In Sai's clear eyes and wry smile, Badgiruel put aside the argument with his 'boss' just now as if discussing tactics in a very professional soldier manner;
After controlling himself and returning to his usual calm state, Badgiruel began to perform the duties of deputy captain in accordance with the captain's entrustment.
"Unfortunately, Mr. Kuzzey Bascak, since you have actually participated in the hostilities against ZAFT, at least until the investigation is completed, you will have to stay in a prisoner of war camp with us!"
In Sai's "Sure enough" and helpless look, and in the look of Tolle and Miriallia looking at each other with a bitter smile, they ignored Kuzzey who was holding his head and muttering;
After 'answering the subordinates' inquiries', Badgiruel began to give instructions loudly again.
"What's the situation with 'Sai', 'Gottfried'?"
Faced with another inquiry from Badgiruel a few minutes later, Sai gave a different response than before.
"Report, both sides of 'Gottfried' have completed self-test and are ready for use."
"Very well, please set them up to lock on to a new enemy aircraft and wait for them to be ready to fire at any time according to my orders!"
After confirming that the strongest firepower except 'Lohengrin' was ready, and briefly confirming the slightly unfavorable battle situation of Strike Gundam on the big screen, Badgiruel was ready to make a new combat arrangement.
In fact, the current slightly unfavorable battle situation for Strike Gundam driven by Kira is not only due to Murrue's speech that led to Archangel's temporary lack of support, but also mainly because Kira was facing the highly effective three-machine linkage tactics of the early mass-produced GuAIZ team.
However, Archangel temporarily stabilized morale and unified thinking after Murrue's speech - although the trigger for entering the 'abnormal state' was Kira's own attempt to negotiate a surrender with Shiho Hahnenfuss and walk alone.
In short, Archangel, which was temporarily "offline" before, after the other two early mass production models GuAIZ also gave up attacking Archangel and instead besieged Strike Gundam;
Now that the abnormal state has been "removed" and "online" again, we have reunited and are ready to assist Strike Gundam of Kira in combat under the command of Badgiruel.
"Sergeant Pal, the launch of 'Gottfried' is left to you.
Sai, Kuzzey, each of you is responsible for a "Valiant" manually. You are not required to hit the enemy aircraft, as long as you can cooperate with Mr. Yamato to limit the direction of the enemy aircraft.
Tolle, the ship's stern missile launch tubes have all been replaced with high-explosive bombs. Target the enemy's new aircraft in a group of 4 rounds to launch a coverage strike. Don't be afraid of hitting Strike Gundam. Strike Gundam of Sword Striker should have plenty of energy, and Phase Shift Armor will protect him.
Major La Flaga, Moebius It is too dangerous to face the mobile suit. Please wait and prepare to attack if necessary.
Miriallia, contact Mr. Yamato and inform him of the battle plan here."
While Mu nodded helplessly and waved goodbye to Murrue, everyone in the crew who received the clear instructions responded one after another, and Miriallia also immediately contacted Kira.
--Kira perspective--
"This is the situation, Kira, are you okay here?"
Faced with the contact from Miriallia, Kira carefully maintained the confrontation with the opposite team of early mass production GuAIZ, while responding to Miriallia with a smile.
"It's okay, Miriallia, I'm 'Ultimate Coordinator'."
With the contact from Miriallia, Kira, who no longer felt like he was fighting alone, teased himself like this and ended the communication with Miriallia;
Opposite Kira, Shiho Hahnenfuss's early mass production team GuAIZ has obviously made a decision, intending to focus on defeating Strike Gundam first, and then take advantage of the situation to take down Archangel.
So after a brief and peaceful confrontation, the two vanguard aircraft, the early mass production model GuAIZ, repeated their old tricks and once again used the 'double attack'.
"Don't even think about succeeding again!"
Kira is self-motivated, and this time he chose to avoid its sharp edge and take a detour, so as to expose the early mass production model GuAIZ to the "Valiant" of his friends.
As expected, the friends promptly launched a restraint on the avant-garde two-machine pre-production model GuAIZ;
So Kira safely entrusted his back to his friends, and waved his beam ship-cutting knife and headed straight for Shiho Hahnenfuss, which seemed to have the worst melee combat capability.
"If you don't want to die, please retreat!
We just plan to rendezvous with the advance fleet and return to a safe place."
There was no response from Shiho Hahnenfuss in the communicator, but Shiho Hahnenfuss responded with actual actions.
I saw that Shiho Hahnenfuss, who was not good at close combat, was not in a hurry, using his 76mm heavy assault machine gun to intercept with all his strength, while trying his best to retreat and distance himself.
"... Already feel like you have nothing to say to me..."
Although Shiho Hahnenfuss did not make any verbal response, Kira always felt that he could understand Shiho Hahnenfuss's current thoughts;
Regarding this, Kira felt a little angry, a little regretful, and a little helpless, but had to take action.
Taking into account that the restraint of the friends would not always be effective, in order to ensure that they could quickly approach the experimental beam weapon GuAIZ and Kira driven by Shiho Hahnenfuss, this time they did not try to avoid all the firepower of the 76mm heavy assault machine gun, which was quite tricky. Instead, they chose to protect their vital points and ate about 20% of them.
But when Kira was very close to Shiho Hahnenfuss, in the cockpit of Strike Gundam, the locked warning behind him started to sound like crazy.
After controlling Strike Gundam's maneuvers by feeling and getting rid of most of the locks, Kira was able to confirm what happened behind him - it was not that his friends were incompetent, but that the avant-garde two-machine pre-production model GuAIZ came up with a new response method.
In order to rescue the Shiho Hahnenfuss aircraft from the pursuit of Kira, the two avant-garde early mass production models GuAIZ temporarily formed a back-to-back formation:
The early mass production model GuAIZ, which is equipped with a hand shield and is in good condition and uses a large beam trident, faces Archangel, and protects the early mass production model GuAIZ behind him who uses a large attack shield;
As for the early mass-produced model GuAIZ, which uses a large attack shield, it is relatively safe to use the multi-barreled Vulcan Cannon in the attack shield to attack Strike Gundam, whose back was exposed due to the pursuit of the beam weapon experimental model GuAIZ driven by Shiho Hahnenfuss.
But this move is not without cost.
Since the two avant-garde aircraft were supporting each other back-to-back in order to rescue the Shiho Hahnenfuss aircraft, they had to temporarily stop large maneuvers. This allowed the long-awaited Archangel aircraft to finally find an opportunity.
Under the command of Badgiruel, Sai and Kuzzey used 'Valiant' to strengthen their containment;
Then Tolle controlled the ship's stern missile launch tube to launch high-explosive, flash, and hybrid missiles, which not only restricted the range of movement of the two aircraft, but also briefly caused slight blindness;
Finally, enough time was bought for the launch of 'Gottfried'. Amidst the roaring 'launch' sound of Badgiruel, four deadly beams of light came straight towards the two pre-production models GuAIZ back to back.