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

Baltimore's location is closest to the two little girls and can provide the most firepower support to them.

But at this moment, Attilio Regolo suddenly appeared and wanted to torpedo Baltimore.

If Baltimore turned his guns to help Befa and the others, he would definitely be taken away by Attilio Regolorep.

If they don't help, Xiao Beifa and the other man will be in great danger.

"Commander, who should I help now?" Baltimore was unsure.

She knew that in this situation, no matter who she helped, it might be of no use.

Even without the intervention of a third party, she could not guarantee that she would be able to deal with Attilio Regolo's torpedo attack in a one-on-one situation.

If they go out to rescue Xiao Beifa and the others, the angle provided by the two Zara sisters is not enough. With her firepower, it is impossible to sink two heavy cruisers head-on in a short period of time. It will take at least several minutes, and Xiao Beifa and the others cannot hold on for that long!

"Baltimore, come out and fight them!"

"What about Attilio Regolo?"

"Ignore her! Rescue Rafi and the others first!"

Lu Xiuyuan quickly made remedial measures: "Xian-chan, see if you can use your 460 cannon to hit her and Zara and the others!"

"Ai-chan, immediately transform into an aircraft carrier and send a squadron of torpedo planes to come over for support!"

In fact, the battleship that can best support Xiao Beifa and the others at the moment is Miss Nagashima, who is pressing forward to Kashan.

She and her sister Zara were separated by almost a mountain.

But unfortunately, Miss Nagashima's hangar was empty and she could hardly save herself, let alone rescue Xiao Beifa and the others.

Baltimore was equipped with an improved boiler and got off to a fast start, getting out of the mountain in no time.

The three triple-mounted 203mm turrets on its body fired hot high-explosive shells at the Zara sisters at close range.

Since the distance was quite close, even though Zara and the others were protected by smoke, with the help of radar and hydrophone, they could hit at least 7 out of 9, 8 out of 9, or even 9 out of 9 in each round.

"Sister Zara, what should we do now? Should we deal with Baltimore first?" Gorizia asked.

"No, let's deal with Rafi and the others first!" Zara said, "Let Baltimore attack. She can't penetrate our armored core area from this angle. Don't think about using torpedoes to deal with her. Just play it safe."

Zara used the Hindenburg incident in the previous game as a lesson.

In the previous round, Hindenburg was eager to use a torpedo to eliminate Jean Bart, but he gave the angle and was almost carried away in one round.

But now, they have the advantage, and steady progress is the most important thing.

Zara and Pola immediately fired a round of semi-armor-piercing shells at little Beifa in the smoke. At close range, little Beifa had almost no skills in accelerating and decelerating to dodge the shells.

After just one round of salvos, Xiao Beifa entered the mid-break state.

Although in the local battlefield, Xiao Beifa and her team are temporarily three to one, but the total durability of their ship equipment is not as good as that of Zara and her team.

Seeing that the durability of the ship's equipment replacement was not having a good effect, and Attilio Regolo was getting closer and closer to Baltimore, Baltimore was about to be sunk.

Lu Xiuyuan realized that he couldn't go on like this.

At this time, Zara and the other man's train cigarettes were almost used up, the smoke was slowly dissipating, and the figures of the two gradually appeared in sight.

Lu Xiuyuan suddenly had an idea and shouted, "Xiao Beifa, Lafei, put out the smoke together. Xiao Beifa will be on the outside, and Lafei will be on the inside. Move to Zara's side and use armor-piercing bullets to hit the side of their superstructure!"

When the angle is right, the damage of armor-piercing shells is significantly higher than that of high-explosive shells. This is no longer the time to throw garbage at each other from a long distance.

Anyway, Laffite and Little Beifa will be sunk in a short time, so it is better to maximize the output before they are sunk.

Little Befa immediately emitted smoke and sailed to the side of the Zara sisters, and its small-caliber armor-piercing shells fiercely hit the opponent's side superstructure.

"Xiao Beifa, slow down and dodge the shells!" Lu Xiuyuan shouted.

"But, master, I can't avoid Sister Zara's cannon at this distance. I'm about to be sunk by her!" Little Befa said anxiously.

"I'm not asking you to hide from her cannon, I'm asking you to hide from Veneto's cannon!"

The situation on the battlefield is quite chaotic. If you are deeply involved in the battle, you may ignore the existence of other opponents.

There was a fierce artillery battle on the front line. Lu Xiuyuan's carrier-based aircraft noticed that Veneto and Marco Polo fired a round of semi-armor-piercing shells at Xiao Beifa's position.

