October 18, 2717 A.D., was supposed to be the 220th anniversary of the founding of the Earth Federation of Mankind. On this day, however, the history of mankind took another major turn.

Early in the morning of that day, a major commander was hurriedly woken up by guards in a deep sleep at a forward post of federal forces on Planet Solomy, the capital of the New Miami Star District.

"Sir, something is wrong!" The guard reported with a panicked expression.

"Panic what! Say, what's wrong? The major kicked the guard away impatiently and scolded.

"Report to the Commander! We are surrounded by local garrisons! The guards got up from the ground, saluted, and hurried back to report.

"When did it happen? Why is there no news from the peripheral patrol team? The major seemed to have anticipated this, and asked without the slightest panic, as he dressed his army in an orderly manner.

"Ten minutes ago, the on-duty officers of the communications group found that they had lost contact with several patrol teams on the periphery at the same time, and then they found a large number of local garrison troops near the cordon of the outpost. Now these garrisons are less than five hundred meters away from our outpost! ”

"How many troops does the other side have, and what is the firepower configuration?"

"A fully reinforced regiment with an unknown number of siege tanks and raider mechs, as well as a large number of Vicious Fire assault vehicles!"

"What? Siege tanks, raider mechs? The major was slightly taken aback and said, "Damn, where did the local garrison get such a heavy weapon?" ”

"Troop Commander, what do we do now?"

"Use the space secondary wave channel to warn the theater headquarters and report what happened here to the headquarters!" Major Zhengshi ordered.

"Sir, all the long-distance communication equipment at the outpost has been interfered with, and there is no way to send a single message to the outside world!" The guard said with a sad face.

"Oh?" The major groaned for a moment, then waved his hand and said: "Forget it, notify the detachments in the outpost base, disarm the battle alarm, cancel the filling of the base's defense artillery energy, and send a signal to the local garrison to announce that the outpost has entered a state of zero alert!" ”

"Huh? Commander, don't you just resist? The guard said in surprise.

"What nonsense! Execute the command! ”

"Yes!" The guard said yes, turned and ran out of the room.

"One or two hundred people against four or five thousand heavily armed troops, it's just looking for death!" The major looked at the distant figure of the guards, shook his head and smiled helplessly, and then let out a long breath and said to himself: "Fortunately, the headquarters of the war zone has already had a secret order, otherwise, if you don't resist, you will surrender, and Lao Tzu will have to be sent to a military court even if he doesn't die!" Hey, I don't know what happened to the other outposts on the planet! ”

This major was the officer who secretly reported to Bart Auston on the movements of the local garrison on the planet Solomi. The nearly thirty forward posts in the Fifth War Zone stationed on the planet Solomi are all under his command.

Somewhere on the planet Eder in the Poole Star Zone, in the underground base of the Fifth Theater Headquarters of the Federation, Supreme Commander Bart hurried to the busy command center.

"How's the old fellow?" Bart frowned and asked Alston Road, who arrived at the command center first.

"The forward posts of the planets in the New Miami Sector lost contact with the headquarters almost simultaneously!" Alston said and handed over a piece of paper: "Look at it, this is the latest information sent by the intelligence department of the military department!" ”

Bart took the information, glanced at it roughly, and said with a smile: "The intelligence department of the military department always waits until something is about to happen before it will come to inform you!" Relying on these guys who eat white food, I'm afraid the Federation will be finished long ago! ”

"Old man, give the order!" Auston smiled and said, "I estimate that in a few hours, we will receive news of the independence of the Miami Star District!" Let's get some preparation first! ”

"Good! Chief of Staff, order to immediately convene a pre-war emergency meeting! Barton nodded, turned back to a colonel beside him, and ordered.

In the logistics base directly under the 115th Army Group of the Fifth Theater of Eder Planet, the soldiers of each company were busy preparing to celebrate the anniversary of the founding of the Federation. However, the logistics headquarters suddenly issued an order to cancel all kinds of celebrations, the base entered a state of combat readiness, and all personnel who went out on vacation quickly returned to the construction within 10 hours. When receiving the order, almost all the soldiers subconsciously sensed that war was about to break out.

As a result, with the exception of three unlucky ghosts who were locked in confinement and knew nothing about the outside world, the entire logistics base entered an extremely tense state of readiness. These three unlucky ghosts are naturally the three Haoyi who almost "hurt" the logistics minister of the group army group because of an unintentional mistake.

"Lao Zhao, I'm really sorry for you this time! It's all my fault, and even you are in confinement! In the confinement room of the 9th Maintenance Company, Haoyi put his arm around Zhao Jiakun's shoulders and said guiltily.

"I'm fine, anyway, the military service period is almost over, if I'm lucky, at most, when I change jobs, the military department won't arrange a good errand for me! But the two of you have just joined the army, even if you can escape this time, you have to fill in such a black stroke on your resume, I'm afraid you won't have a good time in the future! The honest Zhao Jiakun waved his hand and smiled, a little worried about Haoyi and the others.

