Elder brother's garrison

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The training ground was as blue as ever with white clouds, the sea was filled with the roar of artillery fire, and the sky was filled with the loud buzzing of carrier-based aircraft. Countless ship girls moved nimbly and skillfully across the various training areas.

In addition to the training areas organized by the naval base, there are also some free areas where the ship girls can train on their own projects or organize some exercises and sparring activities within the naval base.

Logically, these exercises should be reported to the naval base for approval before proceeding, but since the admiral of the naval base is here, the ship girls don't need to worry about these formalities. Anshan and Chicago came to the shore of the exercise area, did some simple physical exercises, and stepped onto the water amidst the cheers of the ship girls.

As soon as someone entered the combat area of ​​the training ground, the ship girls who didn't have much to do immediately came running.

"Hey! Is someone conducting a drill?"

"Hey everyone, put everything down and come take a look! There's a drill going on!"

"What?! Someone's conducting a drill!"

"Hey, isn't this the Admiral? Admiral, you're back!"

"What?! The Admiral is back???"

Rumble…

The area outside the training ground where Xiaobai and his group were located was immediately surrounded by ship girls, whose noisy chatter made the surrounding environment both lively and solemn.

Washington emerged from the group of ship girls and walked confidently to Xiaobai's side. She bent down to look at the ship girls around Xiaobai and greeted them one by one.

"A rare guest, Admiral!" Washington laughed heartily. "Oh my! Isn't this Alaska, Guam! The little girl from the Gearing class is here too? Did Kiat not pull anything today? And Garibaldi is here too?"

"Good morning, Instructor!" Baltimore immediately straightened up and saluted.

"Isn't this my outstanding first-term graduate of the heavy cruiser class?" Washington looked at Baltimore with pride in his eyes. "What's gotten into you all together today?"

"Well... that's a long story, but anyway..." Xiaobai briefly explained the origin of the matter to Washington.

Washington's eyes lit up after hearing Xiaobai's explanation.

"Really? Are these all going to be converted into missile ship girls?"

"Hmm... almost."

"Haha! Chicago is so lucky."

"Sigh, who wouldn't say that..." Xiao Bai sighed, "Now we'll see if Anshan can beat Chicago."

"Damn it, Chicago really doesn't have any of the spirit of our American ships!" Washington shouted at Anshan on the sea, one hand on his hip. "Anshan girl!!! Give Chicago a good beating! Get her to understand what a missile ship is all about!!!"

Upon hearing Washington's voice, Chicago, sitting on the sea, nearly lost his footing and fell into the water.

Chapter 3793 Ends Quickly

"Haha... Washington is really... as energetic as ever." Chicago scratched his head and laughed at the crowded people on the shore. "I'm on Baltimore's side, so why is she starting to boo me now?"

"Be careful not to fall," Anshan warned Chicago.

"Yes, I'm keeping track." Chicago looked away and nodded to Anshan not far away. "Anshan, once the exercise starts, we won't hold back, okay?"

"...So, do you think I'm the type of person who holds back?"

Anshan didn't answer Chicago. She just stared blankly at Chicago, her gaze lingering on Chicago's body and ship equipment. Then, she suddenly asked a question that seemed ambiguous, her eyes flickering.

"Putting aside the question of whether I'm holding back or not, let me be clear, I'm actually quite strong." Chicago put her hands in her pockets, and the cruiser's rigging behind her emitted a series of mechanical sounds as the turrets began to aim at Anshan. "Anshan, if you're not careful, you're going to suffer a great loss later."

“You’re quite generous,” Anshan laughed.

“It’s just a heads-up,” Chicago said. “I’ve been training as a cruiser for several years now. I may not have a lot of combat experience, but I can at least hold my own in one-on-one fights.”

"..." Anshan's smile suddenly brightened. She nodded and said to Chicago, "Okay, I got it. Let's get started."

"Alright! We don't have a referee, so let's flip a coin?" Chicago pulled a shiny coin out of his pocket, held it up with his thumb, and raised it into the air.

“That’s settled then.” Anshan nodded. “Our exercise will begin when the coin hits the water.”

“OK—” Chicago responded.

