Elder brother's garrison

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Ship girls are all warlike types, and it's a rare opportunity for them to show off in front of newbies, so most of them don't want to miss it.

At Hood's kind suggestion, Xiaobai selected six ship girls to participate amidst the expectant gazes of the ship girls.

The ship girls experienced both joy and disappointment.

"How do we fight?" Bismarck asked Whitey after selecting the number of troops.

"Just like you would attack an Abyssal Fleet." Xiaobai was taken aback, somewhat puzzled by Bismarck's words. "Are there special cases involved?"

“Let’s divide them up,” Hood said to Xiaobai. “In most cases during exercises, the admirals won’t send out their strongest lineups just for the sake of winning. In the end, exercises are just for the ship girls to learn from each other and improve.”

"Oh……"

"However, there are also cases where the strongest lineup is sent out specifically for the purpose of winning."

"Are there any benefits to winning the exercise?"

"Yes, there are scores for exercises, and the higher the score, the better the treatment as an admiral." Hu De nodded. "But the treatment doesn't really matter. The treatment given by those scores is not as good as what you get from running expeditions on your own."

"Is the score high for a newbie naval base?"

“It’s quite tall.” Hu De’s serene face flushed with embarrassment as he mentioned this. “Well… after all, I was a newspaper team member for ten years.”

Xiao Bai also gave an awkward smile.

There is a fundamental difference between the newspaper team and the strongest lineup.

The strongest lineup is for winning, so the ship girls in it are usually older sisters with super combat power. But the "rebel team" is different. The purpose of the rebel team is simply to harass the opposing ship girls and admiral, so the members in it are usually ship girls who are quite good at dodging and surviving.

For example, daydreams, black-backed jackals, javelins, Lafite, and so on...

In short, this is hardly a glorious team...

Chapter 589 This Kind of Gaze

As the world's number one naval base, the newbie naval base should be revered and respected by many admirals. However, since Xiaobai took over, based on information from various sources and personal connections, the newbie naval base seems more like a super villain disguised as a great demon king than a large naval base that represents humanity's hope.

To some extent, all of this is thanks to Lu Yun's unwavering reporting team, which inflicted a decade-long psychological trauma on many naval ship girls, and his SEAL-like style of not being happy unless he was being sarcastic.

Well, there's a reason why Admiral Lu Yun has no friends.

“That person doesn’t seem to be here with the intention of improving each other,” Hood said to Bismarck.

“He wants to win?” Bismarck and Hood exchanged a glance.

“It seems so.” Hood smiled. “Yes, there are people like that, who are quite enthusiastic about climbing the ranks in the exercises.”

Bismarck turned her gaze to Su Lei's ship girls, who were standing on the sea.

“…” After a short while, Bismarck nodded. “Understood.”

A few minutes later, Su Lei, who was standing alone on the beach, sensed Xiao Bai approaching him. He opened his eyes and looked to the side.

Behind Xiaobai were several ship girls she had never seen before, each one looking refreshed and standing beside her.

This dashing feeling is different from the ship girls who used to lie on the sea like salted fish.

Su Lei subconsciously glanced at the ship girls behind Xiaobai a few more times.

"Admiral Su Lei, I'm sorry to have kept you waiting. My ship girl is ready." Xiaobai said to Su Lei with a smile.

"Mm." Su Lei nodded.

Under the watchful eyes of Su Lei and Xiao Bai, six of the ship girls behind Xiao Bai took a step to the side and then steadily walked towards the sea.

Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.

"Sigh—" Before he even reached the opposite side of Admiral Su Lei's ship girl, South Dako, who was in the group, sighed helplessly.

"What's wrong?" Washington asked South Dakota curiously.

"I didn't even raise my hand," South Dakota muttered with a bitter face and a pout.

“Hood meant he wanted you to get more involved,” Washington said.

"I just want to be a couch potato." South Dakota sighed helplessly again. "You guys are all more skilled and better than me, so why do I have to play?"

