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

Akashi pulled Shiranui along and built a simple temporary shop made of waterproof cloth in the middle of the screens on both sides of the pier.

A banner was hung in front of the shop with the slogan: The only designated store for the Hong Kong District Welfare Lottery Exercise.

Under the banner, Akashi picked up the megaphone and shouted loudly: "Buy it and forget it! Buy it and forget it! Team Lafite vs. Team Veneto, odds are one to two."

Money or other material possessions naturally cannot attract the ship girls, so when it comes to betting, Akashi came up with some unique ideas.

"The bets are limited to the various commander's prize vouchers, the only hard currency in the port area!"

"Commander, how do you redeem your prize voucher?"

You want to start a gambling game, but sorry, I'm not interested.

But the prize is related to the commander. I won’t feel sleepy anymore if you mention this.

Soon, the ship girls who were attracted by the redemption coupons gathered at the door of the store.

Boss Akashi clapped his hands.

Shiranui carried a sign out of the shop.

The notice read in black and white:

Commander Hug Award = One Chip.

Commander's Kiss Award = Five Chips.

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From top to bottom, all the prizes that Lu Xiuyuan had drawn in the auditorium were clearly marked on the billboard.

Akashi picked up the megaphone and shouted, "As long as you have enough chips, you can freely redeem the lottery tickets you like on the signboard!"

"Of course, first come first served. If you finally save up enough chips and find that the lottery ticket you want has been redeemed by someone else, then there is nothing you can do."

"By the way, the highest award is this—"

Akashi held the two ends of a lottery ticket in his hands, raised it above his head, and showed it to everyone.

It was the only one in the port area, and also the best reward for commanders to use at will!

Value – 300 chips.

The whole place was in an uproar.

They might have been able to remain rational before, but just now, they were stimulated by the kiss between the commander and Akane Shinjo on the screen, and they felt a little jealous, and at this moment they somewhat lost their rationality.

As long as I get that ticket, not only can I kiss the Commander, I can even do this and that!

"I bet on Team Veneto to win!"

Soon, one of the ship girls couldn't help but slammed her commander's hug award on the table in front of Akashi.

The commander can use the prize at will with a value of up to three hundred chips. Given the current situation in the port area, no one has so many chips or prize tickets of corresponding value.

The only way to get this lottery ticket is to buy the "exercise lottery ticket" sold by Akashi, then keep betting on the right chips and accumulate enough chips to exchange for the grand prize.

"I also bet on Big Sister Veneto to win!"

"Then... I'll bet on the opposite... I'll bet on Team Laffite to win..."

Faced with the temptation of the commander to use the reward at will, more and more ship girls are falling into it.

Akashi struck while the iron was hot and launched new gambling content.

"An additional task is to guess which team will be the first to be sunk!"

This time, everyone was basically in sync.

"I bet on Xin Tiao Qian to be the first to be eliminated!"

"I'll buy her out too!"

"Me too!"

In just over ten minutes, all the Hong Kong exercise lottery tickets were sold out.

Then, the ship girls who had already placed their bets looked at the display screens on both sides of the dock more intently.

This has something to do with whether they can get the Commander's Free Use Award!

However, someone soon discovered something unusual.

"Why did the commander follow them?"

In the picture, the commander is following behind the members of Lafei's team, and it seems...that they are going to go to the training ground together.

"I heard the commander became a shipmaster..." someone said.

"Could it be that the commander is planning to participate in the exercise himself?"

Just when everyone was puzzled, Qingye, who was in charge of the explanation, explained in time:

"Um... According to the latest news we got from the organizing committee, the commander of this exercise will play the role of the captain of the Laffite squadron. Although he will not directly participate in the battle, he will be responsible for commanding the battle."

Everyone was silent for a while, and then someone weakly raised his hand and asked:

"Well...is it really not a shady thing for the commander to personally go to sea and command?"

If a KanColle had done something like this, I'm afraid someone would have jumped out by now to criticize the event organizing committee.

But Lu Xiuyuan is the commander after all, and he still has to give the commander face.

Qingye coughed twice and said, "First of all, the final right of interpretation of this exercise belongs to the event organizing committee."

"Secondly, according to the information I have learned, the commander's participation in the exercise has already been reported in advance."

"The organizing committee believes that letting the commander lead the fleet in combat will help the commander recover from his illness and help him regain his lost memories."

"Although it may be a little unfair to let the commander take charge personally, after all, this is also to help the commander recover his lost memories, so it can be considered a trade-off."

"Exercises are held every year, but the longer the commander's memory is delayed, the harder it may be to recover. I hope everyone understands this."

The people in the audience looked at each other, and after a brief conversation between two or three people, they nodded in unison.

Although having one more person in command is definitely a bit unfair.

But Hong Kong is, after all, a society based on personal relationships, and there is no need to take the gains and losses of certain interests so seriously.

And this is also to help the commander regain his lost memories. If it is for the sake of the commander's recovery, then competition exercises are secondary. Whether it can help the commander regain his past memories is the main task of this exercise.

What's more, whether it was the final reward of this exercise or the lottery reward in the auditorium last time, which was almost like a welfare distribution, the prizes were all provided free of charge by the commander.

So it is better for everyone to turn a blind eye to this matter.

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This is Team Rafi.

The six-member team arrived at the birth point arranged for them by referee Gridley in groups of two.

At the same time, Gridley also brought the final lineup of this opponent, Sardinia.

It was exactly as Lu Xiuyuan guessed, it was indeed the national team.

Flagship: Vittorio Veneto.

