Chapter 141: Reinforcements

The annihilation war against the Celestial Being organization caused heavy losses to the coalition forces.

Lieutenant Colonel Sergei proposed a suggestion to retreat temporarily after weighing the battle situation.

But Lieutenant Colonel Manekin clearly stated that the headquarters had ordered to continue launching attacks against Celestial Being and would send new reinforcements.

"Reinforcements?"

Sergei frowned. "What kind of reinforcements can save such a situation?"

As a soldier who had been through hundreds of battles, he really couldn't think of any other way to save the situation.

Unless that mysterious assistant had obtained machines capable of suppressing Gundams from the Celestial Being organization.

"I'm not sure about this either." Lieutenant Colonel Manekin shook her head. "But if it's still just reinforcements like before, I will request reinforcements from the headquarters again."

This AEU commander felt a bit resentful about the fleet being ambushed; although she knew it was her own carelessness, she still had some resentment toward Saachez, who had already died in battle, in her tone.

"Now, we can only wait."

Sergei stopped discussing this matter; before, he had guessed that Li Boyong might have the intention to attack the fleet, so he deliberately left the GN-X II to deal with it, but didn't expect it to still be succeeded by Li Boyong, and even lost a new machine.

Although he believed this was related to Lieutenant Colonel Manekin ignoring his advice too much, now was clearly not the time to argue about these things.

"I'll go check the situation of the MS team."

Sergei said, turning and leaving the bridge.

If another sortie was needed, he believed it was necessary to boost the morale of the MS team's pilots at this time.

The coalition fleet was waiting for the reinforcements from the headquarters, while Ptolemaios was also carrying out tense maintenance work on the Gundams.

"The Dynames Gundam can still sortie normally after removing the enhancement parts, but the situation of the Virtue Gundam is quite bad; the external armor is completely gone. If it wants to sortie, it must remove all external armor and sortie in the form of the Nadleeh Gundam."

"If I speed up the work here, it should be able to catch up with the next battle; I just don't know if this will have any impact on future plans."

Maintenance worker Ian was reporting the situation of each Gundam to Sumeragi.

Hearing Ian's inquiry, Sumeragi smiled bitterly: "Even Veda has fallen into the hands of others; now who cares about future plans? I permit the Nadleeh's sortie."

"Understood!"

"Then, how are the situations of Exia and Dynames?"

"The machine has no abnormalities; it's just that the external armor of the GN Armor has some damage, but it's not a big problem. It's just that Lockon's state seems not very good; such an intense battle is too much of a burden for him who has just been injured."

"I see."

Regarding this problem, Sumeragi had a headache; she had already persuaded Lockon several times, but the other party stubbornly stated that he didn't want to hide in the infirmary at such a critical moment.

Out of consideration for Ptolemaios's current need for combat power, she helplessly agreed to Lockon's request to stay on the front line.

After learning about the status of each Gundam from Uncle Ian, she handed over the maintenance work entirely to him.

"Christina, does the coalition fleet still have no intention to retreat?"

Sumeragi turned back and asked.

"No movement for now."

"It seems the coalition still has a trump card." Sumeragi bit her lower lip, feeling a bit uneasy. "What is the movement on Wang Liumei's side?"

"They are rendezvous-ing with Ptolemaios; according to the report, the attack on the enemy fleet didn't reach the goal; it only sank one enemy ship and heavily damaged one."

Christina quickly pulled up Wang Liumei's telegram and reported to Sumeragi: "In terms of machines, the Flag seems to have significant attrition and needs a certain amount of maintenance time; the Throne has no problems."

"In addition, Li Boyong specifically mentioned the new coalition machine he shot down in the report, presumed to be a next-generation improved model of the GN-X."

An improved model of the GN-X?

Could it be that the reinforcements the coalition is waiting for are more improved GN-Xs, and the three major nations have started mass-producing GN Drive-equipped machines?

Sumeragi felt shaken upon hearing this, then denied this conjecture herself.

That traitor who betrayed Celestial Being should also want to use these technologies to seek more benefits from the coalition, so he shouldn't just hand over all the technology so simply.

Sumeragi: "Reply that we already know; please rendezvous as soon as possible and assist in Ptolemaios's defense."

Christina: "Understood."

Time passed second by second, and both sides were nervously preparing for the next battle.

The commanders on both sides had a tacit understanding that when the coalition's reinforcements arrived, the battle would start again.

And Li Boyong was also rendezvous-ing with Ptolemaios.

The Flag's situation was a bit bad; the attrition of the leg joints and the right arm joint exceeded expectations, which should be caused by the confrontation with Saachez.

After emergency maintenance, it was barely in a state where it could sortie.

"A-Yong, for the next battle, you'd better not sortie."

Shihe was a bit worried about the Flag's state, so she couldn't help but persuade Li Boyong. The Flag's performance was already weaker than the GN-X, and now it was in a poor state; it could be said that Li Boyong piloting it to the battlefield was at the bottom of the food chain.

It's just that Li Boyong clearly didn't care; having just shot down Saachez, he was now blindly confident in his own technology, quite having the arrogance of daring to overturn a Unicorn if given a Zaku.

"Don't worry, I'll be careful; as long as I maintain maneuvering shooting and don't get dragged into close combat, it'll be fine."

"But..."

"Don't persuade me anymore; I'm a man after all, and I won't let my woman go to the battlefield alone."

It was he who chose to join Celestial Being back then, and Shihe unconditionally believed in his choice, so how could he bear to let her bear it alone?

"Understood, you must be careful and don't get too far away from me."

Shihe knew that Li Boyong had a bit of male chauvinism sometimes; once his male temper flared up at a life-and-death moment, he wouldn't listen to persuasion.

Rolling her eyes slightly, Shihe went to chat with Wang Liumei; there was still a "younger sister" here who needed her to worry.

The transport ship continued to sail toward Ptolemaios and successfully rendezvoused with Ptolemaios before the coalition's reinforcements arrived.

Li Boyong, in the communication, patted the GN Drive he captured and asked Sumeragi with a thick face: "Do you have any machines on your side? I have a drive here that can still be used; if you have extra machines, give me one to install this drive."

Sumeragi smiled bitterly upon hearing this; Li Boyong was truly whimsical sometimes.

The Celestial Being organization did have quite a few extra machines, but unfortunately, they were not at the rear base, but on the side of the Angels.

And even if there were extra machines now, the debugging work for installing a GN Drive was very complicated and couldn't be completed in a short time.

Li Boyong saw Sumeragi's expression and knew that his impromptu idea had no possibility.

He couldn't help but complain to Wang Liumei: "If I had known I could get a GN Drive, I should have let you borrow a Gundam from the Angels back then."

He still had quite a lot of complaints about always piloting a "grunt" machine.

He finally obtained the Gundam Meister title, but he just didn't have the chance to pilot a Gundam.

Wang Liumei heard Li Boyong's complaint and didn't express an opinion.

If it were before, she might have been in the mood to follow the topic with a few witty remarks, but now... ===== CHAPTER 142 =====