Revisiting Azur Lane

New Jersey had experienced modern equipment, and with a little thought, it could imagine the enemy threats that would be encountered in today's "modern" naval battles.

“It’s highly likely that both exist at the same time.”

Zhou He suddenly became serious after hearing that. He was not afraid of the former, but he was a little unsure about the latter. Take the sky-high laser cannon fired by the Cleaner in the previous Omen incident as an example. With just that one shot, his ship girl would most likely die on the spot if hit. He had no room for "repair" at all.

"It seems that tomorrow's tactics will have to be changed."

He became uneasy at the thought that his own ship girl might be killed. Facing such an enemy, all he could do was to give early warnings and develop damage control devices that could save lives in critical moments, which was also a form of black technology.

"The enemy can do this? That's really difficult to deal with."

New Jersey's eyes lit up. She hadn't encountered such a strong enemy in a long time. She continued, "Commander, don't worry. If there is such a powerful weapon, it must be conspicuous. We can destroy it before the enemy uses it."

"Ah."

Zhou He had similar thoughts, and was once again glad that Xuefeng had joined the port area.

When the time comes, let Xuefeng take the lead.

Chapter 170 No Gain Without Doing

After being busy running back and forth all day, Zhou He took Xili away from the restaurant after having dinner with New Jersey.

It was already night outside. The clouds that had been blocking the sun during the day quietly dissipated, and the water-like moonlight sprinkled on the islands and the sea. Everything seemed so quiet.

While talking with New Jersey, Zhou He was still seriously wondering whether the observers would play tricks. Now that he was alone with Yuudachi, his thoughts jumped to the purchase of the pledge ring tomorrow. In the game, he could marry whoever he wanted, but in reality he had never thought about giving the ring to a woman. At this moment, he couldn't help but wonder whether he would give the ring to Yuudachi in front of everyone tomorrow, or put the ring on Yuudachi in private. He was nervous and expectant inside, and couldn't help but take two breaths of the cool night air.

Well, there's still a bit of mist.

On the other hand, Yudachi was in a cheerful mood as always. She would even jump a little when she walked beside him. Zhou He felt so happy that he miraculously calmed down. He took a big step forward to Yudachi, turned around, opened his arms to hug her, and said with a smile, "Yudachi, come here, let me hug you."

"Ow?"

Yuli blinked, and without thinking much, she jumped forward and threw herself into Zhou He's arms. The impact forced Zhou He to spin twice before he could stabilize himself. However, Yuli thought that Zhou He was just teasing her, so she wrapped her arms around Zhou He's neck tightly and laughed crisply and pleasantly.

"Just like that, I went home."

Zhou He finally managed to steady himself, feeling the barely tolerable warmth in his arms. He put one arm around her waist and the other hand on Yuli's thigh. Yuli was also very cooperative, almost instinctively wrapping her legs around Zhou He and hanging on him like a koala. The two were so close that Zhou He could even feel the pressure on his chest.

Keeping this posture, Zhou He moved very slowly back to the command center, then put Yuli down, wiped the sweat from his head, and smiled as he took Yuli's hand and went upstairs.

As for why you suddenly want a hug?

This is Zhou He conducting a test. As a healthy adult male, he feels that there is a high probability that he will be able to exercise with Yudachi in his arms without the help of external objects in the future. Making sure that he can carry Yudachi and walk with him can give him peace of mind.

Many of the other people who saw this process showed subtle expressions.

……

The next day, Zhou He also woke up early. The first thing he did when he regained consciousness was to expand the system interface, open the daily task bar, and look at the tasks that could be redeemed for home coins.

As long as he claims the reward now, he can immediately buy the pledge ring he has been longing for these days from the Home Mall.

But today is the day for going out to fight, and it is hard to say whether other new ship girls will drop today. The most cost-effective time to collect them is when everyone comes back from the battle.

"..."

When Zhou He woke up early in the morning, he faced a difficult decision, but his attention was soon diverted by Yuli who was twisting and turning in his arms. The hot body and the smell of milk really made him unable to calm down. Also, he didn't know what Yuli was doing. She put her hands on him and touched him all over. His brain was not clear enough to control his body in the morning, and his little brother was already erected by her touch.

This forced him to reach into the quilt and catch the two small hands of Yuuri. Then he narrowed his eyes at Yuuri, who was looking up with an innocent face, and asked, "What are you looking for?"

The caught Yudachi stuck out his tongue mischievously: "Nagashima told me that the commander would like to be touched like this."

"And there's this."

To be honest, Zhou He really likes it. Yuudachi is seeking masters everywhere, but it's a pity that all the masters he learns are half-baked. For example, Jeanbal is a little innocent, and Nagashima only knows the basics. Although they haven't grasped the essence, it's still quite interesting.

