Shipgirls and Salted Fish Commander, Port Survival Guide

"This painting is really beautiful!" Jing Su exclaimed.

"Hmm? You think the design is nice even without looking in the mirror?" Hu Teng, while looking at the photo in his hand, heard Jing Su's voice. Without looking up, he felt a surge of joy and said softly, "Or are you trying to say, 'I designed the design, so it looks good no matter what!'"

"Hehe, if I remember correctly, that's a cheesy pickup line from over ten years ago. I'm not buying it."

That's what they say, but Hu Teng is still really looking forward to it. Corny pickup lines, corny pickup lines, no matter how corny they are, they are still love words, words from the person he loves.

So-called sweet words are only sweet words if you like them. No matter how corny the words are, they are still sweet words. If you like to hear them, no matter how beautiful the words are or how sophisticated the phrases are, they are still disgusting words that can make you feel nauseous.

"No~" Jing Su shook her head, "I wasn't talking about the painting you drew~"

"Huh!?" Hu Teng was a little confused. If it wasn't his painting, then what was Jing Su talking about? He looked up and froze on the spot, his eyes wide open, and his whole body began to tremble.

It turned out that, without her noticing, Jing Su appeared in front of her, and the moment she looked up, he cupped her and kissed her.

"Silly boy, the painting I was talking about is you~" Jing Su's gentle voice rang in Hu Teng's ears, gradually bringing the somewhat confused Hu Teng back to reality.

"What are you doing?!" Hu Teng stamped his foot, his face flushed with embarrassment. It was unclear whether he was startled by Jing Su's actions or angry that his magnificent colored battleship had been approached so closely without him noticing.

'Phew, I guess I trusted the Commander too much. As a general, I let the enemy—no, the Commander isn't the enemy, he's my lover~'

Having figured this out, Hu Teng hugged Jing Su again and kissed her before Jing Su could say anything.

This time, she's going to get revenge and redeem herself from the embarrassing situation of being ambushed by Jing Su!

"Hu Teng, in my heart, you are the most beautiful painting. It's so good to have you by my side. You've really worked hard all these years~" After the two kisses, Jing Su whispered in Hu Teng's ear again. At this moment, he realized that Hu Teng's body was jumping so tightly that he couldn't help but 'pfft' and laugh.

"What are you laughing at!" Jing Su's laughter caught Hu Teng's attention, and her already rosy face turned even redder.

"I'm laughing at you, you silly girl. So even the Valkyrie who's a force to be reckoned with on the battlefield can be shy in private~" Jing Su teased, flicking Hu Teng's nose.

"Oh, you really think so?" Hu Teng calmed down at this moment. After all, she was a Valkyrie who was cold on the outside but warm on the inside. She was known for her composure and calmness on the battlefield. Jing Su's actions really calmed her down. But, at this moment, calm? Heh, what a load of rubbish!

Hu Teng said that things had come to this point, and if she remained calm, she would be laughed at by the other ship girls!

"Is not it?"

"Hehe, that depends on how good you are~"

Chapter 311 The merit is too great

"Boom! Boom boom!"

"Alright, the detectors show this is the last warship in the defense zone. Everyone, that concludes today's mission. We can return to base now!"

"Yay, it's holiday time!"

"Hmm? Can we return now? Zzzz"

"Laffey, even though the battle is over, we can't sleep here!"

"Zzzz"

"Lafite!!!"

"Javelin, I'm entrusting you with taking Lafite back with me."

"Eek~" The mournful cry of the javelin rang out, "Laffey, wake up!"

Upon learning that he might have to work overtime, Javelin tried to wake up Lafite, who was standing on the sea, swaying but never falling.

"Javelin, stop dawdling and hurry up. If we go back now, we can still make it for dinner. After dinner, we can take a nice hot bath. Isn't that better than complaining here?" the girl who had just given the orders urged.

"Yes~" Javelin said helplessly, although she really wanted to say that if she shook Laffey awake, she wouldn't have to carry her.

