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

"Don't make matters worse, the ammunition we carried has been used up; now the maintenance team has also moved, we will fly directly to the airport in Nevada to land."

"But the superiors didn't ask us to fly as low as possible to delay the Zeon army's advance——"

Suddenly, a string of light points shot out from the ground and passed by the left rotor of the helicopter. Major Asma was so frightened that he pulled the control stick to the right and rear, suddenly raised the nose of the aircraft, and climbed upwards.

"What's attacking us!"

"I don't know, I can't see clearly...Looking at the muzzle flash, I think the pipe on the other side must not be thin!"

"[Earth expletive] Damn rice particles!"

Major Asuma muttered unwillingly.

Even though Major Asuma, who is highly skilled in piloting, has carried out ultra-low-altitude ground-skimming flights several times, the helicopter, which can only rely on unguided rockets and small-caliber cannon attacks, has only achieved very few results - and all of them were Zeon. Army armored vehicles.

A Zaku with a command antenna installed on its head pressed down the machine gun of another plane next to it that was half-kneeling and firing in vain into the air:

"Don't waste bullets!"

"But are we just going to watch the federal army go wild in the air?"

"The follow-up troops will have professional air superiority fighters to deal with them. Now let's do what we should do - our MS troops in the east have sent out a signal for help. Come with me to see whose subordinates are so embarrassed! "

Captain Ji Zaku's one eye turned to the side of a large shopping mall where explosions could be heard from time to time. Clearing out enemy infantry in such a huge building with an underground structure was not a stage prepared for mobile suits.

"Yes!"

Zaku, the fourth machine in this team, took a step forward and ran towards the east of the city.

……

'The coward who abandoned his men and ran away alone was right. There is indeed something different about these federal troops. '

The servo motor of the Federal Army's self-propelled anti-aircraft gun rotated rapidly, driving the barrel to continuously fine-tune its direction, firing out a string of shells that bit Zaku who was jumping up and down in rapid maneuvers.

"Bang...Boom!"

"Damn it, my machine gun!"

Not only the machine gun, but also one of Zaku's arms was torn off by a self-propelled anti-aircraft gun shell; but Zaku's pilot did not give up and took off the electric ax hanging on the back of the waist of the machine.

Through the lens of the main monitor which was cracked by the rifles of those desperate federal infantrymen, the Zaku pilot who did not dare to observe the terrain attentively was frantically thinking about countermeasures;

Zaku, whose left arm was broken, fell heavily from the air to the ground, but he did not dare to stay where he was at all. He kicked off the ground with his right foot and jumped forward to the left with big strides——

A 120mm armor-piercing round from a federal army wheeled assault gun passed by his body; the assault gun was parked in the shadow behind a two-story building. Theoretically speaking, it and Zaku should be in mutual sight. A state of being invisible.

Zaku's pilot didn't have time to think about it.

"Don't try to escape!"

Zaku raised the thermal ax and then threw it away.

The rotating electric ax flew out and hit the wheeled assault gun that was reversing not far away, nailing it to the ground. Then the high temperature of the ax blade quickly detonated the assault gun's ammunition.

However, Zaku did not dare to step forward to retrieve his last weapon. Instead, he protected the torso of his machine with a shoulder shield, fired a round of smoke bombs and immediately retreated.

[code: Ambush failed, transfer immediately]

In the houses on both sides of the burning wreckage of the wheeled assault gun, several tactical robots carrying anti-tank missiles left from the back door without hesitation. Under the control of the agents, they lowered their upper bodies and ran quickly from behind the fence to the next one. position.

"The wheeled assault gun on the high ground south of the federal army position was knocked down!"

Zaku's pilot panted heavily, trying to calm his rapidly beating heart, and loudly reported on the communication channel:

"My aircraft's weapons are all destroyed. If anyone has any extra machine guns or electric axes, give me one!"

There was only a "hissing" noise coming from the communication channel.

"Everyone in the team...everyone is doing well, please speak up and confirm the situation!"

The flames of fighting in the distance and the occasional explosions were still there. The federal army still did not give up resistance, and friendly forces also continued to fight.

But in this late-night town, Zaku, who had lost his arm, was squatting and hiding behind a clock tower alone. He looked around nervously, alert to the federal troops who would suddenly appear from nowhere. Anti-tank man.

