The spear tips flickering with dazzling electric light around her, and the roar of the engine, the RX-7 driven by Linda went backwards at full speed, while the Daphnia Appearance Troop-level cosmic monster in front of her had no intention of chasing, just stayed in place and twitched in vain with all the arthropod giant crows covered with sharp barbs.

Then, the whole body of the troop gradually stiffened until the pressure difference between the inside and outside of the deactivated body gradually increased, and gradually crumbled into the cosmic space raging with the turbulence of the ether.

"Twenty-fifth!"

As usual, he roared out his crash count, and Linda's voice provoked a little admiration in the communication channel again.

Although in that roar, it was clearly mixed with a faint trace of trills caused by exhaustion.

Nearly half an hour has passed since the official start of the war, and the number of cosmic monsters that the TOP troops have faced has reached dozens of batches. In fact, from five minutes after the start of the battle, the Exelion fleet had gradually changed from offensive operations to cover artillery bombardment.

If measured according to the regular method of warfare, this decision of Admiral Tashiro is undoubtedly aberrant to the point of clumsiness. However, the repeated failures of the second and third rounds of photon torpedoes really made the old captain no longer dogmatic and rigid. However, fortunately, the cruiser-class on the opposite side seems to have a maximum amount of shield power, and once the distance between the two sides is shortened to about one-twentieth of a light second, a laser shot from an ordinary battleship's main gun can still end the life of the cruiser-class.

Therefore, the artillery units on both sides have wisely kept the distance between each other at about one-tenth of a light second. It seems that the sound and light effects are full, but in fact, there is no mixed arrangement of TOP troops in a state of close hand-to-hand combat early in the morning, and the battle of troop-level cosmic monsters is exciting and intense.

By the way, Linda's record just now was already in the top three of the TOP troops when the number of most people hovered around ten. With Noriko Takaya still on standby at the flagship, of course, the only ones who can rank in front of Linda are Jung and Kasumi Amano.

What is slightly unexpected is that Jung, who has always been at the top of the TOP team list in various achievements, is obviously a little absent-minded in today's battle. Normally, the number of hits on my sister's side should be slightly inferior to her, and this time Amano Kasumi also served as the front-line dispatch and command of the team, which was obviously much less efficient than the previous one. But even so, Kasumi Amano's number of crashes is rare to surpass Jung's by as many as 20%.

The gap between the two sides at this moment has actually opened up to about three-quarters of Linda's falls.

Just like right now, I don't know how many troop ranks are rushing at one-fifth of the speed of light. The forward of the TOP force, under the command of Kasumi Amano, took the front arrow formation with the smallest frontal contact area to meet the enemy. Just after the cosmic monster brushed shoulders with the RX-7 cluster, it was directly hit by the missiles launched by the cosmic fighter's Ouroboros and lost all directions. Then, the battle ended with a series of electric spears from the RX-7 stabbing from the back.

Kasumi Amano's body has always been in the middle of the formation, and it is not a position that can easily pick a head. However, her crash count was not originally a leak from a surprise attack from behind, but a relatively flexible response to certain movements, and she could still quickly turn back in the shortest time after rushing overhead, and even with the squad level that launched a counterattack.

Usually in the eyes of others, the electric shock spear of Amano's body piloted by Kasumi Amano had obviously stopped behind the back of her right arm, as if she had not moved at all since the beginning of the war. But every time a lackluster squad roared in front of it, the electric spear would tremble slightly, and the unlucky enemy would fly out of the TOP unit's zone of control before it had time to slow down, sprinkling several purple disgusting bodily fluids along the way.

Then, without exception, they are crushed by the imbalance between the inside and outside of the body.

Those in the TOP army who have a little knowledge of Kazukuni can see that Kasumi Amano is using a technique similar to that of drawing a sword. If this were off-battlefield, or in general, there would be more knowledgeable people who would have focused on the RX-7 she was piloting.

