Originally, in battle, ZAFT could only rely on a handful of people and the majority of its redcoats to restrain the movements of the Library Librarians' eighteen units. But they were outnumbered, and ordinary redcoats were no match for the Library Librarians' machines at all, so they could do very little. Ray, Shinn, Yzak, Athrun, Eshe, and the others likewise could not fully tie down such a massive force of eighteen units. Thus, not all eighteen Library Librarian machines were fighting Shinn, Athrun, and the others. More of them were assisting the Unknown Faction in blocking ZAFT while rampaging before ZAFT's lines.
After Xiao Ran joined the battle, he had deliberately avoided the Library Librarians for tactical reasons and targeted the Unknown Faction instead. After all, against the Library Librarians' G Series Gundams, he could not destroy them all in a short time in his current state. Not only would that waste time, but he would also be unable to look after the ZAFT MS squads carrying the shatter devices.
The conflict between both sides fell into a strange balance under such circumstances. But after the Destiny Gundam, the Red Dragon, and Andrew, ZAFT's former Desert Tiger, joined the battle, the balance between the Unknown Faction, the Library Librarians, and ZAFT was shattered in almost no time.
Cruze was, after all, a B-class Pilot, and the machine he piloted was also among the finest B-class Mecha. Its offensive power, speed, and mobility far surpassed those G Series derivative machines used by the Library Librarians. Luo's Red Dragon could not be judged as an ordinary C-class mecha either. Having gone through so many worlds, Luo himself was nearly a B-class Pilot as well. Even Andrew, the Desert Tiger, who was slightly behind the other two, was still an experienced and highly