Iron Ship Man's Traveling Journey

"Very well, your mission has been successfully completed!"

Inside the commander's combat helmet, Liu Yuan's figure appeared on the projected light screen, nodded to him and issued a new order: "Next, your team will be incorporated into the first combat unit, and the task is to capture Luoyang control of this important military camp in the city..."

Following Liu Yuan's order, a miniature map of Luoyang City appeared on the projection screen of the combat helmet, and a marked key location was the largest military base outside Luoyang City.

Although Liu Yuan was distracted by the Japanese war situation and dragged the Holy Bretanian Empire into the quagmire, he worked hard in the Guanzhong area where Luoyang was located, and the spies and elite troops under his command were mobilized even more. More than half of them arrived in Guanzhong, just to be able to completely seize Luoyang and Guanzhong in the first place.

The reason is also very simple. The land of Guanzhong is the essence of the population and wealth of the Zhonghua Federation. Luoyang City symbolizes the thousand-year-old capital of the entire Zhonghua Federation. If Liu Yuan can take Luoyang City and Guanzhong as intact as possible The benefits brought by all aspects of the land are extremely rich, and Jiang Lihua, the puppet emperor controlled by the eunuch group, has become a key figure that Liu Yuan must consider. Being rescued means that Liu Yuan can rest assured and bold. start to act.

For the commander of the special forces, he didn't have to think about so many things. After confirming the orders issued by Liu Yuan, the commander directly saluted and should be:

"Yes, sir!"

Chapter 44 Occupy Luoyang

"Boom---------!!!"

When the little loli Jiang Lihua was just sent to the Northeast Asia Special Administrative Region, a loud bang was heard in less than an hour. A group of people were having a party at the home of the eunuch Gao Hai, one of the speakers of the eunuch group. The eunuch who discussed the matter was directly targeted and cleared.

There is no doubt that these great eunuchs of the Great Eunuch Group are very courageous, and their abilities are considered excellent (from their own standpoint), but they are really not strong in terms of personal force. Some great eunuchs may have learned Some martial arts, but unfortunately they can't use the body of carbon-based creatures to counter the power of the special blasting device in the world of "Red Alert". Many unlucky little lives.

Encountering this kind of thing suddenly, a group of people in Gaohai Mansion were dizzy. Many people were killed and injured hundreds of meters away from the place where the fire was raging. Many people didn't even realize what happened. After running out of the room in a panic, they found that the main hall of the mansion had been turned into ruins, and the fate of Gao Hai and others was self-evident.

When someone realized what happened, a fleet of speeding convoys had already stopped in front of the gates of Gaohai's mansion, and then the camouflaged military vehicles outside opened up directly, and a group of elite soldiers had already killed come out!

"The descendant will not be killed!!!"

With the shouting of the loudspeaker, the elite fighters directly launched a surprise attack, and the light machine guns held by the exoskeleton armor roared, turning those unlucky people who blocked the road into corpses, and they The resistance they faced was too weak, and no one thought that someone would suddenly attack the eunuch group, or they were completely unaware.

The elite troops, like entering the land of no one, quickly took control of the mansions of Gao Hai and other eunuchs, and gunshots rang out from time to time in key locations in Luoyang City!

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"What happened?!"

"A big event happened in Luoyang City!!!"

"Really? My God, what happened again..."...

When Gao Hai and a group of great eunuchs received their lunch boxes and their residences were controlled by elite troops pretending to infiltrate, countless people in Luoyang City also noticed something was wrong, and hurriedly hid home or in their courtyards.

After hearing the continuous gunshots in Luoyang City, many people's expressions became mixed with complex emotions such as excitement and fear: the last time such an incident happened in Luoyang City, those hateful eunuchs suddenly attacked the emperor, As a result, the Zhonghua Federation, which is struggling to support, has become a nominally unified situation, and this sudden change, it is not known whether it is an action against the eunuch group.

Soon, many smart people understood from the direction of the loud roar and gunshots that the current situation must be aimed at the eunuch group, otherwise the mansion of the eunuch headed by Gao Hai would not have become an attack The direction, such as the key passages and important facilities of Luoyang City, were immediately occupied.

It has to be said that it was not for nothing that Liu Yuan spent several months infiltrating Luoyang City. The important areas except Luoyang City were controlled, and the military camp was the top priority!

