"Hard to starboard! All ships, target the Doolittle! Go support the Dominion!" Murrue seized that fleeting opportunity and gave the order for an all-out attack. "Kusanagi, follow us!"
"Understood!" the captain of the Kusanagi, which had been supporting the Dominion, immediately replied.
To keep their flagship from being sunk by the enemy, the surrounding Drake-class warships immediately trained every gun port on the rapidly approaching Dominion, Archangel, and Kusanagi.
Countless beams came from all directions, attempting to halt the warships' charge.
However, the tide of battle had completely changed.
The situation, where they had been firmly suppressed by superior numbers and could only passively defend themselves, underwent a fundamental change at that moment.
The balance between offense and defense reversed in an instant. The Earth Forces, who had held an absolute advantage moments ago, were now forced to flee in every direction, struggling to cope with the fierce firepower of the three warships.
The Archangel and Kusanagi did not let this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity slip away. With overwhelming momentum, the two warships unleashed a fierce bombardment on the enemy fleet, already thrown into chaos. Main guns, secondary guns, missiles—every weapon that could fire poured out its payload, completely turning that region of space into a Land of Death.
Inside the Doolittle's bridge, Sazaland's face had gone pale.
"Guh... How... how could this happen?"
He could not understand what was happening before his eyes. The battle should have been completely under their control.
Although the appearance of that mysterious white MS, the Unicorn Gundam, had tied down their strongest combat asset, the Goddess of Liberation Gundam, causing the battle to fall into an unexpected deadlock, it should not have affected the overall situation.
The enemy's other ace units, the Freedom Gundam and the Experimental Nuclear Zaku, had also been firmly suppressed by