The enemy's shells and their own shells exploded around the Wumeng Mountain. The orange-red signal sent repeatedly was useless because the distance was too far and visibility was too poor. Moreover, during night battles, Xi'an-class heavy patrols rely entirely on radioactive fire-controlled radar to guide artillery, so the weak signal is likely to be regarded as the flash point of the shell by the lookout hand, which provides coordinates for the Kumano 8 kilometers away. "Boom!" A 210mm shell exploded at the stern of the ship, and the water column arched the stern and tilted to the right. After Yang Tiancheng tried hard to stand firm, he found that the speed of the destroyer began to drop rapidly.

"What's going on? Is there a shot?"

"It's the propeller, and the right paddle seems to be hit by a near-bounce..."

"This is to kill me!" Yang Tiancheng and the officers sighed to the sky. What's the difference between destroyers without speed and targets? What's more annoying is that the sound seems to be their own 210mm shell! It's really bloody. If you can fight to this level, you can't describe it as unlucky. "Captain, what should you do?" The long-haired face was twisted, and his crooked mouth kept twitching.

"If you fight, you can't be a martyr!" Since you can't escape, Yang Tiancheng simply broke the cannon and gave up. Anger came from his heart, and evil was on the verge of courage. Anyway, no matter which side, he would have to kill one, otherwise he would die. So he grabbed the long collar of the gun and cannon: "Has the torpedo been reinstalled?"

"Four pieces have been loaded."

"Okay, listen to my command and prepare to launch!"

"Start? Captain, whom to launch..."

"Barring!" Yang Tiancheng glared at the dumb gun captain, picked up the phone and shouted: "The main gun listens to my order, prepares the air defense bullets, and reports the distance of Japan's heavy patrol."

"8500 yards, 8000 yards... Boom boom boom... Port side, near missing bullets! Water on the deck... 7500 yards, 7000 yards! Full left rudder, launching torpedoes at Kumano!" After Yang Tiancheng gave the order, the swaying Wumengshan used his only propeller to quickly turn right and shoot four torpedoes to Kumano. Without waiting for the torpedo to hit the target, he shouted again: "Main gun, air defense high inclination, fire at full speed!"

"Boom boom boom..." Three double-connected 120mm high-level dual-purpose cannons spray shells into the night sky at a speed of 16 rounds per minute. The shells soared into the sky form a string of dark red flowing colors, which is particularly obvious on rainy nights.

"Sir, it seems something is wrong!" This series of shells finally made the Kunming re-scheduled, who was leading the way, feel strange. You know. It's midnight now, and it's wind and rain outside. Who would be full and go on an air defense battle? "Do you want to surrender? Temporarily cease fire! Use the international channel to call for the target..." The Kunming captain immediately called for a stop to the shelling, and asked the officer to use the international channel to call the small dots aimed by the radio radar. But no matter how hard the correspondent tried, the radio waves were like mud bulls entering the sea without any news.

"Captain, the distance is approaching!" The captain of the Kunming was confused, but the distance he kept approaching made him dare not do anything randomly. Just as he was about to re-aircraft, a fireball lit up behind the "Japanese ship" that was firing in the sky. "Bastard! Are you here! Japanese bastards, want to hit me, practice for a few more years!" When the gambling torpedo finally hit the Kumano, Yang Tiancheng and the sailors went crazy. They had no image at all. They waved their hands, jumped their feet, and shouted hysterically to vent their anger of being chased and beaten just now.

"Sir! I found Morse Code. The warship that was shooting towards the sky was sending Morse Code." At this time, the lookout hand of the Kunming finally found the mast light signal that appeared and appeared in the waves in the dark red fire line.

"say what?"

"Say, say..."

"Speak quickly, what are you saying!"

"Signal said. I am Wumengshan, and that bastard beat me..."

“…….”

The Wumeng Mountain was saved. Although the light signal can make people crazy, you can't continue to fire at your comrades just because you were scolded a few times, right?

From running the wrong path, to miraculously crossing the enemy fleet to sneak attacking the Hazel-Name battleship, to being aimed and pinched by 28 main guns from both sides, after being shot by hundreds of shells, they also counterattacked with torpedoes to hit the bow of the heavy cruise ship of the Japanese Kumano. Finally, they could think of using anti-aircraft guns to notify their comrades with extremely poor visibility... The Wumengshan this night was a legend. The most incredible thing is that after being punished overnight, the Wumengshan destroyer actually only scratched the mast, and the right screw

The propeller was smashed off by a near-missile bomb, and four sailors were slightly injured. For a time, the reputation of "Lucky Ship" spread all over the world. Afterwards, the Wumeng Mountain was awarded the first-class collective merit by the Navy, and both Yang Tiancheng and the officers were awarded the Congress medal. Under the strong publicity of the reporters, the director even took a fancy to this story and adapted it into a movie called "Lonely Hunting", which not only allowed Yang Tiancheng and Wumeng Mountain to have Yu Xiao overnight, but also allowed him to inherit his father's business thirty years later and was elected as president of the Republic of China.

The Kunming and Nanning were able to correct their mistakes, so they immediately reset the target and aimed the fire control radar at the Kumano heavy cruiser that caught fire on the bow.

