Haibo slapped the side of the Toohai heavy cruiser, stirring up tiny waves. Behind it was the entire 7th team, Kumano, Suzuki, and the top, Mikuma four heavy patrols. The team was protected by eleven destroyers of the 3rd Mine Team. Fifteen warships lined up in a rectangular array according to the night combat formation regulations, sailing forward at high speed on the moonlit night.

"Your Excellency, our army has arrived at the predetermined position at the designated time. Will we start the operation immediately?" The light-controlled Tokushima was on guard. Captain Colonel Mitochi Tofuji reported the location to the fleet commander, Lieutenant General Okawa Fujishi, and Major General Kimimi Mitsumi, commander of the 7th Team. According to the plan, the action began immediately.

"Yes." Oikawa Fushiro nodded, but Kiyomi Mizumi on the side laughed strangely, "The Americans never thought we would appear in front of him. You, please give an order immediately! Team 7 is willing to break his jade to repay His Majesty's emperor's grace."

"No, I still have to wait for an hour!" Ignoring Kiyomi Mizumi's fanatical request for battle, Oikawa Fushiro just looked at his pocket watch and then ordered: "The US radio detector's sea surface detection distance is less than 20 nautical miles, just keep it twenty nautical miles away from the coast. Also, be sure to pay attention to the patrol ships of the Mid-Naval outside the military port."

"Hi!" Colonel Mitsuchi Goto bowed and went out to give an order. Only two fleet commanders and several staff officers were left in the combat room.

The entire southern fleet made it easier to set off after deciding to declare war on the Midlands. It took several days to lie down on the day and night, and it took an airplane and electro-spy to get to this position. However, when the local commander arrived, he had to wait for an hour, which was really puzzled.

It should be noted that according to the plan, after shelling the Subic US Naval Base, the fleet must retreat westward immediately and bend in the South China Sea before returning to the land. Wait for an additional hour, and after dawn, it will be more than 30 nautical miles away from the Philippines. The probability of being found by the US shore-based aircraft is a few points higher, and it may even be besieged by the US Navy in the South China Sea. However, since the commander asked to wait for an additional hour, the fleet can only wait for an additional hour outside the Subic Bay.

It ticked in seconds, and when the clock pointed at 1:23, Oikawa Fushirofang, who had been sleeping for a long time, opened his eyes. He looked at the anxious people in front of him, and then he ordered seriously: "Let's start."

"Hi!" The crowd could not wait long ago. As soon as he started talking, Major General Kiyomizu Mitsumi immediately ordered the fleet to turn east. With the help of the ship's electric probe and the water electromechanical probe, the fleet arrived at the sea outside the Subic military port at 01:57 thirty-four minutes later. Soon, it was covered by smoke and lined up in five heavy patrols. The main gun of the Toohai three-year-old style first opened fire. The first shot was just a test fire. Even so, the roar of the main gun fire and the huge shock it brought to the entire warship still made all the officers and soldiers shouted that they had been waiting on board for this day for a year and twenty-six days, and at this moment, they finally had the opportunity to revenge.

Subic Bay is the Philippine Naval Base that the US Navy likes the most. However, the army was timid and did not dare to completely guarantee the security of the military port. Therefore, the Philippine Naval Base could only be built in Krabi, Manila Bay. After the war against China and Japan, in order to pursue the speed of construction, the Navy had to expand the Krabi site with a certain foundation. However, Subic Bay did not forget that it was quite an affiliated base of the already extremely powerful Asian fleet.

The artillery formation was twenty-five kilometers away from the naval base in the bay and only eleven kilometers from the coast. After the main gun was fired, it took thirty-nine seconds before the shells exploded in a wasteland outside the naval base. The explosion of the 125 kilogram shells woke up the entire naval base like a thunder. The fleet commander General Harry E. Yanel asked his adjutant as soon as he jumped out of the bed, "Is it a Japanese plane?"

"No, general, I think it should be a shell, an eight-inch cruiser main gun or a battleship sub-cannon, I think it should be a cruiser, general." At this time, the Toohai had been tested for the second time, and the landing point of the shell was getting closer and closer to the base, and the eight-inch shell of more than 100 kilograms of more than 1,000 kilograms of sixteen-inch shells were completely different from the main gun shell of more than 1,000 kilograms of sixteen-inch battleship.