The reason is very simple, it is usually known that the Dao Knife Drawing Technique pursues a fast word, and when using this technique from a human perspective, it also has to go through a long period of hard practice, and the burden on the elbow and wrist is relatively large. Therefore, it is questionable that the production RX-7 can be used repeatedly in a short period of time with an unfortunate electric spear. If nothing else, the joint part of the spear-holding arm is always functioning well, which is somewhat beyond the design or measurement requirements of this body.

But anyway, this is now a chaotic battlefield with a considerable disparity between the enemy and our forces, and at any time there may be a danger to life due to a small distraction. So no ordinary combatant would pay attention to this at all.

(As for the actual reason, Roger had played with this little trick of strengthening his body several planes before, and there was no need to repeat it.) ）

The formation of the TOP troops is not fixed. Often, according to the number and density of the oncoming troop-level clusters, under the command of Kasumi Amano, who is located in the center of his camp, the impact of the enemy's highest speed is avoided by the short-distance displacement as simple as possible, and the slow detours are more likely to be deliberately "let through" in front of several mechs in the formation that are better at close combat, and after reducing their relative speed to zero as much as possible, one mech is responsible for luring, and several other units are quickly covering the past from all directions depending on the situation.

As mentioned before, the height of the RX series is no more than ten meters, and the troop level is fifty to hundred, so it is not easy for the cosmic monster side to keep an eye on one RX-7 at a time, and conversely, the distance at which several mechs can attack the troop level at the same time is quite easy to master......

On the surface, the battle situation on the side of the TOP troops is actually the most gentle on the entire battlefield. Most RX Series airframes use spikes to take out enemies. And even if these pilots are elite within the scope of the Earth Space Force, they manipulate the body to make an indomitable thrust momentum, and the time span from the time the weapon hits the target is often more than a second or two. This is much lower than the full set of hits from a close-range laser gun.

And the electric spear didn't have time to make up for it, in fact, it was solved by the space fighter next to the RX series by using plasma cannons and missiles. (See the official "Battle Universe" trailer here)

Although everything seems to be reasonable and orderly, it always seems that something is missing.

That's right, why is it that in the range of activities of the TOP troops, the number of white light bullets is so rare that it is forgotten?

In the original book, there were only more than 20 cruisers in total, and at least 40% of the RX series and all other warships except Exelion were wiped out with just one bullet. Even in the first two battles, the shelling density of the white light bombs was not so small, and it was often necessary for the space fighters to take the initiative to catch up and carry themselves hard to avoid the fate of the RX series being directly destroyed.

And how about this time?

Even if everyone else on the battlefield didn't notice it at all, Kasumi Amano, who had been commanding Ruoding in battle, knew all about the questions and answers-

The direction of the distant cosmic monster flashed, and immediately after, two or three balls of light with a pure white color and a diameter of about two or three meters whizzed in.

(The size of this thing has obviously increased compared to the previous two battles?!) ）

However, in front of a double-edged spear that didn't even have access to electricity, these light bullets didn't even have time to bloom, and they were directly deflected into the gap of the Exelion fleet, and then unfortunately failed to take anything with them, and disappeared alone in the universe.

Or, at the moment when no one noticed, it was directly stabbed into pieces of twinkling star dust by that ordinary and completely inconspicuous spear.

The RX-7, which stands proudly at the forefront of this spear with ease, is exactly the exclusive Jungian body with an obvious paint style.

"It's strong, it's really strong, and it's almost as strong as Instructor Roger showed in the last battle."

This is what Kasumi Amano secretly felt, but almost at the same time, it was shouted out by Noriko Takaya directly in the spirit channel.

INSTEAD OF HIDING IN HER DORM BED AND WEEPING SILENTLY AS IN THE ORIGINAL BOOK, NORIKO TAKAYA CAME TO GUNBUSTER'S GNAKKU EARLY IN THE MORNING, SEPARATED BY A WALL FROM THE TECHNOLOGISTS WHO WERE BUSY GOING BACK AND FORTH TO CHECK BEFORE THE LAST SORTIE - IT WAS THEORETICALLY A SPECIAL ROOM FOR ROGER, THE PROJECT LEADER, AND IT WAS FILLED WITH NECESSARY AND UNNECESSARY SURVEILLANCE EQUIPMENT.

