Outside the presidential palace, Mr. Trumann took out a cigarette box and took out three cigarettes. He gave one to the two people beside him and lit one for himself.
"Sixty days, do we really need that long?"
He asked the second vice president of the Ministry of National Defense, who shook his head.
If this period of time was considered as the time from the mobilization to the end, it wouldn't take that long, let alone the actual process of a naval battle.
According to the Navy headquarters' tactical research room, from the beginning to the end, it would take less than thirty-six hours to end this naval battle, and the Federation would win in all aspects.
They equipped Preston's pirate group with the main battleships currently in service with the Gefra Royal Navy, and increased the number of battleships in the intelligence report, as well as their combat skills.
In other words, this battle in the eyes of everyone was just to eliminate the pirates, but from the beginning, the Navy headquarters saw it as a collision with the Gefra Royal Navy.
It was just that the scale of this collision wasn't too big, and the Gefra Royal Navy couldn't use their main battle group. That would be too stupid. However, the Federation could send more battleships and use their secret weapons.
It was impossible for them to lose this war if they wanted to fight against someone who didn't!
Trumann listened to the second vice president of the Ministry of National Defense's explanation with an indifferent expression. After listening, he nodded. "Go tell the generals to set the conditions more stringent. Think about how to solve the situation if we face a disadvantageous situation. Also, set more conditions that will make things difficult for us."
"If we lose this time, whether it's the Navy or the Army, there won't be any development for the next ten years!"
He was very serious and also very serious. It could be said that this battle of eliminating the pirates, which seemed insignificant to most people, actually determined the military and national fate of the Bailey Federation for the next ten years.
They could have avoided it, but they couldn't. If they avoided it today, others would take an inch and want a mile. The Federation would also lose a lot of international interests because of this. They had a reason to fight. The only thing they could do now was to try their best to ensure that all the tactics and plans were correct, and to do their best to achieve all the projects.
After the second vice president of the Ministry of National Defense left, Mr. Trumann glanced at the few remaining cigarettes in his hand, took a puff, and threw it on the ground. Sparks flew everywhere.
He turned his head and said to the person in charge of the National Security Council's Operations Division, "Let's start. It's time …"
As the diplomatic negotiations progressed, this war could break out at any time. In fact, Trumann hoped that they could establish diplomatic relations smoothly. This way, the war would only be maintained as a war of extermination.
He didn't want Nagalil to stand against the Federation. Once a war broke out between the two countries, Gefra would have a reason to intervene in the war between the two countries, and it was very likely that Gefra would stand on Nagalil's side.
At that time, whether it was to protect their allies or to "uphold justice", they could mobilize their main forces to fight a full-scale naval battle with the Federation's navy.
This was the worst outcome, but in such a major event, any thoughts of luck would be irresponsible to oneself and the country.
Therefore, from now on, the Security Committee had to completely eliminate spies in the country. This was a long-term process.
Although the Federation didn't participate in this world war, spies from various countries were not uncommon here. It was probably because although the Federation didn't participate in the war, its developed economy and technology gave it a very strong war potential, and people needed to keep an eye on it.
In the past, for these spies, as long as they didn't touch the core secrets, the Security Committee wouldn't deal with them. At that time, the Federation's policy was like this.
Isolation, not showing any aggression or aggression, just pure defense. Things were different now.
With this matter finalized, the entire state apparatus began to move. If someone paid attention to the several naval bases on the eastern coast, they would find that recently, there were always warships coming in and out, and there were also many tugboats coming in and out.
"They seem to have decided …" Standing outside the port of Siris, an inconspicuous middle-aged man looked at the tugboats leaving the military port in the distance and whispered.
He was wearing very ordinary clothes. It couldn't be said to be very fashionable, but it wasn't that outdated either. He was fishing. There was a young man beside him, who looked like his child or a junior.
Both of them were fishing. At this damn time, fishing could not only make people forget the pain, but it could also fill their stomachs.
There were many people fishing on the beach, but these two people were obviously different. They had been observing the movements of the military port all the time. They came on time every day, recording the type and number of warships coming in and out every day.
However, the older fisherman was a little curious, "What are these tugboats doing?"
