CHAPTER XXII

"I mean, your ...... is really a six-star star," a teenager in a college uniform and sunglasses asked, standing high above the water stand, to his companion next to him. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"You didn't see the video they filmed when I opened room 13...... You can see forums, message boards, and everywhere, right? The young man next to him, who looked younger, responded helplessly to his friend's inquiry.

At this time, he turned his gaze to another stand not far away. Among the bustling girls in the opposite stand, he easily found the girl with her signature dazzling blonde hair, which was very conspicuous.

She was none other than the new companion she had recently summoned through the ritual, the six-star cruiser Des Moines.

"I didn't see the video...... I heard that the college directly deleted it later...... After all, it would be a violation of some of the college's rules to shoot directly. The brunette boy fiddled with his sunglasses and explained.

"But they still got some pictures out there...... You can't tell it's me from that, do you? Aritus asked.

"Well, after all, you're the only one who fits that height and has silver hair," explained the friend next to him.

"It's light blue...... Shooting from a distance will look like a silver ......," the boy complained, but his gaze involuntarily drifted to the opposite stand.

Unlike this one, the other one is lower, but it is also larger, and the number of people staying on it is much larger than on this side.

At a glance, the opposite side is full of girls wearing ship uniforms and emitting a faint radiation reaction around them. They were the shipwives of the Central Naval Academy, and at this time Aritus could see several familiar girls standing in the crowd.

Turning his gaze back to this side of the stand, it is different from the other side, which is completely occupied by the girls. The ratio of men to women here is more balanced, with 15 teenagers and girls and a young mentor who is not very familiar with each other, controlling the ratio to 1:1.

This is a special theoretical and practical class, adhering to the ideological program of the academy of teaching and teaching, and it is not only the admiral of the academy who appears here, but also the shipwrecks to which it belongs.

The teaching at the Central Naval Academy is never purely boring and boring theoretical study. Even admirals, who are more inclined to task handling and tactical command, will often face the exercises between the ships to experience the actual combat state corresponding to the theory.

"But I have to say that the blind color light photo is indeed very shocking......", the black-haired young man standing on the high platform unabashedly cast a resentful gaze at the white-faced and murderous European Emperor beside him.

"So it's better to just delete ......," Aritus sighed helplessly, ignoring the gaze of someone next to him.

"Maybe it's to give a proof, after all, there is a new six-star ship girl, this incident still happened in our academy, and to some extent it is already very scary." Avalon, who is in the same class, explained the academy's approach with his own opinion.

"However, you were selected to do the actual combat drill today, and you didn't let that one appear on the stage." , Avalon asked the teenager next to him with some incomprehension after finding Des Moines among the bunch of girls on the opposite side through the photos circulating within the academy.

"The college has made quite a lot of requirements and strength considerations for this exercise, otherwise how to eliminate some variables to highlight this topic?" Alitus pointed to the map and text of the sea area projected on the upper part of the high platform, and explained helplessly.

"'The Importance of Speed and Its Practical Significance'...... There are so many specific requirements......", Avalon sighed after a few glances.

"You're actually halfway there, and I remember that Bismarck of yours is also a ...... that meets the criteria this time," Aritus thought about his friend for a moment, and then remembered that his initial ship was also a five-star battleship ship.

"Bismarck, she's fine...... But the second requirement is the cruiser ship Niang (light cruiser class), my family Kaohsiung she does not meet the conditions. After carefully looking at the restrictions and conditions, Avalon realized that his conditions did not meet them.

After receiving a prompt from his mentor and knowing that he was going to go to the designated location to standby, Aritus said goodbye to his friend next to him.

After the boy stepped down from the stand, he walked along the lift platform to the command platform, which was very close to the sea. Here, he saw a young girl with a strange ship costume on her back, and a strange teenager in a college uniform.

For the boy in uniform, Arrites knew very well that he was the admiral on the other side of the battle. And the girl in the red witch costume and the inky cloak, he didn't know her identity.

"You are?" The boy thought about it, and it seemed that only the people concerned were allowed to enter here.

"I'm the observer in charge of this exercise, Chiyoda. Please advise. The girl saddled her heavy-looking suit and greeted Aritus.

"But the academy also has a low-altitude scout to take on this task, right?" , Aritus knew some of the rules and regulations of the academy, so he was surprised that this girl appeared here.

"The scout can only judge the external state of the opposing sides, and cannot determine the extent of damage to the ship's armament. And that's up to me to decide. Chiyoda explained his mission very seriously.

"I see, thank you so much." After knowing his identity, Aritus didn't get too entangled.

Unshutting up his mental network, which he had only recently built, Arrites made contact with Veneto and Anne:

"What's the status of the link?" Through the spiritual network, he sent inquiries to the two of them at the same time.

"Everything is fine, but the strength of the links has dropped significantly compared to before. And the weakening of the link can already be felt at this distance. Veneto's thoughts were transmitted through an invisible spiritual network, and he reported his feelings.

"Everything is fine on Annie's side." , Anne, who was standing next to Veneto at the moment, also responded.

After hearing the reply of the two girls, the boy fell into thought.

It is true that the existence of a spiritual network can make it possible for the ship to communicate with each other, but in the same way, the construction of a complex spiritual network will bring about the weakening of the strength of the spiritual link. At this time, Aritaus, who had just finished creating, was constantly adjusting and optimizing some of the defects he had built.

