Back on January 3rd, the day the Principality of Zeon declared war on the Earth Federation, countless SIDE3 residents gathered at the airport to block the small spaceport, and they were full of enthusiasm, even if they endured the crowding, the smell of sweat, and the danger of being injured at any time, they had to look out through the narrow porthole of the airport.

Every time a warship appeared in their field of vision, they cheered as if they were greatly inspired.

On this day, the whole Zeon Wehrmacht fleet poured out, and the first to leave the harbor was not the others, but the ship of the Duke of Deggin, the flagship of the Wehrmacht Space Fleet, the Great Deggin, this large battleship painted red with the Gvarkin-class class floating quietly in the universe, the huge Zeon national emblem on the bow of the ship was shining, and every battleship that came out of the spaceport paid tribute to it and His Majesty the King on it with a light signal.

It was like a silent spectator of the ship, from the flagship of the Space Attack Force, the Wangure, and the warships passed in front of the Great Deggin in a line in order.

"It's the Princeley, the ship of Rear Admiral Dozru." The people in the crowd who recognized the ship's shadow could recognize the names of the warships at a glance.

"He said, Zeon is fighting here, long live the principality, long live His Majesty the king!" On the other side, someone who recognized the light signal quickly translated it.

"Oooh!! Long live the principality!! There was another cheer like a raging storm.

The public opinion of SIDE3 was in full swing, and on the battleship, the situation was not far behind, and when the officers and men passed in front of the Great Deggin, they did not need to organize, and the crowd cheered in unison, as if they were going to go on an outing, not to fight the fleet of the Federation Army to the death.

This process lasted for more than 4 hours, and the seemingly boundless Zeon fleet made the people full of confidence, and at this moment, among all the SIDE3 people who watched the Zeon warship leave the port, Zeon must win has become a universal truth similar to the earth revolving around the sun, if you want to tell them that Zeon may lose, because the Federation has a much larger fleet, most of them will not have hot-blooded young people come up and beat you, because in their opinion, there is no need to deal with the crazy people who say such crazy things.

Zeon's fleet was divided into three strands.

One is the main fleet of the Space Attack Force, and the direction they are facing is SIDE2 'Hardy'.

One is the Assault Mobile Force fleet, and their direction is the Granada Federated Army base on the lunar surface.

The last unit is nothing compared to the previous two, and it is the special unit of the Assault Mobile Force to which Lear belongs.

They flew in the exact opposite direction to the other allies.

"The target of our department, the Fourth Mobile Fleet of the Federal Aerospace Force," Lear said word by word, and in front of him were all the junior officers of the MS squad leader level, "It is a mobile fleet with two Magellan-class battleships, six Salamis-class fast cruisers, and a certain number of auxiliary warships." ”

"They are mainly active on the Mars-Jupiter route, taking on the work of fighting smuggling and space piracy," Lear warned, "so their combat experience is by no means comparable to that of the Colonial Garrison Fleet or even the ordinary Federation Fleet, and it can even be said that they have more combat experience than everyone in this room." ”

"The last information we received about the location of the Fourth Fleet was 2 days ago, when our camouflaged transport ship (actually a resource smuggling ship privately dispatched by Zeon) on the Mars-Jupiter route recorded a heat source characteristic of the suspected Fourth Fleet flagship 'Richelieu' while passing through the Axis Universe, and they are now likely to be on the route from Axis to Earth."

"The mission given to us by the Military Command Department is to annihilate the Fourth Fleet before it returns to the Earth's sphere."

"Compared with the Fourth Fleet, our Assault Mobile Force is at an absolute disadvantage in terms of the number of warships," Lear called up the silhouettes of the Magellan-class and the Salamis-class: "Our army only has 3 Mse-class fast cruisers, as well as some auxiliary warships, and the number of gun barrels is only half of that of the federal cruisers, not to mention the two Magellan-class." ”

"Of course, the main battle equipment of our army is not a battleship, but the MS," Lear said solemnly, "However, it must be admitted that although our army has conducted countless exercises and training on the tactics of MS against ships in the past few years, the MS itself is not a mature weapon that has been tested on the battlefield. ”

"Whether MS can play the expected role depends on your results."

"Compared with the main force, our department may even be the first unit in the whole army to carry out MS ship battles, I hope you must unite sincerely and fight the first battle of our army against the Federation."

"Our division's battle plan is very simple, use the equipment of various mining sites in the Axis Universe to search for the traces of the Federation fleet, and then put MS troops outside the range of the Federation warship guns, so as to avoid direct exchanges between our warships and the Federation warships."

"Sir!" Suddenly, someone raised their hands in the air and asked to speak.

Lear saw that it was Anabel Cardo, so he paused and asked, "Is there a problem?" ”

"Yes, sir, can't the Msai class participate in the battle? Even if it's just to provide naval artillery support。。。。。。 ”

Before Cado could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Lear: "This operation is not a direct engagement mission, and I have also obtained the approval of Captain Norles. ”

"Compared to the combat effectiveness of the Msey-class, I think his MS support ability is more important," Lear said: "What's more, our department, which is already at a disadvantage in the number of warships, has a much lower margin for error than the Federation Army, in case our Msey-class is all lost, then what can we do even if we completely annihilate the Federation Army?" ”

"We can't float back to SIDE3."

“。。。。。。 I understand. Cardo still accepts Lear's advice, and he doesn't know whether this character is good or bad for his boss's somewhat foolish and easily persuaded character.

Seeing that Cardo was convinced, Lear was also relieved, because for more fundamental reasons, he didn't say it and didn't want to say it, so naturally he didn't want Cardo to ask further.

The more fundamental reason for this is to start with the current popular space warfare tactics and the warship designs of Zeon and the Federation.

Before we get to the point, let's first clarify a problem.

That is, in essence, the warships of both Zeon and the Federation are the product of utopian arguments.

Because since mankind entered the universe, there has never been a large-scale war that requires the dispatch of the main fleet, and as we all know, any weapon is produced in the mutual support of actual combat and theory, and is the product of strategy and tactics in line with the current technological level.

Therefore, whether it is Zeon or the Federation, their warship designs are only the product of their tactical theories, but they have not been verified in actual combat.

No one really has experience in designing space warships.