As the battle continued, just over three minutes had passed since the Mobile Suit had been hand-to-hand, and a little over five minutes had passed since the pirates fired their first shots. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

If, in the past battles, the privateer pirates had won a one-sided victory, sinking several escort ships and routed the mobile suits escorting the goods, the merchants would have either begun to flee in all directions, or they would have honestly paid for their lives.

Today, however, the situation was reversed, with privateers being the underdogs, with two ships sinking themselves in their boreholes and more than 20 mobile suits being shot down against an opponent that was less than half their own. On the caravan side, not a single ship has been injured so far, and only 3 Mobile Suits have been lost.

Although the strength of the Mobile Suit is still twice that of the pirates, the morale has fallen to the bottom. The pilots were in a state of panic, no one believed that they would be able to defeat their opponents, and at this time they waited for the flagship behind them to give the order to retreat.

The losses of the pirate mobile suits increased with each minute of time, with 7 long-range aircraft on the periphery in the first minute, 2 on the Tempest's side and 6 on the main combat group's side in the second minute. By the third minute, the number had expanded to 11 aircraft, three of which were created by the caravan's pilots, and one more was downed on the side of the "Tempest".

If this continues, in another 5 minutes, the mobile suits on the pirate side may be wiped out.

The two tactical staff officers on the pirate flagship looked back at the footage for a minute and still found nothing, but the pirate leader couldn't wait any longer, and loudly urged them to come to a conclusion.

The two tactical staff officers exchanged opinions in a low voice, and finally decided to unify their voices, "The other party has a long-range master, at least at least at the level of an ace pilot. ”

The pirate leader snorted coldly when he heard this, to express his inner disappointment. To be honest, this conclusion can be inferred from the battle he observed in the past three minutes without looking back at the video footage. What he really needs is a tactical staff officer to give useful advice, such as how to fight to win? Or simply admit that you can't win, and suggest retreating.

Among all the ace pilots, the long-range ace is the most troublesome one, pumping the cold and letting go of the gun, which is impossible to defend and disrupt the rhythm of the attacker, and is an excellent candidate for the weak side to play defense. If there is really such a master in this caravan, the pirate side can only choose to retreat, and if it continues to fight like this, it will not be able to win if it loses all its old capital.

However, the pirate leader did not believe that a caravan could afford to be escorted by an ace pilot, and in his opinion, the opponent was a quasi-ace at best. If the two tactical staff officers were able to find the long-range pilot, he would be able to order the pirate pilots to launch a surprise attack and directly use a group fight to get rid of each other.

Compared with the technical pilots who drive the high-mobility type, the long-range pilots are most afraid of group fights. Once the caravan's ranged pilots are dealt with, the remaining melee pilots are not to be feared, and they will be wiped out sooner or later.

It's a pity that the two tactical staff officers are not angry, and they still can't find the target after watching the replay. If this continues, sooner or later the pirate pilots will be doomed.

"Let Lieutenant Colonel Haag go?" Seeing that the pirate leader was about to go berserk, the chief of staff had to stand up and propose.

Lieutenant Colonel Haag was the only would-be ace pilot in the privateer fleet, and an active duty soldier sent by the new European Union military to support them, in order to strike in such situations. On weekdays, the privateers treated Haag as a guest, and served him with good food and drink, and basically didn't ask him to do much, but today he really can't do without him.

The pirate leader nodded, "Let the mobile suits withdraw, re-line, and wait for Hag to lead the team to charge again." ”

Haag is 34 years old this year, according to the latest pilot service standards of various countries, ace pilots retire at the age of 40, quasi-aces are 35 years old, and general pilots are 30 years old. He was approaching retirement age, and because he had no chance to go further, he was simply sent to serve as a military adviser to privateers, using his vast combat experience to make the most of his spare energy.

