Elder brother's garrison

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"Uh..." The ship girls were speechless.

“Guam and Alaska also expect us to give it our all.” Baltimore’s voice came from the group. She said to the others, “After all, the reason we are participating in this exercise is to give Guam and Alaska the opportunity to showcase their ship equipment performance. Our offensive is also an essential part of it.”

“That makes sense. If we let the water flow, what’s the difference between us and driving in wooden stakes?” Pompeii nodded in the group. “In that case, we might as well call Montana over.”

"Hahaha, so charge! The only time we held back was when we were selecting the crew! Not bringing Changchun and the others was the greatest mercy we could show!" Pompeii shouted, raising his ship's rigging. "Besides, Guam and Alaska are missile ships, so you can't blame us for not giving them a chance. If we had given them the chance and let them launch their missiles so easily, we would have been wiped out in no time!"

"Hey, right, why haven't Guam and Alaska been using missiles? They've been using ship guns the whole time!" one of the ship girls suddenly realized.

"Your reaction is far too slow..." The other ship girls looked at her helplessly, then explained with a smile, "Launching missiles also requires a stable environment. After all, they are such delicate things. They can't be used like ship guns just by feel. We've been chasing and attacking those two, and the field is only so big. It's just that they didn't have a chance to use their missile rigs."

“Unless they dare to risk injury and force their way into using the missile ship equipment,” Zara said to Guam and Alaska in the distance. “But if they do that, it means they’ll become sitting ducks, and our attacks will instantly blast them into moderate or greater damage the moment they pause while using the missile ship equipment.”

"It's really unfair for missile ships to participate in exercises with ordinary ship girls... This ordinary training ground simply can't take full advantage of the missile ships' ridiculously long strike range..."

One of the ship girls made a comment.

The other ship girls remained silent, indicating their agreement.

But despite their approval, the ship girls showed no mercy.

As mentioned before, the only area where this "mild" exercise was relaxed was that they did not bring Changchun and Jinan when forming up. Once they were on the sea at full strength, there was no room for relaxation.

Seeing that Guam and Alaska were being pushed to the brink, with even the smallest wounds on their ship rigging sparking, and it seemed that another wave of shelling would put them under medium damage, Baltimore gave an order to her crew. The ship girls immediately formed a formation and rushed toward Guam and Alaska, raising their cannons to launch a final attack.

"Be careful of their final counterattack. After all, they are missile ships. With their last bit of strength, they can easily launch a few missiles and take out some of our men, even if they are injured!"

"Whoever gets hit by the missile is just unlucky!"

In Baltimore's formation, the ship girls called out to each other, and their formation immediately spread out and dispersed.

In the blink of an eye, Guam and Alaska were already within the attack range of the Baltimore team.

The ship cannons in the hands of the Baltimore fleet's ship girls gradually turned red and hot, and skill effects flashed one after another, as if a round of shells was about to burst out.

It was at this very moment.

As observed by the ship girls of the Baltimore fleet, Guam and Alaska, who seemed to have reached the final stage, suddenly stopped their escape at that moment.

Across a long stretch of water, the eyes of Guam and Alaska met those of Baltimore for a fleeting moment, filled with a high and certain fighting spirit.

From the perspective of the ship girl squad led by Baltimore, Guam and Alaska had completely given up on escaping and dodging. Facing the final and most intense attack, they actually deployed their missile ship equipment on the spot.

In an instant, the blue and pink ship-mounted metal armor fully deployed.

The shell launchers gleamed brightly from their bodies.

"Here it comes! It really is the final counterattack!" The ship girls in Baltimore's group immediately shouted, "It's okay, Guam and Alaska can only take away half of our people at most! We'll bombard them into medium damage, and even if they take a round of missiles, the rest of us will be enough to take down the two of them who are in medium damage!"

"Come on, let's explode at them!"

Baltimore and her ship girls were completely fearless; they didn't even glance at the missile launchers from Guam and Alaska.

But at this time...

Just as their naval cannons were aimed at the Guam sisters, and flames erupted from the cannons...

