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Chapter 11: Operation Cube de sagesse noir (Black Wisdom Cube)

"Commander orders?" Wales asked in her stoic voice.

"Orders ma'am?" Asked Georgia as she watched the Legionnaire out of the corner of her eye. Blue helmets, well not exactly blue helmets as they only wore a UN patch somewhere on their body. In fact they never wore any UN headgear other than a patch.

"Georgia, commence with the plan. Wales, open fire." Both Vice Admirals gave their answers.

"Ready. Aim. Pow." The childish battlecruiser known as Repulse opened fire followed by Wales, Georgia and a few other battleships and heavy cruisers still in their ship forms. Above F4F Wildcats clashed with A6M Zeros. All a diversion as Enterprise, Cleveland, Belfast, Javelin and Laffey snuck into the city. Their aim was horrendous as most shells missed completely either falling short or overshooting, got to love fire for effect. 

Siren ships burst into bright orange fireballs as columns of black smoke rose into the air.

" Azur Lane forces have entered the city." Sgt Halla radioed in as UN naval gun fire and aircraft bombarded the Sakura Emperor's Siren forces. 

"Wilco." He acknowledged as the Legionnaire fired his main naval guns into the Siren fleet.

"For a modified Yamato-class he sure does have quite the firepower." Musashi remarked that even though Yamato and her had the large main guns and thick armour it was nothing compared to FS Annecy. AEGIS system paired with automatic secondary guns, VLS, Phalanx CIWS and RAM shot down any Siren aircraft or Zero that strayed too close.

Reporter girl and her cameraman were having a blast onboard USS Oklahoma as AA filled the sky, A6M5s, F4F-4s, Siren jets, Sea Harrier F(A).2s, a few F-35Bs from Lt. Moore as well as F-8Ps and F-4Es courtesy of Sous-lieutenant Vogel's carrier danced across the grey sky. The French aircraft doing impressive acrobatic combat manoeuvres as if they were harvesting the Siren jets for breakfast as Exocet armed Dassault-Breguet Super Étendard and Mirage F1Es were picking off Siren ships from afar. That however was nowhere as impressive to the Sakara or Azur Lane as was his bombardment and sniper skill paired with FS Normandie the former Eagle Union USS Great Lakes, a modified Montana-class battleship armed with 12, 406 mm hybrid electromagnetic accelerator guns equipped with the super-heavy, 2,700-pound (1,200 kg) APCBC (Armour Piercing, Capped, Ballistic Capped) Mark 8 shell tore through the heavy armour of the Siren battleships and carriers, in NATO and Azur Lane terms Rooks and Queens. Opening them up like tin cans.

"Holy, fuck." Georgia commented in sheer amazement at how his triple, 406 mm (16 in) electromagnetic accelerator guns outmatched her twin, 457 mm (18 in) guns. Sure her shells were equally effective against heavily armed targets but nowhere as equal as to the damage caused by that Montana-class. The French flag waving magnifically in the wing, basking in the death around it.

Monarch, for her part, was smiling happily as she fired nonstop at the enemy fleet. Wales' facial expression soured as only one thing made her estranged sister happy. Sous-lieutenant Vogel, the sibling she never had, that bond seemed to go deeper as if they were lovers protecting each other. She, a modified KGV-class battleship and him, a Lion-class. Two opposite classes yet alike in so many ways.

"This is hell." The blond British battleship commented upon seeing that the Siren fleet the Sakura Empire had brought with them was nearly fully turned into scrap metal.

For Paige and Cobb, this was gold. "Did you get that?" She would ask and he would nod, as an explosion filled the air, the black and red Sirens vessels being picked off one by one as a Zero almost shot the two forcing them to dive out of the way. A smile plastered across her face. "Haha, that was close."

"You, think!" Cobb shouted in anger.

Inside the city, naval gunfire bounced off the wall of the old gun range. In front a group of Kansens seemed to be squaring each other up. Takao and Atago faced off against Belfast and Cleveland and a little ways down, Ayanami faced off with Laffey and Javelin. Further in he could hear German and British naval guns exchanging fire with each other. Followed by a distinct blood curdling scream, Sheffield.