UC will eventually reach the stars

So, it's time for a sweet treat. "By the way, let me tell you that, in principle, Ye's Heavy Industry's proposed space battleship MS-equipped capability modification plan has been approved. There are currently many damaged battleships on Luna 2, which can be modified by mounting MS during the repair process. This allows Ye's Heavy Industry to expedite the design." Gao Pu looked at Ye Yun on the screen, a slight smile playing on his lips. The little guy understood perfectly, so he wouldn't refuse the opportunity to give Ye's Heavy Industry a further step forward.

"...Yes! Thank you very much for your support." Ye Yun's eyes flickered, and she sighed. She couldn't imagine what kind of raging tigress her sister would become if she refused. Her whip would probably break in two.

The Earth Federation's warships are different from those of the Zeon forces. Although the Zeon forces' main force, the Musai-class light cruisers, has a lot of flaws and is easily destroyed by the Federation forces in artillery battles, even the most demanding Federation space fleet commanders have to admit one thing after all: the Musai is a very versatile warship. Not to mention the three twin-mounted Mega Particle Cannons, the huge transport aircraft compartment alone is something that the Earth Federation forces envy.

In a sense, Msa even managed to achieve maximum functionality while sacrificing some performance, managing to cram the completely unrelated facilities of a light aircraft carrier and a light cruiser into the tonnage and hull of a light cruiser.

To date, the Federation Forces' warships are warships, and their transport ships are transport ships. Only a small number of modified warships are capable of carrying out operations similar to Musai. Now, with Minovsky particles influencing the course of the war, the Federation Forces, despite possessing a powerful fleet, are being firmly contained within Luna II by the Zeon forces.

While transport ships could solve some of the mobile suit loading issues, they couldn't keep up with space battleships, and their own protection and self-defense capabilities were almost nonexistent. If caught by the Zeon forces, they would be slaughtered. Therefore, some kind of Musai meal replacement was truly a necessary existence for the Federation space fleet.

"How confident are you in the upcoming battle?" Gao Pu asked the crucial question with a serious expression.

"We may not have much else, but we are very confident that we can inflict heavy casualties on the Zeon army," Ye Yun said with a smile.

"I am looking forward!"

Chapter Forty-Six: Front and Rear

"Found it!" Kiki, who was standing on a tree branch, put down her binoculars. The federal emblem on the binoculars indicated where the little girl's object came from.

What she discovered was nothing more than the Zeon raiding force camp that had finally obtained some supplies. Yes, while Gao Long's 09 squad was fighting the Zeon Zaku, the guerrillas had silently followed the Zeon soldiers. They did not launch an attack on the enemy, but simply hung behind them.

It's unclear whether the Zeon soldiers were intimidated by the sounds of the MS battle or by their counter-jungle tracking... Well, that's asking too much for Zeon soldiers who have never actually lived in a jungle. These unlucky guys are already doing their best to survive here.

Kiki glanced around again. The enemy camp was really small, barely divided into a storage area, a living area, and a maintenance area. Due to the lack of specialized equipment, all the buildings were hastily constructed. Kiki was certain that even without the Federation army, a guerrilla attack after nightfall would be enough to drive these Zeon soldiers into a corner.

"Coo...coo..." A few lifelike bird calls escaped Kiki's lips as she decided to retreat. Yes, if she gathered a guerrilla force and launched an attack in the middle of the night, she could indeed achieve great results. But this thought only briefly crossed Kiki's mind before she abandoned it.

The Zeon army is so poor, so what if they take it? Even if Ye Yun pays for their corpses, how much will he pay? What if the guerrillas are injured or even killed? That would be the worst thing. After all, Kiki clearly remembered her father repeatedly telling her, "This is a war between the Federation and Zeon, it has little to do with us. We just want to make money off that bastard Ye Yun."

Of course, neither Qiqi nor her father knew that Ye Yun and his father had a surprisingly similar view: he simply did not believe that the guerrillas would reform. After all, the feud between the Federal Army and them was not insignificant. Otherwise, why would they hide in the depths of the jungle and live such a hard life?

