"Alert, an enemy mine unit has been spotted!"

Ship observers on the Ligon looked through the telescope and spotted a force of six deep-sea ships approaching in their direction. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info His debriefing was immediately conveyed to Tone, who had just woken up.

The time was 6 a.m. local time, March 9.

Six light cruisers had to deal with the enemy, and if there were still enemy ships, she and the rest of the ships would not be able to deal with it.

When Admiral Ito learned the news, he went straight to the command room with a half-eaten bread in his mouth. "Tone, immediately send a reconnaissance plane to search the surrounding waters, and if we find the rest of the enemy ships, we will immediately turn back."

"What about the rescue mission?"

"What else to save? Is the life of those white-skinned rice animals more important or our own lives important? If I get criticized again, the Navy Headquarters will never remove me from my post on the battlefield. ”

Admiral Ito was of course confident that he would not be punished by the Navy Headquarters immediately, and as for Sosuke Takayanagi's side, it all depended on the other party's mind.

Ligon reloaded with shells and torpedoes while letting the reconnaissance plane. On her side, there are also four little guys from the Ninth Expulsion Team escorting, five against six, and the victory is in hand.

ORDERS WERE GIVEN ONE AFTER ANOTHER, AND Tone took the lead, driving at the front of the formation, and she wanted to use the range advantage of her new 20.3CM gun to gain the advantage. Three reconnaissance planes have already taken off, and the enemy's movements are visible at a glance.

"Our turn! Aim for that light cruiser and shoot! ”

STRENGTHENED AMMUNITION YIELD, THE NEW 20.3CM MAIN GUN, FOUR TWIN MOUNTS WITH A TOTAL OF EIGHT BARRELS, FIRED SHELLS WITHIN THE IDEAL RANGE.

That's how it was supposed to be......

Feeling a dull pain in his chest, Ligan gritted his teeth and held on, not quite right from the sound of the shooting just now.

"What's wrong?" There was also a slight shock in the hull, and Admiral Ito didn't expect so many things to happen in this rescue mission. "Could it be ......?"

Admiral Ito had already thought of the reason, yesterday after 5 hours of fierce fighting, sinking countless ships of all sizes, Tone was not seriously damaged, but the main gun had already overheated at that time, and it was all up to Tone to control the barrel to dissipate heat, so he held out until the end of the battle. After that, he was busy searching for enemy movements, and until now no maintenance has been carried out on the barrel, and perhaps maintenance is useless.

"Battery No. 1 explodes on one side! The gunner's casualties are unclear, and the damage management team has gone to contain the damage. ”

Admiral Ito received a fairly acceptable result from the shelling department, and as long as there was no secondary damage, the impact was not significant.

Ligon nodded in acknowledgment, her No. 1 battery was out of her control, and fortunately there was no accident with the detoxifying turret, except that the two barrels were damaged to varying degrees.

"Hit the target, the enemy now has only five destroyers left. Shanyun, Chaoyun, Xiayun, Fengyun, avoid getting too close, enter the torpedo attack range of enemy ships, and use artillery shelling to pull the saw. ”

Ligon didn't have the luxury of letting his destroyers sink the enemy, and it would be easier to deal with a few vulnerable destroyer-class enemy ships than it was to conduct a drill.

The five destroyers, rounding the wreckage of the light patrol ahead, accelerated towards Tone, and despite the disparity in strength, they advanced to a distance of 20,000 meters under artillery fire.

Only one of the four destroyers was sunk by the obstruction, and these destroyers were more agile than the report portrayed, and Ligon even saw with the help of a reconnaissance plane that all the destroyers were equipped with triple torpedo tubes, which was a far cry from the intelligence that "only a few destroyer-class enemy ships were equipped with torpedoes."

Without hesitation, Ligan opened the torpedo tubes and fired four oxygen torpedoes one after the other. The torpedo was the core of IJN's mine tactics, the best torpedo armor of its time, and the torpedoes used by the deep-sea fleet were not worthy of comparison.

At the critical moment, Shan Yun, the captain of the Ninth Evacuation Team, also fired a torpedo at the deep sea expellation in time. She and Tone's torpedoes rushed one after the other, blowing up and sinking all the deep sea expulsions that were desperately charged.

It took 15 minutes, Tone and the crew on the ship were sweating, and the accident of the No. 1 turret explosion was really thrilling. If a battleship-class enemy appears, Ligon doesn't even know what to engage the enemy with.

"Win?" Admiral Ito laughed with joy, if there was another accident just now, it would be all over. The nerves are tense all at once, relaxed all at once, and too many times can make people mentally sensitive.

"Check the condition of the remaining barrels immediately, my heart can't stand another thrilling battle like this." Admiral Ito, in the rare case, did not scold his subordinates, but only asked the shelling department to recheck the barrels. "How's the Ligan detective going?"

"No enemy ships have been spotted yet."

"Tsk—"

Everyone in the command room heard Admiral Ito's lips pout, and he kicked over the trash cans in the command room again, demanding that the rescue mission continue.

"Bad luck happened one after another, all of which were the fault of those white-skinned rice animals!"

