In the bridge, Inoguchi Osa calmed down a little, and Chief Yamamoto strictly ordered the Ryusho to get on the plane and attack, even if it couldn't land, it had to take off. Soon, there will be planes to protect him, those Type 99s with 250 kg*, which can be destroyed at the sight of the enemy.

He estimated that the enemy shells had been fired from a not too far away, and how they had managed to hide the flames. The army has replied that the map may not be accurate, but it can guarantee that there are no forts north of Kanchirapala, and all the forts in West Bengal are near Kolkata, so please do not shirk the responsibility indiscriminately.

He carefully examined the map, and although he was not good at looking at land, he was better at reading sea charts, but he still found the clue, a railway that ran along the mountain to the shore. He checked with the Army about the possibility that the British had a train cannon, and reason told him that the cannon was hiding on the railroad, and that only the railroad could satisfy two things, one was maneuvering, and the other was the firing range. Now all it takes is a plane to take * to take a look, determine the location, and then you can break it to pieces.

The Kaohsiung underdeck was repaired and 4 boilers were restored, and many of the crew paid the price of severe burns in order to complete this task, but in any case it was able to maneuver again, with a certain increase in speed, and still able to drag the disabled hull to make difficult turns, and then quickly escaped to repair the Changi dock in Singapore.

Inoguchi looked behind him with a telescope, and the Atago blocked a shot for it, which was tilting at this moment, and could only be corrected by flooding the other side of the compartment. It's miserable.

Judging from the firing rhythm, the enemy does have only one cannon, and the average interval between each shelling is about 15 minutes, which really doesn't look like a fortress gun, and it is basically a railway gun, because there is no double line on this section of the railway, so there is only one gun there. Pig Kou wondered: It shouldn't turn to itself again, right?

"When is the plane coming? Slow to die. ”

His heart was anxious.

There was a thud of frustration, and it was the special sound of *hitting the underwater defense* heavy armor. Sure enough, he was afraid of something, he no longer thought about luck, and hurriedly lay on the floor. Sure enough, the explosion was long overdue, but it never missed. He pounded the floor in exasperation, hating the creation of people, leaving no chance to fight back, but he felt the hull of the ship leaning to one side.

Tao Mingzhang couldn't see the tilt of the enemy ship's hull clearly, but the drone could see it. Shu Ping suggested constantly shooting at the waterline to increase the amount of water intake, while the drone observed the thunderstorm clouds moving southward, and the trend of getting weaker and weaker was obvious, and in the distance the plane on the Longxiang was preparing for the final take-off and hanging bombs, and the enemy's seaplane taking off from the estuary may arrive first, which means that the shelling must end early. But the two giant ships are still on the water, and Chu Tingchang is indeed unwilling.

He hoped that the British would be able to resist him, but he said that they might not. However, the vacant positions they had pre-positioned were just 2 kilometers away from their flanks. He called the guard company Zhao Xiaoli and asked them to bring flares and ignition objects to the vicinity of the British position, and waited for his order to expose the British position, which was expected to attract the attention of the Japanese planes for a short time. And it is estimated that the British will not be fine, because both the Kaohsiung and the Atago have begun to tilt seriously, and even if there are main and auxiliary guns that can fire, there is no longer enough high and low firing range. The 100-mm cannons of the rest of the destroyers did not have a complete firing command post, and even if they could reach at long distances, they were not very accurate. As for the threat of aircraft, those of the most advanced 40 guns of this era were enough to deal with. During the war, the British could not do nothing but wait for surrender. Then let the howitzer battalion maneuver on the road, trying to get closer to himself and wait for further orders.

After completing the above deployments, he continued to command the artillery bombardment with peace of mind. Continue to shoot Kaohsiung, the so-called wounding ten fingers is better than cutting off one finger, no matter what, you have to ensure that you sink one to not disgrace your reputation. All in all, this heavy patrol is still very beaten. The Kaohsiung had just started a fire, but it was quickly extinguished, and it was not as easy to deal with as the Kitakami.

Two Type 95 seaplanes flew in the general direction, and although the rain had weakened, the lights were so dark that they could not see the ground at all, only the fire of the enemy's fire. The only clue given to them by the command was to follow the railway, but to be honest, it was difficult to see even the mountains at night, and the railway could not be seen at all.

They can only fly head-blanked to the northwest, then circle around the approximate area, consume nearly half of the fuel, and then return.

Seeing a violent flash from afar, not knowing whether it was lightning and thunder or artillery fire, they decided to take a look. To prepare for collisions, airplanes use flashing navigation lights, which makes it easy for them to expose themselves.

The drone sees that the enemy is approaching and may miss the British artillery position, although it is within the range of the British army, but the British army may not open fire. Chief Chu ordered Zhao Xiaoli to make a move.

The commander of the British machine gun company, with the help of the bright area above the horizon, could see two slow planes buzzing over, and the night was lively there, and the enemy never had the strength to fight back, so that he also cheered up from his frustration and had the urge to participate in the war, but Cook strictly ordered him to hold on.

