Chapter Seventy-One: Planning
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Li Ran took Quincy around looking for her sister, and finally saw Bai Nuoyan and his party in the warehouse area. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
"Sister. Quincy saw New Orleans and quickly let go of the hand holding Li Ran.
Seeing that her sister and Li Ran were so close, New Orleans originally wanted to scold, but when she saw that her sister had always been so afraid of herself, she sighed faintly, and then said:
"Why did you get here, do you want to go back?"
Li Ran heard that New Or's good image was still angry, and hurriedly said:
"Well, can I ask you to stay at noon? By the way, after all, you are also a guest this time, and I should do my best to be a landlord. β
New Orleans frowned, and she wanted to say no, but Blucher preemptively said:
"Of course, I heard from Quincy that your cooks are good. β
"Alright, Quincy, you can accompany your sister, I still have some business. Li Ran saw that Blucher agreed, he breathed a sigh of relief, and then thought that his town guard mansion was busy attacking Mishima, and now he hadn't looked at the preparations of his ship's girls, so he thought about it and said:
"I still have some things to take care of, so you can do whatever you want. β
"Well, you're busy. "BlΓΌcher knows that as the mother of the free ship, although they have the identity of the gendarmerie, they can't interfere too much in the affairs of the admiral, unless it is like a very bad marriage destroyer incident, it is just to lock up the admiral for a few days, she saw Li Ran say this, and she also knew that the other party gave enough face, so naturally it was not good to say more.
Li Ran nodded, then patted Quincy's head, and said on the Admiral's personal network exclusive channel:
"Don't be afraid, talk to your sister more, she definitely doesn't want her sister to be scared when she sees her. β
Quincy responded as if she didn't understand, and then watched Li Ran wave her hand and walk away, walking to her sister with some trepidation.
Blucher stabbed her friend's body, and New Orleans, who was staring at Li Ran's departure, turned around, she looked at Quincy, and then said angrily:
"After lunch, I'm going to the Far Eastern Theater, do you want to go with me, or stay here and wait for me?"
Quincy was stunned, and then Blucher hurriedly walked up to Quincy, laughed and put his arm around Quincy's shoulders and said:
"Of course Quincy you're going to go along, aren't you?"
When Quincy saw that Blucher was giving herself a look, she muttered:
"Listen to my sister. β
"Hmm. New Orleans nodded.
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Li Ran left the warehouse area, and then contacted Lexington as he went:
"Are the preparations going well?"
"Well, don't worry, Commander. β
"Where are you?"
"Near the lake in the island, what's the matter, the commander is coming over?"
"Well, I'm going to go, after all, as an admiral, you have to fulfill your obligations before you go on the expedition. β
"Well, then I'll let the fireflies pick you up. β
"No, I'll just go over myself. β
After speaking, Li Ran hung up the communication, and then headed in the direction of the lake in the island.
A few minutes later, he finally walked out of the warehouse to the lake in the middle of the island, and found the Lexingtons sitting around a large round table for a meeting, presumably a presumably pre-war preparation meeting.
"Hello Admiral. When everyone saw Li Ran, they said in unison.
"I seem to have just arrived?" Li Ran looked at the scene in front of him, and couldn't help but think of the ancient meeting of the knights of the round table, but the difference was that it was not the knight who held the meeting but the ship's mother, he was not polite, found a chair and sat down, and then looked at some charts, tables and other documents scattered on the table, he said:
"You go ahead and leave me alone. β
Lexington nodded, then picked up a detailed chart of the waters near Island C, and began to tell the story of her reconnaissance:
"According to the reconnaissance in the past few days, the northeast of the island near Island C near the reef area is the northeast of the island, which is the place where it ......"
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It's the first time Li Ran has heard the ship girls discuss how to fight, which is too different from the sorties that he can complete with just moving his fingers when playing games, because many of the tactics they said are basically invented by the ship girls themselves, and they are only applicable to ship girls.
The meeting lasted for an hour, and Rao is Li Ran couldn't stand it a little, but he saw that even the destroyers were very serious, so he didn't complain, but listened to Helena's intelligence and tactical analysis:
"Based on this information, we should be prepared to do both, as we said at last night's meeting, but the only ones who are specifically responsible for guarding are the destroyers, they are fast and have small targets, and I think this operation should focus on the front of Island C, rather than choosing to attack from the other side of the harbor of Island C, although a head-on duel may be a bit risky.
However, we aim to eliminate the living forces of the deep sea, and the second is to seize the island, I think that now to seize the island, our port area does not have the strength to divide the force to occupy it for the time being, but Island C is rich in aluminum ore resources, and there are goblins, so although we have no spare strength to occupy the island for the time being, but at least let the goblins move out, and we can't cheapen others. β
Li Ran frowned, he interrupted Helena's words with some confusion, and asked:
"What others?"
