Chapter Sixty-Eight: An Unexpected Encounter
"Ryder!" The movement behind him and the sudden ban on the noise in the channel made the pilot of the other Zagu a little startled, and he couldn't help but yell involuntarily in his usual calm - well, he was a little panicked.
From behind him, he could hear that the enemy was approaching his side. So, he will control his own body, and touch the huge robotic arm to the back of his waist.
This is the standard action of holding an electric tomahawk.
Zagu is a robot after all. Although he is controlled by a human, some movements cannot be as rich as a human.
How to run, how to take a weapon, these can be many variations in people, and in it can only be rigidity of program control. For the same action, he did it a thousand times, and ten thousand times it was like that. Maybe the ace pilot is more clever in grasping the timing of the action, but in the body movement itself, the ace and the miscellaneous soldiers are still similar.
This gave Xu Yu a chance.
"Whew!" In the yellow sand of the sky, the huge body of the sharp soldier suddenly became clear from the haze, and before her figure was fully revealed, a red light from the bottom up directly cut off the ancient green arm.
"What?" Zagu's pilot was startled. For a moment, he felt as if something was missing from his body.
And then the warning sound sounded in the cabin, which made him look down at the warning icon on the screen, and his eyes widened even more: "Arm ......" On the body warning screen, the part of Zagu's right arm has completely turned black.
This proves that the right arm of his body has completely disappeared.
"Damn!" the pilot had already understood that something was wrong, and he instinctively controlled the mech to back off, but only took a step back, and he suddenly remembered that his enemy was behind him.
"Isn't this a door-to-door delivery?" he wanted to change the body's movements. But it was already too late.
"Huh!" Soldier No. 2 slashed with a sword, and a red sword light slashed across Zagu's chest. The scorching stream of particles sliced directly through Zagu's chest cavity and cleverly severed Zagu's power pipes, preventing Zagu from detonating in the nuclear furnace.
The upper body of the "Ping ......" Zagu slanted forward along the cut fracture, falling heavily to the ground, splashing a high column of smoke.
The dust has settled.
With the annihilation of this Zagu, this supply point was completely occupied by the federal army.
Yuan Hao asked Xiong Tailin to fire a signal flare to notify the cruisers in the rear to come here to clean up the mess.
He was a more cautious person. Although he went out with two cruisers, he generally only allowed the "Lily Marlene", who was in charge of boarding the three spearheads, to carry out the activities, and the other "Hamburg" was placed further away by him, under the sign that it clearly belonged to the Jean Army.
After all, this is still Jean's sphere of influence. In order to prevent the activities of this team from being discovered by the Jean Army, he had to make such an arrangement.
The movement of the take-off and landing of motorized cruisers was very large. With a length of 255 meters, a width of 221.58 meters, and a height of 70 meters, it is also a behemoth no matter how you look at it, and in the desert, such a behemoth is doing low-altitude behavior, and the smoke column it causes can be clearly seen several kilometers away.
However, fortunately, the vast desert Hanhai Ling Jin's army could not be densely arranged. Before selecting the combat target, Yuan Hao had already learned that the nearest supply depots were 300 kilometers away. In Yuan Hao's view, such a distance represents safety.
That's right, the supply station of the Jean Army did assume the responsibility of suppressing one side and understanding the dynamics of one side. However, in the absence of any information, there are not many people who will turn the antenna all day long to listen to everything and watch everything with binoculars. In addition, due to the curvature of the Earth, it is difficult for ordinary telescopes to observe movement up to 300 kilometers away.
As for the timed radio contact?
Forehead...... Don't you know that in an environment full of yellow sand, the radio facilities of the Jean Army are prone to problems?
Jean is a cosmic man, and many of them have never been to Earth in their lifetimes, let alone in a place with an extreme environment like the desert. So Jean's radio system is prone to errors on Earth.
With the support of this radio system, it is not surprising that supply depots hundreds of kilometers apart have no contact with each other for a day, and even a week without communication.
In short, the long distance gave Yuan Hao's actions a secret guarantee.
Secrecy means safety. And security gave Yuan Hao time to make more moves, such as capturing those Jean soldiers who were still alive at the supply station.
