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

Chapter 95 Interception
"The Zeon are chasing us!"

"As expected!"

Macharius glanced at the dimming light behind him, then spoke on the communication channel.

"Don't panic, they can't stop us! Just follow the plan!"

"Understood, leave this to me!"

Captain Jung was full of confidence after changing into a new weapon. At this moment, the weapon in the Jim he was driving was not a 100 machine gun, but the same XBR-M-79-07 beam rifle in Macharius's hand. He had been coveting this gun for a long time, but it was a pity that the machine for compressing particles could not be installed on the ship, so he could only fire sixteen rounds with this gun. After that, he had to switch back to the YF100 machine gun.

But for Jung, these sixteen shots were enough!
Then, Jung's Jim stopped moving and controlled the machine to land behind a building.

"Sorry, everyone, for disturbing your slumber!"

Jim then stretched out his fist and punched a hole in the building, and then Captain Jung waited there quietly.

It was not until a few minutes later that hundreds of Zaku 2s rushed across the central axis of the satellite.

"continue!"

Jung did not rush to shoot, but waited for the Zaku group to rush over. When they were almost at the end of the team, he raised his beam rifle and pulled the trigger at the Zaku flying over his head.

"First shot!"

The purple particle beam exploded, and before Zaku's alarm sounded, it pierced through the opponent's body and also penetrated the nuclear fusion reactor inside the machine.

Immediately afterwards, the Milu that exploded swallowed up several nearby Zakus one after another, and the light beam that penetrated the body did not attenuate at all, and even pierced through the transparent interlayer of the satellite in one breath and flew into the depths of space.

Second shot, third shot!
Jung didn't stop for a moment. By the time the Zeon counterattack fire fell near him, he had already killed five Zakus by sneak attack.

"There's a Federation mobile suit behind us!"

"Don't worry about him, just disperse him, don't use the bazooka!"

A captain in charge roared out orders.

The Zeon people were a little restrained at the moment because they could not let the satellite suffer too serious damage, but the Federation Army had no such concerns. Jung operated the GM and moved flexibly through the ruins of the city, leaving the Zeon army's artillery fire behind him. While running, he did not forget to switch to the 100 machine gun and fire a few times, but then Jung found that the other party ignored him.

"Tsk tsk, you really underestimate me!"

Braking, turning, accelerating, all in one go, after putting the machine gun back into his waist, Jung took out the beam rifle again, aimed, locked, fired, and killed with one shot!

Seeing two more Zakus being destroyed by a sneak attack, the furious Zeon commander could only send a squadron to pursue Jung, who turned around and left very decisively upon seeing this.

"Only one squadron? It's up to you, Krini!"

At this moment, Macharius had passed the middle section of the satellite and left the urban area. The river had disappeared under his feet, leaving only the frozen forest and the bright ice crystals solidified on the central axis of the satellite.

When the body moves at high speed, these ice crystals hit the body, making a very slight crackling sound.

"Captain, we've shaken off the Zeon!"

"Don't be careless, those guys will come after us again!"

Pushing at full speed, they soon arrived at the end of the colony satellite. However, what Macharius did not expect was that there was a team of Zaku lying in ambush here.

A Jim was hit by concentrated fire from a 120 machine gun, and then fell down unwillingly with bullet holes all over its body.

But these three Zakus were also targeted by the GM, and the pilots were beaten into a pulp by the machine guns before they even said they were thirsty for Zeon.

"The Zeon have opened a hole in the outer wall!"

"Then these Zakus should be responsible for protecting the Zeon pilots!"

"Go through!"

Macharius said this, and took the lead and flew out of the hole.

Then they saw the huge nuclear pulse engines attached to the terminal of the satellite.

These giants are comparable in size to Magellan's cross-section, and the ion tails they eject are hundreds of meters long.

"Any idea what to do?"

"Know!"

Macharius threw his nuclear bazooka to the closest GM.

"Then, I leave it to you. Blow up as many as you can as quickly as possible, and then retreat!"

"And you, Captain?"

"I'm here, let's have a good fight with those guys!"

Then, the remaining Jims quickly dispersed and began to shoot wildly at the pulse engine closest to them.

The damage of a 100mm machine gun to this big guy is very limited, and the main work still depends on the 280mm rocket launcher. As for the nuclear rocket launcher carried by Macharius, that thing is used to destroy the rocket control room located at the top of the satellite.

At this moment, the Zeon army controlling the rocket here also discovered the Federation Army's attack and hurriedly sent a call for help to Melfield.

"Tell them that reinforcements are on the way. No matter what, the rockets cannot stop!"

Dozle frowned, and he was already beginning to feel uneasy. Whether this operation could be successfully concluded, or even whether the war would end, depended on whether the colonial satellite could successfully destroy the Gaburo base.

Zeon knows this, the Federation knows this, and the Eighth Squadron that is defending the line knows this. At this moment, everyone is fighting desperately!

Macharius saw the Zeon army continuing to approach. The densely packed machines looked like a swarm of locusts, and coupled with the terrifying red single eye, it was chilling to the touch.