The two women, Chicago and Anshan, kept their distance, separated by a small patch of clear blue water, gazing at each other from afar.

"Oh right, Chicago, there's something I forgot to ask you." After arriving at his training position, Anshan suddenly spoke up, shouting at Chicago at the top of his lungs.

"Huh?? What is it??"

"Have you ever practiced with missile ship girls before?!" Anshan shouted, placing his hands beside his mouth.

"Before? No—" Chicago paused for a moment, then replied, "But I have seen missile ship girls in battle!"

"That's alright then." Anshan seemed to have received an answer. She nodded gently and closed her eyes slightly.

Chicago, looking on in the distance, scratched her head in confusion. After observing Anshan's reaction and pondering for a moment, she raised the coin in her hand and waved it towards Anshan.

After not seeing any particular resistance from Anshan, Chicago gave a light thumbs-up.

With a ding, the coin, like a rocket launcher, spun out of Chicago's hand and shot into the sky with the force of a ship girl.

The coin kept changing its facets in mid-air, and finally, after rising more than ten meters high, it ran out of power and slowly spun and fell towards the sea.

Chicago stared intently at the coin until it fell from the sky and crashed into the sea with a splash.

The exercise begins!

Chicago quickly entered exercise mode. Her originally amiable gaze sharpened, and the cruiser behind her instantly turned around, aiming several cannons at the waters where Anshan was located.

"In short, preemptive strike..."

Chicago seized the opportunity and launched a preemptive strike against Anshan.

However, the situation on the exercise field the next second made Chicago stop and freeze in place.

Because the moment the coin hit the sea and the exercise began, Anshan suddenly began to retreat rapidly, quickly widening the distance between itself and Chicago!

In just a few breaths, Anshan had already retreated beyond Chicago's effective attack range.

In the moment of Chicago's daze, her body instinctively wanted to chase after Anshan, but immediately after Chicago took action, a strong sense of warning suddenly rose in her heart.

Chicago's heart skipped a beat. She immediately changed her posture, keeping a close eye on Anshan's movements in the distance, preparing to dodge and defend.

Sure enough, just as Chicago changed its stance, Anshan in the distance finally launched an offensive.

Anshan gently raised her hand, her soft, snow-white palms brushing against the rearward-swaying missile launcher like a light veil. In an instant, with two plumes of blue smoke bursting forth, two missiles shot into the sky, changing direction and heading straight for Chicago.

The distance between Chicago and Anshan is quite far, much greater than the effective attack range of a cruiser... but for a missile ship, attack range is never an issue.

Two snow-white missiles, spewing flames, were upon them in an instant.

Chicago immediately rolled to one side in an attempt to avoid the missile.

Despite Chicago's desperate attempts to dodge, she did manage to avoid the first two missiles, which exploded on the water behind her, splashing water everywhere.

It was a good thing that they dodged the first wave of attacks; Chicago had just breathed a sigh of relief when, in the next instant, something even more despairing happened.

Two more missiles were launched, following closely behind the previous two, heading straight for Chicago's face!

Chicago was still reeling from dodging the first two missiles; she hadn't even had time to get out of the water before she could only watch helplessly as the two brand-new missiles drew ever closer, growing larger and larger in her field of vision…

Bang bang! ! !

Two missiles exploded on Chicago.

Chicago was instantly engulfed in flames as she was blown away by the missiles from Anshan, with debris flying everywhere.

……

The exercise between Anshan and Chicago ended within a minute of its start.

As expected, Anshan, with its more advanced ship equipment, emerged victorious in the exercise.

Anshan didn't even bother to properly position herself from beginning to end. After the exercise started, she simply retreated to increase the distance between herself and Chicago, then casually activated her missile ship equipment. Immediately afterward, to Chicago's utter despair, she easily evaded her with her unparalleled attack range advantage.

Rumble, rumble...

Chicago lay amidst the flames, her wide eyes staring blankly at the sky.

The exercise ended in the blink of an eye, and everything felt like a dream.

Chicago sat up cross-legged, scratching her head. She first looked at her tattered clothes and her badly damaged ship rigging, then at the ship rigging fragments scattered all over the sea and the flames burning on the surface.

