After the Jobe was heavily damaged and only had a speed of five or six knots left, the A series torpedo boats of the Daheng Empire, which had not been able to exert any actual combat effectiveness, finally exerted their might.

Taking advantage of the fact that several other warships and light formations of the Gaphians were attracted by the fire of other ships, and there was no way to provide fire cover for the Job, two A-1 torpedo boats launched a surprise attack, and they killed at a high speed of twenty-seven knots until they were almost as floating on the sea as dead fish, and lost almost all of their firepower, and at the same time, there was a fire and the smoke of the Job, which fired the first and second torpedoes fired by the Imperial Navy of the Great Heng in this battle.

The two torpedoes were fired from a distance of 300 meters, and finally successfully hit the Job, although one of them did not explode for some unknown reason, but the other was a smooth detonation, and a violent explosion broke out in the underwater part of the bow side of the Job, raising a drop of water tens of meters high, and the huge explosion impact made the Job, which was more than 9,000 tons, shake.

Immediately after that, a large amount of seawater poured into the huge hole that was torn open after the torpedo exploded!

In just a few minutes, the water intake of the Jobe had reached the limit of its designable anti-sinking capacity, and the bow of the ship was already buried directly in the seawater and began to tilt at a large angle,...

In desperation, the captain of the Jobe ordered the ship to be abandoned!

Just a few minutes after the order to abandon the ship, many sailors did not have time to retreat, when they saw that the Job's increased inclination, the front half of the hull was completely inserted into the sea, the stern was completely warped, and the propeller at the stern was directly exposed to the water, but this situation did not last long, only a few minutes later, because of the ship's own gravity, the position of the entire battleship was pulled and broken, and the stern was smashed into the sea again, and then the front half of the ship that had been sunk underwater was pulled and gradually slid to the bottom of the sea.

The sinking of the Job, which was more frightening to the people of the Gafian Navy than the previous heavy damage of the Metz and forced to withdraw from the battle, also surprised the third-country spectators who were watching the battle.

It's only been a long time, and the patrol formations on both sides are fighting each other, and it's only about half an hour before and after!

In this half an hour, the two capital ships of the Gafiya cruiser fleet, one of which was completely incapacitated and forced to withdraw from the battle after only fifteen minutes of fighting, and the other armored cruiser Job, which was directly sunk more than 20 minutes later.

In just half an hour, the two armored cruisers in the cruiser formation of the Second Fleet of the Gafia Imperial Navy were sunk and seriously damaged, and without the armored cruisers, the remaining three first-class dome cruisers are estimated to be no better.

You must know that a very important reference goal for the outfitting of various countries is to be able to suppress first-class dome cruisers, and even exist as cruiser hunting ships.

Ordinary cruisers are faced with mounted cruisers, which is an embarrassing situation that cannot be run away and cannot be beaten.

Now the same goes for these three remaining first-class dome cruisers in the Imperial Navy of Gafia!

The first squadron led by Ren Zhongping before was mainly targeted by the enemy's two mounted cruisers, and the other three first-class dome cruisers were only partially contained by firepower.

But now, after solving two huge threats, the four Klan-class armored cruisers turned their guns in unison and aimed at the other three Gafian first-class dome cruisers.

And it turned out that under the intensive rapid-fire fire of the Crane-class armored cruisers, the protective strength of the dome cruisers was almost no different from that of the unprotected cruisers, and one shell after another hit and exploded, and soon one of the Morleys was torn open to the waterline armor belt, and then began to enter the water, and it was about to sink.

On the other hand, the superstructure caught fire, and finally there was a violent explosion, although it did not sink, but it was already floating on the surface of the sea like a dead fish.

The ship's Gafia sailors abandoned their ship and were torpedoed and sunk by their own torpedo boats.

Only the last one was nothing serious, and in this case, the captain of the ship had already ignored it and ordered to turn at maximum power to open the distance and escape.

That is, it was originally at the end, and the attention of the Daheng battleship was not on it before, otherwise it would not be so easy to escape.

But more importantly, after a pursuit battle between the two sides, the battleship formation of the Gaphians was already very close.

Vice Admiral Ren Zhongping didn't have a big support, and directly led the fleet to fight with the enemy's battleship formation.

Their battleship formations, even if four of them were only low-freeboard, were calm now, and they were fighting in formation, and if they rushed up, they would suffer certain losses.

After all, it was a battleship, even if their main guns had a very low rate of fire, but there were many battleships that couldn't hold them, and they were basically large-caliber main guns of more than 300 mm, as long as even one shot was hit, it would be a very fatal thing for a battleship like the Klan-class armored cruiser.

Vice Admiral Ren Zhongping also accepted it when he saw it, and did not continue to rush over to fight openly, but turned around, once again widening the distance between the two sides.

Anyway, his patrol formation is fast in rapid fire, as long as he dodges and doesn't fight, their battleship formation can't catch up with him from exhaustion!

