The Disqualified Commander of the Abandoned Shipgirl

"Ah?" Nagato was stunned for a moment, "Because, because... I need to replenish my energy?"

"What will happen if I don't drink it?"

"You'll starve to death...You won't be able to move your body at all, and you won't be able to activate your ship suit."

"That's why."

"...?"

"Memorizing things is to fill in the gaps in your original memory." Lin Shen stood up and went to rest without further explanation. "Memorize everything I send you completely. After you memorize it, I will ask you something. If you can't do it, I will capture all those guys in Polar Night and use them as cannon fodder."

"I……"

Nagato looked at Lin Shen's leaving back and felt very wronged.

I don’t know what’s wrong with this strange guy.

22. Announcement of the Arrival of Sakura (11)

The next day, Nagato received the books that Lin Shen had sent to her. They were not physical books, but e-books that she could read directly on her phone. Although she had to fight during the day and basically had little time, she still had time at night. Therefore, from that day on, Nagato had to find time to memorize the books in addition to filling out the combat report at night.

In short, I rested much later than others. Apart from the most basic sleep, I was busier than Glasgow. Even in battle, it was the same. Because there were more things to observe, I was more distracted and my efficiency was lower.

"Nagato's people, leave the opponents over there to me." Although Hinata didn't know what Nagato was doing, as a teammate, when fighting together, she still helped Nagato take over some of the combat needs, which also reduced her pressure during the battle.

"Thank you, Hinata." Nagato breathed a sigh of relief. Although this little relief was nothing compared to the pressure she was under now, she was still very grateful.

"You're welcome. After all, I'm your follower." Hinata didn't feel much and just said it as a matter of course.

Now that the direction has been chosen, all that’s left is to move forward.

Just bear a little more pressure, it's not a big problem——

That's how it was originally.

But Nagato soon discovered that it was not the case. After Hinata took over some of her attack tasks during the battle, there were indeed no problems in the short term, but after a long time, many problems still appeared. The enemy that should have been eliminated within the scheduled time still dragged its remaining body to hinder others.

This indirectly caused the teammates in the front row to have to take extra actions and time to clean up the small fish that should have disappeared long ago. This happened many times, and the impact began to spread to the entire team. There was no big problem in the first two days, and Lin Shen did not speak.

Starting from the third day, the ship girl in the front row began to ask him about the situation, and he said that it would be like this for the time being.

On the fourth day, Lin Shen finally received Nagato's report, and she finally realized that some of her responsibilities could not be taken over by others. In Lin Shen's battle mode, everyone's tasks were fixed, and if you did a little less, then others would be forced to help you bear some unnecessary burdens.

Then, the combat rhythm of the entire team will be slowly slowed down.

After four days of practice, Nagato finally got used to the state of analysis and the state of distracted combat. After realizing the problem, Nagato took over the work he was supposed to do from Hinata.

On the fifth day, the team's combat status returned to normal and they no longer ran further and further in a strange direction.

After so many days of joint action, in addition to the changes in Nagato, everyone else has also made some progress. The Siren elite troops were being dismantled and killed one by one, and the Siren had no corresponding means of restraint, so they could only start to formally shrink their alert area after the fifth day.

Gather all the elite troops together.

It was also from this day that Lin Shen needed to change his overall battle strategy again and go find those small fish to continue harvesting. That's right, he needed to return to the state of running desperately before. Moreover, this time the Siren deployed all the elite troops nearby, and if he tried to touch porcelain again, the risk would increase a lot instantly.

But it is still feasible.

Why? Because the offense and defense had completely changed in just five or six days of sniping the Siren elite troops. If the Siren hadn't realized that they were losing the battle, they would never have withdrawn. The elite troops were as determined to hunt down Lin Shen as they were to retreat.

Almost all of Lin Shen's shipgirls, except for those who joined at the end, have entered the elite ranks of level 60 and are still singing all the way. Level 60 seems to be a huge watershed, whether on the human side or the Sirens side.

This is the dividing line of "elite". The training level of ordinary regular troops on the human side is kept at a uniform level of 40 to 50. The training level of the elite in the ordinary army is all between 50 and 60. Almost every country is like this, because this is the easiest level to reach. If you continue to go up, the various costs required for each training will double.

