Daily life with the ship girl

Saratoga secretly stuck out her tongue. Her sister looked pretty when she was angry. Well, I must become as strong as her! She thought and answered:

"I understand, sister. Leave it to me!"

……

Just when the First Fleet of Xiguang Island encountered the Deep Sea Fleet ahead of schedule due to the gloomy weather, Li Ran and Sigsby arrived at the port area. Pinghai was sending the last batch of fairies staying in the port area back to the secret cave near the Deep Water Harbor. When she saw Li Ran and Sigsby as soon as she landed, she said with some concern:

"Admiral, the port is too dangerous. You should go to the garrison first."

"I'm not afraid. Don't you have me to protect me?" Li Ran looked at Ping Hai's worried face. He felt warm in his heart, but his tone was full of determination:

"Besides, it's just the deep sea..."

"call out!"

Just as Li Ran was about to boast, a shell hit the surface of the deepwater port area, stirring up a large water column. Ping Hai was startled. She immediately walked to Li Ran and used the power of the ship girl to pull him to the island. She said to Sigsby:

"Can we sink those deep-sea destroyers with torpedoes?"

"No problem, Sister Pinghai, I'll leave the command to you." Sigsby was also very angry. The deep-sea destroyer dared to invade the port dock and even bombarded her admiral. This scared the little girl, but as a ship girl, after the fright, she was furious. As one of the four Fletcher sisters, her torpedo ability was still very strong.

Sigsby unfolded his ship suit, stepped onto the surface of the deep-water port area, and then headed straight for the deep-sea destroyers at a rapid speed.

After Li Ran was dragged to a safe area by Pinghai, he was repeatedly told to stay where he was. Pinghai then turned around to support Sigsby.

Li Ran took out his telescope and saw the appearance of these deep-sea destroyers for the first time:

The appearance of the deep-sea destroyer girl is like a black shark. That should be the opponent's ship outfit, but there is a white-haired girl in the mouth of the black shark. There are many octopus-like tentacles on both sides of the girl. There is also a black gun barrel in the mouth of the white-haired girl, flashing fire from time to time.

He also noticed that there were some black torpedoes hanging on both sides of the deep-sea destroyer's body, but each deep-sea destroyer only carried two torpedoes.

Holding a telescope, he nervously watched Sigsby perform difficult evasive maneuvers in the firepower net of six deep-sea destroyers. This should be the result of the training in the past half month.

However, Li Ran still felt worried for the little guy. At this moment, he finally saw Sigsby finally fight back.

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Chapter 52: Determination [First update, please subscribe~]

Li Ran's eyes followed Sigsby's figure. He saw that all the torpedo devices hanging on the little guy's side were opened. Although Sigsby did not seem to be equipped with torpedoes in the game, it was obviously reality here. As a destroyer girl, she automatically mounted torpedoes by default.

This was not the first time that Sigsby faced the deep sea. Over the past half month, she and Bismarck had been out to sea and had encountered several small-scale deep-sea fleets. They were all deep-sea destroyers, so she was already very skilled in dealing with them.

After Sigsby deployed the torpedo device, several torpedoes formed an arc and covered the sea surface in front of her. Then the torpedoes began to accelerate, creating white waves and rushing towards the deep-sea destroyer fleet.

Li Ran subconsciously looked at Sigsby's personal information:

Ship type: Destroyer

Name: Sigsby

Level: 6

Ship equipment: [U-country single 5-inch gun] [Quadruple 533mm torpedo (this is not available in the game, but is arranged for the convenience of writing)]

Speed: 37 knots

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Li Ran then discovered that Sigsby's training level had reached level 6. It seemed that these little destroyers had worked very hard in the past half month. Moreover, Li Ran discovered for the first time that Sigsby's speed was so terrifying. No wonder the seemingly fierce artillery fire of those deep-sea destroyers could not even touch the corner of her clothes.

"Hey, all of you bad guys who attacked the admiral, sink them all!"

"Boom!"

Almost all of Sigsby's torpedoes hit the target, and four deep-sea destroyers were directly sunk. Pinghai, who was rushing nearby, was also stunned. She was rarely in the same team with Sigsby. This was the first day she saw the strength of this cute little guy, who was unexpectedly strong.

However, Pinghai would not just sit there in a daze. She knew that Sigsby could not fire immediately after launching the torpedo, so now was her vulnerable period. So she adjusted her ship's equipment, aimed at the only two remaining deep-sea destroyers, and opened fire.

Li Ran turned his gaze to Ping Hai. He was also somewhat curious about Ping Hai's attributes. After a glance, he realized that Ping Hai was the one who worked the hardest:

Ship type: Light cruiser

Name: Ping Hai

Level: 15

Ship equipment: [C country twin 140 mm guns]

Speed: 21.3 knots

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Obviously, Pinghai's attributes are very average, or even very poor. There is no way. The era when Pinghai sank was the era when the motherland was bullied. However, her hard work made her training level surpass most people in the port area in one fell swoop. This also made her exert considerable output with only this extremely backward ship-mounted main gun.

