When Brooke mustered up his courage and reappeared in the sky over the Canal Zone, he had already spotted the Mutsu approaching the locks at a staggering speed, firing fiercely at the American positions in depth as it advanced, as if it was not far from the locks. The U.S. troops www.biquge.info, who had been holding on to the locks for many days, were finally helpless to evacuate the place under the double suppression of the German Marines and the Mutsu approaching fire.

All the American pilots were red-eyed, ignoring the interception of Japanese and German fighters, and instinctively pounced on the attack, but 1000 or 500 pound bombs no longer had any meaning, and no amount of bombs could change the direction of Mutsu's advance, and several planes wanted to throw torpedoes from the stern or bow of the ship, because Mutsu's entire body was in the canal, theoretically there was no possibility of evasion, as long as it was dropped, it was sure to hit, but the problem was that the water depth of the canal was not enough, Several TBFs were disappointed to find that the torpedoes they dropped were stuck headlong at the bottom and could not float! A few crazy pilots couldn't help but curse on the radio, but it didn't help at all......

At 17:03, the Mutsu deviated more and more from the centerline of the canal as the steering gear angle shifted, and it was inevitable to collide with the surroundings, and 2 minutes later, Yamasumi Sadajiro shouted, "Prepare for the shock!" ”

In the frightened and inexplicable gaze of everyone, there was a "boom", and the 43,000-ton Mutsu with nearly 7,000 tons of seawater slammed into the lock, and the huge impact force made the lock collapse on the spot, and the bow inlaid with the beautiful chrysanthemum coat of arms was also bombed, torpedoes, impact and other forces, and finally could not support the festering deformation.

Seeing that nothing could be done, Brooke was not hypocritical, and aimed the attack at other targets, although SBD and TBF had been killed and wounded by the end of the day, all the American pilots gritted their teeth and persevered and launched a decisive attack.

There was a loud "boom", and after the port side hit the mine at noon, the Hiei ate another torpedo on the starboard side, followed by the Richelieu also got a torpedo, the Haruna, Strasbourg, and Tirpitz each received a bomb, and the Nagato and Tirpitz only suffered a near miss this time, but the flying shrapnel cut the lives of many officers and men of the anti-aircraft gun position.

Of course, the days of the US military aircraft group are also very difficult, and the casualties have even increased compared with noon, especially since the TBF is close to being wiped out again

While avoiding the bombs and torpedoes of the U.S. military, Horikichi suddenly said to Kusaka: "Actually, there are two tunnels in and out, and I don't even think that one Mutsu is enough, and I have to have another one to block both canals." ”

"Sir, you're not kidding, are you? The loss of a Michinoku is distressing enough! Dare to do it again" After the grass deer said this sentence through gritted teeth, he waved his fist into the air, "Good fight, good fight!" Knock down all the ghost planes! ”

But soon he couldn't laugh, because the captain of the Hiei reported that the ship was hit by another torpedo, and although the overall injury was slightly better than that of Mutsu, the speed also dropped from 30 knots to only 16 knots, and Kusaka knew very well that a 30-year-old ship like the Kongo class, and a battleship that was repaired on the basis of a battle cruiser, its defensive strength was actually far inferior to Mutsu's, and the trauma of the 2 torpedoes was estimated to be basically similar to Mutsu.

"Let's let the Hiei rush in too......" Horikichi gave the order with a blank face, "go through the other canal, and let the Marine Brigade sappers speed up the pace of planting explosives." ”

After the remaining 30 or so U.S. planes left the field, everyone was horrified to find that the Hiei had broken through the canal again, and now not only the combined fleet, but also the German fleet were stunned -- Horikichi was not only ruthless to the enemy, but also to his own people.

Tsukahara two, four, three can only sigh, what can he say now except for hating his crow's mouth? He didn't have much time to sigh, though, as the fleet planes nervously reported to him that a B-25 had been spotted and shot down, and the telecommunications room reported to him that they had received an unidentified message before it was shot down......

"Damn, we've been found ...... too"

As night fell, Brooke returned to the base dejectedly, and after getting off the plane, he lay on the ground motionless and did not want to move, looking helplessly at the sky, he felt that he was the biggest executioner, leading batch after batch of pilots to die generously, and he survived twice. Looking at the few survivors in the base, he couldn't help but feel the urge to cry - the ground crew quietly told him that there would be pilots and planes coming tomorrow......

Cohen walked over, squatted next to him, and said nothing, and only after half a day did he squeeze out a message from his teeth: "A B-25 reported the discovery of enemy aircraft carrier formations in the Panama and Colombian triangle areas, about 300 kilometers from the canal zone, with 4 fleet aircraft carriers, 3 light aircraft carriers, and a large number of cruisers and destroyers.

"What?" Brooke jumped up from the ground, "7 aircraft carriers? ”

"Yes."

The former was stunned, and many things can be explained at this time: why after stubble, the fighter units of the Axis have always been popping up, and it turns out that the enemy aircraft carriers are not 5 but 7......

He asked uneasily, "You can't be mistaken, right?" ”

"It should ...... No," Cohen smiled bitterly, "but I can't verify it again, the plane lost contact after the telegram was taken, and I guess it was shot down by the enemy." ”

Brooke looked at the night, then at the base, and replied bitterly: "It's a pity that it's too late today - there are no planes, no pilots, and we have to wait until tomorrow to make another sortie." ”

After King Kong completed the feat of ramming, Biei also attacked the other half before dark, and at the same time, the two ships also flanked the Panamanian defenders with heavy artillery fire, the rate of fire was so fast that it did not care whether it would cause damage to the main guns - they were ready to sink anyway, and the Panamanian defenders' will to fight finally collapsed, no matter how much Ross persuaded and explained, the whole situation was irretrievable, and the troops retreated in a swarm and the whole line collapsed - for an army that had not seen much of the real chapter, it was able to resist under the Axis air raids, land battles, and naval shelling. They were heroic enough, at least they didn't think to surrender to the Axis forces on the other side.

At 11 o'clock in the evening, the two warships successively opened the sea valve and sank themselves, and the captains of the two ships were supposed to sink with the ship, but they were scolded back by Hori Yiyoshi, and reluctantly bid farewell to the warship with the support of the sailors.

An hour after the sinking of the two ships, an earth-shattering explosion sounded again from the Gatong lock, and German sappers planted nearly 10 tons of explosives in the lock and the canals on both sides, and finally blew them all up, and the collapsed concrete, stones, and earth completely buried the two warships under the water.

The Panama Canal was finally completely paralyzed...... (To be continued.) )