The destruction of the destroyer Merry apparently angered the American fleet outside the harbor, and Commodore Sirter, commander of the battleship USS Mississippi, as the commander of the fleet, immediately ordered the ships in the harbor to fire cannons and demand that the ships leave the ****** immediately, but this was not an easy task. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Due to Beijing's ****** trade strategy, the entire South China Free Trade Area includes many territories in South Asia, and naturally includes these islands under China's jurisdiction in the Pacific Ocean.

It's just that it is not possible to get the steam merchant ships that have anchored to move, which can not be done in an hour or two, and in addition, the reason why Brigadier General Sirt did not immediately order the shelling of the port is naturally also due to the fact that this is a civilian port after all, and there are several local villages in the port, once the shelling, it is almost indiscriminate destruction, and it is not a glorious thing to slaughter the indigenous people in front of the merchant ships of various countries.

The development of events was completely beyond Brigadier General Sirter's expectations......

When several neutral merchant ships began to withdraw from the port, the destroyer Israel patrolling the northern side of the perimeter suddenly issued a warning signal, and a minute later, Brigadier Sirter had already received information from the lookout that the destroyer Israel had spotted a medium-sized ship flying the Chinese flag fleeing northward, and the captain believed that it might be a Chinese ship preparing to enter the military port of Guam, trying to flee to Saipan in the north after seeing the port blocked.

Seeing that the plan to bombard the port still had to wait, coupled with the stimulation of the previous damage of the destroyer Meili, Brigadier Sirter agreed to the proposal of the destroyer Israel without much consideration, and at the same time ordered another destroyer USS Lutz to follow and assist the destroyer Israel.

The two American destroyers rushed at high speed to attack the Chinese merchant ships in the distance, and for the destroyers with a speed of 35 knots, those merchant ships with an economic sailing speed of only 10-12 knots were almost snails...... It's just that this time the Americans saw a snail that was used as bait!

The distance between the two sides is rapidly narrowing, at a distance of 10,000, the destroyer Israel in front of the sudden has fired a cannon to signal the other side to stop, but the Chinese merchant ship obviously has no intention of stopping, quickly fleeing to the northeast, in the face of this senseless escape, the two American destroyers are almost full force acceleration, in less than 20 minutes has been quickly approached to less than 7,000 meters.

If it weren't for the fact that the destroyer Israel was advancing at full speed at this moment, which caused serious waves in the bow and main turrets, coupled with the huge pitch angle of the front and rear, it was impossible to shoot recklessly in pursuit, otherwise it would have been possible to destroy the defenseless merchant ships at such a distance, of course, the destroyer Israel did not intend to destroy the target at will, and Commodore Abel had already ordered that the capture of the merchant ships of the hostile country for supplies would be beneficial for the fleet to continue to blockade Guam and return to base.

It was the difference in this thought, after the destroyer Israel quickly pursued the other side around a large reef, but suddenly came under close proximity, almost a storm of artillery fire, a large armored ship with three triple main guns quietly hid behind the reef, facing the unsuspecting destroyer Israel, almost thunderous rain poured full firepower on the side of the side.

The destroyer Israel rushed at full speed into the range of less than 4,000 meters from the Ryukyus...... discovered Wu Hongyuan's trap...... Then he turned to evacuate at full speed, which was only two or three minutes, but at a distance much closer than the naval active target shooting, the Ryukyu, which was sailing at a low speed, hit a textbook-like free fire hit.

The Israel, which had just exposed its entire hull, had actually been completely crippled in the first round of free fire of the USS Ryukyus! Nine 210mm high-explosive shells and four 100mm armor-piercing shells smashed into the side of the hapless American destroyer in almost a straight trajectory, and this round of firing alone hit a staggering hit of 5 hits and 3 close misses.

