Hasegawa ran down the bridge and saw soldiers lying on the deck moaning. A Zero fighter was paralyzed on the deck, its wings deformed and broken.

He frowned, and continued to run towards the hull of the ship, through the narrow passage, and then saw some soldiers running towards the hangar.

"What are you running? What's next? Hasegawa grabbed a panicked soldier and asked loudly.

The military cao was stunned for a moment, and then hurriedly stood up and saluted: "Captain! The planes in the hangar were damaged a lot due to the vibration, and we were ordered to go over and help! ”

"What's next?" Seeing that these soldiers were not running around, nor were they fleeing from the battle, Hasegawa's face looked a little better.

"Captain...... Some of the places below have been flooded, and the repair team is trying to repair some of the damaged lots......" The soldier didn't quite understand what was going on, so he picked up what he knew and replied.

Fighting on battleships, many soldiers have never even seen what the enemy looks like. For example, a loader who loads the main gun shells, he will never be able to see the enemy's battleship.

Similarly, at the bottom of the battleship, there are cooks who specialize in cooking, as well as engine operators, who have no idea what is going on outside.

By the time the battleship was hit and the sea poured in, most of the time they did not have time to retreat and leave their posts.

In the narrow corridor of the USS Akagi, red sirens kept flashing. The battleship has entered the water, and all places have been put on maximum alert.

Hasegawa led a few lieutenants and hurried against the crowd to the bottom of the battleship. Soon he saw the repair crews inside the battleship, and the water that was already up to his knees.

Because there was sea water below, he could only stand on the half-staircase, looked at the officers and soldiers who were still working hard below, and asked loudly: "Can you stop the water?" ”

"We're working on it! Captain! The officer in charge of the repair here leaned against the wall, squinted his eyes and replied loudly.

He was still carrying a wrench in his hand, and the hatch in front of him was a little twisted, and these repair officers and soldiers were trying to find a way to eliminate the gap on it and prevent the seawater from seeping into this side.

"I don't know what the results are in other places!" The officer said one last word, and went to help press the deformed waterproof hatch again.

There are two places on the side of the battleship, in other words, it takes 4 repair teams in different directions to stop the inflow of seawater.

Now Hasegawa saw that the situation on this side was not bad, so he relieved himself: "I'll go and have a look on the other side!" ”

With that, he returned the way he came, climbed the stairs, and came to the cabin on the next floor. There is a corridor that leads to the other end of the inlet chamber and allows for the inspection of another section of the emergency repair work.

As the captain of the ship, Kiichi Hasegawa was still very experienced, and he walked briskly, not at all dizzy in the dimly lit cabin.

After turning several corners, he finally came to a hatch where he could go downstairs, only to find that the hatch had been closed.

The two soldiers stood here, saw him and hurriedly saluted, and then stopped: "Sir! The inside is no longer repairable, so this hatch is not allowed to open now! ”

"It's all flooded down there?" Hasegawa's face turned ugly, which meant that several of the compartments between the two bullet sites had been abandoned.

"Captain Saito is really ......" Hasegawa looked at the soldier with his head down, and halfway through his complaint, he swallowed it back.

Immediately afterward, as if he also sensed that the battleship under his feet had begun to roll sideways, he turned around and commanded an officer behind him, "Go back to the bridge!" Deliver my commands! ”

"Open the sea valve of the compartment on the other side and give up both compartments! Restore the balance of the battleship! When he had given the order, he continued on his way.

Since the water ingress here is no longer controllable, then you don't need to look at the middle part, just look at the bullet area in the tail of the battleship, and you can do it.

The commander of the American plane also seemed to know that it was better to cut off one finger than to injure ten fingers, so he gave up the attack on the aircraft carrier Zuizuru and concentrated his forces against the wounded Akagi.

Now the situation outside is very critical, and the Japanese fighters in the sky have long been chased and killed by the US fighters. The rest of the American planes are looking for an opportunity to drop bombs to attack the Akagi aircraft carrier.

If it weren't for the desperate bloody battle of the 7th destroyer fleet, the aircraft carrier Akagi might have sunk by this time.

At this time, because the aircraft carrier Akagi had already been hit by two torpedoes, the attention of the Japanese destroyers was focused on the difficult TBD Ravager torpedo attack aircraft.

The pressure on the dreadnought SBD dive bomber at high altitude has been reduced a lot, so it has become more unscrupulous.

The two SBDs began to dive together, aiming their noses at the slightly tilted deck of the USS Akagi, rapidly closing the distance.

Soon the Japanese ships on the sea spotted the two bold guys and began to disperse them with anti-aircraft guns.

But in the midst of the hail of bullets, the two SBD dreadnought dive bombers still rushed into their bomb dropping altitude and dropped all the bombs they carried.

Originally, the height of their bombs was slightly higher, and the hit rate naturally decreased. However, in a panic, these bombs were not aimed accurately, so whether they hit or not depends entirely on luck.

Today, the lucky ones in the Solomon Islands, apparently, are the US Navy. Two bombs hit the deck of the Akagi, also shattering the wood on the deck and piercing the steel plate armor below.

One bomb rolled down into the hangar of the aircraft carrier Akagi, and the other hit a lift directly.

And then...... The huge explosion made the hull of the Akagi aircraft carrier tremble, and Kiichi Hasegawa, who didn't know what was happening, suddenly fell into the passage.

Before he could get up from the ground, he saw an explosion blow up a large iron door at the end of the hallway. Then, in his field of vision, the walls of the hallway began to distort.

He closed his eyes in despair, waiting for the moment of his death. The officer beside him hurriedly stepped forward and held him under him and protected him.

Unfortunately, it was too late, these officers and Hasegawa were swept away by the shock wave that followed, and they became shattered corpses in an instant.

And Nagumo Tadaichi on the bridge saw the scene: the battleship under his feet had caught fire and exploded, and he was completely helpless......