"Hey~ Commander, it seems like something hit me. It happened a few times before. Did the Commander hide it on his body?"

Xili smiled foolishly, twisted her body to break free from Zhou He's hand, and clearly felt a hot stick against her thigh - she had wanted to ask for a long time, but never found the opportunity, and later she simply forgot to ask.

"…You'll know later. Now we should get up."

This innocent little puppy almost made Zhou He lose control of himself. He ignored the question from the side, lowered his head and buried it in Yuli's hair to sniff it, then contentedly let go of her hands. He pressed the quilt with one hand to separate the two of them in the middle, and before Yuli could stick her head out, he sat up and left the warm bed.

"Ah~"

After Xili poked her head out, she found that Zhou He had left the bedroom. She made a regretful sound, but she soon came up with an idea: Zhou He's penis would be erect not only in the morning, in fact, it would be erect at night when he was asleep. She thought that she would try touching him next time when he was asleep.

Zhou He walked into the bathroom and washed his face with cold water. Looking at his slightly embarrassed self in the mirror, he stretched out his hand and tapped the mirror: "Don't worry, it will be done soon."

After convincing himself again, Zhou He returned to the bedroom after washing up. Yuli had already gotten up and changed his clothes. He jumped off the bed nimbly, clapped his hands, and went into the bathroom, while Zhou He was getting dressed.

It took some time for the two of them to get up. Zhou He pushed the door open and walked a few steps, then he saw an office with the door open and the lights on. He frowned and walked over in surprise, then saw the beautiful back with long blue hair falling to her knees.

So early?

Zhou He was amazed at how hard-working his own ship girl was. Fortunately, New Jersey did not go to his bedroom, otherwise he would have seen him and Yuudachi twisting their bodies on the bed after opening the door.

cough…

Putting aside the strange thoughts, Zhou He reached out and knocked on the door: "New Jersey, good morning."

"Well, good morning, Commander."

New Jersey in the office turned around. Today, she obediently did not wear the one-piece black stockings and windbreaker. Instead, she wore a beige turtleneck sweater and straight blue jeans. She even changed her high heels into sneakers. She was a little shorter than yesterday, but looked more beautiful. She even exuded a heart-warming youthful aura while talking and laughing. She was holding the Hong Kong calendar written by Zhou He himself, just like the beautiful senior sister often seen in comics and novels.

Compared to yesterday, New Jersey has changed so much that Zhou He felt an indescribable visual impact. After a while, he turned his head and pinched his brows: "Our port area has only been established for a short time. There are not many events worth recording, and they are not very detailed. It may look a little strange."

Although he was a little dizzy, what he said was correct. Although he asked each member about the specific battle situation after each battle, the things he pieced together were too complicated and unclear. In this case, he would write according to the overall development of the battle. For example, for the Omen incident, he wrote 'he was tricked by the Sirens into entering the Mirror Sea, encountered the Siren corpse, the common enemy of the Sirens and the Council, and was forced to cooperate with the Siren Purifiers to annihilate the Omen entity. Later, he eliminated the Siren testers and closed the Mirror Sea'.

It would be too much to ask him to split an event into N chapters like the memoir of the game. This concise style suits him better.

"That's not the case. The commander's records are easy to understand. However, the Sirens and Omen entities recorded here are our current enemies. But is this 'Council' an enemy or a friend? The name seems to be a management organization formed by the top leaders."

New Jersey was not complimenting Zhou He, but was speaking the truth. She believed that anyone with normal intelligence could understand the past of the port and the situation between the enemy and us after reading this diary.

She approached Zhou He and pressed her finger on the three words "Council" and raised her own questions. This name was obviously the name of an organization that humans would use. The Sirens were enemies, and the ominous entities were enemies. According to common sense, the Council should be half a friendly force at the very least, right?

"I haven't encountered this organization yet, but according to unreliable intelligence, the Council is the remaining human organization in this world, and it is also fighting against the Sirens and the Omen Entities."

Zhou He reached out to take the diary and closed it, then turned the pages at the back while speaking. On it were recorded many reliable and unreliable intelligence annotations he had summarized, including such experiences as 'If you want to destroy the Sirens, you need to find the hosts where the main combat forces of each Sirens are hiding in different independent spaces and destroy them' and 'The ominous entities can be directly attacked and destroyed'.

These annotations are more detailed than the descriptions of events on the front page. New Jersey took the diary again and read it in surprise. He never thought that Zhou He started writing on the back page before finishing the front page. His behavior is not as honest and simple as it seems.

"Just put it back after you're done. We'll go downstairs first. The temporary combat meeting will be held in the living room downstairs."

Seeing this, Zhou He smiled and reminded him, then turned around and left with Xili.

It sounds a bit strange, but among the thirty-six ship girls in the port area, no more than ten have been to this office, and he doesn't work here at all. This place is more appropriately called a document storage room.