An inexplicable, strange, and particularly unsettling sense of crisis arose in their hearts.

The ship girls present suddenly felt a jolt in their hearts.

Eh?

Wait a minute...

What's with this feeling of impending doom, like I'm about to be instantly killed...?

The ship girls were taken aback.

At the same moment, Guam and Alaska finally activated their missile launchers.

Swoosh s ...

Fireworks, like rockets shooting into the sky, roared across the sea.

Blue and pink missiles spewed from missile launchers in Guam and Alaska.

One, two, three, four, five, six...

From the perspective of the ship girls on the Baltimore side, Guam and Alaska seemed to have suddenly "exploded," with a large number of missiles flying out of their missile launchers without restraint. They then split into six streams, hurtling towards the ship girls present.

"----ah???"

"—Wait a minute!!!"

"This isn't what we agreed on..."

Before the ship girls on the Baltimore side could even utter a complete scream, the whistling missile had already passed right through the shells they had fired and arrived right next to them in an instant.

The ship girls wanted to react, trying to dodge using their extensive combat experience.

However, the shells themselves have extremely high speed and accuracy. Even if the ship girls were only startled by the large number of missiles for less than a tenth of a second, the time left for them to dodge was completely exhausted.

The number of missiles launched was also...

That's too much...

So shipborne missile systems can... launch so many missiles at once...?

In the final moments, the ship girls on the Baltimore side looked at the missiles that were already flying towards their faces, and this sentence echoed in their minds.

Boom boom boom boom boom! ! !

On the sea, six bursts of flame erupted from each member of the Baltimore team.

At the same time, the shells fired by Baltimore and the others also hit Guam and Alaska, who did not dodge at all. Their bodies were instantly covered by a large number of shells, and their newly modified and still shiny ship equipment immediately emitted a series of twisting and tearing sounds, with metal fragments flying all over the sky.

After both sides launched self-destructive attacks.

The flames on the water died down, and the six ship girls on Baltimore's side lay motionless on the water, heavily damaged.

Guam and Alaska emerged from the smoke and fire carrying their damaged ship equipment. They were also in a state of moderate damage, their beautiful figures covered with tattered ship armor, and their snow-white skin was covered with patches of soot and oil, making them look somewhat disheveled.

However, they didn't seem to care about that at the moment.

Guam and Alaska raised their arms and wiped the dust off their noses with the backs of their hands. They looked at their motionless opponents on the water, turned their heads and smiled at each other.

Chapter 3875 Advantages and Disadvantages

As Guam and Alaska emerged from the fireworks, this "mild" exercise finally came to a close and drew to a close.

Despite being at a severe disadvantage, with almost no chance of winning, the two ship girls, Guam and Alaska, miraculously managed to wipe out the entire Baltimore ship girl squad with a single missile salvo—the only missile they used in the entire battle—achieving a stunning and unexpected annihilation!

And it's worth mentioning that... before Guam and Alaska used their missile weapons, the vast majority of the ship girl squad that Baltimore belonged to was at almost full strength!

Two against six, a swift and decisive victory?

shore.

Xiaobai stared in surprise at the badly damaged ship girls lying haphazardly on the water's surface, her gaze then drawn to two figures standing in the middle of the water.

"Wow... the battle situation... has suddenly reversed completely..."

"Huh? Why does the Admiral look so incredulous?" Yubari, who was standing to the side, happily turned off the camera. After putting the camera away, she turned to look at Shiro, who was staring blankly at the sea, and suddenly chuckled. "Admiral, didn't you just confidently tell me that Guam and Alaska would definitely win? ... How come now that they actually won, it's you who can't accept it."

“It’s not that I can’t accept it…” Xiaobai slowly came back to her senses after hearing Yubari’s teasing, and smiled helplessly at Yubari. “I just didn’t expect this exercise to end like this… Hmm… It’s quite a surprise.”

"Right, right?" Yubari nodded. "Admiral, what do you think of Guam and Alaska?"

