Chapter Ninety-Two: Victory

Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 info After Zhang Lin's order was issued, the main guns of all his battleships were aimed at the battleship of the White Tiger Fleet, which was ready to evacuate the battlefield under the cover of three heavy cruisers, Zhang Lin was not willing to let them leave so easily, the three light cruisers escorting the Liberty took the lead in firing, and a large number of 150 mm high-explosive shells were poured on the battleship!

And the heavy cruisers of the White Tiger fleet began to counterattack, and the two hundred and three mm heavy guns opened fire on the Liberty as soon as possible, and they wanted to use high-explosive shells to make the Liberty burst into flames, and they could not pursue them for the time being!

However, Zhang Lin already knew this, the Liberty hid in the smoke screen opened by the three light cruisers, temporarily avoiding the guns of the three heavy cruisers, and the main gun crew of the Liberty had already aimed at the battleship early, and at the moment when it entered the smoke screen and lost its vision, the twelve 420 mm giant cannons of the Liberty opened fire at the same time, making a huge roar, and then the Liberty disappeared into the smoke screen, and the twelve armor-piercing shells dragged the smoke tail used to observe the trajectory and whizzed away!

Just as the battleship of the White Tiger Fleet was about to turn its bow and leave the battlefield, two 420-millimeter armor-piercing shells hit it, one passed through the superstructure, killing more than a dozen sailors, and one armor-piercing shell pierced the base of the rear No. 4 main turret, disabling one of the battleship's main turrets!

"Commander, our hull is damaged, and one of the main turrets is paralyzed beyond repair! The chief gunner and six sailors were killed! "The communication of the main artillery group made the commander of the White Tiger fleet very irritable!

"Get out of the fight now, leave this alone!" He commanded

But the Hope led three destroyers to release a large area of thunder sea in their rear, blocking their rear road, and just as the battleship was about to evacuate, the destroyer in charge of guarding in their rear sent a telegram: "Commander, a large number of torpedoes have been attacked in the rear of the fleet, and the retreat road has been blocked, and it is impossible to evacuate the battlefield!" ā€

After receiving such news, the commander of the White Tiger Fleet was in a somewhat desperate mood, the commander of the opposing fleet had already seen through their tactics, this was not going to let himself go, if the Pirate Alliance knew that the other party had such a powerful fleet, it would not hit this seaport at all, maybe the Pirate Alliance did not know that the enemy would have such a powerful fleet, and now it is difficult to safely evacuate from the battlefield!

Subsequently, under the order of the commander of the White Tiger fleet, the White Tiger fleet broke through in the direction of the Liberty, since the rear was blocked, then only from the proof of the breakthrough, the enemy escorted the light cruisers, and their own side was heavy cruisers, although the local battleships were very powerful, but the two fists were invincible to the four hands, and the victory or defeat was not yet divided!

Zhang Lin looked at the White Tiger Fleet that came to break through, do you think you can break through safely with heavy cruisers? Immediately ordered all the radars to turn on at full power, in the smoke screen, the monitoring radar showed that the enemy battleship was only eleven kilometers away, and the fire control radar had already given the firing angle, and then Zhang Lin ordered the main gun crew to aim all at a heavy cruiser of the White Tiger fleet, at such a close distance, the hit rate of the shells was very high, as long as it could hit, then it was easy to penetrate their armor with the caliber of the main gun of the Liberty, and it did not take much effort, and then the main gun of the Liberty opened fire again, and at such a close distance, it directly hit six shells, Two shells ricocheted, and the remaining four shells pierced the bow of the heavy cruiser, directly inflicting heavy damage on him! And the bow structure was destroyed, a lot of water was flooded, and the heavy cruiser temporarily lost the ability to maneuver!

Zhang Lin then ordered the Liberty to start releasing torpedoes, Zhang Lin asked to be sure to load the torpedoes as quickly as possible, and the torpedo launcher of the Liberty could be completed in forty seconds, and a total of twenty torpedoes were fired!

When the radar of the White Tiger Fleet found that there was a torpedo attack in front of it, it had to turn the rudder to evade, and Zhang Lin was waiting for this opportunity, one of the heavy cruisers on the side was seized by Zhang Lin due to the avoidance of torpedoes, and a salvo hit its engine, causing it to completely lose power, and the situation suddenly turned sharp for the White Tiger Fleet!

"This man is too strong for the battle situation, we are now completely passive, the two heavy cruisers have lost their combat effectiveness, and the commander has lost now!" The adjutant of the White Tiger Fleet said to the commander of the White Tiger Fleet!

"Yes, it will be difficult for us to defeat this battleship, but escaping is the same as fighting to the death, and there may be a turnaround if we fight once!" The commander of the White Tiger Fleet knows the outcome after escaping, if he just escapes back by himself, and the fleet is lost, then what awaits him is the most cruel punishment from the top of the Pirate Alliance, and life is better than death!

Looking at the opponent's desperate posture, Zhang Lin smiled: "Our enemy is anxious, he wants to fight with us, but he also needs capital to fight hard, if he doesn't even have the capital to fight hard, then he will die!" ā€

Obviously, the White Tiger Fleet did not have desperate capital, their battleships were very slow, and they could not catch up with the Liberty at all, and at such a close distance, the heavy cruisers did not dare to release torpedoes sideways at the Liberty, and as a result, they were heavily damaged or even sunk by the Liberty one by one!

The Liberty began to turn the bow and retreat, Zhang Lin wanted the Liberty to keep a distance from the enemy to avoid direct collision with the enemy, and when the Liberty turned the bow, the battleships and heavy cruisers of the White Tiger Fleet fired at the Liberty, the heavy cruiser used high-explosive shells, but because the battleships were very close, the main guns could only fire flat, and a large number of shells were smashed on the main armor belt of the Liberty, and only one or two shells hit the superstructure of the Liberty, which did not cause much damage, and only a few sailors were seriously injured, And the battleship's three hundred and fifty mm shells also had a hard time penetrating the main armor belt of the Liberty, only penetrating the outer hull, and the shells were blocked when they reached the armor box, and then the Liberty fired a salvo of its main guns, and seven armor-piercing shells hit the heavy cruiser that wanted to release torpedoes on the Liberty sideways, tearing several large openings directly at its waterline, and a large amount of seawater poured in, directly extinguishing his boiler, and the engine was also destroyed by the Liberty, and it was a matter of time before it sank, at a distance of five kilometers, The torpedo of the Liberty could hit the battleship in only a few tens of seconds, and the Liberty unceremoniously threw it ten torpedoes, and the battleship continued to break through without knowing it!

"Report the damage!" Zhang Lin asked with a communicator!

"Sir, the hull of the USS Liberty was hit with six armor-piercing shells, the appearance was badly damaged, but the armored protection zone was not penetrated, only four sailors were killed, thirty-six sailors were injured, twelve of them were seriously injured!"

Such a result is acceptable to Zhang Lin!