Alice agrees to borrow the ship's mother, and that's easy.

In addition, except for Abecrombi, all of her ship's mothers are in a ship-mounted state, and she directly obtains the ship's vision and talks about it.

The next day, after the restoration of several ships in the mountain city was completed, Jiang Yan took a few ships such as Fantasy, Karlsruhe and Mountain City back to the Yaslan Empire.

Excluding Alice's more than 20 soul beads, Jiang Yan's several expeditions, a total of 4 heavy patrol level soul beads, 5 light patrol level soul beads, and 9 expulsion level soul beads were harvested.

Returning to the imperial capital of Yaslan, a total of 5,000 units of heavy oil, 1,000 units of ammunition, 1,400 units of steel and 900 units of aluminum were exchanged.

Alice's share is counted separately.

Jiang Yan held the resource nameplate in his hand, thought about it, and went to the Imperial Capital Commercial Bank to buy six pieces of equipment, using 3,300 units of heavy oil and 1,200 units of steel.

They were three triple 6-inch guns (fire +6, hit +1), one triple 150-mm gun (fire +5, hit +2) and two rows of quadruple 533-mm torpedoes.

Since the newly salvaged ship's mother, Helena, has four guns in the main body of the ship, the initial firepower is high and the torpedo is useless, so I will directly pile up stronger firepower for her.

Three triple 6-inch medium-range guns, all for her use, suddenly one cannon and four main guns fired at once, 12 shells were fired, even if it was a heavy cruiser-class habitat ship, it would not be easy to be hit.

Another triple 150 mm gun and a platoon of torpedoes were used to increase the power of Karlsruhe's attack.

In this way, exchanging the Soul Bead into resources and buying equipment to increase your strength can be much better and more affordable than directly using the Soul Bead to strengthen it.

However, the equipment space of a ship girl is limited, and after it is filled, if you want to continue to make your ship mother stronger, there is still only one way to use the soul bead to strengthen it.

The Jiang family's fleet has not yet reached this level.

The remaining row of torpedoes is to increase the power of the torpedoes for the fireflies.

"Risking the risk to go to the deep-sea habitat and fight at night has made a lot of money. Jiang Yan thought.

If it weren't for the purchase of equipment to enhance the strength of the fleet, thousands of resources would have been obtained in just a few expeditions.

In this way, half a year is enough to gather the 100,000 heavy oil resources needed for the transformation of fireflies, that is, the core of the transformation of the soul of the five destroyers.

However, this was almost impossible, unless Jiang Yan didn't want to expand the Jiang family's fleet.

After this incident of salvaging the ship's mother from the light mother-class perch, Jiang Yan realized that the salvage of resources and the salvage of the ship's mother are two conflicting things.

Confined to the blood of the Admiral.

If Jiang Yan had cherished the blood before salvaging the body of the light mother-class perch, and did not fish for resources indiscriminately, it would not have become the current situation, and he would have to rely on other admirals to help him with half of his life, and after his health improved, he would have to cultivate for ten days and half a month.

"Resources and ship mothers can't be both, if you want to salvage ship mothers, you must take care of your body, and only salvage when you have to salvage resources to replenish the fleet. Either it is only for the purpose of salvaging the Soul Bead to exchange resources, otherwise it will seriously overdraw the body, resulting in extremely inefficient expeditions. ”

Back at the combat port, Jiang Yan counted the resources, divided the accounts clearly, and asked Shancheng to bring them to Alice.

・・・

Ten days later, Jiang Yan stood in front of the port full of energy and loaded the two ships of the Jiang family.

Karlsruhe and Utopia, when Jiang Yan was unconscious, the two shipwives who had been on guard had been unarmed for several days.

Replaced by Fireflies, Helena and Rodney, successively shipped, took over.

Jiang Yan glanced at Karlsruhe and Helena, and thought that just today, a small fleet of the Jiang family could be formed.

・・・

"Huh?"

However, entering the Lisli habitat from the old channel reveals that something is wrong.

That sense of crisis in entering the deep-sea habitat, somehow, this time it disappeared cleanly.

Rodney also noticed the abnormality, his eyes searched around, and suddenly said, "Young Master, the sea area occupied by the deep sea habitat has become smaller. ”

"Really?"

"Well, my sailing speed hasn't increased, but the time to enter the Lithri habitat is a little slower than before. ”

"Has anything happened in the past half a month?" Jiang Yan dragged his chin and said to himself: "I knew that I would ask Alice about it and say that it would be good to share information." ”

The narrowing of the range of deep-sea habitats indicates that the range of activities of deep-sea habitat ships has become smaller, and they have either shrunk their defense lines or have been beaten back.

Without the conquest of the Imperial fleet, the latter is unlikely, so why is the deep-sea perching ship shrinking the line of defense?

Even if dozens of minor admirals attacked from all directions and eliminated the deep-sea habitat, they could not shake a new deep-sea habitat.

"I'll go, did anyone touch the depths and fight with the main force of the deep-sea habitat ship, and also achieved a lot of results, which caused the deep-sea habitat ship to be afraid and shrink the defense line?"

Jiang Yan thought of this possibility, and his heart beat "thump".

If that's the case, the main force of the deep-sea habitat ship is likely to be in a state of damage at the moment, so if you secretly go to replenish the artillery...

Jiang Yan suddenly shuddered, even if he could successfully contact the main force and sink it quickly, the Jiang family fleet would not be able to escape being sunk by the rest of the deep-sea fleet.

Quickly calming down, Jiang Yan ordered: "Fantasy, go to Firefly and Helena, go to the front to reconnoitre, be careful." ”

Helena, who has a radar device on the main body of the ship, can contact the Admiral through Rodney, who also has a radar, and sending out to reconnoiter is the best choice, Jiang Yan has one less object to frequently obtain vision, and the pressure is reduced a lot.

The sailing speed of the Jiang family fleet suddenly decreased to a certain extent.

Within half an hour, Rodney's fire control radar went off.

"Young Master, Helena requests communication. ”

Jiang Yan cut his fingers for a moment, thinking that this was his own ship's mother, so he didn't have to go to such trouble to open a communication array, so he immediately obtained Helena's vision.

"Admiral, radar response, there are reconnaissance aircraft ahead. ”

"Where's the course?"

"The horizontal arc does not diverge outward. ”

Jiang Yan pondered for a while and said, "Shoot down the reconnaissance plane and lure the enemy to come." ”

"Yes. ”

Helena increased her speed and sailed for a while, and under the gloomy sky, a water reconnaissance plane flew in mid-air, already spotting the enemy ship.

At this distance, the distance of the expelled short-range artillery is within reach, and the medium-range light patrol artillery is naturally more than enough, and the only problem is aiming.

Rumble!

However, what shocked Jiang Yan was that in the short period of time when the reconnaissance plane found the target and had not yet received the order of the deep-sea habitat ship, the main gun of the hull above the right side of Helena was mobilized and fired a shot into the distance.

The reconnaissance plane exploded in response, and the fragmented body exploded with flames and fell into the water.

"Shoot down a reconnaissance plane, Admiral, what's next?"

Completely unaware of what she had done, Helena asked.

The muzzle adjustment is so fast, and the direct one-shot hit of a reconnaissance plane is only the size of a palm at such a distance - so accurate!

Jiang Yan's eyes lit up, if this was not an accident, why Helena was a four-star light patrol, she already had a rough idea.