Chapter 216: Gods and Ghosts

"Sister......

"What's the matter?"

"The Third Fleet did not find Andrea!"

"Didn't find out? What about the specifics? ”

"Yes, according to the plan, the Third Fleet arrived at the intended location for the first tentative operation, but they waited for hours only to Saratoga, Andrea, and Avial...... Gone. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info”

"How is this possible?"

Nelson's question was also the mood of several other shipwives.

In this exercise, they had the right time and place, and they were still in control, and from the very beginning, they were completely in control of the battlefield situation.

They knew from which direction the Blue Sea Mist Fleet entered the exercise area, and they also knew where the other side would appear at the beginning of the exercise, and they even arranged manpower at the edge of the exercise area.

It should be said that as long as Andrea enters the exercise area, it will appear under their noses.

To put it another way:

Now the situation is that they are already in their seats in the room.

Even the door was watched by people on both sides, and then when the door was kicked open, no SWAT commando team was found outside the door, and the kicked open door (the order to start the exercise) was like a paranormal event.

"Only Saratoga?"

"Yes, the Third Fleet reported that they only spotted the slow-moving USS Saratoga."

"Order them to spread to the waters around Saratoga, since Saratoga is the command, for example, it will not be too far away from Andrea, so there is no need to pay attention to formation and security, and disperse the investigation."

Anyway, the Third Fleet and even the Second Fleet are ready to be sent out to give the other side extra points.

Nelson stood at the top of his hull turret and frowned, as if he had little confidence in his order.

The variables that Saratoga brings are enormous.

Since she was not in the exercise formation, she could not be attacked, so she did not need to be protected.

This means that no one knows if she came out on purpose to attract attention, or if she was actually following behind the strategic cruiser Andrea.

Soon, the front-line battle report was transmitted again.

"We've been fooled!"

Rodney's voice was a little helpless and funny.

"Did the Third Fleet still not find Andrea?"

The answer was unrealistic, but it was vaguely expected by Nelson, who also smiled a little.

Of course, there is more skepticism.

The loudspeaker was persuading him to surrender, and the footsteps outside the door were approaching, and finally even the door had been kicked open, but ...... What about SWAT?

What about the blasting of the door and the fierce exchange of fire between the police and the bandits?

As a result, the commandos who should have rushed in suddenly disappeared.

Nelson even had two laps around the Saratoga.

It was almost like the bandits running out of the room, and sneaking under the nose of the SWAT commander to dance and taunt.

The abandoned spies here are still teasing the SWAT commander to the death, and the subordinates guarding the "window" have ...... Killed!

"The Second Fleet reports the discovery of Andrea."

"There was an exchange of fire between the two sides, and the fighting was fierce."

"Second Fleet...... Lost contact! ”

Three telegrams came almost in a row.

With such development and rapidity, not to mention Rodney's bewildered face, the other ship girls also had expressions of disbelief on their faces.

From the time of the report of the discovery of Andrea to its destruction, it was only less than half an hour later, and in less than half an hour, the Second Fleet, consisting of one heavy cruiser and several light cruisers, lost contact.

And to lose contact during the exercise is almost to be erased.

Sure enough, Hood, as the referee, then sent a telegram of judgment stating that the Second Fleet had been completely destroyed.

"It's not scientific, and it's not a ship's mother." The counterattack screamed.

It is not for nothing that the half-hour ended a naval battle, but that was the reason for such prerequisites as a night attack on one side.

With today's sea weather, it is basically impossible to be approached, but it is not noticed, and it has been more than half an hour from the discovery of the enemy to the contact between the two sides and the start of a battle.

The Third Fleet was thrown "at the door" to give people their heads.

Although the Second Fleet was also prepared to be given to others, it was arranged in a relatively backward position.

In the time since the start of the exercise, how did Andrea run behind them through the Third Fleet?

And this is not the right time, given a speed of 40 knots, she will not be able to run the waters of the Second Fleet, unless she flies with ...... That's why the counterattack will be said to be unscientific and not a ship's mother.

