Kii got the command of the second echelon as she wished, and when Sosuke Takayanagi asked her to participate in the second echelon composed of heavy cruisers, he thought about letting Kii show his skills. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info He just didn't expect that as soon as Kii arrived at the meeting point, he would send a telegram directly asking Admiral Goto of the Sixth Sentai to transfer the command.

Anyway, the commanders of the other teams are all experienced veteran officers, and Kiyi's approach has not been criticized by others in person, just because she has now fought a series of wonderful battles, and no one wants to provoke this stupid and sweet admiral.

Speaking of Santa Cruz, the third aircraft carrier duel with the American Federation was launched before, and the final result was that the Fifth Air War was attacked by night and was forced to return, and the participating aircraft carrier of the American Federation "mysteriously" disappeared.

It has not been confirmed, but it is believed that the Deep Sea Fleet attacked the damaged Hornet and Saratoga at the time.

"Sounds like a ghost story." Kii sat in the command room, enjoying an afternoon with high-quality black tea. After listening to what Sato Gonjun said, the first reaction she gave really made the people around her laugh.

It's like a ghost story. Could it be that those two mysteriously missing aircraft carriers will suddenly appear?

According to the report submitted after the Fifth Air War, they retreated at 8 a.m., when it was possible to determine that the two American Federation aircraft carriers were completely anchored in the sea. I just wanted to remind you that the Deep-Sea Fleet doesn't just sneak up at night. Sato Gonjun said and pointed to the battle plan that Kii pressed under his hands. In Rear Admiral Goto's original plan, he seemed to think that the deep-sea fleet would only summon a thick fog after dark. Personally, I don't think it's possible for the deep-sea fleet to launch a surprise attack with the night battles that the IJN heavy cruiser fleet is good at. ”

"That being said, this time there is Miss Yunhe providing aviation support. Their deep-sea fleet wanted to sneak attack, and only Yunhe's carrier-based aircraft could not take off at night. ”

Kii has no intention of revising the battle plan, she doesn't understand the world, she just took away the command of others, and she has to urgently revise the battle plan, isn't it clear that she will not give face to others?

The microphone rang, and Kii received a call from Yunhe. "Are the waves getting stronger? As long as the reconnaissance aircraft can withstand it, the search will continue to be maintained. ”

Kii's reconnaissance plane happened to have flown back, and she was replaced by two seaplane carriers, Chitose and Chiyoda. The sea she had just seen was peaceful, except for the clouds.

Port Vila has been destroyed, and if the deep-sea fleet does not choose the Santa Cruz Islands as a forward base, they will certainly build a new base in the New Hebrides. The commander understood this, so Sousuke Takayanagi wanted to send a fleet to guard Santa Cruz while constantly harassing the deep-sea fleet. As long as the Deep-Sea Fleet chooses to build a base in the New Hebrides, he will be able to attack the long-distance Deep-Sea Fleet with his main fleet.

His plan was to rely on the superior aircraft carrier mobile force on the one hand, and the heavy cruiser fleet to block the attack would not hurt a few ships a little.

Kii had no idea what Sosuke Takayanagi was aiming for, and the only thing he could think of was to rely on this large-scale naval battle to gain enough military merits, and then rightfully take back the honor of the flagship of the Combined Fleet.

"In the case of rough seas, the deep sea fleet will also have an impact, right?"

No one knows about Kii's problem, but it should be the case according to common sense. Even if a large-tonnage aircraft carrier warship encounters strong winds and waves, it may be damaged, and the ships of the deep-sea fleet are generally small in tonnage, and the balance is not high in terms of shape.

Kii's electric scouts detected strange radio waves coming from a distance, and she stopped laughing with her subordinates in the afternoon and got up from her seat.

"There may be a small force of the deep-sea fleet trying to get close to us, and the whole team is ready to meet it!"

"Wait!" Sato Gonjun hurriedly grabbed Kii and invited her back to her seat. "You are now the commander of the entire fleet, and if you rush to attack in person, you will make others look down on you. Inform the nearest team of the instruct and ask them to meet the battle first, and then make further deployments based on the intelligence updates. ”

In case just two destroyers approach, Kii broke away from the formation and went to meet it, and the IJN Combined Fleet had one more after-dinner joke.

After receiving the notice, Myoko and Nachi immediately led three destroyers to stop the attack, and a small patrol force consisting of three light cruisers and several destroyers appeared.

They sneaked in from the southeast, just in time to avoid the more alert southwest.

Myoko and Nachi opened fire at the same time, and the two ships concentrated on attacking a light cruiser, and after a round of shelling, the fragile armor of the enemy ship was directly penetrated. Myoko and Nachi, armed with newly developed armor-piercing shells, were fighting a deep-sea ship for the first time, instinctively believing that the enemy's armor would be thick.

"These ships seem to be traveling faster than the intelligence?" Nachi was turning the barrel of his gun to prepare for the second round of firing, and he could vaguely see a column of ten ships speeding up. In her experience, the enemy ships reached a speed of 30 knots, far faster than the 25 knots described in the intelligence. "The 7th Destroyer prepares torpedoes and launches them at maximum range."

