Soon, more than 10 warships of the United States and Japan burst into loud gunfire, and for a time the sea and sky were bright, the flames were blazing, and the guns were rumbling, and the battle was very fierce.

The U.S. Navy clearly had a strong advantage, and although they had lost a great opportunity by the timely turn of the Japanese warships, they still had a numerical advantage...... Nine against five, this is almost twice the strength and firepower of the Japanese army.

Not only did the Japanese navy have fewer ships than the US navy, but the artillery shells it carried were all high-explosive shells used to bomb the Kuah airfield...... This shell is okay to bomb infantry, but it is difficult to penetrate the thick armor of the ship when used to hit a warship. What's worse is that when the Japanese ships mistakenly thought that the US ships were their own warships and were inexplicably bombarded by the US ships, the flagship of the Japanese fleet, the "Aoba", was shot, and the commander Commander Goto was seriously injured.

As a result, the five warships of the Japanese army temporarily died in a state of no one in command, fighting separately...... However, it turned out that it was a good thing that they were fighting on their own, because if these five warships really organized and commanded to fight with the US ships, they were afraid that because of the difference in the number of warships and the wrong shells, none of them would be able to come back and sink the US ships.

But because of the chaos of the Japanese ships, one here and one there, and the visibility was very poor at this time, so the battle was a chaotic battle.

The first to be sunk was the Japanese cruiser Furutaka.

After discovering a Japanese ship, the US destroyer "Duncan" fired two torpedoes and fired a cannon at it, and this Japanese ship was the "Furutaka," and the starboard side of the "Furutaka" was hit by a torpedo and hit by multiple shells, which soon caused the "Furutaka" to explode...... This was due to the fact that the Japanese did not expect to engage the U.S. Navy at night, so they would carry some ammunition and equipment on the deck that were intended to be delivered to Kuah Island. It was these pieces of equipment and ammunition that caused the explosion that turned the Japanese cruiser "Furutaka" into a fireball on the spot and lost its combat effectiveness, and the ship sank to the bottom of the sea an hour later, adding another piece of iron sheet under the "iron-bottom bay."

And the destroyer "Duncan" is not having a good time...... Because it opened an array of the US fleet in order to seize an advantageous attack position, it was first fired back by the Japanese warships, and then mistakenly damaged by the US warships as Japanese ships.

The captain of the "Duncan", Colonel Adams, couldn't help but curse angrily.

He did have a reason to scold. Isn't it just to rush out and attack the Japanese ships? Whoever provoked was beaten hard by the warships of the United States and Japan......

But the battlefield is like this, facts are facts, and scolding can't change anything. However, fortunately, the Japanese warship came with high-explosive bombs, which did little damage to the warship's hull, and the "Duncan" was temporarily able to act after being bombarded by such a burst, so it quickly withdrew from the battle.

However, the "Duncan" was not salvaged in the end, and sank ten hours later, most of the reason why it sank was because the Americans themselves fought too hard.

The accidental injury of the "Duncan" made such a fuss. The captains of the American warships began to hesitate again...... Is this the enemy or your own people?

Under this kind of thinking, the artillery fire of the US ships slowed down, and the Japanese ships were in a state of no one commanding each other, so soon the enemy and us were intertwined, and it became that no one dared to easily expose their position or open fire easily.

Originally, if the Japanese ships continued like this, they could escape as long as they quietly withdrew from the battlefield, but the Japanese ships did not do this, and in this case, the Japanese ship "Blowing Snow" would actually send out red and white light signals. Maybe it thinks that its name is stained with the hero "Ximen Blowing Snow", so it is not afraid of being discovered.

It's just a pity that their opponent is the Yankees. The Yankees had never heard of the "Ximen Blowing Snow", so they took it as a cannonball, and the "Blowing Snow" was hit by multiple shells, and the fire was raging in an instant, and soon there was an explosion...... The fire presumably ignited its ammunition depot and sank a few minutes later.

The Japanese ship "Aoba" is much smarter. It doesn't have any signal lights, but it hits warships when it sees them in the dark.

Although this can be said to be a random fight, the idea of hitting the acting captain of the "Aoba" is Daisa Eguchi...... Nine U.S. ships withdrew from one, that is, eight, while the Japanese ships had five, plus two were sunk and deducted themselves. There are only two of them. In other words, if you catch a warship and hit it, there is a three-quarters chance of hitting the enemy's warship, and there is only a one-in-four chance of accidentally injuring yourself, so why not fight?!

The "Aoba" is right, and it will make it very difficult for the US ship to do so.

Because the US ships could not identify whether they were friends or foes who fired their guns, they did not even dare to fire their guns.

Let's shoot, what if it's a mistake?

If you don't open fire, will you just let the enemy fight back like this?

In the end, Scott still ordered each ship to choose to fire at its own discretion, and after another scuffle, the US destroyer "**** Holt" was once again injured by friendly forces and withdrew from the battlefield.

Of course, at that time, I didn't know that it was a friendly mistake, and the "**** Holt" thought it was a sneak attack by a Japanese ship, and it was not until the next day that I saw the shrapnel of American-made armor-piercing bullets and knew that it was beaten by my own people.

In this case, Scott made a decision, which was to order all warships to abandon the pursuit and withdraw from the battlefield.

His decision was right, because it was always the number of warships that suffered in such a melee, which was a bit like an infiltration war in a land war.

Therefore, some people later commented that this battle was Scott's poor pursuit, but this was not the case.

In this battle, the Japanese sunk one cruiser, one destroyer, and damaged two cruisers. The U.S. forces sank one destroyer, wounded one destroyer, and two cruisers.

Judging from the casualty ratio alone, the U.S. military's victory this night was only a small victory, and it was just one more cruiser sunk.

But in fact, if you count it carefully...... The U.S. military's achievements are far more than that.

This is because the "Congyun", which was wounded by the Japanese ship, has lost its ability to sail and can only go around at sea.

The next day, the Japanese navy was worried that it would be captured by the US forces, so it sent the "Xia Yun" to launch a torpedo to sink it, and the "Xia Yun" itself was unfortunately discovered by fighters taking off from the US aircraft carrier while carrying out its mission.

In other words, the U.S. military actually sank four Japanese warships directly and indirectly in this battle. Of course, this result cannot be attributed to Scott.

(To be continued.) )