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A day has passed after the invasion of the Republic of Aetlrus, and annihilate of their defenses and leaders, all the planning and logistical requirements were already completed and are now on the next operational stage, and with it the Legionnaires Army, along with the Machine forces were now on the move to capture important cities and military bases that are around the Veldarun Empire's Capital City, after capturing the cities it will expand the range of the Battle Fleets.

Moreover, they would also build numerous hidden outposts so that they would be able to store supplies into far-reaching areas of the vast lands of the Empire. The offensive wouldn't be stopped after capturing the cities near the Empire, a task force would be left to defend the cities and another one would be dedicated to patrolling the lands of the Empire.

To protect the cities, a detachment of Android Soldiers would be garrisoned on it and the civilian industries would be used to construct and possibly expand the cities into an enormous fortress if there is not enough land to construct the much needed structures and military equipment.

As the offensive is not going to be stopped, the Battle Fleets would be conducting many invasions towards enemy nations and their goal is to capture strategic points such as their airship dockyards and military encampments, or much better is to destroy strategic military targets such as the civilian industry and its military industry.

Of course, the nearest nations would be targeted first and until the operation against the Empire is completed, then they will move on towards the surrounding nations for complete world domination.

The Machine Empire's Military's goal was to severely destroy or disrupt any trade by the nations that they are invading. Furthermore, with trade disrupted any information that could go outside would be minimal or restricted, or far slower for their own comfort and so they would be able to completely annex the nation or occupy it to its fullest.

Furthermore, after capturing the strategic points inside the enemy nation, they would firstly hold the location first, to which after they would conduct multiple air raids towards the villages and other cities of the enemy nation.

After pummeling the cities and areas of importance in the enemy nation with possibly carpet bombing, the Machine army would then move in towards the cities and bring down any resistance that are left, as for their transportation or kinds of brigades or divisions they will be using. They will be moving in using mechanized forces along with the support of airpower.

Therefore, fulfilling the combined arms tactics. Any surrenderees would be accepted to expand the numbers of their forces or for their empire, however, any further resistance would be immediately dealt with. Moreover, the main army, after landing in the enemy nation, would then start to contact and, if there is, a group of rebels so that they could start setting up a puppet government under the Machine Empire's wing.

Moreover, because of the risk of ambushes, the army would be moving in a non linear formation, as the Military advances while using scouting forces consisting of drones would be set forward so that they would be able to easily move in without much resistance.

However, just to be safe they would be moving in a non-single linear formation, instead they would be moving in multiple files of formation, and would be spread out throughout the area. Which means that these formations, tactics and strategies would be considered as asymmetrical warfare.

For the most part, that was basically the plan of the Machine army, furthermore, when needed, they would also deploy the hardened Battle Android Soldiers for things like assassination. So with a concrete plan at hand, the entire Machine Military was mobilized and is now moving towards their intended locations.

Multiple personnel were communicating on the bridge of the sovereign-class battleship. The sovereign-class battleship was sporting eight boilers that had a ship horsepower of two hundred twenty thousand with six geared steam turbines and six screw propellers that could travel thirty point five knots, with a maximum range of thirty-five thousand kilometers.

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Furthermore, its armaments are three triple four hundred six millimeter guns, ten twin one hundred twenty-seven millimeter guns, twenty quadruple forty millimeter Anti-Air guns, and forty single twenty millimeter Anti-Air guns.

Moreover, the entire sovereign class battleships were modified to use ballistic surface-to-surface missiles when engaged in long distance warfare. However, the amount of sovereign-class battleships were all but limited, and so the other class of battleships only have the main armaments and no surface-to-surface missiles.

Panning back to the bridge, the captain of the ship was making orders throughout the bridge and was being passed down to the lower areas when there was a command that was ordered there. The fleet was only part of one of the many task forces inside the main battle fleets, and one the task force task was to capture the cities near the borders that they were heading for.

The invasion against the Veldarun Empire has begun.