September 17th. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The tide of battle took place on that day, so much so that everyone on the front line would immediately remember Sosuke Takayanagi's proposal for a strategic retreat three days earlier. At that time, except for a very few people, most of the officers and even the ship's mother and their admiral were laughing at Sousuke Takayanagi behind his back, and he suddenly became timid.

That proposal was quickly rejected by the base camp, and in the eyes of the naval elders in the homeland, the latest battle report on the sinking of Minato Suhime was of value to be presented to His Majesty the Emperor, and the war reports on the disappearance of Admiral Kii, the sinking of many destroyers, and the lack of troops on the front line were all pressed on their desks.

"Beware of enemy torpedo boats, after the ship's guns have fired, prepare torpedoes." Abukuma, who was fighting on the front line, didn't know that the enemy who was close to her at the moment was not just six PT imps, but also a new enemy or a kind of ship that had been ignored by the shipwives had already shown its fangs to Abukuma.

"Very well, right on the enemy, I can brag in front of the Admiral of the Earth Gate again. Now, fire the torpedo and don't linger on the remnants of the enemy. ”

A torpedo drilled through the bottom of the Abukuma, and a series of explosions nearly capsized the light cruiser with a displacement of more than 6,000 tons.

"It happened...... What the? Abukuma thought it was her torpedo that had blown up, but when she checked the hull, she found that three large holes had been blown in the bottom of her ship, and the sea was pouring in.

Realizing that something was wrong, Abukuma reluctantly walked over to the console and called in the detectives to start the search while the ship tried to get out of the combat area.

The whole ship was in chaos, and it was clear that manpower and the closure of a few siloes were not enough to change anything.

"Lord Abukuma, water has entered the power room, and engine No. 2 has stalled."

"The hull is tilted."

"Abukuma-sama, your stomach ......"

A fist slammed in front of the console, Abukuma was calmer than his subordinates around him at the moment, "Be quiet for me, what are you doing with these things?" They all immediately put on life jackets, and I have sent a signal for help. ”

This time, Abukuma heard a strange sound coming from underwater, and several torpedoes quickly approached him. Without waiting for Abukuma to give an evasive command, the torpedo that came out of the water exploded at the same time, and although it did not hit Abukuma in the second round, it left a lot of scars on the hull of the Abukuma by relying on the near-miss explosion.

"The enemy is...... Submarine. I ......" Abukuma was about to send a second telegram message to the main fleet, when her finger only pressed a button, and she couldn't lift it again.

["The Admiral must be told to retreat, give me another minute...... Half a minute is fine! ”】

The feeble begging could not come out of her mouth, and Abukuma, who was 37 years old at the time, collapsed in front of her crew.

The cries of her subordinates could not reach her ears either, and at the end of her life, the light cruiser pointed to the transmitter and forced her last breath.

["Nagara, Yura, and everyone...... I'm sorry, but Abukuma is going to be lazy for a while. ”】

In a trance, she seemed to see Nagara and Yura carrying her to the transmitter, Hiei smiled and squeezed her hand, and sent the unfinished emergency message to the second team with her.

It was just her last dream when she was dying.

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"Lord Admiral, something is wrong, Abukuma has died." After receiving the telegram, King Kong's face changed suddenly, and the black teacup in his hand almost fell off.

Tsuchigomon Shouga also immediately realized the problem, just now Abukuma reported that he had encountered a few PT imps, and with Abukuma's firepower and combat experience, it was impossible to capsize in the hands of those small characters.

"How is she ......?"

"The Abukuma was torpedoed from an unknown direction, and she herself used the word 'submarine' before she died." "Admiral, we must retreat immediately. The task of encircling and suppressing the remnants of the enemy's main force could not be carried out, and the deep-sea submarine seemed to have an offensive character. ”

Tsuchigomon Shouga originally hoped to rely on Takayanagi Sousuke's retreat proposal to be rejected and use the results to win the opportunity in front of the base camp, but the fortune of heaven still did not have a chance with him, on the contrary, it proved that Takayanagi Sosuke was right, the IJN combined fleet had always tacitly acquiesced that deep-sea submarines would not attack, and many ships were not equipped with anti-submarine weapons at all or did not pay attention to it.

Tsuchigomon Moriga knew that encountering the enemy's submarine forces now would bring irreparable losses.

"King Kong, inform all ships in the surrounding waters to evacuate, and don't let Abukuma die in vain."

"Understand...... Yes? ”

The deadly torpedo came faster than anyone expected, and King Kong never expected that the bathyscaphe had locked onto her and that a volley of torpedoes swept underneath her ship.

"Everyone, be careful!"

With King Kong's shout, the tense atmosphere that had been in place a moment ago was ignited, and the impact of the explosion pushed the King Kong "hard" to the left.

"Everyone returned to their posts, and the whole ship went into a state of emergency, and avoided follow-up attacks in a zigzag. The fleet immediately withdrew from this area. ”

King Kong is not stupid, she will not force her fellow destroyers to engage the deep-sea submarine head-on. At the same time, she also discovered a critical problem, the enemy's submarine team was all targeting her, and it seemed that they had no intention of attacking her fellow destroyers.

The sudden submarine sneak attack did not cause serious damage to the King Kong hull, and those submarines did not follow up after the sneak attack, and King Kong's electric scouts did not detect them catching up.

"This is the Combined Fleet's mobile air carrier unit, the Great Phoenix. Answer me, what is the current situation? "Admiral Taiho, the commander of the new Fourth Sentai Team, who has been serving as the commander of the Air Carrier Force since returning to the mainland after the First Air War, immediately thought of the second Sentai team not far away, and when she learned that the Abukuma had been sunk, she immediately thought of the second Sentai team, which was not far away.

