I, Azure Commander!

"Forget it. I'll ask her later. If she was really bullied by you, I'll bring the military police to visit her."

"Look, why don't you believe me?"

Lin Xiao spread his hands helplessly, with an innocent look on his face, "But if you want to be my guest, you are always welcome here, whether it's you or the children of the gendarmerie..."

Of course, if the person who comes has bad intentions, it is easy to come, but it may not be so easy to go back.

Peter Strasser was too lazy to argue with him and asked directly, "So, what are you doing here today?"

As she spoke, she glanced at my wife standing beside her, as if she was asking a question she already knew the answer to.

"Haven't you been looking forward to having an exercise with my wife? I saw you were busy before, and I heard that you were doing better these past two days. Am I not here to fulfill my promise?"

Lin Xiao didn't waste any time and went straight to the point.

"it is good."

Peter's answer was simple. He closed the document in front of him and put it away. "You are well-informed. There is indeed no important work in the past few days. If it is only half a day, it doesn't matter... However, if it is an exercise, where are the battleships?"

"What capital ship?"

Lin Xiao was stunned by the question.

Peter Strasser held his forehead with a headache, "Can you really graduate from the Naval Academy like this? At least the most basic rules should be followed in the exercise, right? You don't even bring the battleships in the back row. Are you going to let the vanguard ship fight the battleship alone?"

"Yeah, that seems to be the case." Lin Xiao nodded when he heard this. If this kind of thing were to spread out, ten out of ten commanders would find it outrageous. After all, the gap between the battleship and the vanguard ship is indeed quite obvious. Although they each have their own strengths... but if you really let a small ship fight against a large ship, in most cases they won't be able to break through the other party's defense.

This is consistent with the history of human warships. Big means powerful, and caliber means absolute justice. Of course, these rules were later overturned, but the later rules obviously do not apply to "magical" creatures like KanColle.

For ship girls, a small ship fighting a big ship is indeed as ridiculous as a child fighting an adult. Take Xiao Jiajia for example. She looks small, but if you compare strength, she can beat several little foxes by herself. This is the essential quality gap between a small ship and a big ship.

It's just like in wrestling, with different weight classes, it's not a fair fight at all.

What Peter Strasser called an exercise meant that each side would fill a position. Lin Xiao would have a back-row position, and she would find a front-row ship girl from the Maritime Administration. This would be considered a fair exercise.

This was a bit of a miscalculation on Lin Xiao's part, but it wasn't a big problem...

Lin Xiao looked at my wife, his eyes slightly tentative and inquiring.

My wife naturally responded with a confident smile and nodded, so Lin Xiao waved his hand to stop Peter from continuing to talk about those big truths.

"At this point, I think you don't need to worry too much..."

"What do you mean?"

Peter Strasser frowned. Was this guy really planning to let a vanguard ship girl fight against her battleship with a training level of over 110?

"What I mean is... to some extent, although Azuma is a vanguard ship, she can actually be considered half a battleship..."

Chapter 108: The Highly Anticipated Exercise

Yes, Azuma is not actually a heavy cruiser, but belongs to an extremely rare type of ship - supercruise, or super cruiser.

Although it cannot be considered a proper battleship, there is definitely a big gap between it and a normal vanguard ship.

However, facing Lin Xiao's answer, Peter showed a helpless expression: "My wife is a registered ship girl. Do you think I don't know these things? But even so, there are still different levels between supercruise ships and battleships. It's unfair, don't you understand?"

"So if you can't win, it will be embarrassing?"

"..."

This sentence immediately silenced Peter Strasser.

Indeed, wouldn't it be embarrassing if she couldn't win after arguing for a long time?

But the key point is that she may not be able to beat him...

"It's okay, Miss Peter. Don't worry. This exercise is just a simple little sparring, isn't it?"

Fortunately, my wife reacted quickly and found a way out for Peter Strasser, which made her feel a little relieved and no longer talked about finding a teammate for each of them.

