Gundam Super G Universe

Chapter 159: The Sixteen-Character Guerrilla Strategy That Never Goes Out of Style
The New Misrchi Republic declared war on PLANT and expelled PLANT's diplomats from the Star Palace colony satellite.

At this time, diplomats from various countries in the Star Palace were silent. Due to the delay in intelligence, they had just received instructions from their country on the New Mislchi Republic's Super Mobile Fortress. Some protested, some reprimanded, and some asked for cooperation.

But all the diplomats ignored these orders, because those who can sit in this position know how to do things according to the situation. These orders were sent by the New Misrchi Republic before the war with PLANT, and now they are all outdated.

Sure enough, a day later, a new emergency order arrived, and diplomats from the three Earth Union countries all came to Letty, expressing their hope that the New Mischi Republic would join the Earth Union.

Moreover, the Earth Alliance was very sincere this time. The newly formed fleet of the Moon set out directly to assist the New Misrchi Republic.

Letty naturally knew what the Earth Federation was thinking. The three major countries actually just didn't want the technology of the New Mischi Republic to fall into the hands of PLANT.

Perhaps in the eyes of the three major countries of the Earth United, it doesn’t matter whether the New Mischi Republic is destroyed or not. They even hope to see the New Mischi Republic destroyed so that they can take Red back to their own country.

So Letty flatly rejected the invitation from the Earth Federation, saying that the New Mischi Republic would fight against PLANT alone, and even refused the help of the Earth Federation Fleet.

Upon seeing this, the diplomats from the three Earth United Nations all went to Angel, but the result remained the same.

As for Red, who usually had a good relationship with these diplomats, he simply disappeared at this time and told others that he was preparing a "surprise" for ZAFT.

The three nations of the Earth United were speechless, wondering if the leaders of these neutral countries were all so stubborn? Orb was like this, and now the New Misrchi Republic is also like this. They are already in a war of national destruction, so why are they still holding on?

However, unlike Orb, the three United Earth Nations could accept its death, but the New Mischi Republic and Red being annexed by PLANT was something the three United Earth Nations could not accept.

Therefore, the lunar fleet continued to rush to the Xinggong colony satellite. Even if a three-party fight broke out at that time, they had to ensure that Red Isaac would not be captured alive by PLANT.

At the same time, the Earth Union spread rumors within the Star Palace colony satellite, intending to use civilian power to force the official to join the Earth Union.

To be honest, the foreign immigrants on the Xinggong Colony Satellite are really panicked now. They moved to the Xinggong Colony Satellite to avoid the war, but the war still happened.

Especially the group of people who had just been rescued from Orb, they found desperately that the war seemed to be chasing them. It was only a few days after escaping from Orb, and the New Misrchi Republic was about to fight again.

However, just when the people of the Xinggong colony satellite were in panic, Red started to reveal his cards again, giving the people a shot in the arm.

As the diplomats of the three countries on Earth stared in amazement, the Star Palace colony satellite suddenly opened the gates of more than a dozen secret ports, from which flew out at least a hundred Constellation-class high-speed battleships and nearly two hundred Antietam-class cargo ships (not all of which were loaded with MS, many of which were loaded with repair parts and ammunition supplies)

Then there were several new battleships (Argama class) with significantly different specifications, which joined the Balki super mobile fortress to form a terrifying space fleet.

At the same time, the legendary Eurasian Federation general Brian Eno, who was already 66 years old and was playing in the Star Palace colony satellite, said that he had to help fight ZAFT, and he returned to the scene to become the commander of a squadron of the New Mischi Republic. This calmed the public's doubts about the lack of experienced senior officers in the New Mischi Republic.

And that's not all. Red also plans to have the automatic mecha [Mass-produced GM Heretic] that should be assigned to the [Balki] fly directly from the Star Palace colony satellite into the [Balki].

The use of Gundam Astray technology saved costs, and with the help of factory modules, this automatic mecha Red, whose performance was not much better than the Strike Dagger, only had slightly better armament and detection equipment (the advantage was that it could be equipped with a rocket launcher), and more than 5,000 of them were built.

(Don't say too much. The official has clearly stated that in the first war, PLANT almost wiped out a generation of people. Excluding the battleship and logistics personnel, there were at least 200,000 or 300,000 MS pilots.

Also, the MS was never designed to compete with fighter planes, but tanks during World War II. Tomino mentioned this in an interview, and Fukuda did not overturn this logic.

