Great Warlord: The Second Ancestor of the Empire

In just a few minutes, the Izumo was hit by three 305-caliber shells from Duke Suvorov.

Coupled with the fact that the Izumo's bridge was destroyed by Suvorov's cannon and a large amount of water entered the hull, it has lost the ability to continue fighting.

Togo Heihachiro urgently ordered the Izumo to withdraw from the battle order.

At this time, Suvorov wanted to continue chasing the Izumo, but his rudder was broken and he could not turn.

On the side, the Akitsusu and Sankei, who had been acting as cover, saw that the Asama sank and the Izumo was seriously injured. They also rushed forward to fight with the Prince Suvorov, giving the Cloud an opportunity to retreat.

The three ships were 3000 meters apart and began shelling, which made it impossible for the Duke Suvorov to continue attacking the Izumo.

This allowed the Izumo to safely leave the battlefield.

At this moment, a torpedo destroyer from the Sakura Kingdom, blocked by the huge body of the Sanjing, approached to a distance of only 2500 meters from the Duke Suvorov.

Two 430-caliber torpedoes were launched against the path of the Prince Suvorov.

The moment the torpedoes came out of the chamber, the helmsman on the Prince Suvorov discovered the two torpedoes.

Such a close distance, coupled with the damage to its own rudder, made it inevitable for the Prince Suvorov to escape.

The helmsman of the Prince Suvorov had taken his hands off the rudder and gave up resistance.

If the distance is far enough, he can also speed up or slow down the battleship to avoid torpedoes.

But now, the bow of the ship is less than 2500 meters away from the torpedo.

Even if he forced a stop or reversed and slowed down regardless of the damage to the turbine, the Prince Suvorov would still inevitably hit a torpedo.

"Boom, boom!"

With two loud noises, the water spray produced by the torpedo explosion was twenty to thirty meters long, and the energy of the explosion caused the battleship, which weighed more than 1.3 tons, to be lifted more than half a meter out of the water.

The direct hits of the two torpedoes opened two large holes of about ten meters in the outer third of the bow of the Prince Suvorov and in the middle of the hull.

A large amount of seawater poured into the hull of the Prince Suvorov, causing his entire ship to sink into the seawater.

This also caused the stern of the Prince Suvorov to be lifted high out of the sea.

At this time, Lieutenant General Roger Stevinsky, who was still on the bridge, had no choice but to give the order to abandon the ship, and at the same time let the battleship Borodino officially change the flag of the fleet command.

When Lieutenant General Roger Stevinsky retreated to the lifeboat under the cover of his adjutant, and then struggled to row a distance of more than [-] meters, the keel of the battleship Prince Suvorov made a harsh sound of metal breaking.

Then this battleship with a displacement of up to 1.3 tons was broken into two sections in front of everyone's eyes.

Then it quickly sank into the icy sea, and the whirlpool rolled up during the sinking dragged all the Rakshasa sailors who had not yet left to the bottom of the sea.

Lieutenant General Roger Stevinsky felt a trace of sadness in his heart as he watched his flagship sink to the bottom of the sea.

He could already foresee the defeat of the Rakshasa Empire and the complete annihilation of the empire's combined forces.

"Your Excellency, now is not the time to be sad. The war is not over yet. Commander, please board the Borodino quickly and continue to command the battle!" Lieutenant General Roger Stevinsky's adjutant saw that he was a little lonely. , said quickly to the side.

Roger Stevinsky heard his adjutant's words. Although he already knew the outcome of the war in his heart, he still did not say it.

He just nodded and acknowledged his adjutant's words.

Seeing that Roger Stevinsky agreed to his proposal, the adjutant quickly called on the sailors to row hard and try to board the Borodino as early as possible.

However, Togo Heihachiro did not give Roger Stefanski this opportunity.

After seeing that the Prince Suvorov was sunk by his own side, he did not relax, but ordered Akitsusu and Sanjing to join the siege of Borodino.

At this time, the Borodino is one against three. It needs to face the attacks of the Yoshino, Akitsusu, and Sankei ships, and must always be prepared for sneak attacks by the Sakura Country torpedo destroyers.

These torpedo destroyers are extremely fast and have small hulls, so they are not so easy to hit.

Two torpedo destroyers quickly approached the Borodino through the smoke on the sea, and also launched four torpedoes at a distance of less than 3000 meters.

Due to the lessons learned from the Suvorov, the observers of the Borodino have been paying attention to the situation on the sea.

When they saw four silver-white waves coming quickly towards the Borodino, they immediately understood that they were torpedoes.

The helmsman of the Borodino made an emergency move to the right.

Due to Borodino's extreme right turn to evade, the starboard side of this 1.2-ton ship turned close to the sea.

Four torpedoes grazed the Borodino's hull.

Just a little bit away, the Borodino was hit by a torpedo and was about to follow in the footsteps of the Prince Suvorov.

But similarly, because the Borodino was besieged by the Sakura Navy, he was unable to cope with it and was unable to command the Eagle battleship and squadron.

This means that the battleship Eagle has no way to cooperate with Borodino in counterattack.

The situation on the squadron's side was even worse.

Because Lieutenant General Roger Stevinsky had not had time to hand over command of the squadron, he was sunk.

The Borodino was tired of dealing with the siege and had no time to command. This caused the Rakshasa Squadron to fall into chaos and could only fight on their own.

As for Sakura Country, they had already made plans and anticipated this situation.

Led by the Yashima, the squadrons of the Chiyoda, Fuso, and Hashidate began to cut the Rakshasa Kingdom squadron from left to right.

They advanced and retreated in an orderly manner. As long as a warship was separated from the larger force, they would all focus on the warship.

Coupled with the sneak attacks by torpedo destroyers, the Rakshasa Kingdom's squadron was beaten back steadily.

From the beginning of the naval battle, one hour after the formation of the squadron, the first warship of the Rakshasa Kingdom squadron was sunk.

Although the battleship that was sunk was only a destroyer, it was like the first domino to be knocked over.

Then a chain reaction quickly occurred, and Rakshasa warships were continuously injured and withdrawn from the battle.

In the third hour after the war started, the Prince Suvorov was sunk, and when the Borodino was struggling to cope with the siege of Sakura Country, the squadron began to collapse instantly due to the lack of command.

Six hours after the war started, one of the armored cruisers in the squadron was seriously injured and was unable to evacuate the battlefield alone. It had no choice but to hoist the white flag and surrender. After that, more and more Rakshasa squadrons chose to surrender.

At this time, the battleships Borodino and Eagle were already scarred, and the Yoshino, Sankei, and Akitsusu who participated in the siege were also emitting thick smoke.

Finally, after seeing that they could not defeat the Sakura Navy, the Borodino cooperated with the Eagle battleship and chose to break out in the direction of the Vladisvotok naval port.

They knew that there was also a battleship and several armored cruisers in the Vladisvotok military port.

If the Borodino and Eagle battleships can join up with them, they may still have the strength to fight back.

But if you stay here, it will only be a matter of time before you are sunk and captured.