Chapter 34: NH Operations: The Strategy of the Outlying Islands Shohime

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"Fire the flares and turn on the searchlights!"

The Kii slowly moved around, the bright light not being able to spread through the fog, far less effective than her hull in dispelling it.

All communication equipment was operating normally, and Kii gave orders to the commanders of the various teams to prepare for battle, and although they could not see the surroundings clearly, the fleet was still blocked in front of the Santa Cruz Islands, forming an inverted V-shaped queue.

The fog affected Yunhe the most, she was completely incapacitated, but luckily Yunhe was at the rear of the fleet, and she didn't have to worry about her safety before the enemy rushed into the array.

The 5th and 6th Sentai teams simultaneously spotted the deep-sea ships slowly approaching in the dense fog, the number of which is unknown, but from Haguro they were attacked by battleship-class enemies.

After Kii assembled his ninth Sentai team, he also spotted the enemy ships slowly revealing their bodies in the fog.

"The enemy is a fleet coming from the southwest, and it should be part of the main fleet of the deep sea heading from the direction of Australia. Coupled with the appearance of the battleship class, it can basically be concluded that the enemy's strength is not weak. Gonjun Sato took the microphone from Kii's hand and took on the task of liaising with the other teams.

Kii controlled five main guns to shoot at the enemy in his line of sight, and without the observation support of reconnaissance planes, Kii judged only from his own experience with his gunners that the first round of shelling did not have a great impact on the enemy ships in the distance.

The enemy ship in the dense fog then moved away to the left, and several shells landed in the sea between the two ships, blowing up several columns of water.

"Lack of range?" Seeing the slightly weak counterattack of the enemy ship, Kii was even more sure of the gap between the deep-sea ship and the ship's mother. At a distance of 10,000 meters, at such a close distance, the battleship-class enemy will be seriously missed.

Another set of flares lit up the water, and Kii saw the enemy ship on the opposite side this time, two battleships and several light cruisers. They seem to be about to burst into the battlefield from the left.

Lowering the barrel, Kii's three main guns hit the target in a flat fire. A battleship, the Armor class, was shot at an ammunition depot and caught fire and exploded, drowning in thick fog.

Not knowing how many enemy ships were coming, Kii saw the rest of the enemy ships disappear into the thick fog, and looked a little anxious, and hurriedly fired a number of shells at the position she predicted.

"Kii, Myoko's Fifth Sentai is confirmed to have been surrounded by multiple battleship-class enemies. The current battle situation is unknown, and only Haguro can confirm that he was hit by a secondary cannon. ”

The information reported by Sato Gonjun made Kii's anxiety even heavier, and she was very uneasy about fighting in the thick fog. A forgotten memory was touched by her, and the headache exacerbated her judgment decline. "Going north, Oi and I went to support the Fifth Sentai Team, and Mayyu, Murayu, and Chunyu retreated to the position of the Second Air Force in Yunhe."

Kii completely forgot that her ninth team was at the front of the inverted V formation, and her movement undoubtedly caused a gap between the fifth and sixth teams.

Hidden in the dense fog, the remote island of Suhime saw Kii move to the heavy patrol force on the left, and her purpose was already halfway achieved. Since Kii was installed with a signal transmitter,She's been waiting for Kii to turn his attention to mass-produced warships.,Although they're all mass-produced ships.,But the armor of the ル-class and タ-class is quite thick.,Although in front of Kii's triple 41CM main gun,,The same will be pierced by a shot.,But it seems to be able to last a long time against heavy patrols.。

The battleship Suhime gave her 28 warships as the main output of the raid to guard the outer sea of the Santa Cruz Islands. All she was asked to do was to damage the obscure heavy cruiser as hard as possible, and if possible, sink the only regular carrier.

"It's not the rabbit that's waiting."

The remote island of Suhime opened the hangar, and the 360 unmanned carrier-based aircraft she was carrying flew into the air like locusts in the thick fog. As a base-type perch, she doesn't have the most powerful main guns like the rest of the perch, but in terms of loading, she is currently the No.1 in the base-type perch.

"Humans often neglect what they think is the safest part of their arrangement, and their backward way of thinking leads them to get used to having an advantage in turn-based chess games that are openly informed."

Having read the vast collections of the two British Libraries since she was born, she thinks she knows a lot about humans as creatures. Humans will always subjectively add what they think is correct to enrich the information they don't know, which is a great innate advantage of humans, but now the remote island is completely in control of the battlefield, and the human side has no vision due to the dense fog, and it can accurately know the location of each ship by relying on submarines.

Including her target, the Yunhe, all of them are within its calculations.

The Kii sailed to the left as it thought, leaving three destroyers to retreat. The outlying island Suhime then slowed down the attack with the deep-sea ship on the right, and let the deep-sea ship on the left hit the heavy cruiser that was damaged by the attack. It didn't plan to move its position on its own, relying on the 360 unmanned carrier-based aircraft that had already taken off, flying over and dropping a round of bombs, not to mention the aircraft carrier, and even the surrounding expulsion light cruisers would be turned into fragments.

