Chapter 34: The Ghost of the Battlefield
Although the emotional personality is very different from the rational personality, and the way of thinking about problems is completely different, they are essentially the same person. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Feng Yu has an IQ of 140, not that the rational personality has a score of 139, and the emotional personality is only 1, they coexist in a brain and have the same IQ.
The rational personality wants to get the "Storm" and the "Tempest" must not be exposed in this battle, and the emotional personality also knows this truth, so he seized the moment the pirate battleship opened fire at the beginning, and caused the explosion with an attack that no one could detect, which was not the idea of the rational personality.
Now that the situation has changed, the chance of revealing his identity if he attacks the battleship again has greatly increased, so the emotional personality decides to kill the pirate pilot and target the pirate pilot.
If you rashly attack the pirate pilot, it is actually no different from directly attacking the pirate battleship, and it will not take long for the existence of the "Storm" 3 to be revealed. So it took a lot of brains for this emotional personality to finally come up with a strategy that best of both worlds.
At this time, on this passage connecting the too non-WH and the too beautiful WH, the battle between the caravan and the pirates had inevitably broken out.
The first salvo of the pirate fleet was not intended to sink the escort ships, but only to put pressure on the caravan by showing firepower, so the firepower was scattered. But when a ship blew up, the privateer fleet became the first to lose, thus strengthening their determination to slaughter the caravan with hatred.
The intent of the second salvo was already very obvious, basically all of them were aimed at one of the escort warships, intending to break them individually. However, in the end, they failed to sink their target, and instead suffered another loss to their own side.
In this way, unless the caravan pays the ransom and surrenders, allowing the privateers to recoup their losses and make a profit, this is doomed to fail.
However, the caravan didn't think so, realizing that their luck was not bad, they breathed a sigh of relief and couldn't help but despise the opponent in front of them, thinking that the other party was a paper tiger, looking at the large number of them, but in fact, they were all worn-out scrap copper and rotten iron. Don't look at the number of privateer pirates, there are as many as 100 mobile suits, who knows if it's just for show, maybe most of them are used to support the façade, and only some of them can be used.
It is understandable that the caravan will have this kind of thought, and an opponent who takes the initiative to attack but has continuous explosions will at least show that the opponent's logistics support is unfavorable, and more problems should be exposed when it really fights.
Moreover, this caravan consisted of 20 merchant ships plus 5 escort ships, and after the privateer pirates sank two warships themselves due to the bombing, the ratio of ships on both sides reached 25:13, which was close to a two-to-one ratio.
In this case, even if the escort warships were defeated by the opponent, these merchant ships scattered in a swarm, each finding a direction to run away, and the privateer pirates not only could not catch up, but also did not dare to rashly divide their forces to chase them. After some calculation, the merchants all thought that there was no reason to surrender, and perhaps some merchant ships would eventually be captured by the other party, but it was far more cost-effective than directly surrendering and paying the ransom.
With this in mind, neither side is willing to back down, and a big war officially begins.
The privateer pirates were not as unbearable as the caravan thought, although the warships did not dare to shoot, but the hundred mobile suits were all real combat effectiveness. And as an attacker, they have more freedom and initiative at the tactical level, and the advantage is still obvious.
On the caravan side, the "Storm" pretended to be still rushing to repair the preparation cabin, and the 4 escort warships carried a total of 20 mobile suits, and then the caravan itself also had almost 20 mobile suits escorted with the ship. Although the overall number is inferior to the other side, as the defender, their mobile suits can rely on the side turret of the battleship to fight, and the disparity in strength is not very large. If the opponent is as weak as they think, they can even rely on defensive counter-attacks to win.
In fact, in the case that the pirate warships did not dare to open fire, the strength of the two sides was indeed relatively close, and the level of the pilots was almost the same. Whether it is a privateer or a convoy or a mobile suit escorted by a ship, they are all retired pilots of various countries. The level of pilots who can survive to retirement will not be bad, and the general ranks are from elite pilots to high-level pilots, the level is comparable, the combat experience is also very rich, and the battlefield survivability is absolutely first-class.
It stands to reason that this battle will be relatively stalemate in the early stage, and it is not easy to have a one-sided situation. It is only when the losses of one side are getting bigger and bigger, and the balance of victory gradually tilts towards one end, that the weaker side will slowly show its defeat.
