Chapter 52: Naval Battle 1

The captains in the chart room hurriedly ran out and ran to the left side of the deck. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 They soon heard a rather rhythmic tom, a dull, fast-paced sound, and it seemed as if the thing that was making the sound was actually moving, and was clearly turning from the left front to the left rear in the direction of the boat.

"Leave this alone, all the captains will return to their respective ships first!" Ston waved at them, "Let's go see what kind of monster it is!" ā€

"They're lowering the boat from the boat!" The sailor in charge of the lookout shouted loudly into the command room, Bu Zhongfu looked up at the lookout who was wearing a night vision device and holding a navy telescope in his hand, nodded at him, and then whispered an order to the driver in the wheelhouse, "Reduce your speed and switch to silent sailing." ā€

The pilot couldn't help but pause, "Silent sailing?" ā€

This rhetorical question also confused Bu Zhongfu, but he reacted in a blink of an eye, "Oh, I treat this as a submarine, reduce the speed, let's observe the enemy's formation and ship situation first." ā€

The pilot nodded, slowed down, and quieted his voice.

The lookout reported as he observed, "Six warships, with banners of Medeno on them, at a speed of about three knots, heading six degrees south-west, in a triangular formation, arranged in one, two, and three, and the warships that put down the dinghy were in the middle of the last row. The dinghys were transporting people to other boats. ā€

"That means that the one who put the dinghy before should be the flagship." Bu Zhongfu also held the binoculars and looked carefully, but he didn't have a night vision device, so he could only squint and vaguely see the night navigation lights in the distance with the undulation of the waves.

"At a distance of 1,300 meters, we will soon be behind them." The lookout continued to hold the telescope and report as he observed.

"Turn on the searchlights! Sound the whistle! Use a loudspeaker to ask them what they're going to do. Bu Zhongfu nodded at the lookout and ordered the driver.

Colonel Ston stood on the port side of the ship for a while, but the sound only sounded for a while before disappearing completely, and he did not know what was happening, so he could only order the observation posts in the front and rear and at the top of the mainmast to intensify their observation. He had no idea that his entire fleet was clear in the radar, and the exact position, course, and speed were clear.

Suddenly, an impossibly strong pillar of light hit the Overlord's hull, and the band of light seemed so intense that the illuminated air looked as if it had been ignited. The waves crashed against the bulwark of the Overlord, causing a mist in the pillar of light as if countless pearls had been thrown into the air. All the people in the fleet froze, especially those who were illuminated, and they stood on the spot, the band of light was so bright that they couldn't see anything else when they turned around, and they felt for a moment whether they were blind or not. Several lookout posts, temporarily blinded by the bright light, lost their balance and fell into the sea.

"All gun crews start loading, port machine guns reload!" Bu Zhongfu ordered loudly, taking a portable megaphone as he spoke, while staring incredulously at the engineer who passed the megaphone. The engineer shrugged his shoulders and smiled at him, "No way, Mr. Captain." The circuits of this ship have been around for decades, and we have not checked the circuits of the tweeter before, and we just found that there is a problem with the circuit, and there is no way to solve it in a short time, so let's use this first. ā€

Bu Zhongfu looked down at the megaphone in his hand almost dumbfounded, and tentatively turned on the switch, and heard a loud voice rushing out of it, "Liquefied gas package after package!" ā€¦ā€¦ā€

This sentence scorched everyone and almost knocked the loudspeaker off the deck. The engineer was also thundered, "These loudspeakers were purchased locally by the purchasing department before departure, but they are all new!" ā€

"Meow! I'm here to deliver shells, not liquefied gas. Bu Zhongfu turned sideways and used the light of the searchlight to illuminate the loudspeaker switch, only to find that he had just turned the switch to the playback, and he hurriedly dialed it to the shouting position.

However, the men on the Overlord heard the sound from the other side of the pillar of light, and the sailors flocked to the back deck to see the diorama.

"This is the Chinese Coast Guard Cruiser No. 1, you have entered our fifteen-nautical-mile alert circle, please indicate your intention and purpose of coming, and go to the port of Vostokye under our surveillance for questioning, otherwise we will be ordered to open fire on you." An incredibly loud sound came from the other end of the pillar of light, followed by a long "woo" from there, and then began to repeat the shout.

After shouting for the second time, Bu Zhongfu adjusted his posture and continued to shout loudly: "If you hear the shouting, please immediately close the cannon window, close the fire door, and raise the white flag to show us obedience to the command, otherwise we will be ordered to ......."

"Bang-" A burst of fire suddenly erupted from the stern of one of the ships on the far left of the sailing queue.

"They fired!" The lookout shouted, "A thousand meters away, the leftmost boat, please instruct!" ā€

"How far did their shells fall?" Bu Zhongfu was not worried, and looked sideways at the lookout, who calculated the distance and quickly replied: "The shell only flew about two hundred meters before falling into the sea." ā€

"Let's see if the other ships are threatening!" He continued to command.

