At the headquarters of the 502nd Army Group in the Fifth Theater of Operations in Malaga City, a general with three shining gold stars on his shoulders was frowning and listening to a colonel's report.

"So, even you don't know why such a large number of rebels suddenly appeared in the XXX area?" The gray-haired admiral removed the pipe from his mouth, knocked it lightly on the edge of his desk, and groaned with a frown.

"Yes, General!" The colonel hesitated slightly, replied in a low and respectful voice, bowing his head slightly, as if he did not dare to look at the admiral's old eyes, which were a little cloudy but still shining sharply.

"I really don't know what these intelligence departments are doing in the war zone!" The admiral snorted coldly, with a hint of displeasure in his tone, and ordered with a pull on his old face: "Immediately go and find out the numbers of the rebels gathered in the XXX area, the specific strength and the objectives of their combat missions, and by the way, find out who the supreme commander of the other party is, understand!" ”

"Yes, General! Subordinates will do it! The kind of superior aura faintly revealed by the gray general made the colonel a little breathless, and he forcibly endured the cold sweat on his forehead and bowed down to answer.

"You'd better not let me use the reconnaissance unit directly under the headquarters of the army group, colonel!" The Admiral put the pipe back to his mouth, spat out two smoke rings, and said with a relaxed face.

"Please rest assured, the subordinates will definitely find out the movement of the enemy forces in the XXX area in the shortest possible time!" The colonel's heart skipped a beat, and he hurriedly stepped forward slightly and said to the admiral.

"Well, go ahead!" The Admiral leaned back into his comfortable, wide seat, waved his hand and removed his pipe, and let out a long puff of green smoke.

"Yes, General!" The colonel bowed proudly and hurried out of the not very modest office.

After the colonel went out, the admiral slowly closed the old eyes, and his long gray brows were tightly furrowed, as if he was thinking about something. After a few moments, the admiral suddenly opened his eyes again, sat up from the soft chair, clicked on a holographic communication video on his desk, and ordered one of the majors above: "Odin, let Colonel Singh of the reconnaissance brigade come over!" In addition, immediately connect to the headquarters of the 118th Army for me! ”

This white-eyed general is none other than the commander of the 502nd Army Group, General Opp. Half an hour ago, Opp received information from the Eighth Space Fleet of the Fifth Theater in space, saying that according to the ultra-long-range radar detection of the battle cruisers, several large rebel units suddenly appeared out of thin air in the XXX area. These rebel forces seem to be gathering at a certain location, not only are they huge, but they also seem to have a lot of main battle equipment, including mechas, chariots, fighters, etc., and they are likely to be the main forces of the rebels.

At this time, on the entire planet of Mutus, the Sharon rebels on almost all fronts showed faint signs of imminent rout. The XXX area was originally among the target groups that Army Group 502 was going to attack in the next stage, and before receiving information from the Eighth Space Fleet, the intelligence agencies directly under Army Group had always believed that there was only a small outpost of the rebels there, and there were not many rebel troops. However, the timely intelligence sent by the Eighth Fleet slapped the intelligence agency severely, and even Op, who was usually gentle and treated, couldn't help but be a little angry.

The XXX area was closest to the 118th Army under the 502nd Army Group, so Opp decided to leave aside the intelligence department and let the 118th Army cooperate with the reconnaissance team directly under the headquarters to conduct a detailed tactical reconnaissance of the rebels that were gathering in the area. Although this is somewhat an afterthought, it is better than doing nothing.

At the same time, in the Fifth Theater Command in space, Auston is also in front of the holographic map of the planet Mutus, and he also receives information about the sudden appearance of a large number of Sharon rebels in the XXX area. However, it was not the Eighth Space Fleet that sent intelligence first, but the 3rd Special Operations Group directly under the headquarters and the 28th Air Assault Division under Lin Bin's command.

Just the day before yesterday, in order to arrest the remnants of the 8th Military Police Brigade directly under the 118th Army of the 502nd Group Army Group who had escaped and the survivors of the 12th Marine Company such as Haoyi, Auston did not hesitate to personally order the mobilization and transfer of the 28th Air Assault Division, which was assigned to the reserve force directly under the theater, to cooperate with the 3rd Special Operations Group, and forcibly enter the 502nd Group Army's group defense area to carry out a search mission on the pretext of pursuing and suppressing the remnants of the rebels.

However, dozens of hours passed, and apart from finding a secret cave base of the 8th Military Police Group, the 3rd Special Operations Group and the 28th Air Assault Division found almost nothing, and Auston was so angry that his face turned pale. Just over an hour ago, Auston's son-in-law, Senior Colonel Ge Linbin, suddenly sent back a message from Mutus that the search force was first blocked by many well-equipped small rebel units in the XXX area, and then found that several rebel forces in the vicinity were equivalent to the level of the group army, and were secretly carrying out an emergency assembly towards the XXX area.

This unexpected circumstance forced Alston to consider whether to terminate the pursuit. You must know that such a large-scale operation of the rebels must have some important strategic purpose according to common sense, and it will inevitably alarm other combat units in Mutus. This will inevitably greatly affect the search operations of the 3rd Special Operations Group and the 28th Air Assault Division, and may even alarm the top brass of the Federal Military Department far away on the Mother Earth. After thinking about it, Auston finally gritted his teeth and made a decision.

