Shipgirls and Salted Fish Commander, Port Survival Guide

Although Changchun's words were essentially meaningless, fortunately Jing Su could ask TB. To be precise, as the main force of the faction, Binjiang had always been active on the front lines, and her combat data had naturally been recorded. After TB was reactivated and connected to the port's database, Jing Su could check the information of the active ship girls at any time.

After careful examination, Jing Su finally understood what Binjiang's skills were all about.

As Changchun said, the effect is already written in the skill name: Artillery Fire, Pours Like a Waterfall! By charging up, Binjiang's artillery fire, whether it is shelling or torpedoes, can be fired out almost infinitely. The scene of Binjiang's torpedoes hovering around him just now was the result of charging up.

The longer the charging time, the more shells can be fired. According to Binjiang himself, when the charging time is reached, it can destroy an entire Siren squadron in one shot.

It is well known that Sirens are famous for their large numbers. In this world, when the human fleet first encountered Sirens, there was even a time when the number of Sirens exceeded the number of cannons in the entire human fleet.

The fact that Binjiang could wipe out an entire force with a single strike shows just how enormous the number of shells she possessed was.

As for the torpedoes, they never miss! Jing Su originally thought it meant that Binjiang fired a large number of cannons, providing sufficient firepower coverage, so no matter how you fired, you could hit your target, hence the name "never miss".

It was later discovered that this was not the case. Rather, it meant that Binjiang could scan a certain area, similar to the effect of opening a domain. Once the domain was opened, nothing was too big or small; even a mosquito flying by could be accurately captured by Binjiang.

In this context, Binjiang is literally a hit-or-miss team!

Do you remember the description of this skill?

torpedo!

Yes, the torpedoes from Binjiang, they can fly!

It can be used as a cannonball.

In terms of ammunition loading, torpedoes are miles ahead of conventional artillery shells.

Of course, this is just a description recorded in the skill list. No one has actually seen the actual situation. After all, the idea that tens of thousands of shells can accurately hit the target sounds unbelievable.

However, judging from the commotion that Binjiang has made, Jing Su estimated that even if it couldn't be 100% accurate, the waterfall-like barrage of shells would definitely be no problem.

Because Jing Sugang had just seen through the mimicry material that the waterspouts covering the sky were filled with torpedoes.

These weren't the kind of torpedoes that had been activated and become fully functional; they were small gadgets that Jing Su could hold in his hand, still in their ship-mounted state, like toy torpedoes. These things filled the entire waterfall!

"This quantity... isn't it a bit too exaggerated...!" After understanding the skill description, Jing Su's pupils suddenly contracted, and he was completely shocked.

"Hehehe, it seems the commander understands. This is nothing yet. Sister Binjiang hasn't used her full strength yet. She's probably just woken up and hasn't brought enough resources. If Sister Binjiang really goes all out, she can use torpedoes to form a protective shield to protect the entire arsenal." Changchun said proudly with his arms crossed.

"resource?"

“Yeah, Commander, you don’t think that maintaining such a large scale can be done without consuming any resources, do you? To maintain both quantity and power, you have to put in a lot of effort in terms of resources, right?” Changchun rolled his eyes at Jing Su. He finally found an opportunity to show off. He hadn’t had a good chance to express his great power to Jing Su before, but he didn’t expect to have the opportunity here.

“That makes sense.” Jing Su nodded. After comparing the data of ship girls from other factions, Jing Su had a deeper understanding of what Chang Chun had said.

As mentioned before, due to historical factors, the initial stats of the ship girls in the Eastern Empire faction are not very high, making it quite difficult to pursue firepower. However, as the saying goes, where there's a will, there's a way. Since firepower is insufficient, let's make up for it with quantity.

Therefore, the Donghuang camp has been rushing towards the concept of quantity. Whether it is the missiles of the Four King Kongs or the unlimited torpedoes of Binjiang, in terms of power and armor penetration, they are not very high. However, this does not prevent the Donghuang camp from becoming the most efficient camp in clearing out the enemy in the entire port area.

When reporting the results of the battle, the Eastern Empire's fleet, which only sent out guided destroyers, was even more efficient at clearing out the enemy forces than the White Eagle fleet, which had deployed its main force. In fact, it could be said that if the enemy Siren mainframes were light armored units, sending Eastern Empire shipgirls would allow them to arrive on the battlefield in the morning, finish the battle in the afternoon, and have time to rest.

"Speaking of which, Commander, do you remember how you used to command?" Just as Jing Su was about to continue observing the battlefield, Chang Chun suddenly tilted his head and asked.

