From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars.

Chapter 367 Beheading Operation
"Dear viewers, according to the news we just received, the federal army deployed on Pyra IV brazenly used long-range rockets to attack Refugee Camp No. 5."

In the live broadcast room of the Eye of Reality, the cat girl anchor was broadcasting the latest news with a serious face.

But even if she didn't say it, the audience who had been watching the live broadcast just now also felt the earth-shattering scene when the long-range rocket hit the face through the first-person perspective of a ground force in the live broadcast.

Although these plasma warheads were intercepted by the huge deflection force field covering the camp, they were induced to explode prematurely due to the stimulation of electric arcs.

However, when seeing the huge plasma fireballs exploding densely above their heads, many viewers even had the illusion that the high temperature was about to singe their hair.
It also makes the live broadcast of "Eye of Truth" reach its full potential.

When the Federation was launching a public opinion counterattack, some galaxies controlled by opposition parties within the Federation that had not been attacked by the Empire had some voices of "ignoring the overall situation", and local residents also had a certain sympathy for those imperial civilians.

After the 'little blue man' was brought out at the beginning of the live broadcast of 'Eye of Truth', the autonomous governments of these galaxies began to laugh at the federal government, while the civilians in the galaxies denounced why the elite secret forces of the federation were so 'disastrous'.

Later, they almost watched with their own eyes as the Hanged Man controlled the 'chess pieces' and 'puppets' to launch the attack.
Especially the final act of directly attacking one's own people in order to achieve the goal, which caused the public opinion on the Internet to reach a level that the relevant federal departments could not completely delete.

After the footage of long-range rocket attacks on refugee camps was broadcast, public opinion in these opposition galaxies was finally completely ignited.

"Isn't it a bit excessive to use rockets to attack refugee camps?"

"But the Federation took counterattack because of the suicide bombing."

"Didn't you see carefully? The suicide bombing was clearly a play directed by the federal government just to stir up trouble! These officials are such bastards that even their own troops became victims!"

"You just believe whatever the livestreamer says? You're so naive."

"Hey, here comes the 'Emperor of Loneliness'~"

The live broadcast channel of 'Eye of Truth' and major mainstream portals have now been overwhelmed by the heated debate among the 'onlookers'.

After the outbreak of the war, the opposition party, which had been dormant for a long time, finally got the opportunity to fight back. It began to use public opinion to criticize the CIA and secretly attacked the ruling party.

It has to be said that the Federal Opposition's reaction speed was extremely fast. While the live broadcast of 'Eye of Truth' was still going on, they had already produced a large number of articles and news to lead the trend on the Internet.

The speed was so fast that Lilith, who had been monitoring it in the virtual space, showed a hint of surprise.

"Master, you humans are really efficient when doing these things. It would be great if you could use them in other places."

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On the surface of Pella IV, just as Union Army Lieutenant General Van Fleet ordered the two combined forces brigades in charge of the siege to concentrate their superior firepower and try every means to break the "turtle shell" of Refugee Camp No. 5, he received an urgent communication from the fleet.

"What? Two light cruisers are lowering their orbital altitude? Can you tell me again what was printed on the side?" Van Fleet frowned.

".Then we don't have to pretend to be gentlemen anymore?"

At this moment, the Lieutenant General of the Federal Army remembered something and suddenly felt like he had fallen into an ice cave in the coldest days of winter. All things related to combat objectives and troop command were thrown out of his mind at this moment.

"Quick! Command center urgently moves!"

"But General, the troops are now launching attacks. If the command center moves now..."

Van Fleet's operations staff didn't know what was going on and was about to step forward to persuade him, but was rudely interrupted by the Army Lieutenant General.

"Command center, move immediately! Follow the order immediately! Don't make me say it again!"

Faced with Van Fleet's roar, the combat staff officer and everyone in the command post did not dare to say anything and immediately started the emergency evacuation procedure.

Soon, the headquarters, which was guarded by a combined force brigade, began to move. Some heavy vehicles were abandoned. All the people took the key equipment and quickly got on the vehicles, and started running in a certain direction without looking back.

