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Chapter 233 ZAFT Army's Earth Offensive

On June 1, CE70, the ZAFT ground forces, which had been on Earth for almost two months, finally launched an offensive!

Because of the fanning of a large butterfly, the previous ZAFT Army did not launch a joint attack from Oceania on May 20 as in the plot of "Gundam SEED". But now, under the orders of Sarah, the chairman of the National Defense Commission, the ZAFT Earth Force, which has been dormant for almost two months, began to control the new ground equipment attached to it, and launched a surprise operation directly across the ocean against the island of Madagascar, which is united in Africa.

The ZAFT Army, which jointly attacked from Oceania, directly landed on the island of Madagascar as a logistics base, and then the African United Black Corn that bore the brunt of the Black Corn fell into bad luck, and the dismal air force and navy of the African United Black Corn were directly crushed by the ZAFT Army, and then the ZAFT Army that landed in Africa did not stop, and directly launched a rapid assault in the direction of the Suez Canal, the most important strategic point under the United Earth Alliance!

Faced with this situation, the Eurasian Federation troops in the Suez Canal, which had recently been replenished with many blue cosmos diehard recruits and some new weapons, chose to take the initiative, and a fierce battle broke out directly in the El Alamein area between the two sides.

In this battle, the ZAFT Army's new weapon, the atmospheric MS Dean, was the first to be put into battle by the ZAFT Army!

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Over somewhere in the El Alamein region of North Africa on June 8.

Dozens of Air Force fighters from the Eurasian Federation flying old fighters (referring to products before CE70) encountered six ZAFT military's atmospheric MS Dean!

"OMG! What's that???"

"Humanoid Air Combat Fighter ???" ……

When the Eurasian Federal Air Force fighters who took the lead in the attack met with the ZAFT Army's atmospheric special air combat MS Dean, the novice pilots in the Eurasian Federation who joined the blue cosmos exclaimed.

Judging from the situation of the six Dean atmospheric fighters, the humanoid body is indeed quite unusual!

However, if you look closely, you will see that the image and armament of these ZAFT Deen are slightly different from the original Dean's appearance and armament compared to the original Dean's six mechanical wings in the original Gundam SEED, carrying a 76mm assault rifle and a 170mm anti-air shotgun.

After being influenced by someone's butterfly wings, Dean now not only has a pair of combat backpacks like fixed wings, but also looks more like the ZAFT Army's improved MS Bobbi in atmospheric air combat in the sequel "Gundam SEEDDESTINY", and the one he is carrying is not a live-fire assault rifle, but a beam rifle and a special firearm like an anti-aircraft shotgun!

"Don't panic! That's the MS attack of the ZAFT Army! Knock down all those iron man toys!!"

But right now, under the shouts of a group leader who had participated in the last ZAFT operation in Victoria Spaceport, the other pilots finally came to their senses and began to prepare to attack those Dean.

However, when a large number of missiles launched by these fighters of the Eurasian Federation were easily detonated by the decoy missiles launched from the one-time missile bay on Dean, they remembered that it was now an environment under neutron jammers, and missiles were not as effective on earth as they were in space!

As a result, after seeing the six Dean quickly turn into MA form, a group of Eurasian Federation pilots, including veterans and new Nen, failed to reach a consensus, whether to directly choose to retreat to avoid the sharp edge of those unknown enemies, or use the cannons on the fighters to engage in melee combat with the ZAFT army......

"Buzz--buzz--"

"Bang...... Bang ......"

"Boom !!" ……

Before the pilots of the dozens of Eurasian Federation fighters could hesitate, the six Dean airframes quickly gave the Eurasian Federation fighters a head-on blow with beam rifles and special anti-aircraft high-speed shotguns.

When in a few seconds, more than a dozen Eurasian Federation fighters were smashed into fireballs in the sky, some of the remaining Eurasian Federation fighters chose to flee directly when they saw that the situation was not good, and some desperately rushed up to start a melee battle against the DEAN body of the ZAFT, trying to use their own missiles and cannons to deal with the hateful MS body piloted by those tuners at close range!

In response to these reactions of the Eurasian Federation fighters, the three Dean directly formed a team to chase down the fleeing Eurasian Federation fighters in the MA form, while the other three Dean quickly changed from the MA form to the humanoid MS form, and then the pair of wings like fixed wings quickly separated, turning into two pairs of wings like dragonflies, directly waving the weapons in their hands and aiming at the fighters controlled by the more than ten blue cosmos fanatics and rushing away.

