Azur Lane: The Azure Life of the Tragic Admiral

According to the principle of giving priority to experienced people, those who knew the truth but did not tell it should be assigned to the patrol team first. But in the past few days, the leaders were basically the ship girls on Yang Sikang's side.

But Yang Sikang doesn’t go out now!

They are just bad, not stupid! How could they not know the combat effectiveness of Yang Sikang's ship girl?

This group of people immediately became unhappy and criticized Yang Sikang's behavior and asked his ship girl to continue to perform patrol duties.

But when this happens, those commanders who have no idea about the situation but really have ambitions will be confused.

Most of these people didn't care about the usual news before, but now they see something like this. Curiosity drives them to find out, and since they are now forced to have some free time, some people naturally want to learn more about it.

Then, this group of people couldn't hold it anymore.

The experience summarized from this battle in the port area earlier was printed into a book and distributed to all commanders participating in the patrol.

It clearly states information such as the diversionary effect of cross-fire of carrier-based aircraft and battleship main guns and appropriate attack intervals.

Normally, it is normal for this kind of information to appear, and there is a special analysis team within Azur Lane.

But when these commanders became curious, they found out that among the commanders who participated in the last battle, only Yang Sikang had an aircraft carrier, and only Yang Sikang had battleships and battlecruisers.

Is there any need to ask where this strategy came from? A deeper understanding is even more outrageous. Because the data, analysis results and interpretation used in the analysis were all done by Yang Sikang!

And it was done during the days when those people were busy spreading rumors everywhere!

It was also at this time that the investigation team announced the results of the current investigation, so...

The wind has changed!

Chapter 121 New Machine Assembly and 3D Printing

No matter how ignorant he was about politics, Yang Sikang knew very well how to gain an advantageous position in public opinion in White Eagle.

For example, now, he just gave a slight push in publicity when someone 'coincidentally' discovered what he had done, and the public opinion that those people had been busy building up for these days quickly collapsed.

The more attention they have attracted, the greater the pressure they will be under now that the wind has changed.

All those who are attracted to pay attention to this incident will add fuel to the fire, but it is also at this time that no one pays attention to the real "victim".

In Villa No. 72, Yang Sikang was assembling a brand new machine in the basement.

The customized parts sent from Donghuang had been left in the warehouse. He had originally planned to wait until the right time to assemble them.

But with the appearance of the Purifiers, he felt that he had to do something now.

The parts of the machine come from multiple manufacturers, and the parts made by Donghuang only account for 20% of them. Because some parts require extremely high precision and craftsmanship, these parts are all produced by Donghuang.

The other parts came from several White Eagle and Royal factories, and all orders were negotiated by the Stock family.

Now he has to do the assembly process himself. Fortunately, he has a maid to help him. At least he doesn't need to use auxiliary machines to deal with many problems.

"Okay, assembly is complete. Next is to connect the power supply for testing. Newcastle, how are things going over there?"

"This one has been tested and is functioning normally. There are no abnormalities in the machine's self-test."

"Okay, I'll be right there. Belfast, could you please check this machine?"

"Ok."

Yang Sikang came to Newcastle, looked at the display of the machine and nodded.

The self-test result is fine and the functional test is passed. Then you can try it out.

He took out a black cloth bag, which was a custom-made USB flash drive bag made of soft material and divided into many compartments. It could protect the USB flash drive from collision and prevent it from being lost.

Each grid is numbered and has a pattern that can be distinguished by touch.

He took out a USB drive, read the data and transcribed it into the machine. After confirmation, he started the machine and ran it for a test run.

"Let's check the results. I'll go over there and take a look."

There are a total of three machines placed in the basement of the huge villa.

These three machines are quite large in size. A large room is almost filled with these three machines arranged in a triangular shape. The middle part is a huge container containing a large number of tools.

Simply put, this is a machine used for 3D printing.

But unlike ordinary 3D printing, the material used in this thing is not available on the market, and the things printed are also more special - this thing can be used to make bulletproof vests and firearms.

Of course, this thing was not made by Yang Sikang himself. Such a sophisticated machine was not something he could have tinkered with.

The drawings, instructions and other things of this machine all came from the things given by Li Futao. That guy asked Yang Sikang to help him make some things, including a set of armor and two weapons that required this machine.

However, the required materials even include rare earths and a large amount of precious metals that are controlled by the state. In theory, under ideal conditions, it would take at least 500 hours to produce what Li Futao wants. In other words, the machine would have to run non-stop for more than half a month before it could be completed.

The entire machine includes all the processes including data processing and analysis, simulation construction, management and control, as well as production and processing.

The powerful functions correspond to the huge size. This room is 5 square meters and meters high, but now there is only one passage along the wall for passage.

And it can only be placed in this awkward way.

As for the price of this machine, I can only say that fortunately he has become a commander, and the material coins have a very good exchange rate among those commanders with wealthy families, otherwise he would not have the money to make these materials.

Excluding assembly and involving a large number of exchanges, the cost is still frighteningly high, and its cost can be imagined.

Moreover, the materials needed to make this thing are expensive and many are difficult to obtain through conventional means. Once it is turned on, even the power consumption is very low.

And if you want to process metal, you will need to add different fuels as energy.

"No problem, it's fine."

Yang Sikang breathed a sigh of relief.

At least the machine hadn't had any serious problems since it was assembled. Otherwise, if it broke, it would be a big hassle to repair it. He didn't know how to repair machinery, and this thing touched his blind spot.