"Don't you want to fight?" Bismarck, who was walking at the front of the group, turned around and looked at South Dakota.

"Uh...no, no!" South Dakota felt a chill run down her spine when she looked at Bismarck's red eyes. She quickly waved her hand with a forced smile, then gave Bismarck an awkward smile. "If I were to fight, I wouldn't have a chance, would I?"

“…” Bismarck looked puzzled.

South Dakota pointed to Bismarck's side.

Bismarck looked over and saw the Prince of Wales, who was looking serious and not saying a word.

The Prince of Wales remained silent. Although her expression was serious, her eyes were quite calm. She stared quietly at the target ship girls who were getting closer and closer to her. Her aura was constantly gathering with each step, like a sharp blade ready to be drawn.

Although Bismarck did not understand the Prince of Wales's expression, he still thoughtfully withdrew his gaze after sensing her presence.

South Dakota breathed a sigh of relief, then looked back at Saratoga and the corporation.

Saratoga and the company were chatting and laughing at the back of the procession.

South Dakota leaned in to listen, and all she heard was a bunch of incomprehensible talk going around in between them, like "Abyss," "Epic Drops," "Enhancement and Amplification," "Ten Thousand Fragments," "Ten Thousand Treasures," "Five Treasures in Ten Pulls," "Three Reds at the Start," and "Frontline Infiltration."

—When did these two girls become so successful?

South Dakota felt a little strange and began to realize that he had indeed become somewhat disconnected from his sisters during the two years he had been away from the naval base.

The ship girls arrived at the sea some distance from the shore and faced off against Admiral Su Lei's ship girls.

On the shore, Xiaobai saw that her ship girls had reached the right position, so she took the small air gun handed to her by Hood.

These small items are used to indicate the start of an exercise, so the naval base usually has some spares.

"Admiral Su Lei, I wish you a pleasant exercise," Hu De said to Admiral Su Lei with great politeness.

"Let's encourage each other." Admiral Su Lei nodded, then looked at Xiao Bai, "Admiral Lu Lin, you may begin."

"Okay." Xiaobai raised the small air gun in his hand and pointed it at the sky.

On the sea, Su Lei's ship girls couldn't help but feel nervous as they looked at the "ship girls of Akashi Naval Base" whose atmosphere was completely different from before.

"Sis, they seem kind of scary," one of the ship girls said to the last battleship ship girl.

"The atmosphere is different from the previous ship girls." The battleship ship girl nodded, her expression becoming serious. "But it's okay, just do our own thing, I'm here."

Upon hearing the battleship girl's words, the other ship girls around her breathed a sigh of relief, and their expressions gradually softened.

That's right. Our eldest sister is an excellent battleship ship girl, a super-large ship. The admiral has devoted a lot of energy to her, sparing no expense in allocating resources to her every day, and spending a lot of the naval base's funds to buy her equipment. Because of this, our eldest sister's combat power is quite high. In several previous exercises, she single-handedly carried the team and led them to victory.

With her around, this game is probably in the bag!

With that thought in mind, the ship girls forgot about the feeling of being subtly suppressed by the other side. They released their ship equipment and surrounded their eldest sister, ready for battle.

Then, Bismarck and the others approached Su Lei's ship girls.

At the same time, Little White, who was sticking out of the beach, also pressed the button on his small air gun.

With a "bang," the sound of the air gun shot into the sky like an arrow.

Then, just as Su Lei's ship girls were about to shout "Ready for battle!", their words seemed to get stuck in their throats like a fishbone, leaving them only gasping for breath, unable to utter a sound.

Upon hearing the sound of air guns, the serious-looking ship girls in front of them instantly quickened their pace, and their entire formation scattered.

With a flash of white light, one after another, small fortress-like steel ship armors appeared behind the ship girls like totems, with huge cannons extending out one by one, gleaming in the sunlight.