"Captain Li Xingke, Captain Gao Yuan, Captain Luo Lin, please order your people to surrender!"

In the Forbidden City of Zhu in Luoyang City, Li Xingke and several captains who had been summoned were surrounded by elite soldiers in a blink of an eye. A guard who had been controlled by a nanochip looked at them, and his tone was extraordinarily flat .

"General Zhou, you actually rebelled against Lord Gao?!"

Hearing the words of the controlled highest guard of Zhu Forbidden City, Li Xingke, known as "Qilin'er", hadn't answered yet, but a school lieutenant subdued by two soldiers shouted loudly.

It should be said that as the successful control of Guanzhong and Luoyang, the Great Eunuch Group is certainly hated and hated by countless people, but it also has a group of loyal subordinates, and it seems that the school lieutenant is even a member of Gao Hai's tribe. A grasshopper tied to a rope is naturally extraordinarily loyal!

Bah!

General Zhou completely ignored the cries of diehards. With a wave of his hand, the soldiers stepped forward and turned the captain into a dead man with a single shot.

The two elite soldiers didn't care at all, and directly threw the corpse they were holding aside, and intentionally or unintentionally turned the face of the corpse to this side, so that the captive captains could clearly see the corpse of their colleagues. death.

Needless to say, Li Xingke was recommended to join the military academy in Luoyang because of his military exploits. If it weren't for the Luoyang Rebellion a few years ago, the eunuch group killed too many officials and subordinates who were close to the emperor, and he didn't have much relationship or family background It is also difficult for a young man from a poor family to climb to the position of captain, but he himself has no interest in allegiance to the eunuch group, but secretly allegiance to the emperor Jiang Lihua.

According to the other school lieutenants, some people are really loyal to the eunuch, but they are even more surprised why General Zhou, who is also one of the top confidants of the eunuch group, actually betrayed the eunuch group?

Of course, no one will answer them this question. Looking at the colleague with a horrible face of death, no one will stand up stupidly anymore!

"Is there anyone else willing to serve Gao Hai and the others?"

Seeing that no one jumped out again, General Zhou showed a cruel smile on his face, and he waved to everyone directly and said: "Then, everyone from Captain Li Xingke down is not allowed to go out of the Forbidden City in the camp. Those who kill without mercy!!!”

With the order of General Zhou and the cooperation of Li Xingke and others, Zhu Forbidden City, which was secretly sent away by the emperor Jiang Lihua before, directly entered a state of self-defense. The time was brought under control, and the top soldiers below were ordered to stay in the barracks immediately and not to go out. Even all kinds of communication methods were directly cut off, and the elite combat troops lurking in were stationed, absolutely not letting the guards of Zhu Forbidden City What's wrong with the army.

Not only the Forbidden City of Zhu, but all the important facilities of Luoyang City were taken down by the internal response mixed assault force, and many military bases outside the city were either controlled by the leaders, or lost the control of the eunuch group and fell into temporary chaos. Some of them discovered the changes in Luoyang City, but they didn't have time to make a decision.

Because in the first time, from two completely controlled air force military bases and multiple airports, the transport fleet carrying the airborne troops had already landed, and a large number of airborne troops and other follow-up troops directly began to gradually control the situation!

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The city of Luoyang was noisy all night, but there was no major chaos or battle. Occasionally, a few guys who took advantage of the fire to rob were also executed immediately on the spot.

The reason is that Liu Yuan made preparations early. When the operation to seize Luoyang began, he deducted the first time to seize the emperor Jiang Lihua, which was to carry out a targeted beheading operation against the eunuch group, and then to suppress Luoyang City and The surrounding guards and the action troops in control of Luoyang City maintained order.

Especially on the radio and communication channels in Luoyang City, at the beginning of the operation, there were special information announcements asking residents to evacuate at home or in the nearest building. Cooperating with the gunshots that exchanged fire from time to time, it had a very good effect, and Liu Yuan The arrangement of the airborne troops was extremely tight. Before Luoyang City entered a state of chaos, tens of thousands of reinforcements had already arrived outside Luoyang City. Cooperating with the forces arranged inside Luoyang City, the overall order was directly maintained.

The loss and destruction of the entire operation is not to say that there is no loss, but compared to the entire Luoyang City, it is insignificant. Even Liu Yuan did not take this loss seriously. What he cared about was the capture of Luoyang City and several checkpoints. Except for the elimination of the eunuch group, the real casualties were actually not many.

