Chapter 172: Chaotic Naval Battle

This time, in fact, there are not many destroyers and light cruisers in the main fleet of the Ocean Alliance, although their main combat mode does have a tactical mode with destroyers as the main output ships.

Seeing Europa's destroyers scattering to ensure that the destroyers of the Ocean Alliance did not get close to his main force, the commander of the Ocean Alliance laughed instead. Although this tactic can prevent enemy destroyers and other warships from infiltrating their own camp, it also indirectly leads to the inability of large warships in their own camp to move flexibly. And at this time, the Ocean Alliance began his bombing. The destroyers stopped the middle battleship, and the Ocean Alliance battleships all raised their gun horns at this time. They intended to use anti-aircraft artillery to directly attack the bridges of Europa, and the positions of the bridges were also the most vulnerable. And now, the Ocean Alliance has absolutely no intention of rushing into enemy lines. Instead, it takes the form of an external encirclement to restrict movement, confines it to a specific area, and then delivers a saturation strike.

At this time, the battleships of the Ocean Alliance bombarded Europa's fleet without caring about the consumption of shells, and in the face of the powerful battleship guns of the Galle Empire, any battleship was like a paper tiger. The United Kingdom and the Ocean Republic ordered their fleets to do tactical cover, and the heavy cruiser York stopped a Utopian-class destroyer that wanted to break through. The heavy cruiser York was not equipped with torpedoes, but his secondary fire was very ferocious, because the Utopian-class destroyer had collided head-on with the York, and in order to avoid directly hitting this behemoth, the Utopian-class destroyer slammed a full rudder to the right. So much so that its side was completely exposed to the multiple secondary guns of the USS York heavy cruiser with a caliber of more than 150mm.

But even if he was facing a York-class heavy cruiser, the captain of this Fantasy-class destroyer didn't seem to be afraid, or he just wanted to do this thing, and for a while, the torpedoes of this Fantasy-class destroyer poured out in one go. Each of them had a draft of more than a certain amount, enough to destroy the heavy torpedoes of an average heavy cruiser.

The distance between the two ships was less than 50 meters, and with such a close distance, the heavy cruiser York had no chance to dodge this blow at all, but unfortunately, the captain and commander of this fantasy-class destroyer did not know a thing. The United Kingdom was a strange country in terms of cruisers, and their heavy cruisers had a shallower draft than light cruisers, or their light cruisers were even more tonnage than heavy cruisers. This also led to the fact that the British heavy cruiser was not the same as the heavy cruisers of other countries, and if it were by the standards of any other country, these torpedoes would have hit the heavy cruiser's water compartment exactly. But now it could only pass under the heavy cruiser USS York. And above the path of this torpedo, it passed this York-class heavy cruiser, and behind it was the heavy cruiser Melbourne of the Ocean Republic.

However, at this time, the York-class heavy cruiser suddenly released a wave of electromagnetic interference, which obviously destroyed the receiver of the torpedo, so that when the torpedo drifted to the side of the heavy cruiser Melbourne behind it, there was no explosion, this is actually the disposal of torpedoes by the Ocean Alliance, because they are good at using torpedoes, so they defend themselves against this hand, these 20 years, the alliance has been experimenting with this technology, and this time it is officially used in the war.

The fact that there was no explosion also made the captain of the Fantasy-class destroyer a little puzzled, but there were only a few seconds left for him to think about. The next moment the fire was in full swing, and the heavy cruiser York directly tilted the hull of this fantasy-class destroyer. Not only that, but the heavy cruiser HMS Melbourne behind it. It was also supplemented with a few shots. A mere destroyer could not play a role in the face of a powerful alliance of the oceans, and he could not play as unexpectedly as the destroyer Javelin in the United Kingdom's War of Independence 20 years earlier.

But at this time, on the southwestern front, the destroyer Javelin made a great contribution. At this time, the destroyer Javelin was no longer the meritorious ship of the year, but since it was a battleship of the same name, the captain of this ship naturally did not live up to this name, and it seemed that even if he threw a torpedo, he would not attack a destroyer of the same tonnage, and at this time, the captain of the battleship actually directly stepped over the destroyer in front of him to target the heavy cruiser behind him, which was very difficult to operate. Even the Triumph-class destroyer in front of it and the heavy cruiser Roma behind it didn't think of this.

The torpedo passed directly under the Triumph-class destroyer and headed straight for the Roman heavy cruiser behind it, and without realizing it, the first and second waterproof interlayers of the Roman heavy cruiser were hit, and two waterproof interlayers were scrapped at one time, and it can only be said that the Roman heavy cruiser was unlucky.

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The events of the battleship Rome were taken from the Yukikaze and the Avatar

HMS York...... I have the impression of Prince Eugen