The huge turret, weighing more than 2,000 tons, was suspended in the air by a gantry crane, and with the rattling of the iron chains, it was lowered little by little, and with a loud bang, it was firmly placed on the gun mount.

The battleship on which the turret is being installed is none other than the battleship Nantakota, which was captured by the Combined Fleet in the Battle of Guam. The reinstalled turret was the aft turret, which was hit by a 700-kilogram bomb dropped from a height of 600 meters during the Battle of Guam, which penetrated the turret and exploded in the bomb shaft, causing a large fire. Due to the effective management of the damage by the US troops on board, the ammunition depot was filled with water in time to avoid further casualties.

But for the Americans, perhaps the damage management was unfavorable at that time, and the direct detonation of the ammunition depot was the best outcome. Less than a minute after the aft turret was blown apart, a bomb hit the captain's quarters, killing all officers, including Admiral Kimmelli. Under the leaderless group of dragons, the American soldiers on the ship at that time were panicked and only cared about jumping into the sea to escape. The battered, incessantly tilted battleship was captured by the Japanese and ran aground in a nearby shoal.

It then took the Japanese Navy nearly a month to float the battered South Dakota, plug the leak, repair some of the boilers, restore one-third of the engine group, and sail into the shipyard in Yokosuka City on 12 August.

For the Japanese Navy, which could no longer afford to build more battleships, this high-speed battleship with nine 16-inch guns and a maximum speed of 30 knots per hour was an extremely precious trophy. After it was sent to the shipyard, the Japanese side did its best to repair the ship.

In order to repair the damaged tail turret, the Japanese had to remove it from the turret, and it took several months to repair the turret and artillery.

By February 7, 1943, the damaged parts of the battered South Dakota had been repaired, and only the aft turret had not been hoisted back into place.

Knowing the importance of this warship to the Japanese Navy. In the final hoisting project, Li Huamei also personally went to the site as a supervisor to supervise the installation of the turret.

According to Li Huamei's opinion, the battleship Andakota after the repair was completed will be renamed "Guam" and join the Japanese Combined Fleet. It was named "Guam". It is to commemorate the recent naval battle in which the US Pacific Fleet was annihilated.

When standing beside the South Dakota, Li Huamei felt a slight uncomfortable feeling, and she understood where this uncomfortable feeling came from, it was the South Dakota itself, which had formed a weak ship soul.

This unself-conscious ship spirit is hostile to her. The annihilation of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, the unwillingness and resentment of those sunken warships, are now all gathered on the flagship of the captured Pacific Fleet, and finally the soul of the ship with a weak consciousness is born.

With the turret was installed. The South Dakota has been largely repaired and will be ready for service after the final commissioning and finishing works are completed.

"The resentment of the Americans is concentrated on this warship, and I feel that the soul of the ship is still alive, but she is still very weak, but she has a deep hostility towards me."

Li Huamei, who was incarnated as Yamato Nadeshiko, stood on a high platform nearby, looking at the battleship "Guam" from a distance of 300 meters.

The person she spoke to was Hannah, who was here as the Führer's envoy to visit the Guam, which was about to be repaired. In the eyes of the Japanese around. Even in the eyes of politicians and bored people in various countries, they think that this figure is tall. The delicate blonde and blue-eyed girl was the "lover" of the German Führer Hitler.

Although considered to be Hitler's mistress, no one dares to spy on Hannah now. People in the Japanese shipbuilding industry know that in addition to her beauty, Hannah also has a high talent for ship design, and is one of the designers of two German ace battleships, Sister Shane.

After the South Dakota was captured, it became an important ally of Japan. The Germans also sent experts to inspect the ship's structural design to assess the level of craftsmanship in American shipbuilding. In the process of repairing the ship, it is also inseparable from the help of high-quality boilers, radar and fire control equipment provided by the Germans.

Hannah replied, "I feel her hostility too." If in the next naval battle, you can sink more American warships, believe in the resentment of the Americans. And the unwillingness to sink the battleship, will gather more on this warship. ”

Hannah came here to visit the South Dakota to take the opportunity to further understand the process of the formation of the ship's spirit. It's just that with the completion of the repair of the South Dakota, the two watched it for a few days, and it didn't get white.

As a "dignitary" guest from Germany, Li Huamei personally entertained Hannah, and that afternoon, she took Hannah to visit the battleship Mikasa located in the local Mikasa Park.

Many years ago, Katyusha, who is now one with Li Huamei, came here to visit the Mikasa, but as soon as she boarded the ship, her ability was suppressed by the weak soul on the Mikasa and made her become a mortal.

This time, when Li Huamei and Katyusha boarded the ship at the same time as "Yamato Nadeshiko", Li Huamei unexpectedly found that the hostile suppression of her in the past disappeared.