Unexpectedly, outside the warning circle, a signal flare suddenly rose and came to his side along the wind. When it falls, it is overhead, illuminating the entire position very brightly.

When the Japanese plane turned here, the second one flew into the air. The British company commander judged that the enemy had seen him, but now was not the time to find out who had done such a good deed, and the company commander ordered the searchlights to be turned on.

95 seaplanes flew very low, and the flares illuminated them at the same time. They themselves did not have firepower, and they did not carry a small * of several tens of kilograms, and for them, there were still very complicated steps to instruct the Navy to shoot, including judging the bearing, roughly determining the position, and then guiding the first shot, determining the landing point, and then correcting it through communications. Normally, this process takes an hour before the target can be hit with a shell, and at night, it takes twice as much time to drop flares over the target, and the risk can be ten times greater.

Just as they came to check, the British 40 guns began to fire. The British soldiers have received relatively complete training, but they have not experienced actual combat, and it is rumored that the Japanese planes are coming and going like the wind, and they are amazing, but today they see that they are so slow?

The artillery squad worked together and shook the handwheels so that the muzzles of the guns kept up with the enemy planes. It doesn't seem difficult.

The four guns on the position fired a salvo, and several strings of tracer bullets flew towards the target, instantly tearing the reconnaissance plane that rushed straight at it to pieces, but unfortunately it was impossible to determine the specific shot down of the gun. These aircraft usually had a large reconnaissance altitude to avoid ground anti-aircraft fire, but were forced to fly very low at night in order to drop flares on the target's head.

The other seaplane turned around and climbed, which was the best way to save its life, and in the Chinese battlefield, the plane could be sure of safety by pulling up a few hundred meters, because the opponent usually used machine guns to defend the air, and there were very few serious rapid-fire guns on it. But he is facing a 40-mm Bofors gun today.

In the first tens of seconds, the enemy's position was indeed muted, of course, this is the inevitable interval of loading ammunition, who let the commander be inexperienced, let the four guns fire together, naturally also mute fire together. But this weakly powered plane did not take advantage of this moment to climb a few more meters at all. The gravitational pull of a G gravitationally grabs it, making it seem to be suspended in the air in slow motion. The backseat observer looked back, the glare of the searchlight chasing him closely, but he saw a flash of fire in the distance, and he was sure that the cannon was on the other side of the hill, because the sound of the cannon arrived in seconds after the fire, but he probably didn't live to report it on the radio. Another four-gun salvo knocked the second plane down. The British discovered that the Japanese were not as invincible as they were legendary.

During the march, the howitzer company received an order from Chu Tingchang not to go to the original meeting point and turn to the bank of the Nanfang River, because the Japanese army troop carriers were following closely, probably trying to land before dawn, and at this time Zhengshuo was heading north. Camp Commander Tao will come and join them.

The deputy commander of the battalion felt that the division seat was a god, and he could hear it when the division seat was directing all walks of life on the radio just now, and he felt that he really knew everything, not only knew the location of the Japanese navy, the whereabouts of the planes, and the movements of the British positions, but also knew that the enemy army troop carriers had come in. Without him, all the weapons and personnel here would be a mess at a loss, and it would be a good end to be able to fight the Japanese head-on, but he stood there, like a magical center, arranging everything in an orderly manner, and the Japanese had no firepower, but it looked clumsy. At this moment, Master Chu didn't even want Tao Mingzhang's guidance, he directly poured fire on the target through the thick fog.

The Kaohsiung's bilge was hit again, and the explosion lifted the steel plate on the bottom of the ship, causing the sea to roll in. Despite the desperate pumping of water and the use of bulkheads to conserve buoyancy, there was already too much water to balance the hull with water from the other side. The tilt of the hull is getting worse. Ten minutes later, another shot undid all the hard work he had put to waste. The Atago, on the other hand, took the opportunity to escape and took advantage of a hill on a sandbar in the middle of the river to shield itself. In this way, Chu Tingchang can only stare at Kaohsiung's sheep wool. Of course, the name of this ship is indeed more hated than Atago, and it dares to use the word Kaohsiung.

Chu Tingchang sighed that the power of the 234 cannon is indeed a little insufficient, although it is not a problem to penetrate the 10,000-ton giant ship, but it can never give a fatal blow. After fighting for so long, I didn't see the enemy sinking.

Seeing that the rescue ship was hopeless, Captain Inoguchi finally made up his mind to get down to the lifeboat and escape to the nearby destroyer.

After Tao Mingzhang rode away on a straddle, the instructions left behind basically did not work, although they also kept giving the coordinates of the target, but the shooting in the back was basically on their own. It also hit a destroyer that was close to saving the crew. I feel that these mana-blessed cannonballs can find their own targets.

A second group of Japanese planes arrived, this time with *, all of which took off from the Ryuchamp. Yamamoto kept this old and small aircraft carrier just to take off some serious planes and scare the British into thinking that their main aircraft carrier was still there. There was a squadron of dive shipblowers on this aircraft carrier.