Admiral in the Azure World

Chapter 688: Greedy but unable to move

Aluminum Island indeed.

This was confirmed by both the City of York and the Enterprise.

At this moment, had it not been for Huang Jiang's order, the two aircraft carriers would have started dive bombing.The significance of aluminum to aircraft carrier girls is like the relationship between batteries and mobile phones. No matter how powerful the power is, without the battery, the mobile phone is just a brick.

In the aircraft carrier, Saratoga and Lexington are fine. They are based on battle cruisers. But now that they have been transformed into aircraft carriers, some of the original turrets have been dismantled. They only use the old turrets occasionally as a half-joke. If the turret fires two cannons, it won't pose much of a threat to the enemy.

This is still the case for Lexington-class aircraft carriers, let alone Yorktown and the others who were born with the goal of aircraft carriers. Without aluminum, they can hardly move forward. They can only drink tea at home and listen to the radio and watch Reading the newspaper, I'm afraid the only joy in life is watching my commander commit suicide.

Enterprise took a deep breath, and York City also held back enough energy to finally suppress the impulse that just appeared in his heart.

Akagi on the side saw the change in the faces of the two sisters from the corner of her eye. She was surprised that York City and the company, which are usually so stable, would show such expressions. At the same time, she probably had a guess in her heart, so she asked carefully :
"Confirmed?"

Enterprise nodded.

Akagi also took a deep breath.

This news was devastating to them.This is a search that all aircraft carrier girls look forward to.When Akagi and the others were heading to Snakeberry Island and passing through Leia Island, the Glory Fleet training there came to see them. The expectations in the Glory sisters' eyes almost overflowed.

"The big head is still behind." The enterprise smiled very reluctantly. It seemed that it was really not easy to hold back the greed. "Isn't there a tea island?"

"Speaking of Tea Island, Lexington and the others should have news, right?" York City asked. Compared to their own side, they are the closest to Tea Island.

Akagi shook his head and said: "Not yet. But it should be soon. It's been so long. If you don't find it, there is a high probability that you are going in the wrong direction."

"You will definitely not go wrong if you keep flying eastward." Enterprise said, "And with the mothership here, subsequent battery life will not be a problem, and the error tolerance rate is very high."

While they were talking, Enterprise and York City's reconnaissance planes were once again entangled by Mirage's aircraft.

"The discovery of the aluminum ore island is indeed good news, but the trouble is that the area near the aluminum ore island seems to be deployed by the 'Flying Fish' troops." The company said while controlling the aircraft to fight.

Chicheng smiled and asked: "Are you still afraid that they will fail?" The company said calmly: "Attention to the enemy is the first criterion for survival. Of course, these rookies who have just taken to the sky are not a great threat to us. The main problem That is, how will our road to Tea Island be opened by then? Will the cannons open the way or will we open the way?"

According to the current situation in Jialan Territory, the possibility of Huang Jiang using an aircraft carrier to carry out large-scale military operations is very low, unless it is absolutely necessary. At that time, Huang Jiang will unlock the email and the girls will get a strong A powerful shot in the arm.

But what does it mean to be a last resort?Even Lexington couldn't explain this clearly.You might say that the situation in Gloria is critical now, but that’s not really true. Tulip has choked Gloria in terms of resources, but in other areas it is still losing ground under the impact of Gloria’s products, and Milton is trying to completely The idea of ​​keeping Gloria products out of the territory was opposed by many influential tulip nobles.

At this time, the aristocracy of the Tulip Territory will be divided into two. In fact, not only the Tulip Territory, but also the entire Blue Federation's older territories, there are generally two types of nobles. One is to live off the land and rely on exploitation. The productivity of farmers is used to maintain their luxurious life. The other type is the new land aristocracy that, after the Blue Federation entered industrialization, joined the flow of businessmen and gradually abandoned their own land and instead used their wealth to dive into business, factories and other industries. Nobles, which can also be said to be industrial aristocrats, are an important part of the capital of the Blue Federation.

There is an interest dispute between the two nobles, which is also an exchange of interests.In the matter of dealing with the Jialan collar, the two types of nobles initially stood together because they both needed a large amount of labor to maintain their own development. However, when Milton tried to cut the sword to Jialan's goods, the industry The nobles couldn't sit still. Most of the factories of the industrial nobles in the Tulip Territory had been shattered by the impact of the Gloria industry. Now they basically maintain themselves by making profits by transporting Gloria's cheap goods to other places and selling them at high prices. Wealthy, that is... comprador.

Milton wanted to take action on it, but they were naturally not happy. Cracks began to appear within the originally united Jialan Group. For the land aristocrats, killing Jialan was the best option, but for the industrial aristocrats, it was best to kill Jialan. He said that although they also wanted Jialan to die, leaving Jialan would mean losing their wealth, which they would definitely not be happy with, and not everyone was a saint who only considered the overall situation.

So this time the Tulip Leader sanctioned Jialan, on the surface it was murderous, trying to kill Jialan with a knife, but in fact when it fell on Jialan's neck, the knife was already blunt, although it also left a little impression on Jialan. , but it was limited to military matters, but it was impossible for Milton to risk the disapproval of the world and launch a civil war. This military loss would only make Huang Jiang uncomfortable at most.

With the return of Evelvet Island, after the coal mines on Sheberry Island and the oil on Evelvet Island enter large-scale exploitation, the resource crisis in Garland Territory will be on the verge of being resolved, and the only concern may be the aircraft carrier. .

If Huang Jiang is a little more conservative and sticks to it, then the blockade of aluminum resources does not seem to have much impact on him. Battleships alone may seem weak in attacking mirages with aviation forces, but protecting the homeland is absolutely It is foolproof. In front of the current lineup of ship girls in Huangjiang, even if the West Wind Drift comes out in full force, it may not be able to take advantage of Jialan Ling.

Well, it looks like this.

That's why the aircraft carriers are in a hurry!They were afraid that on that day, their salted fish would suddenly return to the appearance of the salted fish when they were growing up in the port area. They would go out every day to arrange daily tasks and then disappear without a trace. Sometimes they would not even have daily tasks. The arrangements and exercises were not organized, and even the battles were not fought. This situation has happened to Huang Jiang more than once.

The ship girls are very worried about the Huangjiang River, especially the aircraft carrier.

If we don't figure out the location of the aluminum ore island at this time, or even attack it, the aircraft carriers will really be in trouble when the salted fish from the Yellow River come down one day!

At that time, the B-25 they worked so hard to "borrow" from the Hornet will no longer be able to do whatever they want.

(End of this chapter)