In the first month of 2718 A.D., the breath of the New Year is everywhere on every planet inhabited by humans, including the mother planet of the Earth. The sky over the modern metropolis is full of brilliant fireworks projected by various three-dimensional holograms, and the streets and alleys and skyscrapers are full of people dressed in festive costumes. Laughter, singing, balloons and even fireworks are all catharsis of people's joy, and even the major planets of the new Miami Star District, which have just experienced the war, are also full of festive atmosphere.

In the city of Felton on the planet of Miles in the St. Proli Star District, yellow and bright fire dragons roared quickly between the skyscrapers. It is the unique New Year's celebration of the planet Melsa, and the fire dragon is made up of specially modified hovering locomotives painted with patterns on various parts of the dragon's body, and the locomotives are equipped with special fireworks devices. When the locomotive is speeding at high speed, these devices will constantly spray brilliant fireworks outward, making the whole locomotive "Fire Dragon" even more vivid and spectacular.

On the top floor of a towering skyscraper in the center of the city, with a sinuous coiled black dragon carved at the top, a middle-aged man in a black retro robe, with slightly white temples and a thin body, stood quietly in front of the floor-to-ceiling glass window with his hands on his back, looking out the window at the roaring and speeding fire dragons in the distance.

"Master, the second master and several clan elders have arrived!" In the luxury hotel-style room, an old voice suddenly sounded. The middle-aged man looked back and saw an old man with frosty white hair and a slightly stiff body, standing respectfully with his hands down not far behind him.

"Where's Miss?" The middle-aged man asked lightly.

"Back to the master, the young lady is accompanying the second aunt and grandmother in the living room downstairs!" The old man bent down slightly.

The middle-aged man nodded, as if he wanted to go out, but he just took two steps and settled, sighed thoughtfully, and then found the couch next to him and sat down, raised his head and frowned and asked the old man who followed him: "Ah Fu, tell me, why did those people in the Miami Star District lose so quickly?" In less than two months, it was cleaned up for the Fifth War Zone of the Federation? ”

"Master, what kind of insight can these big and small things have?" The old man smiled humbly and replied.

"It doesn't matter, you've been with me for so many years, and sometimes you see many things more thoroughly than me. Maybe it's the so-called bystander Qing, Ah Fu, you just talk about it! The middle-aged man waved his hand.

"That little one just babbles a few words, and the old man has the right to listen to it as a joke!" The old man groaned slightly, smiled and spoke, and then frowned and said: "Master, the little one has nothing to say, I only know that there was once an old saying, called a gun shoots a bird." I guess that this person in the Miami Star District probably didn't play the role of this budding bird. Also, if it's a flock of birds, then no matter how haode hunters are, I'm afraid they won't be able to deal with it for a while. ”

"You mean......" Hearing the old man's words, the middle-aged man seemed to have an epiphany, frowned and groaned for a moment, and suddenly praised with joy: "Ah Fu, you still see things more thoroughly!" After a pause, the middle-aged man raised his head and continued to ask, "By the way, the secret envoys of the Sharon Star Region and the Granci Star Region haven't left Mersa yet, right?" ”

"Back to the sir, they are still staying at the Shangglary Hotel!"

"Good! When you go back and invite them over, you say invite them to celebrate the New Year! The middle-aged man patted the leather armrests of the sofa, as if he had made some major decision, and his old eyes, which were originally a little cloudy, became clear and bright.

On Earth, the home planet of the Federation, people from all over the world welcome the arrival of the new year with a variety of ancient traditions and customs. Although science and technology have been highly developed, compared with other planets, the architectural communities in various human settlements on the earth have a more antique taste, and the cultural and folk customs handed down by early humans are relatively intact on the earth. The people of the Federation on the home planet are more inclined to enjoy the family reunion of the New Year than to participate in the various high-tech New Year's celebrations.

On the eastern coast of North America, a majestic metropolis stands on the sea's edge, the headquarters of the Federation of All Mankind - the great capital of New York. In a col near the sea in the southeast corner of New New York, there is a heavily fortified military base, which is the seat of the federal military headquarters.

At this time, the federal military headquarters was still as usual, and it seemed deserted on the surface, except for a few luxury military locomotives that occasionally entered and exited the base, and the faint roar of the banshee engine in the air from time to time, there seemed to be no popularity. The base barrier, which is made of top-grade heavy steel armor, shines with a cold light in the afterglow of the setting sun, making the entire base look particularly solemn.

However, this is only the surface of the base, and the underground base below the ground level is brightly lit, and countless officers of all colors are nervously busy.

"Rest assured, generals! We'll have enough evidence soon! In a secret communication room, a balding middle-aged colonel with a dark complexion and a sturdy body said respectfully to the more than a dozen holographic communication screens side by side in front of him. On those screens, there were more than a dozen four-star and five-star generals with different appearances, as well as an old man with a white head and white eyebrows, dressed in civilian clothes, about sixty or seventy.

"Art, I want you to prioritize the resources of the Military Intelligence Department in the Fifth Theater of Operations, understand?" The old man in civilian clothes squinted at the old eyes and said lightly. Although the old man's expression seemed indifferent, there was a kind of awe-inspiring domineering of a superior person between his words.

