Azur Lane Mobile Front.

"The Sakura Empire has surrendered, and the commander is taking over."

"This area is now sealed off."

Faced with the company, Essex is caught in a dilemma: she has orders from headquarters on one hand, and a senior colleague she admires on the other.

"Senior colleague, I have orders to follow, I apologize."

After much internal struggle, Essex's sense of duty as a soldier led him to make the decision.

"Is this the White Eagle's stance? I understand."

As he spoke, the Enterprise pulled out its two beam rifles and aimed them at the fleet behind Essex.

The atmosphere on the calm sea became heavy.

The two sides are still theoretically allies, but they are only one accident away from going to war.

The White Eagles believed that even if Robb conquered the Sakura Empire, he would be exhausted after a day of fighting.

The newly assembled combined fleet has a sufficient number of ships.

Moreover, Rob had fought in the White Eagle Sea not long ago, and the White Eagle believed that it had a clear understanding of the strength of Rob's side.

Therefore, even though three upgraded ships had appeared on site, the command of the White Eagle Fleet still chose to remain firm.

However, with the appearance of more and more ships and two warships in the sky, the command of the White Eagle finally began to waver.

"I am the commander of the Eastern Empire. What? Did the White Eagle's allies come to congratulate me with such a grand display after hearing that I conquered the Sakura Empire?"

"My business is too small; I'm afraid it can't accommodate so many guests."

Rob's voice came through the White Eagle Fleet's communicator.

Having studied in the White Eagles for a few years, Rob knew a little about their ways.

If you don't demonstrate your strength, they'll truly believe you have none.

So, while keeping in touch with the other party, Rob also had his girls prepare to give them a hard time.

After several conversations, the commander of White Eagle had begun to consider retreating.

What's still holding him back now is nothing more than the reprimands he'll face from the higher-ups at White Eagle if he goes back like this.

When an operation fails, someone always has to step up and take the blame, and isn't he, as the commander, the perfect candidate?

"Hiss~ Looks like I'll have to pull a tough one on them."

"New Jersey, use the Raiser Sword!"

In terms of visual effects, nothing in Robo's port area is better than the giant lightsaber from New Jersey.

"Understood, leave it to me!"

New Jersey, which was in a standoff with the White Eagle fleet, slowly rose into the sky after receiving Rob's order.

Before the White Eagles could react, a powerful "trans-am" rang out from the sky. A massive beam of light, piercing the heavens and earth, illuminated the night sky.

"Oh my god! Everyone, get out of the way, get out of the way!"

The White Eagles, who were just astonished, were dumbfounded to find that the pillar of light was slowly falling towards the sea.

And the direction it fell was precisely the direction of its own fleet.

All of the White Eagle's ships immediately went at full speed and dodged to the side.

The ships are indeed flexible enough, so as long as the speed is increased, there shouldn't be any major problems.

However, mass-produced ships do not have such good maneuverability.

In an instant, sailors who chose to abandon ship and escape fell into the sea like dumplings being dropped into boiling water.

"Slash a little off-center, don't actually hit him."

Rob could see clearly from inside the white wooden horse in the sky. Although New Jersey was simple-minded, he was still reasonable.

Therefore, the large lightsaber only looked intimidating and was not actually aimed at the White Eagle fleet.

Before long, the enormous lightsaber, accompanied by the roar of the sea, cleaved down from the sky into the sea.

The immense energy instantly triggered a localized tsunami, and the sailors who had just chosen to abandon ship were likely to suffer casualties.

Although the companies on the White Eagle side had all seen this move before, even Essex had seen the New Jersey lightsaber from a distance.

However, seeing something and experiencing it firsthand are two different things.

When such a devastating attack landed on their heads, the members of White Eagle truly realized the vast difference in power.

At this moment, they finally believed that the new ship equipment truly had the power to destroy an entire fleet in an instant with a single ship.

After much effort, the White Eagle Fleet finally managed to rearrange its formation.

However, at that moment, they discovered that their surroundings were filled with serpentine blades.

These, naturally, are the Black Serpent Blade of King Que Wu of Fushun.

Greatswords are nothing new, Robo definitely needs to prepare something new for these allies who have come from afar.

The Black Serpent Blade, which can extend almost infinitely, is quite good.

However, it took Luo Bo a lot of effort to persuade Fushun and prevent her from turning intimidation into terror.

"Oh dear, I'm so sorry!"

"Because we are not yet very familiar with it, some unexpected things may happen when using the new ship equipment."

"So please don't take what happened just now to heart~"

Seeing the panicked look on the white eagle's face, Shoukaku's smile became even brighter.

