The second* blew up half of the officers on the bridge of the battle, and the entire ship lost its command. The previous rudder order was still carried out, and so far, the Tennessee has fired more than 100 shells (80% of which are secondary ammunition), and not a single shot has hit the Chitose, and none of them have come close to within 100 meters. And the Chitose fired back with two*, with a 100% hit rate. According to Makino's estimates, the actual combat hit rate of his first batch of actual combat * is about 33%, which has just solved the problem of automatic driving and radio control, but operational difficulties still exist, specifically, ranging and altitude measurement, two difficulties involving radio technology have not been solved. However, thanks to the efforts of the first batch of trained operators on the Chitose, they have achieved extraordinary results.

Makino was a very attentive man, and he systematically divided his limited operators into two groups, one of which accompanied the warship on a mission, and the other remained in Kagoshima for testing and training of newcomers, and also to adapt to the guided weapons of the new radar system. Of course, the group of people who remained in Kagoshima had already been killed and wounded, and it was a huge disruption to his plan.

Sasaki ordered the second launch pad on * ready for launch. He ordered a slowdown to 12 knots to provide more stable launch tracking conditions.

The American battleships are still powered, but they have lost their command and are still struggling at sea, and the battleships have backup command centers, but it will take more time to recover from the blow.

The US military observers in the air saw the entire process of the attack, and the pilots observed that those two things were not only powerful but also extremely powerful. The fire on the superstructure is still spreading, and it is estimated that it will no longer be severely damaged by the enemy, and it will be able to barely go back. But the ugly and abnormal Japanese ship that was refitted, suddenly changed from a live target with no bad hands to a super battleship with 100 shots, and it will definitely not easily circumnavigate the Tennessee.

The USS Tennessee is an old ship that has come back from the dead, and the Navy sees it as an immortal bird that has been reborn from the ashes, but this time, he probably won't be reborn again.

Of course, the seaplane still had enough fuel to fly back to the Solomon Islands' airfield or seaport, and the pilots and observers continued to circle around the Chitose, knowing that they had encountered the enemy's powerful new weapons today, and that it was imperative that they take clearer pictures. Preferably a photo of it flying in the air. This will allow the Navy to find a response as soon as possible.

At this moment, the rear deck of the Chitose became noisy again, and someone untied a tarpaulin to reveal a launch stand. Observers in the air could barely see with 25x telescopes that the ugly ship had four launch pads, two of which were covered with cloth, and were by no means part of an airplane, nor a boost* or human-operated suicide plane, but a radio-controlled weapon.

Relying on the judgment of the Bachelor of Engineering, his conclusions were getting closer and closer to the truth, and there was no response to Tennessee's calls, but his shortwave communications were still intercepted by several US military radio stations in the Solomon Islands.

Judging from the current situation, there are 8 such things in total, but the enemy does not seem to have the ability to fire a salvo, which may be limited by the ability of radio control, and the observer can already guess at the moment. To a certain extent, this time the Chitose counterattacked and showed its strength, in fact, the gains outweighed the losses.

The observer watched as the third and fourth* took off and flew towards the target. He instructed the pilots to lower the altitude, trying to fly side by side with one of them for some time. Although Sakura* was more than twice as fast as the biplane seaplane, this time he was able to shoot it from a very close distance*. Then they watched * go away and hit the target again. The fourth* passed over the warship, with a pronounced dive angle, and fell into the sea one kilometer behind the warship and exploded. Again, this was lost, revealing a new message - the enemy's tactics of attacking the Dome at a certain dive angle were obvious, but there was a chance to it. He jotted down these details and waited for the third attack of the enemy.

But at this time he could not help but be vigilant about his own safety, although for about 2 hours, no one in the entire battlefield could threaten him, and the plane, which had only one machine gun, became the one that seized air supremacy. But every few minutes, he had to debug and monitor several channels, which were usually used by Japanese naval pilots. Due to Japan's backward radio technology, there are usually only a few public channels, and once communication is launched, it is easy to spot.

This time he heard a very clear call in Japanese, he couldn't understand Japanese, but he knew that it was the Japanese naval aviation approaching, usually the distance of these radio communications was uncertain, sometimes he could hear someone's call from 5000 thousand kilometers away, but most of the time, such a clear voice must be nearby.

It's time to escape, there is only one important thing left today, which is to run for his life, he has too many details to report to his superiors.

Japanese dive bombers flew out of the clouds and saw black smoke rushing into the sky. Everything is as described on the Chitose radio, a huge American warship, escorted by six warships. It looked like it had been blown up, but it showed no signs of sinking, and it was heading southeast, still at a high speed. Seven bombers quickly pounced. The Chitose had stopped firing, because Sakura's armor-piercing ability obviously didn't do enough damage to the main armor belt, and it was useless to fight more, and now the Chitose was hurrying to Rabaul, and then to the assembly area in the Torres Strait, if it was possible to replenish the 4 Sakura eggs launched before the big battle.

