Once the U.S. Navy is severely damaged, Yamamoto's next step may be to occupy Hawaii, so that all the major U.S. Navy positions in the Pacific will be removed, and even if it has an overwhelming fleet in the future, it will have to shrink to the west coast, and there will be no battle for the Pacific.

Sasaki Osa waited for the appearance of the optimal distance, apparently the enemy had bitten the hook and decided that he was fast enough. The fleet, consisting of an old battleship and 3 destroyers, was coming in a rage.

However, the Chitose is currently in an unfavorable direction in the encounter, mainly because the sun may interfere with the operator's operations. Another aspect is the principles set by Makino. Makino's hypothetical battlefield has no aerial observation points, and the attack ship hides in a far corner of the chaotic battlefield to carry out sneak attacks, like snipers on the ground battlefield, so that the climb stage of the sea skimming the sea is not easy to detect, and the final hit stage is easy to be mistaken for a suicide plane. Makino realized that the weakness of this weapon was the radio control part, which was easy to interfere with, so he wanted to delay as much as possible the enemy's insight into the guidance principle.

Of course, patience can increase chances, but risks are also accumulating. The Chitose had already entered the range of the curved fire of the enemy's main guns. From time to time, enemy shells fell within a radius of several hundred meters in the periphery. A huge column of water was stirred.

Due to the presence of a seaplane, it is a great threat to the enemy's long-range attack, and it is not easy to see the distance between the water column and the warship with the optical rangefinder on the Tennessee alone, and make further corrections.

Osa stood on the bridge, ignoring the constant sound of explosions and splashing in his ears, praying for the coming of martial arts.

A dark cloud on the horizon was slowly approaching, and it seemed that there was a tendency to devour that round of the sun, and the time for Dazuo guidance was almost up, and finally after the battle alarm, the next order was issued: "The main weapon is ready to shoot." ”

Immediately on the aft deck, soldiers ran to untie the heavy tarpaulin, revealing the last two in the row*.

Eight of them on the battleship were mounted on four launch pads that could rotate 360 degrees. This clumsy design, which wastes too much space, makes it necessary to install a huge launch platform, and the original destroyer platform is not enough, and only such a platform of about 10,000 tons can be used.

There are two launch rails on each launch pad, and the rails have a fixed elevation angle of 25 degrees, in order to give * a certain climb angle and increase the range.

* Control system, just behind the bridge, the original location of the anti-aircraft gun command post, the 5-meter rangefinder above has been removed, replaced with a huge pointing antenna for control*, and two angle tracking devices are used below for manual guidance. And this set of backward firing control can only fire two missiles at a time (the Kagoshima Naval Weapons Test Site can guide three missiles at the same time).

Wu Wuyun finally obscured the round of the rising sun, and Sasaki prayed that the fighter plane given by the heavens would appear, and of course he couldn't pay too much attention to Makino's rules of engagement; At the moment, there are enemy seaplanes in the sky, and one can only hope that the anti-aircraft guns will drive it far enough.

The observer hand on the American seaplane saw something peeking out on the rear deck of the enemy, which looked silver and shiny.

The US pilots suspected that the enemy might be about to take off seaplanes, but most of the cranes on this seaplane carrier had already been dismantled, and it was obvious that even if there were seaplanes, they would not be able to get into the water on their own. Of course, he immediately had a second judgment, the mothership was transformed into a serious aircraft carrier, so it could be a fighter taking off from the deck; But on second thought, the ship clearly did not have enough deck length to take off how the planes were gone.

The observer looked closely at the target, which was an aircraft with a very small wing, and did not see the propellers. There is no doubt that it should just be a large part. But why did the Japanese show the parts? And the deck of this enemy aircraft carrier is not flat, but has a protruding part. Two small planes were parked right on the bulge. Then something even more surprising happened, the two planes began to rotate slowly like turrets.

In the command cabin, Sasaki ordered the rear deck personnel to withdraw. At the same time, he ordered a 45° turn to the left to provide better observation for the shooting, and also to provide a firing range for more anti-aircraft guns on the port side, so that the hateful seaplane would not bully too much and fly closer.

The Japanese 127-mm anti-aircraft gun was an unmarked weapon, and even seaplanes, which were slow enough to reach speeds of just over 200 kilometers per hour, could not pose a threat, and in fact, there was no record of such weapons shooting down enemy aircraft since the beginning of the war. Enemy pilots, if they were careful, would gradually realize that they were all rubbish, and that was the case now, and the plane had turned back. But with a couple of 40-mm anti-aircraft guns on the piercing, at least it was effective in driving out enemy aircraft.

It was not until the Chitose was fixed, and the captain of the American ship on the Tennessee in the distance, realized that the enemy had given up on escaping, and it exposed the port side to himself, so that his pursuit time could be cut in half.

