Chapter 72: Guarding the Archangel

The melee on the Jachin defense line was continuing cruelly, and both ZAFT and the Earth Alliance had pressed all their remaining strength.

And the Three Ships Alliance, which had broken into this cruel battlefield, also began to show fatigue after exhausting its sharpness.

Although machines like Freedom and Justice were still fighting bravely, few ordinary mass-produced machines survived, and the one with the greatest losses was naturally the Astray unit belonging to the Kusanagi.

But the Kusanagi was still fighting, advancing toward Genesis together with the Eternal.

And the Archangel also suffered heavy losses after winning the Archangel, and was unable to continue attacking the Peace Maker team's mothership cluster.

Especially when Providence just appeared, it caused a lot of damage to the Archangel's hull. If it weren't for the Phase Shift Armor barely holding on, the "Unsinkable Ship" Archangel might have been sunk in this space.

Fortunately, perhaps because Fulei didn't die, Kira subsequently piloted Freedom and rushed over, forcing Providence back, giving the Archangel a chance to breathe, and also avoiding the ending of Buster being beaten to half-disabled by Providence.

And in the space near the Archangel, the battle between Providence and Freedom was still continuing. Freedom shuttled gracefully in the beam rain sprinkled by the DRAGOON system, approaching Providence.

Rau Le Creuset had to maintain the firing frequency of the DRAGOON while retreating backward.

In this way, Freedom finally drove Providence away from this area, and the Archangel got a temporary respite.

But the remaining stragglers around, seeing the Archangel in this state, were like sharks smelling blood, appearing in twos and threes.

Buster, as the escort machine for the Archangel, had been trying its best to assist in defending the Archangel.

But pilot Dearka looked at the increasingly less remaining energy of the machine, and his heart gradually sank.

The battle had progressed to now, and the battlefield was full of wreckage. In some space, the fighting between the surviving units had begun to look a bit like a gravel battle.

The strength of these pilots who could survive was not necessarily strong, but they were absolutely cautious enough.

These mass-produced MS, in twos and threes, relied on the surrounding wreckage to consume the firepower of the Archangel and Buster, patiently waiting for opportunities.

"Damn it... too many enemies..."

Dearka was annoyed by this way of fighting, but didn't dare to leave the Archangel and rush up.

Beep beep beep beep!

Dearka looked at the alarm and found that two Strike Daggers had actually bypassed his attention and went to attack the Archangel.

"Bad..."

Dearka was anxious and sweating profusely. When the two Strike Daggers bypassed, the several Strike Daggers he had suppressed before also tacitly came out to drag Buster.

The two Strike Daggers used the wreckage to evade anti-aircraft fire and kept approaching the Archangel.

One of the pilots looked at the merit he had obtained and was already excited.

But when he passed a piece of wreckage of a Drake-class ship, he saw that a Strike Dagger was actually hidden under that piece of wreckage.

"Eh?"

Before he could be puzzled, the hidden Strike Dagger had already fired and pierced his cockpit.

The sneak attack succeeded. Li Boyong, the old yin-b, controlled the machine and rushed toward the other Strike Dagger, taking advantage of the other party's inability to change direction, drew his beam saber and stabbed it fiercely into the other party's lower back.

Subsequently, Li Boyong controlled the machine to kick the other party away, dodging the aftermath of the machine's explosion.

"If you were there, you should have come out earlier."

Dearka saw the Archangel's crisis resolved again, and complained with a cold sweat, "Hurry up and come over to help me."

Li Boyong smiled slightly, not caring about Dearka's complaint.

As a pilot who knew the performance of the Strike Dagger very well, Li Boyong intuitively didn't intervene in the battle between Freedom and Providence after leaving the Archangel, but acted as the escort firepower for the Archangel, guarding against enemy machines that might appear around.

So after Freedom forced Providence back, while he breathed a sigh of relief, he simply found a place to hide, patiently waiting to sneak attack enemies who tried to attack the Archangel.

