Chapter 8: The Trap
Before the arrival of the expeditionary force, Taiya WH already had a New Asian Republic Space Force fighting the UAC Army, and there were skirmishes on both sides for three days. The www.biquge.info of Pen, Fun, and Pavilion did not further expand the war because of the needs of civil navigation in the wormhole channel. This waterway is related to the interests of the UAC, New Asia, and the Earth Federation, and even the New Asia military has to take into account the voice of the people, and if it is not sure, it will not dare to arbitrarily increase the scale of the war.
But everything quietly changed with the departure of the UAC New Asia, and if the expeditionary force did not seize this opportunity, the recovery of Dijing would always be empty talk.
After entering the airspace of Taiya, Lieutenant General Li Rui immediately dispatched a liaison boat to get in touch with Lieutenant General Kim Tae-eun, commander of the theater, to discuss the joint dispatch of troops.
At this time, Vice Admiral Kim Tae-eun did not know that the New Asia had left, after all, this was an era of electromagnetic radar ineffectiveness, and the enemy on the battlefield could only rely on optical means, and it was not easy to find a mothership cruising around in the vast space through passive optical sensors. Maybe the New Asia was a behemoth when it docked at the airport, but it was just a drop in the ocean in space, so no one on the New Asia side realized that it had been away from Taiya for nearly four months.
Lieutenant General Kim Tae-eun was also taken aback after receiving the contact from Lieutenant General Li Rui, and immediately summoned generals at all levels in the theater to come to the flagship to hold a mobilization meeting and prepare to coordinate operations with the expeditionary force.
These are all high-level military matters, and they are a little too far away for Fengyu, a high-ranking soldier. At this time, he was recuperating and waiting to go to the battlefield to test the actual combat effect of "overlapping shooting."
After half a day of preparation, the two fleets of the New Asian Army began to advance towards the location of the wormhole.
The fleet of the UAC Federation has been cruising in that area, and they have also planned to build a space fortress on the spot over the years, but there is not even a single meteorite nearby, and there is no Lagrange point necessary to build a fixed fortress, and the mobile fortress is not easy to build, and the New Asian Army continues to attack and harass, so it can only be garrisoned by a fleet.
Discovering the big move of the New Asian Army, the UAC Federation Army also took action, and soon went out to meet the battle.
The two sides exchanged fire at a distance of 2,000 light-seconds from the wormhole, and the first to dispatch was still a huge number of iron ball troops, which is also a fixed mode of space warfare in the new era. Although the battleship has the advantage of the main gun and the protection of the R-particle shield, it is still very dangerous to be approached by the opponent's humanoid mobile suit with kinetic weapons, so it must rely on a large number of iron ball troops to lay a defensive line between the two armies, and at the same time wait for the opportunity to send their own humanoid mobile suit to attack the opponent's warship.
As for the main artillery bombardment, it is mainly a kind of diversion role. At the end of each battle, the ships that were actually sunk by the main guns were usually in the single digits, and most of them were only damaged.
Perhaps to compensate for the pre-Tanami 15, this time the troop carrier was not allowed to strike first, but was scheduled for the second wave of launches, which was an hour and a half later.
During this time, the reagents resupply and inspect their respective mobile suits, while the drivers go to the cafeteria to eat a small amount of food to replenish their strength.
The waiting time passed quickly, sitting in the cockpit of the iron ball, Feng Yu took a deep breath and looked at the information displayed on the main control screen.
"Into the ejection trajectory."
"Ejection ready!"
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"Launch!"
"Senior soldier Fengyu, please follow the captain of the 1533 squad to the predetermined coordinates to fight."
Compared to DT2, the space without stars is a deep black, and only the countless points of light in the distance are distant star fields or extragalactic galaxies. In addition, tens of thousands of blue and green iron balls are the protagonists of this starry sky, and the fleets of both sides cowering in the rear are certainly more valuable, but now they have become supporting roles.
The first Iron Ball force had a certain numerical superiority and had already advanced the battle line by hundreds of kilometers, but this distance was so small in space that the smallest unit of counting in light seconds was almost negligible. As the dominant side, the New Asian Army initiated rotation in advance to ensure pressure on the enemy.
The rotation was completed smoothly, and Fengyu, who had entered his combat position, began to look for overlapping targets. I have to say,The simulation degree of the simulator is very high,Basically restore the various conditions of the battlefield,Fengyu, who insists on training every day, immediately entered the state,Move the position while dodging,It didn't take long to find the first targetγ
With the completion of the target lock, the auxiliary firing function of the pulse excitation module is activated, and a particle beam is fired towards the target with the expectation of Fengyu.
"Drop! The target is locked, shoot! β
"Drop! Target Down! The battlefield recorder judged that the number of downs was one. β
Although he got off to a good start, Feng Yu couldn't laugh or cry, because it was the iron ball in front of him that was down, not the one in the back that he really wanted to hit.
"This guy is too vegetable!" He complains as he looks for his next target.
