Faced with the sudden separation of a fleet, although both Simpson and Magiffen were baffled by the situation, the realist tendencies of the Americans still prevented them from delving into the reasons. In the eyes of the Americans, as long as the situation develops in a good direction, there is no need to think about everything very clearly. So Simpson and Magiffin decided to deal with the enemy in front of them with peace of mind, and no matter which fleet they defeated, the victory of the United States was basically certain!

As a result, Admiral Simpson's main fleet continued to sail towards the Severa fleet, while Magiffen kept the formation intact and kept the speed at about 12 knots, so that the fleet could become disjointed and be broken by each of them. Xu Jie used this funnel to knock down the fast fleet of the Japanese Combined Fleet in the Battle off the coast of Izu. Therefore, Majifen, who is familiar with the battle examples, will naturally not give his opponent this chance! However, tactics are dead, people are alive, and today, Ma Jifen is about to become a test of Yang Yonglin's new tactics!

Just when the distance between the two sides was about 7KM, Yang Yonglin's fleet was located in the northeast direction of Majifen's fleet, and just when the two sides were about to turn to line up in battle lines to engage like a normal battle, Yang Yonglin's fleet suddenly began to gradually increase speed, giving people a feeling that it was very likely to enter from the right side of Majifen's fleet! But soon, just as the two sides were approaching about 5KM, Yang Yonglin's flagship King quickly turned 120 degrees, and then cut diagonally into Majifen's channel. The entire fleet moved along with the capital ships, and a few minutes later, an unfolded battle line crossed in front of Majifin's eyes!

"T-shaped crosshair?!" Faced with this scene, Majifen's head hit hard. The so-called tactics of grabbing the T actually existed very early, as early as the era of style, the two sides constantly fought for the direction of the wind, and constantly maneuvered, and there were examples of seizing the T-shaped horizontal head and then concentrating superior artillery fire for engagement. And everything Yang Yonglin has done is just to use the past for the present. And the tactics now seem to make quite deadly for the slow Magifin fleet! At such a close distance, the opponent will put the cannon directly against your head, and if you continue to advance, the opponent's salvo may quickly crush the New York at the head of the team. In this situation, Majifen quickly made the right choice, and the entire fleet also turned 60 degrees to the right. In order to be able to conduct artillery battles in parallel!

Although there is no mistake in the disposition, the correct disposition may not necessarily lead to a good enough result, and the U.S. fleet at this time is exactly what this sentence should be. Aligning lines requires your fleet to be as consistent as possible. Both speed and maneuverability had to be kept flush with the weakest ships, in which case the fleet would not be disjointed, and the firepower of the entire fleet would be brought into play, but this is not the case now.

Majifen's flagship, the New York, suddenly picked up speed and made a turn to the right, but the two auxiliary cruisers behind it, A1 and A2, were unable to keep up with the New York due to the efficiency of their rudders, so they had to continue to sail forward for a while to complete the turn. The two subsequent 4,000-ton battleships, the Newark and the Charleston, also understood what Majifen meant and also followed the steering, but they did not follow the two battleships A1 and A2 in front, but took advantage of their small turning radius. Straight to the New York in a small circle. The next 5 B series auxiliary cruisers followed the two battleships to quickly approach the New York, so that the two battleships A1 and A2 were abruptly excluded from the battle line! And what's worse is that because of the inconsistent speed, the remaining battleship shape has also been scattered!

The two auxiliary cruisers, converted from merchant ships, never dreamed that they would be the first to engage the enemy! And also at such a close distance, in such a bad formation. The two auxiliary cruisers were only 2KM away from each other before they turned their hulls, and were exposed to each other's blows with their sideboards, which were piled high with guns but at the same time quite fragile, and at this time, these two poor battleships were facing 6 battleships, as many as 70 guns of various guns! …,

"The most perfect state of engagement! I've never seen a better pick-up than this! Jericho yelled excitedly. With the thunderous sound of cannons, the entire flank side of the fleet fired the heaviest fire at the two battleships like a volcanic eruption. Accompanied by a bright yellow flame erupting from the muzzle of the cannon. In less than 3 seconds, the shells flew over a distance of less than 2KM between the two sides, and pierced the sidelines of the two cruisers A1 and A2! In an extreme amount of time, no one can count how many shells have hit these two poor creatures!

Countless points of light shot at the opponent, and random and violent explosions sounded on the side chords of the entire battleship, the sound of explosions, crashes and the cracking sound of the hull structure after being hit instantly filled the entire sea, in just 3 minutes, a side board of the A2 was torn from the hull under the fierce blow, and hundreds of square meters of the ship's side were exposed to the blows of the opponent's stormy version, and shells of various calibers rushed into the hull, and only the minimum protection could not provide sufficient protection for the battleship, UNDER SUCH POOR PROTECTION, THE FIREPOWER THAT LOOKED QUITE GOOD ON PAPER HAD NO CHANCE TO PLAY AT ALL, AND IT COLLAPSED UNDER THE FIERCE BLOWS OF THE OPPONENT, A 203MM HEAVY GUN WAS ONLY LESS THAN 3 SHOTS LARGER, AND THE ENTIRE GUN POSITION WAS UNLOADED FROM THE HULL BY A 10-INCH SHELL, COUNTLESS PILLARS OF FIRE BECAME MORE AND MORE FIERCE UNDER THE BLOWING OF THE SEA BREEZE, SMOKE AND BRIGHT YELLOW FLAMES ROSE UP IN THE ENTIRE BATTLESHIP, AND ANYONE KNEW THAT THE AUXILIARY CRUISER A2 WAS ABOUT TO END!

