Two guards dragged the heavily wounded and unconscious Commander Kote into a shop that was half-destroyed by an explosion. It was relatively secluded here, but definitely not a place to stay long. The older guard pressed Kote's chest in vain, trying to wake him, but Kote was unresponsive, his breathing weak and rapid, with bloody foam seeping from the corners of his mouth.
The younger guard anxiously stood by the broken window, vigilantly looking out. The sounds of explosions from various parts of the city and the increasingly close hum of aircraft engines were like a death knell.
"Damn it! Command is gone! All channels are jammed! We can't contact anyone!" The younger guard's voice carried a hint of despair. "They're everywhere! We can't break through with the Commander!"
The older guard wiped sweat and dust from his face, his eyes sweeping over Kote's blood-stained armor and pale face, then looking at the flaming streets outside. He made a difficult decision. "Listen, kid," his voice was hoarse but unusually calm. "Staying here is waiting to die. Use the flare gun! Get everyone to us."
The younger guard pulled out Kote's flare gun and fired a shot directly into the sky. The New Mandalorians fighting in various locations saw the flare and rushed over, but the Death Watch also discovered the signal and intended to silence them.
When Obi-Wan and Satine finally emerged from the underground pipe network, the sight before them was somewhat reassuring.
Omen was directing the remaining people onto viking fighters and the new wraith fighters, all preparing to take off to support Command. The kuat-class had already gone ahead directly.
"Duchess, we have prepared a ship for you to evacuate Sundari first," Omen reported, stepping forward.
"First, send someone to contact Commander Kote, have him command the current battlefield and launch a counterattack. This raid is their conspiracy, but their manpower is not enough to control it. Their fundamental goal is to kill me," Satine fully understood the current situation.
"Understood, Duchess, but please evacuate Sundari first. We will contact you once it's safe," Omen said, pointing to the republic consular-class cruiser that Qui-Gon and his companions had arrived in.
"Let's go, we can also divert some of their attention now," Obi-Wan said, grabbing Satine and leaving.
Subsequently, Satine and her companions piloted the republic consular-class cruiser away from Sundari.
Meanwhile, Omen's viking squad had already reached the airspace above Command, transforming directly into mech mode and beginning to strafe from above, while the brand-new wraith fighter squad was in stealth mode.
"Reached standard position, ready to attack at any time," Seko, the leader of the wraith squad, reported to Omen.
"Fire!" Omen shouted, fighting the Death Watch on the ground.
"Understood! Wraith squad, attack!" Seko directly maneuvered the fighter, and the missiles mounted on the wraith fighter directly blew up the kuat-class fighters on the ground and those providing air support.
The explosion's flash directly stunned all the Death Watch. "Who is it!"
"They have stealth fighters!"
"Retreat! Quickly retreat!"
"Their reinforcements have arrived!"
"We can't hold against those transforming mechs!"
With the arrival of the New Mandalorian reinforcements, the several hundred Death Watch members were completely overwhelmed. Inside Command, Qui-Gon, seeing the rescue arrive, led the surviving warriors from Command to rush out and fight alongside them. Many other squads from outside had already returned near Command to counterattack.
The Death Watch squads sent to attack the flare discovered Kote and his two guards and immediately began firing at them. At this moment, Kote gradually regained some consciousness.
"Lissa, you take care of the side, I'll handle these few here. We absolutely cannot let them take Commander Kote away."
"Understood, Big Brother Bart." The young guard called Lissa peeked out, holding his Wester-35, and returned fire at the enemies, while Bart also engaged in a counterattack.
The Death Watch directly threw grenades from the air, attempting to kill them, but at this moment, Kote also woke up. He directly controlled The Force with both hands, stopping the grenades in mid-air, then violently sent them back the way they came.
"You damn people, it seems you dispersed us to assassinate my Cousin," Kote's head was buzzing, but he had mostly figured it out even in his dazed state. After all, dealing with those bounty hunters earlier was too easy, which had made him a bit overconfident, so this time his carelessness almost cost him his life, but thankfully he was wearing armor.
Only four members of the Death Watch squad survived; the rest, unable to dodge, were directly killed by the explosion. But just as they landed and prepared to counterattack, attacks from behind blew up their flight packs, followed by a hail of gunfire that killed them. It turned out that other squads had arrived and were attacking from the rear.
"Kray Squad and Honkar Squad reporting in," the two squads reported as they came before Kote.
"Commander Kote, you're awake!" Bart shouted happily.
"Never mind that for now, is there any news of Command or the Duchess?" Kote quickly asked the two squad leaders who had arrived.
"Commander, all communications have been jammed by them, and look in the direction of Command," Kray said, handing Kote a pair of binoculars.
Taking the binoculars, Kote looked towards Command, only to see his wraith squad fighting kuat-class fighters in the sky, while Command itself was billowing black smoke.
"This is a great opportunity, a chance to wipe them out completely! Now, all of us, launch a full-scale assault on their last stronghold!" Kote mounted a Balutar-class swoop bike. "Get on, quick battle!" Kote urged Lissa to quickly get on behind him.
The members of the other squads also mounted their swoop bikes and sped towards the last Death Watch stronghold in the city.
"Commander, what's our plan!" Bart shouted, riding his swoop bike at top speed, asking Kote.
"No plan. Improvise and destroy them with all kinds of weapons!"
"Understood, sir," the other two dozen Mandalorians responded. As they got closer to the Death Watch stronghold, they discovered other New Mandalorian squads and had them join in the attack on the Death Watch stronghold.
Finally, they assembled into three platoons of over ninety people. Looking from the not-so-large building, they could clearly see a Death Watch camp with only a few dozen people, and very weak defenses, with only four mounted machine guns guarding the gate and a few patrolling Death Watch soldiers.
"Are those them returning?" A patrolling Death Watch soldier watched the forty-odd swoop bikes rapidly approaching.
Another pulled out binoculars, took a look, and immediately shouted, "Enemy attack! New Mandalorians are counterattacking!"
"Doesn't that mean everyone who went out is dead!"
The remaining Death Watch members quickly began to move into battle positions.
"For Mandalore!"
Charge!
Forty-odd swoop bikes, engines at full throttle, power pushed to the limit! They were no longer mere vehicles but had transformed into steel beasts flying close to the ground.
"Open fire! Suppress their firing points!" Kote roared while speeding, at the same time leaning slightly forward and pressing the firing button on the grip with his right thumb.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh—!
30 adavance chapter is available in patreon
1 day 1 chapter available both patreon and webnovel
patreon.com/Lempil
patreon.com/Lempil