Revisiting Azur Lane

Closing his eyes and rubbing his temples, Zhou He integrated the intelligence he had learned and informed Bismarck and Hood of the remaining chess pieces' battle directions, distances, personnel and ship configurations, so that they could discuss the route and timing of the attack based on this.

These were all he could do when his own ship girls went out to fight. In theory, this information was very useful, but it was so easy for him to obtain that "all you had to do was have an eye". It was so simple that he doubted whether he was really helping.

……

"…This is how the next battle will be. Do you understand?"

Unlike Zhou He who doubted himself, Bismarck released Admiral Hipper as soon as he received the notice and asked her to report to Tirpitz. At the same time, he briefly discussed the follow-up combat plan with Hood and notified others.

“Very easy to understand!”

The communication was made through the team channel, and the one who answered was Yudachi. After receiving the torpedo supply, she was wandering in the battlefield burning with blazing flames looking for warships that had not yet been "sunk in battle". Such a large-scale battle made her so excited that she wanted to spin and jump on the sea.

"In short, we need to wait for Tirpitz to launch a final battle against the Royal Fleet, throw all the unstable factors into the battlefield, and then we will take the opportunity to destroy them all, right?"

Zuikaku was yawning at the back. Bismarck looked like a very capable leader, but his words were so plain that everyone could understand them. Compared with this battle plan that would benefit others, she contacted Hood privately with a slight glance, and whispered to him that she had just sunk the Glory.

"Our original goal was to annihilate them, so how could I be angry?"

Hood chuckled, she did feel sorry for the Glorious Three's sinking, but these pawns were ultimately their enemies, and even the cooperation with Admiral Hipper was only to clear the testing ground faster and easier.

She couldn't fully trust these chess pieces whose backgrounds she didn't know.

"They actually dared to draw their swords against me. Even if they are highly awakened chess pieces, they have only upgraded from Siren chess pieces to faction traitors. They should feel honored to have me personally participate in suppressing them."

Hood's light words made Zuikaku behind him shrink his neck and dare not say anything more.

The others also had no objection. After making sure that there were no survivors on the battlefield, the group began to head north, conserving their strength and waiting for the opportunity to join the battlefield.

On the other side, Admiral Hipper, who had separated from Bismarck, was explaining things to people far away on other battlefields with a serious and helpless look on his face.

"Bismarck? Are you confused by the white chess pieces? She is gone. For that illusory and fantastic possibility... she has abandoned us in this world full of despair!"

The speaker's low voice concealed a terrible and crazy emotion, as if he was telling the reality or recalling the past.

Count Zeppelin, who had been highly awakened by following Tirpitz and listening to her muttering and thinking every day and had regained his memory, would rather believe that Hipper was beaten stupid by the enemy than believe that Bismarck could come back.

"I'm telling the truth! Z23 and U556 were also with her, and those two idiots Scharnhorst were punished on the spot for firing at her!"

Hipper was very upset. She didn't know why there were so many weirdos around her. Some of them only knew how to fight and didn't listen to others, while others were so immersed in their own world that they didn't listen to others.

"Zeppelin, see with your own eyes whether what Hipper said is true."

A hoarse voice interrupted the conversation between the two. Count Zeppelin responded coldly and said nothing more. Not long after, several reconnaissance planes flew from a distance, passing over the sky above Admiral Hipper, with a small tail from the Royal Navy following behind. Admiral Hipper was very angry and quickly mobilized the ships that were "full of strength because of the meeting with Bismarck" to carry out air defense.

Of course, the anti-aircraft firepower of a ship was completely useless and even brought disaster. It was forced to move on the water by bombs dropped by airplanes, and it kept muttering to itself during the whole process. It was obviously not the first time it was cheated.

However, the Royal Pawn's pursuit aircraft was soon swallowed up by a larger group of aircraft, including Count Zeppelin's reconnaissance aircraft.

"see it?"

