Just when Yang Yonglin's fleet used tactical maneuvering to severely damage the Brooklyn, the battle between the Majifen fleet and the Jericho fleet entered a stalemate stage. After the main attacker of the Olympia cleared the raging fire on the back deck, he finally regained some form, and then Majifen planned to repeat the old trick, ready to find an opportunity to rush forward again to see if he could make some gains!

But surprisingly, while Magiffen was commanding two Columbia ships to rush up, suddenly the Pluto and the Fury, which were at the tail of the Spanish fleet, suddenly broke away from the queue and rushed towards the Olympia. And it turned out that the American fleet followed the movement of the flagship, but in the face of the two cruisers that suddenly rushed up, the Olympia could only meet the enemy, and in this way, the already small number of warships on both sides was completely dismantled into two wargroups, the 2 battleships of the San Diego class and the 2 battleships of the Columbia class scuffled together, and the Pluto and the Fury fought with the Olympia in one place!

Jericho has his own ideas for acting like this, the two dome cruisers only have 4 8-inch guns, which is the same as the Olympia, and in the wave of assault before the battle, the Olympia has already hit the Pluto, at this time the gap between the two sides of the medium-caliber guns is not very large, so if you want to completely suppress the other party, you can only fully use the 12-pounder guns on the ship to fight melee combat! Destroy the USS Olympia, which also belongs to the Dome Battleship, with high-explosive shells.

However, the two Santiago-class ships are different, and it is obviously a disadvantage for the Santiago-class, which has the advantage in the number of heavy artillery, to keep a distance in this situation and suppress the opponent with 8-inch guns and 6-inch guns. And for the Columbia class, which is more than 7000 tons. Jericho didn't have too many ideas, it was impossible to destroy these two battleships in a short time, although the other party was dome armor, but the advantages of large tonnage margin were undoubtedly revealed in this regard!

And just like that, the battle between the Pluto and the Fury and the Olympia quickly came to a fever pitch! The three warships were like three warriors with sharp blades and only pants on their bodies. Every knife can make people's blood flow! The two sides fight to see who can't hold on first and fall. At this time, the Olympia was not at a disadvantage with one enemy and two enemies, with an 8-inch gun. 5-inch guns and 6-pounder shells rained down, and the two Spanish battleships did not show weakness in remembering that all three battleships were covered by a column of water that had nearly missed. The sound of the shell exploding made everyone shudder!

Rumble! After a loud bang, another 8-inch shell hit the stern of the Olympia. Under the relentless onslaught of the Fury, the stern of the Olympia was almost completely destroyed. The raging flames covered the entire deck again, and the rear main gun was completely ineffective due to the thick smoke, and a large amount of seawater poured in from the hole in the stern, making the aft deck of the nearly 6,000-ton cruiser only less than 1 meter above the waterline, and the speed of the entire battleship was also slowed down.

At the same time, Olympia's naval guns are also constantly beating Pluto, and the Renaya prototype cruiser has been a little unusable after 8 years of baptism, and an 8-inch cannonball slammed into Pluto's bow single-mounted 8-inch gun, and the distance was too close to let this cannonball tear apart the steel armor at the gun mount. Plunged headlong into the turret, and a few tenths of a second later, with a loud bang, bright yellow flames mixed with a large number of fragments rushed out of the turret section, in the impact of a huge explosion. The entire top of the turret was reopened by fragments, and the machinery and personnel inside the turret were dismembered in an instant. The entire turret turned into a flaming tin box! Under the blow of the opponent's small-caliber rapid-fire guns, the hull of the Pluto's side chord was already scarred, and sea water poured in from the breach from time to time, and the entire battleship was tilted about 5 degrees. After the 8-inch cannon in the bow was destroyed, Pluto's firepower dropped to less than half! …,

And at this time. Jericho's two lightly armored cruisers easily repelled Majifen's attack at one point, and the fierce fire net composed of as many as 16 guns of more than 6 inches made the two Columbia-type cruisers dare not approach easily. In the wave of attack just now, the second ship of the Columbia-class was knocked out by the opponent with 2 4-inch guns and 1 5-pounder gun, in addition to being punched out a few more holes in the side chord, Majifen's attack was easily resolved, and after a long fight, only about 60% of the guns of the two Columbia-class battleships were left to use, if it weren't for the relatively large hull, I'm afraid that the Columbia at this time was not as good as the Olympia behind!

"Damn, if this continues, we'll be consumed!" At this time, Majifen was already a little worried, and now he couldn't get in touch with Dewey, the bigger his fleet was, the more he suffered, the two Columbia-class battleships could not pose a mortal threat to the opponent at all, and the guns on these two battleships were getting less and less! Once it drops to a certain level, I'm afraid that the opponent will come up and fight with you! And the situation of the Olipia in the back made Ma Jifen even more worried, as the third strongest battleship in the fleet, although this battleship had suffered heavy damage to the opponent's Pluto, but it had also suffered heavy losses, if there were no reinforcements, then once the Columbia class could not withstand it, the Olympic would become the object of inevitable abandonment! And where are the reinforcements at the moment?

The battle between Jericho and Magifen has changed, and the scales of the goddess of war have shifted in Jericho's favor! And the battle between Yang Yonglin and Dewey is about to be decided! The ship's backward performance and tactical mistakes put the Brooklyn in a complete desperate situation! Even if the New York desperately rescues her, it still can't change this fact!

The USS Brooklyn tried to evacuate the battlefield, and after emergency repairs, the damaged flue was repaired and reused, but it was a little too late! The heavy flooding and tilting of the port side slowed down the ship's speed, and the bow on the left side was about to be smashed again, increasing the drag! Even the frantic coaling of the Brooklyn's stokers could not keep the giant ship out of the pursuit of their opponents!

Soon, another 11-inch shell finally decided the fate of Brooklyn! The shell hit the rudder of the ship in Brooklyn! The shock from the huge explosion was transmitted through the hull to the rudder! The ensuing fire kept the U.S. Navy damage management team out of the repairs, and with the sound of collapse and metal twisting, the rudder of the Brooklyn was completely stuck! The fate of a warship that has been slowed down and cannot control its direction has been determined!

"Looks like we might be overdone!" Looking at the Brooklyn that had lost control, a smile appeared on the corner of Yang Yonglin's mouth. The USS Brooklyn is finally finished. "Alright, tell the Cologne that we need it against the New York, and if we can, I'd like to add to our record!" Yang Yonglin ordered!

"It's over, it's all over." When the herald told Dewey that the rudder was damaged and could not be repaired, Dewey only felt that it was dark in front of him, and that his flagship was going to be destroyed by the other party in his first battle. He was not reconciled! At this time, Dewey was a little discouraged, and he regretted that he should have followed Magifin's advice the day before and left here. It wanted to meet up with Shelly as much as it could, and then turn its head and bite the other hard! But he really didn't expect this Spanish fleet to have such a strong strength!

"Tell the New York to let him go quickly, otherwise if it's a little later, I'm afraid he won't be able to escape!" Dewey said as he looked at the flaming hull outside the conning tower and the battered back of the ship. If you can run a few times, this is the only remedial plan that can be taken. Soon after receiving the order, the New York began to turn away from the battle column and head south, he needed to join up with the Magifin fleet and take as many American ships as he could!