Therefore, Ye Yun's assessment of the guerrillas was: they could be used, but don't trust them. Oh, and there's a second half to that: "However, after experiencing the days of abundant supplies, they can't go back! If they can't understand it, I hope they can be happy afterwards."

Just kidding! After enjoying and experiencing modern civilized life, who could bear to return to the days of a purely agrarian civilization without external pressure to force them to accept it?

Kiki quickly led the guerrillas to withdraw from Zeon's garrison. Not long after, the map Kiki had drawn was in Ye Yun's hands. Although the convoy was difficult to move in the jungle, the off-road motorcycles were still able to ensure the timely delivery of these items that had to be handed over by hand.

"Looks like they've really chosen a good campsite," Ye Yun said, looking at the location on the map with some doubt. Yes, Zeon's campsite was located near a river, on a relatively gentle slope. Ye Yun could almost picture the conditions there: the sunlight would be nice but not too intense, and water would be readily available. Heh…

Ye Yun wasn't sure if the Zeon army had experience in forest warfare, but they certainly had experience in camping.

Ye Yun put down the report, rubbed his temples, and said frankly, now that preparations for a large-scale attack had begun, Ye Yun did not really want to get entangled with such minor characters, as it would divert his forces. However, if he ignored them, even a mosquito bite could be annoying for half a day.

Ultimately, Ye Yun decided to send the message to the Air Force, letting those old men see when they had time to bomb the camp location. As long as they could prevent these guys from interfering with his subsequent attack, that was fine. As for whether these guys would be captured by the guerrillas afterward, that was none of his concern.

After all, forests really can be deadly.

"Looks like you're even more agitated than I am?" Kinias's communication came in at that moment. Seeing Ye Yun rubbing his temples and looking agitated, Kinias suddenly curled the corners of his mouth.

"If you have good news, you'd better tell me right away so I can be happy." Ye Yun looked at his good friend with a hint of annoyance, but clearly, his current state would only make this guy happier.

“Well, there’s really nothing that could make you happy,” Kinias said with a smile. “If there is anything, it’s that the Federation Army has placed another order, and so has Ye’s Heavy Industry. We’ve even gotten involved in the Federation Army’s warship repair and modification program. That’s really interesting.”

"Gao Pu has already said that the Earth Federation Forces are very interested in our plan to modify the original missile bay on the bow of the ship to accommodate about four aircraft. It's just a pity that the Space Forces aren't very enthusiastic." Ye Yun shrugged. Gao Pu's call wasn't just to make fun of Ye Yun taking on a hot potato. Having already accepted Ye Yun into his faction, Gao Pu is now taking good care of him. Otherwise, how could he, who has only recently joined the Earth Federation Forces, possibly lead an army and gain combat command?

Of course, this was mainly because Ye Yun fought a really good battle at the North Sichuan Base. In a sense, the victory at the North Sichuan Base made the entire Federation Army feel that they had turned the tide when the Federation Army was suffering continuous defeats.

Not to mention that GAT-01 short swords have already begun to be gradually deployed to the Federation front in squadron-sized units. Even if the pilots are not as skilled as the Zeon forces on the other side, both sides are at least on the same starting line in terms of equipment.

"How's the situation at the front? I heard you're also planning to go to the front?" Kinias looked at Ye Yun, somewhat unable to understand his friend's decision, not to mention that if this guy went to the front, Aina would definitely go too.

"Shouldn't you be able to see the data? The number of damaged MS has been rising rapidly recently, but judging from the situation in the last few days, the number of MS that the enemy can deploy is not much." Ye Yun shrugged. After all, the Zeon army's MS didn't come out of thin air. The manufacturing cost and difficulty of MS are much higher than that of tanks. How could they possibly continuously deploy troops against the Federation army on a battlefield that is not particularly significant?

and……

The Earth Federation forces have barely recovered from the Zeon forces' widespread airdrop operations after the colony crash! The ground battlefield is not as simple as the space battlefield…

In space, a distance of 20 kilometers might be just a journey measured in seconds, but on the ground, 20 kilometers could be the distance that allows for a steady advance of the front line in a day, or it could be the distance between life and death.

Therefore, it's not just the Earth Federation Forces that are learning about new-era warfare models; the Zeon forces are also in the process.

