Tang Jian looked up at the Pacific Fleet that was rushing towards this side and said slowly: "The commander of the Pacific Fleet, Lovstowski, is quite capable, but he is always a fool. At best, he can only be considered a fool with some ability. He was doomed to fail when he fought with the one-character snake formation. If he divided his troops from north to south and from time to time, the outcome of this sea battle would be unpredictable!"

Cheng Biguang asked, "The commander, next?"

"According to the original plan, he broke his one-character long snake formation!" Tang Jian said firmly.

The one-character long snake formation used by Lovstowsky is a tactical formation in naval battles. The long snake formation operates like a giant python attacking, with a fierce attack!

The entire array is divided into three parts: the head, the tail, and the gallbladder (central Wuji earth). When the formation changes, both true and false are used.

The long snake array is derived from the habits of snakes. There are three changes in the long snake array.

1. Hit the snake's head, tail, and roll;

2. Hit the snake's tail, move the head, and bite;

Three, the snake's body hits horizontally, the head and tail end, and the twists!

The One-character Snake Formation is an extremely powerful tactic in naval battles. As long as it is used properly, all the firepower in the fleet can be concentrated. In the battle, it is the first to seize the T-position. After seizing the T-position, the tactical advantages of this word long-character Snake Formation can be fully utilized.

Just imagine, a huge fleet lined up in a row and took the lead in seizing the T-position after entering the range of the two armies. Then all warships in this fleet can all use their hulls to fight the enemy, and the guns on all warships in the fleet can be fired and fired at the same time. This power can be simply used as a metaphor for sharpness.

However, the one-character snake array has a huge flaw, that is, if you do not take the lead in seizing the T-character position, you may be in a dangerous place where you cannot take care of each other at the beginning and the end.

Due to the above three changes, the maneuverability of the one-character long snake array is the most important. Therefore, the best way to break the long snake array is to limit the maneuverability of the two wings so that the head and tail cannot be taken into consideration.

Therefore, the best way to crack is: pull its head, clamp its tail, and cut its waist! Cut the long snake formation into three pieces. In this way, the long snake formations will fight on their own and can no longer cooperate with three parties, and the formation will be destroyed without attacking!

At this time, the tactic used by Tang Jian was exactly this cracking tactic.

"Yes, Commander!" Cheng Biguang ran excitedly to convey Tang Jian's orders.

Just as Tang Jian's main formation and the main force of the Pacific Fleet were in full swing, Lu Wenjing's first battleship squadron left the North Shore battlefield and came a U-shaped turn in the southeast of Weihaiwei. The attack direction after the turn was the abdomen of the Pacific Fleet.

Because most of the warships in Lu Wenjing's first battleship squadron were new ships. The fastest cruisers and destroyers in the Beiyang Fleet were basically included.

Needless to say, in the Far East, no battleship can match the speed of the Dragon Power-class battleship, and there are two ships of the same class, Hairong and Hailian. Both ships use four-seater coal-fired boilers, two-cylinder three-inflated reciprocating steam engines, two-axle double-seater double-saltitude sculls, and 7,500 horsepower.

The Hairong has reached a speed of 19.5 knots. As the latest returnee, the Hailian, after the continuous improvement of the German Vulcan shipyard, its speed has reached a high speed of 21 knots.

Therefore, when Tang Jian's Beiyang Fleet's main formation and the Pacific Fleet had already started to turn, and the first battleship squadron, which turned around, launched an attack on the Pacific Fleet's main formation after half an hour.

At the same time, the second battleship squadron of the Beiyang Fleet was less than ten nautical miles away from the original formation of the Earth Pacific Fleet.

At this time, the Pacific Fleet and the Beiyang Fleet's main formation had been fiercely fighting for an hour, and the distance between the two fleets had been narrowed to a distance of 5,000 meters.

As Lovstowski said, as the two fleets were closer, the long-range artillery of the Beiyang Fleet, the Beiyang Fleet, gradually lost its firepower advantage, while the advantages of the Pacific Fleet gradually began to appear. Three warships of the Beiyang Fleet were shot and caught fire. Among them, the bow of the Longwei was hit by a 105mm Krupp steel cannon. Although it was not fatal, a raging fire broke out on the deck of the Longwei that rushed to the front.

Seeing that the flagship was attacked by the fierce artillery fire of the Pacific Fleet, the Rising Wind took the lead and attracted most of the artillery fire for the Dragon Wei. Unfortunately, a 344mm shell from the Russian Nikola battleship accurately hit the Chising Wind's chimney, and thick black smoke rose from the Rising Wind in an instant.

Another cruiser of the Beiyang Fleet was also hit by the main artillery of the Pacific Fleet's Monarch-class battleship, the USS Siberia, and a large amount of sea water poured in, but it was not fatal. The injured cruiser still fought back fiercely on the right wing of the Pacific Fleet.