It is a very bad experience to have a group of carrier-based aircraft fighting overhead, Hipper's tone was full of resentment.

"It's actually the real deal, hahaha, that girl——! She actually brought back the Royal Hood and the people from the Sakura Empire. Did her unrealistic ideal really come true? What an unexpected development!"

Regardless of Zeppelin's crazy talk, Hipper took advantage of the opportunity to reiterate Bismarck's suggestions to Tirpitz.

“…Hilpe, call Deutsch and the others back. If any of the White pieces regain their memories, they should know what to do.”

The hoarse voice paused for a moment and then gave the answer, but it was the last sentence that made Hipper wonder, Bismarck said so, Tirpitz said so too, are the worlds seen by these smart guys so different from hers?

……

Under Hipper's persuasion, the Iron Blood side, as the black chess piece, began to mobilize personnel. Several ship girls withdrew from the front battlefield, and the remaining people, together with the last fleet, forcibly merged together to launch an attack on the Royal main force of the white chess piece. After realizing this situation, several figures on the Royal side also left the front line, waiting for subsequent developments.

This dim testing ground welcomed the final battle in the true sense, as dozens or even hundreds of huge warships collided with each other. Without fear of damage, the flames of war spread from the sky to underwater. The black smoke from the damaged areas made the originally dim world even more mysterious. The burning ships dispelled the gloomy tones and brought color back to the surrounding world.

Some people were laughing wildly on the battlefield, some were silent in the rear, and the person who ultimately decided the outcome of the battle was standing outside the coverage of the battlefield.

"This is such an exciting stage. I almost want to thank Siren."

Zuikaku released a carrier-based aircraft and saw a corner of the war. His hands unconsciously clenched into fists, and his eyes were wide open with starlight shining.

"How many people have left the battlefield?"

Dozens of nautical miles away, Bismarck stood looking at the sky lit up by the flames of war, and others were also waiting for their opportunity.

"Let me see. There are 1.2, , and five Iron Bloods. There seem to be three Royals. Are they the only ones?"

Zuikaku used the plane to turn and found the number of people who had left the battlefield. He was a little surprised. There were so many chess pieces here, but only eight of them were highly awakened. He didn't know how many would be left in the end. There was nothing else. Could it be that the Siren was raising Gu?

"..."

This number actually exceeded Bismarck's expectations. She thought it would be good to have five in total.

“Can we use these people?”

Hood on the side glanced sideways. The memories of these chess pieces were different from theirs. Putting them together would definitely cause conflicts between the camps.

"Take it back and you'll know. The commander will find a way to deal with it."

Tosa looked into the distance, his hand naturally falling on the hilt of his saber, his eyes gleaming with coldness: "Let's deal with the guys who are still moving first."

"Yeah, that's about it."

Cleveland curled the ends of his hair with his fingers and smiled. "If we wait any longer, the damage on both sides will be very serious. Zuikaku said that no new companions will be dropped from ships that we did not sink. The commander also wants to use this battle to add new companions."

"…Can we contact the commander?"

Bismarck was not in a hurry, but asked other people. Seeing that no one spoke, Hermione could only take a step forward and create smoke on the sea, running in the shape of an SOS, successfully attracting the attention of Zhou He in the control room.

Zhou He in the control room outside was watching this battle of a hundred ships. Such an epic scene was something he had never seen in his previous life, but he instantly captured the SOS from his own ship girl and showed it to Hermione on the spot.

"Is it time to join the battlefield?"

Hearing Hermione's question, Zhou He raised his eyes and looked at the two fleets that were as close as boxers fighting each other. He thought: "The distance between the two fleets is very close. Most ships cannot turn around in a short time. But we must pay attention to the main battleships in the rear. They have enough time and space to turn and counterattack."

"understood."

Hermione thought for a moment and then relayed the words to Hood and others. Soon they came up with the answer: divide the existing members into two teams, one led by Bismarck to approach the Iron Blood rear camp, and the other led by Hood to approach the Royal rear camp. If they can get close, they will blow up the rear battleships of both sides.

