One Thousand Ninety-Four Musashi

Halsey did not laugh at Spruance any longer for his timidity and caution. `Instead, after holding the telegram from Spruance, he was silent for a few seconds, and then burst out laughing: "Hahahaha. This Spruance, I like him!"

In fact, it doesn't matter whether Halsey likes Spruance or not, because Koga Mine doesn't like this typical American lady with the corners of her mouth slightly down even when she smiles, and she doesn't like the U.S. Navy before sunset. This desperate style of attacking desperately.

This desperate style of play has always been a glorious tradition of the Japanese navy. Now that the U.S. Navy is suddenly fighting to the death with such stubbornness, the commanders of the Japanese navy feel at a loss as to what to do. Koga Mineichi's idea is actually very simple. He encircled the U.S. naval fleet on three sides, and then the Americans saw this strategy and began to retreat in an all-round way. After the time dragged into the night, he began to chase the U.S. fleet desperately and sank several ships. After the battleship, it took advantage of the cover of the black sky to leave in the second half of the night-what a process and ending.

But the Americans suddenly started a desperate attack, Gu Hefeng was suddenly at a loss. Because the intelligence of the Japanese navy has never been very accurate, at this time the United States suddenly attacked across the board, is it because there is something behind it? He didn't know what the U.S. military's plan was, whether it was a real desperate effort, or a huge trap.

Just when he was hesitating, the U.S. Navy was not idle. They started to take off as many planes as possible, and then flew in the direction of the Japanese Navy's aircraft carrier force. These planes are loaded with torpedoes and heavy bombs. The purpose is to keep the few aircraft carriers of the Japanese Navy on the seabed of this sea area as much as possible while the sky is still bright.

"Telegram to General Kurita! Let his fleet immediately start turning southeast and approach the US fleet quickly! Hurry up!" Koga Mine realized that if his battleship force could no longer cause some trouble to the US Navy, then before dark , The aircraft carrier fleet behind him will also be wiped out by the US Navy. ``

At this time, he can't care about finding out whether the U.S. Navy has any other options, because if the U.S. Navy wipes out the aircraft carrier fleet, he will lose the war strategically, just like Yamamoto Fifty-Six. . Just like a gambler, if the dealer eats up all his money, the first gambler to leave the table must be the one with the least money—unfortunately, Japan is the poor guy with the least money .

"Hi!" The adjutant standing on Koga Mineichi's left hastily turned around and went to the telegraph room to deliver Koga Mineichi's orders. He walked very fast, because no matter which order these orders are, they are all related to the future of Japan. fate. There was an eerie silence on the bridge. Standing on the battleship Yamato, I couldn’t even feel the swaying waves coming from under my feet. This giant battleship with a full load displacement of over 10,000 tons can be said to be the largest artillery battleship ever built by mankind. machine.

This is also Koga Mineichi's biggest reliance. He knows that as long as he enters the combat range of the battleship Yamato, the battleships of the US Navy will definitely be beaten to the point of being helpless. At that time, the Japanese navy will chase and kill them all the way,

Until the defeat of the entire US fleet.

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"Gah! What the hell? We just sailed northeast for a while, and you sent us another order to turn southeast again?" Koga Mineichi's telegram quickly reached Kurita Takeo's hands , but the commander of the vanguard fleet is frowning at this moment, and he doesn't believe the message in his hand.

It will take at least ten minutes for his fleet to join the northernmost standby support fleet. At this time, his fleet will turn around again, and the slow battleship Fuso of the support fleet will be thrown away again, while his fleet I have just experienced an air defense battle, and the casualties and damages are still being counted. In this case, let the troops fight back, what are you kidding?

What makes Kurita even more unwilling to accept is that this telegram did not explain why he was asked to go south, it was just a very general order. `Takeo Kurita took this order and thought about it over and over again, his mind was filled with the idea that Koga Mineichi would use him as a bait.

It's no wonder that Kurita is suspicious. Koga Mineichi's combat order has been changed several times, and before that, the Kurita fleet was alone facing the bombing of the US carrier-based aircraft. Combining these things that have happened, Kurita Takeo has a feeling that Koga Mineichi is "selling teammates" no matter how open-minded he is.

"If Admiral Yamamoto was in command of this battle, he would not have issued such a silly combat order." Kurita Takeo stood in his command position, with his hands behind his back, and the one in his palm that read Koga Mineichi Command The telegram ordered by the officer was crumpled into a wrinkled mess.

