When Zhao Jian found the lost ancient people repair station and tried to activate it, somewhere in Saturn's rings at the same time, a huge battleship was quietly approaching Saturn with the help of the cover of the star rings. If Zhao Jian was nearby at this time, he would definitely be surprised to find that the other party was the King Kong battleship that had passed them before.

As one of the main ships of the Japanese Combined Fleet, the Kongo, completed in England in 1913, is the oldest of the 10 warships currently in service, and she is also the last Japanese warship to use an outsourced hull.

The original King Kong was a battle cruiser, and the hull was modeled after the Lion-class battle cruiser under construction in Britain at the time, but this type of British battle cruiser was almost beaten by the German Hipper's battle cruiser formation in the Battle of Jutland. For this reason, after the war, the Japanese side began to upgrade its four Kongo-class ships based on the lessons learned from that battle.

The first modernization of the Kongo began in 1928, increasing the armor protection but also reducing the speed, so the ship was upgraded to a battleship by the IJN. The second major overhaul was originally scheduled to begin in the middle of this year, but no sooner had the battleship sailed back to its home port than it received an order from the Admiralty to temporarily send it to Saturn on a "secret mission."

Thirty years ago, a war broke out between Japan and Russia in the star field of Europa Manchukuo (one of the vassals of the Tang Dynasty), and the Russian fleet from afar was almost completely wiped out by the Japanese combined fleet. Although the Japanese side won the victory, it also formed a feud with Maozi, so the Soviet Union, which was transformed from Tsarist Russia, was Japan's number one imaginary enemy at this time.

The Soviets had been trying to acquire a wooden satellite as a "springboard" between Saturn's colony and the mainland, but Japan could not tolerate this. And in this matter, Datang, as the boss of Jupiter, has never expressed his position, and Datang, who "knelt down and begged for the first shot", wished that those "Slavic-stirring sticks" would come over quickly, so as to give them the opportunity to reorganize Jupiter's circle!

In the assumption of the Japanese military, if Europa was invaded by the Soviet Union, the main force of the Combined Fleet would be responsible for resisting the Soviet fleet, and at the same time, it would send a high-speed fleet to go around behind enemy lines to copy Maozi's nest. This fleet behind enemy lines will enter the Saturn domain through Gate 3 in the rings of Saturn, and then lurk in the rings to attack the Soviet base camp at the right time.

But there is one problem that has been bothering them, and that is that the gravel on Saturn's rings is a little too big!

There are only two planets with rings in the known star field, Jupiter and Saturn, and if you add the shattered star region, there are three similar regions. Among them, the asteroids in the shattered star region are the largest, followed by Saturn's rings, and only Jupiter's rings are the most "delicate".

If the Japanese Navy wanted to send a fleet into Saturn's rings to lurk, it would have to be some flexible warships, and at the same time have enough firepower to deal with the Soviet garrison, so the main force of this fleet can be said to be the Kongo-class. And this secret operation of the King Kong is to come over in advance to "step on the spot" and get familiar with the environment.

"Arriving at the first target area, the ship was in good condition and no enemy ships were found around. Daisa Kishimoto, is the operation continuing? ”

"Have you contacted Maya and Shiyu?"

"Not yet, sir."

Inside the bridge of the King Kong, the captain of the ship, Kishimoto Kaji, who was in charge of directing the operation, kept looking at his watch with a nervous expression on his face. In addition to their King Kong, the heavy cruiser Maya and the destroyer Shiyu, who had just entered service this year, came to the field together as the wingmen of the Kongo, but the random allocation mechanism of the stargate forced them to disperse after the jump. The King Kong was the first to arrive at the assembly coordinate area, while the other two were nowhere to be seen.

From the first arrival to the present, the King Kong has been waiting for a full hour in the reserved assembly area, but the friendly forces have not shown up for a long time. Daisa Kishimoto wanted to wait for them a little longer, but the Celestial Maiden King Kong, who was sitting in the captain's seat, didn't want to wait any longer.

"If you want me to say, you don't have to wait for them! This mission is to test the feasibility of the fleet lurking in the rings, my tonnage is much larger than all of them, and if I can shuttle around the rings of Saturn with ease, then the ships below the heavy patrol should be even more so. ”

"But King Kong, you know, we need allies in battle. Maya and Shi Yu are not like you, they were assimilated using the super-regulated god core, and their performance cannot be compared to yours. ”

"Then I should let Kaohsiung and Atago, who have better performance, be my wingmen, and what is needed to carry out this special mission is elite!"

Looking at King Kong's cold expression, Kishimoto couldn't help but sigh in his heart "again".

Among the 10 large warships of the Combined Fleet, the Celestial Maiden of the King Kong is notoriously difficult to serve! As the first ship of the King Kong class, because the hull was built in the United Kingdom, the Celestial Maiden has a rather "foreign" blonde hair, and even her demeanor is quite British aristocratic style. After receiving the hull, the United Fleet also extravagantly equipped the 26,600-ton hull with a 40,000-ton god core, which made the name of "Queen Kong" quite loud in IJN.

However, as a big warship, King Kong's celestial daughter is obviously sorry for her 8 14-inch main guns! King Kong, who is 1.78 meters tall, is slightly emaciated, and among a bunch of "tall and upright" gunboats, only the "C" King Kong can be called a "rare resource"! Fortunately, the other party also has a pair of slender legs known as "IJN No. 1", which is not an ordinary path!

Glancing at his watch again, he found that it had exceeded the agreed assembly time by almost an hour and a half, and the special reconnaissance plane sent out had just returned in vain, while the communications were affected by the obscuration of a large amount of rubble around him, and he was never able to get in touch with friendly forces. In this case, Kishimoto has only two choices, one is to search for the missing friendly forces, and the other is to continue the infiltration mission, and it is obvious that King Kong will never agree to choose "one".

"Forget it! They are also well-trained Imperial Japanese Navy, and they are not children who cannot do without the care of adults, and we continue to carry out our mission and advance towards the second target area. ”

With Kishimoto's order, the Kongo immediately moved towards the second target area, and the huge hull deftly navigated through the rubble with the good cooperation of King Kong's control and the sailors of the whole ship. At this time, King Kong and her crew didn't know that as long as they could wait another 15 minutes, Maya and Shi Yu would arrive, and when she left, she completely ruined her chance of winning in the "encounter" that followed!

PS: First on the "beautiful leg King Kong"......