Great Power Heavy Industry: Rise

Chapter 457
Zhong Cheng and his team rushed to Qinglong City, which is more than 1000 kilometers away from Ion Meridian City.

Qinglong City is located near Mount Olympus on the former Tarsis Plateau, and also on the equator of Mars.

The original huge mountain range was destroyed when the asteroid hit Mars, forming the current complex terrain with fragmented and ravines.

Since most of the destroyed mountains were named after the gods in Greek mythology, this plateau mountain was renamed the Twilight Plateau, which means the dusk of the gods.

The Dusk Plateau is the most resource-intensive area on Mars and the largest heavy industry base on Mars. Qinglong City is the central city of this industrial area.

The Mars Defense Force Command and the Federation Army Reserve Command have moved from Meridian City to the underground military base in Qinglong City.

Various institutions in the Mars administrative region and the Mars headquarters of Red Star Company have also moved here.

Azure Dragon City will become the military and administrative center during the war on Mars.

Zhong Cheng came to Qinglong City and immediately held a war mobilization meeting.

Participants included all high-level military and political personnel on Mars, as well as managers of large enterprises headed by Red Star Company.

According to the authorization of the Federal Supreme Command, Zhong Cheng became the supreme military and political head of the Mars administrative region during the war, and was fully responsible for the upcoming war on Mars.

Zhong Cheng stood on the rostrum and looked at the crowd of more than 500 people, everyone's eyes were full of confusion.

Including the cronies who followed him to Mars, no one knows what happened and why they suddenly gave up Yinghuo City and Meridian City.

Only a few people in the Supreme Command know the strategy of luring the enemy deep and forcing the imperial army to fight on Mars.

The asymmetry of information is also a huge disadvantage for the federation compared to the empire.

The empire still has a large number of agents within the federation who can send information to the outside, but the federation knows little about Jupiter, Saturn and the empire-occupied area of ​​the asteroid belt.

Although the composition of the personnel on Mars is relatively simple, and after several years of anti-clandestine work, a large number of high-power radio stations have been cracked, but there are still fish that slip through the net.

Therefore, Zhong Cheng simply explained the current predicament of the Federation. In order to keep the earth, the Martian space fleet had to be withdrawn.

Therefore, the soldiers and civilians of Mars will face the invasion of the Imperial Army alone, stick to Mars, and wait for the future counterattack of the Earth and Ceres Federation Army to completely wipe out the invading enemy.

Zhong Cheng's explanation is reasonable, even if some people still have doubts, it is inconvenient to ask questions.

Subsequently, he announced the establishment of the Mars Wartime Management Committee.

Tian Wen, the current chief executive of the Mars region, was appointed as the deputy director of civil affairs of the management committee, responsible for people's livelihood, military production, and military logistics support during wartime.

Zheng Yilun, Ye Wenhao and other senior leaders of Red Star Company assisted Tian Wencheng in his work.

Appoint Sun Lin, commander of the Mars Defense Force, as the deputy military director of the management committee, responsible for the reorganization and training of all federal troops on Mars.

Zhong Jiao asked Tian Wencheng to promptly implement the evacuation and resettlement of the people according to the plan he issued, and organize military production in cities far away from Meridian City as soon as possible, focusing on the production of white tiger mechs.

The mobilization meeting ended after only half an hour, and Zhong Cheng immediately held a special military meeting.

The meeting was held in the command center of the underground military base in Qinglong City. There were only a dozen people participating in the meeting, including high-level military officers on Mars, Li Shaojie, Chen Yilong and others.

Sun Lin first introduced the current military situation on Mars.

The 13th, 27th, and 38th Mech Armies, which are directly under the federal army's combat sequence, have a total of 50 people. This is the current regular army on Mars.

Although it is a newly formed Mecha Corps, it has completed the corresponding military training and is fully equipped. It can be regarded as the main force of the Federation Army on Mars.