As Nachi had guessed, the deep-sea ship did not change course at all to avoid torpedoes. Four bathshital destroyers were sunk together, and two were damaged and slowed down.

Nachi and Myoko's second shot sank another light cruiser enemy, and the battle was relatively easy.

There is no need to be reminded by Myoko and Nachi, the three destroyer ships are ready to avoid torpedoes. Deep-sea expulsion uses the common air torpedo, and the obvious waterline crosses the battlefield, but it does not hit the target.

At this time, several carrier-based aircraft flying from the Yunhe dropped aerial torpedoes, sinking all the remaining enemy ships.

"Easy, simple." Nachi originally planned to make a roundabout voyage and launch a front and rear attack with the destroyer Niang, but it turned out that against the deep-sea ships without thinking, the most direct attack can be defeated. "Sister Myoko's shelling accuracy has improved a lot."

"It's the result of all the people working together. Nachi-chan is not inferior. ”

Kii's reconnaissance plane took in the entire battle, and it was the first time that Kii had experienced what it was like to be in command of a fleet. As Sato Gonjun said, Myoko and Nachi can easily deal with the enemy, if she personally faces it in front of everyone, she will definitely become a laughing stock.

[What's that?] Kii saw something strange through the reconnaissance plane and hurriedly told the pilot to return. Of the several destroyers sunk by Yunhe's carrier-based aircraft, one appeared to have dropped a torpedo before sinking.

But after that, I didn't see a white waterline on the sea, and it seemed to sink directly.

"Lower the altitude and hover slowly over the sinking point. I'm going to see what was dropped by a bathyscapitre. ”

The dropped "torpedo" did not sink directly, but floated about 20 meters below the surface of the water, like a buoy.

Myoko and Nachi, who had attacked to meet them, had already led their teams back, leaving only Kii's reconnaissance plane still over the sea.

"What the hell is it?" Kii wanted to send a destroyer over to salvage it, but he was worried that something unexpected might happen.

Seeing Kii's hesitant expression, Sato Gonjun stepped forward and asked in a whisper. "What's going on?"

"My reconnaissance plane found that the sunken deep-sea expelled and dropped a 'buoy'."

"Buoys?"

Just as the two were thinking about countermeasures, Chiyoda's reconnaissance plane discovered the appearance of deep-sea submarines in the surrounding waters, and the number was incalculable.

Immediately after Yunhe's reconnaissance plane confirmed that one of them had lost contact, and the information was sent to Kii in turn, she vaguely felt that something was wrong, and immediately announced to all the ships that they were in a state of combat readiness.

The time is 4 p.m. on March 14. The sky is cloudy, and the sea surface is windy and rough level 4.

[There's a ship by my side? 】

After reacting, Kii closed his eyes and kept himself in high sync with the reconnaissance team. She clearly saw what was going on beneath the surface, with four submarines swimming at high speed at a depth of about 300 meters below her hull, as if they were drawing circles around her.

In a hurry, Kii turned on the thunderbolt and dropped all the 10 remaining depth charges on the ship. It was already a common idea that deep-sea submarines were not aggressive, and Kii couldn't understand why she was panicking about submarines lurking under her hull.

Depth charges dropped destroyed two submarines, and the next two surged upwards and disintegrated less than 100 metres from her hull.

Tiny deep-sea submarine parts surfaced by inertia, but most of them stuck to the bottom of Kii's hull.

"I think I've been tagged by the Deep Sea Fleet?"

Kii didn't wake up to the Deep Sea Fleet's intentions, why he marked her hull.

The rapid high-pitched voice came from afar, and Kii's subordinates instinctively covered their ears, as if the shrill treble was only useful for humans, and Kii heard that it was just someone yelling through a loudspeaker.

The danger approached step by step, and Kii's hands trembled a little.

Quickly cutting his gaze back to the reconnaissance plane, Kii clearly saw that the buoy was shining.

"Fogged up......"

In a trance, Kii seemed to hear someone say this, and she cut back her gaze and looked up at the sea. A white wall swept in like a wave, and in the middle of it, she saw a large black outline.

"Come to ...... Here it is...... This. ”

In the high voice, Kii heard vague words, as if he was introducing himself to the fleet.

The mist instantly arrived at the position of the fleet and engulfed everything like a whirlwind of clouds. The only thing that is the fog disperses automatically when it gets close to Kii, forming a special area.

"What's going on?"

Kii was scared, she had never seen the white world, not only the ships of the other warbands around her, but also the ships of the ninth warband.

She had never seen such a terrifying sea, engulfing everything in an instant.

[No, I've seen it...... In ......]

Kii's forehead began to ache, and she seemed to recall some memory that had been erased. It's not very far away, it's in the spring of that new life......

"Kii, move quickly! The offensive of the deep-sea fleet is coming! ”

Sato's shout brought Kii back to her senses, she couldn't remember the missing memory, but the situation in front of her no longer allowed her to remember quietly.