Chapter 729
: Concealing the truth!
Chapter 729: Concealing the truth! (3/4)
"Long legs are here too?"
Cruze's Dean watched from afar as the Archangel, under the cover of the Dynames Gundam, launched an attack on ZAFT's submarine carrier.
The appearance of the Archangel also surprised Cruze.
According to his prediction, the Archangel should be returning to its headquarters in Alaska now.
How would it appear here?
And, what about joining the battle as reinforcements for the East Asian Republic?
From the information Cruze knew, the Archangel was not favored by the top leaders of the Earth Federation. The reason it was manufactured was simply because the members of the Earth Federation compromised after being defeated under the attack of ZAFT's MS troops.
"Hmm? So that's what's going on?"
Suddenly, Cruze realized something.
The reason why the Archangel appeared here was probably because the Earth Federation was not willing to see the Archangel and the G-Project machines on board successfully return to the Alaska headquarters.
"Hmph. How arrogant! It's clearly a trump card, but you can't wait to give it away."
However, using this cutting-edge warship, which has just made its maiden voyage, as reinforcement and participating in this battle seems to be able to send a signal to the outside world.
An Atlantic Union that dominates the Earth Union is also involved in the construction of orbital elevators and even solar power generation systems.
People outside who know nothing about the dark side behind the Archangel have probably reached this consensus.
Thinking of this, Cruze's mouth corners curled up slightly.
He slowly raised his eyes and looked towards the sky.
"It's almost time! Soon, we will reach that moment!"
While the war on the uninhabited island was raging, the transport fleet that He Ming was in charge of successfully reunited with the escort fleet sent by Orb.
What surprised He Ming was that until the time when they met up with the Orb escort fleet, there was no incident of ZAFT's submarine fleet attacking the transport fleet.
"Could it be that ZAFT had no intention of launching a war of strife from the beginning?"
In fact, it was the large submarine carrier responsible for the commerce disruption operation that confirmed the existence of Dendrobium and, after contacting the Carpentaria base, decisively canceled the commerce disruption operation plan.
After all, it was because of the impact of Dendrobium's previous attack on the uninhabited island waters.
It is impossible to compete with Dendrobium orchid with just one or two Vosgurov-class large submarine carriers.
The Dendrobium orchid that occupies the sky always has space and mobility advantages that the submarine mothership cannot match. Once targeted by the Dendrobium orchid, the submarine mothership can only dive desperately to the deeper seabed until it gets rid of the Dendrobium orchid.
However, as the water depth increases, the pressure on the hull will also increase exponentially. By then, the submarine mothership will reach its endurance limit and be in a life-or-death dilemma.
In order to avoid this outcome, the Carpentaria base did not hesitate to order the submarine carrier that was conducting the commerce raiding operation to withdraw.
This was a wise and lucky decision!
After all, once the submarine mothership is discovered, even if the diving tactics are adopted in time, it is difficult to avoid the fate of the Stamen Gundam with the GN force field deployed rushing into the seabed to chase and kill.
Before He Ming could feel puzzled about the delay in the appearance of the ZAFT submarine carrier, he received a piece of news.
That was a communication from the escort fleet.
"Lieutenant Colonel He! Radar shows that there are multiple targets in low-Earth orbit, maneuvering at high speed. They are suspected to be ZAFT's orbital airborne troops! According to the position calculation, the opponent will enter the scheduled airborne orbit in ten minutes. The target is the uninhabited island!"
"learn!"
He Ming responded and then disconnected the call.
"Arduino, link the data and start calculating!"
"Understood! Data reception started! Calculation started!"
"Signal confirmed! 10 Loracia-class battleships. 5 Nazca-class battleships. 20 ZAFT dropships found. It is predicted that ZAFT airborne forces will deploy at least 50 dropships to participate in the battle."
"Warning! The ZAFT Orbital Airborne Force has deployed more troops than the fleet stationed on the uninhabited island can bear! Please take countermeasures immediately! Avoid the loss of the uninhabited island!"
The results calculated by Arduino were constantly refreshing on the screen in front of He Ming.
