Gundam: From Piece to Player

At this moment, the MS forces had already been fully launched before the battle began.

Once the Federation fleet begins firing its Mega Particle Cannons, the location of its main force can be roughly determined, and then MS can be used to focus fire on the flagships of its sub-fleets.

Victory is in our hands.

"Lord Dozru, the enemy fleet has launched missiles at our vanguard fleet?"

missile?

Are the Federation forces terrified? The area is currently in a state of Minovsky particle dispersion; how could a missile possibly hit them?

Dozru was puzzled.

Until he saw the missile explode into more than forty blue fireballs.

It swallowed up the vanguard fleet of the Space Attack Force.

For the impoverished nation of Zeon, every warship was extremely precious, painstakingly acquired with resources... yet they were wiped out by the Federation's nuclear bombs.

Not to mention that Dozru's friends, students, and soldiers were also on it.

Dozru's tears flowed, and he gripped the railing so tightly that he snapped it in two.

Overwhelmed with grief and indignation, he suddenly burst into laughter, looking up at the sky.

“It seems the Federation wants to play Russian roulette.” Dozru, his eyes bloodshot, looked at the communications officer beside him and said, “Replace all the warheads with nuclear weapons.”

"The enemy ships are not retreating?"

"Yes, General, the enemy has not only not retreated, but has continued to approach our troops."

Tianm glanced at his watch; in less than 10 minutes, the mass weapon would arrive in this airspace.

The intention was to use nuclear bombs to drive away the Zeon attack fleet, but the enemy was not intimidated by the nuclear bombs.

Are the Zeon people not even afraid of nuclear bombs?

Alright, I'll grant your wish.

Two-way laser communication was then initiated.

"commander?"

“Wahken, I authorize you to use the ‘Peacekeeper’.”

"—Understood." Hua Ken's answer was without the slightest hesitation.

"Peacekeeper" is the largest nuclear weapon stored in the Federation's Luna 2.

The bomb is 10 meters long and 5 meters in diameter, with a designed explosive yield of an astonishing 5000 megatons.

As a result, the missiles could not be housed in the warship's missile launch port and were instead launched directly from an external mount.

To put it simply, if you don't have a concept of numbers, this bomb is equivalent to the Tsar Bomba of the former Soviet Union in terms of destructive power, with an estimated kill radius of 300 kilometers.

We will definitely be able to completely erase this group of lunatics from this universe.

As for whether the terrifying power of the explosion would affect the lunar city... that was no longer a concern for Tianm.

"General, we have just detected that Zeon has fired another missile at us."

missile?

Before Tiam could even issue the order, the fleet's anti-aircraft weapons had already begun to operate.

Although most of the 60 were intercepted, 20 still managed to penetrate the defenses.

Then, twenty blue fireballs exploded at the front of the Federation fleet, engulfing several Salamis-class cruisers in a display of color.

This shattered the confidence that Tianm had just built up.

Does the other side also have a nuclear weapons stockpile?

how many?

Although they have an advantage in yield, what if the Zeon forces' nuclear weapons are more numerous?

What if the opponent manages to swap out the Peacekeeper's trump card with a regular card?

Did the other party completely anticipate his thoughts?

Only now did Tianm realize how terrifying Zeon was... Ordinary madmen are irrational, but what if this was a group of paranoid, rational, and fearless madmen?

"The 1st and 4th Fleets retreat at full speed, while simultaneously launching nuclear weapons at the Zeon fleet in 20 waves."

"General Tiam?"

"Maintain a combat distance of more than 500 kilometers from the Zeon fleet and tell Woken not to send peace envoys yet."

"Yes."

Tiam raised the idea of ​​Warken taking the 2nd Fleet to deal with the mass weapons, but he quickly dismissed the idea.

He hadn't forgotten Zeon's mobile suit forces... If the 2nd Fleet were to act alone, it would be tantamount to suicide.

The battlefield at this moment presented a peculiar sight: no fancy maneuvers, no fancy tactics.

