Chapter Forty-Six: The MH Decisive Battle - The Scheming Murray Water Ghost
The numerical advantage was constantly being curtailed, and in the face of the many heavy cruisers that had just arrived on the battlefield, the moored water ghosts couldn't help but show a twisted anger. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć infoHer anger was amplified by the constant build-up of obstructors, and in her original plan, all she needed was a few ships that had a good relationship with Kii.
A total of seven heavy cruiser-class ships from the 5th and 7th Sentai arrived in the area of engagement, and immediately shelled the battleship-class ships in the deep sea from the side as soon as they appeared. The 20 battleship-class deep-sea ships did not last long under the shelling from both sides, and their armor was probably only of the heavy cruiser class, and the main guns of the Ise class would penetrate it.
Only one ship, Tokitsukaze, was sunk by artillery fire in the melee, and the rest of the ships were damaged to varying degrees.
But that's just the beginning......
"No, the enemy is not retreating for the time being. The water ghost didn't move...... "Kitakami didn't wait for the men around him to be tied up with the wound on his left hand, so he ran out of the bridge. She made her way to the bow of the ship, crouching over the guardrail and looking around.
Among the enemy ships trying to approach around her, she spotted several enemies who could nimbly dodge, and their appearance was different from that of other light cruisers, even though they only had a 6-inch main gun, but they had the humanoid appearance of the heavy cruiser.
"That...... Could it be the mine-equipped specialized enemy ship mentioned by the surviving crew of Yutachi? "I can't be sure of going north, but I don't dare to slack off, there is no communication between the ships, and the electric scouts are all paralyzed, so they can only rely on experience to assist the gunners in correction. If these were really heavy mine-loaded cruisers similar to her, seeing the strange behavior of their guns to dodge, it was likely that they would think of simple tactical strategies.
"Raise the signal flag!" Kitakami pulled over his subordinates who were following him and shouted, "Let the other ships pay attention to special enemies." ā
But Beishangfa didn't find that these thunder patrols had little impact on the battle situation, because the Moordi Water Ghost finally had a new move. She hit Ise's No. 2 main gun with one shot, and after an explosion, Ise's main gun cover was lifted, and she herself suffered a lot of damage.
The rest of the warships and heavy cruisers turned their attention to the moored water ghosts that slowly moved out of the queue, and they didn't look at the signal flag that had just been raised in the north.
The means of communication were blocked, the enemy cruiser suspected of being specialized in mine-loading was already approaching in the melee, and the range of the main guns of the moored water ghosts was about to threaten their cruisers and destroyers. Each one is in a bad situation, and the north wants to turn himself into a battleship and an aircraft carrier to clear the threat mixed with cannon fodder ships first.
"I can't care so much...... Full torpedo tube preparation. "Kitakami forgot that he was standing on the bow deck of the ship because he was in a hurry, and he couldn't use the ship's radio to inform the crew. She sped herself up and slashed at top speed towards the nearest enemy team. On her side of the enemy, lying on the sideways was part of the wreckage of Shi Jinfeng, which had been sunk by the indiscriminate cannon of the battleship.
As she expected, the special cruiser mixed in with the enemy ships reacted to her immediately, and for a time a large number of torpedoes were thrown under the surface.
More than 30 lines of pure white water approached as fast as the tide of the sea, and it was only then that the other ships realized that they were not just facing the "target" of the veneer of the past.
Kitakami herself didn't know how she managed to get away from a torpedo array that blocked almost all directions, and with her fragile armor, a torpedo would be even worse.
Her preemptive assault was also staggering, with almost every torpedo hitting the deep-sea ships, and she did not have time to estimate the exact number, as the enemy's heavy cruisers began to fire at her.
From the bow deck to the stern flagpole, almost no part of the Kitakami was undamaged except for the 10 most precious torpedo tubes.
Abukuma and Oi soon began to cover the retreat north, followed by the aid of destroyers such as Yukikaze. Having already suffered heavy losses, she decisively chose to retreat, and she continued to participate in the battle with a scarred hull, and would follow in the footsteps of Shi Jinfeng at any time.
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By the time Kii approached again, it was already 11:40 a.m., and the Moratari water ghost had the upper hand in the face of the siege of many warships, and she easily damaged the Ise and Hyuga ships with her main guns, and King Kong and Haruna were also slightly injured to varying degrees.
