Azur Lane, I really didn’t lose my memory!

Everyone smiled knowingly after hearing this, and everything was said without words.

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Let Barr this way.

She and Vicious had been guarding the other side, not only to guard the position, but also to prevent the two enemy ship girls who had not yet appeared from coming around from this side to form a pincer attack on Richelieu and the others.

"Sister Jeanbart, why haven't you seen Hindenburg and the others yet?"

Evil used his hands as a wide-angle lens to look at the distant sea, trying to find the missing Hindenburg and Prince Rupprecht, but he could not see even a single figure on the sea except for the endless sea water and protruding underwater mountains.

Let Barr remain silent.

She wasn't very good at communicating with children, so after a long while she said, "I don't know, but they have occupied the spot before, which means they should be on our side. We should be careful. Anyway, if they don't reveal their position, we can't either."

Speaking of occupying the point, Evil subconsciously looked towards the strait between the two mountains and asked, "Will they come over from that strait?"

Let Bal think for a moment: "It is possible, but the possibility is... not high. We have destroyers here. If they really rush over, you can drop mines. It is difficult to miss at this distance."

Jean Bart's words were like raising a flag.

Suddenly, the yellow chicken who was in charge of point observation suddenly raised a red flag and took out an hourglass to start timing!

Jean Bale was stunned!

Raising a red flag means that your position is being occupied by the enemy.

She immediately looked towards the direction of the strait and saw Prince Rupprecht with pink hair rushing out of the strait and meeting them head-on. The distance between the two sides was less than six kilometers!

"Yahoo~ Hello everyone."

Prince Rupprecht waved and greeted while the muzzles of the guns on his ship turned.

The powerful secondary artillery shells rained down.

"Vicious! Throw the thunder!" cried Jean Bart.

"Good, good."

Vicious quickly fired two waves of torpedoes at Prince Ruprecht's position.

However, Prince Ruprecht did not come empty-handed. She turned on the hydrophone and knew in advance when the torpedo was approaching her.

Now, there are two paths before Prince Rupprecht.

First, turn at a large angle to avoid torpedoes, but this will expose the side of the ship to Jean Bart. If you expose your side due to Jean Bart's high-burst firepower, you will most likely be killed in one round.

Second, don’t hide from torpedoes. Take as many people as you can before the torpedoes sink you.

Prince Rupprecht chose to play it safe.

She didn't move at all, but directly took on Jeanbal's firepower head-on, while her main and secondary turrets fired at full power.

Prince Rupprecht's secondary guns are all small and medium caliber naval guns. Naval guns of this caliber have limited lethality against battleships, but they are definitely a nightmare against destroyers with almost no armor.

In almost ten seconds, Vicious was declared sunk!

At this time, Prince Ruprecht discovered that there was only a little time left before the vicious torpedo hit her.

So, based on the principle of helping his teammates whenever possible, Prince Rupprecht loaded a round of armor-piercing shells and fired back a fierce salvo at Jean Bart's main gun that had been pouring fire at him!

After a loud bang, Jean Bart's quadruple-mounted 380mm naval gun, which had been pouring out firepower, suddenly went silent!

Qingye, who had been serving as the commentator on the sidelines, slammed the table and shouted, "One of the main guns of Jean Barre has been dismantled."

"Let Sier go! Let Sier go!"

The crowd sighed as the battle situation changed like this.

"Then... I'm leaving now." Prince Ruprecht looked at the torpedoes that were fired at her, covered her eyes with her hands and didn't want to see them. She said to her companions behind her: "The rest is up to you. You have to 'avenge' me."

"Don't worry, just leave it to me."

From behind Prince Rupprecht, from across the Channel, Hindenburg appeared in everyone's view...

177-Let Barr

Seeing Hindenburg rushing out of the strait on the waves made Bal frown.

The last shot of Prinz Rupprecht before she "sank" was not aimed at her superstructure or her deck.

Smash them all on her No. 1 turret.

Two of the armor-piercing shells had a good angle of impact and penetrated the armor of the turret, causing an "explosion".

Therefore, she was ruled by referee Gridley as having turret number one destroyed.

Although Jean Bart immediately mobilized the damage management team to carry out turret repair work, the repair work could not be completed overnight, and Turret No. 1 could not be relied upon in the short term.

And at this moment, Hindenburg happened to appear.

In order to sink Prince Ruprecht as quickly as possible, she had been pulling forward, trying to sink him as quickly as possible while Prince Ruprecht was unleashing his vicious firepower.

And in fact this is exactly the case.

But this also led to the fact that after Prince Rupprecht sank, Jean Bart was still sailing in the direction where the other ship "sank".

And now, a Hindenburg suddenly appeared in that direction, leaving Barr with no time to turn around and retreat.

While he was thinking, Hindenburg's naval guns had already opened fire.

The 203mm naval gun with high projection and high penetration hit Jean Bart's head, chest and legs.

The smoke produced by the explosion of the fireworks dyed the clothes of the "female pirate" black and white, making her look very embarrassed.

Jean Bart immediately retaliated with his only remaining quadruple 380mm turret.

However, Hindenburg's armor was one of the thickest among heavy cruisers.

Jean Bart's 380mm naval gun is relatively small among the large-caliber main guns of battleships.

One has one of the thickest armor among heavy cruisers, and the other has a main gun that is considered small in caliber among battleships.

This is very embarrassing.

It was difficult for Barr's armor-piercing shells to effectively penetrate Hindenburg's chest armor, while Hindenburg's high-penetration high-explosive shells could easily penetrate her deck.