Among them, the two high-explosive shells fired from the triple 210mma gun position can be called a classic name for the not too towering conning tower of the Israeli destroyer, and the poor 3-inch conning tower armor of the American destroyer is simply unable to block the bombardment of more than 120 kilograms of projectiles, let alone being named by two high-explosive shells at the same time...... In an instant, the Israel's conning tower was flattened in half as if it had been opened.

Seven or eight destroyer officers, including Major Mir, were directly killed by the violent explosion of two high-explosive shells, the other three bombs hit by the first round of shooting, a 100mm shell destroyed the chimney in the middle of the battleship, and the other two 210mm high-explosive shells directly penetrated the battleship's sidestring armor belt, and exploded violently in the middle and rear bilges of the battleship, and the black smoke ejected by the explosion rose to a height of tens of meters.

The reason why the battleship was able to maintain its navigation in the next few minutes, the first mate in the cockpit of the destroyer Israel played an important role, the bomb-destroyed command tower was in the upper part of the cockpit, and the violent explosion did not affect the lower deck, the first mate of the American destroyer did not realize that he had been promoted to captain after the first round of shelling, and when he saw the monster with gun barrels stuck in the side, his first thought was to escape!

However, if you can escape by this time, you will inevitably underestimate Wu Hongyuan's means, the destroyer Israel has just been fully helmed, and the overwhelming second round of blows has indiscriminately smashed on the hull of the battleship's horizontal rotation, because the battleship is deflected less than 30 degrees, but it dodged a few more shells, and only 3 210mm shells hit......

But this is still a fatal blow, the tail of the destroyer Israel was hit continuously, and the explosion gushed out various fragments, sprayed into the air like a goddess scattering flowers, and the side effect of the explosion was that the Israel stalled rapidly, and in the power of the three-axis drive, after two rounds of strikes, only the middle shaft was left to rotate, and at this moment, the fate of the Israel was no longer in suspense.

The Ryukyu, which rushed up in a hurry, had no mercy on this target that was disabled by itself, and almost rushed and shot all the way to a distance of less than 3,000 meters, and in just 2 minutes, the Israel was hit by more than 25 bullets, the entire superstructure of the ship was almost flattened, and several breaches on the starboard side opened their mouths in horror.

A large amount of seawater quickly poured into the hull of the destroyer Israel, and the American destroyer, which was already lifeless at this moment, had lost control, fell sideways to the sea under the fire, and finally because of the explosion of the bilge boiler, it suddenly sprayed a thirty-meter-high white column into the air, and then broke into several sections!

For the war, this is almost a moment of lightning, and when the Rutz destroyer that followed found that the situation was not right, three Chinese destroyers had already come out of the corner, and the Vickers-class destroyers were originally much smaller than several Changbaishan-class and Kunlun-class destroyers......

The destroyer Rutz, which had no time to turn and escape, was blocked and bombarded with two small 100mm pipes against 12 and 150mm large pipes, not to mention that from the beginning of the battle, the destroyer Rutz panicked and fled in a hurry, and in less than five minutes after being beaten, it almost didn't shoot a few shots.

When Wu Hongyuan leaned over slowly and was about to practice again, the destroyer Lutz had already been beaten to the point that he could not take care of himself, and his three destroyers, only the destroyer Zhiyang, was very unfortunate to be fired by the opponent and hit a 100mm armor-piercing bullet, which punched a big hole in the back of the command tower, causing injuries to one officer and three soldiers.

Seeing that the Ryukyu came over to eat meat, the three destroyers were naturally unwilling, and the Sanming did not hesitate to fire a torpedo at the Rutz, which was no longer able to take care of itself, but Wu Hongyuan could only frown, looking at the American destroyers that were arched out of the water by the explosion, and he couldn't help but give a middle finger to these stingy destroyer commanders.

It's just that for him now, even the time to give the middle finger is obviously a luxury...... Before the prisoners could be collected, a destroyer from the south had already rushed towards him, and in the distance, a rumbling cannon roared in! (To be continued.) )