Chapter 132: The Great Defeat of Aslan (Part II)
Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Zhang Lin led the fleet to the rear of the Aslan Imperial fleet, the main guns of the battleship were ready, the two sides had just entered a distance of thirty kilometers, the main guns of the battleship were ready, the first test firing began, the main guns of the Liberty, Pioneer and Victory were aimed at one of the battleships of the Aslan Imperial fleet, concentrating superior firepower to attack the enemy's backbone first!
The roar of the cannon announced the beginning of this war, and the main guns of the Liberty and other battleships fired the first salvo, and the shells landed around the battleship of the Aslan Imperial Fleet.
The commander of the Aslan Imperial fleet knows that the armor of his battleship deck is relatively weak, and to avoid the enemy ship's shells from penetrating from above, he will have to pull the distance from the enemy, and now it is difficult to even think about evacuating the battle, the warships of this fleet are all high-speed battleships, and the last time he specially collected the intelligence of the storm fleet, seeing the appearance of this fleet, the commander of the Aslan Imperial fleet hurriedly asked the command for help, this is his last hope at present, so that the Morgan Empire can send a fleet to support!
Zhang Lin is also afraid that the enemy will take the opportunity to ask for help, although it is speculated that the Morgan Empire will not send troops, but this is an uncertain thing, since the best fighter has appeared, then the annihilation of the enemy army in the shortest possible time is what Zhang Lin wants most!
Zhang Lin ordered the fleet to quickly approach the enemy ships, control the distance to about fifteen thousand meters, and then quickly attack the battleships of the Aslan Imperial fleet to crush the enemy's main force before the arrival of enemy reinforcements!
Looking at the menacing storm fleet, the Aslan Imperial fleet was a little afraid, in the case of the enemy's various performances surpassing their own, this proved that the frontal firepower exchange was not good for themselves, but there was no way to avoid it, the commander of the Aslan Imperial fleet had to order the fleet to spread out a formation to prepare for the impact of the enemy's warships, and eleven destroyers went to carry out a lightning battle!
In the process of approaching each other by the fleets of the two sides, the main guns of the Liberty fired a salvo, and one of the high-speed flying shells pierced through a light cruiser, and in the middle of the boiler room, the shell did not explode, and pierced through the waterline of the cruiser again, but this 420 mm shell directly broke a large hole in the boiler, and penetrated the armored zone at the waterline of another section of the hull, and the light cruiser was seriously injured by the damage to the boiler and the water ingress into the hull!
"Report to the captain, below the waterline has been penetrated, our ship is rapidly flooding, the boiler is damaged, the power of the two seats has dropped by a third, and the speed has dropped!"
This unlucky cruiser was originally under the attack of this kind of shell, as long as it did not hit the vital point, it would not sink, but by chance, this shell passed out of the waterline of this light cruiser, causing the hull to enter the water, and the sealed cabin was destroyed, and the turbulent sea water was poured into the position of the boiler room, although the sailors tried their best to control the water intake, but still could not prevent the battleship from slowly entering the water!
In the process of approaching the fleet, the difference in firepower between the two sides immediately compared, the Freedom, the Pioneer and the Victory, there were at least fifteen or more secondary guns on one side, and when it was close to twenty kilometers, these secondary guns at the firing angle had already begun to fire, Zhang Lin even ordered the bow of the ship to be deflected thirty degrees, and the angle of fire to the secondary guns, for a while, the Storm Fleet tightly suppressed the Aslan Imperial fleet from the density of the firepower network!
Not to be outdone, the Aslan Imperial fleet had an advantage in the number of battleships, although the secondary guns could not fire at a distance of twenty kilometers, but the six battleships had a total of forty-eight 360 mm main guns, a salvo every thirty-five seconds, which caused great trouble to the Storm Fleet, fortunately their guns have been locked on the Liberty, most of the shells hit are ricochet and smashed, and those that hit the superstructure are also harmless, and they did not cause much damage to the Liberty, The commander of the Aslan Imperial fleet wanted to inflict heavy damage on the Liberty and strike at the sharpness of the Storm Fleet, but it was difficult for their fleet's guns to clasp at this distance!
And the Sun and the Sun used high-explosive shells to attack the battleship at the forefront of the Aslan Imperial fleet, almost completely destroying the superstructure of the battleship, the two hundred and three mm high-explosive shells, every hit can cause serious damage to the battleship's superstructure, in the baptism of several shells, the battleship lost most of the anti-aircraft gun group and secondary guns, the deck fire, but no one dared to put out any damage, the battleship was targeted by enemy artillery, and the deck was not safe at all, Losing the sailors will not extinguish the fire, but will die in vain!
The speedboats following the Liberty quietly approached the Aslan Imperial fleet, due to their good maneuverability and high concealment, this kind of torpedo speedboats were easy to ignore in the fierce engagement, when the Aslan Imperial fleet found these speedboats, these speedboats were only about six kilometers away from them, and the hit rate of torpedoes at this distance would be greatly improved, and these torpedo speedboats also realized that this was an excellent opportunity to launch torpedoes frantically towards Aslan, It's just that this kind of torpedo boat, which has only one torpedo tube, is very difficult to launch all the torpedoes stored on the boat in a short time!
This gave the Aslan Imperial fleet a chance to fight back, and the secondary guns of the fleet began to expel these torpedo boats, some of the torpedo boats were hit by the secondary guns, and with just one shell, the torpedo boats were blown up, but there were seventy torpedo boats, and it was not so easy to get these torpedo boats in a short time!
A large number of torpedoes attacked the Aslan Imperial fleet, at this time, the warships of the Aslan Imperial Fleet now want to avoid the torpedoes of these torpedo boats, there is no need to save fuel, these torpedoes are all the highest speed, and the oxygen torpedoes that reach a speed of 75 knots are almost a catastrophe for the Aslan Imperial fleet!
Seeing that it was difficult to survive, some torpedo boats rushed directly to the Aslan Imperial fleet, with the idea of dying together, it was better to drag the enemy to hell together!
The commander of the Aslan Imperial fleet had a premonition that he was about to lose, and shouted with all his might: "Crazy, all crazy, how can there be such a war, stop them for me!" ”
It's just that these are a bit futile, although more than 20 torpedo boats were sunk, but there are still more torpedo boats rushing to the enemy ship, only a few hundred meters away, firing torpedoes frantically at the enemy ship, the torpedo is consumed, the crew drove the speedboat into the enemy ship, and the scene was very tragic for a while!
The battleships of the Aslan Imperial Fleet were hit by a large number of torpedoes, the hull of the ship was flooded, and the waterline was seriously damaged, and the feeling in the heart of Zhang Lin, who was observing from a distance, was indescribable, these sailors interpreted their loyalty to their motherland with their lives, but Zhang Lin did not expect that victory would come like this!