Chapter Twenty-Seven: Arrayed, Battleship Suhime Arrives

March 8, 1 p.m. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The reconnaissance aircraft patrolling the sea area of the Ligon spotted a large black fleet. More than 100 heavy cruisers formed the front of the team, followed by countless expulsions and light cruisers to form a spectacular escort fleet. With three light cruisers and nine destroyers as a squadron, they sailed in turn to form an inverted "V".

In the fleet, more than 70 warships form the core of the fleet, the most eye-catching of which is the 400-meter-long black super battleship - the battleship Suhime.

The pilot of the reconnaissance plane could not catch his breath from the tense state, and he never imagined that he would be the first to witness the deep-sea fleet that swept across the Pacific Fleet of the Australian American Federation.

The reconnaissance plane was 4,000 meters above the sea, and after the pilot saw with the naked eye the 20 main guns of the battleship Qi Ji against the sky, his whole body could not help but tremble. Fear was eating away at his mind, and what appeared in his sight was a monster that had developed the Great Ship Cannon Doctrine to the extreme!

Equally shocked was Tone, who had slipped half of her half-eaten rice ball from her mouth. She had never imagined what a superfleet of more than 500 ships would do, not even in her dreams. She saw clearly with her eyes what it meant to overwhelm her opponent in momentum.

No wonder it is rumored that the fleets of the American Federation were destroyed in a torrent of cannonballs, and under such a torrent of steel, fear can instantly engulf the creatures that try to stop them. Tone was surprised for a minute before he came back to his senses at Admiral Ito's shout.

"Wait, there's still ...... ahead"

After the surge, another huge monster revealed, about 2,000 meters long and more than 1,000 meters wide, and the pure black base-type perch appeared at the end of the fleet.

The huge body of the ship alone looks like it is enough to crush any ship of the Combined Fleet, and a runway that emits red light sticks out on its left side, and the spherical unmanned carrier-based aircraft that are taking off above can be seen.

"Take off?"

Realizing that something was wrong, Ligon hurriedly called out to the pilot to return home, she is not an aircraft carrier mother, but she can't control carrier-based aircraft, and by the way, auxiliary work such as acceleration and deceleration are done.

But the pilots, who were already dumbfounded, couldn't respond when they heard Tone's order. The sanity that had led his actions had been replaced with fear, and he had been reduced to prisoner and mentally crushed to powder from the moment he saw the fleet.

"Coming here, huh? Good...... Disappear for me! ”

The outlying island Suhime controls her carrier-based aircraft and immediately surrounds the Zero reconnaissance plane in the sky, and she has already received an order from the battleship Suhime to send the rude audience member who did not buy tickets to watch the costumed performance to leave.

After a rapid sound of machine guns, the Zero reconnaissance plane turned into a fireball in the air and was torn apart. The battleship Suhime stood on the deck of the ship's hull, enjoying the first barrel of wine from an oil well off the coast of Australia.

"Perfect!"

The black liquid from the goblet was drunk, and the battleship Qihime ate the droplets left at the corners of her mouth, and the only reason for humanity to win was the IJN Combined Fleet, which had the power of the ship. And this real battle between the two sides is enough for her to shatter the last reason for humanity.

Under saturated shelling, there will be no sight-catching ships or ships left. Whether it's Kaga or Kii. They were only two ships, and no matter how many of them had three heads and six arms, they could not turn her fleet.

All the ships had gained strength after bathing in the death grievances of Australia's half a million people, and the pupils of each ship had changed from hollow gray to brilliant red.

Victory is within reach! Within range of the gun's fire, rekindle the flames of hell.

"Human! Let's taste the despair!! ”

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At the meeting where Shoreland was discussing the follow-up operation, Tone's reconnaissance information was sent as soon as possible. There are more than 500 enemy ships, including the battleship Suhime and a new base-type enemy. This most powerful sentence made the ship's mother and their admiral sit still.

What is the concept of 500? In the Third Battle of the Solomons, the four Kongo-class battleships of the Second Sentai could not stop the enemy from forcibly breaking up the formation without stopping the fire, and the enemy fleet only survived more than 180 ships at that time.

After the appearance of the base-type perch-type Moruchi water ghost, he hit Hiei with a single shot, and the two sides were 40,000 meters apart, which was almost something that Yamato could only do in the most perfect state, and the Moraki water ghost could easily do it in the night battle.

If the Third Battle of the Solomon were to be repeated, what level of victory would the combined fleet that poured out of the nest be achieved? I'm afraid that even a bloody battle can only be exchanged for a crushing victory.

"Reinforcements are already on their way."

Sosuke Takayanagi's words calmed everyone's panicked mentality, he didn't think that the odds of winning were less than sixty percent, on the contrary, Port Vila was mysteriously blown up, and the deep-sea fleet poured out of the nest and there was no large harbor to station. It is not necessary to allow one's side to expand the advantage, to be able to suppress the enemy's advantage, and in turn it becomes his advantage.