Then there are more than 80 reserve training troops under the Reserve Command of the Mars Federation Army, which have a certain foundation for mecha combat training.

最后是火星防卫军301、302、303、304、305军共25万人，只装备了轻型武器，算是战争期间在联邦火星上的治安部队，战斗力还不如预备役训练部队。

In fact, all these troops have no actual combat experience on the front line. Except for battalion-level and above commanders who are veterans drawn from the front-line troops, 99% of the officers and soldiers are recruits.

The truly combat-capable troops of the Federation are all on the front line of Ceres, and they are elites who have grown up after countless baptisms of blood and fire.

With these new recruits on Mars facing off against the veterans of the Imperial Army, Zhong Cheng completely lost the confidence he had shown at the meeting of the Federation Supreme Command.

But he knew about this situation in advance, which is also an important reason why he had to come to command in person.

Most of the troops on Mars are selected from the employees of the Red Star Company stationed on Mars. He must be responsible for their lives and try to win with the least casualties.

Because Mars was originally one of the most important military production bases of the Federation, the army has a complete range of weapons and equipment and sufficient reserves. Even if the production capacity is lost to the industrial area in the Meridian City area, it can be recovered quickly.

There are still more than 9000 million people on Mars, most of whom are young and middle-aged people, and they are mainly Chinese. There is no problem with the source of troops and the will to fight.

These are the advantages of the federal army fighting on the Martian mainland. How to make use of these advantages to make up for the disadvantage of not having an elite combat force depends on the ability of the commander of the theater.

After listening to the introduction by Sun Lin and others, it was Zhong Cheng's turn to speak.

Because everyone present here is truly trustworthy, he finally revealed his true strategic intentions.

The attendees swept away their slumber and their spirits lifted, expressing that they would not disappoint the Federation's great trust, wipe out the main force of the Imperial Army on Mars, and contribute to the final victory of the war.

Zhong Cheng then made arrangements for the reorganization and deployment of the army.

The 13th, 27th, and 38th Mech Armys kept their formation unchanged, and immediately marched into the outer urban area of ​​Meridian City, deploying in three directions: east, west, and south.

The north of Meridian City is close to Yunmengyang, which is not conducive to the maneuvering and hiding of mecha troops and fighting with large corps, so we give up for the time being.

The three mecha armies each guarded one side, and were divided into companies as combat units, using the factory buildings and underground pipe network in the outer city of Meridian City to block the imperial army.

Focus on guerrilla warfare and avoid reckless fighting. If a large army of the imperial army appears, evacuate the City of Meridian.

Li Shaojie and Chen Yilong assisted in the reorganization of the reserve training unit and formed five new mecha armies, named after the Martian First Army, Second Army, and Fifth Army.

The reserve command expanded the scale of reserve training, and strived to train 300 million mech fighters at the same time.

As for the Mars Defense Force, Zhong Cheng arranged for them to go to the rear cities to maintain social order.

At the same time, Zhong Cheng announced the establishment of the General Staff Headquarters of the Mars Theater, with Deng Jinhai as the chief of staff, and the establishment of the Military Intelligence Bureau of the Mars Theater, with Shi Hanxing and Xu Jiuwen as the directors and deputy directors.

What he is most worried about is that there is no capable general in the Mars Federation Army.

The regiment commanders of the three regular mecha armies are all over 60 years old, and they only sit in this position based on their qualifications. Although they don't look mediocre, they really have no remarkable record.

Including Li Shaojie and Chen Yilong, these high-level generals did not have much actual combat experience.

With the rapid expansion of the Federal Army, coupled with the cruelty of the asteroid belt war, a large number of commanders with actual combat experience fell on the battlefield as soon as they emerged. The entire Federal Army lacks experienced and capable senior commanders.

There is no general in Shu, Liao Hua is the vanguard!

Zhong Cheng has nothing to do about this, he can only hope that the younger generation of generals will grow up as soon as possible on the future battlefield!
(End of this chapter)