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In Japan, at the Kure Port Naval Base, Admiral Yamamoto Fifty-Six, who has been at home since his dismissal, is inspecting the battleship Musashi, which is being built on the dock, together with several officials from the base camp. His current position is the chief of the Japanese Navy's logistics department, but he has not arranged too many exclusive jobs.

But in the waters near the Bismarck Islands, when the Japanese Navy was engaged in a life-and-death battle with its opponents, as Admiral of the Japanese Navy, Yamamoto Fifty-Six was enjoying the peaceful sunshine of the motherland on the ground.

"Your Excellency the Marshal, the battleship Musashi will complete all installations in a month, and the battleship Shinano will also be launched into service later. The Empire of Japan will have three of the most powerful battleships in the world by then, and the U.S. Navy will be completely insufficient For fear." An accompanying officer, standing on the pier where the Musashi was docked, pointed to the Musashi, which was installing electronic equipment and other small equipment, proudly boasting to Yamamoto.

It also depends on whether Americans buy it or not. If the battleship Yamato is sunk by the United States this time, where can you idiots find three invincible battleships together? Also, can the most powerful battleship in the world really make the US Navy not afraid?

Yamamoto Fifty-Six did not speak at all, he just looked at the huge battleship Musashi, thinking worriedly about how to transfer Japan's huge but weak shipbuilding industry to something really useful as soon as possible. Just as the United States started building an entire Essex-class aircraft carrier in succession, the Japanese Navy was still tightening its belt for two battleships-this is really a regrettable scene.

"Your Excellency, Marshal! You are so restless, it seems that you are worried about General Koga Mineichi's fleet?" Another officer saw Yamamoto's absent-mindedness and asked, "Please rest assured, His Majesty the Emperor and God Amaterasu will bless the Imperial Navy, and its luck will last forever."

"His Majesty blesses everyone with long-lasting martial arts." Yamamoto Fifty-Six said with some emotion: "It's just that we all have to use our lives and spirits to respond to His Majesty's blessing and love! The combined fleet is fighting at sea. I have to worry about the general of the Imperial Navy."

"Hi! Marshal, what you said is right." The two officers mentioned His Majesty the Emperor, and immediately bowed their heads to salute: "However, we heard that General Koga Mineichi's fleet is very powerful, enough to annihilate the U.S. Navy and save the Pacific War."

Chuichi Nagumo, when I'm not on the front line, everything depends on you. Don't let me down, don't let His Majesty the Emperor down. Looking at the sea in the distance, Yamamoto Fifty-Six sighed in his heart. He prayed silently in his heart, praying that the Japanese navy could survive this difficulty and make his own contribution to the eternal prosperity of the empire.

A few days ago he visited the Japanese Navy's elementary pilot training base, where he saw a group of childish children. They are all willing to swear allegiance to His Majesty the Emperor to the death, and are willing to fly planes and use unskilled technology to ram the warships of the US Navy to restore their current disadvantages.

Although the high-level officials repeatedly publicized that this kind of jade broken suicide attack was a heroic act that could change the situation of the battle, Yamamoto Fifty-Six knew that this kind of impact could only cause trouble for the US Navy. How could these teenagers who had only trained twice to fly in formation break through the American carrier-based aircraft defenses that even the elite Japanese pilots could not break through?

"I hope that Koga-kun can create miracles for our empire that I have not been able to create." Yamamoto faced the sea breeze blowing from the sea, pressed his hand on the extremely gorgeously decorated Marshal's Command Sword at his waist, and wrinkled Brow whispered softly. And not far from him, hardworking Japanese boatmen are installing some parts on the deck of the battleship Musashi.

"Hmph, in fact, our navy is doing pretty well, at least we are still doing a strategic counterattack." Behind him, the officer who was just now advocating the invincibility of the battleship Musashi saw that the marshal was in a bad mood, so he quickly explained: "The army is the real one." It’s a shame. I heard that the westward strategy that Tojo presided over was defeated by the Chinese army. Let alone Wuhan, even Hukou was almost lost..."

"That's right, I heard that they blamed the navy, saying that there were not enough cover ships along the river, and our navy deliberately didn't cooperate..." Everyone is willing to do such things as the navy splashing dirty water on the army. So another officer hurriedly added: "Can we be blamed? Who doesn't know that during the Battle of Songhu, the Chinese army at the mouth of the Yangtze River sank so many ships that our warships couldn't get in at all."

"Okay, I have time to talk about this, how about checking the oil reserves here again! Our war will last for a long time, the navy of the Great Japanese Empire cannot lose to anyone!" Yamamoto Fifty-Six pressed With his own command knife, he took a step, and led his men who dared not speak any more, left the busy dock and the battleship Musashi that was being installed.

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