[We really got the next lottery.] 】

The communicator heard the grumbling of the other Swordfish pilots.

[What kind of power reconnaissance mission was sent out at this critical moment, ah~ Really, there is no chance of meritorious service at all. 】

[What are the people above thinking, our Doolittle squadron is the ace squadron of the Second Fleet! ] 】

[It's enough to ask us to do errands. 】

What kind of ace squadron is it, Sergeant Liang Baozheng, who is driving the Swordfish reconnaissance type, pouted and thought that it was just a young master's unit in Chabro, and he had not been to the universe much, so what kind of ace was the drill (Note 1).

If the unit in the Federal Space Force can be regarded as the trump card in the conscience, it is probably only the Gabrisky squadron of the Fourth Fleet, after all, it is a first-line trump card that has been active in the Jupiter-Mars route all year round, and the combat experience alone is incomparable to the Doolittle squadron.

It's a pity that almost all of them were wiped out.

Liang couldn't help but remember the surprise of learning that the Fourth Fleet had been wiped out when he was on the Luna II, and that the elite who had experienced a hundred battles was wiped out by the smaller Zeon fleet.

Surprising.

[Everyone, mind you, we're about to enter the range of the Zeon Army's Minovsky particles.] 】

The communicator came with the communication of the captain's plane.

[Once in the range of the Minovsky particles, we can't talk anymore, and everyone checks their lights.] 】

[Duckbill, you too.] 】

Squadron Leader Captain Doolittle made a point of mentioning Liang and his car.

[You are the protagonist of this operation, there will be no convenient instrument for you to use after entering the Minovsky particle environment, keep your eyes open, don't let go of the clues. 】

"Yes, Captain." Liang replied with some weakness.

The so-called duckbill is another name for the swordfish reconnaissance type, and after removing the armament and installing a high-power radar, the appearance of the swordfish looks somewhat like a closed duckbill, hence the name.

Although the duckbill is a reconnaissance model equipped with a high-power radar, in fact, in the Minovsky particle environment, it still relies on optical equipment for reconnaissance, which is a hard job, and Liang was originally a fighter pilot who was arranged to do this kind of task, and he is still partnered with people from other fleets, so it is conceivable that he will not feel very happy.

It's rather helpless.

"Sergeant, I'll leave the reconnaissance mission to you!" The duckbill is a two-seater fighter that consists of a good pilot and a technical partner of the reconnaissance equipment behind him.

The technician, who had thick lenses on his eyes and knew at a glance that he was a pure technician, said with some embarrassment: "My myopia has deepened recently. ”

In fact, more than half of this is an excuse, even if it is a fighter, the Swordfish reconnaissance type is also equipped with optical equipment to capture high-speed moving objects, and the on-board computer will automatically record objects that exceed a certain speed, and the radar soldier only needs to confirm the captured images.

Also, even Liang himself has no motivation, think about it objectively, this is the largest cosmic battle in human history, Liang naturally wants to participate in it, wants to make contributions, but all this is in vain because of the reverse reconnaissance mission suddenly required above, it is conceivable that Liang himself must not be able to make any great contribution in this battle, at most it is just a consolation prize for hard work.

A medal, an additional allowance for three months or something, for a soldier who wants to make a contribution, this is not a satisfying return.

"Yes, but doesn't that mean I'll do all the work alone?" Liang grunted.

"Ahaha。。。。。。" The technical soldier looked at him left and right: "Speaking of which, the concentration of Minovsky particles in this area is also too high, right?" ”

He patted the monitor of the radar equipment and muttered: "We are still on the periphery, far from the moon, and we have already been affected." ”

"I heard that the moon has completely fallen into the fog zone (that is, the area covered by the Minovsky particles)," Liang Youqi said weakly, "and the external route has been completely blocked." ”

"I don't know how many people are going to die."

There is no agriculture on the moon, and the Earth Federation once considered establishing an agricultural base on the moon, but the poor lighting conditions on the moon, the cost of importing soil from the earth, and the cultivation of good seeds adapted to the moon's one-sixth gravity environment, all kinds of unfavorable factors led to excessive upfront input costs, coupled with the lobbying and obstruction of the earth's food production groups, this plan finally failed.

At present, the food needed on the moon is completely transferred from the earth by nearby SIDE5, and grain ships enter the port every day in various lunar cities, and to this day, the additional costs of transportation far exceed the estimated cost of establishing an agricultural base.

Such a lunar surface, because of the blockade of Zeon, there has been no food ship for more than a week, and it will naturally fall into a food shortage, hunger is still secondary, the food reserves of the moon will not even be able to supply the amount of a week, but more importantly, people's panic, there is no food to sell in the market, Zeon is coming, what should we do, will it die?

The pressures caused by such things will form a collective panic on a whole social scale, like the so-called roar in the Western era, and eventually turn into irrational fear.

This fear is something that will spread, just like what happened on the other world line because of the leakage of foreign nuclear power plants, and China, which is not short of salt, because of the salt shortage, although in the end this incident was properly handled by the government, but it is just an Internet rumor that cannot stand up to scrutiny and has doubtful credibility, and it has caused such serious consequences, and the danger of social panic can be seen.

