The battleship "Sanmalinda" is spacious and bright commander tower

The crown prince Li Siyuan's feet were tightly nailed to the floor, looking forward with a serious expression. About 8 kilometers ahead of the right, two big U.S. Navy fish fled all the way through the waves. After being discovered, they threw away the slow coal ship and ran wildly. "Sanmalinda" had been chasing for more than three hours.

These two big fish are the US Navy's Great White Fleet, the USS Louisiana, a "Connecticut" class battleship, and the 14,000-ton armored cruiser "Tennessee" of the same class as the USS Montana. They are both new ships that have been launched less than two years ago.

The "Louisiana" battleship displacement is 16,000 tons, 16,500 horsepower, and a speed of 18 knots. It is equipped with two dual-equipped 305mm main guns, four dual-equipped 203mm second-level turrets, 12 178mm single-barrel guns, and the naval gun fire is very fierce.

Its eight 203mm second-class main guns are no longer stacked on the main gun, but are placed on both sides of the ship's side, and the hull is further enlarged, looking like a solid fat man...

During Roosevelt's administration, six ships started construction in one go, namely the flagships "Connecticut", "Louisiana", "Vermont", "Kansas", "Minnesota" and "New Hampshire", all of which were in the Great White Fleet.

The Seattle Battle, which started at 3 o'clock at night, has lasted for 14 hours so far. In the vast sea area of ​​hundreds of nautical miles, the Imperial fleet implemented the wolf pack encirclement and annihilation tactic with "dispersion to scatter, single ship to single ship" and spread the fleet into a large net, which has achieved great results.

Radio waves shuttle through the air, constantly sending new information about the enemy situation, reporting moving coordinate points and courses. As long as the fleeing U.S. Navy ship fleet is discovered by cruisers or destroyers cruising on the sea, they will immediately call the battleships to attack the formation through radio, and the fate of destruction will inevitably come.

According to the summary of radio notification information received by Sanmalinda, it was as of about 5:00 pm;

The Imperial Special Mixed Team sank 5 enemy battleships, injured and captured one, 6 enemy cruisers, captured two, sunk several enemy auxiliary ships, captured 21 (including coal transport ships and hospital ships). The two battleships themselves were slightly injured and one cruiser was seriously injured.

If the two big fish in front of you are added, the 13 battleships of the US Navy's Great White Fleet have lost more than half of them and are sure to achieve a brilliant victory.

The US Navy is really too cunning. If it weren't for the t101 boats tracking all the way and reporting the latest enemy trends in time, it would have really allowed the US Navy's Dabai Fleet to succeed in its traitor and pay a slight price to escape most of the main fleets.

It's a bit like catching fish with a net. When the fish are fried, if the formation is not changed in time, you can only catch two or three big fish, small fish.

Major General Li Siyuan knew in his heart that it would be dark in half an hour.

It would be difficult to catch those fish that were not caught. With the cover of the night, the defeated generals of the Dabai Fleet had a great chance of escaping and entering the depths of the Pacific Ocean.

After one night

The area of ​​the ocean that needs to be searched has risen sharply from a radius of hundreds of kilometers to tens of thousands of kilometers. Unless it hits the fortune, the golden time for the search has passed.

For the fish that escaped the net in the Great White Fleet, the danger period is not over.

A 203mm shell from the battleship "Louisiana" hit the command tower of the Shanfeng destroyer. After a shocking "boom", a huge orange ball of fire enveloped the upper part of the Shanfeng destroyer. The 3,200-ton Shanfeng destroyer was suddenly hit and slowed down to the naked eye.

After the explosion, a large hole was torn into the armored commander tower of the destroyer "Shanfeng" and suffered heavy casualties. The entire hull was out of control and circling on the sea surface, igniting a raging fire.

Major General Li Siyuan narrowed his eyes dangerously when he saw this;

The battleship "Louisiana" turns violently during high-speed marching. This kind of artillery bombardment can be successful. The only thing that can be blamed for the bad luck of the "Shanfeng". This blood debt will be revenge by the "Sanmalinda"!

"Left rudder 30 degrees, slow down, prepare for shelling."

The battleship "Sanmalinda" led the "White Tiger" patrol, and the three general cruisers, "Huayue", "Bright Moon" and "Half Moon", drew a graceful arcuate track, turning to the left at the same time as the enemy ship, forming a "two" shape with the same direction. The side side and side side sides were almost indefinitely bombarded each other.

At this time, the two sides were 8.3 kilometers apart and were in the stage of rapid decay of inertial speed. The first round of shelling was all empty, but in the following second round of shelling, it was obvious that the Sanmalinda formation's shelling down points were dense, and the high water column that exploded at the nearest bombing point was already within 350 yards.

Both rounds 3 and 4 both fired near-missile bombs. In the fifth round of artillery attack, the two 305mm armor-piercing bombs fired by the battleship Sanmalinda and a 305mm armor-piercing bombs fired by the White Tiger hit the huge hull of the battleship Luisanna. At the same time, it hit several 254mm high-explosive bombs, which made the battleship Louisiana full of fire. It could no longer maintain a stable course and was tilted to one side.

