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

Chapter 93 One ride is worth a thousand!
"Understood, our team will advance immediately!"

At this moment, Char had lost all his previous arrogance. He didn't even paint the body of the machine red. He only painted a bird logo with wings flapping in a triangle on the body. He could only bite the bullet and lead his team forward.

But the good news was that when he was halfway through his advance, the fleets of both sides had already started exchanging fire, and the particle beams intertwined, instantly illuminating the entire universe.

But there was also bad news. After being bombed by Macharius's nuclear bomb, most of the Zeon pilots were already scared and did not dare to take the initiative to fight back. Only a few pilots who were confident in their own strength chose to fight back. This made Char's plan to take advantage of the chaos to attack thwart.

So, he could only take his subordinates and follow the Zeon pilots who were trying to accomplish the feat of slaying the dragon, and rush towards the prototype Gundam.

"For the greater good of Zeon!"

A team's Zaku 2 was the first prototype Gundam to rush towards Macharius. There were several new kill marks on the shoulders of this team, which were obviously just painted on.

The captain's machine took the lead, with the 120mm machine gun in his hand spewing flames, and fired a dense barrage of bullets at Macharius. The two Zakus behind him kept firing with the anti-ship rocket launchers in their hands, but because they had used nuclear bombs in the previous attack on the colony, the rockets were only conventional warheads.

But Macharius's Gundam nimbly dodged the fire network composed of machine guns and rockets, and even did an extremely funny Hot Wheels roll in space, and then blew up several rockets with the 60mm Gatling gun on its head.

The Zaku captain, who had used up all his ammunition, shouted, "Cover me!" and then pulled out his thermal axe and rushed forward. The two Zakus behind him took off the 120 machine guns on their waists and began to suppress the prototype Gundam.

Macharius did not dodge this time. He just adjusted his posture, forcing Captain Zaku's body to block the gun line of a Zaku. Then he used the shield to protect half of his body, revealing the machine gun in the right hand of the prototype Gundam.

Captain Zaku was still screaming, trying to encourage himself with his battle cry. His Zaku II shuttled through the battlefield full of stray bullets and quickly established a close relationship with Macharius.

Five hundred meters!
Two hundred meters!
One hundred meters!

Just as his thermal axe was about to split the opponent's shield and then cut through the opponent's armor, and as he was listening to the opponent's terrified scream before death, Captain Zaku saw a flash of fire in the opponent's hand.

Immediately, a row of densely packed holes appeared on Zaku's breastplate.

Macharius used his shield to block the Zaku that was floating towards him, and then held it in front of him, using it as a meat shield to face the Zaku behind him.

"team leader!"

The Zaku, whose view was blocked by the captain's machine, held its gun and didn't know what to do. Instead, the other Zaku reacted, raised its machine gun and pulled the trigger at the wreckage of the friendly forces.

"The captain is dead!"

The two 120 machine guns immediately shot the wreckage of the Zaku into pieces. The rice furnace that Macharius avoided was also hit. The next second, the Zaku exploded. The loud noise scared several Zakus that were nearby, thinking that another nuclear bomb was flying over.

"That guy should have been killed, right?"

"So close, surely..."

Before the pilot could finish his words, he saw the friendly machine suddenly twitch, and then several metal sparks appeared on the back armor of the machine.

"Nani?"

The pilot's eyes widened. He never thought that the black Gundam was not affected by the explosion and even killed the second teammate.

"Asshole, pay for Arthur's life!"

The Zaku pilot raised his machine gun and pulled the trigger again, but he had almost used up all his ammunition by whipping his teammate. The 120 machine gun in his hand just trembled, fired a burst of shots, and then stopped.

The Federation mobile suit holding a shield had already missed its target, and the Zaku pilot could only hurriedly try to draw out his heat axe, but a beam saber stabbed into his cockpit at a faster speed.

Macharius, who had stabbed Amuro hundreds of times on the simulator, did not hesitate to turn off the power supply the moment the feedback of piercing the body came back. In this way, the saber would only evaporate the pilot and would not damage the pipelines further back.

After drawing back the saber, Macharius continued to hold the Zaku in front of him to protect himself from reloading. At this moment, alarm bells rang in his head, and the sudden lightning was warning him.

"Die!"

Without any hesitation, Macharius kicked the Zaku away and flew to the left. The next moment, several green particle beams evaporated the Zaku into particles.

It was a Musai-class ship that was farther away. In addition, there were seven or eight Zaku-2s approaching him rapidly.

"It's so lively!"

Seeing that Musai's gun barrels were lit up again, Macharius continued to make irregular lateral maneuvers. Musai class did not intend to let him go. The turrets all turned and then opened fire again.

"Don't shoot, there are friendly forces in the line of fire!"

