"A battle must revolve around your own purpose. Only in this way will your direction of action not deviate. Only then will your battle plan have a main line. Analyzing the other party's intentions allows you to see through the fog of war and see clearly the core of both parties.

Purpose. Only by achieving these two points can your plan be operable."————Yang Yonglin

"Gentlemen, let us first make it clear that our mission for this trip has two points. The first is to contain part of the U.S. Navy fleet as much as possible and create convenient conditions for General Severa to break through the blockade. The second is to try our best to

"To weaken the U.S. fleet. In other words, our purpose is not to sink many transport ships, nor to capture many prisoners. It is to destroy American warships and to tell the Americans that the Florida Strait is no longer safe." Yang Yonglin

Said seriously.

"Look at the opponent's actions. There is no trick in disbanding the transport fleet. It is just to reduce losses. But the whereabouts of this American fleet are interesting. Their speed should be around 16 knots, but now it seems that they are the most

It’s only 14 knots. If you don’t run with all your strength, what’s the purpose?” Yang Yonglin asked.

"To scare us? To prevent us from dividing our forces to attack the escaping transport ships?" Hipper was a little unsure.

"Towards the northeast, if our intelligence is correct, the further northeast you go, the closer you will get to the main force of the US fleet." Jericho said with some worry.

"What you said makes sense, but it is just a guess. We need to verify it." Yang Yonglin paused and continued: "We might as well test it out. The entire fleet increased its speed to 18 knots. After 1 hour, the Cologne and the King left the formation to hunt.

transport ship, and the remaining warships accelerated to pursue the American fleet with the Manila as the flagship." Yang Yonglin revealed this plan that seemed unbelievable to others!

"General Yang, I have to say, this is the worst plan I have ever seen!" Jericho took a few deep breaths and said. "Use your most elite troops to attack the most worthless targets in this world.

It’s hard to have a worse plan than this!”

"I agree to express my disappointment with the plan you specified." Sipel's face looked a little ugly.

"Gentlemen, consider our purpose first. Our first purpose is to weaken the opponent's fleet. The prerequisite for achieving this goal is that the Americans are willing to fight us! If the opponent withdraws at full speed, we will probably need 4 to 5

It will take an hour to catch up." After saying that, Yang Yonglin pointed outside.

The sun in front of him continued: "But by then, it is already night. Everything we have done will be in vain. If we don't give the other side a big enough temptation, the other side will not choose to slow down and fight. We must give them

Create an opportunity, an opportunity that they think can hit us hard!"

"What if the other party doesn't fall for the trick?" Jericho asked.

"We have to consider the problem from the other side's point of view. What the general on the opposite side did is simply running away from the battlefield in the eyes of the Army. He must be under a lot of pressure now! He needs to do something to clear his name! And when we

When this opportunity is placed in front of him, do you think he will give up? Moreover.

After the two battleships leave the formation, the speed of the remaining four battleships will be increased to about 20 knots, which will force the other side not to fight us! The Cologne and the König will choose a suitable opportunity to fight back. Before that,

, we can definitely keep in touch by radio." Yang Yonglin said quite confidently.

"So, no matter whether the other party is not hooked, this battle is determined? But is there a loss of 4 ships at the beginning of the four ships." A Spanish two said with some concerns. "Everyone should know. Americans. Americans.

After the warship is damaged, it can be well maintained, but we will be more difficult. "

"This is how the Spaniards are declining." Speel said, and there was an unscrupulous expression on his face.

"This reminder is very meaningful, so before the main ship arrived, your task is to drag the opponent's fleet to a speed that the opponent's fleet can easily catch up with the king.

Fultil. Okay, what else should I ask? "Yang Yonglin asked.

Later, according to the established plan, the Cologne and the Kings left the formation after one hour and started to "pretend" to chase the American transport ship.

Some sub -business. After the remaining four cruisers play against the US fleet, they will immediately give up their pursuit and then attack the US fleet.

"General, the opponent seems to be divided into soldiers!" Shortly after the Yang Yonglin's fleet was divided, this situation was accurately discovered by the watched hand. "Two large warships may be chasing merchant ships, and the four warships began to accelerate."

"Sub -soldiers?! Fleets accelerated?" The most direct response in Xie Li's mind is that the other party is likely to desperate with himself! It is impossible to encounter such a fleet that is far stronger than himself in the outer sea. So it is impossible.

When considering the problem, Xie Li subconsciously positioned the opponent to the attacker. Therefore, he judged that the most likely choice for the other party was to compile faster warships into a set of battleships to catch up with himself faster!

