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

Chapter 110: Battle of Baikonur (Part )

The Zeon artillery once again began to bombard the Federation lines with a vast amount of ammunition to cover the evacuation of their own troops.

The Zakus attacking in the front were also constantly releasing smoke, so the battlefield, which already had poor visibility at night, became even more white, and nothing could be seen clearly. All that could be heard was the whistling of artillery fire and the sound of heavy footsteps interspersed with the sound of artillery fire.

"Go home and get your milk, Zeon!"

When the artillery fire died down and the smoke cleared, all that echoed on the battlefield were the Union Army's curses and taunts.

"Quickly clean up the battlefield, count the losses, and reorganize the defense line!"

After confirming that the Zeon army had indeed retreated, the Federation Army began to readjust its defenses.

The destroyed Type 61 tanks were towed into underground bunkers by maintenance trailers. Those that could be repaired had the bodies of the fallen soldiers cleaned away and then were repaired again, while those that could not be repaired had to be abandoned aside.

As for the damaged Jims, they will be loaded onto flatbed trucks and sent to the rear for repairs. If the situation is not serious, the maintenance team will pick up tools on site to carry out emergency repairs.

At the same time, the mine-laying rocket vehicles began to roar, scattering large areas of mines on the outskirts of the battlefield.

At the same time, the field kitchen was preparing food and hot soup for everyone, and then sending it to the front. The federal soldiers, who had been busy for most of the night, didn't care about the dirt and blood on their hands, and grabbed a full lunch box for themselves and started to eat.

At this time, the Zeon army seemed to know that the federal defenders were resting, so they gave them a big gift. The whistling shells came from a distance again and landed on the defense line.

The federal soldiers hiding in the fortifications were already accustomed to this kind of noise and continued to eat without any concern. Even if dust fell into the lunch boxes due to the vibration, few people cared. At most, they would peel off the top layer and continue stuffing the food into their mouths.

War is a ruthless catalyst. Perhaps on the first day when the Zeon army began to airborne, these soldiers would still be afraid and tremble, but at this moment, they have already begun to transform.

"These bastards can't even eat in peace, right?"

In the underground bunker on the second line of the base, the pilots of the Red Dragon Team were also eating. Although they did not participate in the battle when the Zeon army attacked, they had been on standby on the second line as a reserve force. After the battle, they still remained on alert.

Even when eating, they had to use a simple tool box as a table next to the maintenance pier.

At this moment, Macharius was very annoyed by the rumbling sound of cannons.

"If old man Gop hadn't refused to give it to Midya, I would have flown to the Zeon artillery position right now..."

"And then they were shot down halfway by anti-aircraft fire and fighter jets!"

"Alas, I don't know when the flight pedals will be available. If that doesn't work, just give me a light wheel!"

"Why don't you just turn the mobile suit into a plane?"

Nagase Ying and others on the side immediately started laughing.

"What, you don't believe it?"

Macharius then raised his spoon and said while chewing his food.

"Then let's make a bet and see if the mobile suit can be transformed into an airplane within five years!"

"Do not hit!"

Upon hearing this, everyone immediately moved their benches and prepared to move away from Macharius.

However, before they finished their meal, the battle alarm sounded again, and this time, the Red Dragon Team received a direct order to attack.

"what's the situation?"

"There are Zeon mobile suits in the southern test area of ​​the base, engaging the defenders!"

"What about the scale?"

"We plan to have a battalion of mobile suits and a small number of special forces. Krini, you take a squadron of men, and I'll give you an armored battalion. You must hold this place!"

Commander Antonov said very seriously.

"Understood. I'll leave Squadrons 1 and 2 behind!"

The troops stationed on the south side of the base are no longer from the 90th Armored Division, but from the 155th Armored Division. The core strength of this unit is somewhat weaker than that of the 90th Armored Division, and there is nothing that can be done about it.

Because before the war, the 155th Armored Division was not an armored division, but a reduced infantry brigade. It was only after the war broke out that the brigade was expanded into an armored division.

However, due to the large gap in demand for the M155A61 tanks equipped with 5mm guns, the armored division only replaced half of its tanks with the new ones, and the remaining troops are still using the old M61A2.

However, this was not a problem for the federal soldiers of the division. They used their ingenuity to convert the Queen missile into a twin-launch system, and then installed it on the Type 74 air cushion armored vehicle to make up for the lack of their own anti-tank firepower.

