Plastic Wartime Camaraderie

On March 18, Cosmic Year 126, neither side had made any progress. Neither could suppress the other.

Some troops from democratic nations within the United Army ignored their commander-in-chief's orders and began advancing.

Victor, as commander-in-chief, was utterly helpless. He was only the commander-in-chief in name; mobilizing troops still required authorization from each nation. At this moment, many democratic nations had withdrawn their authorization and demanded that their own militaries advance independently.

This also made their war of attrition strategy, which had relied on dragging things out, somewhat meaningless.

The armies from democratic nations began pushing forward, while the armies from imperial nations maintained their original tactics.

It was not that those imperial armies obediently followed Victor's command. They simply did not want to be the first to stick their necks out.

Since the democratic nations' armies were so impatient, they could charge ahead and clear the mines.

Manius studied the battlefield situation map, then compared it with intelligence extracted from spies. He was certain that cracks had already formed within the United Army, and those cracks had been caused by the democratic nations.

The reason the democratic nations had taken such troublemaking actions was mainly because the arms industry magnates behind them were anxious to seize their own nation's advanced technology.

"Don't those capitalists understand that haste makes waste? Or do they understand but simply cannot help themselves? As expected, capital is shortsighted and impatient," Manius mocked.

At that moment, an aide came in with a report.

"Lord Manius, General Muswati led a unit in a surprise attack on the colonies of District 10. They captured the civilians on one Colony Satellite, then took control of that Colony Satellite and rammed it into another."

"Where is the unit Muswati is leading now?"

"Here." The subordinate pointed to a