"That's the Azure Fleet..."
The brown-haired girl poked her head out and gazed at the warships floating on the horizon, unable to hide her amazement.
"They're really huge..."
"So that's the legendary Alien Fleet!"
The others turned to look at the sky as well.
"Are we going to fight alongside them?"
"Mm. According to headquarters, they'll secure air superiority while we clear the ground."
"Tch."
Hearing the brown-haired girl's answer, a girl with messy black hair clicked her tongue in dissatisfaction.
"The navy sure has it easy. They get help from an Alien Fleet, while we still have to fight down here ourselves. And they even painted our tanks like this!"
"There's nothing we can do about it, Yukari."
Faced with her companion's complaints, the brown-haired girl could only smile wryly and try to soothe her.
"Most of our tanks were lost in the previous battles, and there hasn't been time to replace them. It couldn't be helped."
Just as the brown-haired girl had said, repeated defeats against the Neroy had left the European front desperately short on supplies. Their tanks had been reduced to less than one in ten. The United Army headquarters had originally expected the counteroffensive to begin later, so tank production had not been treated as especially urgent.
But with the arrival of the Azure Fleet, mobilization instantly became a race against time. The Azure Fleet obviously could not wait a year or two for the United Army to raise a new armored force before working with them. Once the Azure Fleet's operation schedule had been confirmed, United Army headquarters sprang into action at full speed, gathering elite troops from every region and deploying them to the European front.
As for tanks... they could not be conjured out of thin air. Training vehicles and battered secondhand