Through the dedicated channel, Dafeng got in touch with King Kong directly, and her inquiry could be regarded as a small consolation to the members of the second team, at least support would come soon.

"I encountered a deep-sea submarine force, and I am currently uncertain whether I have succeeded in throwing off the enemy, and my ship is slightly damaged and on the way back."

"Deep-sea submarines? How is that possible...... I understand that the two ships, Xianghe and Zuihe, have taken off urgently, and carrier-based aircraft have launched a second reconnaissance in the waters around you. ”

Dafeng looked particularly shocked on the other end of the microphone, from the beginning of the war to the present, the deep-sea submarine has always been a "good baby" who will not attack, and now it has become an aggressive enemy, and the situation has become very bad.

After ending the call, King Kong reconfirmed the data obtained by the teleprobe, and still did not find that a submarine had caught up.

"Admiral, the enemy doesn't seem to be a parade squad acting autonomously. In order to ensure that the two sneak attacks in different sea areas can be successful, the time interval is controlled very accurately. "King Kong almost said that his own intelligence was leaked, although it is possible that groups of deep-sea submarines have been tracking and lurking from the beginning, but abandoning other destroyers and directly demonstrating at her King Kong, the possibility of premeditation is higher.

Tsuchigomon Moriga also felt that it was indeed too much of a coincidence that the mission of clearing the remnants of the enemy's forces did not encounter an enemy fleet, but was ambushed by accurate submarines.

"Inform Yukikaze and the rest of the expulsions, stay vigilant, the enemy may ......"

Before Moriga could finish speaking, a group of deep-sea drones flew out from behind the clouds, as if the clouds in the sky had become the enemy's mobile air carrier.

"It's an air raid! All-fleet anti-air formation! ”

After King Kong gave the order, she immediately called the ship's main gun, and she had already reloaded the three-type ammunition, just worried about the air attack on them after the follow-up meeting.

[Strange, didn't our air carrier mobile force blow up all the fleets led by Minato Qihime before, and the enemy had already lost air supremacy? And ......]

King Kong looked at the approaching drones in the sky, and seemed to notice a new problem. Will the light air carrier class form a multi-level formation of carrier-based aircraft?

As King Kong feared, the enemy drone was not an advanced spherical type, but upon contact with it, she realized that her own anti-aircraft fire could not effectively damage it. Those old-fashioned drones that were used as targets in the past have become mobile and flexible this time, as if each one has been controlled, and it is not the mass-produced light air carrier that fights with King Kong, but the multiple enemies of the five air war air carrier Niang level.

"How could it be ......" King Kong looked at the sky in disbelief, and the enemy aircraft outside the window had already partially broken through the anti-aircraft fire.

The bombs and aerial torpedoes were all aimed at the battleship, and the drones simply ignored the more vulnerable destroyers around them. In the first round, it was hit with four near-misses and two torpedoes, and the Kongo had a slight jolt, which could not deal a fatal blow to Kongo's hull.

"King Kong, avoid follow-up attacks, your hull can't support so many carrier-based aircraft." Tsuchigomon Moriga didn't realize the crux of the problem, and only thought that the enemy was lucky enough to be hit in the first round, so that a drone could break through the defense line.

"It's useless, Admiral. It wasn't the enemy's luck just now. King Kong turned back and smiled reluctantly at the Dogomon Moriga, who she cared about the most, "It's me who used up all the luck I had left." ”

More drones broke through the defenses, and bombs and torpedoes rained down on the battleship, and after a series of violent explosions, even those as strong as King Kong fell to their knees. The left side of her hull was blasted with multiple large holes, her ability to sail was instantly lost, and the ammunition depot caught fire, which could cause a death explosion at any time.

"Ladies and gentlemen, that's all I have to do here. In my capacity as the captain of the Kongo, I ordered all the crew to abandon the ship immediately. ”

This order was obviously what King Kong wanted to say to his admiral Tsuchigomon Shouga, and the other people's official positions were lower than her, and at this moment King Kong deliberately emphasized that he was the captain of the ship, but he wanted to prevent Tsuchigomon Shouga from having the idea of staying.

Blood gradually stained King Kong's shrine maiden suit, and the carrier-based planes outside weakened their offensive momentum after successfully succeeding, and some even turned back. It's all about the decapitation operation against King Kong.

The crew of the King Kong had no choice but to evacuate, and there was no way to save this old battleship with great achievements, and it was all up to King Kong himself to insist, and the ship that was blown up on the left side of the hull could remain unsinkable for the time being.

After everyone left, only King Kong and Domito Moriga were left in the command room, and the Kongo's multiple ammunition depots had exploded, and the forward deck had been bathed in flames.

"Let's go. I am confident that Haruna will write the final glory for our second team. ”

"Naying. I'm sorry. Tsuchigomon Moriga stepped forward to take King Kong's hand and shoved a small box into the latter's hand. I was going to give it to you again at the beginning of spring next year. Remember, I'll be waiting for you in that church next to Cambridge University, even if it's for the next life, for the next life...... Until we meet again. ”

The young and promising vice admiral of IJN couldn't hold back his tears, he owed King Kong too much after all, from the first time the two met while studying in the UK.

"Hmm. Shouga-kun. ”

After Tsuchigomon Moriya left, King Kong opened the box and put the engagement ring on his hand. King Kong looked at the exquisite ring in his hand and was satisfied.