However, Laffey is not so easy to wake up. As one of the few people in the port who can fall asleep anywhere, Laffey is completely unmoved by the shaking of a mere girl. In a way, it depends on the person. If you shake someone of the same sex, you really can't wake them up no matter how you shake them. Laffey even fell asleep for a while when fighting the Sirens.

If it were Jing Su, there would be no need to shake him. As soon as Jing Su gets close, Laffey will wake up on his own. But don't misunderstand, Laffey wakes up just to run into the commander's arms and continue sleeping.

On the other hand, even without the Lafite incident, there would have been other things for Javelin to do. Now that things have come to this point, Javelin has realized that she is being targeted by her best friends.

On the way to the attack, almost every errand-running task, such as reconnaissance, battlefield cleanup, or chasing enemy troops, would fall to her. At first, Javelin didn't realize it and simply thought that she had more tasks. Later, she realized that this was a targeted attack, a clear case of targeting!

Just as she was complaining about why she had to do so much work, the answer she received left her speechless.

Z23 replied, "Among us, you are the only one who is no longer a little girl; compared to us, you are already an adult!"

Even Ayanami, who is usually expressionless, agreed with this statement.

At this moment, Javelin realized that his teammates were targeting him, openly targeting him, or rather, out of jealousy!

Despite their relatively young appearance, they are all remarkably long-lived, both in terms of historical age and psychological age in this world.

In internet slang terms, it's called a "legal loli," no, a "legal teenage girl"!

Therefore, Javelin knows what Z23 and the others are talking about.

Because she knew all this, Javelin was unable to resist. They had agreed to walk side by side, and whoever rose to power first would be a dog. But Javelin said that as long as she could succeed in rising to power, she would be a dog if she wanted to be one!

"I wonder how things are going with the commander~" Javelin said with a sigh after walking for a while with Laffey by her side.

That immediately got them talking.

“Yeah, it’s only been a few days since I came out, but I already feel so heavy-hearted. Is this what longing feels like?” Z23 chimed in.

"Once we get back to base, let's see if we can talk to the commander. Javelin, why don't you give it a try?" Ayanami suggested.

"Hey, why don't you guys try it!"

"We'd like to, but it's not suitable," Z23 sighed. In the adult world, many times, we are not in control of our own lives.

"I think you guys are just too cowardly," Javelin muttered.

"Hehe, you've got guts, you're so bold you want to be a puppy~" Ayanami chimed in, rolling her eyes at Javelin. "Nimi, let's play video games together tonight, let's ignore this traitor~"

"Hey, please don't say things that make my conscience bother me!" Javelin said helplessly. She had only done what every ship girl wanted to do, so why had she been criticized all this time?!

"Javelin, Z23, and Ayanami, welcome back. Laffey is asleep again. Thank you for carrying her back~" Just as the four were teasing each other, a gentle voice rang out.

"Sister Yorktown!" Javelin was very excited to hear this gentle voice and wanted to wave to her, but Laffey was on her back and waving would make too much noise.

"Front row squad, mission accomplished for today, requesting to return to the unit!" Compared to Laffey's relaxed demeanor, Z23 was much more serious. After giving Yorktown a standard military salute, she began to report on the situation. She was the commander of the front row vanguard this time.

Since Jing Su's return, there have been no restrictions on team formation between ship girls. Of course, even at other times, during normal sorties, ship girls from different factions can team up with each other. The atmosphere in the port has never been so serious about factional divisions.

However, in large-scale operations like the Quarterly Offensive, which are based on factions, ship girls from other factions generally do not participate in the team.

In this operation involving all factions across the entire port area, under Jing Su's leadership, each ship girl formed teams according to her own ideas, which was very free.

The four small groups are a well-known combination with excellent relations in the port area. In this battle, they naturally attacked together and were incorporated into the carrier battle group with Yorktown as the flagship.

Given that a normal fleet consists of six ship girls at full strength, with the four smaller ones occupying four of them, there are only two main battleships in the back row. Yorktown serves as the flagship of the entire fleet, while Hornet is the main support ship.

