The speed class is a kind of second-class battleship specially designed by the British for Chile, which loves heavy artillery, with a displacement of only 12,000 tons, in addition to two twin 254 mm naval guns, it is actually equipped with fourteen 190 mm large-caliber rapid-fire guns, of which there are five guns on each side, and four are also installed on the diagonal installation deck. (Full text reading, all in. (.i. Want. Wen. Learning Network)

In terms of firepower, when firing to one side again, the ship has eleven 200 mm guns, the average rate of fire has also reached two rounds per minute, and the total ammunition projection is more than that of the Duke class, far exceeding the Polar Star, which is also the main reason why Long Guozhang does not want to bring three Polaris.

Thanks to Britain's excellent shipbuilding level, after a long period of 15,000 nautical miles, the two warships were able to maintain a speed of 16 knots, so there was a great deal of controversy about the finalization of these two warships before the war.

Chen Ping insisted on positioning them as battleships, because its firepower intensity had surpassed that of the Duke class and was close to the standard of the Dalian class, while Long Guozhang and the navy insisted on positioning them as armored cruisers, on the basis that the target that Chile had to deal with when ordering these two warships was the Argentine armored cruisers, and the thickness of the main armor belts of the two ships was only 120 mm, which was not even as good as the Jinghai class.

According to the naval regulations, the heavy cruiser exists as a secondary capital ship, that is to say, the target is the large armored cruisers of various countries, not the battleships, if these two warships are listed as battleships, it means that when they enter the melee, they must be dealt with by battleships.

But Long Guozhang only has four Jilin-class ships in his hands, and if so many targets have to rely on battleships to fight, they will not be able to complete the task at all, so after they are included in the heavy patrol, the Dalian class can deal with them.

Later, Chen Ping agreed to this distinction, all because in terms of the strength of a single ship, the Dalian class is much higher than the opponent, so there is no need to rigidly abide by naval regulations.

Therefore, when the Duke was damaged by two speed-class ships and had to withdraw from the battle, the Mukden, which had tilted the deck of the Rurik, immediately accelerated and forcibly inserted itself between the two ships from the bow position.

As it turned out to be a very dangerous venture, the two ships were no more than eight kilometers apart, and when the Mukden was forced in, the four-meter-long range meant that both sides could penetrate each other's armor, and the Speed class was carrying British shells with full charges.

From Lushun, to the shallow sea area under the crying Golden Mountain Fort, there is still a figure of the Dingyuan, although the Pacific Fleet at that time then used a sneak attack to destroy the Russian fleet, but the Beiyang people did not participate in that battle.

That is a thorn in the hearts of all Beiyang people, although there is no Beiyang now, but whether it is Liu Buyun or Lin Taizeng, or Ye Zugui and Sa Zhenbing, they are already waiting for this battle!

When the Huangtai was ignited in an instant, and when the five Borodino-class battleships in the core of Russia were paralyzed one after another, these Beiyang people didn't even show a smile, their wish was to completely blow up all the Russian ** ships!

When the Duke withdrew from the battle with one enemy and two enemies, but the steering gear was accidentally damaged, one can imagine how resentful the Beiyang generals who saw that scene at that time were. (Full text reading, all in. (.i. Want. Wen. Learning Network)

A good captain not only needs to be able to ignite the battle of the sailors, but also needs to stay calm at critical moments, as a representative of the Beiyang system, Sa Zhenbing is not as prominent as Liu Buyun and Lin Taizeng, but it is not much weaker, otherwise he would not be able to pass the layers of assessment to take over the sharp Fengtian.

At 2:40 a.m., the Mukden let out a strong roar, and for the first time, the three turrets were pointed at two targets at the same time, the first and third pointed at Peter the Great on the left, and the second locked onto the St. Petersburg.

In large-scale engagements, the ability of a single ship to deal with two or even more targets is extremely critical, and the Dalian class as a heavy cruiser, the design of the beginning of the consideration of the possible face of multiple opponents, the three turrets not only make the muzzle directivity more flexible, but also re-layout the fire control channel, for the first time on the front and rear masts, two sets of rangefinders are arranged, and two side auxiliary gun rangefinders are installed, which makes the whole ship have four fire channels, which can deal with four more ships.

"Fire!"

When the two speed-class ships forced the Duke away hand in hand, the two main guns in the bow of the Fenfengtian broke out with a roar at the same time, and the scorching smoke brought by the six flames had not yet dissipated, and the second round of shelling broke out again.

This is the advantage of the second generation of fire control, no longer as before to play a round after the calculation of the distance, and then after the correction of the second round, the second generation of the rangefinder is advanced, using the stepped ranging method, first by the rangefinder to calculate the opponent's distance, and then add a certain distance to this reading, fire the first round, and then fire the second round according to the reading, and then according to the reading minus a certain distance to launch the third round. The range interval of the three rounds is the same, the time is similar, and the trajectory can be corrected according to the impact point rate, so that the naval guns do not stop and wait for the results of the calculation, so as to achieve the continuity of fire.

When three rounds of hurried shells were fired, the front rangefinder guided the No. 1 and No. 3 gun positions, and the rear rangefinder guided the No. 2 gun position, and at the same time calculated the accurate Zhu Yuan, when the distance between the Fengtian and the bow of the two speed-class ships was only three thousand meters, the No. 3 gun position, which had already gained an angle, also joined the chorus.

2:43", the No. 3 gun position fired a perfect crossover, accurately covering the St. Petersburg under the rain of bullets, thirty seconds later, a 254 mm armor-piercing shell, accurately drilled into the stern of the St. Petersburg, according to the later analysis of the situation, this shell completely returned the misfortune of the previous Duke to the opponent, because after that the St. Petersburg speed plummeted to 10 knots, which can be seen to have broken a power compartment.

