Chapter 63 beat them hard

He came all the way to fight a good battle, but it got off to such a bad start. Standing on the flagship "Washington", Li was furious.People fight for breath, Buddhas fight for incense, this is not how battles are fought, and he immediately commanded the "Washington" to kill it. Seeing the "Washington", the Japanese ship was as frightened as the previous "Sawauchi". The "Nagara" took the lead in turning around, and the other destroyers saw that the cruiser was in a hurry, so they turned around and ran away. The seriously injured "Ayanami" was limping and couldn't run fast even if it wanted to. Head on top of each item.

However, the two battleships suddenly stopped shelling, and the "Ayanami" took the opportunity to escape.Li was furious. After investigation, the "Washington" was temporarily unable to identify the enemy because there were too many targets displayed on the radar screen. Li asked the captain of the "South Dakota" again: "Why don't you open fire?" The answer turned out to be related to the radar: "The radar circuit is malfunctioning." The 16-inch naval guns of the American battleship fired a salvo.As a new type of battleship completed in 1941, the "Washington" has surpassed the "Kirishima" in terms of main gun firepower, main armor belt, and horizontal protection.

Li Ren couldn't bear it anymore: "If the radar is faulty, you won't fight? What are the eyes for? It's all night battles. The Japanese can see it, but we can't?" The captain murmured and explained: "General, I'm afraid of accidentally hurting my own people..." Afraid of accidentally hurting one's own people, do you know that a bunch of your own ships have fallen?Li interrupted the captain: "Stop talking nonsense, I want you to fire and beat them hard!" Li turned his head and saw that the two remaining destroyers were covered with scars, so he simply let them withdraw from the battlefield, and the two battleships entered the battle position. front.

At this time, the fleeing Japanese ship also stopped, and the Kondomoto team came up.Kondo divided all the warships into four groups, adopted a scattered battle formation, and quickly approached the US ship. It is not an exaggeration that the Japanese navy is good at night combat.Because Kondo adopted the tactic of splitting up and attacking together, it gave the American ship the feeling that there were Japanese ships everywhere, and there were Japanese ships firing everywhere. Some people even thought that the shore artillery of the Japanese army on Guadalcanal Island also participated in the attack on them.

The "South Dakota" was besieged by Japanese ships, and was hit by a shell fired by a destroyer, followed by many torpedoes. Fortunately, the "South Dakota" was avoiding a collision with a burning destroyer. Going in circles, these torpedoes all missed. Of course, there is luck and there is misfortune.The shell hit by the Japanese ship caused a loophole in the warship, and the crew wanted to repair it. The chief engineer accidentally pulled down the main switch in violation of regulations. This was a good thing, and the "South Dakota" immediately lost all power supply.

The radar is faulty, and the combat identification light can be turned on, but now the light cannot be turned on.To make matters worse, other devices such as fire control and turret rotation also failed, the main gun was locked, and the external communication function was completely lost. Since the "South Dakota" was transferred to the Pacific battlefield, it has been experiencing constant problems. The crew jokingly called it "a little bad luck inherited from the ancestors."However, this time it is not as simple as a little bad luck, it has become a dead city floating on the water.

Under the background of the fire, all the Japanese ships noticed this huge black shadow, and the "Kirishima" and "Ayanami" turned on their searchlights and shone towards the black shadow.Kondo has not received Yamamoto's report yet, and he still thinks that he is fighting with the "new cruiser" of the US military. Standing on the bridge of the "Kirishima", he and his staff raised their binoculars to observe. At first glance, the "new cruiser" not only has a strange shape, but also has a unique bridge shape... Almost at the same moment, everyone put down their binoculars. They looked at each other and realized that this was not a cruiser, but the latest American battleship.

According to the original plan, in order to avoid heavy losses like the "Hiei", Kondo did not want to put battleships and heavy cruisers like the "Kirishima" into the fight, and the latter would be responsible for bombarding Guadalcanal Airport. But the prey in front of him is too fat, and the latest battleship seems to be in trouble. If we don't cut it now, when will we wait?Kondo became greedy, and his chin was about to drool. He finally changed his mind and ordered the "Kirishima" to attack. In an instant, all the Japanese ships aimed their guns at the "South Dakota", as if anyone could bite off a piece of meat from the "South Dakota".Shells of various calibers flew over in piles, exploding clusters of eye-catching flames, but at this time luck miraculously came to the "South Dakota".During the shelling, the "Kirishima" fired a total of 117 heavy shells including high-explosive shells and armor-piercing shells, but only hit 2 shells.The 203mm artillery shells fired by the Japanese heavy cruiser "Kaohsiung" hit many times. However, due to the failure of the fuse, most of the shells failed to detonate.

Despite this, the "South Dakota" was beaten enough, its antenna tower was knocked out, four of its six fire control radars were damaged, and the upper deck was also hit by heavy shells, and several places were on fire. The Japanese ships were all thinking about the "South Dakota", and no ships paid attention to the existence of another battleship.While they were beating the "South Dakota", the "Washington" had been hiding in the dark and watching the fighters. Lee, an expert in bombardment and radar, wanted to show his speciality.