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"How far is it to Mendel?"

"Half an hour left." The helmsman responded after taking a look at the distance.

"Should we prepare the Daggers for an attack?" the adjutant said. "Then we'll charge directly into their harbor and destroy the ZAFT warships."

A battle like this, a surprise attack on a port, inexplicably reminded the officer of a battle in the AD era when he was studying the history of war at the military academy.

The bridge at this moment was calm yet tinged with enthusiasm, as if it couldn't wait to destroy the new ZAFT battleship and gain merit.

"According to that Seran, the ZAFT warship is parked in a small airport... Once we cross the Mendel border, we'll have the Daggers attack." After a moment's thought, the officer gave the order, "Then the fleet will go to the airport location indicated in the intelligence and surround the ZAFT warship. Half of the Daggers will pass through Mendel and work together to surround the ZAFT warship from both inside and outside."

"But if that happens... it will spread to Mendel, right? Wouldn't that be bad?" The adjutant was stunned for a moment upon hearing this order. "The Orb garrison will probably react."

"So we must fight quickly, without causing too much damage to the colony, and without giving ZAFT and Orb time to react." The officer put down the intelligence in his hand. "Besides, we only made a deal with the Seran family, not Orb. If it weren't for the terms of the deal, the fact that they were shielding ZAFT would be enough to organize a larger fleet to encircle and suppress Orb."

In fact, some of the more extreme officers in the Earth Army intended to wipe out Orb, but after the goodwill shown by the Seran family, in order to maximize the benefits and bring Orb into the hands of the Earth Alliance, they gave up the annihilation plan and instead planned to support the Seran family to take power.

"Anyway, pass the order down, the fleet prepares for battle."

Following the officer's order, the fleet's hangar began to get busy. A large number of daggers that had been prepared long ago quickly activated their wetware components and prepared for the attack.

The Earth Army still retains a small number of pilots, but most of the MS have been operated by wetware components.

This change made Logos, the sponsor of Blue Cosmos, very satisfied. After all, as the war has developed to this point, not to mention the fertility situation of natural people, a large number of war orphans are the best raw materials for wetware.

In comparison, there are fewer resources allocated to the research and development of enhanced humans, which is also a headache for Murtagh.

……

At this time, on the New Agama, Maru sat in the captain's seat with a frown, looking at the whereabouts of the Earth Army warships scanned by the radar on the screen.

"The Orb army didn't take any action... Is it because the Seran family is suppressing them?" Bakilulu couldn't help but feel puzzled when she saw the scene in front of her.

"But no matter what, the Earth Army has crossed the line... New Argama, start the engine and head to the colony satellite Mendel." Looking at the Earth Army warships that had already dispatched MS, Mariu made a quick decision and decided to start the battle.

As helmsman Arnold pushed the joystick, the New Argama's thrusters spewed out fierce flames and flew towards the colony satellite Mendel.

At the same time, the port on the Minerva's side was in chaos because the Aurora Society suddenly informed the Earth Army that it was approaching the colonial satellite Mendel.

The Minerva, which had just completed some repairs, quickly entered combat status.

"Why would the Earth Army suddenly attack Mendel? Is it targeting Orb?" Sitting in her seat, Talia's brain quickly thought of countermeasures.

"No... Look at this. They're surrounding us, and the Orb Army isn't deploying a large force. That's probably what Mendel's leadership and the Earth Army said." Taking a quick look at the situation, Durandal narrowed his eyes in the dim light of the bridge and analyzed, "And some mobile suits are going straight through residential areas... They're trying to surround us."

For the Seran family, although the loss of Mendel was painful, it was a price they could pay in order to complete their plan. At this time, they were frantically suppressing the actions of the Orb army, and only a few Orb soldiers launched resistance.

Unfortunately, the large force of the newly equipped M1 Heretic was suppressed by the Seran family, and these Orb soldiers could only fight with MA and daggers.