When the sun rose the next day, Luoyang City had already fallen into Liu Yuan's hands, and Liu Yuan didn't just want to capture Luoyang, his soldiers had already entered Guanzhong from multiple routes...

Chapter 45 Sweeping the North

As soon as the news that Luoyang was captured by the Cao family in Liaodong spread, all the aristocratic families in the Zhonghua Federation were shocked, and then received more bad news.

Almost at the same time when the drastic changes occurred in Luoyang, the Northeast Asian Special Administrative Region adjacent to the Northern Special Administrative Region (equivalent to the grasslands and most of Shaanxi and Shanxi), the Bohai Special Administrative Region (most of Hebei and Shandong) and a small part of Shanxi), the aristocratic families of the two special administrative regions actually bowed their knees and surrendered directly to the Cao family in Liaodong? ! !

When receiving this news, the other aristocratic families of the Zhonghua Federation almost thought that there was something wrong with their ears. After confirming it several times, they found it difficult to accept this completely unreasonable thing: as the aristocratic family of the local emperor, when There have been incidents of surrender without a fight. Although the Cao family in Liaodong is one of the top aristocratic families, it has definitely not reached the level of allowing the aristocratic families in the two special administrative regions to surrender directly. However, the most unreasonable thing is this What happened, the army of the Northeast Asia Special Administrative Region directly and quickly stationed in the two special administrative regions, not to mention taking over all the armed forces of the two major administrative regions, and taking advantage of the trend to directly integrate with the newly occupied Guanzhong , Bingfeng has already moved forward to the fringe area of ​​the south.

In just a few days, the speed and trend of the situation's changes have exceeded the expectations of the various forces in the central hua federation and the high-level officials of other countries. , the Central Special Administrative Region (referring to the land in Guanzhong), the Northern Special Administrative Region, and the Bohai Special Administrative Region were directly annexed by the Northeast Asian Special Administrative Region.

The Cao family in Liaodong has changed from a top aristocratic family to the strongest occupying all the forces in the Zhonghua Federation. They also directly won the capital Luoyang and the contemporary emperor. !

Undoubtedly, the Cao family in Liaodong swept the three administrative regions and swept the essence of the northern homeland of the Han Dynasty. Its powerful momentum silenced the EU, the Holy Britannian Empire, and the Zhonghua Federation. Instead, they are ready to obstruct and intervene: neither the EU nor the Holy Britannian Empire has forgotten what a terrifying giant the Zhonghua Federation was a hundred years ago. The formation of the current three-legged situation, secretly assisting the growth of the power of the eunuch group and the aristocratic family, finally made the Zhonghua Federation show signs of weakening and disintegrating. It is unlikely that the Zhonghua Federation will be willing to revive the behemoth of the Zhonghua Federation?

Of course the EU and the Holy Empire of Britannia want to intervene. Unfortunately, the EU side is a mud-footed giant that is really troubled by internal conflicts. The parties without a leader have quarreled many times, and they can't come up with a suitable one. plan, but the Holy Bretanian Empire was unable to do so. All their mobile forces were trapped in the Japanese battlefield. If they wanted to directly intervene in the Zhonghua Federation, they had to solve the Japanese battlefield first, otherwise they would be separated by a distance in the Pacific Ocean. The distance is not much strength at all.

As for those aristocratic families...

Cough cough, the bad situation of the Zhonghua Federation up to now, not to mention that the aristocratic family will bear all the blame, and there is no problem with more than [-]% of the blame.

A hundred years ago, the Zhonghua Federation was on the decline, but even if it fought a world war with the EU and the Holy Britannian Empire, the Zhonghua Federation itself had a solid foundation, and it was not time to decline. When the Son of Heaven tried to reform the system, the aristocratic families whose interests had been harmed simultaneously launched an attack. The original local powerful faction directly embezzled the power of the central government, resulting in a situation where they almost became emperors of one side.

The aristocratic families in various administrative regions have enjoyed a leisurely life for hundreds of years, and it has almost become a routine thing to listen to the tune and not to listen to the propaganda. Apart from the deduction of the signboard in the name of the Zhonghua Federation, they already have How could the military and political power in all aspects be obediently hand over the power in their hands.

