Chapter 3 The Inevitable Defeat

In the universe, due to the lack of common references, it is normal to misjudge the size and size of objects.

Well, in Roger's initial plane, there are often similar descriptions in science fiction works of the seventies and eighties. Although Roger has always been skeptical of this statement, it is said that this is one of the reasons why the humanoid mobile weapon was invented, so he certainly has no reason to talk about it as an "ordinary person".

However, if you can't see humans and robots clearly in the universe, if you see a flea in an optical telescope, even the most dull person should feel that something is wrong, right? It's a telescope, not a microscope. If the fleas in this world could fill the entire telescope lens from far and near, human beings would have become extinct long ago.

(Well, isn't humanity facing extinction now...... οΌ‰

There was no need for scientists to make various analyses of this strange cosmic creature, and the pilot of the research ship chose to turn around and return to the sea as soon as possible. And before the escort RX could fully react, Roger had already taken the lead in the plane.

This time, with a clear reference, everyone could see that the flea was even bigger than the RX-the height of the RX-7 was 8.8, and the "flea" troop level was ten meters high--when the remaining escort RXs were still considering whether to divide their troops to support, or to rush up and directly kill the flea, several guys with the same appearance appeared in everyone's field of vision......

To be precise, there were at least a few hundred in the first wave, giving the illusion that the entire sky was full of fleas.

The research ship tried more than a dozen ways to communicate in just a few seconds, but all of them were ineffective.

The flea that hit the head did not slow down from beginning to end, and rushed straight towards the ordinary RX in front of the side of the research ship.

Obviously, there is no need to continue to think about it, the research ship must return at full speed, and the escort team is determined to stay here and try to stop the enemy, at least to buy some reaction time for the whole fleet.

In the communication channel, the research ship and the captain of the escort team have respectively contacted the flagship and transmitted the current situation and preliminary video data. Next, several RXs that had been scattered to guard regrouped and rushed forward with Roger without hesitation in a standard attack formation. (Note 1)

However, by this time, Roger's machine, which was ostensibly an RX, had already dealt with the fleas.

The first round, the electric spear, is invalid.

It was clear that this ineffective attack was deliberately done by Roger, as the tip of his spear was aimed in the direction of the flea giant from the beginning.

As a reincarnation who has a certain understanding of the original book, Roger obviously needs to do more than just kill the enemy in front of him in the shortest possible time. Instead, it should be as indirect as possible to show the enemy's traits as indirectly as possible before the indigenous teammates actually enter the fight.

Otherwise, unless he intends to eliminate all eyewitnesses, he will still be obediently limited to RX weapon-level battles, and of course it will not be too over-spec. And if these teammates can save it......

Well, Roger's idea still seems a little too naΓ―ve.

Although he himself easily entangled the flea in front of him, the rest of the squad suddenly accelerated after determining the human body, and with the RX body ability disguised by DG, it was simply impossible to intercept this number of hundreds of enemies at the same time.

It was also just one round, except for the ace pilot who was supposed to lead the team, the other ordinary guard members had just had time to fire the electric shock spear, and in the next moment, they directly turned into a string of noise in the communication channel.

"It's a lot faster than expected, and if you just use the power of the RX body, you can't fight sports battles at all."

Roger, who had become accustomed to using his belligerent opponent to block attacks from other directions among the enemy, made the following judgment, and at the same time, he did not stop in his hand, and directly pierced the vulnerable part of the opponent's abdomen with a spear straight stab. However, this kind of demonstration seems to be meaningless, because the only remaining ace RX has now fallen into the double crow of some flea. Although he is still struggling, with Roger's current position, I am afraid that it is too late to rush to the rescue with RX speed.

"Hey, DG!"

"Bear with me."

As soon as DG finished speaking, a shell strike from the direction of Roger's rear fleet accurately hit the flea clamping RX.

And it is clear that the shelling is not the only one.

In the case that the research ship had not even completely arrived in the safe area, the Admiral had already ordered the flagship to be ready to attack, and even decisively ordered a salvo at the critical moment just now, saving the ace pilot.

If Roger had blindly gone to the rescue at a speed beyond the RX series just now, the most likely thing would have been that it would not have been cut off by the flea, but would have been directly misfired by friendly fire.

The shelling was followed by a round of conventional yield torpedo shelling.

This wave of attacks didn't do much damage to the cosmic monsters, but it was obviously due to the fact that Roger and the other ace were still in the middle of the battlefield. By the time the two returned to the fleet defense circle under the cover of artillery fire, the torpedo fired from the direction of LUXION had apparently been replaced with a plutonium warhead.

Even in the cosmic vacuum, the power of nuclear bombs is obviously not as powerful as in the atmosphere, but it is enough to deal with these troop levels in front of them.

Even before Roger boarded the ship, hundreds of troop-level cosmic monsters were completely shattered under the salvo of the human fleet.

However, this is clearly just the beginning.

Roger himself knew that the Dao Troop level was at best a tentative weapon for cosmic monsters, but this kind of flea more than ten meters tall was already very beyond common sense, and after LUXION changed the detection method - there were DG hands and feet - and it was also densely packed on the radar screen, even the Admiral was slightly shocked, so he didn't notice that the red dots in those energy indicators were also different in size......

So in this momentary hesitation and miscalculation, the whole fleet chose the intensive shelling mode against the fleas, but it was equivalent to taking the initiative to provide a clear target for the cosmic monsters.

Then, when the Admiral of the High House found that it was not a flea more than ten meters high that was rushing from the opposite side, but an ultra-high-speed light projectile, it would be too late to give the order to disperse the formation and avoid it at full speed.

"High-speed ......"

