Chapter 133: Joint Exercise

Time flew by, and soon it was time for vacation.

During this period, Qinglong also delivered the Grand Fleet's registration certificate and the Grand Fleet commander's credentials to Qin Ge. However, as for the credentials for others to join the Grand Fleet, they would have to go to the Maritime Affairs Bureau for registration after graduation.

Even so, those people were very pleased to see Qin Ge's Star Sea Grand Fleet certificate and his Grand Fleet commander's credentials on his hand.

Because this meant that as soon as they graduated they could join the Star Sea Grand Fleet, and they were also among the first to join the Grand Fleet, making them senior figures.

And on the final day, to assess the training results of this period, Qin Ge organized a joint exercise. The training pitted Li Chenming and his six companions against Qin Ge's single‑person fleet.

"Instructor Qin Ge, don't lose too badly later," Wang Yueqin said with a smile before the battle began.

Qin Ge laughed, "I'm the one who should say that—you guys had better not lose too badly later."

"We've trained together for so many days; I also want to see how formidable Instructor Qin Ge is!" Zhang Yingwei said with a laugh.

"Don't underestimate them; facing us is a currently famous tactical master, and Instructor Qin Ge also has a fully trained Guanghui as his trump card." Chen Bo Jun said.

"Hehe, don't worry too much; I won't bring out Guanghui unless all six of my shipgirls are sunk." Qin Ge said to the few.

"That's good; otherwise, as soon as we went out we'd face a fully trained carrier shipgirl, and we wouldn't even need to fight." Li Chenming said happily.

"Alright, then we'll each go off to arrange our tactics, and then we'll start the battle." Qin Ge smiled.

"Okay!" Everyone nodded, then took their own shipgirls and separated from Qin Ge.

Qin Ge then clapped his hands at his own shipgirls, saying, "Alright, this battle is basically a sure win for us; they have no air superiority at all, so Banrenma can unleash full firepower."

So your vanguard can use Belfast's smoke shells to gradually advance; when the smoke shells dissipate, retreat back outside their range.

"Understood, Commander." The shipgirls said.

"Alright, go ahead; calculate the shell landing points and don't let near‑miss shells hit." Qin Ge told everyone.

As Banrenma, Belfast, and the others jumped into the water, Li Chenming's side's shipgirls also leapt into the sea, and both sides swam off together toward the distance.

Since it was an exercise, the two teams were not far apart. Thus, after both sides reached their designated positions, Qin Ge began contacting Li Chenming via the communicator.

"Are you ready over there?" Qin Ge asked.

"Ready!" Li Chenming said.

"Well then, let's begin." Qin Ge said, nodding.

"Let's start." Li Chenming said.

Both sides' shipgirls simultaneously received the start order and immediately sprang into action.

Only see Banrenma quickly launching a wave of four carrier aircraft into the air, flying straight toward the enemy camp.

Ling Bo took the lead, dashing swiftly toward the enemy position and quickly using radar to locate them.

"The 90‑degree direction is Atlanta," Ling Bo instantly said over the communicator.

"Understood!" Banrenma nodded, steering the aircraft to avoid the ninety‑degree direction and fly along the forty‑five‑degree direction.

At this moment, Ling Bo had already determined the direction and was preparing to withdraw when countless shells came flying at her position.

Ling Bo retreated at top speed, but it was of no use; the shells were so densely packed that even near‑miss shells exploding nearby would inflict devastating damage on her.

Qin Ge, standing on the shore, rolled his eyes; he had told them to rely on Belfast's smoke shells to push forward, yet he still sent Ling Bo out to scout the direction.

Did he really think the opposing side's one battleship, one heavy cruiser, one light cruiser, and four destroyers were just for show?

Even though Ling Bo had already been judged sunk, the information still reached the whole fleet. Thus Banrenma's carrier aircraft easily evaded the strongest anti‑air fire of Atlanta and dove straight at the rear battleship Nevada.

If Nevada had anti‑air guns, Banrenma might have had to use torpedo planes to drop bombs from afar, but according to Qin Ge's information, Chen Bo Jun had invested all his supplies into Nevada's main gun, so its anti‑air guns were still only the initial T1 white ship equipment.

Now Banrenma's carrier aircraft are the golden Sea Venom, the purple F4U Sea Devil, and torpedo‑plane Saury; therefore Nevada's anti‑air guns inflict only very limited damage on Banrenma's aircraft.

Thus, in an instant, four 500‑pound aerial bombs and two volleys of torpedoes alternately struck Nevada; because Nevada's speed is slow, it fully absorbed this barrage from Banrenma.

Such damage‑overflowing attack directly caused Nevada to be judged sunk. The carrier aircraft then circled back, flew up to Banrenma's airspace, turned into arrows, and landed in Banrenma's hands.

Since the carrier aircraft suffered no damage, Banrenma again pulled an arrow from the bow, shot it into the sky, and then—uh—launched four carrier aircraft once more toward the distant fleet.

At this point, since Nevada had been judged sunk, the enemy's long‑range firepower was now ineffective. Thus Belfast, Nengdai, and the others pressed forward, and just about when they entered the enemy's range—

A white smoke shell burst open around Belfast, and thick smoke instantly filled the nearby sea area where Belfast was; because they lost their target, the enemy's advance could only halt.

However, at this moment Banrenma's carrier aircraft had already arrived above Erwin; after dropping four aerial bombs, a salvo of torpedoes also surged toward Erwin's position.

The sky‑shaking explosion sounded at this moment, and Erwin was directly judged sunk. At this time, thanks to the directional guidance from Banrenma's carrier aircraft, Weineituo had already aimed its guns at Atlanta's direction.

Several turrets opened fire simultaneously; the sky‑blazing flames carried the shells speeding toward Atlanta's direction. Amid a series of water‑column explosions, Atlanta was hit by five shells at once and directly judged sunk.

After Atlanta was sunk, Banrenma's carrier aircraft fluttered like flies above the enemy fleet's heads; although the lower shipgirls found them extremely annoying, they could do nothing about those aircraft.

By then the outcome was settled; thereafter, several shipgirls took turns coordinating with Banrenma's carrier aircraft to advance and carry out the slaughter.

In the end, the exercise concluded successfully; Qin Ge's fleet lost one destroyer, Ling Bo, while the opposing fleet was completely wiped out.

As both sides' shipgirls rode the waves back to the quay, Li Chenming and his companions also brought their shipgirls and walked over toward where Qin Ge was.