"Oh my God, how did they get in!" The general asked the adjutant in confusion. Since he became the commander of the Asian fleet three years ago, Yanel has been worried that Japan or China's airstrikes the Philippines or Pearl Harbor. His historical judgment on the Japanese's airstrikes will be completely correct, but this time he was wrong. The Japanese plane did not come, but the shells came.

"I don't know, general." The adjutant had no idea how the Japanese were infiltrated. "General, the Chief of Staff called just now and suggested that you ask General Bloch to provide support to us?"

After the Pacific Fleet moved westward, the entire fleet was commanded by General Claude Bloch and was stationed at the Krabi Naval Base in Manila Bay. The original Asian fleet became an advance fleet stationed at the Subic Bay Naval Base. Because of insufficient support facilities, Subic base only has cruisers, so when they were worried that the other party would have battleships, Chief of Staff Colonel Smith hoped to request the support of the Krabi to send the battleship detachment.

"No!" Admiral Yanel, who had completely put his clothes on, rejected the suggestion without hesitation. "The Chinese Sun Tzu had a strategy called "Singing East and West". Perhaps their submarines or battleships were waiting for our battleships to leave the port. We should wait for dawn, but destroyers and submarines should be dispatched..."

‘Boom boom boom boom…’ It was like a volcano erupting, the world was shaking, and General Yaner almost couldn’t stand firmly at the station. This time, all the main guns of the entire fleet were fired in a salvo, with five heavy patrols totaling fifty naval guns. The dense explosion of shells made it difficult to tell how many warships were bombarding outside the port. At this moment, Colonel Smith, who rushed over, hurriedly appeared at the door, and he shouted: “General, the Japanese hit the base! They hit the base!”

Of course, the Japanese Navy's shells hit the base, otherwise the shelling would not have been so fierce. When Yanel saw the Chief of Staff, he grabbed him with one hand and shouted: "Where are our shore cannons? Where are our shore cannons? Why not fire?!"

"I don't know, general! I don't know." Colonel Smith was confused when he did not fire on his shore cannon. Even in the dark, Japanese warships would have exposed their location due to the firelight. But now the strange thing is that the shore cannon does not sound.

As the two talked, another round of artillery shells came densely. This time the bomb drop point was obviously farther away, but after a series of explosions, there was only a dull sound of "boom". Not far away, the ammunition depot of a cruiser exploded. Looking at the fire rising from the berth, which was the flagship of the Asian fleet, the former Asian fleet, the Admiral shouted, "Damn it! How did they hit it?"

The death of the Houston exasperated the general, but it made the Japanese 26 kilometers away ecstatic. He heard the gunman informing the enemy ship Houston on the radio that the enemy ship Houston had caught fire, and a group of Japanese howls like beasts.

"Your Excellency, the time for evacuation is up." Major General Cao Lu, the chief of staff of the fleet, had to remind him.

"No, you, we should wait for the Mi* ships in Krabi to sail." Major General Kimimi Kiyomizu, who was so excited about the shooting, glanced at the Chief of Staff and asked to continue the shelling.

"Bat III has reported that the main force of the Krabi Navy did not attack." Cao Lu Ren looked at Shimizu Mitsumi without dodging. He said with great affirmation: "The Mi Navy is a group of cowards and dare not fight at all!"

"Then we should shell the shells and completely defeat these rice and animals!" Mitsumi Kiyomi roared, as if she could not vent if she was not so beastly.

"How can I return to the fleet when I continue to shell the shelling fleet?" Kurori asked loudly, and the contradiction was obviously between him and Mitsumi.

"The whole 7th team is broken!" Kiyomizu said proudly, "The blood of the three thousand compatriots requires 300,000 rice and animal blood to be returned!"

"This is Your Majesty's ship, not your burial!" Cao Lu Ren shouted even louder.

"Baga!" Oikawa Fushiro was just thinking about the reaction of the Americans. When he was stunned, his two subordinates actually started arguing and shouted loudly. He immediately taught a lesson: "We are all the property of the empire, and we cannot be broken without orders! Do you understand?!"

