On July 30, 126th year of the first year of the universe, many cities were occupied by the Mie Weng troops without losing a single soldier.

The Dion troops who were forcibly conscripted had their defenses broken down by the Tianyi Mercenary Group's actions.

There were even civil unrest in some cities; some commanders tried to stop the conscripts from surrendering, but were beaten to death by them instead.

In a few cities, the Miewong troops fought with the Dion troops who still wanted to resist when they entered the city a few days later.

What happened instead was a scene that shocked the Mie Weng troops: some of the Dion troops attacked their own colleagues, and then waved the white flag in surrender to the Mie Weng troops.

After investigation, it was discovered that the Dion troops who attacked their colleagues were actually forced conscripts. They were threatened with force by their commander and other colleagues and were not allowed to leave the city to surrender, so they developed resentment towards them.

As the Mieong troops attacked, the forced conscripts stabbed their commanders and colleagues directly in the back.

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Now, the Deiong Army is eating up the Diong Empire's territory bite by bite, and less than 50% of the Diong Empire's territory remains.

After reading these reports, Yelishade ordered the forced conscription of soldiers in our army. If their relatives in their hometowns were in the area controlled by the Tianyi Mercenary Group, they should be immediately dismissed from their posts, allowed to leave, and asked to surrender to the Mieweng troops.

As for the areas still under the control of the Dion Army, the residents of all those villages and towns were forced to relocate to cities or other base facilities.

Although the number of Dion's troops has been reduced, at least the internal instability factors have been largely eliminated. The remaining relatives of the conscripts are under the control of the Dion's troops, so the conscripts can fight wholeheartedly.

Yelishaud sighed inwardly: "My fellow citizens, please forgive my selfishness."

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On the other hand, the Mieong troops had to deal with the Dion troops who came to surrender and slow down their attack speed while advancing.

However, although the pace slowed down, the entire army avoided suffering major damage.

It was originally predicted that the war would only last half a year to a year. However, due to Salamanda's psychological tactics, the Mie Weng troops did not suffer much loss, and the war could be postponed to a longer period of time, at least nine months, and at most one year and three months.

Moreover, in the Mars territory controlled by the Tianyi Mercenary Group, the Tianyi Group has already invested in these lands, and local residents have begun to resume normal life.

The normal life of the residents also allowed the local business network to return to normal. The residents had jobs and income, and Tianyi Group also made profits.

This is also one of the main reasons why the Mie Weng troops can fight a longer war, and even some material resources can be mined locally.

International countries including corporate consortiums also want to invest in Mars Circle.

Tianyi Group, which currently controls most areas of the Martian circle, has set many conditions for those group companies that want to invest.

The conditions set by Tianyi Group are very harsh. One of them is that any company that comes to invest, in addition to the relevant 30% of shares belonging to Tianyi Group, must also distribute the profits earned each quarter according to shares, and even everything including taxes must be paid to Tianyi Group.

The consortium did not protest against these conditions. Firstly, they had no right to protest against Tianyi Group.

Second, if they do not agree to these conditions, they will have to get out of the Martian circle immediately.

Thirdly, the most important reason is that they do not have an armed organization as powerful as the Tianyi Mercenary Group.

These group companies agreed to Tianyi Group's harsh conditions because the Mars circle always has great potential and benefits.

Even if the profits are distributed to Tianyi Group, there will still be great gains.

On the other hand, Taoxiang not only has to take care of three children, but also has to help her husband deal with some work matters of Tianyi Group.

Taoxiang always had a feeling that they had joked back then that they would establish a country if they took over the Martian Circle, but they didn't expect that the joke back then might now come true.

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The space extermination troops outside the Martian circle used artificial satellites to observe the movements on the ground and found that many people had moved to urban bases and facilities, and even reclaimed land for planting near some bases and facilities, allowing villagers in some villages and towns to grow crops.

The territory controlled by the Dion Empire now accounts for only 40% of the territory before the unification of the Martian Sphere.

The Mie Weng troops no longer advanced rashly as before. They found that many villages and towns they passed by were already deserted.

Salamander's strategy was beginning to fail.

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On the other hand, the Dion Army, within the area under their complete control, would occasionally launch rocket attacks into outer space, making sure to inflict certain damage to the Dion Army in outer space, and to try to destroy the artificial satellites that were monitoring their every move.

After the outer space destruction forces set up a defense system in outer space, most of the troops either moved away from Mars or might land on the surface of Mars.

Only a small number of troops are still monitoring in outer space of Mars, and the Mie Weng troops are no longer using missiles for ground bombing as desperately as they did earlier.

Because of the continuous missile ground bombing, the money invested is like a money-eating beast.

No matter how wealthy the Tianyi Group is, it cannot afford such daily consumption. Moreover, at this moment, the Dion Army’s most elite troops and the most advanced anti-missile systems are within their complete control.

The effectiveness of missile bombing has become increasingly unsatisfactory.

Originally, Long Fei planned to use light beams to baptize the ground, or use space-based weapons, a super electromagnetic cannon to hit the ground, causing the entire crust to change.

But I thought that this would affect innocent people and cause great suffering.

Long Fei couldn't bring himself to do this because his principle was that he would never harm innocent civilians unless he had no other choice.

Now the Tianyi Mercenary Group has the upper hand, and as long as there are no major mistakes in the ground suppression war, they can defeat the Dion Army.

Moreover, the defense system's laser weapons are enough to shoot down rockets attacking from the ground, so there is no need to worry that Dion's army's rockets can harm troops in outer space.

The current outer space destroyer force is currently responsible for the production of warships, mobile fortresses, Ms, ground combat vehicles and individual weapons, etc.

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A city of tens of square kilometers was surrounded by three brigade-level fleets of the Mie Weng Force. They first adopted the tactic of surrounding but not attacking, and cut off the city's supply circuits and all the city's supplies.

Many city-annihilation troops adopted the strategy of surrounding but not attacking, cutting off all supplies, including network communications and so on.

Then, other troops would be sent to intercept Dion's troops who wanted to rescue the city.

The Mie Weng Force will also send troops to attack certain targets.

On August 10, 126th year of the Universe Year, the two armies had already officially started fighting in some places.