When a feeling of free fall arose, the screen in the cockpit of Black Astray already showed the dark cloudy sky outside, as if the sky was also willing to serve as the background for the battle that was about to begin.
Xiao Ran tapped the propeller lightly with both feet, and moved left and right. The Destiny-00 backpack behind Black Astray straightened up, allowing Black Astray to float in the air.
As you can see from the screen, there are dozens of UNION's large-scale Transport Aircraft scattered around Black Astray. Each Shuttlecraft releases flags one by one. These flags fall freely as soon as they come out of Transport Aircraft. After descending until they were at a safe enough distance from Transport Aircraft, they started the thrusters and started flying forward. In less than a while, all the aircraft were launched, and the Shuttlecraft group also pulled up their noses and spun around at high altitude before flying in the other direction.
Xiao Ran looked at the MS group that had gathered, took out the encrypted communicator that he had been carrying and sent a message, then drove Black Astray to join the MS group and began to move quickly towards the predetermined goal.
The screen suddenly lit up, and a man with the same rank of brigadier general appeared in Black Astray's communication screen. "General Xiao Ran, I am the fourth base commander Japanese Special Economic Zone, Brigadier General Mok, and the person in charge of the second base encirclement in this operation. Now I follow the orders of the President and the top minister of the Ministry of National Defense and hand over Command Authority to you."
As he spoke, Brigadier General Mok also saluted Xiao Ran with a military salute, and then said, "Please give the order."
Xiao Ran looked at the man on the screen who was at least ten years older than him. His face was full of obedience to the order. Xiao Ran was also stunned for a moment and asked in confusion, "Don't I only have the Command Authority of MS Unit? Why should you give me the Command Authority of all the troops?"
Brigadier General Mock replied, "According to the explanation of His Excellency the President, he hopes that the troops can be under unified command and does not want any contradictory orders to appear during the battle. Therefore, the command of the four military bases in the Japan Special Economic Zone has been fully taken by Brigadier General Xiao Ran."
"I understand." Xiao Ran nodded and said, "Send me the location of the flagship and introduce the current situation to me."
On the screen, Brigadier General Mok nodded to the invisible person next to him. A small box popped up on Xiao Ran's screen, indicating the location of the flagship. After Xiao Ran took a look at it, he operated Black Astray and flew directly towards the location of the flagship.
Mok Zhunjian also began to introduce the situation at this time to Xiao Ran in the communication, "At present, three fleets of our army have completely surrounded the second military base, dispatching forty-two battleships and thirteen submarines. The total number of MS Unit is two hundred and fifty-seven. Except for a few elite pilots flying flag type, the two hundred and thirty aircraft are all previous generation aircraft."
"How is the situation inside the second military base?"
"It can be determined that the number of unknown MSs exceeds ten. According to the analysis records, it can be known that the performance of these MSs are at least several times that of our flag type. The pilots all have Ace-level other capabilities, and they control more than a thousand soldiers and officers of our army who are still stranded in the base."
"In other words, for these one thousand hostages, we have no way to launch a large-scale attack?" Xiao Ran frowned.
Brigadier General Mok nodded calmly. "Yes."
Xiao Ran felt that his head was starting to hurt. There were so many hostages in hand. Although the number of participants was small, UNION did not dare to launch a large-scale attack. Small-scale attacks first rescued those hostages. In UNION, even the current Graham would not be an opponent of those participants. The key is that the performance gap of the body is too big. Without it, it will be just food.
Although Xiao Ran feels powerful, he also knows that he will never be able to face so many participants at the same time, especially the people in that team. If he really fights, the threat Taurus will bring to him will be very great, and he will not care about the hostages.
There is actually another reason why Xiao Ran chose the machine body this time instead of Lightning Aegis. He was afraid that when he appeared in Lightning Aegis, he would be instantly attacked by the opponent. Then he was looking for trouble for himself. Xiao Ran did not have such a great idea as treating himself as a target.
Moreover, the attack on the base must be resolved as soon as possible. This is also the unanimous request of UNION's top brass. The ability to mobilize troops from Japan's other three military bases this time can be said to be the limit. Although troops can be sent from other places, it will have a very large impact on those places. If you are not careful, it will cause extremely serious consequences.
Moreover, more than a dozen mobile suits have occupied a military base of UNION. It can be said that UNION has completely lost its face. For the sake of international image and big brother status, it is not suitable to send more troops, not to mention what will happen if they are sent. Could it be that a salvo of thousands of artillery can directly kill the officers and soldiers of the own army? If this really happens, I'm afraid the UNION government should step down.
