"Hey, this is the home port, please answer when you hear it!"

"This is Princeton, the signal is clear, Commander."

"And Quincy Quincy-Kun! Commander, Quincy has a good signal here as well. ”

In one of the tactical communication rooms in the center of the operational command room of the Ishutenor naval base, Mo Yan, wearing a tactical communication device, sat in front of the command platform with a cup of freshly ground Gamedia light gold coffee, leisurely looking at the tactical chart of the Sissel Sea in front of him.

The Sissel Sea is an offshore sea area located southeast of Ishuthnor, about 180 nautical miles away in a straight line.

"Can you determine your current approximate location?" Mo Yan stared at the chart and took a sip of coffee, because there was no specific reference for a while ago, the two ship girls could only determine that the direction of progress was correct, but they could not proofread the specific position they were in.

"My carrier-based aircraft discovered the Little Pearl Islands ten minutes ago, and we are currently on our way to the target area, and it is expected that it will take another hour to arrive." Princeton's carrier-based aircraft have been conducting non-stop reconnaissance of the surrounding sea area within a radius of 40 nautical miles, with herself as the center.

"I've been walking for hours, and I haven't encountered a deep sea, so it's so boring to be in a hurry! Commander, tell us a story! Quincy didn't hate to hurry, but she had eaten all the "big bag" of snacks that Mo Yan had prepared for her before leaving, and now she was empty-handed, and she didn't have anything to kill time, so she simply pestered Mo Yan to tell her stories.

"Well, tell me what kind of stories you'd like to hear, I know more stories than a thousand and one nights." Mo Yan put down his coffee cup, used a marker pen to point out the Little Pearl Islands on the chart, and then drew a few dotted lines along the Little Pearl Islands, marking an empty sea area.

This marked sea area is the target area of this sortie, and three merchant ships and two shipwives escorting merchant ships have gone missing here in a week.

The base also thought about sending the aircraft carrier girl to conduct a reconnaissance and search here, but the training level of the aircraft carrier girls who stayed at the base was not high. The extended range of their carrier-based aircraft is basically less than 120 nautical miles, and once they exceed this distance, the information detected by the carrier-based aircraft cannot be transmitted back immediately.

They also tried to let the carrier-based planes make their own reconnaissance and went to the Sissel Sea 180 nautical miles away to conduct reconnaissance, but unfortunately several waves of reconnaissance planes sent in succession lost contact after entering the Sissel Sea and never returned.

As a last resort, the base could only give the newly promoted lieutenant colonel Admiral Mo Yan, who had performed the most outstanding performance in deep-sea operations recently, to conduct reconnaissance and exploration of this sea area.

Every Admiral of the Navy will be directly awarded the rank of major after his official appointment, and if he wants to be promoted, he only needs to continue to eliminate the accumulated merits of the deep sea.

Destroying the deep sea can be promoted, which is easy to say, but it is very difficult to do. Many admirals have been major until the fleet is formed and has enough strength before they have planned to destroy the deep sea to earn merit and be promoted.

Even the deep sea in the offshore area is also a certain threat to the ship girls who are not highly trained, and most of the admirals are reluctant to risk letting them destroy the deep sea alone to earn merit when there is only one ship girl at the beginning. They either let their shipwives train and exercise in the base to improve their training and accumulate qualifications for the service of the base. Or after their own ship mother has a certain combat experience through training and exercises, they will team up with the rest of the ship mother to carry out the combat mission of destroying the deep sea, but the more ship girls participate in the mission, the less merit will be shared.

But Mo Yan is an exception, now his name as a "genius" has spread throughout the entire Northern Front, and the entire navy of the Northern Front knows that Ishutenorr has produced a genius admiral, and after becoming a naval admiral for less than two months, he has accumulated enough merit with only two ship girls, and was exceptionally promoted to lieutenant colonel admiral by the Navy Military Department.

