Chapter Twenty-Three: Losing Both
"The enemy is attacking." The battlefield observer spotted that the Atlantic Federation's air force was beginning to depart and assemble, and quickly raised the alarm.
"All personnel level 1 combat configuration, M particle combat concentration spread, MS team after the attack at the designated position, the gray goose forward, advance to point A." A series of orders were issued, and Chen Xiaomou sat in the command seat to watch the battle.
"According to intelligence, the number of enemy warplanes is 104 units. Now the first wave of the offensive was divided into three directions, a total of 89 aircraft. ”
"Order the Grey Goose and Evans to attack enemy team A, the Murrell team to attack enemy team B, and team C in the zenith direction to be defended by the artillery at the base." Chen Xiaomou is now a little proficient in tactics, and before the war, he also analyzed with the chief of staff, Second Lieutenant William Arthur, and formulated plans for various situations. The main purpose of this tactic is to quickly defeat Team A, then solve Team B with the main force, and finally cover Team C with all players.
Now the Earth Federation Army under Chen Xiaomou's jurisdiction has 35 Jim and 16 Iron Balls, and it can fight in terms of combat power. However, Chen Xiaomou made a mistake left over from playing the game before, and he didn't want his side to have casualties, so he never let the iron team go out. And now it's a matter of life and death, and the plan is to let the iron team attack and contain the enemy army.
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Under the command of Captain Rosen, the captain of the Grey Goose, 10 356mm MEGA particle cannons and 12 100mm MEGA particle cannons owned by the Alexander-class opened fire together and fired at Team A of the Atlantic Federation Army.
Team A was instantly scattered by the dense particle cannon shells, no less than 6 fighters were hit by the shells, and the rest of the fighters scattered in all directions in formation.
Team A was commanded by two squadrons, the 4th and 5th Squadrons of the 1st Brigade of the 6th Wing of the Atlantic Federation Space Force, which came to reinforce the team, led by Eldie's deputy. Although Eldi himself is very mature and knows the priorities when it comes to combat. But this deputy seems to be the villain of ordinary novels, arrogant and arrogant, and does not pay attention to the information that Eldi brought back. As a result, as soon as they entered the battlefield, under the shield of M particles, communication and radar means were not easy to use, and they began to switch systems in a hurry. As a result, the wingman was lost in the shelling of the Earth Federation Army. Just as he was very angry and was about to find an enemy to vent, the display screen was occupied by a red and white mech. Instead of tearing it to pieces with the cannon in its hand, the mechframe pulled out something like a flashlight on its back.
With a "brush", a beam of light split the deputy's fighter. "Is this a laser sword?" These were the last words of the deputy.
The 4th and 5th squadrons of the 6th Wing of the Atlantic Federation were directly attacked by Evans's MS troops in a scattered formation, forgetting the tactical methods that the group leader hastily popularized before the battle, and scurrying around like headless flies, as a result of which they were almost completely wiped out in only 20 minutes after the battle began. Only a few broke through with their speed and retreated in the direction of the mothership.
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The B Team of the Atlantic Federation Army's Offensive Force consisted of the 1st and 2nd Squadrons of the 1st Group of the 6th Wing, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Eldy, the group leader. And in the direction of the zenith, it was a provisional brigade led by Major Pelle. Because it was the direction of the zenith, it was easy to see the movement of the two sides, and when he saw the two troops under his feet being attacked by the enemy's MS troops, he had already guessed the tactics of the Earth Federation Army. Use the main force to quickly break through, then use the superior forces to quickly take down the second one, and finally attack yourself. He had wanted to reinforce Lieutenant Colonel Eldy, but then he thought of the commanding officer, Colonel Aveley, and interrupted the idea of reinforcing Lieutenant Colonel Eldy. He then ordered the troops to remotely shell Chen Xiaomou's base, keep a certain distance, and if there was a defeat on Eldi's side, immediately withdraw from the battle.
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Now the whole battle situation depends on Lieutenant Colonel Eldy, as the ACE-level commander of the Atlantic Federation Space Force, Lieutenant Colonel Eldi has repeatedly studied the battle report before the war, and repeatedly emphasized the tactics of the 1st and 2nd squadrons he personally led.
