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

Major General Bock couldn't help but look around at the Zeon officers and soldiers on the left and right, scanning the young faces with hidden panic. Perhaps they were even a little ready to move?

"Commander Bock."

A Zeon staff member stepped forward and stood up.

"What do you want to do?!"

"Commander... we will follow you, even to hell."

After hearing this, Major General Bock seemed to have had his backbone ripped out. He instantly lost his strength. He took a few steps back and leaned against the map table before barely standing still.

……

After a night of fierce fighting, under the watchful eye of the immovable friendly forces in the surrounding area, the Federation Army successfully used the MS troops as the vanguard, crushed the counterattack of the Zaku troops, and broke through to the vicinity of the Zeon Army headquarters;

After uploading all the combat intelligence collected through underground optical cables, Major General Bock, the commander of the garrison division, said that his troops had completed their due responsibilities:

There was no point in continuing to resist when the command headquarters was about to fall and the heavy equipment losses were extremely serious. They ordered a dispersed breakout, allowed surrender if the breakout was impossible, and then committed suicide by drinking bullets.

The remaining small groups of Zeon troops who were unwilling to surrender persisted in resisting in street battles for several weeks, but the Federation Army had taken control of most of the city and around the port, and subsequent army troops began to come ashore one after another;

The Federal Air Force fleet also moved to various airports around Seattle to expand the air control circle, and the Federal Army's campaign objectives were basically completed.

However, the North American theater of the Zeon Army is also frantically mobilizing reserves and frontline troops from the Yukon region to return reinforcements. Several Zeon Army strongholds around Seattle are also preparing for defense;

At the same time, the Zabi family, who discovered Kalma's accidental death and quarreled endlessly about it, finally made the final decision under Kilian's decision. Working together, they must resolutely attack the federal army's attempt to counterattack, and Kalma's sacrifice , it can be used as a reference to improve morale...

Chapter 63: The vast world (1)

"Long live the Earth Federation! Victory lasts forever!"

"Down with the evil cosmic beings, for Mother Earth!"

Although there are still several blocks in the city where the remnants of the Zeon police force are still resisting and are blocked by the Federation Army, this does not affect the people who have been unable to escape for various reasons and are stranded in the city, or who have returned from the suburbs. They spontaneously waved the flag of the Earth Federation and took to the streets.

"Everyone...please give way, please step back outside the blockade..."

The follow-up troops of the federal army that landed last night moved into the city overnight to maintain order. A dozen infantrymen pulled up the human wall and pushed the excited crowd outside the Gundam's feet.

Due to its completely different shape and painting from various Zeon mobile suits, many people witnessed the scene of the Gundam fighting the Zeon army. Some people even used their old-fashioned cameras to record the Gundam piercing it with a beam sword. Zaku’s precious pictures (mobile phones and other civilian electronic devices are basically unusable in a meter particle environment);

Responsible for patrolling and guarding the city, and making an emergency landing of the remaining Zeon soldiers, this is a unique Gundam among the entire Federation Army. It naturally outperforms other mass-produced weapons and equipment, and is enthusiastically sought after by the local people.

"Sergeant Amuro, you have been in the cockpit for three hours. It is recommended that you stop temporarily, leave the cabin to breathe fresh air, and rest for a while..."

Platinum's voice rang in the ears of Amuro, who was attentive. It was not because there were enemy troops nearby, but because he was carefully controlling the Gundam, avoiding a man who bent over and crossed the blockade and wanted to use his lipstick on the Gundam's feet. Young lady leaving a mark.

"Miss Platinum...are you kidding me?"

"What makes you think that, Sergeant Amuro? This is the usual pilot fatigue warning."

"No, if I leave the cockpit now, I will definitely do it. How should I put it..."

Amuro turned on the auxiliary camera on the Gundam's body with some embarrassment and looked at the various 'small objects' hanging on the body. Although Amuro was also born in North America, due to his mechanical nerd personality, he was not like the big one. The unrestrained and free folk customs in the city can be said to be basically insulated.

"Sergeant Amuro, please don't be embarrassed. As heroes of this battle, Hayato, Kai and Sergeant Ryu who drove Guncannon and Guntank all took a rest in the city and were welcomed as heroes. treatment."

"I'm not shy!"

Amuro retorted impatiently.

"I see, are you worried about snipers from Zeon remnants? MS pilots in the war zone really shouldn't leave the cockpit at will, but now that the area where the Gundam is located has been cleared and is confirmed to be safe, you can also use it to face the building Open the hatch to avoid possible firing lines..."

