Kiana and the others had been on their journey for three hours, and the fleet had concentrated all its forces to cover them into the Jump Channel. As the 17 starships vanished in the blue light, I had the wonderful feeling of watching my children walk away.

The fleet then retreated to the range of the Jupiter Fortress Line, which had been set as the final line of defense.

For those of us who remain, the thing to do is very simple, and that is to hold the Jupiter system until the situation changes. It's easy to say, but how to defend it, how far the battle is to go, and what to do with the nearly 10 million people scattered throughout the Jupiter system are all headaches.

Kramer's answer was simple, the people evacuated, turning the entire Jupiter system into a battlefield.

"We're going to be on every space facility, we're going to fight with the Brandites for every Jupiter moon, we're going to fight a cosmic street battle with them. Every meteorite that can be sheltered here is our position, and they must uproot all the defense points one by one in order to truly occupy the entire Jupiter system. ”

General Kramer said this on the radio of the whole army's mobilization, and my understanding was that he was going to fight an unlimited battle, and that the Wehrmacht would fight to the last soldier for the victory of the war.

The battlefield is arranged in such a way that in fact, the battle is divided into two parts, one is the space battlefield, and the other is the interstellar infantry battle. According to the command, the starship group is mainly engaged in guerrilla warfare and harassment, and the main battlefield is the space station, meteorites and Jupiter moons of the interstellar infantrymen's assistants. The fleet would send cruisers and destroyers to back up the infantry, and all the infantry had to do was to delay time and kill the living forces of the Branders.

On January 27, all non-combatants in the Jupiter system began to evacuate. It is said that it is evacuation, in fact, they have nowhere to go, and now that the Jupiter system is completely blocked, the starship cores with terrifying maneuvering capabilities may be able to break through smoothly, but the bulky passenger ship or transport ship has no chance to break through at all.

According to the opinion of the headquarters and the government's livelihood resettlement department, the refugee resettlement department will find a non-strategically valuable and fortified area in the extensive Jupiter system to resettle the people, and the specific resettlement method is in the form of hibernation.

In the early days of the evacuation plan, there was opposition from many people. The vast majority of people no longer want to shrink into that tiny jar, the feeling that their fate is in someone else's hands, they no longer want to experience a second time. In this regard, the relevant parties did not take coercive measures, but incorporated those who did not want to go into hibernation into the Volunteer Army and used them as strategic reserves.

As for those who are neither willing to hibernate nor willing to fight, they are allowed to stay where they live, but everyone who remains will receive a statement that their safety and livelihood will not be paid attention to by the army and the government during the war, and how they will survive depends on their own ability.

While the civil affairs department was carrying out refugee resettlement operations and the entire Jupiter system was in turmoil, the Marine Corps was also stationed in various important facilities of the Jupiter system with the help of shuttles, assault boats, and transport ships.

Due to the lack of manpower, many small space facilities, as well as meteorites that can only accommodate a small number of troops, are only equipped with magnetic railguns that can threaten space targets and a few self-contained mechanized troops. The purpose of their existence is not to kill or damage the enemy, but purely to delay time.

Everything was arranged in a chaotic and planned special state, and it was completed step by step.

On 29 January, when all the defenses were in place, and when it was asked whether to give the soldiers a day of rest, the reconnaissance probe located on the outermost part of the line lost contact after spotting a dark shadow obscuring the starlight.

At 12:35 p.m. on January 29, the command ordered the start of battlefield timekeeping throughout the Jupiter system.

The final phase of the United Planetary Campaign has finally begun.

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My position is still on the Wanwang, and the rapid reaction squadron, including its interstellar infantry division, is not among the garrison facilities. As a valuable mobile combat force, we were booked the position of firefighters. Our detachment will be on standby at all times, ready to be put into the most difficult position of the battle.