Perfection is not enough, and the remote island of Tsuchihime plans to drive over quickly and attack Yunhe with his medium roadbed cannon in case of an accident. If Kii can really calculate that it is targeting Yunhe and blocking it in the past, it can also choose to attack the four heavy cruisers on the right side that are slightly weaker. This time, it brought 30% of the warship Suhime over and tried to sink a few more important ships.

All factors are taken into account, and then you have a backhand, so that the game can ensure that the profit is maximized.

The remote island of Shimasu chose to wait, and it only took 30 minutes for her carrier-based aircraft to approach the target point at low speed in dense fog.

The remaining ships around it were also used as support for the left side, as long as it could attract Kii for 30 minutes, and it would take her 10 minutes to turn around.

Everything is running steadily in the plan of the remote island Suhime......

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"These ten main guns are not decorations!"

Under the shout of the sassy sass, a battleship was hit by her hull, and the two main guns immediately exploded and stopped in place.

"Ashijo, watch your left!"

Admiral Takagi, the commander of the Fifth Sentai Force, saw the sudden appearance of an enemy ship on the Myoko, but it was too late for Ashigara to hear the shouts coming over the radio.

She turned her head to see three deep-sea destroyers forming a column, cutting diagonally through the rear of the Ashigara. Both sides fired torpedoes at the same time, less than 2,000 meters apart, and it was impossible to dodge.

Footboard was hit by three torpedoes, especially one directly in the bow, and sea water poured into the hull. Ashijo and his subordinates were knocked to the ground under the tremendous impact, and by the time they climbed up against the walls of the tables and chairs, the ship had tilted slightly.

Fortunately, Footgami remained awake and immediately locked the water storage compartment and opened the right water storage tank to balance the hull. "Keep fighting, everyone! There's no way I'm going to fall! ”

Sink a deep-sea expulsion that narrowly escaped a torpedo with a secondary gun, and press the bleeding wound on her left arm with the foot handle to help her staff officer stop the bleeding.

With the body of the ship's mother, it only takes 5 minutes to stop the wound, and the torpedo expelled by the deep sea only opened three holes in her hull, but it did not sink her.

"Ashijo, you retreat one after another, don't deviate from the battle team again, the enemy is in the dark, and we are in the light."

Admiral Takagi's persuasion had a little effect, and although Ashigara did not answer, he obediently retreated.

"Haguro, what's going on over there?"

Another round of shells swept past the Myoko, and the communication antenna on the Myoko was blown up, along with three anti-aircraft machine guns. The only thing left in Admiral Takagi's wireless phone was a cacophony of noise.

"Myoko, how's the damage?"

The curly-haired woman on the side looked fine, she only felt a little numb in her palms during the shelling just now, probably because the hull of the ship had been blown open by a shell. "The antenna was blown up, and wireless communication was unusable...... I've seen the ship that sneaked up on me. It must not be spared! ”

In the same way, Myoko had good luck firing the main gun shells, destroying one of the main guns of the deep-sea battleship.

The continuous firing of flares over the sea was originally a tactical decision to better confirm the position of the enemy ship, but it brought unexpected gains to Myoko.

At a distance of 25,000 meters, Kii could see with the naked eye the black battleship lit up by flares, and she did not hesitate to launch artillery support at an elevation angle of 32 degrees.

Before the battleship-class that had destroyed a main gun could react, an armor-piercing projectile fell sharply from above its head, and the battleship-class was broken into several segments in the explosion.

"This is Kii, the flagship of the ninth team, how is the fifth team? Answer, please? ”

Kii didn't know if she had sunk the enemy warship after launching, and Sato Gonjun couldn't get in touch with Admiral Takagi of the Fifth Sentai since just now, so she personally shouted into the microphone a few times, but there was still no response.

"Let's keep getting closer." Kii's reconnaissance team was also able to detect the re-patrol of four ships gathered in a formation, and another message could be obtained from the reconnaissance. There are at least 7 battleship-class enemies in front of her.

"Wait, Kii. What is the size of the enemy fleet engaged by the Fifth Sentai Force? "Gonjun Sato is marking the corresponding positions of each ship on the chart with his staff officers, and it can be clearly seen from the map that the Sixth Sentai has been led by the enemy by 3 nautical miles, which is only a vague estimate.

"There are seven battleships, ten of the heavy cruiser, and more than forty of the destroyer light cruisers. Including wreckage. ”

"Didn't you mention seeing the silhouette of a giant ship before the fog lifted? It doesn't show up here? ”

Faced with Sato's questioning, Kii shook his head. "If there really is a deep-sea roost that big, it will definitely not be able to escape my search by telecution."

As Kii said, her No. 32 Reconnaissance Team is currently the best shipboard detection equipment for the IJN Combined Fleet, and it is easy to spot a hill-like object.

"Stop the pursuit of the Sixth Sentai and leave it to me to repel the strong enemy. If that giant ship moves its position, it won't be able to escape my scout's search. ”

Kii's order was also the best choice of the range, and the top priority was to reinforce the fifth Sentai and ensure the safety of the four Myoko-heavy cruisers.