Even in the world of Kancolle, I want to drive a robot!

"If we take down that position, the threat from the air will disappear, and we can be considered to have won this battle. Come on, don't let the command down."

Faced with Ajax's sarcastic words, Ron gritted his teeth and his veins bulged, but he didn't get angry in the end.

Ron is indeed warlike and can easily lose her mind in battle, but that doesn't mean she is stupid. If she rushes into the enemy's position alone, she will definitely die.

Even if she was confident that she could take out some of the carrier-type 'Formidables', and their armor was thick, by the time the other side could react, she would be torn to pieces by the frigate on the spot.

"Okay, I accept the headquarters' previous arrangement, but when will Nagato and her fleet arrive?"

Ajax found out that Ron had given in, so he said with a smile, "In about five minutes, the Sakura Empire's team will go to confirm another matter under the leadership of Zhuifeng."

"And the White Eagle ship led by St. Louis will meet you in five minutes. Come on, hold on for these five minutes."

Ron said helplessly: "Whether we can hold on is something Essex and the others have to consider. I can't join the aerial battlefield."

"That's why I arranged for you to be an 'assassin' in the dark. Didn't you realize that the enemy can't find you at all?"

"The aerial battle won't go wrong for a while, and with Shokaku as your escort, you just need to focus on the Battle-Types."

The complex terrain is mutual. This "steel forest" formed by ruins has a great impact on the shooting range. Unless you stand high enough, there is no good angle to fire.

So Ron's mission is to find and sneak attack those bionic "Terrible" who want to get close, or those who are ready to attack Essex and others from the commanding heights.

"I understand. I will conduct a good sneak attack... I will submit the exercise to you, Ajax, after this battle."

Ron understood the truth, and he also knew that the battle situation required him to hide in the ruins, but she just couldn't swallow this.

The crazy fighting spirit in her heart almost drove her crazy, but the remaining rationality still made her obey the orders of the headquarters. However, the idea of ​​beating Ajax up was not dispelled.

"We'll talk about the exercise application later. But I have to remind you that I have the Ring of Oath. Do you still want to apply for the exercise application even in this situation?"

Here it comes again, this kind of careless and sarcastic words. Ron just hates this about Ajax, or most of the ship girls don't like Ajax's behavior.

Ajax's sense of superiority in intelligence makes him speak without considering other people's feelings. He points fingers and speaks in a veiled manner.

Chapter 257 Reconciliation

The dark sky was covered with dark clouds, the sound of the propellers vibrating was deafening, and occasionally a spark flashed by, and the carrier-based aircraft turned into ashes and fell into the sea.

With cold sweat dripping down his temples, Essex shouted, "It seems that the other side has seen through our intentions and is no longer conservative. Aren't Nagato and the others here yet?"

"According to the command center's instructions, the advance team of St. Louis should have arrived..."

"Those people in the command center are all scheming and plotting. It's better to trust me than to trust them."

Interrupting Lexington, Shoukaku advised: "They simply don't understand our current situation. If we continue to stay here, we will die."

"It's still not too late for us to give up our position now and move on our own initiative."

After these words were spoken, both Lexington and Essex fell silent. It was obvious that the opponent did not want to fight slowly anymore and began to attack regardless of the losses.

If they come a few more times, their carrier-based aircraft may be completely lost, and what can an aircraft carrier without carrier-based aircraft do? Not everyone can set fire to attack like Akagi and Kaga.

The Essex, which had lost its carrier-based aircraft, still had some self-protection ability, but the Lexington had no combat power at all. If the carrier-based aircraft were really exhausted now, they probably wouldn't be able to escape even if they wanted to.

This was not desertion, but a tactical retreat. Now that the Nagato fleet had been relieved, their mission was accomplished.

So Shokaku's words were not without constructive meaning, but Essex was still hesitant. After all, it was too embarrassing to be beaten away like this.

After thinking for a moment, Essex said, "Shokaku, contact the headquarters now. If the news from there tells us that the reinforcements have not arrived yet, we will retreat first."

“It would have been better if we had done this earlier…” Seeing that Essex had made up his mind, Shokaku approached a collapsed stone wall with a knife in one hand.

"Command, Command, this is the air fleet, when will our support arrive?"

"Backup has arrived."

Ajax's light words reached Shokaku's ears. Before she could react, dense anti-aircraft gunfire rang out. The carrier-based aircraft groups were immediately severely damaged and turned into fireballs and fell down.

Seeing St. Louis leading a group of White Eagle ship girls not far away, continuously firing at the carrier-based aircraft in the air, Shokaku opened his mouth blankly and swallowed the words that were about to hit back at Ajax.

As he glided to Shokaku's side, Saint Louis said, "We were intercepted by the bionic ship midway...Are we not too late?"

After taking a breath, Shokaku said, "Tsk, if you guys come any later we might have to retreat first...Where's Nagato-sama?"

"Nagato and Warspite are slightly injured and will be here soon."

Nodding, Shokaku said solemnly, "Okay, you take some people to protect Essex and the others, and I will lead the rest to meet up with Ron. Act according to the command center's instructions to buy us some time."

