Chapter 69: The Beginning of the Decisive Battle
In less than 12 hours, the trial production of six new human-specific MSs was completed in the hangar of the Dawn Sacred Sword, completely using nanorobots.
They are, Xin'anzhou, Unicorn, Sazabi, Manatee, Big Green Pepper and Gamark.
And those who participated in the airframe test were, Amuro, Junger, Isamu Kajima, Io and four other excellent pilots from the Federation.
“…… The exterior design of these airframes is a little too geon. Rebier pointed to the four bodies of Xin'anzhou next to him.
"Time is limited, so it's a big deal to change the head of the Gundam." Io shrugged. "Amuro, you can drive a manatee out and try it later, and I'll open a big green pepper to show you how to use the floating cannon. The instructions for the airframe are in the cockpit, and we will go out if you think it's okay after a while. Other people who are interested in floating guns go to the testing bench over there to test whether they have the ability to control floating guns, only Xin'anzhou is a high-mobility sniper body, and there is no external attachment point, and the rest of the body has the carrying capacity of floating guns. ”
In less than 15 minutes, Amuro roughly finished reading the body instructions and began to debug the operating system in the body. After another half an hour, the big green pepper and the manatee set off from the bottom hatch one after another.
"Ian-san, this mech is actually a strengthened Gundam."
"That's right, the skeleton of the body has been slightly enlarged, the structure has been strengthened, the psychic skeleton has been added, the whole body of the Luna titanium alloy armor has been replaced, and your father's new Minovsky particle fusion reactor has been replaced. The performance of the main body is probably more than 3 times that of the main body. ”
"No wonder ......"
"Forget it, the simulated battle mode is activated, Amuro-kun, it's on." Ian unleashed 16 conical float cannons, which flew up and down near the manatee under the propulsion of several small rocket engines, and suddenly pointed at the manatee, simulating a launch.
"This device!" The manatee scurried around in the red simulated beam net, the total 4-energy beam Gatling hanging on its arms rotated at high speed, and the Vulcan cannon on its head was also firing in a simulated launch, and at the same time, the manatee released 4 flying wing floating cannons, which were entangled with the bit.
Seeing that the 16 floating cannons were about to be swept away, Ian released the last 16 floating cannons.
"The Strongest New Human...... It lives up to its name...... It seems that he has no talent in the operation of floating guns. "While Ian is avoiding the shooting of the manatees, he also has fantasies." It's just that it's still a little more tender now. ”
Ian dodged a round of strafing, knocked the manatee over with a shoulder bump, and casually used two Gatling shots in his left hand.
"The battle is over, and the Amuro plane has been shot down."
"Ian-san, this mental power skeleton...... It's so sensitive. ”
"Then get used to this sensitive feeling, humans are such sensitive and delicate creatures." Ian replied casually, Ian himself felt that the mental power skeleton was too sensitive, or the GN bit of quantum computer-assisted operation felt more comfortable.
"Oh......" Amuro was confused.
"What about other people's adaptations?"
"They all have the talent to handle the floating cannon, but they don't believe in the sensitive and fragile feel of the floating cannon, they believe in the weapon in their hands."
"Oh, so what?"
"Jung and the other driver chose Xin'anzhou but asked for more armament, one driver chose Shazabi but asked for the installation of the four-door giant beam Gatling in the design, one pilot chose Gemmark, and the remaining three chose the unicorn, but asked for the installation of a fully armored Gundam style to increase the armament." The maintenance officer next to him reported to Ian.
"Then put them on." Ian didn't really care, didn't he particularly believe in the main gun of the support plane instead of the bit?
"Understood, let's start arranging the production of equipment and airframes."
A few hours later, six MSs, made purely by nanobots, rolled off the assembly line. The 8 super-ace pilots of each unit left from the bottom of the ship in their respective airframes and returned to their respective motherships.
Each body is armed to the teeth, such as Xin'anzhou, which is obviously only armed with high-power beam rifles, Vulcan cannons in the head, grenades hanging under the rifles, beam sabers, and beam axes. Rapid-fire beam spray guns are hung on the forearm, an integrated beam sword, a shotgun is hung on the waist, 6 missile launchers are hung on the lower legs, and 6 floating cannons are hung in the shield......
