Chapter XVIII Losses
Captain Luan Pellet has locked his opponent's Jim back on the crosshairs several times, but he has been easily dumped by his opponents. On the anti-aircraft of the Atlantic Federation, only 150mm anti-ship electromagnetic guns and missiles can pose a threat to Jim. But now the rate of fire of the 150mm anti-ship electromagnetic gun is far inferior to that of the 90mm machine gun, and it is easy to dodge by the MS. However, missiles that can only rely on visual or heat source guidance are easy to be thrown off at close range, and heat source guidance is easy to lose the target, but it is not as useful as a 150mm gun.
However, he also found that his opponents seemed to be some newcomers. Jim's 90mm cannon was a threat, but it seemed impatient in front of the elite forces of the Atlantic Federation, who were no longer careless. It is often used to aim directly at the body without blocking the dodge space, so that as long as you pay attention to stray bullets, it is easy to be able to avoid them regularly. In the first two rounds of the battle, the fighters of the Atlantic Federation lost a third of their combat strength by fifteen planes. But in the following ten minutes, only three were lost.
In the midst of the constant stalemate, the elite forces of the Atlantic Federation seem to have mastered some tricks, destroying and wounding one Jim each with four platoons of guns.
Looking at the injured Jim who returned to the base, Chen Xiaomou regretted that he put Second Lieutenant Evans and Second Lieutenant Murrell and those veterans who had combat experience in the one-year war on the Gray Goose, resulting in the MS team to which the base belongs now are all recruits, but after colliding with the veterans of the Atlantic Federation, they actually fell into a stalemate when they had advantages in both body and weapons, and even fell into a disadvantage.
Private Victor Barth, a member of the miners' group before the war, was the first soldier to die in the battle.
Just as Captain Luan Pellet and his teammates were about to lock on to the third Jim, the flagship fired a flare to return to the main ship.
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"Team Bruce asked for reinforcements, and the enemy robot unit has broken through into the air defense circle of our warship." Not far away, three flares, two blue and one red, were fired, which was a signal mark used by the air force to call for reinforcements. The battlefield observer determines the message of the opponent by visual and directional observation.
"The destroyer USS Black sank." This time, you can see it directly by looking at it.
"The cruiser Levingshire sank."
After the MS forces of the Grey Goose stormed the Atlantic Federation's headquarters fleet, reports aboard the flagship Louis France were intimidating, but all with bad news.
"Where is this industrial robot, it is definitely a professional war machine." This was the thought that kept flashing in Colonel Aveley's mind, so he hurriedly ordered: "Order the fighter fleet on the front line to return to defend the main ship." ”
In just five minutes, only 4 of the 24 fighters on the 6 cruisers were fully staffed, and all 12 enemy Jim's broke into the battleship's air defense circle without a single casualty. And caused the loss of 3 destroyer frigates and 1 light cruiser.
Not to mention that there is also a heavy cruiser over there with a terrifying red beam cannon that is slowly approaching, although there have been no casualties under the evasion of this side, the anti-aircraft formation seems to be scattered under the evasion.
However, after the main fighter fleet of this side returns to defense, it will also bring a group of enemy robot troops, which may be even more difficult to support at that time. By this time, Colonel Avery had already had the idea of retreating.
"The cruiser Krell sank, and there was a vacancy in the right flank of the formation." Another piece of bad news came from the observers.
"Order the Lebit to fill the void." Colonel Avery commanded. The Lebit was one of three heavy cruisers, with 4 of the 10 destroyers supporting the front, 1 missile destroyer being destroyed by enemy warships, and 3 destroyers being destroyed by Team Jim. Only two destroyers could not form a formation, so they had to use light cruisers as the main nodes of the air defense formation, and each loss of light cruisers would create a large gap in the defense and control network. None of the main guns had the energy to attack the Grey Goose, which was still some distance away, but aimlessly filled the air defense net.
A Jim of the 4th Squadron of Evans Squadron fired the last missile on the heavy missile rack into enemy formation, but was easily destroyed by anti-aircraft fire.
