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

The rookie pilot, who was the squadron's teammate, shouted excitedly in the communication channel, not only to express his habitual praise to his superiors, but also to relieve his own tension.

'If everything was really expected, how could we be in this situation where we were touched in the face by the federal fleet and were caught off guard and prepared to attack? '

Lieutenant Gulenis Escott, who had participated in the Lunar Orbit Battle, the Hart Battle, and fought the entire week-long war, curled his lips, adjusted his seat in the cockpit, and finally checked the status of the machine body - everything normal.

"Okay newcomer, follow me and watch my movements. The federal army who dares to attack at this time is definitely not an easy person to deal with. Don't be careless!"

Just as he was talking, two purple beams of Mega particle light crossed the void and passed by the port side of the Papua-class transport ship.

"Quick, attack quickly! Next, this ship will also follow the fleet's turn!"

Speaking of which, the captain of the transport ship actually turned the steering wheel impatiently. At this time, the attitude adjustment engine of the Papua-class transport ship was turned on, pushing the hull to turn to one side.

The more flexible Musai-class light cruiser and flagship Chibe-class heavy cruiser Galar in front are about to complete the U-turn and accelerate backward.

"Lieutenant Gulenis Escott, Zaku II S, attack!"

On the turning transport ships, one by one, carrying either a 120mm machine gun or a 360mm rocket launcher, they left the cabin almost as if they were being 'thrown' out, gathered together, and flew forward in formation.

"No explosion was observed, the first shot missed, and the trajectory is being corrected."

Sailing in front of the entire Federation fleet, Marco Polo looked at the purple beam of light emitted from his feet, inserted into the Zeon fleet that was hurriedly turning away from the Federation fleet in the far distance, and shook his head helplessly. .

The concentration of nanoparticles in the area where the Zeon fleet was located was soaring. In Marco Polo's eyes, there was now only a blurry halo of battleship propeller tail flames in that direction.

"Even if it's artificial intelligence, is it difficult to hit at this distance?"

Lieutenant General Cunningham, who ordered Marco Polo to fire at a position far beyond the normal shooting range of the Space Force, smiled rather nonchalantly;

"Lieutenant General Cunningham, even with my eyes at this distance, I cannot accurately distinguish the relative position between the artillery impact point and the enemy ship, so the purpose of calibration cannot be achieved."

"No, no, no, Marco Polo, the bombardment does not have to hit to be called effective——"

Lieutenant General Cunningham waved his hand forward, and Marco Polo fired another round of bombardment with understanding, "-Even if there is no hit, it would be good to scare the Zeon fleet."

A series of precise bombardment coordinates were assigned to each battleship of the 2nd Fleet. Even though it has not yet entered the gun range of the federal fleet in a meter particle interference environment, the federal fleet still opened fire collectively.

The 2nd Fleet, which suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Hart, but ultimately maintained its structure and evacuated the battlefield, had become accustomed to obeying Marco Polo's accurate and timely instructions and carried them out strictly without hesitation. This was exactly what they were able to do in the Battle of Hart reasons for surviving;

"Lieutenant Admiral, you make it easy. I have received a lot of inquiries from friendly ships about the reason for the sudden firing."

More than a hundred purple beams, distributed by Marco Polo, were evenly distributed in a space, like a large airtight net, covering the first Zeon battleship observed by Marco Polo.

The remaining four Magellan-class battleships of the 2nd Fleet and Marco Polo formed a formation similar to a pyramid:

Marco Polo was at the top of the tower, facing the Zeon fleet that was escaping in panic in front of him, while other Federation warships were either along the ridges of the pyramid or filling the surface of the tower, closely following Marco Polo.

"boom!"

A purple beam of light passed through, melting and burning through the entire port side of a Papua-class transport ship. Zaku, who was inside before he could attack, turned into a pool of orange-red metallic droplets.

"[Side 3 expletive] What is Zaku doing on the perimeter guard? Has the federal fleet already entered shelling range?"

Rear Admiral Kongsikang clapped his hands together, leaned on the porthole of the bridge and looked back——

Of course, he could only see bright purple Mega particle beams shooting out from the void in the distance. Most of them passed through the Zeon fleet, but there were also a few that inadvertently interacted with a certain unlucky Zeon ship. The battleships encountered each other unexpectedly.

