The reason why the battle started from a position of 50 kilometers is that it is a very delicate distance.

50 kilometers is too far for Zagu's armament, Zagu's basic firing weapons, whether Zagu machine guns or nuclear rocket launchers, pose little threat at this distance, but for the Union gunners, this position is the best distance to play, and it is at the moment when the accuracy of the hit is at its highest.

If you get closer, after entering the range of 10 km, the turret speed can no longer keep up with the speed of the MS, and this position is the distance that most MS weapons can use.

From 50 km to 10 km, it will take no more than 5 minutes for the MS to advance at full speed, and in five minutes, the Federation Army can carry out about three attacks.

Lear was really reluctant to brave the artillery fire, but there was really no way to overcome the hard wounds, and Lear couldn't think of a solution, so he could only try to use a loose formation to reduce the damage as much as possible.

On the bridge of the Richelieu, the flagship of the Union Army, Douglas gave a loud order: "Prepare for the shelling!" ”

"Full door salvo ready!"

"The particle filling piping is working well and the core reactor is working properly!"

"Targeted!"

"The No. 1 turret has been reloaded!" (Note 1)

"Gun No. 2 Taminovsky Particles Filled!"

"All guns are ready for shooting!"

"The shooting line is clear, and the vision is good!"

"General, the Seleucus has sent a light signal, and they have completed their preparations for shooting!"

"The Dominican ship has sent a light signal, the shooting is ready, and target designation is requested!"

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After all the battleships were ready, Douglas waved his hand heavily: "The whole fleet, open fire!" ”

"Fire!" The gunnery master repeated Major General Douglas's order, and the Miga particle cannon, which had been activated to a critical state, suddenly erupted a devastating jet of particles!

The two forward turrets and six secondary guns of the Magellan class fired at the same time, and in the Western era, such simultaneous firing had to be done by the tacit cooperation of the entire crew of the battleship, but today, the gunner only needs to be given a target, and the high-performance fire control computer will automatically do all the rest.

Although the lack of communication between the warships prevented the Federation fleet from forming a complete chain of firepower, thanks to the quality of the Fourth Fleet's gunners, the salvo was very neat and synchronized.

The firepower configuration of the Federal Magellan-class battleships is 2 Miga particle main guns in two units and 6 secondary guns in single installation.

And the firepower configuration of the Salamis-class fast cruisers is 6 Mega particle cannons in a single unit.

Eight Federation warships, with a total of fifty-six gun barrels.

Theoretically, this attack would have been able to destroy half of the main Zeon fleet.

However, this time, they achieved zero results.

The MS troops on the Zeon side, despite some of the few people who were reluctant to dodge, were unscathed in the first volley.

However, Lear was not very happy, on the contrary, although he repeatedly overestimated the combat effectiveness of the Fourth Fleet, the quality of the other side was always above his vision.

This was true of the previous Fourth Fleet flying team, and now the gunners are also like this.

It is worthy of being the only elite fleet of the Federation Army with sufficient combat experience from top to bottom.

Just give such a little combat power, neither I nor you underestimate the Fourth Fleet, this is an opponent that requires the same combat power to defeat, Dozru, Lear couldn't help but smile bitterly.

This round of salvo fire, it seems that the Federation Army did not achieve any results, but if it is the same as Lear thinks, it is probably not that the Federation Army is not technically good, but that they did it on purpose.

Because under this round of volleys, the formation of the MS troops of the Zeon Army was completely confused.

Loose formations are also formations, but they are not random like scattering sesame seeds on the table, their positions between each other must be in a position where they can be put into battle at any time, and they can also provide fire support for friendly forces at any time, and they cannot lose their offensive ability because they are loose, and at the same time, even if they are driven away, they must also have the toughness to quickly reorganize the formation, and they really want to train a loose but not chaotic, but also very elastic and resilient formation, which is much more difficult than a simple dense formation, There are also high requirements for the quality of front-line officers and soldiers.

However, although Zeon's MS unit has already had a combat experience, it has not yet been able to turn it into combat habits, and is essentially a group of rookies.

Damn, no matter how much you emphasize the formation, will you still instinctively dodge when you encounter an attack, Lear secretly hates that his troops are all rookies (in fact, he himself is), this is probably something that the Federation Army has seen through, this round of shelling was not originally intended to kill, but to disrupt their formation.

