The sea has always been full of disputes, and even now that the eastern seas of the empire have officially been taken over by the Baoling fleet, it is impossible for the fleet to pay attention to the dozens or hundreds of small fights that occur at sea every day, except for regular patrols and the defense of the islands belonging to the empire.

Perhaps because of the running out of luck, Tang Ling and the others crashed into the battlefield of two mercenary groups that were fighting on the second day of their journey home, that is, on the eighth day after going to sea.

Mercenaries, pirates, caravans, and private fleets, friends and foes are never easily discerned on the seas, so in the hundreds of conflicts that occur every day, the opposing parties can be of any status, not just between pirates and caravans.

Imagine what kind of reaction would it be for two large-scale mercenary groups to discover Tang Ling and their lonely battleship that suddenly broke in?

"Report to the teacher, two fleets were found 60 kilometers away from us in the left front, it seems that they are fighting, but they have found us, the radar shows that two warships have broken away from the fleet and are heading towards us, if we don't slow down and don't turn, it is expected to encounter in 35 minutes!" Jiang Wanqian, who was in charge of the avionics room, reported the situation to the control room for the first time, and a suppressed sense of excitement could be clearly heard from his tone, and unconsciously, Tang Ling seemed to have brought out a group of war maniacs!

In the past two days, Tang Ling has not stopped his teaching along the way, and now he has divided the whole class, and will call everyone to attend classes together, so that they can familiarize themselves with the professional knowledge of different regions and different departments in charge of each other.

Naturally, for Situ Ya and Nalan Rou, the two captains and deputy captains, Tang Ling must focus on taking care of them.

Just when they didn't have a chance to experience a real battle to control the new warship, someone sent it to the door, which really met Tang Ling's needs, so Tang Ling naturally didn't plan to leave like this.

"Next, the whole ship will be commanded by me, and I will take you to use the new warship for a real battle!" stepped forward to take Situ Ya's place, Tang Ling picked up the walkie-talkie and shouted: "Level 1 combat readiness!" ”

"Level 1 combat readiness!"

"Level 1 combat readiness!"

“······”

After all the departments of the ship had replied, Tang Ling then ordered: "The front and rear main turrets are in place!" ”

"The gunner is in position!"

"The gunner is in position!"

The "Zhong 3" destroyer is a battleship controlled by the whole battleship builder, so the front and rear main turrets will have a gunner responsible for gun operation and command, and the five main guns will have five deputy gunners to carry out the actual gun operation task.

After the two of them replied, Tang Ling ordered again: "Seven on the left helm, two into five, course 330!" ”

At this time, the "Zhong 3" was driving in the southwest of the two opposing forces, Tang Ling naturally could not order the battleship to open at the muzzle of the opponent's gun, all deviate 30 degrees to the left, do not approach them first, open a certain distance, and wait for the four tails to catch up.

"Each gun adjusts its gun position, biased to the right, the front main gun moves 90 degrees clockwise, the rear main gun moves 150 degrees clockwise, the front main gun is loaded with No. 1 high-explosive shells, and the rear main gun is loaded with No. 5 blasting shells for ships!"

The rather militarized terminology gave the students a sense of actually serving in the fleet, and the fact that they were commanded by the Empire's youngest Side Fleet Commander was even more exciting.

It is said that time will go slower in anticipation, but at this time, for the students of Class 3, more than 30 minutes passed in a flash, because their focus was no longer on time, so they almost ignored the speed of time passing.

Soon, in the binoculars, Tang Ling, who was in the command room of the bridge, saw the figures of four tails behind him.

"The speed of the voyage is one step back, the course remains the same, and the rear main artillery attack is ready!"

Tang Ling couldn't show too obviously, so the speed could only be reduced slightly, not only to let the tails catch up as soon as possible, but also not to make them too suspicious.

Another ten minutes passed, and the two sides entered a distance of ten kilometers, and the other party opened fire first without waiting for Tang Ling to order!

"Boom, boom..."

"Intelligence room, report the damage to the battleship!"

"Report to the teacher, a shell hit the aft deck, the hull durability was reduced by 1 point, and there was no other damage!" Liu Qiaojuan's voice came from the microphone, the intelligence room is responsible for the real-time detection and maintenance of the ship's hull situation, and when assigning tasks, it was this Nizi who took the initiative to ask Ying to go to the intelligence room.

"Okay, just leave him alone if it's no big deal, and keep going!" Tang Ling still has a good idea of the strong defense of his own battleship, but he is afraid that these tails will hit the main gun by mistake, and although he can use his majestic spiritual power to comprehensively monitor the battleship, it will be boring, so at this moment Tang Ling is just commanding the battleship as a captain, and hopes to test the students' ability through this actual battle.

"Boom, boom..."

The purpose of the other party catching up was to keep them, so a minute later, the second round of shelling came again, and the battleship was felt to tremble, and everyone knew that it had been shot again.

"Intelligence room, report the damage to the battleship!"

"Report to the teacher, the starboard side of the stern was shot, a little dented, and the durability of the hull has been reduced by 2 points!"

"Good!"

At this time, Situ Ya couldn't hold back and asked loudly, "Teacher, why don't we fire back?" ”

"As a captain, you first have to learn to keep a cool head at all times."

"If you think about it, we are still about 9 kilometers away from them, and our naval guns have a maximum range of 12 kilometers and an effective range of 9 kilometers, which means that they are now only within our range, and once the guns are fired, we can't kill them all at once."

"By then, will you catch up with these warships that can run away by turning around? Do you think our warships are strong enough to defeat dozens of enemies? ”

“······” was so educated by Tang Ling that he couldn't talk back, so Situ Ya had to pout and go back to the side, and continue to learn from Tang Ling if he was a qualified captain.

In this way, another ten minutes passed, and after seven or eight cannons in succession, the "Zhong 3" destroyer relied on its strong defense to carry the fierce attack of the four tails behind, and at the same time, the distance between the "Zhong 3" destroyer, which was slowly slowing down, and the four tails chasing at full speed behind were getting closer and closer.

"Avionics, report distance!"

"Report to the teacher, the No. 1 target is the closest to us, 6 kilometers, and the farthest No. 4, 7.5 kilometers!"

After listening to Jiang Wanqian's report, Tang Ling felt that it was almost over.

"Wang Lin, the rear main gun aims on its own, and three salvos are fired!"

"Boom Boom"