Chapter 313: Leo’s secret operation part 1 (1/2)
It was only when the moon rises up the sky when the Mischievous Blue Sword Alliance finally arrived nearby the Silver city.
It was still raining when they arrive, and the downpour of the rain even became heavier, seemingly like it doesn't plan on stopping any time soon.
Thousands of tents were set up already in the nearby forest, with the Infantry, Range, and Cavalry soldiers resting or sharpening their weapons inside.
The Firing Squad was checking the cannons one last time for the battle tomorrow.
The Logistics personnel were all transporting the supplies to the campsite from the Flyingboats that could only land one at a time due to having not enough empty space for it to land. After all, they have purposely chosen to camp nearby the forest in order to have a wider battlefield tomorrow morning. As to why they needed that, it's simply because they need a wide enough space to slowly move to the southeast of the Silver city with them not getting found out in an instant, meaning they want to catch the Silver royal family off guard.
The respective Elders, Guardians, and Generals of the troops were briefing the Captains of each squad on what to do. Specifically, they won't be charging straight, but rather to their northeast.
And inside a huge tent in the middle of the camp was where the respective leaders of the Mischievous Blue Sword Alliance and Snow Noble Household were gathered together, excluding Leo since he was just a Commander in the shadow, to discuss the possible changes that will happen on the battlefield.
The rain is already getting heavier and heavier, maybe it's already turning into a storm, hence the strategy now needs a few adjustments.
Meanwhile, at this moment, Leo along with Cassandra and the others was currently staying at one of the Flyingboats. Right now, they didn't bother going down to the ground because it would just cause them a lot of trouble moving from one place to another due to how muddy the ground was because of the heavy rain. Aside from that, what else would they need to do if they go down to the ground? Leo has already said everything he needed to say, so why would they want to go down? Sightseeing? To appreciate the scenery of the scene before the battle?
Such unnecessary trouble was not what they want to do. So, what do they want to do? Well.....
”We have noticed the Chaos stones in the exact same location as where the Silver royal family has put the large Mana stones in order to activate the Kingdom Protection Array in the past which is here, here, and here,” Leo pointed his finger on the location of the south sewer, west sewer, and north sewer of the Silver City. He then continued, ”Both the west sewer and north sewer aren't really a variable that we should consider right now, because they are far away from the current location of the battlefield, and obviously also us. What we only need to do is to remove the trap in the south sewer, then secretly lead the civilians to the south,” He encircled the entire south, ”With this, the moment the Black organization detonates their trap, it would only cause a few casualties, do you all understand?” He turned to look at the others present here, aside from Cassandra and the others. To be more exact, Ethan, Princess Elaine, Chief Lago, Sebastian, Dan, Sele, old man Torre, and the others of the Eclipse village, or now go in the name of Eclipse troops, a total of 150 Hybrids.
The Eclipse troops actually have a total of near to 1,500 people, considering those slaves that they have bought from the Southeast Fortress. But because there were just a lot of them to be put inside one single Flyingboat, Leo just made them set a camp nearby.
Leo had specifically gathered all of them here today to discuss another plan in his mind, specifically a secret operation to rescue the civilians of Silver city.
He really hates the fact that the civilians were left with no other choice but to accept their death the moment the Black organization decides to detonate the Chaos stones underneath them. That's why, he thought that with the Silver royal family busy fighting against the Mischievous Blue Sword Alliance and Snow Noble Household, then why not use this opportunity to infiltrate the Silver city using the sewer system to go and save the civilians? Which then lead them to this exact moment...
”How many people exactly would be going in this secret operation?” Ethan asked. Leo has a personal army of near to 1,500 people currently present in this place right now, but taking them all to do this secret operation would be stupid. In his opinion, with that many people, it's not befitting to call this operation a secret anymore. With 1,500 people moving from and to, it would definitely attract the attention of the Silver royal family.
”I'm guessing a few, right?” Princess Elaine turned to look at Leo.
”There would be more or less than 500 people going in this secret operation, while the rest would be stationed somewhere else outside of Silver city in case of an emergency.” Leo replied.
”Would that be enough though, considering that there are more than one hundred thousand of civilians if we all count those living in the north, west, and south?” Chief Lago asked.
”But we also can't just send over a lot of people inside, because it would become so obvious.” Sebastian said.
”How about let's just save as many as we can? We have the problem of the lack of manpower and also the secrecy of this secret operation. Considering those two problems, it simply means we can't save everyone.” Dan suggestion.
”That can't be helped. It's already good enough that we are trying our best to save them.” Sele nodded in agreement with Dan's suggestion.
”I really hate to agree to her, but what she said is indeed reasonable.” Old man Torre agreed.