"boom!"

The main turrets on both sides of Pinghai's body completed the calibration, aiming, and firing. The whole set of actions was clean and neat. Two 140mm shells hit the only two remaining deep-sea destroyers, directly sinking the two deep-sea destroyers. The deep-sea destroyers caught fire and slowly disappeared from Li Ran's sight.

Li Ran was deeply moved after reading it. He felt sorry for his own ship girl. In the past half month, apart from the construction and the previous large-scale construction, he had forgotten how to use the second type of construction function of the construction device. He murmured to himself:

It's time to change their ship uniforms. I have been so remiss.

Sigsby and Pinghai joined forces and wiped out six fully staffed deep-sea destroyer squadrons in one fell swoop. After the two reunited, they seemed to know that Li Ran was observing with a telescope. They smiled in the direction of their own admiral and made a victory gesture.

Li Ran watched and silently put down the telescope in his hand. He slowly walked out of the woods, but heard the roar of carrier-based aircraft. He looked up at the sky and found that several deep-sea black carrier-based aircraft passed over his head and rushed directly to Pinghai and Sigsby who were returning. His face turned pale and he quickly shouted to the exclusive channel:

"Sigsby, Pinghai, the deep-sea carrier-based aircraft is heading in your direction!"

Pinghai was a light cruiser girl. Although she was not equipped with radar, she still had some air defense capabilities. When she heard Li Ran's words, she immediately looked up at the gloomy sky. At this moment, heavy rain poured down.

Li Ran picked up the telescope and found that the rain was too unfortunate and his vision was completely blocked. He punched the tree trunk and roared in a low voice:

"Damn it, the damn rain didn't come earlier or later, but at this time!"

Pinghai heard that the communication on the exclusive channel was blocked by the rain. She felt a little anxious, but she learned in advance that deep-sea carrier-based aircraft were coming. She immediately said to Sigsby:

"Start now, move at high speed. The attack accuracy of deep-sea carrier-based aircraft will be greatly reduced in this weather. You should be able to dodge it with the advantage of high speed."

When Sigsby heard this, she thought of Pinghai's extremely slow speed, and her face suddenly changed. She said anxiously:

"Sister Pinghai, what are you going to do?"

"Don't worry, I'm a light cruiser. I have air defense capabilities. You should avoid them and I will contain the enemy."

"But……"

"Time is running out. Instead of letting these deep-sea carrier-based aircraft bomb the docks indiscriminately because they can't find the enemy, I'd rather draw their firepower over and minimize the damage to the port area!"

Sigsby looked at Pinghai and gritted her teeth:

"I understand. Sister Pinghai, be careful!"

"I know. You should be careful to evade. The admiral's safety depends on you for the time being. Don't slack off." Pinghai was still full of energy, but her tone was serious at the moment. Although such weather reduced the attack accuracy of deep-sea carrier-based aircraft, it also affected her own vision. As a ship girl who was not yet equipped with radar equipment, Pinghai could only rely on the combat instinct she had developed in these days to evade air defense.

Sigsby's figure disappeared in the rain. Pinghai watched the rain getting heavier and heavier. A trace of melancholy flashed across her face, and she thought to herself:

Admiral, Pinghai's naval dream has been realized here. At this moment, let Pinghai become the first line of defense to guard the port area. Even if it sinks, Pinghai will never retreat!

As if sensing the breath of Pinghai, the deep-sea carrier-based aircraft finally emerged from the clouds and rain and began dive bombing.

Pinghai's eyes were calm as she watched six deep-sea delta-wing fighters tearing through the rain curtain and their bodies began to move.

Under the control of an invisible deep-sea regular aircraft carrier, deep-sea carrier-based aircraft began to tilt their anti-sea machine guns, and "da da da..." bullets occasionally blasted onto the sea surface near Pinghai.

For the first time, Pinghai felt so useless and she gritted her teeth.

I have tried so hard, but why can I only achieve this level? I am so unwilling to accept this, Admiral, Pinghai is so unwilling to accept this!

Li Ran felt a piercing pain in his heart, the kind of heartache that made him want to cry, rising from his heart again. He had experienced this once when he had just traveled through time. Now this feeling rose from the bottom of his heart. He felt uneasy, so he rushed out of the woods and ran towards the port dock.

"Don't let anything happen!"

……

At the same time, Pinghai's movement space was restricted by the crossfire network of six deep-sea delta-wing fighters. The deep-sea delta-wing carrier-based aircraft seemed to know the shortcoming of Pinghai, the light cruiser, with her low speed, and compressed her movement space step by step, and then finally began to show their sharp fangs.

