The Hope kept sailing beyond the direction of the main battleship of the 3rd Combat Group, chasing the three pirate heavy cruisers behind, and the Hope changed its speed while escaping, so that the three pirate heavy cruisers could keep up with it, and also changed its speed from time to time to throw a wave of torpedoes at the pirates behind!

The pirate chasing Zhang Lin behind was very aggrieved, according to the normal situation, the destroyer had long been gone, but now the distance between the two sides has been about fifteen kilometers, the destroyer did not speed up to escape, kept sailing in a straight line, every time the main gun of the pirate's battleship fired, the destroyer twisted its body, and easily avoided the shooting of the pirate gun, such a long pursuit, there was no effective hit at all, and the cunning destroyer would release torpedoes from time to time, Let the pirates of these three heavy cruisers be busy for a while, gritting their teeth with hatred!

"Send a telegram to the other squads that we have found a mercenary warship and need support!" The telegraph operator looked at his leader very puzzled, it was obviously a small destroyer, why did he still ask for help, as long as the three warships on his side caught it, it would be easy to solve him, why bother to call for support? However, Lao Zhang was not in the mood to explain so much to his telegraph operator: "What are you doing watching me, why don't you hurry up and send a telegram?" "Lao Zhang is in a very bad mood at this time, a destroyer can survive under such powerful firepower, and his face is lost! However, he was still afraid that there was an ambush ahead, and his face was nothing compared to his name!

However, Lao Zhang's intuition was very accurate, and just when the telegraph operator sent out the telegram, the radar siren sounded loudly, "The enemy target has appeared!" ”

"Enemy battleships spotted!"

"Enemy cruisers spotted!"

"What's the situation, where are the enemy forces now?" Lao Zhang was really panicked at this time, after all, the appearance of the battleship meant that the main force of the mercenaries was nearby, and it was undoubtedly a fool's dream to defeat the main force of the mercenaries with these three heavy cruisers, so let's run away quickly, and survive first! But it's a little late to run!

The battleships of the third battle group quickly surrounded them, although the two sides still gathered and were so far away, if the three pirate heavy cruisers wanted to run, the third battle group had no chance to leave them at all, but the Hope was not far from them, Zhang Lin didn't want the silver in his hand to fly like this, that was not Zhang Lin's character, the Hope couldn't help but say, and began to shoot at Lao Zhang's heavy cruiser with naval guns! Zhang Lin's purpose is very clear, that is, to drag these three heavy cruisers, prevent them from leaving smoothly, and block their escape route with torpedoes!

It was this group of pirates who understood how hateful this destroyer was, and they couldn't catch up with it, and they kept harassing you when they ran, so that this group of pirates just wanted to scold their mother, and then the third battle group began to shoot at the three heavy cruisers according to the coordinates provided by the Hope, and the shells continued to fall around the three heavy cruisers, and many of the waves splashed fell on the deck of the battleship, and then after several shots, a cannonball finally hit Lao Zhang's battleship, and the two armor-piercing shells hit the stern deck of the ship, and did not cause much damage, Without waiting for Lao Zhang to adjust the hull, the radar alarm sounded again, "A torpedo was found on the port side!" ”

"Hurry up and avoid the torpedo!" For the torpedo of the Hope, Lao Zhang has deep feelings, with the torpedo protective armor of the heavy cruiser, it can't be prevented at all, a torpedo pierces the hull under the waterline, and now Lao Zhang's battleship has a lot of water in the simplified body, there is no way, Lao Zhang had to fill the port side of the cabin with water to keep the battleship balanced, if it was hit by the torpedo again and caused the water to enter, then Lao Zhang could only order to abandon the ship!

However, in this way, although he was not hit by the torpedo of the Hope, the time to escape had been delayed, and seeing that there was no hope of escape, Lao Zhang and the captains of the other two battleships discussed, even if they were sunk, they should take the destroyer, and then the three pirates' heavy cruisers turned their bows and came towards the Hope, Zhang Lin saw that the situation was not right, the distance between the two sides was only nine kilometers, and he felt that it was very dangerous, so he immediately ordered to "turn on the engine overload and turn on the smoke generator." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"

This group of pirates watched the Hope flee directly, they were very angry, they didn't care about anything, they chased the Hope, and in the process of pursuit, they kept shooting the Hope with naval guns, and there were shells falling around the Hope, and every time the Hope was embarrassingly dodging, making several pirate leaders angry, and then in the process of escaping, the Hope still did not forget to adjust the hull and release a wave of torpedoes to several pirates!

Lao Zhang's heavy cruiser shook violently, and then a raging fire broke out in the bow "Chief, there was a fire in the bow and Cambridge, out of control!" Lao Zhang knew that he was lucky this time, so he gritted his teeth, "Don't care about him, give me full speed ahead, pay attention to avoid the enemy's shells, fight back with all my might, if you want to eat me, you will also pay the price!" Lao Zhang saw that the Hope was difficult to hit, and ordered the ship's guns to be aimed at the enemy battleship, the two sides are now only fifteen kilometers apart, with the battleship's huge hull and poor mobility, although it can't sink the battleship, but it can also make these mercenaries who have no one in their eyes pay the price!

Luck took care of Lao Zhang this time, his battleship hit the battleship of the third battle group in the first salvo, and successfully caused a fire, Lao Zhang saw the opponent's battleship on fire, and ordered to aim the main gun at another battleship and continue shooting!

It's a pity that luck won't always favor him, before the guns of Lao Zhang's battleship have turned to their positions, a large-caliber armor-piercing shell directly hit the center of his hull, penetrating the armor of the boiler compartment and directly destroying the No. 1 boiler!

"Chief, boiler No. 1 is destroyed and cannot be repaired!" Listening to the battle damage report under his hands, Lao Zhang was expressionless, "Keep fighting!" He knew that falling into the hands of this group of mercenaries would not end well, and it was better to fight to the death than to surrender, but Lao Zhang was just a trapped beast fighting now, dying, and it would not change his ending!

There were a few shells that hit Lao Zhang's battleship, but it did not cause much damage, but one shell hit the bow waterline, destroying the underwater radar, at this time the heavy cruiser could only rely on people to observe the incoming torpedoes, at this time it was unfortunate that the wave of torpedoes released by the Hope had approached Lao Zhang's battleship, when the observation tower found these five torpedoes, these five torpedoes were already very close, even though the battleship had been desperately trying to avoid these torpedoes, but it was still hit by a torpedo of five hundred and thirty-three mm caliber, the hull under the waterline was directly torn, a large amount of water entered, the hull quickly tilted to the left, and the helpless Lao Zhang had to order to abandon the ship!

Zhang Lin saw in the observation scope that the pirate battleship was hit by his own torpedo, and said, "Let you chase me again!" ”