There was a burst of noise in the communication, followed by a very dissatisfied voice from a certain Regent.
"General Li, I'm right here, you can talk to me directly!"
"Then listen clearly, Duke of Liang, your Guren and Shield have withstood three consecutive high-energy irradiations. IS Core is reducing the computing priority of other systems. If you think you can still rush in to solve the problem like Martial Arts Tournament, I can immediately send the entire theater loss table to you."
"When did I say I was going to rush in? This Regent was obviously considering a large-scale army operation! Besides, I was just protecting Kallen!"
"Then the most effective way to protect her is not to continue to take her control authority while she is driving."
Kallen finally couldn't help laughing after hearing this.
"This time I support General Le."
Lin Cuo glanced at her dissatisfiedly, and just as he was about to retort, two other red alerts suddenly lit up on the screen in the war zone.
Celestial Balance Four and Pendragon Three sent new orbital observation results almost at the same time.
The locations of all three Landing Unit have been confirmed.
The first one landed in the northern part of the Holy Britannia Imperium mainland, Athabasca Basin. There are large Sakuradite storage and transportation facilities, military aviation bases, mining railways, and many heavy industrial cities that serve the imperial war machine.
The second one they were facing was Persia-Khorasan Target. The landing area spanned the border between Imperial Area 18 and Great Han Common Defense. The issues of minerals, railways and rights of way that the two countries had been arguing for for decades suddenly lost most of their meaning in front of more than 230,000 BETAs.
As for the third one...
Lin Cuo stared at the constantly beating coordinates, his expression becoming weird little by little.
"Wait a minute, shouldn't the third one fall near Bhopal?"
The image of Chou Xianglin appeared on the other side, and for the first time there was obvious hesitation in her voice.
"The original prediction was indeed true, but Celestial Balance and the Empire's orbital defense system conducted a joint interception in near-Earth space. Our experimental orbital kinetic energy interceptor successfully hit the target shell, and the Empire's subsequent high-energy weapons also hit its propulsion structure. The problem is... the target did not disintegrate."
"Shouldn't that be a good thing? At least it missed the target."
"Master Regent, it is indeed biased."
Chou Xianglin enlarges the new landing point.
Iberian Peninsula.
Madrid.
At the same time, Leila·Marukal also made almost the same sound in the E. U. Provisional State Office of Paris Prime Minister.
"What?!"
She stood up suddenly, and the war zone report in her hand almost hit Smilas's face.
"Say it again! What do you mean, Landing Unit, which was originally expected to land on India, was deflected by the interceptor weapons of Great Han and Britannia, and ended up falling on Madrid?!"
Smilas was sitting opposite her, looking as ugly as if he had just been forced to participate in the third Paris coup.
"Sir Prime Minister, I hope this report is false more than you do, but the Northern Union Astronomical Station, Royal Isles Early Warning Network and Great Han Orbital Measurement and Control Center have completed cross-confirmation. After the target was impacted in outer space, it initiated its own attitude correction and finally chose the Iberia direction."
"Then why didn't anyone tell me before?!"
"Because all reports yesterday were that it would continue to correct!"
"Yesterday?!"
Leila's voice suddenly rose.
"General, do you know what we were discussing yesterday? The Madrid city government is still applying for the restoration of the local education budget, Railway Department is still studying the priority of civilian transportation in the third quarter of this year, and the Ministry of Finance even refused to pay the second batch of military industry orders in advance because Provisional Government has not completely completed the change!"
Smilas subconsciously wanted to explain, but the words turned into a long sigh when he reached his lips.
This general, who had already suffered a lot in the Paris military takeover, suddenly found that his past understanding of power seemed to have a very serious problem.
In the past, he only had to make suggestions to his superiors, request military funds from the committee, or when necessary, let Leila and W-0 take on some tasks that ordinary troops were unwilling to undertake.
Now, he finally got the coveted Supreme Military Coordination Authority, and everyone started looking for him.
The capital garrison needs additional personnel, and the parliament asked him to explain the death of Seven Commissioners.
The factory requires him to guarantee orders, refugees need to be resettled, and Leila requires all original military reports.
Even the revolutionary detachments that held the banner of the Saint and supported him while preparing to limit his power also required him to provide formal military membership and food subsidies.
Now, Mars is also preparing to send him a BETA Landing Unit.
