, on a par with each other!

Looking at the observation window, looking at the column of water that was soaring up close at hand, Morrow felt as if his whole body was about to explode!

As a non-commissioned officer who had just joined the fleet for three months, it was the first time he had seen the ship's guns roar so unscrupulously, so he didn't know why this idea flashed in his mind, although he did not study command and gunnery, but as a naval man, at least common sense still existed. ※※※※※ I ※ I ※ ※

While the blood was boiling in the sound of artillery, he also knew very well how difficult it was to fight a naval battle in such a treacherous wind and waves, with visibility of only about 10,000 meters! He didn't know if the rangefinder he had just repaired was broken again, but the error of at least more than three hundred meters confirmed that such weather conditions were not suitable for combat at all! Because the veteran gunners used to boast that they could embroider huā at such a distance when they trained!

The embroidery huā is fake, but there will never be such a big deviation!

But at this moment, there is no room for turning back and adjusting, no one can easily get out, even if a monstrous wave comes immediately, you must grit your teeth and persevere, this is like a group of lions and tigers in the fight, whoever shows cowardice first is equivalent to leaving the back to the other party, so the two sides can only continue to bombard each other on two nearly parallel battle lines!

Even if the hit hasn't appeared yet!

Thundered.......

The main cannon swept through in unison again, and in a few seconds, the four duke-class secondary guns in front of them also roared, but the enemy shells that followed also fell straight down, bringing up a thick column of water at the same time, it also stirred up the already rough sea surface to become more and more chaotic, and the huge waves even made the steel giant beast of more than 10,000 tons become a small sampan in the storm, up and down.

On the contrary, this swing made it extremely difficult for the gunners to aim, and four or five consecutive salvos were far off, and although there was one more battleship than the enemy, this advantage was reduced to a small extent in this sea state.

Philitman knows where his disadvantage lies: "In addition to having one less battleship than the opponent, the old man's star battleship is inherently a big disadvantage!"

That's the displacement!

Although the ship's guns and armor are battleship-level, in order to allow warships to enter the Yangtze River waterway, the displacement and draft are strictly controlled, which causes serious rollover in the harsh deep-sea environment, and the accuracy of the ship's guns drops to an unbearable level.

If it weren't for the other party's detection, if it weren't for the other party's mysterious long-distance communication means, he would never have chosen to enter the Luzon Sea, and he would not have chosen to fight a decisive battle in this harsh climate!

The only way to solve this disadvantage is to shorten the distance!

"Fifth degree of right rudder."

"Five degrees in the right cabin! *……”

Philitman's order, when all the officers in the command tower were stunned for a moment, "Is this going to be done?" The other party has one more battleship than himself, and there are sixteen second-level main guns to cheer him on, and he takes the initiative to close the distance! What exactly is the lieutenant general going to do?

"The secondary cannon is firing rapidly!" Philitman didn't seem to see the surprised eyes of the officers behind him, and after giving the order again, he immediately walked to the chart and began to calculate.

In his order, the bows of the five neatly arranged Old Man Star battleships began to deflect quietly, and at the same time a large number of guns were fired, and the millimeter naval guns and the sky was full of rain and fog, making this subtle deviation unnoticeable.

Rumble!

In front of the narrow observation window, "it was crowded with people, and the soldiers of the management and preparatory running groups were crowded together, watching the columns of water raised by angry dragons on the sea, and everyone was sweating in their palms.

Who's lucky, who will hit the other first?

Although the ** rangefinder failed to play a big role because of the rain and fog, "but there should always be some effect, right?" When this thought rose from everyone's hearts, and even began to imagine the scene of celebration in their minds, a huge explosion suddenly sounded from the side of the deck of the South Pole Star, and the flames that rushed into the sky made everyone's hearts suddenly rise.

The first to be shot was actually the Antarctic Star!

This accident, not to mention being suffocated by Morrow and other Antarctic Star sailors, even the officers in the Duke's command tower were stunned, they all knew that using the rangefinder to gain the upper hand had actually failed, but they still didn't expect that it would be the Antarctic Star who was shot first!

Especially the Antarctic Star is also a meritorious battleship under the command of the commander!

Thinking of this, everyone looked at Ji Weishan in unison, but he didn't seem to notice those eyes, "Looking at the five old man stars that burst out of countless fire balls on the side of the telescope, there was a sudden alarm in his eyes.

