Gundam Super G Universe

Chapter 44: Three-way melee (seeking recommendation, monthly ticket, and follow-up reading)

After dealing with the Land Combat Zaku II, the NT-1 Gundam's sensors detected that the heat patterns of three Land Combat Gundams had surrounded it.

Red knew that this was probably the 08 squadron that the protagonist was in, since there were three land-based Gundams in this war. (The Ez8 Gundam body used the land-based model, so the thermal pattern remained the same.)
However, Red is not prepared to confront the protagonists so early. Although the performance of the NT-1 Gundam is more than one level higher than the land combat Gundam, the three Gundams of Team 08 can all be equipped with beam weapons.

Red's ultimate goal is Apsalas III. It would be bad if his machine was damaged by the well-coordinated protagonists. Anyway, this town is not small, so Red plans to use his speed to walk around Team 08, let the Zeon in the town collide with Team 08, and then he will take the opportunity to finish them off.

So Red directly controlled the NT-1 Gundam to run towards the center of the city. The speed and sensitivity of the three land combat Gundams were completely incomparable to the NT-1 Gundam, and they could only follow behind Red.

Moreover, Red relied on the fact that the sensor of the NT-1 Gundam was more advanced than that of all the MS present, so he deliberately led the 08th team to the Zeon machine side. There were quite a few Zeon machines deployed in this town, and even a few big demons, which were enough to pose a threat to the land-based Gundam.

As a result, the street fighting situation in this mining town was completely messed up by Red alone. Originally, Team 08 was supposed to be guarding and bombarding the Guntanks of the Zeon army, while the Zeon ground MS was trying to find a way to break the offensive and defensive battle of the Guntanks.

Now, Red is firing from both sides. When Zeon sees the Gundam, they naturally think that Red and Team 08 are in the same group. Unable to catch up with Red, they will naturally vent their anger on Team 08.

So before Red had even turned two circles, Team 08 was entangled by a Zeon Big Demon with scratches all over its armor and four Land Combat Zaku IIs. The two sides exchanged passionate shots on a street. It was a lively fight.

However, Red, who originally wanted to watch and make a finishing move, was ambushed by a B3 Tiger.

Just as Red was about to use the building to slowly return to the battlefield where Team 08 and Zeon were fighting, the locking sound of the machine system rang again.

The all-round cockpit played an important role here. According to the direction of the alarm, Red looked up slightly and saw a B3 Guff standing on a building, using the 75mm Gatling machine gun hidden in its Gatling shield to sweep towards him.

Fortunately, the NT-1 Gundam has good flexibility. Under Red's control, the body tilted sideways and leaned back, with the thrusters maintaining the suspension propulsion mode. For a moment, it was as if it had learned the Light Footsteps, and it dodged the machine gun fire by lying sideways. Red could also pick up the rocket launcher behind him and fight back.

However, Red did not attack the B3 Gufu directly. Red knew that the driver of this B3 Gufu was not comparable to the previous soldiers, and there was a high probability that he would miss the target if he attacked directly.

So Red attacked the building under the feet of the B3 Gundam, with the purpose of forcing the B3 Gundam to change its position. After all, with the main thrusters of the B3 Gundam, it is impossible to burst out for a second time in a short period of time after the first burst. At that time, Red could use the high maneuverability of the NT-1 Gundam to launch a real counterattack.

This was an open plot, as it was impossible for the other pilot to bury the aircraft in the rubble due to the building collapse. So after Red fired the rocket launcher, he could only change his position.

However, in order to slow down Red's counterattack time, the driver of the B3 Guff chose to talk to Red using laser communication.
"Gundam pilot opposite, I am Norris Barcard. Why are you attacking both the Earth Federation and Zeon? What is your purpose?"

Red is also a veteran of the battlefield, but he does not have the bad habit of threatening his opponent during a life-and-death battle, which causes him to shoot slowly.

So he did not respond to the words of Norris, who was called "Tiger King" by the fans of the series, but instead switched out his beam rifle and fired a shot at the B3 Guff cockpit.

However, the opponent was Zeon's ace pilot (not a system-certified ace), and even though he was in mid-air and could not move his position in a large area, he decisively threw out his Grimm shield to block the beam after determining that even if he could avoid the direct hit from the cockpit, his body would be severely damaged. So Red's shot only blew up the Grimm shield and destroyed the main long-range output weapon of the B3-type Gouf, but did not make the opponent lose its combat effectiveness.

Moreover, the opponent obviously did not lose his will to fight because of losing his weapon. The DⅢ type electric sword in his right hand was emitting a red-yellow glow, and he was obviously ready to engage in close combat with him.

But Red didn't want to engage in close combat with this "Tiger King". He clearly had the advantage in range and was faster than the opponent, so why bother to play to his weaknesses and avoid his strengths in close combat?

So Red pulled his thrusters to their highest position and made a big jump to create distance.

Of course, Red did not forget to fire a few beams at the B3 type Gufu when he jumped up, to prevent him from rushing to the face at risk of death.

Honestly speaking, there was nothing wrong with Red's choice. Even though he was Zeon's ace pilot, the performance gap between the two machines was obvious, and Red himself was not necessarily weaker than Norris Barcard.

Gufu lost his long-range weapon and was forced by the beam rifle to be unable to attack. He could only watch Redraft distance himself.

However, after Red flew high, the alarm of the machine's locking suddenly sounded, and he saw a cannon shooting towards him.

At this time, Red was unable to dodge because the cannon was about to hit him, so he could only raise his shield to block.

Fortunately, Red's shield was modified from Chobham armor, and it has excellent defense against live ammunition.

Red didn't even feel too strong of an impact, and he successfully used the smoke from the explosion to hide his body and landed back into the building complex.

But this also reminded Red, remembering that Terry Sanders II in Team 08 had strong sniping ability and could use a cannon to produce the effect of a sniper rifle. In addition, there was Aletor Mathis who could distinguish his target from complex sounds and whose hearing was comparable to that of a humanoid.

Before dealing with them, it's best not to fly high and provide a sniper angle.

Since Red didn't want to be attacked from both sides and just wanted to steal the kills with the least effort, he didn't go back to fight the B3 Gufu. Instead, he ran directly to a steel tank at the edge, ready to destroy all the machines that would provide remote support in the battle later.

Airetour Maxis immediately recognized Red's target, and Shiro Amada also remembered his team's mission. Since three of the opposing Zeon MS had been destroyed and their firepower had become much sparse, Shiro Amada immediately commanded the team to break away from the entanglement with Zeon and drove the Ez8 Gundam to rush to support the Guntank.

But just because he had dealt with Red, it didn't mean that Norris Barcard would stop fighting the Earth Federation. He also knew that Red didn't know why he wanted to destroy the Earth Federation's steel tanks, but this behavior was obviously in his own interests.

So Norris Bacard directly commanded the remaining two Land-Type Zaku IIs to entangle the two Land-Type Gundams, and he blocked the way of the Ez8 Gundam.

(End of this chapter)