"Reported that the East China government's fleet changed the direction of the turn."

"What?" Owen had just returned to the command center and had not sat firmly in his seat. After hearing the report, he stood up and hurried to the porthole on the right to look at it. Sure enough, he saw a warship behind the People's Army turning to his side. The style of this warship should be an armored cruiser.

Owen was also shocked. It turned out that he also saw that several battleships of the People's Army would withdraw from the combat zone first. Therefore, although the first few British battleships were severely damaged, the subsequent battleships will face the armored cruisers and protective cruisers of the People's Army Fleet. As long as they approach the combat distance of the British warship, they will have great potential to achieve great results. After severely damaging the armored cruisers of the People's Army Fleet and the protective cruisers, the Far East Fleet can regroup and fight again with the battleships of the People's Army Fleet with its own cruisers and destroyers. Then there is still a lot to do in this battle.

But the People's Army Fleet obviously did not follow Irving's script. The armored cruiser changed direction and turned, and he was catching his own battleships that had been severely damaged. It has to be said that the commander of the People's Army Fleet not only had a very clear mind and tactical resilience, but also had a clear grasp of the overall situation. If he was the commander of the People's Army Fleet, he would have made the same choice.

In this way, the battleships that have left the combat zone have to fight against the armored cruisers of the People's Army fleet first, and then consider how to take over the battle.

After the Jinan completed its turn, the old man's star had passed through the battle zone of his counterattack, so the Goliath was in the battle against the Jinan. In fact, in the battle just now, the damage of the Goliath was heavier than the Old Man's star. The main gun turret was destroyed, a chimney was bent, and the smoke exhaust ability was reduced by most of the deck. The deck was washed by dozens of small and medium-caliber shells. Most of the ship-based weapons were damaged, and most of the people were killed. Two cracks were torn open on the side, and even the hull was seriously damaged. At this time, nearly 500 tons of sea water had poured into the ship. The right rudder was damaged by some impact in the battle just now, causing the speed to drop to 15 knots, and it continued to decline.

However, the Goria fired violently at the Jinan with the only remaining artillery on the ship, causing the surrounding water columns of Jinan to be full of water. Not only did it not pose a great threat to the Jinan, but the Jinan also launched a stronger counterattack. The four 200mm main guns, four 155mm secondary guns, and four 105mm guns on the side were also fully fired. In comparison, the accuracy of the Jinan was much higher. In more than two minutes, it hit Golia 2 200mm shells, 4 155mm shells, and 11 105mm shells, of which 1 155mm shells hit the crack on the side side and exploded in the cabin, which not only penetrated horizontal armor, but also ignited the ammunition depot in the ship, causing a huge explosion. The middle and rear part of the entire warship was almost blown into ruins.

The Goliath's counterattack only hit the Jinan 100mm shell, 1 88mm shell, and 100mm shell hit the waterline of the side, but failed to penetrate the armor. The 88mm shell hit the side armor-free protection area, and a large hole more than 1 meter wide was blown up, killing and injuring more than 10 soldiers in the rudder.

Irving saw it very clearly on the bridge of the Old Man's Star, and couldn't help but close his eyes and dared not look any further. He also knew very well in his heart that the Goria had been completed.

At this time, another armored cruiser of the People's Army Fleet, the Tianjin, also completed its turn, and was facing the Ocean battleship of the Far East Fleet. The Ocean was better at the damage in the battle just now than the Old Man's Star and Goliath. The four main guns were still intact. After seeing the encounter of Goliath, the Ocean did not dare to be careless. The artillery of various large and small on the ship was fully fired and bombarded the Tianjin desperately. The Tianjin naturally was not willing to be outdone and fought back. The artillery of both sides roared and fought fiercely.

During the battle of more than two minutes, the Tianjin hit the ocean two 200mm shells, two 155mm shells, and nine 105mm shells, causing the Ocean to suffer many injuries. The Ocean’s counterattack also hit the Tianjin four guns, one of which 152mm shells hit the Tianjin side armor belt and penetrated a crack more than 1 meter wide. Fortunately, the horizontal armor inside the ship was not penetrated by the explosion, so the damage to the ship worked hard to repair it, blocked the gap, and did not pour in much sea water.

On the other hand, the Jinan had passed the undead Goliath and caught up with the Old Man's Star. The speed of the Pigeng armored cruiser was faster than that of the battleship. The maximum speed of the Jinan was 22 knots, and now it has accelerated to 20 knots. Moreover, the Old Man's Star was also seriously damaged in the battle just now. Its current speed is less than 16 knots, so it was naturally caught up by the Jinan.