"Let the mobile suit team rush over and engage in a close battle to hold back the federal fleet! Damn it, why does it seem like the federal army is ambushing us?"

……

"Lieutenant General Cunningham, please note that this is the signal flare of the 'Venomed Dagger' squadron."

Suddenly, three consecutive flares of different colors exploded in the void between Zeon and the Federation fleet.

"Red-orange-orange, does this mean the enemy force is strong, please be alert?"

Lieutenant General Cunningham straightened his upper body slightly, his face became serious, his fingers unconsciously retracted inward, and he clenched his fists and placed them on the armrest.

"Yes, this was indeed newly issued last month. The signal flare is one of the messages that can be transmitted when communications fail. It is used to remind friendly forces that a stronger enemy force is nearby."

"Judging from the tail flames, the Zeon fleet is clearly escaping... So, is it a Zeon mobile suit?"

Lieutenant General Cunningham dared not ignore this kind of mobile weapon that had changed the space warfare system and destroyed nearly [-]% of the Federation Space Force's fleet in several consecutive battles.

Marco Polo leaned forward slightly, his green hair hanging down like a waterfall, and said softly:

"Yes, but you don't need to worry."

Chapter 32: Two-pronged attack (5)

The captain of the Poisoned Dagger Squadron, Captain Jung, made a decisive move: when charging towards the Zeon fleet, he was the first one, and now the Zeon fleet released a dense swarm of Zaku, scaring the Poisoned Dagger Squadron. When he turned around and ran away, he was the first.

'Tsk, it's been calculated. It looks like a transport fleet, but in fact it contains Zaku with space warfare specifications? '

Captain Jung endured the G-force caused by the constant changes in the direction of the aircraft and cut out the image from the rear monitor and displayed it on the corner of the large screen in front of the cockpit.

Go directly back to our fleet to seek asylum?In this case, it is impossible to identify ourselves and the enemy. It will definitely not work. They will be attacked together. A drop of cold sweat dripped from Captain Jung's forehead. He drove the machine body and turned sharply to one side.

"Then the Federation's machine is... Zaku?"

Lieutenant Escott of the Zeon Army narrowed his pupils and focused on Zaku who was dodging in front of him in the hail of bullets. He couldn't help but tense up with his hand holding the operating lever;

This despicable federal guy actually drove pretty well.

"This is simply an insult! He was captured by the federal army, and was used by the federal army to infiltrate our security line... Zaku, who was patrolling, failed to sound the alarm. He must have been deceived by the federal army's conspiracy!"

In the communication channel, the Zeon pilots were filled with indignation and chased after the Federation who was fleeing in front to capture Zaku as if they had been fed gunshot.

It should be exactly the same machine, but for some reason, Zeon Zaku, who was in pursuit, was getting further and further away from the fleeing Zaku, who was captured by the Federation.

"Don't be induced. Attack the enemy's mothership first. Without the support of the federal fleet, he will run out of propellant sooner or later!"

Lieutenant Escott shouted anxiously in the communication channel, "Yes, the Federation Army's Zaku may have consumed part of the propellant when it arrived. Naturally, it is lighter than the Zeon Army's fully loaded heavy attack, and its acceleration is faster." Faster'.

However, he could only affect friendly forces within a limited communication range at this time, and Zaku, who was a little over the top, had already chased him far away and exceeded the contact range.

"Not only that!"

Captain Jung pushed the operating lever in the opposite direction with both hands. The Zaku he was driving suddenly turned half a circle in the air. The muzzle of the Zaku machine gun flashed for a few times. A string of 120mm bullets shot out and directly hit the unprepared aircraft. Zaku, the Zeon army who pursued the most closely;

Then he continued to turn around and returned to the fleeing posture with his back to the Zeon army. He did not even look at the blown up Zeon army Zaku. He just used the light of the explosion to talk to the rear again and became even more angry because of the death of his comrades. The Zeon army distanced themselves.

