Chapter 25: Changing Ship Equipment

This one is a Sea Spitfire T1 type carrier aircraft, equipped with four 7.7mm machine guns, two 20mm cannons, and one 500lb aerial bomb. While this one is an F4U Corsair T1 type carrier aircraft, equipped with six 12.7mm machine guns and two 500lb aerial bombs. Additionally, this anti-aircraft gun is a quadruple-mounted 28mm 'Chicago Piano' T1 type anti-aircraft gun.

Fushun explained while taking the carrier aircraft and anti-aircraft gun out of the box and placing them in front of Qin Ge and the others.

However, what surprised Qin Ge was not the performance of the carrier aircraft or the anti-aircraft gun, but their core models themselves.

It was a transparent spherical shield about the size of a fist, inside which floated tiny white models of aircraft or anti-aircraft guns. Although I had read about it in detail in the book, seeing it was still my first time.

Anshan saw this and smiled, saying, "It seems Fushun values Qin Ge, the commander, quite a lot; these few carrier aircraft are among the best in the T1 ship equipment core."

"Hehe, after all, we're our own people; if we took out something ordinary, wouldn't it lose face for us commander academy cadets?" Fushun laughed mischievously.

Qin Ge also laughed and thanked, "Then thanks, Fushun." Saying that, he handed two carrier aircraft to the half-beast behind him.

The cores of the two carrier aircraft were taken by the half-beast; in an instant a blue light flashed, and they turned into two arrows. The arrows were very long, and the color of their fletching matched the color of the hairpin on the half-beast's head, both blue.

Then, a blue light flashed on the half-beast's other hand, and her ship equipment great bow was manifested. Above the bow, a red bulkhead below the deck popped down, and an arrow storage appeared. Qin Ge looked over and saw that there was already an arrow inside.

The half-beast happily placed the two blue arrows in the same position as the existing arrow, then closed the bulkhead. She hooked the bowstring, and an arrow identical to the previous one appeared in her hand.

Qin Ge watched this amazing scene, somewhat surprised, and said, "Half-beast, so your arrow storage is actually your hangar!"

The half-beast smiled and nodded, "Exactly, commander. I just turned those two carrier aircraft into arrows and placed them in my hangar. From now on, whenever I want to launch carrier aircraft, I just need to hook the bowstring, and the arrows transformed from the carrier aircraft will naturally appear."

Qin Ge nodded and asked, "Then what if you want to launch several carrier aircraft at once? Do you have to repeatedly draw the bow and shoot arrows?"

The half-beast lightly laughed, "Of course not, commander. I can launch several carrier aircraft with a single arrow shot; one arrow does not represent one aircraft. However, I am still relatively weak now—I can at most simultaneously launch two fighters and one torpedo bomber. But if I reach the breakthrough standard later, I will become stronger and stronger, and the number of aircraft I can launch at once will naturally increase."

Qin Ge suddenly realized, "Ah, that's how it works."

"Hehe, want to go to the training ground and give it a try?" Fushun beside him said with a smile.

"Of course I'll go to the training ground to try, but before that…" Qin Ge smiled slightly, turned his head toward Nengdai, and handed her the anti-aircraft gun core in his hand, saying, "Nengdai, equip this first; later I'll get you a better anti-aircraft gun!"

Nengdai nodded, took the anti-aircraft gun ship equipment core from Qin Ge's hand, and said, "Thank you, commander; please take care of strengthening my combat power."

"Leave it to me!" Qin Ge laughed, "But Nengdai, how exactly do you equip this anti-aircraft gun?"

"Like this." Nengdai said, manifesting the ship equipment; the splendid ship equipment we had seen before appeared once again before everyone. Nengdai directly placed the anti-aircraft gun she held beside the main gun; a flash of blue light passed, and the anti-aircraft gun was embedded beside the main gun, as if it had always belonged there.

"So convenient!" Qin Ge nodded and said, "If it were a prototype battleship, to replace an anti-aircraft gun you would first have to remove the original one, modify it, and then install a suitable anti-aircraft gun. But these ship girls are truly amazing!"

"That said, Nengdai's ship equipment is really pretty." Fushun said somewhat enviously.

"Ship equipment is a tool for combat; beauty is not its purpose, only practicality is best." Anshan said to Fushun from the side.

"Got it, Anshan sister, I'm just sighing a bit; after all, it's really pretty." Fushun shrank his head and said.

Anshan helplessly sighed and said to Qin Ge, "Then Commander Qin Ge, let's go to the training ground together, so your ship girls can quickly become proficient with this new ship equipment."

"Okay!" Qin Ge nodded, "Thank you very much!"

"It's my duty!" Anshan said with a smile, then led Qin Ge and his ship girls, along with Fushun and Taiyuan watching the excitement from the side, toward the training ground.

After leaving the Four Great Guardians' house, everyone walked together toward the training ground.

On the way, Anshan walked and introduced, "In the entire Azure Lane Commander Academy, the training grounds are always in a very important position, because merely studying without combat practice cannot defeat the Sirens. Therefore, in normal times, this place is the liveliest, since through training we can speed up the ship girls' proficiency in mastering their own ship equipment, and also improve the ship girls' own training level."

"I actually read about this in the book; training is a very safe way to increase the ship girls' training level." Qin Ge nodded.

"That's right." Anshan nodded, "Furthermore, the training here is divided into many types: there are one-on-one drills, fleet drills, and also squad drills."

"Oh, I didn't know that; could you explain it to me?" Qin Ge asked Anshan.

"Sure, this will be taught to you specially by me after you start school, but explaining it to you now is no problem." Anshan said.

"The so-called one-on-one training is very common in the Commander Academy, because in the first year most students have only one ship girl, while only a few have two or more, so generally training is conducted in pairs."

"As for fleet training, it is when there are two or more ship girls conducting coordinated training; this kind of training is generally common among second-year students, because they have already completed their initial accumulation outside, so they generally have two or more ship girls."

"As for squad training, it is joint combat training among several commanders. Because outside, many commanders have joined the Grand Fleet or the Front Line Fleet, so coordinated training is very necessary. This kind of squad training not only hones the commanders' command abilities, but also increases the mutual coordination and rapport among commanders, since those who conduct squad training are usually very fixed squads."

"And such squads, after graduation, basically will join the same Grand Fleet, because the longer they cooperate, the better they can display higher strength in battle, gaining the greatest chance of survival!"