"Espero" laid smokescreens and conducted evasive maneuvers, engaging Liverpool's division with guns, and simultaneously firing three torpedoes at "Orion".While "Liverpool" and "Gloucester" took on "Espero", the other three cruisers tried to get around the smokescreens to attack the fleeing "Ostro" and "Zeffiro", but were ordered to abandon their pursuit and concentrate on "Espero" instead.