Not to mention that Leyland currently has only two destroyers and one light cruiser, even a combination of twenty destroyers and ten light cruisers cannot accomplish these tasks - not even the most basic armor penetration, let alone sinking.

After confirming all the task lists, Li Lan directly asked the three ship girls to wash and sleep, and he-

I can't say, I have to "ask" about what this so-called "ally" means.

As soon as I walked out of the door of the special dormitory for the ship's mother, I unexpectedly saw a figure.

"Miss Nagato?"

"Just call me Nagato," Nagato, who walked out of the shadows, corrected Riran with a serious expression, "Even if we look similar to you humans on the outside, we are still another kind of existence after all, so there is no need for a title like 'Miss'." ”

According to you, so do I......

Li Lan asked with an unmoving look on his face, "So...... May I ask why Nagato came here so late? ”

"To be waiting for you"

Stepping back without a trace, at this distance, if she suddenly moved, Lan Ke would not be sure to retreat - you know, this is a battleship that has surpassed more than one destroyer in all parameters except for speed, and it was almost gameover a destroyer with a deep-sea habitat ship in the first place, let alone a battleship......

"Wait for me?"

"Yes......" Nagato's tone rarely hesitated, and just when Rilan's nerves tensed, he suddenly said, "The Admiral hasn't taken a bath yet, has he?" ”

“…… Ha? ”

Then, Nagato took Rilan to the bathroom...... Hell knows what's going on!

"If I'm not mistaken" Looking at the big sign above, the corners of Lilan's mouth twitched: "This should be the repair cabin dedicated to the ship's mother, right?" ”

"Yes"

“……”

"Don't worry, there won't be anyone else at this time"

"No, no, no, the point is not this ......" Li Lan said with a smile: "The question is, is it really okay to let a man like me go into this kind of place?" ”

Hearing Lilan's words, Nagato suddenly said: "No problem, Lord Admiral is usually also bathing here alone."

…… Where is the gendarmerie?! There's a pervert here!!

"Although it is a special site for the repair of the ship, in fact, when it was built, it was also considered as a normal bathing place, in order to save resources and land, so the Admiral asked the construction team to merge it."

Sure enough, this is the real purpose of that old man in his 60s, right?!

Looking at Li Lan, who was still hovering at the door, Nagato's brows furrowed slightly: "May I ask the Admiral that Nagato needs to help you wipe your back?" ”

"Ahem, this is exempt...... Can't I go in?"

Lifting the curtain, Lilan's footsteps froze, and he turned around: "Can you please help me guard it for the time being?" ”

"Is the Admiral afraid of me peeping?"

"No, I'm just afraid of scaring you"

“…… Nagato understood, "Although he was still puzzled, even staying outside would not hinder the rest of the conversation, so Nagato did not insist."

Stepping inside, the mist-shrouded repair cabin is more than twice as lively as the outside, if you can cultivate here for a long time...... Ahem, just kidding.

Speaking of which, from the time he came to this world until now, except for a casual rinse with the water gathering technique when he dived into the sea, Lilan has not officially taken any baths at all.

"We're all going to be savages"

Taking off the clothes that were already a little tattered, his left arm spread up along the elbow, it was a circle of faint blazing white lines, strangely, although the intensity of the light was not large, but it made people feel a "dazzling" feeling for no reason.

Stepping into the hot spring, Li Lan was full of excitement: "Huh ~ so refreshing ......"

"Admiral, you seem to have a misunderstanding of Admiral Resus."

Outside the bathroom, the flat voice of the long door sounded, if nothing else, this should be the real reason why she was waiting outside for herself.

"It's not that there is any misunderstanding, but he saved us" Li Lan smiled bitterly: "But the difficulty of the task he gave is inevitably too much, and with the current strength of the Seventh Town Guard, there is no possibility of completing it at all." ”

“…… I don't know if you've ever heard of the 'Combined Fleet', Admiral? ”

Finding a comfortable position to lean on the edge, Lilan looked at the starry sky above: "Combined fleet? ”

"Yes, the ships of different towns and towns will form a combined fleet and set out together."

"Sounds ......" Under the slow fluctuation of the water elements around his body, the magic power in his body began to move, "This should be a move that can only be done by two enemies with similar strength and facing a single town guard that can't be fought against, right?" ”

"Yes, but in addition to that, there is another situation"

"Can you explain?"

"Forming a 'joint fleet' to go on a joint expedition can cultivate the degree of cooperation between the two fleets as quickly as possible."

Li Lan was stunned when he heard this: "The degree of cooperation? ”

"Yes, because of the existence of the ship's mother, the demand for ship fighters at sea has been greatly reduced, but the warships under the control of a single ship's mother, although they can make the combat efficiency reach the peak, the degree of cooperation is relatively reduced."

"So we need to work together to improve our cooperation?"

"That's right" Nagato's tone paused, as if to give Rilan reaction time: "In the previous battle, if there was not enough cooperation, before Saratoga's carrier-based aircraft were dispatched, the wheeled formation would have dispersed due to the discovery of deep-sea habitat ships."

"You don't have any other means of communication?"

"Yes, but we need to maintain the synchronization of warships through communication with each other, we need to take into account the ocean currents, wind speed, and the distance between each other, and the undercurrents driven by them......"

"If it's controlled by a large number of scattered individuals, it's not that difficult to solve, but if it's controlled by the ship's mother, it takes a lot of effort to control the weapon system and the ship's equipment alone, and in that case, what you need to maintain the formation is the degree of cooperation."

"Hmm...... I kind of understood" inside the repair pod, the mist getting thicker and thicker.

"But I don't understand why the Seventh Town Guard Mansion is entrusted with this 'Combined Fleet' mission, after all, our strength is already ......"

The latter does not need to be emphasized by Lilan, Nagato can also fully understand, to put it mildly, Nagato alone can completely crush the entire Seventh Town Guard, including Rilan.

With such a disparity in strength, isn't it a joke to engage in a "combined fleet"?

After a long time, just when Rilan thought that Nagato had left, a voice from outside suddenly came: "...... The northern shipping route to the Federation in the Chelsea Sea has been blocked, and except for the Sixth Town, only the fallen Seventh Town is trapped in this blockade. ”