The Prince's National Defense Order No. 1

Cosmic Century U.C0079 January 3

Duchy Dejin Sodo Zabiling

Commander-in-Chief of the Space Assault Force of the Zeon Defense Forces, Dozru Zabi

[The Wehrmacht is in a state of war]

Commander-General's Office Operational Order No. 1

Cosmic Century U.C0079 January 3

Principality Marshal Kilian Zabi

Commander-in-Chief of the Space Assault Force of the Zeon Defense Forces, Dozru Zabi

[In order to ensure the smooth implementation of Operation 'B', the entire Space Attack Force marched to the SIDE2 'Hardy' Domain]

Operational Order No. 2 of the Commander-General's Office

Cosmic Century U.C0079 January 3

Principality Marshal Kilian Zabi

Commander-in-Chief of the Zeon Wehrmacht Assault Mobile Corps, Cecilia Zabi

[The entire Assault Mobile Force marches to the moon and seizes control of Granada, the space base of the Federal Army]

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War between the Federation and Zeon is on the verge of breaking out, but the question of what the first battle between the two sides will be fought is unknown on the day of January 3.

On the Zeon side, after the signing of the defence order by King Degin Sodo Zabi, the Zeon Defense Forces quickly began to operate.

At this point, Zeon has an advantage over the Federation, because the Earth Federation Council did not reach a consensus until January 5, 2 days later, and Rebil's Second Fleet was not allowed to take off from the Chabro base at the Federation Army headquarters on January 6, when in fact, the entire Second Fleet entered the universe 10 days later on January 16.

These precious two days, Zeon did not waste it, on the contrary, they seized the time to enter the battlefield as fast as possible, trying to complete their battle plan before the Earth Federation.

On January 4th, the main force of Dozru's Space Attack Force entered the 'Harty' domain, bearing the name of the Federation Army, and in fact, the Hadi Defense Force, which belonged to the control of the colonial government like the Von Brown Lunar Garrison, did not have the courage to go out of the harbor to fight, and under the orders of the Hadi Defense Force's top brass, this force retreated into various colonial satellites, trying to hold the city, and valuable warships—including 3 Magellan-class early type battleships and 12 Salamis-class fast cruisers—were abandoned in the harbor. The Hadi side wanted to use the defense facilities of the colonial satellites and the streets and alleys to drag the Zeon army in the street battle as much as possible, waiting for the support of the Earth side.

However, what they did not expect was that the support of the Earth Federation would not arrive anytime soon, and Zeon did not choose the conventional tactics of conducting landing operations.

Compared to Zeon, which is much smaller than the Federation Army, but can concentrate its forces, the Federation Army, although the fleet is large, needs to be defended, and there are more places that must not be abandoned.

The Second Fleet, which was still in Chabro and had not yet taken to the skies, was not mentioned.

The Third Fleet of the Federal Space Force stationed in the colony of SIDE5 'Rum' was strictly ordered by the Council not to move without permission, in order to ensure control of SIDE5, the economic center of the universe, Vice Admiral Tiam, who accepted this order, had to sit back and watch Hardy be beaten by the Space Attack Army.

The First Fleet of the Federal Space Force stationed on Luna II, that is, the low-orbit defense fleet, received an order to return to Luna II Fortress on January 3, the day of the war, and the same Luna II Fortress is also an important stronghold that must not be abandoned.

The Fifth Fleet of the Federal Space Force, stationed in Granada, a short distance from the moon, received an order to transfer its base to Luna-2 in order to consolidate Luna-2's defenses and take over Luna-2's defenses at the beginning of the decisive battle.

The only one that can be reinforced is the Sixth Fleet of the Federal Space Force of SIDE7, but on the one hand, the Sixth Fleet is too far away from the position of SIDE2 'Hardy' to rush to the aid in a short time, on the other hand, the Sixth Fleet is the weakest fleet directly under the jurisdiction of the Federation Space Force, and it is not even as good as the vast majority of the garrison forces, and it is not the opponent of the Zeon Army at all, so Vice Admiral Rebil, the commander-in-chief of the Federal Space Force, forcibly suppressed the call for the Sixth Fleet to rush to SIDE2, Considering the weakness of this force and the fact that it is also very far from the moon, it was not even asked to move closer to Luna-2.

