At the moment when the Ninghai appeared, the Pearl rushed forward and showed off the twin torpedo tubes mounted on the sideline! (Not all cruisers at that time were equipped with torpedo tubes in the bow, but also on the sides of the hull...... At this time, the distance between the two sides is only about 400 meters! And the Ninghai can't turn at all, once it turns to the side of the ship, it will be exposed, which is almost a sure ending. Perhaps it was too sudden, and the Russians on the Pearl did not react for a moment. When they saw the huge figure in front of them, they were first stunned, and then excitedly began to prepare to launch torpedoes, at such a close distance and angle, the guns on the Ninghai could not directly hit the hull of the Pearl. In this case, the Russians just need to complete the preparations for torpedo launch, then knock the torpedo out, and then they can sink a battleship! In front of great results. No one is tempted!

"Go full speed ahead and sink the Pearl!" Liu Guanxiong gritted his teeth and ordered. Since you can't dodge, it's better to face it directly, and making the opponent unable to launch a torpedo has become the best way to solve the problem! At this moment, the Beiyang Naval Division did not lack courage, and at this critical moment, courage and decisiveness became the best way to save this battleship!

The Ninghai was completely furious, angered by the successive assassinations! Like an angry beast, rush towards the cruiser that dares to challenge its supreme majesty! Now that we are in a deep crisis, it is better to fight to the death! A distance of 400 meters is not a distance at all. Although it could not go at full speed, at a speed of 16 knots, that is, more than ten seconds, during this time, the Pearl could not dodge at all, and the torpedo launch could not be completed. When the Russians found out that the Ninghai was about to carry out the most direct and violent attack, the Pearl tried to dodge. At least wait until the torpedo is fired before you get hit! But the Pearl, which was also not very fast, didn't have enough time, and only turned half a compass point, and the Ninghai pierced the back of the Pearl hull like a long knife!

"Boom." With the sound of a loud crash and the tearing of the ship's side resounded throughout the battlefield. The sound of artillery fire on the entire battlefield was suppressed, and everyone wanted to know what was going on. Although there is no angle of attack, with a speed of 16 knots, the standard displacement weighs more than 14,000 tons. With a full load displacement of nearly 16,000 tons, the Ninghai almost cut the Pearl in two, and the entire stern almost fell off the hull.

"Strafe the deck!" I don't know who shouted. The shocked Beiyang sailors staggered to their feet and ran to the nearest open gun emplacement, firing at the Pearl with 12-, 6-, or even 3-pounder guns, especially the area where the torpedo tubes were located. It was also taken care of by 1 12-pounder gun and 2 6-pounder guns!

"Slow down, stop, back off. The watertight doors in the bow of the ship are all closed. Liu Guanxiong shouted loudly, ignoring the blood dripping from his head. At this moment, the crisis of the Ninghai is not over. The two battleships were still entangled. If the Russians had broken through the cauldron and detonated the ammunition depot at this time, the Shangninghai would have been affected by the current close distance.

Slowly, the Ninghai, which was also badly damaged, began to slowly retreat. The bow of the ship is rotten. A large amount of seawater poured into the damaged bow of the ship, causing the entire Ninghai to have a more serious first capsillation. But fortunately, thanks to the tight subdivision compartment and large reserve buoyancy, the Ninghai has not yet sunk. But the Pearl was not so lucky. The entire stern sank into the sea in an instant, and, even more sadly, did not break. Pulling most of the hull in front of him and sinking into the sea together. The influx of seawater made the process irreversible, and the bow slowly lifted out of the sea. Then it rolled on its side into the sea, splashing huge waves. In less than 1 minute of the Ninghai reversing, the Pearl was completely swallowed by the sea!

"Let's go, we have lost this war." Makanov closed his eyes in pain after seeing the Ninghai, which was seriously injured in the distance but still slowly retreating. In today's situation, the encounter with the main force of the Beiyang Fleet has already decided the fate of the Russian Navy's absolute defeat, and the fundamental reason why Makanov chose to give it a fight is that he tried to obtain a good result when it was impossible for the battleship formation to retreat in one piece. If you can sink one of the opponent's battleships, you won't lose too much. But now, the result of the desperate battle of the Russian Navy is only to knock out a 5-ton cruiser and severely damage the Ninghai.

Accompanied by Makanov's orders, the Navarin and Poltava turned away. Left the besieged Peter Paplov. This has already announced the death sentence of this battleship, and it is only a matter of time before it sinks, and with the exhaustion of smoke canisters, this battleship, which has lost speed, can only survive under the blows of the two battleships of the Beiyang Naval Division.

