Gundam, but from the Ground Alliance to the Human Alliance to the out-of-control servitor

Lieutenant General Kruger sat back in his seat and this time carefully read the 'Instruction Manual' about the agent.

'Is the day finally coming for unmanned combat? '

Lieutenant General Kruger was watching and thinking; this is not a new concept. It would be better to say that when he first entered the military academy 40 years ago, unmanned combat was considered to be the mainstream of future battlefields.

However, until now, unmanned warfare is still only the mainstream on the 'future' battlefield. Regardless of various technical factors, the federal army alone cannot cut any of the millions of positions equivalent to civil servants.

Since it is impossible to reduce the size of the personnel team and reduce expenditures through unmanned operations, the federal government, which is not under war pressure, is naturally not interested in increasing its budget to manufacture unmanned equipment.

'But are we finally feeling the imminent military pressure? '

Lieutenant General Kruger had a rough idea of ​​what the instructions for use were, but he still looked up at the agent and asked:

"Even if you say so, what can your joining bring to my army?"

During this period of time, the agent was not idle. She kept her body and even her eyes still. Only her pupils kept finely adjusting the angle to take in Lieutenant General Kruger's small office cubicle.

Yes, although he is an Army Lieutenant General and Army Group Commander, Kruger still chose a mobile command vehicle with limited space as his office location. In the command vehicle, he only occupied a small cubicle surrounded by a screen. .

There is a computer monitor on the desk in the cubicle, but the screen is black; the rest of the place is filled with various paper documents; in the gap between the table and the screen, there is a folded Get up camp bed.

At this time, many positions on the command vehicle were empty, with only a few young lieutenants operating radio stations and other communication equipment outside to maintain smooth communication between the command headquarters and subordinate units.

'Where is your staff? 'The agent had the answer in mind.

"Lieutenant General Kruger, I have received a full set of command training for all branches of the Army, and have passed the qualification assessment for all 31 additional technical positions. You can assign me to work in any position."

Although it only took the agent about a week, the number of calculations and iterations performed during learning was astronomical.

I don’t know what kind of exchange Gamitov had with Director Fanel. After he came, Fanel reluctantly lifted some of the agent’s calculation restrictions and opened up to her. Federal Army database.

"Command training, which military school did you study in?"

Kruger raised an eyebrow.

"No, all my training was in online databases."

The agent shook her head slightly. Today, all branches of the federal military have established a complete training database and a series of online courses corresponding to the majors of each branch. This is undoubtedly good news for her.

"That doesn't count as completing officer training. Just watching a few online classes is not enough to learn all the skills of a federal army officer."

"Maybe... you might as well give me some simple staff paper work in the headquarters to test my ability?"

"Oh, then——"

Lieutenant General Kruger rummaged through the pile of documents at hand and pulled out a dozen papers;

"——This mobility plan for the 47th Mechanized Infantry Brigade and the National Guard's 6,18th and [-]th Infantry Brigades, plus a plan for emergencies on the way. Can you please make it and hand it over to me before tomorrow afternoon?"

Lieutenant General Kruger asked tentatively. If you write it from scratch, the workload is not small for a human staff officer, not to mention it is already late at night.

The agent took the document, glanced at it, scanned all the text on it, and then quickly turned to the next page. In just a few clicks, he had a clear understanding of the relevant troop situation, road conditions and other known information.

"Squeak, swish, swish, swish..."

"Huh? What's ringing--"

Lieutenant General Kruger looked back and saw the printer standing in the corner next to him starting to work.

"Okay, Lieutenant General Kruger," the agent walked over unhurriedly, took out the printed documents, coded them neatly, and handed them into the hands of the lieutenant general;

"This is the first time I have formally written such a document. Please correct me."

Although this is my first time writing, the agent has read countless documents of the same genre archived in the Federal Army database. I dare not say how excellent the paper work I have done is, but it definitely has all the content that should be included——

And based on her experience in fighting Zaku under the interference of rice particles in the universe, she added a little bit of personal information into it.

Lieutenant General Kruger took the plan in disbelief, flipped it over several times, and finally put the document tremblingly into a plastic basket with the word "Complete" on it in the other corner of the table, leaving the center of the basket shallow. The shallow layer of file stacks is slightly taller.

Kruger raised his head and looked at the agent:

"No...how should I put it? From a strict standard, some points are indeed debatable, but there is no doubt that it is enough...you didn't copy it from somewhere, right?"

'I copied every word above from a dictionary. 'The agent said in the background that this is not about writing a paper to innovate. It is such a practical paper with a fixed format and a rather stereotyped content. The low duplication check rate actually illustrates the problem.

"Lieutenant General, I guarantee that the above contents are all completed based on the current situation in California after the impact of the Ifes Island impact, and are feasible in practice."

Chapter 9: Death falls from the sky (1)

"No - I just, really didn't expect, what about this plan for the deployment of building materials, equipment and personnel for the new recruit training camp No. 7-9?"

He extremely regretted that he had transferred all the trusted staff officers around him to lower-level units to grasp the situation. Lieutenant General Kruger, who was coordinating, was full of expectations.