Therefore, only special elite forces would have their training levels uniformly ranging from level 60 to 70. As for more elite forces, such as those between level 70 and 80, even if Lin Shen had not collected intelligence, he knew that they definitely existed. However, their numbers were very small, so small that they could not influence the battle situation and could only be used for critical matters and kept in the pocket.

Even if there were 10,000 of these super special elite troops, they would be crushed by a million ordinary Siren troops. After all, this was a war, not a battle between individuals. If a fight really broke out, it would depend on the overall situation.

If the battle goes against you, even if you have a hundred level 80 clones, let alone a level 80 clone, it won't make any difference. How much territory can you capture? Can you penetrate deep into the enemy camp and kill the enemy leader?

Maybe, but there is no leader of the Sirens in sight now.

The water over there is very deep.

If it cannot influence the battle situation, the role of a level 80 clone is very limited. At most, it can be kept by your side, responsible for protecting the safety of important people. After all, a clone of this level is used to protect yourself. As long as you are not subject to special assassinations or large-scale bombings, your personal safety will not be a problem at all.

The Sirens are basically targeting the human army.

Their elite troops were an executor above level 60, with a group of other miscellaneous soldiers above level 50, which were the hundreds of troops that had been chasing and besieging Lin Shen. Although they had been killed, almost half of them were gone, not even half.

These things no longer posed any threat to Lin Shen. Even if they were all gathered together and stationed at key strongholds for defense, with the fleet now having passed the level 60 threshold, it would be possible to launch a surprise attack.

Even if they cannot win, they can still escape before being surrounded. Even if they are surrounded, they can still fight their way out and escape. After all, the general strength of the Siren troops is only level 40 to 50. With this strength, if they confront the human clone armed army head-on, they can indeed fight head-on, and they have a winning rate of more than %.

At the same level of training, the combat power of the clones can indeed kill the Siren. But if they fight in batches, it will be a fight on another level. Either tactics, command, or something else. Anyway, the gap between the two sides will be shortened a lot.

The final battle is still about consumption.

Once the war of attrition begins, with the resources humans have now, it is basically impossible to outlast the Sirens who have a larger territory. Therefore, the Sakura Castle war zone has been unable to advance, after all, Sakura Castle only has the support of the Sakura Empire. And who knows how much rich resources are behind the Siren troops here. Anyway, they can afford it, so what.

There is no way we can fight this battle.

Unless more resources are concentrated to achieve an overwhelming "victory", otherwise, it will continue to consume itself until it is dragged to death.

After all, this is the norm.

Human beings are inherently in a state of losing—they have never won, okay?

Now I'm just surviving.

Akamori Yuaki's obsession with achieving a result is heresy.

Now Lin Shen is also a supporter of this heresy.

He needs to win.

It was difficult to nibble on the sirens hugging each other one by one, but he still had to do it.

With the overall strength of the level 60 fleet, we will gnaw at the opponent bit by bit and strengthen ourselves. When the training reaches level 70, and then crosses the threshold of level 70, it is time to close the game completely. Among the elite troops left by Siren to guard here, the highest one is the boss of level 70.

However, this kind of boss, as the strongest fighter, will not run around unless you attack it in front of it.

"Rest for a day. Tomorrow we will start another long maneuver battle."

Lin Shen notified everyone the night before departure. With the training level up and no loss, there are more things to do. The fleet's coordination has improved a lot in the past few days of fighting. From the beginning, it took several hours to eliminate the elite troops of the Siren, to now, it basically takes one or two hours to finish the battle.

The improvement in the fleet's overall combat capability has a direct impact on the actual combat results, which is quite obvious.

Although, everyone has paid a corresponding price.

That's hard work.

Very hard.

I am so tired that I can't even tell others about it.

Among all the people, Nagato was the most tormented. She had written several battle reports to Lin Shen in a row, and by now, she had basically filled in everything that could be filled in. And she had also squeezed out time to read all the books that Lin Shen asked her to write down at night.

The ship girl has a good memory and remembered everything.

"Have you memorized all of them?"

"Ok!"