Soon, the inspections in Belfast and Newcastle were also completed.

No problems were found in all modules, and now we can finally proceed to the actual operation.

"Anyway, let's start with something small."

Put in the prepared materials, enter the data to adjust the program, and start.

A few minutes later, a pistol magazine came out.

"so fast."

Because it was a test, conventional materials were used and a standard magazine for an M1911 pistol was made.

He took out the finished product and compared it with the magazine he had on hand. There was almost no difference between the two, except that there was no coating.

After loading the bullets, I took the pistol to the shooting range next door and did some shooting tests. There were no problems at all.

The magazine is in good condition and there were no problems with the bullets being pressed in or used.

He then added other materials, this time adding metal as required.

Same process, different data parameters.

Half an hour later, an M1911 was placed in the machine.

"Wow, so we can just skip the assembly?"

Yang Sikang took out the pistol with great interest and examined it carefully.

There was no problem with normal disassembly and assembly, and even the gun barrel was made.

He didn't understand the details, so he could only reassemble it, then load the bullet with the same magazine he made just now and start shooting.

"It's actually no problem."

Yang Sikang couldn't help but sigh. This was enough to prove the performance of this machine.

Even though he had no idea how it worked, since it could be done, there were many things he could do.

But compared to the weapons and bulletproof vests he was going to use, he was busy assembling this thing for another purpose.

He wanted to try to make the materials he had made before in this world, in order to test the feasibility of making a new type of material into ship equipment material!

Whether making changes to the ship's equipment or wanting to build a ship girl, how to activate matter with the Mind Cube is an unavoidable issue.

It is easy to make a model of a ship suit, but to make a real ship suit, you must know how to use the Mind Cube to process materials.

As a commander, Yang Sikang has the right to know this information, but that is limited to how to use the Mind Cube to make ship equipment. In other words, the necessary prerequisite is that the Mind Cube can make the ship equipment you want.

In simple terms, the conventional way of making ship equipment is actually not much different from construction, activating some kind of "data" that already exists in the magic cube and then making it into ship equipment. That's basically it.

It’s just that because ship equipment is an item and requires less energy, one Rubik’s Cube can often produce multiple ship equipments at a time.

But how to make new ship equipment is a research and development issue.

What's more, he now not only wants to make new ship equipment, but also wants to use new materials.

Put in materials, set parameters, and confirm that the generator has enough fuel.

After doing all this, Yang Sikang breathed a sigh of relief and felt relaxed.

"Okay, it's time to go back."

Chapter 122: Isn’t the image established?

"The 96th bomb test begins."

On the training ground, Yang Sikang was staring intently at the real-time data fed back by the data collection device.

The carrier-based aircraft took off, dived, dropped bombs, and then returned.

As the water column exploded on the water surface, the target was blown away, and others waiting nearby went to recover the target.

The Javelin's hull is still used as the command ship. This is the 60th data collected in the past few days.

After a rapid growth, Essex's carrier-based aircraft control ability gradually entered a stable rhythm, the growth rate slowed down, and the stability gradually became stronger. The gap began to narrow every time an attack was launched, and the way of fighting was constantly optimized.

The same is true for Independence, but because of the difference in the number of carrier-based aircraft, Independence entered this stage earlier than Essex.

At this point, it can basically be said that their combat data has gradually stabilized.

The improvement that can be obtained from the data level will become smaller and smaller, and the remaining part is invisible "data" such as experience, skills and the ability to adapt to changes.

"not bad."

Yang Sikang said with a smile that the enterprise had helped him find a lot of data. After comparison, his Essex's current paper strength should be enough to rank in the upper-middle level among the data of this ship girl, Essex.

This shows that the training plan he discussed with Enterprise is practical and effective. More importantly, it shows that his previous experience in training methods and concepts in another world is also effective for the ship girls in this world.

This is the most precious thing.

"Take a break for an hour and change the target."

Taking off his headphones, Yang Sikang let out a breath and stretched.

One hundred bombing trainings were the most boring part of Essex's training plan. Fortunately, Essex was not the kind of ship girl who would find training boring, which saved him a lot of worry.

For the remaining four training sessions, he plans to use a brand new target.

Moving target.

For live-fire training on the sea, it is very expensive to make moving targets.

Since it is impossible to place equipment under the impact point, we have to find a way to make the target itself move on the water.

Yang Sikang found some gadgets. He purchased a batch of toys sold by Donghuang, and then modified them to create the current batch of targets.

Compared to normal targets that cost thousands of dollars, the wholesale price of these toys is only a few hundred dollars, about one-tenth of the target, and the modification cost is only about one hundred dollars.

But the effect is just as good. After the motors used in those toys are modified and overloaded, they can run at speeds that are not inferior to those of professional targets.

As for quality?

At this price, is there any problem with using it as a disposable item?!

"Master, Sheffield asked if we should deal with those people outside."

"The reporters are here again?"

Yang Sikang raised his eyebrows.

Reporter Andy was very good at seizing time. She kept the content of her previous interview with Yang Sikang and only released it when public opinion had become a hot topic and even people who didn't care about these things had heard about it.

There is no doubt that at that point in time, such a report was simply explosive.

There was no reason for Yang Sikang to miss this opportunity, and the same went for Hermann.

The push for public opinion was entirely handled by Hermann. From the time his interests were highly tied to Yang Sikang's, under the dual influence of interests and friendship, Hermann had already stood firmly on his side.