The Bismarck Sea is located in the southwest of the Pacific Ocean, surrounded by the northwest coast of Papua New Guinea and the Bismarck Islands, with an area of ​​240,000 square kilometers.

On the evening of May 18, 1942, a hundred nautical miles north of the border between the northern Bismarck Sea and the Pacific Ocean, the sea surface lost its former tranquility.

The thick sound of gunfire, and the roar of the engines when the fighter, bomber and torpedo plane dives. Amid the violent explosion, white water droplets of different sizes rose from the blue sea. From a distance, it looked like a fountain.

Water droplets scattered in the sky, emitting a brilliant colorful light under the reflection of the sunset.

On the rapid sailing destroyer of the Snow Wind, Captain Kenji Hida had no time to enjoy the beautiful scenery created by nature. He just howled and directed the sailors of the entire ship, controlled the narrow hull of the Snow Wind, rushed left and right in the surging sea water, avoiding aviation bombs falling from the sky.

Air bombs fell one after another around the Snow Wind, raising a water column that soared into the sky.

Tons of sea water were flew into the sky by aviation bombs, and then fell heavily on the deck and buildings of the Snow Wind.

On both sides of the Snow Wind, 14 25mm anti-aircraft guns were fully fired, and they were crazily pouring fire into various enemy planes in the sky, but they still could not stop the enemy planes from approaching.

The sea water sputtered onto the bulletproof glass of the bridge, and then slid down on the deck under the action of gravity, leaving only ripples full of mysterious beauty on the windows, but it could not attract the attention of Kenjiro Hitoda, who had no artistic cells.

Kenji Hitoda looked through the window and hurriedly swept across the right front of the ship. He clearly saw the thick smoke and fire coming out of the stern of a destroyer on the sea more than 200 meters away. The head of the ship was slightly raised and was advancing towards the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

At the port side of the ship, sailors were leaping into the sea like dumplings.

Hitanaka Sa couldn't help but shout and scold: "Damn Americans, the Asahiyun is over, now only the three of us are left facing the Americans alone."

After looking around, Feitian Nakazo was horrified to find that in less than half an hour, the fleet of eight ships was only three ships left. The Snow Wind, who was commanding himself, was the only warship.

Directly facing the starboard direction of the Xuefeng, about 300 meters away, it should be the transport ship Bamboo Sword, five or six hundred meters ahead of the left, the unlucky guy who was being besieged by planes. Is it Taiming Maru or Noshima Maru?

No matter who it is, under the siege of nearly five enemy aircraft, he must follow other ships and send the ammunition and crew full of ships directly to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, rather than the destination Labaur Port.

With all his energy, Kenji Hitoda, the doctor of the Snow Wind, commanded the body of more than 2,000 tons with his keen observation and amazing judgment, and skillfully avoided the attack of three aviation bombs.

The brave anti-aircraft gunners also killed two hateful enemy planes. Kenjiro Hitoda saw one of the enemy planes dragging black smoke and plunged into the sea directly in front of them, and a huge white wave splashed on the sea.

There are fewer and fewer enemy planes hovering in the sky. Most of the enemy planes have turned around and left after they have dropped bombs and torpedoes. There are less than ten enemy planes that can be seen in their sight.

As Kenjiro Hitoda judged, the transport ship in front of the left failed to escape the siege of US fighter jets, and the hull was only a matter of time before it sank towards the sea.

Looking to the starboard side, three enemy planes were hovering over the Bamboo Sword, but because the two ships were too close, the doctor Joe Kenji Hitoda was undecided, and the final target of the three enemy planes would be determined by the Bamboo Sword.

"The torpedo aircraft was found on the port side. The torpedo aircraft was found on the port side."

A shrill shout came into Kenjiro Hitomi's ears. Hitomi quickly turned his head and looked at the port side, and saw an enemy plane rushing towards the Snow Wind at a height almost close to the sea, and rushed at an angle almost perpendicular to the port side of the Snow Wind.

As soon as Feitian's eyes locked on the enemy plane, he saw a big black guy thrown down the belly of the torpedo plane.

The big black guy fell into the sea, dragged a white trail, and rushed towards the Snow Wind.

"Left full rudder. Left full rudder." Seeing the torpedo rushing towards him, Hitoda immediately shouted and issued an order.