"Hi!" Oikawa Fushiro is in the 31st period, and Kiyomi Mizumi is in the 36th period, and he is his direct boss. He had to nod and surrender. However, even with his head hanging, the muscles on his face still twitched Japan's national humiliation for the past year were very good. The more than 3,000 large and small corpses pulled back from Marshall through the Red Cross were not buried, and they were all offered in temples in Tokyo. Countless soldiers and passionate young people swore to the coffins that they would make rice and livestock pay their blood debts a hundred times a thousand times.

Oikawa Fushiro suppressed Kiyomizu Mitsumi, but did not fully agree with the Chief of Staff's immediate retreat. He said: "Since the US Navy does not go out, continue shelling for five minutes before retreating."

"Hayi!" The commander called the order, and all the Japanese shouted. When the order was passed to the turret, the gunner, who was already exhausted, screamed, and the speed of the fire actually increased magically to five rounds per minute.

The artillery formation in the smoke is naturally safe, but the third lightning strike team, which is not protected by smoke, is not that true. Although there is no fire of enemy ships firing, the shore cannons at the Subic base have begun to fire blindly at the sea. For destroyers with less than 2,000 tons of water, a sixteen-inch shell will be killed if they hit one shot. After walking on the night road, they really encountered ghosts. At 02:08, they used a cannon torpedo volley to force a patrol ship to retreat. A sixteen-inch shell came along with the roar of the train, and the shell almost passed the mast of the Shiyu destroyer and landed on the sea not far away. Seeing the dark splashes soaring into the sky, more than 200 people below the Shiyu captain Minami Yokoi were sweating coldly.

Shiyu was lucky, but the Cunyu, which was not far from it, was in trouble. The second time a sixteen-inch shell shot in this direction hit its ship, penetrated its weak armor and exploded near the boiler room. The Cunyu was blown into two pieces on the spot, and countless Japanese people instantly broke their jade.

"Ah...ah!" Major Yokoi Minami felt that the Murasu was shot on his behalf, so he ignored the flames of the Murasu that were only half of the Murasu on the sea and immediately ordered the ship to go to rescue.

The Cunyu was shot and sunk, but the Subic Naval Base had been plowed by five heavy patrol fifty 203 guns. The heavy patrol light patrol destroyers on the berth were sunk, and even several submarines that had no time to dive were in trouble. The berth was like this, and the base houses, docks, shipyards, command posts, and barracks were all blown up. At this time, General Yanel, who was covered in an air raid shelter by the adjutant, did not know the tragic situation of the base, but he was always smart enough to be sure that there were Japanese spies nearby.

Otherwise, why did their artillery fire be so accurate? Someone must have observed the landing point of the shells near the base through the moonlight and shelling flames, and reported to the Japanese warships to correct the shelling parameters. The shelling could achieve this effect. The Japanese shooting method was already guessed, and he even quickly locked in the two Chinese restaurants and three laundry shops outside the suspect's base.

The Chinese restaurant and the laundry were also shot while lying, but this was all a story. After a while, the rumbling sound of cannons finally stopped. But the general's ears, which were almost deaf, were still buzzing. When the submarine commander Colonel John Wicks, came, the group was convinced that the shelling had stopped and then the air raid shelter came out.

"General, it's simply..." Colonel John Wicks' face was not visible under the light, but his voice was very frustrated. "My troops were almost completely sunk."

"Have the Japanese gone?" Chief of Staff Major General Smith asked his most concerned questions.

"Maybe." Colonel Wicks said unsure, speaking with his back with the fire burning on the berth, so that he could see his shoulders shrugging when he answered. "But there have been no shelling for twenty minutes."

"How serious is the loss?" Admiral Yanel began to twitch when he saw the flames on the dock. Since the Japanese government issued an ultimatum, he was worried that the Japanese would send planes and submarines, but he did not expect that it was neither an aircraft nor a submarine, but the most primitive artillery attack on the other side. Subic is a new base, and many facilities are not perfect, so he suffered heavy losses immediately.

"Report to the general, the situation is very bad." Major General Wilette, the duty officer, also appeared at this time, with anxiousness and sadness in his voice. "General, there must be someone to guide the Japanese! Most of the ships on the berth were sunk. The docks, docks, shipyards, and barracks were all hit hard, and we...we are all collapsed!"

