Chapter 32: NH Operations—Waiting for Work
March 13th
"After completing the rescue mission, the Eighth Sentai encountered an unknown number of ambushes from the Deep Sea Fleet, and the flagship Ligon was sunk. The 882 people on the ship www.biquge.info, plus 109 people, were all killed, and no one survived. ”
Yamato read out the finished report to Sousuke Takayanagi, and although it was not the first time he had written a false report, Yamato seemed to be in a bad mood now, and his tone had not changed much.
"Add a little bit of a brief description of Ito Daisa's heroic battle with Tone, and there must be a reason why the Navy Headquarters wants to posthumously award military ranks and military medals."
When Sousuke Takayanagi learned that the Eighth Sentai had arrived at Buinberland, his heart was cold, and Tone did not return. Later, it was learned that Tone suddenly went deep on the way back and was punished by four destroyers by lightning strikes. Familiar with the principle of what kind of human weapon the ship mother made, Takayanagi Sousuke immediately asked his subordinates in the Buin anchorage to block the news, and the four destroyer girls and their subordinates also gave strict orders not to reveal the slightest truth.
Once the news of the ship's mother going deep into the sea spreads, the consequences will be unimaginable.
"So when I engage people in training, I feel the urge to kill them?"
Sousuke Takayanagi had already told Yamato the secret of the ship's mother, and the research institute only found in the experiment that the fusion of non-human creatures with the "afterbirth" ore would cause deep-sea transformation. The official discovery of the possibility of deep-sea transformation of the ship mother is to draw a clear conclusion by using the four Kaohsiung-class sisters as living materials.
"The state of rage that a ship's mother will fall into when she is separated from the hull of the ship, torture and kill others, or witness others being brutally killed. And once it is not separated from the hull, that is, there is an incident of torture or brutality on the ship, and the ship mother will fall into the deep sea at the same time as the rage, and if the ship mother cannot be controlled at the first time, it will cause irreversible damage."
In order to obtain this important experimental result, Dean Kitamura turned Takao into a psychopath. Now Ligon has provided a valuable practical conclusion: after a certain degree of deep-sea transformation, it will become a deep-sea ship.
When Dean Kitamura learns about this, a science madman will definitely ask him Sosuke Takayanagi for his guilt: why don't you get Tone back, it's a precious experimental material.
So Sosuke Takayanagi also blocked the news from the people in the research institute in the army, and it was enough for the ship's mother to become a deep-sea thing.
"Chikuma has returned to Shoreland and is he hiding it from her?"
“…… Needless to say to her, she'll learn the truth from the Ninth Expulsion Squad. Let her rest in the port for the time being, and I will arrange the follow-up handling of the eighth team. ”
Yama Yun and the others can keep it a secret, and it is obviously impossible to ask them to keep it a secret from Chikuma. Sousuke Takayanagi is a gambler, but that doesn't mean he's cold-blooded. He never participates in unnecessary gambling, and people's good luck is always limited.
"Akagi, they've already started a harassment operation against the Deep Sea Fleet, right?"
Yamato nodded in acknowledgement, "According to the last telegram she sent, the battle with the main force of the Deep Sea Fleet began at 8 o'clock this morning. It's 10 o'clock, and the battle should be delivered to us soon. In addition, Commander-in-Chief Takayanagi, this operation is still not in charge of Akagi. ”
"Heh, Lieutenant General Nagumo commanding? That's just wishful thinking on the part of Akagi, General Nagumo is an officer from mine combat after all, how can he compare with Akagi? Like do you think I have what it takes to command a battleship in battle? You've been able to outrun me by several stages in this regard. ”
Yamato didn't understand that Sosuke Takayanagi had to mention this matter that everyone knew. The victorious Nagumo military god from Pearl Harbor to Ceylon is a thing of the past, and judging from the current aircraft carrier operations, anyone will come to this conclusion.
"Finally, there is the matter of Kii, who asked to take over the front-line command of the second echelon."
Yamato knew about Sosuke Takayanagi's promise to Kii, and it was clear that Nagato's Truk garrison was coming with a material transport ship, so why should he agree to that kind of woman who covets vanity.
"There must have been an idea from the little white-faced secretary next to her. Whatever she wants, we have our tasks. It just so happens that the three forces of the IJN Combined Fleet, no, counting the Nagato faction, are four forces. ”
Sousuke Takayanagi did not specify the members of the third echelon, he had long thought of having himself as the front-line commander. "Yamato, let's go too. I can already see the other side of victory. ”
"Yes, Yamato, the flagship of the First Sentai team, at your disposal."
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"Interesting ~ deep-sea? Humans imitate the inferior products made by the great Daughter of the Deep, and they still have this side effect. I said, "Can you take advantage of that?" Let all the ship's mothers be deep-sea? ”
At the headquarters of the Hawaii Deep Sea Fleet, the Moored Water Spirits supervise the construction of a new batch of ships as usual. In her spare time, she received information from her subordinates, which made it easier for the harbor ghosts at the bottom of the sea to chat.
The harbor water ghost has been busy making a new body for the dragon apricot in the flower blossom courtyard recently, and he is not very interested in practicing the problems of old friends.
"Give it up, Ligon is just one example. She happened to encounter the torture and murder that happened on her ship's hull, and there are many factors that we don't know about as a catalyst. If you have to try, you can lead a team to support the battleship Suhime. She's not doing well. ”
"With a bunch of ships that have been strengthened after the Australian Annihilation War, she won't lose, will she?" The moored water ghost played with the metal parts in his hand and threw them to his subordinate Lei Cruiser ships.
