Chapter 264: Ambush Circle

Li Boyong's fleet, following the staff's operational plan, cast a net in the expected engagement sea area.

Soon, the friendly underwater unit, carrying the ZAFT submarine carrier unit equipped with various new types of aquatic mobile suits, entered the encirclement.

"Sonar detected the enemy submarine carrier and underwater MS unit entering the encirclement," the perverted adjutant on the bridge of the *Jones* reported to Li Boyong inside the mobile suit, "Real-time tactical link with the friendly underwater MS unit has been completed."

"Haha, then gentlemen, let's start happily bombing fish." Li Boyong began to start the Windam, "Windams, form three three-unit formations with me. According to the coordinates provided by the friendly forces, use anti-submarine missiles for wave attacks. The Strike Noir, Chaos Gundam, and Rosso Aegis will provide cover for the Windam formation."

After a pause, Li Boyong raised his volume: "Olu, the most delicious big fish is left to you. The remaining pilots who haven't been assigned tasks, just take a good rest this time."

"Understood!"

Following Li Boyong's order, the entire ambush circle was instantly activated.

The destroyers in ambush started their engines and closed in on the enemy submarine carrier, while the MS formation began to cooperate with the friendly forces to attack the ZAFT new-type aquatic unit.

On the ZAFT submarine carrier, the sonar operator's shrill cry sounded: "This is... sonar detection, and the engine sounds of Alliance destroyers, 5 o'clock direction, 8 o'clock direction, and 3 o'clock direction..."

The shrill voice gradually turned into despair: "This... this is the enemy's trap, we are surrounded."

"How could this be..." The submarine carrier captain was stunned upon hearing the sonar operator's words: "There shouldn't be an Alliance fleet nearby..."

With calculation against the unprepared, ZAFT had originally thought it was just an accidental encounter, and then, relying on the excellent performance of the new GINN (improved mass-produced version of the GINN) and Ash (amphibious mobile suit), they would eat up the Alliance's patrolling MS unit.

The underwater units equipped by the Alliance were basically underwater-use Daggers with very average underwater performance. Facing the ZAFT military, which had obvious performance advantages in water, it could be said they had no chance of winning.

After a brief engagement, they were flanked and ambushed by the ZAFT military, and the underwater mother ship was sunk.

The surviving Alliance units evacuated urgently, while the ZAFT military pursued relentlessly.

If it weren't for the powerful cover provided by the Forbidden Blue piloted by the unit commander, and the fact that the mother ship being sunk meant one less burden, it would have truly let the ZAFT military get its wish.

But there are no "ifs" in the world. Relying on the performance of the Forbidden Blue, this Alliance unit finally stumbled into Li Boyong's ambush circle with the pursuing ZAFT military.

Heaven and hell are only a line apart.

In these shallow waters, facing Li Boyong's unit, which had air, water, and underwater coordination, the ambushed ZAFT military had no chance of winning.

The encirclement closed, and the annihilation battle began.

Although it took some time, with the cooperation of this patrol unit, Li Boyong's unit still achieved decent results. The Abyss Gundam piloted by Olu even sank the ZAFT submarine carrier, taking the largest share of the results.

After the ZAFT submarine carrier was sunk, the remaining ZAFT aquatic units began to scatter and retreat, but they never escaped the encirclement.

The diehards who finally chose to hide in silence also failed to escape the Alliance's subsequent mopping-up operation due to the shallow waters and were all annihilated.

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After the battle, some wreckage floated to the sea surface with the undulating waves. Under the sunset, it declared that beneath this sea area, there was another group of souls who died in the war.

On the deck of the Alliance warship, busy ground crew members, while running back and forth, couldn't help but subconsciously look at the wreckage on the sea, a sense of luck rising in their hearts.

Lucky that they survived another battle and didn't become ghosts of the seabed like those monsters in the sky.

Because the mother ship was sunk and the mobile suits of the unit were generally in poor condition, Li Boyong's unit took in this Alliance underwater unit when leaving this sea area.

This included one Forbidden Blue and four underwater-use Daggers with varying degrees of wear and tear.

After the fleet completed the reception and left the engagement sea area.

Li Boyong met the commander he considered to have bold ideas in the hangar.

A blonde female officer with short hair, who gave people a strong impression.

The blonde female officer was surprised to see Li Boyong wearing a mask, but immediately reacted.

The running dog of LOGOS, the masked Phantom Pain commander, the hero who saved the world.

"Captain Jane Houston."

The blonde female officer saluted and reported her identity.

"Colonel Neo Roanoke."

Li Boyong returned the salute, feeling somewhat surprised in his heart.

If he remembered correctly, the one in front of him was the famous "White Whale."

He glanced nonchalantly at the Forbidden Blue docked nearby, thinking that was probably correct.

"I didn't expect to see the famous White Whale in a place like this; this is truly my honor."

Looking at the fact that she and his Shihe girl were both MSV Three Goddesses, Li Boyong casually flattered her: "No wonder you had the courage to plan a desperate counterattack under those circumstances."

"Not at all, being saved by the hero who saved the world is my and my subordinates' luck."

The White Whale also responded politely: "Thanks to the timely rescue of your unit, we were able to turn danger into safety."

Although she didn't like this guy who didn't show his true face, she did owe him a favor this time, so her strong temper converged a little.

After all, her unit was now being taken in by others, and the subsequent maintenance and transportation might still need to rely on others.

"Haha, let's not talk about polite words. I will have the maintenance squad start the maintenance of your unit's mobile suits, please don't worry," Li Boyong said, "However, what makes me a bit strange is that I remember our military should have equipped a batch of Abyss Forbidden for the underwater unit, why do I see your unit is all underwater-use Daggers."

The so-called Abyss Forbidden was actually the mass-produced version of the Forbidden Blue next to her.

Although it couldn't compare to the Forbidden Blue in performance, it was still much better than these underwater-use Daggers.

If Jane's unit had been equipped with a few more Abyss Forbidden, they wouldn't have been beaten so miserably by ZAFT this time.

Such a direct question seemed to make Jane stunned, but after a brief stun, she still answered honestly: "It's shameful to say, although I am very fond of the Abyss Forbidden that I participated in developing, it seems that the military upper echelons did not mass-equip the unit due to cost and production considerations."

After a pause, there was some resentment in her tone: "In order to equip more underwater units as soon as possible, the military upper echelons chose the cheaper and more mass-produced underwater-use Daggers..."

Speaking of this, she stopped her somewhat unseemly complaints, and if she continued, it wouldn't be very good.

After all, those Abyss Forbidden that were being equipped had all been transferred to the Heaven's Base.

Complaining in front of the running dog of LOGOS that the direct unit of LOGOS was snatching powerful weapons in the military was not a good thing.

"I see..."

Li Boyong nodded regretfully; it was another story of the military upper echelons treating the front-line soldiers poorly in terms of equipment for economic considerations. ===== CHAPTER 265 =====