At this moment, several sailors standing on the deck of [Arizona] saw a raging fire blocking the hatch, deforming the steel plate at the exit, and bursts of violent coughing sounds came from inside.

"Extinguish the fire quickly and save people..."

Several sailors shouted, knowing that more than a thousand people were sealed under the bilge.

The sailors put out the fire as quickly as possible. The water guns rush on the red cabin doors and sizzle sounded, white smoke and mist were emitted more than ten meters high. Most of the ship was burning, and explosions came one after another from the inside. The fire in the crew passage was temporarily suppressed by the water gun, but with the violent vibration of the warship, the fire continued to rekindle.

At a critical moment, Lieutenant Colonel Samu Ferko, who was stunned by the shock waves in the explosion just now, woke up and directed the sailors to put out the fire, and called on the sailors on several other destroyers to crawl over through chains to participate in the rescue. Finally, the fire at the hatch door was controlled.

"Ahem cough cough..."

The fire was temporarily suppressed by the water gun, and the smoke in the cabin was more intense. The crew members trapped inside coughed loudly and fled desperately.

The cabin doors burned by the fire were red and deformed and narrow, forcing the crew to run out one by one, unlike during the exercises, where more than a dozen people could run out at once.

At this time of crisis, Lieutenant Colonel Samufuko fully demonstrated his command ability, shouting in the cabin with the loudspeaker, lined up, and quickly came out one by one.

Lieutenant Colonel Samu Furko is the senior commander of the battleship [Arizona]. He knew that more than 1,200 people were trapped at the bilge at this time. Those who escaped first must quickly rush to the deck to leave enough space for the people behind.

Under the orderly command of Lieutenant Colonel Samufuko, the sailors at the bilge stabilized their emotions. Before this, everyone had undergone many escape drills, and there was no panic stampede while running away.

During the escape, many people screamed as soon as they grabbed the hatch door, but they couldn't care about so much at this time. Compared with the escape, the injuries on their palms can be ignored.

Lieutenant Colonel Samu Furko ordered the escaped sailors to quickly occupy the position of the machine gunner, defend against the bombers in the air, and closely monitor and guard against the enemy torpedo planes. The remaining people immediately put out the fire and prevent the fire from reigniting.

In this escape passage, the smell of burnt human body.

Suddenly, a sailor standing on the side of the ship saw a repeat of a Type 97 torpedo, flying over their heads, drifted one kilometer ahead and quickly descended toward him. He could even see the white belt on the head of the Japanese pilot in the cockpit of the Type 97 torpedo.

"Torpedo plane!"

The sailor shouted desperately.

Lieutenant Colonel Samu Furko calmly ordered: "The machine gun blocks the attack route of the torpedo plane."

"The hull is seriously tilted, and the machine gun angle is not enough, sir!" the machine gunner replied loudly.

The hull is tilted, and the machine gunners can barely shoot into the air, but cannot shoot on both sides to resist the enemy.

Everyone could only watch the torpedo aircraft continue to descend to altitude and lower the torpedo mount below the belly of the aircraft, which could be launched at any time.

Seeing the torpedo plane coming, most of the sailors showed fear on their faces, stopped putting out fires, and prepared to retreat immediately when the enemy fired the torpedo.

Without the suppression of the water gun, the fire on the hatch door burned again, blocking the people inside again.

At the moment of crisis, a Fleet-mounted Flyingless Diving Bomber with a fuselage caught fire and black smoke hit the Type 97 torpedo, and the two aircraft exploded violently and fell.

It turned out that this SBD Fearless Type was driven by Lieutenant John Ford and Communications Syne Pierce. They were hit hard in the fight with Type Zero. Both of them were surrounded by fire and could not escape. So they crashed into the torpedo plane and died with the Japanese, temporarily resolving the crisis of the battleship [Arizona].

Seeing that the threat of the torpedo plane was temporarily eliminated, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Samufuko, the crew members did not dare to relax and continued to put out the fire. They knew that the catastrophe would be at any time. Everyone tried their best to water the door of the cabin, suppressing the fire again, covering the sailors to escape.

Lieutenant Colonel Samufuko has seen that this giant ship is difficult to protect, but he must rescue everyone in the bilge before he can order everyone to abandon the ship and escape.

At this moment, several Japanese Type 99 bombers formed a formation and flew over the [Battleship Avenue], and constantly adjusted the altitude and angle.

“Hurry quickly…”

Lieutenant Colonel Samufuko knew that the situation was critical and loudly ordered the sailors to shoot and defend, and urged them to control the fire.

Even when facing a big cake, the Japanese attacks were unfolding in an orderly manner, with clear bombing areas and orderly connections between the various teams, which fully reflects the Japanese meticulous and rich skills and tactics.

Such a balance of technical and tactical offensive and defense can achieve no blind bombing, no blind throwing, wasting ammunition, and can also cover each other.

Looking at the horizontal bomber flying over, Zhou Zhihan knew that after another round of attack, [Arizona] would fall into a desperate situation, so he pulled the rod and met it.

