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

However, the subordinates in front of him seemed to be full of confidence, both in the Principality of Zeon as a whole and in him as the commander of the Space Attack Force. They did not seem to take the Federation fleet that was about to attack again seriously.

"Commander-in-Chief, I didn't expect that those federal space forces huddled on Luna 2 would dare to come out, just in time to catch them all. Let's do it, Commander-in-Chief!"

"Didn't the 'Primus' fleet say anything about the whereabouts of the Federation Space Fleet?"

Dozlu took the report and read it back and forth; the report was written with the same character as their master, Kycilia, and it was full of unclear points:

The last time the 4th Fleet of the Federation Space Force launched a large-scale sortie from Luna 2, the 'Primus' fleet happily reported many results; why was it inexplicably broken through the blockade this time, and could not even be tracked? Do you have to 'try your best'?

Dozuru's temples bulged, not that he particularly despised the Federation Space Force's 4th Fleet;

But he could not treat the fleet that did not directly engage the Zeon Principality's army in the whole process, and the Federation's main fleet that endured the unfavorable conditions of being ambushed, fought bloody battles with Zeon to the end, and exited the battlefield in an orderly manner at the last moment. of.

'Could it be that just over a month has passed and the Federal Space Force has already recovered from the tragic defeat in the Battle of Hart? '

Dozuru was startled by this terrible guess.

'Impossible, absolutely impossible! '

"Hmm... Commander-in-Chief, this is the last observed location of the Federal Space Force that was added as an attachment to the report by the 'Primus' fleet."

"This orbital height..., and the troops are divided into two groups... Speaking of which, the Federation is now determined to destroy the target even if it dispatches the remaining space fleet..."

Dozuru pinched his chin. The Federal Space Force seemed to have placed a multiple-choice question on his desk, but which one he missed would have a considerable impact on the strategic deployment of the Zeon Army. .

'Killian is sitting in Abavakong to protect the homeland, and Granada on the moon is Kycilia's home base, so I should go and block it...'

……

Outside the Marco Polo battleship, the azure planet dotted with white clouds grew larger and larger, already occupying more than half of the screen area.

"Earth..."

Lieutenant General Cunningham seemed quite emotional.

"Lieutenant General Cunningham, do you have any orders?"

Marco Polo appeared next to Lieutenant General Cunningham at the right time. His tone sounded like a golden exclamation mark suddenly appeared on his head. It seemed like he had something to say.

And the extremely considerate Marco Polo certainly doesn't mind being a loyal and honest listener - so that she can improve her understanding of Cunningham, so that she can guide him more effectively... ah no, cooperate with his thinking more tacitly.

What bad intentions does artificial intelligence have?Everything is to better serve mankind.

"No, I was just thinking that whether it was the impact of colonial satellites or the nuclear bombs that once exploded on the earth, the earth is still so blue and beautiful and has not changed."

Although the Earth can be observed unobstructed from Luna 2, the last time it was so close to the Earth was when Lieutenant General Cunningham returned to Gabro Headquarters to report on his duties a few years ago.

"Well, Lieutenant General Cunningham, considering that the earth is over 40 billion years old, the history of human beings and even organic life is only a blink of an eye for the earth."

Lieutenant General Cunningham didn't pay attention and seemed to have been caught up in the memories and longing for his past life on the surface of the earth.

Marco Polo's thoughts were calm as he looked at the third planet in the solar system in front of him - an indestructible holy place?A natural environment recovering from human pollution?

She only saw a habitable planet that was far from reaching the upper limit of population capacity, and where the cost of human survival was much lower than that of colonial satellites, the moon, and other planetary colonies.

Moving the population into space to colonize satellites...does that really solve the problem?

The federal army's fleet was divided into two, and the larger one was his 4th fleet, which was continued to be led by Vice Admiral Tiam and remained on track to the moon;

The smaller one, with Marco Polo as the flagship and Vice Admiral Cunningham personally leading the 2nd Fleet, slowed down and lowered its orbital altitude, slowly heading towards the earth.

Now, after some deception maneuvers, the 2nd Fleet has entered low-Earth orbit.

