Mage Veigar

Chapter 208 Those who wish take the bait

After a night of wind and snow.

The weather on the second day unexpectedly improved a lot, and except for some seriously injured people who could not withstand the cold and died that night, the other soldiers managed to survive.

So we took advantage of the sunny weather.

Vega ordered his soldiers to start building defense lines and setting up secret sentries, at least to ensure that any movement within a kilometer would be known immediately.

After building the defense line, Vega ordered the construction of wooden houses for living using local materials.

While constructing the wooden house and setting up roadblocks, he used nearby stones to build a medium-sized fortress to ensure his own safety. After all, the wooden house could hardly withstand the bombing of the fire magician, and he did not want to be set on fire by the enemy's flames.

Even with 5,000 people, this much work cannot be completed in a day or two.

Therefore, Vega concentrated on making preparations during these three days. As long as other troops did not discover them, he would generally not take the initiative to provoke them.

Although no war was initiated, intelligence work was not neglected.

Vega sent out a large number of scouts, who not only found out the area of ​​the forest, but also roughly knew how many troops were in the forest and where they were stationed.

The forest is about 172 square kilometers. The daytime temperature is around -10 degrees Celsius, and the night temperature drops to above -15 degrees Celsius. It rains or snows % of the time.

The pine trees in the entire forest are up to 40 meters high.

The dense treetops blocked the entire sky, giving people a dark and depressing feeling even during the day. No matter whether it was raining or snowing, rain would always drip down the branches, making people shudder.

During combat.

Because the branches at the bottom of the fir tree are jagged, any soldier can only bend forward, so it is often not suitable for large-scale marches. Even if a large force moves forward, the speed is not much better than a turtle's crawl.

Based on this geographical environment, intelligence work becomes much easier.

According to the intelligence we have, there are now more than 150 regiments and about 24 soldiers concentrated in this forest, and war is happening almost every hour and every minute.

About ten groups disappear every day because of this.

Of course, there were also many officers who were proficient in forest warfare and took advantage of the situation, constantly defeating the enemy and working hard to expand their troops, but there were almost no officers like Vega who expanded their troops to a standard brigade strength by almost taking advantage of the situation.

Not everyone can easily carry out decapitation tactics.

In order to defeat the enemy, one often needs to injure one thousand enemies and lose eight hundred of one's own. Therefore, his family is the only one with the largest number of troops in the forest. The second-ranked one has only a force of less than 3000 people, and is still in the passive stage of being attacked.

Seeing everyone continuing to gain points, Vega was not in a hurry.

This Hundred Regiments Campaign will last for six months. Instead of getting involved in the melee now, it is better to recuperate and wait for more than ten days until the morale of the troops he has incorporated is restored and they can exert 100% of their combat power. It will not be too late to take action then.

So are these ten days just wasted?

not really.

Although I don't plan to participate in the melee in the early stage, I can't waste the opportunity to accumulate strength.

Therefore, Vega ordered that while the infrastructure was being built, several wooden houses be built in a conspicuous location, and about 700 demoralized or injured soldiers be left in that conspicuous location to wait.

Vega called these 700 soldiers bait.

Just as he imagined, he was going to stage a willing bait. This location was very close to the headquarters, and once a fish took the bait, Vega's large army could arrive at the scene within ten minutes and surround the enemy, ensuring that not a single fly would be let go.

Plus his own superiority as a shadow mage.

As long as the plan is proper, the decapitation tactics can be used again. There is no need to lose the main force like other troops in order to defeat the opponent's troops and gain points.

You know, this is just a magical illusion.

Therefore, no officer would surrender without resistance. Even if they were facing a force ten times their size, they would order their soldiers to bite off a piece of flesh from the enemy.

This is also the reason why many officers who are proficient in jungle warfare cannot expand their troops even though they have a lot of points. Not everyone is as lucky as Kane and can kill the opponent's commander in one go.

The plan went smoothly.

In just one morning, Vega's troops cleared a clearing in a conspicuous location.

In addition, the construction technology of the wooden houses is not difficult. In the evening of the same day, small wooden houses rose from the ground. Just by observing with the naked eye, it can be estimated that this is a force of about 700 people.

When acting, you have to do the whole thing.

While building the wooden house, Vega ordered the construction of fences and roadblocks along the wooden house, and arranged two injured soldiers to guard the gate, which was of course deliberately seen by the enemy scouts.

The stage is set, the actors are in place, but what can we do without an audience?
So in order to lure the first "smart man" into the trap, Vega immediately ordered 700 soldiers to make a fire and cook.

The smoke rose straight up and was still quite conspicuous when it was getting dark.

The smoke from cooking over a fire is different from the smoke caused by fire magic.

The former was neither fast nor slow, while the latter was blazing with flames. Any commander with a little bit of intelligence could tell the difference.

What if those who are dumber can’t tell the difference?
If someone can't even distinguish this kind of smoke, then he won't be a threat even in the later stages. Vega's thinking is different from other people who pick on the weak. He likes to do the difficult first and then the easy.

"Report."

A scout came back and reported: "There is a force of about 2000 people heading in our direction. The enemy's scouts have entered the alert range. Should we remove them?"

"Don't alert the enemy."

Vega smiled an innocent smile and said, “Have all the actors and soldiers take their positions. Let’s play pity on the enemy scouts. We must make them think that it will be easy to defeat us.”

"Yes, Commander."

After receiving Vega's order, more than 700 soldiers, who were listless and wounded, either rested by the trees, or made fires in groups of two or three to cook, or carried and pulled wood to build houses, and some even set third-rate traps in front of the enemy scouts, looking like a miserable group of defeated soldiers.

Taking advantage of this interval, Vega ordered the main force to be ready to provide support at any time.

He himself hid in a place with a good view, waiting for the arrival of the enemy.

Salashala——

Dozens of minutes later, this troop that thought it was unaware had fallen into the encirclement. However, Vega did not order the large troop to show up immediately, but waited quietly.

Wait for the enemy commander to reveal himself.

(End of this chapter)