The Snow Wind, who was speeding up on the sea, immediately turned sharply to the left, trying to keep the hull parallel to the torpedo's course to avoid a fatal blow.

However, everything was too late. Maybe it was because Feita's order was too late, or maybe the torpedo was too fast, so it did not leave enough time for the Xuefeng to turn around.

Before he had completed the turn, the torpedo rushed to less than fifty meters away from the Snow Wind.

"It's over." Kenji Hitoda closed his eyes in pain.

Unexpectedly, my military career would end today. My dream of being a general was returned in the war and was personally received by His Majesty the Emperor. The dream of the Guangyao family, just today, was sank into the sea with this torpedo from the Americans, and turned into feces of fish and shrimps.

With the hull of more than 2,000 tons of Xuefeng, it could not withstand the power of hundreds of pounds of explosives torpedoes. Once hit, it would be the only way to pieces.

Half a minute later, his brain went blank. Kenjiro Hitoda, who stood in the bridge with his eyes closed and waited for death, opened his eyes. After shaking his head, his ears, which had lost their hearing due to nervousness, also resumed their functions.

Turning around and looking towards the starboard direction, Kenjiro Hida saw the bow of the Bamboo Sword transport ship on the right, shattering into countless pieces of steel, large and small, scattered into the sky.

The thick smoke dissipated, the bow of the Bamboo Sword almost disappeared, and the sea water poured into the hull from the bow.

Under the heavy pressure of the sea water, the Bamboo Sword ship sank rapidly and rushed to the bottom of the sea with an unyielding momentum.

What's going on? Why did the torpedo rushing towards the Snow Wind sink the Bamboo Sword?

The tragic situation of the Bamboo Sword made Kenjiro Hitoda stunned and lost his ability to think for a moment.

"Long live the emperor, the torpedo drilled through the bottom of the ship and did not hit us."

A sergeant shouted excitedly. When he shouted, the muscles on his young face and cheeks jumped. The experience of having just circled around the gate of hell was obviously frightened.

After hearing Sergeant Matsuda say that the torpedo drilled through under the hull, Kenjiro Hida recovered from his shock.

The scenes that just happened were instantly replayed in his mind.

It must be that the enemy planes threw the torpedoes too close. Before the torpedo could float to the depth that could hit the underwater part of the Xuefeng, they passed through the bottom of the ship, and eventually hit the Bamboo Sword on the starboard side.

Thinking through the mystery, Kenjiro Hitoda followed and shouted: "Long live the Emperor."

With this shout, Feitian felt that the fear brought by the torpedo in his heart was sprayed out of his body, and he instantly found himself back.

Commanding the Snow Wind and avoiding the bomb drops of the last two enemy planes over the battlefield. Kenjiro Hida decisively issued a heroic order.

"The ship turned around and returned to the battlefield to rescue the crew who fell into the water."

The crew faithfully carried out the captain's order, turned rapidly on the sea, and returned to floating bed sheets, military caps, vegetables and fruits and groups of sailors. They looked like a messy battlefield.

All the enemy planes have left, the sun has set, and the night is about to fall. The enemy planes should not have enough time to launch the next round of attack. It is a good opportunity to save the crew members from the sea. As comrades, you can't watch them feed the sharks.

The Snow Wind wandered on the sea, rescued a group of chicken-like sailors, and rescued two surviving captains.

After confirming that there were no calls for help from those who fell into the water on the sea, Kenjiro Hitoda ordered a turn around. The Xuefeng continued to move towards Rabaul Port.

Before arriving at Labaoer Port, a long radio wave flew out from the Snow Wind.

At 130 p.m. on May 19, Japan's mainland, Yokosuka Port, and the conference room of the Joint Fleet Command.

Senior naval officials led by General Yamamoto Go-zun, commander of the Joint Fleet, gathered together.

All the participants arrived on time. Yamamoto Iroku no longer closed his eyes to rest. He opened his eyes and looked at Minami Genda and nodded slightly.

"Genta-kun, you can start."

Minaki Genda stood up and walked to the chart hanging on the wall, picked up the instruction stick and pointed at the point in the northern part of the Bismarck Sea on the chart, saying, "According to the telegram sent by the captain of the Snow Wind destroyer Kenji Hoshida, the first special transport fleet that transported arms to Rabaul Port was attacked by American aircraft. Except for the Snow Wind destroyer, the remaining three destroyers and four transport ships of the Fleet were sunk.