If she thinks about it carefully, the training level of this Azuma may not be inferior to her own. It might be another level 120 monster. If she finds another teammate and another level 120 rear ship, then what can she do?

The most powerful vanguard ship in the Maritime Administration has only just reached level 100, and is obviously not comparable to the high-level colorful ships.

"In that case, I'll trouble Miss My Wife to teach me."

Peter's words were quite polite. As the director of the Maritime Bureau, he should be more aware of the horror of the decisive battle plan. These powerful ships, whose birth reasons were unknown, and their ship equipment seemed to be in a completely different dimension from ordinary ship girls. It was no exaggeration to say that they were ahead of an era.

If we follow the normal way of thinking and treat the opponent as an ordinary vanguard ship, we will definitely suffer a great loss.

Everyone had their own things to do and didn't want to waste too much time, so they quickly came to the Maritime Administration's training ground, negotiated with the training ground's managers, and temporarily suspended the training of several Maritime Administration newcomers.

Just because she was in a bad mood, she was changing shifts and was ready to turn her grief into motivation to hone her Z28 at the training ground. Coincidentally, she also caught up with this scene. When she saw the gentle big sister who had just been with Commander Lin Xiao and the director of their Maritime Bureau standing opposite each other on the sea and confronting each other, she couldn't help but widen her eyes in surprise.

The atmosphere at the scene suddenly became tense.

When many ship girls from the Maritime Administration heard that the director was going to conduct exercises with other ship girls, they put down their less urgent work and came to join in the fun.

The ship girls of their Maritime Bureau are very clear about how powerful their director is.

An extremely rare gold-skinned ship girl, and a real aircraft carrier. Her training level is terrifyingly high, coupled with quite good equipment and extremely rich combat experience... Those of them who were lucky enough to have exercised with the director were almost crushed and defeated quickly. So, who is the opponent that dares to exercise with the director?

The ship girl who reacted faster quickly remembered that she had just met Commander Lin Xiao, and she immediately had an idea in her mind. If it was that Commander Lin Xiao, it would not be so strange to have a ship girl under her command who could compete with the director.

But...looking at their posture, are they preparing for a one-on-one fight?

Is that gentle and easy-going big sister also an aircraft carrier? Or a battleship?

The fights between ship girls are quite different from those on real battleships. In addition to the gunfire, the physical fitness of the ship girls is also a very important factor. For example, many ship girls with a more "fierce" temperament, whether it is an exercise or actual combat, will first fire the shells randomly, and then get close to your face, clench their fists and punch you in the face, and even knock your nose bridge crooked with one punch.

Although this is very dangerous, especially in actual combat, if the number of opponents is small and the artillery fire is not very fierce, sometimes this can be an effective tactic to limit the opponent's attack more quickly and avoid causing more losses.

But such tactics also have a very important prerequisite - that is, your physical fitness must be very high, at least higher than that of your opponent, otherwise it will be like a wolf walking into a tiger's den. For example, when a small boat is conducting an exercise with a large ship, the cannons cannot hit the opponent, so they are ready to throw torpedoes at close range, but they fail to grasp the distance well and are caught by the large ship. Then the exercise is basically over, and the aircraft carriers and battleships can easily pick up those small boats like chickens and subdue them instantly.

So when they saw the unknown ship girl standing alone on the sea facing Chief Peter, they almost immediately assumed that the other party was also a capital ship. Besides, Azuma did look like one of those mature older sisters, but...

Just as the exercise was about to begin and both sides were deploying their ship equipment, countless exclamations were heard from the audience again.

"This... is this the ship's equipment for a heavy cruiser?"

"It seems a little different, but it should be the ship's outfit of a heavy cruiser."

"Then this exercise..."

"No, look at the director's expression."

The more experienced and quicker-reacting ship girls have already seen from Peter Strasser's expression that this exercise is not simple, at least it will not be a one-sided battle as many ship girls now imagine.

This also shows that the opponent is not simple...

What kind of vanguard ship could make a top battleship like Peter so serious and treat it as if it were a formidable enemy?