The seventh round of artillery continued to fall on the battleship "Louisana", destroying its superstructure to pieces, which was terrible.

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The battleship "Louisiana" has been severely damaged, and its power has been completely lost. It can only barely float on the sea and survive.

The black muzzles of the ship formation turned to the armored cruiser "Tennessee" and were preparing to launch a fire attack on it. Who knew that the armored cruiser "Tennessee" obediently raised the white flag and turned the muzzles back to the center line, indicating that they gave up resisting surrender.

I have to say that the commander of the Tennessee armored cruiser is very terrible and has no iron-clad stubbornness.

I believe that they also learned about the cruelty of the Ocean Empire Navy during their previous internal radio communications and had no intention of resisting.

Previously, at around 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the battleship "Missouri" and the USS Minnesota" were besieged. The USS Missouri battleship was sunk desperately and the USS Minnesota was severely damaged. The officers and soldiers opened the undersea valve in despair and sank.

Seeing the enemy ships sank, the besieged Royal Navy of the Ocean Empire did not actively rescue them. Instead, he slowly gathered the surrendered auxiliary ships and allowed the American officers and soldiers who jumped in the cold water to struggle to the death.

After more than an hour, the US coal ship "Little Rock" was arranged to go to rescue.

In the biting sea water in November, the body will lose its temperature after falling into the water for 15 minutes. What is the concept of more than an hour?

All officers and soldiers on the two battleships were killed, but none of them survived. The coal ship "Little Rock City" salvaged 733 bodies, most of which were drowned.

The lessons of the past are right in front of you, and it is no wonder that the armored cruiser "Tennessee" chose to surrender wisely instead of going to the dark side.

The battleship "Louisana" floated tenaciously on the sea while burning. Until around 7:00 pm, the cruiser "Mingyue" was ordered to end its painful struggle and fired two torpedoes at a distance of 1,100 meters. After two dull explosions, the battleship "Louisana" once again triggered a more violent ammunition depot explosion. The huge fire mass produced by the explosion rose to a height of 150 meters, illuminating half of the sky.

Because the cruiser "Mingyue" was too close, the side of the hull was hit by a piece of armored fragment as big as a half-table table. Two sailors who operated the deputy cannon were killed on the spot, and one sailor was seriously injured.

At this point, the Battle of Seattle came to an end.

The naval battle lasted 16 hours, with a total of 12 sporadic naval battles of all sizes and small. The Royal Navy of the Ocean Empire sunk 6 battleships of the Dabai Fleet, severely damaged and captured the "Vermont" battleship, 6 enemy cruisers, 3 captured, several enemy auxiliary ships, captured 21 (including coal transport ships and hospital ships), and won again.

In this battle, the US Navy's Dabai Fleet lost seven battleships, 4,160 naval officers and soldiers were killed, 722 injured, and 1,465 captured.

Two battleships of the Royal Navy of the Ocean Empire were slightly injured, one cruiser was seriously injured, and one destroyer was seriously injured, 56 people were killed and 113 people were injured.

The end of the Seattle Naval Battle on November 9, 1908 was just the end of the first phase of the Pacific Naval Battle, and the second phase of the "East Pacific Chase War" began.

From November 10 to December 23, it took 43 days, from Seattle in the north to Buenos Aires in Argentina, the battlefield was tens of thousands of kilometers long, which was rare in history.

The Royal Navy of the Ocean Empire was divided into two parts, and part of it was organized into an expeditionary strike fleet and then quickly moved south, chasing the escaped fish of the Dabai fleet, vowing to eliminate all the enemies.

Some of them formed an escort formation and began to cover the Royal Army's landing in North America, opening the prelude to the vigorous North American war.

On November 27, the Ocean Empire Expeditionary Strike Formation blocked the USS Kansas battleship, which was run out of fuel in the remote Port of Hemit north of Los Angeles. After some twists and turns, it killed dozens of officers and soldiers who tried to resist with a sub-bomb, and captured the USS Kansas battleship intact.

Port Hermit is a remote small port not far from the US-Mexico border. The battleship Kansas has hiding here, and has done its best.

On December 6, the US battleship "Rhode Island" was replenished at the Panama port. When she was about to slip away at night, she was blocked by the first squadron of the expeditionary strike formation, "Queensland", "Tasmania" and "Beilun" three battleships were blocked outside the port, and a fierce night battle broke out.

That night, three powerful battleships surrounded the US Rhode Island battleship. They successively got 7 356mm large-caliber shells, 2 305mm shells, and more than 20 152mm shells. They sank miserably into the seabed of Central America. Only 17 people on the ship were rescued, and all 877 of the remaining people were killed.

December 11

After learning about the remnants of the Dabai Fleet and the supply of the Iquique Port to Chile, the 2nd Detachment of the Ocean Empire Expeditionary Strike Formation, the 2nd Detachment of the Ocean Empire Expeditionary Strike Formation, arrived in a starry night but died in vain. The formation of 11 ships, including three battleships, had left and fled back into the vast Pacific Ocean.

The Ocean Empire was extremely angry about this and issued a naked war threat to Chile. If the other party did not have a clear explanation, don't blame the sword and weapons.

December 12
Chapter completed!