"By the way, the second phase of Project G has already begun. Do you have any new suggestions?" Kinias tapped the table. To be honest, even with Kinias's pride, he admitted that Ye Yun might not have contributed half the credit to the G series, but he was at least 30% credited. After all, creativity is a very important factor for technicians.

Ye Yun decisively abandoned the Minovsky particle reactor currently planned by Zeon and the Federation as the main power source, and directly adopted the already very mature battery technology. Although the space and weight occupied were not saved, the cost... the Minovsky reactor and the battery are not even in the same league! Compared to the price of the planned mass-produced mobile suits of the "V" project, the price of the short sword has reached a cost-effectiveness of about 2 to 3 for 1. This is the biggest reason why the Earth Federation Forces headquarters is preparing to produce 1500 units at once!

Not to mention the huge advantages in maintainability. For a regular repairman, if you can't handle the rice cooker, can't you handle the battery?

And the backpack system...

Hey... The Earth Federation Forces also have their own backpacks planned under Project V, but those are mainly storage backpacks for storing combat supplies. In a sense, they're similar to the backpacks carried by ordinary soldiers in combat. Compared to the combat backpacks proposed by Ye Yun to enhance the combat capabilities of mobile suits, the concepts are completely different, and the combat power is also completely different...

In this round, the second phase of Project G received high praise from the Federation Forces headquarters!

"I remember you calculated that the base of the short sword couldn't withstand the backpack system." Ye Yun thought for a moment. Project G and Project V had different directions. Project V was to develop a high-precision finished product (RX-78 Gundam), and then downgrade the mass production technology to obtain a finished product that could be mass-produced (RMG-79 GM).

The G Project takes mass production performance into maximum consideration. It is a military-grade model (GAT-00 Leo) that is almost entirely derived from the mature high-performance industrial machine of Shuguang Heavy Machinery Manufacturing Company through technical upgrades. After further replacing some key parts with military-grade equipment, the technology was upgraded to obtain the mass-produced model (GAT01 Dagger).

The ongoing second phase involves, on the one hand, making minor adjustments to the short sword based on battlefield feedback to improve its combat performance, and on the other hand, adapting and modifying it according to the backpack development plan. In a sense, the completed technical prototype may be able to reach or even exceed the high-precision finished product combat power (Gundam specifications) in the V Project development plan. Then, the mass-produced improved short sword will still be able to maintain most of the short sword's superior performance.

“Yes!” Kinias didn’t hide anything. Ye Yun, like him, was very clear about the “G” project. “After the development is completed, structural reinforcements will be needed before the backpack can be used.”

"Then why don't you develop a simple one that can be used with a short sword, providing some gliding ability and a small amount of weaponry, like rockets or something?" Ye Yun thought for a moment, and it seemed somewhat appealing. After all, compared to a parachute that drops straight down like a target, a backpack that can provide some gliding ability seemed pretty good, so MS could directly enter the battle from the air.

"Hmm? What's the difference between this and a high-mobility backpack?"

"Hmm... It's not shameful to set up another project and scam some research and development funds from the Federation Army."

"..."

Chapter 47, Squadron 666 "Demon Hunter"

"Good! Thank you for your cooperation..." Ye Yun looked at the group of people in front of him wearing standard Zeon military space combat uniforms, sighed, but still clapped his hands to indicate that they had performed well. "As... a token of the Federation Forces' sincerity!" Ye Yun placed 20 sheets of paper on the table. "Take a look. This is the military court's verdict against you from the Earth Federation Forces headquarters. Of course, if you want to appeal, I can guarantee that you will only face life imprisonment or the death penalty."

"..." Sima Karahau picked up the paper and scanned it quickly. "Deployed to the front lines, placed under house arrest after the war, and forced to wear an electronic beacon for life... Should I thank the Federation for its mercy?"

Such conditions would indeed cause dissatisfaction for someone else, but when applied to them, Sima actually felt a little at ease in a certain sense...

It's ironic, and it's also true.

“No need, because your surrender notices have huge political value for the Federation, hmph…” Ye Yun looked at Sima and the others, shook his head with a wry smile, “In a sense, now there are quite a few people in both Zeon and the Federation who want you dead.”