The first salvo of the Federation Army did not adopt the usual tactic of concentrating firepower to clear key targets, but more closely fanned out like an area attack, cutting the Zeon Army's forward path into pieces.

The formation of the Zeon MS troops is now in a position where there is no threat of artillery fire, and it is not realistic to reorganize when it is attacked, and it may be possible if it is in a normal communication environment, but it is really difficult to communicate simply by using light signals.

At the same time, another circumstance occurred that made him even more reluctant to see.

Under the pressure of panic and Union artillery fire, some Zeon pilots began to attack.

They ignored it, this distance neither the Zagu machine gun nor the nuclear rocket artillery could pose enough threat to the other party, the Zagu machine gun could not fly that far at all, and the nuclear rocket artillery, before it could get close, would be shot down by the anti-aircraft artillery group that had nothing to do.

Idiot! Lear hurriedly began to signal the lights, asking the MS troops to maintain their flight speed, stop their attacks, and approach the Federation and the pair as soon as possible.

But how many people can pay attention to his signals in the midst of chaos? And even if it did, how much time would it take to translate it into English?

Lear gave three orders in one go, from the pilot reading the entire light signal, to translating it in his mind, and finally executing it, all while dodging the attack, which was too difficult for his subordinates.

There is a translation process that needs to be processed, and this is the biggest problem among the many inconveniences of light signals, which are too inconvenient in the ever-changing battlefield.

Somehow, very non-materialistically, Lear began to resent the Minovsky particle's excessively good communication shielding function.

The MS belonging to Lear's troops was okay and stabilized after a short period of confusion, but the situation on the other side of the road was very bad, and the attacks of individual pilots in panic gradually evolved into group fire, except for a few pilots such as Anabel Cardo and Jonny Lydon, the barrage of bullets fired towards the Federation fleet without threat.

Sure enough, the Zagu machine gun did not pose any threat at all, and the precious nuclear rocket launcher was shot down by volley before it could get close to the Federation fleet, and the air defense range of the Federation battleship was about 10,000 meters, which was at a distance of about 10,000 meters with the firepower density of the battleship's air defense battery, so few nuclear rocket launchers could not pose any threat at all.

The C-type equipment of the Zeon Army MS, that is, the so-called nuclear bomb equipped with satellite-to-ship assault equipment, is a tactical nuclear bomb with a power of about 10,000 tons of TNT equivalent and an explosion radius of about 1 km (this range refers to the shock wave range, because the strong light radiation damage with the largest damage radius of the nuclear bomb is basically ineffective for the people in the battleship), such a nuclear bomb explosion, of course, cannot harm the federal warship at this distance, but this situation made Douglas vigilant.

After being filtered by the tempered glass with filter effect on the porthole of the battleship, the radiation light from the nuclear bomb explosion was no longer enough to hurt people's eyes, but Douglas still felt a tingling in his eyes: "What is that?" Is it a nuclear bomb? ”

His question was quickly answered by a certain technician: "Yes, General, an extremely high radiation response has been detected, and it is certain that it is a nuclear bomb!" ”

Shame on Zeon's guy, fuck! Douglas scolded angrily in his heart, but he did not show this emotion on his face, but ordered seemingly calmly: "All anti-aircraft artillery positions are vigilant, and priority is given to shooting down the nuclear bombs launched by the Zeon Army!" ”

He began to regret using a dense box defense, and in this case it was no joke to eat a nuclear bomb.

In this case, maybe it would be better to put a line formation, he chewed on the remorse in his heart, but now, there is no chance for him to change the formation, and if he wants to disperse now, it will waste the next opportunity to shoot, and when the MS troops of the Zeon Army get closer, his fleet will only collapse faster.

How dare you use a nuclear bomb! If it weren't for the fact that the soldiers of the other side had exposed this in advance due to panic, if they were close enough to attack with a nuclear bomb, the scene would be unimaginable.

In fact, the Zeon Army's unrestricted use of tactical nuclear bombs as the general equipment of the MS is indeed beyond the expectations of the Federation Army, because compared to the Earth, the space colonies are more afraid of the attack of nuclear bombs, and if the two sides start to use nuclear bombs without restrictions, Zeon will only suffer greater losses than the Federation.