The durability of Jean Bart's ship equipment is rapidly decreasing.

And what's worse is that the distance between the two sides is getting closer.

Let Bal realize that he must make a decision as soon as possible.

Now it's just reducing the durability of the ship's equipment, but once you get close... Hindenburg has torpedoes.

Although the Hindenburg's torpedoes had a short range, this distance was more than enough.

Or... sink the Hindenburg? Die with the Hindenburg?

This thought popped into Bal's mind.

At her speed, if she rammed Hindenburg at the fastest speed, Hindenburg might not have the angle to throw its mines, and even if it did, it might not be able to hit all of them. As long as she couldn't be killed instantly, she would have a chance to collide with Hindenburg and "die together."

But this idea was quickly abandoned by Jean Bart.

It’s not that the success rate of a collision is low, on the contrary, if it is a collision, Bal feels it is almost certain.

But the problem was that they had just been fighting with Prince Ruprecht for so long at the point, and because the point had entered the enemy's territory and was not completely under their control, the function of adding points to the point was temporarily stopped.

In just this period of time, the Iron Blood Team's point score has surpassed that of the Free Iris Team.

Therefore, even if they successfully collided with the ship, after deducting the points for the sinking of the ship, the Iron Blood Team would still be in the lead.

At that time, if the remaining four Richelieu wanted to win, they had to find a way to control the position of the Iron Blood Squad.

The only way to control the Iron Blood Squad's position is to launch a counterattack and win!

But facing the Iron Blood Squad's secondary gun style of play, that is almost impossible.

Therefore, ramming a ship was the worst option. Once a collision occurred, Richelieu and the others would most likely face "chronic death."

"Hindenburg, quickly get rid of him and let Barr take the point again. Then we will win this game."

Prince Rupprecht, who had already been judged to be "sunk", encouraged Hindenburg behind him.

Hindenburg had a cold and handsome face and did not reply. Instead, he focused on pouring fire on Jean Bart who was approaching.

A boarding battle was about to begin, and any small mistake at this time could be fatal. Hindenburg had no time to deal with Prince Rupprecht.

And just as Prince Rupprecht and Hindenburg were talking.

This gave Bal an idea and he discovered an opportunity!

That opportunity was the “sunk” Prince Rupprecht.

According to the rules of the exercise, in order to simulate a real naval battle as closely as possible, the sunken ship cannot leave the scene immediately, but must stay in place for a few minutes to simulate the effect of a ship sinking in reality.

The location where Prince Rupprecht sank was right at the exit of the canyon, blocking Hindenburg's straight advance.

If Hindenburg wanted to drop mines on himself, he had to bypass the "sunken ship" Prince Rupprecht, and to bypass her, he had to give her a small angle!

As the two men got closer, Jeanbal stopped firing.

Her reload speed is very slow and her tolerance for error is low.

Jean Bart held tightly in his hand the armor-piercing shells loaded in the No. 2 turret, ignored the flames on the ship that were determined to be ignited by the Hindenburg, and continued to sail forward to prepare for a boarding battle.

There was only one chance, and that was when Hindenburg cut out and exposed her side to lay mines. A round of attacks penetrated her core area and killed her instantly. Then he crossed the strait and went straight to the rear of the Iron Blood Squad to occupy their position.

This is the only way to win!

The distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer, and the spectators outside the stadium were sweating nervously.

Everyone knew that the battle between Bar and Hindenburg for the position would determine the outcome of the exercise.

Soon, as expected, Hindenburg bypassed the sinking Prinz Rupprecht and began to turn at a shallow angle.

She had to turn.

Richelieu's high-explosive bomb tactics put too much pressure on Frederick the Great and her men. The war could not drag on like this any longer. A major change had to occur as soon as possible.

Moreover, if she did not take this opportunity to sink Jean Bart by torpedo, once Jean Bart's No. 1 turret was repaired, the opportunity that Prince Rupprecht had finally created for her would have been wasted.

The main body of the Hindenburg's ship suit is a huge mechanical dragon, which shares the ship suit's durability with Hindenburg himself.

At this moment, as Hindenburg turned, the mechanical dragon behind her slowly spread its flanks, revealing its black torpedo tubes.

Compared with Hindenburg's cool mechanical dragon ship suit, Jean Bart's ship suit seems a bit ordinary, but ordinary does not mean weak.

At this moment, Jean Bart was like a brave warrior in Dragon Quest, holding the only round of armor-piercing shells in his hand. The turret slowly turned to aim at the flank of the mechanical dragon, while silently calculating the angle between them in his mind.

Ten degrees.

Twenty degrees.

Thirty degrees.

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When Jean Bart felt the angle was about right, turret No. 2 suddenly opened fire.

At the same time, Hindenburg's torpedo firing angle was already in place, and the five-mounted 533mm magnetic torpedoes were thrown out like sharp swords.

Outside the field, Qingye picked up the microphone, widened his eyes, held his breath, and waited for the outcome of this round of artillery and thunder confrontation.

Inside the court, Gridley held up his camera, ready to capture what would be a crucial shot for both teams.

After all, the speed of the shells is faster than that of the torpedoes.

Let Barr's shells hit Hindenburg's mechanical dragon first.

Then——

clang clang clang!

Four crisp sounds were heard.

This left Bal dumbfounded.

Hindenburg was also stunned.

The audience outside the venue also opened their eyes wide.

For a moment, there was a mysterious silence inside and outside the venue.