If that doesn't work, then just merge and start from close.

After deciding on the tactics, the team split into two. Bismarck took away Z23 and Tosa, and the remaining Hermione, Cleveland, and Yudachi followed Hood, with Zuikaku providing tactical cover.

……

It seems a fantasy for eight people to destroy a hundred ships.

However, their split-up infiltration plan was a great success. It was not known whether these sirens and pawns identified them as friendly forces or were too distracted to conduct reconnaissance, but both Hood and Bismarck arrived at an excellent attack position.

The sudden stab in the back caused heavy losses to the rear rows of the two fighting fleets. The aircraft carrier was bombarded and the battlecruiser was struck by lightning. The planes that were originally flying back and forth in the sky began to fall like dumplings. Almost one out of every ten planes accurately hit the warships below. The flames on the battlefield suddenly became brighter and more chaotic.

The two-way artillery battle turned into a three-way melee, and the third party also mixed into the camp of the first two parties. Although there were not many people, the chaos caused was enormous. Even the Sirens understood the principle of not accidentally hurting friendly forces, so it was difficult to deal with flexible players like Yuudachi and Z23. The ship girls who mixed in wanted to deal with it, but they couldn't catch the trajectory because the ships blocked their sight. As a result, the battlefield was in chaos and the casualties on both sides were higher than before.

"..."

While his own ship girl was having fun fighting on the battlefield, Zhou He, who was watching the battle, had his hair standing on end. He even dared not to watch the battle, and focused his attention on the dock. As long as he saw that his own ship girl had the slightest scratch, he would repair it directly.

"Come to think of it, I should be able to command the shipgirls who join temporarily."

His eyes fell on the extra Hipper icon, and he chose to give an order: help Bismarck end the battle.

"!!!"

Hipper, who was quarreling with Zeppelin and several Germans on the battlefield, suddenly stopped bickering as if struck by lightning and looked around.

"What's wrong? You suddenly become a small fry. Is that annoying look you usually have just been putting on?"

Germany casually asked Hipper to take care of him, but the latter ignored him and asked them in doubt: "Did you receive anything? Someone just ordered me to assist Bismarck."

"Huh? Could it be that Bismarck is the one behind the scenes supporting him?"

This topic was very popular. Even Z46 looked over. It was impossible for Bismarck to appear here for no reason. Someone must have brought her here.

"Interesting, I'd like to see who's supporting Bismarck."

Count Zeppelin was about to release the plane after he finished speaking, but Tirpitz, who was standing next to him, stopped him with a flag: "It is enough to give orders to the 'others', and let them ignore the crazy behavior of Bismarck and others and attack the royal pawns."

"Tsk."

Count Zeppelin was very unhappy, but he did not refute Tirpitz. Instead, he conveyed the order to other pieces.

It was a strange instruction, but it did reduce the pressure on Tosa.

The battle continues.

Chapter 53: Home Friends

"This battle is so abstract."

Zhou He watched what was happening on the surveillance screen: his own ship girls mixed into the formations of the two warring parties, and the two sides just symbolically drove them away and ignored them, allowing them to destroy the mass-produced Siren warships and fight the opponent desperately.

However, it is really difficult to sink so many regular warships.

Nearly an hour had passed since the battle began, and both fleets were still so large that they stretched out for several kilometers. Even with surveillance cameras, it was impossible to detect how many ships there were.

"commander."

The sudden sound made Zhou He, who was immersed in the battle, break out in a cold sweat. He turned around and found that it was Kursk who was holding his coat and walked in from the door. He breathed a sigh of relief and waved: "Welcome back, have you found anything on the island?"

"No, the only part of the island that has been transformed is this base. There are no rare mineral resources or equipment inside. But can this be used?"

After saying this, Kursk moved closer and spread out the things wrapped in his coat in front of Zhou He. Inside were mushrooms covered with mud, fungus and other fungi, as well as wild vegetables that even Zhou He didn't recognize.

