What was Douglas thinking when he ordered the rest of his fleet to charge in the direction of the Zeon Army?

The remaining five battleships ended with a reckless assault that could be called unplanned, a battle that had little significance in the history of the one-year war, and could even be said to be insignificant to the overall situation, not many later historians were willing to study it, whether for the sake of funding or fame, and they preferred to study the Battle of Rum, which had been studied over and over again.

And the thousands of Union officers and soldiers who fell in this battle, and Rear Admiral Louis Douglas, who was later found incompetent by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who lost a large number of officers and soldiers because of his own stupid mistakes, and was even tried in absentia and dismissed, did not care about his thoughts when he made the final decision, and the end of the Fourth Mobile Fleet.

Even the Federal Army's own military history research department, after a minimum of archiving, the battle history of the Fourth Mobile Fleet, along with the names of all officers and soldiers, was wiped out in the vast federal military history archives, and even after these materials fell into the hands of another regime that replaced the Federation, they were not taken seriously.

And in the few comments that describe Major General Douglas's final assault order as follows:

The reason for the defeat of Rear Admiral Louis Douglas was undoubtedly due to arrogance, because he ignored the information provided by the intelligence of the Union Army before the war about the use of MS, and blindly believed in the power of the big ships and cannons, and under his leadership, the Fourth Mobile Fleet became arrogant and arrogant.

We hypothesize here that if the 4th Mobile Fleet succeeds in keeping those valuable ships and committing them to the Battle of Britain a few days later, will it be possible for General Thiam, who has received the assistance of this fleet, to stop the Zeon Army?

It's possible that Ishfe won't fall to Earth, and Sydney won't disappear as a result, and it's a possibility, given that General Tiam, who commanded the Battle of Solomon, was a much better general than the incompetent Louis Douglas.

However, this assumption has disappeared with the escape of the soldiers of the Fourth Mobile Fleet and the final assault, and after understanding that his defeat is inevitable, Rear Admiral Louis Douglas still does not repent, trying to redeem his mistakes with the lives of his soldiers, he orders his remaining fleet to blindly assault the Zeon Army cruiser, this order became the final straw that crushed the Fourth Fleet, and the Fourth Fleet, which could not even maintain a defensive formation, was quickly lost under the blow of the MS forces of the Zeon Army, LouisRear Admiral Douglas's assault order not only did not redeem his own defeat as he had hoped, but instead became a cosmic debris along with himself.

This may also be a good thing, because I know from Chabro's declassified archives that the then commander-in-chief of the Space Force, Admiral Rebil, had plans to promote Louis Douglas to take over the command of the First Fleet.

This may be God forbid the Federation, Louis Douglas died before he could return to Lunas II, and if he were to accept the command of the First Fleet, then it would be a greater disaster than letting him take over the Fourth Fleet.

These are the only remaining evaluations of Louis Douglas and the Fourth Mobile Fleet in the history of the Union military.

I don't know whether it was fortunate or unfortunate, but the author of this passage was a deceitful and unscrupulous academic scoundrel, and his writing was not taken seriously, and Louis Douglas was able to exist as a nameless fool, not a sinner of the ages.

It's all in the future, and if someone on the battlefield at the time, such as Lear, were to guess Douglas's intentions, he would probably think so:

This is not a blitz to redeem one's own failures, or to give up on oneself, but a choice made after calmly considering the status quo.

Half of the fleet had sunk, the remaining ships were all wounded of varying severity, and most of the crews had withdrawn from the combat area, leaving only the men who could operate all the anti-aircraft guns.

What else can you do for the Federation in this case? I'm afraid General Douglas thinks so.

Rather than continue to be trapped in place, and then be consumed little by little by Zeon's MS troops, it is better to make a painful determination to make a decisive assault, Magellan will definitely not be able to catch up with Zeon's cruiser, but the Zeon cruiser with auxiliary warships will definitely not be able to outrun the Salamis class, this is something that has been said before, Douglas ordered the other warships not to care about the flagship, the intention is nothing more than this, to liberate the speed of the cruiser, to fight for them a negligible chance to shoot an arrow at the Zeon army.

As long as one cruiser escaped the interception of the MS forces of the Zeon Army.

