ACT348: Bloody Ball (Part II)

Eda has always been proud to be the full-time pilot of Caesar, Italy's most powerful giant soldier. But now, after this series of unfortunate events, Eda has to think about a very serious question...... Will driving the Giant God Soldier lead to a decrease in luck value!?

Whenever Edda thought back to the events that had happened in the past few years when she was driving Caesar, she was always shocked to find that she was almost insulated from good luck. First in Ethiopia and then in Spain, Caesar, who she piloted, was wounded twice in battle by a far inferior titan soldier.

This made Edda feel that if it weren't for the surname "Mussolini" in her name, she might have been fired and thrown away to drive those tattered Fiats.

Just 30 minutes earlier, Edda, who had been disturbed at the ball, had silently "prayed" to the all-knowing and all-powerful God for a bomber to help her out of her misery. As a result, Lord God not only really responded to his requests, but also sent more than 100 planes in one go. So when the air defense sirens on board the ship suddenly sounded, Eddaby was shocked to anyone present.

"Oh God! That's what I just thought, you're really pie! ”

There wasn't much time for Edda to complain, and just a few minutes after the air raid sirens sounded, a group of strange planes painted in navy blue broke through the perimeter cordon and appeared in their field of vision. Those who know how to know that these fighters are equipped with "crystals" as soon as they look at the flight speed, which means that they are far superior to ordinary fighters in terms of performance, and they will be even more difficult to deal with!

If it weren't for the asteroids and space pumice rocks around them, which limited the speed of these fighters and provided natural shelter for the Andrea, these enemy planes might even have crawled in under the anti-aircraft fire net with all their tails and rushed directly in front of the Italian flagship!

In the blink of an eye, several Japanese gunboats that were in the way between Andrea and the enemy group were set on fire. These little guys with a displacement of less than a thousand tons, both in armor and in position, are very weak, and their defense is no different from that of paper paste. Even in the face of ordinary high-explosive torpedoes. These small boats are 1~2 rounds of "blood", and the enemy planes cleaned them out without much effort.

And at this time, on the foredeck of Andrea, almost half of the officers were not evacuated.

Almost in the blink of an eye, the enemy plane responsible for opening the way roared over Andrea's head. Although the fighters had just summoned their torpedoes to the Japanese gunboats, they still ferociously strafed the deck with their cannons, and Andrea's only six 76mm anti-aircraft guns were almost useless.

The banquet scene became a mess in an instant!

It is true that the 20mm cannon is ineffective in hitting a battleship, but if it is used to hit people, not to mention a direct hit, it is possible to lose your life from a distance of one or two meters. Many officers on the deck who didn't have time to find a concealment were directly beaten into a pile of minced meat by the machine guns on the spot!

"Your Excellency the Commander of the Protection Brigade!"

Seeing the ferocity of the invading enemy planes, several Japanese officers hurriedly covered Abe Norihide and withdrew in the direction of the cabin.

Originally, Norihide Abe was the supreme governor of the Japanese side. As soon as the air raid sirens sounded, they should have retreated to Andrea's cabin first. But this old man felt that he would lose his majesty as a "lieutenant general of the Imperial Japanese Army", so he had to stay on the deck to see the heroic posture of the elite fighters under his command, but what he saw was the scene of his own defense line being torn apart by enemy fighters.

The dumbfounded Abe Norihide wants to leave at this time, and it's already a little too late!

In fact, not only Abe Norihide, but most of the officers on both sides who participated in the party had not been able to retreat to the cabin in time at this time.

The Japanese-Italian coalition forces arranged a total of four cordons on the periphery of the mine, and the outermost two circles were easily circumvented by the other side, and they were not discovered until the third circle.

Although this patrol urgently notified the headquarters at the first time, the group of planes that broke into the country did not entangle with them too much and went straight to the nest. Therefore, the air defense sirens on the Andrea sounded for less than 3 minutes, and the enemy aircraft were already in contact with the last line of defense. And easily crush it.

It was only at this moment that the Italian Navy and the Japanese Army really felt the power of aircraft in space! In particular, the Japanese Army had not been less ridiculed by the Navy in the decisive battle between Tang and Japan, and more than 100 warships, large and small, were frightened back by the two aircraft carriers of the Tang Army at the last moment. Now it's their turn to experience it for themselves. The high-speed gunboats, which were once pinned on high hopes, were beaten and had no power to fight back!

Even if the battleships of the Navy have insufficient air defense, at least the armor and stance are thick enough, and it is not much of a problem to eat a few torpedoes, but these gunboats of the Army only need to take one shot. Even if you don't die, you are seriously injured, and compared to the dexterity of a battleship, it means nothing in front of a fighter!

