Although the fierce son cleaned up the battlefield and did not pursue, Yamamoto Fifty-six did not dare to fight a decisive battle. He had already lost one battleship, two destroyers, and he hadn't even caught the shadow of the other party, so he could only avoid its sharpness and avoid greater losses. As for the army, there is no other way, the troops ashore quickly withdraw, board the ship and move closer to Aiden, there, the territory is relatively narrow, the speed disadvantage of the battleship will be better, if the enemy is imminent, then use the battleship and the plane to fight a decisive battle.

After all, the enemy did not necessarily know their purpose, and there were several waterways where they could leave the Gulf of Aden, so that the enemy would not dare to get too close, avoid being blocked from behind, flanked from both sides, losing the advantage of speed and distance, and being forced to fight a decisive battle.

Yamamoto Fifty-six calculated well, it was the place where Li Rongbin left, and some of the warships could completely bypass Sokot Island to the south, and after the enemy ships entered it, they would kill back the carbines, block the enemy ships, and carry out a decisive battle.

When the radarman confirmed that all the enemy ships in the distance had left the shore and the formation was heading towards the Red Sea, Mengzi sent a telegram to Li Rongbin, telling him to get ready, and the fleet here also began to move.

In the dark of night, there was no obstacle for the warships of the advance army, and with radar, they easily locked onto the Japanese fleet and slowly approached forward, ready to fire at any time.

Yamamoto Fifty-six was not a complete evacuation, he left two torpedo boats as a guard, and the brigade headed towards Aiden. At the same time, Hideki Tojo was notified and told to travel two or three hundred kilometers. Arrive offshore at Aiden.

Fortunately, the speed of the enemy's pursuit was not fast, and he was not worried that Tojo's Hide's opportunity would be blocked, otherwise, he would have to fight to the death and crush the British fleet.

After a two-hour voyage, the fleet saw two torpedo boats that had remained behind and were sailing slowly at a speed of only four or five knots.

Stay at the Observation Post......

This suited him, and then he ordered to shell two torpedo boats, but not to sink them.

The two torpedo boats were sailing slowly, and the observer's eyes widened for any suspicious pens on the surface of the sea. An observer saw the light of a fire in the distance.

The fleeting flash of fire startled him. Immediately, the alarm bell sounded, and the two torpedo boats accelerated like frightened rabbits, increasing their speed to 20 knots in just a dozen seconds. It's a desperate effort.

Just as they picked up speed. There were several loud bangs thousands of kilometers behind him. Apparently the enemy shelled the position they had just passed, but did not calculate their speed.

"The enemy ship is coming!"

The moment it was confirmed that it was an enemy ship, everyone was shocked. They can't stand even a hundred-caliber shell. How dare you stand against the fleet? So, while sending electricity to Yamamoto Fifty-six, while advancing at full speed, the battleship was like a wild horse, the engine roared, and rushed at full speed towards the distant fleet.

"Pick up the speed and stay in formation!"

Yamamoto Isoroku looked at the map and ordered the fleet to speed up.

He was ready to implement a separate fleet, an aircraft carrier formation plus four battleships and destroyers, and the cruisers bypassing the island of Kosot, where only heavy cruisers and a dozen frigates remained, and the wounded Yamashiri.

Attacking from both sides can definitely make the opponent fight a decisive battle, and the long-range advantage and speed of artillery fire also disappear in the pinching, with strong combat effectiveness, Yamamoto Isoroku has no reason not to believe that victory will belong to him.

He is a good gambler, but he is not a blind gambler.

As the plan was finalized, the formation of battleships began to change, and when it reached the sea area facing south to the west of Kosot Island, the fleet broke away from the group, felt the darkness, and headed south.

At this time, the fierce man had already chased the fleet to a position of less than thirty nautical miles, and was not in a hurry to approach. Receiving a change in the enemy's fleet, he smiled, and with it gave the order, and the fleet accelerated and went into range.

The fleet separated, and before it reached the southbound route, suddenly, the fast battleships exploring the way ahead approached the flickering fire in the distance.

