Chapter 476: Diplomacy and Balance
The rest time is always short. Qin Ge and the ship girls spend most of their time on the sea, fighting or resting.
With the rapid improvement of the training level of the Iron Blood Ship Girl, the current battles do not take as long to complete as before. Basically, each battle does not last long at the beginning. With the time lock of the Peter Strasse, all enemies in the sea area cannot move.
During this time, the Iron Blood Fleet was able to eliminate a large part of the enemy, so the battle became more and more smooth.
"Welcome back, it's another beautiful battle." Qin Ge said with a smile to everyone who had just finished the battle.
"It feels like the fleet in the Level 4 sea area is becoming less and less challenging. Commander, when are we going to more dangerous waters?" Peter Strasser said, "Only in more dangerous waters can we demonstrate the overall strength of our fleet."
Qin Ge said helplessly, "We have only been on Sun Moon Island for less than a year, and it is impossible to apply for a rotation at this time.
Even though our strength has improved rapidly, the others cannot keep up. Although they are gradually approaching the fourth-level sea area, it is still too early for us to go to the front line at this time."
“Although I don’t know if my suggestion will make you angry, I feel that our current existence has far surpassed that of ordinary commanders, and is even comparable to some weaker factions.
The road of the strong is always lonely. I know the commander is doing this for the good of the commanders of the Grand Fleet, but their pace has seriously hindered our development." Peter Strasser said.
Qin Ge smiled and said, "How could I not know that?"
"Why do you choose this?" Peter Strasser said curiously.
Prince Eugen said with a smile, "Peter, don't just focus on time and efficiency in everything. Sometimes people's minds are the most complicated."
"What do you mean?" asked Peter Strasser.
Bismarck said in a deep voice, "Even you can see that our fleet is developing too fast, so will people from other camps not notice it? Moreover, there are direct personnel , reporting our situation to them every day.
As of now, our fleet now has three awakened ship girls, and there are five awakening ship girls. In addition to the original Monarch and Centaur, Eugen, Noshiro, and Ayanami have also begun to awaken. It is foreseeable that there will be more and more awakened ship girls in our port area in the future.
It is even possible to surpass the sum of the other nine camps. Do you think that under such pressure, if we choose to develop alone, will the nine camps cooperate with us?"
"But we haven't harmed the interests of the nine camps, and we are also the pioneers in fighting against the Sirens. Why can't we work together?" asked Z23 on the side.
Qin Ge smiled, "Because they don't dare to guarantee it, just like humans, they are all human, but they have different beliefs and different ideas, why can't KanColle do the same?
So with a large fleet, it means we will stand with the human commander, and our goal is to fight against the Sirens. This is still a choice that will calm all parties down."
"But isn't the commander a human? The commander can represent the human commander." Z23 said.
Qin Ge sat down with a smile. Prince Eugen beside him answered Z23's question, "It's very simple, because the commander is not a human from this world, so he cannot represent the will of the humans in this world.
In addition to us knowing that the commander is from another world, Yixian of Donghuang also knows about this. Although Yixian has not told other factions about this matter yet, we cannot hope that she will not tell them. "
“It’s so complicated.” said Z23.
"Haha, this is balance." Prince Eugen said, "Although our development speed has become slower, we have won the credibility of the nine camps, so we don't have any worries.
If we develop on our own, without the nine camps to support us and without humans to provide us with supplies, where do you think our oil and materials will come from?
War and diplomacy are not that simple. Even if our strength exceeds that of the nine factions combined, how long can we last without supplies? Do we have to rely on the Sirens in the end?"
"Uh, no way." Z23 said in surprise.
"There is no such thing as yes or no. When faced with a choice, each camp will give priority to the gains and losses of its own camp." Prince Eugen said.
"I have a question." Weisi said to Qin Ge.
Qin Ge nodded, "Go ahead, I'm listening."
"In that case, we can also develop within this framework. Now our last batch of summoned ship girls have basically reached the level of full damage, but why is the commander reluctant to summon the next batch of ship girls?"
Qin Ge smiled and said, "In fact, our fleet strength is already close to saturation. The level 4 sea area we are facing is so small. If we summon more people, then someone will occupy more resources.
So I want to keep the fleet at this number for the time being, and summon the next batch of ship girls after we move to a larger battlefield.
And now that we have the inventory of ship exercise data, even the newly summoned ship girls can reach the full level in a very short time and keep up with us.
It won’t be like before where they need to train for a long time or have to follow us into battle with fear and trepidation.”
"So this is what the commander thought. I said it's been almost a year and the commander still hasn't summoned the ship girl." Weser said.
Qin Ge smiled and said , "In fact, I hope that you will have a qualitative change. In this way, even if we have a smaller fleet, we can still be the leader among the rest."
"Commander is right. To reach our fully trained level, the most important thing is to awaken. Only after awakening can we have a stronger fighting force.
As for the size of the fleet now, it doesn't matter, we don't need so many ship girls for the time being." Bismarck said.
"Well, let's talk about this later. We will go to more dangerous areas and larger seas. By then, the scale of our construction will be expanded, but that is in the future, not now.
Our main goal now is to continuously improve our training level, awaken as much as possible, and obtain the resources needed for the base station later." Qin Ge said with a smile.
"So everyone should take a rest from now on. There will be a new battle later."
"yes!"