Of course, it has now been fine-tuned by the DG clone and converted into a stereoscopic projection device that broadcasts the battlefield in all directions.

If it weren't for the fact that Kasumi Amano used the spiritual link to share such a system at the same time, maybe she would not be as good at the battlefield as Noriko Takaya in the state of being a spectator.

(As you know, the Samsara team's detection system is much more powerful than the entire Exelion fleet.) Attention to detail from all angles, with a variety of statistical ...... ）

In short, although Noriko Takaya seems to be outside the battlefield, in fact, like everyone else, she has been engrossed in a tense combat state since the beginning of the war.

Then the enemy increased his forces again.

In this case, it makes no sense to worry about "where did the other cosmic monster come from?" and so on. The reincarnation team did not intend to completely block the battlefield for reasons such as the secrecy of the technique, so it was normal for the enemy to jump out of thin air several times on the original basis.

"It seems that the FOLD tactic alone has touched the bottom line of the cosmic monster's display of wisdom (tactics)."

Whether it was Roger Jung or Noriko Amano Kasumi, they were the first to notice this at that time.

However, although the current battlefield situation can be called quite grim in the eyes of the reincarnations, if it is changed to the position of Admiral Tashiro, at least until now, it will still be regarded as a routine and extremely fortunate low-casualty battle since this voyage.

"Compared to the total annihilation of LUXION, the battle situation of this kind of capital ship is basically all in preparation now~"

Those who hold similar opinions are definitely not a minority among the middle and high-level commanders of the fleet.

Even in the eyes of the heroines of the two planes, even when the early warning system of the reincarnation team was densely packed with enemy troops, and even when there were N times more cosmic monsters that were clearly marked as large cruiser class than in the past, Noriko Takaya and Kasumi Amano did not feel too desperate.

As long as GUNBUSTER strikes, he will be able to turn the tide, right?

Even if the body didn't actually complete the final commissioning, even the driver was only one Noriko Takaya.

And, even if anything, isn't there still Coach Roger?

……

There is no need for a telepathic DG clone to convey it, both Roger and Jung can actually see the luck psychology of the entire Exelion fleet above. Especially for the latter, even if she knew that there was something wrong with Lu Dao, and the current situation was obviously out of the control of the normal intellectual-side reincarnation, everything seemed to be reasonable to the point of being unquestionable.

Even from the objective position of the reincarnation outside the plane, the conclusion drawn is not much worse -

In the original book, only Exelion's crushing victory remains, and even if it is repeated again, it is understandable. At present, I don't know how far GUNBUSTER can go under the solo control of Noriko Takaya, but judging from the many functions that Jung himself added to the body, at least there is no problem in keeping Noriko, the heroine. Next, as long as she protects Kasumi Amano, Admiral Tashiro's Exelion flagship will be handed over to Roger......

"Obviously, as long as you do this, no matter what plane task or assimilation task it is, it will be carried out naturally, but why do you still have a vague feeling of depression lingering in your heart?"

This problem, the telepathic DG clone lurking near Jung was obviously aware of it, but it was not transmitted to Roger.

IT'S NOT THAT HE'S LAZY OR HAS FORMULATED STRICT CONFIDENTIALITY NORMS FROM THE ONTOLOGY, BUT IT'S REALLY BECAUSE THERE ARE STILL MORE THAN TEN MINUTES BEFORE GUNBUSTER ATTACKS IN THE ORIGINAL BOOK, AND THE SMALL FLAME IN JUNG'S HEART IS OBVIOUSLY INEXPLICABLY GROWING GRADUALLY.

This point does not even need to be judged by the deity who is far away in Orion, and it can be easily concluded by relying on the current doppelganger alone.

(Well, Roger's side still doesn't know anything, at least on the surface.) ）

……

The camera pans to the Exelion Command (bridge?) Roger, who had been a little idle since he made the TOP troop attack declaration, sat in the position that could not disturb others as usual, watching Admiral Tashiro and all the members of the headquarters fight the cosmic monster with all their might.

