After receiving the news that four Chinese-class battleships had set sail from the shipyard in Ryukyu County, the disappointed Saar Empire immediately announced that it would intensify its maritime patrols, hoping to intercept the four battleships. Unfortunately, they didn't know that these four battleships did not take any of the waterways estimated by the Saar Empire, and did not even enter the direction of the Storm Ocean, and soon after sailing, the four battleships sailed directly into the military base on Kaidao.

Kaidao is a lonely island, there are no islands within 1,500 kilometers nearby, its strategic location is very important, it can be described as the gateway to the east of the East Continent, so the Chinese Empire also has a heavy army here. After Fang Xiaoyu garrisoned here, he not only built an airfield and a naval base, but also set up a secret dock, which was specially used to transport supplies, so as not to need the shipping department to be responsible for the logistics and supply here, this time Fang Xiaoyu planned to use this dock to teleport the battleship.

Although it was the first time to teleport such a large object, the process was still very smooth, and the next morning, when the four Zhonghua-class battleships drove out of the dock leased by the Chinese Consortium to transport submarines one after another, the Yaman Empire people present were shocked, they couldn't believe how these four battleships got here, and how they hid in that small dock.

The news that four Chinese-class battleships mysteriously arrived at the Yaman Empire and joined the active service surprised the Saar Empire's navy. They couldn't figure out how the Chinese Empire had sent such a large warship into the Yaman Empire's military port without realizing it, not to mention that it took them less than a week to complete the journey that they thought would take two months to complete.

After reasoning, the Thar Empire came to the conclusion that the warships had already been built and sent to the Storm Ocean, and that the news was nothing more than a smokescreen released by the Chinese Empire to attract its attention so that the four warships could enter the Yaman Empire through the blockade.

The intelligence department of the Saar Empire took full responsibility for this inexplicable 'intelligence mistake', for which the director of the Saar Empire's General Intelligence Bureau had to resign in a daze.

The four Zhonghua-class battleships were quickly delivered to the Yaman military, and when the Yaman sailors really took control of these warships, they found that the shipbuilding level of the Chinese Empire was so excellent, there was no rough feeling in all places, and the engines were running well at full power, and they could be directly put into service without sea trials.

With these four Chinese-class battleships at the bottom, the Yaman Empire had the confidence to fight a decisive battle, and the naval department immediately began to study the plan for a decisive battle.

The Admiralty of the Saar Empire was scolded by Prime Minister Lauder for failing to intercept the four battleships, which made them lose face. At the same time, Prime Minister Lauder ordered them to immediately draw up a plan to destroy the main force of the Yaman Empire's navy as soon as possible, so as to regain the numerical superiority of warships.

The Admiralty of the Saar Empire, which was holding back their breath, hastened the formulation of the plan, hoping to rely on the small numerical advantage of their warships and the high quality of naval personnel to eliminate these dangerous warships and let their fleet regain overwhelming superiority.

The Saar Empire and the Yaman Empire did not expect when they formulated the plan, the other side was also making a plan for a decisive battle, and both sides were full of efforts to overwhelm the other, and the decisive battle at sea was inevitable, and soon the navies of both sides received orders to fully enter the state of first-class combat readiness.

On July 19, 905, an advance fleet of the High Seas Fleet of the Jarman Empire was ordered to set sail, and they sailed around the rugged Gus Strait in the direction of the Saar Empire, and three hours later the main fleet also secretly set sail from Wilhelmshamn, the main military port on the Storm Ocean.

The advance fleet was led by Vice Admiral Speer, including three cruisers and three destroyers, and their mission was to attack the coastal ports of the Saar Empire, attract part of the naval fleet of the Saar Empire to meet them, and then rely on their speed advantage to lead the opponent into an ambush circle, and the main force completed the task of annihilating the enemy.

After two days of sailing, General Speer's fleet bypassed several groups of patrol ships of the Sahr Navy and finally quietly approached Liverpool, an important port of the Saar Empire. Liverpool was the closest port to the Saar Empire in the Yaman Empire, so this was the place where Captain Hess attacked last time.

The reason why General Speer attacked here was because the entrance and exit of the port here were not large, and it was not easy for the Sahr navy to pursue, and it was easy for him to retreat by opening up the open sea, so as not to be wiped out if he was not careful.

The fleet's artillery fire was not strong, but having been ambushed by submarines once, the Thar military believed that the port was too close to the western continent and very vulnerable.

As a result, the Liverpool squadron has been cut by half by the government, and the naval forces here are already quite weak, and even Admiral Speer's fleet is not large, and it is enough to deal with them.

The Liverpool fleet reacted quickly, and after two rounds of shelling, the sailors were ready to use their ship's guns to counterattack outside the harbor, while the steam engines of the warships began to ignite and prepare for the warship sortie, and the coastal batteries were desperately firing at sea to interfere with the enemy's aiming.