After the frontal troops launched another attack, the Zeon Army's mobile suit unit belonging to the 3rd Brigade took advantage of the interference of Mi Li and launched a surprise attack on the defenders here.

Two squadrons of Tigers and two squadrons of Zaku 2Fs rushed out of the interference zone caused by Mi Li at dawn and tore through the federal army's outer positions in less than five minutes.

"As expected, the elite troops of the Federation Army are only a minority!"

The Zeon commander in charge of the operation, after firing a burst of random shots with his finger cannon and blowing a firing machine gun point skyward, immediately began to sigh over the comms.

The federal soldiers guarding here were also very brave. After their tanks were destroyed and their anti-tank missiles were blown into the sky, they still bravely put up a tenacious resistance in the trenches and pipelines with weapons such as rocket launchers and grenade launchers.

However, this weak firepower was not enough to stop the Zeon army's offensive. After completing the breakthrough, the Zeon army began to expand the gap and clear out the Federation infantry.

A Tiger was now frantically stomping on the foxhole with its big feet. Its chest had just been hit by an anti-tank rocket fired by a brave Federal infantryman.

He was hiding in a foxhole on the outskirts of the base, and when the unsuspecting tiger approached, the soldier leaned out.

It's a pity that if he had aimed at Tiger's monitor, he might have been able to cause effective damage to the opponent, but the breastplate is the hardest part of Tiger, and after the rocket exploded, only a shallow crater was left on it.

Then, the pilot of the Tiger seemed to have been slightly insulted, and stomped on the opponent's trench in anger.

Then, he controlled the machine to continuously scrape up loose soil on the ground with his feet, and then kicked it into the foxhole until the entire pit was compacted, and then he stopped with satisfaction.

"You can give him a good beating!"

The teammates beside him couldn't help but say.

"Then I'll pay attention next time!"

The Tiger's pilot replied nonchalantly.

Then, several shrill whistles came from far away, accompanied by high-speed armor-piercing bullets, hitting the Tiger that slaughtered the federal soldiers.

"Well done, everyone!"

Seeing the Tiger lying on the ground with black smoke and motionless, the tank commander who had just commanded his subordinates to complete the salvo immediately heard a loud explosion.

Their vehicles were nothing more than unupgraded M61A2s, and they were new vehicles pulled directly from the reserve warehouse. However, due to the problem of firepower, these tank soldiers naturally had doubts about the effectiveness of the anti-mobile suit tactics.

But now, facts told them that as long as they concentrated their attacks on one point, the 150mm gun could also cause effective damage to the Zeon mobile suits. As a result, the morale of the tank company that came to reinforce was greatly boosted.

"Next car, each team..."

Before the commander could finish his words, the roaring 120mm shells came towards them.

"Sir, car number four has been destroyed!"

"Joseph is dead too!" "Don't panic, reverse, regroup and attack, move, as long as you move, you won't be easily hit!"

Afterwards, after quickly regrouping, the Type 61 tank company roared again. This time, the one that was hit was a Zaku that tried to counterattack with a rocket. Its lower abdomen was directly pierced, and even one of its legs flew out.

"Chase them, don't let these guys get away!"

Looking at the successive losses of two machines, the Zeon commander was furious. He had the most elite troops in the entire brigade under his command, and he couldn't just suffer the loss in silence without any reaction!

The 120mm shells rained down like raindrops without stopping from the beginning, and they kept exploding around the federal tank unit. One Type 61 tank was unlucky enough to be hit by a shell on its track, and then its body seemed to lose control and slid to one side.

"Asshole, don't underestimate us!"

Knowing that he could not retreat, the commander immediately raised the barrel of his gun towards the Zeon mobile suit closest to him and fired two shots at the same time. The Zeon pilot he was aiming at was no novice either. The moment he saw the shells leave the gun, he pulled down the control lever, causing the machine to jump sideways, and two shells flew out past his side.

Then the pilot stopped, raised his machine gun, and pulled the trigger at the tank.

The precise short bursts of fire all landed on the Type 61's armor, instantly destroying the turret's equipment and simultaneously bending the two gun barrels, rendering the tank unable to fire.

Then, under the enemy's relentless machine gun fire, the Tiger pulled out its thermal axe and slashed at the rear of the tank.

"Another car destroyed!"

"Keep reversing, don't stop, keep firing, brothers, even if we have to die today, we have to hold them back!"