Sasaki Osaku has already begun to ponder new tactics, the advantages of this weapon are obvious, but the disadvantages are also exposed, that is, the lack of speed, and the lack of a decisive killing effect on heavily armored targets, he is ready to submit a report, based on his observations today. In his opinion, the rational approach was to fire only 1 or 2 shots at a time, destroying only the enemy's bridges and superstructures, disrupting the command, and not wasting valuable ammunition attacking other parts.

The attacking light bombers came from the aircraft carrier Soryu, which was sunk by 419 when a ship-attacking unit was on standby, and now they have been reduced to a land-based air force, waiting for a new carrier.

They pounced on their target and prepared to deliver the final blow. The lead captain saw the biplane fleeing in the desert and was trying to hide in the clouds, but the seaplane was too weak to climb up for a while. The 99 attack had a good speed, and if it caught up, it would be able to break the plane to pieces, but the pilot felt that the small plane was insignificant, and it was the right thing to knock out the battleship, so no one fired at it, and all of them rushed towards the Tennessee.

A year ago, many pilots here saw the ship from the sights. Their basic skills in identifying enemy ships have been painstakingly trained, and they cannot be deceived by modifications of the superstructure. The Japanese pilots were so angry that the enemy ships that had already been destroyed appeared again, which meant that they had lied to the emperor in the first place, which was a seppuku sin.

The planes whizzed down, tilting down 250 kg* towards the target, and the escorting American light cruisers tried to counterattack with anti-aircraft guns, but were attacked by Japanese planes together, and the Japanese spared the smaller destroyers. These veterans were too arrogant to look down on the boats, let alone a seaplane.

The battle lasted 15 minutes, and the cruisers Tennessee and Juno were sunk by the fierce Japanese troops, who lost 1 bomber and 2 pilots.

At the same time, Akira Kagesa is in deep danger, and the Kagoshima Sakura bullet accidental injury incident has caused a huge panic in the upper echelons. Because it looks like a deliberate murder, it is likely to be an act of internal and external collusion.

The army ordered Shadow Zuo Zhenzhao to report to the East Economic Staff Headquarters 24 hours a day to explain the reason. Because he should be idle at the moment, but he appeared there, and he also mobilized troops, obviously he couldn't get out of the whole thing. Of course, the mobilization of the gendarmerie cannot be done by his personnel relations alone, so there must be someone behind it. This time, in addition to the special plane, there were also several gendarmes from the Tokyo Military Police. Except that he was not handcuffed, it was no different from an escort.

Kagesato was still on the plane, and the order had been changed to tell him to go directly to the base camp. The base camp has long been aware of a small circle that connects Tokyo's political circles, university academia, and front-line generals, including the shadow of Ishihara Waner.

Until then, Tojo had been unimpressed, believing that during the war, it was not appropriate to rush into internal purges. The Kagoshima incident finally triggered his greatest sense of crisis.

Kagesa Zhenzhao knew that the only way to save himself was to report everything to the cabinet, and he had always felt that he was not sure that it might affect Makino, but this time it was self-defeating and really forced things to this point.

As soon as he arrived at the base camp, he was placed under house arrest in the officers' quarters, and two people were watching him at all times to prevent him from committing suicide. He asked to see Tojo himself immediately, but Tojo did not want to see him, and only asked him to write a written report first, but Kagesa refused to make a report, and the two sides were deadlocked for several days. Soon Kishi Nobusuke sent news that the South Pacific Sakura* victory was a great victory.

Kagesa realized that the victory had come too well, and now he was sure that he would tell the whole story.

He exchanged information with Kishi Nobusuke, who also felt that there was no choice, because the signs of the existence of the enemy who crossed through were already very obvious (the hit rate of the Kagoshima shooting range was too high, killing and wounding more than 400 people), and it was difficult to deal with such a serious situation with the original plan of seeking safety. Therefore, it is necessary to convince the Imperial Cabinet to tilt the national power of Japan as a whole in the right direction.

With the plan decided, Kishi Nobusuke solemnly called Tojo and asked for a secret hearing in which Kagesa Yoshiaki would explain the whole situation, which would affect Japan's national fortunes for the next 1,000 years. Tojo listened in a fog, but he still sensed that the situation was a little serious, and readily agreed to the hearing.

419 stayed near Kagoshima for two days to gather information on the results of the battle. Judging from the images at that time, if Makino was present, he would definitely die, but Lin Xiuxuan felt bottomless, because since the crossing, nothing could be so easy to achieve. At the moment, the big battle between Japan and the United States in the Torres Strait is about to start, so it is better to go there and have a look first.