"Boom."

A loud explosion rang out from the cruiser Primogue, and its stern exploded, blasting a 140mm gun into the sky, revealing a hole nearly eight meters wide, and the water rushed in, and its boiler and steam engine had stopped, rendering the Primogue motionless in the dangerous battlefield.

Rear Admiral Lisby, on his command ship, the cruiser La Perlouse, saw this scene with red eyes.

With many years of experience, he surrounded these two battleships, but the strength in his hands was weaker, although he surrounded the other party, but the strength in his hands could not give it enough damage, 160 mm and 140 mm naval guns could not give it enough threat at all, only 193 mm and above naval guns could still threaten these two warships, but there were very few warships equipped with 193 mm and above guns in his fleet, adding up to less than ten, and they could not get close to them at all.

The Primogue had just tried to get closer, but it was met with fire from two Venice-class cruisers, whose armor looked like papier-mâché in front of the enemy's large-caliber long-barreled guns, and the two rounds of fire became like this.

Looking at the two Venice-class ships that were still punishing the culprits, Rear Admiral Lisby could only give an order. "Send the flag, let the ships pay attention to the distance, and don't let these two Italian-made warships raise their speed."

After giving the order, he glanced at the large cruiser formation of about 8 nautical miles away from here, and the armored ship formation of about 10 nautical miles, as long as they entered, then the last sea power of these two Qing ships in the South China Sea would be completely ended.

What Major General Lisby was able to discover, how could the three Qing commanders who were among them not know. It's clear what they're up against.

"Now we should break through in that direction?"

Liu Buyun looked at the French warships on all sides, and his expression had become a little nervous. Don't blame him, anyone in such a situation will be nervous.

As the actual commander, Leffel pointed in one direction. "We're breaking through from here."

"What?"

Liu Buyun was startled when he looked at Leifell and pointed to the side, because he was referring to the southeast, which would bring his enemy ironclad ship closer.

"Don't reconsider?"

"No, that's it."

After answering Liu Buyun, Leffel gave an order loudly. "The target is in the southeast direction, ready to break through."

The reason why Leffel chose to break through in the southeast is very simple, because the enemy's warships basically pay attention to the east, so he has the most enemy ships in the east, and it is very difficult to force the charge. Not to mention the fact that these two ships have not yet had an angle of attack. Of course, there is an angle of attack, and he will not rush the opponent, how expensive his own battleship is, these second-rate goods in front of him are not worth it.

With Leyfer's order, the two ships of Zhiyuan and Jingyuan immediately moved left and right in the encirclement, and they were waiting for an opportunity.

When the two cruisers Champlain and Souni to the southeast did not cooperate well, revealing a gap of nearly 500 meters, Lefell felt that an opportunity had come.

"Now, at full speed southeast, between two enemy ships."

Lefer's order made the second ship of Zhijing immediately accelerate towards it.

And Rear Admiral Lisby, who was directing the battle, was taken aback when he saw the actions of the second ship of Zhijing. "Immediately send the flag, let the Champlain and the Soni turn immediately, and we can't let them run."

Although Major General Lisby did not say who they were, it was all a matter of plain sight.

But at this time, let me remember that it was too late to close the gap?

Seeing the enemy ships in the encirclement, desperately rushing towards the gap, the other warships in charge of the siege immediately pounced, at this time they completely ignored the powerful firepower of the two patrols, they only knew that if they let these two ships escape, then it would be difficult to catch them.

Of course, the Zhijing 2nd ship is not vegetarian, and its powerful firepower also makes these warships that try to stop themselves suffer, the worst of which is the Rigold Genui, whose power compartment was hit by a 254 mm shell, causing its power loss to stop and stopping motionless on the sea.

In a normal naval battle, it would have been a target for enemy ships. But fortunately, now the enemy is on the run and can't take care of it.

After seeing that none of the ships could stop the two loading cruisers, the cruiser Soni suddenly made a bold move, only to see it turn its bow and rush directly towards the second ship of Zhijing.

Its intention is already obvious, if you don't want to fight your own battleship, you will also stop the second ship of Zhijing. A battleship of less than 2,000 tons collided with a 7,000-ton battleship, and the result speaks for itself.

Influenced by the crazy actions of the Sony, another cruiser, the Champlain, did the same. Now, in front of the second ship of Zhijing, two enemy ships rushed towards them in a fierce manner, one on the left and one on the right.

In the face of such a critical juncture, Leifell was unusually calm, because every decision he made was related to the life and death of nearly 1,000 officers and men on the two ships.

"Stay at full speed and don't slow down."

"The artillery is aimed at the right side of the battleship first, and it will be stopped first."

"Damage management team, immediately put down other things and prepare for a possible impact situation."

With Leyfer's orders one by one, the entire ship was quickly ordered, so the tension that had not yet splashed was diluted.

Of course, this is just a dilution, and if the enemy ships continue to rush like this, then it will be difficult to ensure that the tense atmosphere does not spread.

"5500 m"

"5000 m"

"4500m"

Especially when the observer hand constantly reports the distance between the two sides.

Fortunately, they were lucky, and in the next shot, a 254-mm shell hit the bow waterline of the Soni in one fell swoop.

So after a bang, a large hole was blown out of the bow of the cruiser Soni, and the sea water poured directly into it. In the bow of the ship, such a large opening, although not fatal, but it abnormally affects the speed. I saw that the speed of the Soni dropped from a full speed of 15.1 knots to 10.2 knots.

So it was immediately pulled away from the cruiser Champlain.

This is a good opportunity.

As soon as he saw that the Soni was slowed down, Lefell continued to give the order, "Go southeast, 15 degrees to the left, then aim at the Champlain and keep firing." ”

With Leffel's order, the second ship of Zhijing deviated to the left, although it was not too far away, but it allowed the main guns of the stern to attack the cruiser Champlain, which was rushing straight ahead.

"Boom, boom, boom."

After a round of tail gun fire, the Champlain, which had been hit by several rounds, still had no less momentum.

"Three thousand meters."

When the observer reported the two distances, two shells fell on the Zhiyuan, one of which hit a distance of more than ten meters from Leffel, fortunately, the current shells are still black powder, if it is replaced with smokeless medicine, then Lefeel is destined to hang the color, and the memorial service will be opened.

After scrambling up from the deck, Leifell gritted her teeth. "Full firepower output on the Champlain."

Therefore, as long as all the guns of the Zhijing 2nd ship can be obtained, then they will output fire on the Champlain. In particular, several 254-mm naval guns, at a barrel of up to 30 times the caliber, gave sufficient accuracy.

So under the kind care of the two Venetian-class ships, the last three thousand meters of the Champlain was extremely difficult, and when it came to the first thousand meters, the bow of the Champlain was knocked off.

Without the bow, the Champlain was even worse than the Soni, and could only watch as two Venice-class ships drifted past them.

When they got rid of the two enemy ships, the people on the two ships cheered, because they knew that they had broken through the siege and that no one could stop them now.

As for the lone lieutenant general who planned this ambush, he was also so angry that he vomited blood when he was told that the two ships had broken through.

This was the end of this somewhat anticlimactic naval battle.