FOLLOW - ME - READ WEN WEN - XUE XUE - LOU LOU BUILDING REMEMBER! "Let's go. FOLLOW - ME - READ WEN WEN - XUE XUE - LOU LOU BUILDING REMEMBER! "Watching the three ships return to the distance behind him, regrouping and killing Admiral Lu and Leda. The captain of the Pearl, Yasin, took a second look at the two warships and finally decided to give up support. He has been fighting with the Beiyang Fleet for so long, but why hasn't General Makanov come back to support him? Too far away to know what's going on here? It's absolutely impossible! The fleet of 6 warships was reduced by half, and it was impossible for General Makanov not to dispose of it. And the Turquoise began to be with itself, to support the Admiral and the Leda, and the Turquoise would definitely inform General Makanov of this information, and so far, General Makanov has not come to support.

Then there is only one possibility! General Makanov also took care of himself! And so far, the Beiyang Fleet has been damaged, and Lin Yongsheng's fleet is here, so all that is left is the 3 large armored cruisers led by that Beiyang upstart! Captain Yasin shuddered a little at the thought of this! It's horrible! This is a trap, a complete trap, I must immediately go and join the general, maybe so, there is still a glimmer of life for the Russian fleet, as for the Admiral and the Leda? They can only be used as outcasts to fight for His Royal Highness the Tsar to the last moment! Thinking of this, Yasin ordered the Pearl to immediately turn around and move in the direction of the Turquoise's retreat!

Yasin's estimate was very accurate, just after Makanov decided to retreat, Makanov was thinking about whether to leave the battlefield or go back to pick up the Pearl and other 3 ships with two cruisers, when a huge figure appeared on the sea from the northeast made Makanov's heart a trace of despair! The existence that the Russians have been trying so hard to avoid has finally appeared! And it was to meet the opponent after a long and bloody battle of the Russian fleet, both in terms of ships and personnel!

Elegant flying scissors. There is also the peculiar 3-seat turret tiling design, as well as the slender 10-inch 40L Armstrong heavy gun, all indicate the identity of the comer! The elite of the Beiyang Naval Division, the leader of armored cruisers in the world today! A battleship comparable to Rurik! PISA-class armored cruisers of the Italians. That is, the cruiser Tianjin of the current Beiyang Fleet! And the next 2 are its predecessors, Garibaldi-class armored cruisers.

Three huge warships sailed at high speed on the sea, and the knife-like flying scissors easily cut through the sea gate, shattering the rolling waves! The huge cannon began to spin slowly, and the smoke billowing from the chimney looked like a dragon spewing flames! An invisible sense of oppression hung over the already somewhat exhausted Russian fleet!

If the 4 capital ships of the Russian fleet are in good condition, Makanov will definitely not be afraid to fight with his opponent! But now, the other side is in good shape, and the ships on his side have been damaged. The Rurik was a little better. Except for some damage to the superstructure, the firepower and power are basically intact. And the Bayan is quite bad, the huge wound torn open by the 12-inch heavy gun is enough to tell everything, except for the main gun. Only one 6-inch gun on the port side of the Bayan could continue to be used. And the Turquoise was in better condition than the Bayan, losing a small amount of artillery, but the superstructure was burned to pieces by the opponent with a picric acid charge without exception!

"We can't fight our opponents in this state, at least until the Pearl returns." Makanov muttered to himself. "Order the fleet to turn en masse and withdraw in a southwestern direction." On the one hand, this decision could delay the time of the battle with Xu Jie's fleet. On the other hand, maybe you can wait until the Pearl is behind, or even the Admiral and the Leda. FOLLOW - ME - READ WEN WEN - XUE XUE - LOU LOU BUILDING REMEMBER!

"Makanov is waiting, what shall we do?" Lang Weili looked at Xu Jie and asked. …,

"We waited with him. As long as Lord Lin can catch two old ships. Our fleet will have an advantage over the Russian fleet. Xu Jie said expressionlessly. Although I don't know what the specific situation is, it is based on the pre-war deduction. If Lin Yongsheng can't arrive as soon as possible, the Beiyang Fleet will be more than lucky! Even if the three Guiyuan-class ships can support in time. The situation with the weak ships of the Beiyang Fleet is still not optimistic.

When discussing tactics. Xu Jie repeatedly emphasized that the Russian fleet was far from being comparable to the Japanese fleet. However, Ding Ruchang, Liu Buyun and others still accepted this risky plan. For this alone, the officers and men of the old Beiyang Fleet are worthy of the title of heroes!

"It's the Pearl!" Just as the distance between the two sides was slowly closer, a battleship emitting thick smoke rushed over from the southwest. The battered bridge, the smoke-filled deck, and the craters on the sidelines all illustrate the situation the battleship faced in the battle just now.

