Chapter 309: Charge Formation

"This position, now it's quite particular." On the stands, White Eagle's Washington watched Qin Ge's shipgirls' charging positions, and said to her sister North Carolina beside her.

North Carolina nodded, "I really don't know where Commander Qin Ge got these ideas; the spacing between these shipgirls can guarantee they won't be affected by heavy-damage aerial bomb barrages."

Moreover, it also gave the shipgirls ample positions, allowing them to mutually dodge artillery attacks, yet the distance is very close, enabling them to concentrate fire together on the enemy.

This turns both sides' large-scale engagements into separate, zone-based battles, and his shipgirls can always maintain numerical advantage and firepower concentration within each zone.

"Yes, seeing this I finally understand why the Donghuang faction suffered only few casualties in the Siren Tide last time."

"Such formation tactics, if used in large-scale legion battles, as long as commanded properly, can produce unexpected results." Washington nodded and said.

"Hehe, it seems this melee won't unfold as we imagined; this melee will become the stage where Commander Qin Ge and his shipgirls perform."

Under such heavy protection, the Vanguard Fleet's Prince Eugen only needs to raise her naval gun and charge into the enemy ranks, tearing a gap; then, with Commander Qin Ge having already secured air superiority.

"I really don't know how the other eight factions—oh, no, now only seven factions remain—what tricks these little guys could use to withstand Commander Qin Ge's offensive?" North Carolina said.

"Well, although the situation is like this, but there could be our faction's commander inside, huh?" Beside her, Cleveland said hesitantly.

"These are merely stating the facts; moreover, they even have a death god lurking around the United Fleet's shipgirls." Washington said.

White Eagle's few people naturally know whom Washington is referring to, after all, since White Eagle itself has several particularly formidable submarine shipgirls, they also pay attention to ordinary submarine shipgirls, especially Iron Blood's submarine shipgirls.

Qin Ge Fleet's submarine U-96, after preparing for battle, disappeared above the sea surface; now, in the vast ocean, no one knows where she is, but it can be certain that she is surely cruising near that group of shipgirls, waiting for a chance to deliver a fatal blow.

"They're about to charge the formation!" Cleveland said.

Everyone's gaze instantly turned to the sea surface; indeed, under Qin Ge's shipgirls dodging left and right, after withstanding the first salvo from the battleships, they finally entered the range of the heavy and light cruisers' fire.

At this time, Guanghui and other aircraft carrier shipgirls had already seized air superiority, shooting down all enemy fighter planes flying in the sky, and now they were swooping in to the frontmost shipgirls of the opposing side.

When the United Fleet's shipgirls tried to attack Qin Ge's foremost vanguard shipgirls, the airborne carrier aircraft group had already approached; they could only conduct air defense while firing at Qin Ge's distant shipgirls.

However, because of this situation, the firepower directed at Qin Ge's shipgirls became somewhat weak. It also allowed the vanguard fleets led by Prince Eugen to close the distance, gaining precious time.

Thus, after enduring an air raid assault and losing two shipgirls, the United Fleet's shipgirls nonetheless failed to impede even slightly the charge led by Prince Eugen.

Moreover, at this time, Helena, who was trailing at the rear of the vanguard fleet, had already begun precise positioning.

"SG, lock onto enemy position!" Helena said; the SG radar mounted on her ship equipment swiftly swung, calculating the positions of the few shipgirls blocking the vanguard ahead.

"Bearing 189, distance 20 kilometers, locked onto a light cruiser."

After calculating the position, Helena promptly reported via the communications device.

"Received!" Weineituo's voice sounded immediately, "All battleships aim at bearing 189, distance 20 kilometers, lock onto that light cruiser, fire!"

"Boom boom boom!"

Neat rows of gunfire erupted on the sea surface; five battleship shipgirls had locked onto that light cruiser's position, and in a moment the shells arrived together.

Even if that light cruiser shipgirl wanted to dodge at that moment, it was already too late; after taking several solid hits, her protection was blown to major damage.

"Royal faction's Commander Hepburn's light cruiser Edinburgh is out." Xianghe's gentle voice echoed through everyone's communicators.

And Edinburgh, attacked by the five battleship shipgirls, could only show a helpless expression, then hastily left the combat position.

"Bearing 171, distance 19 kilometers, locked onto one destroyer." But this small gain certainly wouldn't satisfy Helena, so she immediately precisely locked onto another destroyer shipgirl's position and reported the location to the battleship shipgirls moving forward behind.

Thus, the destroyer shipgirl exchanging fire with the vanguard fleet's Prince Eugen and others was accurately hit by shells and forced to withdraw from the exercise.

However, the enemy's second salvo from battleships arrived as well; because the distance was very close, plus the combat circumstances, there wasn't much time for Qin Ge's shipgirls to predict positions.

Qin Ge's fleet also began to show hits; however, thanks to the shields previously released by Guanghui and also by Zhende, although some shipgirls suffered battleship gunfire, they barely survived.

At that moment, the unicorn standing beside Guanghui, seeing this situation, held Yoyo in her arms and reached out toward the distant vanguard shipgirls.

"This time it's the unicorn's turn to help big brother… I'll do my best!"

A green light burst from the unicorn's hand, swiftly leaping toward the vanguard fleet's shipgirls; as the light enveloped them, the visible wounds they had suffered were visibly healing.

The unicorn's skill is a support skill similar to Guanghui's, but unlike Guanghui's shield grant to shipgirls, the unicorn's skill mainly provides emergency repairs.

Thus, accompanying the unicorn's emergency repairs, Prince Eugen had already charged to the front of the enemy fleet. With the carrier aircraft descending again, Prince Eugen wore a cruel smile at the corner of her mouth and charged forward without hesitation.

She was like a dagger, swiftly leading Qin Ge Fleet's vanguard shipgirls to cut through the United Fleet, breaking their shipgirls' formation.

At this moment, the United Fleet's shipgirls instantly fell into chaos. The shipgirls on the other sides' outskirts wanted to assist their own side's shipgirls in attacking, but because the distance was too close, they dared not fire.

But not firing would only let Qin Ge's vanguard shipgirls run rampant unchecked, so for a moment everyone was caught in a dilemma…