: 0 points, battleship "Queen Elizabeth".

"The enemy ship column turns southeast in turn!"

Hearing Lieutenant Colonel Kanter's report, Betty adjusted the magnification of the telescope in his hand, and sure enough, with the 2 Thunderbolt-class battlecruisers taking the lead, the course of the Chinese warship column began to turn from southwest to southeast in turn, so that it would not be long before the 14 powerful East Asian warships would cut diagonally to the course of their own ships, and bombarded his 4 squadron of desperate dead soldiers with all their firepower.

Death is certain, the problem is to die as worthwhile as possible, and Betty doesn't think that sending death is all there is to this queen mission.

At least 30 destroyers are rushing towards the main ships of the East Asian Army at full speed, which seems to be enough to cause a lot of disturbance to the other side, but this is not enough, the rear forces must hold out until dark, and must hold out until the main force of Jericho completely disengages from the enemy!

Without thinking for too long, or rather, there was not much time for him to analyze and deliberate step by step, Betty raised her hand and crooked the military hat on her head, clutched the telescope in one hand and gave a categorical order: "Concentrate all the firepower to bombard the enemy's turning point, and after the enemy ships have all completed the turn, then attack the 2nd Thunderbolt-class battlecruiser with all the firepower, revenge and courage will concentrate on attacking the No. 1 ship, and this ship and the thunder will concentrate on attacking the No. 2 ship." ”

Within 5 minutes, at least 7 East Asian warships that passed through the turning point were covered by the water column of 135 and 15-inch main gun salvos, of which 5 were confirmed to be hit by more than 10 bullets......

At 17:35, when the East Asian warship column had just finished turning around and was about to use its full firepower of 32 380 mm 45 times the diameter of the main guns, 16 350 mm and 55 times the diameter of the main guns, and > mm 45 times the diameter of the main guns to vent their anger on the Betty column that dared to block the car with their mantis arms, the signal flag was raised on the mast of the "Queen Elizabeth" at the right time: "The whole ship turns right 8 compass points."

The "Revenge", which was the lead of Betty's ship, immediately turned due south, followed by Betty's flagship "Queen Elizabeth", followed by the "Queen's" sibling "Brave" and the "Orion" class "Thunder".

"Distribute firepower according to the aforementioned instructions and concentrate on attacking enemy battlecruisers!"

With the order of Lieutenant Commander Kanter on the "Queen Elizabeth", 16 guns pointed to the East Asian warship lead ship "Thunder", and the other 815-inch main gun and 813-inch main gun pointed to the "Thunder" behind it.

Meanwhile. It is north of the Betty Battleship Territory and west of the East Asian Army's capital ship Formation. One hour ago, the light ships of the two sides that survived the fierce battle on the ground began a new round of character duels

On the Entente side, the first to rush to the capital ships of the East Asian Army was the 8I destroyer ships of the British 10th Destroyer Fleet, which had not previously participated in light force engagements. The battle site was used as a reserve force of the East Asian Army, which had not fired a single bomb so far, and the Chinese Army expelled the 8 destroyers of the 1st Sentai Army. Both in quantity and quality. are evenly matched.

I saw that the British army 8 spread out a horizontal formation from north to south. Black smoke billowed from west to east. It was simply ignoring the Chinese destroyers who came to intercept them. He only wanted to rush closer, and was pursuing the Betty Ship Territory with all his might, and the main ships of the East Asian Army. The Chinese army 8 first accelerated out from its own capital ship column. Take the southwest course and open horizontally. An attempt was made to launch an interception from the front of the port side of the enemy ship. The two sides approached sharply at a relative speed of fifty or sixty knots.

From thousands of yards to hundreds of yards. Passing by from tens of yards to zero distance. 120 mm 4-inch (102 mm) caliber artillery shells are staggered and whirling. Five-fifty-millimeter and 21-inch (five-three-three-millimeter) caliber torpedoes roamed the sea. Not a single British destroyer timidly flinched. Nor did a single Chinese destroyer turn the rudder to evade. The honor of mutual faith turned into a dazzling flash of light on the sea as the sunset became thicker. Stung the eyes of some passing seagulls.

Before missing head-on with the Chinese destroyers. The commander of the 10th Destroyer Fleet, Colonel Wendland's flagship, the Impermanence, was blown away by a shell that pierced 120 meters into the forward ammunition depot, blowing the entire bow of the ship. Within a few minutes, the propeller was spinning with its ass in the sky and submerged to the bottom of the sea. One hundred and nine sailors under Captain Windland were killed on board.

Immediately after the "Holly" was expelled by the Chinese army, the commander of the 1st Sentai Colonel Jiang Xin, the flagship of the "Swift Wolf", a thunderbolt hit the middle of the port side. An explosion occurred in the boiler compartment. In an instant, the whole ship was enveloped in a large amount of white steam. Wait for the smoke to dissipate. "Holly" is no longer visible.