Truth be told, this arrangement was a rejection of Haag, allowing him to vacate a position as the leader of a mobile squadron for a more promising young would-be ace pilot to take over. However, Hag can only admit it, because he has indeed come to the end of the fleet, and he has no potential compared to young people, and there is no fleet or military high-level cover behind him, so he can only accept the arrangement honestly.

A year and a half have passed since he joined the privateer at the age of 33 with resistance, and now Haag is enjoying the last two years before retiring, and has even begun to seriously consider staying in the fleet after retiring. Because of the "Storm", the status of the pilot has been greatly improved, and his allowance has been much higher than before, and he can also get a much higher dividend in the privateer fleet than the allowance.

As a pirate fleet with 15 warships, the pirate leader is at least a major general if placed in the army. And when Haag faced the pirate leader as a lieutenant colonel, the other party was still very polite. And there is no need to be as hierarchical as in the army, any colonel captain can overpower him, and he has to take the initiative to salute. This is the second place where Haag feels very comfortable.

Haag was a man of good fortune, and every time a pirate intercepted a caravan, he was on standby in the rearmament cabin, ready to help. Before today, though, privateers hadn't faced a worthy opponent for Haag.

So today will be Haag's first attack since he came to the privateer's fleet, and he attaches great importance to it, and hopes to show his value through this battle, so that the pirate leader will take the initiative to keep him or ask him to join him when he reaches retirement age.

Don't say anything about the glory of a soldier, when Haag was squeezed out of the galaxy to serve as a military advisor to a group of privateers, his glory had been forcibly stripped from above. Since then, he has ceased to be Lieutenant Colonel Haag, but an older young man struggling to earn a pension.

After receiving a request from the pirate leader to let him fight, Haag immediately boarded his third-generation EM prototype without saying a word. Seriously, although it is an EM prototype, as a third-generation body, the performance of this mobile suit is not as good as the fourth-generation EM production model in service.

When he was driven all the way to the galaxy to be some bullshit military advisor with his old plane, he was depressed. Of course, this depression quickly disappeared after receiving the first dividend from the pirate leader, and he never thought about it again.

Although the third-generation EM prototype is an outdated model, it is still quite good in the second-generation production model of the pirate fleet and caravan, and on the surface it seems to be the best performing mobile suit in this airspace, if you don't consider the "Storm" No. 1 and MG-Wisdom hidden in the "Tempest", if no one can see the "Storm" No. 3 in an optically invisible state, it is true.

The problem is that after these two ifs are ruled out, Haag and his three generations of EM prototypes are destined to face a tragedy today.

And this tragedy has been playing out since the moment Hag appeared.

The pirate leader ordered the pirate pilots to retreat to the flagship and reline to fight with Haag, who had just ejected. But this order of his was clearly wrong, underestimating the eternal truth represented by the idiom that the army is defeated like a mountain.

When the pirate pilots received the order to temporarily retreat, they were immediately relieved, and had no desire to continue fighting, and were ready to throw the mess in front of them to Lieutenant Colonel Haag to take over. They don't want to run faster than their opponents, they just want to run faster than their own people, and they suddenly turn around and leave, and no one takes the initiative to press the back of the palace at all.

Haag, who had just catapulted from the pirate flagship, saw a terrible scene in his eyes, and the caravan's thirty or so mobile suits chased after twice his opponent, pressing and beating like ducks. In a short flight of several thousand kilometers, in less than half a minute, more than 10 mobile suits were shot down on the pirate side, and the chaos was further expanding.

It is expected that by the time the two sides chase and flee to the pirate flagship, the pirate pilots will no longer have a chance to re-line.

Haag, who was also an active regular soldier from a mobile squadron leader, immediately drove the third-generation EM prototype to meet him, and at the same time ordered the pirate pilots to stop retreating and line up for defense.

The bridge of the "Tempest" was over, Feng Yu saw that the pirate pilots had a tendency to stabilize their positions, but a smile appeared on his lips, and he turned his head and asked, "If you were driving the No. 3 plane now, what would you do?" ”