Five minutes later, this one-on-two battle entered a white-hot heat, after the St. Petersburg, which had crossed the two ships and fought together, lost speed, Sa Zhenbing actually ordered the right rudder to be full again, and after drawing a huge U-word behind the buttocks of the two ships, he once again smashed into the middle of the two ships from behind.

The dense shells pierced the edges in the middle of the warships, and not only the Mukden was red-eyed, but even the two speed-class ships fought to the death after seeing that the speed could not let them leave again.

At a distance of 3,000 meters, whether it is a 190-millimeter shell or a 254-millimeter shell, it has the ability to penetrate the opponent's armor, so the officers and men of the three ships know that this is the time when they can't blink.

At 2:50 a.m., a 254-mm shell fired from Peter the Great slammed into the frontal armor of gun position No. 2, although it did not penetrate the armor layer, the violent explosion still caused one of the three naval guns to be blown off, and the other was bent and could no longer be used.

Good training and damage management methods made the Mukden rejuvenate again, but the St. Petersburg was not so lucky, when the two main guns were pierced by the shells, there was no sound, and when the captain Sa Zhenbing ordered the No. 1 turret to support the No. 2, the No. 3 gun crew finally set fire to the St. Petersburg's side of the secondary gun ammunition depot with a perfect all-in.

A violent explosion surged from the port side of the St. Petersburg, and the continuous fire instantly overwhelmed the entire warship, and it only lasted five minutes longer than the Empress before disappearing into the sea.

In the light of the explosion, the No. 3 turret also began to rotate, but at this time, no one expected that the Peter the Great, who was still resisting, suddenly turned to the right, drove straight towards the Mukden, and fired two torpedoes in the smoke of gunpowder.

"Right full rudder!"

At the same time that Sa Zhenbing gave the emergency evasion order, the white wake caused all the idle rapid-fire guns on the Mukden to hiss, and swept towards the torpedoes that appeared and disappeared on the water like a storm.

When one was blown up, and the other flew past the stern, without waiting for everyone to breathe a sigh of relief, a brake millimeter shell accurately hit the port side of the Mukden, causing the armor to be torn apart, a one-meter-long rift, and the sea began to pour in.

"The port side is flooded, and the deck is tilted five degrees."

"Close the watertight compartment on the port side, cut off the power supply to the No. 4 power compartment, and fill the right side with water to maintain balance."

Sa Zhenbing's order caused the deck to slowly level down again, but because the starboard side also began to fill with water, the speed of the Fengtian dropped to the point of the joint, but it was no longer important.

The No. 3 turret, which had completed the deflection, had joined in, and the mourning of the death of the Peter the Great was undoubtedly a hundred times more tragic than that of its companions, the warship with the second class of battleships hanging on the second class that had been blown up by the Chinese was a typical thin-skinned battleship.

Although it caused damage to the Mukden with torpedoes and naval guns, it also shortened the distance between itself and the other party to within 3,000 meters, and at this distance, according to the old gunner, there was no need to aim at all.

Seven naval guns, firing shells at a rate of 2 rounds per minute, blew out the turret of Peter the Great in the first round, and after losing its main means of returning fire, it was simply tortured!

Because Sa Zhenbing ordered to change the high-explosive bomb!

Bursts of fire poured out from the St. Petersburg, making the 12,000-ton warship look like mushrooms of death, and all the sailors who were exposed were killed, and when the shells began to penetrate the armor and exploded, the big guy, which according to observers had been hit with at least fifteen high-explosive shells, suddenly disconnected from the middle after a tooth-aching squeak.

Fisher watched in a daze as the two hulls of the Peter the Great rose high like javelins, and then began to sink at a speed visible to the naked eye, when he finally felt the hot taste on the face of the Frenchman.

When the four destroyers rushed to the side of the Mukden like protection heroes, protecting it and starting to withdraw from the battle circle, the Americans who were laughing at Britain and France were also knocked out headlong by the Letvizhan, the Duke of Tavria Potemkin, these two 12,700-ton sister ships ordered by Russia in the United States to be used to deal with the Chinese heavy cruiser were also heavily damaged, and the typical American style of strong firepower and light protection made these two second-class armored cruisers that were like the speed class and sold dog meat like two big smoke.

Sadly, they were originally facing only the Vladivostok class, but now they had to face the Harbin and Dandong, which were comparable to battleships, and the artillery battle was simply one-sided, and before they even caused any trouble to the other side, the two ships were ignited at the same time, plus the Peter the Great, which happened to explode at the same time, and three huge clouds of smoke broke out on the sea at the same time.

From killing the Emperor in seconds, to fighting out the two speeds with combat effectiveness in one pick and two, and then to the two being like adults and children fighting each other, and overwhelmingly igniting two American-made second-class battleships, Britain, France, and the United States were slapped one after another.

So much so that later research on war history said that the battleships built by themselves exploded in front of them, which was humiliating!

But it was these three resounding slaps that made the world see the power of a generation of warships and really brought countries into an endless sea race.

At three o'clock, when the Borodino and Duke Suvorov were also sunk by the explosion, and Alexander III was scurrying like a headless fly, the commander of the 2nd Russian battleship detachment, Foksam, and the commander of the 3rd battleship detachment, Nebogatov, began to gather their fleets and flee westward at the same time.

Five minutes later, when the sailors of the Jilin boarded the ship and found the unconscious Rozhestwinsky, the panicked Russian sailors forgot to open the sea valve, and the only remaining seedling in the Borodino class became the first trophy of the Chinese Navy, and also announced the total annihilation of the first battleship detachment of the Russian power.

But this naval battle is not over yet