This is not a small or medium caliber naval gun, this is a 381mm naval gun. If it is hit head-on, even if the durability of the small Beifa ship is full, it may be wiped out in one round.

Fortunately, Xiao Beifa reacted quickly enough and accelerated in time to avoid this fatal blow.

However, this could only allow her to survive for a little longer. A few seconds later, Gridley raised the flag and announced that the Little Befa was sunk by Zara.

Little Beifa is slowly "sinking".

After sinking the Little Belfa, the next one was the Lafite. She was a more fragile destroyer and there was no way she could withstand the salvos of semi-armor-piercing shells from two heavy cruisers at the same time.

Lu Xiuyuan looked at the "sinking" Xiao Beifa and suddenly came up with a dirty idea.

"Lafei, hide behind Xiao Beifa and use Xiao Beifa as cover to fight back!"

Such instructions are really a bit outrageous.

Rafi was visibly stunned for a moment, then quickly did as he was told.

The tiny Laffite sailed behind little Beifa. The little girl's tiny hand passed through little Beifa's armpit and poked the pistol-like naval gun out from under the maid's armpit.

She hid behind little Beifa, using his body to block the fire from Zara and the other person.

"Eh!!!!!"

Little Beifa opened his mouth, how can it be like this, Master...

Little Befa had an innocent look on her face, but was suddenly used as a human shield by Lafite. The fireworks exploded on her, staining the little girl's white maid skirt black.

On the other side, the Zara sisters were also stunned.

"Ah... isn't this really cheating? Protest, protest!"

Gorizia immediately raised his hand, signaling referee Gridley to temporarily stop the exercise and expressed his protest.

Gridley quickly brought the chief judge Zhen Hai's reply: "Using the "sunken" comrades as cover is also one of the techniques that can be used in actual combat."

“The protest is therefore futile and the exercise continues.”

Gorizia was a little dumbfounded.

This...although what you said makes sense, I always feel that it seems a bit biased.

Only then did she remember that Zhenhai was the commander's wedding ship.

Could it be that Secretary Zhenhai is protecting her husband?

This can't be the case, right? Gorizia thought, her sister Zara is also your wedding ship, Commander, so you can't favor one over the other, right?

The exercise continues.

Under the crossfire of Rafi and Baltimore, Zara was quickly declared sunk.

At this time, Kizuna Ai's torpedo plane squadron also arrived late and dropped an unavoidable wave of torpedoes on the remaining Gorizia.

"Gorizia, get behind me."

The sunken Zara is putting your skills to good use. You can use your sunken teammates as cover to block shells, so can we use them to block torpedoes, right?

Gorizia hid behind the sunken Zara and blocked the incoming torpedoes.

However, before she could even breathe a sigh of relief, a round of naval gunfire fell from the sky!

Gridley raised the flag: "Xinjo Akane's shells hit the bow of Gorizia, two hits in the armored core area, Gorizia is judged to be sunk."

The 460mm naval gun carried by Akane Shinjo was slow to load, and her round of supporting artillery fire arrived long after Veneto had fired.

"what???"

Gorizia was a little stunned. I was facing the enemy with the bow of my ship, how could it be forcibly hit in the core area?

The 460mm naval gun is indeed terrifying.

Although Zara and Gorizia were successively judged to be sunk, the situation on the Laffey team did not improve.

Because then Attilio Regolo had already charged to the side of Baltimore. Previously, in order to support Rafi and the others, Baltimore had aimed all its guns at Zara. At this moment, Attilio Regolo attacked Zara from behind. She had no time to react and was sunk by a set of quadruple 610mm torpedoes.

A chain reaction ensued.

After Baltimore and Little Befa were successively determined to have sunk, Lu Xiuyuan's team lost their radar position, and Attilio Regolo's train smoke became more unimpeded. She did not choose to fight with the surviving Rafi, but pulled up the smoke and ran towards Miss Long Island hiding behind the mountain.

Attilio Regolo's speed is extremely fast, more than forty knots, a speed that even the boiler equipped on Lafite cannot catch up with.

Soon, Miss Long Island was also sunk by Attilio Regolo.

After achieving two consecutive victories, the little guy did not choose to stop and turn around to join his teammates in attacking Lafite, nor did he have the idea of ​​occupying the point. Instead, he set his sights on Xin Tiao Qian in the backcourt.

The train smoke was moving quickly in the direction of Shinjo Akane.

Laffey wanted to go back to support his teammates. After all, it was quite difficult to counter the destroyer without a radar ship girl.

Lu Xiuyuan stopped Lafei from coming back for help: "Lafei, you continue to sail forward and occupy their position with Layan. Aijiang, you go to the front to press Kashan and fight against the Empire. Pay attention to cover Lafei's fighters. You are our only remaining aircraft carrier now."

