"What are you doing in a daze? Send a telegram ordering all warships to quickly sail westward and evacuate the battlefield, do not queue, do not wait for other warships, and evacuate the battlefield immediately, immediately, and completely. Majifen said after a brief shock! Now is not the time for grief, he needs to immediately command the withdrawal of the fleet from the battlefield.

"Report Mr. Colonel. A telegram from the Columbia said that the Maria Princess of the Spanish fleet had been torpedoed and ran aground, with the Okendo in cover, and that if we could, we could say that the battleship was completely destroyed before leaving. An officer said.

"Let's go over and have a look first, let the other warships evacuate first, they are slow, otherwise they won't be able to leave for a while." Magifen pondered for a moment and then said. If this battle can destroy a Spanish capital ship, it will save some face, right? Magiffen thought to himself.

"Send a telegram to the Oregon and tell them that they can choose to sink themselves if necessary. The fight has reached this point, and there is no point in it. Magiffen added. Magifin needs the Oregon to stall for time, but at the same time he can't bear to let the personnel that the U.S. Navy has worked so hard to train be consumed like this, so, in this telegram, Magifin leaves the decision to the Oregon itself!

At this time, the Oregon had reached its last moment, and the three Spanish warships in the distance kept tilting the bullet rain, and the dense bullet rain quickly destroyed the remaining guns of the Oregon, and even the sturdy 13-inch turret could not withstand the close fire of the 11-inch and 10-inch guns and was finally destroyed. After holding out for half an hour, the whole battleship was no longer capable of resisting at all. At this time, the captain of the Oregon finally decided to sink himself.

"Prepare to save people, this war is over, there is no need for us to kill too much!" Having already won the decisive victory, Severa said proudly, after months of nervous tension, he could finally relax. And this relaxation made him unable to get nervous at all. Even forgot that there were 2 more armored cruisers that did not return! What's even more tragic is that the radios of the two ships, Okendo and Princess Maria, were all destroyed, and in this way, the two sides lost contact completely!

"How's Jericho?" Looking at the Oregon that was gradually sinking, Yang Yonglin suddenly asked.

"Uh, I don't know, Colonel Jericho hasn't been in touch for a long time, and we don't even know where they are!" An adjutant in charge of communications next to him said.

"It can't be an accident, right?" Sevela on the side only remembered at this time that there were still two battleships that had not returned! "The King covered the return of the Cologne to the port of San Diego. The Spanish and Madrid plus 6 torpedo boats in search of the Jericho fleet! Sevela then gave the order.

But to Sevela's surprise, just as the three battleships were happily bombarding the Oregon, Magifin commanded the only remaining battleship of the American fleet to sail towards the Maria Princess, which had run aground! Jericho's Okando did not choose to leave after the friendly ship ran aground. Rather, it was to cover the battleship on the sidelines. When he saw that the other party's shallow water heavy gunboat chose to leave, Jericho was quite happy at the time, in his opinion. It should be the main battlefield that has divided the winners and losers, and if I guess correctly, the American fleet should have lost!

Jericho's inference was indeed correct, the American fleet was indeed beaten badly, 3 of the 4 battleships were sunk, and the last one was also seriously wounded! But Iowa was badly damaged. But there is no problem dealing with the equally badly damaged Okundo, at least destroying the stranded Princess Maria in the face of Okundo's attack! At this time, the Princess Maria was leaning into the shallows. Because of the angle problem, all the artillery angles are pointed in the air, and there is no force to counterattack at all! …,

Soon, the end of the Princess Maria is finally coming, and it has become the last battleship to sink in the entire Spanish-American War! Looking at the gradually clear figure in the distance, Jericho finally saw the identity of the other party, the battleship Iowa, the flagship of the United States Navy, and the battleship was devastated by the long battle. But in the face of the Okendo, which was also beaten, this was really an irresistible enemy, after all, before that, Okendo had been circling with a cruiser and three shallow water heavy gunboats for more than an hour!

"Let the people on the Princess Maria abandon ship, we're ready to get out of here!" Jericho originally wanted to entangle himself with Iowa and try to drag it until the main fleet arrived, but looking at the sky that had gradually darkened and the ammunition had almost run out, Jericho knew that this war should end like this.

In the face of the Okundo, which was not harassing on the side, Majifen didn't even bother to take care of it, the Iowa approached the Princess Maria, who was already like a dead fish, and then opened fire, the accuracy of hitting fixed targets is naturally much higher than that of actual combat, Majifen has no need to break the other party into pieces, as long as it can lose the value of repair. So, after smashing a few 13-inch heavy bombs on the Princess Maria, Majifen also chose to run away decisively, after all, I don't know how long the Oregon can last, once the other party catches up, the American battleship formation will really be removed!

Just after the Iowa left the waters near the port of San Diego in the setting of the sunset, Severa arrived belatedly with two battleships, not because of the distance, but because they really didn't know where to go. In addition to the only surviving battleship of the Jericho fleet, the Okando and the Manila were destroyed, and by now, there were only 5 warships left in the entire Spanish fleet, and all but two battleships were seriously damaged!

And the US Navy was even worse, with only one battleship, one armored cruiser, three protective cruisers (one of the first class, one of the second class, and one of the third class) in addition to the shallow water heavy gunboats. In this war, the US Navy lost more than ten years of accumulation, not only the loss of personnel and equipment, but also the ambition to chase the ocean, within ten years, the US Navy did not dare to take another step into the ocean!

"Even if we regain a strong fleet, even if our navy is replenished with officers and men who have graduated from the naval academy, the government and the people will not easily use this great force, because in the war of 1898 the U.S. Navy disappointed everybody, and they were afraid of the oceans and of any country that already had a place in them, so they had to be cautious. And this ultimately cost us the perfect time to expand! Afterwards, Theodore Roosevelt summed it up in his memoirs, which was a summary of the entire Spanish-American War.

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