The gunner watched helplessly as the moment the Musai's main gun opened fire, a Zaku carrying a rocket launcher suddenly flew to the center of the beam, but the gunner had already pressed the button.

That Zaku was unfortunately vaporized by its own people's artillery fire in an instant.

After Musai opened fire, two Swordfish fighter planes of the Federation Army also passed through the battlefield full of artillery fire and appeared on the flank of the Musai class.

"It's not just the mobile suits that can do great things, asshole!"

The pilot watched the battleship enter his range and then fired all his missiles in one breath.

At this moment, the main guns of the Musai-class were all on the other side, and there were only a few close-in defense guns that could block the missiles. Therefore, most of the missiles of the two Swordfish easily passed through the interception and hit the flank of the Musai.

"here you go!"

Macharius continued to dodge the artillery fire, then put the machine gun back into the holster on his thigh and took off the beam rifle from his waist.

"Then, first one!"

"careful!"

When Char saw the Gundam switching weapons, he felt something was wrong, and then his feeling came true.

The attack of the beam rifle pierced through the chest of a Zaku like cutting tofu, and then the beam passed through this Zaku and tore the head monitor of another Zaku behind him.

"My body is leaking air!"

"leave here!"

The Zaku, whose head was torn off, now had a shocking crack above its chest. The melted metal cooled instantly in space and turned into a groove across the body.

Then, the terrified Zaku pilot turned the machine, whose head armor had cracks, and tried to retreat.

But the next second, a second beam of light crossed the battlefield again and pierced the opponent's back.

"Are all the Federation's mobile suits monsters?"

"Don't panic, that beam rifle definitely can't fire for long. Everyone, get moving, don't get hit!"

Char raised his bazooka and fired a rocket at the enemy. He knew that if he only relied on long-range attacks, these people on his side would not be enough, so he had to get close to the enemy and find a way to decide the outcome in close combat.

He wasn't the only one who thought this way. Before Char could say anything, the pilot of another Zaguri shouted on the communication channel.

"Everyone, spread out and keep suppressing the attack. Attacking him from multiple angles will definitely keep him busy. I'll deliver the killing blow!"

Idiot, what that guy is least afraid of is that you guys scatter, he can still run away!
Char thought so, but did not point it out. He just followed the guy silently. He deliberately kept a distance and tried to conceal his actions as much as possible.

The subsequent exchange of fire was just as Char had predicted. The scattered Zakus were accurately shot down by the opponent with the advantage of beam rifles. In just a few minutes, the opponent killed four more Zakus.

However, the scattered Zaku did attract the opponent's attention. Not only him, but the Zaku that tried to sneak attack the opponent also successfully took advantage of the darkness of space and the floating debris to get close to the opponent.

"Die!" The Zaku suddenly accelerated, raised the rocket launcher and fired continuously. Then he threw away the rocket launcher that had run out of ammunition, raised the machine gun in one hand and pulled out the thermal axe in the other and rushed forward.

Although the four rockets were quickly intercepted by the enemy, the fragments of the explosion still created sparks on the enemy's body, and the explosion also obscured the Zaku's movements, which made the pilot who launched the sneak attack feel that victory was a sure thing.

He even managed to dodge a beam of light by luck, which Macharius had just thrown out based on his memory, but he underestimated the speed of the opponent's pilot. The Zaku 2's propulsion was faster than that of the Zaku 1, so the beam of light missed.

At this time, the Zaku didn't even have time to fire a second shot at him.

Then, Char saw that the Zaku, whose axe was about to fall, had another big gash on its chest.

He didn't see clearly what was hit, but the Zaku on the other side saw it clearly. There was actually a rocket hidden in the shield of the Federation Army mobile suit. His teammate was killed by that!
However, Char knew that this was his only chance, because as long as the other party moved the Zaku away, he would be able to see him.

So, he quickly drew his gun and blew up the wreckage, not caring whether he hit the target or not, and quickly sprinted downwards, then pulled up again. Of course, from Char's perspective, he was attacking from top to bottom.

"Unstoppable!"

The thermal axe has been preheated, the axe blade is glowing red, and it can cut anything at any time.

After Char dodged the explosion, he saw the mobile suit. The Zaku's secondary explosion had obviously caused some damage to it. On the opponent's shield, only half of the strange yellow animal was left, and the corners were damaged. The body of the mobile suit was also covered with traces of gunpowder.

"Then die here!"

Char shouted as the axe blade fell.

"You dare to come at me at three times the speed? Do you think I'm unprepared?"

Although Macharius didn't see the red mobile suit, he knew it was Char based on the radar display of the opponent's movement speed, which was obviously copied from his own.

He turned sharply, drew his gun, and opened fire.

