However, the Daheng Navy first turned to seize the T-shape, and then simply continued to turn, so that the course of the two sides was almost the same, and always maintained that many of its own warships could exert side firepower and attack several warships led by the enemy.

In this case, the first battleship formation of the Gafia people fell into a huge crisis in an instant, which was even more tragic than being seized by the Great Heng people just now!

Because the first battleship formation of the Gaphians has eight capital ships, but only the first two can come forward to fight!

These two battleships were hit by the firepower of Ren Zhongping's entire patrol formation!

What's more critical is that when the two sides are on the same course, their speed is lower, which is naturally impossible to break through the formation of the Daheng Patrol Formation.

In this case, in order to avoid greater losses, even if they don't want to, they are forced to adjust their course!

If you continue to rush up stupidly, you will definitely die a miserable death, so you can only turn right and try to get a side engagement, no matter how bad it is, you can avoid being hit unilaterally.

However, at this time, the high speed of the patrol formation once again played a huge role!

Seeing that the enemy began to turn right and tried to side against the enemy, Ren Zhongping once again took the patrol formation to speed up and began to turn right, using the high speed to try to pass through the left front of the Gafian formation again.

During this period, the naval guns of both sides also fired constantly!

And after a few minutes of test firing and continuous adjustment and shooting of Zhu Yuan, Ren Zhongping's patrol formation also began to reap the results!

The battleships of the two sides engaged for about four minutes and thirty seconds, and the Cohen was only firing the second round of main gun shells, and when the distance between the two sides was further reduced to about 5,000 meters, suddenly there was a violent explosion in the bridge part!

It was a 250-millimeter shell fired by the Toyoyo that hit the front of the ship's bridge, and directly penetrated the armor of the command tower located on the bridge, directly into the bridge and exploded!

The huge explosive force of the cannonball shattered everything in the command tower, including the commander of the first battleship formation, the chief of staff, the captain of the Cohen and all other officers were instantly blurred in flesh and blood, and they were killed directly.

Although the technology used in the construction of the Cohen was also the most advanced technology of the times, and the thickest part of its steel surface and iron armor could reach 430 mm, it was at most equivalent to about 200 mm of Luo Jing's hardened armor.

The naval guns on the Fengyang armored cruiser, although the first generation of 250 mm rapid-fire guns, can only be said to be average, but with smokeless gunpowder and armor-piercing shells, its deep penetration ability is still very good, enough to threaten the main armor belt of those old battleships.

Otherwise, Ren Zhongping would not have taken the patrol formation to seize the T-shaped prefix and engage the enemy battleship formation, after all, it is important to seize the T-prefix, but if the shells fired by the naval guns are not powerful enough, it will have no effect if they can't penetrate other people's armor.

And with the hit of this 250-millimeter shell, just a minute later, that is, in the sixth minute of the battle between the two sides, a 250-millimeter shell from the Tong'an hit the Cohen, and this shell hit directly in front of its main gun.

Pierced through its battery armor and completely wiped out the entire front main gun!

Immediately afterwards, a number of Crane-class armored cruisers that followed the steering also beat the water dogs, firing a bunch of 200-millimeter shells with an ultra-high rate of fire, and many of them hit the Cohen.

As the Cohen continued to be hit and exploded, the ship had completely lost its combat effectiveness!

After only six minutes of fighting, the flagship of the first battleship formation of the Gafia Navy was completely paralyzed, and the commander of the formation was lost.

This is also the reason why the first battleship formation at that time could not adjust its course in time, and it was not able to adjust its course until about ten minutes of engagement, after being hit by intensive fire.

At this time, the Cohen had been completely damaged, the entire superstructure was hit with potholes, the front main gun was completely destroyed, the exposed battery of the rear main gun suffered heavy casualties, and it was no longer able to fight, and a large number of secondary gun positions were even more killed and injured because of the lack of effective protection.

After only ten minutes of fighting, the Cohen was still able to maintain its momentum, but it was actually out of fire!

On the other hand, in the patrol formation led by Ren Zhongping, only the Tong'an was hit by a small number of 150-millimeter shells, and when the distance between the two sides was shortened for a while, several warships were already attacked by a certain number of 120-millimeter rapid-fire guns.

However, not a single battleship was hit by the shells of the opponent's main guns!

In fact, in the first ten minutes of the battle, the Gafias had not fired a few shells of more than 300 mm caliber main guns, so with such a low rate of fire and the amount of ammunition projected, it was natural not to expect to be able to get an effective hit.

Ten minutes later, the Cohen was forced to temporarily withdraw from the battle, but the battle between the two sides continued, and in the twelfth minute, the upper deck of the battleship Arya, the first battleship formation of the Gafia Navy, was not only potholed and ignited, but the two main guns in the front and rear finally stopped shelling.

Because they were subjected to a large number of 200-millimeter bombardments, the power of 200-millimeter shells, once they hit the enemy's superstructure, they were able to set off a bloody storm, which was much more powerful than 150-millimeter shells.

Although in the last naval battle of Bova, Ren Zhongping deeply felt that the shells of the 200 mm and 40 times caliber rapid-fire guns lacked the ability to penetrate deeply, even if there were soft armor-piercing shells, even if they hit old battleships, it was still difficult to penetrate their thickest armor belt.

However, the area covered by the main armor belt of those old battleships was not large, because the penetration of 200 mm armor-piercing shells on the secondary part of the battleship could still be guaranteed.

When the battleship Arya also lost its firepower, it, like the Cohen, had not yet sunk, and even maintained its speed for more than ten knots, but it had completely lost its combat effectiveness.

More importantly, these two warships are the most advanced warships, and the loss of their combat effectiveness is not only as simple as their own losses, but also means the tactical failure of breaking the T-shaped interception of the Daheng people.

Next, the Gaphians showed everyone how important the speed and maneuverability of the capital ship was.

No matter how the Gafians adjusted their formation and turned, even Admiral Daniel didn't care about leaving anything behind, and directly let the seven capital ships of the third capital ship formation increase their speed and rushed to the front to try to engage.

However, Ren Zhongping's patrol formation always relied on the absolute speed advantage, firmly seized the position in front of the left, and always maintained a distance.

So that the Gafia fleet could not catch up if it advanced before, and it could not escape if it turned, and the most important thing was that only a few battleships in their battleship formation were always within the combat distance, and a large number of battleships in the rear could only stare dryly!

This is the current state of the Gafia fleet!

In order to change this embarrassing situation, Admiral Daniel ordered the fleet to turn sharply to the left in order to avoid the large Heng people's patrol formation.

However, this certainly got rid of the embarrassing situation of being suppressed by the patrol formation, but it put its own side in a state of being attacked from both sides.

Because after seeing that the opponent turned to the left, Admiral Weng Zhexi personally led the four battleship formations composed of the Jingzhou class to turn directly to the right at a large angle and directly met the opponent's battleship formation, and at the same time ordered Ren Zhongping's patrol formation to continue to attack and suppress the enemy's second battleship formation in order to share the pressure.

When Weng Zhexi led four powerful Jingzhou-class battleships into the battle distance and struck a fierce blow to the first battleship formation of the Gafians, the disaster of the Gafian fleet was completely struck.

：。 ：m.x

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