"Marco Polo, which orbital cycle is it now? Is there still no sign of the Zeon Principality's military fleet?"

Lieutenant General Cunningham didn't even raise his head, flipping through the e-book in his hand - "Introduction to Machine Learning" somewhat nonchalantly, while asking in a routine manner.

"Lieutenant General Cunningham, this is the third time we have passed over California today, and we have not found any trace of the enemy yet."

The earth below the ship was shrouded in shadow, and it was now nighttime in the Western Hemisphere; viewed from space, clusters of lights were still shining, as if they were no different from the peaceful years.

However, for Marco Polo, who could easily extract previous photos of the earth at night from space for comparison, the changes in the night scene were not small——

Needless to say, Sydney, which was supposed to be the brightest light in Oceania, is now left with only a circle of deathly silence; and California, which has become the focus of Zeon's first descent operation, seems to be covered in fog and submerged in a sea of ​​mist. in the dark.

"Huh, what are the orders from Gabro's headquarters now?"

"In the window contact about 43 minutes ago, Gabro Headquarters analyzed that the Zeon Army has now established a firm foothold on the ground battlefield in California, and judging from their conscious maintenance of ground airport facilities, it is very likely that they will continue to be in California. Airdrop follow-up troops or ammunition supplies.”

The agent passed the intelligence information from the front-line army headquarters in California on the ground to the Gabro headquarters, and then sent it to the Marco Polo in orbit.

"Well, if the Principality of Zeon makes an airborne landing and leaves its troops here, it would be a bit too confident, but...how long is our interception window, Marco Polo?"

Vice Admiral Cunningham silently gave a number in his mind. In 90 minutes, only the 24nd Fleet, which has about 2 warships left, will pass over California once. This is hardly a trajectory suitable for interception;

But there is no way. Now the entire low-Earth orbit is filled with interference from the nanoparticles released in turn by the Zeon Army and the Federation Space Force fleet. If it is stationed in a synchronous orbit that remains motionless above a certain point on the earth's surface;

It can be said that it is completely impossible to monitor the movements in low-Earth orbit, which the Zeon army uses whether it is orbital bombing or airdrop.

"Based on the bombing frequency observed from the ground and the orbital entry direction, we have calculated that we are now at the orbital position with the greatest probability of intercepting the Zeon fleet; but even so, we still have a probability of missing Zeon of more than 63%. military fleet."

"Isn't this just a matter of luck?"

Lieutenant General Cunningham closed the e-book in his hand that had the word 'introductory' in its name, but in fact the specific content was not something that anyone without basic knowledge could easily understand;

Moreover, even if he can understand the parts of it, the achieved effects, and ignore the technical details of how to achieve it, the intelligence level of the Ogas system is completely beyond the scope of what this book can achieve.

'Dr. Parson is indeed a great talent. It is a real loss to human civilization. It is a pity. He should have been allowed to stay on Luna 2 at that time. '

A feeling of regret at seeing the hero disappear emerged in Lieutenant General Cunningham's heart, but then he thought about it, for him personally, is this really a... bad thing?

Lieutenant General Cunningham quickly stopped his dark thoughts.

"That's not necessarily true, Lieutenant General Cunningham."

Marco Polo turned to look to one side, which was the wall of the CIC, but her line of sight was directly connected to the sensor outside the ship - in that direction, a 'Swordfish' reconnaissance aircraft responsible for communication was returning.

Considering that the Federation Space Force no longer has a numerical advantage, in order to hide itself as much as possible, Vice Admiral Cunningham's 2nd Fleet now also adopts a combat mode similar to that of the Principality of Zeon. The fleet is hidden almost the entire time when it attacks. After the mist of rice particles;

Communication and reconnaissance are left to the reconnaissance aircraft carried on the Antietam-class aircraft carriers dispatched with the fleet. They will actively distance themselves from the fleet, fly outside the interference range of nanoparticles to collect signals, and then transmit them back to the fleet.

This 'Swordfish' reconnaissance aircraft will bring back useful intelligence.

Marco Polo smiled softly and already began to think about how to deal with the information obtained from the agent.

"Oh? What happened?"