Andrea: This is already called elusive.

"Could it be that Commander Ni Haoer deliberately used Saratoga to attract our attention, and at the same time arranged for Andrea to enter the exercise area from other directions?" Rodney guessed.

"No!"

Nelson wasn't convinced.

She had seen the young Admiral.

It is not to say that he understands, but subconsciously Nelson believes in his feelings.

"No!"

Prestige, who had been silent, suddenly spoke.

"My sister said she wouldn't? Does my sister know how Andrea's predecessors did it? ”

"I'm sorry, I don't know, but I know Hood won't agree to the Commander."

Saratoga itself is not in the exercise formation, in other words, you can think of her as a huge fishing boat, and you can carry a naval officer on the fishing boat as a headquarters.

But trying to use a fishing boat as a bait is itself a violation of the drill rules.

It is unlikely that Hood, as the first judge of this exercise, would have agreed to similar cheating.

"Did the Second Fleet say anything in the end?"

The fact that the exercise has begun means that the battle is underway, and whether the other side is using the means is a given, and it is more concerned about the current state of affairs than discussing whether Nelson has been misled by Saratoga.

It's a bit similar to the history we know.

The telegram could only be transmitted in the simplest way, and it was not the mystical nature of the military that was conditional.

Each byte requires several codes to translate and construct, and the transfer speed is so slow that a modern otaku smashes a keyboard, so we see that the so-called telegrams in the movie are as short as possible.

When the distance is stretched to a certain extent, even the ship's mother cannot maintain instant communication at any time.

"Andrea, super speed, super range...... Super firepower, unable to fight. ”

Three times in a row, the expression on Rodney's pretty face when he reported this telegram message was very strange.

Actually, everyone is pretty much the same.

They really haven't seen much of this description.

"Super firepower, hum, hum." A certain maid girl pouting was very unconvinced.

I think she is also the main class of the Great Battle Cruiser, equipped with 380 mm guns, and is also a member of the "super" firepower.

Everyone can understand the unconvince of the counterattack, it should be said that the four ship mothers in the main fleet can all be classified as super firepower, but few people will describe them like this.

"It is said that most of the weapons ports of the Andrea were removed?" Prestige said in a calm tone.

"Yes, originally Andrea had 13 main guns, but after the transformation of Admiral Ni Haoer, she only kept the last 6."

"Diptych?"

"Yes, the three-seater twin 320."

"Super high speed, inferring that her speed is above 30 knots, super range, I believe that since the Admiral has reduced the number of main guns, he must have a reason, estimated an effective distance of 25 kilometers, super firepower...... After making contact with Andrea, be careful to avoid attacks. ”

"I think there's a super armor!"

Nelson smiled wryly.

She was the only one of the shipwives who had seen Ellie a few times.

When Nelson brought Koji to the Admiral's uniform at the Admiral's College, he had seen Ellie's hull docked in the harbor from afar, and he had heard Elizabeth talk about Ellie's investment in the hull.

"So?"

Fight back and stick out your little tongue.

The other ship girls looked at each other across the sea and smiled bitterly.

If what Elizabeth said was true, the little guy really did just that.

"Wait......" Nelson suddenly thought of something.

"Where's the little devil?"

"Who's the little devil?"

"It's the Aviel, and Commander Koji calls Aviel a little devil."

The report of the Second Fleet only mentions Andrea, and the Blue Sea Mist Fleet participated in the exercise with two warships.

No one will take a destroyer in their eyes.

Perhaps, for the strength of humanity itself, even destroyers are steel beasts with a displacement of thousands of tons.

But in the group of capital ship girls, the big sisters rarely pay attention to the little ones who are not even a third of the size in front of them.

To exaggerate, if you play bumper cars (boats), these capital ships with a displacement of 34,000 tons can overturn a whole row of little loli in one go, making them shy and show their pants in shame.

The faces of the ship girls changed slightly.

They can underestimate the other destroyer schoolboys, but Avial ...... That's one of the current capital ships of the Azure Sea Mist Fleet!