In fact, the local government bureaucrats of the various moon cities are busy enough just thinking about whether they need to change their position and cooperate with Zeon, how to change their position, whether they can step on two boats, how to ensure their status and wealth, and so on, as long as the panic does not turn into a riot and threaten the safety of their lives and property, this kind of trivial matter is not the turn of the old man to worry about.

Anyway, the old man can't starve to death.

Although the Zeon side that occupied the moon could still afford the food of the moon, except for Granada, the Zeon side did not achieve de facto domination, and Zeon devoted himself wholeheartedly to the decisive battle against the Earth Federation, and did not care about the rations of the people of the moon at all.

"Zeon really spared no expense, how much did he spend for such a disguised target?" The four-eyed technologist said with a smile.

The Minovsky particles did not fall from the sky, production always requires a cost, and covering a whole planet, how many Minovsky particles are needed and how much it will cost, it is impossible to estimate.

"The area covered by the Minovsky particles is still expanding, so they probably don't know that their intentions have been discovered, right?"

"Who knows, but Zeon is rich, right? Definitely wouldn't care about that investment. Liang replied.

"Hmph, aren't all those Zeon guys given to them by the Federation, these thieves use the equipment given to them by the Federation to produce things, and then sell them to us at a high price, exchange our hard-earned money for warships and come to kill us."

"Damn it!"

Liang said that he was not a person who would delve into a matter of fact, but an ordinary person who would listen to first-hand propaganda, as he saw from the propaganda of the Federation, ignoring the truth and making simple and crude remarks.

"In that case, if we sink their warship again, is that a burn of our own money?" The four-eyed technologist suddenly thought of something and laughed happily.

"No, the money won't reach our pockets anyway。。。。。。。 Wait, what is this? Liang was suddenly stunned, and a large number of unknown signals suddenly appeared on the radar screen in front of him.

Those signals seemed to come out of that foggy area, and the number was constantly increasing, and in just a dozen seconds, the number was too many to count!

"What is this, a meteor shower?" The Four-Eyed Techno said something he didn't believe, and he panicked and tried to switch the reconnaissance mode to heat source recognition, but in the tension, his mind went blank, and he clicked the electric button he thought was the switch several times in a row, but there was actually nothing.

"No, this is 。。。。。。。" Liang only felt his lips dry, and he hoped that his guess was wrong, so he hurriedly enlarged the image captured by the optical device in front of his eyes.

It was a myriad of red points of light.

Zagu's main monitor.

"Zeon Army!!"

Almost in the blink of an eye, the overwhelming number of MS rushed out of the fog area formed by the Minovsky particles, and dense red dots appeared on the radar display of the Swordfish, plus the snowflakes produced by the interference of the Minovsky particles in the radar system, the number of points was so large that the scalp of people with dense phobia tingled.

"This 。。。。。。 What's going on? The voice of the Four-Eyed Techno began to tremble: "Didn't you say that Zeon's main force is in Rum?" ”

"Have we been deceived?"

"I don't know, now is not the time to talk about this!" Liang's throat began to have a fever: "If we continue like this, we will collide with them!" ”

No one thought they would be able to get out of the way after fighting such a large MS group, and the cacophony of pilots could be heard in the channel.

[Hey, that's not good, is it? 】

【Retreat!】 Retreat! 】

[Idiot, turning around at this time is looking for death! ] 】

Sure enough, it was the young master soldier, and he was still in the mood to quarrel at this time, although it was a critical juncture, but Liang thought of it inexplicably.

At this time, the MS unit of the Zeon Army had arrived at a position that could be vaguely detected with the naked eye, and a peculiar yellow color stung Liang's eyes, and he subconsciously intercepted the optical image of that part and then zoomed in to observe.

It was a yellow-and-black painted MS, with a yellow battle flag fixed behind it, and something was drawn on it, but it was impossible to tell the difference.

He vaguely felt that the yellow MS gave him the impression that it seemed to be something that Zeon had advertised, but he couldn't remember what it was.

At that moment, Captain Doolittle's voice came from the communicator, which had already begun to appear in the electronic sound.

[Attention to all personnel, a large force of the Zeon Army has been found in front of our department——]

[Our troops are no longer able to evacuate, but we can avoid the main direction of attack of the Zeon Army's MS troops-]

[The Zeon Army's target is Lord Reybier's fleet, and we will bypass it, and they will definitely not stop to intercept it-]

[Now the machine starts to navigate, and all the fighters follow the machine in a breakthrough formation——]

【【Yes!】 】】

With the instructions in hand, the Swordfish fighters of Doolittle Squadron quickly formed a breakthrough formation, which was similar to a wedge in a battle, and Doolittle Squadron maneuvered in a zigzag direction, hoping to avoid the direction of Zeon's advance and flank out of the combat area.

The Swordfish's straight-line acceleration performance is not inferior to Zagu's, and as long as they successfully complete the staggering and rush into the coverage of the Minovsky particles, Zeon can't do anything about them.