However, Killian is clearly not one to think about such a thing, and he will only devote all his resources to fighting for victory compared to the cowardly behavior of thinking about what to do after defeat.

"Keep shooting, don't stop, don't let the Zeon Army get close!" Douglas stubbornly demanded to continue shooting, and the gunners of the Fourth Fleet understood their situation from the nuclear explosion just now, and shot desperately as if they had been beaten with blood.

The second salvo came, again a magnificent salvo of fifty-six barrels, and this time, Zeon was not as lucky as the previous battle.

Shooting causes unstable posture, disconnection between dodging and teammates, and a decrease in maneuver speed.

The Zeon Army paid the price for various reasons, and this was the first loss incurred by the MS unit of the Zeon Army since the start of the war.

It was also the first result of the Federal Army.

Three stupid people who forgot to continue to move during the shooting were directly hit by the Mega particle cannon of the Federation Army, this is not a low-power Mega particle weapon used by MS later, but a ship gun that can sink a cruiser with one shot, and the pilot who died in the battle only felt a light in front of him, accompanied by the warning sound in the cabin that no one could hear, the brilliant Mega particle jet destroyed the MS, in the face of this attack, whether MS used a shield or a shoulder shield It was meaningless.

Of course, fortunately, the deceased did not feel the pain, and it is estimated that there was not even time to develop fear.

The destroyed propulsion system or the Minovsky particle reactor, as well as the ammunition carried on the airframe, produced a martyrdom, in which case there could be no survivors.

Fate is equivalent to death.

The confidence in the victory of the Federation Army, which had just been generated, suddenly fell into an ice cave, and these Zeon pilots, who had not yet developed the consciousness of a veteran who fought as always in good times and bad, probably had in their minds what would happen if the person who was hit was themselves.

This is too cruel for these young people who only have the honor and faith of war in their minds, but not death.

On the bridge of the Federal Army, seeing their own results, the officers and soldiers of the Federal Army let out uneven but very enthusiastic cheers, which was different from fighting pirates, the opponent was the Zeon MS unit that had cut the leader of their own flying team, and the thrill of revenge and the pleasure of destroying a strong enemy were intertwined, which made these young people of the same age as the Zeon Army pilots give out enthusiastic cheers.

Douglas hid his smile in his heart, knowing that it was far from time to cheer, he said with a strained face, "The battle is not over yet!" All concentrate and keep shooting!! ”

"To celebrate, it's not too late to celebrate when we've won, and when we've defeated Zeon, I'll help you arrange a fellowship with the female soldiers in the Chabro communications department, and now give me some attention!"

"Yes, General!!" The soldiers said excitedly.

While the Union soldiers cheered for the upcoming fraternity, Lear gritted his teeth and made a decision that he considered a gamble.

Obviously, he has made so many plans and imagined so many situations, and the response of the federal army has not exceeded his expectations, but he still has to make a desperate bet, and the battle is really infuriating to this extent.

Sure enough, the so-called war is not something that can be predicted at every step, Lear understood this again.

No, he didn't admit defeat and thought that his tactics were not wrong, but his subordinates couldn't play them.

But if you say that, you can't objectively recognize the capabilities of your subordinates, and forcibly arrange tactics that they can't achieve, isn't this also a gaffe on the part of the commander?

They haven't really fought yet, who knows what these soldiers are capable of, if anything, they are all elites from the teaching brigade, not miscellaneous soldiers who have been trained for months casually!

It's a paradox, Lear simply doesn't think about it, and the reflection is just a tactical meeting, and he has to figure out how to deal with this situation.

He frowned, just thinking for a moment.

Anyway, as a rookie under his command, there was no possibility of reorganizing the formation, so he simply gave the order: "Give up the formation." ”

"All-Army Assault !!"

The expected large-angle roundabouts and wave attacks don't seem to be useful, and you have to use simple and primitive pig tactics like a guy who doesn't have any military literacy at all.

Damn, he couldn't help but say vulgarly, not elegant at all.

Presumably from now until the end of this war, he will no longer be elegant.

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Note 1: Magellan's setting seems to be different according to the work, and the GTO is taken here.

The Magellan-class guns were configured with the broadbow, two main guns parallel above and below, and six secondary guns arranged around the battleship.