Zhou Lin

February 1, 2219.

In the past half month, the impact of the "Nine Hells Fall" incident on the world has been gradually fermenting.

Even the most incompetent federal bureaucrats can feel that the resistance forces around the world have entered an unprecedented period of activity.

A storm... is coming.

From the day the Nine Prisons were robbed, the top bosses in Christo City have been meeting basically every day, from morning to night, but the actual effect of these meetings is very limited.

After all...the enemy is in the dark and we are in the open. Before the resistance forces take actual action, the only thing the Federation can do is an intelligence war.

But things like espionage cannot be promoted overnight; battles on the intelligence front are long-term operations, and asking front-line undercover agents to increase the frequency of their activities during such a sensitive period is nothing like asking them to die. Both.

Therefore, the more times like this, the more we need to be patient, low-key, and forbearing...

The Nine Prisons Incident itself has caused a huge blow to the Federation. If a series of wrong decisions are made during this period due to panic, it will only bring more unpredictable consequences.

Unfortunately, today’s federal government is not a group that can remain calm and calm after such an incident.

Taking Lilia's experience of being imprisoned in the Nine Prisons as an example, it is not difficult to see that most of the prisoners in the Nine Prisons have personal grudges with high-level members of the federation or their cronies; among them, some were directly framed or persecuted and imprisoned People accounted for 90% of them, and the level of hatred of "family destruction and death" can only be regarded as an average level among this group of people.

Now that all the prisoners have escaped, do you think the federal dignitaries are panicking?

Even if some officials and their families are not imprisoned in the Nine Prisons, people in their social circles may be; in case everyone comes out to meet, drink tea, or meet in the same villa area , while standing in the community chatting... suddenly a person with abilities appeared who "had no intention of going back since he came here" and had the mentality of "killing someone who is good enough should kill your whole family, and there will be someone next to you who will think you are unlucky" , then where can they go to reason?

Under this situation, the next development is also foreseeable.

For the powerful... their own wealth and lives are naturally more important than maintaining local stability.

In order to protect the core of power, some of the federal military forces from all over Europe were transferred to the already heavily guarded area around Crystal County; many local officials also ignored the regulations and left their posts and fled with their families. They took refuge in Crystal County... Anyway, most of them already owned properties in Crystal County. What happened to "go to their own villas for a vacation"?

And their reaction was as if they were opening the doors to various areas outside Crystal County and waiting for the rebels to come.

Sure enough, by February 10, what was supposed to happen finally happened.

The resistance organization "Cossack Rangers", which had absorbed the largest number of prisoners from the Nine Prisons, sent troops from the northern part of Blue Shield County and launched an unprecedented comprehensive raid on the federal army garrison in Wheat Straw County, and occupied several cities within 24 hours. The federal government building also controlled all key agencies including the police station and television stations.

They announced to the world through radio that they would launch a full-scale uprising against the corrupt regime of the Federation, and called on resistance organizations around the world to rise up and cooperate with them.

Since the "Battle of Cochin" that took place in Southeast Asia many years ago, this is the first time a resistance activity of this scale has occurred, and it took place in Europe, where the federal military is the strongest... Everyone was shocked by it.

At this point, it is definitely impossible to block the news. The federal information department can only try its best to guide and control public opinion - in short, first create a bunch of fake news about the rebels massacring civilians, raping and plundering, and use their own It now has the advantage of controlling most of the world's media, instilling fear and hostility among the people towards resistance organizations.

In terms of military affairs, the defense of Crystal County must not be touched, so troops should be mobilized from other counties in Europe to encircle and suppress them. Anyway, the overall military strength of Europe is strong, and they may lose if they are raided in some areas, but after the raid, once they resist When the army came to the surface and became a defender occupying the city, the situation was different.

So, in the early morning of February 12, the encirclement and suppression operation began.

The codename of this operation is "Operation Sandwich". As the name suggests... it uses the two major military bases in the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea as the main fulcrum to launch a pincer attack on all occupied areas in Wheat Straw County and Blue Shield County.

Judging from the military technology of the 23rd century, it is not difficult to wipe out these two large Eastern European counties with conventional combat weapons in one day. If civilian casualties are completely ignored... it will only take half a day.

But the federal army is not so crazy. After all, most of the frontline soldiers are from the civilian class, and many of them are from Eastern Europe. No matter how stupid the commander of the operation is, he will not be able to issue such an order.

Therefore, "Operation Sandwich" still focuses on precise attacks on "military facilities" and "troop locations" with conventional weapons, followed by the advancement, clearing, and occupation of ground troops.

This... is more time consuming.

If the rebels intend to drag the fighting into a street fighting and guerrilla style, things will be even more troublesome.

And in fact, they did.

By 3 pm on the 12th, the progress of "Operation Sandwich" had suffered a very serious setback; the federal army realized a very serious thing - except for long-range bombing strikes, which could achieve certain results, the advancement of ground troops was almost impossible. Expand.

The reason is: the opponent's ability user troops are obviously stronger than the Federation's.

If nothing else, there is a gap in the number of people...

The federal ability user combat force is very small, with a squad of about ten people at most. A squad is often divided into two teams for operations.

In a regiment of federal army ground troops, there are usually only two to three ability user classes, and those ability users among them are generally from the same level to the strong level.

On the other hand, on the resistance side, there is a complete mix of ability users and ordinary soldiers, and the proportion of ability users is quite high. You can't tell who has powers and where they will appear.

Not only that, the levels of those ability users are also not low, and their fighting methods are all wild. They can use "lime powder, twitching vaginal legs" nature of the fighting style.

All in all...the Federation's ability warriors were at a disadvantage both in terms of quantity and quality; in this case, their ground troops were "unbeatable" and "unable to push" them.

As night fell, an operation originally planned to be completed in one day turned into a protracted battle.

By the early morning of the 13th, the commanders of the Federal Army had already given up on blitzkrieg. What they were thinking about now was... relying on their superiority in total strength to defeat their opponents.

However……