Jonathan, as the captain of the British destroyer detachment, undertook the task of command in this pursuit mission, and thought that it might take a few hours before he could catch up with the other side, but now it is two o'clock in the afternoon, and there are still 4 hours, and the sky is about to get dark. has been chasing after him, but he only saw the tail, and on the premise that he couldn't catch up, he even gave birth to the idea of using destroyers to form a separate fleet to intercept them.

However, this idea was quickly abandoned by Jonathan, why divide the troops, isn't it because a destroyer was killed, the captain of that destroyer is still Jonathan's junior brother in the naval school, Jonathan knows his strength very well, such a ship, in a short period of time, was sunk by the other party, then the attack power of this ironclad ship is also quite amazing, at least the destroyer can't play a role in grappling at all.

The British and French high-speed fleets suddenly found that the distance between the two sides was shrinking rapidly, and soon it would not exceed 10 nautical miles, which was already within the range of sight, even with a telescope before, but now, the field of vision is very clear, no wonder the distance between the two sides will get closer and closer, it turns out that the other party has turned and is coming in their direction.

The performance of the 3 ironclad ships made Jonathan not understand, could it be that he knew that he couldn't escape, come and kill one to make one, kill two to earn one, as the commander of the destroyer, he would not give him this opportunity, and immediately ordered his destroyers to start scattering. Let the light cruiser go to the top, although the light cruiser is not necessarily an opponent of the ironclad. But it can pass a few moves, and lightly patrol the 210 mm guns above. For ironclads, it is also no small threat.

Starting from 10 nautical miles, the relative speed of the two sides is as high as more than 25 nautical miles, and almost every two and a half minutes, they will get closer to one nautical mile, and the movements of the other party's boat will slowly begin to be seen, and Jonathan is surprised to find that it is 6 nautical miles away. The ironclad ship actually began to activate the main guns, and the main guns of more than 250 mm could not be activated casually, and it would take time to turn, so it was about to be launched.

So far away, a trace of doubt flashed in Jonathan's heart, this distance, only the salvo of the capital ship could be touched, but it was only a test launch. The opposing side had 3 ships, 3 twin guns, battleships capable of firing several shells, full heavy guns. It's not that the artillery is strong.

But then, the development of things made Jonathan dumbfounded. 6 nautical miles when the artillery was fired in the first round. A straddle shot was formed, and all the British and French naval officers were stunned. Is this a coincidence, or is it real?

The next change made them realize that the other party was not a coincidence, why the destroyer would be sunk so quickly, the reason was very simple, the opponent's artillery was too accurate, the first round and the second round, all formed a straddle fire, in the third round, there was finally a cannon hit, it was only a long time, less than 2 minutes, the distance between the two sides also entered 5 nautical miles, a little more than 8 kilometers, and hit a light cruiser, although the light patrol has a certain amount of armor, but this armor, Under the large-caliber naval guns, it was not enough to see at all, and one of the batteries on the side was directly overturned, and the power was also lost a lot, and the speed immediately slowed down.

Jonathan knew that he couldn't continue, the other side was an ironclad ship, although there were only 3 twin 285 mm guns, but the range was long enough, and the accuracy was high, the largest 210 mm gun in the fast fleet, in terms of range, was almost half of the opponent's, that is, it was only possible to launch within 5 kilometers, although both sides were moving fast, 5 kilometers is less than 3 nautical miles away, and it would take 6 minutes at most to arrive, but before that, the entire fleet may have to withstand 4 rounds, And even more artillery attacks.

After transmitting the command to each ship through the flag, more than 30 battleships, immediately began to evade, the speed was reduced a lot, but successfully dodged two rounds of artillery attacks, fortunately in the end it did not come completely, after two rounds of misses, the third round of artillery, directly came to a good start, a 4300-ton protective cruiser, was a shell, obliquely inserted from the side, just in the gap of the protective cruiser armor, drilled into the interior, 285 mm guns, even if not with high-explosive shells, its own kinetic energy also produced a powerful destructive force, after being overturned by the organization, in the protective cruiser frantically destroying, and finally passed through 4 cabins, killed 12 people, incidentally, scrapped a power crew.

In addition to this cannon, there was also a cannon that hit another protective cruiser, but it hit the dome armor and damaged that piece of the dome armor, and there was not much damage to the ship itself.

