"Enemy attack! Immediately notify the canal defense fleet that we were attacked! It was an attack from a large warship!" Faced with an unexpected attack, the US escort fleet immediately began to counterattack. Spruins immediately rushed to the distant behemoth with a destroyer. The flames when shooting at the fog had outlined the approximate size of the giant ship. Spruins knew that he could not compete with such a behemoth, but the glory and responsibility of the navy made him rush up without hesitation!

Half a minute later, a series of 6-inch and 4.7-inch shells roared and landed around Chaowu, and water columns rose up. However, this attack was nothing to the top front dreadnoughts. The shells hit were easily bounced away, and Chaowu only divided several secondary cannons to deal with them.

The Americans responded very quickly. Destroyers and some merchant ships began to release delays to fight for the opportunity to evacuate friendly forces. Under the threat of smoke and torpedoes of destroyers, Chaowu seemed a little afraid. The battleship began to turn some of its firepower from the transport ship to the US Navy's escort warships. A dense rain of bullets woven a fire net on the sea to drive away the American cruisers and destroyers. A large number of merchant ships began to turn and evacuate in the opposite direction. Just when the Americans believed that the situation had stabilized, the sudden attack of the Shanwu battleship completely wilted the Americans!

The American fleet almost crashed into the muzzle of Shanwu, and the Japanese aimed the main gun at the largest prey without hesitation, and the Chicago transport ship with a displacement of up to 12,000 tons!

"Fire! Stop this guy." The Chicago is a transport ship with certain military equipment. The four 4.7-inch cannons on the hull opened fire on the Shanwu not far away. The dense high-explosion bombs even lit a fire on the target. However, after a moment, the two 12-inch high-explosion bombs that hit almost at the same time instantly broke the back of the battleship. A shell hit the waterline directly, and the violent explosion directly opened a big hole fifteen meters long in the hull! Another shell hit the back of the hull, and the entire servo cabin and a propeller were completely destroyed. The fire quickly spread on the hull and quickly lost control, so that the Japanese attack lasted only 5 minutes and lost interest!

With the roar of giant cannons, the Japanese submarines quickly joined the massacre. These piranhas, who were like smelling blood, rushed towards the target quickly and were preparing to use deck cannons and torpedoes to deal with these fleeing preys. 15 minutes after the war started, a shocking loud noise came from the battlefield. The torpedo fired by submarine No. 23 successfully hit a transport ship full of ammunition. The explosion of thousands of tons of ammunition instantly turned the ship into thousands of tons of debris. A huge fireball rose into the air on the sea and illuminated the entire battlefield in an instant. This also seemed to be a signal, indicating that the battle tonight had reached the most critical moment!

Faced with the situation where many enemy warships surrounded from multiple directions, the Americans finally chose to disperse the fleet, and the remaining transport ships began to pull out the smoke and then fled in all directions. This situation made the Japanese warships a little blind. After all, the personnel on these attacking ships were not as good as regular battleships. And it was the first time that they performed such a task. They lacked various responses and experiences. For example, at this time, the Chaowu battleship was entangled by a cruiser and two destroyers. They were like wolves surrounding an elephant and constantly harassed the Chaowu with their guns and torpedoes.

"The main gun concentrates firepower to kill the cruiser, and the secondary gun deals with the destroyer! Avoid the smoke and we rush forward!" Yamamoto said impatiently.

In the other direction, Shanwu naturally had no pressure to face the only two destroyers. First, he severely damaged one of them with dense firepower, and forced the other back. Shanwu began to chase the scattered transport ships. He stared at a target, and this target was a little quick, and gradually took Shanwu off the battlefield.

At this time, the situation of Japanese submarines left on the battlefield was not so advantageous, because there were still two armed transport ships in the retreating fleet, and their firepower was really weak, with only one 105mm gun and two 75mm guns. However, even so, while avoiding torpedoes, these two armed merchant ships still suppressed the surrounding submarines. After all, artillery battles are not the submarine's business.

The No. 21 submarine first became the first victim in this battle. The uncovered submarine hull was soon covered by dense shells and guns. The red-eyed Americans even used a large number of 12.7mm large-caliber machine guns and 20mm machine guns for aircraft to strafuse the sea. You can't say that this high-speed fire weapon has a very good killing effect on the submarine gun position. After several rounds of intensive shooting, more than a dozen Japanese naval officers and soldiers fell into a pool of blood. Then a hit 105mm shell opened a hole in the submarine, and clusters of acid gas began to spread out. Unfortunately, the acid battery compartment of the submarine was hit!

"Carry the alert submarines here too, we're in a tough situation this time!" Colonel Sasaki, who assisted in commanding the submarine operations, issued an order. He kept cursing the two battleships in his heart, and agreed that you can get all the nails in the entire fleet, how can the Americans still have such strong firepower now?

These two American armed cruisers were very responsible. They did not drive away the submarines around them and fled directly. On the contrary, they turned on the searchlights and kept searching the surrounding sea to drive away these deadly assassins for their colleagues. Under the hard battle between these two American armed transport ships, the hunting efficiency of the Japanese Navy plummeted. At the same time, a US destroyer team patrolling nearby was also coming from not far away!

"We have an almost perfect opening, but the execution process is a bit bad." Stedi couldn't help frowning at the sea surface that had already become a mess. To be honest, he felt that the quality of the fleet in his hand was a bit poor. If the quality of the technical officers and soldiers of the Japanese Joint Fleet could be described as excellent, then the people in his hand were mediocre, and there were some problems in tactical execution. He could be sure that the colonel had already transferred the submarine responsible for the alert because he had not received a report from the submarine in half an hour! And this behavior would cost the Japanese fleet!

As for when will the price be paid? Of course, it is when the US destroyer is in place! And this time will soon arrive because the speed of US destroyers is above 35 knots!
Chapter completed!