I didn't understand what the company commander had encountered during the debriefing, so much so that he was hostile to the brigade command. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

All in all, the good mood of the reorganization of the troops is gone.

Under the blood-colored sky, the mighty motorcade did not provide me with a sense of security, but was more like a funeral procession.

What happened next turned out far beyond my imagination.

The first is that the troops left the level where the Tarsis Fortress was located by bypassing the side of the underground space and marched towards a higher position.

This was followed by a large number of fraternal units joining the mission.

Looking at the number of the troops, the 3307th Armored Division, the 142nd Motorized Infantry Brigade, the 9th Special Service Regiment, etc., these unfamiliar troop numbers represent that the Martian side attaches much more importance to this operation than expected.

The operation itself may not be as simple as rescuing a staff officer, as described in the data link.

The blood-red sky overhead was replaced by a gray-brown spatial canopy.

The troops continued to move in a mechanized manner for more than three days. The long march looks like it will continue for some time.

According to rough estimates, the troops' maneuver has exceeded 200 kilometers and is still going upward.

We should be extremely close to the surface at this point.

There was a commotion in the ranks.

Many of you, like me, see that the troops are about to go underground.

This means more than just reaching the surface of Mars.

Without supremacy, the presence of any ground force on the planet's surface is tantamount to suicide.

Even if you have an army of millions, the enemy only needs one Star Destroyer, and a few planetary destroyers can wipe it out.

Now I'm thinking not about the positive implications of our re-arrival on the surface of Mars, but about what we would do if the enemy dropped the planetary destroyer from low orbit.

I guess the rest of the commotion is similar to what I thought, how will the troops cope with the attack from the orbit?

No matter what we, the officers and men at the grassroots level, think, the large army still keeps moving forward.

During this time, more troops converged.

The size of the ranks gradually exceeded that of the two armies, and the number of troops continued to increase.

In the sky above the troops, the figure of an attack aircraft appeared. Their formations roared by, and the man-made storm reverberated and reverberated in the underground space, creating a sharp and rhythmic explosion.

At this point, the commotion has decreased.

Even if the information is blocked, as I can see, the operation itself does not correspond to the content of the tactical briefing, and the reason why it is concealed from us is nothing more than secrecy.

The march continued, passing through several large supply bases, and the troops did not stop to repair, but continued to bury their heads in the march after replenishing oxygen.

With the march mileage exceeding 500 km, I began to regret it.

It's not that I regret participating in this unprecedented operation, but I regret not seeing Karin again before leaving.

It is foreseeable that regardless of whether the battle goes well in the future, the hope of returning to the fortress in the near future is very slim.

Unless you become a deserter, it is impossible to see Karin again in the near future.

As the size of the troops increased, the morale of the army rose again.

Soldiers often get together to discuss the upcoming operation on an unprecedented scale.

And we, the officers, guessed in the corner where there were no soldiers, where the final destination of the troops was.

The company commander became the person who was asked by everyone the most. I hope he can find out more accurate information from a higher level.

Poor Captain Nguyen Ching Dong ran to the brigade headquarters from time to time for various reasons, even if he himself did not want to, after all, this was the expectation of everyone in the army.

I knew that there was no hope of returning, so I simply calmed down and used the privileges of being an officer to gain an extra carrier of memories for myself.

Every day I take the time to store what happens in the form of an email.

Although it is not known if these emails will actually reach Karin in the future.

But just in case, my luck runs out and I fall on some battlefield in the future, maybe the email that arrives at Karin will be the only proof that I ever existed.

Although it was a little sad, I knew that this kind of ending was very likely to happen to me.

In a sense, I want the ending to come as soon as possible.

On the seventh day after departure, the assembled troops seemed to have the standard size of a group army, about 70,000 or 80,000 men, and the establishment of four armies.

On this day we left the ground completely and traveled on the surface of Mars.

Under the dusk Martian sky, convoys of armies stretch endlessly, kicking up kilometers of dust on the desertified surface of Mars.

At medium and low altitudes, swarms of attack aircraft flew over our heads and headed for a straight distance towards the target.

From time to time, fighter planes in the atmosphere pass from high altitudes, the roar of engines is deafening, intermittent sonic booms are like thunder, and arrogant warhawks fly freely in the sky, announcing that they are the masters of the Martian sky.

The tactical link of the troops has been updated with mission briefings.

We finally learned that the destination of the trip was the Sun Lake region of Mars.

It is a mining area where Martian dry ice and water ice coexist, and there are abundant geothermal resources underground.

Before the war, as the largest mining and energy base on Mars, it was also called the Eye of Mars.

Today, the Eye of Mars is occupied by Proxima Centauri and has become their general logistics base for raiding the world of Mars.

The real purpose of the mission is to liberate the Eye of Mars and take out the largest supply depot of the enemy landing force.

The briefing also noted that the operation was assisted by the main force of the Jupiter Fleet, as well as the Mars Guard Fleet.

They will keep the Eye of Mars safe for the duration of the campaign, up to the wide expanse of space in high orbit.

That is, we are for a long time and can not worry about the appearance of orbital bombing.

The campaign was waged before we left the ground. The Martian authorities mobilized the world's mobile forces, forming a total of two Army Group North and four Army Group Equatorial Army Group. And the 112 mixed brigade belongs to the Equatorial Army Group.

The initial stage of the campaign was dominated by the bombing of atmospheric fighters, the concentrated bombardment of heavy artillery groups, and the precision strikes of thousands of cruise missiles.

Just in the time window for the Equatorial Army Group to complete its assembly, the first phase of the target has been completed.

Proxima Centauri's two armies stationed at the Eye of Mars, with about 150,000 troops, retracted their defenses inward, leaving a large open area for the attacking forces to fully deploy.

By the time the Scout Company reached the canyon near the eastern edge of the Eye of Mars, Proxima Centauri had effectively relinquished all strategic points on the periphery of the Eye of Mars and instead retreated into the core of the complex for defense.

If you haven't been active on the surface of the planet for a long time, even if the underground space is vast, it is not as good as the open space on the surface of the planet can give people a lot of peace of mind and a sense of release.

On the offensive route of our army, the natural canyon passage leads to the inner core of the Eye of Mars.

The seemingly convenient passage has become a moat because of the tall and steep rocks on both sides.

As long as there is an ambush in place, even the most powerful army units will be held back.

Although there are attack aircraft groups that can fight those enemies who are hiding in the cliffs. However, the cliff tops, rugged terrain, natural caves, and strange rocks have become natural air-raid shelters.

In order to ensure the smooth passage of the army through the moat, someone must accompany the army through the rugged stone forest at the top of the cliff.

Our reconnaissance company, except for nine people driving a vehicle to accompany the brigade, the rest of the people were ordered to climb the cliff to protect the safety of the left side of the army.