As a result, the pilots of the blue cosmos were horrified to find that the fighter they piloted was not Dean's opponent at all in close combat, not to mention that the cannons and missiles on the plane could hardly hit the extremely agile Dean, even if they occasionally hit, they were actually blocked by the invisible force field shield on Dean, and they didn't hurt Dean at all!

"Haha! This Dean's force field shield is really useful, and our ZAFT army will definitely win this time!!"

A few minutes later, after the last Eurasian Federation fighter was shot down, the pilot of one of the Dean's airframes shouted with joy on his face as he watched the other three Dean return and report the completion of the mission.

Soon after, hundreds of ZAFT Dean bodies were flying densely in the sky, and the ground was already on the ground with the ZAFT Army's army units. In addition to several huge ground warships, a special Marine MS like a two-turret tank appeared in the ranks of the ZAFT Army, as well as a Baku Land MS in the shape of a mechanical dog......

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On June 9, the main force of the ZAFT Army and the main force of the Eurasian Federation Army, which was responsible for defending the El Alamein region, encountered.

"Dean's troops attack! Seize air supremacy on the battlefield !!"

"Steel tanks and Baku troops ready! Always ready to take my orders!" ……

In the command room of one of the ZAFT Army's Marine Command Flagships, Andrew Bartfield, the supreme commander of the ZAFT's ground forces, watched the reconnaissance Dean investigate the situation of the Eurasian Union troops and began to give orders one by one.

Baku! Steel Tank!

The former's ground beast-type quadruped MS Baku is the same as Dean, although it still uses the quadruped walking mechanism in the plot, but the Baku powered by hydroxide ion batteries has stronger mobility and speed, and in addition to the defense device of the force field shield, the armament has also been replaced with a 30MM six-barreled beam cannon (head), high-vibration cutting wings, and a multi-purpose combat backpack on the back (which can be equipped with a quadruple 100MM Gauss electromagnetic cannon and a 30-tube multi-purpose missile launcher).

In contrast, the steel tank in the ZAFT Army (from the Gundam series Federal Marine MS) was only an early modification of the RX-75. IN ADDITION TO THE FORCE FIELD SHIELD, WHICH IS MORE THAN A STEP WEAKER THAN BAKU, THE RX-75 STEEL TANK ONLY REPLACED ITS ARMAMENT WITH TWO 100MM GAUSS ELECTROMAGNETIC GUNS AS TURRETS, AND IT IS STILL TWO 40MM HIGH-SPEED GRENADE LAUNCHERS AND TWO 12.7MM MACHINE GUNS!

However, compared with the Eurasian Federation and some of the African joint servant armies on the opposite side, which still use weapons such as old aircraft, tanks, armored vehicles, and self-propelled guns, the equipment on the ZAFT army is already a super luxury lineup.

Under the orders of Andrew Bartfield, the Dean cluster above the ZAFT army did not hesitate to launch an attack on the Eurasian Union air force units three times their size, and the Eurasian Federation's fighters piloted by the blue cosmos members who were urgently conscripted into the army mixed part of the original army pilots fought against the Dean forces on the ZAFT side!

Of course, in the face of Dean, who has a force field shield and sharper weapons, the old fighters of the Eurasian Federation in the sky are no match at all, and more than eighty percent of them are new pilots who have been joined by blue cosmos fanatics for less than three months, so almost only the fighters of the Eurasian Federation are constantly falling in the sky, and Dean has not been beaten down by the Eurasian Federation fighters now.

"Damn ZAFT and PLANT ......" Seeing that the air force on his side was abused and killed by those hateful adjusters on the opposite side, the commander of the mixed force of the Eurasian Federation, who was inclined to blue cosmos, scolded a few words, and directly ordered the communication staff officer in the command vehicle with a fierce face: "All the leading armored forces are attacking!" Let the air defense force go to the air force, and we must take out those hateful adjusters!!"

With the commander's order, the armored forces on the side of the Eurasian Federation directly pressed on the ground, and the ZAFT army also launched an attack without showing weakness, and the battle situation directly fell into a white-hot stage!

However, as soon as the fight started, the mixed forces of the Eurasian Federation were immediately suppressed by the ZAFT army, which was far less numerous than their own, whether it was a steel tank equipped with Gauss electromagnetic cannons and force field shields, or Baku, which was extremely flexible and extremely fierce, directly crushed the ground forces of the Eurasian Federation, which were mostly composed of blue cosmos elements and black sea millet - not to mention the gap in equipment generation between the two sides was at least more than a generation, the technical level of the black sea millet fighting was known to everyone on the earth, and those blue cosmos elements were stronger in combat effectiveness, But the newly enlisted recruit doesn't have to expect much from anything!