Its reminders and warnings also sounded one after another.
This is not good news.
But this is expected bad news.
The ZAFT Orbital Drop Fleet, which had been holding back for a long time, finally launched its attack. "Contact the Polaris."
Subsequently, communication with the Polaris was established.
"Lieutenant Colonel. I'm aware of the situation. Are you leaving?"
Although Feng Yun knew that He Ming would be the one to deal with the situation next, he couldn't help but feel worried.
After all, it was not an airborne operation by one or two Zeon planes, but rather large groups of orbital airborne troops directly attacking the ground from space.
If you rely solely on Dendrobium to deal with the situation, accidents are inevitable.
"Yes, of course. I'm afraid that only I and Dendrobium can stop ZAFT's orbital airborne troops from high altitude."
He Ming turned his eyes and saw a communication request from the Archangel appearing in the lower right corner of the screen.
He did not answer the call, but asked Arduino to reply that the call was not available, and then he concentrated on driving the Dendrobium.
Because, next, he will drive the Dendrobium to an altitude of 10,000 meters, blocking the landing track that the orbital airborne troops must take, and blocking the orbital airborne troops.
"GN Solar Furnace, maximum output!"
"Thermonuclear engine, maximum output!"
He Ming raised his right hand, and the moment he flicked across the keyboard, the thermonuclear engine equipped by the Dendrobium and the GN solar furnace of the Stamen Gundam were immediately pulled to maximum output.
At the moment when fierce and dazzling flames were accompanied by brilliant GN particles that looked like fluorescent particles gushing out, the Dendrobium orchid, which was in a level flight, suddenly raised its head and rushed straight into the sky like an arrow, leaving behind a back view that shocked the crews of the escort fleet and the transport fleet.
With a wingspan of 100 meters, the Dendrobium orchid soared into the sky like a black cloud, leaving behind several Mach circles that broke through the supersonic speed, and a roar that rolled across the sky like thunder.
"The speed is increasing! Mach 1, Mach 2, Mach 3...Continuously breaking through Mach! Master, please be prepared to withstand strong overloads!"
"continue!"
He Mingmi, who was under great pressure, remained expressionless and spoke calmly.
At this time, ZAFT's orbital airborne troops had appeared at the intersection of the blue and gray sky and void ahead.
He Ming's eyes turned cold and he responded immediately.
The missile bays on the back of Dendrobium opened one after another, launching missiles into the air while the GN rocket launcher was deployed, ready to go.
Ten thousand meters above the sky, at the moment when the rain of missiles from below was about to hit the target, the rocket launcher, which was launched later but arrived first, tore through the sea of clouds, swept across the sky with unstoppable force, and swept through the group of orbital airdrop capsules falling from the void.
"boom!"
"boom!"
"boom!"
The next second after the orbital drop capsules exploded one after another, the belated rain of missiles hit the drop capsule that had fortunately avoided the bombardment of the GN rocket launcher head-on, and turned into the second batch of fireworks blooming in the sky.
The scene was extremely gorgeous.
However, He Ming's expression changed.
He didn't feel the human's emotional fluctuations.
There was no living creature in the orbital space module that appeared in front!
"Arduino, calculate the number of landing capsules and the landing trajectory!"
"The calculation results have been obtained! It is seriously inconsistent with the previous calculation results! The orbital airdrop pods that appeared in front are not all of ZAFT's airborne troops! "
The next second, Arduino seemed to catch something.
"The second batch of orbital drop pods has been discovered! The orbital calculations are in progress and the results are in. Target: Panama Canal!"
CE71.
4 month.
After the East Asian Republic announced the construction of the orbital elevator, ZAFT Carpentaria launched an attack on the uninhabited island waters where the base island was located.
In the same month, when the battle on the uninhabited island was in full swing, ZAFT launched a surprise attack on the Earth Alliance's Panama base by concealing its presence from the public and using orbital airborne troops as the main force.
The Panama base and the mass accelerator Panama Gate fell.
On the same day, the fleet launched by the Carpentaria base against the uninhabited island was defeated and evacuated.
(End of this chapter)