Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Night of Surigaux

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No one would have thought that the deep-sea fleet, after holding an absolute advantage, would perfectly pose a T-word "welcome" to the IJN ships that are vainly trying to return.

In the first salvo, the two ships Fuso and Yamashiro, which were sailing in front, were the first to be shot, followed by Nachi, Ashigara, Agano, Noshiro, Asahun, and Yamaun. There is no need for hydroacoustic detection by destroyers, and the deep-sea submarines that have been laid in ambush beneath them are marking all ships in a multi-to-one position. With centuries of advanced communication equipment between deep-sea ships, it is far more effective than radar and electric exploration.

Fuso was then hit by a torpedo, and with 15 bullets, she was able to barely hold on, but the four torpedoes that hit her were beyond the reach of her hull, and the severely damaged hull was interrupted by a violent explosion.

Then came the second and third ......, where the deep-sea cruisers and destroyers burst in with their own shells for torpedo warfare, and they were equal in number to the IJN ships, but they became the formidable presence of the harvesters in the night battle. Most of the ships, already frightened by the initial T-word, were powerless to fight.

The main battleship fleet led by Sosuke Takayanagi was indeed defeated, and there was no possibility of fighting back.

Yamashiro chose to attack to the death, she relied on the hull of her battleship to block some of the deep-sea ships, and accelerated forward in the face of the gunfire of the deep-sea battleships without hesitation.

Unable to let Yamashiro die, he shattered the strangulation on the spot with a light salvo of his main cannon after Yamashiro sailed forward for 3 minutes.

None of the old warships were important targets in the eyes of the central Suhime, and from the very beginning, she only regarded Yamato as the only adversary of this IJN fleet, and she could be qualified as an adversary ship.

The rest are all weaklings that mass-produced ships need to dispose of. She shot at Shancheng, just to see that the other party was disgusted, how could an old warship be qualified to disrupt the battlefield, it was enough to sink obediently.

"Rush over! Yamato! There are others, who don't want to die here, so they rush out of the siege with us! "Sousuke Takayanagi's order clearly reached the ears of the remaining ship girls. Retreating is definitely a dead end, and facing the battle will immediately sink here. There was only one option left, to bet on luck to accelerate away from the side. Whether or not they will be caught up, at least there is a chance of survival.

Even a ship that could return to the port of Manila made sense, and Sousuke Takayanagi was left with only that thought on his mind now. How to bet on the game of losing, he had been thinking alone for a long time just now - pinning his hopes for the future on others, at least then the central suhime would win imperfectly. It's also a good tactic to disgust an enemy once before dying.

Before setting sail, Sousuke Takayanagi knew that most of the ships such as himself and Yamato would definitely go back in this battle, and it was a fate that he and his girls could not change no matter how they fought. Sousuke Takayanagi, as a gambler and genius, dared to gamble even if he was given a slim chance, but this time there was no such opportunity.

In the face of this kind of unreasonable gamble, most of the normal gamblers throw off the bad cards in their hands and accept the fate of failure. But Sousuke Takayanagi didn't, in addition to being a gambler and a genius, he was, at least once the commander-in-chief of the IJN Combined Fleet. He could watch his subordinates die one after another, and he wouldn't allow himself to survive when he was certain to die.

"Switching formations, we act as the front of the array." Sousuke Takayanagi saw that the deep-sea warships in the distance were encircling, and hurriedly asked Yamato to defeat those ships.

The firepower of the ル、タ-class battleships is not enough to penetrate the VH armor of the Yamato,Even if several of them are equipped with new fire control radars,Their armor-piercing shells hit the Yamato,Can only smash out one pit after another,For Yamato,It is not painful。

Yamato's main guns were lethal weapons to these deep-sea production warships, and she controlled the ships to rush to the front, sinking a number of deep-sea warships with several shells, and the deep-sea battleships that had just been encircled once again exposed a gap in formation.

The central suhime watched from the sidelines as the IJN ships and their crews struggled to the death, and after sinking Yamashiro, her main guns fell silent again.

"Want to escape?"

The central shime Haruka pointed to the Yamato that was exposed from the formation, and she could lock on to the Yamato based on her eyes. The powerful guns roared again, and a precise parabola swept across the deck of the Yamato in the sea illuminated by flares and flames.

The first few missed the shot, but the next few dropped a little faster. The Yamato was hit by several bullets on the foredeck, two anti-aircraft machine guns were scrapped, and one secondary gun was blown through. Fortunately, it did not cause more serious damage, and Yamato himself only felt a sore shoulder.

Yamato didn't have time to take care of the dangerous central Suhime on the side, and the nine main guns were all aimed at the deep-sea battleship on the other side. Hinata and Ise were also shot one after another, and they didn't dare to take off the comet at night, and their combat ability was not as good as that of the Myo-senior heavy patrol.

At this point in the battle, all the shipwives knew very well that following the command of Sousuke Takayanagi, there would still be a trace of life if they broke out. But not all ships can have this opportunity, and the Maya and Chokai, which were originally damaged in the Maizuru incident, have unknowingly asked the crew to abandon the ship and flee because of the fire on the ship. Neither ship could attract the attention of the surrounding ships in the chaotic battlefield, and the incessant shelling finally broke the two ships, and together they were reduced to a burning wreckage, which fell at the end of the group.

