Behind him, a series of white tracks, from the turquoise sea, dotted with the reef in between, but also more and more distant from the warship, countless fish accompanied by the bow of the waves, left and right together.

At the same time that Jin Yang stubbornly drilled out of the sea, countless herons flew out of the small island where they lived, surrounded by a huge fleet, flapping their wings and shooting down, enjoying this rare and hearty breakfast.

Finally out of the dazzling and dangerous, tormenting archipelago, there will be an open space ahead!

The observer commander breathed a long sigh of relief, and the warm sunlight sprinkled on his body made him sleepy all night, but standing on the mastboard, he had to hold his eyelids and hold the old telescope without the slightest slack.

In the distance, the small black warship that made everyone grit their teeth and go helplessly was still following ten nautical miles away, leisurely as if attending a voyage party, although the fleet drove out many times, and even sent the fastest torpedo ship to drive it away at night, but it was still helpless.

On the other side, the distance between the four British and French cruisers traveling together and the fleet has also widened a lot, from the beginning of joining the formation to sailing, to the current formation alone 10,000 meters away, so that every soldier can feel the hidden meaning.

Twenty-five minutes into that classic lightning bolt that had been cut at the teeth of countless companions but helpless, many in the fleet began to wonder if they would be able to make it home, and every time the shells flew past the top of the mast, he prayed not to be hit.

The observer turned and looked around.

As the camera swept over the German cruiser, he was slightly stunned. For he found that the familiar German counterparts on the mast for a few days seemed to have a different face, and should still be an officer in terms of clothing.

Officers also climbed on the mast to blow the wind?

This scene surprised the observers, and they quickly moved their binoculars to the British cruiser, and found that although there were still a few old faces on the mast, there were obviously more people on the flybridge.

The same goes for the French, American cruisers!

What's wrong?

The observer hurriedly turned his head to look, the sea was still calm like a huge emerald gem, and the small black warship was still following and monitoring unhurriedly, with neither a column of smoke nor dark clouds, and no sound except for the rumbling noise of the steam engine and the cry of the herot.

Do these foreigners love to watch the fish?

Following the direction of the eyes of those foreign [***] officers, the observer scratched his head in surprise, and a bad feeling rose in his heart, but he didn't report the situation, maybe they were just blowing the wind.

Philettman raised his head, looked at the rising sun, turned his head and asked, "How long has it been?" ”

"It's been seven hours."

Seven hours without an attack, which has never happened since the first sneak attack, the previous four attacks, basically every two or three hours, could it be that the ammunition ran out?

Philitman shook his head, although he couldn't know how many shells that kind of warship could hold, but based on their 10,000-ton size, it was estimated that at least five hundred rounds per gun, and Li Mo dared to shoot a warship to attack so far, and he must have made preparations in terms of supplies, how could it not appear for seven hours?

152-mm shells are not large shells weighing hundreds of kilograms, and it is not difficult to replenish by sea, according to the speed of at least 23 knots shown by the other side, it should not be difficult to catch up with the fleet of only about 16 knots after the replenishment, but why hasn't it appeared yet? Could it be that he is running in the wrong direction?

It is possible that although there are at least three or more black warships of that kind, this time they have not left at all under the watchful eye of all countries, so it is impossible to replace them with a companion.

In addition, the fleet has changed its course several times, and in this case, the pursuing fleet that does not get the news is very willing to deviate, but ......? Why do you always have strange feelings in your heart?

Philitman turned his head to look at the German cruiser beside him, and the lieutenant colonel Persey obviously didn't understand, so he deliberately climbed onto the mast.

Maybe they won't show up today.

Thinking of this, Philettman handed the telescope to the officer, turned his head and walked into the cabin, ready to see John Fisher, who had been hiding in the cabin in a daze since the strange warships appeared.

When he just walked into the rest cabin and was about to knock on the hatch, the alarm bell in the warship exploded suddenly, and the hatch was suddenly opened.

When the two of them rushed onto the bridge, they found that a large column of smoke had once again appeared in the sky in the distance, and those few novel-looking warships had appeared on the sea level.