"Did I rush too far and lose communication distance?"

The pilot of Broken Arm Zaku did not dare to think about another possibility, nor did he dare to stay alone in what could still be considered an area controlled by the Federation Army——

Before the battle began, he had forgotten all his thoughts about rushing into the enemy's formation alone and finally turning the tide. Now he just wanted to break away from the battle and find friendly troops;

Whether it was in the name of rendezvous or in the name of replenishing weapons, he really didn't want to face those crazy federal soldiers anymore.

Zaku, who had lost his arm, stood up and ran away in the direction he came from without looking back.

[report: remaining tactical robots: 67, armored vehicles: 4]

'Slightly higher than expected - but it confirms that Zaku of the Zeon Army is also controlled by humans, and will also be affected by morale. '

The agent felt the communication ports of friendly forces dimming one by one, compressed the last collected intelligence and combat records, and sent them back to Gabro's headquarters; on the large screen of the command vehicle, a countdown was about to reach zero.

"Call... the department... are you still there? I... the remaining 11 people are surrounded by Ji... in the loading and unloading workshop below. Can there be reinforcements?"

'Sorry. '

At the last moment, the agent looked at the last few blue dots on the map that were drowned out by red blocks, and there was nothing she could do about it.

"Division... Department, are you... here?"

After most of the federal army's troops had evacuated the city, more than a dozen tactical missiles from far away landed mercilessly on the position of the intelligent control brigade that was still in battle, where the command vehicle of the 6th Army was located. ——

Together with the Zakus of the Zeon army who thought they were finally about to see the dawn of victory, they erased all traces of the existence of agents and intelligently controlled war machines here; her existence was not yet suitable for the public to know.

Chapter 26: Trapped in a corner

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Chapter 27: Trapped in a corner

Cynthia pushed her glasses and lowered her head slightly. The purple-haired girl's arms swayed in the air a few times, and the situation between the enemy and ourselves around Luna 2 displayed on the huge holographic projector in the center of the control room also changed accordingly.

In the surrounding space domain, areas where radar detection is interfered with are highlighted in red, and the depth of red is used to distinguish the degree of interference, or the concentration of rice particle dispersion;

The densely packed small blue dots represent the mines, observation posts and unmanned sentry guns deployed by the Federal Space Force in the surrounding area; the white dots represent the debris that is known and can be continuously tracked;

As for those thunders and automatic sentry guns that have been newly triggered or have been destroyed and lost contact - their last contact locations are marked on the space map with small crosses.

In this way, although the Principality of Zeon's blockade fleet cannot be directly located on the space map, the traces they left along the way are like black footprints on the white snow, exposed without any obstruction.

"Currently we are unable to grasp the patrol pattern of the Principality of Zeon's army, but what is certain is that the Principality of Zeon's fleet is consciously changing its orbit to prevent us from accurately predicting the location of their fleet."

"It seems that the enemy commander is very cautious this time." Cunningham sighed, quite annoyed.

The Zeon army operating around Luna 2 has adopted a set of tactics of breaking into parts and avoiding the real and attacking the weak. They focus on the small reconnaissance fleet of the Federation Space Force and the mine-laying fleet attack. In this small-scale During the battle, Zeon's MS advantage was greatly amplified——

It would take a lot of losses for 30 Zakus to break through the 10 Federation Salamis-class cruisers forming a dense air defense formation, but it would be easier for 3 Zakus to attack a lone Salamis-class cruiser. many.

About two weeks ago, the unconvinced Lieutenant General Tiam also tried to command the entire 4th Fleet, which had well-preserved combat power, to attack in an attempt to catch the scattered Zeon blockade fleet. In the end, not even a single Zeon battleship was killed. No shadow was seen——

As soon as the Federation fleet was dispatched, the Zeon warships stayed far away to avoid the battleship gunfire. Zaku relied entirely on the small formation to continuously test and harass the Federation 4th Fleet from all directions.