As she did when she arrived, she hid peacefully at the end of the fleet, waiting for the next group of carrier-based aircraft to come and die. She may be the least threat to ships so far, and she also tends to be self-contained and conservative in personality, which is very different from the scheming and good at seducing and changing tricks.
"Kii, I've been able to get in touch with other ships." Gonjun Sato is now the messenger next to Kii, and all the crew members are not allowed to get close to Kii. Kii herself didn't realize how much she would affect her crew by saying things she shouldn't have said from time to time.
"Did the Mooring Water Ghost turn off the interference?"
"I guess your main gun can barely hit the water ghost, right? The water ghost will not neglect your identity as the daughter of the deep sea, and she has the abilities that a battlefield commander should have, and she chooses the most appropriate time for every move. ā
Sato Gonjun also praised the tactics that the Moraki water ghost had been preparing for a long time, and if he could look down on the battlefield from a high altitude and look at it from the perspective of the deep sea, the initiative in this war until now would be in the hands of the deep sea, and the artistic command would add to the ornamentation of the battle.
In order to be in a hurry, Kii used the most brutal method of direct impact in the process of clearing the ships that stood in the way. When she figured out the name of the only ship that had sunk, she was finally relieved.
"I didn't realize she could come up with so many schemes." Kii looked around at the number of enemy ships on the battlefield, there were still about 130 or so, but on his side, two warships and several ships had to be evacuated, and the loss of combat power was also very large.
Kii also thought about driving away the air defense Qi Ji and lifting the air "blockade" of the latter, and after careful judgment, it will be clear that it is not feasible, and the air defense Qi Ji is not afraid of her main gun.
The water ghost did not wait for Kii to catch up and be beaten passively, she chose to switch formations again after turning off the electromagnetic interference. The deep-sea expulsion was mostly blocked in front of Kii at once, and as a price, the number of wingmen around the moored water ghost himself quickly declined.
"Don't worry, Kii will still seek to engage me, so you can hide behind the fleet and wait until the time of retreat." Once again, the Mural Water Ghost used her main cannon to push back Haruna, who was trying to get closer, and her own armor was already showing many cracks. As a roadbed-type perch, the Moordi Water Ghost is too large to withstand bombardment and bombardment, and it is another thing to be hit again and again in naval battles.
Air defense Qihime has no problem with the advice of the Moordi Water Ghost, she is not a person who likes to fight on the battlefield, she has an absolutely safe shield, it does not mean that she can use it correctly. "I think you want to do something that doesn't make sense, will it be useful?"
The air defense Qihime also saw that the water ghost of the berland was trying to delay time, and persuaded Kii's idea. She directly advised: "You should also know Kiyi's brain, words have no effect on it. ā
"So I'm waiting for some of the ships in this batch to stab Kii's heart with death and pierce Kii's closed heart."
While the two were talking, the air defense Qiji got the latest news about the support fleet of the rear light air carrier and the transport ship.
It was attacked by Chitose and Chiyoda, two light air carriers, and the mine team led by Nako, and the rest of the army also appeared there, causing huge losses to those ships.
When the air defense Qiji received the news, half of the 33 light air carriers left in the rear had been sunk, and the transport ships had lost more than two-thirds.
"What about Ke?" The moored water ghost didn't remember which ship it was.
"It's Sousuke Takayanagi's subordinate team, and I haven't seen Yamato's figure for the time being. Essential...... It can be asserted that our support fleet is finished. ā
When the water ghost heard the news, he was so angry that his teeth cracked on the ground. "It's okay, it's all cannon fodder to prepare our retreat. It's gone, it's gone, we bombed his anchorage, and their army didn't even have a makeshift airfield to fly back to. I'm going to see how they get back to land. ā
A cannonball suddenly hit the bridge of the Moorland Water Ghost, and she was caught off guard by the sudden flying cannonball.
"Ahh......h I have to fight you seriously! "After dodging the flying shrapnel, the moored water ghost unleashed his power and reunited his body with the ship. The huge humanoid half-body climbed up from the hull of the ship, which was particularly intimidating to observe up close. "Sink down! You annoying guys. ā
The Moordi Water Ghost hit Abukuma with a single shot, and her entire ship's combat ability was instantly relieved, and her anger was vented in a very small way.