The Yizhou stopped Rotterdam head-on, and it happened to face Rotterdam directly in front with the right side. At this time, the distance between the two sides was only more than 200 meters. The captain Lei Meng immediately ordered the guns to shoot freely and launch a fierce attack on Rotterdam head-on with the fastest rate of fire. So the eight 155mm main guns, eight 100mm secondary guns, and eight 50mm rapid-fire guns on the side of Yizhou opened fire with all their might. For a moment, various shells shot towards Rotterdam like hail raindrops.

In the previous battle, the front main gun of the Rotterdam had been destroyed. Now it can only fight back with two 100mm caliber secondary guns, which poses almost no threat to the Yizhou. Moreover, the distance between the two sides was too close at this time. Even if they fired their guns with their eyes closed, they could still hit a few shots. Therefore, the hit rate of the Yizhou was surprisingly high, almost reaching more than 70%. As a result, in less than a minute when the Yizhou cut across the bow of the Rotterdam, it actually poured more than 200 shells into the Rotterdam. The bow of the Rotterdam was almost covered by a series of explosions. Of course, the shells of the 50mm rapid-fire gun were mostly shells, accounting for more than half.

Despite this, it is enough for Rotterdam to have a drink. After all, Rotterdam is just a protective cruiser, and the head of the ship is one of the weakest areas for warship protection. Even the dome armor is generally not laid to the head of the ship. This is because after the column tactics of naval battles replaced the horizontal tactics, the probability of the head of the ship being shot becomes very low, so when the warship is designed, there will naturally be no more armor placed at the head of the ship.

As a result, after the Yizhou cut through the bow of the Rotterdam, the smoke gradually dissipated. The bow of the Rotterdam was almost sieve, creating thousands of holes, and there was no good place at all. Moreover, through the hole of the bow, it was very clear that a large amount of sea water was pouring in from the waterline of the bow, and the entire warship had already shown a significant state of low front and high back.

Lei Meng was pecking at the slightest whether to give Rotterdam a few more shots and send it to the road completely. At this moment, the sound of a helicopter came from the radio station: "Yizhou, Yizhou, the enemy's ship No. 5, and the ship No. 6 have been circumvented from the side of ship No. 4. I suspect they are going to send you *, please increase your attention."

The prompt sound on the radio was not over yet, and a warning came from the observation deck, "I found an enemy warship approaching our ship on the front right."

When Lei Meng heard this, he also jumped a lot and immediately ordered the warship to turn left, allowing the right side of the warship to face the enemy ship, and at the same time the artillery on the right opened fire.

It turned out that the No. 5 ship of the Dutch Fleet organized by the People's Army Navy was two *boat destroyers with a tonnage of only more than 400 tons. The main gun was a 100mm caliber naval gun in front and back. The combat effectiveness was almost insignificant. Its main role in combat was when the fleets of both sides were in line and arrayed battles, waiting for an opportunity to release the enemy's fleet, disrupting the enemy's fleet's position, or when the side retreated, the palace fired smoke from the back to block the enemy's pursuit. Therefore, in the battle line of the Dutch Fleet, these two warships were placed at the end of the fleet.

However, neither the People's Army Navy nor the Dutch fleet calculated the combat power of these two small ships, including *. Although * is also a powerful weapon in this era, and one shot is enough to sink a 1,000-ton large ship, *'s technology is still very behind. If you want to truly kill the enemy ship, you must approach the enemy ship about 500 meters to have a practical effect. If the distance is far, * will deviate from the direction during the journey. However, when the * boat reaches this position, it will basically be sunk. Therefore, in this era, the function of the * boat is generally to cooperate with the main warship to scratch the enemy's warships, or to sink the other's transport ship.

In fact, when the Yizhou cut in from the head of the Rotterdam, the captain of the Rotterdam knew that the situation was not good, so he hurriedly called the boat to shoot the boat, interfering with the other party, so he took the opportunity to escape. But at this time, both boats were blocked by the Rotterdam, and they were afraid that they would hurt their own people by chance, so they had to give up a certain angle to launch the *, which took a certain time to adjust. The Yizhou cross-cutting speed was too fast, so when the boat flashed out of the angle, the Rotterdam had been beaten to death by the Yizhou.

At this time, a * boat suddenly became only 500 meters away from the Yizhou, which was the effective distance to the launch *. Therefore, this * boat launched four consecutive rounds at the Yizhou ship in one breath, in the shape of a fan, and shot towards the Yizhou ship. If there were no helicopter reminders, I would have been caught off guard. But now the Yizhou ship was precautioned and avoided the * training. I knew how many times it had practiced, so the Yizhou ship slowly adjusted its direction and drew an arc on the sea surface, and successfully avoided the * attack in the gap between the third and fourth rounds.