However, it is precisely because the Jinan is too fast that it has been less than two minutes since fighting with the Old Man Asterisk. Although it hit more than 10 shells of the Old Man Asterisk, none of the 200mm main guns hit, and the Old Man Asterisk's counterattack also hit the Jinan 1 gun, destroying a 105mm turret.

This time the damage was not severe, which made Owen feel a little relieved, but then the Tianjin ship behind also caught up. At this time, the speed of the Old Man's Asterisk had dropped below 15 knots, and the Tianjin ship had reached more than 20 knots. Therefore, the two sides had only had more than one minute of fighting. The Old Man's Asterisk was hit by only 2 guns, and the Tianjin ship surpassed the Old Man's Asterisk and drove forward.

At this time, Irving had discovered that the situation was wrong. Although the speed of the armored cruiser was indeed faster than that of the battleship, the two sides were now fighting on the battlefield. What does the other party mean to surpass continuously? Don’t you want to fight with yourself? But if you don’t want to fight with yourself, why change your direction? However, Irving is an experienced naval commander after all, and soon understood that the other party was trying to intercept him.

This is very likely, because although these battleships have suffered heavy damage, they are not at the same level compared to armored cruisers. After all, the Jinan sinks the Goya. It is only an exception and cannot be used as a conventional battle example. As long as the main gun of the battleship hits the opponent with one shot, it is enough to severely damage the opponent. It is indeed a fatal blow to the opponent. Therefore, the most reasonable tactic for the opponent is to use the cruiser's high speed to seize the horizontal head of the battleship, first to reduce your losses, second to intercept the opponent and wait for his battleship to come back to rescue.

But when fighting for speed, the Far East Fleet obviously won't fight against the other side, and it's a way to transfer its own cruiser to fight against the opponent's cruiser. However, now the radio is out of touch, so you can only use traditional flag words to send orders. When the news reaches the cruiser and wait for the cruiser to catch up from behind, it is estimated that the two cruisers of the People's Army have already stopped them, and now the old man's star has been severely damaged. Since its front main gun was destroyed, the People's Army fleet seized the "t" word, and there is almost no power to fight back. In addition, the speed has dropped below 15 knots, so I was really unable to take on the heavy responsibility of the flagship. Therefore, Irving decided to change from the Ocean to the flagship, and he also moved to the Ocean to continue commanding operations, breaking through the interception of the People's Army fleet, and evacuating the battlefield.

The war has reached this point, and Irving has completely given up on the idea of ​​defeating the People's Army fleet. Now he just wants to leave the battlefield as soon as possible and bring as many warships as possible back. Therefore, Irving ordered the Ocean to catch up and take over as the flagship, and ordered the cruiser team in the rear to catch up to assist in the battle, and then ordered people to prepare a small boat for himself and transfer it to the Ocean.

At this time, at the other end of the battlefield, Gan Jiang was turning 45 degrees, which had turned about 30 degrees. However, the fourth Glory of the Far East Fleet had also completed the steering, so Gan Jiang could only avoid a strong attack on the Glory by a volley. Therefore, Captain Xia Ruichen made a quick decision and decided to give up the attack on the Glory and concentrate firepower to deal with the Revenge behind. Anyway, there are 4 battleships behind Gan Jiang, and the Glory cannot escape.

So compared with the Glory, Revenge was much more unlucky, because it was attacked by Gan Jiang as soon as it entered the steering. In the first round of volleys, a hit on the side of the Revenge, which exploded a crack of more than 2 meters wide. Fortunately, it was located above the waterline. Although it damaged some crew members, it was not a fatal blow. However, as the main gun of Gan Jiang opened fire, the secondary gun and the side gun were also fully fired, and the shells were hitting the Revenge like raindrops, and water columns arose around the Revenge.

The captain of the Revenge, Colonel Martin, was sweating profusely in the command room at this time, not only because his warships were hit one after another, but also because the other party's performance was beyond common sense. If the People's Army's warships had a high hit rate and a long range, they were within the range that British soldiers could understand, it was nothing more than training and technological innovation. The British Navy has been developing technology to expand the combat distance to 10,000 meters, researching comprehensive fire control systems, and building fearless-class battleships, all to increase the effective range and increase the hit rate. Although it is surprising that the East China government can do this, it is logically reasonable.

However, when warships are turning, they cannot open fire and shoot. This is the consensus of the navies of various countries, because when warships turn, their own angles are constantly changing. Not only is it difficult to aim, but it is also impossible to calculate in advance at all. But now the Ganjiang is still turning and can maintain a very high hit rate, which is obviously contrary to the common sense of naval combat in this era.

But this is not a problem for the People's Army. Not to mention firing a gun during turning, or firing a gun during snake maneuvering, the hit rate will not drop significantly, because all data and the calculation of advance amounts are completed by the computer, and only firing can be fired according to the data and time provided by the computer.
Chapter completed!