Anyway, the families of the various aristocratic families do not believe at all that after the Liaodong Cao family took over the central administrative region, they will be indifferent to their current situation. They are extremely nervous about their own vital interests, for fear of losing their current power. .

Especially in the places close to the Northern Special Administrative Region and the Bohai Special Administrative Region, each of them has been preparing for war even more intensely. The patrol boats in the Yellow River and Yangtze River basins are non-stop around the clock. It is even more tense to communicate with each other, and even requests for help have been sent to the Special Administrative Region of West Asia (Northwest and part of Central Asia), the Special Administrative Region of Yizhou (Wanwan, Ryukyu, Guam and other places, including large areas of the sea) ), Indochina Special Administrative Region (Indochina Peninsula region) and other places allies or acquainted families, trying to reach a unified strategic alliance with them.

There is no way, the Cao family in Liaodong is walking like a walk in the northern part of the Han land, the millions of tyrannical troops that overwhelmed the border line are not too concealed, even Liu Yuan deliberately played a thousands of The big scene of a torrent of steel formed by tanks, armored vehicles, and logistics vehicles was propelling. It was too lively a big scene, which made the livers of the neighboring families tremble a little, and they couldn't help muttering in their hearts.

Worshiping world peace for nearly a hundred years, most people almost forget how the war was fought, and the war of the Holy Bretanian Empire in Japan, which is considered to be a rare large-scale war in the past century, was defeated by the Cao family in Liaodong. Kyushu was abruptly taken away, and the landing troops and airborne troops performed extremely well, making people overestimate their combat effectiveness even more.

In this way, the neighboring aristocratic families do not have the confidence to launch an attack on their own initiative. The EU and the Holy Bretanian Empire want to make trouble, but unfortunately they each have their own troubles at present, and if they want to intervene It is not something that can be done in a short time.

When the big families in the south were in distress and what to do, a shocking news made them both surprised and happy.

The Cao family in Liaodong is not going to coerce the emperor to make the princes, but is planning to take the throne by themselves? !

(╮(╯▽╰)╭I went to the hospital for an examination today, and the result made Ah Snake feel extremely bad, and I had another conflict with my wife, hey~!)

Chapter 46 New Emperor? !

"What did you say?! Say it again?!"

In Hangzhou, the capital of the Southeast Special Administrative Region, Sun Hong, the current highest official of the Southeast Special Administrative Region, is actually the Patriarch of the Sun family. His face was flushed, his wide-eyed eyes were not as calm and indifferent as before, and he rushed to report in a few steps In front of the confidant of the news, he shouted and asked.

"My lord, according to the public news from Luoyang, General Cao Yuanming abdicated with the emperor as the eunuch's hostage, and supported a new emperor to come to power!" Regarding his patriarch's gaffe, the Sun family member understood the other party's excitement Emotional, he stumbled and repeated the big news he had just learned.

"Haha! That's great, do the Cao family really think they've won?! This must have alerted the other great families..." Sun Hong didn't care about his confidant at all, and he, who was almost 60 years old, looked excited. Walking quickly in the room, the posture of maintaining family etiquette in the past is completely invisible, and the whole muttering seems to be hysterical.

Of course, as the patriarch of the Sun family, Sun Hong has no hysteria. He is excited that Cao Yuanming, the patriarch of the Cao family, would do such an unwise thing. You must know that it is one and the same thing to coerce the emperor to make the princes, but you can establish a new emperor on your own. It's another matter, if the former Cao family is willing to let the Sun family and other families keep the basic board, even if the Sun family and the nearby big families know that they are going to bleed, they can only grit their teeth and agree to the Cao family's request.

But establishing a new emperor on his own is completely different. It completely proves the Cao family's ambitions. Forces such as the Central South Special Administrative Region and Yizhou Special Administrative Region naturally understand the truth of their lips and teeth, and asked them for help before. After negotiating conditions with three obstacles and four obstacles, it should be the initiative to join forces now, right?

Sun Hong, the patriarch of the Sun family, who was daydreaming about himself, didn't notice his confidant who was half kneeling on the ground at all, and his lowered eyes looked extraordinarily cold!

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The Holy Bretanian Empire, with its capital Pendragon.

In the palace of the capital, Pendragon, in the meeting room where several confidential meetings were held in a row for several months, the atmosphere seemed a bit inexplicably weird.