"?"

New Jersey obviously didn't expect this to unfold. She thought she was in a meeting in the office. After reading and understanding the contents of the record, she put the diary back on the bookshelf, turned off the lights and closed the door.

……

"For today's operations, I will only emphasize a few key points."

After breakfast, the sun rose. Zhou He said to the participants and observers: "First, this is to test the Siren's true colors. Don't try to cause the greatest damage to the enemy. Second, don't go close to the Siren base to avoid being attacked by unknown weapons. Third, this is also a joint operation. I won't be on the spot. You'd better discuss the specific action plan before the war, at least it should look like a joint operation."

After saying the third point, Zhou He clapped his hands to get everyone to focus, and then said seriously: "In this operation, I will let Bismarck and New Jersey act as my eyes to observe and record your combat process. I hope you can act seriously."

The third point is that he does feel there is a problem with the cooperation, and is also looking for reasons to pave the way for the "camp show war" - if the cooperation is not good, it is definitely unrealistic to let the people of the Sakura Empire and the White Eagle camp live together, but if it is a battle exercise, he believes that people on both sides will put in their best efforts.

The same goes for Royal and Iron Blood.

However, he still had to think about how to promote it, and he had to be clever in the process, otherwise it would be easy to create a situation of confrontation between the camps. Zhou He secretly sighed that he was still too immature, and he always considered things too idealistically. If he let the camps confront and check each other, his management would be simpler.

It’s a pity that he wanted a port area where all factions could coexist harmoniously.

After the three points were made, no one objected, and Zhou He began to name the flagships: Shokaku for Sakura Empire was the flagship, with Jintou and Tosa as assistants, Yorktown for Sakura Empire, New Jersey as auxiliary, Bismarck as the Iron Blood flagship, Hutten helping, Hood of the Royal Family was the flagship, London was the adjutant, Jean Bart followed the White Eagle, and Kursk was responsible for the subjective jungle.

During wartime, command is still carried out through mutual discussion, and whoever has the best plan will take command.

During the roll call, Zhou He already felt that his port area was full of talents, and there were many people suitable for leading troops. The disadvantage was that the number of mid-level combat forces was scarce. As long as the number of ship girls was increased, the combat power of his fleet would be extremely strong!

"Xuefeng, you just need to stay by the side and hold the fort. Don't leave the battlefield easily. Follow my command."

Finally, Zhou He pointed out Xuefeng who was stretching her neck curiously why she hadn't been mentioned yet. The latter snorted and laughed, thinking that she was now Zhou He's direct personal soldier and didn't have to obey orders from others. She was freer than Yudachi!

Soon, the meeting was over, and the members present began to gather together to communicate and prepare. Kaga BB once again mentioned his predecessor's noble status regarding the flagship, but it was useless. People who had worked with Zhou He would not pay too much attention to seniority, because Zhou He's status was high enough, but his attitude was very peaceful, and everyone treated each other as friends.

The fact that Kaga BB is respectfully addressed as 'senior' means he is polite enough among the people in the Sakura Empire. People like Zuikaku are too lazy to even add the suffix 'senior' to the title. These are all trivial matters and not the point.

The ship girls of Zhou He's family were all accustomed to going out to fight. As they left the command building and headed for the coast, they gathered into small teams, deployed their ship equipment in order, and stood on the sea.

"Commander, don't you have anything to say?"

The slow-moving U96 had long ago followed U556 into the sea to lurk, and after New Jersey deployed its ship equipment, it immediately looked at Zhou He who was seeing them off with a smile. Zhou He, who was named, also skillfully sent out his blessings: "I will prepare a dinner for you at home. I hope you can have a successful start and come back early for the party!"

"Commander, will you prepare a large dinner every time we go on an expedition?"

London was about to follow the team, but turned back on the spot after hearing what he said. Zhou He nodded honestly: "These are all the things I can do for you."

"Really? I see."

London has figured out why its people are holding a banquet on an aircraft carrier.

"The party, I'm really looking forward to it."

New Jersey folded her arms and nodded. She really enjoyed participating in such lively activities.

"Hey, I want to be the first one to get home today!"

Yudachi responded with a smile. Xuefeng glanced at Yudachi and didn't want to do anything childish like competing with others for the first place.

Chapter 171 The most cuckolded episode

It has become the norm to see his own ship girl off. After everyone left, Zhou He went home, took off his military uniform very skillfully and changed into casual clothes. He went downstairs to the kitchen to take out the fish guards stored in the system warehouse and selected some sea fish with better quality for processing.

