"Break through them, charge!"
Zeon soldiers, clad in green military uniforms matching the Zaku's colors, advanced rapidly behind the tanks, gripping their mobile rifles.
The militias of Iphix Island were utterly unable to stop them.
Especially after the heavy armored fire had swept through, the militiamen who survived in the ruins hadn't even begun to counterattack.
The professionally trained Zeon soldiers had already cleared the area with lightning speed.
Whether it was grenades thrown into corners.
Or precise marksmanship.
And their coordination with the armored units, the Zeon soldiers completely overwhelmed these militiamen who had only held guns for less than three days.
"Let's fight them to the death!"
A militiaman in a work uniform rushed out of his hiding room with a rifle, but before he could aim at them.
Tat-tat-tat...
Intense gunfire erupted from the Zeon soldiers.
Outside the window, the humanoid weapon, the Green Zaku, was stepping forward, its heavy footsteps echoing on the road.
The broken glass in the window rattled.
Its 120mm rapid-fire machine gun had a drum magazine with about 100 rounds.
The power of this thing was on par with a tank's main cannon.
On the street behind the building.
A group of militiamen with shoulder-fired rocket launchers nervously watched the road ahead; the Zaku's shadow was already approaching.
Soon... it would be here soon.
A refined man with neatly combed hair, wearing a suit and glasses, wiped sweat from his forehead.
He nervously gripped the side handle of the rocket launcher.
From his appearance, he seemed to be a senior executive of a large company, but at this moment, they were just a group of militiamen desperately trying to stop the Zeon forces.
"They're here!!!"
The militiaman in front shouted loudly: "Everyone, brace yourselves! Let those Zeon bastards know what we're capable of!"
"If we can't stop them, our wives, our children, everyone we cherish will die!"
"Let's do it!"
A group of men who still had the courage to stand there said nothing; the unbearable cost had already driven them mad.
They had no other choice.
Either wait for death.
Or fight to the death here!
"Let's go!"
The militiamen with shoulder-fired rocket launchers immediately shouldered their weapons and ran forward, just ahead, the Zaku's heavy footsteps thudded down, its green super-tensile steel armor.
Appeared so heavy in the morning sun.
"Fire!!!!"
Amidst the leading militiaman's hoarse roar, the other militiamen also aimed their rocket launchers at the Zaku in front of them.
"Die, Zeon!!!"
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...
More than a dozen rockets, with scorching tail flames, flew through the air and then impacted the Zaku.
Booming explosions erupted one after another.
The explosive shockwaves swept through, making the militiamen holding rocket launchers unsteady, and the smoke from the explosions was thick.
Making the militiamen cough as they looked up.
The smoke had not yet dispersed.
Someone asked bewilderedly: "Did we succeed?"
A cross-shaped red light appeared in the explosive smoke, not a red light, but an eye! It was the Zaku's red cyclops eye!
"Hahahahaha, a bunch of bugs, watch me crush you!"
In the Zaku's cockpit.
Lieutenant Jansi, piloting the Zaku, pushed the control stick fiercely, a ferocious grin on his grim face.
Outside, the unscathed Zaku waved its large hand, instantly tearing the lingering explosive smoke to shreds.
The militiamen holding rocket launchers were stunned.
Their faces were pale, their pupils dilated, and cold sweat frequently broke out on their foreheads. Was this a monster they could stop?
"Die!"
Amidst Lieutenant Jansi's sneer, the Zaku lifted its right leg and swept it across the ground as if stepping on bugs.
The sturdy road was crushed by the immense power.
The militiamen didn't even let out a final scream; they became bloody pulp mixed with rubble and debris.
The Zaku turned and continued its advance.
There was a heavy machine gun position in the distance, sweeping the area from hundreds of meters away. Lieutenant Jansi in the cockpit sneered.
The Zaku raised its 120mm machine gun, its scope aimed in that direction. Lieutenant Jansi watched the crosshairs on the screen align and immediately pressed the fire button.
The gun body vibrated, and bullets shot from the muzzle.
Flying directly towards the heavy machine gun position, with a bang, the position and the building behind it were pierced through.
"Hahahahaha."
"This is the power of the Principality of Zeon, this is the military might that conquers the universe! All you inferiors, die!"
Lieutenant Jansi laughed wildly, pushing the control stick to make the Zaku continue its advance. The screen next to him suddenly lit up.
It was Qiao Jie, Warrant Officer, the pilot of another Zaku.
An old-fashioned soldier with a rigid personality.
"Lieutenant Jansi, according to the operational plan, we are to destroy all their strongholds. I believe we have already defeated them, shouldn't we allow them to surrender?"
"Surrender? Sorry, I haven't received such an order. The order I received is to completely eliminate the enemies of the Principality of Zeon, completely eliminate them!"
Lieutenant Jansi directly cut off the communication.
He didn't understand these old-fashioned soldiers. Such a good opportunity to earn military merits, and they still want to let them go? What a joke.