"Anthony, immediately send a secret telegram to Senior Colonel Lin Bin, ordering him to immediately lead the 28th Air Assault Division and the 3rd Special Operations Group to evacuate the XXX area and go to the 502nd Group Army Group Defense Area to rest and recuperate, and then withdraw to the headquarters!" Alston clicked on a communication screen on the table and gave an order to one of the Major's staff officers who appeared on it.

※※※ In the base of the Earth Federation Military Department, the Minister of Military Intelligence Yate was frowning at the two pieces of information in his hand. One of them is exactly the same information as the information obtained by Op and Auston, which is the news about the sudden appearance of a large number of Sharon rebels in the XXX area of Mutus Planet, and the other is a message sent back by a special intelligence agent who has infiltrated the upper echelons of Sharon's new army. According to the news, the top management of Sharon's new army decided to launch a planet destruction jihua codenamed "Zero" on the planet Mutus, the details of Jihua are not clear, but the general content is to use nuclear weapons to detonate the core of the planet Mutus, and then create a big bang on the entire planet.

After receiving the information, Art judged with a keen intuition that the two seemingly unrelated pieces of information must be inextricably linked. It is quite possible that a large number of rebels suddenly appeared in the XXX area, which were assembled precisely for the purpose of carrying out the so-called zero jihua. However, there was not a single trace of useful information in Art's mind about why the rebels were assembling with such fanfare, not hesitating to expose their targets, and how to carry out the zeroing jihua, and how to choose the XXX area with complex terrain to carry out.

At this moment, what made Yate even more inexplicably irritated was that about 20 hours ago, McCarron and others from the 8th Military Police Brigade, the space transport ship directly under the military department, and Hao Yi and other surviving members of the 12th Marine Company, suddenly lost contact, and there was no news until now, and the secret transport ship responsible for the pick-up had to quietly leave Mutus after waiting for several hours. In other words, the favorable witnesses that could help Art successfully bring down Auston disappeared into thin air, and the remaining physical evidence, although it was also somewhat useful, was more convincing without these witnesses.

Seeing that it was about to be done, but at this time, there was a sudden change of hexagram, how did this not make Art upset.

"Lore, arrange it for me, I'm going to Mutus myself!" After a moment of contemplation, Art got up and walked out of the chamber and commanded a lieutenant guarding the door.

※※※ Outside the city of Luel on the planet Mutus, on a hill near the logistics base of the 118th Army, there is a group of people wearing individual light armor, carrying all kinds of strange-looking "weapons and equipment" and are nervously busy. The group was dressed strangely, and although they were wearing the Union Army's standard individual light armor, the armor liners were in a variety of casual clothes, and none of them wore standard holographic helmets. If you look closely, you can see that on the back of these people's armor, there is a set of large white letters "ENN" printed on them.

"At present, the counterinsurgency forces in the Fifth Theater of our Federation are progressing smoothly! Taking my current area as an example, an army under the 502nd Army Group of the Fifth Theater had already broken through Luair, an important transportation hub in the north of Mutus, two days ago! A beautiful woman with silky, pale yellow long hair, a delicate melon seed face, crescent moon thin eyebrows, and a graceful and tall big-eyed beauty, was facing a camera-like object, talking eloquently, while talking and turning around and pointing to the city of Louel in the distance and the temporary base at the bottom of the mountain, a crisp and pleasant voice echoed in the valley: "Now that the morale of all units of our counterinsurgency army is high and overwhelming, we have reason to believe that it will not be long before our federal counterinsurgency force will be able to wipe out all the rebels on the planet Mutus, Successfully recover this gateway planet that is crucial to the Sharon Star Zone! Xiexie everyone's attention, ENN war correspondent Xia Li, will report for you in real time outside the city of Mutus Luair! Saying that, this beauty's red lips are slightly raised, her teeth are lightly opened, and she puts on a moving smile at the camera, with the S-shaped Peugeot figure, coupled with the light armor, this almost god-level uniform temptation is enough to make countless otaku dicks "bleed to death".

"Click!" At this moment, a noisy and unpleasant male duck voice violently shattered this beautiful picture, so that countless single men in front of the TV will hate the owner of this voice. When the beautiful reporter heard this voice, she only breathed a sigh of relief, and when the moving smile disappeared, she immediately changed into a calm and beautiful face, and began to remove the miniature headsets and other objects on her body.

"Everyone's called it a day!" A short and fat middle-aged man raised his hand high in the crowd, and then ran towards the beautiful reporter with a greasy fat face, and said with a flattering smile: "That Xia Li, you have worked hard!" Can you enjoy your face and have some wine together in the evening? I just found out that there is another bar in Louelle......"

"No need! I'm not interested! The beautiful reporter named Xia Li seemed to hate the middle-aged short and fat person in front of her, and she smiled slightly and refused coldly, and walked away by herself.

"Sister Xia Li, the 118th Army seems to be moving again!" The middle-aged short and fat was stunned by the beautiful reporter's rejection, and was about to catch up and continue to show his pickled girl**, a staff member suddenly pressed the headset as if he had received a message, and hurriedly stepped forward to say to the beautiful reporter.

"Oh? When did it happen? The beautiful reporter's eyes lit up and she hurriedly asked.

"The news I just received was sent by Henry, who remained in the command of the 118th Army! He said that the 118th Army seems to be urgently assembling, and the scale of Operation Jiashi is not small! ”

"Let's go! Go back now! The beautiful reporter shook her hair and said a concise sentence to everyone, and these people began to hurriedly pack up all kinds of equipment, and it could be seen that her prestige among the crowd was far greater than that of the middle-aged short and fat.