The coal smoke rolled and the waves exploded. The shells on both sides roared and roared and re-entered the sea, stirring up the rushing water column that was towering into the clouds. Judging from the sound of the water column, it was undoubtedly that the Russian warships rose far higher than the other side.

On the battleship "Sultan Selim", German Rear Admiral Ecoman saw the vigorous flames rising from the distance from the Popkin, and the expression on his face finally became soothing. Due to the short running-in training time, the hit rate of his warship was really unsightly and was not worthy of the glory that the world's second navy deserved. And the current hit was undoubtedly a long time for him: According to the observation news sent back by the mainmast lookout, the speed of the Russian former dreadnought was decreasing sharply, and he only needed to find the average bounce point step by step through half-volleys, and he could completely end it with volley firepower.

"General, the Russian torpedo boat has left the array and is rushing towards us at a speed of no less than 25 knots!" A rapid sound came from the sound tube. Ecoman was shocked and quickly grabbed the telescope and looked out. He saw more than a dozen gray ship shadows as big as peas changed their course and aimed the bow at the southwest side of his place. Seeing this, Ecoman began to quickly calculate.

At present, this fleet with star-and-moon flags has two choices. One is to change the course to avoid it, and the other is to keep the original course and speed regardless of it. The advantage of the former is to avoid the edge of the torpedo boats and increase the time when these unprotected ships are exposed to their own rapid-fire muzzles; this not only greatly reduces the probability of warships being struck by enemy lightning, but also teaches these little things that dare to rush to the tiger's mouth to pull their teeth. In fact, the reason why the torpedo boats of various navies are called cannon fodder is precisely because of this reason. As long as the enemy makes appropriate tactical maneuvers, torpedo boats are not only difficult to achieve a fatal lightning strike with one blow, without any armor, and running naked, when facing the rapid-fire shells fired by the enemy, their loss rate is undoubtedly the highest among the entire service.

However, if Ecoman chooses to implement maneuver avoidance, there are corresponding disadvantages, that is, the shooting parameters of the Possian King will be lost. As the course changes, the original shooting parameters will no longer be applicable. This means that the Sultan Selim needs to use a half-volley to find the right position again. If the course and speed are kept unchanged, the pros and cons are exactly the opposite of the evasive steering: one's own ship can maintain an effective blow to the enemy's main battleship, but it is also more susceptible to attacks by the opponent's torpedo boats!

Although Ecoman wanted to beat the Russian Forbidden Fearless into the sea and reap the first result in his life; however, careful consideration prevented his adventures and made him give the order to turn after pondering for more than ten seconds. Compared to the Russian Forbidden Fearless, the super fearless ship he was riding in was obviously much more precious and would never allow any mistakes; not to mention that the Russian Forbidden Fearless was already injured and had a slow speed. After he repelled these torpedo boats, he still had a lot of chance to kill them.

"Didi..." As the ringtone of rapid turn sounded throughout the ship, one side of the ship's bow began to burst into a large number of dancing water; four majestic main turrets also began to whimper, aiming at these little guys who were looming in the waves. Although these two or three hundred tons of Russian torpedo boats had a wide range of levels, their lightning strike capabilities were roughly the same: the speed was between 26.5 and 27.5 knots. They were all equipped with equipment.

2 to 3 381mm torpedo tubes. During the Russo-Japanese War, the performance of these torpedo boats was unsatisfactory; however, in the first battle, this thing was completely insufficient. In the case of the battleship of the Sultan Selim, which is nearly 100 times larger than them, could drive 23 knots, with the range of less than two thousand meters in Russia's old torpedo, it was extremely difficult to occupy a suitable launch position!

"Boom!" After more than a minute of silence, the German 350mm SKL45 naval gun burst out again with a deafening roar, and the flames shot into the sky. The Russian sailors had only time to enjoy this spectacular scene in less than ten seconds. The shrill roar suddenly came to their ears; after a moment, a large-caliber shrunk burst out suddenly on the sea. Although the height of the water column stirred up was far less than that of the normal loaded shells, this was the situation that experienced Russian sailors were most reluctant to see!

