Chapter 18: The Scarlet Frost Days

As the fleet that defected to NO in the early days, although the Rutan Local Garrison Fleet was a second-tier fleet with low combat effectiveness, the Awa-Ker Intelligence Department still collected the intelligence of this fleet in great detail. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 info Because once no gets up, this fleet will definitely change flags at the first time and claim to be the no fleet.

Maybe the Earth Federation doesn't pay much attention to the local garrison fleet, or maybe the military top brass senses that this fleet is too deeply involved with the Rutan Consortium, so they take a free-range attitude towards it. If you don't listen, don't ask, don't cut, don't withdraw, don't care, don't build, and let the Rutan consortium toss it yourself.

Of course, there are also some issues of corruption and corruption in the Earth Federation army. The military salary received by the local garrison fleet of Rutan was only half of the actual share, and the shortfall was made up by the Rutan consortium itself. That's why the military region to which the fleet belongs will let the Rutan consortium build this fleet into a fleet like a private army.

A country that has declared neutrality, an army that has not fought in 20 years, corruption is almost inevitable. Although the federal government and the top brass of the federal army are aware of this, they can only strengthen the control of the first-line fleet, and take laissez-faire measures against the terminally ill second-line fleet.

Therefore, if Fengyu can cripple this Rutan local garrison fleet, as long as the casualties do not exceed the bottom line of the Earth Federation, they will continue to adopt a laissez-faire attitude, and all losses will basically be paid by NO, making up for the sunken battleships and downed mobile suits for the fleet.

More than an hour later, the garrison fleet and the "Tempest" arrived in the airspace of the final assembly plant.

It is a Jupiteroid planet with a ring of planets, with a diameter of 170,000 kilometers, which is very large compared to the 325,000 kilometers of Rutan's star. The radius of the planetary ring ranges from 90,000 kilometers to 300,000 kilometers, the outer thickness is thin and the inner side is micron-sized dust, and the outermost side is a meteorite belt, the diameter of meteorites reaches tens or even nearly 100 meters.

The two main moons of the planetary system are within the planetary ring, as are the four space cities attached to the two moons. The Precision Foundry and the Rutan Tachyon Engine Research Institute are located at L4 and L5 of the lower orbital satellite, while the final assembly plant and the Rutan Local Garrison Fleet Base are located at the Lagrange point of the high-orbit satellite.

Although they are all within the planetary rings, the micron-sized dust near the precision foundry is invisible at close range, and the gauzy-like rings can only be seen from far away space.

In contrast to precision foundries with a low orbital position, the orbit of the final assembly plant is in the middle of the planetary rings. The planetary rings in this area are mainly notuous gas ice crystals visible to the naked eye, ranging from a few millimeters to a few centimeters in diameter, which resemble countless rubies under the light of Rutan's dark red stars. Looking out from the space city of the final assembly plant, it looks like a sky full of blood-colored frost.

At the beginning of the development of Rutan Star, when the Rutan Consortium had not yet risen, this was once the famous space landscape of the Milky Way - the Scarlet Frost Sky.

It's a pity that just today, the Scarlet Frost Sky is about to usher in a battle. As the defender is the Rutan Local Garrison Fleet, which has 25 warships and more than 200 second-generation knight series. The second-tier fleet also has five formations, but each formation is only half the strength of the first-tier fleet, including one capital ship and four destroyers.

With the financial resources of the Rutan Consortium or NO, it is natural to have the ability to expand this fleet to the scale of 50 warships. But having the ability doesn't mean they can. Of course, the Federation Army turned a blind eye to the Rutan local garrison fleet and allowed them to look at each other with the Rutan Consortium, but the premise was that they could not cross the line.

This fleet just looks like the private army of the Rutan Consortium, but it is essentially a federal formation. The Rutan Consortium can privately call on this fleet, and even take the initiative to bear part of the fleet's expenses and expenses, but it cannot help them expand their army.

Although the Federation Army is facing the problem of corruption, it is not serious enough to be divided by warlords. Privately expanding the army or changing equipment is a sign of militarism, and it is an insurmountable bottom line in this democratic society. At this time when I don't plan to go to the front of the stage, this is one thing that must not be done.

Because of this, the Rutan local garrison fleet has only 25 warships and more than 200 mobile suits, all of which are outdated models. The second-generation mass production opportunity to the fourth-generation prototype has exceeded the performance gap between the mass production machine and the iron ball. It is no wonder that in the eyes of the crew of the "Tempest", the Rutan fleet is not worth mentioning, and directly faced more than 20 times the enemy force with 10 AM prototypes.

After a while, the "quasi-ace squad" had already broken through the opponent's firepower blockade with its excellent body performance and rushed straight into the opponent's mobile array. It seems that there is no suspense in this battle anymore, and it will be a pattern of 10 prototypes slaughtering more than 200 Knight production models.

However, even GM53's mobile suit production base has arranged two ace pilots to sit in charge, and the Rutan Consortium, as a core member of NO, how could it be that there are no ace pilots here.

Just as the battle had just entered the melee combat phase, two black ace pilot ships flew out of the airport of the final assembly plant Space City and quickly flew into the airspace of the battlefield. The livery of these two high-speed ships is exactly the same as the blood-colored frost sky, the matte black primer can absorb most of the light, and the blood-red spots look like Xiaoice crystals in the planetary ring, and you really won't notice these two small ships if you don't look closely.

Even in a state of awakening, Fengyu's rational personality failed to discover the other party at the first time, but focused on the battle group in front of him. It wasn't until the opponent's two exclusive custom models, also painted in dark red, appeared on the edge of the battlefield that he was shocked.

Normally, with Fengyu's thinking, he had to retreat immediately, just like at the time of GM53, otherwise the Awakened Pilot would likely face attrition. However, the timing of the opponent's two aces was just right, and the "quasi-ace squad" had already rushed into the enemy's mobile array to start a melee fight.

In the face of more than 20 times the number of enemy aircraft, even if Fengyu personally pressed the formation, it was impossible to easily get out of the battle. And if you forcibly retreat at this time, you will mess up your position and cause greater losses.

Faced with this situation, Feng Yu had to ask the two captains, Valkyrie and Hong Superstar, to lead their respective teams, and he took the initiative to meet the two ace pilots.

With a prototype against an exclusive custom model, and it is still a one-on-two, Fengyu's battle is not easy to fight.