Enemy?

The pathfinder slowed down in confusion, ready to take a look.

Just as it slowed down, the screech of cannonballs came, and then a group of cannonballs fell, setting off columns of rushing water around the battleship.

It's an enemy ship!!

The captain was shocked, ignoring the danger of making a U-turn, and ordered an emergency U-turn and sent a light signal to the back.

Without him sending a signal, the warships behind could also hear the explosion, although it was more than ten nautical miles away, but it was really heard.

There is an ambush!

That's what everyone thinks.

In just a few moments, the battleship that was exploring the path suffered three shots, the shell overturned a secondary gun, and shattered several anti-aircraft machine guns, but it did not cause much damage to the battleship. But this was enough to scare the Japanese soldiers on the battleship, desperately increasing the horsepower, the battleship drew an arc, a U-shape, the battleship tilted and quickly turned, and fled lifelessly.

"Seawolf ready!"

Li Rongbin did not sink the battleship, although a round of armor-piercing shells can be about the same, but he did not waste armor-piercing shells on this small ship, his task is not to sink the enemy ship, but to block the way.

As soon as we learned that there was an interception on the southbound sea route, Yamamoto 56 was subjected to heavy shelling. Shells exploded around the battleship, causing a sudden bombardment of the battleship group, and then under the order of Yamamoto Isoroku, the camp was prepared.

At this moment, there was a loud bang, and the stern of the Yamashiro at the end was hit by a torpedo, but fortunately the whole team did not preach on the road, but only exploded at the stern, and even the transmission shaft was not injured.

This loud noise made Yamamoto fifty-six suddenly wake up, the enemy has arranged a pocket to annihilate his combined fleet in the Gulf of Aden.

Abandon troop carriers and supply ships, and landing ships? It was a difficult problem for him to choose. If you don't give up, the other party will chase and fight, and their speed can't catch up with the enemy, not to mention, and the range can't keep up. Coupled with the attack of torpedoes, the enemy's submarines are escorted by long-range artillery fire, and the destroyers simply cannot drop depth charges, that is, they cannot stop the long-range raids of submarines.

Thinking quickly, after learning that the Yamashiro did not delay the voyage, the speed could only be lost by two knots. When there is not much water entering the water, he ordered to rush to the inside at full speed.

Since you want to gamble, bet bigger, isn't the other party going to destroy yourself? Then enter the Red Sea, where the waterway is narrow, and it is impossible for the opponent's warships to enter intensively, as long as it is blocked, the enemy wants to come in, and it is looking for death!

Paying attention, he gave orders to Aiden's fleet, which was already preparing to land. Let them continue to sail towards the Red Sea. On the one hand, send a telegram to the fleet that is preparing to go south, so that they can return to assemble and march towards the Red Sea.

After the power is generated, the power is generated to the headquarters. Request support from the Combined Fleet. Flank inside and out with superior forces. Annihilation, who is not necessarily!

A torpedo was released, and the fierce man did not let the submarine continue the attack. He was not going to sink how many battleships, but to drive them into the Red Sea. Complete the set plan.

The Japanese base camp received a telegram from Yamamoto 56 asking for help, and although he did not see defeat between the lines, he was able to ask the combined fleet of three aircraft carriers, six battleships, four heavy cruisers, and more than 30 large and small warships to call for help, which shows that he was under a lot of pressure there.

Therefore, he did not dare to slack off, and quickly assembled the remaining warships of the Philippines and Malacca to march to the battlefield. At the same time, an aircraft carrier group remaining in Australia was ordered to rush to the Gulf of Aden, where there will be a big battle!

Takeshi was relieved to receive information from radarmen and submarines that the enemy's fleet was heading straight for the depths of the Gulf of Aden.

The Japanese did not fight hard is exactly the result he wanted, otherwise the sinking of the Fuso is an example, eleven torpedoes, it took nearly twenty minutes to sink, such a battleship that resists such a fight is not something that his 200 caliber guns can sink in a short time, unless it is accurate enough, it is difficult to confront head-on.