"You don't need to panic, although the aircraft carrier mobile force has lost 100 carrier-based aircraft, the enemy's light air carrier force has been confirmed to be all destroyed. They no longer have the strength to compete with us for air supremacy in the New Hebrides. The fleet loses air supremacy, like a bird of prey with its wings broken. Let's work together to win this outpost battle for the empire to dominate the Pacific! ”

Sousuke Takayanagi's raised arms and shouted, driving many ship girls and admirals who didn't understand the horrors of the deep-sea fleet. Only one thing he did not lie, the deep-sea fleet, which has no air supremacy, has indeed been weakened a lot.

The First Naval War was appointed to immediately cooperate with the Maizuru garrison of Admiral Nishimura to disrupt the Deep Sea Fleet, and at the same time, the heavy patrol force led by Furutaka was appointed to form a second blocking force to wait for the opportunity to attack. At the same time, the 8th and 9th Squadrons were also relieved of their duty to patrol the waters off Toga Island.

Two fleets that are currently evenly matched in the Pacific will be engaged in a great battle of divergent fates......

Kaga did not say a word during the meeting, and she is currently the only regular aircraft carrier with a well-preserved crew that can exert 100% combat power. But since the failed air raid on Port Vila and her emergency return, she has become even colder.

"Akagi, Kaga. Do you both have something on your mind? ”

Nagumo Tadaichi's health has improved since March, and although he was forced to retreat from the air raid on Port Vila, the old admiral also came out of the trough. After the Battle of Midway, because of self-blame and external pressure, he realized that he still had an air war to take care of, and the air carrier troops that two generations had painstakingly formed were all based on the first air war as a spiritual benchmark. If the first air battle falls, the consequences are unimaginable.

"Don't you want to tell me again? If you keep it in your heart, you'll get sick. ”

“…… It's just a little bit ...... Almost killed him. Kaga whispered words of regret that others couldn't understand, and there was not a trace of emotional fluctuation on his face.

The three of them stopped, and Kaga's eyes finally brightened. "Forget what I said."

"I don't know what you regret, but there's nothing in this world that only you can do. Don't carry all the burdens alone, you are a human being, not a god. We wouldn't be happy if you were saved alone. Because pushing a living person onto the altar is the cruelest thing in this world. Who should save the God of the world? As Admiral, I will never let this happen. Kaga, please stop pushing yourself! ”

After several defeats, Nagumo Zhong also officially lost his name as the "God of War", and with a sigh of relief, he recalled how he had led a battle as a commander. He is old, and he is unable to do many things, but he is never willing to give up on a single battle. He's not a god of war, just an older admiral.

So he didn't want Kaga to have a heavier mission than he did, and if he could, he wanted the three of them to work together like they had done before.

"I ...... Am I human? ”

To this day, I still believe that Kaga is the same as Nagumo Tadaichi with other ship girls, which makes Kaga really difficult to accept, and there are many unwanted memories that have been buried in the depths of Kaga. Now it all came out all at once, which gave her a headache.

"Kaga, how are you?" Akagi held Kaga, who was holding his head and gritting his teeth, trying to appease the latter. She never imagined that Kaga would become what she is now after using her powers as the daughter of the deep. If she could go back to yesterday, even if she sacrificed 210 carrier-based aircraft at that time, she would not agree with Kaga's idea.

"What's wrong?" Nagumo Tadaichi also took Kaga's hand and asked with concern, he didn't expect Kaga to suddenly change because of his words. "Do you want to call a military doctor?"

The other people walking around the mooring saw the three people of the First Air Battle, and immediately someone surrounded them.

"It's okay, maybe it's too much to operate carrier-based aircraft." Kaga returns to normal and rejects Nagumo Tadaichi's suggestion to take her to a military doctor. "We're back on the ship, and we're going to sail again tomorrow. There are a lot of things to prepare. ”

Kaga took advantage of the will of the deep sea to recall her subordinates to fire bows and arrows, and the will of the deep sea punished her, allowing all the deep-sea ships that obeyed her orders to sail away from the New Hebrides and not participate in the naval battle of the New Hebrides, including her air mother-in-law hull. A trump card that could have severely damaged the battleship Suhime at a critical moment was completely abolished by the will of the deep sea.

Because of Akagi, she acted extremely irrationally, so Nagumo Tadaichi's words Kaga couldn't refute. She is also a "person" who cannot reach the level of a god, an unusually powerful "person".

"Set a good example for the younger generations, the deep-sea fleet can be defeated. This is what we need to do and communicate to them right now. "Akagi pulled Kaga and Nagumo Tadaichi and ran quickly to the port area where the First Voyage Battle was anchored." I'm also fighting high now, and it's been a long time since I've been so desperate to face a strong enemy head-on. ”

Now, there is no reason to give up, and the three of them agreed at the Kure Harbor Naval Academy.

For more than 30 years, the legend of the First Air War did not stop at Midway, so it will continue to be played in the Pacific......