During the time when Orb Fleet drove to the Global Security Alliance and Combined Fleet, except for the necessary logistics personnel, almost all combatants in the fleet were seizing every minute and second to rest. They knew that once the war started, it would be a hard battle, and the joint The size of the fleet is also much larger than that of Orb. Once the battle begins, these warriors must invest more energy and endurance than the warriors on Combined Fleet's side. Only by fighting in the best condition can we have more possibilities to protect ourselves in the combined army and seize the opportunity to defeat the enemy.
Even Xiao Ran returned to Second Archangel's own room and rested for a long time. It was not until the temporary Command Center on board Second Archangel sent someone to wake up Xiao Ran that Xiao Ran got up and went to the bridge of Second Archangel.
Now the captain of Second Archangel is Bargyll. In addition to the bridge staff, there are also some senior officers of Orb who have accompanied the army. In addition to the bridge staff, Bargyll and When Xiao Ran walked into the bridge, the officers all turned around and saluted Xiao Ran, and Xiao Arang you just waved your hands gently and asked everyone to put down their hands. Bargyll also sat on the bridge again after nodding.
Xiao Ran looked at the screen in front of the bridge. Combined Fleet appeared faintly on the screen. The reconnaissance aircraft group also synchronously transmitted the picture there to the other side of Second Archangel's bridge. Among the screens, it can be seen from the screen that the scale of Combined Fleet is indeed very large. Roughly speaking, there are no less than a hundred warships. The number of aircraft carriers alone is almost ten. You can imagine how many MSs there are in this fleet.
After all, this is a Combined Fleet composed of many combined Federation, forces, and countries, and the size of the Orb fleet is less than one-third of the opponent's. It has already fallen into an absolute disadvantage in terms of numbers. Once it fights, the disadvantage will be very huge.
In the entire Second Archangel bridge, the atmosphere is actually quite solemn. Many people frowned with heavy expressions on their faces. The scale of Combined Fleet alone has brought them a lot of pressure, but Xiao Ran was extremely calm when he saw this scene. To say that he had been faced with a larger number of enemies, Global Security Alliance's Combined Fleet's small size was not enough to shock Xiao Ran and make his face change.
Xiao Ran stood behind Bargyll, put one hand lightly on the back of Bargyll's chair, and asked, "What's the specific situation?"
After Xiao Ran's words fell, a senior officer behind him answered directly, "The two sides will start to contact in half an hour at most. Judging from the size of the fleet alone, the opponent's combat power will be more than three times ours. Once the battle begins, we will be under tremendous pressure. From a conventional perspective, the possibility of victory is unlikely."
"All the combat departments on our side are in place and ready to attack at any time. I believe that the opponent has discovered us and is ready for battle. However, I suggest that we carry out roundabout strikes to avoid direct combat with the opponent. After all, we should have a great advantage in the number of Ace-level pilots and can carry out targeted attrition strikes. In a frontal fight, our army's combat power is far less than the opponent's, and we are completely unqualified for a frontal fight in this situation."
Xiao Ran turned his head and glanced at the speaker. He was a Orb senior officer in his forties. His calm look was full of military integrity. However, the person who could propose such a combat plan that was consistent with the current situation and could truly understand Xiao Ran's desire to completely annihilate the opponent and proposed such a combat plan was not as simple as courage.
Xiao Ran nodded. In fact, the other party's idea was the same as his. They used Ace Pilot to harass and consume the enemy, destroy the enemy's morale and weaken the enemy's numbers as much as possible. Of course, this kind of attack was not a direct confrontation with Ace Pilot.
At present, there are still a few people who can be called aces among the Orb Army. Xiao Ran alone can count them, Athrun, Mu, Mars Prince Agnes. One, then Stella, Sting, Orro Three strong ones, Eshe, the four of them, and the dozen or so participants, their technology and combat effectiveness are much better than the combined Mook Unit division.
In addition, there are some pilots with considerable strength in Orb itself. For example, the Jaguar Weed who took over the Strike Gundam used by Mu has the ability to equip Strike Gundam with IWSP equipment, which is even better than Cagalli. Although there are not many pilots like Weide, it is possible to find a dozen of them in the entire Orb.
If you look at it this way, there are more than thirty people with elite and ace strength in this Orb fleet. If they are just for harassment and flanking operations, the number is enough. Of course, if the opponent sends all their troops for them, Xiao Ran and the others can just flee. If not many troops are sent, they will be completely eaten by Xiao Ran.
