>>14419232
I did it on hard with a lower overall level fleet, it's surprising that you're getting murdered on easy.
I think a searchlight is good to have, but put it on the second ship in the fleet.
Oh actually now that I look at it your equipment is not very good.
First off, you need barrels. I had 5 barrels in my fleet when I was running it. The rocket launchers are pretty useless, you need room for barrels. Two barrels on Kawakaze, one barrel each on the other DDs. Once you get the TP bar done, put radar on poi and shigure (who should be set up for double attack), searchlight on Kawakaze (remodel her, it's not that hard to level to 30), and put a plane on Sendai. Night recon plane if you have it.
You do not need all of that torpedo cut in. 0 or 1 ships should be cut in, that's it. Put guns on everyone else.
Put yellow guns on sendai, and yellow guns on KTKM. This is the first time I've even seen someone equip red guns on KTKM-sama, give her 15.5 secondaries. Normally you should have OTOs on her, but I'm not sure OTO is effective vs PT boats.