The Rise of the Empire

The Mainz escaped from the attack of the two Japanese cruisers very smoothly. Needless to say, the Naniwa was an old ship in 1885. It was designed at 18.5 knots, and now it can run at a speed of 15 knots. Although Qiujinzhou's speed is fast, he is in the second position. In order to maintain the formation, his high speed of 19 knots cannot be fully utilized.

Ruprecht's Mainz staggered past the opponent at a speed of 20 knots. Before the cheers of the Japanese fell, the armored cruiser Mainz, which had already reached the rear of the Japanese fleet formation, began to rush towards the rear of Akitsu Prefecture! The two 11-inch main guns and more than a dozen secondary guns on the sidestring quickly pointed at the target. Although the high-level officers suffered heavy casualties, the front-line gunners did not suffer any losses. The German officers and soldiers aimed their muzzles with cold light at the Japanese cruiser angrily, waiting for the order to attack!

"Fire!" With the roar of the main gun, the armored cruiser Mainz finally showed its ferocious face on the battlefield! The bullet rain like a volcanic eruption instantly covered the cruiser Akitsushu! In one minute, each 150MM secondary gun fired at least 7 shells! Exceeded the theoretical rate of fire of 6 rounds!

"This is impossible!" Uemura Hikozhicheng felt that his battleship had hit a moving wall of fire. The flames engulfed the storm of debris and swept across the entire battleship. One after another, violent explosions continued to sound, accompanied by loud noises, The artillery of the cruiser Akitsushu was knocked out one by one! At a distance of 2,000 meters to 2,500 meters, the powerful projection of the armored cruiser Mainz directly pushed the 3,000-ton cruiser to a desperate situation! In just a few minutes of events, the entire deck seemed to have been torn away by murderous firepower!

"We can't penetrate it!" When the Japanese officers and soldiers on the Naniwa saw that the sparse shells they fired would at most leave a dent in the opponent's body, the spirits of the Japanese officers and soldiers on board were also on the verge of collapse! The giant on the opposite side cared too much about this old-fashioned cruiser, so he randomly separated the guns and suppressed the Naniwa. The 150MM guns on Naniwa are not rapid-fire guns. The Germans are not interested in opponents at the same level!

The Naniwa also tried to struggle and resist. Uemura Hikoyuki ordered the battleship to go up and launch torpedoes, but every time it was hit back by dense shells. Kong, half of the capital of the ship was submerged in the water, and a fire dragon rolled and danced on the battleship. The hot flames and poisonous gas harvested the lives of the Japanese like the scythe of death. Finally, some people couldn't help it, and they jumped into the sea to try to escape. But such people are often crushed by the water pressure generated by the shell explosion! Leaving a mass of minced meat and blood on the sea!

"Captain, the Akitsushu is hopeless, let's withdraw! We can go while we can!" An officer pointed to the Akitsushu who was beaten so hard that he couldn't take care of himself in the distance and said in a crying voice.

"Baga!" Dongxiang Heihachiro slapped the subordinate hard. "I can't even tell the situation! Going now is courting death! Can we still outrun that armored cruiser?"

As the later commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet and the military god of the Japanese Navy, Togo Heihachiro can at least distinguish the current situation. He absolutely cannot leave now, he can only wait! Waiting for Yoshino to come back, cover each other and evacuate from the battlefield! If he doesn't leave, Yoshino can at least know where he is, and if he finds something wrong, there is still a chance to rescue him. If he runs away, where can Yoshino find him? There were no radios in this day and age!

For Dongxiang Heihachiro, staying is a narrow escape, and running away is ten deaths! So Togo Heihachiro suppressed his inner fear and waited for Yoshino's arrival! Of course, Togo Heihachiro can also choose to flee to the sea, and then take advantage of the shallow draft to get rid of the opponent, but doing so is also very dangerous! In all likelihood, it will run aground! Then he was beaten to death bit by bit by the opponent!

"captain,

It's really too late if you don't leave! "When the subordinates wailed and begged Dongxiang to retreat, a gradually clear shadow of the ship in the distance changed the situation of the battle a little bit!

"Your Highness, it is a Japanese warship. Judging from its appearance, it should be a second-class cruiser built by the United Kingdom!" Hipper said after picking up the binoculars and observing the approaching warship.

"If it dares to come up, we will kill him and kill this dead fish first!" Prince Ruprecht said, glancing at the cruiser in the distance. Isn't that Yoshino? After carefully calculating the strength of the two sides, if the other party dares to come up, I don't mind picking it up along the way, but if Yoshino wants to leave, the current cruiser Mainz really can't catch up with the other party!

"Get closer to Yoshino quickly!" Togo Heihachiro ordered immediately after seeing Yoshino in the distance. At this time, the Emperor of Japan is not as important as this second-class cruiser! After all, the former is just a portrait, while the latter may become his own savior!

"Boss, what should we do?" On the bridge of the Yoshino, an officer pointed to Akitsu Prefecture, who was almost smashed into wreckage in the distance.

"Retreat!" He Yuan squeezed out a few words from the corner of his mouth!

"Okay, we will withdraw when Qiujinzhou comes over!" said the officer on the side.

"They're leaving!" Hipper said, looking at Naniwa who was about to leave the battlefield.

"Okay, launch a torpedo to sink Akitsu Prefecture, and then we will attack the Naniwa!" A sneer appeared on the corner of the prince's mouth, as for a miscellaneous fish of the level of Akitsu Prefecture, after 25 minutes of firefighting, it was already a dead fish, with full firepower Lost, the speed dropped to single digits. In fact, the last torpedo sent it away. The fundamental reason why it can survive until now is that the prince is waiting to lure Yoshino over! If Yoshino doesn't come, then turn around and clean up Naniwa, if Yoshino comes, then clean up together!

When the Naniwa withdrew, the cruiser Mainz stopped shelling, and then drove to a distance of no more than 700 meters from the opponent. With the action of the compressed air in the torpedo tube, two torpedoes flew out of the hull and fell into the water. Two white trails were left in the water. Two minutes later, with a loud noise, the cruiser Akitsu Prefecture was blown into two pieces!

"I don't know whether Uemura Hikoyuki can survive, Essen should thank me!" The prince glanced at the half of the ship that was slowly sinking, and then ordered the Mainz to continue the pursuit!

"It's a trick!" When the huge figure of the Mainz filled Kawahara's telescope, and the death-like gun barrel pointed at this historically flamboyant Japanese cruiser, Kawahara finally realized that he had made a mistake. Fatal mistake, I shouldn't have come! If you don't come, two will die, if you come, you may die three! The other party is like a cunning hunter taking advantage of the luck of the Japanese!

"Send us to the shallow sea area, and then you go!" Soon, Togo Heihachiro also realized his mistake, but at this moment, he immediately came up with a remedy.

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