Chapter Forty-Eight: Sacrifice
"So, the real reason why you can see so many mechs preserved in good condition is not that we have always been able to defeat our opponents, but because they have not participated in the battle at all."
After spitting out the smoke released by the burning cigar in his mouth, Asics reached out and touched Aya's head, and fell into silence.
"Perhaps, this mech is not as useless as you think...
Nataya, who said this, knew that Dr. Alan was a person who was not sure and would never make a move easily.
In the book "On the Applicability of Arms", which Ibu taught himself, he clearly described Mr. Alain's views on weapons, especially the first sentence at the beginning of the book---- "There are only the most suitable weapons in this world, and there is no most powerful weapon." ”
In Dr. Alain's worldview, the power of weapons and the results achieved are largely determined by the environment in which they are used and the conditions on the battlefield.
For example, in the polar star belt, which is a strong ionization and mental turbulence environment, a large-caliber gunpowder weapon is even better than the most advanced bullet self-navigating Gaussian weapon, because the excitation of the gunpowder weapon will not be affected by any environment at least.
After hearing Nataya's words, Asics glanced up at her slightly, and slowly squeezed out a noncommittal smile on his face.
"Well, you try it, in the past few years, except for Aya's father, no one wants to hold these guys upside down, if it weren't for him to put armor guards on the fierce lion, maybe these mechs would have been put on us all to die on this ruthless battlefield, and we wouldn't have a chance to play"
Looking at Nataya's determined eyes, Asics did not stop him, but just got up and walked to the rest area on the other side of the cave.
"Your identity comparison data will not be brought back until at least tomorrow, I will wronged you to rest here for a while today, and after the identity comparison is completed, I will take you to the base."
Based on the story of your havoc in the imperial camp, it is estimated that those little guys have long worshiped you to the ground...
By the way, the food at the base is much better than the canned food here... ”
The tall man didn't look back, just waved his right hand with his back to Garbo and Nataya, and walked to his makeshift room.
"Little ones?"
Nataya looked at Asics, who was walking away, gave Garbo a strange look, and then stared at Aya, who looked gloomy.
"He always thinks we're young! In fact, everyone has long been qualified fighters, but my brother is always cowering, and he never dares to take us to fight an upright battle! ”
Aya clenched her small fists tightly and muttered with a pout.
"Wait, you mean to say that the people who saved us were all kids about your age?"
When Garbo heard this, he immediately understood something, but he recalled the rigorous ambush of hundreds of lynxes, lightning-like offensive methods, orderly retreat and maneuver, just like the style of a regular army.
But listening to them, it seems that the drivers inside are only in their teens...
"What do you call a little kid... The training requirement for the Federalist's regular mechanics is 1,000 hours, and our people have basically been lying on the lion for more than 9,000 hours! In the past three years, basically except for eating and sleeping, everyone has been training hard! ”
Aya stared into Garbo's eyes, and her voice grew louder and louder.
"Didn't he just say that none of these mechs participated in the war? Why put the military driver and use a bunch of children? ”
Nataya also felt very strange and asked curiously.
"Because ... for they are all killed ... ”
Aya said as she walked over to the console and pulled up a list.
"Planet 53 in the polar belt, the 6th station of the Arden State Garrison, the special armored division of the Federal Army, 4,632 people on board, 4,211 killed...
Of the more than 4,000 people, only twenty-one died, and looking at the list that was transferred out by Aya, Garbo and Nataya were also speechless for a while.
"Three and a half years ago, in the Imperial Army's landing on Planet 53, because the special armor of the polar belt had not been finalized, and the standard mecha could not be used here, the special armored division collectively decided to hide the children of the aborigines in the station and the surrounding areas in the secret warehouse of special equipment.
Then they chose to fly the Federation's most common X-wing space fighter to fight the intruder to the death in near-star orbit...
The entire division headquarters, except for the instructors and mechanical maintenance personnel who were forcibly tied up in a secret warehouse by the people of the special armored division at that time, and were not allowed to participate in the battle, everyone died in the defensive battle... ”
As she said this, Aya turned again to face the huge box sprayed with the One, Two, and Three logos.
"Later, my brother always told my father that it was all because of Dr. Alain's broken mechas, otherwise these excellent pilots of the Special Armored Division would at least be able to drive standard mechs in other battlefields to fight those invaders!
But his father always told him that he didn't blame Dr. Alain at all.
Because the special armored division was very aware of the battle situation at that time, the Federation could not win in the frontal battlefield at all, and the goal of this special armored division was too big, almost all the military headquarters in the polar star belt had their dispatch to be transferred to Planet 53 for the archive, only their sacrifice could bring the possibility of survival for the children... ”
As she spoke, Aya slowly walked under the fierce lion mecha, gently touching the huge and sharp claws, and her eyes revealed a trace of tenderness and warmth.
"They were afraid that they would die, and they had taken these extremely valuable polar mechs, and they were convinced until the end that Dr. Alain's mechs would not be a pile of garbage...
They want to leave these hopes to their children and to the future of the Federation.
Later, Dad modified these mechas, in order to be able to use these polar special equipment as much as possible, he installed wheels for the No. 1 hacker and armor guards for the No. 2 fierce lion, and the hurricane continued to be mothballed because the enemy seeking system was really unusable.
This change, coupled with the personal experiments of my brother, the ace pilot, finally found a set of methods to use, and began to screen and train the children in the secret base on a large scale, so that today's Lynx Brigade was born."