At 1:30 a.m. on April 16, seven hours before the typhoon landed, and later the outpost of the Ryukyu naval battle, which was later known as the world's largest naval battle, the Battle of Nanomea entered the ** (the naval battle location is in the Nanumea Atoll). The Nanning and Kunming, who found that they had missed the target, adjusted in time. Under the guidance of the fire control radar, they successfully locked the Japanese Kumano heavy cruiser that escaped from the Mariana naval battle. As a treaty heavy patrol specially targeted against the Taiwan Island-class, Kumano was even more unlucky than the Umengshan because it not only entered the lightning, but its speed decreased by 5 knots, but it was facing two Xi'an-class heavy cruisers with a standard displacement of 18,700 tons.

A gun battle that can be called "deck washing" began. In just eight minutes, 18 210mm/l56 naval guns with a rate of fire as high as 8 per minute were guided by four radioactive fire-controlled radars, Kumano, which had a significant slowdown, poured 522 330 kilograms of superheavy armor-piercing shells out of 14,000. Even though the hit rate was only 10%, even the battleships would tremble. One after another, the shells drilled into weak armor and exploded, residential cabins, boiler cabins, power cabins, etc. From a distance, the entire warship was covered by fireballs.

When the Kumano was beaten by two Xi'an-class ships, the Ninghai and Dinghai battleships there began a "cannon training" battle. Xu Zengtang, who had sunk the Japanese Aoba heavy cruiser in the naval battle of Cape Cabo, did not expect such a scene. When he brought two battleships to approach Hazel, thinking that there would be a bloody artillery battle between dragons and tigers, he found that Hazel's deck had been tilted 11 degrees and the eight main guns could not aim at it.

It's a great opportunity to beat the dog in the water!

Xu Zengtang did not hesitate and ordered to close to 15,000 meters, and used 18 l55/330mm naval guns to stage a "tragic" artillery battle. Within 27 minutes, Hatsune only fired three rounds of volleys, and none of them hit. On the contrary, under the guidance of radioactive fire-controlled radar, Ninghai and Dinghai hit the opponent 83 consecutive times, not only swept the entire superstructure of Hatsune, but also continuously hit the opponent's main waterline armor belt. In the end, the extremely penetrating 330mm shells hit the turret ground wells and ammunition depots continuously. After several earth-shaking explosions, nearly 30,000 tons of Hatsune battleship broke into three parts, and led Kimura Min and other 1,315 Japanese naval officers and soldiers, sank in the deep sea 110 nautical miles northeast of the atoll.

At five o'clock in the morning, the Battle of Nanomea ended, and both Hazel and Kumano were sunk. Two Japanese special cruisers and 12 merchant ships were sunk. All the remaining 21 merchant ships were captured. Only the faster Guying and Kagu re-scheduled, taking advantage of the opportunity of low visibility on the sea surface to escape back to Rabaul.

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In the Ogasawara Islands, in the Xiangtou Bay to the east of Kazushima, Nagato and Muro are docked side by side, next to them are the battleships of the King Kong and Hiei.

In the open front of the bay, the six fleets of Shochi, Aolong, Flying Dragon, Flying Eagle, Flying Eagle and Ryufeng were parked on the six fleets or modified aircraft carriers, and the carrier-based aircraft were filled with carrier-based aircraft, Ligan, Fukuma, Myoka, Nachi, Atsuki, Hachiki, Kaohsiung, Atogo, Maya and Torihiro ten heavy patrols in the middle, and at the outermost part there were Abukuma, Isuzu, Named, Kinfuri, Agano, Yakushi, Eight light patrols and more than thirty destroyers.

This is the most powerful lineup of the Japanese joint fleet. In just half a year, the Rising Sun Flag quickly retreated and defeated in the Pacific Ocean with a series of sunk lists. In addition to hiding in the Yamato and Musashi, which were preparing for the final battle, only the Philippines' Fourth Fleet and Rabaul's Sixth Fleet remained in the Pacific Ocean at this time.

Amid the rush of footsteps, Ugaki, chief of staff of the United Fleet, grabbed the telegram and quickly walked into the commander tower of the Nagato, tilted his head, and placed his hands in front of Izuru Yamamoto: "General, it is Kimura's kun...Telephone of loyalty!"

"Finally loyal?" The officers such as Tsukahara Nishisan and Tadaichi Nagamoto who were next to him heard these two words and suddenly suddenly rose up seriously and looked at the expressionless Isoroku Yamamoto.

"He is a good captain, but he did not do his duty." Yamamoto Iroku seemed to have expected it, picked up the telegram and took a look at it, and then placed it on the table lightly. Although he pretended to be a god and as if nothing had happened, he was actually very distressed. Because the joint fleet stopped here, half of the reason was waiting for news about Hazel. According to his vision, if Hazel could break out, then he would do his main force, regardless of Ryukyu, headed straight to Wake Island and Marshall, and reopened the Coral Sea channel.

Because in the eyes of the Japanese Navy, as long as there is an oil channel, it is not cost-effective to fight now. At least, it must wait for the Musashi battleship to be installed. Then rely on the army to greatly consume the opponent on Ryukyu Island and then attack the opponent unexpectedly. However, Kimura Jin failed to complete the task, not only announced that the Coral Island Channel had been closed, but the Japanese Navy had completely failed in the South Pacific, but also made the joint fleet pointless to continue to move south.

Since the road to the south is completely broken, there is only the last work left.

Battle early!

"Kuroshima, please contact the base camp in my name and tell the Excellency Mijiro Umezu of Okinawa to implement the J-1 combat plan."
Chapter completed!