On the sea, four heavy cruisers are surrounding Maria Theresa, pumping water for her, and a group of destroyer girls are busy helping the other four heavy cruiser mothers to take care of it.

Xu Zhonglin cleared his thoughts a little: "How's the situation?" ”

Princess Sissi is the one in the best condition, and she is organizing the rescue operation: "Teresa's hull is being rescued, it's hard to say now, the main thing is that we are close to the frontal battlefield, and there are many submarines in the vicinity, if they are damaged again......"

"Barcelium Lisa! Escort! ”

Sissi said embarrassedly: "Barcelisa was hit by the opponent's secondary gun four times just now, and she was seriously injured. ”

Xu Zhonglin rubbed his head vigorously with his hands: "Report from the beginning!" ”

"Yes! We agreed to this battle, sank a total of ten enemy light cruisers, five heavy cruisers, and captured two heavy cruisers, only the last one that shelled with the goddess of wisdom was not very damaged and ran away. In addition, three submarines and one destroyer were sunk, all of which were done by destroyer girls who went out on missions. When the lightning struck just now, four of our destroyers sank in battle, and Teresa is not easy to say...... Among the others, the Goddess of Wisdom is the most serious, only slightly better than Teresa, and Rena is about the same, all three of them have their last breath left, and the soul girl has been hit hard, and my hull can barely fight. Seven destroyers were heavily damaged, five were wounded, and the other nine were intact, which was already the full strength of the Second Fleet. ”

Hearing that there were still nine intact destroyers, Xu Zhonglin was a lot more relieved, but out of the thirty-six destroyers, only twenty-one remained, which made him feel a little guilty in his heart, most of which were sunk when they were on a mission alone.

"How's the battlefield going?"

Sissi's face was a little ugly: "The West Island of the Gurgane Islands has fallen, the East Island is resisting, our side is just now, Major Rossi and his fellowship Niang Cayo Duilio battleship have been killed, Colonel Costa and Major Marino are about forty nautical miles southwest of us, and two Bismarck-class ships have begun to exchange fire." Zuwara and Tripoli are clearing the shipping lanes, with the earliest support waiting for dawn. ”

It's dawn! Xu Zhonglin looked at his watch, there were still three hours, and he didn't know if he could hold on.

"How did Major Rossi die?"

Sissi had some admiration on her face: "He was driven out by three battle patrols of the other side with two teams, besieged by light patrols, sank one, damaged one, and five other ships of various types, fought to the death and did not retreat, and finally the whole army was annihilated." ”

is an admirable person, but unfortunately he is also a 'Middle Eastern', and Xu Zhonglin couldn't make friends with this heroic Major Rossi before. Now is not the time to remember each other, Xu Zhonglin still has a lot to do.

The injuries of the other ship's hull were all controlled, only the Goddess of Wisdom, Rena and Teresa were more troublesome, all three of them had a large hole in the side of the hull, and the power compartment was flooded, unable to provide power to sail, and could only be dragged by others.

Among them, Teresa was the most serious, the keel was almost broken, the deck was submerged, and only the compartment where the core of the hull was located had not yet entered the water, retaining her last breath. If in the original world, this battleship could have been given up, but this is Teresa, and Xu Zhonglin could not give up the other party.

The shipwives are diving in, pumping water from cabin to cabin.

Xu Zhonglin is being treated by the Soul Resurrection Girl, and this job was originally Teresa's, but unfortunately she now needs to do her best to control the ship's hull damage.

The main injury was the thigh, and the shrapnel grazed the outside of the thigh, taking away a small amount of muscle, and separating a wound almost three centimeters deep, but fortunately the artery was not cut. There were glass cuts on his cheeks, glass shards on his arms and waist, and the Soul Girl was helping him clean it up with tears in her eyes.

"Admiral, go back and upgrade Rena to Warcruiser, or you can make Annie the flagship, and this situation can't happen again."

"It's okay, you protected me very well."

The soul girl was about to say something, but she suddenly stopped her hand movements and said angrily, "Admiral, the military department has asked us to gather the remaining forces to support Costa!" ”

"Grass! What's going on? ”

Isn't that a joke? Xu Zhonglin's Second Fleet is now almost wiped out in one breath, and he actually asks for support!

"Costa, that bastard is cowardly! He has been keeping a distance of 25,000 meters from the other party, and just now he was hit by a shell from the other side, and the damage was not great, so he hurriedly called for support! Just now he had let the destroyers over there launch a wave of lightning strikes and lost six destroyers, this bastard is letting these ship girls die! Well, now that he lacks defense, he wants us to go over and protect him. ”

it! Costa is playing fast, 25,000 kilometers to let the expulsion go up to the lightning strike, what's the point? Xu Zhonglin had just hit the heavy cruiser at a distance of 11,000 kilometers, and in the end, it was ordered by Sissi to strike with lightning, and in this way, four of them were lost.

"Humph! Tell the military department that a large number of submarines have appeared near us, and it is necessary to stay to protect nineteen wounded meritorious battleships! "Xu Zhonglin won't be stupid enough to fight hard for the sake of care, the gang just now has done his best, and his main job now is to protect his ship girls.

Why can't the world be united? Because of this, everyone has selfish motives.

Is Xu Zhonglin wrong? Yes, at the height of the battle, the orders of the military headquarters were tactfully shirked by him. But standing in his position, who can not be chilled? A fierce naval battle was over, all the troops were wounded, and any fleet had lost its combat effectiveness to the extent that he had lost its combat effectiveness, and the military headquarters still coldly ordered him to carry out a mortal mission, and he would rather take Sissi and them to wander after the war than leave at this time!

"The military department let us seriously wounded the beach at the sandbar north of Howmetsuk, and they said that direction was safe for the time being,"

Hometsuk was in a 'U' shaped bay, with the exit on the west side, and a sandbar slightly above sea level to the north, which was indeed a good place to wash the beach, but it was fifteen nautical miles away from Xu Zhonglin, and if Austria-Hungary found them, it would send a fleet to destroy them at any time, without much strength, and now there were two more Admiral-class heavy cruisers of the Hippel class, and the Second Fleet would all have to kneel.

So, he can't take that risk.

"Tell the military headquarters that fourteen of our nineteen wounded ships have slowed down, oh yes, and two captured heavy cruises, which are expected to be completed in two and a half hours."

As the saying goes, those who have not split their legs are not good stars, those who have not shown their milk, and those who have not shown their milk are not good Internet celebrities. Judging by the commands, the military department has a real-time grasp of the dynamics of the battlefield, but it is limited to that.

Can the military department know about the damage to his fleet? Moreover, he did not lie, it is true that there are fourteen battleships that have reduced their speed, just not so exaggerated. But if the military department wants to know the real situation, it can only go through the summary report he wrote after the war. As long as this kind of report is not written too exaggeratedly, no one will pursue it. This thing is like some holy decree - hehe, do you want it? Come, miscellaneous...... Ahh Admiral Ben writes you one.