However, the Russian Pacific Fleet was not much better. After all, in the early stages of naval battles, the Longwei long-range artillery exerted great power. Several Russian warships caught fire, and the Nikola battleship was also hit by three bombs, and its speed decreased in a short period of time.

At this time, Lofstowski was concentrating on commanding the Nikolai battleship, and the artillery fire was aimed at the Longwei. A fanatical light shot out in his eyes. He clearly saw that the Pacific Fleet had gradually become evenly matched with the Beiyang Fleet from the early days.

Lofstowski knew that as long as the distance between the two fleets was closer to three thousand meters, his Pacific Fleet could immediately reverse the situation on the battlefield. At that time, under close combat, the numerical advantage of the Pacific Fleet could immediately appear, and the arrogant Dragon Wei could immediately become the target of attack by small torpedo boats.

"Torpedo, there are torpedoes!" Suddenly, an alarm sounded from the watch mast of the Nikola battleship, and the Nikola's watchman shouted in horror.

Lofstowsky immediately picked up the telescope and saw a torpedo shot out from the torpedo tube of the Dragon Hart. The gas propulsion device at the tail of the torpedo brought a long string of white water splashes on the boiling sea surface, and the direction of the torpedo attacked was the Nikola.

"Right-right rudder! Avoid torpedo!" Lovstowsky ordered with high tension. He had heard of this red-headed torpedo for a long time. In the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, it was such a torpedo that sunk the Yoshino of the Japanese Combined Fleet.

As Lovstowsky, who has studied the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, deeply understands the terrifying aspects of this torpedo. The most terrifying thing about this red-headed torpedo is not its huge destructive power, but its terrifying speed of forty knots. If it is attacked by this torpedo at a close range, there is no time to avoid it.

Fortunately, the torpedo was noticed by Nikola's watchman when it was launched. At this time, everyone in the Nikola bridge was extremely nervous, and they watched the torpedoes in the distance ride the wind and waves closer to Nikola.

The Russian battleship Nikola used a right rudder under the high speed because it forced the right rudder. Under the action of huge centrifugal force, the Nikola's ship made a harsh and strange sound. Lovstowski knew that it was the twisted sound of steel under great pressure.

The red-headed torpedo was getting closer and closer, and was about to hit the Nikola battleship. After the Nikola battleship performed the evasion action in advance, the entire ship showed an astonishing tilt. The red-headed torpedo almost passed through the Nikola waterline part, just one meter away, and one meter away! As long as the slight deviation is one meter, the torpedo can accurately hit the Nikola waterline part.

The Russian soldiers standing on the deck could even clearly see the number on the torpedo. Perhaps God's blessing, the Nikolai Battle House successfully avoided this terrible torpedo.

Before the sailors on the Nikola battleship breathed a sigh of relief, they heard a loud "boom". A Russian cruiser not far from Nikola was accurately hit by the torpedo.

In an instant, fire flashed on the sea surface, and the unlucky Russian cruiser was blown into two pieces by the torpedo. The wreckage of the warship and thick smoke instantly splashed on a large area of ​​sea around.

In just five minutes, the cruiser was torn into two sections and slowly sank into the sea. Before the Russian soldiers on the cruiser could have time to board the lifesaving boat, a huge vortex suddenly appeared on the sea surface. The wreckage of the warship mixed with the screams of the Russian soldiers was instantly sucked into the seabed.

Lofstowski cursed, and a new cruiser failed to attack Weihaigu. Before he could yet gladly escape the disaster, another bad news came to his ears.

"Hiss Commander, the Beiyang Fleet Squadron, which had just attacked the north shore of Weihaiwei in the four points of the fleet," said a communications soldier hurriedly ran into the bridge command room.

"Damn it!" Lofstowski simply climbed directly to the shooting command post at the top of the bridge, where a fleet appeared in the eyepiece of his telescope. At the four o'clock in the Pacific Fleet's main formation, the squadron that attacked the North Shore Fort in the morning. At this time, a Dragonwei-class battleship in this fleet had already launched an attack on the center of the Pacific Fleet's main formation.

In the shooting command post, Lovstsky discovered something strange on the side of Ling from afar, and a large column of smoke rose up at 11 o'clock in the fleet. He knew that it was the ambush fleet of the Beiyang Fleet that had long reported to him.

The strategic purpose of the Beiyang Fleet is very obvious. They want to use these two battleship squadrons to cut off the long snake formation in half.

Lofstowski returned to the bridge command room with a gloomy face. He did not expect that Tang Jian was so cunning that he dared to take risks and use his own fleet as bait to let him fall into the trap and go out to fight!

"It's like a madman, madman!" Lovstowski roared in the bridge. He knew that if this continued, the formation of the Pacific Fleet would be dispersed by the two enemy battleship squadrons.

With a loud "boom", the Nikola suddenly trembled violently.

"What happened?" Lofstowski asked madly.

"Report to the Commander, the flagship signal flag device of the Nikola is destroyed!"
Chapter completed!