalk around his neck: "Hugh must listen to the nonsense of that outlaw!" The ship was injured and had to be repaired. ”

He continued to turn left and drive north with the battleship, Yang Haiwei was unceremonious, and the "boom" was fired again, this time, closer to the bow! Splashes can fly onto the deck.

Subsequently, Yang Haiwei shouted: "The soldiers of the 'Jiyuan Ship', in the battle, you will all be ashamed for the rest of your life because of this!" Fang Boqian is timid and avoids the war, how do you choose? In a minute, if your ship still escapes, I will sink you! ”

Fang Boqian shouted to himself: "He doesn't dare, he can't either!" A businessman, who has secretly amassed soldiers and horses, is already a big crime, and dares to threaten the imperial court officials? I don't want to live anymore! ”

Shen Shouchang, who was seriously injured last time, glanced at He Guangcheng, Huang Zulian and others, and suddenly shot together, rushed up to take down Fang Boqian and tied him up.

Fang Boqian was shocked and angry, and shouted: "It's the other way around!" If you commit a crime below, you will not escape the capital crime......! ”

Huang Sheng, the big pipe, took a rag and stuffed him the most, spit on his body with a mouthful of "bah", and scolded disdainfully: "Waste! ”

Shen Shouchang took over the command, and He Guangcheng drove the battleship to turn around and cut to the inner line.

The "Dongsheng" turned off the laser light, and then fired at full power, cutting the battlefield from the side, with a 152mm main gun in the tail, aiming at the "Izumi" and firing one after another! (To be continued......)

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