Kurita had a bad face on the flagship, and the battle was going on by this point, although he was completely sure that he would take out his opponent. The main fleet of the Japanese fleet was already in front of the Pacific Ocean at this time, and it only took another hour to intercept the fleet of the Naval Resistance Army. Under the absolute power comparison, Kurita Keno has absolute certainty.

But the Japanese fleet had already sunk one aircraft carrier, two destroyers, a heavy cruiser was badly damaged, and the opponent lost only one destroyer. Obviously, he had the upper hand in the battle, but he was inferior in the battle.

Kurita Keno was not a Japanese admiral who stayed in the ocean, he rose step by step from gunboat captain, destroyer captain, cruiser captain, heavy cruiser captain and heavy cruiser commander to his current position. He was extremely familiar with warships, and he knew all kinds of tactics well.

Thinking about the scene half an hour ago, Kurita Keno's face began to turn black like the bottom of a pot.

One fighter plane after another crashed around the Japanese fleet, and umbrella flowers flew in the sky one after another. The devil's fleet was scrapped one after another worthlessly.

Kurita Keno's black face twitched, this is simply a slap in the face of the Imperial Japanese Army. At the moment of the great enemy, the elite pilots of their own side actually threw their fighters one by one and fled for their lives. Slap in the face, slap in the face.

Kurita Keno thought in his heart that the Naval Resistance Army must have seen it too. But in fact, the Naval Resistance Army really didn't see it.

The reason is very simple, under the sunset, from the perspective of the Naval Resistance Army, it is just backlight. The forty or fifty-kilometer naval resistance army did not even notice the Japanese fleet, and it was really difficult to see the fall of the small fighter.

Although Kurita Keno wanted to make a sudden attack on the aviation in his heart, the Fengxiang aircraft carrier was not his subordinate, this was the aircraft carrier temporarily assigned to him, and now that the aircraft carrier had been played, he still had to think about how to explain to General Yamamoto 56 after he went back.

At this time, Keno Kurita still thinks as always, he still doesn't realize the importance of aircraft carriers, and he still thinks that aircraft carriers are just a waste. Selectively ignore the fact that one's aircraft carrier was blown up and sunk by fighter planes.

He had evidence that the aircraft carrier was the first to be bombed, dozens of planes were unscathed against the battleships of the Naval Resistance Army, and one of the destroyers that was sunk in the battle was also thought by him to be blown up and sunk to protect the aircraft carrier. Although a heavy cruiser in his squadron was seriously wounded, it did not sink under the indiscriminate bombardment of 24 naval resistance fighters.

All in all, in a word, an aircraft carrier is a waste. At the beginning, he ordered the aircraft carrier to withdraw freely, but it was Yama County Dazuo who was disobedient and insisted on fighting, and even did not keep a few escort fighters, and an aircraft carrier was in a slippery state, but was easily sunk by the Naval Resistance Army.

Now Kurita Keno is actually a little depressed, his huge fleet now has only two battleships, two heavy cruisers, and two destroyers in the main team. There was no way, he couldn't let those waste aviation troops drown in the sea, and was forced to separate the destroyers to salvage them, and as a result, the already inadequate destroyers were even more insufficient.

In fact, at this time, Li Guang was also very nervous. At 7:30, the huge figure of the main fleet of the Japanese army had also appeared in the field of vision of the Pacific. There is no need to calculate, everyone can see that the battleship Pacific will be blocked by the devil's fleet before entering the Gulf of Aden.

The Indian Ocean is said to be half of the home of the Naval Resistance Army, but God did not help the Naval Resistance Army once in this day. In the Arabian Sea in the middle of winter, it was already 7:30 in the evening, and the sunset was still hanging in the sky.

Li Guang's mentality was not calm at this time, and he kept slandering God in his heart: the sunset near the equator was really good enough to drag, and there was no temperature, so he still refused to go down.

As the distance between the two fleets continued to close, Kurita Keno really wanted to give full play to the advantage of backlight, he did not choose a T-shaped battle formation, but used the fleet's high-speed maneuver and powerful firepower to force the three battleships of the Pacific into a line. This situation is insoluble for Zheng Xuechang, and when the maneuverability and firepower are inferior to the opponent, it is a helpless choice for his fleet to be forced into a straight line, or it is forced to accept it.