"I have a headache." Xiao Ran shook his head slightly, and operated Black Astray to slowly land on the flagship. He jumped directly from Black Astray. A school-level officer took Xiao Ran to the flagship's bridge in a hurry.
Along the way, people stopped and saluted Xiao Ran until they entered the bridge, including Brigadier General Mok, who was talking to him just now, turned around and saluted him. Xiao Ran also returned the salute and hurriedly walked to Brigadier General Mok: "General Mock, do you have any actual footage of the scene?"
"Yes." Brigadier General Mok looked at Xiao Ran up and down, nodded, turned around and led Xiao Ran to the middle of the bridge. A large projection screen popped up in front, showing the facts of the occupied base.
This scene should have been taken by the mobile suit patrolling and surrounding the base. The scene was full of destroyed mobile suit wreckage, as well as collapsed buildings. A group of people on a huge tarmac were surrounded by three machines that should not have appeared in this world. The weapons of these machines were also pointed at the crowd.
As Brigadier General Mok said, the number of MS that are participants here has exceeded ten, reaching twelve. In addition to the team with the W series body that Xiao Ran knows, there is also Roger who has been in contact with Super Dimension Fortress Frontier in the world, and Ground Combat Gundam, MK-II Gundam. The four people in that team plus these three Gundams should be the most powerful among the participants.
The remaining five units are all D-class mecha from various worlds, but they have all been more or less modified. In Xiao Ran's view, there are also units from Gundam SEED World, and a completely modified Buster Calamity, this modified Buster Calamity is even armed to the level of C-level. It is actually riding a MS-specific aircraft obtained from who knows which world. While a flag-type aircraft may have a slight advantage in terms of speed when facing these aircraft, its firepower is already at an absolute disadvantage.
Xiao Ran understood as soon as he saw these machines that these participants had an absolute advantage in every aspect. If they could not defeat them, they could massacre all the hostages surrounded. Even if the UNION here now has more than 300 mobile suits, it would definitely not be able to stop these participants from breaking through, not even in the flag style, let alone the previous generation of machines.
Xiao Ran turned to look at Brigadier General Mok: "How long is it until the other party's final request?"
"They gave us twelve hours, and now we have less than eight hours left." Brigadier General Mok frowned and said, "It's only eight hours. Those of us who are being held hostage may not be able to hold on for that long."
Brigadier General Mok looked at the projection screen. "Those three machines are too close to the hostages, and there is no possibility of sniping. If they hit the wrong place, there will be more than a thousand people, even if our operation is successful, only a handful of people will survive, and our army does not have such a sniper machine."
Xiao Ran shook his head. If the Sniper Type machine is used, the arms and heads of the four machines must be directly destroyed in the shortest time. There may not be anyone in UNION who can meet this requirement, and even if there is, there is no suitable machine.
Unless... it's Lockon, and only Lockon's Force Angel Gundam has such an ability, and one machine can do it... Secret Angel Gundam, yes, only the Secret Angel Gundam that can fire more than ten shots at the same time is the most suitable to destroy those mechas at the same time.
Xiao Ran groaned and nodded to Brigadier General Mok: "The command of the fleet is still left to you. You only need to surround these unknown MSs. However, if the opponent breaks through, you can make your own arrangements based on the situation. It is up to you to decide whether to fight or avoid. I will personally meet those mobile suits."
Brigadier General Mok nodded. "Okay, Commander."
After coming out of the bridge, Xiao Ran went directly back to the cockpit of Black Astray. After sending a message to Graham, he drove the aircraft slowly into the air, and then quickly disappeared into the sky.
A few minutes later, on a small reef group outside the encirclement, Xiao Ran took off his helmet and looked at Black Astray and Graham's black flag style going away. He also scratched his hair helplessly. "It's really numb. Annoying, but fortunately, I got AI Chip in the last world, and I can use all the Mecha Performance in the C-level. Using my own combat data and style, and setting the priority to dodge, it should be able to last for a long time."
Xiao Ran shook his head, picked up the communicator and sent another message, then stood on the reef surrounded by the ocean and waited.
A few minutes later, ripples appeared on the sea in front of Xiao Ran, and a black body slowly emerged from the water and stretched out its right arm towards Xiao Ran.