The shining Shoko Toyokawa

Thinking about how urgent the situation was and how she was still letting her mind wander, Renai cursed herself for being immature.

...............

In fact, Jeana left the bridge and came to the deck not to chat with Maya,

"We followed Captain Maya's instructions and closely monitored the fleet's radio waves. We did detect unusual signals, and there was more than one source."

Hearing that there was a traitor in the team, Maya was not worried at all, but smiled.

"That way, we're sure to win!"

"Captain Jeanne, please arrange another speech for me. If I want Caius to take the bait, I need some bait."

"Let's just have a video conference," Jeanna said with a sweet, charming smile, hinting at a hidden kindness. "Captains and above will be enough. We can find out where the rat is hiding."

"Well, that's it."

Maya readily accepted Jeanne's advice.

"By the way, Captain Maya, you should get a promotion, right?"

Jeanna's tone was natural, as if she was asking a colleague if he wanted a cup of coffee.

"Last time, I led the team to sink three of Caius's warships. If it were during the Unification War, such a merit would have been enough to immediately advance to the next level, and then to another level after a while."

Maya naturally knew what she meant, but there was a reason why Maya didn't want to be promoted.

"My abilities as a pilot are far superior to my abilities as a commander. If I get promoted to colonel and can't go to the front lines at any time, I'll be in big trouble."

"I think you have two talents, Captain, that are better than your piloting abilities."

Jeanne came closer, as if to whisper something to Maya.

"One is the talent to attract girls,"

"The second is..."

She deliberately kept the question in suspense, suppressed her frivolous smile, and said seriously, "Captain, your talent as a politician, a mobile suit pilot, cannot change the times."

Chapter 54: Whether it's a mule or a horse, take it out for a walk

"What we need to do now is to break through Caius's encirclement."

Maya changed the subject.

“Only by doing well today can we reach tomorrow.”

"Indeed, I was too impatient," Jeanna turned on the communication headset on her spacesuit and distanced herself from Maya. "Captain, let's go. The meeting is about to begin."

"Nina, and Satoshi, you should take a break too."

Maya also opened the communication,

"The next battle will be even more difficult."

After giving instructions to a few people, Maya called George and followed Captain Jeanne to the bridge.

Captains from other departments on the Agama also received the notice and came to the bridge to attend the meeting.

At the meeting, Maya said happily that Caius had no more soldiers to fight against!

The Maya team, which was composed of half newcomers, achieved an impressive record of shooting down seven MSs, five flight pedals, and damaging several MSs in two encounters with Caius's reconnaissance unit.

Except for not lying about the battle record, this is a completely Spring and Autumn style of writing.

Although many people know that the Maya team is composed of all new mobile suits and that the four pilots are far stronger than the average level of Wu Ci,

But with the enemy at hand, no one wants to say anything that would destroy unity.

Originally, Caius was much stronger than Wu Ci. If he continued to encourage others and destroy his own prestige, then there would be no point in fighting this war.

There is no longer any dispute about the need to concentrate our efforts on breaking through.

The question is whether to attack Caius's flagship while breaking through the siege.

At first glance, it may seem that there is no difference, as we still have to fight to break through.

But feint attack and main attack are two completely different concepts.

The former is to scare the enemy and divert troops to protect the flagship, thus facilitating a breakout.

The latter is to confront the opponent head-on. When the troops are far less than the opponent, a head-on confrontation is simply asking for trouble.

They just hope that Maya will not be carried away by victory and continue with that messy plan.

But Maya Hilbert's tactics always seem as radical as she is.

"Enough with the probing. Take my proposal and send half of your mobile suits with the elite squad to attack Caius's flagship!"

As the nominal supreme commander of the Thornless Fleet, Jeanne also spoke out in support of Maya:

"Due to Caius's hasty fleet deployment, the main fleets lack experience in large-scale cooperative operations."

"The Britannic is now in charge of all fleet operations. If we can sink her, we can take advantage of Caius's fleet's reorganization and break out."

"Kaeus is indeed vulnerable," George also agreed. "I haven't driven a mobile suit in several years. Today's actual battle lasted less than two minutes, and I shot down two of Kaeus's High Zakus.

I believe that with the capabilities of my colleagues, we will be able to handle them without any problems."

"How about this," Maya said, seeing that the groundwork was almost done, "I know everyone still has doubts, so why don't we vote by raising our hands? Everyone attending this meeting has the right to vote."

The reason why we didn't let the captains vote internally, but wanted to bring others along, was because most captains were more cautious and more aware of the current situation.

Captains like George, who had just been discharged and were mainly piloting mobile suits, generally had a relentless drive to never give up.

After these few days of contact, several officers on the Agama have come to trust Maya.

Some of the demobilized officers were recruited by Maya's speech.

Maybe, as Jeanne said, Maya is more suitable to be a politician than a driver.

Politics is the art of making friends.

Maya made the decision on her own. With her current achievements and reputation, she is likely to gain the support of most people.

