Azur Lane: The Tragic Admiral’s Azur Life

Chapter 1407 Yubari's Scientific Research Products

Because neither side of the exercise intended to go all in, and with each side's goal being to defeat the other, the exercise lasted for three full days before finally coming to an end.

The mass-produced ships of both sides have been consumed, and most of the ship girls have been judged to be sunk and left the training ground.

In the final stage, Yang Sikang knew that he was actually at a disadvantage.

Each side's priority targets during the exercise were main fleets with lower maneuverability, larger targets and higher strike value, namely aircraft carriers and battleships.

Within three days, both sides tried their best and successfully sank each other's main fleet. However, in the clash of the vanguard fleets, when both sides lost their main fleets, efficiency in severely damaging and sinking each other became very important.

On Yang Sikang's side, the Cleveland-class light cruisers and his heavy cruisers basically lack the ability to strike with torpedoes. After all, disposable weapons cannot be carried during exercises.

Despite the presence of a submarine fleet, the enemy's anti-submarine capability was not bad either. As a result, they could still withstand the artillery fire, and the damage from the torpedo hit was recovered in one go.

On Yang Sikang's fleet side, Alan Sumner and his team were also eager to fight. Both sides tried their best, but the result was basically decided.

After all, the torpedoes of the ship girls are not as weak as the torpedoes of traditional ships. The probability of their torpedoes not exploding if they hit the target is very low.

Yang Sikang's fleet lost in an exercise for the first time in a long time.

"Oh my, I lost after all."

Huayuan, who had left the battlefield early, said this with a happy smile beside Yang Sikang. Although she also left the battlefield early, when she found that the battle situation was developing unfavorably to her side and the disadvantage was gradually emerging, she acted decisively and made a circle alone.

If the Prince of Wales had not fought with Yang Sikang many times before, and if her carrier-based aircraft had not forcibly conducted reconnaissance and discovered the disappearance of the garden at the critical moment, perhaps the garden would have really pierced through their fleet directly from the side.

Even after reacting, Garden still managed to take out the Prince of Wales and several frigates around him before he was judged to be sunk, and almost took out the aircraft carrier of the Combined Fleet as well. Unfortunately, White Eagle's damage control was as powerful as ever, and pulled the aircraft carrier back from the brink of sinking.

“Amazing performance.”

Lexington commented with emotion:

"The effect of this exercise is really... beyond imagination."

Compared with exercises with various requirements in advance, this type of exercise has higher uncertainty, but the corresponding requirements for both parties are also higher.

However, because both sides of the exercise were comprehensive and strong enough, the results were far beyond conventional exercises.

This is what they expected to see, but it was also a result that exceeded their expectations because the effect was so good!

"I think the second round of exercises should be postponed for one week from the original schedule. We need more time to digest in detail the highlights and problems revealed in this wonderful collision."

Warspite immediately proposed, and Lexington agreed without hesitation.

Yang Sikang naturally would not refuse. His fleet also needed high-quality exercises to find out potential problems.

Simply put, the more prepared the opponent's combined fleet is, the better the effect of the exercise is likely to be.

As for those one-sided routine exercises, Yang Sikang would rather let the ship girls train themselves and learn from each other.

As the saying goes, sharpening the knife does not delay the chopping of wood. Both Lexington and Warspite felt that more time was needed, and he certainly had no reason to refuse.

But he will not waste this time. He can do a lot of things with an extra week.

"I intend to build it the day after tomorrow morning."

Yang Sikang had already revealed the news in advance, but this was the first time he said it in person:

"You two should be coming, right?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Lexington and Warspite said without hesitation that they would bring people to watch.

It has become common to see Yang Sikang's construction process being watched by onlookers. If he were not currently building in his own development dock, there would be even more onlookers.

After the exercise, everyone went home. As soon as Yang Sikang returned to the residential area, he was a little amused by the depressed atmosphere of the ship girls gathered in the living room.

His fleet had always been successful in exercises, but this was a rare occasion that he lost.

Although it was deliberate, the difference in strength between them was actually not that big, so the ship girls were not in a good mood after losing.

However, the emotion of losing the exercise came and went quickly. Before Yang Sikang could say a few words, everyone's mood had returned to normal. This made Yang Sikang somewhat suspicious whether they simply wanted him to say a few words.

It was already late when the exercise ended, and Yang Sikang did not go back to rest for three days.

Therefore, even though he wanted to take a walk around the development zone, he was asked by Belfast and Memphis to go back and rest.

The next morning, Yang Sikang woke up on time as usual. Three days of sleepless nights had almost no effect on him.

The exercise data is collected in real time and has already been compiled into the database by Yang Sikang.

After Yang Sikang arrived, he retrieved the data. The data that had already completed basic processing in Bai Ze's database was of very high value.

He stored the data separately and prepared to hand it over to Lexington and Warspite, so as to save them some time spent on the data.

As for himself, based on this information and comparisons from other aspects, Yang Sikang quickly determined that the direction he had judged before was correct.

"As expected, if the strength is equal and the main fleets are in a state of mutual restraint or mutual destruction, the number and quality of the destroyer's torpedoes will still have a great impact on the final result."

"As for the quality of the torpedoes, should we try the improved version of the oxygen torpedoes?"

Yubari appeared out of nowhere and said with shining eyes:

"In fact, an improved version based on the oxygen torpedoes of the Sakura Empire and the torpedoes of the White Eagles and the Imperial Family has been developed a long time ago. However, since there has been no opportunity to practice it, it can only be put aside. Do you want to give it a try? Give it a try!"

Yang Sikang held Yubari vigilantly and asked:

"How powerful is it?"

"One shot! If we can hit it with just one shot, it will definitely make a huge hole in the battleship and make it sink to the bottom!"

"What's the disadvantage?"

"If there are minor problems like shortcomings, we can just collect data and make some improvements..."

“What are the disadvantages?”

Yang Sikang looked into Xi Zhang's eyes and asked. Xi Zhang hesitated for a moment and turned his head away.

Under Yang Sikang's questioning, Yubari brought up the issue of the torpedo that had been shelved without even being tested:

The explosion range is farther than the effective range of the torpedo, and due to energy overload, it may explode midway.