"Yes, Marshal!" The middle-aged colonel hurriedly stepped forward and saluted, and replied loudly.

The old man nodded, and then the picture flashed, and the half-length image of the non-angry and self-righteous disappeared, and the other dozen or so generals also nodded to Ya Jie one after another, cutting off the communication one after another.

"These old men are really hard to serve!" The middle-aged principal sighed and shook his head and sighed, then walked to a microcomputer, clicked on the holographic display, turned out an encrypted file inside, and began to browse.

This is a summary report on the latest developments in the Federation's major theaters and major colonial galaxies in the past month, which was sent back by secret agents placed in the governors' mansions in various major theaters and galaxies by the military intelligence department under the military department, and was carefully screened and sorted out by dozens of senior intelligence officers of the military intelligence department after several days and nights.

The rebellion in the new Miami Star District was cleanly quelled by the Fifth War Zone long before the New Year arrived. Despite this, public opinion has always believed that this is a dereliction of duty by the federal military department, which failed to stifle the rebellion in the cradle, and thus caused the Miami Star District to be poisoned by the war. However, only a handful of senior officers in the military department knew that a year before the new Miami Star District declared independence, the powerful military intelligence had gathered enough intelligence to confirm that the branch was brewing independence from the Union.

The reason why the Federal Military Department allowed the Miami Star District to successfully declare independence was caused by the inaction of the Military Department on the surface, but in fact, in the eyes of a few insiders, such as the colonel officer named Yat, this is actually a triangular game between the core high-level of the military department headed by Marshal Rui Youling and the subordinate theaters and the colonial system Governorate.

To explain this seemingly bizarre triangular game, we have to have a general understanding of the power network within the human federal government at this time. At that time, the core of power of the federal government consisted of three parts, one was a cabinet led by a prime minister and his subordinates, responsible for the normal operation of the federal government, the second was the upper and lower houses of the federal parliament, responsible for the appointment, dismissal, impeachment of core officials of the federal government, and the designation of various major decisions, and the third was controlled by the military department to control the five major theaters and be responsible for defending the federal government.

Originally, these three cores of power were mutually restrained and balanced. But I don't know when the power of the Federal Chancellor and the Cabinet plummeted, and he almost became a puppet of the Federal Parliament. The only thing that can compete with the Federal Assembly is the military department, which ostensibly controls the billions of powerful armies in the five theaters.

In the first ten years when Rui Youling became the only marshal of the Federation and controlled the military department, the five major theaters under the military department were quite well-behaved and obedient. However, since about five years ago, except for the first theater directly under the military headquarters, the other four theaters of war have gradually begun to fall out of the control of the military department. This made the core high-level of the military department headed by Marshal Rui Youling very worried.

After a long period of analysis, these old men unanimously concluded that a federal civil war was inevitable. With this level of sober understanding, the old men began to try to make the outbreak of the federal civil war, as they wished, in order to obtain the maximum benefit from the civil war, and finally be able to completely defeat all potential hostile shili and obtain absolute control of the federal government.

The military intelligence department, which was established at an astronomical cost of the military department, played a major role at this time. The detailed information collected on various aspects provided strong support for the decision-making of these old men. To the surprise of Rui Youling and other core leaders of the military department, the intelligence obtained from the military intelligence department showed that the Federal Assembly was gradually losing control of the Governors of the major colonial star regions, and more than a dozen colonial Governorates seemed to be about to move.

This information made the old and spicy Rui You Ling smell a glimmer of opportunity. In his opinion, if the other four major theaters can be lured to jump out and start a civil war before the other four major theaters and the federal military department officially turn against each other, then he can use the liliang of the federal parliament and public opinion circles to help the military department force the remaining four major theaters to carry out counterinsurgency wars, so as to achieve the goal of depleting the military strength of the remaining four major theaters. Moreover, through the federal civil war, the military was able to gradually control the federal parliament. This is undoubtedly a trick to kill three birds with one stone.

When it learned that the new Miami Star District was preparing for independence, the federal military department not only turned a blind eye, but even sold some high-end weapons and equipment to the Miami Directory through non-governmental channels, intentionally or unintentionally. Originally, the military top brass also counted on the Miami New Army to be able to massively consume the elite of the Fifth Theater.

However, to their surprise, the commanders of the Fifth War Zone, Bart and Auston, also seemed to sense something, and in the third week after the outbreak of the Civil War, they changed their previous cautious style and dispatched almost all the elites of the Fifth War Zone, and extinguished the war in the Miami Star Zone in less than two months with a thunderous force.

As a result, the Fifth Theater's military strength not only suffered no major losses, but also enabled its subordinate main forces to gain a lot of valuable combat experience through fierce battles.

"Solomy strikes back?" Art looked at the encrypted file while thinking wildly, and suddenly a message popped up. Almost out of professional instinct, Art only took a cursory glance, and it was obvious that there was a lot of truth in this so-called "Solomi counterattack", and he couldn't help but take a closer look.

"Luoer, arrange a special plane for me, and prepare to go to the headquarters of the Fifth War Zone!" A moment later, Art closed the encrypted file, opened a small communicator at hand, and commanded one of the lieutenant officers inside.