Chapter 215

Looking at Aurora chatting with everyone, Qin Ge didn't even smile slightly, then turned and walked to the side of the construction device.

So far, he has summoned seven shipgirls, among whom three are aircraft carriers, including both regular and light carriers; there is one battleship, one submarine, one destroyer, and one light cruiser.

Adding his original shipgirls, he actually already has eighteen shipgirls. However, due to the submarine's nature, it cannot advance together with the fleet, and furthermore Guanghui is already maxed out, so Qin Ge decided to build two more.

He decided that these two shipgirls would be one destroyer or light cruiser, and the other would be a heavy cruiser.

However, thinking about the probability inside the heavy construction device, he couldn't help but scratch his head. It wouldn't be that another battleship would come out, right? If another battleship did come out, I would have five battleships, matching the number of aircraft carriers.

Thus Qin Ge quickly shook his head, saying, "What, another battleship?"

Although he thought that way, construction still had to be done. Thus Qin Ge decided to take a gamble, betting that this time a heavy cruiser would come out, because he currently only has Ou Gen Qin Wang as a heavy cruiser; if this continued, his front-line firepower would be somewhat worrying.

Immediately Qin Ge picked up two Wisdom Cubes and 1500 units of supplies, hesitated a moment but still placed them into the heavy construction device; after all, a Bisimai had already appeared, he didn't believe another battleship would appear, so thinking this, he pressed the start button.

In an instant, the construction device began to vibrate, emitting a booming sound. Qing Ge's heart also rose, constantly staring at the construction device's screen, hoping for a time point of one or two hours.

Or perhaps this time it truly was the goddess of fate playing a joke on him; when the vibration stopped, the screen displayed a time that left him speechless.

4:5:00!

Qin Ge looked at that time, reached out and slapped his own forehead, thinking he shouldn't have gambled; a heavy cruiser, such a thing, is really too hard to get.

Later, noticing Qin Ge's odd state, the Prince of Wales and Yixian walked over to his side.

Yixian looked at the time point, smiling and saying, "Four hours five minutes, this time point definitely indicates a battleship. Let me think, at this time point there should be White Eagle's Big Seven and Sakura Empire's Ise-class, both very powerful battleships."

I don't know why Commander Qin Ge would look so disappointed.

"No, because this time I prepared to summon a heavy cruiser, since I already have four battleships, but I didn't expect this attempt to still yield a battleship.

"So now I have five battleships, but my heavy cruisers are only Ou Gen Qin Wang." Qin Ge said helplessly.

"Hehe, this is still the first time I've heard someone complain about having too many capital ships." Yixian couldn't help laughing, saying to Qin Ge, "If other commanders heard you say that, they'd surely kill you."

"Well, I'm not being pretentious; I'm considering that if I rely on aircraft carriers for combat, then I must definitely restrain or eliminate external enemies."

"But now that battleships are relatively numerous, I can only occupy the medium-to-long range advantage." Qin Ge said to Yixian.

"Hearing you say that, Qin Ge, I seem to have understood something." Yixian said to Qin Ge, "Do you think that battleships mainly rely on long-range gunfire, while light cruisers and destroyers belong to the fleet's escort ships or reconnaissance ships?"

"Isn't that so?" Qin Ge wondered.

Yixian and the Prince of Wales exchanged a glance, then solemnly said to Qin Ge, "This point is wrong, or rather, it has a loophole."

"Ah?" Qin Ge exclaimed in surprise, "How could that be?"

"You forgot a crucial point: although your world's tactics are indeed formidable, your world's battleships are all hulls; at sea, whether turning or moving turrets, they are very slow."

"That's why light cruisers, heavy cruisers, or destroyers are needed for escort duties. However, in this world, these do not impose such great restrictions on our shipgirls."

"Think back carefully: in the Commander Academy, doesn't Maryland dislike long-range duels with others? Instead, she prefers close-quarters combat with other ships." Yixian reminded Qin Ge.

"Well... seems to be like that." Qin Ge pondered a bit, then said to Yixian.

"So, each shipgirl's personality differs, resulting in different combat styles."

"Although they are called shipgirls, incarnations of battleships, in actual combat they are the ones who wield battleship power, not the battleships themselves; I hope you can understand this." Yixian said to Qin Ge.

What Yixian said was somewhat roundabout, but Qin Ge nevertheless understood the meaning she wanted to convey.

"Shipgirl, shipgirl," he had always understood them as girls who are incarnations of battleships. But today Yixian told him that shipgirls are not girls who are incarnations of battleships, but girls who wield battleship power.

"Therefore, in battle she may not necessarily fight in the manner of a battleship. If I continue to arrange deployments solely according to battleship methods, it would greatly suppress their innate power."

"They are the ones who wield battleship power, fighting with a person's thoughts. For example, Nengdai: although she can fire guns and torpedoes at long range, she prefers to close in on the opponent and then directly slay them with her long blade."

"And Qin Ge's previous deployments indeed suppressed this ability of Nengdai, completely failing to unleash her full potential."

"In an instant, Qin Ge seemed to have figured it all out, nodding to Yixian and saying, 'Thank you, Commander, for clearing up my confusion; I seem never to have unleashed their full power.'"

"It's fine; this mistake is essentially a shift in perspective. Since you previously lived in your own world, it's inevitable that you'd use your world's ideas to deploy this world's shipgirls."

"So now you must break convention, use this world's way, then combine that world's tactics to fight; only then is it a true strong-strong union." Yixian smiled.

"I understand; from now on I will definitely communicate with them promptly, choose the combat styles they like, and arrange battle deployments accordingly." Qin Ge nodded.

"Hehe, then come greet this shipgirl of yours; I believe she will certainly help you in future battles." Yixian said.

"Yes!" Qin Ge nodded, picked up the Rapid Construction Tool placed at his feet, put it into the construction device's slot, and held down the start button beside it.

"In an instant the construction device began to vibrate, and the time on the screen instantly cleared… (To be continued)"