"Hiss... Losing so quickly?"

Chicago muttered to itself.

Chapter 3794 So You're the Main Course

Chicago wasn't unaware that it might lose.

After all, even if Chicago herself didn't want to become a missile ship girl at first, there was one thing she had to admit: missile ship equipment was indeed a very good ship girl equipment. Compared with other types of old-fashioned ship girl equipment, this equipment was like a fire weapon living in two different eras, which could be described as a kind of dimensional reduction attack.

but……

Even if Chicago didn't expect to win, she didn't anticipate losing so decisively.

The moment the exercise began, she had virtually no chance to fight back. Faced with an attack range that seemed utterly hopeless, she could only cover her head and take the hits from start to finish, before being instantly killed by a precise missile...

Chicago recalled the exercise that had just taken place, and his expression became quite strange for a moment.

This feeling is extremely frustrating, like having all your martial arts skills completely useless. Although the loss wasn't unjust, it was still very painful.

at this time.

On the sea, crisp footsteps echoed in front of Chicago.

Chicago looked up and saw that Anshan had already gathered its (three) O Lin Qi Jiu Wu Ba-Qun Qi ship equipment and stood smiling behind the flames in front of Chicago.

Amidst the flickering flames, Anshan's smiling face distorted slightly in the illusory space, appearing exceptionally kind and endearing.

"Chicago, I won the exercise just now," Anshan said with a smile.

“Hmm…” Chicago thought for a moment, then nodded slowly. Her eyebrows furrowed and then relaxed, and her expression became more relaxed. “…Oh, how embarrassing. I just told you to be careful, but I should be the one being careful.”

"Here, your coin." Anshan flicked his hand at Chicago, and a shiny coin flew towards Chicago.

Chicago instinctively reached out to take it.

A crisp metallic sound fell into the palm of my hand.

Chicago raised an eyebrow, looked down at the shiny coin in her palm, and her gaze suddenly shifted to Anshan as if touched.

This is the coin that Chicago just tossed out.

"...You retrieved the coin from there?"

"Yes, thankfully it didn't sink too deep."

"you……"

Chicago's words got stuck halfway through, and he ultimately didn't say them.

Chicago was speechless. She held the coin, squinted, shook her head, then sighed and climbed out of the water.

"Sigh, never mind, let's repair the ship's equipment first."

Anshan nodded with a smile.

It was said that both sides were repairing their ship equipment, but in fact, Anshan was not injured at all. Chicago lost without firing a single shot, and Chicago was the only one whose ship equipment needed repair.

Anshan watched as Chicago clumsily pulled out a ship repair device from her ship's equipment storage space, then took off her tattered baseball cap and put it on her own head.

As the green repair device was placed on her head, Chicago experienced a repair effect that seemed to rewind time. The ship equipment fragments that had fallen around her gradually flew back onto her body, and the fabric that had turned to dust slowly reassembled itself onto her body.

Within seconds, the damage to the Chicago ship's equipment and the torn clothing were restored to their original condition, looking brand new.

After Chicago repaired the ship's equipment, she returned to shore with Anshan.

On the shore, the ship girls who had been watching raised their hands and cheered as soon as they saw the two return.

"Welcome back, two brave warriors!"

"Hahaha! Chicago, we saw you get utterly crushed!"

"Haha, Chicago, how are you feeling! How are you feeling!"

"Anshan is amazing! Those missiles were so accurate!"

"Sigh, the exercise ended so quickly, it's a pity I wasn't quite hooked!"

"..."

Amid the cheers of the ship girls, Chicago, feeling somewhat moved, went ashore. With her hands in her pockets, she and Anshan approached Shiro.

Baltimore quickly stepped forward and handed Chicago a towel and bottled water.

"Thank you for your hard work, Chicago."

"Thanks, Baltimore." Chicago accepted the bottled water and towel, but she had no mood to use them at all. She just silently held the two items, staring straight at Shiro, occasionally glancing at Anshan who had defeated her. Finally, she spoke with mixed feelings, "Sigh... Admiral, this exercise ended so quickly. It was a complete defeat for me."