Chapter 548: Armor-Piercing Shells

Boom—

The battle in the distance continued, but as the battle continued, Qin Ge's brows furrowed deeper and deeper.

"The situation is not optimistic." Zhenhai said from the side, "That Siren humanoid command unit is already very strong, but from the vortices behind her, various Siren mass-produced warships and Siren humanoid units keep appearing endlessly."

Qin Ge nodded, "That's right. Although compared to the Purifiers that appeared in the Sakura Empire incident, her performance is relatively weaker, but for our fleet now, it's already a major test."

"It seems we must conduct targeted combat." arrived.

"Targeted?" Qin Ge looked dubiously at Tiancheng, "We know little about that Siren elite humanoid; how can we talk about targeting?"

Tiancheng smiled and said, "Actually, since the start of the attack, I have already had Akagi and Kaga collecting data."

Qin Ge was startled; although Akagi and Kaga had not shown particularly strong strength before him, the strength of a faction's leader is undoubtedly unquestionable.

If they had started collecting data and obtained some results, then Qin Ge would naturally believe it.

"Then what does the collected data show?"

"The opponent is a very balanced combat unit, different from the earlier Testers and Purifiers, possessing both underwater and surface modes; you, my lord, should have noticed this."

Qin Ge nodded, "That's right, but aren't these obvious?"

"Yes, her main defense is that crystal shield, and then her ship equipment armor. Furthermore, that crystal shield causes a deflection explosion effect on our shells."

The damage inflicted by shells hitting it is limited, but this limitation always has a threshold; as long as we break that threshold, her shield will be damaged.

So I suggest using heavy shells to strike directly!

Qin Ge narrowed his eyes, "So you mean we should switch our main force fleet to armor-piercing shells?"

"If possible, I suggest you, my lord, give it a try; perhaps it will yield remarkable results?" Tiancheng smiled and said.

Qin Ge hesitated not at all, directly picking up the communicator beside him and said to everyone, "All main force battleships, hear the order: convert your high-explosive shells to armor-piercing shells and concentrate fire on the shield!"

Although some wondered why Qin Ge suddenly had everyone switch to armor-piercing shells, since their commander had issued the order, everyone replaced the high-explosive shells that were about to finish loading with armor-piercing shells.

On the battlefield, the commander's fate is always executed first; regardless of whether one thinks the order is wrong, this is the discipline and law of the battlefield.

After switching to armor-piercing shells, because everyone's loading speed differed, some finished loading quickly, others slowly.

But at the moment each person finished loading, they directly opened fierce fire upon the Siren humanoid command unit ahead.

The energy color produced by armor-piercing shells is completely different from that of high-explosive shells; high-explosive shells emit a bright yellow light, while armor-piercing shells emit a crystalline blue light.

Only see, countless crystalline blue shells on the sea surface surged forward like a swarm of bees toward the Siren humanoid command unit.

As the armor-piercing shells struck the shield, they did not get deflected by the shield like high-explosive shells and explode nearby; instead, they hit the shield like huge falling stones, slamming heavily into it.

For a moment, the originally crystalline shield flickered, as if losing its luster in an instant, but quickly recovered.

However, such a noticeable attack is obviously the strongest that the Qin Ge Fleet has dealt to this Siren humanoid command unit since the battle began.

All the shipgirls who participated in this volley also realized this, instantly becoming excited. Each faction's leader immediately ordered the light and heavy cruisers to have all shipgirls who had not yet switched to armor-piercing shells do so.

Although the switching process temporarily disrupted the previous defensive formation, the veterans at the front were all experienced shipgirls, so although disordered, they still managed to avoid the enemy's mass-produced warships and carrier aircraft attacks.

Moreover, after replacing the main gun shells, everyone instantly restored the previous formation, and the battle continued.

Over a period of time, the enemy's Siren elite humanoid unit was subjected to simultaneous armor-piercing shell volleys from many main force shipgirls, plus machine-gun and bomb attacks from carrier aircraft, causing the shield's flicker frequency to increase ever faster.

Seeing this situation, Weineituo said somewhat excitedly, "All main force shipgirls, give it your all; I feel we are just a little bit away from piercing her shield!"

Hearing Weineituo's words, the shipgirls all nodded vigorously and opened fire at maximum power.

For a moment, the sky seemed to be rendered into an ocean of bullet hell.

Swaying with blue-hued armor-piercing shells and bright yellow, dark red, even purple and various other colored bullet hell surged forward, all crashing onto the shield of the opposing Siren elite humanoid commander.

"Warning, shield about to overload. Mode switch, dive mode, ON!"

Upon hearing that cold voice suddenly appear, the white-clad girl seated on the massive ship equipment still did not open her eyes. However, everyone noticed that beneath the remaining very weak shield, the newly risen ship equipment seemed to be gradually shifting, and showed signs of slowly sinking underwater.

"Want to escape? Can you get away with that?" Bisimai said coldly, "All submarines, attack the enemy unit and hinder her descent!"

"Yes!"

Soon the communicator conveyed the submarines' reply; although the waves caused by the enemy Siren elite humanoid had just pushed them far away, during the time the enemy surfaced, they had already re-formed their formation and, together with the vanguard shipgirls, were defending against the enemy's mass-produced warships.

At this moment, having received Bisimai's order, the submarines reacted very quickly; swiftly aiming their torpedo tubes underwater at the direction the enemy Siren elite humanoid command unit was sinking, they simultaneously launched torpedoes.

"The submarines have already stalled her movement; everyone must expend all firepower to output, we must keep her here!" Bisimai said.

"Yes!"

Thus, in an instant, the shells fired at the enemy Siren elite humanoid became more numerous than before; even the main guns busy opposing the Siren mass-produced shipgirls were aimed at this huge object on the sea.

For a moment, everyone's output made the already dim shield flicker more frequently, and at this moment everyone saw hope of breaking the shield.

"...... Really troublesome."

A cold, clear voice suddenly appeared on the communicator; it was the voice of the Siren elite humanoid commander.

In an instant, the sea suddenly began to boil…