"Give me the ranging data!"

After the implementation of the operational regulations, "the commanders of the fleets generally do not directly direct the artillery battles in decisive battles, but are all commanded by the gunnery officers of the headquarters," while the fleet commanders are only responsible for formulating tactics and assigning tasks.

This can not only reduce the pressure on the commander, but also make the fleet more professional with a subtle division of labor, but the problem is that the Duke lacks the large special rangefinder of the Jinghai class.

Without a dedicated large rangefinder, the navigator can only rely on equipment such as a sextant, combined with a turret rangefinder to locate the opponent, which is usually enough, but the sea conditions at the moment determine that it is difficult to detect subtle changes in the bow of the opponent by these means alone!

After the turret reported the data, the navigation staff was stunned, and the British fleet not only did not open the distance to avoid the artillery fire, but used the rain gathering as a cover, and used the rapid fire of the secondary guns to divert everyone's attention, and took the initiative to quietly begin to close the distance!

The decisiveness of Philettman and the courage of the British sailors were clearly beyond the imagination of most officers!

"Five degrees on the left side, full speed!"

Ji Weishan shook off the calculation results handed by the navigation staff, and the corners of his mouth hooked up with a solemn killing, although Philettman played a small trick, he obviously underestimated the courage of the Chinese!

When you meet on a narrow road, the brave wins!

The radio signal from the command tower not only did not make everyone uneasy, but aroused the courage of the gunners, and when the Duke also began to deflect the bow, the six battleships suddenly burst out like enraged hedgehogs, and countless fireballs burst out from the port side of each ship. 【 I want: super fast update 】

Thundered......!

When both fleets began to approach and a large number of secondary guns joined the artillery battle, casualties finally began to appear.

After the Star Antarctica was hit on the starboard side by a 305mm shell, the Venus was also heavily shelled, and Philettman was clearly familiar with the two British-built battleships and concentrated most of their secondary guns to sink them first! Countless fireballs burst from the Daystar, leaving the 12,000-ton battleship in a state of turmoil, and although most of them were 152mm shells that could not penetrate the main armor, the dense rain of bullets still made the Daystar a little breathless.

But behind the two Polar-star battleships that suffered a key blow, the First Fleet, with four Duke-class as the main force, also dealt heavy losses to the other party, and the first unlucky one was the fifth ship of the old man-class battleship, the Ocean.

The battleship, which had just been launched for two years, was attacked by the Prince and the Soya, and a 305 mm armor-piercing shell from the second turret of the Soya completed the fatal blow, although through the rain, the observer could clearly see that the explosion exploded from the starboard side of the stern of the Ocean, and the explosion of distance lifted the deck and severely damaged the turret in its stern, so that the turret never fired a single shell in the subsequent battle.

But fortunately, the Daystar, which has been being taken care of by the focus of care, has not yet begun to diffuse, but it has been heavily damaged, and the two millimeter naval guns hit the No. 1 turret in the bow almost at the same time, and the violent explosion ignited the turret at the same time, and the fragments also swept in front of the command tower, if it were not for the armor of the command tower was thick enough, maybe this time it would make the Daystar completely lose its command!

With a battleship on each side heavily damaged, the battle suddenly entered **, and after closing to seven thousand meters, the two commanders invariably chose to turn the rudder to maintain this distance, and countless shells passed through this distance, and one after another burst from each battleship.

The fierce artillery battle made it impossible for Morrow to breathe smoothly, and when he saw with his own eyes the chimney of a British battleship in the distance disappear half in the explosion of the distance, bad luck quietly hit the South Pole Star again.

In the midst of the piercing explosion and the screaming of the cannonball, a 305 mm shell that should have landed far away from the Antarctic Star bounced off and jumped up under the tension of the sea, and plunged headlong into the main armor of the Antarctic Star, and then suddenly turned up, drilled out of the deck, and smashed into the front of the No. 1 turret!

Although it did not penetrate the armor layer up to 330 mm thick on the front of the turret, it left a huge hole, and the huge explosion caused the turret weighing hundreds of tons to shake violently several times.

"Oh my God!"

Looking at the No. 1 turret that was filled with gunsmoke, looking at the big hole on the deck after the explosion, and a gun barrel that had been bent, Moro couldn't describe his mood at the moment, he only felt that the whole person was about to collapse!

When the eyes fell on the hatch behind the turret that should have been locked, but was now half-opened, his eyes turned red!

