The ambush battle at the entrance to the Red Sea continues, but as the battle progresses, the ZAFT army, as the ambush party, gradually falls into a situation of insufficient stamina.
This was caused by many factors. First, due to the preparations for the Suez Offensive, ZAFT could not mobilize too many troops for an ambush.
Secondly, ZAFT made a mistake in judging the combat strength of Li Boyong's troops.
It's not that they didn't expect the number of MSs owned by Li Boyong's fleet. In fact, the number of MSs owned by Li Boyong was less than ZAFT expected.
But the quality of the pilots exceeded ZAFT's expectations.
After all, since the last war, the adjusters have long been accustomed to the extremely advantageous battle loss ratio.
Even if natural people later possess MS, this advantage in combat damage ratio still exists.
So this time, ZAFT's army really didn't expect that the MS troops, which even had the upper hand in terms of numbers, would be at a disadvantage in the battle with Li Boyong's troops.
The elite pilots trained by Phantom Pain are definitely not inferior to ordinary ZAFT pilots in terms of ability, and even have certain advantages.
Of course, there is another very important factor, which is the decisive combat power exerted by the large number of Gundams.
For example, the Abyss Gundam, which was cut off alone from the beginning, still had the absolute upper hand against the combat power of three Geogns and a Submersible, and even shot down two of them during the battle. Geoghan.
If it hadn't been for the latent mother of the ZAFT army who realized that the situation was not good and turned around and retreated with the only remaining Geogn, she might have become the soul of Oulu's halberd.
That is to say, starting from the time when the Abyss Gundam's combat power was liberated from the broken front line, Oulu turned around to support the Beluga troops who were almost unable to withstand it, and helped the Beluga troops repel the Giogon troops in front. The entire ambush circle The balance of combat power began to change.
The balance tilted towards the United side, and then Li Boyong led the Wendam team to start the attack on the Petrie class.
In response to the surprise attack of three Windams, the escort force of the Petrie class came into play. Two Baku cruised and harassed within the fire support range of the Petrie class, while an artillery-type Zaku Ghost was in the Petrie class's fire support range. The deck makes up for the gap in the Petrie-class firepower network.
"You two planes are outflanking, don't go too deep, just help me share some of the firepower, and leave the rest to me." Li Boyong issued the attack order, killing these combat forces, just enough to complete the mission.
Soon, the two Windhams under Li Boyong began to outflank the enemy's firepower network. While attracting firepower, they also used maneuverability to pull away the enemy's firepower network.
Li Boyong, on the other hand, saw the right moment and cut sharply into the Pitley-level firepower net.
The artillery-type Zaku Ghost on the Petrie class quickly noticed the incoming Li Boyong machine and aimed the muzzle of the double-headed dog beam cannon at the Wendham driven by Li Boyong.
"Hey, this is a bit exciting."
But Li Boyong seemed not to have seen it, and continued to maintain the current maneuvering trajectory as he approached the Petrie class.
Soon, the bombardment-type Zaku Ghost, who felt that he was sure to hit the soul with one hit, opened fire, and a thick red ion beam erupted from the muzzle, shooting straight at Li Boyong.
"avoid!"
Using mental commands, Li Boyong drove the car in a right-hand turn and sank, narrowly avoiding the direct hit of the beam.
Wendam then accelerated his dive, and at the extreme distance, using the power of the directional pull as a buffer, he pulled out his beam sword and fell towards the bombardment-type Zaku Ghost.
The ZAFT pilot piloting the artillery-type Zaku Ghost reacted immediately, and it was too late to naturally refill the second shot. He decisively abandoned the gun and pulled out the beam axe.
Unfortunately, after all, he still took one step, and Wendam fell from the sky and cut off his axe-holding right arm and half of his shoulder armor.
Wendam, who then fell to the deck, used a backhand diagonal move to cut in half the bombardment-type Zaku Ghost who was trying to jump back to evacuate.
A secondary gun nearby rotated to aim the muzzle at Wendham who fell on the deck, but Li Boyong reacted faster. After shooting down the enemy plane on the deck, he raised his left hand and fired the built-in shield. Two missiles in a row destroyed the secondary gun.
At this point, due to the problem of shooting range, the Petrie class no longer has the firepower to threaten Li Boyong.
He controlled the body of the aircraft and raised his hand to fire two shots at the bridge. He took off and destroyed the main gun of the Petrie class, then circled back and destroyed the engine part of the Petrie class.
The Petrie class gradually came to a halt, and explosions and fires continued to occur inside. Seeing that the situation was irreversible, the surviving ZAFT officers began to escape.
"The condition is good. It seems that many friendly troops have died..."
"Without a ship-cutting knife, it's quite difficult to fight a warship." After Li Boyong finished cleaning up Pitri, he complained and continued to pursue the two Baku.
It took some time, and with the assistance of two other Windhams, he shot down two more Bakus and successfully completed the mission.
At this time, the ZAFT army saw that the incident had come to an end. The ambush against Li Boyong's troops had failed and they began to retreat one after another.
In response, Li Boyong issued an order to stop the pursuit.
After all, their most important task at this stage is to support the Suez stronghold. It is not a wise move to continue to waste time on the Red Sea.
After the war, Li Boyong's fleet began to count the results.
The joint team shot down a total of three Ghaziuts, two Baku, one bombardment Zaku Ghost, seven Geogorns, six Barbies, three Deans, and a Petrie-class .
It can be said that the results were brilliant, but it also came at a high price.
Four of the Wendam formations were shot down. Except for the Li Boyong aircraft, the rest of the aircraft suffered varying degrees of damage.
As for the White Whale's troops, three of the daggers used in the water were shot down, and the remaining one was also in a state of great damage. It can be said that the performance disadvantage of the daggers used in the water was undoubtedly exposed in this battle.
The White Whale troop was basically wiped out.
In addition, there was also considerable damage to the battleships. Since the underwater battle was at a disadvantage at the beginning, the fleet was under considerable pressure.
One destroyer was sunk by Geoghan's torpedo, another cruiser was slightly damaged, and another cruiser was seriously damaged and lost the ability to sail.
Even the USS Jones, as the flagship, was unlucky to have a stray bullet penetrate the deck of an MS attack deck and lose some MS accessories.
As for the pursuit of the Lesseps-class Archangel, they did not achieve any ideal results. Instead, one of the secondary guns was destroyed.
The commander of Lesseps seemed to be prepared for the Archangel's surprise attack. He chose a terrain with many sand dunes for the ambush before the battle.
It can be said that it made full use of the landing point where the main firepower of the Archangel can only be aimed directly, and gained a great advantage in the artillery battle.
Coupled with the harassment of the escort Baku, the Archangel, which was equipped with three Gundams, failed to achieve any results.
Even after the Main Angel was damaged, he had to watch the ZAFT army calmly leave.
Li Boyong was not unprepared for such a result, but at that time he had to let the Main Angel go up, otherwise if he continued to let the Lesseps-class bombard calmly from a distance, the threat to the fleet would be too great.
But overall, Li Boyong's fleet can still be regarded as achieving brilliant results in this battle.