Of course, Captain Bengtsen did not understand very well the intentions of the Japanese in doing so. If it was a cruiser with heavy guns on the side of the city, of course, it could be explained that it was fighting itself with the use of side guns, but it does not make sense now, because the enemy had only a few anti-aircraft guns on the side of 127 mm.

Captain Bengtson received a report from a seaplane that behind the enemy's hull there was a kind of follow-up launcher. It has a considerable rotation angle. This is consistent with the latest information obtained by naval intelligence that the Japanese are installing large multi-barrel* launchers on some old ships. This is the third judgment that the observer has made about Sakura* today, and although it is all wrong, it is fair to say that it is actually very common sense.

The pilot observed that this * was very large, more than 600 millimeters in diameter as indicated by intelligence, close in size to a small aircraft, and had a peculiar appearance, and he had already taken photographs.

Bentsen didn't care, it's not that he wasn't afraid*, but he had a seaplane in the sky, occupying air supremacy, and he could get the enemy's *launching, as well as*underwater navigation directions, and other information at the first time, and it was not difficult to dodge.

Sure enough, the Japanese lost their minds and were ready to fight desperately, he did not expect the enemy to run far, and Bentson ordered the front main gun to suspend firing, since the enemy exposed the side side. He could have waited a little longer, until it came into straight ballistic range of the main gun, and then destroyed it in a much more effective way. Sometimes it was really hard for him to understand how the Japanese behaved. Obviously, he was already close to the coast, and if he held out for a few more hours, he would enter the protective distance of his own aircraft, but he would use the wrong way to confront a powerful battleship head-on.

Sasaki ordered a telegram to be sent in the telegraph room informing the shore-based aviation of the Navy to take off, and to approach him, he broke the radio silence, not only to mend the sword with the help of those planes (Sakura* did not hit the heavy armored ship to grasp), but to have a few more witnesses. The reason why he never sent the telegram was because he was worried that the enemy would intercept the telegram and run away.

The first cherry blossom* soars into the air, dragging a white trail into the air. The seaplane pilot, who was flying under the clouds, found that the enemy had successfully taken off a small flying chess, quickly climbed to half the height of himself, and flew straight for the Tennessee. The pilot suddenly realized what he saw - it was a large * propelled by some kind of rocket (his fourth judgment today).

Sure enough, the "*" immediately began to lose altitude and looked like it would soon fall into the water. He really couldn't figure out the significance of the Japanese in developing this weapon, even if there was rocket propulsion, at a long distance, it was impossible to have any accuracy.

Then the second one took off, followed by the first. The pilot clearly saw that the thing did not have any cockpit, which ruled out the possibility of a suicide plane.

Inside the bridge of the Chitose, Sasaki stopped all command to operate the ship, he knew the principle of this weapon's attack, and any slight change in the direction of the tracking platform before it hit the target would increase the difficulty of tracking.

In the control room, two groups of people are stalking their targets with wide eyes. Without daylight interference, they could see the flickering green light on one of the wings, and they used it to aim at the huge battleship hull, while another group of people constantly controlled* the altitude to prevent them from falling into the water, and the next batch of Makino's design could already control the altitude automatically through radio altimetry equipment, but this was not possible at the moment.

In fact, the launcher has already given * the basic direction, all they have to do is fine-tune, without which it is simply impossible to hit the frontal projection of the target at a distance of 20 km, and it is estimated that the enemy's aerial eyeline should not be able to see these fine-tunings.

The American pilot in the air, watching the two air* staggered past him, headed straight for the Tennessee, and he calmly told the battleship to evade. The Tennessee began to turn to the left, and it was clear that with any maneuver, it could easily dodge such a childish attack. But soon after, the pilot seemed to observe a change in the angle of the two things in the air, and he couldn't believe his eyes, but the steam trail in the air clearly showed that they were turning at the same time, but the angle of rotation was very small, and it was hard to believe that the two * were doing such an action at the same time, and the wake in the air was parallel. The pilot guessed that it couldn't be the pilot hidden inside, right? This is his fifth conjecture of the day, and he has completely lost his mind.

He again called the battleship for a greater maneuver.

The Tennessee immediately made a 45° rudder turn, which was a rather sharp turn that could take full advantage of the 20-knots staggered approaching angle.

The unthinkable has reappeared. The two* turns again, this time clearly visible. They changed course almost immediately following the maneuver of the battleship.

The turn in Tennessee, which caused the starboard side to be exposed. The first* lowered its height and swooped straight to the side. The ship's anti-aircraft guns were never fully prepared and could only rush into battle. The barrage missed with a huge error*. * Plunged headlong into the side side of the secondary gun. The Japanese operators practiced the basic skills so hard that they were almost blind, and finally reaped the results. If this subsonic * hits the armor belt, the power will not be visible. However, it chose a weaker position and swooped down at an angle, attacking the thinner Vault.

700 kg combat explosion with a large hole on the right side. The second* arrived later, with slightly worse altitude control, but directly hit the command bridge.

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