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The two Skylords and Strike Gundams aboard the Archangel were quickly put into the starting battle under Maru's orders.

As always, the Strike Gundam cooperates with the Archangel to deal with underwater enemies - the Gundam on Earth is too affected by the earth's environment and gravity, and even the absolute MS faction like Zaft is specially developed for the atmosphere, land, and sea. At least Kira has no plans to jump into the sea to fight the Zaft MS for the time being.

Because of Liu Qi's amazing performance in the previous battles, Mu was very relieved to throw the three Deen to Liu Qi to deal with, and went directly to search for the diving carrier of Zaft.

"Cut, only three Dean"

Liu Qi, who is currently in a good mood, saw that the three Deans did not plan to continue to play cat play rats, and directly cooperated with his mental power to lock the opponent's dodge distance, and after a beam cannon hit a rushing Dean into a fireworks, he drove the Airlord to start chasing and killing the other two Dean, who tried to bypass him and attack the Archangel.

The two Deans were extremely powerless in the face of the Airlord who was hanging with mental power and the pilot's nervous reaction speed was terrifying, and the missiles and shells fired could not hit the ghost-like opponent at all, and the opponent's attack was a bullet, and in less than three minutes, the two Deans knelt down like the first Dean, turning into two very conspicuous fireworks in the sky.

Liu Qi's efficiency was so fast that the people on the other two battlefields didn't react. When Liu Qi took out the three Dean, the Archangel's Strike Gundam was playing whack-a-mole on the deck with the Archangel's firepower, while Mu had not yet found Zaft's dive carrier and was now conducting a general search on the ocean.

As a result, Liu Qi, who was free, had to serve as a firefighter and began to fly to the Archangel to fight fires.

Half an hour later, Zaft's attack finally came to an end!

Zaft's side lost one submarine carrier, three air combat Dean, two water combat Gern, and one water combat reinforced Zonno, and the Ramosim squad in the Zaft sequence was completely withdrawn.

Except for the Gundam that needs to check the problems that the aircraft may encounter when entering the ocean for combat, the Archangel basically does not have any other combat power losses - the ammunition and missiles fired out should not be considered losses but losses.

In the original book, Cagalli, the pilot of the second knife, piloted the Airmaster, although he followed Mu to attack and successfully destroyed Zaft's dive carrier, but because he was damaged by the aviation module and deviated from the course, the same as the transport plane carrying Aslan and Aegis Gundam set off alone from the Gibraltar base for some things, and the encounter on the desert island after the crossfire was over.

Of course, Liu Qi doesn't care about whether the blonde lion cub and Aslan will not be affected in the future because they didn't meet because of this chance encounter - for him, it is more important for Maru and Bucky Lulu, who originally broke out in the first public conflict because they didn't stay to rescue Cagalli, that they are safe, as for Cagalli, who has now turned into a firepower controller, will she not like Aslan, who has a dime to Liu Qi, because of Liu Qi's insertion?

Anyway, in Liu Qi's opinion, in the plot of "Gundam SEED", the relationship between Aslan and Cagalli is not a big problem, and he doesn't have to worry about these little things, what he is more concerned about is the next battle and journey before entering Orb.

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Because Cagalli was stranded on a desert island and had an affair with Aslan, the Archangel, who did not delay the time, arrived in the Strait of Malacca a day earlier than the original book, and had a fierce battle with the Zaft defenders there.

As the most important maritime crossing in Asia, a maritime crossroads connecting the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, Zaft has definitely put a lot of effort into occupying the Strait of Malacca, especially not far from this important road is facing the East Asian Republic, which has the strongest army among the three hooligans of the United Earth side, and Zaft's side does not dare to take it lightly.

However, the Archangel was alone, and the battleship ignored the heavily armed Strait of Malacca and prepared to go directly to it, which can be said to have stepped directly on Zaft's face, even if it was unable to encircle and suppress the Archangel with all its strength in the face of the military pressure of the East Asian Republic, but Zaft's garrison in the Strait of Malacca and the mobile forces around it were basically all mobilized, and they came towards the Archangel.