While the agent was looking through the requirements, she connected to the command data link of the federal army here and searched for potentially useful information; in a few seconds, she had reviewed thousands of relevant information.

If you want to do better, you must personally inspect the location of the training camp and interview the instructor candidates. These experiences are lacking in agents who rely on online databases.

"Click, swish..." The printer in the corner of the control room started to beep again.

This time Lieutenant General Kruger could no longer sit still. He hurriedly picked up a stack of documents marked 'To Do' from the table and stood in front of the agent;

"Then these?"

"Give me five minutes."

The agent roughly estimated the thickness of the document in Lieutenant General Kruger's hand, and based on the efficiency of the printer here, gave an estimated completion time.

"But if you don't need a hard copy, it can be faster."

Lieutenant General Kruger hesitated. For a moment, he thought about liberating himself from the endless administrative paperwork and spending more time surveying the post-disaster terrain and mastering it. Status and needs of frontline soldiers.

This idea is really tempting. He has been advocating the reform of job division in the federal army, so that people in command positions can focus on combat command instead of sitting in the office all day reviewing documents in other areas; but he ultimately rejected it. Temptation, after all—

"If you want to sign something with my name, I have to read it again no matter what. It doesn't matter. The processing speed is much faster than I expected."

"As it should be, Lieutenant General Krueger."

'It is surprising that the federal army officers I have met so far seem to be extremely competent. 'The agent showed no unnecessary emotion and cooperated with Lieutenant General Kruger to deal with the backlog of work in the headquarters until——

"Ugh——"

A long blast of air raid sirens sounded.

At this time, the Zeon low-Earth orbit fleet, which was about 250 kilometers above the earth's surface, opened the release hatch along the predicted approach orbit.

"Be quick with your movements, hurry up! You have to get used to this kind of task, we will do this often in the future!"

The Zeon sergeant in a spacesuit looked at the blue earth outside the hatch, admiring it while mercilessly pressing the button to release the lock.

Hundreds of heavy bombs slid out of the cargo hold of the Papua-class transport ship, and gradually fell towards the earth under the combined action of the small reverse thrust engine and atmospheric friction resistance.

Each of these bombs weighs tens of tons, but compared with bombs used in the atmosphere, most of their mass consists of shells that resist friction and heat after entering the atmosphere, and the mass proportion of the actual charge is relatively small.

However, even if a solid metal ball falls from this height, it will be enough to cause considerable damage as long as it hits the ground intact. This is the natural advantage of the party that has the power to control the universe.

Composed of four Papua-class transport ships plus three escorting Musai-class light cruisers, a low-orbit strike fleet like the Principality of Zeon can orbit the earth in two hours;

In other words, they would pass over important cities and military bases on the federal surface more than ten times a day, and then suddenly launch an attack at a certain moment, dumping tens of thousands of tons of bombs on the heads of the federal troops.

The Principality of Zeon, which controls the universe, also controls the area and timing of the dispersion of nanoparticles in orbit. Zeon's reconnaissance forces can clearly see the deployment of the Federation forces on the surface from space, but it is difficult for the Federation to do so in a timely manner. Understand the movements of the Zeon fleet.

"What happened?"

Lieutenant General Kruger, who had just been reviewing the written work completed by his agent, seemed a little sleepy. He jumped up, quickly put aside the report in his hand, and rushed to the communications room as if running away.

"Admiral, this is an alert from NORAD."

The correspondent gave up his position and showed the warning message on the screen to Lieutenant General Kruger who came over.

"An air strike launched directly from orbit. Meter particles are spreading at mid-to-high altitudes. The target is expected to be the west coast of North America?"

Lieutenant General Kruger clenched his fists. Although he had predicted it on the day when the Federation Space Force was defeated, when the day happened when Zeon unscrupulously shit on his head, he still couldn't hold back his anger towards the universe. The blame felt by his military colleagues.

"Lieutenant General Kruger, according to combat regulations, you should move your headquarters now or enter concealment on the spot."

The agent who followed Kruger silently like a shadow reminded him.

That's true, but when Kruger thought about the airport not far away that was still brightly lit, transporting supplies around the clock, and the dense settlement camps for victims nearby, it was really looking for death according to the standards in the war zone——

The federal army he leads is awkwardly in a state of superposition of combat missions and disaster relief missions.

"Anyway, pick me up the air defense force directly under the group army."

The Army's basic field operations are accompanied by air defense. It is often powerless against such strikes launched from orbit, with terminal speeds comparable to intercontinental ballistic missiles and reaching hypersonic speeds;

However, at the Army level of Lieutenant General Kruger, there are still some theater air defense units that may be able to cooperate with higher-level homeland air defense to participate in the interception mission of orbital bombing.

The federal air defense forces assembled at multiple locations were ready. The launch boxes of long-range anti-aircraft missiles had been erected high. Just waiting for the commander's order, hundreds of sharp swords would pierce the sky.

Today, in the night sky above California, there are "rumblings" of thunder from time to time.

'The situation is serious. '

This is easily seen from the face of Lieutenant General Kruger or from the information compiled in the command data link.

