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

Chapter 51 The bright sunshine is only in the past

"That comfortable sofa chair, the warm checkered carpet, and the trigger that wasn't pulled in time!"

The leading convoy of Zeon armored vehicles, which were speeding at full speed, opened the rear passenger hatch. Then, Zeon trainees, carrying small rocket-propelled flight backpacks and holding anti-tank bazookas, jumped out from behind the vehicles. The two nozzles of the backpacks ignited, releasing blue tail flames, propelling the Zeon trainees into the sky.

“Sunny days only exist in dazzling dreams!”

The mortar unit commanded by Kalma quickly entered the firing position. The artillerymen began to adjust the firing angle of the artillery and calculate the firing data. At the same time, mortar shells were taken out from the ammunition racks.

"My blood type is on my cuff!"

The Type 61 tank, which had been lying dormant for a long time in the pre-dug shooting bunker, slowly turned its huge twin turret. The fire control channel on the top of the turret began to measure the distance to the shooting target. At the same time, the fire control computer also told the operation to calculate the shooting trajectory!
"The title of the military officer is written on my lapel!"

The Zeon scouts were extremely puzzled when they saw only a few lights on in the Federation Army base and no signs of human activity. They could only break the radio silence and report to the rear.

But when he was adjusting the frequency, he heard someone singing.

Although curious, the scout quickly jumped across the channel and reported his findings.

"Oh, maybe the federal army is also on martial law!"

Char, flying in the sky, looked at the nearby Federal Army base and felt uneasy. However, the arrow was on the string and had to be shot. He could only comfort himself that it was probably because the Federal Army had transferred its combat forces to Zim City, causing the Federal Army in the camp to put away their usual lax appearance.

After completing all the preparations before the shooting, Kalma, who was standing on the command vehicle, grabbed the communicator in his hand and was about to give orders to all vehicles when he was interrupted by the guard beside him.

"Mr. Karma, someone is singing on the radio!"

“Who violated the rules?”

Karma was already nervous at the moment, and now she was even more angry. The Zeon student next to her turned on the radio.

"Wish me good luck in battle! Wish me:"

"Who is this?"

While Kalma was still wondering who this slightly familiar voice belonged to, the door of the command vehicle was opened.

"Mr. Karma, should we open fire?"

"emission!"

"Don't get lost in this wilderness!"

While humming lowly, Kalma swung his right hand fiercely. Then, the unique dull sound of mortar firing came from outside the car, drowning out the singing coming from the radio.

"Don't stay in this wasteland!"

Dozens of 120mm mortar shells then drew curves in the air and fell towards the pitch-black federal army base. The next second, the camp centered on the headquarters building was engulfed in flames!
"Please bless me in battle!"

The Zeon army's artillery observer was still craning his neck to check where the shells would land when he suddenly heard a rumbling sound behind him.

"What are these people doing? Why are they firing before I even calibrated my aim?"

He turned his head and saw a bright fireball lighting up on the artillery position not far away!

"what happened?"

Kalma at the firing position looked towards the edge of the position, where there used to be a 120mm self-propelled heavy mortar, but now the vehicle had disappeared, replaced by crackling flames and a huge crater.

"What happened to car 6-3?"

"I don't know, it should be a burst."

Before the friendly soldiers at the adjacent gun position could finish their words, they saw a flash of light on the distant horizon. Then, two spots of light that produced obvious white light due to friction with the air flew over with a roar.

"Damn it!"

Then, there was another violent explosion. The double armor-piercing shells fired from the 61a2 tanks directly and mercilessly crushed the vehicle loaded with shells. The violent explosion even made other Zeon soldiers hundreds of meters away feel the earth trembling. The violent shock wave rushed in all directions with heat waves.

"Enemy attack! MBT!"

At this moment, someone finally noticed the Red Dragon No. 1 firing in the distance, and the response to the other side's heart-wrenching shouts was the third round of artillery fire!

"How is that possible? The federal army has an ambush!"

