The opening battle of the normal battle began with the collision of the armored cruisers of the two sides, and when the curtain came down and the main fleets of the two sides withdrew from the battlefield, the battle between the armored cruiser detachment of the North Ocean and the armored cruisers of the Russian Far East Fleet continued, and this battle could be described as lengthy. Especially after Rurik was sunk, the battle between the two sides quickly turned into a chase battle!

"The two warships that the French built for the Russians are really hard enough." Lin Taizeng's tone was full of helplessness. The 11-inch main armor on the Prince covers a large enough area, which is not at all something that the 11-inch 40L main gun can penetrate! Even the 8-inch part of the head and tail armor did not break through! Although it is largely due to the bad angle, it has been concluded from many observations that even in a frontal situation, if you want to penetrate 8-inch armor, the current 11-inch 40L main gun must be within 2500 meters when using cap-piercing shells!

In addition to the amazing protection, the Prince is also powerful enough in terms of firepower, with two 12-inch 45L turret guns and one 274-inch turret gun already on par with the four 11-inch guns of the King. And the hedgehog is gathered in the amidships of the hull of the 4-door 6. 4-inch guns and 4 guns 5. The 5-inch guns even surpassed the 5 6-inch guns and 3 105-gun guns of the King-class, and in the face of such dense secondary fire, even the King-class armored cruisers would choose to avoid close combat.

Coupled with the help of the Russia, which is in penultimate position, the two giant ships stubbornly resisted the fire of the four armored cruisers of the North and Foreign Fleets. This is not to say that the four mounted patrols could not defeat the Russians two, but because of the problem of angle and speed, the Beiyang Fleet could not give full play to its firepower at all, and the four battleships could only use the firepower of eight 10-inch guns and four 11-inch guns to deal with the two Russian warships. At the same time, because of the opponent's interference and speed problems, the hit rate was reduced, so there was a situation of fighting but not dying.

Lin Tai was very depressed in his heart, but why was Essen just depressed in his heart? It was quite painful, in the beginning of the battle, Essen's fleet was at least not at a disadvantage when it was three to three, but after being put on a swing by Lin Taizeng, the Prince was wounded and withdrew from the battle. This creates a three-on-two situation, and if the Russos and Rurik can evenly divide the damage, the two ships will still be able to hold on to the arrival of reinforcements. But Lin Taizeng was also absolutely decisive, fighting his flagship to hit hard, and ordered the other two King-class warships to scrap Rurik. Although the Taipei was also seriously injured and withdrew from the battlefield. But the Russos was also badly damaged, and Rurik was permanently removed from the list of the Russian Far East Fleet!

He was overjoyed when he received Makanov's telegram and had intended to draw the other side into his encirclement, but the result was fast. Another telegram came and made Essen almost squirt out a mouthful of old blood! The main fleets of both sides meet and prepare to evacuate! In an instant, Essen went through the journey from hell to heaven and then from heaven to hell! In desperation, Essen can only choose to continue to die! However, he categorically did not dare to evacuate from the offshore side, but turned his head and ran towards the open sea. Anyway, my brother's endurance is enough, and you have the ability to chase it!

That's it. The two sides ran and chased, constantly venting their anger with cannonballs, although the number of hits was not enough to sink either warship on either side. However, the attack of heavy shells still caused some damage to both sides. In this battle, the PISA class performed a little better than the King class, with 6 10-inch guns hitting higher than 4 11-inch guns. If you want to ensure a high hit at a long distance, then you need at least 2 Kings to shoot together. And the PISA class will do with only one.

At the beginning of the pursuit, the Tianjin, which was in the best firing conditions at the head of the team, was hit, and a 10-inch shell weighing 227 kg fell near the rear mast of the Prince across a distance of nearly 5 km, and the violent explosion broke the entire mast. A mast more than ten meters long fell, slamming heavily into the deck, and then a high bounce knocked a door next to it.5 The 5-inch cannon and two machine guns flew away. The door weighed 5 tons of several tons. The 5-inch gun was better, but it was smashed out of the gun position. The other two machine guns were swept into the sea with their guns. Without even a single moan, he was swallowed up by the choppy waves.

Soon, another 10-inch shell hit the turret of the 274 main gun on the port side of the Prince. The 274 guns that were hit again were not as lucky as last time, so it would be nice to repair them. This shell exploded directly near the barrel, blowing the barrel of the 27445L gun in two! The gun was completely abolished.

When the Tianjin hit one after another, the Kaohsiung, which was in third place, also quickly made a hit. An 11-inch 40L shell crossed the Prince, and then smashed the top of the Russo's mast. Immediately, a bright yellow fireball burst out on the mast. Most of the people inside were killed in an instant, and the rest of them were also severely burned, ending their lives in the blazing fire, and the fire of the entire mast spread rapidly from top to bottom, and from a distance, the entire backmast was burning like a torch.

