Both sides are also in a wide frontal search formation, and they are all opposite to each other, from the moment the two sides put on a posture, the first head-on collision of the combined fleet of China and Russia and the Netherlands will be inevitable! Neither side knows the strength of the other side, so it can only be speculated. But in the face of a formidable opponent, the advance fleets of both sides decided to strike with all their might! A big war is about to break out, and all that both sides need is to determine the other's position!

Lin Yingqi's fleet, which had just recovered from the excitement of destroying the oil depot, was also far away from the coast of Kalimantan Island at this time, and the center of gravity of the entire fleet began to move southward, and Lin Yingqi's fleet, which was the reconnaissance detachment on the right wing of the entire fleet, must also follow south, and he was now 30 nautical miles in front of Lin Yongsheng's fleet, and if a situation was encountered, Lin Yongsheng's fleet could arrive at the scene within an hour and a half. "It's been 2 days since the shelling, the Russian fleet should have arrived, right?" Looking at the calm sea, Lin Yingqi muttered to herself. As a battle-hardened general, although he has never been in charge alone...... But the grasp of the battle situation is still very good, and in his opinion, the first collision of the fleets of the two sides is about to happen!

The goddess of war did not make Lin Yingqi wait too long, at 9 a.m. on March 21, 195. Two faint pillars of smoke appeared in Lin Yingqi's field of vision. In this sea area, Huaxia has no friends. So whether the other party is a transport ship or a battleship, Lin Yingqi plans to go up and bump it! And almost at the same time, the opponent in the distance also discovered Lin Yingqi's existence, and the two light cruisers flying the Andre flag did not hesitate at all, and after giving a signal and not responding, the two battleships began to accelerate the charge! . …。

"Isn't it any different from the 1895 Dome cruiser? It feels like a copy of a Takasago. Lin Yingqi carefully looked at the enemy ship in the telescope, pouted and said. If you talk about firepower. These two ships were not bad, with two 6-inch guns at the bow and stern, and five 47-inch gun galleries on each side in the middle. The displacement is about a ton, there is no waterline armor, only dome armor, if I have to say that it is better than my colleagues more than ten years ago, it may be speed and artillery protection. The maximum speed reached 25 knots, and the gun shield on the gun emplacement was finally able to protect against direct fire from small-caliber guns.

"Rush up and kill them and send a report to General Lin that we have engaged the enemy, the opponent is two light cruisers, and it is unknown whether there are other warships in the rear, please prepare for battle." Lin Yingqi ordered decisively, and then, as the black heavy oil was injected into the boiler, the speed of the steam turbine of the Snow Leopard-class light cruiser slowly increased. Verses 18, 20, 22, 24! The two battleships rushed towards the distant target like arrows from the string. The two sides hedged at high speed like sabber-wielding light cavalry, and then at close range the moment they approached their opponents. Gives the opponent a lethal one

"All high-explosive bombs, turn them into torches!" Lin Yingqi continued to order. In the face of this kind of battleship with only one iron pants, the use of high-explosive shells is obviously more than armor-piercing shells, and armor-piercing shells may not be able to penetrate that iron pants, but high-explosive shells can definitely burn the opponent! The two battleships, each with 7 black holes and 6-inch guns on the side chord, were like shark teeth against the enemy ships approaching at high speed, and the head of the flying scissors like knives easily cut through the surface ships, like horse guns like sharp blades. The Snow Leopard is like a knight wielding a long knife, and when the two sides are far away from the AKM, the Snow Leopard is the first to spew out a deadly tongue of fire! …。

The main guns and rapid-fire guns are different from the main ships and the rapid-fire guns are different, and if the capital ships only see the engagement, it is like two heavily armored cavalrymen keeping a distance and shooting crossbow arrows at each other. Then the battle between the light cruisers is like two light infantry hand-to-hand combat, the former attacking fiercely but slowly, while the latter, once encountered, is to fight fast and drown the opponent with a storm of rapid-fire shells! …。

In the conditions of high-speed hedging between the two sides, rapid changes in distance and angles, the rangefinder simply could not track the opponent in real time, let alone provide reliable data for gun emplacements.

However, fortunately, the light cruisers of the Huaxia Fleet are also equipped with telescopic sights, and targets within QKM can be aimed directly through sights! The miserable Russians, on the other hand, could only rely on the recommended sights on the artillery to attack, and in addition to the difference in the level of artillery skills between the two sides, the judgment was decided.

The whistling sound of shells came from a distance like a terrible ghost, and the dense rain of bullets fired by the 6-inch guns and the 1-inch guns formed a barrage that directly covered the Russian light cruisers that rushed towards them. One by one, the yellow-green water column rose into the sky. Then it turns into a trace of water vapor in the air, and a rainbow appears under the light of the sun. And behind these rainbows is a battleship that is gradually turning into hell! …。

The relative speed of the two sides was as high as 40 knots, and the distance of only 6 kilometers was quickly reduced to about 2 kilometers, and the warships of both sides moved at high speed, swimming and fighting on the blue sea. What formations and tactics are no longer of any use in this almost hand-to-hand combat...... Reload, aim, excite, reload! The protection of the sailors on both sides is integrated into the artillery, becoming a part of the artillery, mechanically carrying out the commands.