"Another defective part, the production process also needs to be improved. It's so troublesome, wouldn't it be great to have a duel one-on-one? Attacking each other's bodies with naval guns, the pain is accompanied by the helpless eyes of the enemy, and the pleasure is doubled!! ”
The harbor water ghost has become accustomed to the daily madness of the berland water ghost, and the will of the deep sea seems to have implanted a special way of thinking in her.
"I'm also going to analyze Nakasuhime's naval guns. I don't have time to talk to you. Raising his hand to turn off the real-time impact call, the harbor water ghost continued to calculate the appropriate thickness of the ship's gun armor. If it weren't for the dispatch of the water ghost in the middle of the mooring, she would not be too lazy to talk to the mooring water ghost at this time.
The image was turned on again, and the harbor water ghost said angrily. "Stop bothering me! Believe it or not, I sent the newly created pet No. 78 to you? Its appetite can be eaten until you go crazy! ”
"Another failed pet?" In the video, the battleship Suhime appears, and from time to time you can hear the sound of explosions in the distance. However, the two circles of warships around her spread out their anti-air defense in a composite wheel shape, and did not affect the core force. "As you can see, I was attacked by Kaga, the daughter of the deep, and I couldn't fight back."
It's not frustrating, the battleship Qi Ji is not distressed by the expellation of the sunken expulsion light patrol, anyway, they are all mass-produced cannon fodder.
"I can't help it, Kaga's ship has a limited bomb load. You let her blow it up. The Moored Water Ghost will come to your aid with a support fleet. ”
"It's annoying!"
The battleship Suhime turned its main gun and hit a carrier-based aircraft from Akagi. Her 20-inch cannon can also fire anti-aircraft shotguns, which is overkill against the carrier-based aircraft that annoys her.
"The remote island of Suhime didn't go with you?" The harbor water ghost turned the angle of the image, but she didn't see the figure of the outlying island, she remembered that the flower blossom courtyard Long Xing decided to give up Australia, and the outlying island Suhime should fight with the battleship Suhime.
"I told her to take the lead against the heavy patrols in the Santa Cruz Islands. It's too hard for a newborn child to face the bombardment. As soon as the battleship Suhime finished speaking, Kaga's crew found the right angle, and four torpedoes sank a battleship.
The two-hour air raid was over, and the battleship Suhime's face was very bad, "Besides, let her be here, the aircraft carrier girls will definitely take her as the primary target." ”
"It's really hard for you, send you to a war of attrition." The harbor water ghost thinks that he does not have the good mentality of the battleship Suhime, and is willing to fight a big battle for a draw. "Any good news?"
"The submarine force discovered the specific location of the enemy's blocking force, and in addition to the two aircraft carriers, there was also an escort formation composed of warships and destroyers. I've let the patrols scattered around the islands harass better than nothing. ”
The battleship Suhime turned off the real-time video and lazily lay on the railing. You can also see the wreckage of many ships that have been sunk by bombing. Akagi and Kaga are the leaders of the aircraft carrier Niang, and their skills and experience in handling carrier-based aircraft are impeccable.
"Change back to the vertical queue and speed up."
Each of the ル-class battleships that heard the order rearranged their formation according to their respective formations, and although they lost 70 ships, they were mainly expulsions, which were harmless. The patrol team arranged by the battleship Suki in the New Hebrides adds up to more than 100 destroyers. The kind of cannon fodder unit that is purely used for consumption is not as valuable as a shell of her own in the eyes of the battleship Suhime.
"The seventh, eighth, tenth, and fifteenth patrol units, surround the discovered enemy and stop the fleet. Attack at any cost, ignore the aircraft carriers and use two battleships as the main target. ”
The battleship Suhime doesn't care whether the heavy patrol class who leads the team from afar can understand his orders, but he thinks he should understand the meaning of "at all costs".
If you have the opportunity to collide, you will be killed by an enemy ship!
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Outside the Strait of Santa Cruz, the second echelon, which had already been assembled, received a temporary order. The commander of the 9th Sentai Corps, Kii, served as the commander of the fleet.
There are four Furutaka-class ships of the Sixth Sentai and four Myo-class ships of the Fifth Sentai Team, for a total of eight heavy cruisers, plus Kii and the regular air carrier Yunzuru who provides aviation support. This fleet will be responsible for weakening the Deep Sea Fleet a second time, in order to increase the odds of victory for Sousuke Takayanagi's main force.
"Oh! The Kii is super cool! "Furutaka of the Sixth Sentai saw the Kii moored in the distance on the deck and shouted happily." Admiral, if only I could be a battleship lady. Super cool~~"
Furutaka, who had heterochromatic pupils, beckoned to the person standing behind him, motioning for the other party to witness the Kii together.
"Gu Ying, I personally recommend that you change the character of Zhong Erqi first. It is likely that the commander-in-chief of high sulfur also sees that your character is unreliable. Only then did Kii join the second echelon directly after the end of the mission, but our second echelon originally had no plans to join the battleship. ”
The commander of the sixth team, Major General Goto, can't remember how many times he persuaded Gu Ying to restrain the child's secondary character. "Let's come on, don't let Kii underestimate the power of our heavy cruisers."
Gu Ying jumped up excitedly, causing his subordinates to hold back a smile. There is a sick shipwreck in the middle school to liven up the atmosphere, and it is not an errand.