"Judging from your expression, Yubari, you should have already figured out their performance..." Shiro looked at Yubari, thought seriously for a while, and then slowly said, "The combat methods used by Guam and Alaska to win the exercise, especially that astonishing number of missiles at the end, didn't seem to be due to their ship equipment skills, but rather to their ship equipment performance... But I haven't seen this strange characteristic on missile battleships or missile destroyers... So is it related to their special ship type?"

"Ah, as expected of the Admiral, you saw the most important thing at a glance." Yubari was pleased with Shiro's statement. She nodded and gave Shiro a thumbs up in praise. "Admiral, Admiral, your vision in the field of ship girl ship equipment... especially in the field of missile ship equipment, may have surpassed 99.9% of the people in this world."

"After all, we have a lot of missile-equipped ship girls..." Xiaobai scratched his head and smiled a little embarrassedly, "So, that sudden missile firing just now was indeed related to the ship types of Guam and Alaska?"

“That’s true.” Yubari nodded, her eyes narrowing slightly as she looked at the Guam sisters carrying the Baltimore group back from the sea. “In the initial modification plan, I actually intended to modify the ship equipment of Guam and Alaska into normal missile battleships, but… this is, after all, a modification of ship girls… Although the ship equipment is a weapon made of exotic metals and special machinery, it is ultimately something connected to the ship girl’s body and mind, and cannot be regarded as a complete machine.”

"Is this your reason for turning Guam and Alaska into large cruisers?" Upon hearing this, Xiaobai's curiosity immediately piqued.

“Yes.” Yubari put his hands behind his back and chuckled at Shiro. “During the data monitoring and ship equipment check-up before the conversion, I found that the ship equipment of Guam and Alaska is not actually inclined towards missile battleships. Their bodies and combat awareness seem to be more suitable for a kind of accumulation and burst type of ship equipment conversion... If we force them to be converted into missile battleships, I estimate that even if the conversion is completed, their performance afterward will be the same as during the battlecruiser era. There will be a sense of constraint and restriction on their bodies, and they will not be able to exert their due talents and strengths.”

"As expected of you, Yubari." Shiro gave Yubari a thumbs up.

"After all, this is a ship equipment modification prepared for our own sisters, so we still need to be careful." Yubari accepted Shiro's thumbs up with satisfaction, and continued to say to Shiro, "In short, after designing a modification plan that is more suitable for their bodies and combat awareness, the ship type that was successfully modified is now the missile large cruiser, also known as the missile large cruiser."

"At first glance, this type of ship does look quite similar to a missile battleship."

“After all, they are both large ships,” Yubari said to Shiro. “However, through the battle just now, Admiral, you should have noticed that the characteristics of these two ship types are quite different in actual combat.”

"Hmm..." Xiaobai nodded, "The missile launchers of the guided cruiser cannot launch an opening attack."

“That won’t work.” Yubari crossed his arms and thought for a while before explaining to Shiro, “The missile launchers that can carry out the opening attack are the type used by missile battleships and missile destroyers. This has nothing to do with technical issues; it’s simply a reflection of one aspect of the ship’s equipment performance.”

"Why not?"

“Ship equipment always has its own focus,” Yubari said to Shiro. “If we compare ship girls’ ship equipment to starting attribute points, then all ship equipment has a fixed value for attribute points. How to allocate these attribute points and exert different combat strengths is the interpretation of ship equipment. After all, there can’t be an all-around ship equipment in this world that is good at gunfire, torpedoes, and aircraft, has superb defense, super high speed, and is proficient in anti-submarine warfare and missiles, right? Ship equipment with strong gunfire will inevitably be weaker in other aspects. Ship girls who are good at anti-submarine warfare will be less accurate in controlling carrier-based aircraft than other ship girls. If one side is better, the other side will be weaker. This is what the ‘starting attribute points’ determine… Even Missouri and Jean Bart, although their strength increased after obtaining missile ship equipment, their original gunfire strength was definitely weaker than before. You have to give up something to gain something, and so on.”

Yubari spoke at length to Shiro.