Lexington heard Li Ran's question, and then she thought for a while and said:
"Helena should be referring to the fleet of the Thundering Town Guard, they are very close to the AB two islands, we fought with them last time, so it is not excluded that they are also playing the idea of attacking the three islands, although this is not very likely, but this is only because the other party is limited by the inability to guarantee air supremacy, the last time the deep-sea fleet raided the Thundering Town Guard, it must have also angered the admiral named Thundering, his light mothership Niang Hundred-Eyed Giant was sunk by the deep sea. β
Li Ran felt as if he had seized an opportunity, or that he had a strategy that could better ensure the success of this Daybreak operation, he said:
"Then this feud is indeed quite big, if that's the case, well, I want to think about it, if in a special situation, you can use the reinforcements of the Thundering Town Guard Mansion to contain the AB two islands, yes, this must be feasible, Lexington, draft, I want to ask the Thundering Town Guard Mansion to help. β
Lexington sighed, but still took out the pen and paper, she knew that Li Ran must have imagined it again like last time.
Li Ran knew that his means might be disgraceful, but he didn't plan to do too much this time, and his plan this time was to give the two islands of AB to the Thundering Town Guard, although there was iron ore on Island B, but there was no shortage of iron ore on his Xiguang Island, what he lacked was a safe and secure sea environment, as long as he could take Island C, then it would be okay to put the two islands of AB farther away, he didn't have too deep an obsession with the territory, and he was not a landlord class, and in this kind of world, the important thing is resources, especially aluminum resources, which are expensive to death.
Li Ran saw a sentence in a book in this world:
"If you master the aluminum resources, you will be equivalent to the other three resources you have at your disposal. β
This sentence is no exaggeration, because aluminum is expensive, and land countries have always had restrictions on the sale of each town, which is also the reason for the high price of aluminum in the international market.
Li Ran thought of this, and he began to dictate a very pertinent diplomatic rhetoric, but he did not clearly indicate that he was using the two islands of AB as collateral, but in a different way, that is, to cooperate in combat, the Thundering Town Guard Mansion helped him contain the two islands of AB, and then after he solved the island C, he formed a front and rear attack, so as to eliminate the deep sea entrenched in the three islands in one fell swoop.
Roughly this is the meaning, Li Ran looked at Lexington writing hard, he walked behind her, and then saw Lexington's beautiful Chinese characters, how to think about it and feel unaccustomed, this strange world really can't be handled with common sense.
Lexington sorted out Li Ran's meaning, and then handed over the finished manuscript to Li Ran for review.
Li Ran found that Lexington said more directly, yes, more directly, he watched Lexington magnify the threat level of the two islands of AB, and found for the first time that his wife also had a black belly?
Li Ran saw that the others were not idle when they were busy, he sorted out this diplomatic rhetoric, and then thought about it, who should he send?
Lexington looked at Li Ran and frowned, and she asked softly:
"Is the commander thinking of another envoy?"
"That's right. Li Ran took this new diplomatic rhetoric, he sat down at the table he had just now, fell into deep thought, she thought about it, it seems that it is not appropriate to send anyone, after all, once and again, the personnel sent out may not be able to catch up with this battle, there is really no good way, he can only ask:
"Do you have any good ideas?"
Lexington shook her head, she didn't want Li Ran to rely too much on herself, she just said:
"This is the duty of the commander, and diplomats can only be assigned by the commander himself, and I can't interfere. β
"Okay, okay. I think about it, it's not too early, let's go back to the town guard, probably I will choose the messenger candidate in the afternoon, as for the time of the battle, you still follow your original arrangement. β
"Well, got it. Lexington knew what Li Ran meant, and she began to sort through the papers scattered on the table, and then everyone returned to the town guard mansion together.
As Li Ran walked, he contacted Quincy and asked her to bring Bai Nuoyan and the others to the town guard mansion to prepare for lunch.
As for the people who had been parked on the ship at the dock in the port area, Li Ran didn't think of them at all, so he didn't take care of them.
Li Ran and Lexington walked at the front of the group, followed by Bismarck and Richelieu, and then the destroyers were bouncing around, and Pinghai was learning some radar application knowledge with Helena.
The group arrived at the town guard mansion in about ten minutes, and then began to prepare lunch, because Li Ran had to hand over to Quincy to cook, so he refused Lexington and Pinghai's request to help in the kitchen.
Lexington and Pinghai looked at their own admiral god mysteriously, and they could only go with him.
Quincy took Bai Nuoyan and his party to Li Ran and the others after they returned to the town to guard the mansion, and they also felt it closely.
Li Ran said luckily, Quincy, you are fortunately not lost this time, he heard Quincy talking outside, and then came out of the kitchen with an apron and said:
"Quincy, come here. β
"Sister~" Quincy's pleading look made New Orleans a little helpless, she reached out and pinched her sister's face, and said angrily:
"Your admiral told you to go and ask me what I was doing. β
"Okay, don't pinch people's faces, they'll get fat. Quincy rubbed her face, then said:
"Sister, you're so nice. β
After speaking, Quincy trotted over, and then followed Li Ran into the kitchen, and with a "snap", everyone saw that the glass door of the kitchen was pulled shut.
Lexington was about to go upstairs to put the paperwork away, and when she saw this, she glanced in the direction of the kitchen, and then at New Orleans, in the white uniform of the gendarmerie, and fell into deep thought.