Fisher was the first to rush to the higher flybridge, grabbed the binoculars and looked over, since the appearance of this kind of warship, he had been as if he had been in a haunted spirit, wishing he could go up to check the details in person, but unfortunately except for the one that continued to belong to the hundred days yesterday evening, the next few times were night, and he could not see the details clearly, so he had been waiting for this daytime attack for a long time.

Lie said that everything was very clear from 20,000 meters away, but he quickly froze, because he found that this time the other party only came three, and the remaining one and two second-class cruisers did not appear at all.

Could it be that I achieved the results last night?

In Fisher's surprise, the three Jinghai ships in the distance had already rushed to a distance of 10,000 meters, and after drawing a beautiful arc on the sea, the naval guns roared again.

The rumbling shelling frightened the egrets into fleeing, and it was clear that the other side had replenished their ammunition, and the shelling was much more dense than last night, and this time they had smashed all their firepower on the battleships.

What do they want to do? It is impossible for a six-inch naval gun to do much damage to a battleship!

The 10 capital ships, which had already lined up to protect two light cruisers and four torpedo ships behind them, turned around and began to fire back, but unfortunately their shells could only fall as far as 11,000 meters, and they could only smash countless water columns in front of the opponent's formation, but they could not actually threaten the opponent.

That's the consequence of the technology gap!

Not to mention the inexperienced and slow response of the fleet, Fisher believed that even if the British Imperial fleet encountered such a situation that could not reach the opponent and could not close the attack distance, he would probably be driven crazy.

"I said that I have changed formations." As countless fires exploded from several battleships, Philitman's voice rang in his ears.

Gonbei Yamamoto, who was suppressed by long-range artillery bombardment and was suffering from the beating, finally chose to change, and the Asami re-patrolled, leading the only remaining Myoko and Fuso light patrols, and took the lead in breaking away from the formation to meet the three Yasukai ships, and although the speed of the long-distance voyage was only eighteen knots, it was still not too slow.

At the same time, the fleet, which has always maintained a dense sailing formation, is also slowly dispersed, trying to widen the distance between the ships and reduce the probability of being hit.

John Fisher sighed, it was obvious that his reaction was too slow, and in fact since yesterday's sneak attack, they have stubbornly insisted on the dense formation of geese, and did not use the cruisers in the fleet to protect the wings and break up the formation.

Since the elite of the navy that the navy spent ten years cultivating was all shot to the bottom of the sea by the Pacific Fleet, the quality of the navy has deteriorated too much, and it has even become unsightly, sluggish, hesitant, slow to respond, and so on, all of which are caused by lack of experience, and what is even more terrifying is that with the long-range artillery attack tactics adopted by the Pacific Fleet, their confidence and health have dropped to a worrying level.

This is also the reason why he firmly believed from the beginning that he could not achieve this victory, and compared with the inferior equipment, the lack of experience has become the most fatal weakness of the navy, and the stubborn and conservative idea of protecting the ship made them unwilling to give up even a torpedo ship, which also completely buried their last hope of victory.

In fact, at this time, everyone had already seen that the kind of cruiser full of six-inch naval guns, as long as they were prepared, it was impossible to cause much damage to the capital ship, and the other party also knew that the heavy guns on the capital ship were very threatening, so they never approached within 10,000 meters.

Now, the change has finally arrived.

"Let's hope it's not too late." Fisher held up the telescope, unwilling to put it down for a long time-

"It's too late to change formations now!"

After receiving the information sent by the Jinghai ship, a smile appeared on the corner of Ji Weishan's mouth.

All the officers in the command tower also clenched their fists at the same time, sailed more than 10,000 nautical miles, lost thousands of elites and veterans, and were tortured by the light patrol formation for a night.

The speed is fifteen knots, the course is 180, two by two formations, multiple formations, and the interval between the formations is more than five thousand meters!

I really don't know what the expression of the only remaining General Yamamoto Gonbei would be after the light patrol formation, which was actually not very damaging in order to avoid the light patrol formation, which was actually not very damaging, after dispersing the navigation formation.

"Let's go!"

Under the gaze of the staff officers and officers, Ji Weishan raised his right hand suddenly, and his straight right arm was like a sharp sword, guiding the direction of the fleet's advance.

At the same moment, a rapid alarm bell sounded from every battleship, and countless sailors who were sitting quietly on duty pounced on the battle position like watching wolves, the gun jackets were lifted, the turrets began to rotate, and huge shells were stuffed into the barrels.