"Put the fire first." Yanel's heart was already cold when he heard the report of his two subordinates. He saw the fire in the distance and the faint screams. He did not forget that he had thought of the suspects before and said, "The Japanese spies are outside the base, just those Chinese restaurants and laundry shops, arrest them immediately!"

"Yes, General!" Unexpectedly, the general's first order was to arrest people. Major General Wenlett hesitated for a moment and nodded quickly.

"Extinguish the fire immediately and rescue the injured. Send all the other moving ships, but don't drive the range of offshore guns." Admiral Yanel then ordered, and then said: "I will report the situation to General Bloch immediately!"

The Subic base is only more than 70 kilometers in a straight line from the Krabi base, and is only separated by the Batan Peninsula. Not long after the Subic base was shelled, the phone called the Krabi Naval Base and the Manila Hotel in Manila City. The former is the residence of General Bloch, the commander of the Pacific Fleet, and the latter is the residence of Lieutenant General MacArthur, the US Army stationed in the Philippines.

Since the Japanese army shelled the Subic Bay, it is very likely that they will attack Krabi at the same time. Therefore, Admiral Bloch did not send ships to rescue Subic, nor did he pursue the Japanese ships, which laid the groundwork for his future resignation. However, this is just an excuse. Since the Japanese Navy dared to shell the Subic Base, it naturally had some arrangements for Krabi. What happened next also confirmed this. However, in the face of public opinion pressure, Washington and the Admiralty had to take action.

Subic's shelling stopped in less than 30 minutes. To be precise, with the time taken for the test fifteen minutes, a total of fifteen minutes were shelled. In these fifty 203 guns poured 1,450 125 kilograms of shells on Subic base, basically knocking the entire base from land to water. They sunk fourteen ships, including the Houston, killed 834 soldiers and injured 646 people. After the shelling, the entire base was in a mess.

Admiral Bloch did not know the tragic situation at the Subic base at this time. When he gathered all the officers for a meeting, Subic called and said that the shelling had stopped and that the Japanese might have withdrawn.

"Is Japan still nearby?" After the adjutant informed the situation at the Subic base, General Bloch looked at everyone and asked. It was still three hours before dawn. Once it was dawn, not to mention the naval battleships, even the hundreds of B-17 bombers of the Land Airlines could launch a fatal blow to the Japanese fleet.

"The Japanese have escaped long ago." Lieutenant General MacArthur, who came from Manila City, bit his pipe and said disdainfully. His words were clearly talking about the Japanese, but his expression was a little contemptuous of the navy's fear of being unable to move in the face of the attack, even if the other party was just a few heavy cruisers.

"The Japanese should indeed escape." Lieutenant General William Pray, commander of the battleship fleet, did not hear the implication of MacArthur's words, and he said. "Yes, we should pursue immediately to prevent them from escaping."

"The pursuit at night is very dangerous." Bloch denied his suggestion, "We can only set out in three hours. In addition, I hope that Luhang can search the entire South China Sea after dawn and must find the Japanese."

"Of course." Major General Lewis Brilton, commander of the Far East Airlines, nodded. "I will definitely let these yellow monkeys be pulled out! As long as they are still nearby."

"We should take revenge on the Japanese! General." The person who spoke was Major General William Frederick Halsey, the commander of the aircraft carrier formation, known as the bull. His eyes were staring at this time. The Japanese government declared war at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, and the Japanese fleet came to attack in the evening. Obviously, everything was planned. He believed that he should give the Japanese a favor.

"Yes, William." Bloch praised. "But we should find them first. Can your subordinates sail at dawn?"

"Of course!" Halsey felt that this question should not be asked at all. "Those kids are already prepared on the boat. If they can't sail, I will definitely kick their butts!"

"That's good!" Admiral Bloch smiled. "We found the Japanese after dawn, no matter where they were hiding! Harry also told me one thing: the Japanese bombardment was so accurate because there were spies watching the bullet points on the shore. He had ordered the arrest of those Chinese, so..." Admiral Bloch looked at MacArthur intentionally or unintentionally and said, "We also need to clean up the Chinese next to the base and the Chinese around us."