"We are ready to turn and course in opposition to the Beiyang Fleet." Makanov commanded in a deep voice. If the Beiyang Fleet catches up with it and fights passively, the Russians will have to engage their opponents with their broken port side. And the other party can completely eat the battleship at the tail of his own team in one bite! So, to keep course is to find death! So instead of this, it is better for the fleet to turn to the Beiyang Fleet and start a hedge! Xu Jie's fleet speed is not much faster than the Russian fleet, after all, after a long period of sailing and engagement, the performance of all aspects will inevitably decline, and although the Russian fleet has gone through an expedition across the two oceans, the correction in Batavia is quite thorough, in this way, the gap between the two sides is not large, after the hedging is over, it is impossible for the Beiyang Fleet to go around to the port side, which has been seriously damaged, and can only continue to maintain the starboard engagement, as for the most difficult result, it is not for him Makanov to decide, Qing Guo, The plans of Japan and Russia in the Far East will be seen in this battle!!

"Prepare to fight, the seas of East Asia will be completely changed at this moment." Xu Jie said in a deep voice, and then the Beiyang Fast Fleet drew a U-shaped track on the sea, and the Russian fleet also formed a single front to sail towards the Beiyang Fleet after the Pearl returned, and on the sea, 7 warships of more than 7,000 tons from the two countries were almost parallel to each other, with a standard side-chord artillery array, and there was no fancy collision at all!

"Fire!" With the roar of the commander of the Tianjin, the terrifying 6 10-inch guns on the Tianjin finally spit out fireballs here! The 3 turrets resemble the 3 Cerberus of the Grim Reaper. Constantly moving towards its opponent, the pride of the Russian Navy. Rurik fires this deadly hail of bullets! And the Rurik did not show weakness either. Two 12-inch guns and two 10-inch guns also spewed out tongues of fire, and one heavy bullet after another flew towards the Tianjin.

And the battleships in the back, after the flagship fired, also fired a deadly rain of bullets. 10-inch gun. 8-inch, 6-inch, 4.7-inch, and even 12-pounder guns were all incessantly tilting towards each other, heralding a rain of fire that heralded death. Although the Russians had 3 battleships, they did not have any advantage in the face of 2 armored cruisers of the Garibaldi type. The right-hand firepower of the Bayan and Turquoise remained fairly intact. 8 8-inch guns and 8 6-inch guns. However, the Firepower of the Pearl has been weakened a lot, because the two sides of the Pearl have fought on both sides of the Admiral and Leda, plus one 8-inch gun has been destroyed, and there are only 3 8-inch guns and 2 6-inch guns on the side. And the two Garibaldi class have 8 10-inch guns, 10 6-inch guns and 6 4.7-inch guns!

"At the point of approach, suffocate the opponent with high-explosive shells." At the beginning of the war, the angry Beiyang officers and soldiers and the Russian officers and soldiers who were full of remnants entered the white-hot battle! The officers and men of Beiyang did not dare not do their best. Because those comrades who have just died are watching them! The Russian officers and soldiers also exhausted their last bit of energy, because without defeating the other side, they would never return to their homeland on the Baltic coast. The fleet of revenge and the fleet that wants to return home are the most powerful fleets in the world! They will do their best to win the favor of the goddess of victory! …,

"Damn it. We've been shot! "A burst of flames erupted from the side of the Rurik's bow, and a 10-inch shell pierced the unprotected bow of the Rurik without hindrance. Exploded at the anchor chamber position. The force of the explosion exploded the heavy anchor chain into several pieces, and then the heavy iron anchor slid into the sea with half of the anchor chain through the breach. Stir up a high column of water! The orange flames spread wildly in the bow compartment, and the neighbors, who were already fragile under the blows of shrapnel and shock waves, finally could not withstand the scorching flames and finally fell. Flames spread along pipes and aisles.

Less than a minute after this hit, two more 6-inch shells hit a 12-pounder gun emplacement in Rurik. Even the people and the cannon were reduced to pieces. While the other hit the upper deck, it was ricocheted off by the heavy armor. "Rurik had to use the power of large-caliber heavy artillery. Otherwise sooner or later our battleships will be burned by the opposing side's high-explosive shells. Makanov said as he stared at Toyalev. Rurik turns right half a compass point and gets a little closer. A chance for the lads who operate the main gun! The captain ordered. Immediately, the huge hull of the Rurik began to move towards the right. Bring the two sides closer.

"They're going to fight with us!" Lang Weili looked at the Rurik that was approaching step by step and the 12-inch cannon on it and said with some trembling.