Taking into account that many of them were added later, the number of MS equipped by the entire ZAFT army during the period of its undefeated victory was at least hundreds of thousands. This number also had to be distributed to various strongholds in the universe and on Earth, so it seems that the number of ZAFT MS was not too large.

The number of Earth Unions will only increase, because there are more than 15 billion people on Earth, and ordinary metals are worthless in the cosmic age, and the productivity calculated using the current productivity is the same as the productivity calculated using the medieval productivity.

You should know that the official setting clearly states that the productivity of 6000 million PLANT people has exceeded the productivity of billion people on Earth. Although this setting is very illogical, it can prove that the productivity in the cosmic era is very exaggerated, and it is completely meaningless to use modern calculations.

If we really have to calculate, we suggest using the current global wartime productivity as the standard and increasing the Earth Federation's productivity by at least ten times [the productivity of each military has been fully restored in the later period of SEED, after all, large laser nuclear reactors are still usable].

Then the number of MS is calculated by multiplying the number of tanks in World War II, because tanks were the main force of all parties in World War II, and MS in the Gundam world replaced tanks.

The reason why we cannot use the number of modern tanks is that the influence of war tanks is far less than that of World War II, and all countries are reducing their numbers. However, MS is the absolute main force, and no one has reduced its number.)
In addition to the machines directly deployed in each mothership, the remaining two thousand plus MS flew directly into the [Balki] in front of everyone.

Now, the immigrants of the Xinggong colony satellite were amazed at how the New Mischi Republic could hold back. With a population of less than two million, they managed to build a space fleet in more than a year without anyone having any sense of life.

Zhao Zhongjian, the diplomat of the East Asian Republic stationed in Xinggong, understood instantly that when Red gave him the constellation-level blueprint, he had already started manufacturing and producing it. This guy was using the East Asian Republic as a shield.

Diplomats from other countries actually had the same idea. The New Mislichi Republic had been holding back on this fleet for at least a year, and it might have started building it after the country was founded.

The only question is where the New Mislichi Republic secretly got so many resources.

The resources used to build the Balki were used to build the new colony satellite. So where did these 300 ships and thousands of mobile suits come from? The amount of meteorite mining in the surrounding meteorite mining area collected by the Xinggong colony satellite is not too large. Even if they were secretly transported from other places, they would not be able to produce so many resources.

You have to know that the four major countries in the Earth Sphere would have to tighten their belts to build such a super fleet. The New Mischi Republic, which is so aggressive, has not been affected at all, but is extremely wealthy. But the reality is that these ships and MS are not projections. The three countries of the Earth United can only admit that the fleet of the New Mischi Republic now looks much stronger than the fleet they transferred from the moon, and is indeed qualified to confront ZAFT's fleet head-on.

In fact, the Earth Union is in a good situation. They are just surprised. At most, they will start a global search again, saying that they must find the organization that supports the New Mischi Republic.

This time, the focus was directly on the royal nobles and big families around the world, because the New Misluchi Republic was too rich, to the extent that everyone was jealous. This level of wealth (materials) could only be given by those super families that had been passed down for who knows how many years.

On the PLANT side, after Patrick Sala received the information that Red had created a super fleet, he did not feel angry, but felt relieved, "It's okay, it's okay, lucky, lucky."

Patrick Sala felt that it was a good thing that he started the war relatively early. Red Isaac had only built one super fleet. If he was given a few more years, and only seven or eight more such fleets could be built, PLANT would be finished and would be directly flattened.

Patrick Sala was not at all bothered about how Red's fleet came about, because in his opinion, Red's supporters included the hidden forces within PLANT that had not yet been found, the Klein faction, the unknown forces on Earth, the East Asian Republic and the Eurasian Federation in the Earth Union. With so many forces, it was still possible to get a fleet.

Therefore, Patrick Sala's only response to Red's sword was to increase the size of the attack fleet.

Patrick Sala originally thought that with the strength of the New Misrchi Republic, one fleet would be enough. But now, the number has become three, almost catching up with the configuration of the Nova Offensive and Defense War.

However, what is unexpected is that although PLANT declared war first, it was the New Misluchi Republic that took the first action.

After showing up a large force of warships to appease the people, Red directly dispatched half of the Constellation-class warships, led by Brian Eno and commanded by Guludic Inoa. They were divided into small groups and scattered on the way to the ZAFT fleet's colony satellite to conduct guerrilla warfare.