I saw a figure stumbling out of the hatch, and before he could take a step out of the turret, which was already full of smoke, he fell crookedly in the doorway, blood from his mouth and nose.

Blood flowed down the rain and spread around the deck, forming tiny streams of blood, which flowed into the sea through the gaps in the deck.

"Help!"

In Moreau's stupor, a voice behind him shouted violently, and the medical officer wearing the Red Cross armband rushed out of the hatch first, and Moreau hurriedly followed him into the smoke of gunpowder.

The smell of choking permeated the turret, the light bulbs on the tower wall had all been shattered, and when Moro skillfully found the emergency light, the scene inside the turret suddenly made his hands and feet tremble!

Corpses, lying all over the place, no wounds, no breaks, only. Blood began to coagulate in the nose, and the huge vibration did not hurt the turret, but it shattered the heart, spleen and internal organs of the crew members inside.

The medical officer opened everyone's eyelids, and Morrow saw that the medical officer, who was usually as serious as steel, was now sobbing like a child, and every time he rolled his eyelids and pressed his chest, he left deep tears on his cheeks.

Moreau watched blankly as the reserve crew and the crew began to remove them, and suddenly wanted to hold them back, he couldn't accept the fact that a few hours ago they were playing tricks on themselves because they were stripping naked and braving the rain to repair the rangefinder, but now they were corpses with residual warmth.

"There's also a barrel intact and ready to fire! Wait, Morrow! Moreau! The rangefinder lens is broken and needs to be replaced! May I? May I! While Morrow was still sluggish, a shout suddenly woke him up, and he quickly nodded vigorously.

"The second group starts to be half-reasoned!"

The reserve artillery crew roared and rushed into the turret, and began to clean up the damage in the turret, Moreau also carried the repair kit on his back, flew up to the turret, and when he took responsibility, he found that the Star Antarctica had left the battle line, and the brother ship in the distance also bloomed with a lot of light.

The blood that had just cooled up rushed up again, and he knew that he had to repair the Astar Antarctica, because his comrades needed help! Even if there is only one barrel left, no matter how low the launch speed is, the South Pole Star cannot be a bystander at such an important moment!

Stimulated by blood and explosions, it only took Moreau a few minutes to re-set the two shots with a few temporary assistants, and when the reserve artillery team reported through the telephone that the repairs had been completed, the AstraStar Antarctica once again raised the battle flag!

"Let's go back!"

m dagger, shouting, Moreau didn't know why he walked into the observation position and became a rangefinder, but when he squeezed close to the narrow observation position, looking at the enemy in the foggy lens, he suddenly forgot his original identity, and yelled violently: "The distance is 12,000 kilometers" speed 16 knots, the wind passes ......*......"

When strings of data came out of his mouth and converged into a single point under the rapid synthesis of the calculator, the only remaining main cannon roared again, joining the roar of blood and fire!

It can't go on like this!

Inside the commander tower of the Duke, Ji Weishan clenched his fists, and the British Far East Fleet on the opposite side showed stubborn tenacity, and the Ocean really supported it when one of its main guns lost its combat effectiveness, "Use the second turret in the stern to continuously hit the Daystar!"

And Philitman showed the decisiveness and boldness of a good naval commander, taking advantage of the low visibility of rain and fog and extremely poor sea conditions, to quietly deflect the bow of the ship, and later found that the rear result overwhelmed the seven-thousand-meter line!

His decisiveness raised the accuracy of the British fleet's shelling to a terrible level, and he used the global navy, which has hundreds of years of maritime tradition, to teach a lesson to the hand "in the face of bad sea conditions, but turn disadvantages into advantages" to completely submerge the advantages of his own rangefinder, and teach the young Chinese naval officers and men a good lesson!

Boom!

A violent ball of fire rose from the middle of the Daystar hull again, "The huge cloud of smoke made Ji Weishan's nails pinch into the flesh, although he expected that it would be a bitter fight, and he also knew that the British Navy was much stronger than the previous opponents, but he didn't expect that with one less battleship, the other party would actually fight on a par with himself!"

"It has to change!"

"Command!" Ji Weishan took a deep breath and gave an order under everyone's gaze: "The Daystar, the Antarctic Star broke away from the formation and pressed into the five thousand meters!" ”

The battleship duel has extremely strict regulations, and the invisible battle line is almost insurmountable, so unless the bombardment is as heavy as the Antarctic Star Gang, it must be temporarily withdrawn for maintenance, otherwise no one will dare to cross the line easily!

