Wen Yu, commander of the Fifth Fleet, and Huang Hong, commander of the Sixth Fleet, received a telegram from Yu Fu and immediately divided the two fleets into three units, followed the dreadnought battleships in the three directions, and continued to pursue the warships of Britain, France, and Germany.

Wen Yu and Huang Hong are not worried that those surrendered warships dare to make a ghost or rebel or anything, 13 dreadnought battleships are here, if they dare not know how to lift, they can taste the power of 406 mm giant naval guns at close range.

Sure enough, more than a dozen British and French warships, led by the British Navy's Duncan-class all-steel battleship Milgau and the German Navy's Frederick III-class all-steel battleship Barbarossa, completed the handover happily, and the officers and men of the two navies on the warships honestly became prisoners of war of the Northeast Navy, and there were no accidents.

The 13 dreadnought battleships and the warships of the Fifth Fleet and the Sixth Fleet were divided into three major directions and began to continue to pursue the warships of Britain, France and Germany, and because the three countries of Britain, France and Germany let the warships flee in multiple small directions in their respective general directions, the 13 dreadnought battleships pursued by the Northeast Navy and the Fifth Fleet and the Sixth Fleet were also more and more scattered, but in order to prevent accidents, for example, it was not worth biting by the lost dog, and the dispersion was not so thorough. Just like the dreadnought battleship is still at least 2 in pursuit together, and there are also some warships of the Fifth and Sixth Fleets around it.

In this way, there are some warships of Britain, France and Germany that have escaped, and there is no pursuit from the warships of the Northeast Navy behind them, so they no longer have to worry about dropping those giant bombs that can make their warships impossible to recover at any time.

The French Navy's standard displacement of 14,900 tons of Freedom-class all-steel battleship Alger is one of the two Freedom-class all-steel battleships of the French Navy to join the Eight-Nation Alliance Navy Joint Expeditionary Fleet, and the other one is the French Navy's flagship Fort Renault this time, and the French Navy fleet commander François is on top of Fort Renault, and now the two Freedom-class all-steel battleships have run away separately.

At this time, the Alger's situation was not good, although after one and a half hours of naval battle in the bombardment of 13 Northeast Navy dreadnought battleships, and the escape of 13 dreadnought battleships 406 mm giant armor-piercing shells, Alger is still unscathed so far, but now it is followed by 2 Northeast Navy dreadnought battleships at a distance of 15,000 meters behind it is eyeing it.

Escaping with the Alger is also the French Navy Republic-class all-steel battleship Horizon with a standard displacement of 14,600 tons, and the two brothers have been closely pursued by the two Northeast Navy dreadnought battleships, and these two dreadnought battleships are Longfei and Longyan, Alger may have worse luck, and at present, Longfei and Longyan have concentrated their firepower on it.

The Alger and the Horizon are also followed by 2 large fast armored cruisers, 4 fast protection cruisers and 4 destroyers in this direction, and the Longfei and Longyan are not alone, and there are also 2 ironclad battleships on the side, the Tianxiong and Tianhu, the large fast armored cruiser Winter Solstice, and 3 anti-several fast protection cruisers and 3 destroyers of the drive class, all of which are warships of the Sixth Fleet.

"Boom-boom-boom-" A few 305-mm shells fell in the sea not far from the Alger, blowing up a column of water more than ten meters high, and the position where the last 1 shell fell was less than 60 meters of the Alger, and the impact of the explosion of the shell in the sea made the Alger, which was sailing in a zigzag shape, can't help but shake violently, and it is not good to make the salvo of the next round of main guns of the two dreadnought battleships of the Northeast Navy form a straddle fire.

Straddle firing is a proper term in naval gun shooting technology, and the shells fired by naval guns cannot be corrected once they are fired, so the aiming technology of naval guns has a crucial impact on the success or failure of naval warfare.

