"At about 17 o'clock, I was standing on the bridge and saw Rear Admiral Tanaka leaning over from the command platform and saying to Captain Aoki, 'I think it's best to let the crew leave the ship.' This is actually an order to abandon the ship, without any dramatic surname, but just a sentence between two senior officers. Both Admiral Tanaka and Captain Aoki saw that there was no way to save the Iwajo. A few minutes earlier, it had been reported to both of them separately that a devastating explosion was imminent. The temperature of the explosives has long exceeded the theoretical explosion point, and it can explode at any time. A flight officer was saddened to learn of the situation and was eager to see how hot the torpedo really was, so he slipped into the hangar deck. He avoided the fire and went to the place where the torpedo was kept, and as soon as he put his hand on the smooth head of the mine, he shrank back in exclamation, and the hot metal shell blistered his palm. ”

"Carrying out the order to abandon the ship is the task of Deputy Captain Fujimori. He immediately kept dozens of people doing different jobs busy. Some carried out heavy ropes and fastened one end to the railing of the flight deck, one end into the sea, others lowered their life rafts. This raft is oval, 3.3 meters long and 2.7 meters wide, surrounded by a circle of cork, inside which is a wooden lattice bottom tied with ropes, and the bottom of the raft will sink more than one meter into the water after it is full, and the people on the raft will stand waist-deep in the water. ”

"Some people registered the first people to be evacuated from certain cabins, distributed spare kapok life jackets, and made the initial preparations for the departure of the crew. The work of abandoning the ship is proceeding in an orderly manner. At this time, Vice Admiral Inkai learned of the decision to abandon the "Pancheng" on his flagship aircraft carrier "Unryu", and when he answered, he asked Rear Admiral Tanaka what assistance he needed, and after the ship signaled the reply, he sent three cruisers and four destroyers to pick up the crew of the "Pancheng". ”

"The other ships of the fleet continued to sail into the distance. The USS Yunlong must always maintain air patrols, which has a double significance, because there is only one air defense line to defend us. Some of our pilots also took part in the patrol. A few hours earlier, Captain Aoki had ordered the planes of the Iwajo to land on the Unryu, and the Unryu had received them as best as possible. In this way, 25 percent of the planes of the Pancheng were saved and took part in the subsequent battles. Those planes were not injured in the battle, and they became material reinforcements to the 'Yunlong', which greatly exceeded the number of planes it had lost in the battle just now. ”

As soon as the rope about seventeen or eighteen meters long that was lowered from the sides of the board was tied, the crew slid into the water with the rope and climbed onto the raft. It was about 17:15. A destroyer leaned on the starboard side and picked up four or five hundred people who had slid down the rope to the deck of the ship, along with a portrait of His Majesty the Emperor. As the destroyer sailed away from us with the wounded and hundreds of crew members of the Panjo, the ship spontaneously shouted, and finally merged into three strong cheers to greet Captain Aoki. In this dreary moment, it was truly invigorating. The cheering crew was led into battle by this captain. They knew he was a connoisseur and cheered him at the end. ”

"Most of the crew went down into the water from the port side stern. The warship went with the wind, leaving behind a row of a thousand-meter-long stream of swimmers and a fully loaded raft. All but one cruiser and one destroyer were on starboard, following the flow of people and getting them out of the water as quickly as possible. Even with such a quick effort, it took a lot of time to get the crew out of the water and onboard, for there was only one motorboat per cruiser and destroyer. During the war, the navy ships removed their boats when they went to sea, and the boats on the 'Pancheng' were also removed. The work of abandoning the ship lasted more than two hours. This way, we were able to stay behind and watch others leave, and have enough time to finally look around and write down what happened. ”

At this time, Vice Admiral Inoue Nari, who was standing on the bridge of the "Shinano" super battleship, looked at the aircraft carrier "Pancheng" completely shrouded in smoke, and his face was as gloomy as the sky.

"The pilots reported that we were fighting on the same giant aircraft carrier that had never been seen before, with a tonnage of perhaps more than 200,000 tons." Inoue Narumi turned to Staff Officer Ikusuke Kato beside him and said, "Our bombs and torpedoes don't seem to work against it. ”

"If you can't sink it, you can destroy its flight deck." Kato Yansuke looked at the photo of the "Habakuk" taken by the reconnaissance plane in his hand, and said in a deep voice, "Or destroy the opponent's plane as much as possible." Without aircraft, no matter how big an aircraft carrier is, it is a waste. ”

"It's fine." Inoue Narumi nodded, his gaze turned to the giant cannon of the battleship Shinano, "It's really not good, you have to rely on the battleship's artillery." ”

Hearing Inoue's words, Kato Yanyu did not speak.

Of course, he understands what Narumi Inoue, one of the "Navy's anti-war iron triangle", really thinks in her heart.

