Great Power Heavy Industry: Rise

Chapter 477 The mysterious disappearance incident
Just when the earth was facing a big enemy, the next actions of the imperial fleet surprised the Federation.

The imperial fleet did not attack Tiangong City or the moon as most people expected.

They avoided Tiangong City and the moon above the northern hemisphere, and followed the earth's orbit to the earth's southern hemisphere.

Then all the large and medium-sized warships dispersed, and began to frantically drop space fighters, space missiles and even miniature space assault ships on the surface.

Within half an hour, the number of deliveries reached millions, targeting all the way to central Africa, South America and Australia.

The attacking weapons that fell from the sky were like a super-large meteor shower, shining red in the sky in the southern hemisphere of the earth.

However, the high-speed friction between these weapons and the atmosphere caused most of the weapons to be burned in mid-air.

The remaining few were also destroyed by the ground artillery or mech units of the federal army, and tens of thousands fell into the ocean.

This round of seemingly massive attacks caused only a few hundred casualties, a typical thunderstorm with little rain.

The situation that the Federation was most worried about, that the Imperial Army would drop nuclear weapons and detonate directly in the atmosphere, did not happen.

With the current level of technology, it will take several years to eliminate nuclear pollution on a global scale.

The most strange thing for the Federation is still to come. After the imperial fleet dropped the "bomb", it stopped staying. After assembling the fleet, it accelerated away from the earth's orbit.

Six hours later, the Imperial Army fleet disappeared into the vast starry sky again.

But this time the voyage route is obvious, which is to pass through the asteroid belt from below the ecliptic plane, and the goal is to point directly at Jupiter.

This raid of the main fleet of the Imperial Army on Earth is more like a costly armed parade than a military operation.

After the earth's alarm was lifted, unlike the joy of the Federation people, the Federation Supreme Command held an emergency meeting again.

Federal high-level officials were greatly puzzled by this abnormal behavior of the Imperial Army.

Judging from the results of analysis and testing of weapon fragments collected from various continents in the southern hemisphere, the Imperial Army did not release any biological or chemical weapons.

What are they trying to do?
However, the explanation given by Zhou Tuan, Minister of Military Intelligence, was reluctantly accepted by everyone.

That is, the empire wants to convey a message, don't push them too hard, this time they are releasing conventional weapons, and next time they come again they may release large-scale nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.

They want the federal army to suspend its attack on the mainland of the empire. Given the current situation of the empire, this is the most reasonable explanation.

But should the Federation suspend its attack on the mainland of the Empire? This is back to the unresolved issue discussed yesterday.

Facing the new situation, Zhong Cheng and others agreed to Sima Bei's plan.

The Federation Supreme Command reached a consensus that the Federation would not attack the Empire until it had enough military strength to keep the Imperial fleet from approaching the Earth.

To achieve this prerequisite, the Imperial Army on Mars must be dealt with first, and the Federation Army on Mars must be liberated without too much loss.

This is also a very difficult task, and this task is still handed over to Zhong Cheng.

After the meeting, Zhong Cheng thought about it all night, thinking that it would be difficult to win the surrender of senior generals such as Paul, but the Imperial Army on Mars was not monolithic.

A large number of them have relatives and friends on the earth, and apart from the small proportion of genetic soldiers, the officers and soldiers of the imperial army are all native earthlings, there is a lot to be done here.

The psychological warfare of being besieged on all sides is also useful in modern times. It depends on how it is done. When Paul is betrayed by his relatives, he will have no choice but to surrender.

As for annihilating the Mars Expeditionary Force of the Empire by force, Zhong Cheng has completely dismissed the idea.

With tens of millions of armies on both sides fighting a decisive battle in such a small area on the Meridian Plateau, Meridian City, the capital of the Federation on Mars and the economic and industrial center, is bound to be turned into a piece of wasteland, and the space ladder of Mars will definitely be lost.

Coupled with the huge casualties, Zhong Cheng couldn't accept such a loss, and neither could the Federation.

7 month 5 day.

When Zhong Cheng convened Mars military and political leaders in Reverse City to discuss the capitulation plan formulated by the General Staff, he received a strange message from Zhou Hu from Earth.

Because Zhong Cheng was worried about the wreckage of tens of thousands of miniature space assault ships that fell into the ocean when the imperial fleet "bombed" the earth, he asked Zhou Hu to arrange for the Ocean Branch of the Kunlun Research Institute in Australia to salvage the wreckage and confirm what was carried in it. Something, whether it has been burned.

The Ocean Division of the Kunlun Research Institute has dozens of well-equipped marine scientific research ships, which are the most suitable deep-sea exploration tools when there are no naval ships.

But three hours ago, these marine scientific research ships performing salvage missions in the South Pacific, South Atlantic, and South Indian Oceans successively lost contact with the headquarters.

Zhou Hu immediately sent a plane to the accident site, and found that the scientific research ship had disappeared, including thousands of crew members, scientific researchers and the accompanying federal mech fighters.

Since the artificial satellites above the southern hemisphere of the earth were all destroyed when the imperial fleet attacked, they had not had time to redeploy, and those sea areas were still blind spots for federal monitoring, so it was not clear what attacked the scientific research ship.

Zhou Hu felt that the matter was strange and serious, and immediately notified Zhong Cheng and the Federal Supreme Command.

This mysterious disappearance has attracted the attention of high-level federal officials, and the federal army headquarters has taken over the investigation.

The General Command of the Federal Army quickly mobilized [-] Earth Defense Force troops, and recruited hundreds of civilian large-scale ground-effect aircraft to carry troops, sealed off dozens of sea areas where the incident occurred, and launched a dragnet-style investigation.

But the Earth Defense Force spent a week, not only did not find any trace of the scientific research ship on the nearby sea surface and the bottom of the sea, even the wreckage of the Imperial Army's miniature space assault ship that fell in this sea area could not be found.

And during the search, a terrifying situation was discovered.

These accidental sea areas were originally a vibrant sea world with countless kinds of sea creatures, but now they have become a dead land without life.

All marine life also mysteriously disappeared out of thin air!
The search results of the Earth Defense Force made the Federation executives unable to sit still anymore. All the evidence showed that they misassessed the attack of the Imperial Army fleet.

The purpose of the imperial fleet's trip to the earth this time is not to "show off their force". They dropped a large number of "bombs" on the earth to cover up their actions of launching manned aircraft into the ocean.

The standard miniature space assault ship of the Imperial Army can carry 20 mecha fighters at a time. It is estimated that about 2 miniature space assault ships fell into the ocean before being completely burned by the atmosphere.

If they were indeed carrying mecha fighters, and assuming they all landed safely, then about 40 Imperial army mecha troops were parachuted into the oceans of the earth.

The 40 mecha troop is not too much, and it is not much!
Nearly 600 million Imperial Army mech troops are still trapped on Mars. Apart from causing panic on the earth, what role can this mecha force play?
However, the mecha units of the three legions are also a force that can destroy the world compared to civilians, and the Federation cannot let it go.

But in the vast sea area of ​​millions of square kilometers, in the depths of the ocean at a depth of hundreds of meters to thousands of meters, to find this mech unit that may not exist is a real needle in a haystack!
(End of this chapter)