On January 6, 0079, the Zeon Special Flotstrapon arrived at Zeon Fortress Solomon at L5.

This space fortress converted from an asteroid mining base has not yet completed the renovation work, and compared with the goal of being able to control L5 and coerce SIDE1 and SIDE4, which are also located in L5, and at the same time have fleet maintenance, maintenance, and MS production, Solomon Fortress can only assume the most basic fleet operation functions.

When the Ewsgruppen fleet entered the air harbor of Solomon Fortress, the entire fortress opened the hatch that was originally only for the main fleet to enter and exit, and the defenders of the fortress welcomed the heroes returning from the expedition with the greatest enthusiasm.

This sentiment reached its climax when the captured Union auxiliary warships, and the cruisers towed back and worth repairing, entered the harbor, and the cheers of Long Live Zeon almost deafened Lear's ears.

Lear could intellectually understand why they were happy, even though they were inspired by the righteousness of cosmic independence and fighting for their country, the fact of going to war against the behemoth of the Earth Federation still made them subconsciously panic, so when the Einwsgruppen fleet was about to achieve real results, when the Federation's prisoners and warships entered the port, they really realized for the first time that the Federation was not invincible.

Intellectually understandable.

But for some reason, Lear was just a flurry of boredom in his heart.

He was still smiling on the surface, and when he drove the Leipzig in a thunderbolt, and everyone cheered at him, he also walked out of the cockpit with great face, and even asked all the pilots to get out of the cockpit to accept everyone's kindness, and to pay respect.

He was a handsome blond man himself, a man who had sunk a battleship and a cruiser of the Union Army, and when he and his men returned the salute to Solomon's officers and men, when the giant of steel stepped down from the battleship and lined up in front of the battleship, when the captured Union officers and soldiers and the battleship became the background.

All these elements add up to form a sacred and terrifying long essay written in tens of thousands of words of herd psychology report.

The title of the essay can be written about the birth of a hero.

The officers and men of the Einsatzgruppen flotilla, as if they had put aside their anxiety and fear on the battlefield, put on proud faces at the reception, and transformed their exploits into thrilling adventure stories, in their mouths, as if everyone was a hero of the dragon slayer, and they held a 40-meter-long dragon slayer knife to cut down the evil dragon of the Federation.

Lear was certainly the most conspicuous during this period, although unlike other officers and soldiers, he did not take the initiative to show off his exploits, but always put on a smile and listened, but perhaps because of this, he was invited to dance with Maggie at the celebration ball held by Solomon Fortress for the Einsatzgruppen Fleet, for which he had to dance with Maggie all night so as not to show up for it.

Frankly speaking, it was really tiring to choose a night of dancing, but compared to the physical fatigue, the mental fatigue that seemed to have not improved at all since the end of the battle seemed to be relieved.

There was also plenty of time for him to think about things other than war.

For example, Maggie's matter, how to dispel her thoughts.

"What are you thinking?" Maggie's question abruptly interrupted Lear's train of thought, and she deliberately feigned displeasure and said, "It's a very humiliating behavior for women to get distracted when dancing with women." ”

Having said that, Lear did get distracted, but unexpectedly, he danced with Maggie very smoothly, frankly, he was not interested in dancing, and he was not good at it, I didn't expect to play so well.

He and Maggie dance in a natural way, advancing, retreating, dancing, and spinning, Lear doesn't need to think at all, he instinctively knows what to do.

"I don't remember teaching you to be such a child." Maggie said with a smile, her words causing Lear to suddenly react to why he was able to perform at a high level in dance today.

Because his dance steps were originally taught by Maggie, and they were also mastered by Maggie, and the natural cooperation was natural.

This made him even more irritable, and Maggie's words reminded him of the problem she had come up with.

"Nothing," he replied, with a deliberate coldness, "just thinking a little about something." ”

It's not so much a cold refusal as a child pretending to ignore other people's tempers.

Maggie knew how to deal with the situation, so she just whispered, "Is that so?" ”

"That's it, there's nothing to say."

As the music died down, the commander of Solomon Fortress stood on the center stage with a red face and ended the ball with a short speech.

Lear let go of Maggie's hand and walked back with her.

"Then make a pact with me," a smiling voice came from behind him, "if you want to say it at any time, just let me know." ”

Here and again, Lear almost grabbing her hair in frustration, how to attack, how to convince her to give up her plans.

This feeling of a fist hitting cotton without force.

If only there were textbooks.

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(Starting here, it is recommended to switch to Star Wars Imperial March)

At the same time that the officers and men of the Einsatzgruppen were holding a happy ball, the Zeon Army's British operation was approaching a critical juncture as they approached low orbit.

Unlike the battle where the Einsatzgruppen and the 4th Mobile Fleet were irrelevant, this was the battle that really decided the final outcome.

Zeon's actions could not be concealed at all, or in other words, Kilian Zabi had no intention of concealing it, and he wanted to make this satellite fall to Earth in front of the people of the universe, and establish Zeon's human hegemony with this ritual act rather than a battle.

