There are always some things in the world that make people helpless, for these things, as a small existence that is powerless to resist, the only thing we can choose is to accept, in the hope that after a long time, we can reject it more firmly, and the ending is often not as good as imagined......

But!

Everything is built on the "powerlessness to resist".

"Shoot the flies down on it!" The pale blue eyes reflected the gray-black steel flying objects under the blue sky.

Maybe in the future, Lelan will encounter something so strong that he can't even talk about the courage to resist, but at least for now-

Lilan has the will and the ability to resist!

As a defensive battleship, Prince Eugen's firepower output may not be comparable to that of other heavy cruisers, but in terms of armor and air defense, Prince Eugen is definitely enough to crush other heavy cruisers of the same type.

Four 37mm anti-aircraft guns, after the carrier-based aircraft from the deep-sea habitat ship reached the farthest attack range, the first time to increase the frequency of fire output to the limit.

Accompanied by four tongues of fire more than a meter long, almost every second, a unit of ammunition was consumed, turning into a metal storm and pouring out into the sky.

For a moment, the sparks that burst in the sky even covered the crimson flames rising from the sea below.

"Ninghai raised the signal flag, and together with the Z16, approached the flagship of the third mine team, pay attention to avoid-"

Under the blue water elemental vision, Li Lan sorted out the situation of the scene as soon as possible, and gave orders in an orderly manner.

And thanks to this, the sprouts of chaos that had just been created were immediately nipped in the bud.

"Ring, send out all your torpedoes!"

"A torpedo fired at this distance can't hit accurately, Lord Admiral"

"It doesn't matter, as long as they think we can hit it." Looking around, because of the deep-sea habitat ships burning on the sea, Lilan could only vaguely see through the thick smoke screen some of the ships of the deep-sea habitat ship pursuit fleet opposite.

"Is that the aircraft carrier of the deep-sea habitat ship......

With a length of more than 300 meters and an out-of-specification long deck, the purple part of the ship significantly exceeds the black part of the ship compared to other types of deep-sea habitat ships.

Fortunately, there is only one.

After a while, Z16's slightly anxious voice came from the communicator, probably due to radio interference from the deep-sea ship, even if the distance had not reached the limit, but the voice in the communicator was already somewhat distorted.

"Lord Admiral, Z16's radar can't lock the enemy's specific location"

Lan had already expected this situation, after all, the Z16 was only a destroyer that was good at intercepting and evading combat, not a ship that specialized in searching for the enemy, and it was not easy to rely on a 30-year-old radar ship that had been acting as the enemy unit of the Seventh Town.

"Abandon the detection of that range and focus on other areas around ......"

Turning his gaze to the front - the flagship's supernatural power had stopped its suicidal charge after discovering support from the Seventh Town Guard, and the other ships of the 3rd Mine Squadron in the rear had also split in two, two of the light cruisers began to gather in her direction, while the other three stayed in place, one of which was clearly some distance behind the battleship that attracted Rilan's attention.

Pointing to the battleship, Lilan said to Eugen, who was guarding his side: "Eugen, lean over"

"Yes!"

The power of four 37mm anti-aircraft guns is truly extraordinary, especially in a world where the firepower of such a ship has been extremely enhanced.

The number of more than 100 carrier-based aircraft is still close to 90 after being intercepted by the Third Mine Combat Team, but in the continuous output of Eugen's firepower regardless of consumption, more than 40 were shot down alive at a flight distance of less than 1,000m, and the remaining carrier-based aircraft have now turned around and withdrawn because they cannot determine whether there are other follow-up anti-aircraft firepower in the rear.

Unlike Rilan, who roughly understood the composition of the pursuit fleet of the deep-sea habitat ships through Nagato, the deep-sea habitat ships were confused about this reinforcement from the Sixth Town Guard-according to their testing and detection in the past three years, the Sixth Town Guardhouse has not built a new ship for a long time, and all the original warships should have gone to the expedition, where did this supporting fleet come from?

Considering the importance of this operation, the pursuit fleet of this deep-sea habitat ship did not dare to act rashly for a while.

―――――― Split ――――――

As the distance approached, Lilan also successfully connected to the communicator of one of the ship's mothers of the third mine team.

"Hello, this is the First Fleet from the Seventh Town Guard, your current situation-"

"Please" Before Lilan could finish speaking, a crying cry for help could already be heard in the radio communication that gradually returned to normal: "Blowing Snow Sauce, Blowing Snow Sauce, she is about to sink - woo woo woo"

"Calmly" determined that the pursuit fleet of the deep-sea habitat ships on the north side had no tendency to attack for the time being, and Li Lan's heart was relieved - now he was fighting psychological warfare, if the deep sea habitat ships immediately launched an attack after sensing that the reinforcements of the Seventh Town Guard were also "vulnerable", it was doubtful whether Li Lan could rely on the half-crippled third mine team and the four ship girls who were less than LV8 to block a wave of attacks.

"I've seen it, I'm approaching her, your name?"

"Harmony, harmony! My name is Mutsuki......"

"Very well, Muzuki, can you get in touch with the other shipwives of the 3rd Mine Squadron now?"

"Yes!" Under the infection of Rilan's calm tone, Muyue also slowly regained her normal thinking ability: "In addition to Sister Divine Power and Fukiyuki-chan, Muyue can contact other sisters"

As soon as he turned his gaze, the divine power at the forefront had begun to slowly retreat under the cover of Ninghai and Z16, and if nothing else, he would be able to make contact with the two third mine warring team ships in front of him after 19 seconds, and then enter the communication range of Lilan in 57 seconds.

"Let them retreat in the direction of the Sixth Town Guard as soon as they meet!"

"Huh...... Fall back? ”

frowned, in this case, did she still think she could fight?

"At present, the state of the third mine team is not good, and the strength of the seventh town guard is not enough to withstand the deep-sea habitat ships on the opposite side, if they find that they are abnormal, they will be attacked immediately."

"Yes, I'm sorry - but, Rutsuki-chan and the others are on their way to help, if we retreat now......"

Li Lan was stunned, "Like the moon?" Fourth Mine Brigade? ”

"Yes, we sent them a request for help 56 minutes ago......"

In my mind, the map of the distribution of the combat sea area that I saw in Nagato before was clearly reproduced.

66 minutes, 31km distance......

"Retreat!"

"But—"

"At present, I am temporarily acting as the supreme commander here, and after the special destroyer blows snow and repairs it urgently, it will retreat immediately!" Walking to the bow of Eugen's ship, estimating the damage to the destroyer in front of him, Lilan emphasized coldly: "This is an order!" ”

ps: I'm not feeling well, I'll change it today, and I'll have a chance to make up for it later