Seeing Bloch suddenly looking at him, MacArthur said strangely: "Do you think the Chinese are spies?"

"No. I didn't say that." Bloch still smiled. "I just think we should keep them away from us. At least we can't stay by our side."

"I will pay attention to this advice." MacArthur finally thought of what his maid was a Chinese woman named Azhu. If he didn't remind him, he would only mess with Azhu as a Filipino, and they all looked the same anyway.

"Okay. That's all I want to say." General Bloch concluded. "Find the Japanese and stay away from the Chinese. Leave the following matters to the staff."

"Sir, when will we take revenge on the Japanese?" Halsey asked worriedly. "We must give the Japanese a color."

"No, William, it's too early now." Bloch shook his head. He then said, "I think we should wait at least before the radar is installed on the ship before acting. Judging from the performance of the Japanese fleet tonight, they obviously equipped the radar and found the gap in the patrol ship, and then got in."

"But the army has equipped radar..." Halsey looked at MacArthur at a glance whenever he entered and exited Correcido Island, he could see the mattress-like radar wire on the top of the mountain, which was very puzzled why the navy and the army had equipped radars completely different times.

MacArthur was just laughing at this, while Bloch said in a little embarrassedly: "The Army radar is produced by the Signal Company, and our radar is produced by the Radio Company. It just passed the test at the beginning of this year, so it was a little late. Gentlemen, I cannot forget that the situation at sea is much more complicated than on land. Navy radar must be rigorously tested before it can be installed on warships." After explaining Halsey's problem, Admiral Bloch said again: "Okay gentlemen, I think we can rest for a while and set out to search for the Japanese fleet immediately after dawn."

At 05:45 a.m., it was getting dark. Major General Halsey, who had just discussed the carrier-based aircraft search procedure with Chief of Staff Lieutenant Colonel Miles Broning, when he heard a commotion outside the boardwalk. When he thought it was a Japanese plane coming to bomb, he heard someone shouting "torpedo". He rushed to the side of the bridge, and Halsey saw an unforgettable scene in his life: several submarines similar to torpedo boats galloped at a speed of more than thirty knots on the sea surface of the slightly bright port area. In addition to galloping, they also launched torpedoes to warships anchored in the port area.

At this time, the ships were ready to go, and the narrow port area was full of warships, so there was no way to avoid these torpedoes. The gun captains of each ship seemed to have not woken up and were on guard once at 2 o'clock in the middle of the night, but then they were relieved of their guard. Many people did not sleep well, so there were only a few 20mm Erick anti-aircraft guns firing at them. But the ship was not an aircraft after all. Even if they were shot, the submarine that had fired the torpedo was aimed at several battleships, and the aircraft carrier crashed straight into them.

"Onboard!" A Japanese officer with a white cloth tied to the head on the submarine stood up and shouted hysterically before the impact. With a loud bang, the good man next to Halsey was the first to hit the aircraft carrier. After the bang, Halsey saw the ferry of the USS Charlie rippling like waves, and then made a quarrel and twisted keel ribs during the withdrawal. Finally, the ship was in chaos.

The good man Charlie was hit by the collision and then the Saratoga, which were the two outermost aircraft carriers, but this time the Japanese obviously deviated. They only hit the stern of the Saratoga. After a 'boom', Saratoga's copper propeller flew out from the bottom of the water. It flew past Halsey and smashed a big wave on the other side of the aircraft carrier.

The Japanese were so crazy that the frightened sailors frantically used anti-aircraft guns and aimed the secondary guns at several small Japanese submarines that had not yet completed the impact. They no longer care whether they would accidentally hurt their friendly forces, and the shells hit the side of their ships.

"Be careful! General!" The Chief of Staff saw a fire coming, and was shocked and hurriedly pulled Halsey away. Fortunately, he was quick-witted. As soon as he pulled Halsey's shells, he smashed the porthole and carved a row of deep holes in the walls inside the cabin.

"It's so crazy! It's so crazy! Japanese, general... it's so scary!" Although Major General Halsey was rescued, Lieutenant Colonel Bolanging was frightened by what was happening at the moment, and he became incoherent.
Chapter completed!