But this is not "democratic" at all. It would be fine if she was a colonel or a major general, but because she has not yet had time to be "promoted",

She was one or two ranks lower than the captains, so if she wanted to command them, she would need "art".

"Time is urgent. Please raise your hands if you disagree with concentrating our forces and attacking the enemy flagship now."

As Maya finished speaking, less than a third of the people on the warships raised their hands.

There is not a single captain among them, but there are quite a few vice-captains.

"Then, those who agree please raise your hands,"

After the record-keeper announces the number of vetoes,

Maya asked those who agreed to raise their hands.

The result was the same as she expected. She could tell at a glance that there were definitely more people who agreed than those who disagreed, without even counting them specifically.

There are also quite a few people who neither oppose nor agree.

Most of them are captains or deputy captains of ships.

They neither agree nor disagree, it's not that they don't have an idea, so they just abstain.

But they understood that this vote was essentially Maya forcing them to agree to the attack.

It makes no sense for them to agree or disagree, so they simply abstain from voting to express their protest.

After the meeting ended and all other officers had left, the Yagama's communications officer called Maya.

"Captain Maya, Captain Makarov wants to see you,"

The communicator held the phone and did not connect the communication to the projection of the bridge. It was obvious that this Makarov wanted to talk to her privately.

"I see,"

Maya walked over and took the phone.

Natasha told her about Makarov. This captain was a naval officer in the old days and had made great contributions in the Unification War. But now he was still only a lieutenant colonel. The specific reason was related to the fighting between the various factions within the Federation Army.

After the establishment of Wu Ci, he, who had already had contact with the moderate faction of the Federation, led some of his subordinates who were willing to follow him and drove a Magellan-class ship under his temporary command to the lunar orbit.

The only reason this old man came to Maya at this critical moment was because of the battle plan.

Maya had a headache, but she didn't show it.

"Hello, Captain Makarov,"

She decided to pretend to be confused first.

"Captain Maya, I contacted you specifically for no other reason,"

Just when Maya thought that the other party was going to play Tai Chi with her,

Makarov's rough voice came from the other end, "I just want to tell you one thing: if you can't get it on the battlefield, you can't get it at the negotiation table either."

'Well…'

Although she knew his character, Maya was still a little surprised.

He thought that what the other party was going to say was like a winding mountain road, but he didn't expect it to be as straight as the Siberian Railway.

The meaning of this sentence is very clear. Although Maya has gained everyone's support in name, such support is not reliable. If the battle fails, she will soon lose such support.

Maya misses Natasha who is recuperating on the moon again. If Natasha were here, she would definitely support her despite everyone's objections...

Both she and Jeanne were still a little younger.

"Captain Makarov, I have something to tell you." Now, Maya can only rely on herself. "Whether it's a mule or a horse, take it out for a walk!"

Chapter 55: A tragic victory—forward!

"Don't you feel nervous?"

The battle was about to begin again, Xiaozhi couldn't hold back and spoke to Renai.

Yesterday, she and her temporary roommate Subaru were both awake, chatting...

Well, it was just small talk, but more of it was Subaru talking and her listening,

Originally, Xiaozhi thought that Renai must have received some professional training, that's why she was so strong.

But she learned from Subaru that Nina was the space she had come to a few days ago.

Just now, it was her third actual combat.

If we go by the old-time standards, in just a few days, Hitoshi Niina would have been an ace based on the number of MS kills he had.

Moreover, she had sunk a Magellan-class ship. There were only a few who had the opportunity to sink such a "giant whale" in the Unified War.

"Don't you feel a lot of pressure?"

They were all about the same age, and Xiaozhi found it hard to believe how strong Jinna was.

"I'm not the one who has the most pressure, and someone has to do this kind of thing,"

In fact, Rencai was also quite nervous, otherwise she wouldn't have said such 'weak' words.

"The Mark Rabbit I pilot is also a Gundam. Even if I can't possibly be as good as those two Gundam pilots, I can't just sit back and watch Caius's current atrocities."

"Actually, you did very well, much better than me..."

In the battle just now, it was because Jinna's Gundam got rid of Marcella and destroyed a High Zaku that created an opportunity for Maya to counterattack.

"Nina, Xiaozhi, get ready to go. Be careful in the upcoming battle."

The return of the two adults interrupted the girls' conversation.

Just like last time, they launched first, and the two girls followed.

But this time, it was not a small-scale exploratory battle.

Dozens of light spots took off from the ships and soon caught up with the Maya team. Under the command, they formed a triangular search formation.

These ten or so teams are mainly composed of GM-2s, with a small number of High Zakus.

Half of Wu Ci's family fortune is staked on this battle.

"According to the intelligence from the reconnaissance aircraft, some of Caius's warships are approaching the flagship, the HMS Britannic."

Jeanne specifically communicated with Maya alone and informed her of the current situation.

"Part of the vanguard fleet is advancing towards the Agama. Please make sure to fight quickly, otherwise you will be surrounded."