At this time, the boat had just turned around and had not escaped 10 meters away. The Yizhou immediately aimed at fire. More than a dozen artillery fired together, forming a barrage area, covering the boat inside, with at least 5 or 6 shells hit. The boat, which was only more than 400 tons, could withstand such a blow, and was immediately broken and waiting to sink on the sea. The other boat was about 1,000 meters away from the Yizhou. Seeing that the situation was not good, he quickly fired two shots at the Yizhou, then cast smoke, and turned to escape.

Lei Meng hesitated for a moment and ordered a few shots into the smoke. If he didn't fight, he would be killed, but he did not order to chase him. Looking back at the Rotterdam, he saw that the head of the warship had almost completely sunk into the sea, and the tail of the ship had been raised out of the sea, and the tail rudder and propeller could be seen. It seemed that the warship had not lasted for long. The Dutch soldiers on the warship were all jumping into the sea to escape. For a moment, the surroundings of the sinking warship were full of Dutch soldiers, just like dumplings.

It seems that the warship does not need to be done with it anymore. At this time, the helicopter reminded the Yizhou to support the Qingzhou, so Lei Meng immediately ordered the warship to turn and support the Qingzhou.

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After cutting into the Dutch fleet array, the Qingzhou ship was facing the stern of the Tilburg ship with its left side, which was about 200 meters away from the Yizhou ship, and it was more than 200 meters away. Although the port side of the Qingzhou ship was destroyed a double 100mm caliber turret, all other left side guns were still concentrated and attacked the Tilburg.

However, there was a 210mm caliber main gun at the stern of the ship of Tilburg, which also fired and fought back. Because the distance between the two sides was too close, the first gun hit a double-connected 155mm caliber turret on the left rear of the Qingzhou. The 210mm shell was powerful and immediately exploded the turret to a height of more than 10 meters and landed into the sea. Several soldiers in the turret were also killed on the spot.

But Tilburg's luck ended here. After this gun, a total of more than a dozen shells of different sizes fell to the tail of the Tilburg ship. Although the power was not as powerful as 210mm shells, there were many after all. The turret of the main gun was blown up immediately, and the entire rear deck was blown up to an unrecognizable appearance.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Tilburg hurriedly launched smoke in an attempt to interfere with the Qingzhou shooting. However, the Qingzhou turret had all set the shooting parameters, so it was not easy to see or not. It was like bombardment in the smoke, and more than a dozen artillery formed a dense barrage coverage. Tilburg was still continuously bombarded. Almost all the tail of the ship was destroyed, and even the tail rudder and propeller were damaged. As a result, although the warship still had combat power, it had lost its power and could only float half-deadly on the sea.

After cutting through the Dutch fleet, the Qingzhou immediately turned, preparing to give Tilburg another round of strike and completely send Tilburg to the road. However, at this time the helicopter told Qingzhou that the flagship of the Dutch fleet was turning, and suggested that Qingzhou immediately chase after it, follow the No. 2 ship from the outside, and chase the Dutch fleet's butt.

After listening to the helicopter's advice, Zhang Wei immediately ordered to bypass the Tilburg and pursue the last two warships of the Dutch fleet. However, the Jingzhou did not let the Tilburg go. Although he had no time to sink it with a cannon, he could use the * on the Qingzhou.

It turned out that when designing the Qingzhou-class protective cruiser, two triple-mounted*-launched tubes were designed. At that time, this design caused quite a lot of controversy, because although the Qingzhou speed was fast, it was impossible to approach 500 meters of the enemy warship to launch *at attacks. Therefore, installing the *-launched tube did not have much practical significance. On the contrary, it was the biggest hidden danger of the warship. Once the *-launched tube was hit in the battle, it would be a catastrophic consequence. There is a saying that during the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, the Zhiyuan, driven by Deng Shichang, was hit by a shell when he was rushing towards the enemy ship, and an explosion occurred in the pipe, causing the Zhiyuan to sink.

However, some people believe that this type of warship is not used for sea combat, but performs tasks such as breaking, escorting, cruiser, etc., so * still has a certain effect, such as attacking enemy transport ships, what is a merchant ship, or in the battle, the enemy and our warships lose power, but have not sunk, and they cannot drag them back, so they can only sink, so * has a place to use it.

So after several discussions, the design team finally decided to add *. If it is not easy to use, it will be removed, or simply not pretending to be *. In the first battle, * actually came in handy.

On the Qingzhou and Yizhou left Germany, the shells were full, with 6 * tubes, only 4 *, and the other 2 * tubes were equipped with training *, and they also conducted * shooting training on the way. They shot out both training *, and they also shot two *, and now there are only two * on each warship.

However, it was enough to deal with the Tilburg, because the Tilburg had lost its power. So the Qingzhou launched a * on the side and rear of the Tilburg, and then bypassed the Tilburg to pursue the other two Dutch warships.

However, the Dutch soldiers on the Tilburg could only watch a white line appearing on the sea and attacking them, but they could not move, so they jumped into the ship and fled.
Chapter completed!