This disappointed the third-party observers of the navies of various countries, and they also wanted to see a battle between the armored cruisers of the Great Heng Empire and the battleship formations of the Gafians.

But looking at the current appearance of the Southwest Fleet of the Great Heng Imperial Navy, it is obvious that it does not intend to continue.

However, even so, it was an eye-opener for the spectators of the navies of various countries, and the cruiser/cruiser formations on both sides continued to engage fiercely for more than an hour, and both sides constantly changed course and formation, and at the same time, the artillery of both sides was almost never heard, and the rumbling cannon sound continued to sound.

And the results of the engagement are even more surprising!

The cruiser formation of the Second Fleet of the Imperial Navy of Gafia was devastated.

Of the two cruisers in the cruiser formation, one was sunk, and the other was severely damaged and completely incapacitated and fled; Three 7,000-ton 1st class dome cruisers, one was sunk, one was heavily damaged and sunk by the Gafiya themselves to launch a torpedo, and one fled with minor injuries.

Of the five capital ships, only one was seriously wounded and one was slightly injured and fled, and three were sunk!

On the other hand, on the side of the Daheng Imperial Navy, the main force participating in the battle was the four Klan-class armored cruisers, although they were also hit by a lot of shells, and the hull was pitted, but they basically did not receive any fatal casualties, not even many casualties.

The two second-class cruisers of the Charlin class were a little miserable, and the ships sank, but one was so badly washed that it suffered heavy casualties, and almost lost most of its crew, and like the Mace of the Gafians, they had to withdraw from the battle.

The other ship had a fire at one point, and although the fire has now been extinguished, it has caused several deck ammunition explosions and suffered a lot of casualties, but it can barely continue to fight.

Now the Charlin was effectively out of the battle and was evacuated from the battlefield under the escort of several torpedo boats, while the other was incorporated into the second formation to fight with the destroyers. Ren Zhongping now feels that the Armored Cruiser and the Patrol Patrol are participating in the duel in formation together, which is the life of the enemy's capital ship reaping the results of the battle, and there is no need to continue to act with the Patrol Patrol.

In addition, several torpedo boats on both sides were sunk or seriously damaged, but the impact on both sides was not great!

The fierce battle between the two formations for more than an hour allowed the navies of various countries to truly see what is called a modern naval battle!

The officers and men of both sides did not flinch, and their will to fight was relatively strong, and at the same time, both sides were equipped with a large number of rapid-fire guns, and mainly high-freeboard warships, which was the first high-tech large-scale sea battle in the history of Blue Star, which was completely different from the previous two Ian naval battles and the eastern naval battles.

This short engagement of just over an hour is enough for the navies of various countries to study it repeatedly for several years.

And the battle is not over yet, almost all the generals of the third country, including the warring parties, have actually come to several basic conclusions:

Future warships must have rapid-fire guns, and in order to resist rapid-fire guns, they must have hardened armor to expand the protective area, otherwise, the sunken armored cruiser Jobe is a proof of this.

The second is that the torpedo boats under the current technology are completely useless, unless the torpedo technology or other technologies are seriously innovated in the future, otherwise, with the current rapid-fire gun firepower, it is impossible for the torpedo boats to penetrate the defense and release torpedoes at a distance of only a few hundred meters.

Here, speed is very important, even more so than firepower and protection!

When the cruisers and cruisers of the two sides fought fiercely, the battleship formation, which was regarded as the main force of the decisive battle by the Gafian navy, climbed slowly for more than an hour and still failed to reach the battlefield.

And after the battle between the cruiser formations of the two sides ended, in the face of the initiative of the Southwest Fleet of the Daheng Imperial Navy to adjust the navigation avoidance, the battleship formation of the Gafia Imperial Navy had no way to do this, because it couldn't catch up at all, and even had to be careful to kill a horse gun.

Because although Ren Zhongping avoided it at the first time, he did not give up the idea of continuing to hunt the other party, relying on the high speed of the cruise to constantly wander around the periphery, ready to pounce and bite at any time.

However, the commander of the other party was not stupid, he had always maintained the formation safely, and did not give Ren Zhongping too good a chance.

During this period, the torpedo boats of both sides were once again active, and both sides once again tried to use torpedo boats to launch lightning strike operations, but it was a pity that this kind of hard-hitting lightning strike and anti-lightning strike operations occupied too much advantage, and the torpedo boat units of both sides failed to find any good opportunities.

After two successive attempts were fruitless, in order to avoid unnecessary casualties, Ren Zhongping took the initiative to order the torpedo boat formation not to rush, and to sneak up and fire when there was a chance, and forget it if there was no chance.

The torpedo boat force of the Gafians was similar, with little chance.

But the torpedo boats stopped, and the battle between the cruisers and destroyers of the two sides did not stop, but became more and more intense.