The main ship girls are Empire and Marco Polo, and the vanguard ship girls are Zara, Gorizia, and Attilio Regolo.

What was slightly unexpected to Lu Xiuyuan was the venue of the exercise.

The exercise site is an archipelago with many small islands scattered in the middle of the sea. Other than that, it is an unobstructed sea.

There was nothing much to say about the archipelago terrain venue. What surprised Lu Xiuyuan was the scale of the venue.

The scale is really too small, Lu Xiuyuan called it a "bathtub" venue.

He specifically asked the referee Gridley and learned that the scale of this exercise venue was only 24km*24km.

This is almost a quarter of the area of ​​Richelieu and his team's previous venue.

In the last round, North Carolina was able to achieve an outstanding result of hitting the target thirty kilometers away by relying on its ultra-long range.

But if the venue is changed to the current archipelago venue, it would be almost impossible to do so because the venue does not allow it.

Without considering the diagonal, the distance between the two ends of the map is only 24km, which is the range that most battleship main guns can cover.

The map is too small, it's completely a bayonet map, so there is no need to deliberately pursue the range of the main gun.

In this game, both teams only have one point that is automatically occupied at the start of the game.

However, this point is not an ordinary point, but a base point.

Once the base point is successfully occupied by the enemy, other factors will not be considered and the team will be directly declared the loser.

The small venue, the archipelago venue, and the fact that they would win by occupying the point all combined together. Lu Xiuyuan could foresee that this exercise would end very quickly.

He released his white F2A Buffalo. As the commander directly involved in this exercise, Lu Xiuyuan was subject to restrictions on the use of carrier-based aircraft.

His carrier-based aircraft will not be attacked by Veneto and the others, but the carrier-based aircraft can only hover near the ship girls of their own squadron and cannot provide additional visual intelligence.

Although there were restrictions, Lu Xiuyuan could understand it. After all, this was also to maintain the fairness of the exercise as much as possible.

Soon after, referee Gridley blew the whistle and the drill officially began.

"Akira! Stop the boat where it is!"

Just as the race started, while the rest of the team was preheating the boiler to start, Lu Xiuyuan suddenly stopped Xin Tiao Qian who was about to start, "Wait for the shells to land and quickly start to move to the left."

The girl standing on the giant monster's head was stunned for a moment. She subconsciously asked: "What shells? Where are the shells? Commander, what are you talking about..."

Before Akane Shinjo could finish her words, the next second, eighteen semi-armor-piercing shells hit the sea in front of the girl, and the explosion of the fireworks splashed up high columns of water.

Looking at the water column rising high in front of her and splashing her clothes, Xinjo Akane secretly thanked her lucky stars that she didn't have time to start talking to the commander just now. If she had been a little later, she would have been hit by this number of semi-armor-piercing shells, and her ship's equipment durability would have been reduced by at least a quarter.

"Nice! Commander."

Xin Tiao Qian gave Lu Xiuyuan a thumbs up: "Although the commander has lost his memory, he is still quite capable. If the commander hadn't reminded me just now, I would have moved forward. Now I'm probably hit by a bullet."

"Basic exercises are not bad." Lu Xiuyuan said.

"But coming to the point, Commander, how did you know in advance that the other side would fire at me?" asked Akane Shinjo.

How do you know?

This was what Lu Xiuyuan guessed based on the previous exercise of Richelieu and the others.

There are six people in the Laffite team, except for Akane Shinjo, whose ship's equipment is a monster and cannot be hidden by the Sea Soul camouflage at all, so she simply did not prepare the Sea Soul camouflage.

In the previous game, Frederick the Great of the Iron Blood Team and her team's Mechanical Dragon Sea Soul camouflage could not be hidden either.

The concealment of the Monster Ship Suit and the Mechanical Dragon Ship Suit is almost non-existent.

Therefore, in the previous exercise, Richelieu's team actually discovered the positions of the Emperor and other ship girls with mechanical dragons at the beginning of the game, but because the venue was too large and the main gun's range was not enough, they had to wait until they sailed a certain distance and reached the main gun's range before starting the battle.

But the venue in this game is different. The venue is too small, like a bathtub, and the battleship's main gun range can almost cover the entire venue.

Therefore, Lu Xiuyuan had reason to conclude that at the beginning of the game, when Xin Tiao Qian's speed had not yet been increased, she would be the first to encounter the bombardment of the opponent's battleships without any concealment ability.

And in fact it was just as Lu Xiuyuan expected.

"There's no time to explain. We'll talk after this is over."

There was no time to explain now. Lu Xiuyuan ordered, "Qian, while they are still reloading after firing, you should have seen the flash of fire when they fired just now, right?"

Shinjo Akane nodded.

"Then what are you still standing there for? Pull out your 460mm naval gun and give it a good blast!"

180-Quick Decision

Xin Tiao Qian immediately opened fire in retaliation.

The 460mm naval gun with the largest caliber in the port area is extremely powerful. Even if this gun can only be regarded as a low-quality gun, its caliber is large enough after all, and if it hits something, it will still deduct a lot of the durability of the ship's equipment.

However...perhaps because this gun is a replica, many parts were replaced with non-original parts made by Akashi. Compared with the original version on Musashi, this inferior 460 not only has lower penetration and power, but also lower accuracy of the shells.

The impact of low precision is slightly greater.

In this round of salvo fired by Akane Shinjo, the nine shells were relatively concentrated when they were fired, but as the shells flew farther and farther, by the time they reached Marco Polo's position opposite, they were already "scattered like flowers from the sky."