On the long border, a group of soldiers who were patrolling at night were walking forward with their heads bored, and the war was getting closer and closer, and the sorrow in the hearts of these young soldiers was getting stronger and stronger.

No one likes war, and no one wants it to come, especially these low-level soldiers. The word cannon fodder may be too cruel, but this is the truth, the infantry of the basic unit is cannon fodder, and every shell falling is enough to make dozens of people disappear, turning into stumps and broken arms in one place, and they can't fight to put together a complete human form. They are also the children of their own parents, and they are loved by their families, but their lives are worthless on the battlefield.

In recent days, the number of night patrols has become more and more frequent, and everyone's heart is heavy, and there is always a premonition that something bad will happen. Every day is a new life and a new journey to hell. The young soldier walking in the middle of the line suddenly asked, "Is there really going to be a war, can there be no war?", he suddenly felt that he might have said the wrong thing, and quickly added, "I mean that if the dispute can be resolved by peaceful means, it is better not to go to war." ”

No one in the team laughed at him, because everyone else thought the same way, in fact, although they obeyed the requirements of their superiors and respected the choice of the federal government, deep down they may not have complained about the federal government at all. Obviously it is only a matter of a few people, but the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers are used to maintain the dignity of a few people and a few, is this exchange worth it?

No one spoke, and the soldier who spoke stopped talking, and the group continued to walk forward, walking for about twenty minutes, and when they were about to see the next outpost, the leading soldier suddenly stopped, and the faces of several other veterans became a little strange. They are not recruits, they are not conscripts and recruits forcibly conscripted into the army, they have experienced joint exercises and know that when there is a slight jolt in the soles of their feet, it means that there is a massive war machine moving fast.

"What's wrong?", the recruit who spoke just now asked suspiciously, he couldn't see the faces of these veterans clearly in the night, but he was faintly panicked, so he couldn't help blurting out and asked.

The veterans remained silent, and after about twenty seconds, the captain shouted a quick march and immediately began to run. The recruits didn't understand what was happening, but it was always right to run with the captain, and as they ran into the sentry, a shrill whistling ...... suddenly sounded in their ears.

The entire outpost was blown up into the sky, and it was only then that the sound of an explosion was heard in the ears of some of the soldiers whose heads remained intact.

There were no special effects of fire, no reminders of people running and shouting to lie down, the shrapnel that shattered and flew out and the bricks that exploded from the outpost swept through everything that was "standing" within a radius of thirty meters.

It's war!

The empire fought undeclared in the middle of the night, and under the moonlight, a large field of war machines quickly rushed towards the border line with twelve huge mechanical arms, and on the weapons of these war machines, one cannon after another continued to spew thick smoke, like a devil in the night.

The camp on the Union border immediately remembered the piercing sound of the alarm, a large number of soldiers rushed out of the tents, rushed to the front line with weapons, and hundreds of flares suddenly rose in the sky, and the war was completely started.

At the same time, the Empire announced by telephone and telegram to all known countries that the Empire had officially declared war on the Confederation, entering a state of war from immediate onwards.

An hour later, Mr. Sail was woken up. He rubbed his face and sat up from the bed, and asked without looking back, "What happened?"

The butler outside the door whispered, "The war broke out, and the Imperial side did not declare war until half an hour after the outbreak of the war, and I think I should tell you." ”

Mr. Sail was in a trance for a moment and sighed, "Thanks, I see, help me prepare my clothes and car, I'm going to the Houses of Parliament." After the butler answered and left, Mr. Sail stood up, took a brief shower, then changed his clothes, and got into the car.

As he was in the car, he began to think about how to deal with the next situation. Although to some extent, he insisted on forcing the Imperial side to cooperate with him and directed it, but after the war really broke out, how it ended may not necessarily be played out according to the script. He opened the box, and no one knew what was in it, and no one knew how to close it. As soon as the state of war begins, a lot of things will deviate from the planned track. If the Federation can't sustain the first few rounds of attacks, maybe the Empire will make a fake show.

It's like...... As was the case more than 20 years ago, Mags's plan at that time was to use the invasion of the Federation to consume a large number of unstable defeated peoples, send the young and middle-aged of these defeated nations to the battlefield to die, and stabilize the environment at the grassroots level of the empire's society. When the new generation of young people grows up, most of them will forget their former country, their former culture, everything they were proud of, and think of themselves as an imperial person. The plan did not go straight to the periphery of the imperial capital, and the original scenario was to fight a war of attrition within the empire.

The empire sent the young and strong of these defeated nations to the battlefield, and the federation was to coordinate and alleviate the contradictions and pressures at home by exporting wars, and each took what he needed.

However, after the outbreak of the war, the Federation found that the borders and resistance of the empire were almost equal to none, and the backward system, the outdated armament, and the corrupt system were not at all as strong as the empire showed in peacetime. The insiders were moved, and the uninformed were also moved, since the empire was so empty, why not try to conquer the country? So the script was revised for the first time, and the Federation began to add drama to itself, strengthening the main army of the vanguard, all the way to the city of Otis before stopping. As for why they didn't fight, because they really couldn't fight.

Backward transportation made logistics extremely troublesome, and the severed supply lines made the vanguard legion besieged in the city of Otis and unable to move, and the fully revaled empire pulled out the elite northern legion and had the ability to counterattack. At this time, the original meaning of the war was lost, and the two sides came to the negotiating table.

The situation is almost exactly the same now as it was more than 20 years ago, when the most ignorant people pay for the wars waged by a few, but will the other side really play the script?

Mr. Sail wasn't sure that Maggs and those behind him might not be so friendly, and that it would be a test from hell.