Azur Lane: The Tragic Admiral’s Azur Life

Chapter 880: Encirclement and Suppression War Exercise (2) Raid

On the other side, the Royal Fleet, which had also entered the exercise area, was advancing steadily.

This team's actions were obviously more cautious. They relied on radar searches and reconnaissance planes circling back and forth overhead to gradually judge the degree of danger ahead and choose a safer and more reliable route to advance.

Not only that, they also divided the carrier-based aircraft into several teams and carried out rotation to shorten the interval time between each search of the same area.

The mines at sea were discovered under such cautious operations, and the destroyers began to clear them and move forward along a safe route.

However, these mines are large in size and it is inefficient to completely remove them, so they have to choose to remove only the dangerous parts.

But just as they were trying to eliminate them, the reconnaissance plane suddenly discovered the opponent's ship girl.

"We have found the target. It is confirmed to be the enemy's heavy cruisers Wichita and Baltimore and... Donghuang's three light cruisers?"

There was no follow-up main fleet, and no supporting fleet was found.

There were only these five people, but after discovering their carrier-based aircraft, they not only did not leave this side, but turned around and headed directly towards them?

Although they were a little confused, the feeling of being looked down upon immediately appeared in the hearts of the ship girls of the Royal Camp. In their view, this was nothing short of a provocation!

The carrier-based aircraft and naval guns turned towards this side one after another. How could only five cruisers possibly withstand the huge amount of ammunition on their side?

They can be drowned!

However, when the carrier-based aircraft roared and dived and dropped bombs, a strange scene appeared.

The three Donghuang light cruisers began to separate to both sides, protecting Wichita and Baltimore. Then the five ship girls narrowed the distance between each other and moved synchronously in a dangerous manner. At the same time, their navigation methods began to become flexible and varied.

However, this is just a gamble of luck, and normally it won't have much effect. After all, both artillery shells and aerial bombs have an attack range and an offset. Random movement may not only fail to dodge the artillery shells, but may cause the artillery shells that originally missed to hit directly!

However, then the Royal Fleet saw that under the leadership of the white-clad light cruiser holding an umbrella, the fleet of five cruisers actually passed through the barrage of aerial bombs and artillery shells so easily, as if they were walking through the rain without being wetted by it, and approached them in an incredible, slow but steady manner!

"Are you kidding me?! What the hell is this?!!"

More carrier-based aircraft were immediately deployed, but just as these carrier-based aircraft flew out, dense black spots suddenly appeared in the sky in another direction. At the same time, the five cruisers suddenly turned around and quickly began to detour to prepare to leave the battlefield!

The carrier-based aircraft that had just flown out turned hastily. The price of their momentary anger was that the fleet, which originally had sufficient air combat firepower, had to face the situation of insufficient air combat firepower in the next few minutes and could only rely on anti-aircraft firepower to resist.

But those carrier-based aircraft all started diving and dropping torpedoes from a considerable distance away from the fleet. Although it was safe, it would also reduce the hit rate a lot. However, it was obvious that the other side did not care!

The five cruisers that had originally escaped actually turned around and came back. While the carrier-based aircraft chasing them were called back, they used anti-aircraft guns to resist the remaining carrier-based aircraft, while avoiding firepower under the leadership of Yixian, and risked their way back.

"Wichita, Baltimore, it's up to you."

The two heavy cruisers did not hesitate at all and began firing their main guns towards the sea.

Then...the mines that had been moved to their original safe positions exploded!

They directly hit only a part of the mass-produced ships. Although the opponent's ship girls responded hastily, they did not expose themselves to hidden dangers, and almost no one was directly affected.

However, the rapid explosion of a large number of mines caused the sea surface to be extremely unstable, and the shaking also had a great impact on their air defense efficiency.

Without hesitation, Yixian and Pinghai Ninghai began to retreat with Wichita and Baltimore, once again widening the distance.

Although it was very annoyed to see the five cruisers causing trouble and then running away, now was not the time to chase after them in a fit of rage, so the Royal Fleet held back and chose to continue defending.

After leaving the danger zone, Yixian reported the situation in the communication channel and said:

"Our opponents are cautious and conservative, but they are careful and well-planned in the details. But they are too vigilant... We can take advantage of them."

At the same time, Yang Sikang in the Gu Diao also received information about the battle between the two sides and smiled helplessly.

"It seems that the arrangement of the Royal Family is the same as I expected. Let the new commanders play freely first, and the headquarters fleet will stay in the rear and wait to enter the battlefield later. Haha, it doesn't matter even if we are at a disadvantage. As long as the newcomers can learn experience, it will be considered a success, right?"

Yang Sikang shook his head and turned his eyes to the projection next to him.

Bai Ze loyally summarized the feedback information collected in real time and projected it into images, so that although Yang Sikang's Gu Diao was hidden in the rear, he could roughly confirm the general situation on several battlefields.

In the garden, she looked very happy having just completed a round of raid.

The opponents are numerous and have mass-produced ships that can be used as shields and cannon fodder. Naturally, they cannot just sit there and wait for a head-on confrontation. Moreover, this exercise is said to simulate an actual combat environment.

Therefore, the strategy was naturally arranged with Garden leading the team to attack from the side and Yorktown preparing to use its special skills to cover the retreat.

Compared with the attack of carrier-based aircraft, the attack effect caused by the battleship's straddle fire will inevitably be worse. After all, the mass-produced model with more people and judged to be sunk can still block the dye of the practice ammunition, but it is much more concealed and sudden.

Determining the position of the enemy fleet based on the mines laid in advance and launching a surprise attack before the enemy leaves the minefield is an arrangement that is easy to think of but difficult to prevent.

By the time the other side wanted to counterattack, the impact of Yorktown's unique skills, coupled with the Garden's already strong anti-aircraft firepower, easily eliminated the only carrier-based aircraft that could accurately pursue her team in the first place.

When they met up with the York City team again, they were no longer in their original position. Huayuan was smiling, and the battle situation was developing as she expected.

The information fed back by Yorktown's reconnaissance aircraft confirmed this, and Garden began to make arrangements for the next step without hesitation.

"The exercise has just begun. Let's give them some heavy blows now so that we can have the strength to deal with them later. York City, the next round is up to you."

The battleship launched a surprise attack, followed by the aircraft carrier, with the battleship providing escort.

For Garden, who was born in White Eagle, this is a set of classic tactics that she knows by heart. Although classic means that it will be studied more, it also means... it has the value of becoming a classic!