"Don't worry, the Republic will definitely give an explanation. ”

Looking at the morale of his subordinates, Wesley said a little wordlessly, but in addition to these, he didn't know what else to say, a large-scale war is impossible, and the main force of the republic's revenge next is still those intelligence agencies led by the CIA. But no matter how successful the retaliatory action was, the lives of the Mikel detachment were lost. As Wesley's subordinates, most of the staff officers here had more or less contact with those people, there were their friends, classmates and even relatives and friends, and the sadness was irrepressible in the command room.

"The battle alert is lifted, the shift system is resumed, the altitude is maintained, and I will be notified when I arrive at the border. ”

If the Mikel fleet is really completely annihilated, his commander is equivalent to losing 90% of his men at once, if this kind of battle loss ratio is played on the battlefield, unless it is to kill the enemy of the same weight, then the only fate of this army is to withdraw, of course, except for the kind of battle that is completely surrounded, few troops will retain their combat effectiveness after such a large battle loss ratio.

After saying the last order, Wesley walked out of the cabin with heavy steps, he wanted to go back to his command cabin and stay alone for a while, the death of thousands of officers and soldiers hit him too hard.

Coca silently took over the command, he knew that this was not the right time to comfort Wesley, he still needed someone to comfort him, but he had already made up his mind that as long as the military decided to retaliate, he would sign up as soon as possible.

At the same time, Angelina, who had returned from the Air Force Command, had returned to McLaughlin's office, and Link had returned here half an hour before her.

At this time, McLaughlin had already received the obviously very rusty combat report from the two rookie liaisons, but fortunately, they were also in the command room all the time before, and they knew the whole process of crisis resolution very well, so McLaughlin finally understood the whole story. It's just that the liaison was already back in his cabin when he sent the message, so he still didn't know anything about what happened to the Mikel detachment.

"You're saying that Wesley only saved his flagship Elk, and as for the captain who withdrew one step ahead of the fleet, the rest of the fleet is now completely unreachable, and it seems that it has been completely wiped out, right?"

McLaughlin asked Angelina, who was also a little sad in front of him, with a gloomy face, and the three Republic intelligence officers felt heartfelt anger at the death of thousands of loyal Republic officers and soldiers under such a conspiracy and trickery.

"At present, the Air Force Command has judged that Air Force Commander Admiral Jordan has already gone to the presidential palace, and I heard that he will also be accompanied by Army General Bach, Admiral Ludved, and Secretary of Defense Wycombe Abbey. ”

Angelina spoke quickly as she reported the information she had received from the Navy Command, and it was no wonder that the military was so excited, the last time the Republic was almost wiped out was in the Battle of Genting sixty years ago, and no one had the courage to flirt with the tiger's whiskers after that.

Hearing this, McLaughlin knew that he couldn't sit here anymore, so he got up and walked out, he was going to the presidential palace too, and he had to take the initiative in this matter, if he was called over, it would be embarrassing.

Link and Angelina stood aside and watched him walk out of the office, and McLaughlin was usually like this, except for the kind of occasions when pomp and circumstance were needed, he didn't even need a driver, and he was always alone.

McLaughlin, who walked out the door, suddenly turned his head and pointed to a document on the table to the two who were also about to leave, "Look at that, very powerful boy." ”

Then he said no more, leaving two confused subordinates.

Link picked up the document McLaughlin was pointing to, and it was the report from the two rookies.

"The level is really bad. ”

Link read two lines and was furious at the two guys' choice of words.

"Nobody comes this way. ”

Angelina, who was already familiar with Link, now knew why this temporary superior always had a poker face, so she was much less afraid of him, and she could even make some jokes at this time.

However, as her gaze also began to focus on the document in Link's hand, an uncontrollable look of surprise appeared on her beautiful face.

"My God, does the director have such a high opinion of him? There are not many people in our republic who can get such a rating. ”

Angelina muttered that at the end of this document, McLaughlin wrote his rating of Ye Wenqin in his own handwriting.

"Insight: A. ”

"Judgment: A+. ”

"Imagination: A. ”

"Mobility: A. ”

"Combat Effectiveness: Unknown. ”

Although McLaughlin is the director of the CIA, he is praised by the world as his other identity, a world-famous calligrapher, but he usually signs documents with graffiti, and rarely shows his other side in front of his subordinates, but the score on this document is written with his vigorous and fluent penmanship. For Ye Wenqin's rating, McLaughlin also got it through his amazing performance in this incident, and Link and Angelina are quite convinced by this score because they have already opened the report above.

"The most terrifying thing is the unknown combat power. ”

Link nodded and agreed with Angelina's point of view, but what he valued more was the unknown combat power, you must know that Ye Wenqin couldn't even figure out the level of combat effectiveness for one of the key targets of their CIA recently, which was really surprising.

And unlike Angelina, who has always been on the front line of intelligence, Link, who often helps McLaughlin with documents and files, has more access to things that others can't see, such as the scoring data used by the CIA to evaluate target people or their own people.