Ian's cargo has just been on the heavy firepower, the unicorn Gundam he is driving, a large backpack on the back, a large thruster and additional fuel pipes behind the backpack, two large beam cannons and 2 6-pack missile launchers on the backpack, and both arms are equipped with a fully armored Gundam twin high-shot beam rifles, but I don't know which tendon is not connected, so I have to let the logistics on each arm, plus two beam gatlings. Now the beam Gatling is leaking out of the arm shield.
At Amuro's insistence, the Manatee Gundam has been equipped with additional armor and thrusters, and the Beam Rifle and Beam Saber have been built into the forearm. Swapped the hand-held weapon from a Beam Rifle to 4 large Beam Gatlings.
In contrast, Sazabi only added a large beam of light, and the Gatling was all fresh and refined.
As for Gammak? A large fusion furnace with an output of more than 10,000 kW, a height of more than 25 meters, 10 beam cannons for fingers, 14 beam cannons fixed on the body, 1 high-power chest beam cannon, two large female floating cannons in the back, and 28 sub-floating cannons in the female floating cannon. Equipped with I-field again, it is not a dream to fight the fleet alone.
There is no need (and no access to) plug-ins and hand-held gear.
"Yi Anjun, your lower limit is the same as always......"
"Yo, General Rybil, come down and take a look at the air?" Ian put down his work of transforming the Unicorn Gundam in front of him and looked back at Rebiel who walked by.
"Those 6 kinds of bodies have exceeded my imagination."
"Then you have to adapt as soon as possible, General Rebil, the world is getting faster in war."
"Yes, but after you came, the changes have gone too far, which has made many old men feel threatened." Reybir walks a little awkwardly and is a little uncomfortable with gravity.
"Are you going to send me to Antarctica to look at the warehouse?"
"How is it possible, it's just some rotten things that are dragged down by their own vision, and they can't make a big deal."
"It's not like the Federation I know, but the Federation I know is known for being corrupt, incompetent, and corrupt."
"So do you feel it?"
"No, so I've been curious for a long time."
"Because it's all cleaned up, both the military and the government are waiting for you to take out the technology of navigating among the stars, and then the Federation will embark on the road of exploring the outer universe, how can you let those people drag you back. Rotten before because the cake was so big that there was nothing to do, now? This cake is so big that you can't see the border, you can't finish it, how can you stop. "Rebile is very dismissive of federal politicians. I was not less because of those politicians who were stuck in the fund, and now, Ian has whatever he wants, regardless of the cost, as long as the jump engine is given to them, he will give them anything.
Originally, the Third Fleet was almost completely wiped out at a time of low morale, but under the constant speeches and encouragement of that group of politicians, all the people on the earth were united in bringing their own dry rations to join the Federation Army, overthrow Zeon, and avenge the Third Fleet.
“…… Is it so progressive, so do you want to build a star ring, with the rail elevator, it is a good functional building. ”
"This was demonstrated in the past, but it was abandoned due to the construction period, cost, and materials. Do you have a solution? ”
"Nanorobots, just throw them there and build them yourself, I have here the blueprint of my rail elevator, which can be used directly for you, you can design it yourself, and it is also good to increase technical reserves and research and development experience."
"Yes, let's talk about it then, and we won't be able to discuss this until after the Zeon War of Independence is over."
"Yes, so what's the matter with you coming down?"
"It's nothing, it's just a little uneasy, after all, it's the first time to command a battle of this scale. I always felt that there was something terrible in the Zeon fleet on the other side...... There was an ominous premonition, and it was getting stronger. ”
“…… Oh, General Rebier, listen to what you said. "Ian heard Rybir say this thief new human, and he knew that he was done with the calf." Brad, combat configuration, start gn-drive, activate gn-field, full power, start code 2887. ”
"yes, what's going on?" Brad was puzzled, there was still more than an hour before the combat time, why did he suddenly do this.
"Intuition." Ian hung up the communication, grabbed Rebier, and quickly left Gnaku. "We're back in the core, it's not safe here."
"Yi Anjun, are you too sensitive......
"New humans, their hunch is more accurate than radar, do you understand?"
"This superstition ......"
