Chapter 155: Andrea's Troubles
Royun Star Domain, Morakot Federation, Sena Star Democracy Memorial Plaza.
Same conscription, but much more drowsy than it was a year ago.
A year ago, the great conscription was impassioned, and all of them set foot on the battlefield without hesitation with the mentality of serving the motherland and making meritorious contributions to the battlefield. But now that the war has lasted for nearly a year, the Federation has not only failed to achieve decent results, but has also lost troops one after another, so that now the government is unable to carry out conscription again.
President Andrea's luxurious suite at the very top of the Imperial Restaurant frowned and looked at everything in the square below, and there were only a few citizens who went to join the army in contrast to the dozens of recruiting offices, and the other pedestrians were in a hurry, and they didn't even bother to look at it.
There were more than ten people in the whole room, most of them were soldiers in military uniforms, including four-star generals and high-ranking generals at the theater level, but only three people could sit calmly on the sofa.
One was President Andrea, sitting facing the window, while on his left side sat another man, an old man with five gold stars on his shoulders. The gray-haired man does not have the twilight of old age, but has a fierce aura that people can't look at directly, which even Andrea, as president, does not have. He is the actual controller of the military headquarters of the Morakot Federation, and the only Marshal of the Five Elements of the Morakot Federation, Murphy.
To Andrea's right sat a blue-blooded man with a thin skin and numerous slender braids on his head.
"I'm ready to introduce compulsory conscription." Andrea said suddenly.
"Think twice, do you know the consequences of such a decree?" The Minister of Economy, who was standing behind Andrea, jumped and retorted almost without thinking.
"Of course I know, but do I have a choice? The war-weariness of the people has reached its peak after the news of Ppudier's defeat reached the country, and now our fifth round of conscription has been going on for nearly half a month, but it is still far from the goal of this conscription. Is it possible to do without compulsory conscription? Andrea said helplessly.
About a month ago, Pudier, an extremely important colonial star of the Morakot Federation, launched a counteroffensive craze. In order to dispel the myth that the Zerg are invincible on the planet's ground battlefield, the Morakot Federation has invested more than 700 marines to participate in this battle, intending to completely wipe out the swarm entrenched on the planet Pudiel.
However, it backfired, the intelligence system of the Zerg was still extremely sensitive, and there was an accident in the most important command link when this military plan was implemented.
More than a dozen cardinals burst into the military headquarters responsible for directing the battle, and in front of hundreds of thousands of soldiers, they wiped out the headquarters of the Morakot Federation military headquarters in one fell swoop, and then calmly left.
In the ensuing battle, there was no suspense in the defeat of the troops without any suspense, and more than 30 million marines were almost all driven into the sea by the swarm to feed the fish, and the scene of the rout was simply miserable.
But that's not the worst of it. Because no matter how much the ground battlefield is lost, there is a space fleet to stand up. But to their surprise, the Leviathan fleet, which had been avoiding a fight, appeared in Pudière under the leadership of the brainworm Eusine, and then it took only two hours to annihilate the Third Fleet of the Federation guarding there.
The response of the Morakot Federation military headquarters was also timely, and after discovering the Leviathan fleet in Yushne, it mobilized nearly 5,000 warships to encircle and suppress it from all directions. But without exception, they were blocked by other Leviathan fleets that appeared out of nowhere. The reinforcements were held back for nearly three days, and on the fourth day the reinforcements from the Morak Federation arrived in Pudière. The once mighty 30 million Marines have long since been gnawed by the swarm to the point that there are no bones left.
The battle cost the Union army 30 million Marines, which is an extremely large number. At that time, the Morakot Federation had less than 300 million Marines. also has to be divided into various places, and the Morakot Federation, which has not many troops, is even worse for a while.
But what was even more terrifying was the impact of the war, and the death of 30 million soldiers shook the entire Federation. The citizens of the Federation no longer had any hope for the war, and even some civilians who had once been eager to become citizens had extinguished the idea of joining the army to gain status, and for a time the Confederacy's recruiting office was crowded.
Even Clark, known as the largest military base in the Morakot Federation, was the same, because it started with the initial mobilization of the war. A single Clark has exported 50 million troops to the Federation. In the year-long war, one-tenth of Clarke's soldiers have died on the battlefield, and the battle of Pudier Star directly caused more than 10 million Clark Nemesis to die in the belly of the worm.