The beam rifle was held firmly in the hand by the mechanical arm, the aiming system was online, the fire control was locked, and then Macharius pulled the trigger.

Three Zakus flying at different altitudes but on the same line were all pierced through. Although due to the angle, only the first and second Zakus had their cockpits penetrated, and the third Zaku was only penetrated from head to back, just avoiding the cockpit, but this was enough to scare the Zeon pilot.

Afterwards, the pilot, having lost his will to fight, simply turned around and ran away.

"It's a red dragon!"

In the oncoming beam of light, the Zeon pilots finally saw the identity of the attacker. In the dim light, the black Gundam stood on the outer wall of the satellite.

"Don't panic, he's just one mecha. Everyone, attack and take him down!"

"Come on!"

Immediately, a large number of Zakus launched an attack on the gap while firing machine guns.

But before they could move forward, the falling particle beam would take away a Zaku in the front. After only one kilometer of advancement, Macharius had used up all the ammunition in the beam rifle in his hand and killed eighteen Zakus with sixteen rounds of ammunition.

"He's out of ammunition, charge!"

The Zaku pilots were overjoyed when they saw the prototype Gundam suddenly crush the weapon in its right hand and throw it into space, but the next second, the latter took out another beam rifle from its back.

"Damn it, I can't stand it anymore!"

When the twentieth Zaku lost control and slowly fell in the smoke due to the beam attack, the Zaku pilot who rushed towards the cave entrance screamed and changed the direction of the forward movement of the machine to a dive, even though he was only fifty meters away from the gap in the outer wall of the satellite.

When the Zaku behind him found that he had become the first one, he also let out a scream and then changed direction.

There was one, there were two, there were three, and then more Zakus also withdrew from the gap, only a few machines still stubbornly maintained the momentum of the charge.

"Look at me, you cowards! Long live Zeon!"

A Zaku with a red wolf logo painted on its body drew its heat axe and raised it high. Then, Macharius turned the muzzle of his gun towards him.

"Red Wolf No. 5!" His teammates shouted loudly at the reckless recruit in the communication channel, but sitting in the cabin he felt that time seemed to have entered an extremely slow state. His body was still moving forward, and the light from the opponent's gun muzzle was getting bigger and bigger.

Then, a particle beam shot out like the sword of Damocles and penetrated the cabin of the Zaku, melting the entire cockpit. The boiling molten metal dripped down, and then quickly solidified into metal fragments due to the low temperature, hitting the bodies of teammates.

"Ah ah ah, I'll fight you!"

Another Zaku flew out at the pilot's roar, and was greeted by another fully charged particle beam.

When this Zaku was pierced, it flew out of the gap. Then, the body without the cockpit flew towards Macharius's Gundam. The latter immediately raised his right foot and stepped down, and the Zaku's head monitor was trampled to pieces by his big foot.

"That guy is not a human!"

"We can't beat him!"

While the pilots were shouting in unison, everyone suddenly felt a vibration in the colonial satellite, and then the huge outer wall below the satellite began to twist.

"what's the situation?"

"The Federation has destroyed a pulse rocket!"

"We can't let them blow up anymore. Destroy the other outer walls and get out from there!"

The Zeon commander was already shaking with nervousness. He couldn't imagine what kind of punishment he and all the pilots would have to endure if the action plan was really destroyed. At this moment, he didn't care whether his actions would cause damage to the satellite, and directly ordered the Zaku below to use a rocket launcher to blast the outer wall.

This, in turn, gave Macharius a headache. If there was only this one gap, he could rely on telescopic tactics to defend until the end of time, but now, it was no longer possible!

Seeing the weak spots in the outer walls around him constantly bursting, he could only fire all his beam ammunition at the gap in front of him in one breath, and then jump.

There were still many Zakus gathered at the gap. His attack made these Zeon pilots flee decisively, which allowed the prototype Gundam to easily pass through the enemy's line of fire.

Then, Macharius pulled out his 100mm machine gun. At the gap right in front of him, a Zaku carrying a bazooka came out like a mole. The Zeon pilot was still turning the body to search for the enemy's position, and Macharius's machine gun had already opened fire.

The Zaku's torso twitched continuously due to being hit by bullets, and then it lost control.

After using seven rounds of ammunition to destroy the Zaku, Macharius controlled the body to pull ninety degrees to the right, avoiding a rocket, then turned around and opened fire, and another Zaku that had drilled out of the outer wall and came to the outside of the satellite was hit.

Then, the upper edge of the shield in the prototype Gundam's hand suddenly exploded. The third and fourth Zaku had already rushed out from other positions, firing machine guns in their hands, creating bright sparks on the prototype Gundam's torso.

Macharius then changed the direction of his shield and fired two rockets in succession. Then, he smashed his shield at the gap behind him, where a Zaku was coming out, and his body followed the rockets and pounced on the two Zakus that were firing at him.

The rocket was thrown carelessly without aiming and only hit one Zaku. The other one controlled its body to dodge, but then Macharius's beam saber cut it in half.