Among the students in the same period, there are still very few students who can make such an attempt within a month of the start of school.

With the sound of class instructions, the theoretical demonstration course officially began.

"Ladies and gentlemen, today we are going to study a demonstration course on the value of speed and practical application," said the instructor's voice from the electronic broadcasting equipment, and most of the students who were absent-minded in the stands were also in the middle of the show.

"As we all know, our confrontation with the deep sea is a complex and diverse system of combat. Its fundamental purpose is to compete with the deep sea for sea supremacy, and the most basic way to seize sea supremacy is to destroy the deep-sea fleet and maintain sea supremacy in a certain area. The young instructor, who was in the stands, began to explain the core purpose of the lesson.

"In a simple confrontation with the deep sea, mobility and movement warfare are the most basic elements, and the key to influencing these two points is speed." Through the light screen near the command platform, Alitus can clearly see some of the written materials released by the mentor.

"This demonstration lesson is to use simple tactical simulation to verify the value of speed, and you can see the intelligence of both sides of the confrontation on the light screen, so I won't say more." The youth mentor waved open a diagram so that everyone present could clearly understand most of the content of the simulation.

Of course, Aritus knew this beforehand, and his contestant was another classmate in the same class, and this time it was the "Battleship Colorado" and the "Heavy Cruiser Ship Canberra" under his command.

Due to the exercise, Veneto and Anne's names on the map were changed to 'Red Main Fleet' and 'Red Cruiser', and the other side was also changed to 'Blue Main Fleet' and 'Blue Cruiser'.

With Chiyoda's instructions beside him, both of them knew that the drill had begun.

Since the location of the two shipwives was not initially informed, Arrites at this time did not know the location of the two shipwives on the other side.

Aritus gave the order to release the carrier-based aircraft.

Anne, who was already proficient in all the ship's equipment, released four miniature SOC Seagull reconnaissance planes through the ejection device on the ship's equipment, and Veneto on the side also quickly released three Ro.43 water reconnaissance planes, and conducted a low-altitude search to confirm the exact location of the other party.

Veneto and Arrites, after experiencing the endless encirclement of the deep sea, are very aware of the importance of intelligence, and out of consideration for Anne's transformation into an aircraft carrier in the future, Anne's carrier-based aircraft training has begun very early.

Now, while commanding the carrier-based aircraft, Anne is using her own ship-based SG anti-sea radar in order to quickly determine the location of the enemy fleet.

The two girls made such accurate judgments and behaviors as soon as they opened, and naturally they were also filmed and broadcast by the academy's small scouts, showing the other admirals and ship girls in the stands.

"Ladies and gentlemen, please pay attention. The release of carrier-based aircraft by the Red Fleet just now is very correct and effective when it lacks the support of aircraft carriers. Obtain the correct intelligence of the enemy and be able to execute the plan accurately. The mentor's voice reached the ears of everyone present, and the young admiral on the other side seemed to notice this shortcoming, and soon issued an order to his own ship's mother to release the carrier-based aircraft.

Of course, since Aritus's side was the first to release the carrier-based aircraft, their position had already been locked when the opposite side hastily adjusted the ship's equipment and released a total of four carrier-based aircraft.

"It's a pity it's not the Ro.44 type...... Otherwise, ...... will also knock down the water scout on the other side", and Veneto, who reorganized his flight altitude and continued the exploration mission, seemed to feel a little regretful. Due to the use of anti-aircraft guns by the other side, one of the carrier-based aircraft of the two men was damaged, and the reconnaissance capability was also limited to a certain extent.

"The enemy's speed has been determined, and the speed of the 'Colorado' and 'Canberra' has been measured by the aircraft to be 23 knots and the direction angle is ......." Through the double confirmation of the radar and the reconnaissance plane, Anne reported the data she had checked to Veneto from time to time.

In the distant stands, instructions sent by the instructor to Chiyoda were conveyed to the two admirals on the command platform.

"Ask the two to separate the fleet, and let the cruisers on both sides carry out the target battle plan." , Chiyoda's voice rang in Aritus's ears, and he also passed this order to the two ship girls.

This exercise is a demonstration of tactical deduction, not an unlimited random exercise. The purpose is to test and analyze theoretical ideas in a particular situation.

And in the plan, the two ships of both sides will be separated, simulating the situation of the cruiser fleet performing reconnaissance and cruising missions on the battlefield.

According to this order, Veneto maintained his original speed and course, while Anne turned in the other direction and confirmed the opponent's position with the help of a reconnaissance plane.

The Blue Canberra's was delayed by the speed of the Colorado, and the main engine overload soared to 34.5 knots, and at this moment, Anne also reached a top speed of nearly 36 knots through the main engine overload.

Even a cutting-edge high-speed battleship like Veneto, which is not slow, has a certain gap with the cruisers in terms of speed.

And this is due to the different characteristics and tasks brought about by different types of ships. Capital ship girls generally move with the big fleet, while cruiser girls often have to carry out solo patrol missions, so cruiser girls are generally faster than capital ships.

It's not for nothing that the cruisers are known as the light cavalry of the seas, they are the backbone of the fleet, both to support and protect the capital ships, but also to take on certain wartime tasks on their own. Mobility and agility are their excellent qualities.

Two minutes after the fleet separated, the two shipwives no longer needed to use reconnaissance planes or radars to determine each other's positions, as they were already able to spot each other through enhanced eyesight!

The battle between the two cruisers was on the verge of breaking out.