Although she and Akagi were quite at odds, that didn't mean she had a good relationship with Hakutaka, who was Akagi's enemy.

Sakura Empire is still her faction after all, and she has chosen her own commander, which Shoukaku can accept.

But if you, White Eagle, want to come, that's not allowed.

"Friends of the White Eagle, please make a choice: return where you are or continue forward."

As Rob's voice fell, all the ships present raised their weapons, the meaning clear: continue advancing, or they would open fire.

Finally, faced with the overwhelming power of the Robo family's ships, the commander of the White Eagle Fleet chose to retreat.

Accepting punishment from higher-ups is more worthwhile than losing the fleet and one's own life.

Under the watchful eyes of the Eastern Empire's fleet, the White Eagle fleet, which had traveled thousands of miles to make its way here, ultimately returned empty-handed and slunk back to the White Eagle homeland.

Chapter 196: The Correct Way to Use Shoukaku

After seeing off the White Eagle fleet, Rob and the others could finally go back and rest.

After all, a mountain of work awaits them.

How much work is involved in taking over a faction?

Rob said he knew nothing about it; he was completely out of it and couldn't remember anything!

During this time, Robo remained in Sakura Empire.

It took Robb nearly a week to finally make sense of things, with the help of his own ships.

But this is only a preliminary understanding.

In a week, Rob only managed to learn about some of the more obvious information.

As for the clandestine experiments that Akagi conducted during her years in Sakura Empire, Robo doesn't even dare to think about them now.

Because he discovered that Sakura Empire was absolutely amazing!

First, there are the ships.

As a major faction, Sakura Empire, while not as wealthy as the Royal Navy and Eagle Union, still possesses a considerable number of ships.

Then, these ships...

First, there was the radical faction led by Yamato and Akagi, and this faction had been in power in the Sakura Empire for many years.

Then there's the emerging moderate faction led by Mikasa and Nagato, who's been scheming to take down Akagi lately.

Of course, Rob has already solved this problem for them using physical methods.

Next is the neutral faction led by Musashi. They meddle a little in the affairs of both the radical and moderate factions, but they don't cooperate deeply in any of them. They are in a situation where they help both sides, but also don't help either side.

Finally, there was the "lying-down" faction, led by Shinano.

There's really nothing we can do about it; the leader is physically out of the game and can't make any waves.

However, this faction also has the firmest stance: "Don't come to us with anything, you other people!"

Even on the surface, Sakura Empire has so many factions; even Shinra is more unified than it!

This leads to a problem.

What one faction does is largely unknown to the other faction.

Therefore, organizing the data is extremely time-consuming.

Even the head maid showed a rare look of fatigue on her face.

...

Moreover, Robo was already overwhelmed with work just dealing with the surrender of the Sakura Empire.

However, there is another group of people he needs to deal with.

That's... a reporter!

As a profession where you have to create a big news story when there isn't one, people naturally flocked to Rob when he actually did create one.

These days, even while eating, Luo Bo has noticed reporters squatting nearby more than once.

Sure enough, the head maid just used her extensive experience to bring Rob a special reporter.

What makes her special is that she is a warship, a destroyer belonging to the White Eagles—the Gridley.

Gridley, who was dragged in by the head maid, did not show any resistance. On the contrary, her eyes lit up the moment she saw Rob.

Robb recognized that expression all too well; New Jersey always looked the same way when he saw something that interested him.

"By the way, Master, recently, Aoba from Sakura Empire has been causing quite a stir in the prison."

After putting Gridley down, Belfast brought up another matter with Rob.

This puzzled Rob.

Among the ships imprisoned by the Sakura Empire, very few caused any major disturbances.

The only one that left a deep impression on Robo was Yuudachi, who would bite people because he had no meat to eat.

"Oh~ why?"

Setting down the documents in his hand, Rob asked the head maid with great interest.

"Because she said that as a journalist, she couldn't let big news slip by."

Just as Rob was about to ask something, Gridley finally couldn't hold back any longer.

"Hello, I'm Gridley, a reporter from White Eagle."

"What are your thoughts on the future direction of Sakura Empire?"

"What will you do with the Sakura Empire's ships?"

"And another thing, I heard that you recently had a conflict with the Eagle Union fleet. Do you have anything to say about this?"

...

Like a machine gun, Gridley opened his little mouth and rattled off a string of questions.

Rob, who had never witnessed such a scene before, was truly stunned.

“Miss Gridley, please calm down.”

"The master does not have time to answer your question at the moment."

"However, there will be a press conference soon, so please save your questions for that time, okay?"

The head maid immediately noticed that Rob was not comfortable with this kind of situation, so she stepped forward once again and politely saw Gridley off.

"Thanks to you, Belfast."