The Federation did not just repair the captured Zaku. During the repair process, the Federation's technicians replaced a large number of the original super-hard steel alloy armor plates on the Zaku body with titanium-ceramic composite armor of Federation Space Force specifications. ——

After such an operation, the Zaku's attack mass was directly reduced by more than 5 tons. Even without considering the propellant consumption, Captain Jung's aircraft could still get rid of the seemingly identical Zeon Army F-type Zaku at this time. .

……

"Prepare for air defense operations."

In the federal fleet, Marco Polo, who had received the order from Vice Admiral Cunningham to continue advancing, seemed to be used to it, and laid out air defense orders one by one;

Even if we turn around at this time, we will be overtaken by the Zeon army's mobile suits. We might as well fight them head-on and see.

The hatches of the missile silos on the warships were lifted upward one after another, and the pre-programmed direction instructions and automatic detonation time were input into the warheads.

"emission."

Dense barrages were fired - the Federal Space Force's attack this time replaced all the long-range anti-aircraft missiles with a range of hundreds of kilometers away, and replaced them with shorter and more powerful short-range interceptor missiles;

As a result, the same launch unit on the Federation battleship can now have almost four times the bomb load of the Battle of Hart.

The whizzing missile group crashed head-on into Zaku's array. Zaku, who had been dispersed in a small team, was not an easy target to hit, but Marco Polo didn't care.

"Hahaha, our team went first!"

Zaku pulled the trigger of the machine and swept the chain of fire, easily knocking down two incoming federal missiles. Now, he and the federal fleet in front of him were close at hand, and there was no obstacle.

On the other side, Lieutenant Escott tried his best, first shooting down three federal missiles in enemy fire, and then suddenly turned to accelerate the dive, deceiving the guidance heads of the federal missiles to follow them downwards and then carrying the huge missiles. The acceleration turned back and passed two missiles;

At this time, there were still nearly ten missiles following closely behind his aircraft.

"Don't be impulsive! Wait until the main force... bang!"

The detonated missile scattered prefabricated fragments like iron rain in all directions and hit Lieutenant Escott's body. He had no energy left to direct and had to focus on avoiding the missiles behind him that had firmly locked onto his body. .

"The first wave of Zaku is about to enter the air defense network. Please pay attention to all ships in the fleet...fire!"

Zaku, who broke into the 2nd Fleet's anti-aircraft fire circle, followed his experience during the Hart Battle and rushed straight towards the federal army at high speed.

"Ha," Zaku's pilot's eyes moved slightly, and he glanced at the distance from the federal warship, "Just like this, he broke through until he was outside the range of the federal close-in defense gun..."

A flash of light that was completely different from the muzzle flash when a live weapon was fired flashed on the Federation warship. This was the last image the Zaku pilot saw.

Considering that laser weapons have no ammunition limit for live ammunition anyway, the Magellan class, which uses a nuclear fusion reactor as power, can be treated as unlimited ammunition in actual combat.

In order to improve morale, Marco Polo mobilized all the laser point defense cannons on the entire fleet and aimed them at the Zaku, which was the first to break into the federal fleet's air defense circle. Compared with when there were only live ammunition close-in defense cannons, now the federal The army's air defense circle was more than doubled directly outward.

'The one carrying the new style rocket launcher is definitely not a friendly captured aircraft. '

Dozens of laser beams focused on the Zaku, instantly evaporating and melting the structure of the aircraft.

"Attention, attention! The federal army is equipped with lasers this time..."

It was too late to turn around. The other three Zakus rushed towards the federal fleet as if they were trying to take credit. They already realized that something was wrong, but had no time to react. They died one after another in the concentrated fire of the federal fleet. under.

"Don't be afraid! After the last time the federal army sneaked into the mainland, our aircraft have been equipped with reflective coatings. It will be fine if they don't get caught in fire!"

Lieutenant Escott, who finally got rid of the volley of missiles fired by the Federation army, arrived slowly. His "horned" commander-type Zaku with an extra extended-range communication antenna installed on his head made other Zeon pilots subconsciously The earth obeyed his order.

The Principality of Zeon's ten-year-old Songun system came into play at this time. Although it suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Hart, in the Zaku formation at this time, Zeon pilots of squad leader and above were still without exception. He served in the Zeon army long before the war;

Most of them had several years of military experience and thousands of hours of mobile suit driving time. At this critical moment, they reorganized Zeon's Zaku formation.