This time when answering, Nagato was much more confident.

Even when submitting the battle report, she was now quite confident. After all, all the blanks were filled in! Not a single blank was left!

Awesome.

"Okay, let me test you then."

Lin Shen looked at Nagato's confident look, smiled, and asked a question directly.

First of all, there are some basic issues, such as marching and deployment.

Nagato answered fluently.

Then there are some less basic issues, such as tactical calculations, conspiracies and plots.

Nagato continued to answer fluently. After all, these contents were clearly recorded in those books, so as long as he memorized them, it would not be a problem.

And those books are all military books that make people sleepy just reading them.

Well...human military books, as well as a large number of related reports summarized by humans from wars.

They are all very professional and ordinary people can’t understand them.

Nagato could only remember it.

So, when Lin Shen started asking some questions about specific examples, Nagato's answers became less fluent.

"Should, that, maybe, probably, uh——"

Then, more and more words expressing uncertainty began to appear in the answers.

Until he was completely stuttering and couldn't even utter a complete sentence.

"No, there's no way the Siren could march like that!"

After getting stuck in the specific problems constructed by a large number of premise assumptions given by Lin Shen, Nagato's thoughts suddenly jumped out and he began to question the questions raised by Lin Shen, which were problematic in themselves.

Hinata, who was watching the two people talking back and forth, started yawning after listening for two or three minutes.

Very boring.

Moreover, I totally don't understand.

What’s the point of these things… What’s the point of talking about special cases that you may only encounter once in your lifetime?

It would be faster to just chop it with a knife.

"Why not?" Lin Shen asked back without paying any attention.

"Because..." Nagato began to list a lot of reasons, some of which were refuted by Lin Shen, and some of which could not be refuted.

Because there were many parts that could not be refuted, Lin Shen withdrew his question and asked another one.

"What if all the sirens in the previous example were replaced with humans?"

"Well……"

Nagato fell into thought again. Sirens are different from humans. Their modes of action and ways of thinking are very different. Moreover, these differences are all caused by their own practical reasons.

After thinking it over, Nagato began to put forward her own ideas. As she was explaining, Lin Shen raised other questions based on her explanation. The questions were very diverse, ranging from the economy, to other countries, to people's hearts, to the actual situation, and to various unexpected possibilities.

Just answering these questions, Nagato felt that her brain capacity was a little insufficient. She really didn't know why Lin Shen's thinking was so flexible, sometimes east, sometimes west, and not constrained by any framework.

The conversation between the two lasted only an hour, but to Nagato it felt like a whole year had passed.

Finally, Lin Shen was satisfied.

"You passed," he said.

"Huh..." Nagato finally breathed a sigh of relief.

But before she could relax completely, Lin Shen said again: "I will send you all the other information later. As usual, write it all down. I will test you. If you don't pass, I will still strike hard at Polar Night. I guess you don't want to see Polar Night's ship girl get damaged in my hands, right? Besides, you should be very clear about our strength."

"..." Nagato knew it very well. She was in this fleet of only ten people, so how could she not know how terrifying the combat power of this fleet was. As Lin Shen's operations deepened, the pressure continued to increase, and all the ship girls began to transform from the inside out. From the initial discomfort, their ability to withstand pressure has become increasingly terrifying, and their execution ability is also ridiculously high.

Even if Lin Shen did not give any combat orders sometimes, they would know what the most appropriate actions were.

It has become a conditioned reflex, and that subconscious judgment is basically correct most of the time. Perhaps it is because of the long-term influence of Lin Shen's meticulous operation, all the ship girls have some connection with Lin Shen's thinking mode when they act.

More and more like it.

That's how Nagato felt.

But she didn't focus her thinking on herself.

Given Ji Ye’s strength, I’m afraid there will be casualties when they arrive.

Nagato really didn't want to see it.

Because there is no need...

The focus of the conflict between the two parties is entirely herself.

Lin Shen turned around and went back to his room to rest.

And the notification sound came from Nagato's phone again.

This time there is another pile of data files.

There are various books, academic papers, and survey results. Anyway, all of them are related to human psychology.

Among them, one tenth of the information is related to the field of philosophy.