"Shin will drive the Pulse to block the Earth Army MS coming from the residential area, and Luna and Ray will drive the Zaku Warriors to escort the Minerva to break through!" After thinking for a moment, Talia made this decision.

At this time, Zhen was wearing a pilot's suit and carrying a girl in a white hospital gown on his back as he walked into the Pulse hangar.

After changing into his driving suit, Zhen did not attack immediately, but returned to the Minerva's medical room. Under the doctor's confused look, he knocked the doctor down with a punch and carried Stella out on her back from the bed.

Lei also used some reasons to attract the attention of the maintenance team, allowing Zhen to enter the Pulse hangar safely.

"How could this happen? What went wrong..." At this time, the maintenance team was surrounding Lei's Zaku Warrior, anxiously conducting inspections.

Lei's previous Zaku Warrior was completely destroyed in the battle with Unicorn. Fortunately, there were spare parts, and the maintenance team temporarily assembled a Zaku Warrior for use.

In this environment, no one doubted that the problems of the Zaku Warriors were caused by Lei.

After seeing Zhen enter the Pulse hangar, Lei calmly pressed a few keys on the keyboard.

“Start…start!”

Hearing the surprised shouts of the maintenance team, Lei put on his helmet.

"The situation is urgent now. We have to survive before we can even perform any repairs." With that, Ray piloted the Zaku Warrior to the hangar gate. "Ray Za Barel, Zaku Warrior, attack."

As the door of the hangar opened, Lei controlled the Zaku Warrior to fly to the deck at the top of the hangar and raised the machine gun in his hand.

On the other side, on the top deck of the hangar, Luna had been waiting for a long time with her beam sniper cannon.

"Why are you so slow?!" Luna gripped the joystick tightly as she watched the Minerva start to move.

"It's normal for a body that was temporarily assembled with spare parts to have flaws." Lei said casually, but his attention was focused on the core fighter that had just launched an attack.

The speed is a bit slow... Is it because I have to take care of that weak girl?

……

The violent jolt and the sudden, familiar pressure made the very weak Stella open her eyes.

What caught my eye was Zhen, who was wearing a driving suit. He seemed to have made up his mind and was flying the Pulse towards a residential area.

In the distance, there were several Gladius flying towards the Minerva, as well as a small group of Orb garrison piloting MAs and Gladius to fight against them.

"Zhen..." A slightly weak voice came from his ear, bringing Zhen back to his senses.

The communicator in the cockpit had been turned off long ago, and the only person who could make a sound was... myself.

"Stella, you'll be safe soon." Zhen glanced at Stella in his arms, controlled the pulse and landed in a small square.

In the image, a young girl was wearing a long black windbreaker and sunglasses. She completely ignored the strong wind blowing when the pulse landed, and was concentrating on observing the machine in front of her.

"Wait a minute, leave with my sister, and then you will be saved." Seeing Mayu having a lot of fun playing some kind of agent role-playing game, Zhen felt a little relieved.

Pulse knelt on one knee, opened the cockpit, stepped on the elevator rope, and landed on the ground holding Stella.

"Oh, is this my sister-in-law... so light!" Mayu glanced at Zhen in the driving suit and said nothing, but just took Stella over.

Stella, in a weak state, could only weakly grab Zhen's arm and lie in Mayu's arms.

Zhen casually put the broken and useless survival beacon into Stella's hand.

“It’s okay…you leave with my sister first, and we will meet again.” Zhen reached out and touched Stella’s head. “I promise.”

"Okay, brother, you should go." Mayu lowered her head slightly and looked at Stella in her arms. "Otherwise, you will definitely be discovered by the ZAFT people."

"Remember to give those Earth troops a good beating."

"...Yeah." After hearing Mayu's words, Zhen looked at Stella again, then returned to the pulse without looking back.

Now is not the time to part ways like in an idol movie. Whether it is to cover the evacuation of Mayu and the others, or to cover his own actions just now, he must kill those Earth soldiers.

Pulse stood up again, activated his thrusters, and flew into the sky.

After taking a moment to aim, he actually fired.