Flee in a hurry. Eda also retreated to the cabin after Abe and the others, and she was now desperate to get back to the Glory. In the face of these highly maneuverable enemy planes, only Caesar could turn the tide, but her gorgeous evening dress and high heels made her unable to move, and she tripped over something before she ran two steps, and fell firmly.

And just as Eda fell, an enemy plane whizzed past her. By the time Eda looked up again, Abe had turned into slimy meat sauce along with his men who were trying to use his body to block 20mm high-explosive bombs. Those pieces of meat that were still twitching, disgusting Edda almost threw up!

"Damn! If there is Caesar in ......"

Rising from the ground, Edda first kicked the damn high heels for ease of movement, then tore the hem of her skirt fiercely, and strode towards the stern of the boat. There were two reconnaissance airships over there, and Edda planned to use that adventure back to the Splendor.

And it was at this time that the second wave of enemy attacks came!

Because of the complex space environment, the 38 attack planes that broke through into the enemy formation could not launch attacks at the same time, so they could only go into battle in batches. The first wave of 8 fighters took out the gunboats in their way and was responsible for suppressing the enemy's anti-aircraft guns, and the second wave of 10 fighters was divided into two squads to strike at the two main targets, of which Andrea was so large that the team that attacked her had a total of 7 planes.

Seeing these enemy planes that were obviously coming towards him, Andrea, who was standing proudly on the turret, suddenly became anxious, turned his new 320mm main gun, and fired a salvo in the direction where the enemy was attacking.

Andrea didn't expect to hit the fast enemy planes with her main guns, and all of her shells hit nearby asteroids, sending them flying with debris. Three enemy planes crashed into the middle of the road because they could not avoid the stones, but four still managed to evade and hit Andrea from both directions and threw torpedoes.

At this critical moment, two figures slightly smaller than Andrea blocked her upper and lower sides. Andrea looked closely and saw that the heavy cruiser Taranto was on it. The other flew directly above her and across her hull, trying to withstand the attack with her toughest main armor belt, while the Trieste was protecting her underneath.

But when Andrea saw the actions of these two followers, she jumped to her feet angrily and scolded!

"These two fools! Go and protect the glory! ”

The two heavy cruisers simply saw that the flagship and the officers above were in trouble, so they sacrificed themselves to help block the guns. But Andrea is a battleship after all, and even if you eat a few torpedoes, you may not be killed, but the Brilliant as a transport ship does not have as much blood as her!

Angry and anxious, Andrea could only watch as the Brilliant, which was supposed to be under key protection, was severely damaged by three high-explosive torpedoes and broken in two! Although she knew that Caesar inside would be fine, it would cause the giant soldiers to be unable to dispatch.

At this time, Andrea saw Edda, who was running barefoot on the deck, and then looked at the Splendor, which was broken in two. She felt that if she remembered correctly, the Titan should be placed in the rear cabin, and judging from the location of the Brilliant break and the damage, there should be no problem with the second half.

Andrea had a plan, and she jumped up to Edda's side, grabbed her and shouted.

"Edda! Are you going back to the Brilliant? ”

"That's right! I must do my best to activate Caesar, or we will be crushed. ”

"Then I'll help you!"

"Huh!?"

Under Ada's bewildered gaze, Andrea lifted her up, who was taller than herself, and then steered the battleship towards the Brilliant (second half), which had been disarmed by assimilation. When the distance between the two ships was less than 100 meters, Andrea jumped and jumped directly with Eda to the opposite ship.

At this time, the Brilliant had been "sunk", and the gravity environment disappeared after the core and hull were released from the assimilation state. After the two boarded the ship, Andrea carried Eda all the way, and the two soon came to the hangar where Caesar was parked, and saw Caesar unharmed on the fixed shelf, and Andrea, who was counting on it to save the scene, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

"Good thing this thing is fine."

"Don't worry! This kind of attack will not hurt Caesar at all! ”

Too late to change the pilot's suit, Eda simply took off the expensive evening dress and threw it away, and got into the cockpit wearing underwear and underwear. At this time, Andrea suddenly frowned, showing a slightly painful expression, and Eda knew that it was the other party's hull that had been shot.

So Edda activated the giant god soldier as fast as he could, and Caesar, under her control, directly relied on brute force to break free from the fixed frame, and then broke out of the cabin. The appearance of their ace immediately boosted the morale of the Italian troops present, and the enemy aircraft group that had just finished the third wave of attacks began to retreat.

Eda smiled coldly at the enemy's movements, and immediately drove Caesar in pursuit. She plans to return the favor with her own way and directly destroy the other party's mothership. But at this time, Edda didn't know that as soon as Caesar started, the main target of the enemy shifted from Andrea to her, and the unprecedentedly strong enemy was quietly waiting for her to throw herself into the net! (To be continued......)

PS: There should be another update before 1 o'clock, there should be no problem!