The massive ship equipment did not slow down the speed of these ship girls at all. Bismarck and Prince of Wales, who were at the forefront, instantly transformed into two whirlwinds, one black and one red, stirring up a considerable white wave on the sea, and rushed towards Su Lei's ship girls.

"Boom boom boom boom boom—" Enterprise and Saratoga, who were at the back of the formation, came from behind. They deployed their ship equipment, and in an instant, the entire sky was filled with carrier-based aircraft flying like a swarm of bees, and the entire ocean was filled with a fierce roar.

A large number of carrier-based aircraft quickly caught up with Bismarck and Prince of Wales, then quickly overtook them, and in an instant arrived above Su Lei's ship girls.

Su Lei's ship girls stared wide-eyed at the ship girls in front of them, and at the dark mass of carrier-based aircraft in the sky, unable to react for a moment.

—That's a battleship? And an aircraft carrier?

So many battleships, and so many aircraft carriers?

Oh my god.

At this moment, only these two words could express the feelings of Su Lei's ship girls.

Then, Bismarck and Prince of Wales arrived in front of the group of ship girls. They raised their gun turrets, and intense heat emanated from the red-hot barrels. Above, countless carrier-based aircraft were also dropping bombs indiscriminately downwards.

"Battle begins!" Bismarck shouted to the ship girls in front of her.

Then, the sea was filled with a fiery red scene.

In just one exchange, Admiral Su Lei's ship girls were overwhelmed by Bismarck and her allies' terrifying combat power and retreated.

Admiral Su Lei's ship girls fled at top speed, with Bismarck and the others giving chase. Above them, carrier-based aircraft circled in a show of defiance. Two shadowy figures, one black and one red, were like the Black and White Impermanence, relentlessly pursuing Admiral Su Lei's ship girls. Shells rained down, and the intense explosions never ceased.

South Dakota stood there, watching Bismarck and the Prince of Wales' retreating figures like eagles catching chicks, and sighed helplessly.

"Why are you sighing again?" Washington asked from the side.

From the start of the battle, Washington and South Dakota were no longer involved.

In some ways, the two of them couldn't even keep up with Bismarck and the Prince of Wales' pace, and could only stand there watching Bismarck and the Prince of Wales keep going on and on in the enemy ranks.

“...That’s too cruel.” South Dakota looked at him with a sigh.

Bismarck and the Prince of Wales seem to have no intention of holding back at all...

Although the admiral of the naval base has changed, the style of this exercise, in a sense, really is like that of siblings.

South Dakota thought this to himself, and then he couldn't help but mourn in silence.

The battle is over.

It's a complete victory for the newbie naval base.

Standing on the beach, Su Lei didn't utter a single word from the moment he saw Xiao Bai's ship girl unleash her ship equipment until the end of the exercise. His face was flushed, as if he had witnessed the most impossible thing in the world.

Su Lei had considered that he might win, and he had also considered that he might lose, but he never imagined that he would lose so quickly and so completely.

It wasn't until Bismarck and Prince of Wales each carried three of the ship girls that Admiral Su Lei had knocked unconscious or scared back to shore that Admiral Su Lei looked at Xiao Bai as if he had seen a monster.

"The exercise is over." Bismarck and Prince of Wales put down the ship girls they were holding and walked over to Shiro.

"Thank you." Xiaobai smiled at the two ship girls in front of her.

"How was the exercise?" Bismarck asked earnestly. "Did you enjoy it?"

"Huh?" Xiaobai was taken aback, then looked at the six ship girls lying on the ground.

In Xiaobai's opinion, this exercise, which ended in an instant, was actually more boring than she had imagined.

"Uh... yeah, the exercise was really fun." But seeing how hard Bismarck was working, Xiaobai was too embarrassed to say anything else, so he could only smile at Bismarck like that.

Bismarck took a deep breath and looked intently at Su Lei.

Want to play one more round?

Bismarck looked at Admiral Su Lei with that kind of expression.

Zhang recommends a book by a friend: "The Tale of the Admiral Emiya."

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