Among the five items in front of Angelina, only the action is A-, the combat effectiveness and judgment are B, and the others are only C+, and Link himself only Angelina has one more B+ insight, and the other two are almost comparable, and the characters who can get four A- or more in the bureau will only be three if McLaughlin himself counts them, and in all the files of the CIA, those who can get four A- or more grades are not even satisfied with a file bag, usually the file bag they use is one for 100 people.

"It seems that the two of us have a difficult task this time. ”

Angelina's heart was filled with excitement and happiness, as a doer, she is extremely interested in anything that is challenging, especially for this kind of master who can get a 4A evaluation.

If Ye Wenqin was in front of him, he would know that this woman was now secreting too much dopamine.

Although he doesn't know much about dopamine, Link, who is already familiar with Angelina's character, looks at this poor "fool" with pity, Angelina doesn't know her rating, so she is not optimistic about Angelina's eager appearance at all. "I hope you'll be so happy in two days. He thought unkindly.

Just when these two people were surprised by Ye Wenqin's rating, the miniature airship that McLaughlin was riding had landed on the tarmac outside the presidential palace at this time, and McLaughlin's anxiety at this time could be seen from his choice of transportation.

"I hope those two guys can handle it, I really envy Zhuge Wenxian's guy. ”

With a long sigh, McLaughlin followed the confidential secretary of the presidential palace, who had been waiting outside for a while, to the president's office.

"Mitterrand, who's here. ”

McLaughlin asked the small secretary, who was a frequent visitor to the presidential palace and had close ties with several of them, including Mitterrand, who was now leading the way.

"The director, Vice President Katarina, several bigwigs from the military have arrived, the Department of Homeland Security is almost there, and Speaker Kakino of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ms. Missy Rowling, are also on their way. ”

Mitterrand replied cautiously, and although he boasted to be familiar with the director in front of outsiders, he was very nervous every time he spoke to McLaughlin.

"That old thing Kachino, see how I clean him up. ”

As soon as the Speaker of the Senate was mentioned, McLaughlin was angry, and it was the person he recommended who had a problem that caused so many things to follow. Bell's defection is still circulating among a few people, but Ayala Cooper, who was recommended directly by the Senate, must have reported the matter to Kakino, and McLaughlin was eager to see Kajino's expression for a moment.

As one of the few "outsiders" who make him more optimistic, McLaughlin has always favored Bale, and he is now very much looking forward to Kodak's findings.

"John, you've arrived, too. ”

When McLaughlin walked into the noisy conference room, sitting at the round table, Caterina, who was surrounded by several generals, hurriedly greeted President Amelia had not yet arrived, so she became the object of these irascible officers, even if she was as strong as Catalina, she could not stand the bombardment of these "loudspeakers".

At this time, the arrival of McLaughlin, who was the direct commander of the operation, gave Caterina the hope of relief, and she did not even use the usual name, but used the more intimate John.

Sure enough, when Caterina finished shouting, several generals immediately turned their heads and stared at McLaughlin, the twinkling stars on their shoulders and those eyes full of anger made McLaughlin a little dazzled, and he scolded Caterina in his heart, but he could only keep a smile on his face and greet these bigwigs.

As the most badly injured Air Force commander Jordan raised his fist even more, as if he wanted to give McLaughlin a few blows, it is not difficult to see how angry he is now.

"McLaughlin, look at the good things you have done, thousands of our officers and soldiers are gone, gone. ”

Although he hadn't hit McLaughlin in the end, Jordan still stretched out his finger and pointed at McLaughlin from afar, roaring with a hideous face, and several other generals also followed behind him with unkind faces, although they didn't speak, but they had already shown their force field.

McLaughlin already had an expectation of this kind of scene, so he could only continue to smile dryly and prepare to explain to a few people, not to explain, after all, others did suffer heavy losses due to the actions he arranged.

"Say, what the hell is going on, how can Knight Charge appear in that position?"

General Bach, the hot-tempered of the generals, appeared to be more anxious than Jordan.

"I'm sorry, it's embarrassing, but it's true that we have internal problems. ”

McLaughlin spread his hands and said helplessly.

"Sure enough, I said John, can you CIA be infiltrated to this point?

McLaughlin, the only person not wearing a military uniform, asked McLaughlin, who is one of the few senior female officials in the military's top echelons, Defence Secretary Wycombe Abbey, who and Katerina are the only two female officials in this administration.

"Minister Wycombe Abbey, it has been confirmed, but he committed suicide by drinking a bullet during the arrest, and it is our Deputy Director of the Investigation Division, Christian Bale. ”

Hearing McLaughlin's words, the few people who were angry at him were a little surprised, they didn't expect it to be someone from the detective department, and several people also reacted that if things were really as McLaughlin said, then this pot would not be McLaughlin's, at least not all of them, and Senate Speaker Kakino, who had not yet arrived, would be more responsible.