Shirogane consoled him seriously. It seemed that he saw the mobile suits of the Federation Army appearing on the battlefield, but there was no news from the Zakus of the friendly forces. This had a pretty good morale impact on the remaining Zeon forces that were resolutely resisting;

Therefore, Lieutenant General Kruger, who only had a half-disabled Marine Jim team in his hands, once again requested Captain Blade's cooperation to let the MS team attached to the White Base patrol the city and clean up the remnants of the Zeon army.

"No...no, that's not what I meant at all. Forget it, Miss Platinum, are there any Zeon Army activities nearby?"

'At least in the blocked area, these overly enthusiastic crowds can't follow...'

Amuro thought.

"The intelligence clearance was rejected. The remaining ammunition of the Gundam's beam rifle is not enough to carry out another medium-intensity battle. Now Sergeant Amuro's mission is only to indicate the Gundam's presence on the battlefield to intimidate the Zeon army."

Platinum ruthlessly rejected Amuro's idea of ​​​​escape. Perhaps Amuro himself did not realize that he was enjoying the cheers and was drowned in the warm emotions of thousands of people. He continued on the battlefield. The accumulated mental pressure has also been relieved a lot.

"Is that so..."

Amuro scratched his reddish face in embarrassment, looked at the picture coming from the main monitor on the Gundam's head, and abruptly changed the subject.

"...Over there, is it the robot called 'Cyclops' that you got from Lieutenant Colonel Frederick?"

Gundam looked towards an uninhabited alley blocked by federal soldiers. A dozen military logistics and maintenance personnel were recovering the remains of intelligent control weapons that had been destroyed in combat.

"...Yes, after all, the White Base is short of manpower, so we have to ask people from the Army to help recover it. The other party also promised that they will try their best to help us repair it. In the end, they will try to make up for the parts that cannot be repaired."

Platinum searched from the constantly updated database and gave the answer;

Because it can fly, and the power and completeness of communication equipment are unique advantages of the battleship level, the White Base is still suspended above the city, in a position that is still out of reach of ground wired communications or blocked by buildings. Provide communication relay.

"Is that so... Do the Federation Army also have a lot of unmanned weapons? I remember that I noticed before that they didn't look like manned tanks."

"Looks like? Sergeant Amuro, did you notice anything different?"

"It's just a feeling. I can't tell you the way you drive, how decisive you are when performing tasks, etc. What, Miss Platinum, is this something that can't be discussed?"

"Sorry, this is Army confidential information."

Regarding the large-scale application of unmanned weapons, especially those that are different from previous drones and do not even have human remote control operators responsible for control, there are potential problems in terms of ethics and social public opinion. The federal services are currently Neither intends to promote this;

The application of unmanned weapons in war and the results achieved are mostly kept silent in public, or they are directly attributed to the human commanders of the units to which they belong.

"It's okay... I probably understand it this way. So, Ms. Platinum, at this time, you are still dealing with various post-war matters, and you have even started to prepare for the next battle... No one mentioned it. you……"

Amuro looked around at the cheering crowds with some embarrassment; on the side of the road, the fat convenience store manager pulled out dozens of boxes of Coke in stock from the warehouse. He was so excited that he saw a federal military vehicle passing by. Then throw it up.

"What you said is too exaggerated, Sergeant Amuro. After all, the protagonist of this battle is still the Federation Army, and they are also responsible for these things. I should say that I am recalling the afterglow of the battle now -"

In a fierce battle, Platinum's performance is not enough to use the collected data in real time to optimize or correct the existing control prediction model. Only the situation calms down temporarily, and when the hardware usage of various combat processes decreases, Only then can she begin to learn about her own 'memory'.

As for the agent, the shipboard computers of the four land battleships can be called, and many communication and command vehicles that can be closer to the front line are also equipped with high-performance computing units, which can naturally process the command data of the entire landing legion. It doesn't seem forced either.

"——But I also welcome other people's opinions on me, ding——"

The sound of the completion of file transfer sounded, attracting Amuro to turn his head and look at the small screen on the side in front of the cockpit.

"Intelligent Control System Functionality Questionnaire?"

"That's right. After all, Sergeant Amuro, you also said that you have witnessed a lot of the work I have done. What do you like about me -"

Platinum leaned forward slightly and brought his image closer to the small communication screen in the Gundam's cockpit;

"——In what areas do you hope I can continue to improve? How many stars can you give me as a whole for the experience of working with me? If you have any comments or suggestions, you can tell me."

Collecting user experience feedback from human users is naturally part of the self-optimization function of the Ogas system.

