Chapter 31: Temptation
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The girl's slender and white fingers seemed to reluctantly leave the handle, and then she took a certain electronic device and slid it across its hard screen.
Whew~ hurriedly swept over the girl who appeared on the light curtain, and after suppressing the doubts in her heart for a moment, she said to the young man listed at the top:
"Mr. Yuan, I've read the Admiral's reply, but I still can't understand why you need to conduct this exercise."
"Miss Suzuya, Admiral, he is just using this exercise as an exchange between the two sides. There is a lot to learn from the elite training that Mr. Arytes has received from the two who graduated with Mr. Arites from the Central Naval Academy. Dafeng, who is the flagship and secretary of the ship, explained in a tactful and amiable tone.
"I see...... But drills are not just ordinary battles, and unplanned exercises are just a waste of materials. If you want to make the most of this exercise, I would like to know your request in advance. Suzuya, who has been teaching Garibaldi all these days, is now officially in the state of work.
"Hypothetical enemy ship confrontation." Yuan closed his eyes and thought for a moment before giving this reply.
Suzuya's mood after hearing the request did not stretch out, and she directly put forward such conditions, is it a test of her judgment ability?
She had received some vague hints from Aritus before leaving the North Island Guard. Even now, Suzuya has not fully understood the meaning of this phrase, "to show one's ability beyond the boundary".
"Type vs. scale?" Suzuya continued to ask about the remaining conditions.
"There are no limits." Gen's eyes flashed with an uncertain brilliance, and he seemed to care about Suzuya's performance at the moment.
Unrestricted means that it is more inclined to actual combat drills, rather than one-on-one to test the strength of a certain ship, otherwise there is no need to say more.
"Well, if that's the case, I already understand, who do you plan to let participate in this exercise?" Based on some of the senses he had come to the Berkel Castle before, and his general understanding of the predicament of this Castle Keeper's Mansion, Suzuya asked in such a tactful way to reconfirm.
"Chaochao, Shiyu and Firepower." After sensing a few links in the spiritual network, Gen selected three girls to join the battle that would soon follow.
Call...... Suzuya was relieved in his heart, and after completely eliminating the original uncertain option, he already understood the meaning of the young man in front of him.
She originally had doubts about whether this young man had the intention of letting Dafeng come to the school to test the two of them, but based on Yuan's reaction at this time, she knew that she didn't have to be so troublesome.
"Then Mr. Yuan, you can go to the training ground now to prepare." Suzuya, who had a clear and clear understanding in his mind, pulled up Mogador next to him and prepared to leave from here.
"It doesn't have to be like this, the two newcomers should take a break for a while and prepare for the drill later." Dafeng received the word from the source, calmed down the two girls, and led them to visit the place where they were staying today.
On the way, Suzuya, who had not seen Shi Yu's figure, combined with his previous speculation, had already guessed that the two girls who did not appear in front of him were mostly in the state of recovery in the canal at the moment.
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In a natural harbor not far from the minefield outside the harbor to the west of the Berkel Town Guard's Mansion, several girls in ship uniforms are standing on the surface of the sea at this moment, vaguely waiting for something.
The buoys floating in the distance are the warning line of this training site, and also remind passing ships that this is the important place of the Burkel town guard, and it is not easy to intrude.
Mogador, who was slightly interested in this place, took a closer look at the venue when he got used to it, but felt that it was not as good as the training ground in his own town guard's mansion.
Originally a harbor, the water is gentle and there is not much wind and waves, so it is okay if you only do ordinary training. But if you want to get the best training results, you can show your potential in a training ground with undercurrent reefs and howling winds.
"Miss Suzuya, this battle still needs to bother you, so please show your full strength to deal with it." Asahio, who had already had contact with Suzuya and Mogador, was leading Shi Yu to stand with another girl he had never seen before.
"It's scheduled to start the drill in a minute, so get ready, I'll enjoy the fight seriously." Suzuya, who was slightly suppressed the surging battle spirit in his heart, announced it seriously.
"Suzuya? You haven't mentioned the tactics of this exercise to me before, huh? There are three people on the other side, and with our strength, we can't defeat them at will. Mogador, who had been waiting for a long time to accumulate doubts, asked earnestly in the spiritual link.
"It's not that we're treating it as an enemy ship, it's about treating us as an enemy target, and you should be able to guess the mode of action." Suzuya, who had already guessed the full meaning of this battle, threw the question to Mogador.
"Hmm...... If we were playing the deep-sea ...... Isn't that a tactic! Mogador, who had suddenly turned around to notice this, replied as if surprised.
"Let's do what we do best! We're playing the role of a mindless deep sea, and if we already have a combat advantage, applying tactics will turn the tide of the battle on one side. Suzuya replied, but he was thinking about something else.
The reason for this decision was that she had realized that what was needed to defend the town of Becker was not better tactical preparation, but more urgent strength.
"Huh, Suzuya can only act at will if he says so......" Although Mogador said this, he didn't really relax completely, after all, it was a two-on-three scene, even if his side had a combat advantage, but the other party's response was difficult to predict.
The girls who used the ship's solver as a timekeeping device were able to accurately capture the passage of time, and as the last second of waiting time passed, Suzuya and Mogador, who had been stationed on the water, began to act in unison.
