Before dawn, concentrate firepower to attack enemy ship No. 1 and enemy ship No. 2 is nothing more than to eliminate the number gap.

After achieving his goal, Li Jie immediately made adjustments to his tactics.

In fact, it is to make full use of the speed advantage and maintain the most favorable combat distance from the enemy ship to ensure that the ship is always in the most favorable position.

The key is the combat distance.

In theory, as long as the new heavy armor-piercing bomb is used, the "Xuhai" class and the "Beihe" class can penetrate the armor of the old Newland battleship within the full range of the main gun.

However, the old Newland battleship may not be able to do it.

If the ordinary armor-piercing shells used, even if they are 16-inch naval guns, they must shorten the combat distance to 14 kilometers before they can penetrate the main armor of the "Xuhai" class, or penetrate the main armor of the "Beihe" class at a distance of 17 kilometers. Even if they use heavy armor-piercing shells, these two distances will be increased to 19 kilometers and 21 kilometers respectively. As for the 14-inch naval gun, it may be shortened to 11 kilometers before they have the hope of breaking through the main armor of the "Xuhai" class. Simply put, within the full range, even if they use heavy armor-piercing shells, the 14-inch naval gun cannot penetrate the horizontal armor and main armor belt of the "Xuhai" class, and the threat to the "Beihe" class is very limited.

Of course, these are just theoretical calculation results.

In fact, these performance indicators were announced only after the war.

During the war, the power of the main guns of the battleships and armor protection were the absolute secrets of the navy.

Not to mention it was announced to the public, even within the Navy, not many people know about it.

Because it is difficult to obtain the exact information on the core performance of the enemy's main battleship, when designing warships, the great powers were working behind closed doors. To be precise, they measured and determined the protection level needed to achieve by the battleships based on their own artillery and shell technology.

The Liangxia Empire had first-class artillery and shell technology, but during the war, they were all "overestimating" their opponents.

The artillery and shell technology of the Newland Federation is also very advanced, comparable to the Liangxia Empire, so the two sides have many similarities in the protection design of battleships.

To be honest, the Nai Navy, whose artillery and shell technology are lagging behind, has been "underestimating" its opponents.

The most typical example is the "Sayi"-class super battleship that was highly anticipated by the Nai Navy and regarded as a decisive weapon.

This super battleship with a full load displacement of nearly 70,000 tons and 9 460mm main guns did not exceed the speed of the battleship built by the Liangxia Empire and the Newland Federation at the same time, with a full load displacement of less than 60,000 tons and a much faster speed.

Before the war, the intelligence agencies only gave a relatively general data, and it was safer to keep the combat distance above 20 kilometers.

If you want to be safer, it is best to expand to more than 22 kilometers.

As long as it exceeds 25 kilometers, it is absolutely safe.

But the problem is that even if the gun aims at the radar command exceed 25 kilometers, it may not be able to make the accuracy of the shelling of this ship acceptable.

Interference from clutter reflected by the sea surface, even if the weather is clear, the working distance of the cannon navigation radar is only about 25 kilometers.

No matter how far you go, you won't be able to measure it correctly.

When the weather is clear, it is the safest choice to control the combat distance to about 22 kilometers.

The next battle is based on this as the basic principle.

Almost throughout the day, under the command of Li Jie, the four fast battleships of the 43rd Special Mix Fleet maintained a combat distance of about 22 kilometers with the four battleships of the 11th Special Mix Fleet of Newland, and in the battle lasting nearly 8 hours, they successively sank the four Newland battleships.

Before 9 a.m., the "Yanhai" who was brave enough to create a miracle again, sending the No. 4 enemy ship, the "Xinmo" to the bottom of the sea with three rounds of almost impeccable volleys.

According to the battle records of the "Yanhai" , in the volley from the 31st to the 33rd round, the direct hits observed by the lookout reached 5 times.

Because there were 2 hits not observed, it was 7 times!

In the 33rd round of volley, an armor-piercing projectile directly hit the gun seat of the "Xinmo" turret B, and turned in the bill of lading channel and drilled into the main artillery ammunition depot.

It was this shell that ruined the "Xinmo".

After the Big Bang, only 6 of the nearly 2,000 officers and soldiers of the ship survived.

The six people were all in the watchtower on the main mast at that time. They were thrown out of the watchtower when the explosion occurred, and they survived by chance.

The rest sank to the bottom of the sea with the "Xinmo".

About half an hour later, the Beihe alone sank the No. 5 enemy ship "Missey".

There are doubts about this result.

Judging from the situation at that time, it is very likely that the "Yanhai" that sank the "Missy" was still the "Yanhai".

The reason is that before the explosion of the anti-aircraft gun ammunition depot on the starboard side of the Missy, the third enemy ship "Sifer" in front released the smoke screen and tried to adjust the course under the cover of the smoke screen. As a result, the Yanhai, which was assisting the Xuhai at that time, could not aim, and had to adjust the target, fired at the fifth enemy ship "Missy" behind, and fired two rounds of volleys within 5 minutes.

The first round of volleys was actually for the school gun.

At that time, the main gun of the "Yanhai" had fired dozens of rounds of volleys, and they were all fired with full charges. The body tube was worn very seriously, and the calibration deviation of the bounce point was needed.

As a result, after the Yanhai fired the second round of volleys, the Missy overturned and sank due to the explosion of the anti-aircraft ammunition depot.

Because it was about 5 minutes apart, no one believed that it was the result of the "Yanhai".

But the problem is that the Beihe only fired the 42nd round of volleys about 30 seconds before the Missy explosion.

In other words, it is also impossible that the Beihe shells hit the Missy's ammunition depot.

After getting together for more than 20 kilometers, the shells need to fly for about 1 minute.

For this result, Jin Hong later made trouble at the Navy Command.

Unfortunately, he could not produce evidence that the Yanhai sank the Missy, so according to convention, that is, the principle of "the object of war", he calculated the results of the battle to the Beihe.

After that, near 12 o'clock, the No. 6 enemy ship "Iowa" was sunk by the "Nanjiang".

The battle lasted until around 2:30 pm, and the third enemy ship "Sif" slowly sank into the sea under the fierce shelling of the "Xuhai".

At this point, except for the "Mali" that fled before dawn, all the battleships of the 11th Special Mixed Fleet in Newland were sunk.

The battle that followed took so long was actually one reason.

At around 12 o'clock, the four fast battleships of the 43rd Special Mixed Fleet used up all heavy armor-piercing bombs and could only use old armor-piercing bombs.

In fact, there are not many old-fashioned armor-piercing bullets.

To this end, Li Jie issued an order before 12 o'clock, that is, before the "Iowa" sinks, extending the interval between volleys to 10 minutes.

This is also done to allow the main gun barrel to be fully cooled.

Compared with shells, the gun barrel of the battleship main gun is much more expensive and has a short service life, so it is very troublesome to replace it.

After sinking the last battleship, it took about an hour to drive out the Newland cruiser and destroyer who rushed over to rescue the fallen soldiers.

That's why the battle was not officially over until after 3:30 pm.
Chapter completed!