The Naval Base of the Unnamed Ship Girls

General Bai Qi's reaction left Political Commissar Guan Zhong unsure where to put his raised hand.

"Alright, now it's your turn to speak. What's on your mind?" General Bai Qi said to Political Commissar Guan Zhong.

"What is it? I'd like the military police to take you to solitary confinement to calm you down, is that alright?" General Guan Zhong asked.

"Sure, come on. As long as you can hold onto the 985 defense line, you can keep me locked up for as long as you want," General Bai Qi said nonchalantly.

While General Guan Zhong and General Bai Qi, whose relationship was not good to begin with, were locked in a fierce battle, the ship girls of the 985 defense line, which had been cut off, separated, and surrounded by those traitors, desperately poured their last ammunition onto the enemy.

Unfortunately, apart from a dozen or so unlucky iron cans, this artillery barrage, which ignored logistical support, could only provide temporary disruption.

"Where is the general?? Where are our reinforcements?! Who can save us?!" Watching one comrade after another being cut in half by the tin cans rushing into the formula, a destroyer whose only mission was to handle communications raised its small-caliber cannon and futilely attacked the tin cans that were walking towards it.

When the tin can ship girl, wearing a helmet and unable to see her expression, withstands attacks that don't even make her body sway, she swings her chainsaw sword, trying to turn this struggling little destroyer into the same state as her comrades.

The chainsaw sword, raised high, was blocked in mid-air by a golden halberd.

Before the traitor could even react to what had happened, she and the metal can she was wearing were cleaved in two by the golden halberd.

Surrounded by several imperial guard warships clad in golden armor radiating eternal glory, Ying Zheng, wearing a matching golden dragon robe, spoke in an angry tone:

"Is this how Bai Qi guards the Great Wall for me? Soldiers, where is your commander?"

"Your Majesty... Your Majesty the Emperor." Although she didn't recognize those golden cans as Imperial Guards, this destroyer at least recognized the supreme, chuunibyou-ish Emperor of the East Asia Theater. Realizing what was happening, she quickly knelt on one knee and reported the current situation of the 985 defense line, which was responsible for defending against the hyperspace teleporter, in a stammering tone.

While the destroyer was reporting, about a dozen Imperial Guard shipgirls chopped up all the tin cans that had entered the final fortifications. They did the same thing to the tin cans that had attacked the defenders, cutting them into two, three, or even more pieces.

"Very well, very well, Xiang Donglai! It seems you still don't understand the consequences of daring to betray me." Governor Ying Zheng's ignited rage manifested as a de facto order to the "Imperial Guard": "Eliminate all the enemies on this front! Let the defenders of the Great Wall and those traitors know that their emperor has returned!"

In fact, even without Governor Ying Zheng issuing this order, none of the imperial guards wanted to show mercy when they saw such a tragic scene.

As they quickly cleared out the traitors inside the fortifications and began clearing out the traitors on the ground who were still unaware of what had happened, air support from thousands of kilometers away arrived in the skies above the battlefield.

Add to that the thirty royal guards clad in golden armor, and those traitors in their iron cans are only good for playing the role of "weed" in a hack-and-slash game.

A ship girl in black armor, observing this scene from afar via beyond visual range, nearly ground her teeth to powder, and roared in a voice no less powerful than that of General Bai Qi:

"Why! Why does a false emperor's imperial guard exist in this world?! Why!!"

Standing next to this ship girl, whose armor was similar to that of the Roaring Ship Girl but several sizes larger, the ship girl calmly said:

"Oh, since we're old friends, let's end this role-playing game."

Chapter 1279 All is well, nothing serious.

If you look down at Hong Kong Garrison from the air, you'll immediately notice that the city's style is quite different from the cities of other human ship girl factions.

Compared to other cities, even if a ship girl with a civil engineering background builds a skyscraper, its height will not exceed one thousand meters.

In Hong Kong's Naval Base, a coastal city, there are many buildings that are over 1,000 meters tall, and some even aim for a height of 2,000 meters.

Combined with the persistent smog in some of the cities of this world, the entire city, when viewed from a distance, appears to be divided into two parts, upper and lower, by the underlying clouds and mist.

Half of it was shrouded in black smoke, and the other half was filled with drifting white clouds.

“It’s nothing,” South Dakota explained as he returned to the co-pilot’s seat. “Hong Kong has the highest rate of redevelopment of any city, and many of these high-rise buildings are remnants from ancient times.”

South Dakota reminded them that New York City in the North American wasteland was pretty much the same.

No one rebuilt New York City, but Hong Kong was rebuilt.

Combined with the three-dimensional transportation hub formed by the small flying vehicles shuttling between buildings, this reconstructed ancient human city wouldn't be out of place in most interstellar civilizations.

After all, before their destruction, the ancient humans of this world almost left the star system where their home planet was located.