"Damn! Fifteen Dean! Twelve Gunn! Three Zono!! TMD: That's too much to look up to the Archangel, right?"

Liu Qi used his mental power to 'look' at the enemy outside, and complained from time to time, Nima's is at least three or four Zaft squads, right? And the three diving carriers that are dozens of kilometers away, is it so exaggerated?

Well, but in terms of the importance of the Strait of Malacca, these forces of Zaft's attack are not much, if it weren't for the Archangel's blatant intrusion into the Strait of Malacca, Zaft's commander in the Strait of Malacca would not have the interest to hunt down the Archangel, which was the mission of the Sara team who had just transferred to the base in Carpentalia a few days ago!

But the Archangel openly ran to Malacca's side, and it was too bad to give face to the Zaft commander stationed in the Strait of Malacca, not to mention that the Archangel also put on a posture of forcibly breaking through the Strait of Malacca, which of course made Zaft's commander in Malacca angry, and directly used all the mobile forces on hand to encircle and suppress the Archangel.

In the face of the siege of dozens of air-to-sea MS special types, the Archangel fought extremely hard in this battle, not to mention the Zaft land turret and defensive positions on the edge of the Strait of Malacca.

If it weren't for the fact that the Archangel was solid enough, and Mu, Liu Qi, Kira, Cagalli and others played at a super level, it is estimated that the Archangel would have been planted directly in the Strait of Malacca.

The tragic Strait of Malacca Breakthrough Battle lasted for several hours, the Assault Gundam and the two Air Overlords basically took turns to attack twice, and the new space ship Archangel was also damaged in many places in the battle, but in the end, the Archangel successfully broke through the Strait of Malacca!

Of course, even the Archangel, a new type of ship in the universe, is so wolf-blinking, and Zaft's side is no better.

By the time the Archangel had successfully broken through the Strait of Malacca, Zaft's side could announce that at least three squads had been eliminated from their own formations - the wreckage of dozens of MSs and three diving carriers was lying directly in the trench and shore of the Strait of Malacca, and was expected to become a new nest of fish and sea creatures, not counting the losses of the Zaft defenders on the land side of Malacca.

In contrast, in addition to being damaged in many places by land and shore defense artillery fire, the two Airlord and Strike Gundam that attacked did not suffer any losses, which were much stronger than the MS and the dive carrier that were completely destroyed on the Zaft side.

Originally, the Sara team led by Aslan was going to flank the Archangel with the Malacca defenders, but the submersible aircraft carrier that the Sara team was riding had problems halfway, and the Sara team did not participate in the siege of the Archangel.

It can be described as a great luck in misfortune, the lack of these four difficult G-series Gundams as the backbone to cooperate with those regular MS to participate in the siege of the Archangel, so that the Archangel only paid a slight price for multiple hull damage to the ship to force a breakthrough through Zaf's special defense line in the Strait of Malacca, directly into the Pacific Basin.

Of course, except for Liu Qi, the people on the bridge who celebrated the Archangel's final breakthrough to Malacca, a key location for returning to Alaska, did not know that the most difficult test of the Archangel's successful return to Alaska was still to come.

Looking at the other people in the celebration, Liu Qi, who came down from the Air Overlord, of course would not be stupid enough to be the kind of person who was disgusted by pouring cold water on others - anyway, according to Liu Qi's estimate, no matter how bad the situation of the Archangel number is after he joins, it is impossible to be worse than the situation in the original book, if the Archangel number is really not good, Liu Qi can still run away with people directly

Not to mention the excitement of the Archangel's side after breaking through the Strait of Malacca, Zaft's side almost crooked his nose in anger.

The enemy only managed to cross the Strait of Malacca, which was heavily defended by his own troops?!! And the losses on their side are unusually heavy??!!!