But this order actually requires the two ships to take the initiative to break through this line and approach the opponent!

This is undoubtedly an adventure, this is not the first time that this tactic has appeared in the Chinese navy, and it has also been shown in the battle of the Daxia Islands, that is, to find a magnet for the opponent's artillery fire.

Cannonball magnet!

In the order, the already damaged Antarctic Star and the Morning Star accelerated out of the formation, and advanced decisively under the pressure of artillery fire, when their huge bodies grew larger and larger in the rain and fog, almost all the British naval guns subconsciously aimed at the two charging battleships.

Cannonballs exploded from every corner of the deck, countless fighters were blown off in the gunfire, and blood even stained the entire deck red!

But this scene did not make Philitman feel happy, but shouted in horror, but the lack of radio, and the smoke and rain outside, the signal flag alone could not stop the red-eyed gunners in a short time, except for the old man, the other four battleships were still pouring shells on the two ships, and there was a posture of not swearing to give up.

Just as the bow of the Daystar was once again sunk by a spinning shell, and the deck was almost pressed into the sea, the counterattack finally arrived!

After a large number of shells and explosions were missing, the four Duke-class ships became more and more accurate, and after only three rounds, they sang the elegy of the old man's star No. 4 ship Goliath.

When the sixteen 203-millimeter shells whistled by a fraction of a millimeter, the sixteen strong millimeter shells in the back accurately hit two, one of which directly broke through the main armor layer in the middle and drilled into the boiler room, and the huge explosion caused the boiler to explode, and the terrifying pressure generated instantly broke through the key dome armor" and tore a large hole with a diameter of three meters in the middle of the hull.

The already tumbling sea water suddenly found an outlet, and nearly a thousand tons of seawater poured in in just a few minutes, causing the Goliath to lose its stability suddenly, and the speed of the deck dropped to ten knots after the right tilt!

Just when the four Duke-class ships began to aim their guns at the next target, there was a harrowing scene on the battlefield: "The Antarctic Star, which had been struggling to support, was hit by several shells in a row, and finally could no longer support it, when a 152-mm shell drilled into the tail turret from the crack and detonated the propellant and two shells that had just been raised, the 12,000-ton battleship burst into flames, and the stern broke into two pieces."

Afterwards, everyone knew that the explosion was so violent that the captain Yang Tai did not have time to give the order to abandon the ship, "After the 685 officers and men of the whole ship, less than 40 people escaped!"

But at this moment, the Antarctic Star did not give up because of the rupture of the stern, and the only remaining main gun in the bow was actually cocked in the bow, and the hull began to sink rapidly, and the industry still kept pouring shells all the time, this scene made Philettman and all the British ** officers begin to have a numb scalp.

Looking at the Antarctic Star that began to sink, Ji Weishan bit his lower lip tightly, and a drop of blood oozed from his fingers, he knew every soldier on that ship, "He knows the strength of the Antarctic Star, so he will continue to arrange it for a difficult mission after suffering heavy losses, although he knows that it is dangerous, but in order to divert the enemy's artillery fire and create conditions for the fire" He has no choice!

The sinking of the Antarctic Star seemed to have poured cold water on everyone in the First Fleet, and the cry of revenge suddenly resounded throughout every battleship, perhaps as the beloved warship sank to the icy bottom of the sea, Moreau did not know that only a few minutes later, the four Duke-class ships avenged the Antarctic Star with a perfect artillery strike.

The Revenge, which has a nice name, but it did not succeed in avenging the Goliath, it was taken care of by the four dukes, and two consecutive 305-mm shells may not be fatal, but the five 203-mm shells that followed succeeded in smashing open the ammunition bay that was wrapped in thick armor, and the design flaws on the British watertight compartment made the battleship pay a heavy price, and its fate was almost the same as that of the Antarctic Star, which disappeared into the sea in a violent explosion after only a few minutes!

Suddenly, the two fleets seemed to be back on the same running line, both of them were heavily damaged, and Filitman began to understand that he could no longer win, and that he had to evacuate!

At 8:15, Philettman ordered the fleet to speed up, and at the same time sent destroyers to notify the cruisers in front to come to support, and at the same time, Miyama also issued an order for a decisive battle!