Inoue Narumi is a native of Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture, graduated from the second prefectural high school, and vowed to be worthy of being a "man of the sea country" since he was a child. When he was admitted to the 37th class of the Navy, his grades were 8th out of 180, and his graduation score was 2nd out of 179, and he was given a telescope. As a second lieutenant, because he spoke extremely fluent English when he was young, he was awarded the status of naval attache by the political axe, and was sent to the embassies of the United States, France, Italy and other countries for a long time; It has changed his vision and thinking quite profoundly. Around the age of 40, he returned to China as a "naval commander" and served as a tactical instructor at the Naval University. After two years, he was promoted to the "Chief of the First Section of the Military Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of the Navy", whose status and responsibilities were very important.

Since then, there has always been a sense of arrogance and aggression in the style of the Japanese government, but Inoue chose to cooperate with his naval colleagues, such as Admiral Mitsumasa Yonechi and Vice Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, who were active anti-war generals at that time, and advocated peaceful coexistence with China and other neighboring countries. They vigorously opposed the brewing proposal of Germany, Italy, Israel, and the Soviet Union to form an Axis power, and opposed a war against the United States, so the three of them were called "the anti-war iron triangle within the navy" by the main war media.

Until now, Inoue Narumi, who has been appreciated by the emperor as a high lieutenant general, is still firmly opposed to war against the United States. But by chance, now he was arranged to provide support to the army, and ran into the most powerful aircraft carrier fleet of the Allied forces!

"The army proclaimed itself the mainstay, but it didn't know that the so-called mainstay was just a few stubborn rocks in the Yellow River that wanted to stop the eastward flow of the tide." Inoue Narumi said, "And now, we want to provide protection for these stubborn stones." ”

"I don't know how the landing force is fighting now." Kato Yanyu looked at the sea antenna in the distance and said to himself, "So far, there has been no news at all. ”

"The enemy was able to amass nearly a million troops in California, and I don't think they would have it easy." Inoue Narumi bluntly said what she thought in her heart, "Fighting against the United States is a big mistake in itself. ”

"This is not the only mistake Ben has made." Kato Yanyu looked at the sea full of gunsmoke and said softly.

At this time, Inoue Narumi and Kato Yansuke would be surprised if they knew what the self-proclaimed mainstay of the Saymoto Army was doing in the United States.

Los Angeles, Iss Valley.

He was thin and thin, but he was actually of average height, but because his waist was always straight, he looked quite tall. There was not the slightest expression on the narrow triangular face. A small, firm chin, a thin and tough cheeks, and a short, straight nose all seem to be so economical and not wasteful. A pair of cold eyes were extremely dark...... He is capable, strong, and usually always so cold and ruthless, and the most characteristic of his surname is that he has a sense of superiority, and he simply looks down on anyone. He hates cowardice and incompetence above all else, but he loves almost nothing. There was a chaotic, unformed fantasy in the depths of his mind, but he didn't feel it much of it.

His name is Yang Xuefeng, this is his Chinese name, in the United States, his friends call him Snowhill? Poplar.

Yang Xuefeng didn't know how he could become such a person.

The reason why he has this surname may be because he has only loved one woman in his life, and this woman has other pleasures behind his back, or it may be because he was born this way, or because he has always been unable to adapt to the environment.

Yang Xuefeng was born in China's Tibetan province, and all he remembers was that it was a very cold place, colder than California in winter. Other than that, he has no more impressions of his hometown.

Because he came to the United States as a child and grew up in the United States.

Yang Xuefeng went hunting at a very young age. He still remembers that time.

In the winter, the wilderness of California is bitterly cold, and the cars drive down the sprinted, rocky roads, and the sand rushes straight into the open broken "fords" like steel sand, which are only 20 miles away, but they are almost freezing. The two adults sitting in the front row rarely spoke, and those who didn't drive kept their hands warm. When I got to the outside of the forest, I looked up at the top of the red mountain beam, and the sun was still climbing hard, and I didn't poke my head out.

"Look, boy, do you see that line of footprints, it's the footprints of a deer? But no matter how clever a person is, don't think about being faster than a deer. Just sit here and wait for the deer to come, and be careful to sit downwind. Be patient and don't be afraid to hide for a long time. ”

He sat in the woods shivering. Do you want me to stay here and wait for the deer to come to the door? I'm not going to do it. I'm going to follow the trails. He thought.

He faced the blowing wind and quietly touched the woods. The woods were dark, black-brown with a silvery white, and the ground was like a dark olive velvet. Where's the deer? He kicked away a small branch that stood in his way, and only heard a sound as a stag scurried through the bushes. He was stunned: Good guy! The deer is really fast.

This time he was much more attentive. Then he found a deer footprint, so he bent his leg and gently touched the hoof prints, feeling a pang of excitement in his heart.

I'm going to have to find this deer. He thought.

He walked quietly in the woods for two hours, looking carefully at his feet, his heels first, his toes touching the ground gently, and then shifting his weight over. The withered thorns hooked his clothes and trousers, and he silently untied them one by one.