This absurd fact almost turned Zaft's headquarters base in Carpentalia on Earth upside down, and Zaft, who has won almost every battle since the joint war with Earth, can endure this humiliation? If it weren't for the fact that Zaft was planning a large-scale campaign against the headquarters of the Combined Earth Forces in Alaska, it is estimated that the Zaft top management at the Carpentaria base would have sent all the mobile forces in the Indian Ocean and Oceania to hunt down the Archangel.

Of course, this does not mean that Zaft is blind to the archangel number that has risen to the thorn in the flesh, on the contrary, Zaft has made up his mind to solve the other party at once.

After a few orders at the Zaft Earth Headquarters Base in Carpentalia, several diving carriers loaded with MS set off from several Zaft military bases in the Indian Ocean and Oceania Federation a few hours later, heading in the direction of the Archangel's departure, they will join the Sara team that was lagging behind due to mechanical failure in the middle of the road, and then coordinate their actions together under the orders of Captain Aslan Sala to destroy the target of this time - the Archangel battleship at once!!

However, it will be a long time before the convergence of several diving carriers, so the Archangel still has a few days to go.

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A few days later

C.E. 23 March 71

In the South Pacific Ocean, in the waters of less than two hundred nautical miles of Orb

"Captain! The radar found a large number of Zaft's MS signals and found the Zaft air combat MS Dean, the number of which was 30!! Discover Duel Gundam! Storm Gundam! Aegis Gundam! Thunderbolt Gundam!!"

The radar soldier looked at the dense mass of MS signals in front of him, and after distinguishing the number and model of the enemy representing the MS signals, he reported to Maliu with an earthy face.

"What??" *N

Everyone on the bridge, including Marlu, had a change of face when they heard the bad news, even Lieutenant Bucky Lulu, who had always been known for his calmness.

"The sonar has detected the enemy's water warfare-type MS signal! Gunn 10!"

As if feeling that the atmosphere in the bridge was not frightened and desperate enough, the sonar crew also reported the news of the enemy found by the underwater sonar.

Although the number of enemies under the water is not large, and it cannot even be compared to the number of enemies encountered in the previous breakthrough of the Strait of Malacca, it is too bad news at this time to be too bad to be bad!

Don't look at the Archangel with almost dozens of MS and enemies on land all the way out of the Strait of Malacca, only slightly injured, but the enemy was not swarmed at that time, but entered the battle in three batches at an interval of a few minutes or even ten minutes, and then Liu Qi and Mu cooperated with the Strike Gundam to break through one by one.

Now that the opponent not only has more MS than the enemies in the Strait of Malacca, but is still a whole, it is undoubtedly impossible to rely on two Airlord and Strike Gundam to deal with the opponent in this case, not to mention that in addition to the large number of ordinary Dean and Gern, there are also four G-series Gundams as the backbone of the team.

"All staff level 1 combat readiness! The Archangel is moving forward at full speed, and the Air Overlord strikes to stop the attack of the sluggish enemy! The Strike Gundam is on board the ship and ready to attack!"

After a moment of panic, Malu finally took out her strength and began to give two orders that were absolutely wise.

"Airlord! Strike Gundam! Your mission is to slow down the enemy as much as possible and buy time for the Archangel, not to destroy all the enemies!!"

Bucky Lulu also opened her mouth and instructed the people in Gnacu directly, but except for herself and Liu Qi, no one else could hear the hint of worry and dissuasion.

"Understood!" *3

The three people who had already boarded the Airlord and the Strike Gundam all said in unison. Then the two Airlords were ejected directly into the sky, and the Strike Gundam also carried the "Fire God" and the beam gun to prepare for shooting on the Archangel - if it was not absolutely necessary, the Strike Gundam on Earth generally avoided air and water battles, and land battles could barely make up.

Liu Qi, who had specially changed into artillery equipment like Mu because he was facing four G-series Gundams, flew to the rear with Mu in the Airmaster, and in less than five minutes, they found the group of conspicuous targets they were looking for.