And those two Strike Daggers that bypassed to attack were really easily handled by him.

If it weren't for a sneak attack, but a head-on battle, he might not have been able to kill two enemies so easily and quickly, while he himself didn't suffer any damage.

At this time, seeing Buster, which had no melee weapons, being entangled by three Strike Daggers, Li Boyong hurriedly went to help.

Under Li Boyong's cover, Buster broke free from the embarrassment of being close-ranged, and with a shot of armor-piercing diffusion shells, directly turned one enemy machine into a sieve. The remaining two enemy machines saw that it was impossible to do anything and turned around to retreat.

Dearka and Li Boyong saw that the enemy was repelled and didn't pursue. Now their mission was to prioritize guarding the Archangel.

"Sorry, I have to go back for resupply first."

Dearka looked at the energy that had bottomed out and said to Li Boyong. If it weren't for the lack of energy to maintain firepower just now, he wouldn't have been stuck by others so easily.

Li Boyong nodded, "Understood, I'll try to hold on for a while."

Taking advantage of the fact that there were no enemies now, it was indeed time to let Buster resupply first.

Watching Buster return to the Archangel for resupply, but just after entering for a while, the proximity alarm in the cockpit rang again.

Li Boyong looked at the identification signal and found that the one coming this time was actually Calamity, and his heart sank slightly.

Orga, that guy, actually wasn't cut in half by Justice...

Looking at the approaching Calamity, Li Boyong made up his mind, knowing that he must go up and stop Calamity, even if he knew he was no match for the three "Niaoren," he still had to go up and stop him!

Otherwise, if a shelling machine like Calamity approached, the Archangel would be in danger.

"What... is this Strike Dagger also an enemy machine... but it doesn't matter... shoot them all down... ahahaha... hahaha..."

In Calamity's cockpit, Orga, whose drugs had clearly taken effect, laughed wildly, controlling Calamity to open fire at the Strike Dagger.

The plasma shell-less rocket launcher in Calamity's hand and the beam cannons on both shoulders fired incessantly. The fierce firepower forced the Strike Dagger to be in a sorry state for a while.

Although in a sorry state, Li Boyong held on, and keenly discovered that although Calamity's shooting was fierce, it was actually far less accurate than before.

"Is this the drug taking effect?... If so, I might not have no chance!"

"Orga... can you hear me?"

Li Boyong dodged while connecting to Calamity's communication channel, trying to influence Orga with mouth-cannon, "That bastard Azrael is already dead, so you are already free, you don't have to continue fighting anymore."

"Ahahaha... free?... what is that..."

But Orga's state had clearly collapsed. Although he felt Li Boyong's voice was somewhat familiar, he didn't care at all, and couldn't even understand what this sentence represented, just firing even more frantically.

"Ahahaha... ahahaha... not dead yet?... hurry up and die... if you don't die, I will die... hurry up and die... hurry up and die..."

Under the influence of the drugs, Orga's whole body was in extreme pain, but he was still firing frantically, as if only in this way could he slightly alleviate his pain.

Until he pulled the trigger at some point, but the machine didn't fire a beam.

"Ah-leh?"

He tilted his head, as if he were a child who suddenly discovered that a toy was broken, a trace of doubt and a trace of pity appearing on his face.

When he looked up again, that Strike Dagger was already right in front of him.

"Sorry..."

Li Boyong controlled the Strike Dagger and stabbed the bright beam saber into Calamity's cockpit.

The Strike Dagger subsequently retreated to avoid being involved in Calamity's explosion.

Watching Orga, one of the three "Niaoren," being shot down by himself, a trace of pity flashed in Li Boyong's heart, but he quickly restrained that emotion that shouldn't be on the battlefield.

Beep beep beep beep!

After shooting down Calamity, Li Boyong hadn't had time to catch his breath when a new proximity alarm rang again.

He glanced at the identification signal, and his heart shook slightly.

The one coming this time was Duel Gundam... and the Beam CGUE next to Duel... ===== CHAPTER 73 =====