“Take this guy next to me who’s been staring at me for a long time, for example. I’ve seen him on the news.” Sima looked at a young man next to her with an extremely serious expression, and in his eyes there was a feeling that Sima was very familiar with. Yes, the kind of all-consuming rage that she could see in her own eyes every day when she looked in the mirror.

Sima naturally recognized the other party as one of the main reasons why the Zeon forces chose to abandon them and directly kill them. He was the SIDE2 survivor mentioned in General Reibir's speech at the Antarctic Treaty signing ceremony... what was his name again?

Oh, Lord Amada!

"Don't you know any shame?" It seemed that because the military police were right there, Amada Shiro just glared angrily at the people in front of him.

"Disgrace?" Sima tilted her head slightly, as if Kado's roar was echoing in her ears again. "Heh heh... Here we go again, with these hypocritical accusations." Sima's eyes turned fierce.

"You killed hundreds of millions of people! Not a single person in the entire Side 2 survived!" Amada Shirou glared angrily at the other party. Perhaps because of what Sima and the others had just testified about, Amada Shirou's opinion of them had changed somewhat, and he did not rush up and throw a punch at Sima.

"Aren't you alive, garrison buddy?" Sima's face held a hint of mockery. Knowing full well that he was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of millions of people, and then betrayed and framed by the military, Sima and his comrades were no longer easily swayed by a few simple words from someone.

"You!" But these words didn't sound like that to Amada Shiro. Amada Shiro exploded. This time, he didn't care whether the person in front of him was a woman or not. He swung his fist and rushed towards Shima. Shima wasn't the kind of person who would just take a beating without fighting back. Without hesitation, she retaliated with an elbow strike.

"Military police, if anyone else dares to go up, beat them to death." Seeing that the Federal Army and Sima's men on the side were all eager to charge at each other, Ye Yun's cold voice rang out.

"Yes!" The military police captain nodded. Clearly, he understood Ye Yun's approach to the situation. He glanced at the two men who were angrily fighting each other. Without giving any instructions, he gestured to his men to push the others away while cursing, but he did not stop the two men from fighting.

Soon, shouts and clamor filled the air. After all, the Federation forces were already very unhappy with Zeon, not to mention the audio and video recordings of the man surrendering to the cameras, which everyone had heard.

What is a disintegrating gas? Goodness, you guys know what that is, right?

As for being abandoned by Zeon and even hunted down afterward! Hey! You deserved it! You deserved to die!

Everyone was yelling at the two of them, telling them to use their strength! Kill the other person quickly!

"Bang!" A dozen minutes later, Ye Yun looked at Sima and Amada Shirou, who were bruised and exhausted but still throwing punches at each other without regard for anything else. He took a deep breath, drew his sidearm, and fired a shot into the air. The noisy scene fell silent instantly.

The military police rushed over without hesitation and dragged the two men apart. Of course, during this process, the two men, who hadn't had enough of beating, struggled desperately and naturally took a lot of beatings from the military police's sticks.

"Idiot! Don't you have a brain? We're about to go on a mission, I don't have time to put you in solitary confinement, but if you do well in this battle, I won't report a single word for you. If you do poorly, the punishment will be doubled, understand?" Ye Yun looked at Amada Shilang and poked Amada Shilang's forehead twice. It was less of a scolding and more of a blatant attempt to take sides. "Take your captain with you and get him to the infirmary."

After saying this, Ye Yun signaled the military police to let go. Whether or not the credit would be reported was entirely up to this guy. Fair and impartial? What a joke! Even if he were to be fair, the Xima group in front of him was clearly insane. Judging from their attitude just now, they even planned to fight against the entire base's soldiers with only 20 people. Trying to win their favor by being fair and impartial? Don't dream.

"Hmph..." Sima snorted coldly. This guy's favoritism was blatant, but in a way, such a leader... was really good.

“Sima Karahau, I don’t want to say much about you. Even if everything you said is true, that you were following orders, even if we consider it manslaughter, you’ve committed tens of millions, even hundreds of millions! Even if I killed you all and chopped you up to feed the dogs, it wouldn’t be enough to atone for your sins.” Ye Yun took a deep breath and glared at Sima in front of him. “Don’t be unconvinced. You know in your hearts that I’m telling the truth!”