They were going to completely clear Iphix Island!
On the other side...
Suli was dispatching personnel to organize the second line of defense. Zeon's breakthrough capability was too strong; from entry to combat.
Less than an hour.
The entire docking pier area had fallen.
If they continued at this speed, it wouldn't take 12 hours, but 7 hours for them to sweep Iphix Island clean.
Although there were also counterattacks from Iphix Island's militiamen.
The damage caused and the losses on the other side were almost negligible; the casualty rate was 67 to 1.
Ignoring civilian losses, the casualties among the militiamen were too heavy.
Without heavy firepower suppression, it was purely suicide.
But their only heavy firepower would also be suppressed by those two Zakus, getting instantly eliminated if they showed their heads.
Survival time less than three minutes.
To hold out for 24 hours was as difficult as ascending to heaven.
Their existing firepower could only inflict casualties on Zeon's landing soldiers; against armored units, it was useless.
No matter how they calculated, they would lose.
It was like a simple rock-paper-scissors game; when you lack one countermeasure, you will be crushed alive.
The only way to break the deadlock.
Was the Zaku!
Suli looked at the images transmitted from the fallen docking pier, clearly seeing the massive humanoid war machine.
The most advanced technological design at the time.
Before the appearance of the first Gundam, the Zaku was the strongest, especially Dr. Minovsky's design, the ultra-compact thermonuclear reactor, which directly broke through the limitations of the Zaku's design.
From an engineering mechanical device, it became a god of war on the battlefield.
Especially this model of Zaku.
MS-06 F, Zaku II.
This was absolutely the most classic model, and also the most widely equipped basic Zaku model in the Zeon army.
Above this model was the Commander type.
Especially in the early stages of the One Year War.
At this time, Zakus were built to fight warships; their weapons were designed for large warships.
Especially small nuclear missile rocket launchers.
Suli saw very clearly that the weapons carried by these two Zakus were both 120mm machine guns, two spare drum magazines, and a Heat Hawk hanging from their side, with no other weapons.
It was pretty much as he had expected.
The Zeon wanted a complete Colony Satellite, so they would not destroy the Colony Satellite's ecological outer shell.
Which was the bottle-shaped structure.
This was their only chance to resist.
Suli looked at the two Zakus; he had to seize one. As long as he could seize one, he could stabilize the situation.
At least Zeon's armored offensive would completely collapse.
Without the breakthrough capability of armored units.
Zeon's soldiers could only fight in urban warfare, holding them back!
"Commander, the spaceship you requested has arrived!"
A young man ran over quickly, pointing to the three unpainted passenger ships behind him.
They looked like Zeppelin airships.
Because they were passenger ships, they had a thin skin and large internal space design; these things probably couldn't even withstand a single 120mm shot.
But this was all the capital they had.
Suli looked at the spaceship, using "Instant World" to recalculate the plan he had just given.
The success rate was high, at least better than other plans.
The rest was up to fate.
"Duo Gang! Operation Twin Dragon, activate!"
Suli shouted into the communicator. On the other side, Duo Gang Smith, temporarily named Commander of the defense corps.
The burly man was so excited he almost beat his chest when he heard the news, "Commander, don't worry, even if I, Duo Gang, die here, I will never hold back."
"If the plan isn't completed, you can't die!"
Suli loudly added: "You must tie down one Zaku. This is the core of the plan, understand?"
"Understood!"
"I will have people help you." Suli looked at the sky, the glass wall slowly rotating, dawn had broken.
"Gentlemen, fight to the death! Use your blood and corpses to open a path to survival for those behind you. Face sacrifice!"
"Yes!!!"
Duo Gang Smith hung up the phone, his eyes tightly closed, his robust body seemed to bear a thousand pounds of weight, he had to carry it.
Behind him were the remaining three thousand-plus volunteer soldiers.
Their purpose here was only one.
Their death could win their families a ticket to leave here alive, though hope was slim.
But if they didn't try, there would be no hope at all.
Zeon would not give them any chance.
Duo Gang opened his eyes, determined. He turned to face the three thousand-plus warriors, taking a deep breath.
"Everyone, I am not a brave person. I am also afraid, I am scared to death, but I know that if everyone is so afraid, if everyone avoids fighting, in the end, everyone will die."
"There must be a fool who stands up to be the first one, even if it means getting battered and bruised, we cannot stop our belief in survival. Only then can we have a chance to live!"
"I have already explained the mission and the plan. We must attract Zeon's armored units, become bait, become that stubborn fool, firmly attract Zeon's forces. We are the bait!
"Many of us here will die, or we will be completely wiped out, but our sacrifice will not be in vain!
"There is another militia unit. They will counterattack the docking pier while we are attracting the armored units. They will fight Zeon's landing forces."
"Only this way can we buy time. We must let those Zeon bastards know that we are not animals to be slaughtered at will; we will make them bleed!"
Duo Gang raised his arm and shouted hoarsely: "Move out!!!"