On another battlefield, Yang Yonglin also fell into an unprecedented crisis, and originally wanted to seize the T-shaped horizontal head again to form a firepower advantage. But under Ma Jifen's response, Yang Yonglin returned in vain, and in desperation, he could only lead the fleet in the opposite direction to prepare for disengagement, and then see if he could regain the opportunity, but to Yang Yonglin's expectations, just after the two armored cruisers led by him had just completed the turn, Ma Jifen led the three cruisers to quickly cut to the Taifeng auxiliary cruiser that was ready to turn! Quickly approached and attacked!

The battleship could not go backwards, and in the face of this situation, the two mounted cruisers that had already sailed out had no choice but to continue walking, unless they turned again, otherwise they could only see if the Taifeng could throw off the New York and the two second-class protected cruisers with its high speed! But soon, Yang Yonglin found that things were far from being as simple as he imagined, because in the process of this maneuver, General Shelly's 5 third-class cruisers had already come up from the other side, and the entry point was also Taifeng! The meaning of the other party is already very clear, the purpose of the two fleets is to stop the 4 battleships behind them, and then use the overwhelming fleet to completely eat these 4 battleships!

"Jericho commands the remaining ships to break through from the right side, and the King and Cologne will meet on the outside!" In the face of this situation, Yang Yonglin has no choice, waiting is definitely not possible, the formation is difficult to maintain, it is better to let the strongest combat power of the fleet go to the outside and rescue from the periphery, at least two 10,000-ton armored ships are not in danger.

In the following ten minutes, the situation on the entire battlefield changed to 3 cruisers directly under Majifen and 5 third-class cruisers under Shelly to complete the encirclement of the Spanish fleet after Taifeng from both sides. (Just read the novel--) and the 5 B-series auxiliary cruisers slowly caught up from behind. Yang Yonglin commanded two armored ships to rush over from the periphery and rush towards the other side of Shelly's fleet. The entire battlefield was already quite chaotic, and the formation had broken up.

The first to be fired at was the auxiliary cruiser Taifeng, as the most striking and forward battleship in the encircled fleet, it was attacked by the combined attack of the cruiser New York and the Newark, and despite its displacement of 10,000 tons and considerable armament, this battleship was still quite difficult to face the regular cruisers. The rapid-fire guns of the two American cruisers flickered with orange flames, and a large number of 8-inch and 6-inch shells rained down on the huge hull of the Taifeng. The huge hull gives the Taifeng a relatively strong ability to resist strikes, and at the same time, it also increases its reserve bomb area. This, combined with the fact that the Taifeng does not have armor belts at the bow and tail, makes it easier for it to enter water.

It didn't take long. The bow of the Taifeng was hit by 2 8-inch guns and 3 secondary shells, and the entire bow shells and shrapnel were blown into a honeycomb. The large amount of water ingress caused the large ship to roll slightly, and the situation was not optimistic where the hull was armoured. Although there were armor plates, the lack of a backplate specifically designed to hold the armor plates in place made it easy for the entire ship to fall off. This resulted in a situation where even if it could not be penetrated after a hit, it could lead to the fall of the armor plates, and for a time this majestic appearance of the giant ship was very embarrassed for a while, and the two 6-inch secondary guns were also ineffective due to being hit and other reasons.

However, the Taifeng was also well armed, and the 8-inch and 6-inch guns of the auxiliary cruiser were also aimed at the Newark in the face of superior firepower, and one of the shells hit the front of the Newark's side chord, destroying one of the two 6-inch gun galleries. Wound another door. And the 6-inch guns and rapid-fire guns swept the deck of the Newark neatly, and the Taifeng once again had waterline armor, and although the Newark was a regular warship, it only had dome armor, for a while. The situation in Newark is also rather bleak. …,

The two lightly armored cruisers behind Taifeng, the USS Manila and the USS Santiago, chose to break away from the Taifeng and turn to the right in order to break out of the encirclement of Shelly's fleet. As for the last of the rage, Jericho had to choose to give up, because at this time the rage had been entangled by three of the five faster ships in the B series, in this case. There is no chance that the battleship will survive, and the final result will either be sunk or sunk! After glancing at the last of the Kangfu, Jericho chose to evacuate with the two warships first, and the current situation is as much as he can run!

