Chapter 729: Concealing the truth! (3/4)
"Long Legs is here too?"
Dean, driven by Cruze, watched from a distance as the Archangel launched an assault on ZAFT's submarine carrier under the cover of the Force Angel Gundam.
The appearance of the Archangel also surprised Cruze.
According to his prediction, the Archangel should be returning to Alaska itself.
How would it appear here?
And, what about joining the battle as reinforcements for the East Asian Republic?
Judging from the information that Kruse knows, the Archangel is not favored by the Earth Alliance's top brass, and it was only able to be manufactured because the Earth Alliance's senators were under attack by ZAFT's MS troops.
It's just a compromise after defeat.
"Hmm? So that's what happened?"
Suddenly, Cruze realized something.
The reason why the Archangel appears here is probably because the Earth Alliance is not willing to see the Archangel and the G-Project body it carries successfully return to Alaska headquarters.
"Hmph. How arrogant! It's obviously a trump card, but you can't wait to give it away."
However, using this cutting-edge warship, which has just made its maiden voyage, as reinforcements to participate in this battle seems to be able to send a signal to the outside world.
The Atlantic Alliance, which leads the Earth Alliance, is also involved in the construction of orbital elevators and even solar power systems.
Outsiders who know nothing about the shady story behind the Archangel have probably reached this consensus.
Thinking of this, the corners of Cruze's mouth raised slightly.
He slowly raised his gaze and looked at the sky.
"Soon! Soon, we will reach that moment!"
While the war on the uninhabited island was raging, the transport fleet in charge of He Ming successfully merged with the escort fleet sent by Orb.
What surprised He Ming was that until the rendezvous with the Orb convoy fleet, ZAFT's submarine fleet did not attack the transport fleet.
"Could it be that ZAFT had no intention of breaking up the war from the beginning?"
In fact, it was the large submarine carrier responsible for breaking up the engagement that confirmed the existence of Dendrobium Orchid, and after getting in touch with the Carpentaria base, it decisively canceled the plan to break up the engagement.
In the final analysis, it was still due to the impact of Dendrobium Orchid's previous attack on the uninhabited island waters.
Just relying on one or two Voskurov-class large submarine carriers is simply unable to compete with Dendrobium Orchid.
The Dendrobium orchid that dominates the sky will always have space and maneuver advantages that a diving mothership cannot match. Once it is targeted by a Dendrobium orchid, the only thing the diving mothership can do is to desperately dive into the deeper seabed until it escapes from the Dendrobium orchid.
Until orchid.
However, as the water depth increases, the pressure on the ship body will also increase geometrically. At that time, the submersible carrier reaching the endurance limit will be faced with a life and death dilemma.
In order to avoid this outcome, the Carpentaria base did not hesitate to allow the submarine carrier that broke up the engagement to retreat.
This is a wise and lucky decision!
After all, once the submersible carrier is discovered, even if a dive tactic is adopted in time, it will be difficult to avoid the fate of the Stamen Gundam deploying its GN force field and rushing into the seabed to pursue it.
Before He Ming could be puzzled by the delay in the ZAFT submarine carrier appearing, he received a piece of news.
That was a communication from the escort fleet.
"Lieutenant Colonel He! The radar shows that there are multiple high-speed maneuvering targets in low-Earth orbit. They are suspected to be ZAFT's orbital airborne troops! According to the bearing calculation, the opponent will enter the scheduled airborne orbit in ten minutes. The targets
, it’s an uninhabited island!”
"learn!"
He Ming responded and disconnected the communication.
"Adino, link the data and start calculating!"
"Understood! Start receiving data! Start calculation!"
"Signal confirmed! 10 Loracia-class battleships. 5 Nazca-class battleships. ZAFT landing pod transport ships were found, number 20. It is predicted that ZAFT airborne forces will invest at least 50 landing pods to participate.
In the middle of the battle.』
"Warning! The deployment of ZAFT orbital airborne troops has exceeded the upper limit of the fleet stationed on the uninhabited island! Please take countermeasures immediately! Avoid the loss of the uninhabited island!"