In this way, compared to the Zeon Army, the strength of the Federation Space Force can be called fragmented, Rebir thought that he would wait until his Second Fleet entered the various parts of the universe to avoid unnecessary battles, and not give the Zeon Army a chance to break through, he decided to wait for him to join the First and Fifth Fleets before heading to SIDE5, and after joining with Thiam's Third Fleet, he would go straight to the Yellow Dragon, attack SIDE3, and gather four fleets to force the Zeon Wehrmacht to fight a decisive battle with a dignified Grand Fleet.

The size of the four fleets is equivalent to five times the size of the entire Zeon Wehrmacht fleet!

Rebiel would use this tactic, exactly as Lear had predicted before the war.

This was a safe, upright tactic with no problems, but neither Rebir nor Hardy nor even most of the cosmos including the SIDE3 people did not expect it.

They didn't expect Zeon to adopt such a decisive tactic.

"The death of a traitor in SIDE2 is a heavenly retribution!"

"This is a just punishment for the fools who betray the righteousness of the people of the universe!"

"This is the result of their own suffering!"

"Will anyone shed tears for the death of innocent Hadi citizens?"

"Absolutely!"

"The people of our Principality of Zeon, who are merciful, will weep for them and pray for them!"

"At the same time, our people are full of anger!"

"Filled with anger against the evil Earth Federation!"

"The Earth Federation has lured the people of the universe into betraying their rightful citizens, and they have instigated the stupid Hadi leadership to make them go to war with us!"

"However, while the Earth Federation instigated Hadi to fight with us, he couldn't shrink back and let the innocent Hadi citizens shed blood and sacrifice, so that the incompetent Earth Federation is our real enemy!"

"My compatriots! Two billion glorious citizens of the Principality of Zeon! And all the people of the universe who have realized the righteousness of our actions! ”

"The war with the Earth Federation has just begun!"

"Let's line up in a neat queue and move forward!"

"Let's go to the day of victory!"

In the speech of Commander-in-Chief Kilian Zabi, the Space Attack Force led by Dozru Zabi arrived at Hadi, and in the face of the strategy adopted by Hadi, the Space Attack Force led by Dozru did not carry out a landing operation after failing to persuade him to surrender.

They received an order to destroy all colonies that refused to surrender!

The combat formation is centered on Dozru's flagship Msey-class special cruiser 'Wangure', and the center is a flagship detachment of 10 Msey-class fast cruisers, including the Wangure, a total of 10 Msey-class fast cruisers, 6 Chibe-class heavy cruisers, and a total of 50 squads and 150 aircraft of MS towed into the battlefield by warships and civilian ships.

The forward is 9 fast cruisers of the Msey-class and 12 heavy cruisers of the Chibe class, and also includes a forward detachment of 50 squads and 150 aircraft of the MS.

and the two wings of the arch guard, each with 3 Msey-class fast cruisers, 30 squads with a total of 90 MS flank mobile units.

In addition to this, there is a supply fleet of spare MS and civilian ships, which are placed outside the battle line, as well as a mine fleet of 40 old Kator assault boats.

The Nominal flagship of the Wehrmacht, the Gwagin-class large space battleship No. 1, the Great Deggin, remained tens of thousands of kilometers away from the battlefield, and the battle was personally overseen by King Deggin Sodo Zabi himself.

The main weapon of Zeon, MS, is mainly the MS-06C Zagu II initial mass production model, doped with some MS-05 Zagu I old aircraft, and a very small part of the MS-06S Zagu II commander's special aircraft, the battle with the participation of hundreds of MS, even if you look at the entire year of war, it is a large-scale battle, they are like locust swarms overwhelming, to devour all the colonies.