The Earth Federation, which learned of Zeon's battle, also fell into a panic, and they would not be afraid to fight Zeon with their fleet, but when Zeon offered such a desperate plan that did not follow common sense, they could only act according to their knee-jerk reactions.

That is, send reinforcements urgently, and never let that satellite fall on the earth.

Vice Admiral Marktiva Tiam, a Vice Admiral of the Federal Space Force at SIDE5, had to cancel his original plan and lead the Third Fleet to intercept the Ishufi colony satellite, which was protected by the Zeon Main Fleet Space Attack Force.

Although contrary to the original plan to overwhelm the Zeon rebellion with absolute numerical superiority, Vice Admiral Tiam's Third Fleet was not inferior in the number of ships, and even the Joint Chiefs of Staff believed that the elite of the Federation Army was far superior to that of the Zeon Army.

There is no possibility of failure, and it should be said that failure must not be allowed.

The Federacy Space Force doesn't have a lot of time, although there are still two days left before the expected time for Ishfi to fall to Earth, but it is only one day away from low orbit, and once a massive object like Ishuffe enters low orbit, the Earth's own gravity will suck it towards Earth, at that time, even if the Federation Army cuts it into pieces, it is pointless, and countless satellite fragments will bring a desperate natural disaster to the surface of the Earth.

At that time, the Space Army, which occupies the majority of the Federation's military spending, will not be able to think about what kind of attack he himself and His Excellency Rebir will suffer.

Due to political factors, Thiam had to choose the most stupid method, he set up the fleet in an assault formation, tried to break through the defense line of the Space Attack Fleet, and then destroyed the satellite with a nuclear charge.

Declassified many years after the end of the war, General Matifa Tiam's diary is recorded in these words, which fully reflect the fact that one of the few famous generals of the Union Army had foreseen his defeat before the battle.

"On the 6th of January, I attempted to contact His Excellency Rebile and ask him to make his case to the Council once again, to show that it would be unwise to engage in such a battle until our fleet had been fully assembled."

"But I immediately dismissed the idea, because it is true that we cannot sit idly by and watch the Zeon Army drop that satellite on Earth, and it has nothing to do with how much we will lose, but that we must stop that madman of Killian no matter how much we lose."

"The fate of our home planet, the fate of all mankind is in my hands."

"Now in the entire universe, no one but the Third Fleet can stop him, because apart from us, even the nearest fleet is in Luna II, and the First Fleet simply can't catch up with the Zeon fleet before Ishfi reaches low orbit."

"We have to stop Zeon at all costs, even if it means we have to attack the main Zeon fleet with a tired army, but we have no choice, we don't have the strength to fight a fleet battle with Zeon, we have to break through with all our might, and then pour all our ammunition on that satellite."

"I know that this may cost us half of our ships in the middle of the charge, but I'm ready for it, and now I'm only worried that even if we pay such a price, we won't be able to break through the Zeon defenses."

"May this always be just my hunch, may God bless the Federation, may He bless humanity."

For this campaign, the staff of Chabro's headquarters put forward four opinions.

1. The main forces of the Third Fleet, including the battleships of General Tiam himself, will serve as a decoy to attract the fire of the Zeon army.

2. The forces responsible for the sabotage of Ishfi are improvised rapid reaction fleets, including a large number of Salamis-class fast cruisers, and a part of the Swordfish fighter wing armed with nuclear missiles.

3. The main fleet will be responsible for opening a gap for the rapid reaction fleet, and when there is a gap in the Zeon army, the rapid reaction fleet will seize this opportunity to pass through the Zeon army defense line, and then approach the island of Ishfi as fast as possible.

4. The operation time is until January 8, when the island of Ishfi is close to the expected point of gravity, if the rapid response fleet reaches the point of gravity on the island of Ishfi and still does not complete the task, the operation will be declared a failure, and all the remaining fleets will immediately turn back to SIDE5 to save their combat strength in the hope of a decisive battle with the Zeon army.

The advice put forward by Chabro's staff was quickly approved by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but they only put forward the first three and did not consider the question of how to end if the Third Fleet's attack did not go well, so the commander-in-chief of the Space Force, Admiral Rebil, added a fourth suggestion, which was translated into a military order and transmitted to the Third Fleet.

On 7 January, the Tyam fleet, which had been dispatched urgently, finally intercepted the Zeon fleet at a distance of only one day's distance from Earth's low orbit (referring to the speed of a colony satellite with a thermonuclear engine installed).

Without any trimmings, the Tiam fleet and the Zeon Space Attack Fleet, which protects the island of Ishfi, begin to fight.

"Good luck in the fight!" Before engaging in battle, General Thiam sent such a telegram to his captains one last time.

However, despite such wishes, the combat operations of the Union Army were not smooth, and could even be said to be extremely difficult.

All the officers and men of the Main Fleet had been informed of their duties before the battle, and that their ships were being used as decoys, and they accepted without complaint the order of the Joint Chiefs of Staff that was more akin to paving the way for the destruction of Ishfi with their own lives.

It's not that they don't care for their lives, it's that they know what they're doing, and they understand that they're not dying in vain, fighting to protect their homeland.