But unexpectedly, the first to sink was not the A2 that had been made into a torch by a high-explosive bomb, but the A1 in front of it, just 15 minutes into the war, suddenly the hull of the A1 was hit hard by a huge thing, less than 1 second, a large number of debris accompanied by bright yellow flames and smoke poured out of the breach, a huge explosion resounded throughout the battlefield, and the entire battleship trembled, but this was only a beginning, and then, A series of explosions came from the hull, and after each explosion, flames and smoke poured out from various breaches, and finally, after three consecutive explosions, with an unprecedented loud bang, a yellow fireball accompanied by a large amount of steam rose from the middle of the hull, and then. A huge shockwave spread in all directions.

The sheer force was tearing at the broken hull. Then, in a burst of tooth-aching metal cracking, the entire battleship was broken in two! The huge whirlpool formed by the sinking of the A1 sucked countless debris into the seabed along with the seawater, and many US Navy officers and sailors who jumped ship and escaped had not had time to swim far away, as if they were grabbed by a huge hand and dragged to the bottom of the sea. In just 2 minutes, the 13,000-ton auxiliary cruiser was finished on his journey as a warship. It took less than 20 minutes to go into battle!

Soon after the silence of the A1, the end of the A2 had also arrived, and the entire battleship had turned into a volcano. The hull tilted up to 15 degrees, which was beyond the limits of what could be recovered, and silence was only a matter of time. "Alright." Leave the ship alone. We must achieve a bigger record before the opponent's 3rd rank cruiser reinforcements come up. Yang Yonglin looked at the Saivela fleet that had already picked up the station in the distance and said. In less than half an hour, Yang Yonglin's fleet beat the opponent 2-0 with lightning speed. But this is only the beginning, at this time, the Spanish fleet has lost its first mover advantage, and the rest is to fight with real swords and guns! The opposite fleet still has 8 ships of all sizes, in addition to the possibility that the other side may also reinforce 5 third-class cruisers, Yang Yonglin's situation is not optimistic.

"Sure enough, he is worthy of being a person that even Admiral Xu values." Ma Jifen looked at the A2 cruiser that was already slowly sinking in the distance with a blue face, and he actually let Yang Yonglin take the lead in such a simple and direct way, this kind of vibration made Ma Jifen feel a bloody liquid surging up. However, Majifen did not lose his inch, if he led the team to support when the opponent attacked. Then in the case of an irregular formation, you can only be sent to death if you go up by yourself! So he would rather lose two auxiliary cruisers than wait until the formation was in full formation. And now, the US Second Fleet has completed its regrouping, and the battle between the two sides has just begun! …,

After the battle just now. Yang Yonglin grasped the initiative on the battlefield, and in the comparison of the current fleet strength, his fleet was obviously in an advantage, the King against the New York, and the Cologne against two second-class cruisers at the same time, a 10,000-ton auxiliary cruiser and three regular second-class cruisers against the opponent's five auxiliary cruisers. Whether in terms of firepower, speed or protection, Yang Yonglin's fleet occupies an absolute advantage! If the battle situation does not change, Yang Yonglin is confident that it will take an hour to two hours to completely destroy all the warships on the opposite side!

But this ideal situation is no longer possible, just after Ma Jifen and Yang Yonglin rearranged the battle queue, there is a cruiser fleet from the northeast towards the battlefield, no need to ask, Yang Yonglin also knows that his opponent has sent reinforcements, if you don't guess wrong, it should be 5 third-class cruisers, although these ships are said to be very small tonnage, and they are nothing to take out alone, but once they cut in from the tail of the team, the weaker ships in the most rear, will be besieged by several cruisers, The Fury is essentially just a dome armored ship, and it can't last long at all under the blow of dozens of rapid-fire guns! Yang Yonglin's fleet, which had just taken the limelight, was now in danger of being flanked!

"Increase the speed, we will overtake the opponent's formation and see if we can grab the T-shaped crosshead again!" Looking at the Shelly fleet that was getting closer and closer, Yang Yonglin wiped a cold sweat and said. Immediately, Yang Yonglin's fleet once again picked up speed, trying to overtake the opponent's formation and repeating the old trick in front.

But will Magiffen give him that chance? Apparently not! At this time, the two sides are basically lined up in two parallel lines, the distance is about 4KM, if Yang Yonglin wants to form a T-shaped horizontal head again, he must overtake the opponent and then turn left to attack, but in the case of the opponent's defense, you are maneuvering in the outer circle, the opponent is in the inner circle, your distance is far beyond the opponent, and the general low speed of the Majifen fleet does not mean that they are all low-speed ships, the speed of the New York and the two protective cruisers is not slower than the speed of the king and other ships at this time, even if the speed is not uniform, The front and rear teams of Majifen's fleet were separated, and Yang Yonglin did not dare to cut in without authorization, after all, Shelly's 5 cruisers were about to rush over, and this time it would form a land battle, and in the case of the opponent's absolute projection advantage, he would inevitably suffer heavy losses. At this time, Majifen only needs to suppress the opponent's route and wait for the arrival of reinforcements!

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