The battleships on the right flank of the Pacific Fleet were Indiana, Washington, Texas, New York, Tennessee, California, and Colorado.

In the previous lightning strike, the Indiana swallowed three torpedoes and was severely damaged and was given a suspended death sentence, and the Texas was basically confirmed to death for four mines. And the Washington, which was in second column, was also hit by a mine.

The fleet on the left flank, from beginning to end, was the USS South Dakota, the USS North Carolina, the USS New Mexico (BB40), the USS Mississippi (BB41), the USS Arizona, the USS Pennsylvania, the USS Idaho (BB42), and the USS Maryland.

In the left flank fleet, the battleship USS Maryland, which was at the end of the flank, was hit by three torpedoes on the left side, and the hull of the ship was shattered, which was already very dangerous. And the Arizona was also hit by two torpedoes.

Of the four aircraft carriers located in the center, the Enterprise was hit by a fatal blow and was detonated the ammunition depot, and the other aircraft carrier, the Yorktown, also ate a torpedo.

Less than an hour after the battle began, his fleet was castrated by an opponent whose identity could not be confirmed out of nowhere.

And that's just the beginning.

In order to fill the gap between the cruisers and destroyers in the central flank and to block the gap exposed in the right front flank, Admiral Kimmery transferred the auxiliary fleet of the rearguard to the central defence position, and the consequence was that the rearguard's protection was strictly emptied.

Another lightning strike unit, which had been lurking in the right rear of the Pacific Fleet for a long time, immediately launched a "popping chrysanthemum" attack from the right rear of the US Pacific Fleet when it took advantage of the new flaws exposed by the demolition of the east wall to make up for the west wall.

When the rearguard fleet was hit by a large number of mine-struck ships, Admiral Kimmery's face turned pale.

"The Germans, the British, have they all colluded with the Japanese to harm us!"

In the command room, Admiral Kimmery shouted out of gaffe. After learning that a large number of small torpedo boats were involved in the war. At this moment, he suddenly understood the true meaning of the statement about China's import of S3 torpedo boats from Germany.

Those torpedo boats were not sold to China at all, but were quietly sold to the Japanese by the Germans under the cover of selling to China.

As for the British, the British Navy was also not innocent in the matter of the sneak attack on the Pacific Fleet. Three months before the war, at the request of the combined fleet in Japan. The British Navy "leased" forty torpedo boats to Japan.

Although the Japanese Navy attached great importance to lightning strike operations, it lagged behind in the development of torpedo boats. There are two main reasons for this: First, there is a problem of concept: most of the torpedo boats developed in Japan are of the offshore type of less than 100 tons, and they can only play the role of "port breakwater guards."

The second is the limitation of technology.

Japan's internal combustion engine power level is limited. The German S-series torpedo boats used in Daimler. Mercedes-Benz MB501 2000 horsepower high-speed diesel engine (four-stroke, V-shaped 20-cylinder, total length of 4 meters, weight of 4.5 tons), Japan's Sanzhong Industry has been sampling for a long time, and when it wants to imitate, it is found that the precision of the engine. With the industrial standards of Japan at that time, there was no way to imitate it. In terms of powertrain manufacturing capacity, Japan is far behind the great powers.

The third is limited resources. High-speed torpedo boats are completely relied on "light weight" to win all over the world, and a large amount of aluminum alloy needs to be consumed in production, and where can the Japanese with limited family resources afford to burn this kind of money, even if they develop excellent high-speed torpedo boats, they will be unacceptable because the price is too high -- the Japanese Navy's own light torpedo boats, in order to save costs. A large amount of wood was also used on the boat, so much so that the weight was greatly increased and the strength was not high.

Plus defeat in China in 1936. The Japanese, who had suffered heavy losses, could not afford to spend much money on torpedo boats. It was not until 1938 that Li Huamei successfully went undercover in Japan as Yamato Nadeshiko and changed Japan's strategic direction, that the military budget of the Combined Fleet improved.

The great development of the Japanese torpedo boat force was after the end of the war in 1941.

During the war of 1940, the British Navy was completely defeated by the German Navy. In order to defend the homeland, British shipyards were desperately producing warships. And torpedo boats were built with a short period. Low cost (note: although the cost is low, it is actually not low cost performance). In order to fill the lack of the navy, in just one year, the British navy produced more than 200 torpedo boats of various types. After the end of the war, a considerable number of torpedo boats were released into the "small ditch" of the Strait of Malacca in Southeast Asia.

1942 year. With the sharp deterioration of Anglo-American relations, the insidious British government has been provoking and instigating Japan to declare war on the United States. On the other hand, the Japanese Navy, which had long wanted to challenge the supremacy of the US Navy, repeatedly prevaricated in shameful answers, while the other side vigorously demanded benefits and assistance from the British, one of which was to ask for a number of large torpedo boats capable of long-range capability.