When a battleship is engaged in naval artillery battles, in order to maximize firepower and improve the rate of shooting, it is generally possible to fire at the same target with all the main guns, which is called a salvo. When a salvo is fired, the impact points of each shell do not overlap, but are relatively evenly dispersed in a certain area, which can be called scattering. When the scattering area can cover all or most of the target ship, the enemy ship is enveloped in its own firepower, forming a straddle fire. The meaning of straddle shooting is to maintain a straddle shot at the target to achieve the maximum probability of hitting.

If the formation of straddle firing is the correct range, each salvo of the main gun shells are more evenly landed around the target ship, these missed but not far away from the target ship shells are called close misses, its shrapnel and explosive impact can also cause great damage to the target ship.

But when exactly when it is completely hit, it is a matter of probability, just like drawing a spindle-shaped pattern on a blank piece of paper, closing your eyes and taking a pen to dot on this piece of paper, and finally opening your eyes to see how many dots are dotted in this spindle-shaped pattern, generally speaking, the longer the dot, the more dots are in the pattern, so once a cross-shot is formed, basically it is not far from the hit, which makes the hearts of the French naval officers and men on the Alger lift, if the 2 dreadnought battleships of the Northeast Navy form a straddle shot on the Alger, The fate of the Alger was sealed.

"What to do? What to do? The shells of the 2 dreadnoughts in the back are already getting closer and closer to us, and our Alger is coming to an end! Ruphael, what do we do? ”

In the bridge of the Alger, a French naval officer about 30 years old shouted in panic, and he was the captain of the Alger, Matuidi, and he also had the identity of the nephew of the French Minister of the Navy, Grevy, otherwise he would never have become the captain of the French all-steel battleship Alger with his ability.

The Minister of the Navy, Grevy, also knew what kind of virtue his nephew was, so he assigned him a capable, calm and experienced first mate, Rufeel, hoping that with the assistance of Rufael, his nephew would have more military achievements.

The look on Ruphael's face at this time was very nervous, he saw more than Matuidi, and knew that the two dreadnoughts chasing behind him were about to form a straddle fire on the Alger, but the Alger was at least 15,000 meters away from the two dreadnoughts behind, which meant that the Alger could only hold on to the shells until it sank, but it didn't even have a chance to fight back.

When Matuidi saw that Rufel, the always calm first mate, had such an ugly face, he knew that there was no way to change the situation, and immediately shouted: "Quick! Fast! Raise the white flag, Ruphael, we surrender! I can't die here, I must go back to France! ”

Matuidi knew that although he was the nominal captain, almost all the big and small things of the entire Alger were decided by the first mate Ruphael, and he was purely a fool, and this time he thought that he was going to Asia to pick up military merits, but he didn't expect that such a large Eight-Nation Alliance Navy Joint Expeditionary Fleet would fail.

But now the situation is like this, that is, Rufeel is opposed, and Matuidi also decided to use the captain's power to forcibly let the Alger raise the white flag and surrender to the Northeast Navy, he doesn't care whether the Alger falls into the hands of the Northeast Navy or not, he just wants to save his own life.

It is too dangerous to be this broken captain, and if he can return to France this time, he must ask his uncle to transfer him to the naval logistics department, Matuidi secretly made up his mind.

Ruphael frowned, but then sighed secretly, he is not a stubborn person, surrendering now is really the only way out, and no matter how to say that Matuidi is also the nominal captain, the captain gave an order, what his first mate must abide by, that is, he will return to France in the future, and the responsibility will not be too great, so Ruphael said: "Captain, it seems that we can only make a wise choice, I am willing to obey your orders, and we still notify the Horizon, And a couple of other French warships! ”

Matuidi was relieved to hear that Ruphael had agreed to surrender, and hurriedly shouted: "Quick! Raise the white flag first, and don't let the 2 dreadnoughts in the back fire on us again! ”

The white flag of the Alger has not yet been raised, and another round of shells from the two dreadnought battleships Longfei and Longyan fell near the Alger, although there was no near miss, but the impact of the shells exploding in the water made the Alger shake again, and the face of the captain Matuidi was frightened, this time the shells fell in the sea and were closer to the Alger, but fortunately, the white flag was also raised in the shaking.

