"Carl? Are you talking about Carl?" Philis frowned, "I never expected that one day I would form an alliance with him." It is said that Philis and Carl actually have no personal grudges, but the relationship between the Elf Court and the Holy See of Light, as the two most powerful forces in the Katic continent, is destined not to be too friendly. As the representative of the Elf Court, Philis must comply with the Elf Court's external attitude, at least generally. This is not the requirement of this trial, but Philis's request for herself.

Danica explained: "This is also impossible. In my opinion, we should avoid the emergence of a third alliance that can compete with us in terms of strength. When Lucia and Trudeau have strong enough strength to influence the development of the situation, then we, including Carl, will be blackmailed. This is something I can't stand. In order to avoid this, I would rather have a temporary alliance with Carl."

Phyllis couldn't think of any reason to refute for a moment, so she had to mutter: "I don't think that Carl's dead brain will accept our kindness."

Danica smiled and said, "Karl may not, but Viggs will. As the winner of the internal struggle of the Tulip Kingdom, he should have the ability to adapt to this kind of political players. If you think we should not form an alliance with Carl, you can settle for the second best alliance with Viggs, which is also a good choice." Of course, whether it is an alliance with Viggs or Carl, it is the same, but it sounds better in terms of statements.

Philis looked at Danica and sighed in her heart. Danica has two very important personality traits, one is that she is particularly vengeful and the other is that she has a strong desire to control the entire situation. She always hopes to control the entire situation. Once the change in the situation exceeds her control and makes her in a passive state, she will be very anxious and uneasy. Danica desperately wants to dismantle the alliance between Lucia and Truu in order to avoid being threatened. But in fact, Philis feels that even if a third party force appears, things may not be bad. If you pay a little price appropriately, Lucia, Truu and others will fall to her side. There are many complex and subtle operation spaces in the middle. But no matter what, Danica just cannot accept this situation.

"Things haven't developed to such a bad point, hasn't it?" Phyllis said unwillingly.

Danica nodded and said, "You are right. Things are not that bad yet. Now the key is to rely on Lucia's response."

Danica ordered Aishi, "Tell Lucia what I mean, and..." Danica looked at the battle situation outside and continued, "In addition, prepare for it, set a fire at the Aishi Chamber of Commerce branch and burned the villa, causing the illusion that we were attacked from behind, and then let Catherine retreat completely." The villa in the Aishi Chamber of Commerce in the Kenste branch was originally close to the city center, just behind the battle square. Considering that it was going to fight in Kenste, Aishi had placed quite a lot of supplies there. It can be said that the villa was the logistics supply station for the three mercenaries.

"Do you want to force Trudeau to take action?" asked Phyllis, who was listening next to him.

"Yes." Danica sneered and said, "That short man thought he could threaten me. Don't he understand that if he really lost this war, his situation would definitely be much worse than ours." Of course, this was under the premise that Danica lost in a planned manner. If their coalition forces were defeated head-on by the City Lord Guard, they would obviously be even more miserable.

...

After receiving the order from Danica and Philis, Fililler took a few deep breaths before he could get down.

After the messenger who sent the message left, Fei Miller couldn't help complaining to Catherine who had just returned from the frontline battle: "Why should we retreat? Why did Your Highness give such an order?"

Facing Fei Miller's questioning seemed to be confused and accusing, Catherine waved her hand and asked the guards who helped her bandage the wound to retreat, ensuring that there was no one beside them, and then said: "Because in the eyes of Miss Fengyu and Miss Yuelan, we have failed."

Fei Miller picked up the gauze placed next to the guard and helped Catherine bandage the wound on her shoulder, saying, "Why did we fail?"

Catherine smiled and said, "Do you remember what they asked us? We must win this battle beautifully. Look at the current situation, is there a beautiful victory?" Seeing what Fei Miller wants to say, Catherine took the initiative to say, "I know that we still have hope of winning, but even if we win, it is only a miserable victory. This is something they cannot accept, because the victory achieved by exhausting our three mercenary groups is only a tactical victory, and it is definitely a failure in the overall situation. So compared to a miserable victory, Miss Fengyu and Miss Yuelan would rather us preserve our strength and take the initiative to retreat."

After all, Catherine has commanded a large mercenary group for a long time. Although the "large mercenary group" with only two or three hundred people seems a bit ridiculous to Fellier, at least as an independent combat unit, Catherine has experienced many situations, including greed for a victory and letting herself fall into an ambush set by others. This is a typical situation of tactical victory strategy failure. Moreover, as a mercenary group that completely needs to support herself, Catherine is also very clear about how bad news the so-called miserable victory is for a mercenary group. Even if she wins, it will be difficult for a seriously injured mercenary group to survive in the cruel war-torn areas in the central region.

Fei Miller opened her mouth, but could not think of any powerful rebuttal. She looked at the mercenaries of the three mercenary groups who were still fighting and said sadly: "Are we doomed to fail this battle?"

After bandaging the wound simply, Catherine stood up and said, "Miss Fengyu and Miss Yuelan should have been mentally prepared for a long time. After all, the gap in strength between the enemy and us is too big, and we basically cannot achieve a beautiful victory." At this point, Catherine frowned. According to her understanding of Danica, she would never bet on the hope of victory on the two of them suddenly performing extraordinaryly. Minaishire on the opposite side made a big mistake. The chance of this is too small. She must have a plan to make a backup plan, but judging from her current appearance, she doesn't know if there is something wrong with the plan to make the backup plan.