It's been more than a month since Mo Yan built Princeton. Before Princeton appeared, although everyone knew that there was such a genius as Mo Yan in the base, his ship, the heavy cruiser Quincy, was very strong, and the initial strength evaluation was A+, and it was just built to be able to complete the combat mission single-handedly. But that's all, many battleships that have just been built can also complete combat missions alone, after all, it is only the offshore area, and the deep sea born here is generally not very strong.

And after Princeton was built, Mo Yan, the so-called "genius", really began to show his edge.

Princeton's initial strength evaluation was A+, which did not surprise Tianlong, who was present at the time, as Princeton also showed a very high opinion of Mo Yan when it was built. The higher the favorability, the stronger the ship's mother, this is a well-known thing. In Tianlong's opinion, it would be strange if Princeton did not get an A grade or higher.

The metamorphosis of Mo Yan's power and the spread of his "genius" name only began after Princeton and Quincy teamed up.

The day after Princeton was built, Mo Yan led her and Quincy to the mission center.

This time, before receiving the mission, Mo Yan discussed with Tianlong to delineate a combat line, and used a line to string together all the sea areas with deep seas that were relatively close to the base, and then completed all the combat missions about these sea areas at once.

With Princeton's carrier-based aircraft to scout and assist in the battle, she and Quincy completed nine combat missions on the first day. Compared with the embarrassment of completing six and a half missions by mistake after Quincy Trek, the two shipwives behaved very relaxed and comfortable this time, set off after lunch, and returned in style after completing all the tasks an hour before dinner.

Moreover, while the two of them were on a mission, they had been chatting and frolicking with Mo Yan through tactical communication devices, and the efficiency of performing the mission was much higher than when Quincy was alone.

Mo Yan still remembers the surprised expression of the counter staff in charge of the task handover when he completed nine combat missions at one time.

Since then, the duo of Princeton and Quincy has completed an average of seven combat missions per day, and it took only 20 days to clear all the deep sea around Ishutanor in the 100 nautical miles of the sea. While achieving the name of Mo Yan's "genius" admiral, he was also given a series of titles such as "Deep Sea Lawn Mower", "Mission Completer", "Blue ** Magician Combination" and so on by the good deeds in the base.

While completing these tasks, Mo Yan naturally gained a lot of merits.

Mo Yan, who originally wanted to use these merits to apply for reconstruction, found that the merit required to apply for the third construction was actually more than ten times higher than the second, and the merit required for the fourth construction was five times higher than that of the third!

The merit he currently possesses is enough to apply for the third build, and if he wants to build the fourth time, at the rate at which he is currently acquiring merit, it will take at least half a year to accumulate it.

Then, under Tianlong's explanation and persuasion, Mo Yan decided not to be busy building again, but to prioritize these achievements to improve his military rank.

Because if you want to become a naval admiral with your own town guard, sitting in the sea and guarding the safety of the party, the first requirement is to have at least the rank of colonel and above. Only by having a high enough military rank can you have enough power and prestige in the navy, which is also necessary to establish a town guard.

A town guard is not only a military body used to fight against the deep sea, but also a power agency to guard the sea area, and all administrative agencies along the coast of the sea area under the town guard will be classified as subordinate institutions of the town guard office. The revenue generated by the cities, towns, and even villages under the jurisdiction of these administrative agencies is generally divided into four parts, one for the federal government, one for the naval headquarters, one for the town guards, and one for their own use.

After having his own town guard, the Admiral of the Navy can be regarded as truly becoming a high-ranking member of the Federation. Moreover, because of the supply of resources from subordinate institutions, the strength of the admirals will also increase rapidly, build more ships, and form a more powerful fleet.

Mo Yan's current strength is enough to cope with the combat missions issued by the base, and building a ship is just icing on the cake, so it is a wise choice to upgrade the military rank first. As the rank increases, so does the Admiral's living allowance and combat allowance, which can be used to purchase resources for construction.

It is much more cost-effective to buy resources for construction with money than to apply for construction with merit.