A journey through the Gundam world

But now that the situation is like this, they can only wait anxiously for Alex's arrival.

At this time, the freighter Alex was riding was passing through the Verde Island waterway and heading towards the Batangas port.

This is a civilian cargo ship flying the Orb flag.

However, this ship is actually a ship of the East Asian Federation, flying the Orb flag, in order to avoid being attacked by ZAFT forces.

One of the missions of those underwater carriers is to break up engagements.

From the beginning of the war to the present, the supply ships of the Union Army have been hit hard by ZAFT.

Although relying on its own strong industrial capabilities, it can continuously replenish lost ships.

But the ship is easy to build, but the crew is not easy to recruit.

Although ZAFT complied with the rules of engagement and did not attack the crew members who escaped from the sunken ship.

But after all, only a few people can survive on the sea. Over time, the crew's losses have skyrocketed.

The use of warships for centralized escort makes it easier to expose the target, leading to multiple underwater carriers and wolf-like attacks.

Therefore, as a last resort, the coalition transport ships began to consider various disguises.

Disguising themselves as civilian ships and flying neutral flags was common practice.

However, ZAFT later changed the situation to discovering a lone ship and directly dispatched MS and boarding troops to conduct a search.

Once it is discovered that it is munitions, the ship will be seized directly and the crew will be captured.

For this reason, some ships deliberately choose to put these people on board and then conduct sneak attacks.

The two sides began a battle of wits and courage at sea.

After being on tenterhooks all the way, now, seeing that Batangas Port is not far away, all the crew members on the ship breathed a sigh of relief.

But at this moment, the ship's radar suddenly discovered three bright spots that were approaching quickly.

"Captain! There are three unknown targets approaching rapidly from the southwest! Distance 30."

After hearing this, the bearded captain immediately walked out of the bridge, raised his telescope, and looked southeast.

I saw three black spots approaching quickly in the sky in the distance.

As the distance got closer, the captain saw clearly what it was.

"It's MS! ZAFT is here!"

Hearing the captain's roar, the crew immediately became excited!

You know, their ship is all delivering supplies to the East Asian Allied Forces.

Although there are no weapons and ammunition, food, medicine, clothing, etc. are all available.

More importantly, in order to take the risk of docking in Kaohsiung Port, they did not hide weapons.

The alarm was sounded, but everyone on the boat seemed helpless and panicked.

"What happened?"

A lazy voice came, and everyone looked back and saw the one-eyed soldier who had boarded the ship from Kaohsiung, standing at the hatch.

"Captain Alex! ZAFT's mobile suit is here!"

As if grasping a life-saving straw, the captain stepped forward and grabbed his shoulders.

"Zaft? What are they doing here?"

Alex was also a little confused.

This place is very close to the defensive perimeter of Batangas Port, so even if it is a reconnaissance, it shouldn't be so grand.

But why did the other party appear here?

Although it was strange, he certainly wouldn't sit back and let the ship sink like this.

The heretic couldn't fly and didn't want to take a bath in the sea, so he had to provide cover for the boat.

So he hurriedly broke away from the agitated captain's hands and said.

"I know, I will cover the ship, but I can only provide cover. It's up to you to sail the ship, and you'd better ask for help from Batangas Port."

"That's right! Contact Batangas Port immediately!"

The captain turned around and shouted as if he was waking up from a dream, then turned and went straight to the slipway to steer the ship himself.

Alex hurried to the cabin, where the heretic was hidden in the cargo hold below the deck.

He jumped into the cockpit and turned on the aircraft, and then heard the captain's communication.

"Captain, the enemy flew over, fired warning shots at us, and ordered us to stop the ship."

"Don't stop the boat, slow down first, and wait until I find an opportunity to shoot them."

"Ok!"

The heretic lying in the cabin completed the activation, grabbed the beam rifle in his right hand, and the machine began to slowly stand up.

As the mobile suit was activated, the crew immediately opened the deck opening above the cargo hold.

At this time, the three Deans flew past the cargo ship. After turning around, two Deans surrounded it, one on the left and one on the right, leaving the other one to monitor at high altitude.

"The cargo ship is slowing down. Preparing for landing."

Seeing that the other party was very interesting, one of the Deans turned to enter the landing process.

"Wait a minute, the deck of the cargo ship is open?"

His comrades discovered this situation and their nerves immediately became tense.

"Abandon the landing! It's a scam!"

At this moment, the muzzle of a beam rifle was seen protruding from the open deck hatch.

Then a green beam shot out, hitting Dean who was trying to climb back up.

Dean, who was shot through the cockpit, fell straight into the sea like a kite with its string broken, causing a wave of waves.

"what is this!"

The other Dean immediately climbed up to avoid it. At this time, the warehouse door was fully opened, and the heretic stood up from it.

Pilot Dean, who was at high altitude, clearly captured the image of the mobile suit on the cargo ship.