"Hey, thinking of yesterday's events, Lao Tzu still has palpitations!" Seeing Zhao Jiakun say this, Haoyi was faintly moved in his heart, sighed, and regretted that because of his playfulness, the innocent squad leader also suffered. As they were talking, the mountain sound of "snoring" sounded in the confinement room, and the two looked back and saw Hu Erpang leaning against the wall, tilting his head and hanging a long saliva at the corner of his mouth, snoring very comfortably.

"You foodie!" Haoyi was angry when he saw this, and he gave Hu Erpang a big foot in the past, and scolded angrily: "In addition to eating and sleeping all day long, Ya, this time I blame you, what are you doing with your big ass when you are idle?" ”

"Brother Hao!" Hu Erpang was awakened from his dream, heard Haoyi's scolding, and cried and defended with a sad face: "How do I know that you have activated the artillery system at that time, and you are aiming at the minister's convoy!" Besides, with such a narrow cockpit, there is no other place to sit except for the console that can fit my big ass! ”

"Oh my God!" Hearing Hu Er's fat zuihou's words, Haoyi slapped his forehead extremely exaggeratedly, looked up to the sky and howled, and lamented: "How did I meet you, the best foodie?" ”

There is no official historical record of this accident of the 9th Maintenance Company before the outbreak of the Commonwealth Civil War. Only one lieutenant colonel, who at that time served as a staff officer of the guard of Lieutenant General Bors, once wrote in his memoirs: "It was an extremely terrible experience! At that time, I had just left the convoy with the lieutenant general and other senior officers. Suddenly, the muzzle of a siege tank that was being repaired in the maintenance area flashed white, and a muffled sound came, and we felt a strong gust of air blowing above our heads, and that creepy feeling is still fresh in my memory. When they saw this scene at that time, everyone, including the lieutenant general, was instantly stunned in place.

The next moment, there was a loud bang in the area where the convoy was staying behind us, and a rapid shock wave hit from behind, and before everyone could react, they were flipped to the ground. Then, a piercing alarm sounded in the area where the maintenance company was located. However, the maintenance soldiers did not know how to deal with such an emergency. In desperation, I had to hurriedly order the escort to cover the evacuation of the wounded lieutenant general, and the rest of the people quickly surrounded the siege tank that intended to "assassinate" the lieutenant general.

The results of the post-mortem investigation revealed that the entire accident was caused solely by the lack of training of the recruits of the two maintenance companies. Fortunately, at that time, the siege tank was set to field mode, and the power of the plasma cannon was only half of that of siege mode, and the artillery energy was in armor-piercing mode, and the killing radius only covered a small area where the convoy was located. Fortunately, there was no one in the vicinity of the convoy at the time, and we and the lieutenant general and the others were just out of the effective range of the artillery, and with the individual light armor that everyone was wearing, there were no other casualties except for the occasional few people who should be knocked to the ground by the air.

I think that if the artillery had been fired a little earlier, even if only half a minute earlier, everyone would have been killed by that powerful artillery. It was such a nightmare experience! ”

After the incident, Lieutenant General Bross, who was extremely angry because he almost lost his life, was so angry that he almost shot the company commander Li Yi on the spot. In Bross's view, even if someone really wanted to assassinate him, it was Li Yi's responsibility for not being strict with his precautions. What's more, the whole thing was actually just an "accident" caused by the lack of training of two recruits.

Thanks to Li Yi's distant relatives who tried their best to defend Li Yi, he was able to escape. However, Li Yi was also annoyed and angry and took Haoyi and the three as scapegoats, and angrily ordered them to be sent to a military court. The three were then temporarily placed in confinement cells, awaiting their arrest by the military police of the court-martial.

"Brother Hao, do you think we will be shot this time?" Hu Erpang looked at Haoyi, who was looking up and wailing, and snorted pitifully: "Woo, I don't want to hang up now, there are so many delicious things I haven't eaten yet!" ”

"Boom!" Hao Yi was so angry that he jumped to Hu Er's fat head and scolded: "You foodie, when did you change your career to be a crow's mouth again!" ”

"Squad Leader Zhao! The company commander wants to see you! Hao Yi was scolding angrily, and suddenly the door of the confinement room opened, and the herald who came in the company said to the three of them.

"Huh? Are the gendarmes of the dog-day coming? Haoyi jumped in front of the herald and shouted.

"Let's go, squad leader Zhao!" The herald glared at Hao Yi, and only turned back to Zhao Jiakun and said.

"Brother, what is the company commander looking for us?" Zhao Jiakun got up and came to the herald's side and asked kindly.

"I don't know! But now the entire base is in combat readiness! The herald shook his head, and suddenly whispered with a worried face, "There is going to be a war!" ”

"Fight!" The three of Haoyi exclaimed in unison when they heard this, and looked at each other with different expressions. Hearing these two words, Hao Yi suddenly felt that his heart was inexplicably excited, Zhao Jiakun was faintly worried, but Hu Erpang never thought that he would have to fight as a soldier.