According to the conjecture of the privateer side, the final victory would be theirs, and the caravan would be defeated sooner or later, so the remaining 13 warships under the command of the flagship slowly dispersed, trying to surround the caravan so as not to let go of too many merchant ships when the victory was divided.
However, they were wrong at the beginning, misestimating the reason for the ship's explode, and then misestimating the real strength of the two sides. With the Tempest, they never had the slightest hope of victory.
The 100 pirate mobile suits were divided into five parts and flew to five escort warships. The leader of this privateer group was obviously not a mediocre person, and did not divide the mobile suits equally, but put the main force on one of the escort ships, while the other four only sent two mobile teams each to contain them, intending to destroy them individually.
The four mobile squadrons escorting the battleships were forced to disperse the defense, and they could not afford the loss of any of them. The caravan was kind, and the 20 pilots who accompanied the escort were sent to help defend the escort ship that the pirates were attacking. As for the "Tempest", which is still in the process of "rush repair", it has been abandoned by the caravan and other escort warships.
The emotional personality didn't even look at his own ship, there was "Storm" No. 1 there, how could he let the "Tempest" be sunk. His target was the escort battleship that both sides had heavily committed.
Excluding the Storm 3, the caravan had 25 mobile suits alongside the ship, while the privateer had 60 troops. Normally, the caravan side should not be able to defend for long, but the "Storm" 3 is here, and everything is different.
The "Storm" No. 3 first operated on the periphery of the pirate pilot cluster, taking advantage of the inattention of both sides, and successively shot down several long-range production aircraft in different directions. Because it was a scuffle, and the caravan's mobile suits were surrounded in the inner circle, the attention of both sides was focused on the center of the battlefield, and no one really paid attention to how the long-range mobile suits in the outer circle were knocked down.
By the time the pirates were on their guard, the emotional personality had already cut into the array of pirate mobile suits.
The flight path he chose was very skillful and was not on the line of connection between the main view of any two Mobile Suits. To put it simply, whether it is on the caravan side or the pirate side, the shadow created by the optical invisibility of the Mobile Suit No. 3 has never appeared on the main monitoring screen of the Mobile Suit, only those unimportant auxiliary perspectives occasionally appear in the shadow area of the super model.
For ordinary pilots, their abilities are limited, they are unable to take care of the overall situation, and they generally do not care about the auxiliary perspective of those who do not have enemy aircraft in the picture, and even if they occasionally find that the body of their companion disappears in the picture for a few tenths of a second, they will not think about the reasons behind it.
As a result, the "Storm" 3 lurked beside the pirate pilot like a dragon swimming in the sea, and was never discovered. His purpose is not to play hide and seek with the other party, but to let go of the cold gun.
As mentioned earlier, the average pilot has limited abilities, and when a mobile suit issues a long-range attack alert, they first pay attention to the enemy's front and then decide on their dodge direction based on the location of the enemy attacking.
However, the attack of the "Storm" 3 came from behind them, and most people would be slightly stunned when they encountered a mistakenly attack from the "companion". Moreover, the emotional personality will also predict the attack according to the direction of the pirate pilot's movement, and when the alarm is triggered, unless the pirate pilot can activate the pulse excitation at the first time, it will not be able to dodge at all.
If Feng Yu is facing a melee by himself, he will definitely watch and listen to all directions, pay attention to every move of all enemy aircraft on the monitoring screen from all angles, and if any mobile suit approaches or aims a long-range weapon at him, he will evade it in advance and will not wait for the system's attack alarm.
In fact, at the ace level, most pilots choose to turn off the alarm, because the siren sound is almost never interrupted in the melee, and they really have to rely on the alarm to dodge maneuver, and they don't know how many times they will die.
Only pilots below the quasi-ace level will rely on system alerts to spot more stealthy enemy attacks, but it's too late to do so.
After a while, the "Storm" 3 relied on a sneak attack from behind to take out several pirate mobile suits.
The battle between the pilots lasted less than a minute, and the pirates' losses in the hands of Fengyu had reached double digits, and they were unaware of it, as if a battlefield ghost was secretly harvesting their lives.