Chapter 376: Over a Thousand Aircraft Carriers

Facing the explanation from his own shipgirl, Qin Ge furrowed his brows, pinched the space between his eyebrows, and looked again at Yorktown and Essex, saying, "Give me a reason that can convince me, otherwise I won't let you join this battle."

Seeing Qin Ge let out a sigh of relief, Yorktown smiled and said to him, "Qin Ge Commander, although I am a White Eagle shipgirl, in fact I am also a shipgirl of Azure Lane, right? So joining the battle of Donghuang, which also belongs to Azure Lane, should pose no problem, right?"

Are you trying to tell me that White Eagle isn't a member of Azure Lane? Or that Donghuang isn't a member of Azure Lane?

Qin Ge rolled his eyes and said, "I never thought that a gentle lady like Miss Yorktown could come up with such a cold joke."

Yorktown smiled and said, "Then can this reason convince Commander Qin Ge?"

Qin Ge shrugged and said, "You win, welcome Miss Yorktown to join our battle."

Thus, with Yorktown's smile, Qin Ge turned his head to Essex and said, "And what about you, Miss Essex? Please don't placate me with the same words as Miss Yorktown; this time I won't buy it."

Essex then said to Qin Ge, "I want to find my own path."

"Finding your own path?" Qin Ge felt doubtful, while Yorktown beside him looked delighted.

"Yes." Essex nodded, "I have always taken Enterprise as my senior as my goal; whenever I felt I was getting closer to Enterprise, I actually ended up being pulled further away, and now I can only see her back from afar."

I could only desperately chase after them nonstop, to the point that even Yorktown senior and Enterprise senior said I had lost my direction, and I myself felt I had become confused.

If one day I truly surpassed Enterprise senior, could I then lead White Eagle forward like Enterprise senior does? I feel I cannot, at least not with my current ability.

So, starting today, I want to walk my own path, first let go of this goal of Enterprise senior, and first think about what I truly want to do and what I am capable of.

And in this battle before me, I hope to find more within it.

Qin Ge smiled slightly, extended his right hand toward Essex, and said, "Welcome to join this battle, Essex, and I also hope you truly can find your own path."

"Really possible?" Essex said, astonished, looking at Qin Ge's hand.

"Of course, if you're not teasing me." Qin Ge laughed.

"Thank you!" Essex immediately extended her right hand and grasped Qin Ge's hand; they shook briefly and then immediately let go.

Qin Ge said to Essex, "However, let me get the unpleasantness out of the way first: I believe that through my earlier explanation, you also understand the importance of carrier shipgirls in this battle's overall situation."

So I hope that in the subsequent battles, you will be able to follow my orders and carry them out resolutely. Of course, I will not give you overly demanding orders; the orders you receive will be the same as those given to other carrier shipgirls.

"Understood!" Essex immediately said.

"Understood what?" Just then, the recently outgoing Qinglong walked into the headquarters, seeing Essex standing straight before Qin Ge, and said somewhat puzzled.

Qin Ge turned and explained to Qinglong, "Just now, Miss Essex and Miss Yorktown, as members of Azure Lane, have joined our battle to resist the Sirens this time."

They will become members of our carrier shipgirl fleet, so I explained to them the matters that need attention in our carrier shipgirl fleet.

"Huh?" Qinglong startled, turned toward Yorktown and said, "Are you serious?"

"Why not?" Yorktown smiled and said, "Setting aside faction biases, our common enemy is the Sirens, isn't it?"

Qinglong furrowed his brows and said, "If that's the case, then I will trust you this time. In the upcoming battle, I hope you will act according to Qin Ge's instructions; he is the operations officer for this operation and will bear full responsibility for you."

"Of course." Yorktown nodded.

Qinglong let out a sigh, turned his head to Qin Ge, and said, "All the grand fleet commanders have already received their dedicated communicators; are you ready to divide the carrier shipgirl fleet into how many groups?"

Qin Ge asked Qinglong, "Have all the carrier shipgirls drawn from the grand fleets already arrived?"

"That's right, they have all arrived now, with a total of over 1,000 carrier shipgirls." Qinglong said to Qin Ge.

"Hiss... over 1,000 carrier shipgirls? That's a terrifying number." Qin Ge sucked in a breath of cold air.

It's no wonder Qin Ge is surprised, after all, even in his era, an aircraft carrier was a national heavy weapon for a country.

As long as a country can possess one aircraft carrier, it signifies that the country holds absolute sea dominance within its own territory. Moreover, in the world, the reason White Eagle can have absolute say is because it possesses absolute sea dominance.

Globally deployed carrier bases number ten nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, each capable of destroying a nation.

Furthermore, even during World War II, White Eagle, which had the most aircraft carriers, possessed only over 200 carriers.

But at this moment, in this city alone, there are already over a thousand aircraft carriers. Moreover, the power of these carriers is far greater than that of the carriers during World War II.

"Hehe, surprised?" Qinglong smiled and said to Qin Ge.

"Surprised." Qin Ge nodded, "I never imagined that a single Shenhua City could possess over 1,000 carrier shipgirls."

"Actually, you don't need to be so surprised; this is merely the number for Shenhua City. If we talk about other cities, they are far from having this many, but even any random city can gather over 500 carrier shipgirls."

After all, Shenhua City is the location of the general headquarters and also the headquarters of the Maritime Affairs Bureau; having many grand fleets is perfectly normal.

According to the standard that a grand fleet can at least gather ten carrier shipgirls, Shenhua City in total has nearly 80 grand fleets; adding the free shipgirls, the number roughly matches this." Qinglong said to Qin Ge.

"Well, commanding a battle with over a thousand aircraft carriers is still a first for me. To be honest, I was still a bit nervous, but now I am left only with excitement, excitement that makes me tremble." Qin Ge said with a laugh.

Although he had already realized that his daily executions were campaign-level battles, at this moment Qin Ge gained a deeper understanding.

The so-called commander, each person's power in hand can become a warlord, and when these warlords gather together, this battle will surely cover the sky and obscure the sun.