ACT484: Burning Star-Spangled Banner
When the Japanese aircraft carrier mobile unit launched a surprise attack, the eight battleships and more than half of the combat ships of the US Pacific Fleet were anchored in Pearl Harbor, and without exception, they were on defenseless leave.
Because the night before the attack, not only the sailors went ashore in style, but even the main ladies of the fleet ran to the local beer festival en masse, and they were drunk one by one. It wasn't until the devil's bomb torpedo was dropped on their hull that these stupid girls who had slept on the lawn in the park all night were woken up by sudden pain.
Then, they saw a scene that they may never forget in their lives!
For the nearly 200,000 residents living in Pearl Harbor, Chavier is their sun and moon, and the giant divine core never stops radiating light. But just now, 12 Japanese planes from unknown sources attacked the goddess's palace, and the crowd on the ground was horrified to see that the light of the main hall, which was still emitting moonlight brilliance, was rapidly dimming, and the entire asteroid trembled violently.
Seeing this scene, humans may not be able to react for a while, but the ship girl, who also has a divine core structure, knows very well what is happening in front of her. Coupled with the constant pain of the hull's injuries, these capital ship ladies just glanced at each other, and they invariably used the "emergency teleportation" skill.
As soon as they returned, they were stunned by what they saw!
“HOLY…… SHIT! What's going on!? ”
As soon as she returned to her ship, Arizona could not stand her feet when a Japanese Zero swooped down and fired at her hull, instantly sweeping her proud teak deck into a mess.
Arizona, who was splashed with sawdust and all sorts of strange things, reached out and plucked a piece of slimy stuff from her cheek, and was stunned to find that it was actually a piece of minced meat of sailors, and she hurriedly threw it out.
Although the exact circumstances are not yet known, Arizona knows that they have been attacked!
While urgently mobilizing the ship's weapons and began to return fire. Arizona ran towards her bridge. She had just taken a cursory glance around, and there was a squadron of enemy planes in her large berth. There was just enough space here for these nimble fighters to move around, and the huge battleships couldn't even dodge half of it.
To make matters worse, the USS Arizona was a standard fleet-type battleship, with full firepower concentrated on the upper deck, and only one observation "third bridge" at the bottom of the ship, not even an anti-aircraft machine gun.
In desperation, Arizona started the engine without waiting for her captain to flee outside to join the other sisters, but her actions led to more attacks for herself. First, a dive bomber made a hole in the foredeck of her fourth turret. Then another bomber arrived, dropping an 800-kilogram bomb on the foredeck ammunition depot with precision.
Originally, Arizona had already noticed the bomber and, in accordance with the American-style "key defense" code, predicted the bomb point in advance and concentrated its defensive stance. But this bombshell is not an ordinary cargo, but a special "acid bomb", and the defensive position of the ship mother cannot effectively defend against erosion.
Arizona could only watch as his foredeck collapsed, causing heavy damage to the No. 1 turret on which the director had been loaded, malfunctioning, and detonating the entire ammunition depot. The front of the hull suddenly inflated and burst like a balloon. This battleship, which was more than 30,000 tons, was turned into a pile of burning scrap metal in just a few seconds.
The sinking of the Arizona immediately boosted the morale of the surrounding Japanese pilots, and at the same time gave them the confidence to fight big. And for the US military officers and soldiers. The fact that such a huge battleship was blown up by a small plane was clearly unacceptable to them.
As the air raids continued, more and more U.S. warships began to suffer, and the Japanese pilots who participated in the first wave of attacks did not expect the surprise attack to be so smooth. Their original task was to give priority to the destruction of the main target's steering gear and propellers. Incapacitate them and provide assistance for the second wave of the "Knife Repair Team".
But the sinking of the Arizona greatly stimulated the pilots' desire to pursue their exploits, and many bombers and attack planes dropped bombs and torpedoes. He still can't get enough of strafing with machine guns. Among the capital ships of the US army, the battleships California, Maryland, Oklahoma, and West Virginia were severely damaged under the first wave of attacks and were incapacitated one after another.
On the Japanese side, although the first wave of attack teams had run out of heavy weapons, the second wave of 167 planes had already stormed Pearl Harbor. At the first corner of the main passage, they met the USS Nedahua, which was about to rush out to settle accounts with the enemy carriers.
So while the other side had not yet increased speed, the Japanese planes pounced on the Nedawa, which was in a slightly injured state, like flies seeing carrion. The dive bomber formation cleaned the superstructure with bombs, and the Nedava burst into flames and crashed headlong into the corner wall.
So far, the Japanese army has successfully achieved its operational intentions and inflicted heavy losses on the main force of the US Pacific Fleet. Even the Pennsylvania, which was under repair, was not spared as it had been in another plane, and a Zero found her and hovered nearby, ready to guide the second wave of attackers.
The Japanese were determined to destroy all 8 battleships, but the fly in the ointment was that they did not see a single aircraft carrier in the harbor. This situation has been fed back to the mothership by the first wave of attack teams, and Yamaguchi Tarumi strongly urges that the troops be divided to search the nearby star fields, and it is best to let the two high-speed battleships Hiei and Kirishima who have just joined them form a hunting team, but Nagumo Tadaichi believes that attacking Pearl Harbor is the first priority.
In addition, before leading the team to set off, the chief of the military command department, Admiral Nagano Shushen, had privately told Nagumo, asking him to bring back every aircraft carrier safely, so Nagumo was also extremely careful in his actions, and he asked the support fleet to be tightly guarded around the aircraft carrier mobile force until they returned victoriously.
Seeing that the battle was progressing smoothly, Nagumo continued to send the good news to the general headquarters in the Shattered Star District, and Yamamoto Fifty-six, who was personally in command, was very satisfied with the results obtained.
But just as they were feeling the victory in front of them, a staff officer suddenly ran in from outside in a panic and handed a telegram to Yamamoto. Yamamoto only glanced at it, and his face changed dramatically! (To be continued......)
PS: I'm now terrified of the ringtone of incoming calls on my phone!