At the same time that the British fleet discovered the Red Alert fleet, Luo Haiping happened to give the order to attack.

The radar on the mast of the warship, the search determines the target, the hand-cranked computer calculates the ballistics and the amount of advance, and the artillery commander gives the command to fire the ship's guns.

This set of red police sailors was quite skilled, and the calm sea was instantly broken by the rumbling of cannons.

On the left and right of the British fleet, two battleships more than 20,000 meters apart, opened fire at the same time.

The fire of a salvo of eight 355-mm guns brought up the formidable firepower of the erection fleet behind them, and the cruisers and destroyers opened fire one after another.

King to king, soldier to soldier, naval warfare in the era of warships is so simple and violent.

The targets of the two Dreadnought 1st class battleships were naturally the six old man-class battleships of the British fleet, while the cruisers and destroyers of the Red Guard Regiment were aimed at the other warships in the British fleet.

The cruiser determined the target of the attack, aiming at the ironclad and armored cruisers in the fleet of the British.

The destroyers found the fast warships of the British, as well as the torpedo boats and other small ships of the fleet.

The raindrops of cannonballs fell on the British fleet, and the salvo of the main guns and the dense shell fire made the British fleet up and down in an instant.

"Damn, how could Fan Yize have so many battleships." At the moment of the enemy's shelling, Qiao Barn couldn't help but jump to his feet and curse, but fortunately he didn't forget to immediately order the warship to counterattack.

Philmantle's face was not much better than that of Joe Barn, and at the moment of the opponent's shelling, Joe Barn was not the only one who could hear the intensity of the enemy's firepower.

As an old navy, Philmantle is also quite sensitive to the sound of naval guns, and has been dealing with the navy all his life, and even the moment he hears the shelling, he can hear the caliber of the artillery.

This time was no exception, the opponent's instantaneous main gun salvo, the sound of sixteen main guns firing from the left and right sides, the caliber exceeded the most powerful 305 main guns of the Far Eastern Fleet.

"How could the enemy have more than twelve inches of main guns, but listen to fire, that is the movement of four battleships." Fillmantle couldn't help but shout.

Although I can't hear how many inches it is, it definitely exceeds the twelve-inch main guns of my own battleship, and the strength of the opponent's firepower is at least four powerful battleships.

This made Filimantle have a very bad premonition, the enemy's unknown is more terrible than the enemy's strength, he didn't want to admit it in his heart, but reason told him that the British really shouldn't intervene in this war, especially the formation adopted by the other side, which showed that the other side was proficient in naval battle tactics.

However, it is too late to say anything now, and the raining shells are about to fall. Fortunately, what reassured Fillmantle was that the other party was too anxious, and the hit rate of the attack at this distance was all up to heaven's will.

The first round of shelling should be calibrated, and then according to the point where the shells land, the main gun should be adjusted, and then a salvo should be fired.

In the first round of shelling, the British sailors were very calm and prepared to counterattack calmly.

The naval battles of this era, especially this kind of shelling more than ten kilometers away, relied not on technology, but on God.

Not to mention the first round of shelling before the school firing.

However, when the shells fell, all the British sailors, including Joe Barn and Philmantle, were stunned.

Shells fell on both sides towards the middle, dense shells, the density and intensity of their fire, more than the British Far East Fleet, which had more warships, and the most terrible thing was that the shells that fell, as if they had eyes.

The battleship Glory, which was walking in front of the fleet, was directly hit by two shells, and the shells that fell from the arc trajectory directly drilled into the deck, and exploded twice in a row, blowing open the bow and bridge of the Glory, and the entire bow was gone, and the two barrels of the main gun in the bow were bent by the explosion.

The side armor of the other battleship, the Vengeance, was blown open in the surrounding deck, but fortunately above the waterline, but the burning fire was particularly noticeable in the night

One of the armored cruisers exploded, and the entire warship was broken in two, surrounded by splashing seawater.

In the fleet, one-fifth of the warships were shot one after another, and such a terrible hit rate made all the British sailors look incredulous.

A large number of shells exploded around the British Far East Fleet warships, blowing up columns of water and splashing water, washing the British battleships like a torrential rain.

The sea washed over the warship, and also washed the little heart of every British sailor, who was a veteran of the sea, looking at the burning and sinking warships around him, everyone's heart was cold.

It's not a fluke, it's not God's favor, it's the enemy's more accurate artillery.

This was the greatest feeling in the hearts of all British sailors, and those close water columns and the terrible hit rate of the enemy's first round have amply illustrated this problem.

The British sailors were not calm, and Philmantle and Joe Barn were also unable to calm down, and they were also frightened by the terrible hit probability of the other side, the shelling ten kilometers away, and such a terrible hit rate, the British Navy could not do it.

"Fight back, hurry up and fight back." Fillmantle was no longer a gentleman and calm, the battle flag was raised, the light signal flashed in the British fleet, all the warships began to counterattack, and at the same time Fillmantle also gave the order again: "The whole ship is advancing rapidly, breaking through the V-shaped encirclement of the other side." ”

Whether it was the opponent's formation or the opponent's terrible hit rate, it cast a heavy haze in Filimantle's heart, and now in this situation, the Far Eastern Fleet was already in danger of being destroyed.

With the help of the cover of night, the other party quietly surrounded it, and the terrible thing was that its own fleet did not find it.

Coupled with the opponent's amazing artillery skills, the fleet will be destroyed at any time.

Six powerful battleships, the bow of the Glory was blown open, a large amount of sea water poured in, it had lost its combat effectiveness, and the side of the Grudge was blown open, and it also lost great flexibility and could not make a large angle turn.

The order was quickly conveyed, and the fierce counterattack of the British fleet also paid tribute to the Red Alert Navy.

A sparse number of shells fell towards the position of the Red Alert Navy, but at a distance of ten kilometers, the hit rate of the shells was really touching. And God doesn't seem to be on the favor of the British.

The shells that fell towards the two wings exploded one after another on the surface of the sea, and the water column that soared into the sky, and only the loose droplets of water fell on the nearest warship.

The first round of artillery counterattack by the British, the most recent one was a hundred meters away from the warship.

However, the Red Guard Corps did not feel that the British were vulnerable, this was the first round of shelling, and after the second round of shelling, the hit rate was difficult to say.

At the same time as the second round of artillery salvo fire from the two attack formations of the Red Alert Navy, the British Navy, which had a round of calibration, also launched a real counterattack, and the dense shells staggered through the air and fell towards the fleets of both sides.