"Order the Samurai and the Parada to leave the queue, regroup into two formations and spread out on the left front of the Russo, and support the Prince with tail guns." At the critical juncture, Essen suddenly came up with a seemingly absurd solution, and now the Beiyang battleships are pursuing in columns, and only the first and second battleships can really exert their firepower. The only ones in the Russian fleet that can exert their firepower are the Prince and the Russia, and in this case, if there are two two-ship columns, then the actual firepower of 4 battleships will increase. At least the rear main guns of armored cruisers of the Azov type could threaten the Tianjin!

According to Essen's order, the Russian fleet turned into a very strange formation, and two armored cruisers of the Azov Sea type were in front of the left of the Prince and the Russia, providing cover for the Prince with twin 8-inch guns and 6-inch rapid-fire guns in the stern. Although the 8-inch artillery shells could not penetrate the heavy armor of the Tianjin at all, with the support of the high rate of fire and picric acid high-explosive shells, it still caused great trouble to the Tianjin!

The thick yellow-green water column rose in the air around the Tianjin from time to time, and occasionally a few 8-inch shells fell on the bow of the Tianjin, one of which exploded in the bow, and the yellow flame after the explosion of the picric acid explosive ignited the cable and the teak plank, and the bright yellow flame and smoke rose up in the bow of the ship, and spread to the rear of the hull under the action of the wind, which seriously affected the artillery observation of the Tianjin, and the firepower of the Beiyang Fleet weakened for a while.

At this moment, the pressure of the Prince and the Russian were also still colored, a 274 shell smashed on the amidship turret of the Tianjin hull, accompanied by a piercing crash sound, the shell left a huge pit in the gun mount, and at the same time, the flames produced after the explosion quickly spread around, igniting a small boat placed next to it, and then, when the twin 10-inch turret was about to turn, a tooth-sour sound was unsettling. With a cracking sound, the huge 10-inch twin-mounted turret was completely stuck, and in this way, in just ten minutes, the bow main gun and the main gun of the amidship of the Tianjin lost their combat effectiveness. The tide of the battle has taken a turn for the worse.

"Let the Tianjin temporarily get out of the battle, and the fleet will become a wild goose formation." Lin Tai once looked at the Tianjin in the distance, which was already billowing with smoke, and ordered. In addition to the Tianjin, the remaining three battleships are lined up in a column, but the latter battleship is in the right rear of the previous battleship, forming an echelon formation, although in this way the fleet maneuver will be limited, but without the interference of high-speed lightning strike ships, it can maximize its firepower, and generally adapt to the battlefield situation.

After the completion of the change of formation, the Russian Navy completely lost the strength of a game, especially after the Tianjin rejoined the battle after the completion of self-rescue, although it lost 2 10-inch guns (the stuck turret could not be repaired for the time being), but in the case that each ship has a good firing range, the firepower of the 4 battleships of the Beiyang Fleet stabilized the opponent, although it still could not sink the opponent, but the gradually accurate shelling still made the Russians pay a great price!

With a bang, a fire dragon suddenly erupted from the right side of the Samurai! A large-caliber shell easily shredded the Samurai's upper armor, and then exploded between the two gun galleries, and the shock wave generated by the explosion tore the bulkhead into pieces, and then formed a steel storm that swept through the surrounding cabins, more than a dozen Russian officers were swallowed up by raging flames and metal fragments, and even more tragically, this devastating storm completely destroyed a 6-inch gun gallery, and incidentally ignited the nitrocellulose pill packs stacked on the gun emplacement, and suddenly, a fire dragon erupted from the starboard side of the Samurai like a volcanic eruption. The side chords were torn open, shattering the upper deck, and from a distance, a massive breach appeared on the right side of the Samurai. And at this time a microcosm of the state of affairs of the entire Russian fleet. Every Russian battleship struggled with blood and fire.

"The Samurai is in terrible condition, and I doubt it will last until nightfall. It only took a little luck for the Beiyang Fleet to keep it, for example, if a shell landed near the engine room, whether it was destroying the power compartment or simply cutting one of the main steam pipes, the Samurai could not escape the ascension, and even the latter, the Samurai would never have enough manpower to repair the damaged pipes. But fortunately, under the cover of the Prince and the Russia, the Samurai was in danger. I have to say that I am very envious of the brothers who served on the Prince, their ships are stronger than ours. If it weren't for these two armored cruiser leaders, we wouldn't have seen the sun tomorrow at all. After the battle, the above was placed on Makanov's desk, and this seemingly inconspicuous report had an extremely far-reaching impact on the next stage of the Russian Navy's preparations.

The two sides fought until the sunset, to the end of the day, the Beiyang Fleet did not leave any Russian warships, I have to say that the luck of the Russians is good enough, but the baptism of high-explosive bombs for a long time still made the Russian fleet pay a heavy price, 4 warships except for the Prince were seriously damaged, the Beiyang Fleet had to go back to rest, and the Russian fleet was unable to organize a large-scale fleet battle in a short period of time. At this point, the Hachinohe-Mutsu Naval Battle, also known as the First Eastern Pacific Sea Battle, officially came to an end.

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