Katherine guessed correctly. Danica's plan was indeed wrong. First of all, True and Brock did not come out to help the battle in time as agreed, but instead stood beside him and planned to sit in the mountains and watch the tiger fight. In addition, Lucyya did not respond at all.

The atmosphere on the second floor of the tavern became very serious at this time. It had been more than an hour since the news was passed, and Lucia still did not respond. Tyran kept standing by the window and looking out. Fei Miller and Catherine were slowly shrinking their formation - retreat was always the most dangerous, and if a slight mistake was made, it turned into a defeat, so the process was very slow. Danica sat on the chair and closed her eyes to rest. Although Phyllis was holding a glass of water in her hand, she looked restless.

The dull atmosphere made Taylan feel breathless. She said, "Danika, what are you thinking?" She didn't want to ask any questions, but she just felt that it would be better to talk for a while than to be so silent.

Danica opened her eyes and smiled slightly to make herself look a little relaxed, saying, "I'm thinking about how I can get the support of Carl and Viggs."

"Ah? Oh." Although she didn't expect it, Tyran was not very surprised. Her friend has always been good at planning. She would never wait so blankly. It is normal for her to plan the next way out.

Taylan asked, "Then have you thought of any good idea?"

Danica sighed slightly and said, "If you want to get their help, you must exchange interests. It is hard to say about Carl. I can't think of anything in my hand to exchange with it. But Vigs is different. I really thought of a good exchange condition."

"What?"

Danica smiled a cold smile on her lips and said, "Have you heard of Aphro Aragon? She was a classmate I met when I was studying in the three major magic academies. She was the leader of the Tulip Kingdom Reform, Vigs' mortal enemy, and his own sister. If I told Vigs that I could help him permanently solve the sister who often causes trouble for him, would you please exchange for his help?"

Permanent solution? Danica means...Tyran suddenly felt a chill and couldn't help but shivered. As far as she knew, although Aphro was not one of their alliance, Danica had always maintained close contact with her. Of course, it was mainly to use her power to deal with Vigs. However, things in the world were too impermanent, and Miss Aphro probably did not expect that this war that had nothing to do with her might actually cause her to kill herself.

Phyllis frowned slightly and said, "We don't need to do that, right? Aphro is still very useful. It wouldn't be so comfortable with her in Viggs and Carl. Can we take advantage of Edward's power? He has a thousand people after all."

"I'm afraid it's not that easy, right?" said Danica.

Phyllis said: "It won't be too difficult. Now Edward's most worried issue is how to get along with the Vatican of Light, or to be bluntly, how can the Vatican of Light let go of the big merchants in their southern coastal areas? Don't we know Elizabeth? Letting him join Elizabeth's faction is a good choice. You can ask Edward to give Elizabeth some money. As far as I know, Elizabeth's faction is quite short of money, and then get a piece of peace. Anyway, those big merchants have always been good at bribery."

Danica shook her head and said, "Elizabeth may not agree."

Phyllis thought for a while and said, "We can ask her to agree first and wait until the war is over..." At this point, a cold light appeared in Phyllis' eyes: "When this war is over, we can solve Edward?" As long as there are other possibilities, Phyllis definitely doesn't want to cooperate with Carl.

Fortunately, the development of things was not that bad. Just when Danica and Philes were about to make the next decision, Aishi hurriedly walked in and said with joy: "Lucia has already agreed to our conditions. In another twenty minutes, her Claw Mercenary Group will reach its position." Twenty minutes from the northern gate to the back of the mercenary group of Trulu and Bullock, this requires a quick march. From this time alone, Luxiya is still very sincere in this cooperation.

"That's good." Danica also breathed a sigh of relief. Lucia was their best choice now. If Lucia's request for help was not successful, there would be an extra price to make any other choice.

Since the agreement with Lucya has been reached, Danica ordered: "Go and arrange it, and you are ready to set fire to the branch of the Aishi Chamber of Commerce at any time, as for the supplies inside..."

Seeing that Danica was a little hesitant, Ai Xue took the initiative to say: "Those supplies can be stuffed into the basement. As long as the iron door in the basement is locked, the fire will not burn the underground."

Danica looked at Ai Xue meaningfully and said, "You can arrange these things. Didn't you find a few maids who are spies before? Let's take advantage of this fire to deal with them."

"Yes, master." Ai Xue said quickly. To be honest, the look that Danica looked at her just now made her feel a little scared, because what she said just now did set a trap.

There has never been a saying that "a big fire cannot burn underground". The so-called materials are mainly food and weapons and armor. Needless to mention food, the better ones can be cooked, but most of them can be burned even if placed in the basement. In addition, weapons and armor cannot withstand fire. Those things are not all iron. The armor must have cotton or leather linings. Most of the weapons also have wooden poles, not to mention bows and arrows, which usually require careful maintenance. Ai Xue actually contains a meaning: this so-called fire is just a look and does not require the real burning of the villa completely. Ai Xue is feeling sorry for the things,

This villa was purchased for Danica to entertain representatives of other forces. In order to match the identity of Danica, Phyllis and the others, Ai Xue spent a lot of effort on the decoration of the villa. She threw a lot of gold coins into it, but now she said it would burn, which made her feel very distressed. So Ai Xue came up with this idea. The so-called setting fire simply means it. There is no need to really set the fire, but she didn't dare to tell Danica directly, so she had to use such a tactful statement. She asked Danica in the future and asked something about it, but now she was noticed by Danica.
Chapter completed!