Chapter 297: Winds of Gibraltar (Part 1)

The Battle of Berlin ended, the Logos suppression force suffered a setback, and the remaining main forces all concentrated on the Heaven's Base.

It can be said that the entire Eurasian continent was suddenly liberated from the oppression of Logos, and the situation of the whole world changed again.

No one expected that the seemingly massive Logos would be forced into such an embarrassing situation in such a short time.

And all of this was built on the continuous military victories of Li Boyong's troops.

The situation gradually became clear. Although a centipede dies but doesn't stiffen, it had already shown a clear trend of decline.

After all, how massive was the power of Logos originally, and how many forces were secretly eyeing the interests they had occupied.

Now that Logos showed a trend of decline, more and more people dared to stand up and resist Logos.

With the purpose of overthrowing Logos, various forces formed a temporary alliance organization with Li Boyong as the nominal leader.

Although there had begun to be some infighting among the allies, there was also an extremely clear consensus.

That is to hurry up and take this opportunity to press Logos to death at the Heaven's Base.

To this end, the President of the Atlantic Federation was impeached, and the Vice President of the conservative faction took office temporarily.

The current government of the Eurasian Federation also began to reorganize, a large number of puppet officials appointed by Logos stepped down, and many original Eurasian Federation officials returned to power. The Eurasian Federation hurried to begin incorporating various resistance organizations on the Eastern European continent. Many of these resistance organizations were originally from the Eurasian Federation army, so the incorporation action went quite smoothly.

And the East Asian Republic clearly announced in the first time that it would send a fleet to participate in the attack on Heaven's Base. Using this as a signal, the Eurasian Federation and the Atlantic Federation also hurriedly announced that they would send troops to participate in the war.

However, the assembly and reorganization of troops, as well as the construction of the command system, still needed a certain amount of time to complete.

Before that, Li Boyong's troops, which had been fighting hard, gained a short respite.

And the world situation also appeared in a strange tranquility before the storm.

The conservative forces led by Li Boyong were healing the wounds brought by Logos while allocating materials and troops for the strategy of Heaven's Base as much as possible.

And the Logos troops that withdrew from the European continent were fully shrinking and building the defensive line of the Heaven's Base, losing the ability to take the initiative to attack on the surface.

As for PLANT, although the war with natural humans was still continuing, under the suppression of the "fox" Chairman, the conflict was limited to small-scale friction on the existing control line.

The ZAFT military was also very obedient to this. On the one hand, since the beginning of the war, the troops everywhere had been fighting more with less, and they were somewhat tired and needed a certain amount of rest.

On the other hand, the ZAFT military also achieved satisfactory results, successfully stabilizing the Mediterranean sphere of influence centered on Gibraltar, and successfully extending its tentacles into the Black Sea.

Meanwhile, the Carpentaria Base remained fully defended, firmly controlling the sea power over the various waters of the South Pacific.

This turmoil within the Alliance led by Li Boyong showed many possibilities. Most of the councilors within the PLANT national council held a wait-and-see attitude and tried to contact the Alliance conservative faction.

Gibraltar Base, the latest warship of the ZAFT military, the Minerva, was slowly entering the port.

After completing the repairs in the Black Sea, the Minerva assisted the local ZAFT garrison in sweeping away some of the remaining forces of the Alliance around the Black Sea, and then suddenly fell into a boring day.

Because during that period, Li Boyong launched a crusade against Logos, and the original plan to advance into the European continent lost its moral high ground.

The ZAFT military had to enter the mode of watching the tiger fight from the mountain, stopping many military activities.

Now, the European situation became clear with the end of the Battle of Berlin.

Out of various considerations, the ZAFT military headquarters re-dispatched the Minerva to the Gibraltar Base.

After all, it was not difficult for PLANT to see that the next target of the Alliance conservative faction represented by Li Boyong was the Heaven's Base, and most of the main forces of Li Boyong's troops were currently in the Mediterranean. If they wanted to attack the Heaven's Base from the Mediterranean by the most convenient route, they had to pass through the Gibraltar Base controlled by the ZAFT military.

Otherwise, Li Boyong's fleet would need to pass through the Suez Canal again, then bypass most of Africa, and after a long voyage, attack the Heaven's Base. Or after bypassing Africa, repair in the naval port in the north of the Eurasian Federation for a period of time before continuing to launch an attack.

But no matter what, the time wasted doing that would be too great. And in this unclear situation, was Li Boyong willing to pull away the military strength of the Mediterranean and go around such a big circle?

Was the other party not afraid that ZAFT would take the opportunity to do something?

Therefore, before attacking the Heaven's Base, Gibraltar would become an unavoidable hurdle.

Whether to fight or talk, PLANT was waiting for Li Boyong to express his stance.

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Gibraltar Port, Minerva Hangar.

The maintenance team was performing routine maintenance for the pilots, and the pilots of the Minerva were assisting on the side.

"Sorry, can you say that again?"

Shihe came back to her senses from a daze and apologized to the maintenance worker who was explaining the maintenance progress to her.

"Okay." The maintenance worker seemed to be used to it. Since entering the Black Sea, the state of this red-uniform pilot had been a bit wrong. He nodded and restarted: "In the previous battles, the data collection of the new equipment has been completed. Considering the instability of the equipment in actual combat, the higher-ups decided to stop the use of the equipment..."

The maintenance worker found that Shihe seemed to be distracted again while talking. He shook his head and didn't remind her, but continued to talk on his own.

"What's wrong with Shihe?"

On the other side, Lunamaria, who had completed the task, came to Shinn's side secretly. "Recently, she's always been weird..."

"Maybe the performance of the new equipment is too bad." Shinn, who was buried in work, didn't look back. "I tried that thing once. Even though they are all weapons I'm used to, the feel is very bad."

"Is that really the case?" Lunamaria expressed doubt, but she didn't have any expectations for the answer of this blockhead Shinn anyway.

After wandering around, Lunamaria walked to the Savior side and found Athrun to ask quietly: "Athrun, do you know what's wrong with Cagalli recently?"

However, there seemed to be a first guest here, a new member of the Minerva pilots, the third FAITH of the Minerva who boarded the ship at Dioquia, Heine Westenfluss.

"Yo, Athrun, how about going for a drink together after the daily maintenance?"

This handsome guy with orange hair was a soldier with a bold personality but not lacking in detail. After he boarded the ship, the atmosphere among the pilots became much more harmonious, and even Shinn, who had always been unruly, admired him quite a bit.

"No, I'll pass."

Athrun was still a bit unaccustomed to such enthusiasm and subconsciously declined.

It just happened that Lunamaria came over. She was quite interested when she heard Heine's invitation and said: "It's hard to come to Gibraltar, Athrun, just go."

After a pause, she winked at Heine. "Count me in too."

"Of course, the more people, the more lively it is. I like it to be noisy." Heine made an OK gesture. "I'll go call the others. Lunamaria, you watch Athrun and don't let him slip away."

Looking at Heine's back, Athrun showed a wry smile. "Really lost to him." ===== CHAPTER 298 =====