"Vice President, it's sorted out!" Yue Lingxing pushed open the door and said to the bell who was writing at the desk.

"How's it going?" As the vice president of the Angel's Covenant, Bell is also the head of intelligence, and is even busier than Raphael, so he does not appear in front of the player as often as other high-level executives. But no one dared to underestimate this woman. In terms of qualifications, Bell is one of the first veteran players to join the Covenant of Angels, and in terms of ability, being able to be entrusted by Raphael with important responsibilities such as vice president, deputy city lord, and intelligence chief undoubtedly proves her excellence.

Perhaps the only drawback is the Bell's combat effectiveness, almost no one in the union has seen her in actual combat, so even Tiramisu and others believe that the Bell is a life player, and she has no combat power at all.

Yue Lingxing is the director of the Secret Key Division who is responsible for sorting out information under Bell, and now the Angel Covenant is in order to deal with this war, further subdividing the various departments of the union and the territory, and selecting a large number of talents from the core members of the union to fill the various departments. Yue Lingxing is one of them, this female player is meticulous and has a high sensitivity to intelligence, so she has taken on the responsibility of the Secret Key Division.

"It's not too different from what we expected. As of yesterday, eleven more cities had been retaken, including two medium-sized cities, and more than 130 towns and villages had been recovered. Yue Lingxing said, "From the information gathered from all sides, we know that the price paid by those unions has been reduced by an average of two percent compared with last week. ”

"Is that really the case? It seems that as we suspected, the rebels have gathered their main forces in Aston City, giving up the fight for other cities. Bell rubbed her eyebrows, the news upset her, as it meant that the battle for the Angel's Covenant to reclaim Aston City, the provincial capital, would be very difficult.

Yue Lingxing nodded: "Judging from the battle reports submitted by the various trade unions, when they broke through the city wall and entered the city to fight, the rebels did not support through the teleportation array. Therefore, the Chief of Staff agreed that this was a sign of the rebels' voluntary abandonment. ”

"Are the results of the aerial reconnaissance out?"

"Two hours ago, reports indicate that the observable force flags in Aston City are seven hundred and thirty-three. Only two of the seventeen reconnaissance teams that infiltrated have returned, and it is clear that the investigation has begun in the city, and I am afraid that the follow-up detection will be very difficult. Yue Lingxing reported, "Combined with the observation and reconnaissance in the past two weeks, the staff department speculates that the number of rebels in Aston City is likely to be between seven and one hundred thousand, plus the original 30,000 city guards in the city, as well as the city guards drawn from all over the province, the total number of rebels should be about 150,000, of which the main force is about 30,000, mainly the fourth-order swordsmanship, and the number of sixth-order cavalry should not exceed 2,000." ”

Because it was impossible for the Holy See of Light and Dalaran to support the rebels, there were almost no priests and mages in the rebels' military force, and they could only recruit some wild priests who were not under the jurisdiction of the Holy See, as well as magicians trained by the nobles themselves to assist in the battle.

"In terms of air power, the number of griffins detected by the aerial observation team is about 3,500 to 4,000, the number of war eagles should be eight to ten times that number, and there are other flying creatures such as angry owls, bipedal wyverns, and night bats, but the number should not exceed 500."

"In addition, the rebels seem to have dismantled the siege equipment of other large and medium-sized cities to Aston City, and the number of heavy catapults detected alone exceeded eighty, two hundred and seventy beehive ballistas, and the number of other improvised catapults and motorized ballistas cannot be determined, but it should not be less than six hundred!"

"As for the undead class we are worried about, we have not detected the corresponding target so far, but we can't rule out this possibility, because of the martial law in the city, it is difficult for the ground reconnaissance team to approach the dungeon and sewers."

"I see! It looks like this battle is going to be very difficult! ”

Yue Lingxing paused and said, "Do you want to discuss with the president, relying on us alone, even if we can defeat Aston City, I'm afraid it will hurt our vitality, so it's better to let the president come forward and pull the wall of fearlessness in." ”

Bell shook his head: "Yesterday, the Bright Holy See issued an emergency convening order, and the president rushed back to the Holy City that night, and I am solely responsible for the affairs here." ”

"Emergency summoning order? Did something happen? "As far as Yue Lingxing knows, in the past fifty years, it was only in order to attack the Sky City that the Bright Sect issued an emergency convening order, but I didn't expect that it was only less than a year later, and it was once again called out, and it was obvious that something very important had happened on the continent.

