"Dawn of Victory"
On the first day of the new year, January 1, the Federal Daily published a report on the decisive battle in the north, using "Dawn of Victory" as its front-page headline.
From the encirclement, to the tightening of the perimeter, and all the way to the present, fighting had in fact continued without pause.
It was simply that the scale of these battles was small. Sometimes, firing a few shots was enough to bring one to an end.
At the request of the Federal Government and the Department of Defense, the Maliro side had maintained a certain pace, carrying out the Department of Defense's plans in an orderly manner from beginning to end.
They wanted no prisoners and had driven the Maliro Resistance Army toward Senaus City.
It appeared as though the Maliro Resistance Army had voluntarily gathered in Senaus City to fight the Federation in a decisive battle. In reality, this was the best manifestation of the results of work carried out on multiple fronts!
The full implementation of the registration system quickly taught the Maliro People what cruelty meant. Once group after group, organized around families or even entire clans, had been publicly executed, there would always be people who became afraid! Some might not be afraid, but there would always be others who were.
Then people began reporting others in secret. They might not have wanted to harm anyone; they might simply not have wanted to die. That was all!
Once someone reported another person, even more people would be executed in public.
If the Federation had implemented nothing but a policy of intense pressure, the Maliro problem might not have improved. Instead, it might have become increasingly troublesome.
The interesting thing was that the Federation did not rely solely on pressure. On the