He seemed to be asking the person beside him, but also seemed to be asking himself. These tugboats came in and out of the port in the past few days. Obviously, they didn't do anything, but it always made people feel that they were doing something.
In fact, these tugboats were towing submarines. It sounded … a little strange, but it was the truth.
Although the submarines designed by Shep Shipbuilding were very close to the needs of the current naval battle, and they also met some requirements in terms of strength, their endurance during the stealth process was still somewhat unsatisfactory.
At the same time, in order to hide these secret weapons, the navy would use tugboats to tow these submarines to the sea area they arranged, and then let them float on the water surface by themselves.
In the eyes of outsiders, these tugboats were indeed going in and out without doing anything, but the two spies instinctively felt that something was wrong.
"Record it, maybe this news is very important …" The older man glanced back and frowned slightly.
The port seemed to be different today. There were some unfamiliar people on the dock that extended from the beach.
As a deep-water military port that could directly enter the Eastern Ocean, Siris Port had long been the focus of spies from various countries.
At least 30% of the people fishing on this dock came from different countries. They came here for the same purpose, which was to monitor the movements of the military port.
They had been lurking here for almost five years, meeting people here every day. They knew who would appear here and what their names were.
But when they were a little distracted, a few cars stopped at the end of the boardwalk. Some people who looked like soldiers but had different styles got out of the cars.
They might have been exposed.
The spy from Gaffra didn't panic. In fact, in the past, there had been cases of his peers accidentally being exposed. They would be interrogated and whipped a few times, but nothing terrible would happen. In the end, the anti-spy department of the Federation would even buy a ticket for the spies to return home.
This also caused some spies in the Federation to not be as sensitive and alert as spies in other places.
"It's about time. Don't make things difficult for our Federation."
The older man smiled and put away the fishing line. He glanced at the bait that had disappeared on the hook and wrapped it with a smile.
There were already three or four fish in the bucket next to him, which was enough for them to have a sumptuous dinner.
The young man beside him also began to pack up. Maybe it was the first time the young man encountered such a thing. He was a little nervous. When he bent down, the pen in his chest pocket fell to the ground.
He used this pen to record a lot of secrets. However, they were not afraid that those things would be discovered by others because they were all encrypted content. If one simply read it, it would probably be just a diary. Only those who knew how to crack the password would be able to read the correct content.
The young man bent down, and his blood pressure was a little high, which made his face slightly red. He bent down and reached out to pick up the pen that had rolled for a while and got stuck in the crevice of the board. A foot stepped on the pen.
The young man froze for a moment. He looked up at the shiny leather shoe that reflected his shadow. It was a pair of very high-end socks. Through the fabric of the socks, he could see that it was a pair of dark gray trousers. Only government workers would wear such clothes on a hot day. Then he saw a man wearing sunglasses.
He looked around again. They had been surrounded. The agent who played his father was also under control at this time.
The older spy gave him a look. He slowly raised his hands, slowly straightened up, and looked at these people with some dissatisfaction.
To be honest, before he was sent to the Federation as a spy, he had undergone a lot of military training.
He was proficient in fighting techniques, in all kinds of vehicles and firearms, and in breaking all kinds of locks …
He was proficient in almost everything he should be proficient in. He felt that he was like some magical agent that existed in novels or on TV. He was omnipotent, and could always escape from danger as gracefully as a dancing gentleman.
But now, he could do nothing but raise his hands. No one gave him a chance to use those abilities. This made him unhappy. If he was given a chance, he would not have surrendered so easily.
The butt of a gun hit him hard on the neck. His vision instantly turned black, and he lost his balance and almost fell into the water.
With a shout, the two were escorted away.
The leader of the operation team of the National Security Committee, who was in charge of the operation, was about to get into the car. He glanced back at the crowd gathered on the dock and pointed with a smile that was not a smile. This made the expressions of these people change.
Because they knew very well that many of these people were spies, spies from other countries.
The National Security Committee of the Federation did not arrest them not because they did not know about them, but because there was no need to.
For a moment, everyone's thoughts became chaotic. They faintly felt that the Federation's attitude might be different from before.