Therefore, the two sides have not yet made a foundation, and under the order of Lieutenant Colonel Eldi, all 30 fighters launched medium-range combat missiles together, and switched to visual recognition tracking and guidance, plus the setting of self-explosion once the target is lost.
After firing the missile, Lieutenant Colonel Eldi quickly switched to a 150mm pair of naval guns, and the platoon gun tactics began.
Under the first missile attack and the dense platoon of artillery, although all the pilots of the Murrell squad of the Earth Federation Army struggled to avoid the attack, 3 Jims were hit by artillery fire, and one of them was directly hit in the cockpit, and the pilot was killed directly.
As a last resort, all Jim began to strafe with a 60mm Vulcan cannon in his head to interfere with the enemy from a distance. But because the distance was too far, it didn't hit anyone.
In the ensuing battle, it became a one-sided situation of the Atlantic Federation. Lieutenant Colonel Eldy was an ACE-class pilot, and after a close exchange of fire, he single-handedly caused casualties of one dead and one wounded and two Jims.
Second Lieutenant Murrell of the Earth Federation Army saw that one of his Jim was damaged, and immediately flew over, drawing a beam sword and slashing an enemy fighter. After that, the formation of the enemy fighters was dispersed with 90mm machine guns, and the enemy fighters immediately followed the tactical instructions and regrouped with speed. At this time, Murrell was repairing the wounded Jim and flew back, but unfortunately he didn't go far before he was spotted by the fighter fleet assembled outside and was refired.
He is usually very calm, but at this time he is also a little hot-headed, and his driving movements are starting to get bigger. I saw that Jim, who he was driving, accelerated and rushed towards the squad that had just replenished the gun, and after dodging a few shells, he rushed into the opponent's formation and slashed a fighter. Then he sprayed it with his feet, quickly changed direction and accelerated towards another fighter plane, cutting it off. And before the other two fighters could react, they used 90mm and 60mm Vulcan guns to strafe repeatedly, destroying all two fighters.
At this time, Lieutenant Colonel Aardie of the Atlantic Federation ACE not far away spotted Second Lieutenant Murrell, who had just become a powerful man, and rushed towards him with his wingman in a landline. Judging from the performance just now, this pilot must be an ACE-level pilot of the enemy, and the record of destroying four fighters in a row also made Lieutenant Colonel Eldi find a long-lost sense of enthusiasm. With his wingman, he began the platoon tactics from a long distance, and Ensign Murrell sensed that someone was shooting at him, so he rushed towards him. The two sides accelerate the hedging together, so that the distance that is not close quickly closes. Lieutenant Colonel Eldy hit Second Lieutenant Murrell Jim in the right arm with a single shot, and his right arm was knocked off along with his shield. And Second Lieutenant Murrell chopped off half of Eldi's wing and 150mm pair of naval guns with a beam sword. Leaving Lieutenant Colonel Eldi without his assault weapon.
After Eldi was cut down, he immediately used his speed to accelerate and get rid of the opponent, and after rushing out of the battle group, he looked back at the war group and found that although he had killed a lot of enemy robots, his own fighters also suffered heavy losses, and what was even more terrifying was that another enemy unit was outflanking his own troops in the distance. And the temporary formation of Major Pelle, the nearest reinforcement, is still attacking the enemy base at a relatively long distance, and it is certainly too late to reinforce. So he had no choice but to shoot a signal flare for retreat, and took advantage of the fact that the Erwin troops of the Earth Federation Army had not yet been encircled, and broke away.
And Major Pelle's temporary brigade, which was playing soy sauce, saw the retreating flares and also withdrew with the troops. This air war has come to an end for the time being.
In terms of post-war statistics, Second Lieutenant Murel's Jim unit, before the war, had 18 aircraft, 4 were destroyed in this battle, 4 were damaged, and the losses were not small. Second Lieutenant Evans's Jim's unit suffered no casualties.
In the Atlantic Federation, 26 fighters of Force A were destroyed first. Secondly, Unit B lost 12 fighters. More than half of the 75 fighters of the 1st Brigade of the reinforced 6th Wing were lost. Lieutenant Colonel Eldy, who had returned to the flagship Louis François, was silent in front of Major Pelle, and the two sat in the conference room, each thinking about his own thoughts.