An OS2U Kingfisher was launched by a catapult aboard the USS Baltimore and slowly rose into the air. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The plane was the Baltimore's observer and was used to collect firing data from the air, which in turn helped calibrate the main guns.

The Baltimore does not enter the archipelago dogfight, but only hides behind the reef and fires shells at the opposing expulsion, thus eliminating the risk of being mined.

Martina's preparation was still very sufficient, and she did not patronize this sea area before the game, and found the most suitable output point.

A large reef, or rather a small island, is not an exaggeration. The size is just right, which not only blocks the hull of Baltimore, but also does not block the shells fired by the Baltimore.

Martina directly asked the captain to park the ship here and snatched this critical spot.

Mai has already grabbed it, and now it's time to start ordering songs.

This "Beat You Paralyzing Contest" was given to the O-class destroyer of Jasmine Women's College.

According to the data provided by the observer, the gunners on the Baltimore quickly found the first target, which was the grounded destroyer Orwell.

The immobile target is the chicken, and it can't move if it wants to, so it can only watch itself being beaten.

The Baltimore soon fired its first salvo, and nine 203mm shells came out of their chambers and flew towards the Orwell at high speed.

The shell did not hit the Orwell, but landed in the sea about 100 meters behind it.

This shooting result is already very good, and it is very difficult to achieve a starting hit in real naval battles, and it usually takes several rounds of ballistic corrections to hit the target.

The observer quickly reported the data to the mothership, and the gunners on Baltimore immediately corrected the trajectory.

The Orwell escaped one round, but not the second.

The accuracy of this static fire was so high that the gunners on the Baltimore only adjusted the trajectory slightly, and three 203mm shells hit the Orwell in the second round of fire.

Due to the thin armor of the destroyer, which was easy to penetrate with large-caliber armor-piercing shells, the Baltimore did not use armor-piercing shells, but high-explosive shells.

The 203mm high-explosive shell was a devastating blow for the destroyer, with one of the three hits blowing off the bridge, one evaporating the bow, and one obliterating the two turrets behind the Orwell.

"Right in the Heart!"

"Good!" Martina paused, then continued, "One more round and they'll be dead!"

In fact, now the Orwell has lost its combat capability, the bridge is gone, the two guns are gone, and most of the anti-aircraft gunners on the deck have been sent away by fragments.

The heavy cruiser's rate of fire was not as fast as that of the destroyer, but it could hit several rounds a minute, and before the survivors on the Orwell could catch their breath, the third salvo from the Baltimore arrived.

This time, four shells hit the Orwell, bulldozing the destroyer's superstructure and setting fire to the remaining hull.

Although it did not sink, it was no different from sinking, and there were no living people on this ship.

This 2,000-ton destroyer can't even last a minute in the hands of the Baltimore, which is the crushing of the destroyer by a heavy cruiser.

"The next target, the O-class destroyer that caught fire. ”

After the Obdurate caught fire, it quickly became the target of the three ships on the Oarai side.

A 127mm shell from the Isokaze hit the tail of the Obdurate and successfully stuck, killing the destroyer's rudder.

At the time of the shell hit, the Obdurate was maneuvering, exactly in the case of a full left rudder. After the servo jammed, the Obdurate went straight in circles.

Compared with the goal of running around blindly, of course, this kind of disabled person who follows a fixed trajectory in a circle is easier to fight.

"Fire!"

Nine more shells came out of the muzzle and flew towards the Obdurate at Jasmine Women's College.

Naturally, the salvo missed, but the gunners on the Baltimore were not discouraged and quickly corrected the trajectory according to the results of the shot.

After the second and third rounds of firing, the gunners on the Baltimore almost figured out the pattern of action on the opposite side, and finally stuck on the timing point of the Obdurate and the Baltimore in the fourth round, allowing two 203mm shells to hit the Obdurate.

One shell hit the front of the bridge, blowing off two 127mm guns at the front of the hull, and the other shell actually hit the quadruple 533mm torpedo launcher in the middle of the Obdurate's hull.

The energy generated by the 203mm explosion was so huge that it directly detonated four torpedoes in the torpedo launcher.

Although the 533mm MK9 torpedo does not have as many charges as the 610mm acid torpedo, it is also terrifying for four to explode together.

A mushroom cloud rose into the sky, and the Obdurate was blown in two.

The destroyer is like this, there is no protection + all kinds of ammunition are exposed, and it is very easy to be detonated. In World War II, there were also destroyers that were sunk by a 50-pound bomb, such as Ruyue, Ruyue, Ruyue, Ruyue.

After being killed by the Baltimore with two destroyers, Jasmine Women's College finally realized the strangeness of the battle.

"Yes, it was the Baltimore, the Orwell, and the Obdurate that sank. ”

I didn't see the Baltimore on Oarai's side, but now it's the only one who can deal this damage.

"Going on like this will only increase the losses...... Temporarily withdraw from the battlefield. ”

Even though half of his destroyers had been lost, Shizuku Hirai still didn't have any fluctuations, and he still looked indifferent.

"Understood. ”

After receiving the order, the three remaining destroyers of Jasmine Women's Academy immediately turned their bows and withdrew from the battlefield without a second thought.

"The three remaining destroyers of Miyazawa Women's Academy have run away!"

"Don't pursue it first, Shijin Wind, Isofeng, and Yanyang will withdraw from the battlefield first and reload the torpedo. ”

Martina was still very calm, after all, the two Daido-class light cruisers on the opposite side had not yet appeared, and although these two light cruisers could not move the Baltimore, they still crushed the destroyers.

Therefore, Martina decided to have the three Yanyang-class destroyers reload the torpedoes first.

The Yanyang-class destroyers are equipped with a torpedo reloading system, which can reload torpedoes directly at sea, and as long as these three destroyers are given a little time, there will soon be another 24 torpedoes available on the Oarai side.