In terms of this guy's consistent stance and habits, he should have been in a routine state of distraction, but just like Jung's side of Love You was unexpectedly a little unsettled, Roger's side actually couldn't maintain the classic rhythm of doing nothing.

DG is not around, Jung himself is on the front line of the battle and is very busy, but the battlefield all-round monitoring system belonging to the reincarnation team is still shared by Noriko and Amano Kasumi, who should have been the team's think tank to be responsible for intelligence classification work, but Jung, the only reincarnation on the intelligence side of the team, is doing the work of the reincarnation on the force side at this time, and correspondingly, those "trade-offs and classification" work can only be replaced by Roger.

The enemy has increased its forces several times, and so far there have been no casualties on our side.

A summary of the situation that sounds quite exciting, if it were really revealed to the natives of the plane, even a natural character like Noriko Takaya would be suspicious, right?

"Although this is a hot-blooded plane that is beyond common sense everywhere, in the eyes of the natives of the plane, everything around them completely follows common sense from beginning to end."

Of course, in DG's summary, there is no deliberate ignorance of the common sense that the "common sense" is based on the plane itself.

But in any case, the proposition that "relying solely on the conventional artillery bombardment of the fleet and the combination of RX-7 and space fighters can make it difficult for the enemy to move an inch" is absolutely untenable under normal conditions.

Even before the time came for the original GUNBUSTER to attack, and Noriko Takaya was ready to raise her hand to tie her headband, there was still no major confusion in the defense line on the Exelion side:

"The TOP troops lost 2%, the space fighter troops lost 31%, and the laser artillery lost 1% ......"

Assuming that the cosmic monsters outside the radar scanning range of the Exelion fleet continue to refuel in batches as they do now, instead of rushing to the top, it seems that this tragic battle of almost total fleet annihilation in the original book will develop into an unprecedented victory.

Something must be wrong!

No matter how sluggish they are, now Admiral Tashiro and the fleet commanders on the first mate's side have gradually noticed the strangeness of the current battle situation. But on the side of Noriko Takaya, who was alone, it was as if nothing had happened, and the first heroine of the plane carefully smoothed her half-long hair, and solemnly tied her headband to her forehead, just as she and Jung had violated in the ghost story after the ghost story until they enjoyed rubbing the laser lenses.

Even Noriko Takaya has many things that she doesn't plan to take the initiative to, or even subjectively doesn't want to do at all. But just as she doesn't know when she has been on good terms with Jung, the headband that originally "symbolized" the sacrifice of her boyfriend in the original plane book has now unwittingly become a symbol of fighting side by side with Jung.

If the DG body was nearby, she would have taken the time to complain to Roger about things like "the empathy effect is obvious to weirdness". But since she died on Orion's side, Roger was of course happy to pretend to be an ordinary dull uncle, and completely ignore the tangled and confused girl's heart and the like.

By the way, although the relationship between the female duo in the current plane is much closer than in the same period in the original book, my sister also doesn't plan to say anything more about the small detail of the headband, although the DG clone in charge of the broadcast has sent her a lot of large and clear close-ups.

It's not so much that Kasumi Amano is deliberately ignoring it like Roger, but that she is in the position of the battlefield command of the TOP troops, and she can't care about wasting time on these trivial things-

Admiral Tashiro's side has gradually realized that the root cause of the "obviously favorable" situation on the battlefield is now bringing unprecedented pressure to my sister's side.

If it weren't for the fact that the landline intelligence of ordinary members of the TOP force had been screened and controlled by the DG clone, Amano Kasumi's command strength would probably have increased by an order of magnitude, or even completely beyond her ability. Assuming that no unexpected accident suddenly happens, I'm afraid that no matter how hard my sister tries, the first batch of dead lists will inevitably appear in the TOP troops.

However, it is clear that Kasumi Amano did not panic, and Noriko Takaya, who was already preparing to board the plane to warm up, did not seem to be worried about the appearance of her comrades.

The reason is actually quite simple.

It's just that Jung's side began to unconsciously show his strength.