Chapter 54: Grenadiers
What I see is a vision created by Monica, but what is the real situation? Only she herself in the cargo hold knows. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
The explosion was real, as were the holes in the bulkheads. Without these prerequisites, how can the captain of an armed merchant ship easily believe that the TEM-3 (U) has been destroyed.
In fact, it was a directional blast carried out by Monica with a plastic bomb, which only destroyed the bulkhead, but did not damage the third-generation jump engine. If she had stripped her Awakening and had given the crews of an armed merchant ship another look, she would have seen a completely different picture - a near-intact cargo hold and an unscathed shipping container.
The vessel's outer wall mark is marked with the words "TEM-3(U)", which is undoubtedly the third-generation jump engine that the two sides are competing for. The volume of the container is not much different from the original MS-102 prototype, but it is placed in a horizontal position. Since the cargo hold of the carrier and the maintenance compartment of the "Tropical High Pressure" are gravity-free, there is not much difference between horizontal and vertical placement, as long as they are given enough time, the container can be moved through.
Although it succeeded in fooling the NO and the 9th Fleet, it does not mean that Awa-Ker has obtained the engine, and the key is whether Fengyu can successfully divert the 9th Fleet from the exit of the main channel, so that the "Tropical High Pressure" has a chance to approach the wreckage of the transport ship again. Then you have to throw off the pursuers, and the whole task can be considered a successful completion.
It's not easy to do that.
At this moment, Fengyu has been entangled by the ace pilot of the 9th Fleet. Originally, he had a chance to escape, and if the "Tropical Pressure" had left the main channel and had not gone to the caravan to deal with TEM-3(U), but had come directly to pick up Fengyu, they would have escaped by now.
Except for the transport ship that appeared once before to indicate the engine to Fengyu, the "Tropical High Pressure" was optically invisible at all times, and could not communicate with Fengyu in any form. Mobile Suits don't have energy sensors on them, they take up too much space, and he can only guess the movements of his ship based on changes on the battlefield.
As the caravan armed merchant ship suddenly attacked the wreckage of the transport ship like crazy, and then there was a small secondary explosion of the transport ship, he also guessed that Luo Yunxi was going to help him finish the finishing work.
It's a pity that Monica's strategy was so successful that even Fengyu didn't expect the engine to be intact. At this time, he was just fighting to get out, and he didn't think about the wreckage of the transport ship at all.
But because of this, the two commanders of the 9th Fleet completely accepted the statement of the captain of the armed merchant ship, believing that the third-generation jump engine had been destroyed by the "Tropical High Pressure", and no longer cared about this matter. Instead, he listened to the captain's advice to destroy the "storm" as an opportunity to atone for his sins.
As the caravan entered the main channel, the 9th Fleet battleships surrounded in the direction where Fengyu was, and there was nothing around the wreckage of the NO transport. But even so, the "Tropical High Pressure" still did not dare to act rashly, as long as the 9th Fleet was still in sight, Luo Yunxi did not have enough time to transfer the container with the engine.
In fact, her heart is very entangled, and the "Tropical High Pressure" will inevitably bring huge pressure to Fengyu. Although the battleship's main guns had basically no effect on Fengyu, and the mass-produced MS could not pose much of a threat to him, he was fighting alone after all, and the ace pilots of the 9th Fleet had already caught up with him, and the trouble had just begun.
As Luo Yunxi expected, Fengyu was not afraid of warships or minions, but he met a difficult ace pilot.
The 9th Fleet's ace piloted a mobile suit that he had never seen before, and there was no information about it in the New Asia Military database. Speaking of which, it has been almost two years since Fengyu left New Asia, and in this era of rapid military science and technology, two years is enough for a superpower like UAC to develop enough new technologies.
The ace of the 9th Fleet pilots a mobile suit in a mix of red and blue livery, with a slightly bloated body that looks a bit like a heavy load. But as we all know, the Heavy Pilot has not yet given birth to an ace, so apparently he is not. Then after ruling out the possibility of reloading, it can only be said that this is a new exclusive custom model.
This red-and-blue mobile suit is about the same height as Fengyu's mobile suit WS, but the waist and chest circumference are larger, and the extra parts under the two ribs have a row of circular flaps that look like a built-in grenadier device. This design has also appeared in the mobile suits of the period, but because the high-explosive weapons fired by the grenadier are mostly medium and short-range, and the bloated body will lead to the decline of the melee combat ability of the mobile suit, which is not worth the loss for the conventional mobile suit, so this design concept was quickly abandoned.
Now that this design appears on an exclusive custom model, it shows that the benefits of these grenadiers outweigh the disadvantages, and Fengyu can't help but be extra wary of these things.
There are a total of six grenadiers on the ribs of the red-blue mobile suit, evenly spaced on both ribs, which are still closed at this time, and it is clear that the opponent is in no hurry to use them. For Fengyu, the unknown is the most dangerous thing, and he would rather use the grenadier to fire dense fire as soon as the other party comes up, so that he is always worried.
Put yourself in the other person's shoes, if the other party is a stream-of-consciousness ace pilot like yourself who is good at creating opportunities, and will always resort to some unbelievable means at critical moments, it will be a big trouble.
Therefore, Fengyu took a defensive position at the beginning, always on guard against the opponent's grenadiers, and did not dare to attack rashly, so as to react to the sudden attack of the grenadiers at any time.
The ace pilot of the 9th Fleet is a technical streamer, and he can already sense it from his sharp melee attacks. However, Mobile Suit's bloated body does limit the opponent's play, and the overly wide body forces the swing of his arms to increase, and the attack speed is reduced. If it weren't for this, with the fighting strength of the opponent's technical stream, Feng Yu would have fallen into disadvantage long ago.
Facing such an opponent, Feng Yu felt like he was fighting with a strong man with a big waist and a round waist, and this strong man would also use a hidden weapon.
"What a troublesome opponent! It seems that it is time for WS to upgrade, but I don't know if Awa-Ker has the technical ability to do so. He told himself.
At this time, the red-blue mobile suit that had been unable to attack for a long time finally used the first grenadier, and as the rib flap opened, a black-gray cylindrical bomb was fired towards the mobile suit WS.