Chapter 579 The Iron Triangle's Concerns

The senior leaders of the Federation received the battle report of the Lubion System earlier than the various forces of the Star Dragon Empire. Although the Lubion System seemed to be out of the control of the Federation, before the war, it was indeed Within federal territory.

But after receiving the battle report, the federal "iron triangle" from President Brandon, Defense Secretary Miller, to Navy Marshal Trafalgar directly entered a state of some kind of downtime.

Marshal Trafalgar's physical signs monitoring device once issued a 'high heart rate' alarm, which almost made the other two prepare to call the medical staff in the President's Office.

Fortunately, the navy marshal finally recovered. After he calmed down for a while, the three of them began to look at each other.

After the communications department previously reported that the 'Atlas ultra-long-distance communication service' in the Lubion system and surrounding areas was temporarily shut down due to 'technical problems', everyone knew that the naval fleet should have begun a confrontation with the Atlas fleet. .

Up to this point, the direction of events was actually within the prediction or control of the top federal officials.

The 'Iron Triangle' fought against all opinions and took risks to send out the last mobile force, even bringing with them a proton annihilation bomb that was already running low. The original intention was indeed to eliminate the Atlas Group's combat fleet in one fell swoop.

While resolving the federation's "internal crisis" caused by this giant company, it will also serve as a warning to other forces in the territory that are ready to take action.

Regarding this combat plan, both Navy Marshal Trafalgar and the other two felt that it was a sure thing, if not foolproof.

Let’s not talk about the hard power of the entire five full fleets. Just talk about the jump-type proton annihilation bomb carried by the fleet, which can be used to reverse the situation of the battle in case of being at a disadvantage.

And this jump-type proton annihilation bomb did finally complete its mission of 'turning the tide of the war'.

It just helped the opponent turn the tide of the battle.

"What do you two want to say now?"

President Brandon sat slumped in the large presidential office chair, staring blankly at the ceiling of the President's Office, where there was a painting named "The Power of Freedom" painted by a famous federal muralist many years ago. Dome mural.

But when Brandon looked at the dome mural now, he felt as if the sea of ​​people and raised hands that represented the 'power of freedom' were about to drag him in and tear him apart in the next second.

"We must ensure that we have the remaining fleet firmly in our hands."

The first person to speak was Defense Secretary Miller. He glanced at Trafalgar beside him, and then continued:

"The naval fleet is the only bargaining chip that we can use to continue to take the initiative and advantage. If we can't even hold this 'chip' in our hands, then the three of us should kill ourselves as soon as possible."

Admiral Trafalgar, who was on the side, saw Miller looking at him and continued to say after the latter finished speaking:

"I have ordered the remaining fleet to gather the ships in good condition and assemble them at several secret deep space mooring points. The ships that have completed maintenance and repairs in the dock will also go to these as soon as possible. During the regional rendezvous, the Federal Ministry of the Interior, the Naval Intelligence Agency, and the Military Police Department will supervise the entire process to ensure that the remaining main fleet of the Navy will not be affected and will not mutiny. "

"But if we do this, we will lose deterrence to most galaxies, right?" Brandon frowned after hearing Trafalgar's words, "Those galactic guard fleets are not as obedient as the naval fleet. If the local galaxies are autonomous, If something goes wrong with the government, the loyalty of these garrison fleets will be questioned. "

Miller: "At least the remaining main fleet of the Navy is in our hands. Others will not dare to do anything to us in the short term, Mr. President."

After saying this, there was a brief silence in the office.

The reason why Brandon, Miller, and Trafalgar have become the most powerful "iron triangle" in federal politics is that, apart from the identities of Brandon and Miller as presidents and defense ministers, Navy Marshal Trafalgar relies on The federal navy, firmly controlled by personal prestige and connections, is the key to maintaining the stability of this 'triangle'.

In this era, the navy, which is large in scale and has deep space navigation, orbital blockade, ground strikes, and even the ability to dispatch marine troops to the ground, has already surpassed other branches of the military in terms of status, and can even be said to be unattainable.

Whoever controls the navy is equivalent to controlling the country's most important armed force.

Marshal Trafalgar is the actual controller of the federal navy.

Compared with the rhetoric of politicians and the main guns of battleships, the deterrent effect is naturally a little bit inferior.

Therefore, after the establishment of this trinity alliance of political power, military power, and connections, the three Brandons were in a state where no one could restrain them for a long period of time—the most dangerous time may be when the federal military-industrial complex wants to cause trouble. Time, the unprecedentedly united military-industrial complex was indeed able to take advantage of the opportunity when the main force of the navy was on the front line to do something.

Unfortunately, under the leadership of Mrs. Paris, the military-industrial complex ran into the 'south wall' of Atlas without hesitation, and was not unexpectedly hit with a bloody head. This was even more terrifying. Enemies were blown up and dismembered.

This is undoubtedly a good thing for the "Iron Triangle". Even the three of them privately thanked Atlas Group for cleaning up the "poisonous blood" in the federation.

However, although Brandon, Miller, and Trafalgar stood at the top of the Federation at that time, it also meant that they had to take the lead in facing the threat from the Empire. Only by completely eliminating this "old enemy" could their position in the Federation be completely stable.

Unfortunately, the "strategic decisive battle" initiated by Marshal Trafalgar did not achieve the original strategic goal in a sense.

Although a large number of imperial fleets were successfully destroyed in an organized manner, and even an artificial celestial fortress was destroyed, allowing Duke William to return to the starry sea, the final result was that the Federation and the Empire paid a huge price, but their respective control areas did not change much.

In Amber's words, it was "fighting in vain".

Immediately afterwards, due to a series of events in the Rubion galaxy, coupled with the military intervention of the Atlas Group, the entire Federation became somewhat "turbulent" again overnight.

The three of them naturally understood the principle that they must first stabilize the country before resisting foreign aggression.

In addition, there have been many unrests and rebellions in the galaxy before, so Brandon and his team knew that they had to deal with the problems within the Federation at this time, and nip all the signs of large-scale rebellion in the bud before they could consider the strategy against the Star Dragon Empire.

This is why the three of them finally made a desperate move, almost all of which could be said to be "All in" and put all their main mobile forces into the Rubion Galaxy.

However, the final result was not what they thought.

The loss of five fleets also made the "Iron Triangle" realize that their control over the Federation would decline rapidly in a short period of time, so they had to come up with countermeasures quickly before the news spread on a large scale.

Just when the three of them fell into silence and began to think, someone knocked on the door of the President's Office.

And at this time, only Brandon and his confidants would come to disturb them.

Soon, Hafel, the chief of staff of the President's Office, walked into the room with a serious expression, and the first sentence he said instantly "infected" the other three people.

"Just now, a large amount of information about the disastrous defeat of the Federation Fleet in the Rubion Galaxy appeared on the Internet."