The Zeon army's Zaku also learned the lesson. Now that they could no longer use nuclear rockets to defeat the enemy with one strike, they were not in a hurry to break through the Federation fleet's formation immediately. They just maintained high speed and passed by the Federation fleet at a long distance, seducing them. The close-in defense guns of the Federation battleships kept firing;

Such rounds of probing lasted for several hours, constantly consuming the Federation fleet's ammunition stock and the crew's attention. In the end, even though Tiam's fleet remained on alert throughout the entire process;

It was still during the fleet's turn that it was attacked by a red-painted Zeon Army ace pilot, tearing apart the 4th Fleet's anti-aircraft firepower network——

Then several Zaku teams followed closely behind, using the hull of the federal warship whose bridge and most of the anti-aircraft turrets were destroyed as a cover to quickly kill the federal warships that had lost the cooperation of friendly ships around the gaps in the air defense fire network.

In the end, Lieutenant General Tiam sank one Magellan-class battleship and four Salamis-class cruisers, severely damaging several ships, but only shot down 1 Zakus in a tragic exchange.

If you consider the large amount of ammunition consumed and the propellant used in large-scale dispatches of battleships, this will undoubtedly be a loss of blood for the isolated Luna 2.

However, it cannot be said that Tianmu's attack was in vain - he at least successfully led the 4th Fleet to break through the meter particle interference zone spread by the Principality of Zeon, and brought back new instructions from Gabro Headquarters:

A large amount of technical data required to implement the 'V' plan aimed at updating the federal army's combat system;

The Vinson large-scale shipbuilding plan released to quickly supplement the combat power of the Federation Space Force;

And ordered the remaining federal space warships currently stationed on Luna 2 to avoid fighting, conserve their strength, and wait for the completion of Gabro's new space warship before regrouping their forces to compete with the Principality of Zeon for space control.

The last order was obviously issued without any expectation that the Principality of Zeon would have other strategic bombing methods besides pushing down colonial satellites.

Vice Admiral Cunningham’s own ship, the USS Marco Polo, the flagship of the Federal Space Force, has also made many single-ship sorties in the past few weeks——

In small-scale battles, working with human-controlled warships will actually reduce Marco Polo's combat efficiency.

The current Marco Polo can be said to be the culmination of all Luna 2 technologies and resources, and is responsible for verifying the ability of the existing integrated weapon systems on Luna 2 to deal with Zeon MSs.

It is true that Luna 2 has a large and complete space military shipbuilding facility, but this does not mean that every part on the Federation battleship is produced on Luna 2.

A federal space force battleship often contains dozens of elements and is composed of nearly ten thousand materials of different specifications;

Under the current blockade by Zeon, the Federation Space Force also has to plan ahead before the inventory of equipment modules and parts is exhausted, and think about how to use the locally produced parts on hand to assemble the highest combat power.

Under such circumstances, Marco Polo can be said to be a Magellan class - a modified version of the battleship:

First of all, there is no resistance to the full application of the Ogas system on Luna 2. Any active Federal Space Force officer who has participated in the Battle of Hart and witnessed Marco Polo will not refuse this -

The only person who had reservations about this before was Lieutenant General Tiam, who did not directly engage the Zeon mobile suit units in the Battle of Hart;

However, after he experienced the painful lesson of personally leading the 4th Fleet only to be tricked by Zeon's mobile suits, he had to admit that the evaluation of the extremely high performance of the Zaku II was true, and he transformed into the Orgas system. Strong supporter.

Secondly, there is no need to worry about the weight limit when launching the battleship like the shipyard at Gabro headquarters. In addition, the Marco Polo was repeatedly traumatized in the Battle of Hart, but finally returned to Luna 2 like an unsinkable battleship. ;

The designers of the Space Force Shipyard decided to highlight the survivability design of the battleship. In terms of structural strength and armor weight, they completely copied the design of the Marco Polo to the battleships that the Space Force is still under construction and overhaul.

As for the mobility problem caused by the increase in mass, it can be solved simply by increasing the thrust of the thermonuclear rocket and replacing it with a new high-efficiency attitude adjustment nozzle——

The propellant reserves of the Magellan class, which was originally designed to leave the Earth's circle and go to fight on other planets in the solar system, now seem to be a bit too much.

