The ideal is often good, just like when you go to the market to buy seafood, all the fish and shrimp are alive, but the reality is that sea crystals are added to it.

Xu Zhonglin's assumption is that as long as the destroyers of the Second Fleet converge, they may not have the strength to fight the other party, but the reality is that the other party is not mentally retarded, how can he give him a chance?

The first to find out that the situation was wrong was the goddess of dance, Xiao Mengniang came a little later than her sister the goddess of comedy, but she was always followed by two destroyers, it was the Z series! This series is a kind of German destroyer, which is more powerful, with a displacement of 3,000 tons and can run 36 knots, as well as five 127-mm guns.

She was the first to be attacked, the poor little fellow, with a displacement of no more than a thousand tons and a speed of only 34 knots. Three shells were hit at once, and the superstructure was a miserable mess.

Luckily, Barcelisa arrived in time to save her.

At the same time, Xu Zhonglin received many reports of destroyers of the Second Fleet one after another, and half of them were attacked!

Xu Zhonglin also felt for the first time what the Admiral's inner feeling was like after the death of the ship's mother. Pain! It hurts! Unforgettable pain! And he experienced this pain three times in two minutes. And there's a lot to go through.

More pain comes from self-blame! Why didn't he help these little guys increase their speed, and why didn't he dare to recall them when he knew the danger?!

But the rapidly changing situation on the battlefield made him have no time to regret it! The light patrol of Austria-Hungary has already rushed up, at a distance of 20,000 meters, and it is approaching at a rapid pace!

Barcelisa: Admiral, I'll lead a torpedo assault!

"Shut up, the heavy patrol formation reduces its speed, lowers its stabilizer fins, and attacks with all its might! Expelling formation escort! Xu Zhonglin stopped Barcelona Lisa.

In any fleet, Barcelisa's request is right. At this time, the opponent is approaching at high speed, and the formation must be disrupted by lightning strikes, although the Königsberg-class light patrol has a displacement of 8,000 tons, but the range of the main gun is only about 17,000 kilometers, and it is a comic layout of the first and second back, so now to launch a lightning strike, only a triple main gun in the bow can hit Barcelisa and them, and the probability of coming back alive after launching a lightning strike is very high.

Even so, this kind of suicide attack order Xu Zhonglin still couldn't bear to give it. The destroyer girls of the Second Fleet weren't his private fleet, but he never thought of letting these little guys die. Although the other party is facing him with the bow of the ship, there are still thirty guns in total, and at this time, only five ships are expelled, and there will inevitably be casualties when a lightning strike, and he doesn't want to experience that heart-rending feeling anymore.

Sissi probably felt that his tone was too stiff, and helped him comfort: "Barcelisa, you can predict the opponent's course now, play a salvo to try your luck, don't rush, there are still many tough battles ahead, maybe we still need your protection." ”

Xu Zhonglin's mind was not here, on the battlefield, with his order, the five heavy cruisers did not fire a calibration, and under the guidance of the advanced fire control radar, they directly launched a salvo. Soon the first result appeared, the third salvo from the goddess of wisdom a cannonball made the first hit, this was a close miss, the shell exploded outside the main armor belt of a light cruiser, the huge impact directly tore through the opponent's fragile armor, and a large amount of sea water poured in.

It was as if the horn of victory had been sounded, and in the next two minutes, the opponent had been hit by a total of twelve shells, and five light cruisers had been seriously damaged!

But at this time, the opponent's first shell also fell near Xu Zhonglin's fleet.

Rena reminded him, "Admiral, the cannonball is from the other side's heavy patrol!" ”

Yes, the shells came from the Admiral-class heavy cruisers, and compared with the Königsberg-class, this is the big killer, and the eight 203-mm guns like Rena have a range of 36,000 meters!

"Don't worry about it for now, the other party is almost at the limit, and it is at high speed, you can't hit it accurately, hold it down, and knock out these cannon fodder light patrols first!"

The eight heavy cruisers diagonally behind him were also 30,000 meters away from his fleet, which was not a normal combat distance.

After another three minutes, Xu Zhonglin's fleet was 14,500 meters away from the opponent's light patrol formation, and the five Königsberg-class ships that were set on fire were sunk one after another, while the remaining five ships did not flinch, and bravely turned around and started an artillery battle with Xu Zhonglin's fleet!

Even if it is an opponent, Xu Zhonglin must praise the other party's fearless spirit.

Unfortunately, he will not show mercy. At this distance, the secondary guns of the Des Moines-class heavy cruisers were already functional, and a large number of 127-mm shells were constantly projected onto the hulls of the remaining five light cruisers, and the powerful high-explosive shells could also penetrate the weak armor of the opponent.

But the main guns of the Königsberg class are not bad, and the rate of fire of both sides is almost the same, and the tactics used by the other side are to gather fire, that is, Xu Zhonglin's flagship Rena.

Soon Rena was hit by the opponent with three shells, one hit the main armor belt, and was not penetrated, but the hull steel plate was still a little skewed, and a small amount of water entered the side side, and the other hit the base of the stern No. 3 turret, which also failed to penetrate, but the main gun turret was temporarily stuck. Another shot accurately hit one of the secondary guns, and two of the guns were blown away.

Rena looked calm: "Don't worry, Commander, it's all a minor problem, I can take care of it in ten minutes." ”

Xu Zhonglin is still very relieved about his ship's ability to control the steel of the ship's hull, the two secondary guns that were blown up need to be returned to subspace to be repaired, but the gun mount is stuck and the hull is cracked, as long as the damage is not large, it can still be repaired in battle.

Rena was not happy, the other party was even more miserable, the ghost animal fire rate of the MK12 secondary cannon directly made the other party doubt his life, and the cannonballs rained down on the five light cruisers, and the clanging impact sound was endless, destroying the opponent's superstructure back and forth several times.

The greater threat comes from the MK16 main gun, the 203 mm water hose at a distance of about 15,000 kilometers, and the hit rate is amazing! Almost no salvo hit the target with at least two or three shells, and soon the superstructure of the five light cruisers was almost gone, and the hulls were broken and disintegrated.

"Torpedo! The direction is the channel ahead of us! ”

Just as Xu Zhonglin was about to brave the opponent's artillery to rely on the speed advantage to get rid of the eight heavy cruisers, Rena's roar interrupted all his fantasies. The torpedo should have been fired when the five Königsberg-class light cruisers turned to shoot at each other, and the threat at a distance of 15,000 kilometers was not very big, and the range of Germany's T-1 torpedo was 15,000 kilometers, but the other side also had a 57,000-kilometer torpedo of a ghost animal, and in this world, the United States had spread the torpedo drawings of all kinds very widely, and Xu Zhonglin did not dare to bet that these ten cannon fodder light cruisers had not been modified torpedoes.

So he could only make a helpless and painful decision at this time: "Right full rudder!" ”

It's time to fight the other party's heavy patrol, and the time for life and death has really come.