Preparation Before Another Op

Six months later. Federal Battlecruiser, 8 P.M. It had been half a year since they were making a man-made landslide in the Radicals supply line. The result was devastating on the Radicals' side. The port fell to anarchy soon after that due to the cold weather and the lack of any civil government there.

The prisoner that was captured had been thoroughly trained and brainwashed and had a lot of faith in this new republic. The goal was simple this time, the goal was to take over the port with the newly founded army. There was also a failsafe in their brains in case they decided to rebel against Gerald.

Because there was no point in continuing on guerilla warfare, the would just attack the forts around the port to weaken the influence of the radicals. After that, the port would be smooth sailing.

"Hmm, Rosa is used to using that shotgun now," Laura commented on Rosa that was using a full-auto shotgun. It was a fully automatic plasma shotgun that has a 30 round battery magazines.

The choice of the weapon was mainly due to the style of combat that she always adopted. She always charged to the enemy in a very close range then slashed their heads clean off with her sword. That was the main reason why her main weapon was the full auto-combat shotgun.

She would just charge to an enemy and blasted their heads with a combat shotgun now. Well, that was tactically advantageous. Today, they had a meeting in the command room to discuss their next plan. Rosa had planned their next move as usual.

"Ok, so the port has two forts. No pun intended. One is located on the Northside while the other is located in the south. The plan is to launch an assault with armored cavalry to obliterate the fort. The M68A2 Heavy Railgun tanks will charge through the fort and take it down. We will place the M8910H7 Mobile battle station after we destroy the fort. Is that clear?" Rosa said as she drew multiple small boxes that represented itself as the tanks.

The tanks were very heavy tanks, in fact, it has a 180mm railgun and two 80mm railguns. Even the auxiliary weapons were a 165mm missile artillery.  Overall, it was a weapon of mass destruction in one single package.

"Clear enough for me. We can deploy three tanks at each fort and we can deploy around two mechs at each squad. We also need ground troops so around 10 of them will be accompanying the mechs and the tanks. The objective is to destroy the fort once and for all. We need this victory to establish our base of operation," Gerald said.

"Ok, the plan is set. Then, who will lead each group? We have two groups at the moment, we will call them group A and group B. Group A will take the fort in the north while Group B will take the fort in the south. Gerald will command group B while Laura and I will lead the A group. Is that clear enough?" Rosa asked.

"Clear enough for me," Gerald said as the plan was set in motion. The operation name was "Gaining Water." They would commence the operation in the evening. It would be a true blitzkrieg operation. It was the operation to capture the port and did a one-sided slaughter to the radicals in a swift and efficient manner.

The troops would be deployed from a drop-ship and they would attack the fort at 2300 hours this evening. Taking over the port would cripple the morals of the citizen on the port city. Like an old general said, "An army can stand as long as there are people that are supporting them. Take the people and the army will be gone."

Gerald went downstairs alone to command the group that he was going to command. It was a 25 people group with 13 of them would be a tanker and 2 of them would be the mech pilot. They were dressing up in heavy combat armor. Their XO, Jared Allen, greeted him.

"Sir," he saluted and Gerald saluted back, "We are ready to be deployed anytime, sir."

"Well, I have good news for you boys. You all will be deployed this evening. 2300 hours to be exact," Gerald put his hand on the shoulder of his XO. "DON'T DISAPPOINT ME!"

"I won't disappoint the republic sir," he said out loud and his underlings shouted, "URAAAAAAH!"

"Lieutenant, can we talk for a moment?" Gerald asked him to leave his troops and talked to him about important things. They walked to a place behind the tanks. That place where nobody would dare to find them.

"How may I be a purpose for you sir?" He asked.

"How's the opinion on your squad? Are they ok with the republic?" Gerald said.

"Sir, we want to live in the Republic of Augary. A place where there are freedom and equality sounds very nice for us," Jared said.

"Good, good, well, dismissed Lieutenant," Gerald said as he dismissed his man and walked back to the command center where Laura and Rosa were expected. But they must be with their group. He looked at the table where the map and the plan were placed.

'What is my goal? Is it to find love?' he imagined that he would be married to Rosa and lived happily ever after. 'Is it to get the glory?' he looked at the map, 'Or just to live?' he asked himself.

'I'm happy now, but I don't know about it in the future. Maybe I will just turn insane or anything,' he looked at the map.

He was determined that he would reform the Augary kingdom into the Republic of Augary. This would be a very long journey, but now he's ready.

"Commander, What are you thinking about?" His A.I asked her.

"Nothing in particular."

"Prepare for tomorrow commander," she said.

"Don't worry. I'm more prepared than any of those radicals."