Chapter 1358 Stabilize Your Position

On the sea battlefield where the shells were flying indiscriminately, along with the gradual reversal of the situation, the imperial fleet, which was in trouble, was in an extremely bad situation after enduring the continuous shelling of the three battleships.

As a commander of the Navy who was ordered to be put on the shelf, Poel Kluf was obviously in disarray at this time.

Their Great Emperor's tactical plan is undoubtedly useful.

In a situation where their imperial navy was basically slaughtered unilaterally by the opposing team, a definite result was achieved.

But under this premise, they still failed to win, and there was no way to do it. It can only be said that the Yangtze River Fleet, as an enemy, has much stronger hard power than their Imperial Navy.

Looking at the entire battle situation now, Tong Lei, who has stabilized his position and regained the rhythm of the battle, has changed his tactical style of play when the suicide ships are completely destroyed.

The scattered destroyers were called back directly, forming a tight formation.

Given the thickness of the battleships' armor, the bombardment power of their destroyers was hardly a threat.

The only effective means of strike is probably the face-to-face torpedo.

But the opposite is also aware of this in his heart, so the destroyers of the Imperial Fleet have been completely stared at.

Even the three battleships of the Yangtze River Fleet specially dispatched some secondary artillery to attack.

At this moment, as the maritime hegemon of this era, the tyrannical strength of the battleship has been safely displayed.

At this moment, a strong retreat has already risen in Pol Kluf's heart.

The odds slipped away quietly between his fingers, and the battle situation in front of him had already made him feel less than half the odds of winning, and even if he continued to fight, the battleship he was riding at this time had to be under the enemy's main artillery fire. Sinking under the force!

There is no time to think, now is the time to make sacrifices.

The signal was sent, and the destroyers that had been difficult to pose a threat to the Yangtze River Fleet were directly called back.

Apparently, Pol Kluf planned to let these destroyers clear their way.

After all, in terms of value alone, opening the way with destroyers has minimal damage.

And thinking about it carefully, although he failed to win this battle, he somehow sank an enemy battleship, plus a large number of destroyers.

Even if there is no credit, but after returning, it should not be punished.

With this thought in mind, Bol Kreuf's heart retreated even more.

And Tong Lei in the distance obviously guessed the enemy's mind.

The artillery strikes of the three battleships swept round after round, and the intention to sink the opponent was self-evident.

In the continuous roar of artillery fire, another heavy cruiser of the Imperial Fleet was forcibly sunk by this tyrannical firepower.

During this period, a destroyer team moved forward quickly and launched an attack.

But unfortunately, the torpedoes on the destroyer have basically been used in the previous battle to stop the suicide ship.

Without the torpedoes, the firepower of the destroyer can be said to be greatly reduced, and it is difficult to pose a sufficient threat to the enemy ships.

At the expense of destroyers along the way, the battleship Retaliation of the Imperial Fleet and the surviving heavy cruiser quickly escaped from the minefield.

Tong Lei, who has gradually gained the upper hand, naturally does not intend to let them go, and the pursuit order is directly issued.

Between chasing and escaping, the speed was faster, and a destroyer chasing in front quickly sent a signal...

"Report Lieutenant Colonel, the enemy's destroyed destroyer has dropped a large number of mines in the sea ahead!"

Hearing this, Tong Lei's eyelids jumped slightly, and then, after taking a deep breath, he said in a deep voice...

"Stop the pursuit, confirm the damage of each ship, and prepare to merge with the rear supply ship."

This is a very helpless situation. As soon as the mines are dropped, it is definitely not possible to go straight to it, and if you choose to bypass it, that time will be enough for the imperial fleet to escape, so it becomes a meaningless move.

Temporarily returned to their temporary stronghold, sitting in the captain's room, looking at the battle damage report in front of Tong Lei, his heart was extremely heavy.

Of the four battleships, battleship 006 sank, one was moderately damaged, and the remaining two were lightly damaged.

Of the twenty destroyers, nine were sunk, one was severely damaged, four were moderately damaged, and the remaining six were all lightly damaged.

For the Yangtze Fleet, which had always had the absolute upper hand, this wave of losses was simply heavy!

After merging with the supply ships in the rear, the warships with mild and moderate damage could still be repaired, but the destroyer with severe damage was almost burnt out of its engine, which was basically close to Obsolete status.

Today, on the South China Sea battlefield, the remaining combat power of the Yangtze River Fleet is only three battleships and ten destroyers.

At the same time, the imperial fleet that fled all the way, after a circle, quickly left the sea, entered a tributary connected to the inland, and quickly docked at the nearest port.

After this battle, the Yangtze Fleet suffered heavy losses, and the losses of the Imperial Fleet were naturally not small.

Suicide ship destroyed.

There were only two destroyers left, one of which was nearly half-destroyed.

Four heavy cruisers, three sunk and one heavily damaged.

The only battleship Retaliation was also blown up by a main naval gun, and the damage to the hull was not light at all.

And under this premise, 80% of the record in this battle can be said to be basically hit by suicide ships.

In this way, in order to ensure his own situation, Pol Kluf naturally had to work harder when writing the report.

To write about all kinds of sinister things in this battle, and at the same time, to sink one of the enemy’s battleships, it is definitely necessary to focus on describing it, and then add a vague sentence about destroying more than a dozen destroyers, so that the People have a feeling that their merits outweigh their deeds.

Here, of course, there is an exaggeration of the meaning.

When the battle was so chaotic, who could have noticed how many destroyers were destroyed?

However, relatively, there is no way to verify.

So as long as you don't write too exaggerated in the report, even if you find that there are so many errors in one or two ships, you can say that the battle situation was chaotic at that time, and if you read it wrongly, it is basically impossible for the above to investigate.

In this way, such a report was quickly sent to the Imperial City.

After seeing the report, Charlie Krumbell breathed a sigh of relief.

At least for now, the play of the suicide ship is useful.

However, according to his original expectation, he wanted to take advantage of the dispersal of the opponent's battle strength to kill at least the two battleships on the opposite side. This point, his imperial fleet obviously failed to achieve...

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