Admiral in the Azure World

Chapter 740 Xia Cao Island

Xicao Island, like Rose Island and Ruiyun Island, is an iron ore island. In fact, from the distribution point of view, they, together with Cycad Island and Holly Island, form a complete iron ore vein, which is quite consistent with the blue world. Due to the distribution of mineral resources, islands with the same resources often cluster together, such as the aluminum ore island group formed by Tea Island, Kapok Island, Jingan Island, etc., or Edelweiss Island and Wengzhu Island in the Starry Sky Territory. For oil storage, because the area of ​​Edelweiss Island is so large, this concentration is not so obvious.

Xia Cao Island is still in the hands of Mirage today, but it will not be soon.

After a day of running around, the West Virginia Fleet finally saw the looming Xicao Island on the edge of the sea level.Xicao Island is about the same size as Cycad Island. Because of the rich iron ore on the island, this island also shows a rust-like red color like Cycad Island.

Or to put it more exaggeratedly, Kasumicao Island is an island made of iron.

The mirage on the island has obviously sensed the danger coming, because not long ago, Rose Island and Ruiyun Island lost contact one after another, and there are constant warnings from Cha Island. If at this time, the mirage on Xiacao Island is still there. If they were too lazy to fish, they wouldn't have been sent to this island.

But West Virginia did not pay attention to the mirage on Xiacao Island, but instead set its sights on the distant horizon.She was afraid that at this time, a sea soul army would appear on that seemingly unreachable arc.The speed of the West Virginia fleet is generally not high, especially when compared with the serial sea souls.

It is said that in order to seize the bridgehead in the resource belt, the troops led by Lan En to Xiacao Island were all composed of high-speed sea spirits.

"Okay." Nevada on the side handed over a piece of parameter paper, which was about the calculation of wind speed near Xiacao Island today and other parameters related to the accuracy of artillery fire.

West Virginia glanced lightly and said: "Get ready to fight."

Her voice was confident and calm.Now that the prey has appeared in front of him, it is impossible for West Virginia and others to let it out.Whether it was Maryland or Colorado, Nevada or Oklahoma, Tennessee or California, their temperaments were almost the same. Even Nelson, who temporarily joined the fleet, probably gave up Xicao Island.

When the cannon sounds, it means that this island is already named Jialan.

This matter has nothing to do with the mirage on the island, nor does it have anything to do with the coming Lann sea soul.The battleships of the old era were born with domineering and confidence.

In fact, when West Virginia and the others opened fire, the main force of Lannhai Soul commanded by Hesse was already very close to Xiacao Island.However, because their map is still an old version of the Azure Federation map, the location of Xia Cao Island is very briefly recorded, and because the battle with the mirage involved too many sea souls, it was not possible to compare it to Huang Jiang. Generally, troops were dispatched in advance to survey the future battlefield. A series of events directly caused the entire army to deviate from the channel at the beginning, and it was not corrected until midway.

And this little delay can be fatal.This caused the Rann Territory to lose the opportunity to seize the bridgehead, and also lost the opportunity to seize the last resource island they could reach in the resource belt... Although even if they captured Xiacao Island, they would directly encounter Anzu. Gloria Island, Rose Island, and Ruiyun Island are unable to move forward.

"What's the sound?!" Hai Kuixing, the leader, suddenly changed his expression when he heard the sound of cannons in the distance.

Regardless of their exhaustion after the war, they rushed for so many days in order to reach Xiacao Island before Jialan, but the moment they heard the gunfire, it meant that their wild running these days had lost the price.There has never been a large-scale conflict for an island in the history of the Azure Federation. The conflict between Sartre and the White Rose collar was the closest, and it was eventually suppressed.Obviously, the Lann family didn't want to start this either.

The news quickly reached Hesse.After hearing the report from the front troops, Hesse sighed and put down the newspaper in his hand.

On the front page of the newspaper, the most passionate words were used to describe Jia Lan's achievements in the past few years, in order to prove the legitimacy of Jia Lan inheriting the mantle of Edelweiss.This kind of legitimacy was originally just the propaganda of Jialan's propaganda outlet. But just this morning, after Jialan announced that it had regained the buffer zone waters, most people in the Federation thought so. Even Jialan had been People who regard him as an enemy or opponent have to admit this.

But Hesse obviously didn't believe it.After fully reading these drafts, it is not difficult to find that the article emphasizes that Jialan regained the buffer zone waters, but mentions very little about the situation in the resource zone waters. Except for the two iron ore islands, other islands are not mentioned at all.

This is obviously unreasonable.Because no matter from which perspective, these resource islands are worthy of special mention, not the buffer zone waters.Naturally, in most concepts, the buffer zone sea area is located on the east side of the resource zone, and Jialan attacked the westerly wind and drifted through the Violet Sea, so of course it first passed the resource zone before entering the buffer zone.And since the latter has been recovered, then the former will naturally be recovered as well.

But Hesse doesn't think so. Putting aside the evasiveness of the article, it is not difficult to find out from simple calculations that the time when Jialan started the war would not allow him to regain two sea areas at the same time.So the only reasonable explanation is that his old classmate somehow crossed the resource belt and directly attacked the rear.

This was a very aggressive method, and Hesse thought he would not dare to use it lightly.But I have to admit that Jialan still wants to have such a waste of capital. ,

In fact, Hesse's guess was too conservative. He only thought that Jialan had first opened up the buffer zone inserted by Qiangwei and Ruiyun Islands, but he did not expect that Huangjiang sent the main force to forcefully pass through the resource zone first. The rear base was established and then the two islands were connected to form a route.The two are the same in result, the latter is a little more dangerous, but faster.What Jialan lacked most was time. This time, they were drifting in the westerly wind and Lan En was entangled in the war.

By the time Hesse read this article, he already knew it was too late.Even if his troops rushed to Xiacao Island, they would take at most one island. Even if Jialan had not completely annexed the remaining resource islands, it would not be within the reach of Lane, unless Lane dared to be the first to provoke a civil war family, otherwise they would have no reason to cross Rose Island and Ruiyun Island.

Aluminum Island…

This is the main purpose of your battle this time.

Hesse looked at the simplified map.The opening of the Sea and Sky Star Illustrated Book makes it no longer a secret that aviation operations require the consumption of aluminum.And Hesse also highly praised this kind of beyond visual range strike operations. This time he wanted to quickly move to the resource belt for the purpose of the aluminum ore belt.

It's a pity...it's just one move away.

I didn't expect Jialan to be so decisive.

Where do they get their resources from?
Hesse was puzzled.

(End of this chapter)