With the retreat of the Russian fleet, the Pinghai and Jinghai, which had no hindrance, launched an attack on Petro Paplov! The salvo of 12 12-inch 40L guns suppressed all the sounds on the battlefield. Two battleships gave up long-range gunnery superiority. Quickly approaching a distance of only 2,500 meters, a dense barrage of 12 12-inch guns and 12 6-inch guns exploded from time to time on the enemy ships. Another Guiyuan-class cruiser dragged the already heavily damaged Ninghai out of the battlefield.

A 12-inch shell penetrated the upper edge of the main armor of the Petropavlov at a distance of 2 meters, and only a 7-inch topsuit could not stop the cap-piercing shell fired at such a distance! After piercing the armor, the shell successfully severed two steam pipes. Then he plunged headlong into the boiler room, accompanied by a loud bang. Two boilers exploded. Flames, thick smoke and high-temperature and high-pressure steam and shrapnel turned the entire power compartment into hell. The Russians inside were killed before they even reacted. A few seconds later, the Pyotr Pavlov floated to the surface like a dead fish.

Immediately, a large number of shells continued to penetrate the non-critical protective parts of the poor battleship, a large amount of water ingress and serious damage, plus the loss of power. This Russian ** ship, which was once the first to enter the port of Muroran, ushered in its end. After the boiler compartment was destroyed, the battleship's sidestrings were smashed, and the fire on the ship's surface finally got out of control, and with the bloody sunset, the battleship finally sank into the vast waves of the eastern Pacific Ocean at about 7 p.m.

Just as the two Dante-class battleships attacked the Peter Paplov, the Goddess was also gradually dying under the blows of the two Garibaldi-class. You can't beat it alone, let alone fight it two-on-one. After absorbing the lessons of the First Sino-Japanese Naval War, the Russians tried to expand the protective area of the Azov-type armored cruisers as much as possible, but the area went up, but the thickness of the armor did not go up, the thickness of the main armor was still 6 inches, and the upper armor was reduced from 6 inches to 4 inches. Therefore, even if the Armstrong 10-inch 40L main gun on the Garibaldi cannot be compared with the German 11-inch 40L main gun and the new 12-inch 40L main gun, it can still penetrate the opponent's upper armor and head and tail armor belts at a normal distance, and in the case of a suitable angle and close distance, it is not impossible to use a cap-piercing bullet to penetrate the 6-inch main armor!

"From my point of view, at least three shells from the two Garibaldi-class armored cruisers pierced the main armor of the Goddess, and his power compartment quickly lost power. From this point of view, the new type of cap-piercing shell can completely replace the high-explosive shell as the main type of ammunition for ship attacks. Based on this, it can be inferred that if the firing conditions are good, then it is possible for a 12-inch armor-piercing projectile to penetrate 9-inch hardened armor. Afterwards, Lin Yongsheng wrote in the battle record.

At least two armor-piercing shells exploded in the power compartment of the Goddess. The explosions and flames turned the entire battleship into a volcano, from which the sound of explosions and collapses could be heard from time to time. In the face of an irretrievable situation, the Russian captain decisively gave the order to sink itself, and with the sinking of the Goddess, the collision of the main fleets of the two sides finally came to an end.

In this battle, which lasted 2 hours. The Russian Far Eastern Fleet sank three large warships, namely the battleship Petropav, the armored cruisers Pearl and Goddess of the Sea of Azov. At the same time, there are more than a dozen lightning strike ships for the burial of these three big guys! The Beiyang Fleet also paid a heavy price in this war, sinking a Guiyuan-class armored cruiser Guiyuan, and another ship of the same class, the Kaiyuan, was heavily damaged. A Dante-class battleship, the Pinghai, was heavily damaged, and it is estimated that it will take at least 2 months to replace the bow and repair, not counting the time it will be towed back to Port Arthur! In any case, after this naval battle, the Beiyang Fleet had to return to port for replenishment and maintenance.

"In a few months, we'll be saying goodbye to the sea." Liu Buyun looked at the Pinghai who was dragged by the Jinghai behind him, and said with some melancholy.

"That's right, the losses of our fleet this time are also very large, and the telegram sent an hour ago said that the Taipei was badly damaged in the artillery battle, and the other ships are still engaged with the Russian fleet, the details of which are not yet known. On the whole, the losses are still bearable, but in a short period of time, the overall strength of the Beiyang Fleet and the Foreign Ocean Fleet has dropped by more than one-third, and more importantly, the long-term sea cruising and fighting have caused the state of each ship to drop to a dangerous situation. So I have to go back and rest. Yang Yonglin nodded.

"Actually, I, Beiyang, should be satisfied with this result, after all, we are not obliged to help the Japanese destroy the entire Russian fleet, right?" Liu Buyun smiled weirdly.

"It's okay for my brother to say this, but don't let the British hear it." Yang Yonglin smiled slightly and said jokingly. "At least after this battle, the threat of the Russian Navy to our Beiyang is minimal, but it is still enough to deal with the Japanese!"

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