In the early hours of November 27, North Atlantic.

The 2nd Detachment of Destroyers in the Texas Sea, the flagship, the armored destroyer USS Maya.

It was a good day in the North Atlantic tonight, the moon was dark and the wind was high, the waves were surging, and the hull of the 3,000-ton armored ship was undulating, but there was no light shining through.

Inside the bridge, Seiichiro Nobuyo, the destroyer director of Texas Haizi, stood with his arms crossed and his beloved sword in one hand, and watched several of his disciples point to the chart and discuss calculations, his brows furrowed more and more.

As his name suggests, this man Seiichiro Shin is a man who can do anything. As a swordsman of the Tokugawa shogunate, he is proficient in the spearmanship of the Treasure Academy, the bow skills of Yoshida-ryu, and the swordsmanship of Shin-kage-ryu, known as the "gun, bow, and sword". During his tenure in Edo, he tried his martial arts against swordsmen from all over Japan many times, and he was truly the best in martial arts in Japan.

Because of his martial arts, he also won the opportunity to enter the Japanese Navy Academy, and graduated from the Naval Academy with the first place in the graduation examination. After graduation, he was sent by the shogunate to study in the Ming Dynasty, and worshiped under Zhuge Weiyi, then the director of the Daming Naval Staff College, to learn the "Zhuge Liuhai Tactics", and also got the "true biography" of Zhuge Weiyi, and learned the unique "night battle secret technique".

After returning to Japan after completing his studies, Seiichiro Nobuyo entered the shogunate navy, and because he was a "Zhuge descendant" and the first master of martial arts in Japan, he was prosperous in the shogunate navy and soon became the deputy director of the naval training institute. also got 1,000 Shi Jialu and became the high-level flag of the shogunate, and when he saw that he was about to reach the peak of his life, no one thought that the Japanese navy would be inexplicably gone.

It's not that he was wiped out, but under the oppression of the absolute superiority of the Ming Navy, he didn't have it, which was really embarrassing. Perhaps because the collapse of the shogunate navy was too aggrieved, Seiichiro Nobutomo Otani did not enter the newly established shogunate coast guard, but opened a dojo to teach him the three unique "guns, bows, and swords", until his friend Enomoto Takeki came to ask him to join the Tokushu Kaizun not long ago......

Originally, Enomoto Takeki wanted his friend to command the frigate detachment, but because Nobuyo Oya couldn't fly an airplane, and he didn't believe that a small wooden biplane could sink a large battleship, he joined the destroyer detachment as a commissioner.

As a result, after the Battle of Norfolk Harbor and the Air Raid on New York, Nobuyo Otani regretted it...... He has been a "Jingichiro" for more than 30 years, but he has committed a mistake in his own specialty (navy) and has become an outdated warship faction.

However, he didn't have the heart to think about "jumping back" to the air faction now, because Saigo Takamori gave him an extremely difficult task when he evacuated the waters off the coast of New York - to break off the rear and prepare for a night battle with the enemy!

It was not easy to accomplish this task, because the position of the Haizi Air Force when it withdrew from the waters off New York was not good - there was no sea to the north and west of the New York coast, which was the American continent, and the fleet of the Haizi certainly could not run in those two directions. On the other hand, the US armored cruiser unit pursuing the naval air force occupied a position southeast of New York in advance, and the naval air force could easily be intercepted regardless of whether it was south, east, or southeast.

So Saigo Takamori could only run southwest with the fleet, that is, along the east coast of the United States...... Of course, such a run is not very ideal, and it is easy to be blocked by the main force of the US Atlantic Fleet running out of the Gulf of Mexico; Second, it's too easy to be exposed - you have to be exposed as soon as the morning dawns! Even if it is not dawn, you have to carefully turn off the lights and sail at night, for fear of being spotted by American ships on the shore or passing by.

But this is not the worst, the most suffered is that the armored destroyers under Otani are too slow!