The unlucky UAC driver, not to mention being shot down, was also disgusted. If he could still speak at this time, he would definitely protest, "Is it easy for Lao Tzu?" It's been almost two hours now, what's so strange about being a little unresponsive! β
At this time, the UAC Federation Army also began to rotate, and Feng Yu took advantage of the opportunity of the opponent's formation to be a little chaotic, seized an opportunity to overlap shots, and took advantage of the chaos to complete another fall, this time he hit an iron ball behind as he wished.
In the next ten minutes, the UAC Army Iron Ball, which had completed the rotation, was full of energy, but it did not leave a chance for Fengyu, and several consecutive shots were avoided by the opponent and failed to make any gains.
In the blink of an eye, another half an hour passed, and Fengyu, who had completed the third fall, began to feel fatigued, and began to consciously control the consumption, no longer using "overlapping shots", just relying on your ordinary shooting back and forth to consume time, waiting for the turn.
Even so, by the time the third wave of the New Asian Army entered the battlefield, he had reached the point of exhaustion, and had to use a pulse excitation to help dodge, almost leaving his life in this airspace.
After being recovered by Lanthanum 15, he handed the iron ball to Lao Qiu for preparation, and he hurried back to the sleeping pod. According to the battle plan, he will attack again in four hours, and if he does not seize the time to rest, he will not be able to hold out in the next battle.
The Iron Ball Army on the side of the New Asian Army adopts a four-wave rotation, although the battle time of each wave is one and a half hours, but counting the ejection preparation in front and the recovery stage in the back, the actual battle time is two hours. The rest time between the two games was four hours, and after deducting half an hour for eating and personal cleaning, there was only three and a half hours of sleep.
The short rest time is fleeting, and in order to help the drivers sleep deeply, the Lanthanum 15 even filled the sleeping pod with sleeping gas, and when Fengyu was woken up by the radio, he had the illusion that he had just fallen asleep, and he wanted to lie down and sleep for another four hours.
Thanks to Luo Yi's dragging, he was able to pull him up.
"What's wrong? So tired! The Captain of Squad 1533 asked.
Feng Yu's personality is a little introverted, and he usually doesn't like to talk to others about his own affairs, so Luo Yi didn't know about "overlapping shooting", and he didn't even know that the quasi-veteran in his team had accumulated eight crashes. Eight crashes is a remarkable number for an iron ball pilot, one in a hundred, and two are still two short of being promoted to the rank of non-commissioned officer.
Iron Ball Pilot Non-commissioned Officers who have accumulated 10 downs will have a chance to go to the Mobile Suit Advanced Training Base in the Tenkyo Star Domain to receive a humanoid mobile suit training, and if they pass the exam, they will have the humanoid mobile suit pilot qualification and become a pilot. Even if you can't pass the assessment, you will still be reused when you return to the army, at least as the captain of the Iron Ball Squadron.
Even Feng Yu didn't know that he was close to the height of the pilot, and he was still worried about the problem of lack of energy. According to his current state of mind, he can only use "overlapping shots" for the first twenty minutes at most during the second attack, and he must be reserved for more than an hour, otherwise he will not be able to hold out until the end.
After having a sufficient understanding of his mental condition and setting a goal, Fengyu attacked.
Back in the firing line, the UAC's blue ball has yet to make its fifth rotation. Moreover, because of the disadvantage in troops, the UAC Army adopted a three-wave rotation strategy, and at this time it was the second wave of the second round of battles on the battlefield, and the drivers were even more fatigued.
Feng Yu felt that this battle was more relaxed than before, the enemy's attacks were not painful, most of them were shot crookedly, and he didn't even need to dodge, so that he had enough energy to choose a position to "overlap shot". Within twenty minutes, he was lucky enough to complete two crashes.
Anyway, as an iron ball driver, his efforts alone have little impact on the overall situation, contributing two crashes, which is enough for this wave of rotation. He began to consciously conserve his spare strength.
At this time, the situation on the battlefield changed abruptly.
Behind the UAC Federal Army, less than 2,000 light-seconds away from the battlefield, hundreds of white light clusters appeared one after another. It's a landscape that only appears when a spaceship jumps out of a wormhole. Although Taiya WH is the only passage between the new Asian galaxy and the solar system, there will not be so many spacecraft traveling back and forth on weekdays.
Then there is only one possibility at the moment, and that is a fleet!
There are only two countries that can pass through the fleet of Taiya WH, one is the Earth Federation, the controller at the other end of the channel, and the other is naturally the UAC Federation. As a neutral country, the Earth Federation has no reason to join this quagmire of war, so the only possibility is the UAC Federation fleet.
The New Asia Expeditionary Force and the Combined Fleet in the Theater have only been in battle for less than ten hours, and it is a fantasy for the UAC Federation to mobilize troops from the mainland, and these fleets can only wait in space on the other side of the wormhole, quietly waiting for the New Asian Army to take the initiative to attack. After receiving the notification from this side, he jumped across the galaxy as soon as possible.
In this way, even the transfer of the New Asia is performed for the expeditionary force for today's battle.
The UAC Federal Army has laid a trap in Taiya WHB!