Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoAfter Zhang Lin gave the order, he began to let the Liberty go to the predetermined coordinates, and the other warships also began to clean up the pirates around the Storm Strait according to Zhang Lin's request!

"USS Hope reports to the flagship, sank a pirate destroyer, over!"

While the Liberty was still on its way to its intended target, the Hope and two of its friendly warships had sunk a pirate destroyer

"Inform the Hope, follow the order and fight steadily to avoid all avoidable losses!" Zhang Lin said to the radar officer! Although it seems that the pirates are vulnerable, but what losses are there that Zhang Lin does not want to see, the reason why the two light cruisers escorting the Liberty are sent out is to strengthen the firepower of the destroyer fleet and eliminate the pirates at the minimum cost!

On the ocean more than 200 kilometers away from the Storm Strait, the huge fleet is heading to the Storm Strait at great speed, and a large number of destroyers are surrounding the three battleships in the center like stars and moons, carrying out escort and exploration missions!

The supreme commander of the White Tiger Fleet was watching the sea from the bow of a battleship: "How long will it take to reach the Storm Strait?" ”

"Commander, we are still more than two hundred kilometers away from the Storm Strait, and with our cruising speed of sixteen knots, it is estimated that it will take seven hours to reach the Storm Strait!" An operational staff officer answered his question: "Sir, what do you think of the combat effectiveness of that battleship?" ”

The supreme commander of the White Tiger Fleet looked at the sea with a calm face: "None of our warships are her opponents, including the Black Dragon Fleet!" After speaking, he walked to the bridge position: "Order the fleet to speed up, strive to reach the predetermined sea area within five hours, the destroyer will go to reconnoiter first, be sure to avoid direct exchange of fire with the enemy, and report immediately if the enemy is found!" ”

After a period of sailing, the Liberty arrived at the predetermined coordinate sea area, according to the situation reported by the destroyer fleet, a pirate cruiser was here, but the radar of the Liberty did not find anything, which made Zhang Lin a little strange, could it be that the cruiser had already run away? "The detection radar is on at full power and searches the surrounding seas!"

"Spot a local target!"

"The observation tower observes the target and reports the target location ship type!" Zhang Lin stared at the radar screen, picked up the communicator and ordered!

"Sir, the pirate cruiser has been spotted, and the target is eighteen kilometers away from us!" The Command Tower reports!

"The main artillery group is ready to load armor-piercing shells, start calculating the firing elements, fire control radar group, ready to shoot!"

The main turret of the Liberty began to rotate slowly, and the barrel of the main gun rose at a good angle according to the input firing elements: "Commander, the state of the main gun crew is complete!" ”

"The fire control radar group is ready for pre-firing!"

"One and two main turrets, start firing!" In order to save ammunition and deal with accidents, Zhang Lin did not let the twelve main guns fire a salvo, but only let the six 420 mm main guns of the No. 1 and No. 2 main turrets shoot, and after more than ten seconds, the observation tower observed the landing point of the shells, and the first shot reached the straddle fire, which can be seen that the fire control radar of the Liberty is very good!

"Let the first and second main turrets be loaded with ammunition, and the next main gun salvo! Get ready to correct your shooting data! Zhang Lin continued to order!

The splash of water around the cruiser warned that it had been attacked, and the observation tower of the cruiser immediately began to observe the surrounding sea: "Report to the chief, a battleship and a cruiser have been found about eighteen kilometers to starboard!" ”

"What, battleship? Immediately accelerate and flee and order the main artillery crew to immediately return fire with high-explosive incendiary shells, at such a distance, our armor-piercing shells have no effect at all! "The pirate leader doesn't pay attention to the Liberty at all, in his opinion, there is a pirate who wants to eat black, it is impossible to get an effective hit at such a distance, he knows the pirate's gunnery very well, there is no fire control radar, just rely on these lazy pirates to control the main turret, the hit rate is really pitiful!

But this time he was wrong, the first shot was just luck in his opinion, and the next time it won't be like this!

Zhang Lin looked at the pirate's light cruiser that had already discovered the Freedom, but it only increased its speed and did not start to avoid the shells, but Zhang Lin didn't know at all that the pirate leader didn't take the Freedom in his eyes at all!

As the main cannon of the Liberty opened fire again, the waves of fire from the cannon could be seen on the pirate light cruiser, and the pirate leader realized that something was wrong, and when he saw the Liberty in the control tower with his observation scope, he was stunned, but he paid the price for his carelessness!

Without giving him time to react, when he thought of ordering the battleship to prepare to evade the shells, the four-hundred-twenty-millimeter shells of the Liberty had already reached his battleship! Then the cruiser vibrated violently, and there was a huge explosion inside the ship!

Two shells passed through the superstructure of this Corsair light cruiser, leaving two large holes, killing more than a dozen sailors, the forward detection radar cable was destroyed, one shell hit the rear of the hull, passed behind the fourth main turret, and since there was no heavy armor to block it, that shell passed through another section of the hull, only causing casualties, one shell penetrated the watertight compartment of the cruiser from the water, exploded inside the ship, destroying the two adjacent compartments, a large amount of seawater poured into it from the rupture of the bomb port, and the ship was flooded in large quantities!

"Report to the leader, the hull of the ship was shot, it was penetrated below the waterline, our ship is flooded in large quantities, the No. 1 boiler room is flooded by seawater, the boiler is extinguished, and the power is dropping!"

Listening to the damage management report, the pirate leader of this cruiser was cold in his heart: "How much has the power dropped, and what is the fastest speed that we can maintain now?" ”

"Chief, our power has dropped from thirty-three knots to twenty-six knots, and because the hull is still falling because of the water ingress into the ship, the ship is tilted three degrees to the right, and it is constantly leaning to the right, and the damage tube has temporarily closed the sealed cabin, and the hull is expected to enter a thousand tons of water! The speed is expected to only be maintained at about twenty-two knots! ”

At this point, the pirate leader's first thought was to finish: "Can you detect the speed of the enemy?" ”

"Chief, the detection radar cable is damaged and temporarily ineffective, and the damaged pipe is being repaired, and it is expected to be repaired in fifteen minutes! Our rudder efficiency has dropped by 20 percent! ”

Zhang Lin saw all this clearly in the observation glass, when the cruiser's boiler room was flooded, the black smoke coming out of the chimney and the tilt of the hull made Zhang Lin conclude that the key position of the cruiser was penetrated, and then Zhang Lin ordered: "Turn the bow of the ship and approach the enemy ship at full speed!" Then the speed of the Liberty gradually increased from twenty-four knots to thirty-three knots, and it was already difficult for the cruiser to run, it only took an hour, and the distance between the Liberty and him would be zero, and in the process, it would be fired by the main guns of the Liberty, and the survival rate was zero!