Great Power Heavy Industry: Rise

Chapter 476 The Vanishing Imperial Fleet
The evening of March 2047, 6.

Just after the Pallas battle ended, the Federation Supreme Command conducted a video conference.

The meeting was mainly to discuss the next main attack direction of the Federal Army.

Since the main fleet of the Imperial Army's asteroid belt is still missing, the good mood of the participants has been diluted a lot.

The commander-in-chief of the Federal Army, Sima Bei, suggested that the attack on the Jupiter-Saturn Empire mainland be postponed, and the Federal Army immediately launched an attack on the asteroids occupied by the Empire in the asteroid belt to regain the lost ground.

At the same time, the federal main fleet does not leave the asteroid belt, which is also convenient for responding to the sudden attack of the imperial army.

However, Zheng Qingwu and others believed that they should strike while the iron is hot. When the main fleet of the Federal Army was in full swing, they proposed to go to Ganymede and attack Huanglong.

Attacking the mainland of the empire, the fleet of the imperial army will inevitably return to help. At that time, the main force of the imperial army will no longer be able to avoid a decisive battle with the federal army, so that the victory will be determined in one battle!

For the sake of safety, Lu Yao supported Sima Bei's opinion.

He believed that the federal army had already won the battle, and there was no need to take risks. It would take only a few months to recover the asteroid belt and consolidate the results.

The empire is already at the end of its rope, and it is possible that in a few months, the empire will collapse from within.

The opportunity to avoid the huge casualties caused by the attack on the mainland of the empire should still be pursued.

Zhong Cheng, however, supported the opinions of Zheng Qingwu and others. He always felt that there was a lot of fog on the mainland of Jupiter's empire, and it would be reassuring to come to Jupiter one day soon and uncover these mysteries.

From the mouth of the imperial officials who were captured on Pallas, it was learned that Robin died, and the original high-level officials of the empire were also replaced. Now basically an imperial marshal named Sargeras is in charge of the military and political affairs of the empire.

The current emperor, Atef, has no sense of existence.

This little-known marshal of the empire is completely unknown from his background, hobbies, personality and temperament, even his appearance.

Compared to Robin who knows everything, Zhong Cheng is unwilling to face this new opponent.

When you can't know the enemy, the best way is to actively test the opponent instead of letting the opponent play.

But Zhong Cheng couldn't convince Lu Yao and Sima Bei for a while, so he could only suggest to make a decision after three days according to the situation.

At this time, Zhong Cheng's theater headquarters on Mars had moved to Reverse Flow City on the eastern edge of the original Sailor Canyon.

Countercurrent City is less than a hundred kilometers away from the Meridian Plateau. Standing outside the city, you can clearly see the defensive positions of the Imperial Army on the Meridian Plateau. Of course, there are also endless barracks of the Federal Army.

It is impossible to know who took the name of Reverse Flow City, but the origin is well known.

This is an important node for transferring the abundant lake water resources in the canyon to the Meridian Plateau. The lake water flows countercurrently from the low to the high, hence the name.

This is also where the second asteroid hit the surface of Mars that year, and the surface was broken and messy.

After the remote video conference, Zhong Cheng felt irritable, so he called Shi Hanxing to walk by the lake together.

He was thinking about how to persuade Sima Bei not to get entangled with the remnants of the Imperial Army in the asteroid belt. As long as he persuaded Sima Bei, Lu Yao would be fine.

The Muhe forest outside Reverse Flow City was destroyed in the war a few months ago, leaving only bare tree trunks. This year's Muhe production will be greatly reduced again.

Shi Hanxing hesitated for a moment, then said: "Leader, I think we should change the headquarters!"

"Um?!"

Zhong Cheng turned his head to look at Shi Hanxing strangely, Shi Hanxing summoned up his courage and said, "I think this city is not named properly, it is unlucky!"

Zhong Cheng felt baffled, and asked impatiently: "Han Xing, when did you become superstitious?"