"When a hunch is 100 percent true, then the hunch is part of science, part of science that we don't know." Ian walked as he could, trying to amplify his perception. "of the Dragon...... This malice is about to overflow, and this kind of ...... Amuro, feel the malice on Zeon's side. ”
Ian pulled out the communicator.
"Malicious? They're thinking about something, and they're very proud! I'm afraid it's going to work. Amuro emptied himself and easily sensed the emotions over there with the help of the Manatee Gundam's mental power skeleton amplification.
"That's pretty much the hard work...... General Rebil, please order battle preparations, though I don't know what Zeon is going to do. ”
"Well, I'll believe you once." Rybil pulled out his communicator.
"Trust your new human instincts, not us."
"The whole fleet, the first combat configuration, the sortie of carrier-based aircraft units, the air alert configuration, the Archimedes system in the rear, began to be deployed."
After receiving the order of the Admiral, the ordinary beasts of the Federation Fleet, which had just woken up, gradually increased the output of the engines, let out a low roar, and the engines of each battleship warmed up, ready to burst out at any time to burst out with maximum output. MS, fighter units, took off from various battleships and headed for their respective assembly sites. Several transport ships in the rear opened the side armor and released the carrying Shixilan components, which were assembled into huge MAs under the operation of the engineering MS. The unmanned sentry turret towers on the front line have also woken up from their dormancy, and optical sensors are constantly searching for enemy aircraft in the void. The four Columbus-class transports above the rear of the fleet also opened their hatches and began to release the mirror surface of the Archimedes system.
"Combat preparations are complete, and the enemy fleet is still attacking with live ammunition."
"Got it, Yi Anjun, are we going to wait that long? There are still 30 minutes left before the Super Mega Particle Cannon's range. ”
"Wait a little longer...... The emotions of the enemy are stirred......"
Ian closed his eyes, feeling the feelings of the Zeon Army thousands of kilometers away. "Here we go."
"What's ......?"
"The enemy fleet found a high-energy reaction! It's Jörmungad! ”
"This GRD has such a long range?!" Ian slapped the command instrument in the face.
"Whole ship! C2 scheme evasion! Rybil then ordered.
Then, the entire Federation fleet slammed upward, and all the vents at the bottom of the ship burst out with full power, desperately lifting the hull up.
A full 40 plasma clusters streaked through the void at nearly a tenth of the speed of light, shooting into the Federation fleet.
"it!" The Dawn Sword was instantly magnetized by the plasma mass that swept underneath, and in less than half a second, it was dragged backwards for nearly 50 meters. Fortunately, the inertial stabilizer inside the ship worked well, and it only made people feel weightless for a while, and it was fine.
But other ships were not so lucky.
"Report the damage!" Rabiel stood up against the table.
"It's being counted! It has been confirmed that 6 Enterprise-class ships were hit head-on and sank by explosion! 11 ships of the Magellan class were hit and sunk, and 9 ships of the Salamis class were hit and sunk. The combat staff looked at the explosive hands of the friendly ships and trembled. In the enterprise class, two ships were affected, the hull was not damaged, and all the crew members died...... 1 Magellan-class ship was affected, with heavy casualties among the crew, and 7 ships of the Salamis class were affected, one of which could not fight, and 6 ships suffered heavy casualties among the crew...... MS team, 33 machines were evaporated on the spot. ”
"Lying ...... ...... "Ian was shocked by the results of this blow.
“…… Multiply...... Multiply...... Loyal and brave soldiers of my Zeon Army, just now, one-third of the main fleet of the Earth Federation Army disappeared into the universe under the attack of Jörmungand, this brilliance is the symbol of my Zeon justice, the Earth Federation Army that has been decisively hit, no matter what combat power is left, this is just like an empty wreck, I can say with great confidence that our army will win this battle! zick zion! ”
"Cut it off!" Rybil waved his hand. The correspondent decisively cut off the open channel.
"Yi Anjun, is there a way to defeat those 40 big snakes? If this continues, our army will become a target. ”
“…… There is a way, but it is too risky."
"What's the solution?"
"Take the risk of activating the ship's yet-to-be-tested jump engines, jump straight to the rear of the enemy fleet, and destroy those giant cannons."