Lieutenant General Cunningham heard what Marco Polo said and became interested immediately. He clicked on the fleet status display on the left and immediately noticed that a new batch of Swordfish reconnaissance aircraft responsible for liaison were about to return. .

Marco Polo paused for a moment. The information she knew in advance was being transmitted... Confirmation of receipt. Now she can finally speak out the information:

"Lieutenant General Cunningham, our colleagues on the ground launched a counterattack... to reoccupy Edwards Air Force Base, which Zeon used as an air landing field. There, we found a timetable."

As he spoke, Marco Polo put a series of time points on the big screen in the CIC - that was the intelligence collected by Colonel Nair, commander of the 6th Motorized Infantry Brigade and the 89th North American Army of the Federal Army at Edwards Air Force Base.

"This is……"

Lieutenant General Cunningham became excited. The timetable in front of him clearly listed the time and location of subsequent airdrops of troops and supplies after the Zeon Army's first large-scale airdrop of troops.

"Sure enough... even the Zeon army in orbit has difficulty communicating with the ground forces shrouded in the mist of rice particles. They originally planned to only rely on the pre-agreed plan..."

Chapter 31: Two-pronged attack (4)

Lieutenant General Cunningham's eyes widened and he shook his head in disbelief;

"I really don't know whether they are confident or arrogant - if the ground forces fail to seize the airdrop as planned, if the orbital fleet fails to arrive at the airdrop location on time... However, the initiative is now in our hands."

……

On the way to the Earth, 8 Papua-class transport ships plus a dozen civilian transport ships, as well as an escort fleet composed of 1 Chibe-class heavy cruiser and 3 Musai-class light cruisers, are sailing in a group.

Except for the flagship Qibei class, which uses a conspicuous bright red paint, the other warships all use a coordinated dark green paint, sailing at the forefront of the fleet; and the civilian transport ships of different colors and sizes create an extremely strong relationship. An obvious contrast.

Major General Conscon of the Principality of Zeon's Space Attack Force was sitting on his flagship, the Chibe-class Galar. He looked at the uniform Zeon warships and felt relaxed and happy——

"If you ask me, it would be better not to mix warships and civilian ships into a formation."

Rear Admiral Kongsikang suddenly let out a sigh for no reason, leaving his subordinates on the bridge in a daze, wondering where his words came from.

"Those civilian ships are mixed in the battleship formation. They don't know how to respond in time when they give orders. They always make a fuss. They always think they can escape from the fleet and escape alone. They also make us disperse the fleet and MS to protect them..."

Not caring that his subordinates did not respond, Major General Kongsikang raised his hand, sometimes opening and sometimes closing his fingers, like a resident of the Apennine Peninsula, and continued talking to himself.

"... Our crew members from the Principality of Zeon must be well-trained and have high psychological quality. They are different from those wimps from Side 5 Side 6."

"Your Excellency Major General, is it really possible that we will encounter a battle? Doesn't it mean that the remaining fleet of the Federal Space Force has been blocked by us on Luna 2..."

Major General Kongsikang rubbed his hair and smiled mysteriously:

"Yes...well...it should be said that no matter what, our escort fleet should be prepared on the premise that it will encounter the fleet of the Federation Space Force, so that no matter what happens, we will not panic."

"But, Your Excellency, Major General, please allow me to take offense - just relying on our Zeon Army's own transportation team, there will be a huge gap in transportation capacity, right?"

Another battleship operator sitting in the front row was confused.

"Oh, I say so, but it is also a last resort. Other residents of the universe can play a role in the great independence war launched by our Principality of Zeon. They should feel honored -"

Major General Kongsikang changed his voice, and his right hand suddenly made a grabbing movement in the air, and then he clenched his fist fiercely:

"——But I actually heard that representatives of the principality government are negotiating with other Side colonial satellite groups to grant temporary military ranks to the captains and crew members of the requisitioned civilian ships, as well as corresponding allowances as compensation?"

The subordinates with a little more clever brains have already guessed what Major General Kong Sikang is sulking about.

"Major General, I heard that the government also wants to bind all the residents of the universe together and unite to deal with the earth by causing soldiers from other Sides to participate in the military operations of the Principality of Zeon..."