Shi Hanxing replied: "Leader, have you ever heard of 'sorrow flows against the river'? I think it is inappropriate for us to put the headquarters here at the moment when the war is about to be won!"

Zhong Cheng asked, "Is there any more?"

"No more!" Shi Hanxing wiped the sweat from his forehead.

Zhong Cheng's face turned cold, and he wanted to say that there were other ways to say "reverse flow", but for some reason he was not in the mood to say it.

He suddenly thought of his wife, parents and son in the asteroid belt who were far away on Earth, whom he hadn't seen for two years.

A year ago, his father-in-law and mother-in-law passed away, and he couldn't stay by his wife's side, so he felt very guilty.

Although his father-in-law and mother-in-law passed away at nearly a hundred years old, which is not regarded as a funeral according to the Chinese tradition, he believed that Ye Wenxin was still very sad.

Too many families have lost their loved ones in these years of war. The sadness of a white-haired man giving a black-haired man made Zhong Cheng dare not think about how he and Ye Wenxin would face it if Zhong Yi died in battle.

Sadness flows against the river!
"Don't take this as an example. If I hear such words from your mouth again, you should pack up and go back to Azure Dragon City."

……

On June 6th, Mars time is 29:9, and Earth Haicheng time is 8:[-] am.

Zhong Cheng received a message from the General Command of the Federal Army that the main fleet of the Imperial Army from the disappeared asteroid belt appeared.

A space observatory on the moon spotted them in the void below the ecliptic plane 2000 million kilometers from Earth, heading straight for Earth.

It is estimated that it will reach the outer space of the earth in about 6 hours!
At the subsequent emergency meeting of the Federal Supreme Command, most of the top decision makers of the Federation were not surprised but happy.

The unknown enemy is the most terrifying. The disappearance of the main fleet of the Imperial Army makes people feel uneasy, not knowing what they want to do.

Once it shows up, let everyone breathe a sigh of relief.

Although there are only two federal space fleets in the earth's space, the earth has a huge gravitational field, and the space warships dare not get too close.

The earth is surrounded by a dense atmosphere, and electromagnetic guns and laser cannons fired from tens of thousands of kilometers away from space pose no threat to ground targets.

As long as the federal space fleet defends Tiangong City for two or three days, the federal space fleet returning from Mars and the asteroid belt will make the main fleet of the imperial army come and go.

As the gateway for the earth to enter and leave space, Tiangong City has been built into the largest and strongest space military fortress in the solar system in recent years.

Moreover, Tiangong City has a steady stream of manpower and material support from the ground on the earth. Unless the main fleet of the Imperial Army increases in size several times, it will not be able to get close to Tiangong City at all.

The top leaders of the Federation don't understand what the current Marshal Sargeras, who is in charge of the empire, thinks. Sending this space battle group to Earth is not fun.

However, the battle preparations that should be carried out still need to be carried out. The main federal fleet in the asteroid belt theater set sail to rush back to the earth, and the federal fleet on Mars is also ready to return to the rescue.

If the Imperials were going to be stupid, the Federation wouldn't mind eating their main fleet in Earth's outer space.

2 p.m. Haicheng time.

The Imperial fleet arrived as scheduled, and more than 1000 space battleships slowed down and entered an orbit around the earth about [-] kilometers above the ground.

This is a close distance that the Imperial Army fleet has never reached when the two sides in the Earth theater were at war in the previous two years.

More than 200 warships of the Federal Seventh Fleet and Ninth Fleet stationed in the earth's space retreated to the firepower coverage of Tiangong City, ready to face.

The federal army on the moon has also all entered the combat state, and all the ground turrets are ready to fire.

For the first time, air defense sirens sounded in all cities and towns on the planet, and people began to enter civil defense fortifications or subway stations in an orderly manner under the guidance of official personnel.

This is the first time that the people on earth feel that the war is so close to them!

(End of this chapter)