Mage Veigar

Chapter 221 The ambition of the swan
Boom boom boom——

The enemy's magic bombardment has begun, and Vega, who is hiding in the air-raid shelter, can even feel the ground shaking.

Taking advantage of this time, Vega began to seriously think about countermeasures.

First, the enemy has an army of 30, so the number of war airships is about 30 times, in other words, 300. It is impossible to defeat this number with only 10 war airships in his division, and he cannot even last for a minute.

Second, as far as the army is concerned, fighting a conventional war is tantamount to trying to stop a chariot with one's bare hands.

So how did other officers fight this battle?
If you think about it, you will know that they are not as ambitious as Vega, who actually wants to swallow up a large enemy army with a division of about 1.6 troops. Their goal is just to hold on for more than 3 days.

Holding on and defeating the opponent are two different concepts, and this concept is even exaggerated to the point of being worlds apart.

I am not exaggerating. Regardless of the losses, fighting to the last soldier is a hundred or even a thousand times easier than defeating the enemy. If the former has a 3% chance of holding the city for more than days, the latter has less than / or / chance.

The conventional way to defend a city is to hold the city gates.

But this is also the reason why Vega can't figure out what the military is trying to do.

Because it is impossible for an ordinary officer to use a division to defend against a three-day attack of 20 troops. Only some people with general-level command talents can do it. Most people will probably not be able to hold on for three days and will be eliminated directly.

What would happen if this number increased to 30?
I’m afraid no one can last three days in the entire second stage. What’s the point of this plan?

If you don’t understand, don’t think about it.

The most urgent task is how to destroy these 30 troops.

That’s right, Veigar means “destruction” rather than “hold out for 3 days”.

Even now, he still believed that he had the ability to destroy these 30 troops, because he was not a standard academic, he had not even mastered the basic courses, so he would definitely not hold on in the conventional way like other officers.

If other officers or even generals heard this idea, they would sneer at him.

A guy who hasn’t even mastered the basic courses wants to swallow an elephant?

But how can a sparrow understand the ambition of a swan?

Perhaps in the eyes of others he is indeed crazy, even to the point of being hopeless.

But so what?
In Veigar's opinion, the best way to hold on is to attack.

The city is his home ground. Street fighting and guerrilla warfare are his tried and tested tactics, because the officers in this world have no concept of street fighting and guerrilla warfare. Even General Tils is still learning by imitation.

If the general is like this, who is his opponent this time?
The enemy is just a puppet without soul. To put it bluntly, the enemy only fights the war in a fixed way. It is an army that cannot even think in a basic way or summarize experience, not to mention any countermeasures against guerrilla warfare and street fighting.

The inability to summarize experience means that Veigar can only use the same countermeasures over and over again.

In addition, his own troops are also virtual troops without souls, which means that his tactical thinking can be executed 100% without even worrying about being affected by morale. This kind of troops is actually beneficial to him.

This is a long time.

Then there is no reason for us not to win this battle. It would be a real shame if we really lost to such an army.

After summarizing the advantages and disadvantages, and even considering the situation of other officers, Vega conveyed the way of attack to all soldiers. The basic method is still to break up the whole into small pieces, with ordinary troops occupying the commanding heights, fully grasping the enemy's movements and making full use of arrows and terrain as the main force to attack, while professionals and mages are responsible for covering, assisting, and clearing the pursuing troops.

After conveying the battle plan, Vega began to quietly wait for the enemy warship's bombing to end. This wait lasted for three hours, and the ground finally stopped shaking, and the dust in the air-raid shelter stopped falling. After the piercing roar, the whole world fell into silence again.

According to the conventional warfare method, the airships plowed the land and the army began to enter the city.
"The battle begins!"

Taking advantage of the time when the enemy entered the city, Vega gave an order and the troops implemented Vega's tactical thinking in an orderly manner.

Climb to the tallest building in the city center.

Vega used a military telescope to watch the 30-strong army rushing in like a tide.

They have only one goal, which is to occupy the city and kill all of Vega's soldiers. As long as Vega dies or the total strength of the army drops to one percent, it means that Vega has failed.

During the defense period, Veigar cannot leave the city on his own initiative. Once he leaves the city, he will automatically be judged as the loser.

After entering the city.

The 30-strong army began to divide its forces to block various intersections. There was basically a regiment of troops stationed at each intersection, but after blocking the intersections, they suddenly had no next move.

Why is this happening?
Because these soldiers are just virtual puppets operating in a fixed way, if they were ordinary officers, they would have already started fighting positional battles and defensive line battles with the enemy at this time, and the puppet soldiers would also attack in a fixed way, so ordinary officers would find this scene very smooth, as if they were real soldiers.

But Vega used the concept of guerrilla warfare and street fighting.

Because this concept was too advanced, the puppet soldiers had no way to deal with it, so after they occupied each intersection in a fixed manner, they had no idea what to do next.

Even if a rookie officer were to replace him at this time, he could use 30 troops to wipe out Vega's guerrilla forces street by street and building by building, because numbers can sometimes really defeat an opponent with force.

But the puppet soldiers would never do this.

As long as you do something that is unexpected to the other party, their inability to break through the upper limit of thinking will completely freeze, and they will become a group of living targets.

Vega's troops moved.

Using guerrilla warfare, they continuously killed the enemy's garrison troops at the pass. Although the number of people killed each time was limited, the enemy's strength was indeed decreasing.

So what was the enemy's reaction?

When the enemy troops are attacked, they will automatically track and counterattack, but as long as they retreat a certain distance, they will return to their original position. The only damage to Vega's troops is that they are occasionally hit by enemy magic during the retreat.

But this is only a minority after all.

Vega planned an extremely detailed retreat route, so these casualties were just a drop in the bucket.

Seeing this, Vega finally breathed a sigh of relief. The reaction mechanism of these puppet soldiers was far more simple and stupid than he had imagined. If this trend continued, even if another 10 were added, Vega would be confident that he could kite the enemy to death.

"What a bummer."

Veigar yawned, no longer panicking at all as he had when he first saw the 30-man army.

Confident of victory, he stretched lazily and walked towards the headquarters. "I thought it would be more exciting, but this makes me feel a little insulted. It's ridiculous that I prepared for a month just for these stupid puppets."

(End of this chapter)