In this way, the two remaining Russian capital ships headed for the port of Muroran at a high speed of 17.5 knots, and there was no formed Beiyang Fleet in front of them, and all they could encounter were torpedo boats and camouflaged notification ships! And at this time, Essen no longer has to hide his whereabouts, he ignores all obstacles, as long as it is not the enemy in front of them, Essen is not even lazy to care! Of course, if the opponent has to block the car with the mantis arm, Essen doesn't mind destroying the opponent with the most powerful strikes! Don't get in the way of an army that is going home! And Essen's behavior fully proves this!

Several Japanese torpedo boats launched lightning strikes against the Russian fleet approaching at high speed, but there was no cover from the capital ships, and the lack of a number of lightning strikers was tantamount to moths throwing fire against the two capital ships with strong firepower. In the face of rapid-fire cannon fire, the torpedo boats involved in the attack were smashed into fireballs without even having a chance to send out their torpedoes, and disappeared into the sea after a few minutes. However, the sacrifice of these Japanese torpedo boats was somewhat effective, for example, the telegram they sent before the sinking at least informed the location of the Essen fleet.

"My lord, Essen's fleet has broken through the outer blockade and is withdrawing in the direction of Muroran Port." The telegraph officer handed a telegram to Lin Taizeng.

"Take the charts." Lin Tai had ordered. Immediately, comparing this large-scale nautical chart and the dynamics of the Russian fleet, after thinking for a while, Lin Taizeng finally understood the purpose of the Russians! Makanov was just a decoy to lure the Beiyang Fleet out of its original position and create an opportunity for Essen's withdrawal. Makanov had no intention of coming out to fight hard with the Beiyang Fleet, but only to contain it.

"It's not good." Lin Taizeng said with a frown. Deng Shichang's fleet was about to engage Makanov. While another two-ship formation was heading towards the Makanov fleet, Lin Tai could have concluded that once Deng Shichang's fleet and Makanov's fleet met. The latter will definitely choose to evacuate under the enemy's shelling, because once two more ships are added to the patrol, Makanov may not be able to escape!

As for Essen's side, the last two-ship formation is a little far away, and the only one close to Essen is his own Taipei, "Why is there only 2 ships in the Essen fleet?" "Lin Tai had suddenly discovered that Essen's fleet was missing two warships.

"Maybe I went to a neutral colony, right? If they were still together, the Russians would not have been able to break out separately. Otherwise, it will inevitably be slowed down by a slow battleship. An officer said.

"If that's the case, we can still touch these two warships." Lin Taizeng took a deep breath. It took a lot of determination to decide to go one-on-two! After all, now that the Essen fleet has suffered a great reduction in combat effectiveness after a series of bloody battles, it is more important that he only needs to hold on until the arrival of friendly forces and hold off his opponent. Therefore, Lin Tai once led the fleet to rush towards the Russian fleet after sending a report to Cheng Biguang.

The maximum speed of the Essen fleet was only about 17.5 knots. And Lin Taizeng's Taipei ran more than 20.5 knots under strong pressure ventilation! In addition, Lin Tai was a volley, so it didn't take long for Lin Tai to find the Essen fleet that was running away with his life. The Great War is on the verge of breaking out.

"Damn, a king-class ship dares to come up." Looking at the Taipei getting closer and closer behind him, Essen cursed, if his fleet was in good shape, Essen promised to beat the guy behind him so that it couldn't escape! But now, apparently, this cannot be the case. Outside Muroran Port, one more second is one step closer to death!

Lin Taizeng did not dare to fight hard with his opponent. Fighting a regular sidestring artillery battle with the other side is obviously self-defeating. No matter how weak people are, it's still okay for two battleships to sweep your deck with secondary guns. As for hanging far from behind, it is obviously not possible in the case of high-speed pursuit. Too low a projection and a low hit rate simply could not cause fatal damage to a well-protected Russian battleship. More importantly, you can't slow down your opponent. Therefore, Lin Taizeng did not pursue directly, but chose to cut the course of the Russian fleet and force the opponent to turn. If the Russians do not turn, then they can only use forward fire to deal with the sidestring fire of the Taipei, and if they turn to a detour, Lin Taizeng will have the most valuable resource - time!

"Bastard, that King wants to cut into our course!" A Russian officer cursed in a low voice.

"Turn left for half a day, and let our string cannon tell this arrogant guy." Essen ordered. It is obviously not possible to bypass it, not to mention whether it is useful for the Taipei, which has a speed advantage, even if it is bypassed, it will waste a lot of time, the Beiyang Fleet has already discovered itself, so the remaining warships are coming soon, right? So Essen can't wait, he can only rush hard!

If the two large Russian ships showed a dense array of side-chord guns, if the side-chord artillery array was compared to the teeth of a shark, the shark that was once full of sharp teeth had fallen out of its mouth after a series of fierce battles. In addition, they are mainly small and medium-caliber guns, and large-caliber guns are either destroyed in the engagement, or the ammunition reserves are insufficient. can't give full play to the firepower, so don't look at the two Russian battleships, in fact, they are both fierce and inward, and their combat effectiveness is already very weak!

"Concentrate fire on the Russian after the film, the armor protection of the Prince is too strong, and it is difficult for us to hurt it." Lin Tai once ordered after carefully observing the situation of the two Russian warships, it is obviously impossible for one of them to leave two, since this is the case, then attack the one that is easiest to stay.

Accompanied by the roar of artillery, the sound of artillery, which had stopped for less than three hours, once again resounded in the sea off Muroran Port, because both sides were moving at high speed and set off in opposite directions, so the change of speed and azimuth changed quickly, which caused difficulties in ranging and lateral direction. I saw that the rapid-fire guns on the three battleships kept ringing, but there were very few hits. This didn't change until the two sides got close to 3KM!

In the engagement, the Taipei constantly adjusted its speed in order to keep the opponent's route in front of it, for this reason, the Russian fleet in order to avoid the Taipei, also adjusted the direction, after turning to the right of the 1 compass point, the Prince avoided the Taipei's main gun firing range, and the Russian was targeted!

"Turn, keep parallel to the Russo, get close to it and sink him! Lin Tai had ordered. At this moment, Lin Tai had captured the fighter, which could not only avoid the ferocious fire of the Prince, but also attack the Russian in the rear at close range, and the rear main gun of the Russian had been abolished, and the only remaining gun was greatly reduced in accuracy because of the vibration problem, so that Lin Taizeng only faced 2 main guns and several secondary guns! Comparative superiority was formed in the engagement!

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