"Huh? How to give instructions? Of course I don't remember. Have you forgotten? I don't have any memories of the past." This time it was Jing Su's turn to roll her eyes. Was this girl just trying to force a conversation because she couldn't find anything else to talk about?

"Oh, I see. That's a pity. Sister Binjiang didn't bring enough resources to unleash her full power. If you, Commander, still remember how to amplify, you should have been able to see an even more spectacular scene." Changchun shook his head, expressing his regret.

"Increase? Tell me more!" Jing Su caught the key point.

"Actually, I heard it from Sister Yixian," Changchun said after recalling. "It's like, as long as the commander personally participates in the battle, the Sirens' shells can be dodged better, and the combat power can be increased by a level."

Everyone initially thought it was an illusion, or that they were more eager to show off because the commander was watching them, which is why they performed better.

However, after the commander went missing, everyone discovered that the power had indeed weakened considerably.

What was the number again?

"Oh, I remember now. Compared to the commander's ability to direct battle, it's twenty percent worse."

"Um...!?"

Chapter 342 Stop it! I can't take it anymore!

"Can I... have any influence over you?" After a moment of silence, Jing Su posed her most pressing question.

"It should... be okay, right?" Binjiang murmured, leaning on the railing and watching Binjiang launch torpedoes into the sky.

"Should be... what the hell is that?" Jing Su rolled her eyes at Chang Chun. Her words were as good as saying nothing at all.

"They've already told me, and I only heard it from Sister Yixian. I don't know the specifics either." Changchun crossed his arms, his face flushed with anger. "When I joined the port, Commander, you hadn't personally commanded any battles for a long time. You would just send us out, appoint a flagship, and hand over all command authority to the flagship."

"Ahem, sorry, sorry, I didn't say anything good, Changchun, please forgive me~" Jing Su sighed helplessly, raised her hands in surrender, and reached out to pinch Changchun's face.

"Waaah~~" Changchun muttered, feeling even more frustrated.

"Hey, Commander, why don't you try it now?" Changchun's eyes darted around, and he broke free, calling out to Jing Su.

"Hmm? Try? Try what?"

"What else could it be? Of course, it's to test whether Commander has actually strengthened our combat capabilities!"

"How...how do I try this...?" Jing Su naturally knew what Chang Chun wanted him to do, but as he said, how should he do it?

Jing Su knew that manually controlling the fleet could increase the power of artillery fire. Before he became a casual player, when he encountered difficult levels, he would sometimes try to manually control the fleet to see if he could get through them.

Back then, Jing Su often complained about this EX level. The rewards were unappealing to veteran players and too difficult for new players to beat. What was the point?

However, given that Azur Lane's selling point has never been strength, or rather, what it pursues is a different kind of strength, Jing Su eventually gave up and simply abandoned the game. After getting his gear, he would basically just form a team and then leave the game to auto-leveling.

Whether he can clear the EX stages or not is completely irrelevant to him. He has already become the ultimate lazy bum, so he has no mental deficiency. For a long time, Jing Su was too lazy to even play the big world. He had no anxiety about the intensity. That's how willful he was!

However, when the game becomes reality, and when the ship girls can be touched, Jing Su has to pay attention to many things.

For example, manual exercises can enhance the power.

Originally, this was designed to make it easier for players to challenge high-difficulty levels in the game. After all, for a period of time, the level design of Azur Lane was geared towards the East. Back then, as long as the back row had enough damage, even if you only had a level 1 ship girl in the front row, you could manually control the players to get through high-difficulty levels.

Later levels became increasingly elaborate and complex, and once the core competitive advantage was identified, the slight advantage of manual control became less and less significant.

But here, every bit of damage bonus is worth paying attention to.

Jing Su had kept the idea of ​​manually inflicting injuries in mind ever since he accepted the role of commander, and had always wanted to find an opportunity to experiment with it, but had not found a suitable time until now. It seemed like a good opportunity.

"I don't know~" Changchun waved her hand decisively. As mentioned before, when she joined the port area, its combat strength was already incredibly impressive. There was no need to worry about combat matters at all. It could be said that, apart from daily life and returning to work, Jing Su had completely delegated authority over the port area's external campaigns.

Therefore, Changchun has never experienced what Yixian described as the feeling of Jingsu hand exercises.

"This..." Jing Su fell silent. What in this world is called awkwardness? It's like wanting to do something but not knowing where to start. Right now, Jing Su felt a sense of helplessness, like a tiger trying to devour the sky.

Now might be a good opportunity to experiment. On the battlefield, despite the huge and frightening commotion that Binjiang just stirred up, the actual effect wasn't particularly good.