Several shells hit the hull of one of the leading Russian light cruisers almost simultaneously, and clusters of orange flames rose up on the surface of the ship almost simultaneously, and a deck about 40 meters long turned into a sea of fire in an instant. The flames that rose into the sky turned this deck into a veritable Shura hell, and all the exposed Russian crew members were burned to char in a matter of seconds! Immediately, under the blowing of the sea breeze, the flowing flames began to spread in all directions!

At first, the Russian damage management team tried to control the flames, but the shrapnel accompanied by the picric high-explosive bomb directly turned this hope into a shattered soap bubble! Based on years of experience, the Beiyang Fleet found that the best match for dealing with warships lacking waterline armor was the launch of high-explosive shells from medium-caliber guns. And the 1・ Tier artillery fires shrapnel! THE FORMER CAN OPEN A BIG HOLE IN THE UNPROTECTED HULL ANYWHERE AND CAUSE A FIRE, BUT THE 75MM GUN IS DIFFERENT, IF YOU USE A HIGH-EXPLOSIVE SHELL TO HIT THE SURFACE OF THE SHIP, IT WILL NATURALLY BE A FIRE, BUT IF IT HITS THE HULL PLATE ON THE WATERLINE, THE LETHALITY IS INSUFFICIENT, SO IT IS BETTER TO USE A SHRAPNEL BOMB, YOU CAN HIT THE DECK TO DESTROY THE TUBE, AND YOU CAN BEAT THE HULL INTO A SIEVE BELOW!. …。

When the Russian damage control team members wearing gas masks were dragged out of the water dragon under the coercion of the officers, they were greeted by a rain of bullets like flying locusts, and steel balls with a diameter of about M were overwhelming, directly beating the Russian naval soldiers into blood gourds! Under the effect of inertia, the soldier who had lost his life still walked a few steps and then fell unwillingly, being swallowed by the raging fire below!

The blows in hand-to-hand combat were mutual, and the Snow Leopard-class light cruisers turned the opponent into a flaming torch. He also suffered the blows of his opponent, but in the face of the intensive firepower of the Russians, under the command of Lin Yingqi, the two Snow Leopard-class ships advanced and retreated in this battle like agile cheetahs, firmly grasping the rhythm of the war. The Russians' 120 shells were also high-explosive, but in order to save money, these battleships were not equipped with expensive shrapnels. Coupled with the backwardness of sighting equipment and problems with the range of artillery, there were significantly fewer shells that fell on the Snow Leopard.

However, despite the small amount, the fire caused by the picric acid high explosive cannot be underestimated, although some of them were bounced off by the waterline armor, but the remaining flames that fell on the teak deck of the hull could cause a lot of trouble if they spread. Therefore, Lin Yingqi commanded the battleship to always maintain a long distance, and only when the shells from the gun position were raised, the Snow Leopard would quickly approach the opponent and then use up the shells at the highest rate of fire, and then open the distance to avoid the opponent's counterattack, and wait until the second batch of shells were mentioned in a compartment similar to a dressing room, and then approach. This kind of play from far and near makes the Russians who are like brutes very uncomfortable, they are bent on getting close to the opponent and then crushing the opponent, but they don't want the other party to give you this opportunity at all! Chaos and order is the true portrayal of Lin Yingqi in the chaotic war! …………。

When temporarily away from the Russian warship, the long-prepared damage control team quickly used hoses and fire extinguishers to suppress the fire points on the ship, and the few fire points were quickly extinguished under the dense water hose. And because of the large compartment and thick partition design on the bridge, the shrapnel from the explosion could not penetrate the partition, so a single shell destroyed at most one compartment without carrying shrapnel and flames to other places. This directly limits the spread of fire, for these internal flames...... The team members wearing a full set of fireproof suits picked up a bottle of fire extinguisher at most and rushed in and sprayed something!

After a short battle, the number of victories and defeats on both sides was already clear, and the hulls of the two Russian light cruisers were blazing with gas, and bright yellow flames mixed with black smoke rose to form two columns of smoke. Above the waterline, it was almost impossible to find a full-fledged cabin, except for the conning tower and a few places protected by armor, what remained was a sea of fire. And the waterline was also beaten into a sieve by high-explosive bombs and shrapnel shells, and the turbulent sea water penetrated through large and small holes, and in just over half an hour of fighting, the entire battleship had been filled with hundreds of tons of seawater! The guns on the side were also destroyed one after another in the fierce firefight. The originally dense rain of bullets gradually thinned out in the continuous fire, and everyone could see that these two battleships were going to end sooner or later! …。

"Your Excellency. General Lin Yongsheng's battleship was only 20 nautical miles away. At this moment, the first mate stepped forward and said, "General Lin wants to know if there are other Russian warships in our vicinity. Especially frontal and northeast-oriented.

"Leave these two small fish to General Lin, let's go, the Snow Leopard will continue to reconnoitre, and the Sea Lion will reconnoiter to the northeast." Lin Yingqi said with regret in his eyes. It's a shame that I couldn't send these two little guys into the deep sea!

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