I have to say that Makanov's order was correct, but it was still a little late, and because of the weather, the order was not conveyed very smoothly. The Netrurik covered Bayan from the siege of the Guiyuan 3 ship, and the subsequent Turquoise and Pearl also left the battlefield before the arrival of the Guiyuan 3 ship, leaving the seriously wounded Zhenhai and Zhiyuan, but the Admiral Korninov and the Leda, who were at the bottom of the queue, were the last to receive orders due to location problems, and their own speed was the slowest! Therefore, in the face of the Guiyuan-class battleships that ran at a speed of more than 22 knots, these two old Russian ships were obviously more than lucky!!

"Damn, it's Guiyuan! Send a signal to the Pearl in front, we need support! Ivanovich yelled angrily. Looking at the three Guiyuan-class cruisers rushing from the left front, beads of sweat fell from his face.

Fortunately, however, the Pearl in front began to slow down, waiting for the arrival of the two old ships behind it, while the Turquoise continued to hurry. "Maybe the losses of the Turquoise and the Zhenhai are a bit big, right?" Ivanovich muttered quietly. In fact, everything that happened later was worse than Ivanovich thought!

3 5000-ton battleships against 1 7000-ton armored cruiser, 1 5000-ton protective cruiser, 1 3000-ton protective cruiser. It seems that the tonnage is comparable. But in fact, the gap between the two sides is still very large, not to mention that the Guiyuan level is basically not injured. And three Russian battleships have already been damaged. In terms of pure performance, the two old protective cruisers, Admiral and Leda, are typical empty tonnage and no combat effectiveness! And the Pearl is a new type of cruiser. However, in terms of firepower, there is only one more 8-inch gun than the Guiyuan class, and although the armor thickness is thicker than that of Guiyuan, the 8-inch gun still cannot penetrate the side-chord hardened armor of Guiyuan. At the end of the day, there is no significant advantage in performance over the Guiyuan class.

In addition, at the time of the engagement, the state of the Russian fleet was no longer good, and the level of artillery on the Beiyang side was significantly stronger than that of the Russian Navy, so. As soon as the war began, the Beiyang Fleet was in an advantageous position!

"Get rid of the Pearl first. We'll take care of the remaining two old ships. Lin Yongsheng thought for a while and said. Lin Yongsheng's purpose is very realistic, even if it is 3 to 3, the Beiyang Fleet still has an advantage, but what Lin Yongsheng wants is not to defeat the opponent, but to completely eliminate the opponent! And considering the other 3 big guys in Makanov's fleet, if the two weak Russian ships cannot be solved in a short period of time, once Makanov kills the horse gun, then Lin Yongsheng can only choose to retreat. And in order to be able to concentrate enough firepower to send the Admiral and Leda to the bottom of the sea, then driving this annoying Pearl away first has become the first priority!

In this sub-battlefield. The tactical literacy of the officers and men of the Guiyuan 3 ship, who were full of anger and energy, was brought into full play! Uniform formation. The flexible maneuvering, as well as the accurate gunnery, made the Russian fleet, which had just fought smoothly, feel considerable pressure at the beginning!

"Shooting at our ship was the flagship Guiyuan of General Lin Yongsheng of the Second Detachment of the Beiyang Naval Division's Fast Fleet. The first time we fought with this world-famous warship, we felt a lot of pressure. Although the other side has only 5000 tons. But it has a higher rate of fire than ours, and its actual firepower is basically comparable to that of our ship. The protection is also quite good, although the armor is not very thick. But the large protective area, hardened armor allowed it to ignore the attack of 6-inch guns, and more importantly, the officers and soldiers operating it had a higher quality ....... A Russian naval officer wrote in a later report.

The Guiyuan ship, with the support of the Suiyuan ship behind, concentrated its fire on the Pearl. In just 2 minutes from the start of the battle, the Guiyuan ship scored 3 hits! First two 6-inch shells. A shot hit the dinghy on the side of the Pearl, turning the dinghy more than ten meters long directly into a flaming torch. Then a shot directly hit the ship's unprotected zone, making a hole near the waterline. From time to time, seawater poured into the breach, and at first it was not a big problem, but as time went on, the ship was destroyed, and the speed of the Pearl began to slow down when the ship was flooded. …,

The real serious impact was an 8-inch shell, which hit the rear turret on the Pearl, probably because of the angle, the shell was bounced off, but after the bounce fell to the place, it was very unfortunate that it smashed on one of the 8-inch barrels! I've smashed this cannon barrel into a bend! Fortunately, there was something wrong with the fuse of this shell. The explosion was a little late, leaving the other 8-inch gun next to it unaffected. The last fell to the deck and blasted a large hole in the teak deck.

And the Admiral and the Leda are still at a disadvantage in the face of the Kaiyuan and the Suiyuan, which only has half of its firepower! Without hardened armor and no waterline armor, these two protective cruisers, which can only be described as wearing pants, are almost a hole in the face of the 6-inch and 8-inch guns of the Guiyuan class! Plus a picric acid charge with high flammability. A shell goes up and it's a fire.