Only an hour after the start of the war, the army of the Eurasian Federation was defeated and retreated, especially those who were originally cannon fodder, after discovering that the intensity of the "battle" in which they could not suffer casualties in a few days after fighting with the ZAFT army and their previous experience was completely different, the Black Shu army that was cannon fodder in front of them directly suffered a major rout. Moreover, this situation also affected the blue cosmos elements who had insisted on fighting, and the front on the side of the Eurasian Federation continued to retreat.

However, now the Eurasian Federation army is losing and retreating, and soon it is supported by the real Eurasian Federation armored forces behind......

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"Boom―――――― boom !!"

With a screeching sound and a burst of fire, a Eurasian Federation tank that was retreating and firing was directly exploded. AND A FEW KILOMETERS AWAY FROM THE WRECKAGE OF THE TANK, WHICH HAD BEEN BLOWN AWAY BY THE TURRET, A ZAFT-EQUIPPED STEEL TANK MOVED THE MUZZLE OF ITS TWIN 100MM GAUSS ELECTROMAGNETIC GUN AND BEGAN TO SEARCH FOR THE NEXT FLEEING ENEMY.

"Haha! Another one!"

In the cockpit of the steel tank, the tuner gunner shouted excitedly.

The same situation is not only here, the vast desert is littered with the wreckage of the destroyed tanks of the Eurasian Federation, and the destroyed ZAFT army steel tanks and Baku are almost not visible!

In the sky, there are only three or two big cats and kittens left in the fighter group cobbled together by the Eurasian Federation and the poor air force of the Black Horse, and now the Dean cluster has been scattered in the sky, targeting the fleeing Eurasian Federation Air Force and the retreating troops on the ground to launch non-stop attacks.

"Be careful! There is a new -- Boom !! with the United Earth"

But suddenly, a frightened shout came from the communication channel of the ZAFT army, which was chasing the Eurasian Federation army, but before it could finish speaking, it was interrupted by a burst of fire.

With the sound of a fire storm, a Dean at the edge of the sky was directly turned into a not-so-dazzling fireball by several beams.

Before most of them could come to their senses, several more Dean were set on fire by dozens of beams, and after one Dean was lucky enough to retreat in black smoke, the other Deans were all blasted by the beams to break through the field shield and then turned into a ball of fire!

A few seconds later, more than a dozen black-painted mysterious fighters burst into the battlefield at a speed of at least Mach 3, and then began a brawl with Dean in his MA form......

"Boom---!!"

When the ZAFT army on the ground was stunned by the sudden change in the sky, several black shadows were heard from the distance, and then an unlucky steel tank was directly hit by a shell that penetrated the force field shield and armor, and the entire body was blown apart.

"What's that???"

Not far from the steel tank that had been reduced to pieces, the commander of another steel tank looked at the behemoth slowly emerging from the sand dunes in the distance, and shouted in disbelief in the communication channel.

Chapter 234 ZAFT Army's Earth Offensive

A few kilometers away on the dunes, a Federal Type 61 tank...... AHEM, NO, IT'S AN APOCALYPSE TANK WITH A 203MM TWIN HEAVY CANNON SLOWLY APPEARING ON THE SAND DUNES.

AFTER SEEING THE HUGE VOLUME OF THE APOCALYPSE TANK AND THE UNUSUALLY EYE-CATCHING 203MM TWIN-MOUNTED TURRET, THE ZAFT ARMY NOTICED THE EXAGGERATED VOLUME CONTRAST BETWEEN THE PUPPIES AND ELEPHANTS OF SEVERAL EURASIAN FEDERATION TANKS ON ITS SIDE, AND THEN A HUGE APOCALYPSE TANK APPEARED DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF THE ZAFT ARMY, AND AT A CURSORY GLANCE, THERE WERE AT LEAST A DOZEN OF THEM.

And not only the Apocalypse Tank, but also hundreds of Prism tanks from the "Red Alert" series appeared on the dunes, and began to launch a counterattack along with the Eurasian Federation tanks that saw the arrival of reinforcements and turned around.

"Zla――――――"

"Boom!! Boom !!"

"Whoa......

WITH THE APOCALYPSE TANK TAKING THE INITIATIVE TO ATTACK, THE ROAR OF THE 203MM MAIN GUN WAS LIKE A GIANT HAMMER, DIRECTLY WAKING UP THE ZAFT ARMY THAT HAD NOT YET REACTED. The beam attack of the Prism Tank, which was produced in the world of "Lelouch the Rebellious" and brought to exert residual heat, was even more eye-catching, and a few concentrated fires directly pierced the force field shield of the steel tank and Baku, and then turned it into a ball of fire.

