The shrill battle alarm echoed on the sea for a long time. The personnel on various combat ships of the US military rushed to the battle position. One warship after another took back the anchors, and thick black smoke emerged from the tall chimneys, which continued to heat up and boost pressure.

Fortunately, all the ships did not shut down, and they quickly took action after hearing the order.

However, there were too many ships on the sea and it was too chaotic. The "Ohio" battleship directly broke a lightning destroyer across the route in the middle, and rolled into the bottom of the sea in less than two minutes.

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

The battle has not yet begun, and one destroyer has been lost and two cruisers have been slightly injured.

In the chaos, the US fleet finally sailed out of the berthed outside the Hawaii Port. When they were facing each other, they saw the expeditionary strike formation of the Royal Navy of the Ocean Empire that was rushing towards them. As they saw a huge array of warships on the sea, they were sailing at high speed through the waves.

It was a nice and clear weather, with cloudless sky.

Under the bright sunshine

The battleship that was first to arrive in the Royal Navy expedition strike formation was imposing, with its huge hull glowing with a cold luster, and its huge black muzzle was fierce and murderous, with indescribable huge oppressive force, making people feel cold behind it.

The battleships of Songjiang ranked first, followed by Melbourne, Red River Valley, and Brisbane were arranged in sequence, followed by the heavy cruisers of Zhuque and Xuanwu. A total of 6 powerful battleships formed a battle line, and are seizing the word "t" with high speed.

I saw a blood-red battle flag with the word "Zhu" raised high on the battleship Songjiang, which instantly made all the navy soldiers excited. This battle flag represents the sonorous oath of His Majesty the Emperor;

Those who violate the empire in a clear way will be punished even if they are thousands of miles away.

The blood-red "Zhu" battle flag fluttered in the wind, conveying the confidence to wipe out the enemy's enemies to every navy soldier, igniting the young boiling blood, and shouting in unison at the top of his lungs;

"The empire is a thousand victories!"

"Wansheng..."

The flagship "Songjiang" tactical action of a dragon swinging its tail, and the ships behind it followed one by one, drawing 6 clear arc-shaped snow-white trails on the sea surface, beginning to occupy the head of the word "t".

at the same time

While the battle fleet seized the "t" head, the two cruisers, one left and one right, quickly penetrated forward to both sides, presenting a clear "eight" shape, as if they wanted to wrap the entire US fleet around and swallow it in one bite.

Soldiers are against soldiers, generals are against generals.

Facing the Ocean Empire's advantage in the destroyer fleet, Major General Schroeder could only send his cruisers and lightning destroyers to deal with them separately.

However, the battleship movements of the Ocean Empire still made Major General Schroeder, the commander of the US military, a little confused, because the two sides were 14 kilometers apart, almost at the limit range of the 305 mm main gun. What accuracy can the shelling be at such a long distance be?

Generally speaking

The US military artillery regulations are within 12 kilometers, with an optimal combat distance of 6 to 10 kilometers. No artillery shall be fired unless it exceeds this range, because the poor hit rate is poor, which is a waste of artillery shells.

Due to the doubts in his heart, Major General Schroeder still ordered the battleship fleet to turn and try to form a parallel battle line with the opponent "two" to avoid the battle line being too passive to the bombardment and being unable to fully exert the side firepower.

Twenty minutes later

After several attempts, the expeditionary strike formation that seized the word "t" with speed, took the lead in firing artillery, smashing dense rain of bullets at the US battleship, opening the prelude to the Battle of Hawaii.

In the first round of volleys, a cross shot was shot.

The dense water column forest appeared around the battleship "Missouri" which ranked first. Now Major General Schroeder understood that although the distance between the two sides was 13.5 kilometers, it did not affect the other party's precise artillery bombardment at all.

His face was deteriorated at this moment, as if he had a premonition of the tragic ending of the fleet.

The second round of volleys still failed, but it scared the Missouri battleship and burst into cold sweats. Several near-lost bomb explosions were violently exploded. The surging waves caused the huge hull to roll seriously. The high water column fell down and almost washed the deck. All the deputy gunners in the semi-open gun position became chickens.

The US battleship also rushed to launch the first round of counterattack fire, but the accuracy of the shelling was very touching and could not pose any threat.

The good luck of the USS Missouri battleship ended here. In the third round of artillery attacks, two 305mm armor-piercing bombs were hit hard in no order, and they were all hit at the bow of the ship. It seemed that two heavy punches directly tilted the USS Missouri battleship, and the crooked bow suddenly pierced into the waves.

When it floated out again, people saw that the entire bow had exploded, the main gun on the bow was completely scrapped, and the main turret was injured and injured.

Before Major General Schroeder recovered from his shock, the fourth round of more fierce attacks came again, and violent explosions continued to sound. The stern of the battleship "Missouri" shrouded in barrage hit 305mm shells one after another. A huge fire ball enveloped the hull, making a loud and tingling sound of steel that made people feel sour.