"...Thank you for reminding me, we deserve to die." Sima turned to look at Ye Yun, her pupils dark and unfocused, like black holes, devoid of any light.

“Yes, but I think you can be my sharpest blade.” Ye Yun looked at Sima in front of him, completely disregarding the strange looks people around him were giving him. “You know, most of the MS pilots here were still going crazy with me on the day Iphishu Island crashed. We were sitting in a trench less than half a meter wide, watching that colony satellite fall!”

The group of former Zeon soldiers looked around and saw that everyone's eyes were indeed burning with anger.

"We all saw it!" Ye Yun's words were resounding. "That day, we were all defeated by our own incompetence! I must say, Zeon did a brilliant job! They used the most ruthless methods to quickly destroy the foundation of the Federation army. Yes, as long as we can kill everyone, to hell with the country!"

"That day, I swore that I would lead my men into Side 3! Into Zeon's capital, and I would stuff the entire Zabi family into a wrecked ship and throw them into space! I would make them live to endure all of this! To hell with the trial! I'm going to kill every piece of trash with the name Zabi!" Ye Yun's voice was filled with malice.

Amada Shirou, who was heading to the infirmary with his team, heard Ye Yun's voice and turned around in surprise. He saw Ye Yun with bulging veins and Aina standing beside him with her arms crossed and a stern expression. He glanced at his teammates, who nodded. As members of Squad 08, they had indeed been crouching in the trench with Ye Yun that day, watching the red dot of the crashing colony grow larger and larger! They had also heard Ye Yun muttering to himself.

"So, when you bunch of hot potatoes were dumped on me, I only hesitated for a moment before indicating that I was willing to take it on!" Ye Yun stared at the group of Zeon soldiers in front of him.

“You hate Zeon, very good! You want revenge! That’s great! You even want atonement, even better! I can throw you into one desperate situation after another without any burden, and then watch you either crawl out of the mire of death or drown in it, and if you are lucky enough to survive, I will throw you into the next one! But I will give you the best equipment and the most abundant supplies. How about it, these are my conditions.”

"To become the sharpest blade cutting through Zeon?" Sima wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth, took two steps forward, and stood in front of Ye Yun. "Aren't you afraid we'll turn against you?"

“I couldn’t be happier. A mutiny is the perfect reason for me to execute you.” Ye Yun stared into Xima’s pupils. “I will be watching you. If you show any signs of doing so, I will not hesitate.”

“Great reason, great boss! Hahahaha…” Sima suddenly burst into maniacal laughter, then grabbed Ye Yun’s outstretched hand. “You keep your word!”

"Hmph..." Ye Yun sneered, gripped his hand tightly, and then released it. "Starting today, you are the 666th Independent MS Squadron, named Demon Hunter. Your mobile suits have been delivered! In this battle, you will be at the forefront! Do you understand?"

“Alright!” Sima nodded. On his way here, he had already seen the warehouse of Squadron 666. Of course, they didn't have 16 pilots; only 8 had experience piloting mobile suits. But that didn't matter. Just as Ye Yun had said, their task was to take revenge on Zeon! Nothing else mattered, and naturally, whether their squadron was full or not was even less important.

"Get used to the machine quickly, and remember the punishment. We'll settle things properly after the battle! Remember, don't give me a chance." After Ye Yun finished speaking, Aina naturally followed him. Before leaving, Aina glanced at Sima, her eyes showing a somewhat strange expression.

“Yes, you won’t have it.” Sima also turned and left, pushing through the crowd with her subordinates and heading towards the 666th Squadron’s base.

Chapter Forty-Eight: Sudden Fame

"You didn't even give them a moment to prepare for the transition training?" Aina said to Ye Yun as she helped him pack his clothes and the things he might need to bring on this mission.

“There’s no other way, I have to show them how harsh we are.” Ye Yun shrugged, his expression somewhat helpless. “I’ve dealt with them, so at least the people below won’t cause trouble, at most they’ll just ostracize them.” Ye Yun shook his head and sighed. “Their sins are so heavy that even if they jumped into the sea, they could turn the entire ocean black. This is not a sin that can be offset by a soldier following orders.”

