The fleeing pirates saw their own support arrive, turned the bow of the ship, and opened fire on the Edward again, the whistling shells continued to explode around the Edward, and as time passed, the Edward was hit by three high-explosive incendiary shells, the hull was damaged, and the six empty guns were destroyed!

Zhang Lin has been holding back, not ordering the main gun to fire, letting the secondary gun continue to harass the course of the local cruiser, and finally waited until the paralyzed cruiser regained some power a little under the efforts of a large number of sailors, Zhang Lin ordered the main gun to fire again!

The pirate leader didn't expect that he had been defeated, and he was going to fire at himself, and the piercing sound of the armor-piercing shells concentrating on the hull completely woke him up, and in a panic he ordered to abandon the ship, and before the pirates on the ship could escape, the No. 4 main turret behind the heavy cruiser exploded violently and sank in less than five minutes!

Then Zhang Lin ordered to face the two battleships in front at 30 degrees, reduce the speed by half, and replace the main guns with high-explosive incendiary bombs!

After replacing the shells, the Edward opened fire again, twelve main guns fired a salvo, a huge cannon sound resounded through the sea, and the hull moved out dozens of meters due to recoil, so it dodged two armor-piercing shells from the opposite battleship, and at this time, the two sides were less than twenty kilometers apart!

"Report to the commander, I fired four shells and fired, enemy battleship No. 1 caught fire, position the bow and Cambridge!" Then the observer reported the results of this salvo of the main guns!

Zhang Lin's purpose is to cause panic due to a fire in the hull of the opponent's ship, and he can't carefully observe the battlefield intelligence, the vast majority of pirates are a group of rabble, they can only bully merchant ships without any armament, and against the regular and well-trained navy, their combat quality is really far worse! In this case, the sailors of the Edward will definitely not panic at all!

Random Zhang Lin ordered the main gun to aim at the enemy No. 2 battleship again and set it on fire!

"The main gun is loaded!"

"Fire!"

Once again, the Edward is spewing her fury at the enemy!

"Report to the commander, three armor-piercing shells were hit on the starboard side, two vibrators, and one shot penetrated the unarmored zone in the stern, resulting in damage to the mine protection wall!" The subsequent report of the second group of damage management made Zhang Lin feel a little nervous, after all, luck in naval battles is very important, if he is shot through the armored area and hits the core part, he may never be able to go back. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"Report to the commander, the enemy battleship No. 2 caught fire, the bridge was damaged, a shell hit the first mast front radar, the enemy detection radar was damaged!"

"Send a message to the two destroyers that the second wave of torpedoes can be released, according to the predetermined position!" Zhang Lin knew the weakness of the Edward, in order to limit the displacement, it was equipped with super-large caliber guns, but the armor could not withstand the bombardment of its own artillery, some like the design of the battle cruiser, and the weak horizontal armor was her fatal flaw.

The ships of both sides were already close to fifteen kilometers, and the secondary guns were fully fired, and the twin 150 mm 54 times caliber ratio of the Edward's secondary guns were much more ferocious than the pirates' battleship secondary guns, and the range and accuracy were also much stronger.

At this time, the leader of the pirates also became angry, ordered the engine to run at high speed, and quickly approached the Edward, and the distance between the two sides continued to pull in, entering the decisive ten kilometers distance, at this distance, both sides could force through the opponent's armored zone, inflicting a devastating blow, and in the process of approaching, Edward stared at the pirate's No. 1 battleship, penetrating her No. 2 main turret, causing the No. 2 main turret to be completely damaged and unusable.

The two heavy cruisers of the pirates, fifteen kilometers away, continued to attack the Edward with 203 mm high-explosive incendiary bombs, and by this time the superstructure of the Edward was also damaged, and a large number of anti-aircraft guns were completely ineffective.

At this moment, the underwater radar of the Edward received a lot of signals, and then issued an alarm "Torpedo found ten kilometers ahead, please mention and evade!" ”

At this time, the two battleships of the pirates panicked and began to twist their clumsy hulls to avoid torpedoes, but the pirates only upgraded the main guns of the battleship, which was not too new, and did not install any advanced detection radars, and when they discovered the torpedoes, they avoided them a little too late.

"Keep aiming at enemy Battleship One, and when it comes to exposing its side, hit me in the waterline armor zone, I'm going to destroy it completely!" Zhang Lin gave the order to the main artillery group, and after receiving the order, the main artillery group quickly adjusted the position of the shelling, and waited for the enemy's No. 1 battleship to expose its side.

Zhang Lin used a high-powered observation mirror to observe the pirate's No. 1 battleship in the captain's room, the right chord was hit by a torpedo, and then the stern was hit by another torpedo, and the torpedoes released by the two destroyers on the left and right flanks made it impossible for the two clumsy battleships to make an effective evasion "It's now, shoot me!" ”

With a loud roar, twelve armor-piercing shells whizzed away with white tail smoke used to observe the trajectory!

At this time, the pirate's No. 1 battleship had been torpedoed and destroyed the mine-protection wall compartment, and a large amount of water entered the water, and suddenly the entire battleship vibrated suddenly, and in an instant, several explosions came from inside the hull, and the entire hull shook violently.

"Chief, the armored area I put was penetrated, the No. 1 turbine was damaged, the No. 3 and No. 4 boilers were hit and exploded, and the No. 2 propeller shaft was damaged!"

"Hurry up and call someone to repair it, what is the damage management team doing?" The pirate leader was completely anxious.

"The damage management team went to drain the water, and the other groups also went to help, except for the main artillery team, all the other personnel were put into the damage management!" Hearing this, the pirate leader seemed to have exhausted all his strength and sat down in the command chair of the captain's room!

On the Edward, Zhang Lin looked at the unhit battleship Pirate No. 1, which had no effect on it! At this moment, the violent vibration of the Edward told Zhang Lin that she had been penetrated by the enemy, and the damage management report was then reported.

"Report to the commander, the waterline of the No. 2 position has been broken down, water has begun to enter, the hatch has been closed, the No. 6 boiler is seriously damaged, the power has declined, the damaged pipe group is being urgently repaired, the No. 1 oil depot has been broken down, and a large amount of fuel has leaked!"

The Edward was badly damaged, and the engine damage caused the Edward's top speed to drop from 28 knots to 22 knots, but fortunately Edward had been using fuel from the No. 1 oil depot after the voyage, and the fuel was running out at this time, and the shell that hit the oil depot did not explode and detonated the oil depot was a blessing in misfortune, and the leaked fuel did not have a great impact on the Edward.

"Commander, this is the battle damage of the Edward, please check!" Adjutant Delin presented the casualties of the Edward to Zhang Lin, who looked at the large number of dead on it, five hundred and three, and felt extremely sad in his heart, blaming himself for not being able to bring them back again!

But this is war, with grief and blood!