The green beam passed through the gap between the residential buildings and penetrated the cockpit of a Gladius, but did not detonate the battery.

The dagger, having lost its power, fell to the ground, knocking down a building and lying in the rubble of bricks and concrete.

Fortunately, the residents of Orb had already evacuated, otherwise many people would have been killed or injured.

“Really…” Looking at the pulse flying in the air, Stella subconsciously stretched out her hand.

"Stella, right." Looking at Stella in front of her, Mayu showed a malicious smile. "Let's go. If you can't recover, your brother will be worried."

After hearing the real story, Mayu also knew how to deal with Stella, which was to coax her like a child.

Whenever she thought of this, Mayu would despise her brother's idiotic behavior in her heart.

"If you leave with me now to get treatment, I'll tell you all about my brother's embarrassing moments," Mayu finally revealed her purpose. "Then you can use this dark history to really screw him over."

"A real...story?!"

Hearing Mayu's words, Stella's eyes seemed to light up, although she was still weak.

----split line----

PS: Today's update

Today in World of Warships, I was driving Tirpitz and was attacked from both sides by two battleships. Fortunately, the torpedoes saved me.

By the way, today I finished the HG Red Heretic that I hadn't finished in ** month of last year. It really took me a long time to finish it because of various things.

The next one is going to be my RG color-transparent three-red full-edge 00Q. I hope to get it done before the New Year.

Volume 148: Chapter : Armored Suit BS can only fire conventional beams? No, it can also fire Magnums!

"Why don't you let us attack?!"

At this time, in Mendel's Orb garrison camp, several officers were already banging their heads on the table.

"ZAFT, forget it, but the Earth Army has already reached Mendel!" Clearly, the "Orb Retreat" incident had left these Orb soldiers with a negative impression of the Earth Army. "What on earth is the Early Warning Center doing? Are they betraying us?"

"The order to attack hasn't been given yet, so the MS in the hangar can't move!" An officer who was obviously of a higher rank sighed.

At this moment, he wanted to open the MS hangar immediately and pull out the two M1 heretic teams that had just been distributed to Mendel not long ago to fight, but the Seran family had a strong control over this batch of MS, which made him feel like "a good cook cannot cook without rice."

He now even suspected that the failure of the early warning center to issue a notice might have been the work of the Sailan family.

"Whatever! I only have conventional weapons and MA left. I'm going to attack! At worst, I'll fight them to death." At this time, an officer slammed the table, stood up and walked out the door. "I absolutely cannot let Mendel become the next Heliopos. I must drive them out without a single one left!"

"Count me in."

More and more officers stood up and walked towards the door.

Although everyone knew that the mobile suits were powerful enough to foresee heavy casualties among the troops, everyone was still filled with anger at this moment.

"Damn it! Let's go all out! If the mobile suits in the hangar can't be moved, we'll just go in ourselves!" At this moment, the officer who had just been having a headache also stood up. "If I survive, I swear I will bring the early warning center and the Seran family to court-martial!"

"Zizizi... Mendel's Orb Army, this is the current Orb Prime Minister, Cagalli Asha." At this moment, the radio station beside them stopped the soldiers' chaotic reports and a female voice emerged. "Are there any troops still resisting?"

The screen nearby displayed the identity verification of the person who initiated the communication. Seeing the label "Current Prime Minister of Orb" clearly written on it, the people present seemed to have found their roots and calmed down a little.

"This is Mendel's 2nd Armored Division of the Orb Army." A higher-ranking officer quickly picked up the communicator. "The Orb Army is still resisting... but the hangars are controlled by the Serran family, and the mobile suits haven't launched an attack! We only have conventional weapons and mobile suits."

"Please rest assured, even if we lose our lives, we will drive out the Earth Army and ZAFT, and Mendel will not end up like Heliopos." The officer breathed a sigh of relief after knowing that Cagalli could hear these words.

