The www.biquge.infoLiberty was working hard to prepare for battle, the two light cruisers escorting the Liberty were the first to fire, the 150 mm main guns only needed six seconds to load, the two light cruisers had a total of sixteen main guns, and in attacking the destroyers of the White Tiger Fleet, under the high rate of fire density, they were more efficient in attacking the destroyers than the Liberty!

The White Tiger fleet was not willing to be passively beaten, the destroyers also began to return fire with seventy-six mm main guns, and the two hundred and three mm of the remaining two heavy cruisers began to roar, and a salvo of almost twenty seconds caused great trouble to the Liberty, but given the thickness of the Liberty's armor, their shells were difficult to penetrate, but the use of two hundred and three mm high-explosive shells to seriously damage the superstructure of the Liberty, once it hit the detection radar or fire control radar of the Liberty, then the Liberty could only get out of the battle and return to port for overhaul!

In order to avoid this situation, Zhang Lin ordered the main gun to give priority to attacking the two heavy cruisers, and the secondary guns cooperated to suppress the fire!

The main gun of the Liberty pointed at the seriously injured heavy cruiser, due to the serious damage, the maneuverability of the heavy cruiser was greatly limited, with Zhang Lin's order, the roar of the Liberty cannon reminded the White Tiger Fleet, this steel monster came to the battlefield again, although the heavy cruiser tried its best to avoid, but the damage it received made it difficult to make an effective evasion, the twelve main guns of the Liberty fired a salvo, and six shells hit its clumsy hull!

"Report to the captain, the engine room was penetrated, a shell destroyed the engine, the engine was badly damaged, and the power was lost!"

"The No. 3 watertight compartment was broken through, and it began to enter the water, which cannot be controlled!"

"The base of the fourth main turret has been penetrated, and the main turret cannot be rotated!"

"Sir's engine has completely lost power, and the generator is about to stop......" The voice of the communicator stopped abruptly!

The heavy cruiser struggled several times and could not repair the damage, the captain had to give the order to abandon the ship, a large number of sailors jumped into the water from the constantly tilting hull, and there were only a limited number of lifeboats, which was difficult to carry so many sailors!

And the battlefield is too chaotic, and the battleships next to it can hardly take care of their allies, so that most of the sailors who fall into the water run out of strength and drown!

The supreme commander of the White Tiger Fleet looked at the scorching battle situation and frowned, what gave him a headache was the huge battleship, the high-explosive bomb could only cause limited damage to the battleship, and the armor-piercing shell could not penetrate the heavy armor protection of the battleship at all, the battleship battleship battleship had fierce firepower, and it was the biggest threat to the large surface warships of the White Tiger Fleet!

A heavy cruiser sank again made the face of the supreme commander of the White Tiger Fleet look extremely unsightly, the enemy did not need any advanced tactics at all, only needed to rely on advanced warships to fight hard with himself, under the qualitative gap, it was difficult for his own battleships to pose an effective threat to this battleship, and now he could only abandon the car to protect the commander!

Thinking of this, the Supreme Commander of the White Tiger Fleet ordered the destroyers to alternate cover, the two light cruisers were broken, and the flagship and another battleship were heavy cruisers as fire support, so that there was a chance to get out!

The torpedoes attacking from the front were detected very clearly by the destroyers of the White Tiger Fleet, but in the chaotic battlefield, it was difficult to let the white trail of the torpedo be stared at, not to mention so many torpedoes, it was difficult to avoid at all, and then several warships in the White Tiger Fleet could not avoid it and were hit by torpedoes, and Zhang Lin asked Smith to prepare high-powered torpedoes in order to penetrate the mine-resistant armor of the battleship with one shot, so that the enemy ships would fall into a panic of entering the water, which would seriously weaken the enemy's combat effectiveness! The enemy ships that were hit were all destroyers, and one torpedo shot was enough to kill!

The Liberty then aimed its main gun at the flagship of the White Tiger fleet, and just as the main gun of the Liberty was fired, a shell hit the fire control radar on the superstructure of the Liberty, "Sir, the fire control radar was hit, and the radar antenna was damaged!" ”

What Zhang Lin was worried about still happened, damaging a fire control radar, which had a great impact on the accuracy of the Liberty's main guns, and the flagship of the White Tiger Fleet was hit by three armor-piercing shells of the Liberty, which blew up a boiler and reduced power, but the fire control of the Liberty was damaged, and the battle could not continue!

Subsequently, the two sides fought and retreated, and in the subsequent battle, the main gun of the Liberty lost the control of the fire control radar, relying on manual aiming, and the shooting accuracy decreased a lot, but relying on the secondary gun and the remaining two fire control radars, it still seriously damaged the last heavy cruiser of the White Tiger fleet and sank three destroyers!

Both sides suffered heavy losses and each withdrew from the battle, and in the process of heading to the Storm Strait, Zhang Lin took a detailed battle report, and his mood was heavy along the way!

In this battle, the main gun of the Liberty fired a total of 320 armor-piercing shells, and the secondary guns fired 1,500 shots, sinking a battleship, two heavy cruisers, and seven destroyers, the Liberty lost 367 dead and more than 500 wounded, and the fleet attacked and sank a light cruiser, a destroyer, and the rest of the ships were damaged, and this was still when the enemy put almost all of the firepower on the Liberty, otherwise all the other battleships would be sunk, and once the escort for the Liberty was sunk, The Liberty was also lonely, but fortunately, the Liberty armor protection was strong enough to withstand a large number of shells!

On the other hand, in the command tower of the flagship of the White Tiger Fleet, all the people had sad faces: "Commander, how can we explain to the top level of the alliance, such a big loss, the alliance will not let us go easily!" ”

The Supreme Commander of the White Tiger Fleet frowned: "Report the details of the battle damage!" ”

An operational staff officer picked up the report: "In this battle, our troops sank a destroyer, a light cruiser, a battleship, all the light cruisers were seriously wounded, there was only one heavy cruiser left, and 23 destroyers were sunk, and a total of 11,200 sailors were killed in this battle!" ”

When everyone heard the news, they all lowered their heads, and one of the operational staff officers said: "Sir, our losses are too heavy, if we go back like this, the top of the alliance will definitely not let us go, what should we do!" ”

The Supreme Commander of the White Tiger Fleet sighed and said: "You have worked with me for so long, but this time it was my command mistake that implicated everyone, I will explain the situation to the top of the alliance, all the punishment will be borne by me alone, you don't have to worry, just ask you to take care of my family, don't think about escaping, your family is still in the Pirate Alliance!" ”

"Commander, we are not greedy for life and afraid of death, we will bear it together!" Several combat staff officers said together!

"Enough, do you want to die together?" The Supreme Commander of the White Tiger Fleet asked, "Let's wait until we return to the alliance, do as I say, this is an order!" ”