As for Orb's fleet, they only need to protect themselves and stay far away to delay Xiao Ran's actions. After all, it takes half a day to reach Orb even at the speed of a battleship. And during this half day, if the United Union suffers endless harassment from Xiao Ran, it will definitely be a very troublesome thing.
Xiao Ran patted the shoulder of Bargyll on the chair in front of him, and said, "Let Gnaku prepare for the attack, notify Eshe, and let her people prepare too."
"The propeller fuel for long-distance operations has been charged and is ready to go at any time." Bargyll nodded, and Xiao Ran turned to look at the people behind him and said, "You guys make arrangements and select some people with sufficient abilities to act together. You should know better than me how many elites and aces there are in Orb."
Most MS in this world have plasma thrusters that can be used without fuel at all, but there are also many thrusters that can also use fuel for propulsion. Generally speaking, most MS will inject fuel in long-distance combat and high-intensity combat, like the one used by Xiao Ran. Midnight Gundam, in the absence of Nuclear Engine, the new high-energy battery independently developed by Orb alone is not enough to support Midnight Gundam for a complete battle, so injecting fuel can also effectively save the energy needed for the battle, making the battle last longer.
The people standing behind Xiao Ran nodded. The officer who just spoke to Xiao Ran also asked in surprise, "Do you also want to attack in person?"
"Well, otherwise I don't worry. The matter here will be decided by you and Bargyll." Xiao Ran waved his hand and walked out of the bridge.
After changing into the pilot uniform in the pilot waiting room, he took his helmet and headed to Gnaku. At this time, Mu, Athrun, Agnes, Orro and Sting and several people have already sat in the cockpit of the aircraft. Except for Stella, whose aircraft cannot carry out naval and air combat and stays behind Archangel, they are all waiting for Xiao Ran to give the order to attack.
In addition to Second Archangel, Eshe chose to go to the Orb large mothership Yu Jianyu Lei Shen in order to easily contact other participants in the Orb camp. He also took three members of the team, Sman, Harvey and Barnes, to board the machine. Behind them was a group of about ten participants with various messy machines.
Xiao Ran was walking in the warehouse, looked at his Justice Gundam, then looked at the Midnight Gundam, raised his eyebrows, turned around, walked towards the Midnight Gundam, and followed the lifting rope to sit in the cockpit. If you want to fight, of course Justice Gundam is the most suitable. After all, Justice Gundam has some special abilities, including GN Dragoon that can be used in the atmosphere, which can make the Solar Furnace squeezed out by Mecha Performance several times the same frequency, but Xiao Ran still has the same frequency in the end. He chose to use a machine like the Midnight Gundam that had been tested in actual combat simply because he felt that using this machine at this time would be more meaningful for the Orb. Anyway, it was just a harassment battle, and he could also test the actual combat capabilities of the Midnight Gundam.
After starting the machine body and the startup screen belonging to Orb popped up on the main screen, Xiao Ran also connected to the bridge of Second Archangel: "Bargyll, start the sortie procedure."
"Roger that."
Xiao Ran was performing a self-inspection on the aircraft body in the cockpit, and Midnight Gundam was slowly brought into the ejection slot by Gnakuri's bracket. As the aircraft body slightly moved, its feet accurately landed on the electromagnetic ejection slot, Xiao Ran also put the helmet on his head, held the operating lever of Midnight Gundam with both hands, and gently pushed the auxiliary operating lever with his left hand, and the backpack behind Midnight Gundam began to emit white light.
Glancing at the figure of the bridge CIC appearing on Communication Screen in the upper left, Xiao Ran took a deep breath before saying, "Xiao Ran, Midnight Gundam, attack."
As Xiao Ran's words fell, Xiao Ran also pressed a button next to the auxiliary operating lever. Suddenly Midnight Gundam stepped on the ejection card slot and took half-crouched with him. Midnight Gundam popped up instantly. It wasn't until Midnight Gundam left the ejection chute that Xiao Ran pulled his right hand slightly, returned his left hand to the main operating lever on the left, and stepped on Midnight Gundam, which made it fly into the sky lightly.
On the other side, Black Mecha Savior Gundam X11, which was attacking at the same time as Midnight Gundam, also shot white light into the sky. After transforming into MA Form in the air, it began to approach the Midnight Gundam that had already flown out.
As for the fact that there was no update yesterday, I mentioned it in the postscript to the updated chapter the day before yesterday~~~~~~~~~