Smilas stared at the battle zone map and suddenly missed the era when he was only responsible for formulating secret plans.
"Richelieu ah..."
Leila looked up suddenly.
"General?"
"Nothing, I just suddenly miss certain historical figures who can handle war, nobility, parliament and national finance at the same time."
"Then you'd better remember that Richelieu has never encountered a monster that fell from Mars."
"I fully understand this now."
At this moment, the secretary outside the door sent in the attendance list of the new E. U. Emergency Military-Industrial Commission. Smilas picked it up and only looked at the first page, feeling that his headache became more serious.
Ironblood Industrial Zone military representative, Laura·Budiweyi.
Free Iris chief representative of the military-industrial reconstruction complex, Charlotte Dinua.
Royal Isles Representative of the High Energy Defense and Airframe Standards Committee, Cecilia Orcutt.
Northern Union Special technical agent of the War Industrial Cooperation Group, Tatenashi Sarashiki.
Behind him were several young female engineers, IS operators and military industry representatives from different regions.
Smilas watched it twice.
"Marukal Prime Minister, let me confirm, is this the next Military-Industrial Commission, or is it a high school graduation party?"
Leila was already very tired, but when he heard this sentence, he almost laughed.
"General, they all now have formal industrial contracts and wartime authorizations, and Ironblood Industrial Zone's appointment has even been reviewed by the military."
"I know! Here's the problem!" Smilas turned to the back of the list and found that there were more young women at the back. "Why is it that my local representative with the most combat experience is an Germany girl who looks like she has not graduated from the Military Academy? Why does she still have her own Special Knightmare Frames? And this Tatenashi Sarashiki, she is not from Northern Union, right?"
"She represents Northern Union's Wartime Industrial Cooperation Group. The local military industrial group gave her the technical agency and procurement coordination rights, and the procedures were reviewed by Provisional Government."
"So now I have to explain the E. U.'s military budget to a bunch of young girls?"
"You don't have to explain."
"Really?"
"Then they will come directly to me."
To make matters worse, these young women did not obtain their positions purely through personal connections.
The information submitted by Ironblood Industrial Zone shows that Laura has already recognized her abilities by a considerable number of professional officers through actual combat performance in the previous Iron-blooded military joint exercises and Operation Paris.
Tatenashi Sarashiki used the Penglai technical cooperation system to establish a previously unachievable production interface between Northern Union several large industrial enterprises.
Dunoa Industries, the company behind Charlotte, has a mature airframe manufacturing foundation and is striving to restore the E. U. local production line.
Royal Isles Consortium contacted by Cecilia is willing to invest a lot of money to develop the new Shield and high-energy Marksmanship systems.
In other words, if Smilas wants to replace them, it really can't be solved by saying "You are too young".
In particular, there are military industrial companies behind these people, and what they lack most now is military production capacity.
When the door opened again, Laura was the first to walk in. She glanced at the two top leaders in the conference room and didn't even waste any courtesy.
"Madrid direction needs to take over the railways and airports immediately. The Iron Blood side can mobilize the quick reaction force that I am responsible for, and the IS squadron can also participate. But I want to confirm one thing first, General Smilas, will you announce a nationwide military takeover like last time, and then find that your troops don't know who to listen to?"
Smilas's temple jumped suddenly.
"Representative Budiweyi, are you questioning E. U.Supreme Military Coordination Office now?"
"Yes."
"You--"
"If I don't question it, my troops will be lost because of a chain of command conflict. You can remove me, but it's best to find someone who can take command of IS troops for me first."
Leila finally buried her face in her hands. She suddenly understood why Lin Cuo always liked to throw troubles to Li Xingke.
The problem is, now that she has become E. U.Prime Minister, she no longer has a superior who can throw all her troubles away.
"That's enough." She raised her head and tried to stabilize her voice again, "Laura, the official transfer of the Iron-Blooded Military is signed by Supreme Military Coordination Office, and the technical control of the IS squadron is between you and Military-Industrial Commission is responsible, but all operations must be under unified theater command. General, please do not deny her actual combat capabilities just because she is young. She must also admit that the E. U. army is not commanded by whoever wins the exercise."
Laura obviously wanted to say something more, but when he saw Leila's eyes turning red, he just snorted softly.
Smilas stared at her, then looked at Charlotte, Cecilia and Tatenashi Sarashiki sitting next to her, and suddenly felt that she was indeed old.