"Damn the Indians, damn the Hindustan shipyards, the good ships are all broken for them! Every Indian in the Hindustan shipyard should go to the gallows, every ......"

Thomas. Rear Admiral Kirchran began to curse the Indians again, because the second flagship, the Blake, on which he was flying in today's naval battle, had another inexplicable malfunction. However, this time it was not the steam engine that was broken, but the servos of the front and rear main gun turrets - the turret could not be rotated, and the electric loader was faulty. In fact, the turret of the Blake was not damaged in the previous battle, and it did not need to be repaired at all, but it was maintained at the shipyard......

In other words, the Blake, which looks very similar, is now unable to fight at all!

Fortunately, the long-wave radio station on the Blake was produced by the U.S. company Weir-Morse, and the American engineer personally came to India to install the Blake, so it can still play a role. And Thomas. None of the twenty Edgar classes under Kirchran's command were equipped with long-wave radio transmitters, only short-wave radios and ore receivers. Hence Thomas. Rear Admiral Cochran could only remain in command on the Blake. However, he adjusted the line, placed the incapable Blake in the rear of the twenty Edgar classes that formed two columns, and then cursed all the way into the Strait of Malacca.

"Major General, a flash of fire has been found ahead, more than 30,000 yards away!"

Right here at Thomas. When Major General Cochran was scolding the Indians, he suddenly heard an excited shout from a staff officer. So he immediately shut it up, then raised his binoculars and pricked up a pair of particularly sensitive ears.

Through the eyepiece of the telescope, he saw that the eastern horizon, which had turned white, was flashing with a strange red light, as if something was burning! At the same time, his ears could distinguish the thunderous roar from the noisy sound of machines and the sound of the waves!

"There's ......" Thomas. Cochran muttered under his breath.

"It's Aran Bay!" A staff officer said excitedly, "Major General, the fighting continues there!" We caught up! ”

"Thank God!" Thomas. Cochran drew a cross on his chest, then said loudly, "Order, raise the Z-flag...... The Royal Navy needs each and every one of us to fight! Long live the Emperor!

The whole team accelerates to 20 knots! ”

"Long live the Emperor!"

"Yes, sir!"

With the order of Rear Admiral Cochran, the 21 armored cruisers on the sea, which had been moving at a speed of 16 knots, suddenly accelerated, and the speed was suddenly increased to more than 20 knots under the loud roar of the steam engine. These 21 patrols, which were nearly 10,000 tons, seemed to have turned into 21 sea predators full of strength and struggle, and 20 of them also showed their sharp fangs (and one "giant beast" had their fangs repaired by the Indians), and quickly pounced on the 7 Haohan-class armored cruisers that had been fighting all night and had long been exhausted.

It turned out that the fourth patrol formation of the Nanyang Fleet led by Chen Huacheng fought quite the side of Yalan Bay! Although their first wave of torpedo boat assaults worked very well, 24 torpedo boats rushed to a distance of less than 1,500 meters from the British modified battleships before firing torpedoes. A total of 48 steam gas torpedoes, one wave overturned 7 beggars version of battleships! But after the torpedo boat ran out of steam gas torpedoes, Chen Huacheng's formation fell into a bitter battle. He only had 12 Heroes on hand, and one of them was hit by a 12-inch armor-piercing bullet when he launched the attack, and he didn't last long before retreating, and the other side still had 8 beggar battleships.

Although the 8 beggars version of the British battleships could not be compared with serious battleships, when they fought with their backs to the enemy and faced the enemy with their faces, their firepower and protection were not weak!

The power of these beggars is not good, nor is the armor on the side and stern, and there are no stern main guns, and there are only two 6-inch rapid-fire guns on the ear on the side of the ship. However, the bow and turret armor were reinforced, and the two 12-inch guns were comparable to those of a battleship, and the 6-inch guns on the ear stands on the sides could also fire forward.

That is, the mine protection is too poor (the threat of torpedoes is not great in these years, so all types of ships ignore mine protection), and the enhanced steam gas torpedoes sank 7 at once!

