On the night of November 14, 1942, Vice Admiral Nobutake Kondo, commander of the Second Fleet of the Japanese Navy, mobilized the only battleship Kirishima, as well as two heavy cruisers, the Takao and Atago, two light cruisers, and nine destroyers, to prepare to take advantage of the darkness to bombard Henderson Airfield on Guadalcanal Island in order to cut off the continuous flow of troops and supplies for the Allied forces. It had already been defeated once, but Kondo did not give up and launched what became known as the Second Battle of Kuah or the Fourth Battle of Savo.
At midnight, the Atakota, the heavy cruiser at the front of the Kondo fleet, spotted the South Dakota, and then turned on the searchlight. She was immediately caught on fire by five Japanese ships, and the power system was restored during the emergency repairs, but it was too late. South Dakota was badly damaged.
But sometimes luck doesn't always favor the side, in the night, the Washington on the side is almost invisible in the night, and when the Japanese ship gets closer, it has already locked on to the "largest one" with radar, and then her 406mm main gun erupts into rage, and the first round of straddle fire, the startled Kirishima was hit by several shells before it could even effectively counterattack, and the steering gear was directly damaged, almost losing its mobility.
Thinking about it, it is similar to the M series ancestral slash in the battleship world, with superb gunnery and a little luck, the Washington only took just seven minutes to completely solve the Kirishima, and the battleship world's peer ship North Carolina is also very likely to take away a battleship with a dispersion coefficient of 2.05, and even give the enemy aircraft carrier a "dragon fist", which is exactly the same as the real battle of Kuah.
And South Dakota was also lucky, although the superstructure was beaten to pieces, most of the large-caliber shells of the Japanese ships did not explode, so the whole ship was still able to exit the battlefield safely. The Washington was torpedoed by destroyers and cruisers of the Japanese forward fleet, but the sailors did not even notice these torpedoes, and all of them were missed, and a total of 39 torpedoes did not hit.
The USS Washington also completed the only battleship-to-battleship sinking in the Pacific Theater. Later, the Pacific Theater and even the world's seas became the world of aircraft carriers, and battleships had no stage except for fighting bravely in the game. And the world of battleships even restored the super-large caliber battleship scheme designed by the United States for naval gun duels, and equipped them with 457mm main guns second only to R whales and Kun, which are slow but maneuverable, and fast in damage management, which can be regarded as giving the giant ship cannon party a chance to "take revenge" on the aircraft carrier in another sense.