"Hmm... That's strange." The pilot, Hyperion, looked at the projection that showed the entire city and asked South Dakota with some confusion, "Aren't you afraid that building so many skyscrapers in a coastal city like this will cause a chain reaction from the deep sea?"

Unless it can be guaranteed that the deep sea will not come any closer, these tall buildings are living targets.

Perhaps a single concentrated attack could cause considerable damage; this choice is unlike the native ship girls that Hyperion is familiar with.

“That’s nothing. The enemy of the Hong Kong Naval Base isn’t the Abyssal Fleet… In fact, sometimes the Abyssal Fleet girls in this area cooperate with the Hong Kong Naval Base. Don’t go around spreading rumors about it,” South Dakota said.

“What’s so special about that? You used to be from the Deep Sea too, and you were doing just fine with us,” Hyperion said.

“This is different…” South Dakota shook her head and said, “The cooperation between the Hong Kong Naval Base and the nearby deep-sea forces is based on the premise of facing a powerful enemy, and even so, it is only a private cooperation. There are not many deep-sea ship girls in the South China Sea region of East Asia.”

If it weren't for the fact that he had once provided support to the Hong Kong Garrison when he was still an admiral, South Dakota would not have known about this.

"Fortunately, General Le Yi is not in Hong Kong right now, otherwise I really wouldn't want to come here..." South Dakota said, seemingly recalling some very unpleasant memories.

"What's wrong?" Hyperion, who was about to ask what kind of powerful enemy it was, was intrigued by South Dakota.

"That admiral, whose very existence I'm not sure if he's even human, looks at the ship girls differently than the others," South Dakota said.

"Most of the time, ship girls, especially those like me who had high combat power and great fame, received mostly respect or admiration. Even if there were those with ulterior motives, they would only secretly look at us with lewd eyes."

“But whether Admiral Le Yi is looking at a ship girl or even an ordinary person, he always looks at them with the same expression… like he’s looking at some raw material,” South Dakota said.

“Raw materials? That sounds like something a mad scientist would say?” Hyperion said.

"It's not just similar. General Yue Yi, who claims to be a descendant of the Mohist school, is a scientist with no bottom line. Have you ever seen a ship girl with three heads and six arms? I have..." South Dakota said with a sigh.

"It's quite impressive that someone like that didn't get killed and even became a general and admiral," Hyperion said after a moment of surprise.

"He wasn't killed because he's hard to kill. I heard that every time something goes wrong during an experiment, he always loses some parts. When I saw him, he could barely be described as a humanoid creature." South Dako was no longer willing to refer to General Yue Yi as a human.

"It sounds... um... to a very familiar character setting," Hyperion said thoughtfully. It seemed that there were quite a few scientists like this in the Terren Empire, most of whom were arrested and reformed, or became real madmen after taking too much methazine.

"Later, I don't know what deal General Le Yi made with the Governor of the Atlantic, that was to forgive his past actions, which is why he has been alive until now," South Dakota said.

While South Dakota and Hyperion were discussing the admiral of the Hong Kong naval base, Adun's maid ship, the Azure Noble, approached Adun, who was resting with her eyes closed, and whispered:

"Your Excellency, a fax from the Governor-General of East Asia."

Ardon, still with his eyes closed in a meditative posture, spoke: "Recite."

"..." Adun's order made the maid ship's expression stiffen slightly. It wasn't that she couldn't read, but it was just too embarrassing for the ship to read aloud the contents of the fax sent by Governor Ying Zheng.

Unfortunately, Adun seemed oblivious to the awkwardness of the Sky Noble and continued to rest with his eyes closed.

The Executor, sitting opposite Adun, looked up at the Sky Noble, who was in an awkward situation, with a strange expression.

"What's going on?" Dalaran, who was using Azerothian magic to adjust the armor on which the two ghost ships were attached, paused his work, walked over to the Sky Noble, picked up the fax from the other party's hand, opened it, and prepared to do it for them...

"..." Dalaran opened his mouth, but without saying a word, he placed the fax back into the Sky Noble's hand, muttering to himself, "Thank goodness I can't read, hmm, I definitely can't read..."

The meaning conveyed by Dalaran's reaction was quite clear. When the Sky Noble looked over for help, the ship girls who saw this scene in the cabin all turned away to indicate that they hadn't seen anything. Some even put on expressions that said, "Wow, the scenery outside is so beautiful. We can go shopping in this city later."

Having failed to get help from outside the arena, the Sky Noble could only suppress its embarrassment and read out word by word from Governor Ying Zheng... This could already be called a love letter.

After the Sky Noble finished reading the sycophantic words that made up about 90% of the fax, the truly important content finally came to the fore.

To summarize, it can also be described in a more concise way.

