Last night's chapter repetition was a mistake.,Today it's been covered with a new chapter.,It's just that the chapter name can't be modified.,That is, the fourteenth chapter should be the fifteenth chapter that you haven't read.,You go back and look at the content of the next fourteen chapters.,Sorry for the inconvenience caused to you!

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When the U.S. North Patrol was unprepared, searchlights suddenly turned on in the rear, and then Japanese ships in the front and rear directions fired shells and torpedoes at the North Patrol almost simultaneously......

At this time, the patrol of the northern district realized that they had been fooled and were surrounded by the enemy, and hurriedly ordered to open fire and return fire.

But it was too late, and in just three minutes, the three cruisers of the Northern Patrol, the "Vincennes", "Astonia and Quincy", were poured into the water in the raging flames and lost their mobility and combat effectiveness.

The only wounds inflicted on the Japanese were that their flagship "Bird Sea" was hit by two shells from the "Quincy", and the chart room of the headquarters was blown up, and 34 Japanese soldiers were killed.

The battle lasted only 50 minutes, and the Japanese fleet had already achieved a complete victory, so Mikawa Gunichi ordered: "All ships withdraw from the battle."

But the losses of the US Navy are not over...... When the Japanese army circled around the bay and then circled back to the sea, they met with the radar-equipped "Ralph. The Talbot" encountered, and eight Japanese ships rushed up and launched another onslaught.

"Ralph. The "Talbot" was simply not capable of fighting back, and its superstructure was quickly blown up by Japanese ships.

After that, the Japanese ships sailed out of the sea and returned home.

Originally, Mikawa Junichi wanted to enter Tiedi Bay again to attack the US Navy, which had suffered heavy losses and was almost defenseless, but he looked at the time, and it was already 2:40 in the morning...... Mikawa Junichi was always worried about the US aircraft carriers, but what he didn't know was that the US aircraft carriers were not chasing them after receiving the US Navy's alert as he thought at this time. Those three carriers had actually sailed away from the battlefield a few hours earlier, heading in the opposite direction to them.

Of course, it's a good thing that Mikawa Junichi doesn't know this, otherwise if Mikawa Junichi's sneak attack fleet enters again, then there will be countless transport ships full of supplies in Iron Bottom Bay waiting to be slaughtered by them.

The U.S. Navy suffered extremely heavy losses in this battle: three cruisers of the Northern Patrol, the "Vincennes", "Quincy" and "Astonia" were sunk, of which the "Vincennes" and "Quincy" sank an hour after the battle, the "Astonia" sank at noon the next day, and the Australian "Canberra" was sunk by the U.S. Navy itself because it could not be saved. The "Talbot" suffered heavy damage, with a total of 1,732 casualties.

And only two warships of Mikawa Junichi's fleet were slightly damaged...... The chart chamber of the flagship "Chokai" was destroyed, and the torpedo tube of the "Aoba" was broken. A total of 35 people were killed and 51 wounded.

The naval battle was the second largest defeat for the U.S. Navy after Pearl Harbor, and was also called a disgrace by the U.S. Navy.

Zhang Chi and the others on Kuah Island could only watch all this happen from a distance and could not do anything, and even they did not know what was happening on the sea in the dark, and only under the light of the flares and the flash of artillery fire could they see the figures of several warships, but they knew very well that this battle must have been defeated by the US Navy, because they could even hear the panicked cries of the US Navy on the shore, as well as several warships that were blown up and set on fire, and a corpse of the US Navy washed ashore by the sea......

It was dawn the next day. Zhang Chi and others have determined this.

"Go ******!" After Clifton answered the phone, he slammed the call onto the landline.

Zhang Chi didn't ask what the situation was, because he could already guess it.

After a while, Clifton couldn't help himself and said, "Yes." The U.S. Navy lost the battle...... They were killed four cruisers, two more were badly damaged and incapacitated, and they didn't even say anything about a few that were slightly damaged, and the Japanese seemed to have retreated in their entirety! ”

Zhang Chi still didn't speak.

"We warned them a long time ago, didn't we?" Clifton continued to complain, "But those idiots. Didn't take our warnings seriously at all! ”

Zhang Chi asked the first question: "What are they going to do next?" ”

This is the most important thing, because any decision of the Navy will have a big impact on the land forces on Kuah Island.

Clifton sighed and scratched at his unkempt curls. He replied in distress: "They plan to withdraw from the waters of Kuah Island!" ”

"What?" When Pete heard this, he looked at Clifton with an incredulous expression: "Withdraw from the waters of Kuah Island?" We had less than a quarter of the supplies, ammunition, food and equipment...... They withdrew, what should we do? ”

Pete was only thinking about supplies, but Zhang Chi was thinking about ...... Once the U.S. Navy withdraws, it means that all the sea and air supremacy of Kuah Island will be ceded to the Japanese army, so that the Japanese army can continue to increase troops towards Kuah Island, deliver supplies to Kuah Island, and then launch an attack on the Sino-US coalition forces that have no reinforcements or supplies.

And the Sino-American coalition forces don't even have room to retreat.

That's the sad thing about island warfare, the army has to rely on naval supplies and cooperation, but now ...... The navy abandoned the land forces on the islands.

After thinking about it, Zhang Chi asked the second question: "When do they plan to come back?" ”

Zhang Chi knew that the US fleet would not be able to abandon Kuah Island...... If the U.S. fleet were to do that, they would have to withdraw at least one regiment of U.S. Marines from Kuah.

They can not care about the lives of the Chinese, but they cannot care about the lives of the Americans, otherwise they will soon be drowned by the saliva of the American people.

"They haven't decided when they'll be back yet!" Clifton replied: "Brigadier General William just told us to hold on to the airport and wait for them to come back." If you can't hold it, you will blow up the airport! ”

"Can't hold it?" Pete asked Clifton, "If we can't hold it, then where else can we go?" Jumping into the sea?! ”

"We'll hold it!" Zhang Chi comforted Pete: "Because the Japanese are likely to have made a mistake." ”

"Error?" Hearing this, Pete and Clifton looked at Zhang Chi in unison, their eyes full of doubts.

It's no wonder that Pitt and Clifton would find it strange, what could be wrong with Japan in last night's naval battle, which can be said to have won a big victory?!

"Yes!" Zhang Chi replied: "The Japanese did make a mistake, because of this mistake, it was possible for us to hold Kuah Island without the cover of the navy and air force!" (To be continued.) )