If the battle between Yang Yonglin and Ma Jifen was bloody from the beginning, then the battle between Simpson and Sevela can be described as plain! The two sides are far apart, attacking each other at a distance of 3.5 to 4KM with the main guns, and the hit situation can be imagined at such a distance when the fire control is not developed, and more importantly, the two sides deliberately slowed down the rate of fire of the artillery, which is not so much an engagement, but a confrontation!

Both sides have good reasons to do so, and battleships are definitely the backbone of a country's navy. They are like the queens of chess, and both sides will be quite cautious when using such an important decisive force. The last fleets of the American fleet to be on the table were the four battleships under their command. So Simpson must be cautious, and in his opinion, the United States will gain an advantage in distant battles, and there is no need for him to throw lightly!

And Simpson is even more willing to stalemate, the other side is 6 battleships at this time, 4 battleships and 2 first-class protection cruisers, in terms of tonnage, has surpassed the Simpsons fleet, and the other party's 4 battleships are a standard slow iron turtle, they gave up their speed in exchange for heavy armor and full of artillery! The Spanish and Madrid are not afraid, but the two PISA-class ships in the back have 4 13-inch guns, 4 8-inch guns and 2 6-inch guns on the opposite side chord, as well as up to 10 6-pounder guns on one side, but the pressure is huge! In addition, there are 2 protective cruisers in the back, staring at them fiercely! In addition, there are 5 third-class cruisers dangling around the periphery of the battlefield, which is death if you get close!

If you keep your distance. If the opponent's third-class cruiser wants to go up and entangle, then it will be killed in an instant, and if it is not entangled, neither Cervera nor Simpson can do anything to each other, at least until the victory or defeat is determined on another battlefield! But as two dazzling fires rose in the distance, Simpson's heart tightened, he really didn't expect that the battle would take less than half an hour. The Magifin fleet has already been battered! Therefore, in desperation, he could only immediately order the Shelly fleet to go to the rescue! for he knows the word. If the Majifen fleet is finished, then he will definitely not withdraw from the battlefield safely at a speed disadvantage!

But when he looked at the five third-class protected cruisers and saw that they were about to form a flanking attack on Yang Yonglin with the Majifen fleet, Sai Villa said. He had to do something, the current situation was 4 to 6, with the withdrawal of 5 third-class cruisers, the gap between the two sides in the amount of rapid-fire guns was not so big, and after several naval battles, Sevela was still very confident in the performance of his own fleet, so he decided to take a bold shot! At the same time, there is another reason, looking at the 5 cruisers that left, Sevila was also a little worried. So he had to put pressure on Simpson with real actions, and it was better to get Simpson to transfer back a couple of third-class cruisers! With all these considerations, the Cerveila fleet moved!

Led by the flagship España, the four warships began to approach their opponents at high speeds, with a speed difference of only about 3 knots between the two sides. It is impossible for Cervera to seize the T-shaped crosshead, as long as the opponent always keeps the same direction of movement, then Cervera can only engage in a marked battle line artillery battle with Simpson! And in the face of the challenge of Cervera, Simpson was not at all afraid, and in Simpson's opinion, it was time for the Spaniards to taste the iron fist of the US Navy battleships!

When the two sides are close to 3KM. The 10-inch guns of the Spanish Navy and the 13-inch 35L main guns of the US Navy and the 8-inch 35L secondary guns fired at the same time, and the huge roar instantly filled the entire battlefield, even Yang Yonglin and Ma Jifen, who were fighting from a distance, could also experience this shocking shelling, which was absolutely different from the naval battles in which the two had participated. …,

In the distance, as many as 30 10-inch guns and 16 13-inch guns, as well as 20 8-inch guns (including 8-inch guns from two protective patrol ships), sprayed a rain of dead bullets at the enemy. This is definitely different from the continuous sound of rapid-fire guns on another battlefield, every time the heavy naval guns fire, the air waves generated squeezed the air and constantly shook the entire sea surface, making people feel a feeling of suffocation! Although the frequency is not high, every sound is so terrifying!

The Armstrong 10-inch 40L naval gun of the Spanish fleet continued to tilt the rain of destructive bullets towards the American fleet with its high-speed fire, and the rate of fire of up to 2 rounds a minute meant that it could fire up to 60 rounds of 227KG shells per minute at the opponent, even if calculated according to the 2% hit rate, at least one 10-inch shell per minute could hit the opponent's battleship fiercely! And in fact, the Spanish fleet achieved results in the first round of shooting!

A 10-inch shell from the Madrid accurately hit the Marseilles, which was fighting against him. The boom between the two chimneys for suspending the lifeboats and the lifeboats underneath were torn to pieces, and scattered bursts of debris and flames swept across half of the bridge, setting fire to several nearby compartments and killing and injuring many U.S. Navy crews. At the same time that the Madrid opened the scoring, the Okendo also made a hit, but instead of attacking the American battleship, it hit the Columbia, which ranked fifth in the sequence of engagements of the American fleet!

The shell was apparently much more damaging than the first, coming directly from the northwest of the left side of the Columbia, destroying a 5-inch gun emplacement, and the resulting explosion also destroyed a 6-pounder gun on the upper deck, and worse, the shock from the explosion of this shell also damaged the hydraulic pitching mechanism of a nearby gun. (Actually, the spacing of the Columbia gun positions was large enough, but because of the temporary refueling, the spacing of individual guns was a little small, which led to this kind of thing.) ）

And the effect of this cannon also made the cruiser recognize the situation, give up the plan to get closer, and instead widen the distance, in case a group of big fish fights and harms his own small fish. Although the Columbia is not very small, its protection and weapons are really not suitable for such heavyweight battles! So I sensibly gave up the idea of going up and sweeping the opponent's deck with a 5-inch gun, and went up when the firepower of both sides was at its peak, which was obviously an irrational idea!

So on the entire battlefield, it became a situation where 6 battleships and 2 mounted cruisers fought to the death, and two protective cruisers fought soy sauce! In the early days of the war, the Spanish fleet took advantage of its high rate of fire and high projection to gain an advantage on the field, but this advantage was not stable!

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