This tank company is here to fill the gap. Behind them, there is a mobile suit unit on the way. As long as they can hold the enemy off for ten minutes, reinforcements will arrive.

But the Zeon mobile suits, which had already approached a thousand meters away, did not give the Federation Army any time at all. When another Zaku fell, the Federation Army also lost three tanks almost at the same time.

At this moment, the entire tank company had lost more than half of its tanks. Although the tank commanders tried hard to replace a few more enemies, the mobile suits moving at high speeds were not so easy to hit.

Their attacks either missed or failed to cause any fatal damage.

Fortunately, at this time, behind the tank troops, behind an undulating terrain, three air-cushion armored vehicles carrying twin queens arrived in time.

"Two volleys, fire!"

"Missiles, dodge!"

The whistling Queen's missile caught the Zeon army off guard, and another Zaku was killed. The latter jumped up with great effort and dodged the four missiles in front, but in the end, it was hit in the chest by the third hovercraft.

But then, an air cushion armored vehicle exploded.

That was done by the Majella tank that came to reinforce the rear of the Zeon army. The 175mm gun directly blew the vehicle into pieces.

"Loading complete!"

"Fire!"

The federal troops on the hovercraft quickly retaliated and fired two missiles at Majella.

But the next second, the armored vehicle was also blown into the sky by the Tiger's 120mm cannon.

"Is there no stronger opponent?"

Seeing the federal armored vehicles in front of him being destroyed one after another, a tiger pilot who had not achieved any results could not help but roar.

But then he saw several Jims emerging from behind a pile of scrapped rocket engines.

These GMs tilted their shields in front of their bodies, then placed their weapons on the shields, using them as a support to fire at the Zeon mobile suits.

The tiger in the front quickly raised its shield and protected its body behind it.

Then, seeing that the distance between the two sides was almost the same, Tiger's technician took advantage of the opponent's reloading time, dropped the shield, swung out the whip in his right hand, and entangled Jim's weapon.

The electric whip then released a high heat, directly blowing Jim's 100 machine gun into pieces.

"These are veterans, be careful!"

Jim's pilot drew out his beam saber and loudly reminded his teammates.

Then, he raised his shield to protect his body and rushed towards Tiger. Tiger drew out his thermal sword to meet the attack. After a few blows between the two sides, Jim's pilot swung his shield violently, smashing the opponent's thermal sword, and then raised his saber to stab into the cockpit.

But just as his saber was about to stab the opponent, another heat whip wrapped around his hand from behind and destroyed it.

"hateful!"

Then, a heat sword pierced Jim's chest.

The three GMs that came to reinforce were no match for the large number of Tigers. Although the federal pilots fought until the last moment, they only destroyed one Zaku and damaged one Tiger.

Afterwards, the three Jims were brutally dismembered.

"Haha, the Federation's mobile suit..."

A tiger took its heat sword and stabbed Jim's head. The opponent's monitor had been broken, leaving only electronic devices emitting sparks. He held the thing in his hand, then stood on the slope and waved it proudly.

"So, what about their red dragon? I heard..."

The purple particle beam penetrated Tiger's belly cockpit without warning, and took away another Zaku that was in a straight line with him.

Then, the terrified Zeon pilots saw a machine with a unique V-shaped antenna standing on the ground in the distance.

Behind him, even more mobile suits were charging.

"Red Dragon, let me see how much he weighs!"

Seeing that half of the mobile suit's body was dyed red, a Tiger took the lead and jumped, rushing towards the opponent, but the next second, he was pierced into a gourd by the beam rifle, fell to the ground with a thud, and could not get up again.

"Damn beam rifle!"

The Zeon pilots were maneuvering frantically while cursing the Principality's R&D department for not having any usable beam weapons.

But then, when they quickly approached those Jims, they found that the weapons in the latter's hands were also beam weapons.

The entire 3rd Squadron's GMs caused great losses to the Zeon army. When they charged to the vicinity of the GM troops under the firepower of Macharius, dense beams of light lit up again.

In just a moment, half a squadron of Tigers became history.

"Retreat, retreat!"

The Zeon commander turned his machine around and tried to escape without hesitation, but as soon as he turned around, he was stared at by Macharius.

"Want to escape?"

Macharius stopped, aimed his gun, and pulled the trigger.

The particle beam shot out of the muzzle again, accurately penetrating the commander's body.

"Kill them all, leaving no one behind!"

(End of this chapter)