Although the Federation Army's interceptions have been effective so far and have intercepted multiple targets in the middle and upper atmosphere, the bombs dropped by the Zeon Army obviously include a large number of rice particle interference bombs, which are being compressed little by little. Vision and reaction time of federal air defense forces.

From the initial 250 kilometers to less than 25 kilometers now, it is getting closer and closer to the limit of the federal army's reaction speed.

In Lieutenant General Kruger's command car, everyone except the agents could not help but hold their breath and nervously paid attention to the new developments in the air.

"finished?"

A correspondent breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that no new targets rushed out of the interference area for two full minutes.

However, in the next second, a huge signal source appeared on the radar screen.

Chapter 10: Death falls from the sky (2)

This is a heavy metal rod with a diameter of 20 meters and a mass of nearly [-] tons. It is wrapped in a fairing and heat insulation tiles and shot from a large mass accelerator near the lunar city of Granada——

This was originally a means of transportation used to quickly transfer minerals mined on the moon to the vicinity of the colonial satellite clusters under construction, but now, under the occupation of the Principality of Zeon, it has been transformed into a means of transportation that is more powerful than directly smashing down the colonial satellites. A more controlled and precise attack method.

Now, the federal air defense forces have less than 10 seconds to intercept, and they have indeed done their best:

The interceptor missiles launched from the ground and from the Federation Navy warships on the sea accurately hit the rapidly falling heavy metal rod, but the effect of this on the solid pure kinetic energy bullet was minimal.

With the light of fire violently rubbing against the air, this 'meteor' crossed the sky and fell towards the ruins of downtown Los Angeles.

"Everyone lies down! Prepare for impact!"

Lieutenant General Kruger's reaction was the fastest. He immediately covered his head with one hand and tried to pull the agent down with the other hand. The agent cooperated in time and got down, otherwise Kruger would not be able to hold him down. she.

Then it was still the same as the third one, the high temperature, earthquake, and shock wave generated the moment the heavy metal kinetic energy bomb hit the ground and exploded - but for the residents of California who had just experienced the falling fragments of the colonial satellite at this time, this scene was really not that big.

When the violent shaking outside finally subsided, the agent had already learned the results of Zeon's bombing through the local Federation Army's data link——

Of the hundreds of bombs dropped in orbit in the early stages, only a dozen or so successfully hit the ground, but only one of them hit a corner of the resettlement area for the victims, which seemed to have caused casualties to the government dignitaries who forcibly occupied the place;

The latter heavy metal kinetic energy bomb, which seemed to be used as a trump card by the Principality of Zeon, missed the federal army camp built on the outskirts of the city and hit the center of Los Angeles, destroying the ruins of several blocks again.

However, considering that the fragments of the colonial satellite that fell on the sea near California were originally aimed at Gabro on the South American continent, the improvement in the accuracy of Zeon's attack this time is obvious.

"Commander, Commander!" The guards rushed in from outside the door, "Are you okay?"

But at this time, Kruger had been helped up from the ground by the agent, and was slapping the dust on his knees, cursing:

"[Earth expletive], I really believed those guys from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs who signed the Antarctic Treaty. Doesn't this kind of weapon count as a violation of the treaty?"

"Judging from the original text of the Antarctic Treaty, there is really no explicit prohibition - it depends on whether we can identify the kind of strike just now as a massive weapon comparable to the fall of a colonial satellite."

The agent took the words and opened the image captured by the federal air defense force on the display screen on the side of the command vehicle:

Compared with the fragments of colonial satellites that fell before, which were mostly plate-like and sheet-like structures, the mass bomb dropped by the Zeon army this time was obviously smaller in size, but it was made of high-density heavy metal and had a force close to that of a bullet. The conical appearance of the warhead.

It is not difficult to see that the shape of this mass bomb has been carefully designed to reduce air resistance.

"Forget it, we'll talk about it later...I'm fine!" While signaling to the guards who rushed in to check, Lieutenant General Kruger pulled off the helmet hanging on the hanger by the door and walked towards the door, "How is the damage? I’m going to go take a look at that impact crater.”

"Fortunately, we have only received reports of casualties caused by one bomb hit so far."

The agent raised his hand and pointed to the other side of the camp, where black smoke was rising. In a place with a relatively complete communication network connection like a fixed base and corresponding electronic warfare equipment, the agent could completely monitor all federal forces at the same time. radio channel -

Whether they are connected to Lieutenant General Kruger's army-level headquarters, or to communications between lower-level units, such as the use of walkie-talkies within a combat team.

This can also explain why the Federation Army has not yet made up its mind to imitate the Principality of Zeon in equipping equipment that actively releases rice particles like the Space Army;

The Space Force's fleet spreads its own rice particles, and the directional laser communication between battleships is barely available;

However, the Army on the ground is affected by the curvature of the earth, weather conditions, etc. Without radios, it would really have to go back to the technical level where the command headquarters went and telephone lines were laid in World War I.

In low-Earth orbit, the fleet of the Principality of Zeon is also evaluating the effect of this strike.

"It's a pity, it's a little crooked."