Today, their mission is reconnaissance. The defense zone where Yorktown is located is preparing to advance twenty nautical miles. This distance means that the defense zone will build a new fortress, which requires someone to go out and gather intelligence.

In areas where Sirens are present in large numbers, conventional reconnaissance methods are ineffective; it is necessary to send ship girls into the entire area in person to gather intelligence.

However, for some reason, the Sirens' activity frequency was very low today, or rather, they were very unenthusiastic. Although the teleportation anchor was still operating, no new Siren warships appeared. After discovering this, Yorktown decisively changed its plan from reconnaissance to combat, intending to annihilate all the Siren warships in its jurisdiction in one fell swoop.

Therefore, it doesn't matter what the detection results are; once the construction team builds the fortress, the defense line will be established.

"Well, thank you all for your hard work. The hot water is ready, let's all take a bath together later." Yorktown was very happy to hear that the last Siren warship had been dealt with. Although as the commander, she could not leave the fortress, she had always been concerned about the situation of the four small towns in the port.

After all, this operation was a last-minute change of plans. As a reconnaissance team, they had no reinforcements. Reconnaissance and annihilation are two different concepts. Relying solely on four destroyers, it would be extremely difficult to complete this operation.

"It's all thanks to Yorktown's carrier-based aircraft guidance!" Javelin said earnestly.

Although Yorktown and Hornet stayed inside the fortress, their carrier-based aircraft actually followed the four smaller ships the whole time, only returning to base after reaching the furthest point.

This has been a huge help to the four little ones. As highly mobile destroyers, the four little ones in the port area have no shortage of output and are very mobile. They can also get out if something happens. This is also the key reason why Yorktown dared to change its plans.

However, due to the limitations of the ship's hull, the four little ones are indeed quite weak in air defense. Among them, only Laffey is relatively good at air defense. But no matter how powerful Laffey is, even if she changes her ship equipment and becomes Rainbow Laffey, she is still just one person. She is powerless against the overwhelming swarms of Siren planes.

This has nothing to do with ability; it's simply that there are too many planes, wave after wave. Laffey's artillery output frequency can't keep up with the scale of the Sirens' attacks, so it's futile for anyone to come.

Therefore, before entering the heart of the Sirens' territory, they need an escort, and only Yorktown and the others can help with this.

Fortunately, Yorktown has also been upgraded with second-generation ship equipment, transforming into a new colorful aircraft carrier; otherwise, escorting such a frequent Siren aircraft would have been a major problem.

Once inside the territory, the Sirens' aircraft became less effective, since there were too many of their own people in these areas, and the ship girls were too small; compared to the warships, the ship girls' figures were so small that they could almost be ignored.

Against enemies the size of ship girls, the few effective options for the Sirens besides aircraft are suicide ships. However, suicide ships are too fragile; they can be detonated in any slightly larger body of water, so it's impossible to send aircraft carriers to bomb them.

Therefore, once the four small ships are escorted into the heart of the Sirens' territory, half of the annihilation mission will be completed. To complete the other half, it is necessary to find and destroy the Sirens' command ship.

Under normal circumstances, finding the command ship among the numerous Sirens is extremely difficult. Normally, the way to search the port area is to send aircraft carriers to bombard the area that the Sirens are protecting. This is usually where the command ship is located.

Without an aircraft carrier, the search had to be conducted entirely by hand, making it an extremely challenging task.

But these four little ones are no ordinary warships. Whether in history or in this world, their luck is undeniable, especially Javelin and Z23, whose luck is almost off the charts.

As soon as they entered the heart of the Sirens' territory, the four little ones originally intended to split up and form pairs to expand their search area in order to find the command ship as soon as possible. However, before they could separate, a Javelin torpedo actually found the command ship that was wandering around.

As the flames shot skyward, the unfortunate command ship was struck by a javelin and sent straight back to the Sirens' lair.