The two girls, who already had the advantage of speed, seized the opportunity with their superior tactical literacy, and with the support of the host who had already completed the preparatory work, they exerted their highest speed and charged towards the direction of the three girls unscrupulously.
Suzuya, who already mimics deep-sea operations, uses such tactics to his advantage. Massive firepower erupted from the guns at her side, enveloping the position directly ahead.
Suzuya's fifteen guns continued to fire high-explosive shells, and it was Mogador who acted with him, and he also carried out long-range artillery attacks.
Determined that staying in place would only be dealt a more violent blow, Asamo suddenly made a decision, informing the two who were about to avoid the battle to bypass them on the side and buy more time.
But even this could only be done to postpone the defeat slightly, not to mention that the Chaochao's directives were not fully followed.
Perhaps it was the pressure of Suzuya and Mogador's attack, or the fact that Mogador approached the trio from the flanks at a higher speed that frightened them. A petite girl with no name suddenly broke away from the formation, pulling up her speed at full speed in the hope of delaying the rapid attack of Mogador.
"Why rush out now?" The girl who was still overloaded ignored the words in the spirit link and focused her gaze on the girl in blue not far away.
She wasn't stupid or reckless, but Mogador, who was fast and had no weak firepower, was the most difficult for them to deal with. She was the fastest of the three, and the idea was to use her own assault to finish Mogador off, if not knock him back without damage, but at least turn the tide of the battle into a two-to-one advantage.
Witnessing this scene, Mogador couldn't help but sigh, the prediction of this drill was the battle judgment that the three girls should make after encountering the deep sea. But at this moment, Mogador's eyes did not make sense of the girl's actions, because her actions were too direct and could not get the help of her teammates. Even in a normal engagement, the success rate is not too high, and more importantly, to do so is to put yourself in a difficult situation.
Just as Shi Yu was taking a detour to advance and dodge the tide of dense artillery fire from the air, he heard the exit of the firepower in the spiritual network in his hurry, but as if he had expected it, he did not sigh or be surprised.
"Morning Tide...... The form is terrible! Shi Yu, who had to put more energy into maneuvering under the suppression of heavy firepower, asked Chaochao with difficulty.
But Chaochao is in a state of extreme calm and clarity at the moment, and she is the most mature of the destroyers under Yuan's command, but she has some understanding of this battle.
"I just missed a fighter...... "I realized it later, and I felt a little sigh in my heart when I reacted to the Chaochao who had helped with firepower before. She doesn't have any amazing merit or ability in her own right, and even if she is often appointed as a squad leader because of the Admiral's trust, she doesn't have much prestige, let alone command others to deal with the situation of battle?
And as Mogador and Suzuya pressed forward step by step, even if the two girls relied on torpedoes to temporarily force the offensive back, they were forced to judge the defeat of the battle under the consumption of time.
"Chaochao, why did you disperse your forces to fight before? In a weak state, it is better to concentrate on making breakthroughs than to devote forces to more fronts. Mogador noticed that he had been leading Shiyu to stubbornly resist Suzuya's firepower, and he thought that she was the captain of the other party in this drill.
"The situation was changing too fast...... And the Mogador seniors are really powerful, I don't have such ability. Inadvertently, Asamo sighed because of his own limited ability to play a role, and Mogador seemed to be keenly aware of her distress.
"As far as my personal advice is concerned, in a battle of this level, it is ......better to preserve the combat strength and maneuver as much as possible," Mogador said earnestly, slightly arranging his blue hair that was blown by the wind.
"That's not the crux of their problem." In the distance, Suzuya's voice reached the ears of several people in the wind.
"With three destroyers against a deep-sea cruiser and a deep-sea destroyer of the same energy class, to get such a result, it is not a lack of effort or a tactical error, but more of a lack of strength." Suzuya, who came slowly with his own knowledge, not only attracted the attention of the morning tide and the rain, but also listened to it through the spiritual network of the source who was watching from the distant stands.
"In order to successfully complete the task under the predetermined situation, such power is not enough, or such a task should not be carried out in this way." Suzuya's words made Asamo, who had been in several difficult situations, nod slightly, but then thought of his current situation, and his face was slightly helpless.
"If you can be captained by a ship girl with a certain amount of firepower and protection ability like me, not only will it be a big improvement in firepower, but it will also have a lot of benefits for the cooperation of the entire team." Observing Asahio's previous performance in battle, as well as the way in which her firepower was at odds with her, Suzuya naturally guessed that she did not have the ability to subdue others, so that the tactics that could still be barely executed were broken by improper coordination.
"I've speculated about this before...... But now that I think about it, it's because of the problem with the composition of the fleet......" Knowing the source of Suzuya's words from the spiritual network broadcast, he whispered in the stands.
"Hasn't the Admiral made progress these days?" Dafeng, who heard the young man's slightly depressed words, softly comforted.
"It's not a day's work, and it takes a long time to try and work hard to succeed." Knowing the source of his progress and condition, he didn't mean to hide it, and explained to Dafeng.
"But the one who guards the North Island Town Mansion is indeed quite capable...... Whether it's him or a few ...... under his command," he sighed as he shifted his gaze to Gen beside Suzuya and Mogador.