After the battle, Yang Yonglin also led the fleet to move slowly towards the Windward Strait, and sent reports regularly, trying to contact Severa's fleet, and reported the entire battle. What Yang Yonglin did not expect was that

, just as Yang Yonglin was rushing to the Windward Strait, the fleet led by Severa had already entered the Port of Santiago and had been preparing for more than three days. It was not without a while.

It was discovered by the American cruiser, but after being discovered, it followed for a while and then evacuated. Now after receiving Yang Yonglin's telegram, the reason for the American cruiser's evacuation has become obvious, because the appearance of Yang Yonglin's fleet disrupted the American plan.

In order to respond to Yang Yonglin's fleet, Severa ordered Scheer to take two Pisa-type armored cruisers to the sea area where the incident occurred to respond to Yang Chapter 352

The strange fleet uses the Lin fleet.

At this time, Yang Yonglin's fleet, which was sailing to the Windward Strait, discovered two faint smoke pillars on the sea rushing into the clear sky. It was obvious that two ships were heading towards them, and they were definitely enemies. After all,

In this sea area, apart from yourself, there should be only the American fleet. As for Scheer's detachment? It should not have arrived yet?

Perhaps because of the distance, the American fleet did not realize at first that the fleet in front of them was the Spanish fleet and not the American fleet. As the distance gradually approached, the Americans discovered the scarred warships of the other side, but still did not turn to evacuate.

Instead, he continued to approach and sent out a signal to ask for the other party's identity.

"They may have mistaken us for the Dewey Fleet." Jericho said, looking at the two American ships in the distance.

"Dewey Fleet? How is that possible?" Sipel said in surprise.

"Look, our entire fleet now has exactly five battleships, the same number as the original Dewey fleet, and they are also two large and three small. The San Diego-class cruiser has a slender hull, and from a distance it is similar to the 7,000-ton Columbia. As for

The three turrets of the Cologne? It's also easy to cover up, don't Chapter 352

The strange fleet forgot that the New York also had three turrets on its side. If the other party had not received telegrams from Dewey or Magiffin, they might not know anything about this naval battle!" Jericho analyzed.

"It's such a big ship, but I don't know what's on it. Colonel Jericho, please return to the Santiago immediately. We will capture them." Yang Yonglin on the side ignored the dispute between the two. In his opinion,

, it doesn’t matter why the other party made a mistake in judgment. The important thing is to deal with them quickly!

"No problem, General Yang." Jericho smiled and then left the command tower.

Ten minutes later, Jericho led the two San Diego cruisers to leave the formation and sail toward each other. At this time, after looking at the two cruisers rushing towards them with great momentum, the two American ships finally discovered that something was wrong.

Without saying a word, he turned around and ran towards the northeast!

Ordinarily, without escort, the American transport ship encountered the opponent's attack ship. The best way should be to immediately choose to disband the formation and evacuate separately, but what Jericho didn't expect was that the opponent actually maintained the formation.

, and the speed has actually increased to 16 knots. Because he didn’t know the name of the other party’s ship, Jericho temporarily named the huge merchant ship in front Taifeng, and the one behind him Bonito.

"This ship is really big. The tonnage is not as small as the Dante-class battleship." Jericho said after observing with a telescope for a moment. Jericho roughly estimated that the length of the ship is about 160 meters, and the width should be about 160 meters.

About 20 meters, judging from the ship shape, this ship should be an ocean-going high-speed cargo ship. But what Jericho can't understand is, why didn't the other party escape in separate ways?

The answer was soon revealed. When Jericho approached with two cruisers, several thick and long gun barrels suddenly protruded from the side windows. Then a red light flashed, and a row of cannonballs flew towards the leading one.

Santiago! At this moment, Jericho suddenly felt like he was back to the gunhouse era 30 years ago.

!Several artillery pieces of different lengths stretched out from the side strings of the Typhon, spitting tongues of fire towards the Santiago! One of the cannonballs fell into the sea less than 5 meters away from the Santiago. The water column produced by the explosion made Jericho heartbroken.

Tighten suddenly, the opponent is not a good person! This is an 8-inch artillery!

"The Taifeng has two 8-inch guns and six 6-inch guns on its side, as well as some 6-pounders. The Bonito should have five 6-inch guns and some 3-pounders. These two prey are really

It's tricky." Jericho said to himself. If the two Santiagos were in good condition,

It is definitely easy to deal with these ships with no artillery and no protection. But the two cruisers now have not only lost a lot of firepower, but their ammunition has basically run out. And the tonnage of the other party is so huge. Jerry was immediately stunned.

Ke feels a bit tricky.

However, after a few minutes of exchange of fire, Jericho discovered that the other party's gunnery skills could no longer be described as poor, but rather poor. Jericho bet that the other party had not conducted live fire in at least 2 years.

