Though they had clearly just suffered a minor setback and lost a new model, the Earth Force had sent only so few troops to attack the Orb Fleet. It was obviously a foolish move. Xiao Ran and the others had been able to gain the upper hand against the Combined Fleet before; now, facing the Orb Fleet, they still could not defeat Xiao Ran and his group. Xiao Ran truly could not understand why the enemy had done this. Were they simply seeking revenge over the slightest grievance, or was there some other conspiracy at work?
But regardless of what the enemy was thinking, Xiao Ran only needed to destroy all fifty MS preparing to attack the Orb Fleet. If so many MS were wiped out here, that Combined Fleet would more or less have no strength left to continue its campaign against Orb, unless it had some hidden power it had not yet revealed. But no matter what plans they had, even if they sent the fleet from this position, it would take at least ten hours to reach Orb. Xiao Ran was certain that he would need no more than an hour to destroy these machines.
The Orb Army's MS and the Combined Fleet's MS had already descended into a melee. Both sides launched fierce attacks from the very beginning, and their MS Units scattered apart. Other than the tacit coordination between squads, they were basically fighting independent chaotic battles in groups.
The Eshe Squad engaged the enemy participants, while Strike Gundam and most of the participants led the Murasames in targeting the enemy Windams. Under Athrun's orders, they would not approach the enemy participants or ace units at all.
Athrun, Mu, and Sting, meanwhile, confronted the Black Strike, Crimson Aegis, Azure Calamity, and Golden Scavenger. The entire