Sure enough, he saw a deer in a small clearing in the woods, and he quickly stood on the spot, motionless. The wind blew gently on his face, and he felt that even the smell of deer could be smelled. Good boy, what a big guy! - He looked secretly amazed. The stag slowly turned its head a hundred yards away, and two eyes swept past him.

He raised his gun, but his hand shook so hard that his sight shook. He had no choice but to put the gun down and scolded himself secretly: Look at you like a! After a while, he raised the gun again, this time holding it firmly, and finally he aimed his crosshair at the point below the leg muscles of the deer's forelegs.

I'm going to shoot it in the cross. He thought.

"Bang!"

It was shot by someone else, but the deer fell in response. He ran forward, almost crying. Who hit it? That's my deer. Which bastard hit my deer? I'm going to kill him!"

Old Martin smiled at him.

"Son, what do I tell you, I'm telling you to sit there and not move. I found this deer by following the trails. ”

"You scared it away and hit me."

"Hehe, I'm far away, and I hear your footsteps."

"You talk nonsense! You're just talking nonsense! ”

The child threw himself on his adoptive father, raised his fist and wanted to fight. Old Martin laughed and pushed him away.

"Look at you like this, aren't you a stunned boy? Hey! If you want to overturn your Lao Tzu, you have to eat for another ten years. ”

"That deer was mine!"

"Whoever falls into his hands will be his."

The tears in my eyes stopped and dried. He was thinking that if his hand hadn't shaken just now, he would have done it a long time ago.

Old Martin smiled and said to another adult: "Yes, our Snow just never bows his head and submits defeat, everything is like this." When he was about twelve, there was a stinky boy in town who bullied him. (With that, he holds his hat in one hand and grabs the back of his gray-haired unkempt head with the other.) "That kid beats Snow every day, but Snow always has to go back and fight him again the next day. I'll tell you, Snow ended up beating that kid up. ”

"When he got a few years older, maybe seventeen, he used to go to the August races, and he was a little famous, and he was one of the best jockeys in the county. I didn't expect a guy from Denison to come from afar. In an official game, the notary had everything, and Snow lost in the hands of that guy. I remember Snow was so angry that he didn't say a word for two days. Old Martin deliberately told his neighbor in a heavy tone.

Deer hunting, fighting, and the fall of fierce horses in races, all these times are added together, and there are only ten days a year. There is more to life than anything else: a large flat land stretching nearby, a green mountain in the distance, three meals a day are always eaten in the large kitchen, and the same table is always accompanied by adoptive parents, brothers, and a few foremen on the ranch. Then there's the conversation in the ranch worker's hut. The voice was always soft, with a contemplative tone. Yes, the little girl will remember me, as long as she wasn't drunk at the time.

is the "education" that Yang Xuefeng received.

Say after day, always spend a long afternoon in the dust raised by the herd, under the dazzling sun. Who doesn't get tired of sitting in the saddle and getting drowsy, and that is really unpleasant. Heart, maybe one head is still hanging in the town.

"Snow, isn't it itching in your heart?"

Lazy, groggy, feeling a little stupid in lust. The horses that straddled were basking in the sun, and a heat rose from their fur, making their thighs warm and soft. yes, sort of.

"The town is going to have a National Guard."

"So what?"

"I'm thinking, as long as the military uniform is on, I won't worry about no girls sending it to the door, and besides, I can have a good time shooting when I get to the team."

"Well, if you're going, maybe I'll go with you."

The first time Yang Xuefeng killed someone in his life was after putting on the uniform of the National Guard. At that time, there was a strike in the oil field, and some of the thieves were injured.

They came to call the National Guard. (The turtle grandsons who launched the strike.) All of them are northerners, from New York. There are some boys in the oil field who are not bad, but when they are beaten by the red elements, they are all dizzy, and if they continue to make trouble like this, everyone will quickly nod to the workers. The National Guard stood in a line outside the factory gate, sweating from the scorching sun of Xia Yue. The pickets laughed and yelled at them.

"Hey, it's a training force! They've brought in all the Boy Scouts. ”

"Let's just rush over. These guys are also the company's doglegs. ”

Yang Xuefeng stood in the team and bit his lip unconsciously.

"They're coming!" The team member next to him whispered.

The captain of that National Guard was a guy in a men's clothing store. "Take heed, brethren, if a stone is thrown at you, you will quickly lie down. If the situation is really urgent, you can shoot them twice in the head. He said.

A pebble flew through the air. Workers outside the factory gate were angry, and from time to time some shouted insults at the National Guard.

Yang Xuefeng felt more and more unbearable.

A stone struck one of the guards, and the whole team fell to their stomachs and pointed their guns at the heads of the approaching crowd.

"Let's rush forward! Punch him out! "There was a lot of noise.

More than a dozen people took a step forward and forced the factory door step by step. A handful of pebbles flew over their heads and blossomed in the guards.

The captain was so anxious that he screamed: "Quick, quick, brothers, shoot into the sky!" ”

(To be continued)