Chapter Twenty-Eight: Thunder Kills You
The No. 1 battleship of the pirates lost engine power under the bombardment of torpedoes and Edward's large-caliber main guns, and temporarily turned the main gun barrel with the stored electricity, ready to fight to the death with Edward, and a main turret of the No. 2 battleship was hit by a torpedo, and a large number of sailors were thrown into the damage tube, temporarily unable to form combat effectiveness, and took this opportunity Zhang Lin to completely sink the opponent's No. 1 battleship!
As the Edward's main turret automatic loader loaded the projectile pack, the Edward's 12 406 mm guns opened fire again, and the battleship Pirate I, which had lost its engine power without any suspense, was hit with eight armor-piercing shells, and the core part of the battleship was completely shattered, and it could not be repaired with damage management at all!
Because the Edward left the side armor area to the pirate's No. 2 battleship in order to ensure the salvo of twelve main guns, with the eight 380 mm caliber armor-piercing shells roaring, the Edward, which was hit by four armor-piercing shells, made a violent shock, and the sailors on the ship stood unsteadily, and Zhang Lin and other personnel in the command tower were almost knocked down by the violent shock. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Report the damage quickly, I want to know the current condition of the battleship." As the artillery battle entered the white heat, Zhang Lin didn't care about his own image, not for anything else, just for the Edward's sailors to survive to the greatest extent, these sailors who had experienced sea battles were an immeasurable wealth, and every casualty made Zhang Lin extremely painful, not to mention that these sailors were born and died with Zhang Lin, Zhang Lin had already regarded them as his own family, how could he watch them die!
"Commander, the engine compartment has been broken down, and the engine transmission has broken, and at the moment the Edward can only exert ordinary power, and the most serious thing is ......." Adjutant Delin wanted to say and stopped!
"What's the worst part?" Zhang Lin knew something in his heart, but he couldn't believe this reality!
"The second damage management group is repairing the No. 1 boiler, an armor-piercing bullet exploded in the crowd, one hundred and forty people, half of them died, thirty-two people were seriously injured, and the rest were all injured, the second damage management system was completely disabled, the team leader Captain Morin was killed, and the deputy team leader Lin Tian was seriously injured!" After speaking, Adjutant Delin's eyes were slightly red and he lowered his head!
After hearing this, Zhang Lin muttered a sentence of "My good brother....... two lines of tears slid down his cheeks, but Zhang Lin understood that now was not the time to be sad, the battle was still going on, and he could not be affected by hatred and sadness, he must grasp every detail of the battlefield, minimize command errors, and reduce the damage of the Edward!
In the command room of the Edward, all the personnel looked at Zhang Lin who was crying, and the feeling in their hearts was incomprehensible, they followed Zhang Lin to fight on a battleship early, and so many brothers of life and death on the battlefield died. This is the first time that the Edward has suffered such heavy casualties and such serious damage to the hull! There is only one thought in everyone's hearts, which is to sink all the pirate warships, avenge the dead brothers, and shame the Edward!
Zhang Lin held back his grief: "All the personnel perform their duties and continue to fight, for the sake of our dead brothers, and for the invincible glory of the Edward since its service, we cannot fail, we can only win!" "Looking at the demoralized commanders, Zhang Lin understood that morale must be boosted now in order to have any hope of winning the next victory" Give the two destroyers the order to quickly support the Edward from both flanks, block the route of the pirate heavy cruisers with torpedoes, and this time let them taste the torpedo feast I specially prepared for them! ”
The Edward personnel entered the intense work with grief and hatred, the main turret, the secondary gun, the damage tube, the boiler room, the engine room, and the observation tower all performed their duties, without the slightest panic, it was their choice to continue to fight, and the soldiers died on the battlefield for glory!
The main gun of the Edward fired a salvo again, this time aiming at the armored area under the front and rear main turrets of the Pirate No. 1 battleship, this place is the ammunition depot, Zhang Lin wants to let the ammunition depot of the local battleship explode to completely destroy the Pirate No. 1 battleship, with the hit of the armor-piercing shell, the ammunition depot of the pirate battleship did not explode, and the observation tower reported that there was seawater flowing out at the location of the ammunition depot!
In an instant, Zhang Lin understood that the enemy's engine was completely damaged, and he was unable to maneuver to avoid the penetration of the vital parts, so he had to flood the ammunition depot with seawater to avoid the outbreak of martyrdom, but in this way, this battleship had lost its combat value, and there was no need to attack a battleship whose main guns could not fire, and then the twelve 406 mm caliber main guns of the Edward were aimed at the second battleship of the pirates, and now sinking it, more than half of his task was completed, and the remaining two heavy cruisers did not dare to come over to challenge, With the torpedoes of the destroyers, sinking them is not a problem at all!
With the salvo of Edward's main guns again, there were torpedoes on the left and right flanks again, and the heavy cruisers in the rear no longer fired, but turned the rudder in a panic, because the torpedoes were attacked from the left and right wings, the timely cruiser maneuvered much better than the battleship, but dodged the torpedoes in front, the torpedoes in the rear were also difficult to dodge, and the open guns were easy to dodge and the dark arrows were difficult to defend, this is what Zhang Lin said to the two destroyers when he set out on the expedition, 20 kilometers of torpedoes, with the concealment of the destroyers, the radar of the pirate ships is difficult to find the destroyers in the dark, And the Edward attracts all the firepower in the front, and attracts the enemy's attention, so that they have no time to care about anything else, this is the tactic that Zhang Lin thought of!
One of the pirates' heavy cruiser was torpedoed and hit in the stern, causing the steering gear to get stuck at the right rudder at 30 degrees, which could not be repaired, and began to circle around a sea area, and the other heavy cruiser, after eating a 533 mm caliber torpedo, did not care about his brother battleship, and fled in a hurry. And this battleship faced the Edward at a real angle and retreated, causing the Edward to hit six ricochet shells and three forced penetrations, but it was useless to cause fatal damage, and the second battleship of the pirates was still retreating!
However, Zhang Lin had expected it, and did not order to speed up the chase, but showed his signature smile: "I want to thunder you to death!" But this smile looks somewhat sad, and the grief in my heart is difficult to get rid of in a short time!
However, the distance between the two sides is very close, about eight kilometers, the hit rate of the main guns is very high, and the pirates fled at full speed in time, and it will take nearly twenty minutes to leave the range of Edward's main guns, and now the Edward is still pursuing, such a long time is enough for the Edward to fire hundreds of main guns, and more importantly, the route of the pirate battleship has been released by two destroyers A large number of torpedoes, and the captains of the two destroyers obeyed Zhang Lin's orders, and released a lot of torpedoes on their own initiative, and the area was twice as large as Zhang Lin said, it is impossible for this pirate's battleship to escape smoothly, and a large sea of thunder in front of it is waiting for him to collide!