Azur Lane: The Tragic Admiral’s Azur Life

On the calm sea, a huge recovery ship is anchored here, waiting for the recovery team to report on the situation.

After stopping the salvage team, Cleveland organized its own salvage ship in the port area to come here.

After divers conducted the first wave of inspections deep underwater, it was determined that the sunken cargo ship did not sink to the deepest point, but was stuck in the middle by the reef.

From a recycling perspective, it is difficult but not very difficult. But the huge gap and the footage taken by divers with underwater cameras inside the gap left Cleveland feeling helpless.

Under the shell of an ordinary cargo ship, there is actually a layer of armor with an extremely exaggerated thickness, and there is also a tightly defended air-tight gate as Yang Sikang said.

Further exploration required going deep into the ship. For the safety of the divers, Cleveland ordered that the ship be moved out as completely as possible before further exploration.

It is not easy to salvage a cargo ship as a whole. Fortunately, the port's own salvage team has excellent ship displacement, but it still takes a lot of time to complete the work.

Including Cleveland, a total of four ship girls are here to protect the salvage team.

But while waiting, Cleveland suddenly received a communication request from Newcastle:

"Miss Newcastle? What's the matter?"

"Miss Cleveland, we are currently located 1 nautical mile away from your location. Javelin and Miss Jarvis will head to your side next, please don't act too surprised."

Cleveland raised his eyebrows and replied:

"I understand."

Javelin and Newcastle, they suddenly left the port area and came to their vicinity. This must be Yang Sikang's arrangement.

She immediately realized that there might be danger here, but she did not immediately warn others.

Newcastle and the others didn't come over immediately, so there shouldn't be a problem for the time being. But Javelin and Jarvis came over.

Cleveland looked towards the water. Could it be that the threat came from underwater?

"Craven, ask the salvage boat to turn on the sonar to prevent any dangerous creatures underwater from threatening the divers."

"Sonar?"

Craven nodded doubtfully. While she was informing the captain, she inadvertently detected several ships not far away on the radar. She turned her head sharply and Cleveland nodded slightly.

Craven silently changed into anti-submarine gear.

Soon, Javelin and Jarvis rushed over from the sea.

The other two ship girls are also White Eagle's light cruisers and often accompany Cleveland, so they are no strangers to the Javelin.

The few people chatted together quickly, and Craven quietly came next to Jarvis:

"Jarvis, is there possible danger on our side?"

"No danger."

"You lied. If there was no danger, why would you come here?"

Jarvis calmly turned to look at Craven and replied seriously:

"Because we came here, there is no danger."

Craven didn't know what to say for a moment, and Jarvis said again:

"Did you bring anti-submarine equipment? If not, I have spare ones here."

"Yes, yes, but don't you need to tell others?"

"We will protect their safety."

Jarvis's tone was still calm, but his eyes were very gentle.

Craven was also used to Jarvis's indifference, so he didn't care and continued:

"Really, if I had known there would be danger, I should have brought McCall with me. If you hadn't come, I would have been the one to expel you. It would have been a lot of pressure."

"If we didn't come, wouldn't it mean there was no danger? So wouldn't it be better if we didn't come?"

"You can't say that."

As Craven was talking, the two of them looked at each other in tacit understanding. Then Craven looked at Javelin, and saw Javelin looking absently into the water.

"The javelin seems to have found its target?"

"The commander helps her adjust the Javelin's ship attire at any time, and its performance is better than the ship attire she normally gets."

As Jarvis spoke, he paid attention to the anti-submarine sonar. An invisible ship was approaching silently from the water.

The other party's speed was extremely slow and there was no movement. The sonar feedback was very weak, but all the responses were consistent with the characteristics of a submarine.

The ship changed direction midway and moved towards the sunken ship.

"Miss Cleveland."

Jarvis spoke:

"Please protect the crew."

As soon as he finished speaking, Javelin had people pull up several divers quickly.

The sudden change in the atmosphere made these crew members realize that they and others were in danger. But after all, it is the port's own salvage team, and relevant emergencies have been rehearsed in advance.

The divers quickly recovered, the small boat was abandoned, and everyone boarded the larger ship.

The negative impact of rash action on bulky ships is huge, so they just sit there and do nothing.

The displacement of these ships is very large, and the sealed cabins at the bottom are all sealed immediately. Even if they are attacked underwater, they will not sink for a while, and there is sufficient time for rescue.

The submarine underwater didn't know if it was aware of the fact that it was discovered, so it began to move faster, and several torpedoes were already out of the warehouse.

However, at the same time that the torpedo was launched, depth charges had fallen around it.

Although the cargo ship sank, most of its armor remained intact. The overly strong defense still maintained its integrity even after it took one torpedo, while the other one unfortunately turned out to be a dud.

Affected by the depth charges, the submarine did not dare to launch a second round of torpedoes and dived quickly.

But the three destroyer girls had already thrown down a large number of depth charges. Explosions erupted underwater. Amid the undulations of the sea, the roar of the main gun could be heard in the distance.

Another submarine had just surfaced when a battleship's main gun hit the center of its hull directly.

The fragile top cover was roughly opened, and the submarine's brain was beaten to pulp in just one move.

At a distance of less than two nautical miles, the MK6's shells can penetrate even the Richelieu-class armor, and hit the top of the submarine directly, which is a complete disaster.

This unlucky submarine directly turned into two knots before even having time to detect it, and then sank. At the same time, Newcastle had already led Sheffield and Janus to pursue the two ships that were turning in the distance when they saw that the situation was not good. ships.

The huge difference between ship girls and ordinary ships was clearly demonstrated at this time: in just the time it took for the opponent's ship to turn, Newcastle and Sheffield were already quickly approaching each other.

Because the ship girl can rely on the energy of the mental cube to maximize the speed, the endurance requirement for navigation is much lower than that of ordinary ships.

Although the opponent was escaping quickly, his flexibility and acceleration were far inferior.

By the time the speeds of the two sides were barely equal, the other side's ship had already entered the shooting range.

"Sheffield, let's do it. The weather is nice today, but we can't waste our time on these people."

"Understood, cleaning begins."

Sheffield raised his pistol and aimed his ship at the ship ahead.

During the roar of the cannon, although Sheffield's speed slowed down slightly, it was still able to circle and approach the opponent at a speed of more than 15 knots. The opponent's ship type seemed to be a light cruiser, but the speed of the turret rotation could not keep up with Sheffield's. Moving speed.

Newcastle attacked from the other side, and the two fired alternately in a repetitive rhythm of suppression and approach.

Just a few minutes later, the light cruiser's main gun had been completely destroyed, and its surface armor was even more pitted. Regardless of the deck, the intensive firepower of Sheffield's main gun even tore apart part of its bridge, making this ship The ship looked quite miserable.

After approaching, the two maids also saw the whole picture of the light cruiser clearly.

"Oh my, this model is really..."

Newcastle looked at the cruiser in front of him with interest, and Sheffield, after using the radio to order the light cruiser, which had lost even its power, to give up resistance, also came closer and said:

"It looks like the mass-produced model of Dido, but although the craftsmanship is very good, it only looks similar in appearance."

Sheffield's words were filled with strong dissatisfaction. As a member of the Maid Team, when she saw that the ship actually had the appearance of Dido's mass-produced model, her first reaction was anger. But then she became even more dissatisfied when she discovered that the ship was disguised as a mass-produced version of Dido.