Chapter 30: A New Battle
On November 30, UC0079, the only fortress of the Federal Army in space, Luna 2, finally ushered in its most glorious moment after half a year of depression. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
At this moment, inside the Luna 2 fortress, hundreds of thousands of federal troops have been gathered. All kinds of warships are scattered throughout the space ports of the fortress, and there are hundreds of MS on the periphery of the fortress, with the cooperation of the warships, to open a long cordon.
Any ship that dares to approach Luna 2 Fortress does not have a federal identification number. Then they will be greeted by a deadly baptism of fire from the fortress.
With the end of the main battle on the ground, Zeon's forces have completely withdrawn from Earth. The Earth Federation Army, which had no worries, immediately accelerated the production of various MS and warships at full speed.
Over the next month, the Federation began to send a steady stream of supplies, equipment, and personnel into the universe through the recovered spaceports.
The reorganization of the Federation Space Fleet began rapidly, and a group of Federation Space Fleets that had been wiped out by the Zeon MS forces half a year ago were re-established.
At this moment, the Federation Army showed a strong industrial and technological advantage that Zeon did not have, and the fleet lost in half a year not only recovered in size as before. At the same time, a large number of MS units were also included in the fleet, so that Zeon no longer had an advantage.
A staggering number of temporary transport carriers were produced specifically for loading MS. It was used by MS forces as a special transport ship.
It turned out that on the side of Atlantis, there were plans to use cargo ships for retrofitting, transforming them into MS carriers. Let it accompany the operations of the Grand Fleet, providing the MS forces with the task of repairing and replenishing ammunition.
Anyway, the Earth Federation has a lot of transport ships, as long as they are slightly modified. A large number of MS special transport ships can quickly appear in the ranks of the federal army.
Gabro immediately accepted this suggestion, and a large number of transports were converted into MS motherships. As a result, the number of the Federation fleet is even higher than before.
And these improvised transport ships, perhaps, lack combat. However, they solved the problem of MS transportation for the fleet, after all, at the moment, the Federation did not have any other special warships that could carry MS except for the Pegasus-class raiders.
Unlike the Earth Federation, which quickly replenished and assembled troops, Zeon was at a disadvantage in terms of manpower and material resources. After the loss of the earth's mineral resources, the opportunity to continue the war has been completely lost.
Although Zeon can obtain some supplies through the lunar Granada and the asteroid belt, these routes are simply not enough to save the near fire from far water. Moreover, the resources brought back by the transport ship are completely a drop in the bucket for a large-scale war.
And with the propaganda offensive launched by the Federation Army, the news of Zeon's massacre of the inhabitants of the colony satellite half a year ago has once again spread among the other colony satellites.
As a result, many of the neutral colonies gradually began to distance themselves from Zeon. And no longer cooperate with the other party, after all, the momentum of the Federation at the moment is too good.
Because of the loss of too many troops on Earth, Zeon is in a state of lack of troops at this moment. Student soldiers were even recruited in the country, and many recruits were urgently trained and began to be added to the forts.
However, such an operation was also difficult, as the guerrilla fleets of the Federation Army attacked Zeon's supply lines more frequently.
The Zeon side, which lacked troops, could not even send enough troops to protect the transport line. As a result, several Federal Army reconnaissance fleets have appeared around Zeon's own country.
While the Federation Army continued to attack the Zeon transport lines, a large number of troops began to use Luna 2 fortress as a stronghold, and assembled a large force.
The situation is now back to a year before the start of the war, and the Federation Army has once again gained an advantage over Zeon's forces in the war.
At this moment, in the spacious conference room, Xia Houlin and others are listening to the order of Lieutenant General Diam, this is the first time that the Federation Army has launched a major counterattack on the Duchy of Zeon in the universe.
This is because Zeon's defense line consists of three main locations, the lunar base of Granada, the fortress of Solomon in the cosmic domain of the wreckage of Side 1, and the final fortress of Abawaku.
These three bases form a large triangle with each other, and if the Federation Army wants to attack any area, the other two bases can quickly provide reinforcements.
The Federation decided to strike the superior forces and quickly attack Zeon's lunar base of Granada or one of the places in Solomon Fortress.
After some discussion, the decision was finally made to conquer Solomon Fortress first. Only a small contingent of special assistance forces was sent to set up an ambush on the road between Granada and Solomon. Block any reinforcements that may be sent by the opposing side.
Fortress Solomon, located in the SIDE-1 Domain, has been fortified for several months some time ago. It will not be easy to capture this place in one fell swoop.
So the Federation prepared to use its overwhelming strength to destroy the fortress on the Zeon side, and annihilate the defenders there as much as possible. This was followed by a direct threat to the fortress of Abawaku.
As long as the Solomon Fortress is conquered, then the Federation Commander will go straight to attack the next target, the Abawaku Fortress of Zeon's final defense line, and there will be absolutely nothing to defend in Zeon itself.
For this battle, Zeon can only be on the defensive. Because with the MS troops, Zeon's previous advantage is completely gone.
Perhaps the driver of the Federal Army, in experience, may not be able to compare with the Zeon ace driver. However, they have an absolute advantage in numbers, and the performance of the airframe is not lower than that of Zeon.
The Seventh Fleet, as the main force of the battle, will escort the orbital strike ships and strike on the right side of Fort Solomon.
In the previous Battle of Odessa, the outstanding performance of the orbital strike fleet made the federal military top brass very satisfied. With this new weapon, you can win the ground battle with minimal losses.
Therefore, the Federation concentrated its technical forces, and in the shortest possible time, produced and modified two other orbital strike ships, and formed an independent strike group with the original one.
Once the battle begins, the Independent Strike Group will carry out long-range strikes against Fort Solomon from a long distance. This draws the attention of the defenders and disrupts the defenses of the fortress's surface.
Later, the Federation Army's other fortress weapon, the "Solar System", will immediately launch a frontal attack on Solomon Fortress as soon as the enemy's attention is drawn, and must destroy a large number of enemies in an instant.
The Solar System is a special weapon developed by the Federation Army during the One Year War to deal with fortresses. It is to focus the sunlight into one position with hundreds of thousands of mirrors and eliminate the opponent with high temperatures. The idea is probably based on Archimedes' famous experiment.
The congregation of the Seventh Fleet did not express any opinion on the orders given from above. After all, this battle is very important, and there must be no surprises.
However, using railguns as bait to attract the Zeon defenders of Solomon Fortress is a very good way to do so.
As long as Fortress Solomon is bombarded with mass bombs, the opposing side will definitely send a large number of troops to destroy the orbital attack ship. And this means that the Seventh Fleet will be on the front, directly withstanding the frantic attacks of the local forces.
And in the process of resisting the counterattack of the Zeon army, stick to the launch position of the solar system. Draws enemies firmly in front of Solomon Fortress so that they are always within range of the fortress.