Admiral in the Azure World

Chapter 465 The First and Second Generation Sea Soul Mothership

The chemical factory on Iliao Island continues to provide the latest chemical raw materials to Gloria and even all parts of the Federation. If nothing unexpected happens, the future M381 production line will also be built on Iliao Island.Weapons using the M381 will definitely be located on this future core island of Jialan.

The arsenal on Violet Island does not have a long history. In fact, in this era of explosive sea souls, the construction of an arsenal is completely unexpected. It was even opposed by Miller, Hemingway and others.After all, compared to the weakest sea soul who can fight alone against four to five mirages, human weapons are really weak against mirages. Except for large-caliber coastal defense guns, those small-caliber weapons It is basically difficult to break through Mirage's armor.

Therefore, before the birth of the M381 Purple Mist derivative, the most important responsibility of the arsenal built by Huangjiang was to provide a complete air defense system for the Sea Soul Mothership.Although a few ship girls can be left to protect the safety of the Sea Soul Mothership, this is not an insurance measure after all, and it still requires it to have a certain ability to protect itself.

The Sea Soul Mothership is not a combat weapon in the actual sense. Its biggest responsibility at first and even in the future is to provide necessary supplies when the ship mother or Sea Soul sails away.In addition, ordinary human weapons have little ability to deal with swarms of mirages, so the biggest task of this batch of weapons is to build an air defense network with a certain degree of security for the Sea Soul Mothership.

Because of the existence of the "Flying Fish" troops, Huang Jiang attaches great importance to air defense. Once the Sea Soul Mothership is paralyzed by the "Flying Fish" attack, it is very likely that the crisis that occurred when Hood and the others attacked Malan Island last time.At that time, the Iris lost its resupply capability in a short period of time due to a mechanical failure, which made the prestige and others who went to resupply fail to return to the Hood Fleet in time. At that time, Malan Island had not yet been incorporated into Gloria Territory.

The situation at that time was very critical, and it was just because of a small mechanical failure. If the Sea Soul Mothership was attacked by the "Flying Fish" and was paralyzed, even if it had a complete damage control system, it would not be possible in a short time. Restoring supplies will definitely have an impact on the main fleet that is organizing the attack. If you are not careful, there will be heavy losses.

This is absolutely unacceptable to Huang Jiang.

In order to prevent this from happening, in several exercises organized in the past year, the Sea Soul Mothership would often stay quite far away from the main fleet after the war. It would not approach quickly until the battle was over, and then quickly evacuate after completing the supplies.In the case of aircraft carriers searching and attacking simulated "Flying Fish" forces, this supply method greatly increases the survival rate of the Sea Spirit carrier.

In the environment of open sea operations, supplies are the life of the fleet.What's more, the Jialan fleet does not have the ability to insert one or two islands that can be used as supply points within the mirage's sphere of influence, which makes the fleet's dependence on the Sea Soul Mothership even more serious when it leaves the Jialan Territory.

This tactic also greatly increases the demand for the performance of the Sea Soul Mothership.

The resources carried by the experimental Sea Soul Mothership Jialan, which was originally transformed from a fishing boat, can only replenish the consumption of one or two main battleships, and they can only be replenished once at most.This also makes it necessary for the Jialan to carry resource ships when fighting in order to meet the needs of fleet operations.At the same time, due to the limited space of the fishing boat, the Jialan only carried one armed repair equipment, which was inefficient. Moreover, due to performance reasons, the speed was also very slow, which was slightly faster than Amethyst and could not even catch up. Low-speed battleships such as the Colorado class and Nelson class battleships.Therefore, the Jialan has actually been retired from the fleet led by Jialan, and has become a training base for training the crew of the Sea Spirit Mothership, including members of the supply team, combat team, and damage control team.

The first-generation Sea Soul Mothership, which was rebuilt from a resource ship, is led by the Iris and includes the Wutou, Malan, and Yuanluo, a total of nearly four ships.Because of the original functions of the resource ships, their carrying capacity has been greatly increased. Including the Iris, after modification, the Iris-class Sea Spirit Mothership can carry six pieces of armed renovation equipment, which can carry out a one-time overhaul of a six-man fleet. supply.After another downsizing of the Nikola generator set, the actual resources that the Iris-class Sea Spirit Mothership can carry have increased again, which can meet the supply requirements of a six-man fleet about two or three times.

These data are before anti-aircraft weapons are installed. After the Iris-class Sea Spirit Mothership is equipped with anti-aircraft cannons on both sides, the resource capacity can probably satisfy the supply of the six-man fleet twice.This is already very good data. Fully loaded warships, especially the main fleet in the Huangjiang River, mostly have reserve bombs. Their continuous combat capabilities are inherently strong. Two supplies are enough to allow them to continue fighting at sea for a month. It’s time to pray.

The second-generation Sea Soul Mothership, which is currently being developed on Malan Island, is headed by the Violet. The hull is no longer rebuilt from a resource ship, but a self-built hull. It uses Jiagang's After the special steel, it also has a certain defense ability against the mirage's shell attack.The Violet is equipped with a total of six armed repair equipment and two spare equipment, a total of seven. In addition, it can also carry about [-] grids of resources, which can roughly meet the supply needs of a six-person fleet for about five times.

Huang Jiang mentally reviewed the series of parameters of the Sea Soul Mothership that he had memorized.My heart hurts terribly. You must know that the armed repair equipment is clearly priced in the Haiwu System Store. This is not a game system, and there are some discounts.A refurbishment equipment costs 25 crystals, which is equivalent to the value of two sea souls. Among the existing Gloria and Iris, Huangjiang purchased [-] units of armed refurbishment equipment alone in the subsequent construction. It can be said that It was time to spend the crystal stones summoned by fifty ship girls to improve their own sea soul mothership fleet.

But there is really no way. If there is no follow-up supply for the ship girls' expedition, then no matter how many ship girls you summon, they will be trapped near the territory, especially in the face of such a vast sea area as the Violet Sea, if there is no sea soul If the mothership follows behind to meet supplies at any time, even its own full-level main fleet will not dare to attack easily. Once there are no resources, the ship girls will not be able to use their strength.

Nearly [-] crystal stones is a huge number in the entire federation. Even some big families may not necessarily be worth [-] crystal stones.Naturally, it was impossible for Huang Jiang to come up with such a sum of money all at once, and a large part of it came from Jialan Bonds.

Fortunately, the West Wind Drift has been shrinking for nearly a year, and the pressure on the Huangjiang River is not that great. The construction speed of the Sea Soul Mothership has slowed down slightly. Since last year, the Wutou and Malan have been launched successively.These two sea soul motherships spent all the money they borrowed from their bonds in one go.So much so that before he went to Lanhuadan Island, he didn't even have enough funds to buy enough renovation equipment for the Iliao, which was at the end of its construction. The opening of the Sea and Sky Star Illustrated Book brought Huang Jiang a lot of blood.

(End of this chapter)