The military bosses and several allies who used to be extremely domineering now sat silently in a tacit understanding. They didn't have the stubbornness and persistence they had during the Japanese war before, and they were quieter than the government affairs boss next to them. too much.

Regarding this situation, the curly-haired emperor Charles, the second prince Schneizel, and several other important ministers of the empire were not surprised: the Zhonghua Federation is not like Japan, and the glory of belonging to the world's strongest empire has been worn for more than a thousand years For a long time, the world war a hundred years ago barely allowed the EU and the Holy Britannian Empire to form a tripartite confrontation. With the troublesome quagmire of Japan, as long as they are not stupid, they will not take the initiative to speak.

In fact, the second prince Schneizel and the others didn't want to speak, but the curly-haired emperor Charles had just received the news that the Cao family in Liaodong was about to launch a new emperor, and they were not called for a sit-in meeting!

"...One hour ago, news came from Luoyang City of the Zhonghua Federation that the new emperor Liu Yuan will hold a coronation ceremony in Luoyang in a month's time!" In response to the order of the curly-haired Emperor Charles, a personal attendant with a royal title Taking the initiative to step forward, he carefully recited the information he had just received to the big brothers, and his tone was flat without any intention of his own: "According to the efforts of the intelligence personnel, the new emperor Liu Yuan once served as the supreme commander who landed in Japan. It is the son of the Cao family in Liaodong who has the inheritance of the emperor Liu's family, and the specific information about him has not yet been determined."

"Let the latent intelligence personnel work hard, not only the information about the new emperor, but also all the information about the Cao family in Liaodong as soon as possible!" Listening to the attendant's report, a trace of dissatisfaction appeared on the face of the curly-haired Emperor Charles. With a cold snort, he directly issued a mandatory order.

"Yes! Your Majesty!"

Facing the order of the curly-haired Emperor Charles, the attendant did not hesitate, and was ready to convey this mandatory order to the intelligence department of the empire.

After all, the intelligence department of the Holy Britannian Empire didn't even notice the signs of such a big move by the Cao family in Liaodong, plus the previous incident of landing in Japan and occupying Kyushu Island, and its incompetence made Emperor Charles a bit uncomfortable Satisfied, it is natural to give it a good beating!

"Now, what suggestions do you have for the Zhonghua Federation?"

The curly-haired emperor Charles knocked on his intelligence department, turned his head to look at a group of courtiers in the conference room, and his tone became a little serious.

Silence!

Hearing what the curly-haired emperor Charles said, all the important officials of the empire, including Schneizel, looked at each other in blank dismay, and no one had the intention of speaking.

This is no better than the Japanese war. The Zhonghua Federation, a behemoth, impressed everyone too much. Even in the original world line of "The Rebellious Lelouch", neither Schneizel nor Curly-haired Emperor Charles took the initiative to attack Zhonghua Federation, the crazy idea of ​​launching an all-out war.

The reason is very simple. The Zhonghua Federation, which has more than tens of millions of square kilometers of land and billions of people, is really not something that can be defeated by any external force. It won't be the bad situation before Liu Yuan took action, but just like that, the Zhonghua Federation, which has an emperor on the surface, is still a behemoth that makes the Holy Britannian Empire and the EU fearful.

Now, the Zhonghua Federation seems to be caught in internal strife, but even the most belligerent military giants and their allies are not stupid enough to suggest sending troops to intervene: if you really want to send troops to the Zhonghua Federation, Not to mention the key issue of whether to fight or not, even if they want to send troops, they need to prepare and mobilize. However, the Japanese battlefield has already contained most of the mobile forces of the Holy Britannian Empire. If they want to send troops again, they need Further deployment of the domestic army, it can be foreseen that at least the adjustment and transportation will be carried out in units of "months", and the ghost knows what will happen by then.

What's more, Japan is currently the place where the important ministers of the empire are most concerned. The continuous emergence of resistance groups and guerrillas has made Japan a quagmire that constantly devours human lives. No thought of giving up!

"Schneizel, what advice do you have?"

Seeing the somewhat cold conference room, the curly-haired Emperor Charles' face became a little gloomy. After a moment of thought, he ordered his second son's general.

"Father, we currently have no way to intervene in the Zhong Hua Federation!"