General Speer's fleet did not even think of raiding the port, because of the large number of mines laid outside the important ports of the Thar Empire, they did not even dare to approach the main channel to avoid being hit by mines and coastal artillery, and General Speer's fleet only teased the other party's anger and lured them to attack.

When Admiral Speer noticed that black smoke was beginning to rise from the chimneys of the warships of the Saar fleet in the harbor, which was obviously full of steam, and when their warships began to leave the harbor one after another, Admiral Speer immediately ordered the fleet to retreat.

Leading the Liverpool fleet, the commander General Betty drove out of the port in a hurry, intending to fight to the death with the other party, when he saw that the opponent's fleet was not large, he naturally refused to let go, and General Betty immediately led the entire fleet to chase after him.

At this time, the commander of the port garrison did not dare to slack off when he saw the pursuit of the garrison fleet, and he immediately notified the main fleet by wired telegram, because of a moment of panic, he did not say the size of the other party's fleet in the telegram, but only said that the military port was attacked by a sneak attack, so this telegram made the native fleet of the Saar Empire think that it had caught a big fish.

The Thar Navy, which had long wanted to bite the main fleet of the Yaman Empire, did not have time to verify the telegram, and all the capital ships pulled anchor and set sail towards Wilhelmshaven, the home port of the Yaman Empire Navy.

Sahr's naval commander Jericho's thinking is very simple, the current means of reconnaissance and communication are not strong, once the fleet leaves the port, it will not be able to contact, if they look for the Yaman fleet on the vast sea, it is simply unthinkable, it is better to hold the other party's only way back to their home port, and wait for the other party's arrival.

Admiral Betty's fleet of six cruisers and ten destroyers was a standard patrol fleet in the Saar Empire, due to its numerical superiority. Admiral Betty was conceited that the quality of the Thar navy was much better than that of the Yaman navy, so he was very confident that he could defeat the enemy, even though his own ships were not much stronger than the other side.

General Speer led the Saar fleet to fight and retreat, and soon came to the predetermined ambush area, but he didn't want the sea to gradually start to fog at this time, which made General Speer extremely anxious, he had to order the three destroyers to go to his own fleet separately, so as not to find the battlefield, and at the same time let the cruiser fire a signal flare every few minutes to help the main force find the target, and he took the remaining three cruisers to drag each other and wait for the arrival of the main force.

"All the main guns, fire." With the order of General Speer, the naval battle of the Skagerrak Strait began. Seeing the Yaman Navy firing, Admiral Betty immediately ordered the fleet to open fire.

Many of the warship skills of the Yaman Empire were introduced from the Chinese Empire, and the Chinese Empire has encountered a series of naval battles in recent years, and the experience of duels between battleships is very rich, and its warship design ability is also more practical through the tempering of naval battles, not to mention the existence of Fang Xiaoyu's BUG, the rationality of the warship design is much better than that of the Thar Empire, which has not experienced sea battles since the era of ironclads, so although General Speer is at a disadvantage in numbers, he can draw with the other party.

Admiral Betty lined up the cruisers to seize the T-shaped position and ordered the destroyers to cruise in the open sea. In the eyes of both sides, the destroyer was only a weapon used against submarines, and its guns were too small in caliber to pose much of a threat even to the cruisers.

Although the torpedoes equipped by destroyers are somewhat threatening, because the range of these early torpedoes is too close, unless they are within 800 meters, the range of the torpedoes cannot be reached, let alone the speed, so the attack tactics of torpedoes on the western continent are bayonet tactics between battleships, which cannot be used in conventional naval battles, so the main equipment of destroyers is considered to be depth charges, which can naturally only deal with submarines.

General Speer's cruiser is the latest 'Destin' class cruiser in the Jarman Empire, and its performance is superior to that of the 'Majestic' class cruiser on the Thar side in all aspects, so the Yamaman Navy completed the turn first with a small turning radius and fast speed, seizing the T-shaped position.

As soon as Admiral Speer gave the order, all the main guns on the three cruisers opened fire together, and the dense shells covered the Thar fleet, which was turning and slowing down, because the 'Destining' class cruisers used a similar gun installation method as the Chinese ships, and each warship had eight main guns, so when the three cruisers concentrated on attacking General Betty's flagship, the results were quickly achieved.

The dense artillery fire covered the old warships of the Sahr Navy with sparks, and the hull suddenly appeared in several damages. Seeing that the flagship had suffered heavy damage, the Thar Navy, which had completed the turn, immediately began to return fire, but the Thar Navy used a trigger fuse, and the charge was too sensitive, and many shells exploded outside the opponent's armor, which did not cause much trouble to the Thar Navy.