"I guess something went wrong with the war in the Jeremanca Desert, or maybe the Fire Demon King in Blackstone Mountain has made some kind of moth. Anyway, I'm afraid the president won't be able to take care of us here for a while. Raphael's departure obviously made Bell a little worried, but she still took the burden, "On the other side of the Wall of Dreadnought, I will personally go and tell the Duke of Misseda that it really can't be done, we can still find Prince Andre." But you still have to prepare for the worst! ”

The worst plan is naturally to use the power of the Angel Covenant to complete the recovery of Aston City alone, but in this way, how much damage this battle will cause to the entire Angel Covenant, Yue Lingxing can't imagine it.

"Vice President, please forgive me for taking the liberty of taking on me. Why are we in such a hurry to launch this campaign this time? Can't wait for the Dreadnought Wall to come back, or at least wait for the unions to complete the reconquest of Aston before concentrating all their efforts on the rebels in Asteron? This is not only Yue Lingxing's doubt, but also a question that the entire Secret Key Division wants to know.

The bell let out a long sigh, "If you can, how could the president make such a decision!" Well, don't think about it and go about your own thing! By the way, help me call the commanders of the various corps and the heads of the departments, and the meeting will be held in the conference hall in an hour! ”

"Okay, Vice President!"

After Yue Lingxing left, the bell couldn't care about his image anymore, leaned behind him, and lay lazily in the chair.

She understood how Raphael wanted to do this, and why he didn't want to preserve the power of the Angelic Covenant to the maximum! But the problem is that the situation in the entire Arnas Empire forces them to take on the main role in this campaign.

In fact, more than three months ago, after Prince Andrei officially issued the order to counterinsurgency, there have been two voices in the counterinsurgency army. The aristocratic faction led by Marshal Boval wanted to open the road to the imperial capital of Avia as quickly as possible and regain control of the imperial capital, so that Prince André could become emperor as soon as possible, while Raphael believed that the rebels were so powerful that they could easily suffer a heavy defeat if they went deep alone, and even cut off two or three main army corps, which was an unacceptable loss for the entire counterinsurgency army, so he asked for a long-term plan to recover several provinces on the periphery of the empire first, and after forming a semi-encirclement of Avia City, Then launch the campaign to recover the imperial capital.

Due to the fact that Raphael stood behind the Holy See of Light, and Marshal Berval was previously related to the Black Dragon Princess disguised as Count Presto, the suggestions of the aristocratic faction were not taken seriously by Prince Andrei, which is why Prince Andrei chose Duke Missada's Dreadnought Wall as his personal guard legion, instead of choosing to go to the province of Gular to join Marshal Berval.

But the aristocratic faction was not willing to give up, and Marshal Boward persuaded the Duke of Sevas to ask for the Astum Legion, one of the seven elite legions, and launched the Battle of the Morente Fortress after gathering the three elite legions of Gale Wings, Astum, and Shumero, as well as nearly 300,000 ordinary soldiers.

Marshal Bolval's purpose was to use the fortress of Oriente to lay a firm nail for the rebel army to encircle the rebels, and then use this nail to attract the rebels from the three nearby provinces to the fortress of Oriente, so that its main force could bypass the layers of resistance of these rebels and reach the city of Avias, the imperial capital.

Strategically, there was nothing wrong with this decision, but the problem was that the marshal still regarded the black dragon princess Onexia as the beautiful and bewitching countess, and did not take her cunning and insidious into account.

When Marshal Boward arrived outside the fortress of Morente with an army of 500,000 men, he found that the garrison in the fortress had been greatly strengthened, not only the number of soldiers had reached nearly 200,000, but also the renegade Michael's Hand Heavy Legion.

Among the seven elite legions, the Hand of Michael was the only elite legion formed for the purpose of defense, and in the face of such a heavy tortoise shell, Marshal Bolval's original plan to capture the fortress of Morente in three days met with a complete failure, and the entire campaign lasted for nearly three weeks!