Steel balls burst out, shrapnel danced wildly. Countless steel bullets as big as fists were as dense as rainstorms, sweeping in all directions. An unlucky Russian torpedo boat was located just fifty meters away from the scavenging explosion site, and was covered in an instant. More than a dozen Russian sailors exposed on the open-air deck even hummed before they could even hum, and the dense shrapnel was torn into several sections; blood was like a mountain torrent, ejecting more than ten meters away. A series of tearing sounds that made the teeth sore, and the unprotected waterline of the torpedo boat was pierced through the shocking holes as dense as honeycombs; a large amount of sea water poured into it, and the torpedo boat suddenly shook, and its speed slowed down at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Boom..." The orange light burst into anger and its aura flew. After the main gun opened fire, the 150mm secondary gun and 88mm rapid-fire gun on the side of the Sultan Selim also roared in the battle. The shells were like meteor fire rain, roaring and colliding around the torpedo boats that cut through the waves, and the water waves gushed and white flowers splashed. Considering the lack of frigate ships in the Ottoman Navy, the German designers not only equipped the Sultan Selim with the standard 12 150mm secondary guns, but also added 12 abandoned 88mm rapid-fire guns on the German main battleship to be used as anti-torpedo boats. Compared with

The 150mm secondary gun with a bullet weight of 45.3kg, although the bullet weight of this rapid-fire gun is only 9.5kg, which is far less powerful than a single shot; its firing rate can reach 15 rounds per minute, which is more than twice that of the 150mm secondary gun. When dealing with this small unprotected torpedo boat, this rapid-fire gun is even more effective than the 150mm gun. At the same time, the battleship Hereading and four other Turkish torpedo boats also began to fire at the charge of the Russian torpedo boats; for these Russians, the Turks, who had hundreds of years of grudges, were even more jealous!

The artillery fire roared and the loud banged. Under the intensive attack of the single-side rapid-fire fire power of the Turkish fleet of more than 30 gates, the Russian torpedo boats that rushed towards the sky were shot one after another. The unit of a Russian torpedo boat suddenly exploded with bright red fire waves, and the violent explosion directly destroyed the boiler's blower and large pipes; accompanied by the blazing high-pressure steam rushing rapidly in a sea of ​​fire, the speed of the torpedo boat slowed down. After a while, five or six more shells roared, and the red light burst out; the bridge collapsed, the waterline rolled, and the entire torpedo boat tilted sharply in a sea of ​​fireworks, and the surviving Russian sailors rushed into the sea.

A few minutes later, another Russian torpedo boat was hit: a 150mm grenade was like a bloody mouth of a giant shark, and it bit the bow of one of the Russian torpedo boats. The terrifying air waves produced by the violent explosion were like mountain torrents, slashing gold and broken iron along the way, and the wind swept the remaining clouds and poured into the torpedo compartment at the bottom of the bow. With a shocking roar that was even more violent than thunder, its entire bow was blown into thousands of pieces, and various metal fragments combined with flesh and blood limbs shot into the sky; this Russian torpedo boat plunged into the sea in a few seconds, and the deadly vortex made none of the sailors on the ship survive!

Although theoretically, these torpedo boats with a caliber of only 381 mm and a speed of only 27 knots will have little chance in front of this Turkish fleet; but due to the lack of running-in training on the sailors on the Sultan Selim, the artillery accuracy is not satisfactory; after paying the price of two sunk, one severely damaged, and two withdrawal from the battle, the Russian torpedo boats still rushed to a position 3,500 meters away from the Turkish fleet. One after another

The bomb exploded around them, stirring up a high wall of water. At this time, four Turkish torpedo boats formed the last line of defense for the Turkish fleet; under the cover of battleship artillery fire, they began to bravely rush towards their Russian counterparts who were several times their own. While trying their best to fire, they also cast torpedoes at the Russians; although it was difficult to hit those delicate and agile Russian torpedo boats, they could force the other party to turn, so that they could not calmly occupy the torpedo launching position.

"The lowly Asian Minor, you are looking for death!" Seeing the Turkish torpedo boats coming towards the conflict, all the officers and soldiers on the Russian torpedo boats burst out with uncontrollable rage. These fighting nations are already flowing with brave and fierce and cruel blood, and they always bullied others by themselves. Today, they were beaten by the sick man Turks and beaten up, and their anger was like a volcano erupting. Without waiting for the commander to order, the two 75mm cannons on each Russian torpedo boat were aimed at these evil Turkish torpedo boats. With the loud roar, several Turkish torpedo boats were immediately as if they were sailing in boiling water!

The artillery fire flew and the water waves stormed. Both sides were trying their best to kill each other; in the far north, the Russian main fleet was still providing almost futile long-range artillery support for the lightning strike fleet. With the turn of the Turkish fleet, the distance between the two sides was further stretched for more than 10 kilometers. If the Russians wanted to get a hit, they could only rely on the help of God. After paying the price of two torpedo boats being hit and slowed down, and then being beaten by random artillery, the remaining Russian torpedo boats finally rushed to the range of their old torpedoes.

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Chapter completed!