Chapter 26: The Battle of Odessa (3)
Vice Admiral Diamm was not afraid of the incoming Zeon reinforcements, because he had already put his life and death on the line after he offered to be the commander of the task force. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
However, as the supreme commander of the fleet, he had to consider the progress of the entire battle. In order to destroy Zeon's well-fortified Odessa fortress group in the first place, your orbital attack will become an extremely important part.
If this high-altitude strike is disrupted, the ground assault force will directly engage the enemy garrison in a tough battle.
The casualties of the Federation forces would be very high, so Lieutenant General Diamm would never allow such a situation to occur.
With the order of Vice Admiral Diamm being given, all the warships of the Federal Task Force. They no longer paid attention to the Zeon MA attacking from the side, but launched an all-out attack on the Zeon Orbital Defense Fleet.
The scene of dozens of large warships firing a firepower salvo while advancing was very spectacular, and the Zeon fleet, which had been disrupted by Jiegang's troops, was unable to organize a corresponding counterattack at all. Under the overwhelming bombardment of beam artillery, six cruisers were sunk one after another.
The remaining Zeon ships saw that they could not do anything, so they withdrew as fast as they could, trying their best to get out of the range of the federal task force.
And the retreat of Zeon's fleet is what the Federation wants to see. As a result, the warships of the task force quickly seized the positions set by the previous mission, and then did not pursue the remnants of the Zeon ships.
At this time, in the task force, a large spaceship with a very different appearance began to fly to a special position. Then the bow of the ship, which looked like a transport ship, suddenly opened quickly, revealing a large entrance and exit that resembled the trajectory of the MS.
This battleship is a fortress weapon developed by Atlantis, a large electromagnetic railgunner. Such warships had no other superfluous weapons, except for a small number of course anti-aircraft weapons.
The entire hull of the electromagnetic railgun is a huge launch tube, which can launch special heavy metal mass projectiles at extremely high speeds under the action of electromagnetic acceleration. Use the powerful kinetic energy of the cannonball to launch a devastating bombardment on the target.
However, due to the special nature of this type of battleship, it can only be used in stormy battles. For example, striking fixed large-scale targets such as fortresses on the earth and large fortresses in the universe. It is basically unrealistic to use it against battleships or more petite MSs.
Just as the EM railgun ships began to be arranged, the battle between the Federal Defense Forces and Zeon's MS forces had entered a white-hot phase.
The two MAs that attacked were after breaking through a number of Union Army's Jiegang at this moment. Finally, they ran into their opponents, and the two Gundam mechs equipped with tactical backpack systems had already launched a confrontation with these big guys without hesitation.
Charho Lin piloting the Dream Demon Gundam and a red MA-06 Val? Vallo launched an attack, and the mechs of both sides attacked at about the same moment.
MA-06 Val? The ammunition of the Vallo large-caliber electromagnetic cannon flashed away, staggering with the oncoming beam from the opposite side. However, the reflexes of the pilots on both sides were excellent, and they had already started evasion operations before the incoming attack approached.
Both sides then quickly closed the distance between themselves and their opponents, while using electromagnetic cannons and beam cannons to fire continuously. However, such a long-range attack did not have the effect of taking down the enemy.
In fact, the pilots of both sides knew that the chances of shooting down the enemy at long distances were too small. Unless you use special long-range weapons, both sides invariably choose to close the distance to attack.
Subsequently, Sobrani Gundam and MA-06 Val? Valo rushed towards his opponent at a very high speed, and the beam sword in Gundam's hand and MA's mechanical claw swung towards the enemy almost simultaneously.
Because the Gundam and MA did not slow down during the attack, the two bodies that fought each other were staggered like ancient cavalry.
However, the close combat between the two sides this time did not achieve any results. Gundam then began to make a sharp turn with Zeon's MA, ready to start the next round of attack.
