Zhang Beihai had no idea what Xu Sanjiang had said to the three titans of Military Headquarters.
All he knew was that, within minutes of the call ending, an unprecedented storm swept out from Longdu and engulfed the entire Dragon Kingdom!
Bureau 7 Headquarters.
The Eastern Frontier Theater Command Center.
Navy Headquarters.
The Air Force Command Center.
The operations rooms of every major army group...
"Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep-!!!"
Phones equipped with the highest level of encryption sounded shrill, urgent alarms at precisely the same moment.
Their screens abruptly lit up, forcibly displaying an order from the highest ranks of Military Headquarters!
The blood-red heading contained just three words!
[Supreme Military Command]!
At the sight of those words, countless high-ranking generals who had weathered every kind of crisis felt their hearts skip a beat!
The Supreme Military Command!
It was never issued except in a national war, never invoked unless the nation faced collapse!
The last time it had appeared was decades ago!
And today, it had emerged once again!
Swish! Swish! Swish!
Every pair of eyes locked onto the brief yet horrifying message!
``` [Founding Marshal and the Navy's first Commander-Comrade Xu Anbang-has been taken hostage by armed personnel of the Eagle Country Secret Service at the Bureau 7 Martyrs' Cemetery in Modu. He is surrounded, and his life is in imminent danger!]
[The Supreme Military Command is hereby issued: the Eastern Frontier Theater shall immediately enter first-level combat readiness!]
[The 71st, 72nd, and 83rd Army Groups under its command shall immediately enter first-level combat readiness!]
[The Eastern Frontier Air Force is ordered to launch all combat aircraft immediately and seal off Modu's airspace!]
[The Eastern Frontier Navy is ordered to deploy all ships immediately and seal off the waters around Modu!]
[Effective immediately, the entirety of Modu