The mystery will be revealed soon, because the battle between the two is about to break out!

As the bell rang, symbolizing the official start of the exercise, Peter Strasser reacted quickly. With a wave of his hand, the carrier-based aircraft that had been prepared long ago took off instantly and headed towards Azuma in an overwhelming manner.

Such a group of carrier-based aircraft is almost a hopeless scene for any vanguard ship. This is the almost insurmountable gap between the main battleship and the vanguard ship. Many ship girls were so surprised when they saw such an exaggerated number of carrier-based aircraft. Many ship girls even felt that the exercise had just begun and was not far from the end.

However, is this really the case?

In fact, the one who least believed that the exercise would end was Peter Strasser himself, because as they stood facing each other, she could see the calm smile on his face more clearly.

Chapter 109: A leisurely battle

In fact, in a sense, the guesses of many of the ship girls watching around were not wrong.

This battle really wouldn't last long...it was just that they had guessed the winner wrongly.

Looking at the overwhelming carrier-based aircraft, Azuma's expression remained calm. To be fair, Peter Strasser was indeed an excellent aircraft carrier with a high level of training, but...

Let's not talk about the gap between her own equipment and top aircraft carriers, such as Skyhawk and Enterprise, and even further away from monsters like Shinano. Just talking about her training level and equipment, a training level of over 110 is indeed not low, but the gap between the training level after level 100 is much greater than that before level 100. The gap between those few levels is not as small as imagined. What's more important is the equipment...

Peter's equipment was not bad, at least it was all gold, but this was not enough... or should I say, it was far from enough.

The quality of equipment is not just determined by its rarity. There is no problem with Peter's equipment combination, but the number of times her equipment has been enhanced is too low, probably only about five to six times on average. There is still a big gap between such equipment and equipment enhanced to level ten, and it is even more incomparable with equipment enhanced to level thirteen.

However, Agatsuma had fought in an exercise with a level 120 Shinano equipped with a set of plus 13 equipment. The gap between them is self-evident.

Having seen such a terrifying opponent, and relying on the cooperation with equally strong teammates, she has never been obviously at a disadvantage. How could my wife be surprised when facing Peter's carrier-based aircraft again?

She just calmly deployed the anti-aircraft guns and calmly dealt with the attack of carrier-based aircraft.

Of course, Azuma’s air defense capability is not very strong, which is also a common problem of the Sakura Empire’s warship girls. Therefore, anti-aircraft guns alone are obviously not enough to fully cope with Peter Strasser’s attack.

However, it would be enough if it could just resist a portion of the carrier-based aircraft...

Under the astonished gaze of everyone, Peter's carrier-based aircraft, which had not been successfully blocked, passed over Azuma's anti-aircraft guns, dropped countless bombs and torpedoes, and attacked Azuma.

Amid the brilliant explosion of the colored bombs, the scene fell into dead silence.

No way?

Is the battle over just like that?

No one expected that in the face of Peter's air strike, the opponent did not take any other measures except launching anti-aircraft guns... Is this really a high-end game? Is it really a competition between top ship girls?

After knowing the reason at the scene, perhaps Lin Xiao was the only one who remained calm.

He looked at the smoke-filled battlefield and had 100% confidence in his wife. His wife was basically one of those rare girls who he didn't need to worry about at all during a battle.

Because of her strength, she can indeed be described as "outside the level".

Sure enough, the smoke and dust gradually dissipated, and my wife was still standing on the sea. Judging from the traces left by the flower bombs, her injuries were far from being minor, and her durability had only dropped by 5% at most!

What kind of outrageous meatiness is this?

Peter Strasser was dumbfounded, because her opponent was a colorful boat, and the colorful bullets she used would only cause minor injuries at most, so she could not hold back at all when she attacked just now. It was a completely all-out air raid, but the opponent took it steadily and hardly even got a scratch on the skin?

What kind of monster is this!

