The grim battle sirens echoed on the sea for a long time, and the personnel of the various combat ships of the US military hurriedly ran to their battle positions, and one after another the battleships retracted their iron anchors, and thick black smoke rose from the tall chimneys, which continued to heat up and increase the pressure.

Fortunately, none of the ships stopped their engines and quickly moved after hearing the order.

However, there were too many ships on the sea and it was too chaotic, and the battleship "Ohio" directly broke a lightning destroyer that was lying on the course, rolled and sank to the bottom of the sea in less than two minutes.

The slightly injured "Milwaukee" armored protection cruiser collided with the 4,083-ton "Newark" protective cruiser, causing several crew members to fall into the water, but fortunately, the two ships were not seriously injured, and the "Milwaukee" ship crashed into a 5.2-meter-long laceration in the bow, which was still 3.3 meters high from the waterline, which had little impact, but was extremely insulting.

The battle had not yet begun, already with the loss of one destroyer and minor damage to two cruisers.

In the midst of the chaos, the US fleet finally sailed out of the moored waters outside the harbor of Hawaii, and saw the expeditionary strike formation of the Royal Navy of the Ocean Empire rushing towards it with great momentum.

It was a nice sunny day with clear skies and cloudless skies.

Under the bright sun

The battlefleet of the Royal Navy's expeditionary strike formation was the first to sail with a strong momentum, the huge hull glowing with a cold luster, and the huge cannon muzzle of the black hole was awe-inspiring, with an indescribable huge oppressive force, which made people feel a chill in their backs.

The battleship Matsue was at the top, followed by the battleships Melbourne, the Red River Valley, and the Brisbane battleships, followed by the Suzaku and the heavy cruisers Xuanwu, a total of 6 powerful battleships formed a battle line, and were seizing the "T" prefix with their high speed.

I saw that on the battleship Songjiang, a blood-red battle flag with the word "Zhu" was raised high, which instantly made all the naval officers and men boil, and this battle flag represented the sonorous oath of His Majesty the Emperor;

Those who offend the empire will be punished even if they are thousands of miles away.

The blood-red battle flag of "Zhu" fluttered in the wind, conveying the confidence of annihilating the enemy to every naval officer, igniting the boiling blood of the young, and shouting in unison with hoarseness;

"Victory for the Empire!"

"Wansheng ......"

The flagship "Matsue" made a tactical move of a dragon swinging its tail, and the ships behind it followed up in turn, drawing six clear arc-shaped snow-white tracks on the sea surface, and began to occupy the "T" prefix.

meanwhile

While the battlefleet seized the prefix "T", the two cruiser fleets, one on the left and one on the right, quickly moved forward separately on both sides, presenting a clear figure-eight shape, as if they were about to envelop the entire US fleet and swallow it in one gulp.

Soldier against soldier, general against general.

Rear Admiral Schroeder, facing the dominant destroyer fleet of the Ocean Empire, could only send his cruisers and lightning destroyers to deal with them separately.

But the actions of the battleships of the Ocean Empire still made the US commander Rear Admiral Schroeder a little confused, because the two sides were 14 kilometers apart, almost at the limit of the 305 mm main gun, what accuracy can the shelling at such a long distance be?

Generally speaking

The U.S. military's artillery bombardment regulations are within 12 kilometers, with 6~10 kilometers as the best engagement distance, and artillery must not be fired beyond this range unless there are special circumstances, because the low hit rate is pitiful, and it is a waste of shells.

Rear Admiral Schroeder still ordered the battlefleet to turn and try to form a "two" parallel battle line with the other side, so as to avoid being too passive when the battle line was bombarded and could not give full play to the side firepower.

Twenty minutes later

After several attempts, the expeditionary strike formation, which had seized the prefix "T" by taking advantage of its speed, took the lead in firing its guns and smashed a dense rain of bullets into the US battlefleet, opening the prelude to the Battle of Hawaii.

In the first volley, a straddle shot was played.

The dense forest of water columns appeared around the battleship "Missouri", which was in the first place, and Rear Admiral Schroeder understood that although the distance between the two sides was 13.5 kilometers, it did not affect the accurate shelling of the other side at all.

At this moment, his face was gray, and he seemed to have a premonition of the tragic end of the fleet.

The second salvo still did not work, but it scared the battleship "Missouri" into a cold sweat, and several near-misses exploded violently, and the surging waves set off caused the huge hull to roll badly, and the high column of water fell down and almost washed the deck, and the deputy gunners on the semi-open gun positions were all chickens in the soup.

The U.S. battleships also hurriedly fired the first round of return fire, but the accuracy of the shelling was very impressive, and it did not pose a threat at all.

The good fortune of the battleship "Missouri" ended there, in the third round of shelling, two 305-mm armor-piercing shells were hit almost in no particular order, and both of them hit the bow, as if two heavy blows directly hit the battleship "Missouri" on the head, and the crooked bow plunged into the waves at once.

When it surfaced again, people saw that the entire bow had been blown up, the main guns in the bow had been completely scrapped, and the main turret had suffered all casualties.

Before Rear Admiral Schroeder could recover from the shock, the fourth round of more ferocious blows roared again, and violent explosions sounded in succession, and the amidships of the battleship "Missouri", which was shrouded in barrage, hit 305-mm shells one after another in the stern, and a huge fire ball enveloped the hull, making a tooth-aching loud steel tearing sound.