Get too close at first and let the opponent hit you

Except for the near-misses, the other shells were thrown into the water, posing no threat to the two cruisers. At this time, the two cruisers gradually entered the state, and the shells hit Taifeng and Bonito one after another.

Not long after, a raging fire broke out on the two American ships.

Then, the powerful ship, the Typhon, began to speed up and tried to escape alone, leaving the Bonito behind. Jericho naturally couldn't let the other party succeed. After leaving the Manila to attack the Bonito, he commanded the Santiago to pursue the Typhon.

.During the pursuit, the performance of the Typhon shocked Jericho.

What a surprise! This American ship with a displacement of at least 12,000 tons actually reached a speed of 21 knots! And this speed is basically the current limit speed of the San Diego! The long voyage and battle damage made this ship basically run

Without going beyond the high speed of 23 to 24 knots, 21 knots is already the limit!

Not only the speed, but also the protection aspect also surprised the Jericho. Ordinary merchant ships are far inferior to warships in terms of structural strength and compartments. This leads to the fact that, excluding armor factors, a civilian ship of more than 7,000 tons

Maybe it’s anti-sinking x

In terms of ing, it is not as good as a warship of more than 3,000 tons! Moreover, it wears much less damage control and fire-extinguishing equipment than a warship. In addition, the crew is sparse, which means that a small fire may cause a large-scale fire.

Sinking of civilian ships!

But this common sense is obviously not suitable for the behemoth in front of him. First of all, Jericho discovered that this ship is actually armored! Although the thickness is not large enough, it can still block some shrapnel. At least Jericho saw that one shot was about 12

After the shells fired by the pounder artillery successfully penetrated the outer ship plate, it did not cause the nearby artillery to fail. This shows that at least the opponent's gun gallery is protected.

In addition, the damage control of this ship is quite good. A few small fire points were quickly controlled by the opponent. At this time, due to the problem of remaining firepower and ammunition stock, the Santiago was unable to output as much as it did in the naval battle.

, but as a merchant ship, it is quite difficult to control the fire area as soon as possible! Looking through the telescope, people extinguishing the fire on the ship are running back and forth, making people feel that this is a warship rather than a warship.

Merchant ship!

And at this moment, the ship accelerated again! Although it seemed a little powerless, Jericho concluded that if the opponent accelerated again, the Santiago, which was famous for its high speed, would most likely be thrown away! And this was very important to the ship.

This is definitely an insult to Jericho! If this ship is allowed to run away, all the achievements he has made before will be turned into dust! This is something Jericho will never agree to!

"Get closer, we need to paralyze the opponent in the shortest possible time!" At this time, Jericho did not care about the opponent's ferocious firepower. The twin 8-inch guns at the bow and stern of the ship also spurted out tongues of flame. (Here

Previously, in order to save ammunition, Jericho did not order the main gun to fire.) As the distance between the two sides increased,

Zooming in, the Santiago finally scored its first main gun hit at a distance of 1.5km. The shell was fired from the tail of the Taifeng's hull. Facing the Taifeng without heavy armor protection, it was obviously possible to use high-explosive shells.

Achieve better results. The situation of the Taifeng at this time just proves this point.

A bright yellow fireball erupted from the stern of the Taifeng. Then accompanied by a violent explosion, a thick smoke poured out from the breach, and the huge Taifeng seemed to be drunk.

The sailing direction swung back and forth and deviated. Jericho estimated that the other party's wheelhouse might have been damaged!

After the steering gear was damaged, the huge auxiliary cruiser obviously couldn't run away in a short period of time, and Jericho sent a signal for the other party to surrender. The Taifeng responded to Jericho's persuasion to surrender with ferocious firepower.

.A dense rain of bullets hit us all over again!

"Reckless guy." Looking at the muzzle of the cannon flashing in the distance, Jericho said with some annoyance. At this time, Santiago could not even exert half of its peak combat effectiveness, and the opponent was indeed difficult to deal with. Lin Li

The cannon turned the ship into a fire-breathing hedgehog! It also caused some difficulties for the Santiago.

At this moment, two huge figures gradually appeared from the northeast. Jericho, who was in trouble, couldn't help but be shocked! But he was relieved immediately, because he saw from the telescope that the layout of the main guns of the two battleships was

3 turrets! And the identities of these two battleships were revealed, the Princess Maria and the Oquendo were coming!

Scheer led two armored cruisers to cruise at the north entrance of the Windward Strait, preparing to meet Yang Yonglin's fleet. However, after failing to find a target for a long time, the bold Scheer decided to sail north, because from the intelligence point of view, the main force of the American cruise fleet had been captured.

Heavy damage, the remaining cruisers are not afraid at all, and the US Navy's battleships cannot catch up.

What else do you have to be afraid of? So this daring German led his fleet to wander in the Florida Strait, as if he were in his own back garden! And today, after receiving the radio signal from Yang Yonglin's fleet, he

Just as I arrived from this sea area, what I didn't expect was that I actually ran into Jericho who was fighting fiercely!

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