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Deng Shichang nodded lightly, and said, "That's right, now that Yingyi's high-speed cruiser has overwhelmed us, our plan has indeed come to nothing."

Huang Xiaojie asked: "Then what shall we do?"

Deng Shichang looked at the situation of the enemy and the enemy on the radar screen, and said: "The purpose of Yingyi's high-speed cruiser is very clear, that is to use high speed to force us to turn to the south. If we turn to the south, we will be parallel to Yingyi's battleship team. In the situation of heading south, Yingyi’s battleships are best at turning their guns to a certain side, and then concentrate the firepower of the whole ship to attack the broadside target. If we turn south, we will fall into Yingyi’s trap.”

Huang Xiaojie sighed softly, and said, "Well, in the final analysis, it is because our number of warships is too small. If we can have more than a dozen warships, we can kill the British on the opposite side in seconds!"

Deng Shichang pondered for a moment and said, "I have a way!"

Huang Xiaojie's eyes lit up, and he said: "General Deng is worthy of being General Deng, tell me, what can you do?"

Deng Shichang said: "How far is the British cruiser from us now?"

Huang Xiaojie glanced at the scale on the radar screen and said, "Fifteen nautical miles!"

Deng Shichang smiled and said: "Very well, the maximum speed of our destroyers is 35 knots, and the maximum speed of Yingyi's cruisers is [-] knots. It will take three hours for them to catch up with us. Let's look at the battleship team of Yingyi. They are heading south. Let’s drive, we’re heading west, in three hours, if they don’t turn around, we’ll pull them away by nearly a hundred nautical miles! You should know what this means, right?”

Huang Xiaojie asked: "General Deng, what should I know?"

Deng Shichang smiled and said: "This means that we will face the British cruiser fleet alone! They don't have large-caliber artillery, and it is difficult for torpedoes to break through our anti-torpedo system. We can reduce the speed as we like, use missiles or even naval guns Destroy them! In Yingyi's view, we are four sheep, and the high-speed cruiser is a shepherd dog. They want to use the shepherd dog to drive us into their sheepfold, and then eat us up, but they don't think: we These four sheep are going to beat up their collie in no time!"

Huang Xiaojie's eyes lit up, and he said, "That would be great, let's hurry up and act according to the plan."

Deng Shichang then picked up the communicator and said loudly: "I will pass on the order that all units maintain the established course and advance at full speed!" With the order, the gas turbines of each ship will be fully powered, pushing the battleship to cut through the waves and drive due west. Seeing the warships of Lin Yuan's fleet advancing at high speed, Clausius immediately ordered his warships: "Full power, catch up with the battleships of Lin Yuan's fleet!"

British warships use steam turbines, which have natural disadvantages compared to the gas turbines used by Lin Yuan battleships. Steam turbines need to generate steam, and then let the steam do work. The process of generating steam consumes a lot of oil, so steam turbines are not at all In order to pursue high speed, the opponent of the gas turbine, the British warship installed a large number of boilers on the warship to generate a large amount of steam, which made the warship have an extremely high speed.

The British cruiser fleet and the Lin Yuan fleet were chasing at sea, while the battleship fleet led by Hickson began to change course, letting the fleet sail to the west, so that it would not be pulled too far away by the Lin Yuan fleet, but the battleships and battlecruisers after all The speed is slow, and the heading is also different from that of Lin Yuan's fleet, so it is pulled further and further away by Lin Yuan's fleet.

An hour passed, and Clausius found that the distance between himself and the opposite Lin Yuan fleet had only narrowed by five nautical miles. At this time, the boiler was overwhelmed and unable to maintain a high speed of 35 knots. Spend more time.

At this time, a staff officer said to Clausius: "Commander, we are already far away from the battleship team. If we continue to chase Lin Yuan's fleet, we will break away from the battleship team."

Clausius nodded and said, "If that's the case, we will have to fight Lin Yuan's fleet alone!"

The staff officer said: "Your Excellency, Commander, why don't we contact Commander Hixon to see if we can let them speed up to catch up, or we can return to the voyage back."

Clausius nodded and said, "You can deal with this matter."

The staff officer nodded, picked up the communicator at hand, and began to contact Hixon. At this moment, Clausius only heard a message from the watchtower: "Your Excellency, the warship of the Lin Yuan Fleet has slowed down!"

Clausius said hurriedly, "What did you say? Slowed down? What's the speed now?"

The observer replied: "The speed is reduced to 28 knots and is still decreasing!"

Clausius clenched his fist excitedly, slammed it heavily on the porthole, and said, "Great! Order all ships to maintain the current speed and launch torpedoes at the Lin Yuan warship!"

After giving the order, Clausius thought to himself: "Maybe the torpedo launched by my ship can hit the warship of Lin Yuan's army. At that time, I was the hero who sank Lin Yuan's warship!" Clausius couldn't help fantasizing about him. It is a scene that has attracted much attention as "the No. 1 sinking of the Lin Yuan warship in the world".

The British destroyer then moved towards the oblique front of the Lin Yuan battleship, looking for the position to launch the torpedo. At this time, the observer continued to report: "The Lin Yuan fleet has slowed down to 25 knots!"

Clausius' eyes were about to light up, and he thought in his heart: "With a speed of only 25 knots, our warship must be able to rush to their oblique front and launch torpedoes at them!"

But at this moment, Clausius saw a huge fireball rushing to the front of the cruiser, followed by a violent explosion, shaking the cruiser he was on. , Clausius immediately understood: the cruiser was hit by the missile of the Lin Yuan battleship!

At this moment, the observer in the watchtower reported: "The Lin Yuan battleship missile strikes!"

Clausius hurriedly said: "Hurry up, release the jamming wire!" But the distance between the cruiser and the Lin Yuan battleship was too close, the missiles arrived almost instantly, and the British cruiser had no time to launch the jamming wire!The missiles were almost accurate, and four cruisers were sunk in an instant!

Clausius looked at the distance between his cruiser team and the battleship Lin Yuan, and thought in his heart: "Although our torpedo range is only eight kilometers, the distance between us and the battleship Lin Yuan is not too far, and we should be able to reach the battleship Lin Yuan." The Yuan battleship fires torpedoes, let's fight!" So Clausius ordered: "Continue to move obliquely forward to the Linyuan battleship, wait for the opportunity to launch torpedoes!"