And their worries were soon answered.

The little devil appeared-

"Urgent battle report, the special fleet of mines has been attacked, and it is suspected that the destroyer Aviar is sneak attacking."

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Now the big sisters are really speechless.

The special fleet of mines does not mean that they can only use mines.

Any underwater attack can be called a mine, so being able to be called a mine fleet means that it has a certain combat capability against large warships, and it can be regarded as the main fleet.

And Nelson and others were speechless not for the news that the mine fleet, which was the second main force, was attacked.

The third phase will be sent to the head at the beginning, and the third fleet will be sent to the second fleet, and the real showdown in this exercise will be Nelson's main fleet.

However, in addition to the main fleet, the European Imperial Mansion also has a second-class main force reserved for backup, that is, the Mine Special Fleet, and they will undertake the task of the main fleet if necessary to test the combat capability of the Blue Sea Mist Fleet.

Figuratively speaking, it is to increase the amount of work.

What's more......

Because it is an alternative, the position of the mine fleet is in the rear of the main fleet.

In just a few hours, it was impossible for Aviaal to bypass the main forces and sneak attack the special fleet of mines.

The only explanation can only be that the schoolboy sneaked over quietly under the noses of the main big sisters!

At the thought that they were still here to analyze the battle situation, a little guy was quietly slipping past them, and they didn't feel it at all, and even the reputation that had always been cold was pursed and did not speak.

How the hell did that girl do it?

Use a destroyer to sneak up on a mine-destroyer patrol fleet...... Where did she get the guts!

"Hood's telegram."

Nelson's face was very strange.

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The expressions of the others were almost the same as those of the others.

Hood was the first magistrate in the exercise, and her telegrams often brought verdicts.

"Mine Special Fleet...... Doomed! ”

"Huh?"

It's a fantasy.

The Second Fleet in front was destroyed by Andrea, so forget it.

What is this now?

A fleet of inferior main forces was killed by a destroyer?

It was even more unbelievable than hearing the little devil sneak past them and not notice it.

"Soul light, even that oversized schoolboy with a displacement of 9,000 tons can't kill five mine patrols so quickly, what about the torpedoes of the mine patrolmen?" Aren't you Lei Patrol known as the most torpedo-playing ship's mother?

"Weird!"

"Pretty weird."

Nelson and Rodney remembered a man who smiled softly at the same time.

The entire originally planned exercise plan was not written according to the script at all from the beginning, and the arranged heads were not wanted, but the hidden ones in the back were dug out and eaten one by one.

What's even more infuriating is that until now they don't know how each other did it.

Although just as they knew where the Blue Sea Mist fleet came in from the beginning, the other party also knew where each of their fleets was stationed, but no one could have imagined that this situation would have developed into now.

Andrea and Aviar are like two ghost ships on the sea.

The capital ships are mysterious, the destroyers are even more weird, and you never know where they will appear and what they will do to make you stunned.

"Andrea will choose to turn back and pursue the Third Fleet after clearing the Second Fleet, while Avial will probably choose to lurk behind us and wait for Andrea to create conditions for her."

"It sounds hard to believe."

"We're ...... Surrounded by the Admiral! ”

It's ridiculous.

I knew that now was not the time to laugh, but the corners of the mouths of the four capital ship girls were hooked.

The amplitude of this smile seemed to be nothing from the beginning to the end, and for a while, there was laughter in the heart-frequency LAN formed by the ship girls.

Two battleships.

Two battle cruisers.

But it was expelled and surrounded by a battle, and it was still a flank attack from front to back.

"Looks like we're going to be able to finish the game when we wait for the Admiral to come to the door." Prestige said.

"Stupid commander, can't you follow our plot, anyway, in the end, it's the main force against the main force." Rodney's coquettishness sent chills down the shoulders of the other sisters.

"Me, me, me!"

Counter The little maid held up her little hands.

"I'm going to arrest Avi...... Little devil, I want to see how that little guy is different from other destroyers. ”

"So, sisters, get moving!"