The battleship "Missouri" was beaten into a pile of scrap metal at sea, and it had completely lost power, struggling on the surface of the sea with floating loads, and many sailors on fire jumped into the sea like dumplings, trying to escape from this purgatory.

The four rounds of artillery bombardment destroyed the battleship "Missouri", and the Royal Navy Expeditionary Strike Formation locked the next target on the flagship battleship "Illinois" in second place, and the fifth round of artillery fire smashed down on the face......

At this moment, the sea near Hawaii Island is full of artillery fire, and the cruisers and destroyers of both sides are fighting each other, and looking down at the battle situation from a high altitude, it can be found that the tactics of the Royal Navy strike formation are hunting.

The formation of ships stretched out on the left and the right formed a bracket-shaped encirclement, with four ships as a team, launched round after round of artillery bombardment, and killed the enemy ships with accurate artillery points.

The USS Milwaukee was turned into a blazing torch at sea, the USS Newark and USS Charleston were shot and sunk, and the USS Newark escaped with a negative wound......

More than a dozen US mine-strike destroyers with a displacement of less than 1,000 tons launched a heroic charge and stubbornly advanced in the water column forest.

In today's world

In 1904, Citigroup used a steam engine instead of a compressed air engine to develop a new generation of torpedoes, which increased the speed of torpedoes to 65 kilometers per hour and a range of 2,740 meters, ranking first in the world in terms of speed and range, leaving other torpedo products far behind.

As a unique secret technique of the Citigroup Navy, for this reason, it has specially developed a mine-strike destroyer with torpedo attack as the main means, and the displacement is mostly between 600 tons and more than 800 tons. It was armed with a 152-mm main gun, and the ship was equipped with two three-tube torpedoes as the main means of attack.

When the US fleet was facing total annihilation, the officers and men who operated the mine-striking ship stepped forward and launched a fierce charge against the formidable enemy. They had to maneuver the destroyer to a range of up to three kilometers before they could fire a torpedo.

As a matter of fact

The experienced Royal Navy has long been on guard against this, and deliberately maintains a combat distance, like a master teasing a clumsy opponent, always maintaining a combat distance of more than 4~5 kilometers between the two sides, responding with dense and accurate shelling, forming a death zone covered by artillery fire between the two sides, which is a one-sided massacre.

After two hours of fierce fighting, the surviving U.S. ships had begun to scatter and flee for their lives, while some had raised white flags and surrendered.

With the goal of annihilating the enemy fleet, the Royal Navy's Combined Strike Fleet completely disbanded the formation and began a sea chase battle.

Look at it from afar

The sea was full of burning wreckage of warships, and the fleeing US ships and the battleships in hot pursuit were speeding on the vast sea, and the guns rumbled, deducing a magnificent scene of a magnificent naval battle.

The Battle of Hawaii, which began at 8:30 a.m. and ended at 3:40 p.m., lasted 8 hours and 10 minutes, and ended with the Royal Navy Expeditionary Strike Formation completely annihilating the U.S. fleet.

In this battle, the US Navy fleet sank the battleships "Alabama", "Illinois", "Chil Shaji", and "Kentucky", damaged and captured the battleship "Maine", and the battleship "Nebraska" was frightened by the tragic battle situation and surrendered under the white flag, and none of the six battleships escaped.

9 cruisers sank 7, two surrendered with white flags hoisted after being damaged.

14 of the 21 mine-struck destroyers were sunk, 2 were heavily damaged and then rushed to the beach, 4 sank in despair, and one was forced to fly the white flag and surrender after having no escape.

In this battle, 4,377 US officers and men were killed, 151 were missing, and another 2,682 were captured, and no one in the entire fleet escaped.

At this point, the US fleet was completely annihilated.

One cruiser and three destroyers of the Royal Navy of the Ocean Empire were slightly wounded, and 43 officers and men were killed, including 29 wounded. A brilliant victory.

In the evening

The Royal Navy Combined Fleet has taken full control of the Hawaiian harbor, captured all 38 American freighters, and under the bombardment of naval guns, the armored battalion of the 3rd Division of the Royal Praetorian Guard, which had landed on Hawaii Island earlier, led the infantry regiment to attack in multiple directions, using artillery and machine guns to open the road and rush violently, killing and wounding more than 1,600 American soldiers, taking more than 7,300 prisoners, and the rest fled into the mountains and forests around the city.

The remaining sporadic search, encirclement, and suppression battles lasted for more than ten days, and on September 29, the last small force of 17 US troops was completely annihilated, and the naval and land battles in Hawaii came to a successful end.

Some time before

On September 15, the Ocean Empire signed the "Pacific Military Alliance Agreement" with the Ryukyu Kingdom, the Yue Kingdom, and the Lan Fang Kingdom, forming the Pacific Military Alliance headed by the Ocean Empire.

On September 16, the Kingdom of the Ryukyus declared war on the Citi Kingdom and at the same time on Argentina.

On September 17, the Kingdom of Vietnam declared war on Citi and Argentina.

On September 18, Lan Fangguo declared war on Citigroup and Argentina at the same time.

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