Kalma, who was in the command vehicle, was stunned. The binoculars in his hand fell to the ground at some point. It was not until the third mortar vehicle exploded and the strong smell of gunpowder choked him that he finally reacted.

"Change the shooting coordinates, quick, quick! Kill that guy!"

"There's only one enemy vehicle. Where's the anti-tank team?"

The Zeon trainees were also elites, and they responded quickly to the surprise attack. The artillery vehicles that were originally used to bombard the Federation base immediately turned around and prepared to concentrate fire. At the same time, more than a dozen wheeled armored vehicles guarding the artillery also started up, carrying a small number of anti-tank teams, and rushed towards the Federation tanks that had just opened fire.

"Please bless me in battle!"

The roaring mortars landed all around Red Dragon No. 1. The shock wave blew away the camouflage on the tank, and the fragments hit the tank armor, making a clanging sound.

But this weak attack could not shake the tank at all. As Macharius hummed, the tank's engine roared, and the wide tracks creaked, then rolled over the shaking grass on the ground. The tank's turret slowly turned towards the armored convoy under the illumination of the fire, and then a 150mm gun spewed out a ball of fire!
A Zeon armored vehicle was traveling at high speed when an armor-piercing discarding sabot round, commonly known as a steel needle, hit it head-on. Under the huge kinetic energy, the fragile armor of the armored vehicle was easily pierced like a piece of scratch paper. Then, the unbroken bullet passed directly through the driver, taking away the driver behind him. Finally, it passed through the rear armor of the armored vehicle without any hindrance and flew into the mud.

The armored vehicle staggered forward like a drunk office worker for dozens of meters before stopping. Then, the rear passenger door fell down, and several Zeon trainees with their faces covered in a mixture of flesh and blood rushed out of the vehicle.

After firing the first shot, Macharius quickly turned the turret towards the second target he had already locked onto, and then fired the second shot into the target's hull.

This vehicle was also easily penetrated, but the bullet core shattered upon penetrating the target, and a large amount of metal fragments ripped through the bodies of everyone in the vehicle like countless flying knives. After the second armored vehicle was destroyed, the first gun just finished reloading and then, without hesitation, pointed the muzzle at the third vehicle.

"They're being slaughtered!"

Kalma could only watch through the telescope as the armored vehicles fired their machine guns in vain at the tanks. Their mortars could not catch up with the enemy at all. The latter's flexible movement trajectory suddenly made him tremble.

"Is there any marking on that car?"

"I can't see, it's too dark! I can't see anything!"

While his men were trying hard to fire at the enemy, the mortar vehicle deployed by Kalma in another direction was also destroyed.

"What's going on? How many enemies are there?"

"We've only seen two MBTs (main battle tanks) so far!"

"Damn it!"

Karma's heart sank at this moment. He couldn't believe what the outcome would be if his side failed.

And Macharius's massacre continues!
After firing the seventh shot, Macharius's tank finally approached the remaining armored vehicles of the Zeon army, and the enemy gunner finally saw the logo on the turret clearly when the enemy ran over the burning wreckage of the friendly army.

"It's a red dragon, it's a red dragon!"

Amidst hysterical shouts, the gunner pressed the gun button firmly, and the armored vehicle's 20mm gun immediately began to fiercely fire at the main armor position of the Type 61. Under the rapid shooting, the barrel of the automatic gun quickly began to heat up and turned red.

Jets and sparks splashed in all directions on the armor plate, but the opponent seemed to not care at all. It gave up firing and just rammed forward mercilessly.

Then, under Kalma's gaze, the huge body of the Type 61 ruthlessly ran over the body of the armored vehicle, turning it into a pile of metal garbage.

"What's going on? Why are the Red Dragons here? Didn't they go to Zim City?"

Karma's singing finally rang out at this moment. Why did he feel that the singing voice was familiar?
"Why is that Macharius here?"

But no one could answer Karma's question anymore.