The observer raised his binoculars and took a brief look, then reported loudly, "All the ships are raising their gun windows, and their muzzles are being pushed out, presumably in preparation for battle." ā€

"Good!" Bu Zhongfu excitedly slammed his left fist into his right palm, "Turn off the searchlight!" Speed up, let's go from behind to their right rear! ā€

"Aren't we going to cut their T-s, aren't we?" The driver asked curiously from the bridge.

"It's still a fart," Bu Zhongfu continued to issue the order without mind, "All personnel wear life jackets and body armor, and wear steel helmets!" As he spoke, he smiled at the pilot, "We are powered mobile warships, and those are sailboats, so we can beat them in circles." ā€

At this time, on the gun position in the bow of the cruiser, two veteran sailors wearing orange life jackets were pressing the spring cannon known as the "Senate's bow and crossbow". Although the Travelers had already established a navy and recruited naval soldiers from the naturalized people, the ships brought by these old planes were still not allowed to come up with native sailors, and all the "advanced warships" at this time were veterans. When the spring cannon was ready to fire, the loader took out the shell and carefully turned on the fuse, and then Mari carefully slipped the shell into the barrel.

"Radarman, distance!" Bu Zhongfu shouted loudly, and the radar crew quickly reported the data obtained from the radar. "Five hundred meters away! Bearing 265! ā€

The shooter of the bow gun quickly carried out the first blind fire in the direction, only to see a column of water suddenly explode in the sea four or five hundred meters away, and the flames of the explosion also instantly illuminated the nearby sea, not far away, was the bulwark of a Meedno warship.

"That's the direction, ten meters extended." Bu Zhongfu estimated the distance between the landing point and the enemy ship, and shouted loudly.

Colonel Stone's face turned white at this time, not to mention the strong light that the other party had just used for lighting, people knew about the arrival of his fleet from far away in Dongfang Port, and sent intercepting ships, which only showed that he was afraid that his every move had long been under the surveillance of those self-proclaimed "Chinese Coast Guard". Immediately after that, the Vincent, located at the far right rear of the fleet, exploded violently in the sea, and everyone knew that it was impossible for the sea to explode, so these Chinese had the ability to accurately find the most suitable target for them in the dark night and fire explosive shells with great accuracy. Fortunately they only had one cannon, as Ston thought, and two more explosions were heard, and two jets of water rose on the starboard side of the Vincent, and soon he saw the crew of the Vincent running back and forth like ants on a hot pot.

"What happened?" The sailors on the Overlord couldn't help but ask each other loudly, but no one knew what was happening.

Then the Vincent began to tilt slightly to the right, and Ston could clearly see that its mast was tilting slightly to the right.

"Near-missed! Extend another five meters! Bu Zhongfu shouted loudly. The near-miss bomb just now went down to the surface of the sea, and there was an explosion below the waterline of the ship, and you must have caused damage to the ship just now.

Ston paused for a moment and shouted, "All the guns are loaded!" Give the signal, the fleet turns right, and we're going to destroy that ship! ā€

At this moment, the Vincent was hit, and with a boom, a huge fireball exploded on Vincent's starboard side, the oak hull was torn apart, the lower gun deck and part of the waterline were blown away, and several guns were overturned.

"How powerful are our shells?" The sailors of the artillery crew were stunned, they usually also fired spring cannons, when did they have such great power, this looks like a 203-mm shell hit.

"Don't stop, keep shooting! This is the propellant that detonated their gun position! Bu Zhongfu shouted anxiously. The warship with a big hole in the hull of the ship in the distance has begun to tilt to the right at this time, and it is a matter of time before it capsizes, but as long as the naval ship does not sink, it will still have combat effectiveness, rather than waiting for others to sink by itself, it is better to take advantage of his illness to kill him, and give him a few more cannons to make matters worse.

There was no damage to the team on the Vincent, and the crew was panicked when they saw that the explosion had torn a big hole in their hull, and the sea water was pouring into the bottom layer with a bang, and they were running around on the deck one by one. Some obeyed the orders of the officers and moved everything on the deck and in the cabin to the port side in an attempt to stabilize the ship's center of gravity; Some push heavy objects into the sea on the starboard side as if they didn't need money, cannons, shells, and cartridges, and those that can't be moved anyway will be pushed into the sea; Some of the sailors went berserk and pumped water out with their manpower pumps.

At this moment, another round of shells flew, this time much more accurate than the previous close misses, one of the three shells hit the upper deck, one hit the aft tower, and the other flew directly through the previous hole, blasting a hole in the bulwark on the other side, and then detonating the opponent's barrel on the port side of the gun deck. The explosion killed the Vincent, and with a terrible sound of the keel being broken, the entire Edge-class battleship cocked at both ends and sank straight to the bottom of the sea in a minute, and the sailors grabbed everything around them that could float and jumped into the icy water, and the huge whirlpool rolled up when the battleship sank sucked all the sailors who did not have time to swim to a safe area directly into the sea, like a gluttonous beast.