After retracting the anti-aircraft guns, St. Louis glanced at Shokaku and said, "I don't recommend that you break into the enemy's position right now. It's better to wait until the Sakura Empire's destroyers return."

Although it is a fleet, the number of personnel is not that large, and most of them are on the Sakura Empire destroyers. If they really follow the command's plan, Shokaku will not be able to assign a few ship girls and Ron to attack the position.

If you can't deal with the carrier-based aircraft, then deal with the opponent who launched the carrier-based aircraft. This combat strategy of the command is good and has greatly compensated for the disadvantages, but in the case of insufficient manpower, it is really beyond its ability.

"The flagship's order is absolute for the destroyers. By the time they get back, it will be too late."

St. Louis also knew that the battle situation was urgent, and immediately nodded in agreement with Shokaku's radical approach.

"Shokaku... I'll leave them in your care."

Waving his hands, Shokaku said, "Don't worry, Ron and I know what's going on."

In this way, the White Eagle ship girls who came to support were divided into two teams. St. Louis led several people to guard Essex here, distracting the attention of the opponent's main carrier-based aircraft, while Shokaku and several destroyers found Ron in the building.

"Charles, Orlick, Becky..."

Leaning against the wall, Ron pointed at the White Eagle destroyer behind Shokaku and said with a strange look on his face, "We're just going to take these little guys to attack the enemy's aviation position?"

Shokaku stopped Charles from retorting and said, "Essex and Lexington need guards, so St. Louis can't come with us."

"Besides, Ron, don't underestimate them. The destroyer girls are still very strong when they get close to the enemy."

Ron said disapprovingly, "We have to wait until we get closer. It's impossible for our route to be hidden from the carrier-based aircraft in the sky. If we are discovered, we can only rush over."

"Destroyers are fast, but their armor is weak. They can't withstand many attacks from bombers."

There was a hint of contempt in Ron's words, as well as some worry about the destroyer. It was easy for her to lose her mind after entering the battle, but that didn't mean she didn't take the lives of her companions seriously.

At this moment, the voice of Ajax came again.

"Don't worry, just do it. The command center has already arranged the tactics."

"So far, the new enemies that look like our companions are not very strong. The main reason is that there are many of them, but each one is very weak and far inferior to the Elite Sirens."

"Warspite has reached a position with a wide firing angle. She will attack the aviation position with you after firing her third round of main gun fire."

"And Nagato caught up with Zhuifeng and the others. Once they confirm that the guy who is suspected to be the breaker has been sunk, they will rush back at full speed."

"Use this to form an encirclement and try to destroy those aircraft in one fell swoop. Once you succeed, you can sit back and clean up the mess without any worries."

The strategy seems simple, but it is actually very practical. The reason why those new enemies were able to drive the Nagato fleet away was because they could launch carrier-based aircraft.

Moreover, if the threat of carrier-based aircraft had not been deeply rooted in people's minds, and War-weary's first reaction when seeing carrier-based aircraft taking off was not to run away, they would have a high probability of defeating the other side.

It can be seen from the fact that the two aircraft carriers Essex and Lexington can tie up a large number of the opponent's carrier-based aircraft that the combat effectiveness of Siren's new weapon is really not very impressive.

Dull and stupid, without wisdom, and good for nothing except quantity.

"Well, since the headquarters has made all the arrangements clear, leave this matter to us."

Ron shrugged and instantly became a different person. His gentle expression turned into a distorted and crazy one.

"Ahh... I've been wanting to do this for a long time. I really hope those guys will show a look of despair when they are torn apart by artillery fire."

Chapter 258 Attack on the Position

On the steel bridge, dozens of aircraft carrier creatures with the same terrifying appearance gathered together, standing in place, operating the carrier-based aircraft in the air, while outside the bridge, densely packed bionic creatures were guarding it.

Just as the command center's reconnaissance had predicted, this bionic creation only deployed tactics according to pre-set orders and followed the rules, without any judgment of the situation on the battlefield.

"Target, Essex, Lexington... destroy carrier-based aircraft, 27 minutes... annihilation time, 53 minutes..."

"Target updated, St. Louis... completely destroyed, estimated time is three hours..."

As the built-in simple computer calculated the results without any emotion, the eyes of the aviation-type bionic creatures suddenly glowed purple and they all turned their gazes towards the escort team outside the bridge.

"Confirmed, Shokaku, Ron... Number Six is ​​approaching quickly, escort and intercept..."

At the same time, the eyes of the bionic creatures that served as the escort team also lit up. After receiving the order, they immediately dispersed a part of their forces to intercept Shokaku and others.

At this moment, there was a sudden whistling sound in the air, and dozens of shells emitting emerald green flames fell from the sky.

"Preliminary judgment, the war-weary 'sniper' barrage..."

Before the computer analysis of the simple bionic creation was completed, the shell hit the bridge and exploded, with flames and thick smoke rising into the sky.

It was obvious that the war-weary artillery bombardment was replaced by incendiary bombs, the purpose of which was not to annihilate the enemy, but to interrupt the deployment of bionic creations.

But even so, many bionic creations were still burned to ashes.