Immediately, the three-frame Zero chased each other.

Even though the American warships on the water were chaotic and the thick smoke on the water was rolling, affecting their sight, Zhou Zhihan could still see that the crew members on the [Arizona] were launching a life-and-death rescue.

At the same time, Zhou Zhihan also saw two Type 99 bombers flying towards the oil depot of Pearl Harbor.

Zhou Zhihan took a breath of air. He knew that shortly after Pearl Harbor was attacked, the United States could still severely damage the Japanese fleet on Coral Island and Midway Island in a short period of time. There was a direct reason why the Japanese did not blow up the Pacific Fleet's oil storage tanks when they attacked Pearl Harbor.

If the bombing of the oil tanker of the Neosau would cause the sea water in Pearl Harbor to burn, then once the oil storage tank was blown up, it could directly erase Pearl Harbor from the map of Hawaii. The power of its explosion was no less than that of the St. Pole oil refinery in Dunkirk, and the entire Pacific fleet would no longer exist. The US Navy would not have the strength to enter the Pacific Ocean for at least one and a half years.

This is a dilemma for Zhou Zhihan.

If the guard is above the [Arizona], the oil depot may not be able to be kept. Moreover, it is hard to say whether he can defend the [Arizona] with a fighter plane. After all, the Japanese can launch an attack at will from high, medium and low altitudes.

Once the oil storage tank is blown up, the entire Pearl Harbor will be razed to the ground immediately, and all warships, including those he rescued from the Arizona, will still die.

After a brief consideration, Zhou Zhihan decided to save the people first. He could not watch the thousand two hundred people buried alive in the water. He could not refuse to save them. As for the oil storage tank, they could put them first. At this time, the smoke in the entire Pearl Harbor was rolling. It was not that easy for the Japanese to locate the oil storage tank at once.

The No. 214 Wildcat accelerated two consecutive pulls and jumps, easily getting rid of three Zero-types and quickly flew up against five Type 99 high-altitude horizontal bombers.

After being almost shot down by Hiroyo Nishizawa and Toru Iwamoto, Zhou Zhihan will never slow down easily now and put himself in a passive state of being beaten.

It is important to save people, but the prerequisite is to protect yourself first, otherwise everything will be nonsense.

Seeing the No. 214 wild cat flying over, the five Type 99 high-altitude bombers immediately changed their formation and discharged dense formations. Concentrating firepower to suppress the No. 214 wild cat is the best choice.

The No. 214 Wildcat opened fire in advance 700 meters away from the bomber group, and immediately stopped the Japanese. When did the range of American fighter jets become so powerful?

The team leader shouted: "Scatter..."

But it was too late, the head of the bomber flying in the middle was hit by a shell, and the pilot was shot dead on the spot. The head of the bomber sank and crashed into the sea.

The remaining crew members immediately jumped. As for where they landed after the skydiving or how miserable it would be when they were caught by the Americans, it was something that happened in the future. Human nature is that when they encounter danger, the brain subconsciously issues life-saving instructions.

Everyone is afraid of death, and the Japanese are no exception. The reason why the Kamikaze Special Attack Team in the later stage was that once they took off and carried out a suicide attack, they had already stopped going back - there was no return fuel.

As for the later saying that when a Kamikaze pilot was welded to death during his suicide mission, the cabin was thrown away and the landing gear was thrown away, that was nonsense.

How could a fighter with gasoline and simple electronic equipment be easily welded the hatch doors using electric welding? How much would it cost to do that? It would be very painful to sit in the cabin and watch.

How can a landing gear that can automatically fall withstand the takeoff of a fighter jet?

The correct solution is the oil without a parachute and return trip.

Seeing that the companion in the middle was shot down, the remaining four bombers immediately dispersed to both sides to bomb other battleships.

Anyway, there are prey everywhere in Pearl Harbor. If you don’t blow up or blow up the [Arizona] for the time being, you can blow up other warships first.

So there was no scene where the No. 214 Wildcat flew over the destroyer [Arizona]. Even the three Zeros were following and chasing the three Zeros, and they turned to attack other targets while chasing them.

Japanese pilots are not fools. Even the two top aces, Tomomi Iwamoto and Hiroyi Nishizawa, cannot win. They went up and died in vain. Today they gained a huge harvest. Everyone wants to go back and enjoy the fruits of victory.

Escaped bad luck twice in a row, the sailors on the [Arizona] raced against time to rescue the crew at the bilge and continued to use high-pressure faucets to suppress the fire that was constantly rekindled.

Although the crew knew that the warship was no longer safe, they were reluctant to leave the old friend who had been with him day and night, and still tried their best to rescue the battleship, which had most of the hull on fire.

I knew that it was not waiting for me, and the smoke from the bilge was rolling, the sailors escaped in an orderly and quickly. In a moment, two or three hundred people escaped. The sailors who were not injured after escaping immediately participated in the battle, and the injured moved to the shore.

The sailors of [Arizona] all knew that hundreds of people ran out in this short time, all because of the protection of the No. 214 wild cat hovering in the air.
Chapter completed!