As long as it can fire a shot at the Zeon fleet.

Our sacrifice is by no means worthless.

At the end of his life, he was still thinking about how to weaken the enemy as much as possible for his country.

Indeed, if you are just looking for the end of sinking with your own warship, you can also choose to get drunk and die comfortably without any pain.

But instead of choosing to die comfortably without resistance, he finally chose to die on the road of the charge.

Life never stops, and the charge does not stop.

Therefore, when Lear saw that those cruisers began to accelerate at maximum power, he actually hesitated for a moment very unprofessionally, although this hesitation was not noticed by others at all, but Lear knew his thoughts in his own heart.

It's admirable.

Although he and Douglas have nothing in common in terms of allegiance, ideals, or origins, and his sensibility to stay in the green mountains rather than kill himself, he feels that Douglas is too extreme.

However, people will always feel admiration for those who are able to do what they can't.

He couldn't help but ask himself if one day, when he was faced with the same choice.

Can he die without hesitation?

Fire. After the agreed time had elapsed, Lear fired a flare, and the MS forces of the Zeon Army launched an attack on the Federation fleet, which was making its last struggle.

Unexpectedly, or unexpectedly, the four remaining Confederate cruisers 'abandoned' the Richelieu and left the array, and although Douglas said that there was no need to cover each other, the ships in poor condition volunteered to act as meat shields for ships in good condition!

They gathered together, led by the ineffective Port-au-Prince, and three ships in poor condition acting as shields at close range, charging at full speed, unconcerned about how they would be hurt by Zeon's fire.

This is a decisive tactic that can only be used by those who are determined to die.

No, this cannot be called tactical, it should be said, will.

Stop them! Now, even the most unclear Zeon pilots understood what the remnants of the Federation wanted to do, and they fired desperately, trying to sink them before they could get out of range, but the Zeon Army, which had been exhausted by the nuclear rocket artillery, was able to make a series of explosions on the surface of the Federation warship, whether it was the external sighting equipment, bridges, and turrets, they were all shattered by the intensive fire of the Zeon Army Zagu machine guns, and there were probably not many Federation officers and soldiers left.

But they lacked the means to destroy it on a large scale, and they lacked weapons to stop the Federation warships, and the Federation cruisers, which were set to sail autonomously, would only charge at their targets as long as they were not blown up in several sections.

In the eyes of the Zeon officers and soldiers, it was like a dead soldier who was blind, had a broken foot, and had a broken hand, and wanted to move on even if he gnawed at the ground with his teeth.

Lear did not participate in the attack, his body and the other pilots were advancing towards the faster and faster Federation cruiser, the time was getting shorter and shorter, the cruiser's top speed was not slower than Zagu, on the contrary, if Salamis ran at full speed, with the cruiser-class thrusters, he would slightly surpass Zagu, and when the Salamis-class ran out of Zagu's firepower circle, the Zeon Army's interception was declared a failure.

Lear just maintained a certain amount of acceleration, slowly increasing the speed of the body.

He was waiting for an opportunity.

The Port-au-Prince finally couldn't hold on, the battleship that had been badly damaged was full of craters and traces of explosions, it didn't explode on the spot, but the blue thrusters slowly began to stall, and gradually the Port-au-Prince finally couldn't maintain its speed and attitude, and stopped.

Seeing this, the pilots of the Zeon Army began to shoot at the thrusters, and the remaining Dominican and Hamilton finally stopped.

However, at this time, the Portland, which was in the center and almost intact thanks to the sacrifices of its comrades, had also reached its maximum speed, which had exceeded Zagu's top speed, and Zeon's MS troops could no longer catch up with it.

Seeing this, Douglas on the seemingly forgotten Richelieu couldn't help but clench his fists, he looked intently at the Portland, and prayed to God in his heart that it would succeed.

However, the heavens did not grant people's wishes.

It was true that Zagu couldn't stop the Portland at Zagu's speed, but it was just a regular Zagu.

It's not thunder.

Like a flash of yellow, the same accelerating lightning approached the Portland.

Then mercilessly cut off the last, only, tragic resistance of the Federation Army.

