During the fighting on the front lines, the Federal Army suddenly discovered that the Zeon Army's firepower had weakened considerably. There were no longer shells flying straight at them, nor were there fearless charges. Instead, the Zeon forces had become somewhat disorganized, gathering together and slowly retreating. Positions that had once been difficult to take somehow fell into their hands just like that, leaving the Federal Army baffled from top to bottom.
Although some guessed that something might have happened behind the Zeon Army's lines, no one expected that Karmar Zabi, the Zeon Earth Forces' commander-in-chief and the youngest son of the Zabi family, had been captured and brought to a rear-line base camp.
When General Revil received the report that the Astray MS Battalion had slaughtered more than two hundred military police from their own side, he took two deep puffs from his large cigar. As the Earth Federation Army's commander-in-chief in the war against Zeon, what Revil could see was naturally beyond the reach of ordinary people. Perhaps many only saw the surface—that Xiao Ran had killed more than two hundred allied soldiers.
But what Revil saw was what lay beneath that number. Why had those military police gone to the Astray MS Battalion's camp? Why had Xiao Ran dared to issue such a reckless order regardless of the consequences? Revil also knew very well the positive and significant role the Astray MS Battalion had played in the Odyssey Operation. It could be said that from the initial disadvantage to the gradual reversal of the situation, the fewer than fifty pilots of the Astray MS Battalion had accounted for one-third of the Earth Force's overall contribution.
Those idle military police had actually gone to the camp of such great contributors and, over some inexplicable damn reason, tried to