After last night and this morning's telegram inquiry, I learned a very important detail on the battlefield. The location of the enemy planes appearing and the direction of disappearing after the attack ended, not Papua New Guinea in the south, but the empty sea in the east.

Based on this clue provided by Sato Hitotanaka, can we conclude that the First Special Transport Fleet was attacked by an enemy aircraft carrier, not by a land-based aviation force?”

Another capable subordinate of Yamamoto Izuru, the Kuroshima Turtle Colonel Mitodashi, had finished explaining, and looked at Yamamoto Izuru, then looked at him. He was obviously waiting for him to speak, so he shook his expressionless poker face and said to Gendashi: "The enemy's planes will not be bored so much that they are wandering around the sky and waste precious gasoline to confuse us. And if they are starting from Papua New Guinea, there is no need to confuse us. Therefore, we can conclude that the attack on the First Special Transport Fleet must be the American aircraft carrier."

"Do you all think so?" Yamamoto Iroku glanced at the officers attending the meeting and asked faintly.

Senior officers such as Tadaichi Nagamo and Takuto Yamaguchi nodded one after another, expressing their agreement with the judgment of the two senior staff members, Genta and Kuroshima.

Next, in the conference room, starting from Iroku Yamamoto, almost all officers' faces flashed with expressions that Kenjiro Hitoda would never have imagined.

"Can we celebrate that we have achieved initial victory in the outpost of the Midway Battle Plan?" Yamamoto Iroku asked with a smile.

"Although I'm sorry for the soldiers who were loyal to His Majesty the Emperor in this battle, I still want to applaud and celebrate this victory. With this victory, our Midway Battle can have at least 30% more chance of winning." Natsushima Tadashi's face was full of flesh, and he also smiled rarely.

"You are right. It is precisely because of the sacrifice of the First Special Transport Fleet that we can confirm that General Rosen, our God of Diablo, said that the intelligence that our military codes were deciphered by the Americans was completely reliable." Lieutenant General Yamaguchi Tatsume said.

Minaki put down the instruction stick in her hand, restrained the smile on her face, and changed into a fearful expression.

"Fortunately, we planned this tentative operation and confirmed the reliability of the intelligence of His Excellency Diablo. The Americans actually dispatched aircraft carriers to attack our transport fleet in depth the rear waters controlled by our army. If it weren't for reliable intelligence, they would not have taken this risk.

Thanks to the Lord Diablo, we can discover our terrible flaws in military passwords in time, and avoid being exploited by the enemy in the future decisive battle and causing greater losses."

Natsuki Tadaichi smiled and said, "Genda, since we have confirmed that the US military has deciphered our password, we must thank the information provided by that Excellency. After the final battle between Midway, you go to Europe and personally thank the Excellency."

"If the commander is willing to give me a vacation, I am very willing to go to Europe and discuss with that Excellency in depth the application of aircraft carriers in future wars again." Genda Shi said.

"When I win the Battle of Midway, I will arrange a trip to Europe for you as a reward." Yamamoto Izuru said.

"The current situation is that we know that the Americans have deciphered our passwords, but the Americans don't know that we have noticed that the passwords have been deciphered. Can we use this to set a trap for the Americans and win another brilliant victory in Midway?" asked Lieutenant General Yamaguchi Tatsuguchi.

"I am also thinking that as for the specific information to be disclosed to the Americans, the General Staff will be completed by the General Staff of Kuroshima. In the early stage, the attention of the American Pacific Fleet can be attracted to the direction of Midway. After all, the enemy has at least one aircraft carrier to fight in the southwest Pacific region. We must give the Americans enough time to let the Americans transfer the aircraft carrier to Midway." Yamamoto Iroku said.

"I understand what you mean, Commander, leave everything to Black Island, please rest assured. The Battle of Midway will surely be a great victory beyond the attack on Pearl Harbor." The Turtle Man of Black Island said confidently.

"Kuroshima, I believe in the strength of you and Genda. After the Battle of Midway, the US Navy will not have the power to fight again. As long as we follow the combat plan in the Diablo Plan, we will surely incorporate the entire Pacific Ocean into the territory of the Great Japanese Empire. Long live the Emperor," Yamamoto Iroku shouted loudly.

"Long live His Majesty the Emperor."

A loud shout came from the conference room. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!