At this time, the last two Zeon armored vehicles suddenly rushed out from the left and right sides of the hillside at the same time. Moving with them were more than a dozen infantrymen. These Zeon trainees were the last anti-vehicle force in Karma's hands. As for the others, they were either dead or injured, or had lost their anti-tank rockets and could only watch the tanks' actions helplessly.

"Kill him, kill him, kill him!"

The drivers of the two armored vehicles had already stepped on the accelerator, and the front ends of the vehicles were pointed directly and neatly at Red Dragon No. 1, as if they were ready to hit it.

But Macharius didn't care about the two armored vehicles at all. He knew that the latter's firepower could not cause any damage to him. Even if the missile on the turret was damaged, he still had spare or even mechanical ones to use.

On the contrary, the anti-tank rockets used by the infantry can cause damage to the lower front and side rear of the Type 61.

So, he simply fired two explosive bombs at the infantry that appeared!

Those brave Zeon trainees didn't even have time to set up their bazookas before they were swept by shrapnel and fell down in large numbers. They had just jumped off the armored vehicles and had no time to deploy their weapons.

Then, in order to prevent someone from pretending to be dead and launching a sneak attack, Macharius even used two vehicle-mounted machine guns to fire another burst of bullets at the fallen targets.

This sweep actually made a Zeon trainee who had his leg broken by shrapnel and was unable to move sit up. He wanted to play dead and wait for the tank to pass by before shooting, but he didn't expect that the flesh and blood torn by the bullets would splatter on his face first.

So he struggled to sit up, grabbed the rocket launcher beside him and prepared to fire, but the next second, a shell hit his position!
After the explosion, there was nothing on the ground except a steaming crater.

At this moment, the Zeon army's armored vehicle had already crashed into them, but what the driver didn't expect was that when they were about to collide, the tank suddenly braked suddenly. It was too late for the driver to avoid it, and he could only watch his own people collide with each other.

"Red Dragon No. 2, how are things going over there?"

"Destroying them, the enemy artillery has lost its ability to strike!"

The ones launching the sneak attack on Kalmar from far away on the other side were naturally Andre's tanks. Because of Macharius attracting attention, all the mortar vehicles turned their vulnerable backs towards Andre. So, the latter, in his own bunker, easily cleared all the targets in front of him as if he were shooting. Now, there was only the blazing flames and the crackling sound of explosions.

"Mr. Karma, go!"

Several guardsmen, covered in blood and even with their clothes stained with smoke and fire, desperately pulled Kalma down the hillside. The latter was shocked by the huge loss of his men and lost the ability to speak and move. All his vehicles were destroyed in just a few minutes. Of the hundreds of cadets he brought with him, only less than a few dozen were left, and the number was still decreasing rapidly.

"Go find Char!"

At this moment, the survivors of the SS didn't know what to do. They only knew that this was a trap. The federal army had planned everything long ago and even knew that the cadets would launch a sneak attack, so they set up an ambush here and used only the cross fire of two tanks to wipe out all their heavy firepower.

The only thing they can count on now is the vanguard led by Char. The other side should still have some armored vehicles available, enough to evacuate them from the battlefield!

However, when these students, in a panic, climbed over the hill in front of them under the cover of the continuous sound of artillery fire from behind them and were able to see the federal army base, they found that there was also the roar of artillery fire there.

"The vanguard led by Char shouldn't have that much heavy firepower, right?"

"Maybe it's captured Federal Army equipment!"

Several people comforted themselves in this way, but they knew in their hearts that what they encountered was a carefully prepared ambush, so how could Char be unprepared?

"No no no! No!"

After climbing to a position where they could see the main gate of the base, the Guards cadets could not wait to use binoculars to search for their own people, but all they saw were the flaming wreckage of their own wheeled armored vehicles and the bodies of Zeon cadets scattered on the ground.

As for the fighting inside the base, it was concentrated in one building. Obviously, the last vanguard had been surrounded there at this moment. The sound of gunfire was the federal army fighting its final battle.

"What should we do now?"

　To be honest, Karma still can't die, mainly because if she doesn't say the line "You plotted against me" it won't have the same flavor.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)