Why would I join the army if I can’t drive a Gundam!

Chapter 70 A turn of attack

"You bastard, go to hell!"

At this moment, there were only four Zakus left around Captain Zaku, and they were not even from a single team.

When the murderer who killed his two teammates appeared, a Zaku 1 with a wolf head painted on its body took the initiative to rush towards the prototype Gundam.

"Die, die!"

Amid the Zaku pilot's roar, a flash of bright fire shot out from the muzzle of the machine gun in Zaku 1's hand, and a row of bullets swept out.

"Arthur, calm down!"

Captain Zaku couldn't stop the opponent at all, so he could only grit his teeth, push the joystick, and control the machine to attack along with the opponent.

Judging from the opponent's performance, the performance of the opponent's machine has far surpassed that of the Zaku 1, and even the pilot's driving level is far superior to those of them who have been trained for a long time.

So if we fight together, there is still a chance of victory. If we scatter, we will be defeated one by one!
The remaining two Zakus also followed Captain Zaku's lead in forming a battle formation without any communication.

Looking at the Zaku rushing towards him, Macharius did not retreat but advanced, adjusted the nozzle power to the maximum, and rushed forward at a faster speed.

At a distance of nearly 105 meters, no matter how powerful Macharius is, he cannot avoid the attack of the mm machine gun, but the armor of the prototype Gundam is made of Luna titanium alloy. In addition, the prototype Gundam has a large shield in its hand.

Macharius ignored the insignificant attack on his armor and instead raised his YF100 machine gun to fire back.

The 100mm armor-piercing bullet hit the Zaku 1 hard, creating large sparks. Although it did not completely destroy it, it caused a lot of malfunctions in the Zaku, especially the right arm holding the machine gun lost its response.

"If you don't have a machine gun, use this!"

The Zaku pilot saw that the Federation Gundam put the machine gun in his hand back into the holster on his leg. Obviously, the opponent had also run out of bullets. So, now it was time for the cold weapon to decide the outcome!
He pulled out the thermal axe, and the axe blade quickly lit up with red light after being electrified. Looking at the Gundam rushing towards him, the Zaku pilot couldn't help but smile.

"You're charging towards me so recklessly. Are you confident in your armor?"

Just when he was imagining that he could rip the other person open in the next second, the Federation Army mobile suit suddenly raised its shield towards him and pointed the bottom edge of the shield at him.

Then, the pilot saw something flying towards him from under the shield.

"what?"

The pilot's eyes widened, and the monitor froze the next moment. What appeared on the screen was the warhead of an anti-MS rocket.

A ball of fire immediately burst out from Zaku's chest, and then the rice furnace placed on its torso exploded as a result of this blow.

"Arthur!"

Captain Zaku felt a chill in his heart, and his hands holding the joystick couldn't help but tremble.

There were nine machines, and now, there are only three of them left!
"He's out of ammo, kill him!"

I don’t know if it was because of fear or excitement, but Captain Zaku almost shouted this sentence while trembling, and then he was the first to rush forward.

Macharius held the shield in front of him to protect against the shells, and his right hand slowly replaced the magazine of the machine gun on the leg holster.

With the shield blocking the way and Makarius deliberately leaning sideways, Captain Zaku didn't see his movements at all.

When he finished the 100-round magazine in his hand, he immediately dropped his machine gun and pulled out his thermal axe, while the two Zakus beside him took over the task of suppression and continued to fire at the Gundam.

"Die, bastard!"

Captain Zaku roared, and then he saw the black muzzle of the gun behind the opponent's removed shield.

At this moment, Captain Zaku used all he had learned in his life, cleverly flipped the machine 180 degrees, and then used the shield on his right shoulder to protect his torso, trying to avoid the attack.

But the attack he expected did not come, instead he heard screams from his teammates.

"what?"

Captain Zaku looked at a small independent screen on the main display, which was the rear view of the Zaku. He saw a row of light spots flying from under his body, smashing a Zaku behind him into pieces.

"mean!"

