Chapter 24: The Trap

At the moment, Jeremia's mood is complicated.

On the one hand, the prince's presence on the battlefield brought him a great sense of honor, but on the other hand, the prince rejected his plan to send pure-blood factions as guards, and still used the personal guards.

Truth be told, Jeremiah didn't have a crush on the pretentious Guards, who had already shown enough incompetence in the last Shinjuku defeat.

But now that His Royal Highness has made a decision, he can only comply.

"Jeremia, the whole army has arrived at the designated position to stand by, please issue a combat order." Chuwell drove Kightmare to his side, and several other pure-blood centerpieces approached him.

Jeremia sorted out his mood and said solemnly: "Everyone, Your Highness's presence is the biggest test for us, we must defeat this group of unknown terrorists beautifully, and show our loyalty and strength to Your Highness!" ”

"Report! The enemy has already appeared in our reconnaissance range. ”

"Hooked?" Jeremia snorted contemptuously: "Whole army, the battle begins!" ”

“yesmylord!”

On the other side, inside the command ship, Takeya and a group of staff officers were following the movements of the battlefield in real time through the screen, and after Jeremia issued the order to start the battle, the surrounding troops began to quickly surround the Saitama slum.

As in Shinjuku, the terrorists did not put up much resistance to the Imperial Army, which had an overwhelming superiority in numbers, and the Imperial Army continued to narrow the encirclement network.

With the Imperial Army almost occupying all the areas, Wu Ye couldn't help but wonder, is this still luring the enemy deeper? Or was Lelouch not provoked to come to the appointment at all?

Jeremiah in the battlefield was also very puzzled, and suppressed all the way, except for a few waves of guys with old rifles and bazookas who were not called enemies at all, they almost easily suppressed the entire slum in a flat way.

"Machines, report the situation."

"Zone A, no anomalies."

"Zone C, no anomalies."

"Zone F, no anomalies."

After hearing the report of almost no problem feedback, Jeremiah suddenly had a bad feeling, it seemed that it was a little too smooth?

Perhaps he should be grateful for the shock of defeat that Lelouch had brought him in these battles, otherwise with the innate arrogance of the Imperial soldiers, he would certainly not be puzzled by such a result.

He subconsciously looked at the friendly signals displayed on the map, and immediately frowned, because the encirclement was too smooth, and their forces seemed to be too concentrated.

"Jeremia, isn't our formation too dense, be careful of those terrorists you encountered in Shinjuku using the Underground Railroad to carry out terrain tactics." Chuwell's voice came from within the channel.

Jeremiah said indifferently: "Don't worry, I've already done this research in advance. ”

"Report, enemy forces spotted."

"Where?"

"The location is...... Outside the war zone! There are several Kightmare moving this way. ”

"Huh?"

Jeremia was stunned for a moment, and then immediately ordered: "Chuwell, go and defeat them!" ”

“yesmylord。” Chuwell moved with a squad in the direction of the start of the signal, and almost at the same time, enemy tracks were spotted in all directions.

"Is this going to encircle us?" Jeremia laughed disdainfully: "These stupid eleven! ”

The premise of the encirclement tactic is to have enough troops, and it would be a dream to encircle them with the few Kightmare that the terrorists have looted.

"Crush them." Jeremia took the lead in charging at the terrorist-piloted Kightmare.

“yesmylord!”

Leading a team of five, Jeremia was confronted by three terrorist Kightmare, and before the two sides even opened fire, the other side turned and began to flee.

"A guy with no sense of honor, can you escape!" Turning Kightmare up to full power, Jeremia quickly shortened the distance.

At this time, he also received a report from the other side: "A rescue signal has been detected in Area B, and it seems that the troops on standby have been attacked." ”

"Rescue signal?" Jeremiah sneered and ordered to the other Pureblood Commander, "Veretta, destroy the guy in Sector B." ”

"Understood!"

After a short response, the other party quickly responded: "Jeremia Qing, as you expected, is disguised by terrorists. ”

"Heh, really, will this group of fools do the same trick a second time?" Jeremiah sneered disdainfully.

The pure-blood army he commanded was stronger in execution than the original army, so it was impossible for a unit to remain in place after the encirclement was ordered, and even if there were, he didn't need soldiers who didn't obey orders.

He had already seen through the idea that the terrorists were going to take advantage of the war to infiltrate the Imperial Army.

On his side, he caught up with the three fleeing Kightmare, easily firing the hook lock and destroying two of them, and the last one stopped moving, turning silently at him.

"Oh? Do you dare to face me, but unfortunately, your tricks don't work anymore, checkmate. Jeremia turned his gun on the other side in a victorious manner.

"Really?"

Surprisingly, instead of fighting, the terrorist Kightmare opened the cockpit, and a man in a black cloak and a mask stood up and said to Jeremiah: "It's checkmate, as you say, but I'm the one who won." ”

"What did you say?" Jeremiah sneered, and suddenly, the ground beneath his feet trembled, and the weightlessness of the collapse made him stunned for a moment.

"How is that possible?! Subway? It's not shown on the map, why ......?! ”

"My name is Zero, and I have given it to those who have been punished by heaven."

As the masked man's words fell, for a while, not only Jeremia, but almost all the troops marching in all directions were ambushed by this tactic.

Although in the panic, with Kightmare's skillful piloting skills, he grabbed the edge of the ground with the hook lock, but the terrorists with old weapons who suddenly appeared around him simply broke the point of the hook lock and crashed himself.

On the ground, Lelouch returned to the cockpit and let out an uncontrollable laugh as he looked at the almost completely destroyed Imperial Kightmare on the map.

Indeed, having learned the lessons of Shinjuku's defeat, the Empire will certainly conduct an advance investigation of the abundant presence of underground railroads in Area 11, which can be used not only by terrorists as an escape route, but also as an excellent ambush location.

Therefore, after the first Shinjuku success, Lelouch paid close attention to the situation of the underground railway, because when the empire occupied the 11th district, the latter announced its unconditional surrender after only 3 months of confrontation, so the empire used a proxy policy to manage the 11th district.

The infrastructure in the ghetto was largely preserved, and the merchant aristocracy of the empire would not invest outside the concession, because it was too risky to invest in a place that did not know when it would become a battlefield.

So he could easily find the person in charge of the company in charge of the construction of the Saitama Underground Railway, after all, it was much less difficult to infiltrate a Sector 11 company than to infiltrate the Governor's command ship.

All Lelouch had to do was to use the power of Geass to manipulate the information obtained by the Empire.

"Inform all the staff, the goal is the third prince of the empire, take down the command ship!"