At four o'clock in the morning the next day, the sailors of the Hope began to gather and began to conduct routine inspections of the Hope before setting sail to ensure that the battleship maintained good combat performance in the next few days of operations, and all sailors carefully inspected the equipment in their own area. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

At five o'clock, Zhang Lin came to the dock, the sailors of the Hope had completed the routine inspection, lined up in a neat queue to wait for Zhang Lin's arrival, Zhang Lin saw that the sailors of the Hope were in good spirits, and he was very satisfied, this is the embodiment of combat effectiveness, and other things are not so important compared to this!

Soon it was time to set off, and the high-level of Freedom City also sent people to see him off, saying a lot of polite words, but these mercenaries ignored him, knowing that when he asked him to start reporting the grouping of each battleship, these mercenaries began to cheer up, after all, a good grouping can ensure that they can survive better, these groupings are ideal, considering the situation of each battleship, Zhang Lin was assigned to the first battle group, mainly composed of two battleships, two light cruisers and three destroyers!

Then the captains of these warships all came over to say hello, after all, they had to fight side by side in the coming days, and it was still beneficial for them to be familiar with it, but they did not choose a commander of the fleet, they were all mercenaries, and they were used to freedom, and it was difficult to command!

Li Li's heavy cruisers were assigned to the third battle group, which were mainly large-caliber battleships responsible for battlefield artillery support, like the battle squad where the Hope was present, mainly responsible for reconnaissance of the enemy situation and intelligence, and the firepower was not fierce.

With the order to set off from one of the leaders of the Free City, the first battle group began to slowly leave the port, but the battleship of the first battle group was not powered enough, and the cruising speed could only be maintained at a speed of sixteen knots, and it was surpassed by the second battle group after a while, but Zhang Lin did not let the Hope break out of the formation in order to ensure combat effectiveness, and it was difficult to make a big difference in the decisive battle of the fleet alone, let alone a destroyer without any armor protection!

Maybe the pirates in this sea area noticed something, and within three days of sailing, the Hope did not find any hostile situation, and did not receive any reports of hostile information from other friendly forces, and the subsequent time was boring, because there was no battle, and the fleet maintained the lowest level of combat readiness, level 4 combat readiness! The sailors of the two battleships began to bask on the deck too *** did not take this battle to heart, maybe they dealt with pirates, had experience, and thought that pirates were vulnerable, but this was different from two battleships fighting alone, the battle of the fleet was dominated by teamwork and the talent of the commander, and the others had little impact on the outcome or defeat!

Seeing the behavior of the sailors of the two battleships from the observation glass, Zhang Lin was speechless, no wonder it was difficult for these people to form combat effectiveness, just a plate of scattered sand, and then Zhang Lin ordered, the engine was fully turned on, ready to start searching for surrounding intelligence, after all, the destroyer is small and flexible, and the concealment is good, this kind of reconnaissance mission is very suitable for the destroyer, even if it is discovered by the enemy, it can leave calmly at the speed of the destroyer!

They have been searching the sea area where pirates often move for three days, and they have not found any pirates, on the other hand, the mercenaries have been much lazy, they think that the pirates have been frightened, they dare not appear in front of them at all, there is no trace of going to fight, and then it is like going out for vacation, once the appointed time is up, they can go back to get the rest of the bounty, without making a single effort. However, Zhang Lin didn't think so, Zhang Lin felt that the pirates had become smarter, there should be someone who united the pirates, which showed that the problem was unusual, and now the state of the mercenaries Once the pirates come to sneak attack, it will definitely be defeated, and they will not organize a decent counterattack at all, once this happens, this mission to exterminate the pirates will fail!

Then Zhang Lin began to be vigilant, and ordered all the sailors of the Hope to enter the first level of combat readiness, this time the pirates must be prepared, Zhang Lin has sent a message to the friendly army to increase vigilance, but it is useless, Zhang Lin can not order them, so he has to increase the scope of inspection, and find the enemy situation in advance, so that these mercenaries who have been lax know the enemy situation as soon as possible, and avoid being annihilated by the pirate sneak attack, and the rest of his own estimate is not very good!

In the fourth day, the Second Fleet caught two pirate light cruisers, and almost effortlessly damaged one, sank one, and achieved the first credit, the pirates seemed to be more unbearable than before, and even said that the battle was over before the battle, this situation made these arrogant mercenaries even more ignorant of the pirates, and began to attack the enemy lightly, without caring about the battle formation, and even a few destroyers went to act alone, which made Zhang Linzhi frown and feel that something was wrong!

In the following days, the second battle group and the third battle group have been captured, and even a few battleships have obtained a large amount of gold coins looted by pirates, which makes the others very red, and finally completely ignore the friendly forces, and start to act alone, they want to find the pirates, and get the gold coins they have accumulated over the years, the second combat group and the third combat group have completely lost contact, and no longer communicate with the friendly forces at all, they are afraid that the friendly troops will come back to get a piece of the pie, Zhang Lin knew the situation, and immediately ordered the radar crew to send a telegram to Li Li's heavy cruiser Courage, let Li Li pay attention to the situation, and don't act alone, move closer to Zhang Lin, after getting Li Li's reply, Zhang Lin breathed a sigh of relief, I was afraid that Li Li would also lose his mind when the gold coins and the enemy were weak!

The Courage began to move closer to the sea area where the Hope was located, at this time Zhang Lin made an astonishing discovery, a large number of pirate warships formed an orderly formation, and began to assemble in the northeast of the Mingyue Sea, the entire formation was completely arranged in accordance with the naval warfare textbook, light and heavy firepower cross cover, destroyers were responsible for reconnaissance and detection, cruisers and battleships were responsible for fire support, at this time Zhang Lin understood that there must be a capable person among the pirates, who could become the military advisor of this group of pirates, and could make this group of pirates obedient and obedient, it seemed that the prestige in this group of pirates was not inferior!

Then Zhang Lin reported the intelligence detected by the radar to the third combat group, Zhang Lin also tried to contact the first and second combat groups, but the root could not be contacted, it seems that the plan of this group of pirates succeeded, they dispersed the strength of the mercenaries, ready to break one by one, the hope just sent the information to play with radar detection, it was discovered by this group of pirates, and then the pirate battleship began to fire frantically at Zhang Lin, at a distance of many kilometers, shells continued to fall around the hope, which made Zhang Lin break out in a cold sweat, The pirates also trained in artillery skills, and at such a distance, Zhang Lin had never seen a pirate shoot so accurately!

Now you have to leave and leave, otherwise it will be a matter of time before you are hit, and then Zhang Lin ordered to open the smoke screen protection, turn on the engine overload, and escape from this dangerous sea area!