Soon, two more cruisers of the Mi army were hit and sunk, although many of the Huaxia army were also shot and wounded, and no battleships sank, and the situation was much better than that of the Mi army.

What made the Mi army lose its soul was that the air fleet of the Huaxia Army had already reloaded and flew back at this time.

Thirty-six airships flew over the Mi fleet, and the Mi warships hurriedly evaded it, and dispatched soldiers to rush to the heavy machine gun battle positions and fire fiercely into the air.

Although the sea breeze was cold, and the huge airship body was shaking, and it was difficult to accurately bomb the group of Mi warships on the sea, but this greatly reduced the pressure on the Huaxia warships, and Hu Zhen ordered to concentrate on shelling the flagship of the Mi army.

This is the turn of the third flagship, the Columbia, is unlucky, countless shells covered the entire battleship, and the explosion caused a skyrocketing fire, which made many Mi soldiers see it in their eyes, and they suddenly feel terrified: Will this third flagship be blown up by the enemy again?

At this time, the Mi army was far from being the world's strongest army that relied on advanced weapons to fight all over the world's seven continents and four oceans, and after the defeat of the Chinese army in the battle of Hawaii, it was already at a very disadvantageous disadvantage psychologically.

Although the Huaxia Navy has not been established for a long time, and the officers and men of the navy are not even very proficient in the operation of warships, they have accumulated a strong prestige under successive victories, especially in the defeat of the Mi fleet in Hawaii, and they have a condescending psychological advantage over the Mi army.

Under the heavy bombardment of artillery shells, the morale of the Mi army reached the critical point of explosion at this time.

When the chief and deputy commanders of the Atlantic Fleet had already been killed, an officer on a cruiser could not support it, and rushed up with a nervous breakdown, pushed the helmsman away, and personally operated the steering gear, under the pretext of avoiding the bombing of the airship, turned the hull of the ship and fled in the direction of the mainland of the United States.

When the ship turned its bow and fled, the captain turned a blind eye and allowed his subordinate officers and men to control the battleship and escape.

Seeing this, the other cruisers fled out of the battlefield one after another under the pretext of avoiding the bombardment of the airships.

Fifty-eight-year-old veteran Captain Miller. Colonel Forsey was already busy with himself by this time. There was no way to control this situation of total collapse and retreat, so he had to sigh to his subordinates: "Let our boys all escape!" If you can escape one, you can escape one, and if you escape one, you will save the power of revenge of the United States Navy! ”

Miller. Forse knew that in this battle, the Mi army would definitely lose. At this time, it is better to flee quickly and reserve more seeds for the US Navy, so that it can make a comeback in the future, relying on the industrial strength of the US country. In just a few years at most, you can fight to the death with these yellow people in the Caribbean again.

But if the Atlantic Fleet is completely destroyed, even the naval seed is gone, and it is unknown when it will be time to seek revenge on the enemy. Hence Miller. Forsey quickly made a decision to use the three slower battleships to attract the heavy artillery fire of the Huaxia battleships, and the other high-speed cruisers quickly fled the battlefield to preserve the seeds of future revenge for the US navy.

Hu Zhen saw through the old captain Miller at a glance. Forsy's painstaking efforts ordered his three battleships to entangle the enemy's three battleships. All the other cruisers and destroyers immediately pursued the fleeing Mi cruisers, and the airships should cooperate in an effort to completely annihilate the Mi Atlantic fleet.

The Columbia had been severely damaged by this time, and the hull was seriously flooded, and its speed dropped from 17.5 knots to 14 knots, while the maximum speed of the Brooklyn was 19 knots and the maximum speed of the New York was 21 knots.

The cruisers fled the battlefield one after another. Let the soldiers of the Mi Army on the Brooklyn and the New York have grass in their hearts.

At this time, the three ships of the Huaxia Army transferred their firepower to the USS Brooklyn and the USS New York, and after several rounds of shelling, the USS New York could not hold on to it after receiving a few shells. Use your high speed to turn the bow and head east.

Seeing this, the Brooklyn could no longer care about the flagship Columbia, and turned its bow to the north

Under such circumstances, Hu Zhen would never let the enemy's battleship escape, and immediately ordered Du Ligao, the commander of the airship brigade, through the voice radio: "The airship brigade immediately starts the pursuit mode to block the New York and Brooklyn!" ”

"Understood!" After Colonel Du Ligao received the order. Immediately tune the audio radio to another channel to make specific arrangements: "The first squadron pursues the New York, the second squadron pursues the Brooklyn, and the third squadron is responsible for answering!" ”

Although the New York had a high speed of 21 knots, the airship had a maximum speed of 42 knots (77.8 kilometers) per hour, which was twice as high.

The New York immediately opened heavy machine-gun fire into the air in an attempt to break through the encirclement and escape.

"A squadron and a small squad each threw a magnetic mine bomb!"

Following the order of Major Jin Shitian, the leader of the 1st Squadron, the 1st Squadron and 1st Squadron of 4 airships dropped four magnetic mine bombs in front of the New York at an altitude of 800 meters.

The captain of the USS New York saw a magnetic mine carrying a small parachute falling in front of him, and quickly turned around to dodge.

"The second squad throws magnetic mines to intercept!"

Four mines from the second squad flew up and threw mines again, blocking the New York.

The New York changed course again, but at this time, Hu Zhen left the Maine to watch the Columbia, which was moving fast, and personally commanded the Dahua and Daxia to rush up, and launched a fierce artillery bombardment four thousand meters behind the New York.

The New York did not dare to stop and continue to fight, but only returned fire with stern guns and continued to escape.

Amid the roaring sound of cannons, the New York was hit one after another, and the four airships of the third squad of the first squadron of the airship seized the opportunity and bravely flew low to the air 200 meters in front of the New York and threw four magnetic mines.

One of the mines was less than 20 meters away from the bow of the New York, and was attracted by the steel magnetism of the New York, and rushed up fiercely, sticking to the waterline on the port side of the bow of the New York, and the explosive fuse was triggered, and a violent explosion suddenly occurred, blowing the New York into a three-meter-wide hole.

The ship New York felt a thud, and the sea rushed through the hole, quickly submerging the four watertight compartments.

The damage management team of the New York rushed to the hole, but there was nothing they could do about the hole, which was more than three meters in diameter, and had to close the adjacent watertight cabin.

The New York began to tilt nine degrees to the left, and its speed quickly dropped to 15 knots.

The Dahua and Daxia, which had a speed of only 17.5 knots, rushed up, turned the bow of the ship three thousand meters in front of the New York, seized the T-shape, and bombarded the New York with all their guns.

In less than two minutes, the New York was hit by more than 30 large and small shells, and a raging fire broke out on the ship!

"Surrender, surrender!"

Faced with the threat of death, one of the signal flag-bearers on the New York, regardless of whether to ask the captain for instructions, raised a white flag to indicate surrender. (To be continued.) )