Shokaku and others who came from afar saw this scene and covered their mouths uncomfortably.

The bionic creature with no sense of pain did not wail or struggle when faced with the flames. It just stood there stupidly, allowing its skin to be burned by the flames.

What's more, the thing that was twisted and burnt was the terrifying 'skin'. Even though we knew that the other party was fake, the scene of our former companion turning into charcoal was really too exciting to watch.

"Ugh... The commander definitely doesn't want to see such a scene, with countless 'terrible' people dying tragically in the flames." Wiping the corner of his mouth, Shokaku said with difficulty.

After looking at Shokaku, Ron said nothing and quickly rushed to the bridge to look for any remaining enemies after the artillery fire.

She knew that the enemy was weak and only relied on numbers to gain air superiority, but she didn't expect this new type of enemy to be so weak. After a barrage of incendiary bombs, it seemed that the entire army was about to be wiped out.

Should I say that I was too cautious or too timid? With this kind of fighting ability, Ron was not bragging, she could kill all the opponents by herself.

Ron began to wonder how Nagato and the others were trapped in the building by such an enemy. It was so embarrassing.

Shokaku discovered that many carrier-based aircraft in the air lost control and fell into the water. He immediately realized that it was Warspite's firepower coverage that destroyed many aviation-type bionic creations.

So she turned around and said to the small ship girls, "Patrol and clean up the enemy freely, but be careful. Although the enemy is not as good as ordinary sirens, they can also fire main guns. Don't let them capsize in the ditch."

Several small destroyers saluted Shokaku in a mock manner, quickly formed a search formation to clear the battlefield, and approached the bridge.

As for Shokaku himself, he looked around and contacted Ajax after finding that there were no escapees on his side.

"The enemy position has been taken, and it's currently in the cleanup phase..." After hesitating for a moment, Shokaku couldn't help but complain, "These guys are too weak. I wonder why Essex and Lexington are still in the mood to gossip when facing so many carrier-based aircraft."

After thinking for a moment, Ajax said, "Hmm... Judging from the current battle situation, these bionic creations are weaker than we imagined. They are just in numbers to scare people. In fact, they may not be as powerful as the mass-produced non-human sirens."

Ajax was also puzzled. Why did most of the red dots on the map disappear after Warspite launched a round of barrage attacks on the position? He, Zhenhai and Tiancheng had discussed letting Nagato and the others retreat and fight guerrilla warfare if they found that the position could not be taken.

Now it seems that they have overestimated the opponent's strength, and I don't know what's the point of Siren arranging such a weak opponent.

"The command center will recalculate the strength of this new type of enemy... By the way, did you really not find the previous Sirens in this battle?"

After thinking for a while, Shokaku answered uncertainly: "Probably not. At least so far, let alone elite sirens, we haven't even seen human sirens..."

After saying this, Shokaku instinctively felt something was wrong. Such an enemy was strong on the outside but weak on the inside. Although it seemed that they were pressing forward step by step and attacking fiercely, they were actually like a paper tiger that would collapse at the first touch.

If Atlantis is full of these strange bionic creations, then what is the so-called test of Observer Zero? Why haven't they encountered a typical Siren so far?

Considering this, Shokaku said uncertainly: "I remember...the headquarters said that Atlantis has 12 areas, and we are in Area E..."

"Does this mean that different areas mean different enemies?"

"Perhaps this is possible, but the command center cannot contact other people now, and cannot obtain intelligence from other areas..."

Touching his smooth jaw, Ajax pondered and said, "Well, I have some ideas... I will discuss it with Tiancheng and Zhenhai first, and keep in touch at any time."

After blinking his eyes and confirming that Ajax had indeed unilaterally hung up the communication, Shokaku punched the exposed steel bar next to him.

This guy's behavior is extremely annoying.

......

Soon after, Lexington and Essex had cleared out a large number of missing carrier-based aircraft and arrived near the bridge together with St. Louis and her crew.

When St. Louis saw Warspite rushing over here stepping on the "coffin", his face turned blue and purple.

"Hehehe...it's a good thing that you can think of this way of carrying things."

Shrugging, War-weary said with a smile: "This was Nagato's idea, you can't blame me..."

Then he quickly added: "Nagato was originally planning to attack this side with me, but he received an order from the headquarters halfway through, and he and the Sakura Empire ship girl ran to confirm whether the guy who was suspected to be the breaker was dead or not."

"And right now, it seems better to confirm whether the enemy who attacked us with a beam is alive or dead than to deal with this enemy who can be easily dealt with."

Hearing this, Shokaku suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart. He could say she was being cautious or just imagining things, but Shokaku always felt that this battle was won a little too 'easily'.

She always felt that the real enemy should be like the guy who attacked her, hiding in the dark.

Chapter 259: Reappearance

The other side of the battlefield.

The area, which was already a remnant of ruins, had been turned into a scorched earth after being covered by the firepower of two powerful battleships. Tall buildings collapsed into pieces, and the smell of gunpowder filled the entire environment.

The Sakura Empire's Destroyer Squadron 33 is following Nagato's instructions to search for any remaining information on the enemy.