"That's not okay! None of our Zeon soldiers and officers have gone through cruel training and rigorous tests before being promoted to their current position; this is simply a stain on the honor of the Zeon Army!"

Major General Kongsikang shrank subconsciously, because he had lived a pampered life for too long and his belly was a little too protruding, but his face still looked very unhappy.

"Your Excellency Major General, if you have a temporary military rank..."

"They don't deserve-"

Major General Kongsikang interrupted his subordinate,

"Even if they are in the name of our Zeon Principality Army, they are completely unable to be as capable, loyal, reliable, efficient and calm as our Zeon soldiers, and can deal with any emergencies in the universe without panic..."

Rear Admiral Kongsikang's cheek twitched. In the corner of his field of vision, looking out from the porthole of the bridge of the Galar, a spark suddenly burst out in the distance.

"Yes...I'm sorry, Captain Jung, it was my mistake!"

A one-eyed machine with dark green paint, which is identical in appearance to the Zaku mass-produced by the Principality of Zeon, holds an electric ax in its hand and just pulled it out from the chest of another Zaku——

But because it was cut through Zaku's shoulder, it was a little too much, and it detonated a certain propellant pipeline between Zaku's body and the propulsion backpack behind it.

Captain Jung frowned and didn't say much. Taking advantage of his appearance, which was indistinguishable from other Zakus, and the communication blockage in the rice particle interference environment, the 'Poison Dagger' squadron had already eliminated three aircraft outside the Zeon transport team. Zaku was patrolling and warning.

Even though the appearance of the 'Poison-Quenching Dagger' squadron was probably not on Zaku's schedule during the patrol, when the federal pilot piloted Zaku carefully, he raised one hand and approached as if he wanted to conduct contact communication. , Zeon’s Zaku pilots generally wouldn’t doubt it.

But such a trick could not always be expected to succeed, and Captain Jung knew this.

'However, in the same general direction, we encountered Zaku patrolling three times. Is this what a Zeon fleet of this size can afford? '

Captain Jung stopped at the extreme visual range and took a brief inventory of the number of Zeon battleships: 3 Musai, plus 1 Chebe, the total mobile suit capacity should be about 20.

"Captain, what should we do, continue the attack?"

The machine driven by his subordinates came closer and connected to the communication.

Captain Jung thought for a while, then looked back at the direction he came from - the Marco Polo, leading the Federal 2nd Fleet, passed by the Zaku wreckage on guard at the outermost edge, and was approaching at full speed.

'What's there to be afraid of?The fleet of the Federation Space Force is my backing. '

Captain Jung said succinctly, "Charge!".

The 12 Federation machines of the Poisoned Dagger Squadron captured Zaku, formed a herringbone formation like wild geese, and aggressively attacked the Zeon fleet.

"What happened... report the situation!"

The development of the situation was beyond his expectation. Rear Admiral Kongsikang jumped up with a slap on his seat, straightened his neck and looked nervously at the universe outside the bridge. There were 12 light points approaching rapidly over there.

"Uh... I don't know, I'm sending a signal to ask..."

"Ask [Side 3 expletive], if you're not sure, just assume it's a federal attack! Send the signal and have the MS team dispatch immediately!"

Zaku, the first machine, stepped out of the leading four Zeon battleships, Gnaku, and attacked them in formation; and following behind, the eight Papua-class transport ships also opened the hatches on both sides——

There were no airdrop pods used to lower troop supplies to the ground. Instead, scarlet eyes lit up one after another in the dark cabin, and then pairs of dark green mechanical feet stepped into the universe.

"Everyone, leave the transport ship quickly and dispatch urgently!"

The pilots' inspection reports before the attack; the dispatchers' anxious orders and confirmations; the mechanics checking the fuel and weapons carried on the aircraft that is about to go to the battlefield; and the major general sitting on the bridge, constantly The sound of urging——

The principality of Zeon's ambush troops, nearly two hundred Zaku, hidden in the cargo hold of the transport ship, are preparing to join the battle in a hurry but in an orderly manner.

"Commander Dozulu is really clever! He guessed that the federal army planned to attack our transport team!"