The anti-sea bombs hanging on the bottom of the deep-sea delta-wing carrier-based aircraft finally began to fall towards Pinghai's direction.

Pinghai looked at the six depth charges whistling sharply, a sound that even drowned out the sound of the heavy rain. However, there was no trace of fear in her eyes, but a smile instead. She adjusted the ship's main guns, and then fired at two of the bombs without hesitation, successfully detonating them.

The other four bombs continued to fall towards Pinghai's direction.

Just when Pinghai thought he was going to fall into the deep sea today, the roar of anti-aircraft machine guns tore through the rain curtain and then blew up the four bombs in mid-air.

The blast caused Pinghai's figure to sway. She looked at the direction of the firing, which was the northwest coast of the island. Then, a blue carrier-based aircraft [BTD-1 Destroyer] belonging to the Lexington sisters flew over Pinghai's head and tore into pieces several deep-sea delta-wing carrier-based aircraft that were about to return.

The sound of explosion in the clouds brought Pinghai back to her senses. She looked at the figure appearing in the rain and smiled with relief.

Helena saw Pinghai had been hit in many places by anti-sea machine guns, but this small figure was alone, facing six deep-sea delta-wing fighters without retreating. She looked in the direction behind Pinghai, where there was a port area and dock shrouded in rain, and she couldn't help but be moved.

"Sister Pinghai, are you okay?" As Li Ran's initial ship, Firefly has a deep affection for Pinghai. Looking at this young lady in a red cheongsam whose ship equipment was seriously damaged but still looked full of energy, she rushed out and came to Pinghai.

Ping Hai breathed a sigh of relief, but then she realized that she had been hit several times by anti-aircraft machine guns. Now her body began to hurt severely. She felt a little distressed about her ship equipment. She smiled weakly and said to Firefly:

"It's okay, thanks to everyone's timely support."

Lexington and others also rushed to Pinghai and guarded her. Then Helena came to Pinghai. She checked the ship equipment of this C country ship girl and said in a serious tone:

"It's broken, we need to return to the port area and enter the channel immediately."

"No, the deep sea attack is fierce now, I won't go back!" Pinghai gritted his teeth, shook off Helena's hand, his eyes full of stubbornness.

"Pinghai, are you all right?" Li Ran's voice sounded in the exclusive channel at this time, and he said anxiously:

"Sigsby is with me. I'm near the dock now. The rain is too heavy. Pinghai, I order you to return to the port immediately. Right now!"

"But..." Pinghai wanted to refute.

Li Ran's tone was full of unquestionable:

"There aren't that many buts. Return to the port immediately. The port area can be rebuilt if it is destroyed, but I only have you, and I don't want to lose any of you!"

As soon as these words came out, a fire ignited in the hearts of all the ship girls, and Lexington suddenly said:

"Commander, the flagship of the First Fleet of Xiguang Island reports to you. We will defend the port to the death and will never retreat!"

"We will never retreat until we die!" The ship girls in the exclusive channel responded in unison.

When Li Ran heard all the ship girls say this, he felt angry and deeply moved. He shouted:

"What bullshit are you talking about? Come back alive. If you can't win, just run away!"

"Then Admiral, I..." Pinghai still thought he could continue fighting.

"What do you mean by 'you'? Listen up, everyone, except Pinghai, return to the port immediately. I order you to retreat from the port dock immediately after two hours, regardless of whether you win or lose. Take advantage of the rain. If you can hold the dock, then defend it. If you can't, then run. That's it, execute it immediately!"

Li Ran hung up the call angrily and looked at Sigsby, who was looking down with a look of wanting to say something but stopping himself.

"You, don't even think about going to the battle. You will be responsible for picking up Pinghai later. I will go to the construction site first. Once you have settled Pinghai, come find me immediately. I have something very important to entrust to you. Do you understand?"

"I see." Sigsby nodded hurriedly.

Li Ran sighed, wiped the rain off his cheeks, and glanced at the deep-water port area in the rain. He withdrew his worried gaze, turned around, and ran towards the construction facility.

Sigsby watched her commander disappear into the rain. A look of determination flashed in her eyes, and she vowed secretly:

Commander, Sigsby will defend you and the port to the death!

Chapter 53: Change your clothes, Pinghai! [Second update, please subscribe~]

Li Ran ran to the construction device in the heavy rain and muddy water and immediately said to the construction device's artificial intelligence:

"I want to do a second type of construction, right now!"

"You have two construction opportunities this week. Please select four resource ratios."

"The construction ratios for both times were 110 for fuel, 130 for bullets, 210 for steel, and 150 for aluminum."

"Are you sure? I'll contribute a new ship equipment construction formula and reward you with a 2-hour accelerated construction time."

"Confirmed." Li Ran said, pulled the lever, and then the two construction times began to tick.

The first construction time stopped at 1 hour and 33 minutes, and the second one stopped at 13 minutes and 20 seconds.