Lear piloted the Thunderlight to catch up with the Portland, he didn't use a shooting weapon, because his stock of shooting weapons was really low, he held a thermal axe, relied on unreasonable cheat props to shoot at zero range from the federal anti-aircraft guns, and then destroyed all the batteries one by one.

It's over, Douglas's heart is cold.

Thunder Light came to the front deck of the Portland after destroying all the batteries, and the light from the scarlet one-eyed illuminated the entire bridge in blood.

The thermal axe sliced half of the bridge without hindrance, killing everyone inside.

Finally, Lear did not let go of the cruiser, which had lost its combat effectiveness, and he went to the top of the propeller in the tail and vented all the remaining ammunition of the Zagu machine gun on it at a very close range.

After doing all this, Lei Guang quickly broke away from the Portland.

What a pity. Surprisingly, although Douglas felt disappointed, he was not so surprised, but only let out a faint sigh of regret.

"Prepare, this is the end." He stood up from his seat and said to the first mate.

"I'll go, General, goodbye, I'm honored to be your soldier." The first mate stood up from his helmsman's position and saluted his general solemnly.

"Me too, it's also my honor to have a soldier like you." Douglas replied.

With that, the first mate began to move towards the chamber of the core reactor.

Gradually, the Zeon MS forces pursuing the Federal Cruisers returned, and they surrounded the Richelieu, but perhaps out of some king-to-king symbolism, they did not attack the Richelieu, but waited for the arrival of the thunderlight.

The yellow thunderbolt returned to the vicinity of the Richelieu with a special livery, as if to emphasize how different it was.

Lear looked at the Richelieu, the massive battleship was already a fish on the board, and even the dying struggle would not do much harm.

He hesitated, knowing that his actions were very hypocritical, and even trampling on the determination of the Federation Army, but he still couldn't bear to signal the lights.

Your army, already, do your best.

Now, yet, yes.

Yes, surrender.

Douglas looked at the yellow signal, and suddenly felt a little ridiculous, although the other party was a fierce god who sank his two warships and had outstanding combat effectiveness, but in his eyes, he saw a naïve young man who looked forward and hesitated.

Still persuading yourself to surrender? This innocence will hurt him sooner or later.

Perhaps out of some kind of care for the juniors, or perhaps out of respect for the chivalry of the other side in allowing the evacuation of the Union officers and soldiers who had lost the will to fight, Douglas replied with a sense of admonition.

you.

Well, the mood of this admonition may not reach Lear.

In desperation, Lear ordered the attack to continue, and he ordered everyone not to approach the Richelieu, but to vent all remaining firing weapons on the battleship from afar.

However, there are still those who are unwilling to obey orders.

For example, Matsunaga's eagerness to prove himself and his anxiety about seeing others do something and not gain anything made him make a move against Lear's orders, he has no nuclear rocket launchers, and if he wants to monopolize the credit for sinking the flagship of the Fourth Fleet of the Federation Army, he must use other methods.

He drew his thermal axe and charged towards the Richelieu.

"Idiot!" Without instant communication, Lear couldn't stop it, and several other Zeon pilots who also had the same thoughts saw this, and they were unwilling to do the same, and Lear's hurried light signal didn't know whether it was not seen by these people or deliberately ignored by them.

Three of them broke away from the main force and rushed towards the Richelieu.

I didn't expect such a good thing to happen in the end. Unfazed to see a few Zeon Army MSs rushing over, Douglas stood up and straightened his clothes.

He solemnly saluted in the direction of the earth: "Federal Space Force, long live!" ”

"Your Excellency General Rebier, long live!"

In the next second, the core reactor of the Richelieu, which was forcibly overloaded, finally reached the critical point, and the explosion of the battleship-class core reactor formed a huge fireball, although it failed to roll the rushing Zeon Army MS into it, but the fragments produced by the explosion still destroyed the three Zagu in an instant.

It's really ridiculous that the Richelieu, which had not won any results before, became the MVP of the federal side in this battle after it sank.

This may also be a joke of history.

It's over. Lear is on the battlefield, though it is the end of the battlefield, and he loosens the control stick of the thunder light.

Looking at the battleships and the wreckage of the MS around him, he didn't have any sense of accomplishment and excitement of victory in his heart.

There is not even the idea that it is really pitiful, or that the war is really cruel.

Only finally over, such a feeling.