Chapter 2655: Dark Night

"Enemy attack! Immediately notify the Canal Defense Fleet that we have been attacked! It is an attack by a large warship!" Faced with a surprise attack, the US **** fleet immediately began to implement countermeasures, Spruance immediately led a destroyer to rush towards In the distance of the behemoth, the light of the fire at the time of the shooting at the fog has outlined the approximate size of this huge ship. Spruance knew that he could not compete with such a behemoth, but the glory and responsibility of the navy made him rush without hesitation. Go up!

Half a minute later, a string of 6-inch and 4.7-inch shells roared and fell around the Asagiri, raising water columns. However, this kind of attack was not a big deal for the top former Dreadnought. The shell was easily bounced off, and the Asagiri was just a few secondary guns to deal with.

The Americans responded quickly. The destroyers and some merchant ships began to release delays to fight for the opportunity for the friendly forces to evacuate. Under the threat of a cloud of smoke and destroyer torpedoes, Asagiri seemed a little daunted, and the battleship began to take Part of the firepower was shifted from the transport ships to the U.S. Navy **** warships. The intensive bullet rain weaved a fire net on the sea to drive the American cruisers and destroyers. A large number of merchant ships began to turn and evacuated in the opposite direction. Just when the Americans thought the situation had stabilized, the sudden attack of the battleship Yamagiri completely stunned the Americans!

The American fleet almost crashed into the muzzle of the Yamagiri, and the Japanese did not hesitate to aim the main gun at the largest prey, the Chicago transport ship with a displacement of up to 12,000 tons!

"Fire! Block this guy." Chicago is a transport ship with a certain amount of equipment. The four 4.7-inch guns on the ship madly fired at the mountain mist not far away, and dense high-explosive bombs even hit the target. A fire broke out, but after a while, two 12-inch high-explosive shells hit almost simultaneously broke the spine of the warship. One shell directly hit the waterline, and the violent explosion directly opened one on the hull. It's a big hole 15 meters long! Another shell hit the rear of the hull, and the entire rudder cabin and a propeller were completely destroyed. The fire spread quickly on the hull and quickly lost control, so that the Japanese attack only lasted 5 minutes and lost interest!

With the roar of the giant artillery, the Japanese submarines quickly joined the slaughter. These **** piranhas rushed towards the target and prepared to use deck guns and torpedoes to solve these escaping prey. 15 minutes after the start of the war, a loud noise came from the battlefield. The torpedo launched by the No. 23 submarine successfully hit a transport ship full of ammunition. The explosion of thousands of tons of ammunition made the ship instantly turn into a number. Thousand tons of fragments, a huge fireball skyrocketed on the sea, illuminating the entire battlefield in an instant. And this also seems to be a signal, indicating that the battle tonight has reached the most critical moment!

In the face of never knowing how many enemy warships encircled from multiple directions, the Americans finally chose to disband the fleet, and the remaining transport ships began to pull out smoke and fled in all directions. And this situation made the Japanese warships a little blind, after all, the personnel on these assault ships were not as good as regular battleships. And this is the first time this task has been performed. Various responses and experience are lacking. For example, at this time, the battleship Asagiri was tightly entangled by a cruiser and two destroyers. They were like wolves surrounding the elephants, constantly harassing them with the help of smoke. Naval guns and torpedoes prevented Asagiri from continuing to hunt.

"The main gun focused fire to kill the cruiser, and the secondary guns dealt with the destroyer! Avoid the smoke, let's rush up!" Yamamoto said impatiently.

In the other direction, Yamagiri faced the only two destroyers without any pressure. First, after damaging one of them with intensive firepower, they forced the other one back. The Sangiri began to chase the scattered transport ships. He stared at a target, and this target was a bit fast, and gradually took the mist away from the battlefield.

At this time, the situation of the Japanese submarines remaining on the battlefield is not so advantageous, because there are still two armed transport ships in the retreating fleet. Their firepower is really weak, only one 105MM artillery and Two 75MM guns, but even so, in the case of avoiding torpedoes, the two armed merchant ships still suppressed the surrounding submarines. After all, artillery warfare is not a submarine's business.

The No. 21 submarine first became the first victim in this battle. The uncovered submarine hull was soon covered by dense shells and bullets. The red-eyed Americans even used a large number of 12.7mm large-caliber machine guns and aircraft. The 20MM machine gun was used to sweep the sea. Not to mention, this high-speed weapon has a good killing effect on the submarine gun position. After several rounds of intensive shooting, a dozen Japanese naval officers and soldiers fell in a pool of blood. Among them, a 105MM shell that hits the submarine then opened a hole, and groups of acid gas began to diffuse out. Unfortunately, the acid battery compartment of the submarine was hit!

"Relocate the alert submarine too. We have a hard time this time!" Sasaki Osa, who assisted in submarine operations, issued an order. He kept cursing the two battleships in his heart and said that you have nailed the entire fleet. It's all done, how can the Americans still have such powerful firepower?

These two American armed cruisers are very conscientious~www.wuxiaspot.com~ They didn’t run away directly after driving away the submarines around them. On the contrary, they turned on their searchlights and constantly searched the surrounding sea to drive them away for their colleagues. Deadly assassin. Under the bitter battle between the two American armed transport ships, the hunting efficiency of the Japanese Navy plummeted, and at the same time, an American destroyer squadron patrolling nearby was coming from not far away!

"We had an almost perfect opening, but the execution process was a bit awful." Studdy frowned involuntarily looking at the already smashed sea surface. To be honest, he felt that the quality of the fleet in his hand was a bit poor. If the quality of the technical officers and soldiers of the Japanese Joint Fleet can be described as excellent, then these people in his hands are mediocre, and there are some problems in tactical execution. He can be sure that the submarine responsible for alert has already been transferred back by the Dazuo, because He has not received a report from the alert submarine for half an hour! And this behavior will cost the Japanese fleet!

As for when will the price be paid? Naturally when the American destroyers are in place! And this time will come soon, because the speed of American destroyers is above 35 knots!

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