Gundam, driving a mass-produced machine will change the world

Chapter 18 Post-War Report
"How did you do this? There are problems with the legs of both machines. This is outrageous. The Shiro Amada machine is easy to fix. We can just replace some common parts. But why did you do this to Eli? The shock-absorbing mechanism of the entire left leg is damaged!"

The next day after returning to the base, Eli dragged Shiro Amada to face the anger of the maintenance team together.

The maintenance squad members who usually had kind faces and were serious and responsible, now each of them was holding a weapon in hand, and under the leadership of the squad leader, they looked at the two men with unfriendly faces.

For a humanoid weapon like MS, the most difficult part to repair is its legs.

The two men made a hard landing at high altitude, which undoubtedly caused great trouble to the maintenance team.

"sorry!"

Eli did not think about defending himself, but immediately grabbed the corner of Shiro Amada's clothes, bowed with him, and handed him a whole box of cigarettes with both hands.

This was a good thing he bought from Captain Nika, and it was hard currency now that supplies were becoming scarce.

As for why supplies are suddenly in short supply?
That is naturally because now that the battle line is stable, the top brass of the federal army are already planning to advance the war to the next stage.

That means the time is coming for the federal army to launch a counterattack.

In order to launch the first counterattack in Europe, the transportation of supplies was naturally reduced in Southeast Asia where the war situation was relatively stable.

Seeing Eli like this, the anger of the maintenance team was reduced a lot.

To put it bluntly, they were just worried about the increased workload, and their anger towards Eli and Shirou Amada was more like a common practice between the maintenance team and the pilots.

How could they ask the other side to be cautious in combat for such a small matter, and would rather let the machine survive rather than the pilot?
"You're smart... Guys, give me some cigarettes, and then fix it for me!"

The maintenance squad leader took the cigarette, then punched Eli hard as he passed by.

Then, the maintenance team members who came up from behind raised their fists and knocked on Eli's shoulders.

In fact, as logistics personnel, they all admire and rely on Eli.

Or rather, every person fighting on the front line has this emotion.

The maintenance squad immediately gathered around a Land-Type Gundam of Squadron 06, ready to remove the legs of this machine and replace it with Eli's Land-Type Gundam.

In this way, Eli's body can regain its combat effectiveness as quickly as possible.

The removed leg will have plenty of time to be repaired slowly.

"I thought I would be scolded."

Looking at Eli's serious expression just now, Shirou Amada was even prepared to be beaten.

However, I didn't expect that the maintenance team, who also had serious expressions, would show such a warm attitude.

"Lieutenant Amada Shirou, as a MS pilot it is common sense to have good relations with the maintenance squad."

Eli already showed a look of regret, which made Shirou Amada couldn't help but show a look of fear.

"It's broken, then I..."

"It's okay, Karen has already done it for you."

Before Shirou Amada could ask Eli for help, Eli nodded and motioned Shirou Amada to look in his direction.

There, Kallen, who had gotten along well with the maintenance team, was leading them like a big sister to perform maintenance on Shirou Amada's machine.

Noticing the two people's gazes, Karin made a "yeah" gesture towards them and turned back to her work.

"Sergeant Joshua!"

Shirou Amada showed an exaggerated expression of being touched, which was completely different from the confrontation he had with Kallen when he first arrived.

The battle during this day did help to reduce much of the distance between them.

"Okay, let's go."

Eli grabbed Amada Shirou by the collar from behind, interrupting his attempt to move towards Kallen.

"Go? Where to?" Shiro Amada staggered after being pulled, then turned around and asked Eli.

"You really didn't listen to anything yesterday... Go to the Southeast Asia theater base, the people above want to question us."

Eli loosened Amada Shirou's collar so he could regain his balance.

"Up there? Is that Colonel Ethan?"

Colonel Ethan was the commander of the independent mechanized regiment on the Far East front to which they belonged, and was their direct superior.

"No."

"Oh, that's okay."

"It's General Rebir."

Looking at the relieved Shirou Amada, Eli mercilessly said a name that could scare people to death.

Shirou Amada's action of rubbing the back of his head in relief suddenly stopped.

"ha?!!"

……

"...In summary, I believe that the Apsalas created by Zeon has the ability to change the situation of the war."

After a long statement, Eli ended the report with his own judgment.

He raised his head calmly and looked at the one in the middle of the large screens in front of him.

There was an image of an old man with a white beard.

Needless to say, it was naturally the famous General Rebil.

Unfortunately, Eli now discovered that the system he was carrying could not be identified through the screen.

"What's your basis for saying that Apsaras can change the situation of the war?"

At this time, a person on a screen on the side asked a question.

That was General Gop, known as Jaburo's Mole.

This should be a derogatory term, but Eli knew that if General Gop had not constantly controlled the overall situation of the war in Jaburo, stabilized the situation during General Rebil's capture, and insisted on carrying out Operation V, the Federation would not have had the capital to counterattack.

Maybe he doesn't have a brilliant enough command record, but he is undoubtedly the backbone of the federation.

"Yes! Please listen to this audio."

Eli released the audio recording of Aina threatening them with self-destruction.

"I believe that the Apsaras can bear the weight of two Land-Type Gundams, and can also rise even if damaged. This means that the Apsaras has sufficient payload and energy reserves. Judging from its size, it may be able to carry a Mega Particle Cannon."

Eli tried to make the situation as serious as possible.

Of course, this is not an exaggeration, because Apsaras was originally designed to raid Jaburo.

He mainly wants the upper echelons to pay more attention to this aspect.

In the original work, even though Team 08 discovered the Apsaras, the higher-ups didn't pay much attention to it. Only Team 08 conducted a follow-up investigation on their own. It wasn't until the Apsaras II really showed its ability to destroy Jaburo that the higher-ups started to take it seriously.

Eli wanted this attention to come sooner, so he explained the threat of Apsaras to Jablo in the report he wrote earlier.

only……

This report caused such a stir in Jaburo that even Major General John Gao Yun, who was in charge of Operation V, participated in the meeting.

I think Jaburo wants to rely on Major General Gao Yun to verify the truth of Eli's statement.

(End of this chapter)