Captain Zaku pushed the joystick, and the machine remained upside down, swinging the thermal axe at Macharius. The latter had just finished another magazine and had no time to defend against his blow.

Looking at the thermal axe about to fall, Macharius threw his shield as a weapon without hesitation.

Captain Zaku saw the shield floating over and subconsciously chopped it. The axe blade cut the shield like a sharp knife cutting tofu, and then the axe blade detonated another rocket that had not been launched under the shield.

Captain Zaku's machine immediately sounded a shrill alarm, and the main display in front of him lit up with a bunch of red error messages. Although the rocket did not penetrate his armor, the explosion destroyed many of the machine's equipment pipelines, and even the main company monitor was damaged. He could only obtain information through the backup monitor.

Captain Zaku didn't know what to say. He controlled the machine to shake off the mess floating in front of him, raised his axe and tried to attack again.

Then, he saw the mobile suit raised its right hand towards him again.

Two disposable armor-piercing grenades were fixed on the opponent's right arm armor.

"Can this still happen?"

Captain Zaku released his control stick, and his cockpit was engulfed in the explosion the next moment. The explosion instantly wiped out the pilot's consciousness, preventing him from dying in such pain.

After killing the Zaku in front of him, there was only one Zaku left in front of Macharius!
Looking at the unarmed prototype Gundam, the remaining Zaku felt that he finally had a chance. He had lost eight comrades before the enemy had consumed his equipment. Now that the enemy was already unarmed, what was there for him to be afraid of!

The axe blade flashed with red light and chopped down with the force of thunder, and then the prototype Gundam held his arms, making him unable to move.

"Mobile Suit legs aren't just for looks!"

While the Zaku pilot was still struggling to push the jet forward, trying to bring the axe down, a young man's voice suddenly rang out from the machine's short-range communication channel.

Then, the Zaku pilot saw the Federation Army machine in front of him suddenly swing its lower body backwards, activate the nozzles on its legs, and kick towards himself.

The sound of this kick was earth-shaking. Even though he was wearing a seat belt and sitting in a movable cockpit, the Zaku pilot still felt that his body was about to be shaken to pieces.

A huge dent appeared on the trunk of his machine, and one of his legs had lost its response. The opponent's kick directly blew up many parts under the Zaku's body.

After the kick, the mobile suit, as if still unsatisfied, struck again, this time with even greater force, causing the pilot to hear the creaking sound of metal tearing. The pilot then noticed that the joints between the two arms of the mobile suit had begun to sound alarms, clearly reaching their limit.

"No, no, no!"

The opponent's machine is already preparing for the third kick!
Amid the Zaku pilot's screams, Macharius's third kick directly shattered the Zaku's outer armor, and the huge impact separated its torso from the two arms that were tightly grasped by the Gundam.

The thermal axe held in the opponent's hand immediately dimmed after losing its power supply.

Zaku, which had lost its arm and only had one leg left, flipped out in space like a Hot Wheels.

The Zaku pilot almost used up all his propellant to barely stabilize the balance of the machine, but before he could recover from the dizziness, the meteor hammer in the hand of the Gundam, which had lost both arms of the Zaku, had already hit the Zaku's chest.

"No, no, please let me go!"

The Zaku pilot looked at the deformed cabin armor and suddenly cried out in fear, and the Gundam pilot seemed to have heard his plea for mercy.

Then, the communication channel rang.

"Let you go, and then let you return to serve in the Zeon military and continue to be an enemy of the Federation?"

"No, I'll retire when I get back, I'll retire when I get back, I'll open a bakery in Side 2, please, let me go!"

"Side 2? Open a bakery?"

The pilot then heard the other party's mocking laughter.

Then, the meteor hammer was swung out again, tearing the Zaku's cockpit armor. A large number of metal fragments instantly cut through the pilot's anti-G suit. Then, large amounts of blood gushed out, and then turned into ice crystals and floated in the deformed cabin.

"This is Red Dragon. The enemy has been completely wiped out! Requesting to return! Also, Colonel, remember to send someone to clean up the battlefield!"

"I'm Carter. You can return, Red Dragon. We're all waiting for you!"

