Mage Veigar

Chapter 230 A little test
The promotion ratio in this war is 10:1.

The empire is divided into East, West, South, North, and Central. If you want to advance in this war, you must be prepared to become the public enemy of the region, whether you are willing or not. It's just that Vega is more self-conscious.

If you want to capture the north, it will be useless to control as many medium-sized cities as possible.

As long as we hold on to the transportation hub of Lopus City, we will have the heart of the North under our control. Even if the battle line is pushed forward, we will not have to worry about supply and reinforcement issues.

Take control of the city of Lopus and capture Kareni at the same time.

Then the entire north has become Vega's possession. Even if others occupy all the medium-sized cities, they will eventually be destroyed by his attack, because if they advance they will have an iron wall, and if they retreat they will have an abyss.

Vega has great ambitions.

He wanted to be the first to grasp the city of Ropes in his own hands before others had the courage to dream about it.

While the airspace in the north was still relatively safe, Vega ordered the vanguard troops to board 100 war airships, and 4 people marched towards the city of Lopus. Unfortunately, the war airships did not have the passenger capacity of civilian and commercial airships, otherwise it would not be a problem for the entire army to launch a surprise attack on the city of Lopus. However, 4 soldiers were enough.

Since Vega's military war airships are combat-type rather than transport-type, the airships are very fast.

We set out that morning and arrived outside the city of Ropes the next evening.

After more than 40 hours, the ranking list has been refreshed several times. Now the highest ranked has occupied 3 cities. During this period, Vega also noticed that someone occupied Elkia, an important city in the eastern region. However, that name only stayed on the ranking list for less than 7 hours before completely disappearing. Obviously, it has been eliminated.

That’s right, occupying an important city is not difficult, the difficult part is how to defend it for 72 hours.

Vega looked at the magnificent and tall city of Ropus in front of him, took a deep breath, and did not immediately issue an order to attack. Instead, he sent a team of shadow mages to sneak into the city to collect some intelligence.

Do we need to be so cautious when dealing with virtual troops?

You can break through the city gate directly with conventional warfare, because if you don't attack the virtual troops, they will not fight back, so it is not difficult to win if you have the upper hand. The difficulty lies in how to take the city with fewer casualties. Vega wants to retain as many troops as possible.

The Shadow Mage team left quickly and came back just as quickly.

After several hours of reconnaissance, Vega knew the coordinates of important buildings such as the military airport, enemy headquarters, troop stationing points, and main reinforcement routes.

Vega took out his pocket watch and took a look at it, then ordered 100 war airships to take off.

This attack will be a test of blitzkrieg in the war zone. Vega investigated the coordinates of these buildings so that his own airships can carry out magic bombing, paralyzing the command system and reinforcement system, and making the enemy's airships unable to even leave the airport and be directly destroyed.

As long as you have air superiority.

Then Vega can easily capture the city of Ropus while protecting the main force. After all, the virtual officers are not good at street fighting and guerrilla warfare, so he is not worried that his blitzkrieg will be restrained.

The battle has begun.

The 100 airships first destroyed two patrolling enemy airships, and then split into three groups. One group went to the military air port to destroy the troops, the second group paralyzed the enemy's command center, and the third group destroyed the large troop station and blew up the main reinforcement route.

at the same time.

Based on the knowledge of blitzkrieg that he had learned in his previous life, Vega gathered all the magicians in the army to release magic together. The horrifying magic instantly tore through the city gate. Then, a regiment-level force that assembled all the professionals in the army launched a charge along the gap torn by the magicians.

The magic bombardment of mages, the reckless charging of professionals, coupled with the enemy's loss of air superiority and the paralysis of the command and reinforcement systems, the entire defending army has been thrown into chaos, and can only resist instinctively and without organization.

Following closely behind the magicians and professional troops were the ordinary soldiers.

Under Vega's command, these ordinary soldiers easily reaped the lives of virtual soldiers. In addition, they did not know how to engage in street fighting and only knew how to fight head-on, so the war was completely declared over after 3 hours.

The 31st Army lost 3.4 soldiers, most of whom were air force soldiers, but can an air force that cannot take off still be called an air force?

On the other hand, the casualties of Vega's ordinary troops were about 8, and the losses of professional and magician troops were negligible. The results of the first blitzkrieg were very significant, and ending the war in 3 hours gave Vega great confidence.

Vega stood on the city wall and looked at the soldiers cleaning up the mess, feeling a sense of pride.

Although it seems simple, isn't it just about scouting a few locations, then sending the air force to bomb, magicians and professionals to break into the enemy's rear, dividing the battlefield, and large troops to clean up the mess?

But it was precisely these simple points that no officer could have thought of.

According to the strategies of other officers, the Air Force must destroy the enemy's patrol airships first. Since they do not know the location of the airport, they can only wait until the enemy's airships take off and fight to the death for air supremacy.

When the city is attacked, the virtual officer will ask the messenger to notify the reinforcements and order the defending troops to defend the city according to the inherent pattern, and a formal siege will begin.

In the end, of course, the contestants will occupy the city.

However, the troops of the participating officers would certainly suffer one thousand casualties and eight hundred casualties of their own, and it would be impossible to capture the city of Ropes without 48 hours. If someone were to reap the benefits by then, he probably wouldn't even have the strength to fight back.

In just 3 hours, with 8 casualties, they captured a major city. Even if the opponent was a virtual army, this kind of record was absolutely unprecedented. From this, Vega could roughly infer the power of blitzkrieg.

Therefore, what Veigar has to do next is to defend the city for 72 hours.

He first ordered several magicians to fly civilian magic airships to the border to bring back the remaining half of the army. At this time, most officers were busy occupying cities. As long as the route did not pass through the airspace of other cities, there was generally no risk of being shot down.

Veigar's second order was to repair the city gates and build a defense line.

This defense line does not need to be too strong. Vega does not intend to deploy too many troops at the city gate. In the case of a collective attack, over-emphasizing the defense line of the city gate will only deplete his own troops. When there is really no way out, Vega will choose to use a combination of guerrilla warfare and street fighting for defense.

Just as Vega was making preparations in an orderly manner, a crisp sound was heard.

Ding--

"You have entered the leaderboard, currently ranked 17th, occupied city: Ropes City."

"Is it finally here?"

Hearing the reminder from the Land of War, Vega realized that the real challenge was about to come. All the officers who had descended on the North District might have regarded him as an enemy and were ready to form an alliance and attack him together.

Is Veigar scared?

It would be a lie to say that he was not afraid. There were at least 10 armies with a terrifying force of over one million, while his own soldiers only numbered over 9, half of whom were still on the way. But it was also true that Vega was so excited that even his little finger began to tremble.

Because he likes crushing battles, and even more likes counterattacks where the weak defeats the strong!

"Let the war be more crazy."

Vega spread out the map and combined it with the rankings on the leaderboard. He found two cities that had been occupied by contestants closest to the city of Ropus. He drew two red circles on these two cities.

"Send the order to the whole army."

Vega laughed wildly, then took a deep breath and gave an order: "Magicians and professionals, board the war airship immediately. It's time to let those guys who think they have won see what blitzkrieg is like!"

(End of this chapter)