Chapter 268: Supporting Suez (Part 1)

*Bonaparte*, Earth military *Bonaparte*-class land battleship.

Li Boyong remembered that this thing could carry a big killer, the Destroy Gundam, which could easily destroy a city. Unfortunately, the Destroy Gundam was probably not finished yet.

To be honest, he was still quite greedy for that thing.

After all, as a former Republic soldier, the fear of insufficient firepower was engraved in his bones.

However, he would likely miss the *Bonaparte*.

After all, after supporting Suez and entering the Mediterranean, he had to prepare to control the enhanced human laboratory in Romania before the Orb expeditionary fleet arrived.

There was evidence of LOGOS's heinous crimes inside, and he had to snatch it first.

If so, it would be almost equivalent to breaking with LOGOS.

In addition, he had to arrange for the Orb expeditionary fleet by then. It seemed that after entering the Mediterranean, he needed to contact the *Archangel* as soon as possible.

Remembering that in the original plot, Athrun contacted the *Archangel* through Miriallia, who was a free war correspondent, he could follow suit.

Now it was wartime control, and entry and exit in some areas required some documents, and Miriallia, as a war correspondent, would inevitably use her press card when entering and exiting some areas, thereby leaving traces.

This matter could be handed over to Wang Liumei.

"Colonel, we are about to enter the Red Sea."

At this time, the adjutant interrupted Li Boyong's thoughts, "According to your instructions, the entire fleet has completed Level 2 combat readiness."

Li Boyong nodded, indicating he understood.

His fleet, which was so large, entered the Indian Ocean straight, and the ZAFT military couldn't have failed to notice it, but they hadn't made any response.

When preparing to attack Suez, the ZAFT military couldn't possibly let his unit, which was clearly going to support Suez, pass easily.

But his fleet passed through the Indian Ocean to the Gulf of Aden easily, until now preparing to enter the Red Sea.

Then the only possibility was that the ZAFT military had prepared a grand welcoming ceremony for him in the Red Sea.

Sure enough, Li Boyong's speculation was correct.

Not long after the fleet entered the Red Sea, radar and sonar simultaneously discovered the traces of the ZAFT military.

"Sonar detected GINNs in the water, quantity six. At the same time, a ZAFT submarine carrier was detected in the rear, wait, the rear submarine carrier also released GINNs, quantity three."

"Mobile suit shadows appeared at 8 o'clock, quantity three, they are BuCUEs."

"Missiles coming from 9 o'clock, quantity four, at the same time, a ZAFT *Petrie*-class land battleship was detected on the shore in that direction, quantity one."

"Don't panic, everything is proceeding according to plan." Li Boyong began to command the battle, "Let the White Whale's unit sortie and drag down the GINNs in front, and leave the ones behind to the Abyss. At the same time, Windams take off and snipe the enemy BuCUEs."

【Combat Mission】

Personally shoot down five or more enemy mobile suits and at least one enemy warship in the following battle. (Completion reward: 10 battle merit points; failure: deduct 3 battle merit points.)

Yo-ho, his points were coming...

"I'm also preparing to sortie, have the hangar prepare for sortie," Li Boyong stood up from the command seat and prepared to walk to the hangar, "Fleet command is left to you, Captain. I will be responsible for the MS team's operations on the front line."

The perverted adjutant, who was usually poker-faced, subconsciously opened his mouth to advise, but finally held back.

After Li Boyong left the bridge, the captain of the *Jones* said with a subtle tone: "It's really hard for you to have a superior who likes to go to the front line."

As a commander, Li Boyong's habit of liking to go to the front line was indeed easy to be criticized.

"The Colonel is a pilot by background and has outstanding ability. His personal presence on the front line is good for the morale of the unit."

The adjutant defended his superior.

"Regarding this point, I don't deny it."

What surprised the adjutant was that the captain didn't continue to sneer, but gave affirmation, "That's why those unruly Phantom Pain elites support him so much."

Although the captain didn't like Li Boyong's style and didn't like the privileges of the Phantom Pain unit, he had to admit that Li Boyong had his own personal charm.

In the current Alliance, there weren't many soldiers with such guts.

The battle began. After the Alliance side shot down the incoming ZAFT missiles with anti-missile missiles, the MS unit began to set off one after another.

Li Boyong also took off piloting a Windam, "Windam squad, form up with me to meet the BuCUEs, the rest of the MS continue to stand by. Don't be anxious, this is just an appetizer. The pocket the enemy specifically set for us definitely won't have just this little bit of stuff."

Four Windams began to meet the three BuCUEs, and soon both sides began to engage.

After two rounds of head-on shooting, both sides passed each other and entered a maneuver battle.

And at this time, another six DINNs attacked from the 3 o'clock direction.

"Chaos sortie, take a squad to meet the newly appeared DINN unit."

While dodging the BuCUE's composite beam cannon fire, he continued to command the MS unit.

Then, after completing the dodge, under the fire cover of his teammates, he successfully bit the tail of another BuCUE.

The bitten BuCUE, unable to shake off Li Boyong, took a risk and wanted to use the visual blocking effect of the cloud layer to complete a transformation-stall-maneuver-kill.

Unfortunately, Li Boyong, as an old veteran, knew what the other party was going to do as soon as he saw the other party's climbing action.

When the enemy BuCUE completed the maneuver, the pilot was surprised to find that the Windam that should have appeared in front of him was still behind him.

"First one."

Li Boyong pulled the trigger and shot down a BuCUE.

Immediately after, he used his beam gun to force away another BuCUE and saved a friendly Windam from the muzzle of the other party.

The engagement continued, and about a minute later, another BuCUE was shot down by Li Boyong, and the other was injured by the remaining Windams and retreated.

Li Boyong's side also had a Windam moderately damaged and returned for repairs.

At this time, another three BuCUEs and three DINNs attacked from the 8 o'clock direction.

At the same time, on the shore in the 7 o'clock direction, three Gazuutes suddenly appeared and began to shell the fleet, clearly having been ambushed there, patiently waiting for Li Boyong's fleet to enter range before starting to make trouble.

But the worst thing was the heavy artillery fire that suddenly came from the 10 o'clock direction, and the first shot hit the bow of a cruiser with very good luck.

The hit cruiser had its bow turret destroyed, and in the billowing smoke, the hull tilted forward, forced to slow down.

This was the effect that only the main gun shelling of a *Lesseps*-class could have. It looked like this was almost the main course.

"Gaia sortie, Stella, solve the Gazuutes on the shore," Li Boyong ordered, "Strike Noir, Rosso Aegis, and the remaining two Windams meet the newly appeared enemy MS."

After a pause, he continued: "Dominion, leave the water and take off, attack the enemy *Lesseps*-class."

Finally, he took the two Windams that were originally acting together and rushed straight to the *Petrie*-class that appeared at the beginning. ===== CHAPTER 269 =====