To make matters worse, just as the fortress of Morente was about to be captured, an army of the undead who had been lying in ambush in the fortress suddenly appeared, almost swallowing the entire counterinsurgency army in one gulp.

Although the undead army was eventually repelled and the fortress of Morente was captured with the fierce resistance of many soldiers and officers of all ranks, Field Marshal Boward's plan for a rapid march was completely aborted. More than 150,000 of the 500,000 troops were killed, almost everyone was wounded, and even the entire Wings of the Gale Wing Legion was almost removed from the ambush area in order to protect the counterinsurgency army!

As for the three air combat regiments sent by the Angel Covenant to support in the past, they also suffered heavy losses, with more than five deaths per capita, and the lost air combat equipment converted into gold coins reached almost 20 million, and even Raphael himself died once!

After the Battle of the Fortress of Morente, the aristocratic faction collapsed, Marshal Boval also resigned, and the Duke of Sevas took over the command, but the badly damaged Western Route Army and the under-strengthened Northern Route Army could no longer advance under such a heavy blow, and were stopped by the rebels from the provinces of Themistus and Borom, unable to pose any threat to the imperial capital.

After this battle, the entire counterinsurgency situation fell back into the fog, and the large and small noble lords who had not invested in the rebels began to question Prince Andrei's ability, and even some nobles openly expressed their opposition to Prince Andrei's succession to the throne.

This was absolutely unacceptable to Prince Andrei, and for this he had to show his strength to the nobility everywhere as soon as possible.

But the problem is that Prince Andre only has the weight of the Dreadnought Wall Legion in his hands, and with the defeat of the Battle of the Morente Fortress, even the originally relatively calm Rhema Province has begun to have turmoil, and the Dreadnought Wall Legion can only continue to stay in the province to stabilize the situation, and it is difficult to get out in the short term.

Therefore, Prince André pinned all his hopes on Raphael, asking the Angel's Covenant to recover the province of Aston as soon as possible, so as to show that the counterinsurgency army still had hope of victory.

And the Holy See of Light also agreed, Prince Andrei is an important pawn used by the Holy See to influence the Arnas Empire, and they cannot watch the prince lose the possibility of inheriting the throne.

Under pressure from all sides, Raphael had to change the plan he had made before, and instead came to the city of Sireth City, which is less than thirty kilometers away from Aston City, with the Angel's Covenant as a base, preparing to use it as a base to launch a campaign to recover Aston City, and use a victory to prove the strength of the Angel's Covenant and respond to the reproaches of the noble lords throughout the empire.

Even if it would be a very serious loss to the covenant of the angels!

It was because of this that the bell did not stop Raphael from doing so. It was because the Angelic Covenant had to pay this price, otherwise, they would likely be kicked out of this counterinsurgency war, and even Raphael's command would be questioned.

Of course, the benefits of this are clear. The biggest advantage is that if the Angel Covenant can complete the recovery of Aston City by itself, then in the subsequent counterinsurgency process, no one will dare to question Raphael's decision, and the entire war process will be decided by the Angel Covenant. Secondly, Aston City is the largest and best-developed city in the province of Aston Travel, and recovering it would allow the Angel Covenant to benefit immensely. Finally, through this campaign, the Angel Covenant can further deter the ill-intentioned, ambitious small and medium-sized unions and keep them under the leadership of the Angel Covenant.

The infiltration and control of those trade unions in Spirit Sword Villa has always been in the hands of the bell, and this battle is a powerful counterattack given by Raphael to the other party!

An hour later, in the conference hall, in front of all the corps commanders and leaders, the bell said categorically: "According to the order of President Raphael, from now on, I will be the commander-in-chief of the Battle of Aston, and I will be fully responsible for this battle!" Now, I order, all legions to enter the state of readiness! Three hours later, the 1st to 7th Air Regiments launched an air offensive, and within twelve hours they had to seize air supremacy over Aston City! After securing air supremacy, the 8th to 12th Air Combat Regiments will immediately bomb the city and destroy the teleportation array at any cost! The offensive of the ground forces will begin as soon as the teleportation array is cut off! ”

"Yes!"