Mage Veigar

Chapter 161 Mobilization Meeting
The mobilization meeting has begun.

The main purpose of this mobilization meeting was to explain the combat thinking of guerrilla tactics, propose combat objectives, and arrange detailed steps during the combat. Of course, it was also necessary to encourage the soldiers.

But as soon as Vega stood on the platform, the people below began to whisper.

“Why is a kid calling a pep rally?”

"You don't even know Captain Vega? Are you from the Third Army?"

"I heard that Captain Vega will be in charge of the next operation."

"Don't be ridiculous. I admit that Captain Vega is very capable, but he is still a little behind the commander-in-chief."

It was inevitable for the soldiers to worry about matters concerning their future destiny. After all, Vega's command ability had not yet been recognized by the public, while Commander-in-Chief Foster was already famous throughout the empire. In times of crisis, most people would naturally be willing to trust Foster.

Of course Vega knew this.

Therefore, he had never thought about gaining the recognition of the entire army through any words. In some ways, people's thoughts are very stubborn. Before your talents are proven, any words will be regarded as a joke.

opposite of this.

As long as you can produce results and lead the army to victory, even if you say nothing or even make a series of jokes, others will think that you did it on purpose and even make up a lot of profound truths.

"All troops, silence!"

Vega's face straightened, and he began to organize the troops. "I know that everyone here still doesn't believe in my command ability. I don't mind this, and I don't even mind you talking about my faults in person, but I need you to remember one thing, that is, you must obey my orders at all times. As a soldier of the empire, I don't need to elaborate on the consequences of disobeying orders."

"Yes!" the soldiers said in unison.

"very good."

Vega nodded with satisfaction: "Now let me announce the overall goal of this operation, which is to take back control of the Kareni air-raid shelter. Of course, taking it back does not mean that you need to send people to garrison. What I mean is to drive out the kingdom's troops stationed in the air-raid shelter!"

It took Vega a night to realize the intention behind Foster's words.

The empire's air-raid shelter, the control right originally belonged to the empire. As long as the garrison troops of the kingdom were driven out of the air-raid shelter and they dared not to interfere with the control of the air-raid shelter, it would naturally mean regaining the control.

As for why Foster was so determined to take back the air-raid shelter, Vega didn't quite understand.

But this was unimportant to him, because the order he received was only to regain control of the air-raid shelter. As long as they won the battle under his command, he would have accomplished his goal.

After explaining the combat objectives, Vega finally began to instill combat thinking.

He coughed twice, then said in a resounding voice: "Regarding this operation, the tactics we will adopt are guerrilla tactics, mainly using small teams as units to conduct flexible and mobile surprise attacks."

"Captain, please allow me to interrupt you for a moment."

Sitting in the front row, a brigadier general from the General Staff slowly began to speak: "I would like to ask, what is this guerrilla tactic? I don't remember the tactic of 'guerrilla' being included in the textbooks of the Empire. Or did this tactic come from a general of the General Staff, or the commander-in-chief?"

"I'm so sorry, Your Excellency the Commodore."

Vega looked calm and said calmly, "This tactic did not come from the commander-in-chief, nor did it come from a general. It's just a little bit of my creative idea."

"What a wonderful idea!"

Another brigadier general stood up and said angrily: "Are you going to pin our lives on your fantastic ideas? With all due respect, I don't think a junior officer who has never attended a military academy is qualified to call his ideas tactics." Vega did not reply. He looked at the commander-in-chief, but Commander-in-chief Foster seemed to be asleep and had no intention of speaking for him. He obviously let him deal with the current situation himself.

There was a glimmer of cunning in Vega's eyes. "Since you don't want to talk, let me drag you into the water myself."

boom!
Vega slammed the table heavily, startling everyone, and then shouted angrily: "General, please be careful with your words. I can stand here and explain this tactic, of course, I have the approval of the commander-in-chief. Are you questioning the commander-in-chief?"

Foster's narrowed eyes opened, revealing a hint of amusement.

The two brigadier generals of the General Staff lost their temper as soon as they were questioned by Vega. They could question Vega, but they dared not question Foster. Since Vega had mentioned Foster as his backer, they could only sit down helplessly.

He did sit down, but the look of distrust was still evident.

After dealing with the embarrassment from the General Staff, Vega continued, "Does anyone have any questions? If not, let's move on to the next topic. What I'm going to explain to you next is the detailed arrangements for this operation..."

"Lieutenant Vega...Captain."

A voice interrupted Vega's words, and the person who stood up was an old acquaintance of Vega, Captain Wolf Ede.

Vega didn’t know what he wanted to say, so he gestured to him, “Captain Wolfe, please go ahead.”

"I want to ask the Captain a question."

Captain Wolfe's expression was quite excited. He asked in a trembling tone, "You are going to use guerrilla tactics this time, but last time you used my 800 soldiers to defeat a regiment and a battalion of the Kingdom Army with almost no casualties, annihilating more than 0 enemies and forcing the Kingdom Army to switch from offense to defense using guerrilla tactics?"

Wow.

Whether it was the generals of the General Staff, other mid-level officers, or even Gunther Burton, they all looked at Wolfe with shock.

Wouldn't they know what the situation of Wolfe's troops was?
To put it nicely, they were 800 soldiers, to put it bluntly, they were just a group of defeated soldiers without even a single professional soldier. They used this crippled troop to defeat the Kingdom's army that was twice their size, killing more than 1000 of them and even forcing the enemy's brigade to switch from offense to defense.

Is this a joke?

But if this is true...

Doesn't that mean that Vega's command ability is already above theirs? In that situation, even if the generals of the General Staff were to command, it would probably be impossible to defeat the enemy with almost zero casualties. It would even be a question whether they could win.

This is a miracle!

The entire army turned their attention to Vega.

They needed an answer from Veigar, but in this situation, no one dared to lie, because war was not a joke.

"Yes, that guerrilla tactic."

Vega said with great confidence: "Captain Wolfe, and all the Imperial soldiers who have experienced guerrilla tactics and those who have not, this time, I will fight for victory again."

"For the Empire, for Victory!"

Hearing that Vega had once created such a miracle, the entire army was excited and a war was about to break out.

(End of this chapter)