As for whether the enemy called for help or something, he only had to drive the Japanese fleet into the Red Sea, and his task would be accomplished.

So, following behind the Japanese battleships, the main guns bombarded from time to time, but they were all anti-explosive shells, except for the soldiers on the heavy cruisers and battleships behind them who did not dare to go to the deck, that is, they blew up some anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns, and even the secondary guns could not be moved.

Although he was chased and beaten, there was no major damage, and Yamamoto Fifty-six endured this breath.

He ordered the fleet to go straight into the Red Sea, and he believed that the black light was blinding, and they were not fast, and the enemy could not be fast, and they could definitely not soar to 30 knots away like in the wide sea, and naturally it could not be compared with the daytime, otherwise it would not be impossible to run aground.

Sure enough, his speed was not fast, and the speed of the pursuers behind him was not fast, so he had a ride, and he bombarded a few cannons without a ride, and he followed them without pain or itching.

In the early hours of the morning, the fleet of Aiden, which had now stopped entering the Red Sea, used landing ships and troop carriers to hold the explored waterway, and opened a safe channel wide enough for the group behind to pass through Yamamoto Isoroku quickly until the last battleship.

Passing the narrowest point, four undamaged battleships and four heavy cruisers stopped, their bows diagonally facing the exit of the Red Sea, their main and auxiliary guns raised, and behind them were torpedo destroyers and fish frigates, waiting in the dark for the enemy's pursuit.

It's cramped here, and they don't believe that the enemy dares to smear it like that. If you don't turn on the lights, then their speed will be slow, they want to accelerate, it is difficult to turn around, and they can't enter more than one together, at that time, the battleship loves you on the giant cannon can exert its power, stand up to the opponent's shelling, exchange injuries for injuries, offset the opponent's fast speed, the advantage of long range of shelling, rush head-on into the formation, I love you to block them in a narrow place, to a decisive battle.

The fog slowly floated up, and the east was white, and more than an hour passed, and the waiting battleship was actually beautiful and found the enemy.

Didn't the enemy chase after him?

The stupid girl who felt a little wrong was not afraid that the other party would block the entrance to the sea, he was afraid that the other party would run away, so that the reinforced fleet would not be able to block them.

"Go out and have a look, see what the enemy ship is really like!"

He did not order the plane to take off, but asked a fast battleship to go out and have a look, otherwise the plane flew up, and the other side would not necessarily shell it, and the battleship would be different, if they wanted to stay outside, they would have opened fire. In this way, the purpose of tethering the other party has been achieved.

But the battleship had just sailed out of the sea, when suddenly a loud bang tore through the silence of the morning, and a column of water soared into the sky beside the battleship.

Torpedo? Still is......

All the battleships saw the situation there, it was clear that it was either torpedoes or mines.

Sure enough, the fast battleship tilted rapidly in the loud noise, a huge opening opened abyside, and the sea water poured in frantically, and in just a minute or two, the battleship tilted to thirty degrees.

The battleship was hopeless, and all the Japanese soldiers, under the orders of the captain, abandoned the ship, and at the same time, the light signal came, and they touched the mines.

"Mines blocked the exit!?"

Yamamoto Fifty-six got a report in the back and couldn't help but be confused. Mines are not something that can be laid right away. How could the other side have delivered mines to them in two hours? .

But in the early morning, it was clear that the warships and ships of the brigade entered and did not touch the mines, so doesn't that mean that the mines that appeared only after the battleships came in?

Just as he was wondering, a telegram came.

On land, Hideki Tojo's side was raided by the advance army overnight, and it was immediately crushed, and it quickly fled to this side, and the advance army was also in hot pursuit, as if it knew that their fleet was coming.

As soon as I finished reading the message, Seishiro Itagaki also sent a telegram, requesting that the defense line be quickly organized, and the enemy attacked in the early morning, chasing them and rushing towards the mouth of the Red Sea. (To be continued......)