Yamato survived the five rounds of main gun salvos from the central suhime, and was the first to "crash out" a gap among the hundreds of shells of the deep-sea production battleship. No one stopped to rejoice, and before the deep-sea fleet could catch up, they sailed at full speed into the Surigao Strait.

At this time, it was just 23 o'clock in the evening. After nearly four hours of fierce fighting, the deep-sea side lost about 20 mass-produced warships, of which sixty percent were the merits of the Yamato. But Sousuke Takayanagi's fleet had only fourteen ships left, and more than forty of them left the port of Manila, and as he expected, suffered heavy losses.

The Yamato was the most damaged of the remaining ships, as the rest of the more damaged ships failed to break through. The barrel of one of her main guns was damaged, the middle one was desteerable, and the greatest damage came from the inside, the ship's three boilers were destroyed and one steam turbine was destroyed by armor-piercing shells. The Yamato, who escaped with his life, has almost reached the limit of being able to hold on until now.

After Sosuke Takayanagi ordered the loss of each ship to be reported, Yamato, who was overwhelmed by the serious injuries, slowly collapsed.

Rather than the kind of mass-produced battleship that only bombards indiscriminately on orders, she has confirmed that the Yamato's power system is seriously damaged after her fifth shot at Yamato. The Yamato can't return to Manila Harbor, this result is enough for the central suihime, and blindly chasing after her seems to be not generous enough.

[Run, run away. I'll catch up soon and burn your bones......]

Yamato heard the ridicule of the central suhime at that time, and he didn't realize the meaning of the other party's words, but just blindly endured the pain, drove away the deep-sea ships, and ensured the passage of other ships.

"Yamato!" Not only Sousuke Takayanagi, but everyone in the command room exclaimed in surprise and put down what they were doing. At the same time, the Yamato was incapacitated and its boilers were completely unusable.

Sousuke Takayanagi held Yamato in his arms and tried to wake her up, but it was useless. Yamato didn't die, she was just too tired and maybe would never wake up......

The ship's military doctor also arrived, accompanied by Dr. Kitamura, who was the "father of the ship's mother", and naturally became the object of the ship's crew's request. They couldn't live without Yamato, who was the banner of the entire First Sentai and was as important as Admiral Sousuke Takayanagi.

After a cursory examination, Dr. Kitamura shook his head at the crowd and expressed regret. "The general of a hundred battles, although he is desperate, does not fall, it is really the destiny of heaven."

If Yamato really dies, the Yamato will also capsize, which will not only be a serious blow to the morale of the remaining fleet, but also too late to transfer all the crew.

"Can you only abandon the ship?" Sousuke Takayanagi carried Yamato to his seat and straightened his military uniform for Yamato, who looked like Yamato was just falling asleep sweetly.

"Abandon the ship, Admiral Takayanagi. Yamato gritted his teeth and persevered even when he was dying, so that we could transfer ...... safely."

Without waiting for Dr. Kitamura to finish speaking, Sosuke Takayanagi raised his hand and vetoed the other party's suggestion. "The abandonment of the ship is on hold. Please wait a moment. Except for the ships directly under the First Sentai team, the rest of the ships let them return first. ”

No one dared to oppose Sousuke Takayanagi's order, and the order was quickly transmitted to the rest of the ships, but the matter of Yamato naturally did not spread, only that the power system of the Yamato needed to be adjusted.

Sousuke Takayanagi and Dr. Kitamura went straight to the latter's makeshift laboratory, and upon entering, Sosuke Takayanagi sat down in his chair with a slightly vacant look in his eyes. "It's over, my mission is over. None of this is about me anymore. ”

"Wait, General Takayanagi. We can also use my potions to turn all the people on the Yamato into fortifiers. They can block enemy pursuits and deal a heavy blow to an enemy who is not supported by a large number of anti-submarine ships. While the night is not over, it may work wonders. We can gamble that there are nearly 2,800 people on board, and if it is not enough, it can be drawn from other ships. Dr. Kitamura gestured to a bookshelf against the wall, filled with sealed potion bottles. I knew that I had to keep one hand in everything, and although it was a bit too cruel to sacrifice too many people at once, it didn't matter if I wanted to win the war. ”

Not only the bookshelf, but also the entire makeshift laboratory, there are several large wooden boxes, and according to Dr. Kitamura's meaning, there are all of them.

"I've prepared 3,000 of them as a killer weapon to use in case of a desperate situation. How? General Takayanagi? ”

Sousuke Takayanagi looked at the entire laboratory and nodded. "It was amazing. With a partner like you, I don't have to worry a lot. But I ......"

Sousuke Takayanagi turned his gaze to the potion bottle placed on the test bench, "I'd like to try the efficacy of your new medicine." Since there is still a chance to gamble, why not gamble big. ”

Dr. Kitamura didn't understand Sosuke Takayanagi's intentions, no matter how many people there were, he could only dismantle a few more deep-sea production ships, 3,000 people as materials, and the success rate was only about 30%, and the new potion was still in the experimental stage, so the success rate was pitifully low. But because of the mention of his new research, he enthusiastically introduced it.