After seeing this situation, the ZAFT army, which had been a little sluggish by the sudden change in the situation, reacted, and quickly maneuvered to dodge while returning fire at the new enemy and those who had just been defeated.

However, soon, the ZAFT ground armored forces, which had just relied on advanced weapons to crush the enemy, discovered that something was wrong.

The Eurasian Federation has just been defeated, and now the combat effectiveness of those tanks and armored vehicles that saw the arrival of reinforcements and then turn around and launch a counteroffensive is negligible, and the force field shield of the ZAFT army, whether it is a steel tank or Baku, unless it is unlucky enough to be hit by more than 30 armor-piercing shells in an instant, it is to ignore the main gun, anti-tank missiles and other attacks.

As for the more than a dozen new Apocalypse tanks and hundreds of Prism tanks, they are completely different!

The Prism Tank is a good story, although its beam weapon has shown to be capable of both ground and air, and can penetrate the force field shield with a single shot if it is close enough, the power is definitely not weak. But when the ZAFT army found that it turned the Prism tank into a fireball with a casual shot of the main gun, it understood that the new tank on the opposite side was a typical example of attacking the strong and defending the weak.

BUT IN THE CASE OF THE APOCALYPSE TANK, ITS WEIGHT OF UP TO HUNDREDS OF TONS AND THE 203MM MAIN GUN MAKE THE ZAFT ARMY DARE NOT UNDERESTIMATE THIS BEHEMOTH AT ALL - IN OTHER WORDS, IT CAN'T BE UNDERESTIMATED, THE UNLUCKY STEEL TANK THAT WAS DIRECTLY TORN APART BY A SHELL JUST NOW IS STILL VIVID, UNLESS THE ZAFT ARMY IS BLIND AND AMNESIA, OTHERWISE IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE THE DOZEN OR SO APOCALYPSE TANKS IN FRONT OF THEM!

But when the steel tanks of the ZAFT army and Baku launched an attack on the Apocalypse Tank, it was discovered that the behemoth of the Apocalypse Tank was completely an out-and-out steel turtle, and it was with extremely sharp fangs?!!

Whether it is the 100MM Gauss electromagnetic cannon on the steel tank, or the quadruple Gauss electromagnetic cannon and multi-purpose missiles of the same caliber carried by the multi-purpose backpack on Baku, the thick armor of the Apocalypse tank has not played a predetermined effect at all, and even several steel tanks and Baku desperately rushed to a distance of less than a thousand meters to fire on its side, but the Gauss electromagnetic gun of the same caliber and the landing only made a small gap in the armor plate of the Apocalypse tank, but it was quickly repaired by automatic repair of molten metal, AND SEVERAL STEEL TANKS AND BAKU WERE DIRECTLY SMASHED TO PIECES BY THE 203MM MAIN GUN!

Therefore, on the ground battlefield, a stalemate situation has been formed, in which the Apocalypse Tank beats the steel tank and Baku, the Prism tank meets the steel tank and Baku on a narrow road, and the brave wins, and the steel tank and Baku beat the remnants of the Eurasian Federation. In the sky, more than a dozen improved Apollo fighters in the world of "Red Alert" who specialize in fighting for air supremacy completely threw those MA forms of Dean behind them to blow the wind, playing the kite flying tactic of one blow and retreat......

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A dozen kilometers away, the command room of the land warship of the ZAFT army.

"Dean is now entangled with the enemy's new aircraft!"

"The new tank of the Eurasian Federation has appeared, and our army is now in a stalemate with the other side, and neither Baku nor the steel tank can cause effective damage to the new super tank!"

"Our army has already lost thirty-five Baku and twelve steel tanks! Dean loses eleven ......"......

In the command room of the land battleship, Andrew Bartfield stood on the command podium, listening to the ZAFT staff officers in the command room report the not very good news, but his face did not have the slightest urgency.

On the contrary, the people around Andrew Barterfield are a little out of breath.

"Andy ......" saw Andrew Bartfield's indifferent expression, and a beautiful woman with long black shoulder-length hair next to him opened her mouth a little anxiously, but was stopped by Andrew Bartfield raising his hand.

"Aisha, don't worry, we are not at a disadvantage on the battlefield now!"

Seeing the slightly impatient situation of his lover and other combat staff officers, Andrew Barterfield turned his head and comforted them.

In fact, the situation on the battlefield is now much stronger than Andrew Bartfield expected!

Since the battle of Yakin Duwey, the more sober-minded middle and senior commanders in the ZAFT army have understood the horror of the Earth Union starting to fully engage in combat readiness, and they have become pessimistic about the direction and trend of the war.

