The wretched heir of the main god

But if we continue to fight in such a situation, Zaft's side can still win the battle "tactically" despite the huge losses.

Then, the first variable occurred one hour after the war began.

After the first World Tree campaign, the Atlantic Alliance encountered the MS crisis. It took only 20 days to develop the Pollu Iron Ball and complete production preparations in one month.This cheap super cannon fodder mech was then mass-produced.

It took only four months to build a total of three thousand Bolu.

The moon is a "small planet" with a diameter of less than three thousand four hundred kilometers.

In this attack, the Atlantic Alliance can bring more than 1,500 Mr. Polu into the war in the fleet. This is already the limit of its warship capacity-but this is only the limit of warship capacity.

From the Tulme Fortress of the Atlantic Alliance to Copernicus, the straight line distance is only a thousand kilometers.For the mobile forces of the Atlantic Alliance, this is not a long distance.

While the mobile forces of the two sides continued to fight and fire in space, the second wave of reinforcements sent from the Ptolemy base was continuously being transported from the rear base to join the frontline battle.

These newly added Polus were launched through a long-distance mass acceleration orbit in the rear, or a booster rocket was installed in the back, and they were launched over a distance of 1,200 kilometers and were sent to the Copernicus battlefield.

There is no gravity in space, at a distance of one thousand kilometers, even if it is a very slow Bolu iron ball, after the booster rocket is installed, it only takes one hour to complete the flight.

The first batch of Atlantic joint mobile force reinforcements that rushed to the battlefield of the two armies joined the battlefield at the 48th minute after the war. They were all Pollu iron balls with only 30 units.But the problem is that every minute, 30 enemy Boru join the battlefield, and this situation is still uninterrupted.

The Atlantic Alliance is rich and powerful, and is not afraid of death at all. At this moment, the battle has dispatched most of Boru in one breath.

In just fifteen minutes, they replenished the lost Poru iron balls, and the number is still rising.

"The enemy's iron balls are as numerous as ants. It's almost impossible to kill them."

The arrival of "Mr. Iron Ball" alleviated the situation that the great loss of the Atlantic Alliance troops in the front was greatly reduced due to unfavorable warfare.

On the opposite side of the cannon fodder iron ball, no matter how much Soft’s mobile suit on the front line was destroyed, the base at the back door recalled the corresponding loss.At the beginning, Zaft felt the pressure.After nearly an hour of fighting, the mobile suits Zaft attacked were forced to return to their mothers to receive supplies and maintenance.

At this time, during the gap between supply and attack, on the air carriers of the Zaft Space Force’s mobile suits, the logistics personnel were busy repairing the mobile suits that were recruited in the battle, while the relevant military personnel repeatedly analyzed the previous operations The gains and losses, once again teach these young MS pilots to make fewer mistakes.

Using the mecha to replenish ammunition and charging, as well as the maintenance gap, Zaft’s tactical analysts quickly settled the mistakes in the previous battle.

In this period, a dispute is taking place within the Earth United Army.

The controversy began with the commander-in-chief of the Moon Front, Lieutenant General Rams and the pioneer of the Eighth Fleet Commander Halbarton.

Lieutenant General Rams was very satisfied with the loss exchange ratio during the previous fight with the Zaft army.It is strongly required that Zaft's MS ran out of ammunition in the previous battle and launched a counter assault when returning to the gap of the mothership's supply.

"One of the very important reasons why our forces have achieved a much better loss exchange ratio in the previous battle than the previous battle is that our mobile forces have carried out operations within the air defense firepower of the fleet. The cover of the air defense naval gun of the side. And once the defense turns to the offense, this advantage of our side is gone. And Bolu and MA have different speeds. Once MA and Bolu are separated, it is extremely dangerous for both parties. behavior.",

But Rams’s opinion is, “In this battle, our side has taken advantage of the advantages and tactical characteristics of the enemy’s unfamiliar Boru. Next time Zaft’s side has preparedness, it will not be so easy to occupy. It’s cheaper here."

In the end, the attitude of the commander-in-chief overwhelmed the opinion of the commander of the squadron, and a large number of MAs carried a large number of Poru iron balls to attack the Zaft army.

It's just that everything was exactly as Akafiel had foreseen in advance. The shortcomings of Bolu's slow speed were undoubtedly exposed in this action.,,

MA may either leave Bolu behind and just take care of his own "attack", or take the initiative to suit the slow Bolu and play a "turtle speed" attack.

As a result, one-third of the MA pilots of the Earth Union chose the first type.Then they lacked enough protection from Bolu. The first wave of dozens of MAs, after breaking away from the fire protection of Bolu from the "Super Cannon Fodder", immediately encountered the intercepted Zaft MS head-on. Thump,

In just half an hour, the Atlantic Alliance's MA that participated in the first wave of counterattacks was shot down more than forty, and Bolu lost countless air defense guns from the fleet.