The system warehouse can store goods exchanged from the home store. If it is a storage-type product, you can even put the internal storage things into the system warehouse together, and even help keep it alive, just like the sea fish Zhou He took out were still alive and kicking. Fortunately, Zhou He has killed fish several times and has experience. After a lot of chaos, he put the processed parts into the refrigerator for storage, and then packed up some parts that seemed inedible and gave them to the red fox next door that exuded "body fragrance" and was gradually becoming round under the feeding of everyone.

"We can actually observe the changing seasons by taming a wild animal. Nature is truly amazing."

The red fox was eating, and the fishy smell was too strong, forcing Zhou He to open the window next to him for ventilation and hurriedly leave the pet room. Finally, he sat on the steps at the entrance of the command office, looking at the beautiful and peaceful sea and sky in the distance.

"Is it almost time?"

After being in a daze for a while, Zhou He turned his attention to the system and opened the attack interface.

……

The Siren base is in the west, and the entrance to the bay is in the south. The members who went out were divided into two teams. The Sakura Empire and the White Eagles were gradually approaching within a hundred miles of the Siren base, while the Iron Blood and Royal teams took some detours and were still far away from the Siren base.

However, the first to go into battle with the Sirens were the Iron Blood Royal Team, which was heading north. They were blocked by the Siren fleet heading south from the north.

Unlike the usual battles where they always had the upper hand, this time the Siren fleet reacted incredibly quickly. When the fleet launched by the Ark Royal and Elbe entered the detection range of a Siren fleet on the way, this fleet actually chose to retreat at the first opportunity. Correspondingly, the scattered Siren fleets within a hundred miles around began to move towards this side rapidly. The Siren aircraft carriers distributed in three different directions released interceptor fleets at the same time, and arrived at the battlefield when the Ark Royal was carrying out a dive bombing.

"What quick reinforcements!"

The expression of the Royal Ark, who was controlling the carrier-based aircraft, changed from relaxed to serious. He decisively gave up the control of part of the carrier-based aircraft, began to load fighter jets on the ship, took off, and reported the situation to Hood.

"It seems that the Siren cadres have been waiting for us for a long time."

Hood and Bismarck were moving side by side dozens of meters apart. After sharing the intelligence, both of them frowned slightly, but they were not too troubled. After a quick exchange of opinions, the fleet continued to move forward, but Elbe released a reconnaissance plane and began to fly towards its own port area.

However, not long after their rescue plane was launched, Zhou He's order was given to Bismarck: the two aircraft carriers 01 and 02 had locked onto the enemy's aircraft carrier and released reinforcement aircraft, which would arrive in a few minutes.

"The commander has learned the enemy's intelligence. The Siren has only just discovered our whereabouts and is unaware of our personnel deployment. They have not yet launched an attack lock. We need to gather our forces. We only need to repel the first round of enemy aircraft and wait for the commander's reinforcements to arrive, so that we can seize air superiority."

Bismarck quickly informed everyone in the team of the order, his tone was calm and powerful, and his words exuded a reassuring magic.

Hood's announcement followed closely. Under the command of the two, the fleets that were preparing to fight on their own began to gather together and formed a circular defensive formation. A few minutes later, a large steel bird appeared in the sky, blocking the sun, and nearly thirty Siren bombers dived towards the fleet and dropped bombs.

This was a rare time that Zhou He's fleet was attacked by a group of Sirens. Bismarck's training plan was confirmed, but unfortunately the training had not yet been regularized. Facing the Sirens' air strikes, the air defense capabilities of more than a dozen ship girls were very limited. The bullets of anti-aircraft guns were not dense enough to shoot down a large number of carrier-based aircraft. Even if the newly released fighter jets from the Royal Ark came to intercept, most of the team members were covered by explosives falling from high altitude. The roar of the explosion and the splashes of water in the sky were everywhere, and the anti-aircraft firepower was weakened by 50%.

"Pfft, Progress, Hermione, are you guys okay?"

The Javelin, which was hit in the face by a shell, rushed out of the water column shelter area, was soaked and choked by sea water. Fortunately, the ship's equipment was not damaged and it still retained its combat effectiveness. It anxiously contacted other members of the team.

Not everyone was so lucky. For example, London and Hood were hit by the explosives. The former's right side of the ship's equipment was damaged and arcing, and the side of her right hand was covered with deep bone scars. Her glasses fell into the sea, and blood covered half of her face. At this time, she covered the left side of her face with one hand, and moved swayingly on the sea, looking very embarrassed.

Hood was slightly better. She was hit, but her armor was strong enough so she was just pushed far away by the explosion and was not seriously injured.

The Iron Blood team was in better condition, with only minor scratches. They reacted quickly and reported the location to continue the air defense confrontation.

Royal Ark and Elbe were not in the team, but were about ten nautical miles behind, avoiding the air raid. However, the two were also extremely anxious at this time. They could only call to confirm whether there were any casualties in their own team, and at the same time control the carrier-based aircraft as much as possible.