"Mason!" The pilot, Sergeant Wayne Brown, was annoyed that the last round of ammunition had missed, and now that he was out of ammunition, he had to return to the Grey Goose to replenish it. He was recruited to the base in the third phase, and was originally piloted at Luna 2 as a FF-S3 Swordfish high-speed space fighter, and later flew the RGM-79L Jim Light. This model is mainly intended for fighters-turned-MS pilots. However, because he had served as a veteran, and there was no previous pilot of a bomber or other anti-ship attack aircraft in the MS unit, he had to obey the assignment and be selected to the fourth squad with two new recruits.
At this time, he suddenly sensed something, and immediately drove the body to maneuver. Four shells hit where he had just been. If you are a little later by a second, you will be locked with four shells to take refuge.
It was an attacking force retreating from the front line, and Captain Luan Pellet was surprised that his platoon artillery attack had been avoided. And judging from the opponent's movements, he quickly detected his attack. This reaction speed is not like that of a recruit, but rather like that of a veteran of the battlefield.
"Which country's army must be in the end, and a veteran of this level will definitely not appear in pirates." Captain Pelle was guessing where the other party came from.
Sergeant Wayne Brown was besieged by four fighters, and he was embarrassed that after all the heavy missiles were gone, he had no weapons to fight back. If he was driving his RGM-79L, he would definitely not be so embarrassed.
At this time, Second Lieutenant Murrell discovered Sergeant Brown's predicament and used his 90mm machine gun to drive away Captain Pelle's plane that was about to fire in a dead corner.
"This is also a veteran." Captain Pelle lamented that his current opponent was no longer a new recruit, but a veteran who had survived the battlefield.
Sergeant Brown broke free from the encirclement and quickly headed for the Grey Goose without looking back. Second Lieutenant Murrell took his three-plane formation in his place against Captain Pelle's four-plane team.
Evans's squadron was now in an awkward position, and the local attacking force had returned to the defense, compressing them into the air defense net, and they were flanked from both sides. One of the Jims of the squadron, while dodging frontal 150mm shelling, was wounded by an anti-aircraft gun in the back and one leg was broken.
"Hey, it's okay," Second Lieutenant Evans said as he approached him and spoke to him after driving away the plane that was about to beat the water dogs.
"It's okay, the legs are just decorations." But after all, this is just a joke, because all the parameters of the MS are set according to the case of legs, and now the lack of a leg will inevitably affect the balance of the leg jet, and it is difficult to maintain the original high mobility by relying on the backpack alone.
"Go back first, I'll clear the way for you." Evans machine-gunned the looming planes that tried to sneak up nearby.
Fortunately, when the enemy's attack force withdrew, Chen Xiaomou directly ordered the MS troops directly under the headquarters to press the pursuit, so soon the MS troops directly under the headquarters rushed to the battlefield, and the fighters of the Atlantic Federation saw that the enemy was coming to reinforce and withdrew to their own air defense circle.
"Second Lieutenant Murel, you come to command the MS troops in the headquarters, they are all recruits," Evans ordered.
"Okay." Evans had just been wrestling with Captain Pelle of the Atlantic Federation, a veteran pilot who performed at a much higher level than the independent units on light cruisers. Evans was a little careless and could have been hit by his opponent.
After the arrival of enemy reinforcements, all the fighters of the Atlantic Federation withdrew from the fighting zone, and Captain Pelle returned to the air defense zone of the fleet headquarters with his squadron to deploy them. In the previous battles, his squadron lost 6 fighters, although the losses were the greatest, after all, their squadron suffered the largest number of MS. However, the results were also the richest, with one destroyed and two Jims damaged. He removed the reconnaissance planes that had run back to the mothership early, and organized the remaining 8 fighters into 2 squads.
Evans' squadron did not rush to launch a second wave of attacks after the enemy retreated, they ran out of ammunition. Evans ordered the squadron to hand over all the remaining ammunition to Second Lieutenant Müller and reinforcements, and let Murrell watch the line with reinforcements full of recruits, and they returned to the Grey Goose for resupply.
At this time, there was a ceasefire on the battlefield.