Chapter 123: The Heroes of Orlan

"Although the great victory at Yalang City has created history and dealt a significant blow to the arrogance of the sirens, our Orlan has also suffered extremely heavy losses."

"Li Banan, the commander of the port area of Yalang City, was brutally killed by the general agent Ming Muhan after defecting to the sirens and dying in his post."

"Under the heroic command of trainee commander Luo Tao, a total of eleven ship girls died heroically, and eight ship girls were seriously injured."

"All Orlan compatriots, please take a moment of silence for these heroes."

Lin Lan, dressed in casual clothes, forced a smile and turned off the TV.

He looked at Luo Tao, who was blushing in the office of the commander of the port area of Yalang City.

"Old Luo, you see, you have become a big hero! Hahahaha!"

"Don't make fun of me! I didn't do all this. Why do you have to let me be this hero?"

The early morning sun was shining through the window, indicating that it would be a good day today.

Three days had passed since the night the tester was repulsed.

So much had happened in these three days.

When Peter's fleet joined the battle, they quickly destroyed all the remnants of the sirens.

From the Iron Blood Fortress, there were as many as ten Iron Ship Girls who came with Peter this time: Peter, Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Hipper, Eugen, Blucher, Roon, Z1, Z2, and Z16.

Coupled with Weser and Z46, if the subject had not escaped, they would have been beaten on the spot by the iron-blooded righteous siege.

When they finally returned to the port area, none of the ship girls, including the chess piece ship, were sunk.

However, seeing Agir and the others in a mess also made Lin Lan, who had been losing the communication signal, feel distressed.

Luo Tao couldn't believe his eyes at the battle damage.

You know, in all the previous wars against the sirens in Orlan, a victory without a single shipwreck was almost non-existent.

The sight of those iron-blooded ship girls, who were crazy and affectionate toward Lin Lan and whom he had never seen before, greatly shocked Luo Tao.

After that, Lin Lan immediately asked Luo Tao to activate the city's defense system, aiming at the empty ocean and firing air cannons frantically.

Later, he asked Roon to take a few Z-drive chibi, drag back a lot of paralyzed Siren II production models, and sink them in the nearby sea.

Additionally, he asked Prince Eugen and others to play the role of the sirens and shelled the Battleaxe Military Industrial Building and other buildings with the Battleaxe Military Industrial logo.

Of course, quite a few shore defense guns and posts were also destroyed.

Taking this opportunity, Lin Lan also asked the iron-blooded ship girls to raid the Battleaxe Military Industry's oil depot in Yalang City and then destroy it with bombardments.

It is worth mentioning that the lovely Blucher was highly enthusiastic about the destruction of shore defense artillery.

She did not go to the oil grab but kept destroying the shore defense artillery.

When Eugen and the others found her after blowing up the oil depot, Scarnhorst had almost blown up all the shore defense guns on the coast of Yalang City.

After clearing the reserves of shore defense artillery ammunition in the city, Lin Lan asked Luo Tao to lift the alarm when it was almost dawn.

In the end, he asked Luo Tao to temporarily entrust him with all the uninjured and slightly injured chess pieces.

He and the Iron Ship Lady led these chess pieces to the previous beach house together.

Before leaving, he specifically instructed Luo Tao to narrate the reinforcements from the other Admiralty according to the script he described, concealing the existence of himself and the Iron Blood ship girls.

After dawn, reinforcements from other port areas arrived in Yalang City one after another.

Upon seeing the almost intact Yalang City and the few weak ship girls left by Luo Tao's side, and after learning the news that Li Banan had been brutally killed by the local general agent traitor, all the commanders of the Six Cities Alliance were shocked.

It wasn't because the city was too badly damaged or because the ship girls had lost too much; it was the opposite.

They had come with the intention of driving away the sirens who had completely destroyed the city of Yalang and had come to occupy the surrounding seas.

But unexpectedly, Luo Tao actually resisted and repelled the sirens.

After the reinforcements salvaged the production version of the Type II sirens from beneath the surface of the surrounding sea, they were all dumbfounded.

These blue-black armored sirens were all genuine siren workhorses, not mixed with any fakes.

In any case, Yalang City had been saved by Luo Tao from the main force of the sirens.

Soon, the news spread through the Internet to the headquarters of the Navy Department and major media in the Western Continent.

In that room, all kinds of awards and praises made Luo Tao directly praised as the hero of Orlan for repelling the sirens.