In this situation, the entire battlefield became surrounded by the Taifeng and the Fury, and at the same time, Shelly's fleet was also facing the flanking attack of the four warships of Jericho and Yang Yonglin. The most tragic thing on the entire battlefield was not the two besieged Spanish battleships, but the five third-class protected cruisers, after all, these 5 battleships only had a total displacement of 10,000 tons, which was comparable to a King! Although there are a lot of artillery, the armor protection is pitiful, the Cincinnati's sidestring is only 2.5 inches of inclined dome, and the Montgomery class is even more simple, basically no armor! It's not too much to say that life is thinner than paper! And what they have to face is 4 warships with a total tonnage of 30,000 tons, armed to the teeth!

And Shelly suddenly realized this, and when he was about to take countermeasures, the entire fleet had been clamped by a huge iron pincer! Jericho's fleet was opposite Shelly, while Yang Yonglin's fleet was copied from the back! In an instant, the entire fleet was covered with a dense rain of bullets!

The first to suffer was the Montgomery in the middle of the queue, whether it was an 8-inch gun or a 10-inch gun, it could pose a mortal threat to this kind of battleship of only 2,000 tons, as long as it hit a suitable place, then what awaited this battleship was death! In the close-quarters fight, the Montgomery became the two Cincinnati-class cruisers in Chapter 364 of Shelly's fleet, and they didn't react at first, and the relative speed of the two sides of up to 35 knots quickly narrowed the distance between the two, and then the two battleships also changed from a column to a horizontal formation, and fired torpedoes at the two Spanish battleships coming at high speed head-on!

6 18-inch torpedoes quickly fell into the water, under the action of the compressed air engine like a sharp sword pierced the side chord of the two Spanish cruisers, the tail of the 6 torpedoes sent out 6 wake tracks formed by compressed air, and sailed towards the target quickly, although the heat engine was not used as power, but the American torpedo was still equipped with gyroscopes for stabilizing the course, and the 6 torpedoes fired at a distance of less than 500 meters instantly put the two Spanish warships in a desperate situation.

"Full rudder on the left, dodge the torpedo!" With a hint of panic in the command, the rudder angle of the Manila was maximized, and the entire battleship drew a large circle on the sea gate, and the whole battleship made a serious tilt to the left, giving people the feeling that it was about to capsize, but fortunately, the advantage of trial navigation brought by the flying scissors allowed the ship to finally complete this life-and-death turn. Dodged 2 torpedoes fired at him.

But the Santiago behind was not so lucky, because of the angle problem, the Santiago did not find the torpedo in time, and after the Manila was able to dodge the lightning strike, the Santiago did not have time to dodge again, at least it was impossible to dodge all the torpedoes, a torpedo bit the front part of the starboard side of the Santiago, and then, the huge explosion shook the poor battleship, The energy generated after the explosion of the explosives formed a large number of high-pressure bubbles in the seawater, which easily tore open the double hull of the Santiago, and a large number of fragments accompanied by the seawater directly tore the three watertight compartments of the side chord into pieces, and the coal stored in the compartments to prevent water ingress was thrown out, and the whole battleship quickly tilted to the right of the ship by more than 10 degrees, and it seemed that it would not be able to be saved!

"Die, Spanish bullfighters, get out of the Caribbean, Cuba has made ours!" The American GIs standing on the USS Detroit cruiser (the second ship of the Montgomery-class class) vented their emotions very happily, and the invincible armored cruiser USS San Diego was hit hard by himself, this feeling is like a knight with a spear finding the opponent's vital point when fighting a dragon and then killing with one shot, the thrill of this instant kill is indescribable!

But there is an old saying that happiness is sorrowful, although the Detroit hit the opponent hard or even almost sank, but the opponent still did not sink, at least not now! And the distance between the two sides has come close to less than 400 meters!

I've updated 2 chapters today.,A total of 6000 words.,Let's support it a lot.,It's not easy for the author of the New Year~~~.。 (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )……，