Under the high-speed steering, the body generated a strong G-force, and immediately began to test the pilots' bodies on both sides. Obviously, the driver's physical fitness on the Zeon side cannot be compared with Xiahoulin, who has been strengthened by the progenitor virus.
Suddenly, the driver's body reacted slowly, and if it was in normal times, it didn't matter if it was slow for a moment. However, in the fierce battle, it is often the life and death of the fighters on both sides.
Relying on the high physical fitness brought by the strengthening of the body and the assistance of the improved EXAM system, Xia Houlin piloted the Dream Demon Gundam with a reaction speed far beyond ordinary people, and fired three shots in a row with the beam gun at the moment of turning.
The particle beam quickly pierced the pitch-black space, heading towards the MA-06 Val, which had already turned to the opposite side. Vallo. Although the other pilot's driver had already reacted and began to control the body to dodge.
But because of the Dream Demon Gundam piloted by Xia Houlin, the three beams emitted have completely blocked the MA-06 Val? Vallo's dodge range. As a result, the MA was hit by the third beam after dodging the first two beams.
Although the powerful beam did not instantly explode the thickly armored MA, it caused its power system to explode instantly. Then the body lost its balance and momentum, and rolled over after a sudden pause.
At this time, Xiahou Lin of course would not let go of this excellent opportunity in front of him, so the Dream Demon Gundam immediately used the beam cannon on his shoulder to directly send out a fatal blow.
The next moment the MA-06 Val has lost the ability to dodge? Vallo, who was immediately pierced by the beam cannon, was reduced to a piece of wreckage in the explosion.
And the reason why Xia Houlin was able to control the Gundam in an instant to destroy this MA-06 Val? Vallow, relying entirely on his physical strength, forced the opposing driver to force a turn under the effect of high G force, and launched a time-grabbing shooting with himself.
As a result, because the other party is an ordinary person, his body still can't withstand the impact of the strong G-force brought by MA's high-speed steering, and in the end, because of the slow reaction, he finally lost his own life.
After eliminating the opponent in front of him, Xia Houlin immediately looked at MA of another enemy on the side. At this moment, the opponent is entangled with another Gundam of their own, and it is clear that the two sides have similar piloting skills, so it is impossible to tell the winner in an instantaneous duel.
There was no one-on-one chivalry in the war, so Xia Houlin immediately drove the Dream Demon Gundam to kill it, and began to join forces with his comrades to hunt down the MA-06 Val of Zeon? Vallo.
Of course, there were no surprises in the outcome of the battle, that MA-06 Val? In the middle of the two Gundams, Valo tragically became an exploding ball of light.
With the destruction of the two Zeon MAs, the MS troops and warships of Zeon began to retreat rapidly in this cosmic domain.
The MS troops of the Federal Army, who watched this scene, did not relax at all. Because they knew that the retreating Zeon troops were only a convergence with reinforcements. The next round of offensive will be unprecedentedly brutal.
At this time, these MS units, which were located on the flank of the federal task force, received the latest orders from their own fleet. It was to immediately make an emergency resupply, and then immediately put into the battle against the Zeon reinforcement fleet.
As a result, the Gundam mechs and heavily armored Jiegang, which consumed the most ammunition, flew to the supply ships to resupply, while the other MSs began to defend against possible enemy attacks.
At this time, on the New York, the flagship of the task force, Vice Admiral Diamm looked at the report of the reconnaissance plane. It shows that the Zeon reinforcements are about ten minutes away from their own fleet. The opponent has twice as many warships as its own, and the number of MS is unknown.
Vice Admiral Diamm knew that this would be a vicious battle, and he didn't know how many men would be left in the task force in the end. But for the sake of the Battle of Odessa, the fleet must also hold on.
"Report, the electromagnetic railgun is ready and ready to launch an orbital strike." The communications officer reported a message to Vice Admiral Diamm, and at this moment, the special warship in the center of the fleet had gathered a huge amount of energy on its hull.
"Target the Odessa fortress, start shelling." Vice Admiral Diamm gave the order to attack, and then calmly stared at the screen on the special warship that had been put into actual combat for the first time.