"...Our compatriot Mendel belongs to the Orb Army. The Selan family has betrayed Orb's interests and colluded with the Earth Union's extremist organization, Blue Cosmos. They have committed treason." Cagalli's voice was firm in the communication. "I repeat, the Selan family has committed treason. I now issue the Orb Army's attack permit. All airports are blocked. All Orb troops are dispatched!"

Two mobile suits flew in from the gap opened by the Earth Army and soared in the sky above Mendel.

One of the machines was shining golden under the artificial sunlight. When all the Orb soldiers scanned it, they automatically marked it with the identification code "Orb Prime Minister".

The sporadic sounds of gunfire in Mendel became increasingly frequent. The Orb army, which had been suppressed and in a state of chaos, began to organize its troops and fired at the daggers of the Earth army.

"What a remarkable speech... Almost everyone has come to resist the Earth Army." Mu, who was driving the assault ship, glanced at the increasingly fierce artillery fire in Mendel and stepped on the pedal like Ross.

With the energy supply of the nuclear battery, Assault, who attacks in a "perfect" posture, can also fully utilize the full performance of the three backpacks.

It wasn't until now that Mu understood why Ross loved manipulating the machine to maintain an extremely high speed. Under the influence of G-force, it was truly a feeling of "pain and pleasure."

"It's not that my speech was so inspiring...it's just that these soldiers have aroused their own bloodiness." Seeing the damage caused by these daggers in Mendel, Cagalli's expression was complicated.

"But without you to reassure them, their resistance can't be fully organized. They're just fighting on their own." Mu shook his head and controlled the assault to fly in a different direction. "You go and deal with that Sailan family, and I'll take out those daggers."

The assault had only flown a short distance when it saw a modified version of a black Dagger, which was leaning against a residential building and fighting against the Orb army driving various self-propelled artillery.

"What a terrible fight... and it's a suit specialized for infantry?" Seeing the Orb army suffer heavy losses under the dagger attack, he couldn't help but frown. "Then let's try this!"

Strike stretched out his left hand, pulled out the beam boomerang on his shoulder, and threw it at the improved dagger that was still firing.

It seemed that its attention was distracted by the Orb army and it was completely unaware that the attack would come from the sky. With the rapid rotation of the beam blade, this improved black dagger, along with the propulsion device similar to the assault air combat backpack, was cut in half and exploded into pieces on the ground.

Along with the impact of the explosion, the residential building that the improved dagger had just supported also collapsed.

"Oh...I can't seem to control it?"

……

On the other side, Ross and Kira did not attack immediately, but followed the New Argama to encircle the Earth Fleet from behind.

At this time, it can be seen that the small dock belonging to the Dawn Society has been covered by various explosions and flames. It is obvious that the Earth Army's fleet is determined to destroy the Minerva.

The elevator brought Unicorn and Freedom to the catapult deck respectively, and the fixing frames securing the fuselage were released and retracted into the hangar.

"How do we deal with these Earth troops now? Just drive them away?" Looking at the familiar warship model in front of them, the crew members of the New Argama all had complicated expressions.

"No, just kill them," Ross said calmly and decisively. "After all, even if we drive them away peacefully, they'll continue to cause trouble for Orb. It's better to kill them directly and shift the blame to ZAFT."

"Anyway, they've already fought like this, so there's no need for this excuse."

"But... it will be difficult for Cagalli in this case..." Kira sighed as he looked at the ejection channel that had been fully deployed.

"Cagallie isn't as weak as you think, and her think tank isn't as incompetent as you think." Ross saw all the indicator lights light up and took a deep breath to calm himself down.

"Rhodes Links, Unicorn, attack." Rhodes stepped on the pedal, and the ejection device quickly ejected the Unicorn. The jet backpack on the Unicorn seemed a little small compared to other machines, but it burst out with a strong thrust, suddenly creating a distance between it and the Freedom that had just completed the ejection.

"Wow... so fast." Even though Kira was already driving the Freedom at a very fast speed, he still subconsciously widened his eyes after seeing the speed of the Unicorn. "Is this kind of G-force really okay?"