On the battlefield where shells were flying wildly, with the situation gradually reversing, the predicamented Imperial Fleet was in a terrible situation after withstanding the continuous shelling of three battleships.

As a naval commander who was ordered to be ordered to be driven to the shelves, Polcrouff was obviously out of position at this time.

Their Emperor's tactical plan is undoubtedly useful.

In a situation where their Imperial Navy was basically unilaterally slaughtered by the opposite side, they fought a definite result.

But under this premise, they still failed to win, so there was no way, it can only be said that the Yangtze River Fleet, as the enemy, had much stronger hard power than their imperial navy.

Now looking at the entire battle situation, Tong Lei, who has stabilized his position and regained his fighting rhythm in the state of the complete destruction of the suicide ship, has changed his tactical play.

The scattered destroyers were directly summoned back, forming a tight formation.

Given the thickness of the battleship's armor, the power of the shelling of their destroyers could hardly pose much of a threat.

The only effective means of striking is probably the face-to-face torpedo.

But the other side is also aware of this in his heart, so the destroyers of the Imperial fleet have been completely stared at.

Even the three battleships of the Yangtze River Fleet specially transferred some of their secondary guns to attack.

At this moment, as the maritime hegemon of this era, the powerful strength of the battleship has been safely displayed.

At this moment, a strong retreat had risen in Polcrouff's heart.

The odds of victory slipped quietly between his fingers, and the battle situation in front of him already made him feel no chance of winning, and even if he continued to fight, the battleship he was riding on at this time had to sink under the enemy's main gun fire!

There's no time to think about it, it's time to make sacrifices.

The signal was sent to directly summon back those destroyers who were already difficult to pose a threat to the Yangtze River fleet.

Apparently, Polkruff intended to let these destroyers help them find a way out.

After all, judging by the value alone, there are minimal losses in opening the way with a destroyer.

And if you think about it, although he didn't win this battle, he managed to sink one of the enemy's battleships, plus a large number of destroyers.

Even if there is no merit, after going back, it should not be punished.

With this in mind, Polcrouff retreated even more.

And Tong Lei in the distance obviously guessed the enemy's mind.

The naval guns of the three battleships swept past one after another, and the intention to sink the other side was already self-evident.

In the continuous roar of artillery fire, another heavy cruiser of the Imperial fleet was sunk by this powerful firepower.

During this period, a group of destroyers quickly approached and attacked.

However, it is a pity that the torpedoes on the destroyer have basically been used in the previous battle to stop the suicide ship.

Without a destroyer without a torpedo, its own firepower can be said to be greatly reduced, and it is difficult to pose a sufficient threat to enemy ships.

At the expense of destroyers, the Repulse battleship and the remaining heavy cruiser quickly broke away from the minefield.

Tong Lei, who has gradually gained the upper hand, naturally does not intend to let them go, and the pursuit order is directly issued.

Between chasing and fleeing, the speed was faster, and a destroyer chasing ahead quickly sent a signal......

"Report to the colonel, the enemy's broken destroyer has dropped a large number of mines in the sea ahead!"

Hearing this, Tong Lei's eyelids jumped slightly, and then he spoke in a deep voice after taking a deep breath......

"Stop the pursuit, confirm the damage to each ship, and prepare to join the rear supply ships."

This is a very helpless situation, as soon as the mines are dropped, it will definitely not work to rush straight over, and if you choose to bypass, that time is enough for the Imperial fleet to escape, so it has also become a meaningless move.

Temporarily returned to their temporary base, sitting in the captain's room, looking at the battle damage report in front of him, Tong Lei's mood was extremely heavy.

Of the four battleships, battleship 006 sank, one was moderately damaged, and the remaining two were slightly damaged.

Of the twenty destroyers, nine sank, one was severely damaged, four were moderately damaged, and the remaining six were all lightly damaged.

For the Yangtze River Fleet, which had always had the absolute upper hand before, this wave of losses was simply heavy!

After merging with the supply ships in the rear, the lightly damaged and moderately damaged battleships can still be repaired, but the seriously damaged destroyer is almost burned out of its engines, and it is basically close to being scrapped.

Now on the battlefield side of the South China Sea, the remaining combat strength of the Yangtze River Fleet is only three battleships and ten destroyers.

At the same time, the Imperial fleet, which had fled all the way, quickly left the sea after going around in circles, sailed into a tributary connecting the interior, and quickly docked at the nearest port.

After this battle, the Yangtze River fleet suffered heavy losses, and the losses of the imperial fleet were naturally not small.

The suicide ship was completely destroyed.

Only two destroyers remained, one of which was close to half-destruction.

Four heavy cruisers, three sank, one badly damaged.

The only battleship, the Counterattack, was also blown out of a main ship's gun, and the damage to the hull was not light.

And under this premise, 80 percent of the results in this battle can be said to have basically been crashed out with suicide ships.

In this way, in order to ensure his own situation, Polcrouff naturally had to put more effort into writing the report.

To write about the various dangers of this battle, and at the same time, to sink such a major feat as sinking an enemy battleship, it is certainly necessary to focus on describing it, and then add a vague sentence to destroy more than a dozen destroyers, so that people can have a feeling that the merits outweigh the faults.

In this, of course, there is an exaggeration.

The war was so chaotic at that time, who could have noticed how many destroyers were destroyed?

However, relatively, there is no way to verify.

Therefore, as long as you don't exaggerate too much in the report, even if you find that there are one or two errors in the end, you can say that the battle situation was chaotic at that time, and it is basically impossible to investigate it.

In this way, such a report was quickly sent to the Imperial City.

After seeing the report, Charlie Crumbel can be said to have breathed a sigh of relief.

At least for now, the Suicide Ship is useful.

However, according to his original expectation, he wanted to take advantage of the dispersion of the opponent's combat forces to kill at least two battleships on the opposite side, which his imperial fleet obviously failed to achieve......

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