As one of the outstanding commanders of the ZAFT Army in the original plot of "Gundam SEED", Andrew Baltafield certainly feels that the current war situation seems a little bleak. But after commanding the new weapons on the battlefield today, the performance of the mixed army of the Eurasian Federation and the Black Corn really gave him great confidence. Even the new weapons such as Apollo fighters, Apocalypse tanks, and prism tanks that are now on the battlefield have at most made him affirm his judgment.

Once the Earth Union is integrated and launched, it is true that the PLANT, which has a population of only tens of millions, feels a little hopeless, but now the Earth Union has not yet exerted its full strength, and the ZAFT Army, which is fully mobilized and equipped with new weapons, still has the possibility of victory or using victory to force the Earth Union to recognize the possibility of PLANT independence (crab) - this idea is very naïve, purely Andrew Bartfield and other original residents do not understand the details of the base vehicle and Li Yuan's plan!

"Hopefully, before the Earth Union can fully exert its strength, PLANT and ZAFT can force the Earth Union to negotiate......" Looking at the multi-faceted light screen in the command room, after the several reconnaissance Deans released before did not report the discovery of more new weapons of the Earth United Army, Andrew Barterfield thought silently in his heart, and then raised his head and gave an order to the operational staff officers in the command room in front of him: "Order!" Dean's forces left some to entangle the group, and all the others helped to defeat the new tanks of the Earth Alliance!!"

"Yes! Sir!" *N

Hearing Andrew Bartfield's order, the long-awaited operational staff officers shouted in unison.

Subsequently, after conveying Andrew Bartfield's order, the Dean troops, who had fought with the Apollo fighters for so long and only shot down three planes, but lost more than twenty units, were directly separated, leaving a third of their companions to continue chasing those Apollo fighters, and the other Dean troops quickly pounced on the Apocalypse Tank and the Prism Tank on the ground!

With Dean joining, Baku and Steel Tanks, which had already annihilated most of the Blue Cosmos mixed with Black Corn Miscellaneous Fish troops, quickly outflanked and encircled, trying to detour around the Apocalypse Tank, which had not yet lost one, and the Prism Tank, which had not yet lost one, and then cut off their rear and deal with them again.

However, although Andrew Barterfield's idea is very good, it is not the abandoned children of the blue cosmos who drive the Apocalypse Tank and the Prism Tank. After determining the reaction of the ZAFT army, the Apocalypse Tank fought its way through the hundreds of Dean and more Baku and steel tanks and did not lose a single Apocalypse Tank - of course, it was later found that more than a dozen Apocalypse tanks that were in tatters were basically wiped out of all peripheral equipment, and more than 40% of the parts and components of the armor plates, turrets, peripheral anti-aircraft missile launchers, tracks, and transmission devices needed to be replaced!

As the commander of the ZAFT Army, Andrew Bartfeld was a little helpless about this situation, but he did annihilate the Eurasian Federation and the Black Horse Army sent out this time, and left behind a few Apollo fighters and all the Prism tanks......

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On June 9, CE70, the ZAFT African Front, led by Supreme Commander Andrew Baltafeld, annihilated the combined forces of the Eurasian Federation (most of them Blue Cosmos) and the Black Corn Mill, and successfully thwarted the new armored forces of the Eurasian Federation, only the Apocalypse Tank Force broke through!

Subsequently, the ZAFT Army, which was later hailed as the "Second Battle of El Alamein", together with the ZAFT submersible aircraft carrier, which had already tried to break through into the Mediterranean, and the new naval battle MS Crab and Turtle Ba (both of which are improved bodies of the Gundam naval battle), continued to launch a fierce attack on the Suez Canal, which is an absolute strategic point on the earth.

However, this time, ZAFT's submersible aircraft carrier, in conjunction with the MS forces of the naval battle and Dean, successfully won the victory and took advantage of the situation to invade the Mediterranean, but the ground forces of ZAFT were quickly counterattacked by the Suez Canal troops of the Eurasian Federation and subsequent reinforcements. Faced with more than three figures of Apollo fighters, dozens of Apocalypse tanks, and a large number of other troops supporting the fortified Eurasian Federation forces, Andrew Baltafeld had to order his troops to block the Suez Canal, and then began to build defensive positions and launch surprise attacks in other directions in Africa.

In this ZAFT's "Africa Raiders Victory", which was later hyped by PLANT, it totaled more than half a month of combat time, and ZAFT's ground corps also won a "rare" victory for PLANT...... (To be continued.) )