ZAFT has sent out three large fleets this time, and nearly half of the troops defending the Boyaz Fortress have been transferred away. Including various supply ships, the total number of ships in the three fleets is hundreds, and the route of the march cannot be hidden from anyone.

Therefore, the fleet sent by Red was specifically designed to attack patrol ships. With the speed of the Constellation-class battleships, only the Nazca-class battleships could catch up inside ZAFT. However, the Nazca-class battleships can only carry six MS, while the Constellation-class battleships can carry eight.

Generally, ZAFT patrols have at most three ships, and they rarely send the most advanced Nazca-class patrols. So when the ZAFT fleet ran out of PLANT, it suddenly felt like it was being attacked from all directions.

And because Red gave the sixteen-character strategy of guerrilla warfare: if the enemy advances, we retreat; if the enemy stays, we harass; if the enemy is tired, we attack; if the enemy retreats, we pursue.

This attack was completely disgusting. When they encountered an MS patrol, the ships of the New Mischi Republic launched a direct surprise attack, annihilated all the patrolling MS with their absolute numerical advantage, and then fled before the reinforcements arrived.

After a few times, ZAFT obediently arranged all ships to patrol.

Then it was discovered that the ships of the New Mislchi Republic changed their attack strategy.

Each time, a series of missiles were launched at a distance of 800 miles as if they were free, with no intention of actually damaging anything. At such a long distance, the electronic interference on the battlefield was serious, and the ships could dodge these missiles or detonate them in advance by moving and using machine guns.

But you can't just not fight back and let the other party continue to hit you after getting hit. After all, there are so many missiles that you can be hit by one or two.

So the ZAFT ships that were attacked had to fight back, and then they found a problem. They used missiles to shoot back, but they didn't have as many missile launchers as the enemy, and it was a complete waste of ammunition. The enemy couldn't hit them, and the same was true for them.

But if we chased them, the ships would turn around and run, heading for the rubble belt and the space garbage belt. The New Misrchi Republic had obviously surveyed the terrain of these places long ago. After a few minutes of entering, the ships could no longer be seen.

At this time, the ZAFT patrol team that was inexplicably attacked had only two choices. One was to consider themselves unlucky and not enter such a complex terrain and continue patrolling. However, they were soon attacked by guerrilla ships from other New Mislchi Republics.

The second, of course, is to rush directly into these places and pursue the fleeing ships of the New Mislchi Republic.

Then these reckless guys will find that the surrounding meteorites and space debris are all remote-controlled mines that have been deployed in advance.

The New Mislchi Republic has placed machines waiting on the escape route (they are all iron balls controlled by intelligent AI, they can hide anywhere and no one can find them unless they walk in front of them). When ZAFT ships pass through the minefield, they will explode directly.

At this point, it would be difficult for the ZAFT ships to retreat. Even if the ships were not destroyed on the spot, they would at least be damaged. At this time, the fleeing New Misrchi Republic ships would turn back and beat the fallen dogs. In most cases, it would cost almost nothing to sink the ZAFT patrol ships.

After more and more attacks like this, ZAFT has learned its lesson. When attacked, the New Mischi Republic's ships will go to complex terrain and not chase. Even if they chase, they must clear the way with mobile suits in front to clear the mines.

But what is the difference between a pursuit while clearing mines all the way and turtle crawling? Moreover, the loss of MS clearing mines is huge, which is totally not cost-effective.

Ultimately, ZAFT's fleet was forced by guerrilla warfare to significantly reduce its patrol range, patrolling only within areas where large forces could provide quick support.

This directly led to the ZAFT fleet on the expedition to the New Mislchi Republic having to repeatedly confirm that there were no ambushes or hidden mines ahead before advancing in large numbers. The ZAFT fleet took less than a week to complete the journey that could have taken four days at the slowest.

In the first round of the battle between the New Mischi Republic and PLANT, the New Mischi Republic had the upper hand, destroying more than a dozen ZAFT warships and hundreds of MS, while only losing a few Strike GMs and dozens of automatic mechas (the Iron Balls were not included in the losses).

However, the main forces of the three ZAFT fleets were not damaged, and they finally "crawled" to the space area near the Star Palace colony satellite. The decisive battle is about to begin.

(End of this chapter)