"Bastard! There are so many!!"

This was the most immediate reaction in Mu's brain when he saw the number of his enemies.

"That's enough! I don't know how the Archangel got rid of each other in the original plot."

This was the first reaction in Liu Qi's mind.

I saw that in mid-air, thirty ordinary Dean and Captain-type Dean were lined up in a loose formation when flying in the sky, and the four G-series Gundams were stepping on the unmanned aerial vehicle Gru produced by Zaft, and in the formation, it seemed to be the boss in Dean.

When the Airlord discovers the Dean group and several G-Series Gundams, the other party also discovers the two Airlords!

Aslan, who had gathered a lot of useful information from the Desert Tiger Destruction and the Breach of the Strait of Malacca, gave a few orders in the Aegis Gundam, and half of Dean accelerated out of the phalanx, preparing to intercept the two Airlords.

"Strike Gundam, the enemy's orientation is XX, XX, and the height is 23!"

Seeing a dozen Dean rushing towards him and being met with a rain of bullets and missiles, Mu called the Strike Gundam on the Archangel to try his luck while operating the Airlord to dodge the opponent's attack.

"Boom-"

"Boom-"

However, just as Mu had just avoided Dean's attack, he saw more than a dozen Dean's two beam cannons disappear in a flash, and then the two Deans exploded into two large fireworks - obviously this was Liu Qi's attack!

Two seconds later, a scarlet thick energy beam cannon also pierced the entire sky, skewering three unlucky Dean with sugar gourds, one of which was directly hit by Dean exploded on the spot, and two of the affected ones were also injured.

"Yo he! It's all very good, look at me!!"

was the first to be achieved by Liu Qi and Kira, and Mu, who called himself the MA ace pilot, was a little unable to hang up, and directly manipulated the Airlord to attack, and also shot down a Dean!

In less than a minute of contact, the air combat type Dean on the Zaft side lost 20%, which can be described as a heavy loss!

Of course, this is not to say that Zaft's Dean is made of tofu, or that the driver inside is a parallel import—otherwise the soldiers who died at the hands of the United Earth Forces at Dean's hands would have cried.

However, compared to the three traversers who have mental power cheating and super nervous reaction speed, Kira, who is the strongest adjuster, and the MA ace pilot who has the title of 'Eagle of Andymion' in the United Earth Army, Dean, the pilot of Zaft's special atmosphere MS, is really a little worse. However, Dean's pilots are all experienced veterans after all, and Aslan, who commanded in the Aegis Gundam, is not an idiot, and after finding that the two enemies on the opposite side are difficult to entangle, he directly gave the order to disperse the attack.

After the scattered Dean took advantage of his high mobility, Kira could only put down the "Fire God" and pick up the beam gun that was put aside for accurate shooting, while Liu Qi and Mu were also in a bitter battle with the enemy who had an absolute advantage in numbers.

The Archangel also had to fire at this time, and no longer save the little ammunition left - after a few hours of fierce fighting to break through the Strait of Malacca, the Archangel's ammunition reserves, which were not abundant, had dropped to the warning line, but now depending on the situation, if the Archangel still saves ammunition, the consequence is that it is ready to become a new reef at the bottom of the sea.

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While the Archangel was fighting a large number of MS led by Sarah's team, the Republic of Orb, less than two hundred nautical miles from the place of engagement, also discovered the fierce battle that was going on.

However, Orb's high-level officials are currently only concerned about the battle between Zaft and the new ship of the Earth Union, and they do not plan to participate in it, even if the new ship of the Earth Union outside is the latest work of the Dawning Society, it is no exception - neutral countries, they will definitely not participate in the battle between two powerful forces! Even if the new ship is of its own production, it is no exception!

It's a pity that the Archangel fought with Zaft all the way and did not directly bypass Orb as Orb higher-ups thought, on the contrary, the location of the battle has been close to Orb's land! (To be continued......)