The "Missouri" battleship was beaten into a pile of scrap iron from the sea, and had completely lost its power. It struggled on the sea with floating and sinking. Many sailors on fire jumped into the sea like dumplings, trying to escape from this purgatory.

Four rounds of artillery fire destroyed the battleship "Missouri". The Royal Navy Expeditionary Strike formation locked its next target on the second-ranked flagship "Illinois". The fifth round of artillery fire hit the head and the face...

At this moment, artillery fire was on the sea near Hawaii Island, and cruisers and destroyers on both sides fought each other. Looking down at the battle situation from a high altitude, we can find that the tactic of the Royal Navy's strike formation is hunting.

The ship formation stretched from left to right form a bracketed encirclement, with four ships as a team, launching round after round of shelling, and using precise artillery points to kill enemy ships.

The USS Milwaukee protective cruiser became a big torch burning at sea. The USS Newark protective cruiser, the USS Charleston protective cruiser was shot and sunk, and the USS Newark fled due to the breach...

More than a dozen U.S. lightning destroyers with a displacement of less than 1,000 tons launched a heroic charge and advanced stubbornly in the water column forest. Destroyers were hit and caught fire and exploded, and the battle was extremely tragic.

Today's world

The one who paid the most attention to the development of torpedo tactics was not Fuso, but Citi. In 1904, Citi was replacing compressed air engines with steam engines and developed a new generation of torpedoes, which increased the speed of the torpedo to 65 kilometers per hour and a range of 2,740 meters. It ranked first in the world in terms of speed and range, leaving other torpedo products far behind.

As the unique secret technique of the Citigroup Navy, for this purpose, it has specially developed a lightning destroyer with torpedo attack as the main means, with displacements of mostly between more than 600 tons and more than 800 tons. It is equipped with a 152mm main gun and two triple-barrel torpedoes along the ship as the main means of strike.

When the US fleet was facing annihilation, the officers and soldiers who operated the lightning strike ship stood up and launched a brave charge towards the powerful enemy. They had to control the destroyer to reach a range within three kilometers before they could fire the torpedo.

In fact

The experienced Royal Navy has been on guard against this and intends to maintain combat distance, just like a master teasing a clumsy opponent, always maintaining a combat distance of more than 4 to 5 kilometers on both sides, responding with dense and accurate artillery bombardment, forming a death zone covered by artillery fire between the two sides. This is a one-sided massacre.

Two hours after the fierce battle, the surviving US ships had begun to flee in all directions, while some of them had raised white flags and surrendered.

Holding the goal of completely annihilated the enemy fleet, the Royal Navy Joint Strike Fleet completely disbanded the formation and began a maritime pursuit battle.

Look from a distance

The sea was filled with burning wreckage, the fleeing American ships and the chasing warships, galloping on the vast sea surface, and the sound of cannons rumbled, interpreting a spectacular scene of a magnificent naval battle.

The Battle of Hawaii, which started at 8:30 am and ended at 3:40 pm, lasted 8 hours and 10 minutes, ended with the Royal Navy Expeditionary Strike Formation, which was declared to be annihilated by the US fleet. According to a post-war inventory;

This battle sunk the battleship of the US Navy fleet, the USS Alabama, the USS Illinois, the USS Chilshazhi, and the USS Kentucky, and injured and captured the USS Maine. The USS Nebraska was frightened by the fierce battle situation and surrendered with a white flag. None of the six battleships escaped.

Nine cruisers sank 7, and two of them surrendered with white flags after being injured.

21 lightning destroyers sank 14, 2 hit the beach, 4 sank themselves in despair, one was forced to surrender after being fled without escape.

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

At this point, the US fleet was wiped out.

A cruiser was slightly injured by the Royal Navy of the Ocean Empire, and three destroyers were slightly injured, with 43 casualties, including 29 wounded. A brilliant victory was achieved.

In the evening

The Royal Navy Combined Fleet has completely controlled the Hawaiian port and captured all 38 American cargo ships. Under the repeated bombing of naval guns, the Armored Battalion of the Royal Guards, which had landed on Hawaii Island, led an infantry regiment to attack from multiple routes, using artillery and machine guns to open the way, killing and injuring more than 1,600 American soldiers, capturing more than 7,300 people, and the rest fled into the mountains and forests around the city.

The remaining sporadic search and encirclement battle lasted for more than ten days. On September 29, the last 17-man small group of US troops was completely annihilated, and the Hawaii sea and land war came to an end successfully.

Some time ago

On September 15, the Ocean Empire, the Ryukyu Kingdom, the Yue Kingdom, and the Lan Fang Kingdom signed the "Pacific Military Allied Countries" and formed the Pacific Military Alliance headed by the Ocean Empire.

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

On September 17, the Kingdom of Yue declared war on Citi and at the same time declared war on Argentina.

On September 18, Lan Fang declared war on Citigroup and at the same time declared war on Argentina.
Chapter completed!