"Attention, enemy planes are launching rockets on a large scale."

Marco Polo gave a timely warning, and Zeon's Zaku abandoned their dogma of anti-ship tactics and directly fired a round of rocket launchers at a long distance;

Subsequently, they hid behind the smoke of the rocket's trajectory, and used the flames and fragments of the rocket intercepted and detonated by the federal warship to re-enter the 2nd Fleet's anti-aircraft fire circle.

"Tsk... At this time, if His Excellency Vice Admiral Dozulu is personally commanding, even if the number of battleships is small, he will still find ways to provide some support..."

Lieutenant Escott looked back angrily to pay attention to Major General Kongsikang's escort fleet, which had almost disappeared without looking back - although rationality told him that facing the Federation's fleet with an extremely obvious numerical advantage, this was not the case. A bad choice.

Based on the distance and approaching speed, Marco Polo calibrated the threat level of the incoming Zeon army Zaku one by one, and then assigned the targets in order according to the relative positions of the federal warships and enemy aircraft.

At the same time, she also accelerated slightly, standing out from the federal fleet in an almost isolated posture——

There is no way. The people currently brought out by Lieutenant General Cunningham from Luna 2 are all those who survived the Battle of Hart. They are the final members of the 1,2st and [-]nd fleets. They are also the most powerful Ogas system in the space army. Supporters, if you can reduce the loss a little bit, reduce it a little bit.

However, the Zeon army didn't seem to be completely attracted.

"Lieutenant! Is that the Federation's flagship? Let's get aboard!"

Lieutenant Escott rarely responded in time; his eyeballs were bloodshot under the pressure of the high-speed maneuvering G-force, but he still stared at the ship. It seemed that he was not well coordinated with other federal warships, and some of them isolated the federal army. Army battleship.

Several rockets dragged the swaying tail flames and flew towards the battleship in a zigzag trajectory - these were also some improvements added by the equipment development department of the Principality of Zeon after the Hart Battle;

It not only simply increases the caliber of the rocket launcher from 280 mm to 360 mm to make up for the power of nuclear warheads banned by the Antarctic Treaty; it also allows the anti-ship rocket launched by Zaku to have a certain orbital maneuverability , to improve penetration efficiency.

These changes seem to have taken effect; although the rockets that constantly change the direction of propulsion waste extra approach time compared to the previous model that flew in a straight line, they do not seem to be intercepted and are about to hit the federal battleship. .

'No, it won't win...4, 3, 2, 1...'

Lieutenant Escott counted down silently in his mind.

From Zaku's perspective, when these rockets had reached the edge of the federal battleship, they were suddenly detonated together.

If the rookies who were new to the battlefield had seen this, they would probably have thought that they had hit the target or even sunk the federal warship, and would have cheered and celebrated, but Lieutenant Escott knew that this was definitely not the case.

"really!"

The Marco Polo appeared unscathed after the flash of the explosion. As agreed in advance, several incoming Zaku rockets passed by the constantly rotating close-in defense turret when entering the last kilometer, and then Unsurprisingly, he was intercepted by Marco Polo.

"This ruthless precision, the identification pattern of the fleet flagship - this is the unsinkable ship in the Battle of Hart. I knew she would definitely appear on the battlefield again!"

Lieutenant Escott gritted his teeth. Half of the thirteen pilots who were in the same class with him in the sergeant academy had died at the hands of that battleship:

Part of it was submerged in the fiery light of the nuclear bombs she launched;

Others fell on the way to charge her massive body studded with anti-aircraft gun barrels.

"Meeting again... this fate must have given me an opportunity to realize my long-cherished wish to avenge my comrades!"

But contrary to his harsh words, Lieutenant Escott pulled up the operating lever and let the aircraft draw an arc, driving directly out of the Marco Polo's air defense circle from the side.

"Wait, Lieutenant, where are we going?"

"Don't waste your lives in vain. Even if you are alone on that battleship, you cannot handle it." Lieutenant Escott typed a few times on the small keyboard on the side of the driver's seat and said calmly:

"Stop following me and go take care of the federal cruiser behind."

He switched the team's current coordinated attack target, but at the same time he also separated his body from the team's coordination system.

"Lieutenant?!"