The situation is deteriorating at an alarming rate, but the only thing that is reassuring is that in the first year of the Provisional Government, officials were busy traveling for various activities, and there were no actual casualties among the senior officials in the government building.

In his capacity as Commander-in-Chief of the Wehrmacht, Clark issued a proclamation to all officers and men at about 5 p.m. on 1 January that he had entered a state of war, and the Provisional Government immediately broadcast it to the whole people, and the social system entered a state of emergency. The social structure, which had been gradually attached to the liberalization of economic policies and the thawing of the people, immediately entered the wartime system. All economic content related to people's livelihood is included in the officer system. Private industrial and mining enterprises also entered the compulsory control system for the first time.

At 6:30 p.m., the Coordinating Committee for Social Resources in Wartime was formed, an organization under the sole responsibility of Clark to mobilize resources to the maximum extent possible in support of the war effort, and within a few hours it began to operate at full capacity.

The 50 million people under the Provisional Government could devote themselves to a new round of preparations for war before they could enjoy a few months of normal life.

At a time when the social system was changing at full speed in response to external threats, as a senior member of the military department, I also saw the horrors of the national war machine at full swing.

To be honest, I've always had a question about why the coalition government of the solar system was defeated so quickly and completely, although the Martian colonies had dragged on for more than a year and a half in the war against Proxima Centauri as a whole, but once the war had reached the core of the inner solar system, the resistance of the Earth Circle was only a few months. Then came the collapse of society and the collapse of the state. The most pitiful thing is that this regime, which has existed for more than 500 years, has fallen so easily and completely. At the beginning of the establishment of the provisional government, the reason why the name temporary was adopted was that many forces and people may not approve of the demise of the coalition government in their hearts, so they adopted a compromise name.

However, the facts are in front of us: since the establishment of the provisional government, not a single person of tens of thousands of high-ranking people and 50 million people has proposed to work for the restoration of the coalition government. It is conceivable that before the fall of the country, the hearts of the people were already dead.

I had never experienced war before, although I had studied history and knew that in the long course of history, which had been delayed for more than two thousand years, once the human nation entered a state of war, the whole society was reverted to being united by a coercive force, and all people, all occupations, worked for only one goal. Perhaps the soldiers will face great casualties, huge losses in materials and equipment, and as long as the production system of society does not collapse, as long as there are still living people among the people, the war potential of the country will be alive, and the war will not end at the end of the war. Therefore, since more than 2,000 years ago, every large-scale war between countries has taken decades, consumed the blood of hundreds of millions of human beings, until one side is broken, and even regresses in civilization for decades before the war ends.

However, in the defense of the earth's sphere, I did not see the phenomenon of the whole society uniting together and resisting with all its might, but witnessed a black comedy in which people dismantled each other and the army could not be saved. I thought that what I saw was the truth, but there were many fallacies in the original history books, and it was natural that there would be such and such problems in the understanding of the war machine. However, when I compared the efficient actions of the whole government when it entered a state of war, and the huge productive forces and the speed of the gathering of troops after the resources of the entire society were uniformly deployed, I realized that the failure of the Battle of the Earth Circle was not unjust at all. No matter how strong your strength is, you are not prepared for war, and you are still engaged in internal struggle, the gap in strength is not just a simple subtraction, and the country's war potential may not be fully exerted by one-tenth, and the earth's circle has fallen. Thinking of himself and thousands of soldiers throwing their heads and spilling blood, but failing to arouse the consciousness of the government, the coalition government can be described as a country that died in its sleep. The embarrassing part of this, how can I not sigh and regret it.

Five hours after entering the state of war, that is, at 22 o'clock on New Year's Day, the number of marines had already doubled. Since veterans, as well as military-trained militiamen and the like, were already registered at the time of the establishment of the Government, thousands of potential soldiers were mobilized once a state of war was initiated.

There are many things that I don't need to do by myself, and the department in charge of the training of the military department took the lead in coming up with a plan, and the old units were broken up into several newly established backbone cores, and a large number of new recruits were immediately replenished. Since the war was still in the reconnaissance and assessment phase, and the two sides did not immediately exchange fire, the newly formed units were immediately engaged in the most basic training subjects. In the words of General Kramer, "We do not ask how well our troops can fight, only that they will not be scattered by fear when they are about to fight." ”

In addition, the starship generals are not able to get up quickly, and a large number of newly recruited starship pilots and astronauts are already entering the 3-month ultra-short-term training designed by experts. A qualified starship pilot in peacetime requires at least ten years of careful training before it can be used. In wartime, according to the calculations of the relevant departments of the military department, combat boat pilots can be trained within three months, destroyer pilots can be trained in six months, and the relevant teams of cruisers and destroyers can also complete the training within eight months by using the method of upgrading old pilots.

I also learned from the internal announcement that not only the people, but also the war and production machines of the coalition government, with all their might, were actually under construction of seven cruisers, two battleships, and one space carrier. With the original coalition government's ships and weapons design drawings, the coalition government can complete the construction of cruisers in 3 months, battleships in 9 months, and space carriers in 10 months. That is to say, once the war starts, as long as the Ministry of Resources and Production Facilities is destroyed, our fleet will continue to increase in strength at the scale of one detachment in 10 months. Such a performance of productivity has exceeded the level of warship production in peacetime by the former coalition government of the solar system by more than 10 times. Considering the limited resources, manpower and equipment of the Provisional Government, such an achievement can almost be regarded as a miracle.

In the face of the efficiency of the war machine, the panic and anxiety I originally had in my heart have been reduced a lot, and maybe this time I can really survive, and I don't have to give up the positions that should be guarded again and again, and leave behind the people that should be protected.

On 2 January, the reconnaissance detachment went on a walk, and they received orders to find out the whereabouts of the enemy at all costs. The reconnaissance detachment would start its mission from the Kuiper belt next to the Neptune system, the asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars, and the Saturn system, which is exactly where the patrol detachment lost contact.

At this time, my detachment also received an order from the headquarters for the first time, but not an order to attack, but an order to regroup the frigate group. Kiana, who had led her companions to defeat Lieutenant Colonel Stanley, and the five Starship Cores who participated in the exercise were incorporated into the reconnaissance detachment along with their ships. I don't know what the mood of the little girls is, but I, who was busy with the reorganization of the troops, listened to Maxim talk about it, and the parting scene was very moving, and it was completely like life and death.

On January 3, I received a notice from the military headquarters to temporarily hand over the affairs in my hands to other military vice-ministers to make every effort to reorganize the rapid reaction squadron and expand the 403rd Star Infantry Division into one division.

On January 4, the 403 received all the equipment of the reorganization, half of which turned out to be new products that had just come off the production line. On January 5th, the fleet reassigned 11 of my converted cruisers to Kiana and the following 11 starship cores, and a group of starship generals who operated the ships with the starship cores were also sent to the fleet. From the actions of the military department, I can guess that although they recognize the core capabilities of the starship, they are not at ease about handing over the valuable starship to a girl who is only a teenager.

On the 6th of January, I greeted the returning Lieutenant Colonel Verelli aboard the Wanwang, and went out for a spin, this guy had been promoted two levels in a row, and Maxim saw that he had to salute, which made the general depressed on his face.

At 21 o'clock on January 6, a report was received from the reconnaissance fleet that the biochemical fleet of the Boylandians had been found in the Kuiper belt, the Saturn system, and the asteroid belt, and the number of enemy fleets was extremely large.

The newly established provisional government, in the face of an attack by a biochemical fleet of unprecedented scale, is still on the verge of life and death.