In the early morning of the second day, the preparations for the two destroyers were completed, and Zhang Lin boarded the Edward under the watchful eye of Avril, and with the heavy and long whistle, the three battleships sailed out of the harbor one after another, heading towards the predetermined sea area!

Off the coast of the Reim Imperial Capital, three heavy cruisers and two battleships are heading to the port of Reims Imperial Capital at a speed of twelve knots to carry out a provocation!

The Edward's high-power radar was scanning at full power, looking at the calm radar screen, the combat staff on the Edward breathed a sigh of relief!

"Enemy target appears!"

"Enemy cruisers spotted!"

"Enemy battleships spotted!"

"Enter the first level of combat readiness!" The sound of the radar siren woke Zhang Lin up in deep thought, and immediately ordered, "The Dawn and the Radiance will open the smoke curtain to protect them, and will go to the two flanks of the enemy army and obey my orders!" Then Zhang Lin asked the radarman: "How long will it take for the enemy to enter the range of my main gun!" ”

"Thirteen kilometers to go!"

"Order the engine room to adjust the engines, approach the enemy cruisers at full speed, and finish them out first!" Zhang Lin saw three enemy cruisers in the high-powered observation mirror in the captain's room, and judging from the enemy's reflection, the Edward had not been found for the time being. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Ten minutes later, the two sides were thirty kilometers apart, and the main guns of the USS Edward were aimed at the cruiser at the forefront of the enemy! With Zhang Lin's order, the Edward's twelve 406-mm main guns sprayed anger at the enemy cruiser, and twelve armor-piercing shells roared away!

"The straddle shot is complete, the impact point is corrected, and the shooting elements are calculated from the new! Release the reconnaissance plane and assist in observing the school shooting! ”

The pirates thought that the days would be the same as before, at least there would be no threat, and suddenly the huge waves around the ship reminded them that they were being targeted!

"What's the situation?" The pirate leader still didn't know what was going on, and the radar soldier was also at a loss, and didn't find anything, "Find me with a viewing scope!" "The pirate leader was a little angry.

"Twenty-seven kilometers ahead, a battleship of the Reims Empire was found, the model is unknown!" When the pirate leader heard the news, his uneasy heart finally let go, "A battleship, didn't send other ships?" ”

"Not for the time being, the battleship is protected by a large number of smoke screens around it, and other battleships cannot be observed!" On the pirate heavy cruiser, the observers in front and behind answered truthfully.

"A battleship dares to come here arrogantly, approaching at full speed, we must let it know the stakes, otherwise the other pirates will underestimate us, three heavy cruisers, and two battleships, were scared away by a battleship. What is the caliber of the opponent's main gun? "The pirate leader is still a little jealous of the Edward!

"Judging from the splash just now, the caliber of the opponent's artillery is four hundred and six millimeters, which should be the newly made main battleship of the Reims Empire."

"!" The pirate leader swallowed a mouthful of saliva fiercely, "Such a big cannon, we will be finished with one shot, notify it, and start to evade and deal with the shells, if we are hit, we will be finished!" ”

"Report to the captain, the pirate ship has begun to make evasive moves, and it needs to be recalculated to shoot Zhu Yuan!" The USS Edward detected the movements of the pirate ships early, and the effective operation of the observers, reconnaissance planes and radar was able to calculate the data needed for the next firing early.

"Don't be in a hurry to open fire, the place is approaching us." Zhang Lin looked at the approaching red dots on the radar, "Let us go, let's fight again." ”

As the distance between the two ships continued to close, the pirate ships finally calculated the model of the Edward, "What the hell, it turned out to be a big guy with a full load and displacement of more than 50,000 tons, brothers, the wind is blowing!" "I have to say that this group of pirates is very cunning, knowing that it is difficult for them to defeat the steel beast in front of them, they immediately changed their tactics and began to retreat.

Then, the 203-millimeter guns on the pirate ships began firing at the Edward, and the two sides were eighteen kilometers apart.

"I want to run now, it's too late! Bite me the last heavy cruiser, want to go, leave something behind and go! Zhang Lin ordered the main guns to start firing back, and the second salvo fired, the six main guns in front of the Edward fired armor-piercing shells weighing one and a half tons, and then a round of the heavy cruiser crossed the ship, making a piercing friction sound, and the startled pirate leader was in a cold sweat!

"Hurry up and give me a Z-shaped sail!" The pirate boss commands the servos with a loud voice!

"Leader, if we sail like this, we will be overtaken by the battleships behind, and the leader must hold out until our battleships come back!" The radar soldier was a little anxious, this leader relied on himself to be a cronie of the leader of this pirate group, so he became a small leader, and he didn't know how to command at all!

Shells kept falling around the Edward, and Zhang Lin commanded the Edward to continue shelling the fleeing heavy cruisers ahead!

Suddenly, the Edward shook! "Commander, the bow of the ship was hit, causing a fire, and the second damage management team has been controlled!" Zhang Lin heard the damage control report and asked, "How long will it take to control it?" ”

"Extinguish the fire in a minute!" Receiving the reply, Zhang Lin ordered the front main guns to fire another salvo, this time the heavy cruiser was not so lucky! A 406-mm armor-piercing shell hit the stern servo, which blew up the rudder and made it impossible to turn the rudder!

"Fix it for me!" The pirate leader on the heavy cruiser that was hit was already crazy, and at the moment of life and death, he was actually hit by the steering gear, if he couldn't repair it, he would be the live target of the battleship behind, and now the steering gear has turned twenty degrees to the right, and the armor belt of his own ship will all leak after ten seconds, thinking that his ship was pierced by 406 mm armor-piercing shells, and the consequences would ....... But it backfired, and the damaged servo could not be repaired at all!

Zhang Lin looked at the ship in front of him and no longer wanted to do the rudder, and immediately ordered the main gun to aim ahead, facing the position of the local ship's waterline, and firing the cannon in advance, due to the flight time of the shell, when the shell was in place, the cruiser had just reached the point of impact of the shell, and the three armor-piercing shells hit the waterline armor, and in the observation mirror, the chimney of the heavy cruiser suddenly emitted black smoke, Zhang Lin understood that the cruiser's boiler was destroyed, and he completely lost hope of escaping, so he immediately ordered to turn the target and aim at other ships in front.

At this moment, the radar corpsmen reported "Commander, enemy battleships have appeared, and according to signals sent back by intelligence and reconnaissance aircraft, two Eagle-class battleships!" "If it is really according to the intelligence, the two Eagle-class battleships are not afraid at all, according to the height of the water wave where the shells landed, the main guns of the two battleships were modified to 380 mm caliber, this caliber, can already penetrate the main armor belt of the Edward, even if the Edward can defeat these two battleships in other aspects, but the advantage of the caliber on the main guns has been offset by the enemy with numbers, and it is not a problem to escape, but the battle must have good command and luck!

Thinking of this, Zhang Lin asked, "Have the two destroyers arrived at the predetermined position!" ”

"Commander, has arrived, on standby."

"Good! In this battle, I want you all to sink in this sea! ”