Seeing that the swordfish was about to rush into the area covered by the Minovsky particles, Liang hurriedly said: "Hurry up and send the information that we have found the traces of the Zeon Army back to Anak, hurry up, it's too late!" ”

"It's too late now! Whether this concentration can be emitted or not is not at all certain! ”

"Then give it a try!" Liang said loudly: "We must warn the fleet, otherwise it will be over!" ”

"I see, I'm trying!"

The two argued, and as Doolittle's squadron rushed into the unknown fog area ahead.

At the same time, Lear, who was on the thunder light, also broke out of the fog zone, and behind him was the entire MS of the Einsatzgruppen fleet, and the three Leipzig ships, along with the other transports, fell behind at a slight speed.

"Lieutenant, the Federation Army's Swordfish fighters have been spotted ahead, are we going to intercept them?" Jonny Laydon's voice came over the communicator.

"Leave it alone, let the other troops solve it," Lear, who was thinking about his plan and intended to let go of Reybil, naturally did not have the kung fu to intercept this miscellaneous fish at the moment, he needed time, one more second, he wanted time to think of it, and he couldn't wait to launch a time crowdfunding: "Our target is the battleship, which is Reybill's flagship!" ”

"Yes, Lieutenant!" His men faithfully obeyed Lear's orders, turning a blind eye to the close Confederate fighter forces and targeting Rebier's fleet.

He was not the only one who thought the same way, in fact, all the Zeon officers and men made the same choice, almost none of them participated in the interception of Doolittle's squadron, only the outermost few MS symbolically blocked it, and they did not chase after it, but quickly returned to the unit.

Not only because everyone is thinking about making a contribution, but more importantly, now is the critical moment to attack the Rebir fleet, and the Zeon army can't afford to waste time, they must complete the adjustment of the main fleet of the Federation and catch up with them before they reach full speed, because although the battleship reaches full speed, the absolute speed is above the MS.

They had to exert their strength to feed, and it was not all because of their own merits.

Moreover, even if you don't go, someone else will always go back to intercept it.

Even if they don't succeed in interception, it doesn't matter, but anyway, just a squadron of Swordfish, they can't do anything, what can they do, can they still attack Granada?

So, very coincidentally, no one intercepted the Doolittle squadron.

Doolittle Squadron was so fortunate that at a slight cost, they were able to pass by Zeon's MS troops.

It's almost a coincidence that doesn't make sense, but that's how it happened.

There are many such coincidences, for example, in the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the unsuspecting US landing force and transport fleet were placed in front of the Kurita fleet, and even the MacArthurs and their husbands, who were sometimes the commanders in chief of the Allied Southwest Pacific Theater, as long as the Kurita fleet rushed into Leyte Gulf, even if it could not change the outcome of Japan's final defeat, it would at least be able to deal a painful blow to the US military and make the war continue for a longer time, and this was exactly the goal that the Japanese Navy would achieve even if it did not hesitate to use kamikazes.

However, before the victory, the Kurita fleet retreated to the north unreasonably, and the whole operation became a complete joke, and the Japanese combined fleet lost 4 aircraft carriers, 3 battleships, and 10 cruisers of all classes in vain, so that it completely lost the ability to counterattack.

Another example is the Battle of Menglianggu, the East China Field Army has been fought to the point of running out of ammunition and food, and several times was almost surrounded by the Kuomintang elite, Zhang Lingfu's integrated 74th Division, at this time, as long as Li Tianxia's integrated 83rd Division on the periphery breaks through the defense line of the East China Field Army that has reached the limit, the Menglianggu Campaign, and even the situation in the entire Shandong will be rewritten.

However, Li Tianxia inexplicably sent the weakest troops to grind foreign workers, and finally left the joke that Meng Lianggu was on the tiger and rushed thousands of miles to help Li Tianxia.

Such unconscionable coincidences in wars are numerous and unexpected, and they always determine the outcome of some great battle.

Luckily, this coincidence didn't change the outcome of the Battle of Rum, and at best it was a minor mistake by the MS troops of the Zeon Army.

But for Lear, it was a mistake that he would not be able to regret soon after.

———— Dividing Line————

Note 1: Doolittle Squadron doesn't need popular science, right? NETA since World War II, the famous ace bomber squadron of the United States, Doolittle Squadron, and the US Navy's Taffe III destroyer fleet, the United States Army's Red 1st Division, are one of the representative units that symbolize the courage of the US military during World War II, once drove a B-25 bomber to Tokyo to carry out a bombing mission with no return, this bombing of Tokyo has also become the flagship of the Pacific War, the first attack on the Japanese mainland launched by the US military.

Liang Baozheng, the original character, one of the few veterans of the Trojan Horse, has driven steel tanks and core fighters, is an experienced fighter, and played the role of a confidant big brother in the early days of the Trojan Horse's journey, well, not so confidant, basically a serious military character, very dissatisfied with a group of civilians driving the Trojan Horse, and finally died in battle to protect the mule.