"The opponent is the pursuit of 4 warships, we are 5 warships. Mr. Merchant, we can try the other party to fight with them." A staff member whispered.

"Hmm? Battle?" Looking at the fleet with great reduction in front of him. Xie Li also had a little movement in his heart. If you can eat or hit the fleet, then this will be the first victory since the US Navy's war.

As for the fact that it has not been effectively covering the Army transport ships? It can be said that the navy is not arrested!

"Let's take a look before." Xie Li glanced at the two giant ships still in the field of vision, and pressed the idea of ​​bite deeply to the bottom of his heart. The two Garrobo -improved warships were not the Yin shadow in his heart all the time!

In this way, the four cruisers in Spain accelerated their pursuit, and the US fleet accelerated the evacuation, while Yang Yulin commanded two armored cruisers to bully the naval transport ships that basically did not return!

The first goal to be caught up was a transport ship with a displacement of about 5,000 tons. From the perspective of eating water, this should be a ship carrying a large number of arms and supplies. It may be because there are too many loads. This ship is this ship.

The slowest running is about 10 knots, and when the ship is caught up by the two giant ships, it is also very interesting to decelerate, raising the white flag. The king will not even have a jing report!

After arriving on the boat, the person who boarded the transport ship opened the sea valve. After ten minutes, the ship sank to the bottom of the sea.

In the face of the second catch -up goal, Yang Yonglin was a little tricky. This is a shipping ship transported by the US military. The nearly 1,000 U.S. soldiers above are very difficult to deal with.

It is definitely not possible to kill the white flag. But if it is transferred to your boat, it is obviously not even more.

Give more to feed these people.

"Can the captives still be eliminated?" Yang Yonglin scolded in a low whisper. Yang Yonglin, who was quite depressed, raised his head. Suddenly found that they were almost chased to the Cuban coast, and there was a town next to the coast.

It is born for a weird way!

"Tell those Americans to immediately throw all the weapons into the sea and destroy all the boats. Then send a few to supervise them."

Send a telegram to let the Spanish Army in Cuba handle these American soldiers who are trapped in the shoal without armed. "

Half an hour later. After Yang Yonglin handled these captives. A telegram made Yang Yaolin shocked in his heart. "The Americans finally can't help it!" Yang Yonglin showed a hint of smiling smile. Look at the outside of the sky, probably there is probably there is still there any more.

It will not arrive at the night for more than 2 hours. It takes about an hour to catch it. That is to say, if the estimated is correct, the two warships led by yourself can still catch up with today's battle!

At this moment, Xie Li finally couldn't help it. The two large armored ships had disappeared, that is, the two sides had at least 20 kilometers away.

Although the four Spanish warship behind him is catching up, he can control the speed. For this behavior, Xie Li's understanding is that the other party does not want to fight easily. After all, for the weak Spanish fleet, if the two sides lose the same loss, the same loss is the same.

In the case, it is also the US Navy's best. In the case of seemingly equivalent of both parties, it is a bit unwilling not to fight.

Thinking of this, Xie Lizhun turned decisively to turn the fleet to welcomes the enemy. 5 second -class cruisers began to draw a arc on the sea in turn. 5 warships rushed into the Spanish fleet with standards.

The Wak is ranked first. This is equipped with 12 6 -inch guns, with 18 knots speed. Warships with a displacement of 4083 tons are the first. Then the Balt Motor is the firepower.

There are 4 doors, 8 -inch 35L artillery and 6 6 -inch guns, 4413 tons of drainage. The speed 19 verses. Philadelphia and San Francisco are ranked third and fourth.

The Ke number is the same, but the speed of the speed is faster. The last battleship is worse. The 3700 -ton Charston is equipped with 2 8 -inch guns and 6 6 -inch guns, with a speed of 18.9 knots.

"New Sawak, Balt's Motor and Philadelphia, attacking Manila and Philadelphia. St. Francisco and Charlston attacked Pluto and Furious." Xie Li finally repeated the battle order.

At this time, Jericho, who was commanding four cruisers, looked excitedly at the five cruisers coming from a distance. The excitement of the battle made him unable to sit still. In his eyes, the opponent's choice was undoubtedly

Stupid. In terms of total tonnage, the opponent is not superior, and the opponent is a dome-armored cruiser. Under the limitation of displacement, dome

The thickness of the armor's slope is only about 3 inches, and it is also steel-faced iron armor. This is simply vulnerable to the 8-inch turret gun of the Guiyuan. Having experienced the Sino-Japanese War of 1898, he knows very well the impact of high-speed main guns on naval battles.

Meaning. In this war, Americans will pay a huge price for their lack of actual combat experience!
Chapter completed!