After the triumphant convergence of the Essen fleet and the Fork Hill fleet and the Vostok, 5 armored cruisers sailed in a southwesterly direction, so where was the remaining Tatar? While the main warships of the two sides were fighting each other, the Russian cruiser, which was the weakest and fastest in combat power, was happily attacking the transport ships of the Beiyang! And all the way north. By the time of receiving a telegram from Essen ordering to evacuate, the cruiser had already left the main battlefield at a considerable distance! By the time Urbasha decided to evacuate, the Tatar had gone too far!

After a night of running wildly, Urbasha, who thought that he had gotten rid of the crisis, suddenly found that under the rising sun, a slender figure was heading towards him at high speed, and when the two sides were less than 10KM apart, Urbasha finally determined the identity of the other party with the help of a telescope in the dazzling sunlight, this ship is no stranger to Essen, this is the new flagship of the light cruiser detachment of the Beiyang Fleet! The Anyuan armored cruiser, which is an improved battleship from the Guiyuan armored cruiser, has the biggest change in that there is an additional 8-inch gun, and the armor protection and compartment layout are more reasonable.

"Damn!" Looking at the battleship approaching at high speed in the distance, Urbasha had already cursed this cutting-edge warship with the most vicious and ugly words in his heart! The last warship that Urbasha wants to encounter is the Beiyang Fleet's Guiyuan and its derivatives. Whether it was an armored cruiser or a more powerful Dante-class battleship, Urbasha could escape the battlefield with the Tatar's powerful speed, and the Tatar's greatest reliance was its speed on average, which was 2 knots higher than the opponent's speed. And this time, the Tatar met its biggest nemesis! The same high-speed Anyuan!

The maximum speed of the Anyuan is also around 23 knots, but compared with the Tatar, which has been on combat voyage for a long time, the Kaiyuan is in the best condition in terms of mechanical condition, fuel, and personnel. The Anyuan can give full play to his high speed! But the Tatar can't, the Tatar at this time can only run at a speed of 21 knots at most, even if the Tatar withdraws at the highest speed, it will take no more than 3 hours, and the Kaiyuan can catch up with the target! The final result can only be a big battle, either the Anyuan destroys the Tatar, or the Tatar repel the Anyuan and get a slight upgrade. Although the hope of the latter is so slim. But at the critical moment, Urbasha had to fight for it.

In terms of armament, there were two 8-inch guns on the side and five 4.7-inch guns. Against 4 8-inch guns and 4 6-inch guns. The firepower of the latter is at least 50% higher than that of the former. On protection. The dome armor is against the waterline armor, the Anyuan is almost immune to the Tatar's attack at a medium distance, and it is still difficult for the 8-inch gun to penetrate the key parts, and the 4.7-inch gun is useless except for arson! With comparable speeds, the duel between the Tatar and the Anyuan depends entirely on attack and defense. And in this regard, the Anyuan battleship has an absolute advantage!

"Let's turn. Get ready to meet the enemy! "Looking at the Anyuan, which is less than 6KM away from me. Urbasha ordered the battleship to turn to meet the enemy, and if he ran, he would definitely not be able to run away, and Urbasha wanted to occupy a good position as much as possible! So, the slender hull of the Tatar made an arc on the surface of the sea, and accelerated while turning, a minute later. The side chords of the Tatars, full of weapons, are already aimed at the upcoming hunters! A rapid-fire cannon shows a metallic luster under the sunlight, like a shark's sharp teeth, and can burst out with amazing lethality at any time!

"Ready to fight hard? Let the Russians look at our guys! Looking at the Tatars in the distance, Lin Yongsheng said with a smile. Soon, the Anyuan also aimed its rapid-fire artillery group on the flanks at its opponents. The 4 8-inch guns at the bow and stern, the 4 6-inch guns on the side of the ship, and the 12-pounder guns on the upper deck are chilling! If the Tatar is a shark, then the Anyuan is a killer whale of real value!

"Fire!" When it was close to 3 kilometers, both sides chose to attack! Two orange-red flames erupted from the side chords of the two battleships at the same time, and the dull sound of medium-caliber rapid-fire guns suddenly resounded across the battlefield. Countless shells intertwined in the air, forming a dense fire net that completely covered the two battleships!

"Bang, bang, bang!" The 4.7-inch rapid-fire cannon kept thinking of the sound of the cannons, and the sound of the five 4.7-inch guns in a row and the barrage like a torrent of rain made the Anyuan have to temporarily avoid the edge. Although the core cabin is not a big problem, Lin Yongsheng is reluctant to let his ship be beaten into a torch.

"Don't let the Anyuan get away, lean in and burn it!" Urbasha roared with fire in his eyes. Urbasha has been preparing for this moment for a long time, and it is impossible to fight in the territory of the North Ocean without encountering a high-speed cruiser, and since it is impossible to sink it by penetrating the main belt, it can only rely on high-explosive bombs to make the opponent submit. Moreover, the rate of fire of the 4.7-inch gun was already very high, and the Japanese fired a rate of fire of 6 rounds per minute in the Sino-Japanese War that year. And for the tall Russians, a shell of only 20+ KG is really not heavy, and in order to ensure a high rate of fire, the Russians are also equipped with a double artillery group, which can take turns to work! In this way, in a short time, the Russians' 4.7-inch guns reached a maximum rate of fire of almost 8 rounds per minute!