The officers and men of the Federation, who understood what the Zeon Army was trying to do, undoubtedly used their greatest strength, fighting valiantly and unflinching, and in the face of the Zeon Army's leisurely defenses, they attacked again and again, trying to gain a glimmer of hope for the rapid reaction fleet.

In the face of the offensive of the Federation Army, General Dozru Zabi, who was then the commander-in-chief of the Universe Assault Force of the Principality of Zeon, prepared a tight defensive line, and in the face of the Federation Army that tried to engage his own side in a short battle, he invested the most elite MS troops in his hands, the Federation Army who blindly wanted to get close to the Zeon fleet, and the Federation Army, who did not raise alarm against the MS troops, allowed Zeon's MS troops to approach the Federation Army at only a slight cost.

Although General Tiam quickly reacted and ordered the fleet to go on the defensive, the Zeon MS forces, which numbered several times the number of Federation ships, easily slaughtered the main force of the Third Fleet.

The Federation fought back bravely and persevered, but their efforts were not sufficiently rewarded in front of the MS forces of the Zeon Army.

The battle lasted more than fourteen hours.

The greatest achievement of the Federation Army was to get close to the position of 150 kilometers of Ishfi Island, but most of the nuclear missiles that were barely fired were shot down by the Zeon Army, and the few nuclear bombs that hit the target did not seem to have achieved enough results, and Ishfi Island still advanced towards the target.

At the end of the campaign, the undaunted General Tiam even threw his spare rapid reaction fleet into frontal battle, attacking one point, the location of Admiral Dozru's ship, the Hungour.

However, by this time, Ishfi had entered the point of low orbit projected gravity.

The interception mission against Britain failed, and in desperation, General Tiam ordered the withdrawal of SIDE5 in order to preserve the strength of the fleet.

At this time, the Third Fleet, which was once claimed to be the strongest fleet of the Federation Army in the universe, had lost 70% of its warships, and more than 100,000 Federation officers and soldiers had died in this battle.

The island of Ishfi reached the Earth's low orbit according to the British Operation's predestination, and under the action of the Earth's gravity, this island colony with a diameter of 6 kilometers and a length of 30-40 kilometers became the largest planetary impact on the Earth since the extinction of the dinosaurs.

On January 10, the island of Ishfi began to fall.

Target, the base camp of the Earth Federation Army, Chabro base in South America.

However, perhaps it was the Third Fleet's attack that had an effect, or perhaps the 50 million souls who had died on the satellite were unwilling to become accomplices in Zeon's hegemony, and the island of Ishfi disintegrated in the process of falling, shattering into large chunks of the tail, as well as a few smaller pieces, and countless fragments.

Because of the change in weight, Ishfi did not fall on Chabro as intended.

The largest of these fell to the Australian city of Sydney, destroying the city and creating a huge pothole equivalent to one-fifth of Australia's total area.

The resulting tsunami and typhoon completely destroyed all the cities along the Pacific rim coast in Asia and the Americas in the coming days, killing hundreds of millions of people alone, and other fragments, as well as countless small fragments, also caused casualties in locations that the tsunami could not reach.

A third of the planet's 2.2 billion people were lost on this day alone, and the ensuing famine, anarchic riots, and environmental destruction will have even more serious consequences.

However, despite the casualties inflicted by the Zeon Army, its strategic goal of forcing the Earth Federation to surrender by destroying the Chabro base and eliminating Rebir and his Second Fleet was arguably a failure.

Upon learning of the failure of the interception of the British operation, Admiral Rybil ordered the entire Second Fleet to be rushed into the air, bypassing the cumbersome parliamentary process.

From this point of view, the British operation can be said to have failed.

Dozru therefore led the main Zeon fleet back to Fortress Solomon, preparing to reorganize and then fight the Federation fleet that had already entered the universe.

However, the impact of the defeat of the British War was not only that, but the British War and the previous massacre of SIDE2 by the Zeon Army also caused great panic among the neutral SIDES, and the colonial governments that had not yet made a clear statement before the war, mainly the four colonial governments of SIDE1, SIDE4, SIDE5 and SIDE6, chose their own sides.

The Federal Foreign Service did an excellent job this time, on the one hand, they threatened the colonial governments through Zeon's atrocities, on the other hand, they used the assembled Federation Grand Fleet to give the colonial governments the confidence to resist Zeon, and finally used the increase of autonomy as a bait, in addition to the original pro-Zeon SIDE6 chose to continue to remain neutral, SIDE1, SIDE4, and SIDE5 all announced their participation in the federal camp, which can be called a major victory in the history of federal diplomacy.

In order to prepare for the next decisive battle against the Federation, and to prevent these local governments from attacking the rear of Zeon's main fleet at a critical moment, Zeon decided to purge SIDE 1 and SIDE 4, which are on the same L5 as Solomon Fortress.

This time, in addition to the main Zeon fleet, the Assault Mobile Fleet, which successfully wiped out the Fourth Mobile Fleet, also participated.

On January 11, the purge operation officially began.