It's the time of mobile suits, and the average infantryman, though always a large presence in Jean and the Federation, only exists as an auxiliary force. Replenishing mobile suits and vehicles, monitoring and patrolling areas under their control, and suppressing civilians in occupied areas—much of what they do is the work of logisticians or armed police.
So much so that up to now, basically no one will regard these soldiers, whose combat effectiveness is basically close to five, as real soldiers. In this war, as long as ordinary soldiers do not do stupid things, as long as they can survive the fire of the battle, then even if they fail, they can be treated as regular prisoners of war. It's not great, but it's not bad.
Especially in the Federation, the treatment of Jean prisoners is still good. As long as they're not stupid.
The battle is over, but things are not over.
Carry supplies, escort prisoners, camouflage the battlefield...... Of course, there is a more important thing, and that is to write a combat report.
The task of the 6th Mobile Teaching Brigade - their unit is not simply to carry out operations, but simply to break the enemy. Their aim is to obtain as much data as possible through the use of equipped MS. Therefore, of course, the more actual combat battles are carried out, the better, but the more detailed the relevant combat records should be, the better.
Yuan Hao: They are warriors on the battlefield and testers at the same time. For a prototype like the Pioneer, which can only be regarded as a test type, they must dutifully raise all the problems they encounter to make a reference for further improvement of the body in the future.
Perhaps it is a very troublesome thing for many pilots to write such a report, but for Yuan Hao and Xiong Tailin, it is really simple. Yuan Hao didn't say it, Xiong Tailin and they were all the kings of soldiers in their respective fields. Since the war has developed in the direction of high technology, the so-called king of soldiers is not so simple as being able to fight.
The upper can swing a knife to cut people, and the lower can write a book, this is the requirement of the new generation of soldiers.
Holding a notepad in your hand and holding a pen between your fingers - this convenient pen that does not need to be dipped in ink is more popular in the chaos of the battlefield.
In short, Yuan Hao dropped a line on the white paper like this, writing his own experience. As he wrote, he echoed, adding to what he thought was important, and the otherwise blank paper gradually plumped up.
The writing continued, one page was full, and it continued on the other page, and Yuan Hao was still very serious when he did this.
Suddenly, he paused, his face changed slightly, and he looked up at the western sky.
There seemed to be nothing there, but Yuan Hao seemed to hear a sharp whistling.
"Enemy attack! Long-range artillery defense!" Yuan Hao's face changed slightly, and he quickly gave an order.
By the time he uttered this, he had already seen two small black dots rapidly expanding in his field of vision.
"10 seconds left before landing? Is this shelling from 22 kilometers away? Twin salvo...... Is it the Gallop class of the Jean Army?" Yuan Hao recalled the data in his mind and quickly made a judgment. In fact, he had also heard this piece of information: "A partisan unit on the side of the Jean army has come all the way west from Odessa and seems to be investigating something. It seems to have something to do with the V operation on the side of the Federation. ”
"It's a V operation, but the target is yourself. Unconsciously, Yuan Hao connected the two. V Operations is developing mobile suits, and they are also developing mobile suits on their side.
And Yuan Hao clearly understands that the body of the V operation has always been in Zablo in South America, and will soon be put into the universe - how can the latest sharp aircraft from the United States be tested in Asia, which is a very funny thing to think about.
"So your own actions have been discovered?" Yuan Hao muttered quietly, but there was no fear in his heart: "If you find it, you will find it!" Anyway, the other party has not confirmed it, as long as your side can quickly defeat them and not let the news spread so quickly, then everything seems to have room for redemption. ”
"Twenty-two kilometers!" Yuan Hao returned to the cockpit of his body and connected to the communication with "Lily Marlene": "There is Jean's elite here. They launched long-range artillery strikes...... It should have discovered our existence. Now our goal is to meet them! Get the Hamburger forward, detour to the rear of the Gallop. We're flanking them from the front and back!"
Yuan Hao quickly laid out a fairly reliable battle plan. He knew that his side was exposed, but the Hamburg, which was on guard in the distance, was not. Therefore, if you let the Hamburger cooperate with your actions, it will definitely be able to surprise the other party.
Yuan Hao is a risk-taking person, but as the head of a clan, he doesn't like to take risks.
At this time, Yuan Hao's side was still 3 seconds away from the shell landing.
After arranging these, Yuan Hao had already raised the No. 1 plane, which had been suspended and standby, to a higher place, and controlled his body to get close to the flying wings of "Lily Marlene".