The fast fleet, with the advantage of numbers, was damaged all the time, and moved forward bravely, and finally rushed to a distance of 5 kilometers, dozens of ships, whether large or small, fired together, although the aiming system is very rubbish, but the number is large to a certain extent, at least more than 300 guns fired together, and finally hit 12 rounds, these shells, hit the ironclad ship, it was like scratching the boots, hitting the armor belt, it couldn't be pierced at all, it was bounced off by the armor belt, and the ironclad ship was as high as 95% The armor belt, to prevent the vast majority of artillery fire, even if you are lucky to find the gap in the armor belt, the key protection is enough to protect all the important parts of the ship, including all the batteries, unimportant places, I am afraid that it will be possible to hit 100 rounds in the case of 100 rounds, for high-speed warships, in the same place to hit 100 rounds, how low the probability is, calculated, I am afraid that it is standing there and not moving, let these dozens of ships fight for a few hours, and may not be able to pile up enough to pile up the number of hundreds.

At the beginning of the 12 shots, Jonathan was very happy, at a distance of 5 kilometers, with a telescope, any details can be seen clearly, but when a 210 mm shell hit the armor belt of the ironclad that did not look thick, it was not a stop reaction caused by impact, but a rebound reaction, which proved that this armor is much harder than the warhead of the artillery, and under the collision of large kinetic energy, it is not stopped but elastic.

Jonathan didn't know that the reason for such an amazing effect was, of course, what he said, that the surface hardness of the armor was very large, and on the other hand, it was the arrangement of various beveled armor, and it was in the combination of these two aspects that there was such an amazing effect.

The distance is shortened, and the fast fleet can counterattack on its side, but the situation has not changed in the slightest, and even because it is closer, the ironclad ship has a faster rate of fire and is more accurate, and even the secondary guns can be fired.

The ironclad ship is like the heavy infantry wrapped in heavy armor on its body, rushing into the light infantry group wearing leather armor, any attack of the light infantry, for the heavy infantry, is of no use, although the reaction of the heavy infantry is slow, but every reaction, will be the cost of the life of the light infantry.

The ironclad ship is like a tiger entering a flock of sheep, from a distance of 5 kilometers to 3 kilometers, non-stop firing, at least 12 warships have been damaged, plus the previous ones, in a short period of encounters, the number of losses has actually exceeded 3 percent, which Jonathan can't accept anyway, and is about to take other methods, but the lookout next to him suddenly let out a miserable exclamation.

"What's going on!" Jonathan picked up the binoculars, although this position was not high, but what could be seen, in the distance, countless pillars of smoke rose up, the thickest of which was even thicker than the previous dreadnought, and the most important thing was speed, they were moving towards here at a very fast speed.

No wonder the lookout exclaimed, with the density of the smoke column, at least dozens of warships, especially the large ones, because the middle three were obviously much larger than the others.

Jonathan was shocked, but also strange, at this time, in Southeast Asia, who has a big ship, could it be that the Chinese are bluffing, holding a 10,000-ton merchant ship to pretend to be a warship, trying to scare them back, the more he thinks about it, the more likely it is.

But after a few minutes, the facts shattered their expectations, the opposite battleship was moving at high speed, and in just a few minutes, it advanced a few knots, not only from the sea level, it was not a cargo ship, it looked completely different, and the silhouette of the battleship was obvious, and the largest of them were obviously more than 30,000 tons of warships.

At this juncture, more than 30,000 tons, and can still travel at high speed, at least it is a super dreadnought, at this time, under the premise that a dreadnought can be swept away in Asia, 3 super dreadnoughts and a large number of other auxiliary warships have emerged, which is something that no one can imagine, the most important thing is that the lookout and Jonathan have noticed the flag flying high at the top of the battleship.

The German flag and the flag of the German Navy fluttered high above it, the Germans, everyone was stunned, not that the home fleet, blocking the Germans in the Baltic, could only become the inland sea fleet of the Baltic, when the 3 main super-dreadnoughts left Europe, I don't know, and let them get here, in case he attacked the entire fleet, it would be bad

Jonathan knew that things were in trouble, when he faced the ironclad before, he was just helpless, the damage of the ironclad was limited, and more than a dozen ships were damaged, except for being hit by the main gun, the rest of the injuries were not serious, at least there was no danger of capsizing, but this time it was different, 3 super dreadnoughts, I don't know how many auxiliary ships, looking at the size of the smoke column after that, I am afraid that the size of the ships is complete, with the strength of the Germans, they are afraid that they are not even enough to plug their teeth, a pursuit battle, and finally achieved this result, a little careless, There may be a danger of total annihilation. (To be continued.) )