During the escape, the Ferya and Queen Augusta quickly distanced themselves from the Goddess of Peace and Princess William. The Xiangyang ship, which was full of breath, caught up with the Huaihua ship from behind and launched a fierce shelling at the Goddess of Peace and Princess William. As a result, the two ships were shot more than ten times each, and the rear of the entire ship was almost destroyed. The German soldiers on the ship jumped and fled one after another, and the two ships quickly sank into the sea.

After sinking Queen Victoria Louise, the Kunming ship did not participate in the attack on the other four German ships. Because of the Xiangyang ship, the Huaihua ship was enough to deal with these four German ships. The Kunming ship's attention was still on the overall picture.

At this time, the flagship of the German fleet, Earl Bismarck, had fled more than ten kilometers away from the battlefield. It seemed that he was stepping up repairs. Another first ship, Brandenburg, was also away from the battlefield. The Yueyang ship, which was responsible for annihilation of the German fleet of transport fleets, first launched another torpedo at the Wools battleship, which had been hit by a torpedo.

It turned out that in the battle just now, the Yueyang ship and the Sanya ship each fired a torpedo at the battleship Wools and the Fertenburg iron armored ships. The place where the Fertenburg was torpedo was exactly at the bottom of the ship. Although the Fertenburg was an old iron armored ship with strong defense on the side armor, the bottom of the ship was very fragile. Of course, it was not just the Fertenburg, but the other warships were the same. Even if the side armor would extend below the waterline, the armor would never be laid at the bottom of the ship. Therefore, after being hit by the torpedo, the bottom of the ship was blown up a large gap of five meters wide, and more than a dozen sealed compartments around were shattered. The sea water poured into the ship like a spring. A warship of nearly 8,000 tons sank in less than twenty minutes.

The other battleship Wools hit the side side. Although it was also severely damaged, it could not sink for a while. Moreover, the German troops on the ship also worked hard to rescue the warship to prevent it from sinking, but the speed was obviously slowing down.

But now the Yueyang ship and the Sanya ship are going to attack the German transport fleet, so they have no time to waste their time with Wools, so they replenished another torpedo for Wools. Originally, Wools had only half their life left, and they could still hold on, and they could slowly sink into the sea. The Yueyang ship and the Sanya ship were all passing by Wools at full speed and rushed towards the German transport fleet.

The German fleet had a total of eleven ships, four escort warships, and another British ship with unknown enemies and friends. It was about ten kilometers away from the fleet. Although the Yueyang ship and the Sanya ship were only traveling at a speed of 0 knots, it appeared in front of the German fleet in less than ten minutes.

At this time, the naval battle lasted for more than half a time, and the thirteen German ships were defeated by five warships passing through the fleet, sinking five times and getting hurt. Even how they were defeated were not clear.

The British ship Endymion originally wanted to follow the German fleet and try to make things easy, and at the same time, we also took a look at the performance of the German ship and the combat level of the German navy. Because since the German Emperor William II ascended the throne, he gave up the flexible and pragmatic continental policy of the iron-blooded prime minister Bismarck, and instead determined to build a powerful fleet to go to the ocean and fight for land in the sun. This naturally aroused the vigilance of the British Empire, which regarded maritime routes as the lifeline.

The German Empire Congress passed the Navy Act of 1898 on April 10, 1898, with a construction budget of 408.9 million marks. The annual equipment maintenance fee of 5 million marks was valid for 6 years. By 1904, the fleet size should reach the scale of 19 battleships, 8 coastal armored ships, 1 large cruiser, and 0 type cruisers.

Just two years later, the German Imperial Congress passed the Naval Act of 1900 on June 0, 1900, and planned to double the size of the fleet by 1917 based on the Naval Act of 1898, reaching 8 battleships, 14 large cruisers and 8 type cruisers.

These two naval bills greatly stimulated the nerves of the British Empire. Because the navy was the basis for the establishment of the British Empire, the United Kingdom also formulated a famous standard naval strategy of the two strongest naval strategies, that is, the number and tonnage of the British Royal Navy must not only remain the world's first in the world, but also exceed the sum of the second and third navy in the world. But if Germany really completed the Navy Act of 1900, then by 1917, the size of the German Navy will reach about 70% or 80% of the British Royal Navy. At this time, Germany's industrial strength and economic scale had surpassed the United Kingdom, and had sufficient economic and technical strength to complete this Navy Act.