……

"Mr. Jimison, do you have a way to evacuate the people here in Seattle? Through the sea route, the troop transport ship used by our army to land is about to return now."

Lieutenant General Kruger threw the roll of newspaper on the table with a headache; he hadn't read a paper newspaper in several years, but after the various wireless networks in the world that should be extremely convenient were hit hard, this A traditional media has also regained a little vitality.

As a variety of consumer products on the mobile side, mobile phones, their pursuit of thinness and lightness makes them have no protection against rice particles. Not only will the signal be interfered, but basically most of the electronic components inside will malfunction within the distribution range of rice particles. .

The wired optical fiber network that originally connected the entire earth's surface has become a network of continents after the Zeon Army's amphibious mobile suits destroyed the transoceanic optical cables laid on the seabed and directly cut them off in units of hundreds of kilometers. LAN on land and subject to strict government control.

"Haha, General Kruger, I can promote this policy for the federal army, but under the current situation, it is still difficult for the residents here to evacuate directly to Alaska by sea, right?"

Jamieson cheerfully took the newspaper from the table and opened it to appreciate it; this slick politician, in addition to persuading the surrender of the headquarters of the Zeon Army Garrison Division, also made many mistakes in the subsequent resumption of the federal army's takeover of various city government departments. With so little strength, Lieutenant General Kruger had to look at him differently.

Including this newspaper, he organized reporters to produce it overnight. The cover showed the Federation Army's Panpan-class battleship docked at the edge of Seattle Port, and Jimison himself leading the surrendered officers and soldiers of the Zeon Army out of the division headquarters.

"Lieutenant General Kruger, the heavy air defense brigade directly under the headquarters, the long-range strike brigade, and the aircraft maintenance personnel of the Army Aviation have also completed unloading from the ship. There are still fuel reserves and ammunition reserves left. It is expected that all unloading will be completed in the afternoon of the day after tomorrow. Work……"

The agent came over holding a stack of documents, leaned over and whispered in Lieutenant General Kruger's ear;

"...The naval escort formation would like to confirm with our military the return and departure time of the landing fleet, and the timetable for the fleet that has carried subsequent reinforcements and supplies."

Taking into account the possible counterattack of the Zeon army and the bombing of the city of Seattle that was recaptured by the Federation army, I am afraid that it will not be able to break away from the status of a war zone for a while.

At the same time, agents who are in contact with multiple forces responsible for expanding the federal army's control area and conducting fire reconnaissance missions to surrounding areas are not optimistic about the prospects of this part of the federal army.

"General, how many people can your army's fleet evacuate? It is conservatively estimated that the number of residents stranded here must be more than one million; and there are many citizens who actively want to join the army to fight against Zeon. This kind of publicity will not hurt People’s initiative?”

Mayor Jemison, who once again admired his artistic photo, said somewhat complacently; although this photo has some elements of coincidence, it is really not staged.

"...This is no longer the era hundreds of years ago when civilians who had never been trained could be given a gun and put it to use on the battlefield."

Lieutenant General Kruger took over the intelligence summary from the agent and watched as the Zeon Army cautiously expanded its nearby forces and made a gesture of holding on to wait for the return of reinforcements from the theater reserves and the main force in the Yukon. It seemed that Worried.

Regarding the counteroffensive across North America, the Alaska Front led by Lieutenant General Kruger will naturally not be the only one in the Federal Army's plan. It is also the purest force composed of the factions of the former North American countries;

The Central/Latin American Front, which started its Northern Expedition from Panama, and the Western European Front, which crossed the Atlantic from the British Isles and Greenland and landed on the east coast of North America, were originally launched at the same time.

Among them, only the Alaska Front, which has the highest starting point latitude, needs to consider the impact of snowfall and ice floes on air and sea transportation, and must start operations within October at the latest;

As for the other two troops, from the perspective of the agent lineage Ogas system, which has been deployed to varying degrees in various theaters of the Federal Army, from other hosts, it seems that they are not in a hurry, and even should not be involved. The troops have not yet been assembled.

"But General, now that Seattle has been hit by wars many times, it has also become the front line of the confrontation between our army and the Zeon army. The economy is in decline. Even if you don't recruit troops, there are no other jobs here for them."

Jamieson, who was sitting relaxedly on the sofa, spread his hands and said helplessly:

"If you don't recruit volunteers, could you consider contracting some non-military work in the army, such as food, paperwork, accounting, etc., to the local Seattle area-"

"——This coastal metropolitan area does not have enough agricultural production capacity to feed the urban population here."