As the Alger raised the white flag, the Republic-class all-steel battleship Horizon not far away also raised the white flag, and the rest of the French warships next to the two all-steel battleships also raised the white flag one after another, and like the Alger and the Horizon, they immediately turned off the power and waited for the Northeast Navy to come and receive it.

In fact, France's 2 large fast armored cruisers, 4 fast protection cruisers and 4 destroyers, with their speed, should be able to break out of the effective range of the 2 dreadnought battleships and escape, but the French naval officers and men, whose morale has fallen to the bottom, have chosen the most conservative means of saving their lives.

Seeing that the pursuing French warships had all raised their white flags and had stopped their ships, the Longfei and Longyan immediately stopped shelling, and with the warships of the Sixth Fleet following them, they quickly approached the French warships that had raised the white flag, preparing to receive these surrendered warships.

Many of these warships that escaped from Britain, France and Germany were like the Alger and the Horizon, and when they saw that they could not escape, they wisely chose to raise the white flag and surrender to the fleet pursued by the Northeast Navy behind, but it was not absolute, and there were examples of preferring to be sunk rather than surrender.

The Frederick III-class all-steel battleship Karl the Great and the Wicchersbach-class all-steel battleship Zaringen escaped in one direction with 1 large fast armored cruiser, 2 fast protection cruisers, 3 destroyers and 4 torpedo boats of the German Navy.

At a distance of nearly 20,000 meters behind them, a pursuit fleet consisting of two super dreadnought battleships, the Fengtian and Jilin, the all-steel battleship Dongqianhu, the large fast armored cruiser Lidong, and two anti-aircraft fast protection cruisers, three destroyers, and four mine*-class torpedo boats, has been following the German fleet.

The two super dreadnought battleships of Fengtian and Jilin are also constantly using 406 mm guns to fire on two German all-steel battleships at a distance of about 20,000 meters, in fact, there are three German fast protection cruisers that escaped in this direction with the two German all-steel battleships, but there is already one German fast protection cruiser that was unlucky enough to be hit by a missed 406 mm shell, and it didn't take 2 minutes to disappear into the sea.

In the bridge of the Karl the Great, Captain Gomesr said to the commander of the German naval fleet, Tessim: "Commander, the two dreadnought battleships of the Northeast Navy behind have already aimed at us, with the speed of our Karl the Great and Zalingen, there is no way to escape the pursuit of the two dreadnought battleships, we ......"

At this moment, the Karl the Great shook violently, almost shaking Gomesr who was talking, and it was a 406 mm giant cannonball that fell in the sea near the Karl the Great, although it did not form a near-miss, but the impact of the shell explosion also made the Karl the Great shake.

The Karl the Great is the flagship of the German Navy's warships joining the Eight-Nation Alliance's Joint Expeditionary Fleet, so the commander of the German Navy's fleet, Tessim, is on the Karl the Great.

Tessim stood by the observation window in the bridge of the Karl the Great, holding the handrail with one hand to maintain the balance of his body, and after putting the telescope on the platform under the observation window with the other hand, he sighed and said: "Our Karl the Great and Zaringen are indeed difficult to escape, with these two dreadnought battleships of the Northeast Navy always following us, they don't need to get close to us, as long as they bombard us with that ultra-long-range artillery, we have no possibility of escaping." ”

Gomesr stood still and asked, "Commander, what do we do now?" ”

Tessim smiled bitterly and said, "Let all the German warships except Karl the Great and Zaringen speed up their evacuation!" Don't follow our 2 battleships, if you can escape 1 more, it's 1! ”

Gomesl nodded in agreement, the warships that followed the two battleships were all faster, and if they wanted to escape, it would be much easier than the slower battleships, "Okay, commander, I'll send someone to send flags to the other warships right away." ”

Tessim then picked up the binoculars and looked at the Northeast Navy pursuing in the distance, especially the 2 huge dreadnought battleships, turned his head and said to Gomesr: "In addition, send a flag to the Zaringen, our 2 battleships turn around and charge the Northeast Navy that is pursuing behind, otherwise we can only be beaten and unable to fight back, and in the end our 2 battleships will inevitably be sunk, so it is better to turn around and fight!" ”R1152