In March 1942, the Japanese purchased 38 D3 torpedo boats from the Germans at a low price, and at the same time, they also obtained 40 British 200-ton torpedo boats through the British in the form of "lend-lease", plus the S4-type torpedo boats that Japan imported from Germany after 1941, and when the US Pacific Fleet was attacked tonight, the number of 200-ton torpedo boats dispatched by the Japanese Combined Fleet was as high as 120.

The smuggling of such a large number of torpedo boats into the vicinity of Customs Island could not be detected by the Americans, and it was inseparable from the secret assistance of the British behind the scenes. There are a large number of islands around Guam, some of which belong to Japan, some to the United States, and some to the Australian and Indonesian chains, all of which belong to the British.

Although the 200-ton torpedo boat has a long range, it is too "short-legged" compared to the vast Pacific Ocean. It was the British's covert help, fuel supplies, and hidden islands that allowed the Japanese Combined Fleet to send these relatively vulnerable Assassins to the battlefield so smoothly.

On the battleship South Dakota, Admiral Kimmery guessed part of the truth. Somewhat deranged from the successive blows, he shouted in the command room.

"It's the British, sending a telegram to Washington, telling them that it was the British who shamelessly colluded with the Japanese to sneak up on us!"

Admiral Kimmelli, who is more like a politician than a military strategist, knows very well that after this war, no matter what happens to the Pacific ships, his military career will be over. The only hope that it is possible to turn over is to push Yiqiē to the Anglo-Japanese alliance, to the point that the enemy is very strong, and there may be a little chance when the responsibility is liquidated at home afterwards.

The call was quickly sent over the radio in guò.

Admiral Kimmel had not yet realized the consequences of his telegram.

But on the battlefield, the situation facing the Pacific Fleet is getting worse and worse, and the most dangerous thing is the entire Right Fleet.

When the second wave of the Thunderbolt fleet appeared, the USS California and the USS Colorado, which were at the end of the right flank fleet, were immediately besieged by more than 60 torpedo boats and destroyers. Even more unfortunate than the Indiana and other ships on the right front flank, when the Japanese ships were discovered, the number of frigates around them was only six, one heavy cruiser and five destroyers. The rest of the rest went to the center and front to support at full speed.

The Japanese lightning strike ship that suddenly appeared in the fragile rearguard position, and the right rear flank of the entire Pacific ship was in chaos, and the confusion was even the right front flank. After discovering the presence of a Japanese strike fleet on the rear flank, the cruisers and destroyers in the center of the city hurriedly turned around in a U-shape, and it took more than fifteen minutes to come and go.

Due to coordination problems, some cruisers and destroyers were busy rushing forward, while others were busy making U-shaped U-turns, and if you looked down from the sky, the entire Pacific Fleet was in the right rear position. It's completely in a state of collapse like ant scattering.

In the chart room on the Yamato, Yamamoto Isoroku looked at the models of the fleet on the right rear flank of the Pacific Fleet, and was doing chaotic and disorderly "Brownian motion" on the "situation map" on the wall. ”

In the chaos, two New Orleans-class heavy cruisers and Brooklyn-class light cruisers even collided together, and both ships were heavily damaged. In this confusion, a large number of battleships, who had previously overcharged, were now hurriedly trying to make a U-shaped U-turn and take the "way back", and in the first fifteen minutes, it was simply impossible to provide effective anti-lightning artillery support to the last two battleships that had been delayed.

It was easier than attacking the right forward fleet, and this wave of lightning strike fleets easily approached the last two ships, the USS California and the USS Colorado, at the cost of only two sinkings and two serious injuries.

In total, there were seventeen torpedo boats, and a total of thirty-four torpedoes were fired at two at a distance of nine thousand meters, and the two craziest torpedo boats even approached seven thousand meters before firing torpedoes.

The two battleships, the USS California and the USS Colorado, were frantically twisting their fat waists and dancing "swing dances" at sea, but their luck was obviously sucked out by the battleship Indiana on the right front flank. Thirty-four torpedoes, two ships swallowed three, one ship swallowed four, and the big holes blown out of the bodies of the two ships were enough to drive into a ten-wheeled truck.

In the process, the convoy that remained in place and desperately opened fire was also crushed by the large-caliber guns fired from the heavy and light cruisers in the assault fleet, and the heavy cruiser Wichita, the best performing heavy cruiser in the US Navy, was tragically attacked by a cruiser in 20 minutes, and was besieged by six Japanese heavy and light cruisers and fired at them, and suffered eight eight-inch shells and more than 20 six-inch shells in one go. All the main guns of the whole ship were dumb and smashed, and the hull of the ship was on fire, and then two torpedo boats that took the opportunity to approach fired four torpedoes within 7,000 meters, and after hitting two shots, they were "executed." (To be continued......)

PS: Three thousand words first, and one more chapter after eight o'clock