Chapter 32: Puppet VS Zagu
Lieutenant Colonel Wolf Conwiton, the ace of the North American Liberty League, pilots the MS Puppet, which is an improvement over the experimental one he piloted during the previous Unnamed Star Field Sneak Attack. The main thing is to adjust the number and position of the posture control nozzles, and add a double-linked multi-barreled 25mm cannon transplanted from the fighter on the arm of the left hand, which reduces the output of the beam cannon and turns it into a beam gun, so that it will not break down the already unstable small energy stone engine due to excessive energy output in one shot.
However, he was a little struggling at this time in the face of Zagu who he had never seen before, the 25mm cannon in his hand had little effect on Zagu's armor, and the missiles on his body became meaningless due to the presence of Minovsky particles, and the beam gun in his hand, because it was originally designed for ships, he had not done much practice against the war machine and the Mobile Suit with more powerful mobility in a small area, and now he could only rely on talent to adapt.
"I didn't expect the flexibility of humanoid robots to be so critical in the absence of radar." In the face of the powerful Zagu, but making various extreme dodge moves, Lieutenant Colonel Conveton suddenly felt like a strong man dancing ballet. "I heard that the Atlantic Federation once fought against the humanoid robots of the Celestial Organization, and this kind of rice particle was still developed by the Celestials, so I don't know which side is more powerful in the battle." Although he was still in the middle of the battle, Lieutenant Colonel Convitaton's thinking was obviously a little off, thinking of Jim and the Minovsky particles. It wasn't until the enemy's 120mm cannon shells grazed the body that he woke up.
"It's still fighting, ask the Atlantic Federation people when it's over, after all, I saved them." Lieutenant Colonel Convitaton lifted the body and dodged the enemy's shells, although the 120mm shells were huge, but because they were high-explosive grenades, they did not have much advantage in armor piercing.
His opponent happened to be Colonel Royce of the Resistance, and Colonel Royce's piloting skills for Zagu were only limited to fighting fighters on the simulator, Chen Xiaomou deleted all the data on the simulator about fighting against Gundam, Jim and other MS, and only kept the data of the fighters. Even if the rebels want to fight Zagu on the simulator, they have to develop their own supporting programs.
In fact, Chen Xiaomou also gave them a 100mm machine gun against MS, which has stronger armor-piercing ability and more ammunition, but because this time he thought it was a tough battle, the other party was just fighters and warships, and it was more advantageous to use 120mm high-explosive bombs, so he was not equipped.
Because of its limited ammunition capacity, Royce took a conservative design approach and fired in the form of three bullets. However, he shot a bullet disc and failed to hit the enemy, he dodged the opponent's luminous beam cannon, this kind of cannon is too powerful, as long as it touches the heavy armor on the body, it is not easy to use, even if it misses the key parts, it will be missing arms and legs, etc., and lose balance.
Suddenly, it occurred to him that Zagu had another weapon - the Thermal Axe, and if he couldn't hit it from a distance, then he would fight in close combat. So Colonel Royce picked up his speed and pounced on his opponent's body, firing a series of 120mm cannons to cover his approaching behavior.
"Hey, hey, hey, is this going to be desperate." Lieutenant Colonel Conveton of the North American Liberty League complained to himself, "Although the closer distance helps to improve the hit rate, the hit rate of my hit has also become higher." Convitaton made his own mech perform a spiral evasion maneuver, and on the other hand, he began to predict Zagu's trajectory, and when the prediction was successful, he could take out the opponent with a single flash of speed cannon.
However, the price of predicting the trajectory and dodging again was a variety of shots in the waist and legs, and the waist was fine, but the armor was damaged, and at the same time, the shock of the explosion was transmitted to the cockpit where Lieutenant Colonel Conveton was, and the things in the cabin began to flutter. Conveton could only hold on to the steering stick to keep the vibration from affecting his operation. Although the first shot in the leg failed to blow the leg off, many parts and joints were destroyed, and it was no longer as flexible as it used to be.
