Chapter 61: The Bloody Battle

When Zhang Lin anxiously rushed to the battlefield on the road, the battle on this side had already begun, and the pirates felt that their support had arrived, and began to approach the third battle group with confidence and boldness, and then the tentative attack of the two sides began. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The third battle group took the lead in starting to shoot, and the three battleships, with the advantage of the range of the main guns, opened fire on the heavy cruisers of the pirates, and the two sides were twenty kilometers apart, but the long-range shooting hit rate was indeed a little low, and the three main gun salvos did not achieve an effective hit, and although the range of the pirates' heavy cruisers could reach twenty kilometers, because long-distance shooting would reduce the hit rate and seriously deplete the life of the barrel, they kept pulling in the distance and did not fire!

The only battleship of the pirates began to return fire at the third battle group from a long distance, this battleship was a twin-mounted main gun, the caliber ratio was 356 mm, 45 times the caliber ratio, the gunpowder smoke produced by the main gun fire was easy to see in the observation scope, eight armor-piercing shells whizzed by, and a column of water splashed near a battleship of the third battle group, which was a successful cross-fire, and it can be seen that the pirate's artillery skills have been greatly improved.

On the other hand, the third battle group, several salvos, the shell landing point is very poor, and the performance of the main gun is much better than the pirate battleship, it is a 380 mm caliber, fifty times the caliber ratio of the main gun, but because of the fear of being surrounded by pirates, just want to escape, have no intention of fighting, resulting in a drop in the level of shooting, several shots without any hits.

Then after the combat distance between the two sides was pulled to within fifteen kilometers, the heavy cruisers of the pirates began to open fire, and a large number of high-explosive incendiary bombs poured down like the third battle group, although the battleships of the third battle group had tried to evade, but there were still shells hitting, some shells hit the side armor belt, the shells were crushed, some hit the bridge, some anti-aircraft guns were blown away, some superstructures were blown up, a large number of casualties among the sailors, causing fires, which was inevitable, and then a battleship of the third battle group seized the opportunity, The main gun salvo attacked a sideways pirate heavy cruiser, three armor-piercing shells hit the main armor belt in the center of the hull, and the huge explosion destroyed the engine compartment of the pirate heavy cruiser, so that the pirate heavy cruiser completely lost power, and a large number of sailors began to abandon the ship and flee, in a panic, but the good fortune of the battleships of the third battle group seemed to end here, and several shots failed again.

And on the pirate side, reinforcements are constantly coming, at this time there are already twelve battleships in this sea area, there are seven light cruisers, three heavy cruisers, two battleships, and there are reinforcements coming from afar, time is pressing, if the third battle group can't seize the opportunity, then the next time will be miserable!

Because the battleships of the third battle group were relatively backward, only they were attacked by pirates at this time, although they were hit many times, and the hull caught fire many times, but it was almost impossible for the cruiser to sink the battleship with the main gun, in all previous naval battles, the main decisive battle was still the battleship, only the battleship could deal with the battleship, although the battleship of the third battle group said that the battle was very difficult, but the pirate heavy cruiser was not having a good time now, in front of a pirate light cruiser was too convex, it was attacked by the three battleships of the third battle groupAlthough it was a battleship with the bow facing the third battle group, due to the weak armor, there were still three armor-piercing shells that did not jump eggs, penetrated its bow, penetrated the lateral armor of the front main turret, and exploded in the ammunition depot, which directly led to the explosion of the ammunition depot of the main turret in front, and the hull completely broke and quickly sank into the sea!

At this time, the third battle group also understood that it was impossible to get out unharmed, and it was necessary to fight to the end in order to have a glimmer of hope of escape, and then the other warships of the third battle group had returned to help, and the destroyers and light cruisers began to open the smoke screen to protect and cover the damaged battleships, and the heavy cruisers began to shoot with armor-piercing shells.

However, at this time, the pirate's strength had the advantage, the destroyer of the third battle group was hit by the pirate battleship when it released the smoke screen protection, and then a large number of shells continued to hit the destroyer of the third battle group, and finally the only destroyer left here by the third battle group sank unimaginably, becoming the first sunken battleship in this naval battle, and these mercenaries are more emotional, seeing the friendly army sinking, the heart is sad, after all, the friendly army is to cover themselves, at this time these mercenaries only have to fight to the death with this group of pirates, In order to avenge the friendly army, because the third battle group hated the enemy, the morale was greatly boosted, and it gradually suppressed the attack of the pirates, but these had little impact on the battle situation, because the pirates had six more battleships to support at this time, including three battleships, which was fatal news for the third battle group, and the proportion of capital ships was out of balance!

Due to the superiority of the pirates in the strength of the fleet, they began to suppress the 3rd battle group in terms of firepower, at this time a light cruiser of the 3rd battle group was hit by a large-caliber armor-piercing shell of the pirate battleship, resulting in serious damage to the hull, although the friendly forces had desperately covered, but still could not stop it from being sunk, at this time, the captain of the light cruiser made a decision, he ordered the battleship to rush forward, attracting a lot of firepower, temporarily relieving the pressure on the 3rd battle group.

The pirates laughed at the light cruiser's behavior, in their opinion, it was no different from suicide, but the light cruiser turned the bow of the ship under the pirate's eyelids, began to release torpedoes, and poured its torpedoes on the pirate battleship, but in the eyes of the pirates, this was a suicide, and the subsequent volley made the scarred light cruiser unable to hold on and sank into the sea!

Seeing this tragic scene, all the mercenaries' eyes were red, and the anger in their hearts was burning, before they were hired by people, no one would risk their own lives for the safety of friendly soldiers, and now they finally realized this feeling, maybe now they are comrades-in-arms!

For the sake of comrades-in-arms, you can disregard your own safety, you can give up your life for your comrades-in-arms, at this time the battle is no longer for the extermination of pirates, but for the sacrifice of comrades-in-arms, for the honor of comrades-in-arms, the warships of the third combat group began to attack the pirates, but not a suicide attack without strategy, because at this time they are no longer mercenaries, but comrades in life and death.