No one admitted, but they didn't recognize it, not only Admiral Ito was the commander of the warband, but more importantly, everyone wanted someone else to take the blame. The explosion of Ligen's main gun was a predictable accident, but it happened under the circumstances that everyone did not expect. It's just a verbal talk and a moment of psychological comfort.

Everyone is right, it is all the fault of the American soldiers who asked for help, they did not call for help, and nothing would have happened if they were loyal to their country like the heroic Japanese soldiers.

In the battle just now, if the Ligon loses its combat effectiveness, God knows what damage will be caused by the deep-sea destroyer.

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On the west coast of the American Federation, the air mother Qi Ji and レ command 100 regular air carriers to block the sea. A fleet transferred from the Atlantic Ocean tried in vain to use submarine forces to sneak attack the ヲ-class regular air carriers.

The submarine in the deep sea conveyed this request to レ as soon as possible, and there was no possibility of a "sneak attack" from the beginning.

"Submarines? How can humans have the illusion that submarines can attack our fleet? "I looked at the many underwater ships that appeared in the real-time image, and pointed to the image and laughed." Is it because we only use aircraft carrier bombing that they think we can only use aircraft carriers? Ignorance should be limited to their ridiculous prayers! ”

レ issued a combat readiness command to the deep-sea ships that were dormant underwater, and the vast number of expulsions and light cruise-class deep-sea ships floated up, making the loose aircraft carrier queue crowded.

"Spread out and hunt freely."

I didn't bother to be distracted to command low-level expulsions and light patrols, and the bombing of the American Federation mainland never stopped, basically keeping one city a week, and giving priority to the bombing of densely populated large cities.

Now that the Flower Blossom Courtyard Dragon Apricot has forced it to leave the Solomon Seas to carry out the cleansing mission for the American Federation, its art still needs to have a place to perform.

Before Kaga reverses his mind, it is feasible to bomb the American Federation with a ヲ-class regular air carrier. It was precisely because Kaga and the organization behind her that Kaga felt that there would be no intention of cooperating, so she was relieved to let レ take away the unusable ヲ-level regular air mother to carry out the bloodiest purge operation.

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Ligon found his target ship just before dark, a transport ship that was running out of fuel. There was no cargo on board, and there were more than a hundred yellow-skinned American soldiers left to hold out until Ligon and the Ninth Destroyer arrived.

"Mr. Major, didn't you send a message asking for help that you had organized a team of more than 400 people? Why are there only more than 100 people left? ”

Admiral Ito spoke English and transported all the half-dead American soldiers to Tone, and he immediately found the highest-ranking authentic white man in it.

Contrary to Admiral Ito's thoughts, the so-called remnants of the American Union army were nothing more than a small number of orthodox white soldiers and more motley soldiers recruited from Australia and Southeast Asia. With Admiral Ito's thinking, it is not enough to rescue the white people, but also to rescue the backward people who are about the same level of civilization as the primitive people. Isn't this an insult to him? One more prisoner meant one more material to consume, and letting those backward races set foot on the deck of the Ligon was even more angry that he threw his military cap on the ground.

"Dear Japanese friends, thank you for arriving in time. Originally, my troops left the harbor on this transport ship, and there were indeed 400 men. However, because there were too many injured and there was no medical treatment, many people did not survive for a few days and could not hold on. We are forced to send a distress signal like you. Those who have unfortunately passed away have returned to the sea with the blessing of the priest. ”

The major of the American Commonwealth replied neither humbly nor arrogantly, not noticing that Admiral Ito had turned his attention to the ship's medic who had arrived.

"Immediately examined the 100 or so people, 75% of them died in only 7 days, and there is a high probability of an outbreak of plague among them. Americans are not to be trusted! Don't be deceived by their seemingly gentle attitude! As long as there is a suspicion, it will be quarantined. ”

After instructing the ship's military doctor in Japanese, Admiral Ito was a little relieved. It just so happened that Ligon also came over, and the previous barrel blew up, causing her minor internal injuries, and there was no major problem.

"Regen, how is your English? I still don't understand the name of this white skin. One moment Stephen, the next John. ”

"Christian countries seem to like to add the name of the godfather to my name. There's still a lot of work to decide. ”

Tone began to communicate with the major, and compared to Admiral Ito's crappy third-rate English, Tone, who had been formally taught at the Kure Port Naval Academy, had excellent English proficiency.

I couldn't hear exactly what the two were talking about, as if they were talking about Christianity. Admiral Ito didn't bother to understand other people's bullshit beliefs, and the more than 100 troublesome "captives" had to wait for him to deal with properly.

As he turned to leave, Ligan quickly stopped him. "Major John said he didn't quite understand why you were confiscating their personal belongings, and he was upset that he didn't have a Bible with him. He also said that others would do the same. ”

"What? It is a matter of course that the captives are confiscated with all their belongings! I didn't bother to explain to the white-skinned pig and let him stay in the confinement room. ”

Ligan relayed the words to Major John, who immediately changed his previous kind expression and cursed angrily. Fortunately, Admiral Ito has already gone away.