Although he didn't know him, the earthy smell that came towards him perked up Zhou He, who had been sitting for a long time. He didn't ask nonsense questions like "Will I lie down after eating?" Instead, he stood up and took the food and replied with a smile: "Of course, tonight's dinner... midnight snack will come in handy."

"That's good."

Kursk nodded slightly, folded his hands over his chest and looked up at the ongoing melee: "Is this what makes me feel uneasy? It is indeed a hidden battlefield."

"You can even sense a battlefield. That's amazing."

Zhou He stacked the clothes and food on the table next to him, and tilted his head to observe Kursk, who was wearing a black sports tights. There was no doubt that this was also a heavyweight queen. Her graceful figure and stern face combined together exuded a charm that made people want to approach her even though they knew they would be rejected.

She is an excellent ship girl who is beautiful, pleasing to the eye, capable and easy to use.

"The only thing that makes me feel uneasy is a battlefield of this level."

Being able to say such things as a matter of course is also one of his personal charms. Zhou He smiled and raised his hand to point at the eight figures separated from the battlefield: "These people are the best who have stood out in this experimental battlefield. They are similar to you but different from you. After the battle, we may have a battle with them, or it may be a normal meeting. What do you think, Kursk?"

“Take the initiative.”

Kursk's eyes changed slightly: "Is there a new task for me?"

"Yes, I'm sorry to bother you this time."

After spending so many days together, Zhou He felt that Kursk and he had a very good way of thinking. Even if he said something like a riddle, Kursk could understand it quickly. He didn't know if it was because he was too honest, so he could guess his thoughts...

In short, after chatting and resting with Kursk for a while, Zhou He opened a door near the battlefield and sent Kursk over. The roar of the explosion even reached the control room, so one can imagine how fierce the battle was.

……

This battle lasted for a full three hours and was not over yet, but it was very close to being over: almost all of the mass-produced Sirens were sunk in battle, with only a few still engaged in shelling battles, and the highlight of the battlefield shifted from large-scale battleship clashes to small-scale duels between ship girls.

On the battlefield on the sea stained with flames, the speeding figures created strong winds that made the flames move with the wind, and what was even more eye-catching was the carrier-based aircraft in the sky. With a piercing sound, shells were thrown into the battlefield, exploding to create huge waves.

"Gu, why can't you just die peacefully? If it were the two seniors from the First Carrier Fighter, they would probably say so."

The one controlling the carrier-based aircraft was Zuikaku at the back of the battlefield. At this time, there were no living aircraft carriers on the battlefield. Air supremacy was in her hands. She could even make a shoddy imitation when chasing chess pieces. She was at ease.

As for why she simulated eating and drinking with the two seniors, it was because she sank many ships this time and failed to give her beloved sister Shokaku an opportunity. If she hadn't distracted herself like this, she would probably have started to act like a loser.

"..."

"Well, this feeling is really uncomfortable."

Others who went deep into the battlefield were also engaged in a chase. Cleveland sank a chess piece with damaged power, but he himself sighed deeply.

Obviously, in this world they only need to concentrate on dealing with the Siren, the powerful enemy of the century, but because of the Siren's bad taste, they have to fight with these pawns, just like the battles in their memories.

"Hey--"

A sudden call from behind made Cleveland look back. In the place where the chess piece that had exploded into a ball of fire had been, there appeared a black-haired girl wearing a loose blue jacket. What was striking was that she was wearing a pair of headphones on her head, and on top of the headphones was a model of an airplane.

"It looks familiar."

It was the first time for Cleveland to encounter a ship falling. He turned around and circled the newly appeared girl twice. He finally confirmed that this girl was using a White Eagle plane and should be the ship girl of the White Eagle. So he stopped and smiled and spread his hands to her: "Hello, I'm Cleveland, currently on a combat mission, how about you?"

"Oh~ It's Cleveland. He's just as handsome as I imagined."