Without the command ship, the remaining Siren warships are easy targets, and can be easily dealt with. Even ordinary destroyer girls who have just reached max level can be easily defeated, let alone the four little ones who are now fully upgraded and at max level.

So the four little ones began to clear out the remaining Sirens. In just one day, they sank all the Sirens in the defense zone. The whole process went incredibly smoothly. At other times, when a full-strength squadron went out to attack, they would occasionally manage to wipe out an entire area of ​​Sirens.

But that was a full-strength formation, with the vanguard and the main force deployed together, and the range wasn't particularly large. Now, however, the four smaller ships are just four destroyers. Under normal circumstances, once the four smaller ships have reduced the density of the Sirens to a certain level, the command ship should send aircraft to bomb them.

The command ship was blasted into the air by a Javelin torpedo at the very beginning. The Siren carrier would not launch any planes at all. At most, it would launch a few torpedo bombers to carry out a suicide charge when the ship girls approached.

In just one day, all the Sirens in one defense zone were wiped out, setting a new record for the entire port area.

The whole process was unbelievably magical. Even after Z23 checked the detector more than a dozen times at the end to confirm that all the Sirens had been destroyed, she still couldn't quite believe that they had actually done it!

'A miracle, a true miracle!'

When Yorktown received the message from Z23, this was her first thought. She couldn't believe that her sudden idea had actually come true.

It's like doing business. They set a small goal: to make the company profitable. But the four of them managed to take the company public!

To ensure the information was accurate and reliable, Yorktown and Hornet launched carrier-based aircraft from three directions to conduct multiple reconnaissance missions. No matter how many missions were conducted, the results were always the same.

The Sirens have truly been wiped out!

"Z23, Javelin, you guys have achieved an incredible miracle this time. Is there any reward you want? As long as it's not too outrageous, whether it's new ship equipment, supplies, or nice clothes, I'll personally decide and agree on your behalf."

"Oh, Yorktown sister, you don't need to do this, it's our duty~" Javelin blushed, feeling very embarrassed. She was about to say something when Z23 grabbed her arm.

Just as Javelin was wondering what Z23 was doing, Ayanami whispered four words in her ear: "Zigong redeems people!"

Javelin immediately realized that making such a great contribution without asking for any reward was like putting the other ship girls on the hot seat. Although the girls in the port had a good relationship with each other, when it came to combat matters, they still had to follow the rules and regulations.

"We don't know what we want for now. If possible, Yorktown, you can decide~" Z23 directly passed the buck back to Yorktown. You are our flagship, so you decide how to reward us. We will accept it.

"I see~" Yorktown chuckled. "You really know how to give me a tough time~"

Such a great victory was something no fleet in the port had ever achieved before. Or rather, some ship girls might have achieved it, but they would just reward it within their own faction and report it to the secretary ship as a simple stamp. But now, the four little ones are from different factions, so it's impossible for them to stick together from beginning to end.

"Ugh, this situation is really frustrating. I never thought I'd be at a loss for what to do because my comrades have done so much. What if the Commander were here..."

Um! ?

commander!

Oh right, how could I forget about the commander!

He's the best person to handle this kind of thing.

Yorktown's eyes lit up, and he shouted, "I know what to do! If we handle it properly, we might be able to... You guys go and rest first, I'll go check the data and see if the fortress is safer."

After saying that, Yorktown quickly left, much to the astonishment of the four children.

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Chapter 312 First Encounter

"Wow~ You gave away an entire defense zone of warships for nothing, you're really willing to do that."

"What can I, as the director, do when the producer adds scenes at the last minute?"

"Hehe, looks like you've had a tough time too~"

"Yes, it's really not easy to deal with someone who keeps making sarcastic remarks."

"you!"

"Alright, alright, we're all on the same side, stop arguing!"

"Speaking of which, can Zero's plan really succeed? What if that guy doesn't come?"

"He will definitely come. Such a great achievement, as the commander-in-chief, it would be disheartening not to award him."