Char looked at the gun barrel that was almost stabbing into his mouth, and pulled the control lever hard, forcing the machine to flip over. The heat axe in his hand could only scratch a scar on the shield, but at the same time, he also dodged the shot that could penetrate the Zaku cockpit.

But that shot still easily penetrated one of Zaku's legs and took it off.

"You can't stay here!"

Char instantly felt the threat of death, and cold sweat instantly soaked his uniform. Without any hesitation, Char passed under the Gundam, threw the thermal axe in his hand, and then made a forced overload maneuver to the left at almost 90 degrees.

This way he avoided the second beam!

"I can't die here, I can't die here!"

Seeing the alarm sounding because the machine was damaged by just a glancing beam, Char did another extremely fancy spiral roll like a circus acrobat, and then still couldn't avoid Macharius's third shot, but that shot did not penetrate the cockpit, but only penetrated the Zaku's right arm.

Sitting in the cockpit, Char watched helplessly as the armor on his right side gradually heated up and then deformed, as if it would melt in the next second.

But in the end, the deformed armor still maintained basic airtightness.

This made Char, who was almost suffocating, finally unable to hold back and roar.

You have to know that he is not wearing a pilot's uniform. If the cockpit is broken, he will be dead.

However, he is a new human with the strongest escape ability. Although he has not awakened yet, his triple speed still allows him to pass through the friendly forces' line within three seconds and successfully escape.

"Did I survive?"

After crossing most of the fleet in one breath, Char finally stopped trembling. He glanced at the battlefield behind him, then slumped back in the seat with a wry smile.

"Next time, I have to wear a pilot uniform!"

After Char's death, the remaining Zakus were no match for Macharius. After killing them easily, Macharius pounced on the injured Musai-class.

After the beam rifle accurately penetrated the enemy's bridge, Macharius put the beam rifle with few remaining bullets back into his waist, took out the bazooka, and fired another rocket at the damaged bridge.

All the nuclear ammunition he carried had been launched, leaving only conventional ammunition, but it was more than enough to finish off the paralyzed Musai-class.

The rocket penetrated the compartment inside Musai, and the explosion and shrapnel swept through the internal battle center mercilessly, killing all the Zeon crew members inside.

Then, Macharius fired two more rockets at the front of the bow of the Musai-class ship. The bow was where the Musai-class had an external escape spacecraft, called the Little Musai, which could also be used for daily commuting.

The Zeon crew members who had finally escaped to Little Musai did not expect that someone would be so familiar with the structure of the Musai class, and could only disappear in the explosion with reluctance.

Afterwards, this Musai-class ship completely lost its combat and navigation capabilities, and became an immobile space wreck.

"Why, why haven't you killed the red dragon yet?"

"What is Char doing?"

At this moment, Dozle's fleet had lost more than ten warships, but they were all sunk by the Federation's warships. Moreover, because they had enough mobile suits to assist, the Federation's losses were three times his. But now, near the center of the fleet, at the support point of the colonial satellite's flank defense line, he had a warship sunk by the Federation's mobile suits, which made him furious.

"General, Captain Char's machine is severely damaged!"

"Big break?"

Dozle's anger was immediately suppressed in his chest.

"Yes, the squadron led by the captain and a squadron of the 6th Assault Division were all wiped out. Only the captain escaped safely!"

"Strengthen the defense line, move the mobile suits in the rear up, plug the gap in the defense line, and don't let the enemy destroy the satellite!"

Dozle glanced at the map. They were still some distance away from the planned drop point, but the losses of the fleet had exceeded his expectations. The Federation's mobile suits were equally powerful as theirs. Although they were at an absolute disadvantage in numbers, the casualty ratio between the two sides was almost one to one and a half.

This does not take into account Macharius's record, but now, no matter how great the losses are, Dozle will just grit his teeth and persevere.

"Commander, good news, the Red Dragon has retreated!"

Just when he was in pain, a report suddenly came from the war situation center.

"They retreated! That's great! Who repelled them? I'll give him a reward!"

"Sir, the enemy retreated on their own. Our army failed to intercept them, and four more mobile suits were destroyed. It seems that the enemy ran out of ammunition and left on their own!"

Dozle's eyes went dark when he heard that, and he even felt a sweetness in his throat.

He had an army of thousands, but he couldn't stop a single mobile suit. Instead, the enemy broke through his defense and had to fight back, even because the enemy had used up all their ammunition. This was a great shame!

"Send a large team to pursue him. He must be killed!"

Dozle slammed the command desk hard and spoke again.

Soon, the combat situation center received a report.

"Sir, the Thirteenth Squadron was intercepted and had to withdraw after losing more than half of its men. The pursuit failed!"

At this moment, Dozle's eyes went dark and he collapsed in his seat.

"Then forget about him. All fleets, accelerate and advance. We must break the Fourth Fleet's interception!"

(End of this chapter)