At this deadly point in time, the Earth reinforcements of the Atlantic Alliance suffered the disappearance of the Zaft military orbital bombing, and the three major fleets suffered heavy losses.Commander Ramsay, who knew the details, suddenly collapsed, and he strongly urged the entire fleet to retreat-using this wave of counterattack, Zaft's space forces temporarily contracted.

Originally, the forces of the two sides were still in a state of confrontation. Although the Atlantic Alliance suffered extremely huge losses, it was still able to achieve its original strategic goal when defending on the inside. Relying on the continuous supply of Bolu from the rear, it could still maintain the balance of power on the front

But when Commander-in-Chief Rams learned of the fate of the reinforcements, he had no intention of fighting anymore and wanted to retreat to protect himself. The situation that could have been confronted immediately collapsed.

Following Ramsay's order, the entire Earth united fleet rushed towards the Ptolemy base at full power, and MA turned around and left.

The battlefield of Copernicus is only a thousand kilometers away from the Ptolemy fortress. When there is no gravity and resistance in space, the energy and oxygen of MA are enough to support it to return to the moon base-Bolu is actually enough, but Its speed is too slow and takes longer.

Then, Commander-in-Chief Rams issued two instructions to his men: requiring the MA mech to immediately turn around to protect the main fleet from the battlefield.And Mr. Iron Ball continued to make short assaults...

Chapter 65 More Orbital Bombing

"The air force is responsible for flying, and the infantry is responsible for death."

This is the age of the earth, and the infantry of the Atlantic Alliance army often complains.

In the MS era of the universe, the first generation of inferior copycat MS of the Atlantic Alliance has been regarded as cheap cannon fodder by the military from the first day of its debut.

This verbal panic turned into "MA is responsible for fleeing, Bolu is responsible for death."

In order to cover the retreat of the own fleet, as the cheapest cannon fodder weapons, the first and second waves were the first to be sent to attack the Zaft Cosmos Fleet. The number of Bolu, with more than 600 aircraft, was captured by the Atlantic Ocean. The united fleet side unceremoniously abandoned.

From the battlefield over Copernicus to the Ptolemy base, the space distance is only more than 1,000 kilometers.

For MA, it is only a supersonic voyage of tens of minutes, and it only takes more than an hour for a large warship to accelerate from zero to its destination.

For the Earth United Fleet, this is actually a short retreat distance. After abandoning part of Boru as cannon fodder, the Earth United Fleet can return to the military base to accept ground air defense fire after flying for an hour.

Because they escaped too fast, the window period for the Zaft Space Force to attack its fleet was short.In the end, the Battle of Copernicus ended in an anticlimactic manner.

Most of the joint Earth battleships that took part in the battle were successfully evacuated from the battlefield, only the loss of more than 30 auxiliary battleships and several destroyers transformed by civilian ships, as well as a hundred MAs.

The real loss is the cheapest Polu.

During the war, the Atlantic Alliance put two thousand and five hundred Pollus into front-line operations.

But after the battle, less than 700 units of Bolu who participated in the battle returned to the base.The remaining 1,800 Bolu were either destroyed or surrendered.

After the battle, Lord Zaft reported to Akafiel about Polu’s results

"The number of Bolu that was destroyed is still under control, and the current count is over 1,500."

Akafiel asked: "When the enemy fleet abandoned Bolu and fled, how many Bolu surrendered to our army?"

"Seventy-five stations!"

"It's about one in twenty-fifth of the surrender rate. The Atlantic Alliance troops are still quite good in fighting will. However, this behavior of abandoning their comrades on the battlefield and fleeing, after doing this once, the next time their Balu Sea, can we still maintain such a morale and fighting spirit?"

Akafir just sighed, and then once again reminded the Zaft army who was cleaning the battlefield to pay attention to rescue the enemy combatants who were abandoned on the void battlefield.

After this battle, fifty-eight mobile suits of the Zaft side of the space army were destroyed, and 100 mobile suits suffered moderate or above trauma.When the military conducted "injury identification" after the incident, it was discovered that more than half of the MS losses were caused by the terrifyingly large 155mm cannon on Polu.Although the battle exchange ratio is still dominant.But the data of this loss exchange ratio is not reassuring.

Akafir said to Commander Luoyan Kram:

"Fortunately, in this war, after Speaker Sara decided to use the orbital bombing tactics, the victory or defeat was locked. The only problem is that our strategic purpose is to win this war, or just to get it done once and for all. To resolve this war."

"Does it make a difference?"

"Of course there is, because the former means a second war will be fought in a few years."

After the battle, Zaft did not immediately launch an attack against the Ptolemy Fortress, the lunar base of the Atlantic Alliance, but concentrated on consolidating the foothold Copernicus acquired, and at the same time increased the political propaganda work for the defenders of the lunar base. In order to keep the main fleet in danger in this battle, the Atlantic Alliance did not hesitate to sell their teammates to sell their subordinates to fight against the opponent's fighting will.