The "Impact" was blown up by the successive shells, and its speed was drastically reduced, but the torpedo it fired hit the bow of the "Cunning Wolf" in one go, and with a shocking bang, the "Cunning Wolf" seemed to be lifted high off the sea in the posture of poking its butt into the water, and immediately fell heavily again

Only the mast and the upper part of the smoke were exposed, and when it re-exposed most of the former part of the T-bridge had completely disappeared, the stubborn boat held out until dark, and after transferring the surviving crew, it was torpedoed by the "Sharp Wolf" of the same team.

The "Shock" that had fallen behind was soon met with retribution: a number of Chinese destroyers that had turned back to pursue it launched a siege on it, and the 120-meter shells smashed its sides into a sieve, the boiler pipes ruptured, and the steam leaked in all directions, and finally stalled and became a dead fish, and was sent to the bottom of the sea by two torpedoes of the "Chi Wolf".

A salvo of 4-inch guns from the "Esses" cut off the main boiler pipes of the "Silver Wolf", and the "Silver Wolf" dragged a long white belt for several kilometers before gradually losing power, and was forced to be towed away by the "Min Wolf" of the same team.

Under the leadership of the "Esses", the 5I-class destroyers that broke through the interception continued to rush straight to the Chinese capital ship column, and began to accept the baptism of the 150-millimeter auxiliary gun crews of the entire 14 capital ships in front of them at a distance of 15,000 yards, and each capital ship could use five or six of these powerful anti-lightning guns at the same time, and even several battleships used 350 and 380-millimeter caliber shrapnel to shoot at them, and each shell was loaded with dozens or hundreds of fist-sized shotguns, and after the body of the bullet exploded, it was like hail and scattered. It's like hunting rabbits with a big shotgun.

The "Esses" failed to reach the bottom of the road, and a 150-millimeter shell suddenly tore off its bridge, and it began to lose control, turning in circles and circles until it was sieveed by more shells, shotguns, and shrapnel, and finally sank due to excessive immersion shortly after dark, and all the surviving crew were captured.

Xing 4, under the leadership of the "Imogin", hastily launched a torpedo 12,000 yards away from the target, and then broke away from the southwest at full speed with a lot of scars, and although none of the 11 torpedoes fired hit, it made the lookouts on the main ships of the East Asian armored forces nervous for a while, and the 4 battleships were forced to make an emergency turn to evade, and the effect of delay was achieved to a certain extent.

The 10th Destroyer Fleet launched the "Death Charge" was followed by the 1st and 2nd Destroyer Fleets, which had suffered heavy losses in the previous battle, at this time they were all under the command of Commodore Campbell who was sitting on the light cruiser "Lin Xian", and there were a total of 19 G-class and H-class destroyers that could be immediately put into battle, and they soon encountered the old opponents of the last engagement, the 3rd, 4th and 8th Squadrons of the Chinese Army, at this time, they had commanded the commander of the 4th Fleet, Colonel Wei Chenguang, and the only forces that could immediately meet the battle were 10 destroyers of the Wolf and Yang. Relying on the fact that there were still 4 ships of Commodore Li Lingyun's 2nd Light Patrol Team: foreign ships pressed the formation, Colonel Wei Chenguang, who was sitting on the "Shenyang", still confidently ordered to "engage the enemy at full speed."

However, when Wei Chenguang recognized the shadow of the 4th British "Monmouth" class armored cruiser from the telescope, he suddenly realized that the confidence or something, in fact, seemed to be meaningless. The so-called will to fight, the consciousness of sacrifice, can exist independently of such meaningless things......

The general flagship of the East Asian Army, the battleship "Pinghai", was at this time in the third position in the column of the first force.

"The enemy ship column turned due south in turn"

"The enemy ships are gathering fire to attack my thunder and thunder two ships!"

"Thunder fire, raised the flag to the east"

The not-so-pleasant-sounding reports came to the bridge one after another, Sa Zhenbing remained silent, and let Ye Fei be anxious there: "Let's also turn south, and at the same time concentrate fire to attack the enemy's lead ship, if Betty can still move, it is very likely to be on there." ”

"That's it."

There were five or six points of fatigue in the tone of the response, and it was obvious that Sa Zhenbing had passed the peak of excitement, and he really couldn't lift his spirits for this kind of cat and mouse trick at the moment.

"Then the Zhenlei and this team will attack the enemy's lead ship, Vice Admiral Liao's 2 team will attack the enemy's 2nd ship, Vice Admiral Yamaya's Japanese team will attack 3 ships, and Vice Admiral Park's North Korean team will attack 4 ships, is this okay?"

"That's all." Sa Zhenbing didn't even bother to order.

Soon, the 32 380 mm main guns of the 4 Pinghai class, the 8 350 mm main guns of the 1 Thunderbolt class, and a total of 40 behemoth guns pointed to the lead ship "Revenge" of the Betty column, and each ship fired an average of 4 and a half salvos per minute, to 30 rounds of half salvos, and the last to 30 seconds a round of 8 full salvos, and in just 5 minutes, more than 250 shells weighing 650 to 850 kilograms fell one after another within a few hundred meters around the "Revenge", of which at least 20 shells hit the "Revenge" directly. Close misses are incalculable, and before that, the "Revenge" had been hit by large-caliber shells no less than 15 times.

At 1644, the lookout post of the "Pinghai" reported: "Enemy lead ship."