Then, the prototype Gundam fell back to the outer wall. At this moment, more than a dozen Zakus had surrounded it, and more Zakus were constantly emerging and rushing towards Jim who was destroying the rocket in the distance.

"It seems that the double swordsman is still the best!"

Macharius took the second saber from his back and flipped the switch.

"So, who comes first?"

"Long live Zeon!"

Zaku rushed up from four directions at the same time, the thermal axes in their hands glowing red, and just a slight touch with the metal turned it into molten iron.

Macharius controlled the machine to stride forward and then suddenly pulled to the right, crashing into the Zaku on the right. He pierced the opponent with the beam saber in his right hand, then he used the Zaku as a shield and kicked it forward.

The two Zakus in front could only use their left shoulders to knock away the wreckage blocking their way, but following behind the wreckage were the bright blades of beam sabers.

After stabbing the Zaku's neck with a knife, Macharius pulled down the operating lever with his left hand, and the saber slashed down vertically, cutting the Zaku in half. Then he blocked the Zaku's axe blade with his right hand, pulled out the saber with his left hand, and chopped it horizontally with his backhand, splitting the second Zaku in half.

At this moment, the axe blade swung by the Zaku behind him fell down and split his space battle backpack.

This immediately caused the prototype Gundam's output to drop significantly.

The Zaku, whose blow failed to hit the vital part, immediately swung out with his left fist, causing the prototype Gundam to stagger. He was about to follow up with an axe, but Macharius forced himself to turn over and blocked the blow with his saber.

"Die, die!"

The Zaku pilot raised his fist again, intending to hit the cabin of the prototype Gundam, but at this time, the satellite shook violently again, causing the Zaku to shake.

Macharius, who was able to dodge the attack, stabbed out with his left hand and ended his opponent's life again.

But after killing them, new Zakus rushed towards him. Macharius could only chop the remains of the Zaku in front of him with a knife, revealing the rice furnace, and then kick the remains behind him and detonate them with a grenade.

However, his body was also easily affected by the explosion, and the antenna and monitor on his head were damaged.

"This time, it's really over!"

After the explosion, the remaining Zakus scattered in order to escape, which allowed Macharius to see the situation in the distance. At this moment, one-third of the rocket engines on the periphery of the colony satellite were destroyed, but this was their limit!
Because the ammunition carried is not enough to completely dismantle the entire engine!

Moreover, at this moment most of the Jims have been besieged by Zaku, and the two sides have engaged in a close-range and desperate fight.

Looking at the Zaku gathering in front of him again, Macharius could only take a deep breath, then took a fighting stance, ready to fight to the last moment, and then, the upper part of the satellite suddenly lit up.

That's the rocket's control center!
However, at this moment, the huge control terminal attached to the outer wall of the colonial satellite has completely disappeared, leaving only large areas of collapsed satellite frames.

Then, a purple light suddenly shot out from under everyone's feet, destroying the two Zakus that were caught off guard.

"Jump down, Clyne!"

"Captain Jung? You're not dead yet?"

"You're not dead yet, so how can I die? Come down, we're retreating!"

Macharius then activated the Gundam's head cannon, suppressing the Zaku's movements with a barrage of bullets, while his saber quickly spun on the outer wall of the satellite, cutting a small gap to allow the machine to pass through.

"Only you?"

"So far, yes!"

Jung's GM quickly dropped all its loads, grabbed Macharius's body and flew back the way it came. The Zeon soldiers, reacting quickly, jumped down and tried to chase after it.

The two sides immediately started racing again. Seeing that his machine was about to be caught up, Macharius could only activate the disengagement function of the cockpit to cast off.

Then, the upper and lower bodies of the prototype Gundam were unanchored and began to separate, leaving only the cockpit to begin to transform. In just a few seconds, the cockpit turned into a small fighter plane.

The body he abandoned was also set to self-destruct mode, which bought him a little time to evacuate.

On the way back, the two men also reunited with the gunboat unit that placed the nuclear bomb. They were not attacked by the Zeon army, but the poor satellite environment still caused casualties in the engineering unit.

Fortunately, the nuclear bombs have been installed. Next, we just need to wait until everyone reunites with the Eighth Detachment, and the mission will be over.

"Our mission has failed!"

When Dozle, who was on the Melfield, heard that the Eighth Fleet, with only seven ships left, began to break out, he breathed a sigh of relief as if he had finally given up.

"Sir, why, we're almost there!"

"The Federation Army destroyed the satellite's engine and control terminal. The satellite's trajectory has deviated and it can no longer hit Gaburo!"

"Order the fleet to retreat, let's prepare to evacuate!"

Dozle looked at the blue earth below the porthole, then raised his right hand and made a toasting gesture.

"Congratulations, you won your second time!"

Dozle's words were naturally addressed to Macharius. He also knew the other party's combat performance. As a soldier, Dozle felt sincere admiration from the bottom of his heart at this moment.

"I hope you can keep winning next time!"

(End of this chapter)