Peter Strasser began to lose his composure, but at the same time, my wife's counterattack also began. She smiled confidently, turned the turret, and launched a loud attack -

The fiery artillery fire, accompanied by a thunderous sound, drew a perfect parabola and hit the target quickly and accurately before Peter Strasser could come to her senses. Immediately, a lot of red paint appeared on her body, making her look very embarrassed.

Of course, as the main battleship, Peter would not be defeated so easily, and the damage she suffered was not much more than that of Azuma.

However, Azuma's attack method had obviously surprised her... If she was not mistaken, the previous artillery fire seemed to be a cross-fire, right?

A vanguard ship girl used the cross-fire that only the main battleships and battlecruisers in the rear row could use?

Although he was surprised, Peter was experienced after all, and the battle was still going on, so now was not the time to be in a daze.

She reacted quickly and dodged a main cannon shot from Azuma. At the same time, the second round of airstrike was launched again, and she shouted, "The time has come!"

The next moment, more carrier-based aircraft than before flew out instantly. At the same time, Azuma suddenly found that she could not move. Her speed was greatly restricted, almost completely reduced to zero, and she could not dodge the air raid in front of her at all.

"I see, skills?"

Peter's combat capability is indeed quite impressive. As a free ship girl, she was able to release two skills at the same time without the assistance of the commander's mind network, and her combination of skills was quite skillful.

Nodding in understanding, it's not like my wife hasn't seen similar skills before. For example, the Royal Ark at home also has the skill to reduce the enemy's speed. Another example is the Commander's favorite, the Awesome, which can directly reduce the opponent's speed to zero.

However, this does not pose a problem for my wife.

You have skills, doesn't she?

"Well, it's my turn next~"

After a brief moment of surprise, Azuma regained her composure. Since she couldn't dodge by moving, she simply didn't dodge. She was already very tanky, and her skills provided a lot of mobility, so the effective damage that the enemy's firepower could cause to her was actually quite limited. At the same time...

The hot muzzle spewed out dazzling fire snakes one after another. This time, Azuma did not hold back. Taking advantage of the opportunity when the opponent launched an air strike, the continuous artillery attacks mixed with skill barrages gave Peter Strasser a bath.

In this final move, both sides could almost be said to be trading injuries for injuries. Battles between capital ships are often like this. There aren't so many fancy operations, it's just a simple game of timing to attack, and a competition of attack accuracy and firepower.

Although Azuma was the vanguard, she chose a relatively disadvantageous battleship approach due to the speed limit of Peter Strasser, but the result of the exercise obviously did not change at all.

In fact, this is in line with the original intention of this exercise. It does not require so many fancy operations, but simply demonstrates the overwhelming power of the colorful ship and its terrifying performance that far exceeds that of ordinary ship girls.

Otherwise, with my wife's combat experience far greater than Peter Strasser's, she would have won more easily and quickly...

As the smoke and dust cleared, the results of the exercise by both sides were finally revealed to everyone.

Chapter 28: Z's Continuous Social Death

The exercise started quickly and ended even faster, lasting only two or three minutes in total. This was partly due to the fighting styles of both sides. Neither of them obviously wanted to waste too much time, so the fight was quite fierce and direct. In addition, Peter's skills limited Azuma's speed, so in the end it was basically a simple competition of the quality and firepower of the two sides' ship equipment.

Therefore, Peter Strasser's failure can be said to be quite decisive.

When the smoke and dust cleared, the result of the last round of competition between the two sides was presented to everyone without reservation.

My wife was still the same as before, with only some paint from the flower bullets on the corners of her clothes, and she was still not even slightly injured. However, Peter Strasser was covered with paint from head to toe, and even his face was covered with colorful colors. It looked like if they had used real bullets instead of flower bullets, he would have almost had to be seriously injured and sent to the hospital for rescue with the Mind Cube.

Peter Strasser was clearly still a little dazed, his head was still buzzing, and he had no real sense of his failure.

After all, just now, before Azuma launched a counterattack, she still felt that the second wave of attack she launched with her skills would at least have a certain advantage.

The results of it?