"It's an opportunity, a chance for both of us!" Xu Jie sneered. "Concentrate fire on the weakly defended parts of the opponent." In the face of the Rurik armored cruiser with a sufficiently high and thick armor belt, the lethality of high-explosive shells in areas other than the bridge is very limited, but the nose and tail armor belts cannot withstand the attack of 10-inch heavy guns, and too much water in the head and tail may still cause the battleship to cap or even sink! And the 6-inch guns mainly hit the bridge, killing and wounding people and non-protective parts with flames and shrapnel.

The Tianjin and Rurik were desperately entangled like two angry lions, and the dense rain of bullets from rapid-fire guns formed a dense barrage to envelop the two, and from time to time shells hit each other, raising clouds of flames on the deck.

"Oh my God, it's so close." Jericho's face turned pale. "I can guarantee that the distance between the two sides is only 1,000 yards at most!" Just as he was standing in the command room talking to himself, he suddenly felt only a slick of the deck, and the entire battleship was trembling! Immediately, a huge flame erupted from the port side middle deck, and the flames, smoke and debris flew into the air and fell into the sea, and the sound of metal twisting and tearing from the side of the ship was terrifying!

"Oh God." Luang Weili struggled to get up and looked out, only to see a large crater at the point where he had been hit, although the heavy armor blocked the shell. However, the force of the impact twisted the steel plate and knocked the lower armor out of position, and a crack about 1 meter long and 15 to 20 centimeters wide appeared in the hull. From time to time, seawater gushes from the cracks into the inside of the hull!

"Admiral Lang doesn't have to worry, the compartment of the battleship will be restricted from entering the water, and it won't be a big problem." Xu Jie said with a smile after getting up. "It was so thrilling and exciting just now." Jericho next to him said excitedly while wiping a cold sweat.

At the same time, the Russians learned what it means to fall from heaven to hell. When the 12-inch bomb weighing 349KG hit the Tianjin head-on, a jubilant sound pierced from all over the battleship, huge flames, scattered fragments, all indicating that this shell will give the opponent a fatal blow! But what about the result? When the flames and smoke cleared, a huge crater and blackened armor plates told the Russians that the blow was indeed sharp, but not strong enough!!

"Damn, the French guns on our battleships simply could not penetrate the armor of the Italians." Toyarev said through gritted teeth. Just when the Russians were venting their frustration, the powerful and accurate shelling of the Tianjin made the Russians understand that the distance was equal for both sides! …,

Two powerful 10-inch shells hit the steel behemoth Rurik almost simultaneously! A shell hit the middle of the hull, and this shell was not a high-explosive shell, but an armor-piercing shell, which, unlike ordinary armor-piercing, differed from an ordinary armor-piercing shell in that there was a casing made of mild steel at the warhead. THE 227-KILOGRAM PROJECTILE COLLIDED WITH THE RURIK'S 6-INCH MAIN ASSEMBLY ON THE UPPER DECK. With the cacophony of crashing and metal shattering, the back of the armored deck of the protective turrete was shattered by the massive vibrations that had been conducted, and countless fine fragments flew in all directions in the turret. Accompanied by the sound of shrapnel entering the body and the splash of blood. The whole gun gallery turned into a hell

And the other shell was even more deadly! The shell actually landed less than 10 meters away from the conning tower, and the huge tremor shook the various artifacts in the conning tower off the wall. Then shrapnel and flames poured in from the observation port. A Russian officer standing at the observation gate was instantly hit by shrapnel into a blood gourd, and fell to the ground without a sound. And Makanov was not spared. Several shrapnel penetrated deep into his left arm and shoulder! The wound on his head cracked open again due to the collision, and large drops of blood flowed down his head.

"Distance." Captain Toyarev said loudly. In addition to these two 10-inch shells, Rurik was hit by at least 7 shells of other calibers during the engagement, half of the deck turned into a sea of fire, and half of the Rurik's sideline guns were too poor to design due to the billowing smoke.

At the same time, the Tianjin was also scarred in this artillery battle, which can be called a bayonet fight. The original simple and crisp hull was not slow to lose bullet marks, and the unprotected compartments in the superstructure were also riddled with bullet holes, among which three 6-inch shells hit, one sent a 12-pounder gun and the gunner into the sky, and the other two smashed the ship's officers' meeting room and galley. Billowing smoke billowed from the hole, and the damage management team braved the flames and toxic gases to shuttle from cabin to cabin to extinguish the fire. Medical personnel search for survivors in the rubble. They were placed on stretchers and taken to the infirmary on the middle deck for first aid. In less than 15 minutes of close combat between the two sides, the Tianjin suffered more than 40 casualties. And the number of Russians is even worse, from the beginning of the battle to the present, a full 105 names have been written on the casualty record!

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