"I still hate this kind of weather! It's always been so gloomy, a little too depressing. ”

"It's not important to be depressed or something, I'm afraid that it will be in trouble if it rains for a while."

On a gray sea, a group of shipwrecks was sailing at a speed of more than twenty-seven knots, while two heavy cruisers in the middle of the line were complaining about the weather.

"What a tongue to chew! If you have the heart to complain, it is better to focus on seeking the enemy, how much face we have lost in these exercises, don't you have a little shame? ”

Atago, who was the flagship of the team, turned his head with a dark face and scolded the two whining ship girls.

"Shame is shame, but if you want to save face, I'm afraid it's impossible!" Suzuya rolled her eyes at her boss.

"yes, that guy looks stupid, but he's almost better than a battleship! As a heavy patrol, let's stop being bored. Kumano spread his hands, looking like what I could do, and I was also embarrassed.

"Give up, boss! It's not like you haven't seen that the blue guy can directly defeat an entire deep-sea main formation with a round of uninterrupted firepower, which is a full fleet of twelve deep-sea warships, and it also includes a deep-sea battleship and two deep-sea battlecruisers, how can we compare with others. Kaku, who didn't speak at first, also persuaded Atago.

In Kagu's opinion, Atago, the boss, is actually a very good person, but unfortunately he is too competitive and wants to fight for everything.

Fortunately, everyone was on the same level, and she worked harder and harder, so she stood out among the heavy patrols, and was appointed by the Admiral as the flagship of this assault fleet. But the gap between that blue guy and them is too big, how can they catch up in a short time!

"How could you give up! I've never given up two words in my dictionary! It's easy to give up, but it's not so easy to muster up the courage to keep catching up after giving up. It's the same ship mother, what can she do as a guy who has been built for less than three months, why can't we do it? If we really can't do it, it only proves that we are not resolute enough and not hard enough! ”

After Atago gritted his teeth and said this, he continued to lead the way, no longer arguing with his subordinate ship girls.

As for the gap between her and the blue guy, in fact, she herself knows best, not to say that it is like a cloud, but at least it is also separated by a moat.

But do you have to stop in front of the moat?

Perhaps others will be intimidated and stop moving. But she loved it differently, she would not allow herself to hesitate in the slightest, at least until she helped the Admiral complete that matter, she must not let up!

Just as Atago was thinking this, the tactical communication device in his ear suddenly heard the sound of an electric current, and then a cold and sharp voice came from it.

"This is Tactical Command Bismarck, Third Assault Fleet, please report your position immediately, where are you now?"

"I am Atago, the flagship of the Third Assault Fleet, and my fleet has arrived in the waters of Kajialai, and there are still twenty-two nautical miles from the target location, what are the instructions of the command?"

Atago raised his hand to cover his right ear so that he could hear the tactical communications device more clearly in the midst of the cacophony of the waves.

"What is your current speed?"

"Report, we're now on our way to the target area at twenty-seven knots."

"Immediately increase your speed to more than thirty knots, the first and second assault fleets have reached the designated area and begin the raid, and the first wave of attack aircraft will arrive in thirty minutes, you must rush into the enemy fleet as soon as the air raid is over, and take them by surprise! We must get the job done before the Second Fleet this time, and we must not let the name of Shernaise be disgraced again! ”

"The Third Assault Fleet will never fail to live up to the expectations of the command!"

After completing the communication, Atago put down his right hand covering his ears and loudly conveyed the battle order issued by the command to the ships of the Third Assault Fleet:

"Everyone, please immediately increase the speed to thirty-two knots, and start preparing to charge the force field of the naval guns, we must win this time!"

"Understood!"

The five ships of the Third Assault Fleet responded in unison, and then immediately increased the output power of the Maiint force field, increasing the speed to thirty-two knots.

Although they don't have much hope of winning the Second Fleet, this doesn't mean that they are salted fish, how can the ship's mother, who was born as a weapon, not have a little competitiveness!

On a small island in the Strait Islands, 120 nautical miles southeast of Kagale, three aircraft carrier mothers, Akagi, Lexington, and Princeton, were sitting on a clean lawn on the island, enjoying delicate snacks and hot tea.