This is another headache for Lieutenant General Kruger.

……

"Chief of General Staff Ray Bill has arrived——"

Deep inside the joint operations command hall of the Federal Army in Brussels, outside a conference room, a military police captain stood and saluted, and 10 'Cyclops'-type robots standing guard with live ammunition also followed suit and raised their guns in uniform.

Rebir, who was walking in a hurry, returned a salute casually and walked into the conference room; the participants who had more than two stars per person looked over and saw a federal army general sitting in the leading position on the left. The official asked:

"Chief of the General Staff Rebil, how are the negotiations going on the mutiny issue of the European Front's Soldiers' Union? If you ask me, it would be better to dispatch the military police and robot troops directly to arrest the leading mutineers."

Chapter 64: The vast world (2)

"General Elran, such a vicious incident with a large impact should have been solved at the budding stage before it happened. Now it has reached the point of kidnapping senior military officers and even making it known to the public before handling it. You have to be very careful——"

With his hands behind his back, Rebir walked slowly and slowly from behind senior officials from various fronts in the European-Mediterranean Theater until he reached the main seat at the top and middle of the conference hall before sitting down.

"——I never expected that such an incident would occur just before our army was about to launch a large-scale counterattack against Zeon."

Considering that under the current situation, submarine optical cables and satellite communications cannot be guaranteed to be reliable, it is difficult to coordinate the multiple front armies that are about to launch simultaneous offensives on the front line at Gabroli, the headquarters of the federal army in South America;

The current top commander of the entire federal army, Chief of General Staff Ray Bill, who was specially awarded the rank of 'five-star general', personally took the opportunity to come to Europe to take command.

However, it is difficult to say whether it was a sudden attack or a long-planned trap. Less than two days after Rebir arrived in Europe, and while he was still in contact and familiar with all aspects of the situation, it seemed that the federal corps in many places in Europe had been connected. Mutiny broke out.

The number of soldiers affected has exceeded [-], and there are more troops. Although they are still calm, they are just waiting and watching, ignoring orders to self-examine and disband internal soldier organizations.

As the official organizer of the 'Professional Soldiers Union', it is also a behemoth under the federal military system. In the past, its main concerns were the treatment of professional soldiers, security after retirement, etc.;

The 'results' of their previous struggles include, but are not limited to, soldiers being able to go home and rest on their own on weekends, troops who train at night must be provided with additional allowances, etc.

However, on the one hand, no one in the Federation had expected the outbreak of a large-scale war, and the Federation Earth Army could also rely on the policy benefits of joining the military to arrange residence on Earth to negotiate to avoid too outrageous demands.

But as the war really broke out and a large number of newly recruited conscripts were recruited, this balance was quickly broken.

"Yes, no matter what, in Europe alone, many countries have not entered a state of war mobilization for hundreds of years, and the military service system is also very neglected. In my opinion, there is no other way than to cut the knot with a sharp knife. Other methods,”

General Ireland, who was in charge of commanding the Iberian Front, raised his chin on the conference table with his arms, looked at Rebel with a half-smile and said:

"But with the prestige and connections of Chief of General Staff Reybil, there must be a better way to get the best of both worlds."

'This person must have known that something like this would happen, and maybe he was behind it. '

Ray Bill frowned slightly, but said nothing. Instead, he clicked a few times on the touch screen on the table and turned on the projection screen behind him.

The situation in the European Theater of Operations was already relatively complicated, but this was also the reason why he came here personally to coordinate;

Around July of this year, the Zeon Army, which had maintained a large number of troops on multiple fronts on Earth, boldly conducted another airdrop operation on the plains of Western Europe. As a result, it happened to coincide with a large-scale expansion of the Federation Army in East Asia. offensive;

The Zeon Space Strike Force fleet's limited orbital airdrop supply and bombing capabilities had to take care of three large-scale battles in Western Europe, Central America, and East Asia at the same time, which was unsustainable.

As a result, this small army that tried to replicate the Zeon Army's airborne flight like a goddess in the early days of the Earth's battlefield, and ran rampant after landing, was defeated by the standing army in the European theater that was ready for battle, and the conscripts that had been initially mobilized. surround; surround;

Unable to join up with the Zeon army that came across the Mediterranean from North Africa and launched multiple offensives on the Asia Minor peninsula, they fought until they ran out of ammunition and food, and most of them collapsed.

Although the battle for the European forces was very difficult until the Zeon army began to lack supplies, but thanks to this, many of the member states' parliaments who originally continued to "maintain permanent neutrality" were relieved, and the overall The progress of war mobilization has been increased.