Chapter Twenty-Six: Fortune
["Akagi has asked you to take up the position of overseer, if we have the slightest intention of retreating. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info sink us? ”
"No, General Takayanagi. Do you understand that I am torpedoing you to a dead end? As long as it has the effect of weakening the deep-sea fleet, I am willing to take on the harsh task of any difficulty. Fighting is only a name, and victory is the ultimate goal. Lord Akagi believes that only you can lead a fleet without the support of the air carrier to inflict enough damage on the Deep Sea Fleet, you are indeed the bait, and I am indeed the overseer. But if you and your warship wives are willing, we're a veritable main fleet! ”】
Sousuke Takayanagi remembered what Kiso said to himself before the fleet set sail, and Kiso proved her bravery and sincerity with her actions.
"Dr. Kitamura, can you be sure that the enemy's supply fleet is on the far sea to the north-east?"
The stakes were high, and Sosuke Takayanagi asked Dr. Kitamura, who was concentrating on debugging the drug, again. After being secretly removed from the Imperial Academy by Akagi, the other party has been attached to Sosuke Takayanagi, and recently the father of the ship's mother has developed a new potion, and he stayed on the Yamato for secrecy.
"Well, I can't go wrong with my instrument. There are a large number of supply ships in that area. The amount of oil in seawater doesn't lie. They did leave their freshly exploited fields behind and swam to the far sea, north-east. ”
Sousuke Takayanagi predicted that the supply fleet of the Deep Sea Fleet would definitely switch positions, leaving a large number of warships ambushed there. The "secret" disclosure of the supply fleet's location may be due to the deep-sea fleet's consistent disdain for secrecy, but this time Sosuke Takayanagi trusted his instincts. If he really went according to the original plan, everything would be closed now.
"You said that the probability of the Deep Sea Fleet ambushing your fleet is about 21%. Why did you change your mind after leaving the port of Manila and ask me to predict instead? ”
"Because your instrument did measure anomalous data...... It's weird. I'm a gambler and can't afford the temptation of a high-odds option. If the deep-sea fleet does not move, their garrison will not be less. So I desperately wanted to find a reason to convince myself to try the small probability option. ”
Sosuke Takayanagi looked at the new potion that Dr. Kitamura had debugged. "This thing deserves your caution."
"Of course, my new potion is not an ordinary potion that only made a person for 70 days. Although it has not yet been debugged to the point where it can be officially used, this new potion can create a ship mother without a hull. It's not a deteriorated version.,It's a monster with the same combat power as the ship mother after the core fusion.。 As long as I solve the problem of how to survive without the hull, we can mass-produce the ship. Destroy the Deep Sea Fleet, then reclaim our lost power and send the strongest war armies to sweep across all seven continents. Be just round the corner. ”
The postdoctoral fellow Kitamura, who is over seventy years old, can be said to have dedicated his life to the development of the ship's mother, and Akagi gave the scientist who was obsessed with the unknown field of science a chance, and he lived up to his expectations to make the ship's mother. Even now that Akagi has rejected a series of enhancements that he later applied directly to the human body, he continues to study them wholeheartedly. For him, researching and making a more "cheap" ship girl is the whole goal of the rest of his life, and what's the use of creating a bunch of crazy monsters...... Of course, he is a scientist, he only cares about research and development, and he doesn't care about human morality and social application.
Sosuke Takayanagi easily changed the subject, as someone who knew the essence of the ship girl, he had no interest in Dr. Kitamura's current research, and it was impossible for the will of the deep sea to allow humans to develop the results of simply turning humans into monsters with the power of ship girls. The so-called design of creating a ship mother without the need for a hull is fundamentally against the will of the deep sea, so Dr. Kitamura's research will only hit a bottleneck and will continue to fail.
"Whatever you like. Personally, I wish you success. "Sousuke Takayanagi provided all the assistance he could, and vacated a few separate cabins on the Yamato to serve as Kitamura's director's laboratory." I have one more thing to ask you to continue your research work on. ”
Sousuke Takayanagi now had something new to do, and Yamato had spotted a large enemy fleet through reconnaissance aircraft. As Dr. Kitamura predicted, the deep-sea supply fleet was moved to this area.
Hurried back to the command room, Yamato himself was directing the crew to make pre-battle preparations.
"How's it going?"
"No ...... found for the time being" When Yamato turned around, one of her reconnaissance planes saw black spots on the sea, and the number was too many to count for a while.
"Look at your face, we've arrived at our destination this time. Inform the remaining ships accompanying them, ready to fight at any time. ”
Sousuke Takayanagi himself was not very sure about the diversion of this adventure, after all, relying on his own guesses and Dr. Kitamura's instrumental measurements, the direction obtained was not very correct. And even if the results of both of them are correct, in the vast sea, a deviation from an angle can cause both parties to cross shoulders.
But he won the bet, sacrificing enough in exchange for this miraculous strategic shift.
Fleets of old deep-sea carrier-based aircraft immediately flew into the sky, and the light carriers who had launched air strikes before also stayed there, and the other deep-sea ships that remained in the supply fleet were the lowest-level destroyers
"There is no regular air carrier on the other side? What's going on? "Yamato had seen spherical carrier-based aircraft in previous air raids, which proved that there was a regular air-based aircraft of the ヲ-class in the surrounding waters at that time, but this time when the enemy was anxiously counterattacking, there was no new deep-sea carrier-based aircraft.
