www.biquge.infoWatching the enemy change his tactics, Zhang Lin ordered the fleet to press up, all the guns opened fire with all their might, and the secondary guns of the Liberty surprised the commander of the combined fleet, who was observing the Liberty in the observation scope of the control tower: "I didn't expect that the enemy side actually had twenty secondary guns, and our destroyer fleet suffered a lot!" Then the commander of the combined fleet said to the adjutant next to him: "Let the destroyer fleet withdraw, the losses are too great!" This is tantamount to suicide! ”

"Commander, we have found a large number of torpedoes on our right side, the number is unknown, it is recommended to avoid them immediately!" The report inside the observation tower puts the Combined Fleet in danger!

However, the torpedo is relatively far away, and there is still plenty of time, but avoiding the torpedo will lead to confusion in the formation, which is also where the commander of the combined fleet is concerned!

However, in the end, the combined fleet still chose to avoid torpedoes, Zhang Lin seized this good opportunity and ordered the fleet to attack the enemy's waterline with armor-piercing shells, which is the easiest way to defeat the battleship. Cause the battleship to lose its combat effectiveness!

This wave of torpedoes of the Storm Fleet was to force the Combined Fleet to change formation, and with the roar of the main gun crew of the Liberty, the main guns of the Victory and Pioneer also fired, and the side armor of one of the battleships of the Combined Fleet was hit by a large number of armor-piercing shells, and those shocking bullet holes on the side of the battleship could be seen from the observation glass!

"Sir, the waterline has been broken down and down, the hull is split, and our ship is rapidly entering the water! The speed has dropped to thirteen knots, and the power is rapidly decreasing! ”

"The fuel depot was broken down and there was a massive leak of fuel!"

"There is a fire in the second main turret, emergency support is requested!"

The damage management reports made the battleship captain's heart completely fall into a trough, the battleship was so badly damaged that he could even order the ship to be abandoned, but due to the crisis of the battlefield situation, even if the ship was abandoned, the surrounding friendly forces may not be able to rescue in time, and the fate of abandoning the ship is still death, it is better to try to control the damage to the battleship, maybe there will be a turnaround!

But the battleship's struggle was in vain, due to the flooding of the hull, it was difficult to control, which caused the battleship to tilt thirteen degrees to the right, and it can even be said that the battleship's guns were unusable due to the loss of firing angle due to the battleship's tilt, and after the main gun of the Liberty was reloaded, it opened fire again on the battleship, and Zhang Lin wanted to sink it completely, so as not to worry about the future!

The sound of being pierced by shells sounded on this battleship again, and before the sailors on the ship could react, a violent explosion occurred in the No. 2 main turret, causing the hull to break, and the battleship quickly capsized and slowly sank!

Then there was a one-sided battle, the Storm Fleet was ahead of the Combined Fleet in all aspects, although the enemy had a slight advantage in numbers, but because the quality of the battleships was inferior to the Storm Fleet, the numerical advantage was not enough to offset the Storm Fleet's qualitative superiority, not to mention that the Combined Fleet sank two battleships and a light cruiser, and they did not have an advantage in numbers, and the Hope-class destroyers developed torpedo tactics to the extreme, with high speed and maneuverability, not only suppressed the destroyers of the Combined Fleet, It also launched unlimited lightning strike tactics against the battleships and cruisers of the Combined Fleet, causing the battleships of the Combined Fleet to be cautious and on the lookout for possible torpedoes at any time!

Otherwise, the flagship of the Combined Fleet is a lesson from the past, the flagship of the Combined Fleet was torpedoed by the three destroyers of the Hope class, even though the surrounding friendly forces had warned it early, but due to the large area covered by the torpedoes and the poor maneuverability of the battleship, it was still hit by two torpedoes, one of which hit the bow, resulting in the deformation of the bow, and the seaworthiness and speed of the battleship decreased, which needed to be solved by returning to the dock to replace the bow, and the position of the other torpedo hit was even more deadly, directly hitting the center of the hull, causing the hull to enter the water, Fortunately, the boiler of this battleship was installed in separate compartments, and the water inlet extinguished a boiler, resulting in a drop in power by one-sixth, these two torpedoes caused serious damage to the flagship of the combined fleet, and almost lost its combat effectiveness, Zhang Lin specially requested the torpedo of the concentrated energy blasting combat head is a sharp weapon for dealing with battleships with heavy armor, fortunately, this is a battleship, otherwise a torpedo will crack the hull, causing the battleship to sink It is possible!

After an hour and a half of fighting, one of the battleships of the Combined Fleet was crumbling again, it was first hit by the torpedo of the Hope, and then under the joint attack of the Liberty and the Victory, the hull was badly damaged, and most importantly, the casualties were heavy, resulting in serious combat attrition, and there was no way to control the damage in other aspects of the battleship, and now it only took one hit to the point to cause the battleship to sink!

Of course, the Liberty was also hit by the enemy's high-explosive bombs, which led to a fire in the bow, but the damage control was very timely, and when the Liberty was traveling at high speed, the waves would rush to the deck from the bow position, so the loss was not large, but the Pioneer was more miserable, among the three capital ships, the size of the Pioneer was the smallest, resulting in the artillery fire of the entire combined fleet has been concentrated on the Pioneer, and even an armor-piercing projectile penetrated the horizontal armor, fortunately, the design of the Pioneer is more concerned about survivability, which did not lead to serious consequences, However, the superstructure of the Pioneer was destroyed once, and four of the cannons were destroyed, but fortunately the fighters had been evacuated, otherwise the casualties would have been even worse!

However, these costs are insignificant compared to the combined fleet, two battleships were sunk, one was seriously injured and was about to sink, the other two were not lightly damaged, the destroyers were almost lost, and only one light cruiser remained, if there was no fleet support, it was only a matter of time before they were wiped out by the Storm Fleet, and they couldn't get out of the battle, the battleships of the Storm Fleet were all high-speed, only then including the freedom could run out of the limit speed of thirty-three knots, and in terms of the maximum speed of the combined fleet battleships at twenty-five knots, It's impossible to get rid of the Storm Fleet!

On the side of the Lance Empire, due to the Storm Fleet attracting a large number of enemy warships, the pressure on the Lance Empire has been greatly reduced, and there are faint signs of turning defeat into victory, if the combined fleet has no reinforcements, it will inevitably be annihilated by the Storm Fleet and the Lance Empire fleet!

But in fact, the fleet of the Reims Empire has been disabled, even if the combined fleet is completely eliminated now, the Reims Empire is also a disadvantage to the Aslan Empire and the Morgan Empire, after all, the combined fleet is only half of the strength of these two empires, and they still have elites who have not yet gone to war, Zhang Lin wants to completely solve the crisis of the Reims Empire, only by eliminating the elites of these two empires, so that the Reims Empire can have a chance to breathe!