At the beginning of the battle, the Hadi side abandoned the battleships in the spaceport and retreated to the city, and they did not blow up the ships, because in their opinion, Zeon would soon be suppressed by the Federation, and there was no need to destroy these properties belonging to SIDE2.

However, Zeon had no intention of landing, the battleships equipped with the Mega particle cannon attacked with naval guns and missiles, and the MS troops attacked with nuclear rocket artillery, and the Zeon side did not think about the occupation at all, and they quickly destroyed the spaceport, captured all the battleships, and then destroyed every colonial satellite.

The fragile colonial satellites could not withstand such an attack, and the Hadi defense forces, which were preparing to fight hard, were powerless to fight back, and the Miga particle jets and nuclear rocket launchers tore apart and distorted the satellites, and the interior of the destroyed satellites became a vacuum in an instant.

According to incomplete statistics, on this day, more than 1.5 billion people died in less than 3 hours, and the reason why the statistics are incomplete is that the number of deaths is so large that there is no room for statistics, so it can only be determined based on the population data of SIDE2 before the war.

The commander-in-chief ordered that in order to deter the other colonies, let them recognize the situation as soon as possible, abandon the darkness and turn to the light, this battle, do not take prisoners, and there will be no mercy!

All but one of the SIDE2 colonization satellites were destroyed.

The only surviving colony is named 'Ishu Fe', which is none other than SIDE2's capital colony.

And the Zeon side left this colony satellite with a population of 50 million not out of sudden kindness, but because this colony will be the key to the next phase of the Zeon army's operations.

In the pre-war conversation between Lear and Dozru, he argues that war is a matter of mathematics, that the war is won or lost depending on who can put as many troops into battle as possible in a limited amount of time, and in fact, everything is expected by Lear until the Federal Army will take action.

However, all the actions of the Zeon side Lear were completely miscalculated, he did not expect the Zeon army to attack SIDE2, a colony of no importance, nor did he expect that in the face of such a huge numerical disadvantage, the Zeon side would adopt the tactic of attacking SIDE2 and the lunar surface at the same time.

However, this is not because of Leer's great talent and low eyesight, but because his thinking is still a normal person's thinking, and he is not crazy to the point of Kilian.

According to Gilen's battle plan, the Zeon Army will not waste its forces on fleet battles, in his opinion, the war with the Federation Army is just the beginning, and after victory, he still needs a large fleet to deter the other SIDES.

Therefore, the fundamental reason why he decided to attack SIDE2 first is not only because SIDE2 openly supports the Federation, so he chose to be the target of the enemy, but also because the L4 Celestial Domain (Lagrange Point 4) where SIDE2 is located is at the closest moment to Earth.

He decided to take advantage of this by installing a thermonuclear engine on a colony that would force the colony to deflect into Earth's gravitational sphere, at which point it would become a king-sized 'Staff of God' (Note 1), destroying the Federation headquarters in Chabro, as well as Rebir and his Second Fleet in Chabro.

With the strong impetus of Kilian, this operation at the cost of 1.5 billion blood and irreversible damage to the planet was faithfully executed.

Like the British Empire, which had been reduced to a third-rate nation due to the loss of all its colonies, this battle would cause the Earth Federation to lose all of their cosmic colonies, which would rally around Zeon, hence the name 'Operation Britain'.

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Note 1: The Scepter of God is a space-based kinetic weapon system that also exists in reality, of course, I have not heard of any country that has a practical space-based kinetic weapon.

The principle is that by launching a metal rod made of high-density metal in Earth orbit and using the kinetic energy generated by a small rocket engine and a free-fall body to attack a target on the surface, the Scepter of God uses nothing more than a metal rod with a diameter of 30 centimeters, a length of 6 meters, and a weight of about several tons, and the use of an island colony with a diameter of 6 kilometers and a length of 30-40 kilometers is simply incomparable.

Of course, this also has to take into account that the island colony is hollow, and the effect is not realistic.

It is said that the asteroid that exterminated the dinosaurs was only 10 kilometers in diameter, and the earth was smashed so many things in the cosmic century, and it was only a small piece of Australia that was destroyed.

I want to learn from him, too.