Finding that his side had no advantage in the process of firing the main guns, Rocky realized that he had fallen into passivity, so he immediately changed his tactics and led the entire fleet to start a breakthrough!

Under his command, the battleships and cruisers, which were supposed to be protected, became the vanguard of the fleet, while the slightly weaker defensive destroyers and frigates hid behind the two big ones, and immediately followed the whole fleet with a full-speed assault.

"Maximize the defenses!"

Standing on the bow of the Battlehorse, Rocky watched the enemy troops in the distance while giving orders, and under his order, the power of the Battlehorse's defense net was immediately increased to the maximum, causing a layer of light visible to the naked eye around the battleship.

At the same moment, a shot from the enemy's main gun also hit the defensive net!

With a bang, the defensive net that was hit head-on by the enemy's main gun suddenly shone brightly, and at the same time, the hull of the Battlehorse also produced a certain degree of vibration, but when the light and vibration dissipated and disappeared one after another, the Battlehorse continued to approach the enemy at high speed without any damage.

"Roar!!"

"Roar !!"

Finding that the battleship was unscathed, the crew on the deck couldn't help but let out a burst of cheers, and Rocky, who was standing on the bow of the ship, also raised the corners of his mouth slightly, this is the battleship, the reason why it is called a flying fortress is not only because of its strong firepower, but also because of the strong defense of the battleship!

"Prepare the gunners, and the enemy will start shelling as soon as they come into range!"

"Yes!"

The attack of the main gun was unscathed, which also relieved Rocky, and then gave a new order, followed by Uncle Will, who was in charge of the deck, immediately ran to the battery and shouted at the gunners:

"Boys, it's time for you to show what you can do!

"Understood!"

"Don't worry, uncle, you will definitely sink all the enemies!"

"Finally able to fire!"

In the long-range artillery bombardment just now, the Warrider basically did not play any role, which made the gunners on the battleship suffocate for a long time, so after hearing the order to prepare to open the cannon, the gunners roared excitedly.

At the same time, on the deck of the Hunter, that is, the cruiser, Phili, who is in charge, is constantly giving orders.

"Keep up with the Warriors, don't be too fast!"

The speed of the cruiser is faster than that of the battleship, so Filly must reduce the speed of the battleship a little, only in this way can the Warrider be in the vanguard, the Hunter is second, and the rest of the battleships are in the rear.

"After approaching the enemy, don't worry about the escort ship, follow the city lord, and directly deal with the enemy's patrol ship, no one is allowed to make a mistake!"

"Yes!"

"Yes!"

As the fleet commander of Thunderhawk City, Philip is also quite prestigious, and after several air battles, he also has considerable experience, and the on-the-spot command is also very good.

In this way, Lodge's fleet, led by battleships and cruisers, began to rapidly approach the Third Fleet, led by Meadine.

And in this process, the fleet of Wild Horse City did not stop attacking, and the twelve search battleships turned the barrels of their main guns red, venting their artillery fire as much as possible.

However, as mentioned before, although the power of the battleship's main guns is huge, the rate of fire is too low, and the main guns of the Dominator 2 battleships must be charged for more than 15 minutes before they can continue to fire, and the main guns of cruisers, destroyers, and frigates may not be so long, but it will take several minutes, or even five or six minutes, to fire a single shot, so that it is difficult to form an effective firepower network.

Therefore, in the face of the approaching enemy forces, although the fleet of Mustang City is firing as much as possible and can hit the target every time, it is difficult to play a blocking role, because the defense of the battleship is too strong, it is no exaggeration to say that unless all the battleships of Mustang City can hit the Warhorse with the main guns, so that the defense network of the Warhorse is overloaded and broken in an instant, otherwise relying on sporadic artillery fire alone will not produce any effect at all.

In this way, the Warhorse, which no one could stop, rode the wind and waves, leading the fleet to constantly approach the enemy, and in the blink of an eye, it approached the range, and once it entered the range, the Warhorse was bound to be powerful!

But in the same way, in the face of the enemy approaching like a storm, Maddine was not in a hurry at all, let alone panicked, but quickly issued several orders.

Under his orders, the fleet of Mustang City quickly began to move closer, forming a 'concave' formation, apparently intending to take advantage of the advantage of two more warships and encircle Lodge after it approached.

And when the minutes passed, both sides were within range of each other!

"Shoot at the other party's flagship and hit me hard!"

As soon as he entered the firing range, Rocky gave the order to open fire, and the gunners, who were already impatient, quickly aimed all their guns at one of the local cruisers, and then opened fire together!

It wasn't just the Warrider that began to attack, but after entering the firing range, the Hunter commanded by Fili also began shelling at the same time!

A battleship plus a cruiser, just the firepower that these two battleships can output is equivalent to half a fleet, so when these two battleships fired in unison, the sky suddenly burst into flames, and countless shells flew towards the enemy's battleships like raindrops!

However, at this time, just as the Warrider and the Hunter were aiming at the enemy's two capital ships to vent their artillery fire, the 'concave' formation put forward by Maddin also began to close.

The frigates on both wings of the formation quickly moved closer to each other at this time, and it didn't take long to successfully make peace, and the original 'concave' formation also became a 'mouth' formation, and Rocky's fleet was thus surrounded in a pocket formation!

With the successful completion of the encirclement, the fleet of Mustang City also opened fire in unison, launching a ferocious artillery bombardment on Rocky's fleet from all directions, and similarly, the destroyers and frigates on Rocky's side also immediately returned fire, and the battle entered the most tragic stage.

Using a pocket array to surround the enemy, Meadin's intention is actually obvious, obviously hoping to wipe out Rocky, but his approach makes many people unable to understand, because he can't do this at all!

You must know that although the number of Meadine's fleet is large, it is only two more destroyers, this advantage is definitely not enough for him to annihilate the enemy, and more importantly, the capital ships on his side are not as good as Rocky, and the two cruisers will definitely not be able to beat the combination of battleships and cruisers in a head-to-head confrontation, so even if Meadin surrounds Lodge in a pocket formation, once his two cruisers are sunk, this pocket array will be broken, and with the silence of the main battleship, there is no suspense about the outcome of this battle!

Didn't the battle-hardened Meadine not think of this? How could he make such a mistake?!

Of course, the experienced Meadine would not make such a mistake, in fact he had other plans!

I saw that after the pocket array was formed, Maddin waved his hand and gave an order:

"Send out the Sky Demon Squad, don't worry about the enemy's battleships and cruisers, and wipe out the opponent's escort fleet!"