The Zeon fleet is advancing, while the Federation fleet is retreating.

The formation resembled the queuing and firing tactics of the Renaissance era.

It's just that the "bullets" are exceptionally powerful.

There were no beams of light on the battlefield, only a sparse rain of missiles.

And the blue fireballs that explode from time to time... if you get even a graze on them, there's no chance of survival.

The missile's nuclear warhead detonates in the airspace where the two sides are engaged in combat. The timing of the detonation is determined by the weapons officers of both sides, depending on the intended use of the missile...

The effects of Minovsky particles prevented remote detonation.

No one can accurately determine the precise combat distance or the timing of the explosion.

Occasionally, a nuclear bomb that manages to penetrate defenses can snatch lives like the Grim Reaper.

The indiscriminate burst of radiation from the nuclear explosion caused the electronic systems on the warship and the bodies of the crew to flicker repeatedly.

Both sides left their fate to God.

God rolls the dice, and the result determines who lives and who dies.

Chapter 63 The Failed Plan

Both sides knew that... whichever side ran out of nuclear weapons first would be overwhelmed by the enemy's remaining nuclear weapons.

In the end, someone still became a coward in this game.

A Zaku from the Royal Guard landed next to the Valkyrie's bridge, where the Royal Guard captain relayed Gihren's orders.

"Lord Dozru, thank you for your valiant fight. The Commander-in-Chief has issued an order that you preserve the fleet and no longer need to escort the high-quality weapons."

Upon hearing the order, Dozru remained silent and looked at the messenger to the side.

"Use laser communication to notify the entire ship after the launch of the second batch of nuclear weapons."

"Turn and retreat, release smoke, turn off the lights, and stealthily move."

"Yes."

Dozru then left the bridge without saying a word.

The sudden increase in the frequency of nuclear weapon launches immediately strained the Federation fleet, forcing them to increase their own launch volume.

The ensuing silence made Tiam realize that the Zeon fleet had broken away from the battle lines.

But Tianm didn't relax at all.

"On my command, the entire fleet shall ascend to higher altitudes."

Quality weapons... Time is running out.

"General, our ship's power control system has crashed."

"what?"

"It may be due to the effects of excessive radiation from the nuclear explosion."

"...send laser communication, and the mobile warship will automatically intercept mass weapons, regardless of the type of weapon."

Less than a third of the warships responded to Tiam's orders... and it wasn't entirely due to malfunctions on the warships' part.

There are also human factors at play; some ship crews collapsed due to excessive mental pressure.

The colossal object, having already accelerated, roared past the Federation fleet at an extremely high speed.

The still-movable Federation warships turned their power reactors to maximum and chased after the colossal object that was hurtling past overhead at an extremely high speed.

They unleashed missiles and beams of light, but because hundreds of nuclear bombs had just been detonated in the area, the electronic equipment was malfunctioning, and very few hit their targets.

Is the interception about to fail?

Many warships have been abandoned, but one that was originally behind has been accelerating, and the large missiles mounted on its exterior make it very conspicuous.

"Follow my instructions, lock 'Peacekeeper' onto the target ahead." Wallen picked up the phone.

“General, you might not be able to hit it.” Meida raised a question from a technical point of view.

"Why can't it hit the target even with infrared heat source guidance?"

“But…” Meida originally wanted to say that it was impossible to hit the target in the environment where Minovsky particles were scattered.

"Just wait a moment, we'll be out of the affected area soon. Don't forget our speed."

Meida finally understood Huaken's intentions.

Finally, with all its might, the Warken warship accelerated and, after leaving the dispersion range, launched the "Peacekeeper".

Although it still couldn't catch up, it allowed the Ping Envoy to keep following the trajectory of the quality weapon.

And the moment when the mass weapon slows down as it enters the atmosphere.

The peacekeeper finally caught up with the mass weapon, and the close-range sensor fuse on it was also triggered.

The violent thermonuclear reaction that exploded in the upper atmosphere instantly engulfed the weapon.

Huaken completed the mission.