Chapter Seventy-Five: Vulnerable
The arrogant pirates didn't pay attention to the vanishing hope at all, because their two heavy cruisers had already come to their aid, and these cruise ships seemed to them to be in their pockets!
Zhang Lin ordered the Hope to avoid the pirates from discovering themselves as much as possible, and the three heavy cruisers on Zhang Lin's side had already exchanged fire with the pirates, Smith's men were still relatively able to fight, and they were obviously much stronger than the pirates in terms of the quality of the soldiers.
Then the Hope continued to expand the range of smoke, at this distance, the probability of being sent by pirates is very high, and the three friendly heavy cruisers to protect the seven cruise ships without any combat effectiveness, can only be supported by long-distance human artillery fire, the rest can only look at the Hope!
On the pirate's right flank, the Hope released ten torpedoes at the two pirate cruisers, quickly adjusting the hull, while the sailors were urgently loading the torpedoes, with the help of automatic loading equipment, one by one the torpedoes were loaded into the launcher, and after the loading, the Hope released another wave of torpedoes!
"Enemy destroyers spotted!"
The pirates discovered the location of the Hope, but due to the heavy smoke screen protection, the cunning destroyer could not be directly observed, but the pirates did not think so, and allowed the Hope to operate on the right flank!
However, they soon paid the price for their arrogance, and then two waves of torpedoes released by the Hope appeared in their course, because his observation tower found that the torpedoes appeared a little late, and the pirates were more unlucky except for the destroyer who dodged with its excellent maneuverability, and the two cruisers still had a torpedo hit the ship with their best efforts, and the large-caliber torpedoes of the Hope showed them how easy it was to get water, The high-powered torpedoes easily penetrated their anti-mine armor, and a large amount of seawater poured in from the place where the hull was destroyed, although a large number of pirates were put into the damage pipe, but it still could not effectively prevent the ship from entering the water, and the pirate leader had to order the hatch to be closed, and soon the waterproof compartment was filled with seawater, causing the hull to tilt!
The pirates had the idea of retreating at this time, but Zhang Lin would not let them go so easily, every pirate had blood in his hands, Zhang Lin hated pirates very much, not to mention that these pirates paid attention to Zhang Lin's head, and Zhang Lin couldn't let them go!
When the pirates turned the bow of the ship, Zhang Lin asked his three heavy cruisers to take advantage of the victory to pursue and annihilate this group of pirates! Then the Hope burst out of the smoke and began to attack the pirate warship with its naval guns, giving the pirates a chance to escape at all!
The pirate leader found out that the Hope jumped angrily, but there was no way to take this cunning destroyer, because the ship guns of the Hope had a high rate of fire, the shells kept attacking one of the pirates' heavy cruiser like raindrops, and the pirate's destroyer kept changing course to avoid the shell attack, but no one attacked him, causing his actions to be completely futile, but wasting the time to escape, just as he was preparing to sail in a straight line and prepare to evacuate the battle at full speed, the shells of the Hope arrived as scheduled and hit its bridge directly, caused a fire, and the heavy cruiser of the two pirates caught fire several times "Damn, this destroyer is so cunning, which of you has the means to ask for its harassment?" ā
At this time, the pirates were eager to unload Zhang Lin into eight pieces, because the pirate's cruiser was hit by a torpedo, the hull of the ship was flooded, and the speed of the voyage could not be increased, slowing down the march, the friendly forces of the Hope had already pursued from behind, and finally the pirate destroyer was ready to abandon the two cruisers and escape alone, it turned on the engine overload, and turned on the smoke generator, and left alone!
The two pirate cruisers thought that this destroyer was going to protect them with a smoke screen, although it could not completely save them, but it could relieve the urgency for a while, and it could also allow them to temporarily avoid the gunfire of battleships such as the Hope, but then the captains of the two pirate cruisers were dumbfounded, this was to cover them with smoke, this was simply to escape, and before they could understand what was going on, the destroyer of their brother left their two seriously injured cruisers and fled alone!
The pirate's destroyer was going to run, and Zhang Lin had no way to stop it, but these two pirate cruisers had no chance to escape at all, Zhang Lin was ready to sink the two pirates' cruisers in one fell swoop and was ready to return to the Storm Strait quickly, but the two pirate cruisers knew that they had no hope of escaping, so they both raised their white flags and surrendered!
Zhang Lin is not a person who likes to kill, since the pirates have surrendered, then Zhang Lin will only attack them again, and then Zhang Lin is afraid that the pirates will surrender by fraud, so he sent a telegram to the two sneak attack pirate cruisers, and asked their captains to come here in a small boat, and the two pirate cruisers did so!
Half an hour later, the two lifeboats came to the side of the Hope, Zhang Lin ordered the sailors to pick them up, and came to the captain's room, Zhang Lin carefully looked at the two pirate leaders, and Zhang Lin saw the pirates in the Rakichfei harbor before, it should be said that they did not see the fierce spirit of the pirates, which made Zhang Lin very curious!
"You two are the captains of those two cruisers?" Zhang Lin took the lead in breaking the sinking!
"Yes!" These two people were captured by Zhang Lin, and they did not have a trace of fear, but spoke to Zhang Lin without humility, which made Zhang Lin even more curious about why they were pirates. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
"Why are you pirates?"
The two men looked at each other, and one of them said slowly: "We are here to make a living, we have to do it, we used to have a warm and peaceful home, but it was completely destroyed by pirates, in order to have the ability to report ourselves, we had to do this!" ā
Zhang Lin knew that some people here were forced to be pirates, but with the words of these two people, Zhang Lin would not easily believe them, but this is also very easy to verify, as long as you catch the sailors on these two people's ships and ask, you will know if they have done bad things!
Then Zhang Lin whispered a few words to Delin, Delin turned to leave, and Zhang Lin continued to ask the two, "Then why did you come to rob us?" ā
"We have to feed a lot of people, but we never wanted to kill you, and now that we are caught by you, we don't think we can live, but we have a request, I hope you can consider it!"
Zhang Lin waved his hand and motioned for them to continue.
"We hope you can spare our brothers, they are innocent, and we are willing to take responsibility for our actions!"