Accompanied by the shaking of the hull, a ball of flame erupted from the left hull. "Another piece of artillery has been knocked out." Ivanovich said with great frustration. Just half an hour ago, his battleship was a hunter. But now, he suddenly became a prey, and he didn't even have a chance to run. The fire caused by the shell that hit the side chord began to spread, and the brave Russian sailors did their best to extinguish the fire in the gallop. But not long after he ran out of the cannon, he was swept to the ground by a 12-pounder grenade bomb! Flying steel balls bounced back and forth between hulls. There are hardly any dead ends.

Under the double blow of the high-explosive shells of the picric acid charge and the grenade shells of the 12-pounder gun, the Russian battleship lost not only the hardware equipment on the battleship, but also the thick smoke, shrapnel and flames that injured the crew on it all the time. This kind of damage is not only manifested in the above, but also in the spirit. Looking at the burnt black of the comrades next to him, looking at the dense steel balls on the corpses, and the pungent smell that filled the entire bridge, the spirit of the Russian sailors was finally on the verge of collapse!

Just when Ivanovich was about to give up hope of life, suddenly, the Pearl shouted "Hurry up!" Flag slogan. Then full rudder to the left, leave the battle column and rush towards the Guiyuan! "Great Pearl, St. George will bless you!" Ivanovich shouted excitedly. At this time, the purpose of the Pearl was very simple, relying on reasonable armor protection to cut through the opponent's formation, in order to disrupt the opponent's formation and buy time for the evacuation of the two old ships!

The Pearl rushed towards Lin Yongsheng's fleet like a wild bull, and its entry point was between Guiyuan and Suiyuan. According to the Russians' ideas, the Beiyang Fleet had only two options to choose from, first, the Guiyuan quickly turned the rudder and led the fleet to the left to evade. The second is to accept the reality that the formation is destroyed! The Guiyuan continued to maintain its original course, while the Suiyuan chose to evade. But there is no way to do it. At most, there was one warship in the North Ocean that could attack the Admiral and Leda. In this way, the weak ships of the Russian Navy have a chance to escape!

But the idea is beautiful, and the truth is cruel! It is a fact that the formation of the Beiyang Fleet was necessarily disrupted. But that doesn't mean you have to give up the chase for Russia's weak ships! Just when the Pearl had just completed its turn, the Guiyuan began to accelerate, and the battleship took a diagonal line from the right side to cut through, while at the same time, Suiyuan led the Kaiyuan to turn directly, and the two battleships and the Pearl were moving opposite each other! And the Admiral and Leda of the Russian Navy turned to the right at the same time as the Pearl turned to the left!

The Suiyuan and Kaiyuan met quickly with the Pearl. The two sides fired at each other from a distance of less than 800 meters. At this moment, the accuracy and rate of fire of rapid-fire guns were brought to the extreme! I saw countless points of light jumping between the three battleships. The fire from the ship's guns almost filled the distance of less than 800 meters. In this case, there is no fancy in the fleet engagement! Victory always favors the well-trained side with more guns, faster rate of fire! …,

At this time, the Pearl is no longer facing the word dense, but should be described by a barrage! Because the distance between the two sides is extremely close, even the 3-pounder guns and 6-pounder guns, which are basically not used on the ship, can be fired! Countless points of light shot out from the Suiyuan ship and the Kaiyuan ship! Then it quickly expanded, forming a barrage to cover the poor Pearl!

"I felt like there was a hail in the sky! But it's not just ice, it's a cannonball! There is no need to be afraid of armor at the waterline, but there is no protection from the middle deck to the bridge! Countless shells and shrednel pounded on the bridge, the fragile mast walls were pierced from time to time, and then the shells that exploded in the compartment caused a big red, and even more terrifying were the grenades fired from the 12-pounder and 6-pounder guns, these steel balls that spread death scattered all over the hull, you never know where it would come from, I saw a companion hiding behind a wall but suddenly his body twitched, and then a large amount of blood spurted from his chest and limbs. Poor guy. "After the war, an officer wrote in his diary.

The wars were all reciprocal, and in the case of the Pearl being hit by a large number of shells, the Suiyuan was also hit intensively. In the process of hedging between the two sides, the rapid-fire guns of the Pearl were also firing non-stop, thanks to the wide armor belt of the distant class, and most of the shells smashed on the armor belt of the side chord. Accompanied by the sound of metal crashing and explosions, large and small craters appeared on the Suiyuan's armor belt. One of the 8-inch shells was too close, although it did not penetrate the main equipment of the side chord, but the huge impact force still loosened the armor plate, and the whole piece of armor was pushed backwards by about 15cm! A large amount of seawater poured into the ship through the cracks. As for the bridge, it was also swept away by the rapid-fire guns of the Russians! A large number of cannon-covered guns were destroyed, and the ship's surface personnel suffered heavy losses.

After this hedging, the fire on the Pearl was completely out of control, with huge losses of crew on the ship, uncontrolled fires, destroyed artillery and seawater pouring into the stern, so that this 7,200-ton cutting-edge warship must also choose to avoid, otherwise, just the fire can completely destroy this cutting-edge warship of the Russian Navy!

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