These so-called armored destroyers are actually outdated "old ships" (the age of the ships is actually not long, but the performance is too outdated), not to mention the small physique of more than 3,000 tons, and the speed is not as fast as the two aircraft-carrying frigates of more than 20,000 tons...... It's not a little bit worse, it's a whole 5 verses! Akagi and Kaga, which were converted from civilian ships, now have a speed of 23 knots, while the "Kokuko"-class loading and patrolling (now loading) is only 18 knots!

So when he ran away, Saigo thought that the 6 armored destroyers protecting the aircraft-carrying frigates were too cumbersome, so he simply dumped them and left first...... The male valley doesn't know what to say? Since Akagi and Kaga are so capable, do they still need protection? Can't they just play with the two boats themselves? There were fights and planes, two ships and 80 planes flew out, and the enemy couldn't bear such a bombing even if there were a few battleships! Running away, they're still fast, 23 knots! The battleships and armored cruisers that can catch up with them at the moment must be Daming's own. So I ran away as soon as I ran. Even if the enemy sent destroyers to chase after them, the two aircraft-carrying frigates also had a lot of 155 mm naval guns, which was enough for self-defense.

Therefore, Otani's destroyer detachment is indeed a burden......

But Saigo is a burden to him, and he can't give up on himself! You have to try to escape, and you have to prepare for a night fight! Because Otani knows very well that he can't escape with a speed of 18 knots!

Now he is being pursued by a detachment of armored cruisers of the American Atlantic Fleet! Although there were only six actual patrols in this detachment, it was followed by many destroyers with speeds of more than 25 knots. And those 6 outfits were faster than Otani's destroyers.

So it's only a matter of time before they catch up!

And what Nan Gu can do now is to be caught up as late as possible, and if he can be delayed until dawn, then even if he is caught up, he can ask Saigo to send a plane to help.

"Yes, the radio listens to the enemy's electronic signals!"

Just as Oya was thinking about how to delay until dawn, the voice of the communications officer suddenly interrupted his thoughts.

"Can you confirm where the radio waves are coming from?" Nan Gu hurriedly asked.

"It is impossible to determine the exact location, but it is certain that it was coming from near us, either from the US military radio station on the shore, or from ......"

Without waiting for the communications officer to finish speaking, Nobuyo Oya had already made a judgment for the first time: "Baga, I was caught up!" ”

However, he quickly regained his composure, and looked at the graduates of the former Navy Cadet who served as staff officers on the ship, "Lift the radio silence...... Send electricity to Aoba, Myoko, Haguro, Mogami, Tone, and Suzuya, and let each ship adopt Zhuge Ryu Night tactics and send elite night vision soldiers to prepare for battle! ”

"Hayin!"

The so-called "Zhuge Liuye Tactics" actually use the night to set up ambushes and launch torpedoes. It seems ordinary, but as long as it is equipped with the "night vision soldiers" selected and cultivated by the Zhuge family's secret techniques, they will be invincible.

The method of selecting "night vision soldiers" is "sea selection", as long as the population base is large enough, some "night eyes" can always be selected. After selecting the "night eyes", they must be fed cod liver and carrots, if conditions do not allow, they should be fed cod liver oil directly, and they should also maintain enough sleep during their duties, and it is forbidden to use their eyes excessively...... It is said that this was used by King Zhuge Wuzhong to train elite soldiers in night battles when he fought the Manchurians.

......

"Lieutenant General, Rear Admiral Perry's callback...... He had already led a detachment of battleships through the Florida Strait and was heading north along the Florida Peninsula. ”

At the same time, inside the bridge of the USS Pennsylvania, David. Potter was standing on the bridge, lights out, looking out at the darkness, his brow furrowed...... I've been chasing for hours, and I haven't seen the shadow of the enemy, is it the wrong direction? It will be dawn in a while, and if you can't catch up, I'm afraid you'll really lose it.

As soon as he thought of this, a bright and dazzling fireball suddenly appeared in the southwest sky!

At this moment, David, who has become accustomed to the dark night. Potter's eyeballs were nowhere to be seen except for the flares that suddenly appeared in the distance. But his heart is like a mirror, this is ...... Caught up!