However, the steam gas torpedo of the Ming Dynasty has just been mass-produced, and there are only two models of 530 mm and 610 mm (the torpedo engines currently in use are relatively large, and the small torpedoes cannot fit it), so only the battle cruisers, torpedo boats, new cruisers and destroyers, as well as submarines in a top-secret state have them, and there are not many ammunition reserves. Therefore, Chen Huacheng's torpedo boats ran out of ammunition after a wave, and then they could only use 240 mm guns to concentrate fire on those beggars at a distance of 5,000 meters.

However, the power of the 240-mm armor-piercing bullet was insufficient, and the opponent could not move the opponent a little, and after fighting for one night, the cannon barrels were "sour", and only then did the hammer destroy the 3 beggars version of the battleship, so that they withdrew from the battle and found a place to run aground. In addition, five cruisers or destroyers of the third class of the British and Indian Navy were sunk by the Han-class cruisers and the cruisers guarding them when they attempted to launch a torpedo attack.

And the 12-inch cannons of those beggars version of the battleships also gave Chen Huacheng's "heroes" a few blows, hitting 4 heroes before and after, one of which was still heavily damaged and had withdrawn from the battle with scars. Although the three Haohan-class ships were not seriously injured, Chen Huacheng still asked them to withdraw to the east of Luba Island (an affiliated island of Sumatra), more than 50 kilometers away, together with the two heavily damaged Haohan-class ships, before the British and Indian reinforcements arrived.

The weakness of the hero-level firepower and insufficient protection can be regarded as being exposed in this battle!

And just as these heroes were using their strength to hammer the remaining 5 battleships, 20 Edgar-class and 1 Blake-class under the command of Rear Admiral Cochran arrived. 1 in 7...... This advantage is also too great.

Probably knowing that it was not an opponent, when the fleet commanded by Cochran appeared on the battlefield, those Ming army cruisers, second and third class cruisers and destroyers panicked at once, and they didn't even have the courage to line up to meet them, so they released smoke together, and then fled to the east of Lubadao. And the 5 heroes who were originally there also started to smoke in a panic, trying to cover themselves. As a result, he turned himself into a very conspicuous target - such a big smoke, there must be a big fish!

Standing in the bridge of the Blake, Cochran saw this scene from a distance, and danced excitedly: "Strong pressure ventilation, full speed assault...... Don't let them go, don't let any of them go! ”

"Yes, sir!"

As the order was issued from the Blake, all 20 Edgar Classes began to charge at high speed, except for Blake...... The Blake's high-pressure blower broke down - it was fine, but after being maintained by the Indians, it broke down as soon as it was turned on!

So Cochran could only watch as the 20 Edgar-class armored cruisers pounced on their prey like 20 sharks with their mouths wide open.

The chase battle at sea began immediately, and the Daming ships near Yalan Bay obviously had a very strong main engine, and after turning on the strong pressure ventilation, they also ran out of a high speed of more than 20 knots, and the 20 Edgar-class and the light ships that followed them were chasing hard, but they did not catch up for more than an hour. Major General Cochran was really anxious in his eyes, but he couldn't help, so he had to urge the turbine department to quickly repair the high-pressure blower.

Suddenly, a staff officer on the bridge exclaimed: "Major General, the Edgar report has been found east of Rubashima...... Discover a large number of enemy ships, including more than 10 battleships! Also includes 4 Hero-class battleships! ”

"What?" Major General Kirchran was petrified when he heard the news! 0 battleships, and 4 are heroic...... This is clearly the main force of the South Sea Fleet!

And the Hero's speed is about the same as that of the Blake and Edgar classes, so can the 20 hapless Edgar classes escape under their 280mm guns?

Also, how could these 10 battleships squint behind Lu Hachidao? Did they already know they were coming? Is this a trap at all?

"Hahaha......" At this moment, in the command tower of the Hongwu Emperor, Lieutenant General Guan Tianpei looked at the 20 Edgar levels that had fallen into his trap, and looked up to the sky and laughed, "Yingyi, who deserves death, Guan has been waiting here for a long time!" ”