Unfortunately, according to Changchun's account, Binjiang didn't bring much supplies with them for this attack. With limited supplies, the shells wouldn't be very powerful, and the area they had to defend was quite large. So even though Yorktown's aircraft were bombers, they managed to fight Binjiang to a standstill.

Or rather, the two had different goals. Yorktown was worried about Jing Su's condition and was single-mindedly focused on destroying the arsenal to rescue Jing Su. Binjiang, on the other hand, was from the protagonist's perspective. Not to mention that the arsenal was already a port area property, it would be such a pity to let his own people destroy such an excellent experimental subject for researching sirens.

One was extremely anxious, while the other was determined to defend; both sides had reasons for not backing down, and the battle was fierce and evenly matched.

However, as time went on, Binjiang's disadvantage of insufficient supplies gradually became apparent, or rather, Binjiang was at a disadvantage in terms of the purpose of the battle.

Although neither of them wanted to back down, Yorktown was so eager to save Jing Su that they were fighting with all their might. Normally, when a plane runs out of ammunition, it is required to return to base for resupply. However, in order to break through Binjiang's defenses, Yorktown directly said, "I don't need the plane anymore. You've run out of ammunition? My plane is the last shell. Even if you have to smash it open, you have to smash it open for me."

That guy smashed Binjiang's plane! Even though she's a super-rich woman in the port area, Binjiang was still shocked. That's a rainbow plane, and it's not easy to resupply one. York City is really willing to spend money like that.

From Binjiang's perspective, she knew exactly what was going on and that it was a misunderstanding. So, during the battle, she was extremely cautious, afraid of accidentally shooting down Yorktown's plane. She was an expert; she knew that replenishing aircraft was difficult, and the resources required to replace a lost plane would be painful for even the leaders of the faction.

Unexpectedly, Yorktown was ruthless enough to say that they would abandon the planes and risk using all their bullets to break through the defensive perimeter formed by the river.

As it turns out, Yorktown's reckless tactics have proven highly effective. Under the triple constraints of lack of supplies, a large defensive area, and the inability to shoot down enemy units but only to pursue them, Riverside is showing signs of exhaustion.

What's most troubling for Binjiang is that, according to reconnaissance reports, a group of fighter jets is rapidly approaching and will arrive at the battlefield in about twenty minutes.

With fighter escorts forming a complete formation, the bombers would have a completely different effect.

"Oh dear, this is really a dilemma. We can't not fight, but we can't really fight either. Miss Yorktown, after fighting for so long, haven't you noticed anything? I've only been surrounding your planes, never shooting them down!" Looking at the nearly depleted resources and the AD-1 Skyraiders still attacking frantically in the sky, Binjiang was in a real bind, and the bridge was furious.

'Hmph, you crashed into this plane yourself, so don't come after me for compensation later!'

Just as Binjiang was preparing to use his last resources to wipe out all the planes in the sky, he suddenly trembled.

"Hmm...!? This power is!"

Feeling a strange power suddenly emerge from the Mind Cube, Binjiang seemed to realize something and turned to look in the direction of the cruise ship. On the deck, he saw Jing Su with her eyes slightly closed and her brows slightly furrowed, as if she was doing something tiring.

"Haha, I really miss this power!" Binjiang clenched her right fist. As the main force of Donghuang, she was one of the few ship girls that Jing Su had manually controlled. She knew what it felt like to manually control a ship, just like this.

In fact, after Jing Su went missing, not only did they find that resources were no longer coming in, but in terms of combat, there was something that the ship girls had always been very curious about: how did Jing Su manage to launch air-launched attacks!

For ship girls to fight, they need to deploy their ship equipment. When the ship equipment is not deployed, most ship girls are not much different from ordinary girls in terms of physical fitness. Even if some are exceptionally talented, they will not exceed the human level. Of course, research ship girls are an exception.

Deploying ship equipment requires consuming resources. The reason why ship girls maintain a normal state in their daily lives is because ship equipment consumes resources even if they do nothing. Although the port area has abundant resources now, unnecessary waste should still be avoided as much as possible.

Moreover, once the ship equipment is deployed, it stays close by, making many things inconvenient. Some factions have created bio-mechanical ship equipment that might run off and cause trouble somewhere if you don't keep an eye on it.

Deploying ship equipment requires resources, so without resources, it is impossible to deploy the warship. This seems like a very logical thing, but before Jing Su disappeared, the ship girls really didn't know this.