The pilot saw the enemy clearly and was shocked.

"It's the red devil!"

Chapter 96 The Fall of Moresby

The reputation of this Combined Army mobile suit that landed near Kaohsiung Port and killed three mobile suit squadrons has spread throughout the ZAFT Army in Asia.

The garrison in the Kaohsiung area is still searching closely for the missing aircraft.

They never expected that they would encounter this murderous god more than 1000 kilometers away from the incident.

"what!"

Hearing this name, the other plane finished climbing and pilot Dean, who was about to control the aircraft to fire, decisively gave up the idea of ​​fighting.

They came for investigation, and the results of this investigation have far exceeded their expectations.

"Retreat! Retreat!"

Seeing this Dean, he immediately retracted the two weapons into the holsters on his waist, turned over, lowered his height, got close to the sea, and then quickly skimmed the sea and flew away into the distance.

Dean, who was high up in the air, saw his teammates retreating without hesitation.

He immediately shot out all the missiles on his side, then turned around and ran away.

Facing the two Deans who turned around and fled, Alex did not pursue them. Instead, he first used the Vulcan cannon to intercept the missiles fired by the opponent.

Although with his marksmanship, shooting down the two escaping Deans was not a big problem.But the ship under his feet could not withstand the missile attack.

The Vulcan cannon and the Gatling cannon on the arm shield roared and shot out barrages, shooting down the missiles flying in the air one by one.

But it is different from the difficulty of intercepting missiles by a single aircraft. Intercepting missiles for fixed targets must be accurate.

In single-plane interception, partial attacks can be evaded by mobility, but in situations such as providing cover for ships with poor maneuverability, only complete interception is possible.

Alex was lucky that he did not remove the Gatling Cannon from the Xigu arm shield he snatched.

In the end, with the assistance of the Gatling Cannon and the Vulcan Cannon, all the threatening missiles fired by Dean were finally shot down.

He ignored the rest that were thrown into the sea to fry fish.

The captain and crew on the bridge watched the mobile suit with trepidation, shooting down the incoming missiles one by one like a humanoid close-in defense gun.

Everyone felt as if they had walked away from the gate of hell, and then their attitude towards Alex became more and more respectful.

If nothing else, the other party really saved their lives.

After getting rid of the over-enthusiastic crew, Alex quietly thought about the significance of the presence of Dean's team here.

This means that ZAFT has enough energy to turn its attention to Batangas.

'Did something happen to the forward base? '

The East Asian Federation Navy, which received the distress signal, also dispatched a formation consisting of an Arkansas-class air defense cruiser and three Fraser-class frigates to rush over.

Four warships escorted the cargo ship into Batangas Port.

Finally, when Alex saw the very conspicuous Archangel docked in the port, a system prompt came to his ears.

"The shocking 72-hour mission is completed. The new mission, Up 2, ensures that the Archangel reaches Orb safely."

He was not surprised about the new main quest.

However, this was also a subtle reminder from the system that the next voyage of more than 6000 kilometers was destined to be uneventful.

When Alex and Heretic returned to the Archangel, they were warmly welcomed by everyone.

Cagalli also used wild boar impact, and a cone almost made him spit out his overnight meal.

But seeing this silly girl crying so hard, Alex could only gasp secretly, with a twisted smile on his face, and patted her shoulder to comfort her.

In the past few days when Alex disappeared, everyone could see Cagalli's worry.

Now that this guy is back safely, everyone understands his excitement when his relatives are reunited, especially seeing Alex deflated, everyone is even happier.

Alex responded with the middle finger to Naole's behavior as Mu and others looked on.

After calming down Cagalli's mood, she said goodbye to the others who came to greet her.

Alex came to the bridge and after chatting with Ma Su and Baji Lulu, he got a shocking news.

"I just got the news from the East Asia Federation that Port Moresby was completely captured by ZAFT forces 8 hours ago."

"I see!"

Combined with this news, Alex finally understood why he encountered Dean so close to Batangas Port.

"Everyone, I encountered the ZAFT army's Dean Squad not far from Batangas Port."

"what!"

Bucky Lulu was immediately shocked. As the most tactically literate among the people present, she immediately understood what this meant.

Masuo also frowned. This news was not only good news for them, but also for the East Asia Federation.

Commander Hu, the base commander who got their contact, although he learned about Dean's interception of the transport ship, obviously did not expect this situation.

Although his expression didn't change drastically, he still looked worried.

After thanking them, they hurriedly cut off the communication.

It seems that the other party also needs to move reinforcements.

"Now, it seems we don't have to go to the front line."

Mu said humorously, then laughed at his own joke.

"Yes, because this has become a front line."

Alex's words immediately made Mu stop laughing.

"But it is not without its benefits. At least the troops of the East Asia Federation are still willing to cooperate with us in the battle. This time we are not fighting alone."