Bright sky, cloudless.

The Nagato-class battleship "Mutsu," the main flagship of the Japanese Navy, and the "Haruna," another Kongo-class battleship, formed a two-ship formation, and under the escort of six Fukiyuki-class destroyers, they cruised toward the waters of the East China Sea at an economic speed of 15 knots.

As the communications officer of the battleship "Mutsu", Ono Hideyoshi Shozo lingered at the door of the captain's lounge for a while, reaching out several times to knock on the door, but hesitating to take it back.

Looking down at the newly translated telegram in his hand, the expression on Hideyoshi's face was quite complicated.

The door of the captain's room suddenly opened from the inside, and the captain Yuichi Takagi saw Ono Tokichi standing at the door, and couldn't help frowning slightly, "Is there something wrong?" Ono-kun. ”

Ono looked at the telegram in his hand again, and said hesitantly: "Report to the captain, I really don't know if I should report to you this clear-code telegram that has just been translated!" Sorry, Your Excellency! ”

"Clear-coded messages? What's the content? Yuichi Takagi asked solemnly.

"A warning message with a clear power on!" Hideyoshi Ono replied, "It's an unidentified organization that calls itself PLAN. ”

"What?" Yuichi Takagi muttered as he reached out to take the message and whispered:

"PLAN Pacific Fleet would like to inform you that our fleet will conduct a large-scale live-fire military exercise in the waters of 123°~135°E and 23°~26°N latitude in the East China Sea from August 13 to 20, 1937. Otherwise, our fleet will see one and sink another! Especially the ships of the Japanese Kingdom! ”

"Hahaha!" Takagi Xiong laughed so hard that tears were about to flow out, "Ono-kun, don't you think this is a prank made by the Chinese man?" Do they think that with such a telegram, they will block our Great Dongying Imperial Navy from supporting the army's operations? This organization called PLA is really pitifully naïve! ”

"Yes! Actually, my Excellency, I think so too. It's just that considering that our fleet has entered this sea area, our subordinates still report to you in strict accordance with the naval regulations! ”

"Next time, I will be ...... by this garbage"

"Boom!" "Boom!"

With two loud bangs, followed by a violent shock of the ship's hull, Yuichi Takagi and Hideyoshi Ono didn't have time to figure out what was going on, both of them were shocked and slammed into the wall, and then fell hard.

"Boom Boom Boom Boom ......"

The sound of explosions came one after another, so that Yuichi Takagi had already realized that it was the ammunition depot of the "Mutsu" that was detonated!

"Are we under an unknown attack?" Yuichi Takagi lay on the ground covered in blood, and shouted loudly with his voice open.

Ono struggled to his feet, holding on to the hatch wall with his hands and staggering to the deck.

Before he could ask a question, he saw two huge flames suddenly erupt on the "Haruna" that formed a double formation with the "Mutsu" on the sea in front of him, blazing with thick smoke and billowing.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! Enemy attack! ”

Ono Hideyoshi roared hysterically.

"The keel of this ship has been broken! It's already sinking! ”

As the deck tilted, Ono Hideyoshi was almost thrown out, but fortunately he reacted in time and grabbed the bulwark with both hands, so that he did not fall into the sea.

Ono Hideyoshi watched as a series of explosions broke off one after another on the battleship "Haruna," and many officers and men on the ship were blown into the air, mixed with splatters of flesh and blood, stumps and severed arms falling into the sea like dumplings.

However, the nightmare did not end there.

Just when the "Haruna" was blown in two and began to sink into the sea, the three destroyers escorting the "Haruna" had not yet had time to complete their combat deployment, and in an instant, they turned into three huge fireballs, and the billowing gunpowder smoke was still rolling upwards, and the three Fuxue-class destroyers had already begun to sink and disappeared into the sea in the blink of an eye.

"Anotesu, how can a single torpedo completely sink a 2,400-ton snow-blowing class? Who is attacking us......"

Ono Hideyoshi's heart couldn't stop moaning/groaning.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

This was followed by three more violent explosions.

Hideyoshi Ono, whose eyes had long been distracted, seemed to have been suddenly awakened by an explosion, and roared nervously: "It's PLAN!" It must be the PLAN attacking us! It was the PLAN Pacific Fleet that declared war on the Great Eastern Ying Empire! ”

The deck of the battleship Michinoku, which had already begun to sloed, was full of sailors scurrying around, like headless flies.

"Who's going to save me...... I'm hurt...... I can't move......"

A paramedic with a face covered in water, scratched by a splash of glass shards, screams as he stops the bleeding of a squirming sailor, "Somebody come and help me!" Kobayashi-kun is dying! Who's going to help me......"

"Get out of the way!" A sailor in the distance let out a terrified scream.

"Boom...... Quack ......"

HALF OF THE 365MM GUN BARREL AND PART OF THE TURRET FELL FROM THE SKY AND SMASHED INTO THE POSITION OF THE MEDIC AND THE SAILOR HE RESCUED.

Including the other wounded near the two men, they didn't even have time to scream, and they were smashed into a bloody pulp in the blink of an eye.

At this moment, it was about seven or eight nautical miles away from the sinking battleship "Mutsu".

A conventional diesel-electric submarine that looks like a German XXI in World War II hovers silently in a hundred meters of water like a ghost of the deep sea.

"Quack! This magic modified wire-guided spear torpedo made by my buddy is really a big killer! ”

The laughter of a young man was heard from the operational command of this Type XXI diesel-electric submarine.

"Report to Your Excellency Captain, this artillery fleet supporting the Songhu battlefield in Dongying, except for the Nagato-class battleship Mutsu has not completely sunk to the surface, its Kongo-class battleship Haruna, and the six Fuyuki-class destroyers escorting the ship have all been sunk by our side!"

Looking at the young captain in front of him who didn't have any expression on his face, Cheng Gong didn't answer, but muttered to himself: "The Nagato-level big BB is really a big BB, it's not sinking yet, should we give it another ride?" ”

"Your Excellency, Captain, after analyzing and calculating the damage of the Mutsu, there is still one minute and forty-three seconds left, and the ship will sink to the bottom of the sea!"

"Alas, forget it, the number of this kind of wire guide spear in my brother's hand is limited! There's no need to waste another one. It's more reliable to keep the three aircraft carriers that went to the Zhoushan Islands to beat the little devils. ”

After Cheng Gong finished muttering to himself, he raised his hand to sort out the tie of the Type 07 PLA Navy Dress on his body, and said in a deep voice with a serious expression: "I order!" ”

All the young officers and men in the combat command room, who were wearing dark blue navy training uniforms, who had both Asian and European faces, stood up and straightened their chests after hearing this.

"According to the predetermined battle plan, we will move towards the sea area of the Great Coast, maintain the battle formation, and advance!"

"Yes! Your Excellency, Captain. ”