In the bridge of Columbus, everyone who had witnessed how Macharius killed those Zeon mobile suits was silent until someone could no longer hold back and swallowed. Then, Captain Columbus, wearing a hard space suit, wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and patted Carter on the shoulder.

"Colonel, please forgive me if I offend you in any way in the future!"

"We'll talk about it later. Let's go clean up the battlefield first!"

"Oh, yes, yes, I forgot about this!"

When Macharius's prototype Gundam flew back to Columbus, several Manzhu-type gunboats just flew out in a hurry. Macharius took a look at the cockpit of the gunboat and found that the people sitting inside were old acquaintances of the base, those researchers who participated in the RX project.

Macharius estimated that if Timre was there, this guy would probably be the first to come out!
After saying hello to the gunboat, he controlled the aircraft to slowly fly back to the cargo hold. Before entering the cargo hold, he activated the aircraft's attitude control nozzle again, reducing the relative speed to almost a standstill.

Even so, after entering the cargo hold, he still drifted forward for dozens of meters due to inertia before stopping.

"Macarius!"

.........

When Macharius opened the cockpit, the deafening cheers almost pierced the cargo hold.

Dozens of pilots and hundreds of maintenance team officers and soldiers shouted his name with fanaticism on their faces.

If it weren't for the fact that everyone was in a state of weightlessness, Macharius estimated that they would all come over and lift him up!

Of course, not everyone was excited. For example, the ground crew responsible for maintaining the prototype Gundam were already dumbfounded.

Because the prototype Gundam is in such a mess right now!
Although there was no structural damage, Macharius lost his shield, wrestled with the Zaku, and even kicked the opponent's strongest defense three times. These were all things that gave the ground crew a headache, especially the Gundam's right leg, which was sparking from time to time and the sole of the foot was a little deformed.

Of course, although it was a big headache, the ground crew would not blame Macharius for it. After all, they were just repairing the plane in the maintenance department, while the pilots really had to go to the front line to fight.

"Don't even think about moving out within three days!"

This was the conclusion the ground crew came to after a preliminary inspection. Fortunately, they brought enough accessories with them when they left, otherwise if they had to wait for side7 to deliver the items, they would have to wait even longer!

"Well, if anything happens again, I'll use the Guncannon!"

When Macharius turned around, he found that the Guncannon pilots who had just surrounded him had run far away, and some were even carrying rations and energy drinks into the cockpit, apparently intending to live in it.

The pilots are not blind. If a machine like the prototype Gundam is like this, if they change it to the more fragile Guncannon, then they will have to fly back two control sticks. They still have to protect their own machine!

After briefly celebrating the prototype Gundam's first victory with his comrades in the cargo hold, Macharius immediately boarded the elevator to the bridge, ready to report to Carter in person.

However, when he entered the bridge, he found it extremely busy. There were several people sitting at the communication terminal, and no one knew what they were talking about.

"Sir?"

"Good thing you came, Krini, look, look outside!"

Macharius was pulled by Katz to the porthole and saw patches of lights lighting up on the route. These were the light signals emitted by civilian ships.

“They’re thanking us!”

Carter pointed to the communication terminal and said.

"While you were fighting, someone transmitted the footage to the colony's internal television network. Now, the commotion at the dock has died down, and many people have even given up queuing to board the ship and are returning to their homes."

"Even this guy has changed his face!"

Carter brought up a split screen and then tuned to the satellite TV network, where he saw a fat, middle-aged man wearing the uniform of the Leah Security Force, making an impassioned speech in front of the camera, saying things like he would never give up and would fight to the end.

Macharius recognized the other person's identity; he was the chief executive of the Leah colony.

"You know, before I came here, I was still racking my brains over how to turn the situation around. After all, the colonial government had already lost the will to resist. But now, I realize I was overthinking it. With so many plans, how could a resounding victory be effective?"

Carter said, patting Macharius's shoulder again.

"You are not only a hero of our 130th Armored Training Regiment, but also a hero of the Federation!"

(End of this chapter)