In the face of such dense firepower, Lin Yongsheng could only temporarily avoid the edge, and then use the range advantage of the 8-inch gun and the 6-inch gun to slowly weaken the opponent at a long distance! But in the case of the same speed, the Russians moved first, and the North Ocean moved later, which is not open at one and a half times!

"Put smoke." People are able to learn, and the smoke canister, which once caused a lot of trouble to the Beiyang Fleet, has now been used by the Beiyang to deal with its former master! Soon, the Anyuan was shrouded in clouds of smoke, and the hull of the ship nearly 100 meters long was almost completely hidden in the smoke. The rapid-fire guns of the Russians suddenly lost their target!

"Damn it." Seeing that his tactics were cracked by the other party, Urbasha cursed angrily. Because of the problem of vision, the hit rate of both sides dropped sharply, so in order to avoid wasting ammunition, both sides stopped shelling, and the sea gate gradually calmed down, until the smoke was blown away by the sea breeze, and the hull of the Anyuan reappeared in the Russians' field of vision!

However, at this time, the distance between the two sides has reached 4KM away! And this distance is the best combat distance for the Anyuan! With the roar of 4 8-inch guns! The Anyuan's counterattack began! At this time, the two sides were almost facing each other, and the side chords of the Tatar were almost completely exposed to the main gun attack of the Anyuan! With a high rate of fire of 2 rounds per minute, the Anyuan quickly achieved a hit, and an 8-inch shell flew in the air for 5 seconds before plunging headlong into the amidship of the Tatar's hull, detonating the shell close to the waterline, which was a high-explosive shell! More than ten kilograms of explosives were detonated at the moment of tearing the hull! The tremendous impact opened a huge gap directly in the side chord of the Tatar!

The shock wave from the massive explosion rampaged through the hull and spilled over to a nearby 4.7-inch rapid-fire gun emplacement, and although the Russians did not operate in violation of the rules like the Japanese, it happened that a gunner was preparing to load a projectile pack into the turret, and the flames that accompanied the shock wave were just a slight ...... on the projectile pack. With a loud bang, a secondary explosion occurred, and the scorching flames instantly covered the entire gun position, and in the flames, the Russian artillery crew had no survivors!

At the same time as the 8-inch heavy shell hit, two more 6-inch guns hit the poor battleship, one of which was an armor-piercing shell, after tearing the hull plate, this shell hit the dome armor above the engine, although it did not penetrate, but the violent impact damaged the back plate behind the dome, and the scattered fragments swept down several stokers who were coaling on the side. Another shell blew another 4.7-inch gun into two pieces, and in just a few minutes, the Tatar's hull was damaged, and two 4.7-inch guns were lost!

Although the damage caused was not very large, Urbasha knew that he had already lost, and the first hit of the 8-inch shell opened a large hole of about 6 square meters in the side chord of the hull, and with the influx of a large amount of seawater, it was no longer possible for the battleship to maintain flexibility and high speed, and after the loss of 2 4.7-inch guns, the Tatar could no longer maintain sufficient projection. Even if the opponent is close, he will definitely not be able to fight the Anyuan, as for the torpedo? If the other party is a rookie, he may be able to give it a go, but for Lin Yongsheng, who has been through a hundred battles, this kind of little trick is still forgotten! Lin Yongsheng has time, as long as he slowly knocks the opponent to death!

With the speed dropped by 1 knot. (due to water ingress and loss of stokers) the speed of the Tatar was at least about 3 knots behind the other side. The Russians had lost the opportunity to fight in close combat, and in desperation, Urbasha could only slowly confront the Anyuan from a long distance. Only 2 8-inch guns and 3 4.7-inch guns could not effectively kill the opponent, the former did not have enough rate of fire, and the latter had enough rate of fire but was too powerful.

The artillery battle between the two sides lasted 1 hour, during which time the Anyuan was hit twice by 8-inch guns, one shell hit the 6-inch gun gallery, directly destroying a 6-inch gun, and the other shell hit the stern of the hull, lighting a fire. But the Tatar on the opposite side was hit 6 times by 8-inch guns, and the hits of 6-inch guns were uncountable. The entire side of the warring side was riddled with holes, the entire battleship was tilted 14 degrees, the 8-inch gun gallery guns at the bow and tail were destroyed one after another, and the entire battleship had lost the ability to effectively counterattack.

"Abandon ship, surrender." Looking at the battleship that could not be saved and almost all of his wounded men, Urbasha painfully gave the order to surrender, the sinking of the battleship was doomed, but there was no need for Russian soldiers to bury it. I didn't do anything against international conventions, well, I didn't do anything excessive with Beiyang. As the flag of St. Andrew's was lowered, the Tatar slowly capsized and sank, becoming the first Russian battleship to sink in a series of battles in the Yellow Sea!

Thank you for the reward from the constellations that soar in the universe. The subscription dropped to 300 for the first time, and it seems that the author needs to take a break——! (To be continued.) )