In addition, in the old combat system, various high-power search, fire control radar and other electronic equipment prepared for beyond-visual-range operations were directly replaced without repair because they used a large amount of rare metals that were not produced locally on Luna 2. For lower cost models;

The abundant power generation and cooling power allowed the Marco Polo to install 8 new laser point defense cannons of the same type as the Santiago. The original 10 live-fire close-in defense cannons were also retained, but the armor of the gun mantlet was strengthened——

There is no way. If all the Federation Space Force warships are to be equipped with laser cannons, I am afraid that it will not be completed until next year based on the current production of Luna 2.

And those medium and long-range air defense missiles that are used to intercept enemy aircraft hundreds of kilometers away without the interference of rice particles are very redundant on the current battlefield, and have also been completely replaced with smaller ones. Can carry a larger number of short-range air defense missiles.

After experiencing such a substantial upgrade for the nanoparticle environment and mobile suits, Marco Polo faced the Zaku 2 (MS-06F) whose anti-ship attack capabilities were not improved but decreased due to the signing of the Antarctic Treaty:

"The Federation's battleships are just like monsters. They are definitely not normal!"

"No...impossible. Are you sure it's a battleship that is launching an unescorted single-ship attack? Even with the Federation's national strength, the Magellan class cannot be wasted casually. No Federalist would use a battleship like this. This is absolutely impossible. !”

"Then is the battleship I saw fake?"

Zaku's pilot recalled what he had experienced a quarter of an hour ago and was still frightened:

He was driving the Zaku II F type (MS-06F), which theoretically had much improved maneuverability. He was cruising at a distance where he would be able to visually see the strange Federation battleship, and watched in disbelief that it had all been defeated. rocket launcher magazine;

Including those fired by his team's teammates, a total of more than thirty Zaku rockets rushed towards the lone federal battleship. However, after a series of explosions and flames, the federal battleship emerged from the smoke unscathed. out.

"Are you an idiot? How did you pass the pilot test? Don't you know that you should approach a warship with strong federal anti-aircraft firepower and attack it?"

"I only survived by not doing this!"

The confident tone of his teammates reappeared in the mind of pilot Zaku who was lucky enough to survive——

'Haha, if we can defeat this Federation battleship independently, then the three of us can be considered an elite team. God help me! '

Zaku rushed towards the lone Federation battleship at full speed, but at the same time he did not forget to make a standard approach maneuver, rushing into the air defense range of the Federation battleship with a trajectory close to a spiral.

Then, it was so fast that he didn't even see what was happening. He just noticed the flash of light from the federal battleship, and subconsciously changed his approach maneuver and retreated——

A scar-like melting mark was left on the chest armor of his machine body, and it was just a hair away from being burned through to his cockpit. Compared to his team mates who had turned into cosmic dust, he was very lucky. of.

Marco Polo achieved such results more than once: at the cost of being hit by Zaku machine guns at irrelevant positions, he destroyed more than 10 Zakus belonging to the Zeon blockade fleet——

They also include two ace machines with fancy custom paints. Although Zeon's ace is not very valuable at this time, on the one hand, it is only a short time before the war breaks out;

In addition, generally when attacking a ship, unless it is really a victory achieved by one person alone, it is difficult to distinguish whose final blow sank the battleship, or how much contribution it made to the sinking;

The attitude of the Principality of Zeon Army towards this is basically that everyone who participates in the attack and causes damage will have a share, and they will all share the number of battleships shot down.

After all, having more trump cards would be beneficial to Zeon's consistent propaganda of heroism.

Although the fighting of Marco Polo's single ship could not completely change the situation of the Federation Space Force being blocked on Luna 2, it caused great psychological pressure on the nearby Zeon army performing the blockade mission——

In the "Primus" fleet, there is now a legend circulating: The Federation battleship that was extremely abnormal and went out alone was actually the ghost of the Federation battleship that was sunk in the Battle of Hart, and it was wandering alone on the moon. Near Shen 2;

According to the last images sent back by the mobile suits that dared to approach her, the battleship's hull number was clearly in the state of being sunk in the records of the Principality of Zeon, and those Zeon troops who approached her would be taken to the world of the dead. , no one survived...

The commander of the "Primus" fleet once formed a special 'ace' force to hunt down this ghost ship in order to reduce this kind of ghost story that affected morale - but in terms of results, it just allowed this legend to spread. is wider.