Even the Admiralty directly promoted Luo Tao to the official port commander of Yalang City.

This kind of position in the port area of a big city, which other commanders had not been able to achieve for several years, fell on Luo Tao in just one day, making him feel as if he were dreaming.

And no one had any objections or dissatisfaction with this kind of glory.

To rely on more than 20 ship girls to repel the main force of the sirens and thwart the conspiracy of the local Zhu Hai Commercial Association's general agent to defect to the sirens was deserving of such a reward.

The next day, after finally sending away reinforcements from other port areas, Luo Tao had to face interviews with major media and voice calls with the Admiralty's top brass.

That morning, Luo Tao finally got free and called Lin Lan.

"Why are you hiding behind the scenes and throwing all the credit on me? All this should be what you deserve."

Luo Tao's secretary ship drove into the room with two cups of hot tea, and Luo Tao looked at Lin Lan, who took the tea with a smile.

Although Lin Lan's appearance looked exactly the same as before, Luo Tao already knew that his old classmate's strength was now unfathomable.

He was not a fool, and the extremely powerful strange ship girls that Lin Lan had were beyond the scope of what European norms could explain.

But he also understood that it was not good to inquire about other people's secrets, so he could only ask Lin Lan why he wanted to take all the credit.

"Me? But forget it, being a hero is too tiring and thankless."

Lin Lan sat on the sofa in Luo Tao's office, blowing the hot air coming from the teacup in his hand.

"No matter what, it was you who saved me from Li Banan and the sirens, and I have nothing to repay at the moment. Brother, I can't get over my conscience."

Since Lin Lan was determined not to come out, Luo Tao couldn't say anything.

He owed Lin Lan too much, and he really didn't know how to repay it.

The materials and (pseudo) wisdom cubes donated to him by the Admiralty to rebuild the port area had not yet arrived, and there were not many resources in Li Banan's port area, so he estimated that Lin Lan would not look down on this bit of mosquito meat.

Although Luo Tao didn't know that Lin Lan had ransacked the Battleaxe Military Oil Depot in Yalang City, he could see it.

With so many powerful ship mothers, Lin Lan definitely did not lack the resources he currently had.

"Well, in fact, there is really no need to say it so seriously. If I ask you for help, wouldn't you also sacrifice your life to save me?"

After Lin Lan took a sip of tea, he looked at his classmate and said in a mocking tone.

"That's... for sure."

"Isn't this the case? If I need your help in the future, I'll have to look for you again."

Lin Lan put the teacup on the coffee table, stood up, and stretched.

"Okay, don't get entangled. I'm going back to Lihu County in a while. You can adapt to this position first; you still have a lot of things to do, big hero~"

"You! Don't disgust me with that word!"

Lin Lan smiled and looked at the commander of the port area, the youngest big city in the United States of Orlan, whose face was flushed, and suddenly remembered something.

"Ming Muhan's death should allow the Tianou Consortium to take over in the future, and I can cooperate with them more at that time."

Luo Tao was stunned. "But isn't the Tianou Consortium also the same as Zhu Hai Commercial Association? They are not much better than the Battleaxe Military Industry, right?"

Lin Lan shook his head mysteriously and looked at his old classmate meaningfully.

"Don't worry; there are people from me in the Tianou Consortium, and they won't come like the Battleaxe Military Industry."

Looking at Lin Lan's extremely confident expression, Luo Tao couldn't imagine what his old classmate had experienced in this short period of time.

"I'll do my best. Do you need me to send you?"

"No need. Your ship girls are all in that beach house, and when the Admiralty arrives, you can gradually bring them back."

Lin Lan walked out the door with a smile.

Downstairs, several iron-blooded ship girls in civilian clothes were waiting for him in the sun, sitting on chairs in the port area.

"Okay, then I won't send you off. If you need anything in the future, tell me anytime, and I will cooperate unconditionally."

Luo Tao also got up, and after the two hugged at the door, Luo Tao made a promise to Lin Lan.

"It's enough to have your word, and I'll see you again in the future."

Seeing Lin Lan's departing back, Luo Tao slowly turned around, looked at the destroyer ship beside him, and smiled.

With Lin Lan's help, he was finally able to show his strength with peace of mind.

The pawn destroyer ship girls stared blankly at Luo Tao, wondering why her commander suddenly smiled.

Luo Tao squatted down, stroked the little girl's head, and looked at his secretary ship gently.

"In order to better help our benefactors in the future, we will work together to build a better port area."

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