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Chapter 462 Mars Defense War (3)

XNUM X Year X NUM X Month.

The southern theater of the Imperial Army has expanded to the Antarctic Plateau, and the forwards of the Eastern Theater have reached the Great Sytis Plateau.

The western theater where the imperial army is mainly attacking has completely occupied the Pearl Terrace, Luna Plateau, and Solis Plateau, and entered the Dusk Plateau.

The forward troops are less than 500 kilometers away from Qinglong City, the wartime capital of Mars Federation.

The empire's occupied area on Mars exceeds 2000 million square kilometers, and half of Mars is already in its pocket.

And the federal army has been driven to a dead end. If the Antarctic Plateau, the Great Setis Plateau, and the Dusk Plateau fall again, the Federation will only have a few large plains left, and there is no danger to defend.

1 month 1 day.

On the first day of the new year in 2047, Azure Dragon City was shrouded in the shadow of war.

Government agencies and people on Mars are evacuating urgently, and tens of thousands of federal mech fighters are building fortifications in the city.

There were more federal troops and the people going in the opposite direction, marching into Azure Dragon City from all directions, turning this industrial city into a military camp.

In the command center of the underground military base, Zhong Cheng convened a combat meeting involving officers above the corps level of the Mars Federation Army.

Most of the more than 100 generals of the federal army who participated in the meeting were very young, and they were the new generation of generals who grew up during the nearly two years of war.

The tense situation on the ground did not affect the excitement of the participants, because Zhong Cheng, the supreme commander of the Martian Federation Army, announced good news.

The federal army will shift from strategic defense to strategic offensive. The battle to defend Mars and even the first solar system war has entered a turning point. The offensive and defensive forces between the Federation and the Empire have changed.

On the battlefield of Mars, the Imperial Army, which seems to have the upper hand, is at the end of its battle.

On the surface, the 800 million Imperial Army is a large number of people, but excluding the troops stationed in more than 200 large and small cities, there are less than 300 million troops that can really attack.

And after these two years of war, the Imperial Army suffered more than 100 million casualties on Mars, and now more than half of the recruits in the Imperial Mars Expeditionary Force.

On the other hand, the Mars Federation Army has expanded from 50 regular troops before the war to 500 million, and its combat capabilities are no longer what it used to be.

Although it is still not as good as the most elite guard regiment composed of genetic soldiers in the imperial army, the gap has been significantly narrowed, and compared with other regiments of the imperial army, it is slightly better.

At present, there are 25 Guards Corps of the Imperial Army, numbered about 350 million, and there are 200 Guards Corps in the Mars theater, with more than [-] million people.

Over four years of war, the Federal Army wiped out more than 300 million genetic soldiers in three theaters, resulting in no significant increase in the overall number of genetic soldiers in the empire.

The advantage of the Imperial Army over the Federation Army has been greatly weakened, and the Federation Army has the upper hand in the Ceres and Earth theaters.

Especially in the Earth theater, the Imperial Space Fleet could never eliminate the Federation Fleet.

The battle in the outer space of the earth is due to the supply difficulties of the imperial army, and the situation of the federal army is getting stronger and stronger, and the situation of the imperial army is getting more and more difficult.

At present, the space fleet of the Imperial Army has retreated to space 500 million kilometers away from the earth, which can only prevent the connection between the earth, Mars, and Ceres.

The Federal Supreme Command has decided to launch a strategic counter-offensive in the Mars theater in January this year, to contain the main force of the Imperial Army's mecha forces on Mars and prevent them from reinforcing other theaters.

Then the federal fleet in the Earth theater will launch a war of annihilation against the imperial blockade fleet to open up the communication between the earth and Mars.

The Earth Federation Fleet will come to Mars again to solve the Imperial Mars Fleet, cut off the retreat of the Imperial Mars Expeditionary Force, and achieve the strategic goal of completely annihilating the Imperial Mars Expeditionary Force.