The reason why Van Fleet made this decision was very simple, that is, he thought Atlas might be going to carry out a "decapitation" attack on the headquarters.

Atlas's stunning strike on Rubion V not only opened up the situation in the battle, but also made the Federation realize the value of this orbital strike method. Although the Federation is still in the process of relevant experiments and the fleet has not mastered such ground support "skills", the CIA and military leaders, including the battle commander-in-chief Van Fleet, all know that Atlas has such a strike method.

The reason why this news was limited to high-level officials was very simple. The federal high-level officials were worried that the combat troops, especially the army's ground troops, would suffer a significant drop in morale due to this temporarily undefended orbital strike.

We can't let the infantrymen on the ground continue to fight knowing that there is an axe hanging over their heads, right?

A few minutes later, just as a large number of combat vehicles and functional vehicles of the headquarters began to move in a mighty manner, everyone saw four "flashes" falling from the sky in the distance.

Then came the sky on the other side of the horizon, which seemed to be burning red, and the earth-shaking roar that followed.

"Wait, it seems that this is not the place where we are hitting?"

A hint of doubt arose in Van Vleet's mind, and then he had a bad premonition, which successfully became a reality one minute later.

"General, the firepower battalions of the 72nd and 81st Brigades were hit by enemy orbital strikes. The battalion headquarters has lost contact. According to the footage taken by the drone, the losses may be more than 90%."

The command cabin suddenly became quiet, and everyone wondered if they had heard it wrongly.

The firepower battalion of the Federal Army's heavy combined brigade generally consists of three self-propelled artillery companies and one long-range rocket company. When launching an attack, they do not gather in a group, but are deployed in a dispersed manner according to combat regulations.

But now they were wiped out by the enemy's unprecedented orbital strike? Did Atlas drop a tactical nuclear bomb?
But unfortunately, the communications staff officer who reported the situation did not correct his statement, but continued speaking.

"In addition, the two synthetic battalions of the 81st Brigade responsible for attacking the No. refugee camp also had their headquarters, rear guard, and firepower company attacked and are currently out of contact."

Hearing this, Lieutenant General Van Fleet felt a complex emotion in his heart.

He didn't know whether he should be thankful that the headquarters had not been hit by the enemy's 'decapitation attack', or whether he should feel sorry for the loss of his own soldiers and a large amount of equipment, especially those important indirect firepower.

But he quickly calmed down and said to the communications staff, "Contact the fleet and ask them to find a way to stop Atlas from continuing to carry out such orbital strikes. Although they didn't attack here this time, it may not happen next time!"

Van Vleet paused, made a quick decision in his mind, and then continued:

"Also, tell the fleet that 'it's impolite not to reciprocate' and request that they launch an orbital strike on Refugee Camp No. 5! At the same time, send a message to the attacking forces and ask them to avoid the kill zone."

After hearing the last order, the communications staff officer hesitated for a moment, but did not dare to say anything at this juncture and quickly turned and left.

It was not until this time that Lieutenant General Van Fleet breathed a sigh of relief when he saw everyone in the command cabin starting to get busy again.

He slumped down in a chair, thinking about Atlas's unconventional play.

He was very puzzled as to why the other party did not directly attack the headquarters when they had such an uninterceptable orbital strike method?

Although the results of almost completely annihilating two firepower battalions and two front-line attack battalions were significant and relieved the urgent needs of the No. 5 refugee camp, from the perspective of the entire battle, there was no greater value than directly attacking the headquarters.
Moreover, judging from the current situation of the battle, the opponent's commander is not a mediocre person. The previous series of commands and responses were excellent. In theory, there should be no deviation in such a simple measurement of "battle value".

"Unless the other party has other tricks up their sleeve!"

Van Vleet sat up in shock from his dying illness and almost jumped out of his chair.

"Everyone prepare for battle! The convoy turns around and moves closer to the position of the 66th Brigade"

"boom!"

An explosion outside the command cabin interrupted Van Fleet's order and threw the entire headquarters' convoy into complete chaos.

(End of this chapter)