The results calculated by Adino were constantly refreshed on the screen in front of He Ming.
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Its prompts and warnings are also sounding in turn.
This is not good news.
But, this is unexpected bad news.
The ZAFT orbital airborne fleet, which had been holding back until now, finally launched.
"Contact Polaris."
Subsequently, communication with the Polaris was connected.
"Lieutenant Colonel. I already know the situation. Are you leaving?"
Even though Feng Yun knew who would deal with it next, he was still worried.
After all, it was not an airborne landing by one or two Zeon, but a swarm of orbital airborne troops attacking the ground directly from space.
If you just rely on dendrobium orchid to deal with it, accidents will inevitably happen.
"Well, of course. I'm afraid only Dendrobium and I can stop ZAFT's orbital airborne troops at high altitudes."
He Ming turned his eyes and saw a communication request from the Archangel appearing in the lower right corner of the screen.
He did not get through, but asked Adino to reply that it was inconvenient to get through, and then concentrated on driving the Dendrobium Orchid.
Because, next, he drove the Dendrobium Orchid to an altitude of 10,000 meters, blocking the landing track that the orbital airborne troops must pass, and blocking the orbital airborne troops.
"GN solar furnace, maximum output!"
"Thermonuclear engine, maximum output!"
He Ming raised his right hand, and at the moment when the keyboard passed by, the thermonuclear engine equipped by Dendrobium Lan and the GN solar furnace of Stamen Gundam were immediately activated to maximum output.
At the moment when fierce and dazzling flames were accompanied by bright, fluorescent GN particles, Dendrobium, which was in level flight, suddenly raised its head and shot straight into the sky like an arrow, leaving behind the crew of the escort fleet and the transport fleet.
The shocked figure.
With a wingspan of hundreds of meters, the dendrobium orchid shot straight into the sky like a black cloud, leaving behind several Mach circles that broke through supersonic speeds, and a roar that rolled across the sky like thunder.
"The speed is increasing! Mach 1, Mach 2, Mach 3...continue to break through Mach! Master, please be prepared to withstand strong overload!"
"continue!"
He Mingmi, who was under heavy pressure, said calmly without changing his expression.
At this time, ZAFT's orbital airborne troops had appeared at the intersection of the blue and gray sky ahead.
He Ming's eyes turned cold and he responded immediately.
The missile pods on Dendrobium's back opened one after another, and while launching all the missiles into the air, the GN rocket launcher was deployed, ready to go.
At an altitude of 10,000 meters, at the moment when the rain of missiles from below was about to hit the target, the rocket launchers that came first tore through the sea of ​​clouds, sweeping across the nine days with unstoppable power, sweeping through the group of orbital drop capsules falling from the void.
Pass.
"boom!"
"boom!"
"boom!"
The next second after the orbital drop capsule exploded one after another, the belated rain of missiles hit the landing capsule that had luckily escaped the GN rocket bombardment, and turned into the second batch of fireworks that bloomed in the nine days.
The scene is extremely gorgeous.
However, He Ming's expression changed.
He didn't feel human emotions.
There was no living creature in the orbital space capsule that appeared ahead!
"Adino, calculate the number of landing pods and the landing trajectory!"
"The calculation results have been obtained! They are seriously inconsistent with the previous calculation results! The orbital drop capsules that appeared in front are not all ZAFT airborne troops!"
The next second, Adino seemed to capture something.
"The second batch of orbital drop pods were discovered! The orbit is being calculated and the results are obtained. The target is the Panama Canal!"
CE71.
April.
After the Republic of East Asia announced the construction of an orbital elevator, the Zaft Carpentaria Base launched an attack on the uninhabited island waters where the base island is located.
In the same month, when the battle on the uninhabited island was intensifying, ZAFT used orbital airborne troops as the main body to launch a surprise attack on the United Earth's Panama base in a covert manner.
Panama Base and Mass Accelerator Panama Gate, Fall.
On the same day, the fleet that launched an attack on the uninhabited island from the Carpentaria base was defeated and evacuated.
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Chapter completed!