Relying on the powerful Zanzibar-class mobile cruiser "Lily Marlene" to protect himself in the future is a decision made by Yuan Hao at the moment. As the captain of the 6th Mobile Training Team, he clearly knew that compared to the Mobile Cruiser, it was still the "top soldier" who was more important.
The cannonball fell heavily and landed twelve meters in front of Lily Marlene at a distance of 12 meters at the middle of 6 o'clock.
In terms of the accuracy of long-range artillery strikes under the Minovsky particle, this is a very good level.
Aside from the distortion of the air flow caused by the desert heat, the Minovsky particle has its own optical offset effect, so that the image in the scope is different from the actual one.
This point, reflected in actual combat, makes it difficult to aim directly.
The opposite Gallop class can achieve a 12-meter close miss in the first round, which is already a very difficult thing.
"Click...... Click!" two crunched sounds. The piercing bomb, which sank directly into the ground, finally triggered the time-delay fuse. At this moment, the gunpowder inside the body exploded, turning the shell into countless fragments, covering a radius of two or three hundred meters.
The "sharp soldier" who had already stood his shield in front of him and half-squatted in his body was hit by the steel rain at this moment. Yuan Hao only felt that his body shook for a while, and even when he heard the sound of "crackling", he couldn't stop ringing.
"What an amazing whirlwind. Yuan Hao muttered quietly.
This whirlwind comes and goes quickly. Less than two seconds passed, and the blow was over.
"Tailin, assault! You are the vanguard, Xu Yu and I follow!" Yuan Hao quickly commanded.
THE MAIN GUN OF THE GALLOP CLASS IS 280MM CALIBER. This is an incredibly powerful piece of heavy artillery. It's just that the rate of fire is a little worse than that of ordinary army artillery.
As a light warship, in order to ensure the weight and maneuverability of the battleship itself, the Gallop class is not equipped with an automatic lifting machine that is conducive to shelling, which makes the fastest rate of fire of the Gallop only 1 round per minute.
Such a rate of fire was enough for the three "spearheads" who obeyed Yuan Hao's orders and struggled forward to quickly close the distance between the two sides while running.
You know, the top speed of the "Spearhead" on land when equipped with the air cushion suit is an astonishing 260 km/h. That's much faster than Zagu's 65 km/h.
"22 km...... It's just over five minutes before we can rush in on him. Yuan Hao thought. It was the result of his calculations, but he understood that things were not that simple.
"Fight with the Jean Army! Before you take out their warship, you will definitely encounter the MS that the opponent is using to protect you. In other words, we have to kill a certain number of Zagu before we can kill the battleship. Yuan Hao was talking about such an inevitable thing, but he was a little curious in his heart: "How many Zagu will there be on the other side?"
He doesn't know about this now. But he soon found out.
After discovering that there were three mobile suits on his side, the speed of the Gallop-class on the opposite side slowed down suddenly, the front hatch of the ship opened, and one by one Zagu ran out of the yellow hatch and quickly met his side.
"One, two, three! There are a total of three Zagu, which is exactly the formation of a team...... Well, the special livery, is it an elite unit? So the person who piloted Zagu is a veteran?" Observing the layout in the distance through the double-precision camera of the sharp soldier, which looked like a human eye, and looking at the three gray-purple Zagu Type 06 that came out of the yellow hatch, Yuan Hao's attention to the enemy suddenly increased.
Yuan Hao clearly knows Jean's military livery:
The Zagu of the Jean Army generally has a green livery. They have a squad of three MSs. There are brigades above squads, and wings above brigades, from the highest mobile divisions.
Of course, divisions and regiments are basically formations that exist only on paper. In the eyes of ordinary people, MS is basically in the form of a three-in-one machine, and the body of the battle is marked by a single horn.
However, this is all in the general form of compilation.
And for those who are strong, such as ace pilots, within the elite squad, they have something more personalized. For example, it is different from other body paints, and the individual (clan) logo is unusually distinct.
These signs, appearing on their bodies, give them a more distinctive imprint.
As a result, there are a lot of names for the aces of the Jean Army on the side of the Federation: such as the red comet, such as the true red lightning, and the dark triple star and the "gray troll" that appears in front of Yuan Hao and them right now!