"Probably transferred to meet the mobile fleet of air carriers in Akagi. Previously, our submarine special attack operations interfered with the enemy's deployment to a certain extent, and there was also a successful attack on the regular air carrier of the ヲ class. I'm afraid that the enemy really only has more than 60 regular air carriers of the ヲ class at this moment, and all of them have been appropriated to meet our real main fleet. "Sosuke Takayanagi said calmly, in fact, he was very panicked when he saw the enemy taking off the carrier-based aircraft just now, once the number of regular air carriers of the ヲ class exceeded 10, it would definitely become a bitter battle.
Fortunately, this time he not only won the gamble, but also won the "jackpot". "Fighting! The whole fleet is on strike. ”
After receiving instructions from Sousuke Takayanagi, Yamato and other ships approached the enemy fleet in a repetition of columns. The deep-sea carrier-based aircraft that attacked from the sky were shot down by the anti-aircraft machine guns of Maya and other ships before they could get close, and compared with the deep-sea spherical carrier-based aircraft, these old carrier-based aircraft were too slow in any way.
The deep-sea side has no chance to escape, and they have no concept of escaping, and they have formed a battle formation around important ships. Yamato's reconnaissance plane flew high in the air, taking in the whole view of the deep-sea supply fleet.
In the center of several deep-sea production ships, a huge roadbed-type Suhime lies conspicuously on the surface of the sea, her body is still leaking oil, and Yamato has an inexplicable familiarity with this Suhime who he has seen for the first time.
"Admiral Takayanagi, the enemy has been discovered. In addition to a destroyer-type perch, there is also a roadbed-type perch, which does not seem to be a type of specialty or combat, but a temporary center for the enemy's oil transfer at sea. There are 15 ships of the light patrol class, about 60 ships of the destroyer class, and 24 ships of the light air carrier class. The above is the combat power of the enemy's entire fleet. ”
Sousuke Takayanagi also saw a tall object abruptly above the sea through the telescope, "Then, sink them." The enemy's configuration is weaker than any of my expectations. We couldn't stay here any longer. ”
Facing the IJN fleet with five warships as the core, the deep-sea fleet seems to be powerless, there is no excellent command, and there are no powerful ships, only one to drive out the water ghosts and gather the land habitat Ji. The first deep-sea expulsion that rushed up suffered heavy losses, but it somewhat blocked the sweeping speed of Yamato and other ships, and depending on the number, they could also force Yamato and other ships to slow down and avoid.
However, the short time won by the deep-sea destroyers was meaningless, and the deep-sea light air carriers that took off carrier-based aircraft again were still unable to harm Yamato and other warships with many wingmen escorting, especially the Maya, which specialized in air defense, and a single ship shot down more than 100 deep-sea carrier-based aircraft in two rounds of air defense.
After Yamato tried to get closer, several shells from the main gun hit Jiji Jijiji, and the sheer size of the opponent made him a complete target. THE 35.6CM GUNS OF THE FUSO-CLASS AND HYUGA CLASSES DID NOT HAVE ENOUGH RANGE, BUT THE YAMATO'S 46CM CANNON EASILY HIT THE SIDEWAYS OIL BARREL GROUP OF JIJIJIJIJI-SUHIME AT A DISTANCE OF 30,000 METERS.
The fire immediately spread to the huge hull of the Jiji Jiji, and she could not fight back without the main gun, so she could only howl frantically and try to dive to extinguish the fire.
"Like...... Where have you seen her......" Yamato heard a piercing howl, and in a trance, he did not prepare for the next round of shelling in the first place.
The water ghosts on the other side saw that the general situation was gone, and the single ship rushed towards the Yamato. In its eyes, instead of being sunk with the deep-sea ships here, it is better to try to meet Yamato and force the other side back.
But that was just a fantasy in despair to expel the water ghosts, and all the comet ships that took off from the Hyuga swooped down, and several bombs were in the middle of the water ghosts that were sailing in a straight line. The flames on the Hydro Destroyer were far from the ones that had been set up in the Gathering Ground Habitat, but this level of attack also caused it to break away from the hull in pain and scream on the deck.
"The whole main gun is aimed at the enemy Qi Ji. Fire! ”
A salvo from Yamashiro hit the water ghost from the side, and at once it opened two large holes in the hull of the water ghost. The Expelling Water Spirit, which is close to the length of the Elder Eagle Class Heavy Patrol, is not something that will be sunk by one or two attacks, but it is the middle and bottom level of the Deep Sea Habitat after all.
After the relentless artillery fire poured down, several more bullets were hit, and the Suhime-class destroyer capsized in the explosion before it could open fire. The courage it summoned when it was dying was meaningless, and it was not qualified to face the battleship.
"Well done, let's go sink that land-based Suhime, the rest of the enemy ships are no match for us."
At the same time as Sosuke Takayanagi gave the order, the group of PT imps guarding the area around the Jiji also drove one after another. The petite PT imps, as a product of lower hits than making up for the deep sea expulsion mine warfare, will not be useful in a battle of this scale. Destroyers such as Yukikaze were able to dodge the only torpedo weapon of these little guys with their excellent sailing skills, and sent them to the bottom of the sea with the destroyers on the ship.