For his father's roll call, Schneizel, who really didn't want to speak, could only speak, but he had no hope at all about the Holy Bretanian Empire's meddling in the Zhonghua Federation, and directly stated the current situation he was facing. The biggest problem: "Most of the mobile forces of the empire are in the Japanese battlefield, and the remaining main forces are in the country. If you want to go to the Zhonghua Federation to disrupt the situation, unless the Liaodong Cao family pushes those aristocratic families to the extreme, otherwise our The Navy may not even be able to approach the coastline of the Central Hua Federation..."

Schneizel's words were somewhat cryptic, and everyone including the curly-haired Emperor Charles understood his true meaning: If the Holy Bretanian Empire wants to reach the Zhonghua Federation, it must first pass Kyushu Island, Yizhou, and Ryukyu An island defense line such as the archipelago and Guam, and it must be supported by aristocratic families, otherwise it will be too difficult to land smoothly.

It is a pity that even the conceited curly-haired Emperor Charles didn't think that these conditions could be met smoothly, but after careful consideration in his mind, he decided to stabilize the Japanese occupied area for the time being, and then wait and see the situation!

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"We should act immediately and intervene in the situation of the Central Hua Federation!"

"No! We are too far away from the mainland of the Zhonghua Federation. Compared with the current situation, we should pay more attention to cherry stone resources. Our cherry stone reserves can only last for one and a half years. As the largest cherry stone producing area, Mount Fuji cherry The quarry is still under the rule of the Holy Bretanian Empire!"

"I propose that our Italian region request more cherry stone quotas..."

In the hall of the Supreme Council of Paris, the headquarters of the EU, hundreds of members of parliament are spitting and expressing their opinions. Some of them are recognized by other members of the parliament, some directly oppose or even put forward other proposals for discussion, or simply for the sake of their own representatives. A quarrel arose over regional interests.

No way, the establishment of the EU was made by the supreme consul Napoleon, but after Napoleon was sent to the execution ground by the people, the EU did not form a completely unified voice, even the outstanding consul Bismarck a hundred years ago, that is, in Just after two years of victory in the World War, he was ousted from the throne of the Supreme Consul by other members of Parliament and died of depression. Then the EU directly formed the Supreme Council of members from all major regions. Integration and the colonial development of Africa have been caught in endless quarrels and compromises of interests at other times.

Regarding the major changes that have taken place in the Zhonghua Federation this time, members of the neighboring Far East, Black Sea, Middle East, and Eastern European regions are full of crisis awareness and try to propose direct intervention in the events of the Zhonghua Federation. For example, Mobilizing the military forces in the Far East region can delay the military deployment of the Cao family in Liaodong to the maximum extent. However, their proposal based on strategic and interest considerations has not been recognized by other members of the parliament.

Just kidding, there are only two members of the Far East District, and less than one-tenth of other members of support, such as members of the European regions and representatives of the African ruling region, will not recognize this kind of ready to invest at any time. They are more concerned about the wishes and interests of voters in their constituencies.

Obviously, most people in the EU are not interested in the changes in the central hua federation. They are more concerned about their own vital interests, such as the cherry stone quota or their own quality of life.

As a result, the EU has entered the rubbish time when the parliaments are arguing with each other, and there is no unified resolution when the central hua federation completes the integration!

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For Liu Yuan, the situation of other aristocratic families in the Zhonghua Federation, the Holy Britannian Empire, and the EU are all under his real-time monitoring.

Compared with the powerless Holy Britannian Empire that stepped into the quagmire of Japan, and the great families who were secretly infiltrated to form a joint momentum, the EU's own situation makes Liu Yuan feel a little incredible, but think about it In the rumor "A Jide of the Subjugated Kingdom", judging from the various strange performances of EU itself, EU is not much better than the Zhonghua Federation in the original work.

However, Liu Yuan himself didn't lament too much time. The plan he set was following the scheduled route, and it was time to close the net little by little...

(Today's updated chapter!)

Chapter 47 United Enemies (Wish you all a Happy New Year~!)

As for the situation of the Central Hua Federation, Liu Yuan knows much better than Schneizel, Charles, EU and others. With a population of more than 40 billion and a territory of tens of millions of square kilometers, the power of complete integration is beyond the imagination of ordinary people , can definitely compare with the super behemoth of Soviet Russia + America in his impression.