7:50.

The two armies formed two parallel columns on the sea, twenty-seven kilometers apart.

On the surface, the strength between the Maritime Resistance Army and the Japanese Army was one to two, but Zheng Xuechang knew very well that the combat effectiveness of the two pickup air defense destroyers of the Maritime Resistance Army at this time was not comparable to that of a Japanese destroyer of more than 1,000 tons.

Without aircraft carriers, there is no need for the Pickup to continue to provide air defense support for the battleship Pacific. In order to maintain the small combat strength of the Maritime Resistance Army, Zheng Xuechang ordered two pickup trucks to withdraw from the battlefield to the east.

Kurita's command was quite skillful, and the formation of six Japanese battleships quickly began to change formation, and the two destroyers had already jumped out of the formation and were rapidly approaching the Pacific.

Fighting alone, the Naval Resistance Army was not frightened. Zheng Xuechang's performance was very calm, and his eyes flashed with the passion of battle. Like a knight, the Pacific raised ten huge barrels in the face of a battleship several times its size.

The face of the British liaison officer was already pale with fright. Whether it is firepower, warship performance, or quantity, the Maritime Resistance Force is at an all-round disadvantage. In this situation, if the British army chooses to surrender or sink the battleship, it is very likely. But in the bridge, all the Chinese soldiers, whether Li Guang or Zheng Xuechang, did not have the slightest idea of giving up the battleship.

Even if they are completely at a disadvantage, the Naval Resistance Army will not surrender, and there is no word surrender in the dictionary of the Naval Resistance Army. This is the philosophy that Li Guang has always instilled in this army, and today this concept is beginning to show its effect.

The young staff officers of the Naval Resistance Army couldn't help but turn blue at this time, but everyone was sticking to their posts and there was no chaos.

Li Guang glanced at Zheng Xuechang, and then shouted at all the naval resistance troops on the public channel: "Even if you are under siege, even if you are outnumbered, you will die like a man, bright sword." ”

At 10:00 a.m., the two armies were less than 25 kilometers apart.

The four main battleships of the Japanese army, thirty-six main guns, were the first to fire.

The two battleships of the devil are actually of the same class as the Pacific Ocean, and they are both old-fashioned battleships. But the modification of the devil is quite thorough, the speed can reach 30 knots, and the range of the main gun is as high as 35 kilometers, far exceeding the 27 kilometers of the Pacific. However, the main guns of the Hiei and Kirishima are actually similar to the main guns of the Pacific, and the Hiei and Kirishima have only increased the range by increasing the elevation angle of the main guns, which actually has little advantage in actual combat.

IN TERMS OF SINGLE-SHIP COMPARISON, THE PACIFIC HAS ONLY ONE ADVANTAGE, THAT IS, THE PACIFIC HAS TEN 356MM MAIN GUNS, WHILE THE DEVIL'S HIEI AND KIRISHIMA BOTH HAVE EIGHT 356MM GUNS.

The Hiei has a full load displacement of 37,000 tons, which is 5,000 tons more than the Pacific Ocean.

In terms of structural strength, the Pacific was much stronger than the Hiei. The little devil worked very hard, but in terms of national strength, he could not confront the European and American powers at all, and the budget-conscious little Japan upgraded the two old ships before the First World War little by little, in order to make the old warships with a displacement of less than 20,000 tons able to adapt to the new situation, desperately increase power, enhance firepower, and enhance protection. As a result, these two warships adopted a very unusual technology in the world - belly expansion. There is no way, several modifications, the weapons and armor and engines installed are too powerful, in order to ensure that there is enough buoyancy, I have to increase the belly of the battleship. In the end, the pot-bellied battleship in front of him was formed, and the displacement was upgraded from 19,500 tons to 37,000 tons, almost doubling.

Originally, the devil's modified battleship, like almost all the devil's warships, had similar shortcomings, and it was inevitably a little top-heavy. If it is in stormy weather, the seaworthiness is definitely not comparable to that of the battleship Pacific, and the accuracy of firepower will be greatly reduced.

Li Guang was a little depressed, the people who crossed had benefits, such as gold fingers or something, but unfortunately in today's battle, God did not stand on the side of the Naval Resistance Army once, in the face of the situation in front of him, except for the death battle, Li Guang really couldn't find a way to deal with it.

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