She said to Hannah, who was on the ship with her, "This qiē is probably because I am regarded as the patron saint of Japan, and I have absorbed the beliefs of all Japanese people, so she regards it as her own." ”

Li Huamei took Hannah to travel in Japan, but it was just a small episode. Hannah followed the German delegation to visit Japan, and in addition to continuing to provide military technical support to Japan and taking the opportunity to learn about American shipbuilding technology, another task was to discuss with Japan the topic of "delivery to Palawan."

Palawan was "sold" to Germany by the Japanese before the war on the basis of a secret agreement between Japan and Germany to exchange weapons for the islands. After the end of the Philippine campaign, the island was home to about tens of thousands of indigenous inhabitants at that time. After the war, in order to repay the huge arms debts of the Soviet Union and Germany, the Japanese frantically exploited local minerals in the newly acquired Philippine region.

According to Li Hua's opinion, the Japanese wantonly captured the local natives on the island, and there were only more than 60,000 natives on the island at that time, and the Japanese actually captured more than 4,000 young and strong laborers from the island and threw them into the mines in various places.

On 10 February, Japan and Germany made a public statement that Japan announced that it would sell Palawan to the Germans for millions of German marks.

On the day the statement was announced, a German detachment that had been doing a "goodwill visit" in Lanfang: the pocket battleship Deutschland and the anti-aircraft cruiser Freya landed on the island of Palawan with more than 2,000 German soldiers on board. Before the whole world reacted, they took Palawan from the Japanese.

The 2,000 German soldiers, who had secretly entered China and Lanfang as "tourists" in advance, had not quietly embarked on the ship through various channels until recently and landed on Palawan Island on the 10th.

The Germans did not want to take Palawan so early, but during Dewey's trip to Germany, negotiations with Hitler were held in Berlin, and the United States demanded that Germany suspend its support for Japan, so Linhan's daughter Adolf Hannah raised the issue of the ownership of the Bismarck Islands to Dewey.

Before World War I, the Bismarck Islands in the Pacific Ocean were German colonies, and after the war they were acquired by Japan. At the time of the negotiations in Berlin, the Germans said that the Japanese, in order to compensate for German losses in the Bismarck Islands, had decided to "sell" Palawan to Germany.

With the consent of President Wilkie, Dewey, in order to change the current situation in which the whole world joined hands to pit the United States, gritted his teeth and agreed to the Germans' demand for Palawan, and in exchange, Germany stopped supporting Japanese weapons and equipment.

After Wilkie's death, Dewey became president of the United States, and the Germans demanded the island from Japan in February, after obtaining further confirmation from the American side.

For the United States, the German occupation of Palawan was both a bad thing and a good thing. The bad thing is that it will further complicate the situation here, which will be detrimental to the recovery of the Philippines in the future. And the good thing is that it will make the British feel extremely uncomfortable here.

However, the German side's claim for the island at this time was the result of discussions with China and the Soviet Union -- to prepare for stabbing Japan in the back in the future and snatching the fruits of the Pacific War when Japan could not hold out in the Pacific.

Neither China nor the Soviet Union wanted to see the Americans stretch their hands into the Western Pacific again. Having obtained Palawan, there will be a closer forward base in the future when the Japanese are stabbed in the Philippines.

As for the issue of the resentment of the United States by this move, with the further improvement of Soviet-German relations, the German side is now no longer worried about the issue of the United States declaring war on Germany. Neither Dewey nor the U.S. government could have declared war on Germany until Japan had been defeated.

As for the time when Japan could not support it and was about to be defeated, then China, the Soviet Union, and Germany would simultaneously start in the western Pacific to rob the United States of the fruits of victory, and the contradictions between the several countries at that time would be far from being comparable to that of Palawan.

After the Germans took over Palawan on February 10, 1943, a large number of immigrants from Southeast Asia and China entered the island in the following years with the connivance of the Germans, and a significant number of these immigrants were "veterans".

During the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties of China, the so-called ancient states on the islands around the Philippines have always been subject states of China. Since ancient times, China has enjoyed suzerainty over many ancient countries (including Palawan) and the South China Sea, which can also be said to be "since ancient times".

In the years that followed, China and Germany joined forces to develop the island in preparation for a future landing in the Philippines. Hannah knew in her heart that Germany, far away in Europe, could not keep such a large colony on the other side of the world, and that the island itself had no resources to fish. She tried her best to get the island and many small islands around it, purely for her concubine Lin Han. Another reason is that at the end of the future war, these islands can be sold to China or Lanfang as a "bargaining chip" to befriend China, and the German side can also take the opportunity to make a big profit. (To be continued......)