Since then, Clark has completely lost confidence in the Federal Military Department, and now the entire Clark Star is on the verge of breaking out, and has even begun to openly refuse to perform the military service assigned to Clark by the Federation.
The military service is the quota allocated by the Federation to each colony star. Basically, on average, each colonial star is enlisted by about 50,000 people, and this system is mandatory, and it is an obligation that every colonial star must fulfill.
At one time, Clark's military service was the highest on any planet, reaching an unprecedented 700,000 places. If Clark refuses to perform military service, the Federation will lose an extremely important legal conscription bill, which is not a serious blow to the Morakot Federation, which is now severely understaffed.
"How many troops are we missing?" Andrea did not pay attention to the Minister of Economy, but turned to the Minister of Defense next to him.
"If we just defend passively, we still have a shortage of at least 200 million, if we want to have space, at least 450 million, and if we want to organize an attack, we need at least 800 million marines." These figures are the result of countless calculations by the soldiers of the Ministry of Defense, but no matter how you look at them, these figures are exaggerated enough, and they are too far from the actual military strength of the Morakot Federation.
There is no way to do it, and now half of the territory of the Morakot Federation has been reduced to a war zone, and the fleet of the Morakot Federation also occupies part of the Elsa District. These places require a large number of Marines to curb the movement of the planet's insect swarms, otherwise the space fleet will always be firmly nailed in place by these insects moving on the ground, and they will not dare to leave at all.
Half a year ago, because he did not deploy enough ground troops, he hurriedly assembled a fleet to attack the Zerg, so that the Zerg had time to drill, and the Luoyun countries suffered heavy losses, otherwise the battle situation would not have deteriorated to this point. In the current situation, without the forces that the Minister of Defense said, the fleet in space would not dare to withdraw under any circumstances.
But if you don't evacuate the fleet, you will never be able to gather forces to fight the Zerg, let alone defeat the Zerg, and continuing to stay up like this has made Andrea lose patience.
Originally, Andrea thought that it would be impossible for the Zerg to last so long, but now it seems that they are not only holding on, but also becoming more and more vigorous, and there is no appearance that the energy is about to run out, which has to make Andrea doubt the reliability of the mass-energy conversion formula of those scientists.
But after countless arguments and votes from scientists, Andrea let go of his suspicions, but he had to consider another, more terrifying possibility. That is, the so-called Great Chu Empire established by this Zerg actually controls a very vast territory, and its reserves of energy are also extremely large, so it can continue to support it, and even support it for a longer time than Andrea expected.
In this case, Andrea can't help it anymore, if the Zerg really has such a background, then the Morak Federation is likely to be one step ahead of the Zerg and will not be able to hold on, and then it will be too late.
As for why the Zerg multiply so much after landing on the planet, and how their energy transmission methods have been verified by Louis, a genetic and drug expert.
Professor Louis's lab received a lot of funding from President Andrea after the war worsened, and even hatched many advanced insects that were previously too large to hatch because of the need for too much energy, including tunnel worms that can be used for troop projection.
As for the Space Tunnel Worm, the energy required is too large to be hatched, but this also explains why there are so many insect swarms on each planet. It is very likely that they can freely switch battlefields through tunnel worms on various planets, and a large number of insect swarms will appear on whichever battlefield is needed.
In fact, the space tunnel worm is not so magical, but Andrea is reluctant to spend a lot of Thai ore to hatch, so he can't confirm the specific role of the space tunnel worm, so he can only listen to Louis's speculation.
"There are many Federation citizens who are willing to join the army on those fallen planets, but unfortunately they are not willing to leave their own planets, and the purpose of their joining the army is only to protect their homeland, otherwise it would be okay to recruit hundreds of millions of troops." The Minister of Defense shook his head and sighed.
The conscripts in these occupied areas are more bandits than armies, and they do not obey the orders of the Federation when they are armed by the Federation, and whenever the Federation gives them a transfer order, they will be mistaken for the Federation that they have abandoned their planet and riot, and even rebel against the federal rule and establish an independent government.
Originally, the military department had planned to arm the people in the occupied areas against the Zerg, but unfortunately, the first thing these people did after getting the weapons was not to kill the insects but to fight for power and profit, and even some people had the idea of living for a day and causing trouble in the city, and the insects had not yet come, but the citizens who got the weapons themselves were in chaos, which made the military department both headaches and annoyance.
"Maybe listening to Dr. Louis's plan will work well." At this moment, Andrea's heart was already shaken. (To be continued......)