In order to protect the passage of the remaining four capital ships, the British cruiser formation showed the demeanor of a century-old sea breeze, and they were like sharks in a sea of fog, desperately charging around the opponent.

And the First Fleet patrol formation with four Vladivostok-class ships as the core also went toe-to-toe, and the twenty-four main guns roared and roared almost non-stop!

The battle is heating up all of a sudden!

In the face of the melee, the radio superiority of the First Fleet was finally brought into play, although the overall number was small, but it could be connected by radio waves, especially the Defending-class destroyers who participated in the decisive battle for the first time, with their speeds of up to 30 knots, could always cause confusion among the enemy.

At 8:30 a.m., the British Far East Fleet was heavily damaged, and after the sinking of the Revenge, the Goliath, which was dragging its leaning body and preparing to break through first under the protection of two cruisers, tasted the power of the spear heavy torpedoes for the first time, but it did not even notice when six torpedoes in a row approached under the cover of the rainstorm.

The huge explosion formed a huge swollen water ball on the side of the Goliath's hull, and after the exploding water ball threw more than 10,000 tons directly out of the water, it smashed heavily on the sea surface, and after just one minute, it broke off and sank into the bottom of the sea at a depth of more than 2,000 meters.

But it was not alone, and when the second wave of two Defend-class destroyers swooped down and fired twelve more spears, the two British first-class armored cruisers, which had lost their protective targets and were not at fault, were both severely damaged and disappeared into the sea.

This scene made Philettman stunned, although he had already issued a worry and warning about that kind of destroyer with strange speed, but he still didn't expect to be attacked by them.

At the same time, the Vladivostok heavy cruiser was also caught by an old man star and two first-class cruisers, although the old hull was full of firepower, but could not block the attack of 305 mm heavy shells, after being hit on the rear bridge and causing an explosion, the captain Xiao Tianzhi had to order a temporary withdrawal from the battle, and finally an hour later, announced the abandonment of the ship.

At this time, Ji Weishan knew that if he continued to fight, he was afraid that there would be big losses, so he decisively issued an order to retreat.

At 10 p.m., the First Fleet of the Chinese Navy withdrew from the battle, which made Philtman, who had already been overwhelmed, breathe a sigh of relief, and led the fleet to quickly pass through the Bass Strait and sail towards Hong Kong.

At 9:30 a.m., when Lan Jianshu returned to the fleet with the last three chasing Guard-class, and brought back the battle of sinking four British torpedo ships and a second-class armored cruiser, the two-hour naval battle finally came to an end.

In terms of results, the British, despite the cost of two battleships and two first-class armored cruisers, managed to force their opponents to abandon the pursuit and cross the Bass Strait.

And the First Fleet, although it sank four of the enemy's capital ships, and also sank six torpedo ships and two second-class cruisers, also paid for the sinking of the Antarctic Star, the complete incombat of the Polaris, and the heavy damage of the Vladivostok and the abandonment of the ship and sinking an hour later.

Although it was not perfect, and even much more expensive than expected, this living fleet successfully withstood the powerful impact of the overall numerical superiority, and with centuries-old naval tradition, it was hailed as the world's largest navy.

Few people will know that hearing that Britain is the number one in the world is two very different feelings from facing the world's number one navy and going to war, many things that cannot be reflected in the huge number of fleets and total tonnage on paper!

The British Navy's tenacious style, excellent personnel quality, and Philettman's naval combat skills in the face of unfavorable situations were not comparable to those of the Chinese Navy, which had been established for less than ten years, and in particular, the huge pressure when fighting with them made it impossible for the fleet to fully exert its strength.

Although the result is a bit regrettable, but the gains brought are also unimaginable, not to mention how proud the Far Eastern Fleet can be forced to flee in panic, the lessons and experience gained in this battle alone are enough to benefit Ji Weishan and other generations of young officers!

It's a battle between teachers and students!

As always, the teacher showed not only the tenacious naval style, but also told the world why the British Royal Fleet can become the world's first fleet, and also told everyone what a century-old navy is!

The students also explained the value of sacrifice and the courage to be fearless in the face of strong enemies, and even dare to take the initiative to take the initiative!

Perhaps the outcome of this naval battle is no longer important, the important thing is that the Chinese Navy, which has developed on the shoulders of the great powers, has told the whole world through this naval battle!

In the East, there is a young fleet that dares to challenge the number one in the world is rising!

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