The three aircraft carrier ladies spread a tablecloth printed with small blue flowers on the lawn, two baskets containing snacks and tea were put aside, and stacks of various snacks and snacks were placed on the tablecloth.

"Didn't you say that you have to cooperate with the other ships of the Second Fleet to run in? It's not good that we have nothing to do here to eat snacks, right? ”

Although Princeton didn't look very well at this actual combat drill aimed at the deep sea, she was still a little reluctant to let others fight while she ate snacks here.

"Haven't you been running in several times before? What do you think of our cooperation with them? ”

Akagi was holding a thick small sand bowl, and the matcha in the bowl was steaming, and she had liked the taste of matcha since she drank this matcha last time, and she specially brought the tools and tea powder for making matcha when she came out this time.

"The previous few collaborations...... Pretty good! They have done a very good job in tactical deduction, enemy pursuit, reconnaissance, protection, and anti-submarine work. ”

Princeton thought of the shipwrews who had been sent to team up with him, all of whom were very serious in their work, experienced in combat, and treated their teammates well.

"However, the enemy was completely wiped out by me and Lexington in a round of air raids, so what's the use of them doing it seriously?"

Akagi smiled disdainfully, took a sip of the freshly brewed matcha, and then narrowed his eyes slightly and began to savor the flavor of the tea soup.

"But, but, they're our teammates after all! If we leave them out like this, they will be unhappy! ”

Princeton's defense was somewhat lacking in confidence, and the first two joint exercises were said to be joint, but in fact, except for their three aircraft carriers, all the other shipwives became soy sauce.

With super fighters like Banshee and Pokryshkin, plus a hat-trick, she easily suppressed the fighters in the deep sea in terms of air supremacy, and then as soon as the bomber groups in Akagi and Lexington arrived, the battle was over.

The total number of carrier-based aircraft carried by the two regular aircraft carriers is 171, and even if some are left as a reserve force, the two of them can fly more than 120 carrier-based aircraft at one time, and because the air supremacy is guaranteed by Princeton, these 120 carrier-based aircraft can even be all bombers.

Among the 120 bombers, except for the 20 Type 97 ships attacking 80 times, the rest are all B25s, and they are also blessed with the two buffs of surprise attack and aviation tactical pioneer.

The deep-sea training level in the middle sea area is calculated to be 25-40 levels, and the strength of the force field is not more than B level, how can it withstand such destruction?

In the two joint exercises, except for Akagi and Lexington, all the other ships, including Princeton, did not even sink a single deep sea, what kind of joint exercise is this?

Akagi and the others didn't have a challenge at all, and the shipwives who were sent didn't even have to fight, and both sides felt that it was not interesting.

So in the subsequent drills, Akagi and Lexington simply left the queue and found a random place to eat, drink, chat and laugh, and let Quincy and Princeton cooperate with the shipwives who were sent.

But even so, there is still a bit of an imbalance in the strength between the Second Fleet and the First Fleet, and because Princeton is equipped with two top fighters, the Banshee and the Pokryshkin machine, the efficiency of seeking the enemy and air supremacy is even higher than that of the three aircraft carriers of the First Fleet combined. In the next two exercises, the Second Fleet relied on Princeton's search for the enemy and air supremacy, as well as Quincy's ultra-efficient artillery bombardment, and won two more victories.

So in order to balance the difference in strength between the two fleets, this time Akagi and Lexington also brought Princeton with them when they left the fleet, leaving only Quincy to participate in the battle in the Second Fleet.

"If you really recognize them as your teammates, let them win in their own right! Only the victory won by one's own hands is the best and the sweetest. ”

Lexington smiled and poured hot black tea into Princeton's cup.

"However, didn't the commander ask us to run in with them and prepare for the crusade against the deep-sea flagship?"

Princeton took a sip of black tea, which was warm and refreshing.

"Isn't the run-in result already out? This way of fighting is not for us! ”

Akagi put down the sand bowl, twisted a snack and handed it to his mouth.

"The Admiral had planned it from the beginning, that the wharf and her escort would be taken care of by us, and that the rest of the scattered deep sea would be cleaned up by them."

"And let us participate in this so-called joint exercise, just to let them see this fact clearly!"