Thereby driving the Imperial Army out of the inner region of the solar system and kicking off the prelude to the Federation's recovery of the lost ground in the asteroid belt.

The key to this strategic counter-offensive lies in the Mars theater, and its success or failure depends on the victory of the strategic decisive battle between the Mars Federation Army and the Imperial Mars Expeditionary Force.

Zhong Cheng decided to put the first battle of the strategic counter-offensive on the Twilight Plateau where Qinglong City is located.

The Dusk Plateau is the most important industrial base of the Federation on Mars, rich in mineral resources. If the Dusk Plateau is lost, the Federation's existing military production on Mars will face a shortage of raw materials.

The Twilight Plateau is backed by the Amazon Plain, the largest agricultural reclamation area on Mars, and is the main evacuation site for the 9000 million people on Mars.

There is nothing to lose in the evening plateau!

Moreover, the dusk plateau is densely covered with mountains and ravines. It is the most complex terrain on Mars, which is very conducive to the operations of the federal army who are familiar with the terrain.

The million-strong army deployed by the imperial army on the eastern edge of the evening plateau was Zhong Cheng's planned first attack target.

The time to launch the attack is scheduled for January 2047, 1, the New Year's Eve, which marks the end of the old year and the beginning of the new year.

The top leaders of the Mars Federation Army, led by Zhong, are full of confidence that they will win!
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At this time, the senior officials of the Imperial Mars Expeditionary Force in Meridian City were also full of confidence in victory.

The war on Mars lasted for such a long time, and the scale developed to such an extent that it completely exceeded the expectations of the high-level empire.

Mars has become a bottomless pit, filling most of the main force of the Imperial Army, leaving the Imperial Army empty in the theaters of Ceres and Earth, and losing its war initiative in these two theaters.

But fortunately, all this is coming to an end. With the full support of the Empire, the Imperial Army has achieved an overwhelming advantage on Mars.

There are only the last three areas of the plateau and mountains where the federal army hides, and as long as they break through any one of these three areas, the imperial army can drive straight into the vast plain area.

At that time, the federal people on Mars will have nowhere to escape, and they will become the weakness of the Martian federal army and be forced to come out to a decisive battle with the imperial army.

Although the combat effectiveness of the Mars Federation Army has improved, it is still vulnerable to the Imperial Army with the same number and even an advantage.

Paul seemed to have seen that he had wiped out the main force of the Mars Federation Army, and Zhong Cheng had no choice but to admit defeat. He was commended by the Emperor of the Empire, and Mars was handed over to him as his exclusive territory.

He didn't want to waste any more time. At the military meeting of the expeditionary force, he announced his goal of ending the war on Mars this year.

In the three attack directions, he chose the evening plateau in the west as a breakthrough point.

The Dusk Plateau is the closest to Meridian City, only over 500 kilometers away, while the other two front lines are both [-] kilometers away.

The first attack on the Twilight Plateau can get rapid reinforcements from the strategic reserve team of the Imperial Army in Meridian City.

In addition, the Dusk Plateau is currently the most important industrial base of the Federation Army. Attacking or occupying the Dusk Plateau will completely destroy the war potential of the Martian Federation Army.

In order to ensure the advantage in the direction of the main attack, Paul ordered most of the main army in the Antarctic Plateau and the Great Sirtis Plateau to withdraw to the Meridian Plateau.

These main forces will be merged into the strategic reserve of the Imperial Army stationed on the Meridian Plateau. Once the Dusk Plateau is breached, they will follow the main forces of the Western Theater and enter the Amazon Great Plains.

The headquarters of the Imperial Mars Expeditionary Force set the time for the end of January. As soon as the 1 million strategic reserves are assembled, the 300 million Western Theater Imperial Army will launch a full-scale attack on the evening plateau.

Paul believes that this will be a disaster for the Martian Federation Army.

Without knowing each other, the Federation and the Empire set the Twilight Plateau as the main battlefield of the decisive battle.

Millions of troops from both sides gathered, and there will be the largest battle in the history of human warfare!

(End of this chapter)