“I see. I’ve heard this theory mentioned before…” Xiaobai nodded, and asked Yubari curiously, “In that case, since both guided missile cruisers are large ships, they must have sacrificed their opening missiles for some kind of capability, right?”

"As expected of the Admiral, he understands immediately." Yubari nodded to Shiro with considerable satisfaction.

"Then what is the special ability of the Great Patrol?" Xiaobai asked, looking at the sea.

"The Admiral just witnessed the special capabilities of guided missile cruisers," Yubari said to Shiro. "While guided missile cruisers don't possess the high firepower of missile battleships and can't launch opening missile attacks, their missile bays have a larger and more extensive capacity... In other words, they can launch an enormous number of missiles at once!"

When Yubari said her last sentence, she put her hands on her hips with considerable pride.

And indeed, Yubari's words proved true.

In the battle just now, Guam and Alaska, having remained silent until the moment they made their move, amazed everyone. With just one wave of missiles, they overwhelmed Baltimore's six-person ship girl squad with an astonishing numerical advantage.

This is the advantage of an overwhelming attack frequency.

Although guided missiles are more powerful, have a longer range, and are more effective against single targets, when it comes to "mowing down enemies" and "fighting outnumbered opponents," guided missile cruisers are probably the strongest ship type in the world the moment they release their missiles...

The terrifying rain of missiles made even Xiaobai's heart skip a beat while watching the battle, let alone the people in Baltimore and the others.

Two against six...

Thinking of this, Xiao Bai couldn't help but smile.

No wonder Guam and Alaska weren't afraid of fighting two against six before; in fact, they were even eager to try. It turns out that the grass-cutting environment is exactly the combat environment that the cruiser is best at.

This is their specialty.

If the scene just now had been handled by a missile battleship, although the outcome would most likely have been the same, the battle would certainly have lacked the shock and spectacle of the final desperate counterattacks in Guam and Alaska.

"Great Inspector, that's really interesting." After listening to Yubari's words, Shiro nodded and smiled at Yubari.

"Well, that's not entirely true. Actually, during the recent exercise, I noticed some minor issues as well," Yubari said thoughtfully, stroking her chin. "The moment the guided missile cruisers release their missiles is indeed quite terrifying, but they have lost the crucial opening missile capability. At the same time, their shipboard capabilities can't support them launching ultra-long-range missiles from a safe location like the Missouri and Jean Bart. This means that before they can use their missile shipboard capabilities, they need to face enemy attacks head-on, which makes their output environment much more difficult."

“That makes sense.” Xiaobai nodded in agreement.

Xiaobai had witnessed the battle just now.

The guided cruiser is a special type of ship with both very obvious advantages and disadvantages.

Just as Yubari analyzed.

In battle, having the initiative is very important.

After all, for ship girls, attacking is, in a sense, defense.

To deliberately relinquish the offensive rhythm and place oneself under enemy fire is an extremely dangerous and daring decision.

For example, in the battle just now, if the people fighting Guam and Alaska had not been Baltimore and her group, but a proper battleship fleet from a rookie naval base, then Guam and Alaska would probably have been taken down by those battleships one by one before they even had a chance to use their own missile ship equipment.

Chapter 3876 Idol Admiral

A ship equipped with missiles that has lost the opening missile is certainly less threatening than a ship equipped with the opening missile.

In Xiaobai's opinion, as the most "classic" missile ship types, the opening missile capability of missile battleships and missile destroyers is their most prominent and strongest characteristic. Putting aside everything else, just based on this unparalleled first-strike capability, they are very likely to continue to occupy the mainstream position of missile ships in the future.

Of course.

This doesn't mean that the guided patrol has no role to play.

Even with the loss of its opening missile capability, the advantages of the guided cruise missile remain exceptionally prominent.

At least in Xiaobai's opinion, as long as the combat environment is suitable, guided cruisers will still be the strongest ship type in certain specific situations. They are just not as versatile as the former two.

Ok……

Speaking of which...

Compared to so-called strength...