In the boiler room, shovels of high-quality coal from Liaodong were stuffed into the combustion chamber, and the red light from the small window became more and more abundant, reflecting the face of every sailor in the power cabin stained with coal ash.

Next to the power cabin instrument in the back, several engineer soldiers stared intently at the pressure pointer and climbed up one grid after another, and when the pointer just arrived in the yellow area, they shouted violently, and the comrades behind them unscrewed the steam valve at the same time.

Rumble ......!

One after another, like the heartbeat of a dragon awakening, when the slowness became indistinguishable, the huge steam unit finally burst out with full power under the surging steam pressure.

The huge crankshaft drives the spindle and spun up at a rapid pace.

Under the water in the stern of the ship, the huge bronze cast propeller violently advertised, turning into a glittering golden light, breaking through the originally calm sea surface and bringing up a white tumbling track.

The steel giants woke up to the roar of the steam engine, and thick black smoke spewed out of the chimneys, like angry dragons piercing the sky.

Two Polar-star battleships, four determination-class heavy cruisers, four Vladivostok-class heavy cruisers, plus the Jinghai-class No. 2 ship Dinghai, a full eleven behemoths form a sea sword, they will use their cold steel bodies and thick barrels to create a magnificent future for this nation!

"Heading 090, full speed!"

"The main gun is ready."

"The secondary cannon is ready."

"The torpedo compartment is ready."

…… A loud shout was concentrated along the telephone line to the bridge of each warship, and then through the flags waved by the signalmen and the ticking of radio waves, they poured into the command tower of the flagship Star Antarctica.

"Report, all ships are ready!"

The sound of the report made Ji Weishan raise his head from the nautical chart table, and his eyes suddenly turned to the south, which was the direction in which the fleet appeared!

"Command!"

"Cossacks, Dradic departure!"

When the two hounds asked the bloody light patrol that had long been unbearable, they rushed out of the formation and disappeared under the sea level, a cloud of smoke had risen in the sky.

"Enemy attack!"

The observer stamped his feet, screaming hoarsely at the billowing plume of smoke in the sky, his face pale.

The signal soldier on the flagship Mikasa waved the flag vigorously.

The ships scattered to dodge the shells desperately turned to prepare to regroup for battle.

Inside the command tower, looking at the dark clouds that stained the sky black, every officer's face turned pale!

No one expected to encounter the enemy's main fleet here, they thought that the enemy would continue to harass until they reached the Ogasawara Islands, and even said that there was a decisive battle off the coast of Motomoto, because the supply area was closer and it was easier to repair if it was damaged.

Even the officers on the four spectator cruisers did not expect that the Pacific Fleet would abandon the Ogasawara Islands, the best area for ambush, and choose to fight a decisive battle in this open sea more than 3,000 nautical miles from Honolulu and Luzon.

This was a well-prepared decisive battle, on the one hand, the Yueben Fleet, which had been harassed by successive attacks, suffered serious casualties, and exhausted, and on the other hand, the Pacific Fleet, which was recuperated and full of elites, made the eyes of every officer and soldier watching the battle widen.

The bow of the ship was constantly deflecting, ready to speed out of this dangerous sea, and everyone knew that once the artillery battle began, no one caught in this naval battle would be able to remain lucky.

When a fleet of eight heavy cruisers, one light cruiser and two battleships crashed through the sea and jumped out of the water, everyone gasped! Except for the four battleships that blocked the bay of Tokton, the Pacific Fleet actually concentrated all the remaining warships here!

Yamamoto's face turned even blue, his fingers turned white, because his fleet had not yet been reorganized.

At 1:10 p.m. on 10 May, the fleet led by Ji Weishan blocked the repatriation fleet that had just emerged from between the Micronesian Islands and the Marshall Islands.

At 1:20 a.m., the ten capital ships and the Dinghai completed the turn at the same time, seizing the crucial T-position.

"Fire!"

When a long, piercing sound sounded from the short-wave radio station dedicated to the shelling command of each ship, the gunners of each ship gave the order to open fire at the same time.

"Boom, boom, boom......."

The first round of salvo is played!

(To be continued)