"That's how troublesome humanoid mechs are," Convitaton complained, but he also caught his opponent's trajectory at the moment, and a cannonball was fired.
However, Colonel Royce of the rebels also expected that the opponent's hit rate would increase, and used the shield armor on his left shoulder to drive forward to cover, and the opponent's cannon knocked down the shield armor, and the shield armor could not prevent the shelling of the beam cannon, and this shot directly broke the entire left hand.
Convitaton was secretly happy and immediately prepared to make the next shot. He saw that the opponent had rushed to him, and at this time, the opponent would definitely not be able to escape.
However, Royce took advantage of his opponent's joy and immediately approached Convidon's body, and Zagu drew his thermal axe and slashed at his opponent.
Seeing the opponent take out a cold weapon, Convitaton was frightened into a cold sweat, but after all, it was the trump card of the North American Liberty League, and the knee-jerk reaction made the body avoid a little to the left, and Zagu's axe only hit the long beam gun, along with half of the arm of Convidton's body.
Lieutenant Colonel Conveton, who had lost his main weapon, was so frightened that he hurriedly raised the puppet's left hand, and the 25mm cannon fired again and again, intending to force the opponent away. However, the 25mm cannon could not penetrate Zagu's armor at all, and Zagu was splashed with sparks all over his body, but he did not receive any damage. Seeing that Zagu was about to deliver the final blow, a cannonball inadvertently hit Zagu in one eye. There was a big explosion on One-Eye's side, Colonel Royce's main camera was blown out, and it was pitch black in front of him. He immediately scrambled and clicked a lot of buttons to find the button to switch the camera, and by the time he switched the camera to the auxiliary camera on the gun, the puppet of his opponent Conveton had already run away. At this time, two intact puppet mechs flew towards his Zagu, intending to defeat the Reservoir Dogs.
Colonel Royce, seeing that the pursuit of his opponent was hopeless, began to observe the battlefield. The rest of the five Zagu planes on this side are still safe and sound, after all, the opponents are also rookie pilots, but this side is also rookies, so there is no record, and the two sides are in a stalemate. However, the puppet body of the North American Liberty League has two squadrons of 20 aircraft, and six of them are divided into fighting Zagu on their own side, and the remaining 14 planes, together with the fighter team of Major Pelle of the Atlantic Federation, have almost wiped out the nearly 40 fighter planes that they are following up. Although the puppet's main weapon is single-shot and has a touching hit rate, the fighters on this side do not have Zagu's heavy armor, and a few 25mm cannons can kill them. Therefore, the puppet's left hand is faster than the right hand.
Seeing that this attack on the base was basically on the verge of failure, the base could not continue the attack, and the enemy had come with reinforcements, it was time to retreat. Colonel Royce immediately fired a flare from Zagu's body, signaling everyone to retreat. In the distance, the battleships fired together, covering the withdrawal of the mobile troops here, and all the fighters on this side were dispatched, and they simply picked up the escape pod near the fuselage and withdrew.
The rebels quickly organized their forces and began to retreat, while the allies of the North American Liberty Alliance and the Atlantic Federation abandoned the pursuit because they did not have many warships. Begin to collect troops and carry out battlefield rescue. This time, I searched for the rescue pods on the battlefield and captured a lot of prisoners, but some of the rescue pods on our side were also picked up by the other party in a hurry to clean up the battlefield.
And this time the rebels can be regarded as stealing chickens and rice, and the losses of the 120 fighters on the main battlefield are at least about half. And there were also quite a few losses on the battlefield. Royce led the remnants of the defeated army back to the base and began plans to evacuate the base. However, he also realized that the Atlantic Federation had mastered the technology of the Minovsky particle, and that the nemesis of this radar might change the form of space warfare in the future, and perhaps they should import more Zagu or develop their own mobile suit.