The main reason is that the ship girls rarely run out of resources. Before the port was established, each faction was trying to deal with the Sirens on its own, so they were naturally cautious. If there was any disturbance or anything amiss, they would run away immediately. After Jing Su disappeared, each faction developed independently before running out of resources, and quickly achieved resource abundance. They no longer had to worry about resource shortages.

The only exception was when Jing Su was still around, specifically during the early stages of the port's establishment. At that time, there was a lot of external pressure, and the ship girls often had to fight several battles against the Sirens in one go, and it was common for them to run out of resources.

However, under these circumstances, the ship girls never found any problems with the use of the ship equipment. To be precise, after the resources were exhausted, the ship equipment was deployed and the shells were fired as usual. Apart from the fact that the power was a little less than when there were resources, it did not delay the operation at all.

However, after Jing Su went missing, the ship girls realized that it was no use. Resources were exhausted, and no matter what the situation, even if they had deployed their ship equipment, they would lose their combat capability. No matter how hard they tried, they could not fire even a single shell.

It was only then that the ship girls realized that they had probably greatly overlooked the role of Commander Jing Su.

"Haha, this familiar power, Commander, Commander, have you finally remembered? Now that supplies are plentiful, hehe, Miss Yorktown, forgive my rudeness!"

Previously, we were always on the defensive, largely due to insufficient resources. Now, with Jing Su's support, the feeling of being able to use ship equipment infinitely has returned!

Although the power of air-launched torpedoes is weaker than when resources are available, the current situation is a good one. We don't need much power; just enough to stop the aircraft. The reduced power also gives us more room to maneuver, so we don't have to worry about accidentally shooting down the aircraft.

"Wow, Commander, you're glowing!"

On the deck, Changchun looked at Jingsu, whose eyes were closed, and sighed.

"Hey...why aren't you saying anything?"

It turned out that right after she said she wanted Jing Su to try manual control, she put the matter out of her mind and went to watch her sister Binjiang's performance. As the guide, she was the last line of defense for Jing Su. Her mission was to shoot down any planes that suddenly appeared on the spot without worrying about anything else.

After a while, Changchun suddenly felt a terrifying force appear beside him. He turned his head and saw that it was none other than Jing Su.

At this moment, Jing Su's eyes were closed, and her whole body was radiating golden light. The light was not dazzling, but Chang Chun felt very comfortable being illuminated by it.

Changchun wanted to ask Jing Su how she did it, but after asking several questions without receiving a response, she realized something was wrong.

"Damn it, something's wrong with the commander!"

Changchun, with his sharp eyes, noticed that Jing Su's forehead was covered in a layer of fine sweat, and her body had begun to tremble involuntarily.

'Could it be...something's wrong!'

Suddenly, Changchun thought of a possibility. She knew that when Jing Su was around, the ship girls could ignore resource supplies and use ship equipment at will. However, since she had not experienced it herself and the ship girls did not know much about it, and Jing Su had not explained the principle to the ship girls before she disappeared, no one had thought about how Jing Su managed to make the ship girls use ship equipment regardless of resources.

Now, after seeing Jing Su's state when using this function, Chang Chun suddenly realized something. To be precise, it was after hearing that Jing Su had been in a very magical space when she was with the other Sirens, and that the speed of time and space in that space was different from the world she was in, that a thought came to him.

Is it possible that we can use resources without limit because the commander can remotely transport resources to the ship's equipment through some method?

This was a sudden inspiration in Changchun, but the idea was reasonable.

Using ship equipment requires resources, but when Jing Su was around, the ship girls could use ship equipment without limit, which is obviously unreasonable and directly violates the law of conservation of energy and matter.

Therefore, there must be some place where resources are being consumed!

Although it's unclear how Jing Su managed to do it, the fact that Binjiang completely reinforced the defenses shows that it was very effective.

However, from Jing Su's current state, Chang Chun realized that something was wrong.

It is known that Binjiang's "infinite torpedo method" means that he can produce as many torpedoes as he has resources, and now, torpedoes are filling the sky.

Question: In Binjiang, which is in a state of empty bombs, can Jingsu withstand the pressure of transporting the resources it consumes?

"Sister Binjiang, stop! The Commander can't take it anymore!"

Chapter 343 The Essence of Empty Bullets

"Well..."

On the hospital bed, a handsome young man slowly opened his eyes, which emitted a pale blue light.

"Hey, Sister Yixian, the Commander is awake!" The man's movement made the girl who had been watching over him jump up and rush towards the door, shouting as she ran.

"Dong Dong Dong~"

Footsteps sounded quickly, and the room door was pushed open abruptly.