"All is well, please do not worry. Those traitors have somehow changed their entire outfits."

At the end of the fax, Governor Ying Zheng also described the appearance of the flag used by the traitors after their change of clothes. Before the Sky Noble could finish reading the description, Adon opened his eyes and took the fax from her hand.

Then, without even skimming through the text, he skipped over all the words and looked at the symbols used by the traitors after they changed clothes, which were recorded at the bottom of the fax.

On a black circular base, a dark red eyeball guarded by several golden spears rests silently, seemingly mocking all who gaze upon it.

When Adun saw the symbol, blue psionic flames immediately ignited in her pupils.

At the same time, the Void Seeker, who was conducting his Nth experiment on the Chaser, suddenly jerked his hand, and the experimental instrument plunged headfirst into the Chaser's stomach. Ignoring the Chaser's desperate cries for death, the Void Seeker pressed the green button next to the experimental table with a blank expression.

A few seconds later, the Protoss warships Cybroos, Blood Throne, and Gantricos, which were currently stationed at the Pacific Governor's Mansion, gathered around Xiao Hun.

The Hollow, tightening its somewhat worn arm armor around its arms, said, "Move around a bit, be ready for battle at any moment. It's a warp invasion."

☆, Chapter 1280: Setting the Four Great Generals of East Asia

Besides the fact that the military organization is different from other war zones, the East Asian War Zone also differs from other war zones in the way that admirals with the rank of general are the backbone of each war zone.

As the East Asian theater of operations, which has the largest land area but a relatively small sea area to defend, the generals and admirals are not only responsible for guarding their respective regions, but also play an important role in the political system of the East Asian theater.

In the European theater, for example, local governments are local governments, and naval headquarters are naval headquarters.

Although local governments, apart from managing their own small territory, are basically only allowed to follow orders from the navy to go west, they would never dare to go east.

However, in name only, the power structure of the Naval Governor's Office and the local government was separate.

Whether it's the current European Governor-General Mi Xiaoxian, her brother who took office as the European Emperor Da Mi, or Xiao Bai who changed the title of European Theater Governor-General to European Emperor for the first time.

None of them added a title like "The Most Noble Augustus, Crowned by God, Great Peaceful Emperor, Ruler of the Holy Roman Empire" to their titles.

Of course, another possibility is that the title is too embarrassing.

However, the situation is different in the East Asian theater. The current four generals and admirals are also members of the East Asian theater's integrated military and political system.

Like the ship girls under Governor Ying Zheng, she is also one of the civil and military officials.

However, compared to the ship girls who are in charge, the four generals with the title of "Duke" have some special positions among civil and military officials.

For example, Bai Qi's official title under Ying Zheng was "Minister of War," but just like General Yue Yi, the Minister of Works, was also called "Grand Minister of Works," the ship girls in the East Asian theater usually referred to Bai Qi as "Grand Marshal" in private.

What makes this position special is that, unless Governor Ying Zheng gives any special orders, General Bai Qi is the highest military commander of all fleets and garrisons in the East Asian theater.

In matters of warfare, aside from Governor Ying Zheng, General Bai Qi is the most effective.

Therefore, General Bai Qi also had the title of "Duke of Zhenguo," which means a pillar of the country.

This is hard to imagine in other war zones, where generals and admirals would not listen to generals other than their own governor.

In the East Asian theater, General Bai Qi had the authority to command the fleets of the other three generals in any military matter.

Throughout the entire East Asian theater, the only two fleets General Bai Qi could not bypass the command of Governor Ying Zheng were Governor Ying Zheng's personal guard, the "Zhurihe Fleet," and the "Imperial Guard," which had just signed a series of unequal treaties.

Other fleets under Governor Ying Zheng's command, and even those under other admirals in the East Asian theater, were also required to obey Grand Marshal Bai's orders during wartime.

General Yue Yi, Minister of Works and Grand Minister of Works, was responsible for coordinating the war preparation materials, weapons research and development, logistics and other work in the East Asian theater. Sometimes he was also in charge of the development planning of the East Asian theater's five-year plan.

Therefore, this Duke of Dingguo was essentially concurrently the Minister of Revenue... which is also known as the Grand Minister of Agriculture.

Just as General Bai Qi held supreme authority in the military field, Duke Dingguo Yue Yi also held supreme authority in this regard.

Without his efforts, all the ship girls in the East Asian theater would have been living in a state of hunger, let alone being able to quickly mobilize for a large-scale decisive battle.

As the saying goes, "a rock that stabilizes the nation."

Another general under Guan Zhong, known as the Duke of Anguo, was responsible for stabilizing the morale of the people and the army, just as his name suggested.

Diplomacy, education, cultural propaganda, mobilization slogans, and incidentally, the formulation of laws and regulations, the promotion of officers and soldiers, and the sentencing of criminal acts.