"But Attilio..." Rafi wanted to say that if Shinjo Akane was sunk by Attilio Regolo again, then there would be no one in the rear who could stop her from occupying the point.

"No buts. I'll take care of Attilio's side."

Lu Xiuyuan still wants to win, but the situation is now like this. If he plays according to the rules, he will definitely lose. If he wants to win, he must take some risks.

Lu Xiuyuan looked at Xin Tiao Qian. The girl was standing on the tall monster ship, overlooking the train smoke that was heading towards her. She didn't seem nervous at all, but just silently changed the armor-piercing shells in the ship's guns into high-explosive shells to deal with destroyers.

Xin Tiao Qian also looked at Lu Xiuyuan and gave him a reassuring look.

I can only take a gamble, Lu Xiuyuan thought.

Attilio Regolo rushed under the Shinjo Akane's suit with a cigarette in hand. Her figure was too small and seemed insignificant compared to the huge monster suit.

The little girl's tiny body contains infinite power!

The duration of Attilio Regolo's smoke was about to end, and the smoke screen was gradually dissipating. The girl confidently threw out a set of torpedoes that she had just loaded, turned around without looking back, and turned away without looking at the behemoth behind her.

She remembered that the commander once said that a real man never looks back at the explosion!

Um...even though she is a girl, it should be okay for a girl not to look back at the explosion, right?

The little girl thought so, and at the same time imagined how her sister Veneto would praise her after the exercise. After all, she had sunk three warships in a row, which was a very remarkable military achievement.

At this moment, the sound of a torpedo explosion was heard behind him.

Four explosions sounded, and Attilio Regolo knew that all her torpedoes had hit.

However, what puzzled the little girl was...why didn't the referee Gridley raise the flag to indicate that Sister Xin Tiao Qian was sunk by him?

Thinking of this, the little girl turned around.

While he was watching Sister Akane Shinjo standing on the tall monster's head, leaning down and looking at him kindly, at the same time, there were also nine black and thick 460mm gun barrels looking at him.

After a round of deafening artillery fire.

Attilio Regolo was ruled sunk.

The little girl asked in disbelief, "How...how is this possible? Sister Akane Shinjo clearly took four of my torpedoes. She and Sister Veneto had been shelling for so long. How could the durability of her ship's equipment be enough to offset the torpedoes? Gridley, are you mistaken?"

Gridley explained: "The New Tiao Qian's equipment bar carries a repair team and an anti-torpedo bulkhead. According to regulations, the anti-torpedo bulkhead can reduce 30% of torpedo damage. Therefore, Attilio, your torpedo damage is not enough to sink the New Tiao Qian."

Attilio Regolo was a little confused at the moment.

Although she is not a battleship, she understands that in order to pursue output, battleships are usually equipped with super-heavy shells and type 1 armor-piercing shells, which are often called Black Sea shells by commanders.

Even if you don't bring black and white bullets, you will bring a fire control or something.

But I've never heard of a battleship equipped with repair tools and anti-torpedo bulkheads. Isn't that equipment that a vanguard ship girl should carry?

Lu Xiuyuan thought to himself, I'm sorry, little Attilio, I really brought it.

Unlike other teams, whose damage-bearing positions are all heavy cruisers or super cruisers, Lu Xiuyuan's Baltimore glass cannon is useless because it can't bear damage at all, not to mention Xiao Beifa and Lafei. Their small bodies don't look like they can bear damage at first glance.

So Lu Xiuyuan had to innovatively move the task of bearing the damage from the "vanguard ship girl" to the "main ship girl".

If you think about it carefully, the battleship has high durability of equipment, thick armor and large target. Apart from being inflexible, it is simply the best meat shield.

What's more, Xin Tiao Qian also has the "sea lantern attribute", so it would be a waste of her talent not to let her suffer injuries and beatings.

Therefore, the equipment Lu Xiuyuan gave to Xin Tiao Qian were all equipment that increased survivability.

He originally wanted to equip Shinjo Akane with a fire extinguisher and repair tools, but considering that the Sardinian ship almost never fired high-explosive bombs, there was no need for a fire extinguisher, so he temporarily changed it to an anti-torpedo bulkhead, taking advantage of Attilio Regolo.

The situation did not improve much after the sinking of Attilio Regolo.

Because Attilio Rep had lost a lot of durability of the ship's equipment, Akane Shinjo was sunk by Veneto in a bombardment battle shortly afterwards.

The battle situation on the battlefield once again became three against two.