That is, if Germany really completes the Navy Act of 1900, then Britain's two-strong naval strategy will be completely bankrupt, and the British Royal Navy will lose its absolute dominance at sea, and then Britain will completely lose its position as the world hegemon. Britain naturally does not want to see this situation happen, so it also regards Germany as its German Navy as its potential opponent.

Of course, the German navy is still very weak now, and it can only rank fourth in the world, second only to France and Russia, and it cannot meet the standards of the two strongest. However, Germany's strong industrial and technical capabilities and economic strength have made the German navy's potential far exceed that of France and Russia. Therefore, although the current Britain does not regard the German navy as its strongest opponent, it has also begun to pay attention to the development of the German navy. This time, the German fleet expeditioned China, and a group of overseas Chinese of unknown origins appeared, giving Britain a great opportunity to observe the strength of the German navy.

After the battle ahead started, Endymion accelerated immediately and wanted to rush forward to watch the battle. However, after Endymion surpassed the German transport fleet, he found that the battle ahead was very fierce. Endymion did not dare to come forward to avoid being beaten, so he was patiently looking for opportunities. Unfortunately, before Endymion found an opportunity to watch the battle, the German fleet was defeated and several warships were sunk.

The British official army on the Endymion did not see clearly what was going on. The remaining German warships turned around and fled backwards, and there were two warships that were probably Chinese overseas.

The British officers on the Endymion were also shocked. Why was the German fleet defeated so quickly? The other side's warship did not look very powerful. Although the size of these two warships was not, the main gun at the bow of the ship was really terrible, and the entire warship seemed to be this main gun. Could it be that the two warships made the German fleet run wild and rush around in the sea?

However, the British were very smart. Although they didn't understand how the German fleet was defeated, they naturally made sense. Maybe these two warships had other weapons. If they were carrying battleships or armored cruisers, they might dare to go forward and compete with these two warships for a few moves. However, the Endymion belongs to the Edgar-class protective cruiser. Although the displacement is as high as 7,700 tons, which is more than many armored cruisers, the protective cruiser is a protective cruiser that cannot be compared with armored cruisers. Moreover, the construction idea of ​​the Edgar-class protective cruiser is relatively cheap and has sufficient performance to be built in large quantities to meet the needs of the British Empire's global deployment. With the guarantee of firepower, the armor should be reduced as much as possible. Therefore, the cost of the entire ship is only 67,000 pounds.

Although such a warship is cost-effective, it is not suitable for participating in the decisive battle of the fleet. Since the German fleet has been defeated, it is naturally impossible to find anything when you go up. Therefore, the Endymion immediately turned around and turned around and ran away.

As they encountered their own fleet of transport and demand, the fleeing German ship turned and allowed the fleet to pass the fleet to "retreat" at the same time. However, the Yueyang and Sanya ships did not continue to pursue the German fleet, but rushed towards the German fleet.

Although I saw the retreating flag of the German ship that fled, it was not easy for the transport ship to turn around, because the performance and mobility of the transport ship were not as good as that of the warships. Moreover, all of the eleven transport ships were fully loaded, almost exceeding the normal load capacity. The flexibility was naturally much lower and the steering speed was extremely slow. The shore defense cruisers Ziegfred, Heimdal, the old ironclad ship Prussian, and the Caesar, who were escorting the transport fleet, rushed up bravely to fight against the enemy ships and win time for the transport ships to turn and escape.

These four German ships should be of great courage. Unfortunately, they are facing modern warships more than a hundred years later. Only courage is useless. Yueyang and Sanya ships do not want to fight close combat with these warships. Although the main guns on these four warships are not big, even if they are shot, it is not cost-effective. At the current distance, there is no time to launch missiles. If it is the Xiangyang ship or the Huaihua ship, you can still use artillery to deal with these four warships. However, the 76mm naval gun on the Yueyang ship and Sanya ship are really useless at this time. Therefore, the captains of the Yueyang ship and Sanya ship Wang Hailong and Zhang Wei decided to use torpedoes to give each of these four warships.

Although Wang Hailong and Zhang Wei were very painful after the torpedo were launched, this torpedo was enough to severely damage a 10,000-ton warship, and it was indeed a bit useless to deal with these four old warships with a displacement of only three to four thousand tons. However, the effect of torpedo strikes was excellent. After the four warships were hit by torpedoes, they were immediately hit by a fatal blow and soon disappeared into the sea. They also cleared the last obstacle for the Yueyang and Sanya ships.
Chapter completed!