At the last moment, the US Navy personnel kept sending signals to everyone with lights to tell them that this was a medical ship, which should not be attacked according to international practice, and even in the final stage, the white flag of surrender was fired to pray that the Japanese Navy could save the lives of the remaining thousands of people. However, all this was eventually ignored!

The Japanese cleanly sank the poor medical ship with tons of shells and at least three torpedoes. The transport ship with a displacement of up to 15,000 tons even formed a huge vortex on the sea when it sank. Most of the people who tried to escape were brought into the seabed by the vortex. So tonight, in just 7 minutes of attack, the total number of dead and missing people on the Angel was as high as 1,350! It set a record for personnel losses in the history of the US military. This record lasted until World War II before it was broken!

"Damn it, the Japanese just sank the Angel! There are nearly a thousand of our wounded people on it! These demons!" Pershing, who received the news, was already angry! At this moment, he swore that he would never forgive any enemy!

"As the order, so some shore cannons fired at the sea immediately! Even if we cannot penetrate their armor, we must use our own actions to tell the demons that we will never surrender!" With the issuance of the order, a large number of US heavy artillery began to attack the Japanese fleet hunting at high speed, 155MM cannons, 203MM heavy howitzers! Even 105MM howitzers were added to the sea attack, but how to say the effect? ​​It really distracted the attention of the Japanese Navy and allowed a small number of transport ships to escape, but for the Japanese main battleships, the actual lethality of this little shelling is really limited!

"The US Army's artillery is so bad. I really don't know how much waste the red deer in the army should be suppressed by this firepower." A Japanese naval officer looked at the US artillery position that was constantly shining with fire in the distance and showed disdain on his face. However, just as the mockery on his face had not yet faded, a huge fireball suddenly burst out from a destroyer not far from him! There is no doubt that this poor guy was hit by a heavy artillery shell!

This is a shell shot from a 203MM heavy howitzer. Because the howitzer trajectory is relatively curved, the shell hit the deck of the Japanese destroyer with a very large corner! The penetration of the 8-inch high-explosion grenade is very garbage, and the bullet body is very fragile, but the deck of the Japanese destroyer is also unprepared! So, after the collision of the two crisp skins, the shell finally proved that it was still harder! It directly blasted through two layers of steel plates and then exploded in the boiler warehouse! Accompanied by a violent explosion and the smoke column that flew into the air, this poor Japanese destroyer also set a record! The first naval warship sunk by the US military shore artillery in this war!

"Prepare to divide some artillery positions to suppress the artillery positions on the shore." Shimamura Suo suggested.

"Okay, then do it, but remember that our first goal is still the US military's transport fleet." Shigetaro Yoshimatsu said.

When the initial attack was launched, the Japanese Navy was still worried about the possible U.S. fleets around it, but after more than 20 minutes after the attack was launched, they still did not encounter large-scale resistance, which made their nerves tense all night instantly relax. So the Japanese fleet, which became more and more bold in the bloody killing, began to chase after them more unscrupulously. The range of activities of the destroyers was getting farther and farther away from the fleet they needed to protect, and the formations made of the main battleships became loose! Before, the Japanese Navy was an army, but now it became a bit like a group of robbers! They were confused by the "treasure" in front of them and became more and more arrogant!

"There is a very true fable. Whoever God wants to perish will inevitably make him crazy! And now, the Japanese are already crazy, and our mission is to perish them! I hope that in the next battle, we will abandon all mercy and redemption. We are warriors, only responsible for killing, without mercy, will never forgive!" Old Fletcher said firmly.

Just now, Fletcher, the old man witnessed the massacre and atrocities of the Japanese army and the sinking of the Angel medical ship. He was angry deep in his heart for all this! But he still suppressed the urge to explode and completed the steps of his hunting step by step. After the Japanese army approached the coast, he encircled from three directions! And now, it is the moment to close the net!

Five armored cruisers launched attacks from both directions at the same time! A large number of destroyers blocked the last gap! When six 10-inch cannons on the San Francisco spewed out long flames, the US Navy fired the first shot of the counterattack tonight!

The three armored cruisers of San Francisco, Portland and Atlanta lined up in neat battle lines, traveling parallel from the north side of the Japanese light cruiser detachment. 18 10-inch guns and a large number of 6-inch guns roared angrily, and at every minute, several tons of shells could be smashed into the Japanese light cruiser fleet!

This time, the US fleet was really fighting. They suppressed the anger in their hearts and tried to get close to their opponents as carefully as possible! Use the night background to cover their whereabouts. Even before the attack, they did not launch flares or turn on the searchlights as usual, because the burning wreckage of warships in the offshore areas and the flames when the Japanese light cruisers were shooting were enough to guide the attack of the US fleet! Before the final attack, the closest distance of the US Navy's armored cruiser was only about 4,600 meters away from the target!

The 10-inch armor-piercing projectile weighing 250KG flew in from a distance. When the Japanese saw the orange flames when the heavy artillery was shooting, they had not even reacted. These shells with initial speeds of more than 800 meters per second hit the Japanese fleet! Even though the American artillery skills were relatively bad, at such a close distance, the Japanese were still beaten to the head and bleeding!

The first one to suffer was the Kiso! The side of this poor light cruiser was aimed at the side of the American armored cruiser, which was like a shark's teeth! Two 10-inch shells hit the target one after another, and the violent impact and explosion made the poor light cruiser tremble like a sieve!

A 6-inch cannon on the bow was directly connected to the turret and was blown into a burning iron box, while another shell made a huge hole in the stern, directly bringing more than 200 tons of water to the warship! The sea water squeezed and tore the broken hole, making waves of sour sounds.
Chapter completed!