DG originally wanted to explain something more, but at this time the RX had landed, and Roger jumped out of the cockpit for the first time, asking to replace the conventional warhead carried on the RX with a plutonium bullet, so DG did not continue to talk about it with interest.

Strictly speaking, in this kind of cosmic-class over-the-horizon naval gun fire-and-shoot battle, the role that carrier-based aircraft can play is too small. Don't say that the current RX is just a pocket-sized weapon of less than ten meters, even those space battleships in the fleet in kilometers can't stop the opponent's light bullets at all.

At the same time that Roger jumped out of the cockpit, a human warship was cut off by a small bullet due to its inability to dodge.

Even a flagship like LUXION slowed down after two or three abrasions, and the alarm kept rising.

"Lifeboats are ready, priority is given to scientific researchers."

The high admiral on the bridge gave this brief order with a heavy faceβ€”which may be the reason why he was still denounced by some forces for cowardice after his glorious deathβ€”while the entire fleet struggled to return fire with laser guns and nuclear torpedoes.

Unfortunately, this encounter was too unfavorable for the human side, and in DG's all-round real-time broadcast (it lost its clone before it just retreated), Roger could clearly see that the enemy was only at the troop level with the heaviest damage, and the landing ship-level cosmic monster did not appear at the forefront of the front at all. (Note 2) The high-speed type responsible for shelling itself has the ability to use the tail organs to create a hypergravity wall, and the photon torpedo bombardment in the later part of the original book can withstand it, and the current LUXION fleet, which has not been improved at all, laser guns and ordinary plutonium shells cannot cause any damage to it at all.

Of course, this scenario is not visible from the perspective of the Admiral or other captains, who can only judge by radar that the enemy has suffered certain losses. However, as the red dot decreases more and more slowly, even the other captains who were originally puzzled by the orders of the Admiral finally understood and began to issue the same evacuation orders.

It's just that their escort ships were originally mainly purely military, so even if there was an order, they didn't see the lifeboats being put down.

It should be said that it is worthy of being the first faster-than-light fleet of mankind?

When he jumped back on the RX, Roger finally sighed slightly.

This time, do you still have to choose to give up most people?

The high-speed light bullet is barely able to take on the dimensional shield, but the problem is that Roger doesn't think he has the capital to compete with the power of the stellar level. The lair of these cosmic monsters is obviously in the nearest sun, and even with the addition of the G element reserves that DG collected in the Great Sword Plane, as well as the FOLD crystals that he touched back from various VAJRA corpses, he may still be able to make up the energy of a sun......

"Well, at the very least, do something for these warriors."

Like the other ace pilots, Roger cleanly declined the mission of escorting the lifeboat, and he had to seize this last chance to strike before the truth about the ineffectiveness of the plutonium warhead torpedo reached the flagship.

In fact, judging by the frequency of shelling by the cosmic monsters on the other side, it is impossible for a mere lifeboat to escape. Then even if it is for the sake of your own mission to go smoothly, this trip must go!

"Enemy light bullets, fifteen seconds before the second wave arrives!"

"Full speed dodge! Quick, full speed dodge! ”

"Captain Roger drove the RX against the order, and there was no way to stop it."

"At least stop me from the other guys who are doing the same!"

In the chaos on the bridge, Admiral Takaya subconsciously straightened his military hat and expressed simple condolences to the sunken warship in the second round of enemy artillery bombardment.

"Go on, all the guns are ready to fight!"

With DG's assisted calculations, Roger knew that the opponent had five minutes left in the next volley. At present, what affects the salvo efficiency of the cosmic monster is not the frequency of the launch, it is purely that the landing boat type has not been used, and the other party is simply playing.

In the usual tactics of cosmic monsters, it should have been the high-speed stabbing of those cones that were originally followed by the troop-level charge. Tactics such as the combination of long-range artillery and melee combat by miscellaneous soldiers have a deep understanding in the original book, and although the current LUXION fleet has suffered heavy losses, it is obviously only caused by the excessive difference in strength. Judging from the data provided by DG, the first two rounds of exploratory shooting did not use more than half of the high-speed type at all......

Next, the other party must conduct a round of pure landing boat-type puncture drills.

Roger, who was already a certain distance away from the human fleet, threw out an electric spear and detonated one of his nuclear torpedoes. Then, using the temporary shield brought about by this nuclear explosion, he directly transformed the mech back into the form of the Venerable Gundam, and plunged straight into it at full speed at a speed several times higher than just now.

The shielding work was given to the DG as usual, and in order to be safe, the latter deliberately created an afterimage of the RX with an identification signal not far from the nuclear explosion range.

"Fortunately, there is no existence in this plane that can understand each other with cosmic monsters."

Roger, who was turning and shuttling in the trajectory of his own laser cannon, was saying incomprehensible lines while already touching the assembly site of the landing boat.

And then

Twelve-sided ace big wheels.

From the point of view of the LUXION fleet, it was just another plutonium torpedo blast. But from the perspective of the cosmic monsters, it was a strange troop level that broke through more than seventy percent of their cone-shaped tubes, and the scheduled piercing operation was naturally forced to be suspended.

……

"Enemy light bullets, the third wave has thirty seconds left!"

"Captain Roger piloted the RX and returned home seriously injured."

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Note 1: In the third episode of the original book, when the TOP troops attacked, they were crowned by Ota as the first mechanical weapon unit attack in human history. So in the paragraph I added at the beginning, everyone understands it as the first time that they are forced to fight.

Note 2: The landing boat is the kind of cone tube type, although in fact fleas should also be classified as seafood, but it doesn't seem to be disgusting enough to describe it that way, so "flea" is used, otherwise it will obviously look weird with hairy crabs......