"...Hey, so you're saying that by treating them like the sharpest knives, everyone will know your intentions, and you'll give them some leeway?" Aina packed her things into a backpack and tossed it to Ye Yun. "Do you think they'll obediently follow your orders?"

“Xima?” Ye Yun put down his backpack and hugged Aina. “They had no choice. If they had any brains, they would know very well that this is the best place they could find to stay.”

"The video should be released tomorrow, right?" Aina patted Ye Yun's hand, indicating that she still had things to do.

"No, to be precise, it should start playing now." Ye Yun turned on the TV, but what he saw wasn't Sima's face...

"Oh! Ye Yun! You're on TV!" Aina smiled, and with just one glance, she already knew what segment it was about.

Sure enough, the next sentence was, "You hate Zeon, very good! You want revenge! That's great! You even want atonement, even better! I can throw you into one desperate situation after another without any burden, and then watch you either climb out of the mire of death or drown in it, and then throw you in again! For this, I will give you the best equipment and the most abundant supplies. How about it, these are my conditions."

The final shot of the scene showed Ye Yun and Xima's hands clasped tightly.

"Huh!" Aina gave a disdainful look, which was the dissatisfaction of the official girlfriend. Even though she knew what was going on, Aina still pinched Ye Yun's arm.

"Tsk, there really isn't a single good person among journalism students." Ye Yun spat angrily, feeling that he had been tricked again, and the level of the person who tricked him must be very high! After all, the video that day was not live, so there was no possibility that he was accidentally filmed.

Before it can be broadcast, it almost always has to go through a review process, and the review process is likely to be quite rigorous!

So how did my big face end up on there?

"Did those photographers leave?" Ye Yun walked to his desk, picked up the internal phone, and dialed. "What? They left right after filming... Those bastards are really fast!" Clearly, the photography team knew what they had done and what it meant to Ye Yun.

At that moment, billions of people under the Federation's rule, and even hundreds of millions of people in the Principality of Zeon, witnessed this scene on television: a colonel of the Earth Federation Army openly shook hands with a group of people from Shima who had been deceived by the Zeon Army, and declared that he would turn them into the sharpest blades to cut down the Zeon Army! This action could be said to shake the entire human world.

Without a doubt, Ye Yun was now a target of the Zeon army! Even before Zeon's destruction, the Zeon army and its intelligence department would launch targeted attacks against Ye Yun. Therefore, sending out such information without consulting him directly was bound to provoke Ye Yun's anger.

It's only because they ran fast that Ye Yun made them experience the same treatment as Tom Cruise! Send them all to the front lines! You want to kill me? Then you can all go to the front lines and enjoy yourselves! Enjoy!

"Hmm! The effect is quite good." Aina commented on the TV program. "And we all know that the people in the Zeon army should have noticed you! After all, you've ruined their plans so many times, so this time, they'll be even more serious?"

"Hmph!" Ye Yun called his sister irritably. "Did you see that?"

"Very good publicity, whose idea was this? I'll kill him!" Ye Ning's tone was anything but good. Clearly, although she usually bullied Ye Yun, she still cared about her younger brother. This time, putting her brother in such a dangerous situation had angered her.

"It's already been broadcast, it's too late to say anything now. We should make the most of the impact of its spread." Ye Yun sighed. Aina had switched through several channels, and some programs discussing this matter were already rebroadcasting clips, so Ye Yun roughly knew the content.

While not entirely uncut, most of the information was revealed. Sima and her group used a lot of information they had obtained from the Federation Intelligence Department, including their own data from the Zeon Army's information archives and remade Zeon Army identification documents, to confess and prove their innocence. They also exposed the Zeon Army's gas attack on Side 2 and how, in order to cover up the facts, they silenced the Zeon Army troops involved in the operation.

The later exchange of barbs and even the brutal fight between Sima and Amada Shirou, along with Ye Yun's final reprimand with a gun and his promise to Sima, were all broadcast. The entire process was presented without any guiding language, appearing remarkably neutral and objective.

But... they gave it background music!