In order to ensure that they can attack at any time, the personnel on the bridge of the Manwang are on standby at their posts in shifts. Although you don't have to actually sail or join the battle, in order to maintain the most agile state, the ship will maintain a state of readiness before the attack by means of regular reports and system warm-up self-checks. As a commander, I naturally don't have to get involved in tedious affairs.

Stay in the electronic sand table, sit in a chair and watch Wei Leili repeatedly discuss the possible conditions in the various defense zones of the Jupiter system, and then establish a plan.

"Actually, you don't have to do that. Every time you fight, the situation that may arise will not be so complicated, if there is really an accident, it is likely that there is no plan in the plan, what do you do with this kind of thing? As long as you are in a key position, it is not enough to make a few sets of preparation plans. ”

The staff officers are still working on the preset scenarios, cracking, and issuing plans and demonstrations according to the step-by-step executors. No one paid any attention to me, an idler, and it took a while for Maxim to turn around.

"If it were a commander with a professional background in a starship, I would despise him for this sentence. The real purpose of these plans of the staff group is not to formulate plans, but to make them. In order to ensure that in the event of any emergency, the commander can be given the basis for decision-making in the shortest possible time, and the staff officers must also warm up their brains. If it weren't for our warm-up activities before the war, would you have hoped that the time of the war would have been the case, and you would have asked if there was a solution, and the result would have been a cold situation? ”

I blushed and tried to join in the staff officers' brain warm-ups, but I was too much of a nuisance and had to leave the bridge as if it was worth running away.

At this time, the only place that can go is the Marine Corps. I suddenly realized that my life was very closed, the detachment I commanded, only the bridge and the marines could stay, and there was a commander who was more defeated than me?

The Marines are much more relaxed than the Starship Commanders. Most of the interstellar infantry believe in the concept that the more the big battle, the more calm it is, so when the big war is approaching, the garrison area of the Marine Corps is very lively, and the temporary bars, game rooms and fighting arenas can be seen everywhere Infantry soldiers playing happily. As for those who don't like to be lively, stay alone in the corner and write typing, and write about the bereaved family, it's just that they can't form the mainstream.

I didn't want to disturb the nature of the fighters, and instead of getting into the crowd, I looked for my target through the information positioning system.

Finally, in a relatively secluded corner of the cafeteria, I found Zach, a cadre who was not favored by me at first, but always followed him.

"Yo! Write a will, or a letter to a loved one. ”

I know I'm not a sociable person, but I'm speechless about the stupidity of this opening statement, I really don't have the talent for this, and in peacetime, I definitely can't stand in such a high position as I am now.

"No, it's writing to my daughter telling her that she won't be able to see her for a long time."

"Oh, is there a picture of her? Where is she? With family? ”

"I don't know where she is. Just pretending to write to her. In fact, it's likely that she's no longer alive, but I can't accept that reality yet. ”

“...... I'm sorry ....."

"It's not your fault...... Sometimes, I think it's better to die right away so I can see Sasha and Grea sooner. ”

Zach was lost in thought alone, and I really didn't know what to say to comfort him, so I had to leave silently alone.

Looking at the warriors around me doing their own things, I wondered if most of them were doing things that only had a ceremonial meaning like Zack. Perhaps, what we are seeking, the action of defending our homeland and driving away the invaders, is only of ceremonial significance.

I don't feel heavy. I followed Zach's example and found a quiet place to sit down. I first thought of Yukiyo, and when I learned that she and Wood were a couple, I felt like I had eaten coptis. And I thought of Karin, my true love, and if she was watching me from heaven. Finally, Teresa, a hard-working and lovely girl, is a toiling life, and I hope to give her happiness, a small wish that now seems to me, perhaps extravagantly.

But I can't help but imagine if the war was over, I would live with her, and I would be happy and sad over the trivial things of life. Peace that was once taken for granted now seems so precious.

The battle sirens that resounded throughout the ship were like a thunderbolt, ending my heartwarming daydream in an instant.

The hellish battle is about to begin.