As the muzzle of the electromagnetic railgun ship lit up with an electric arc, three seconds later, a special metal warhead weighing 500 tons was shot out of the muzzle at a very fast speed under the electromagnetic acceleration and galloped towards the earth.
The mass projectile fired by the electromagnetic railgun instantly rushed into the atmosphere under high-speed flight and turned into a dazzling meteor. It immediately attracted the attention of the entire task force, and many people looked at the orbital bombardment, expecting it to let out a victorious roar.
The mass bomb already had an extremely fast speed, and under the influence of the earth's gravity, the speed was further increased. And flying in the atmosphere at such a speed, there is immediately a high-speed friction.
Suddenly, the whole bullet shot out with dazzling light, as if it was like a meteorite, and galloped towards the ground.
At this moment, the long-awaited federal army around the Odessa Plain, those radar systems invariably discovered the mass bullets speeding in the sky. That super high speed has surpassed the reaction speed of interceptor weapons.
And the Odessa fortress on Zeon's side, of course, also found this incoming mass bomb. However, they could not react, so the speed of the other side was too fast, and their own anti-aircraft missiles could not intercept it at all, so the air defense alarm immediately sounded throughout the base.
Some of the Zeon Army soldiers who were outside the Odessa fortress looked up at the moment and saw the galloping mass bullets, and they were all dumbfounded. They didn't know what it was all about.
However, these soldiers had only just heard the air raid sirens sounding at the base, and they had not yet had time to find cover to take refuge. The mass projectile that fell from the sky has already hit the Odessa fortress.
The strong impact force instantly caused the mass projectile to penetrate the thick rock layer, and the huge impact force immediately caused a strong shock wave and earthquake to occur in the impact area. The ground began to collapse in an instant.
Those Zeon soldiers who were located outside the fortress were instantly blown away by the powerful shock wave. Those tall MS and a large number of armored vehicles and tanks were swallowed up into the ground and disappeared without a trace in the constantly collapsing and cracking ground.
And the Zeon Fortress, which was directly bombarded by mass shells, has been destroyed in an instant. The powerful impact force completely destroyed the structure of the underground fortress, and the massive rock that collapsed buried the personnel and various equipment inside. No one has escaped such devastation.
Then a mushroom cloud of dust rose into the sky, and quickly began to rise from the location of the Zeon Odessa fortress.
At the same time, there was a noticeable tremor on the ground within a radius of several hundred kilometers near Odessa. Quite a few seismographs show a strong earthquake in the Odessa region.
Just one minute after the mass bomb hit Zeon Fortress, the reconnaissance plane of the Federal Army, which was hovering at a high altitude nearby, rushed to the scene of the impact as soon as possible.
From the driver's point of view, the well-defended fortress of Odessa in Zeona below was completely gone. Where the mass projectile hit, a huge impact crater appeared directly. The ground around the crater collapsed and cracked.
The various buildings that originally belonged to Zeon have now disappeared without a trace. Leaving only a fragmented wasteland, the entire Odessa mining region was completely destroyed.
The reconnaissance plane immediately announced the situation to the federal army, and General Rebil, the commander-in-chief of the battle who was waiting for news in the command headquarters, heard the news and calmly gave an order to the troops: "The whole army will attack and immediately sweep away the remnants of the Zeon troops around Odessa." ”
The Federal Army units that received the order immediately roared and pounced on the Zeon troops who had fallen into confusion because their headquarters had been wiped out by mass bullets. The ground battle of the federal army's counteroffensive officially began.
"Order the task force in orbit to carry out the same strikes against Zeon's other large bases in Africa and Asia as originally planned. At the same time, we asked our troops in those areas to choose the time to launch a counterattack at the right time. This time, we will have all the invading forces sent by Zeon to Earth buried on the earth. After giving another order, General Rybil looked at the large electronic screen, which showed the offensive posture of his troops.