Mage Veigar

Chapter 252: Unbreakable Formation
One person, one city, one division.

This is the standard configuration for both sides in the battle.

Of course, this division also includes a squadron of 10 transport-type war airships, but Kafuin's troops have one less reinforced regiment than Vega, which is about 3200 ordinary soldiers.

In addition, the map was chosen by Veigar, so Veigar is generally in the advantage.

The only drawback is that the city must be occupied within half a year while Kafuin's military strength must be reduced to 1%. Of course, there is also a special method within the rules to end the war early - the decapitation tactic.

However, this tactic is quite difficult to implement in practice, and requires a combination of time, place and people, so Vega excludes it and does not consider it for the time being.

During the next 24 hours of preparation, Vega, as the attacker, must of course consider the occupation of key transportation routes.

Because the city is not located along the river this time, and there are no ports or fishing boats, the only known way to connect the two cases is a large bridge. If the bridge is blown up and needs to be rebuilt, it will take about a month.

Bridges are lifelines.

It is no exaggeration to say that whoever controls the bridge will have the initiative in the war.

Therefore, Vega deployed heavy troops and prepared to seize the bridge as soon as possible after 24 hours. At the same time, he also hoped that Kafin would not be very interested in the ownership of such buildings, otherwise as the attacker he would often need to pay several times the force.

Based on the premise of occupying the bridge.

Vega still needs to carefully plan the next attack route, after all, the bridge is only the first level.

After passing the first level, Vega would of course look for an attack direction that the enemy would not expect, cross those passes and natural barriers, and eventually allow his troops to reach the enemy's city gate intact to carry out a conventional siege.

Veigar wasn't fast in making plans.

After a whole day, Vega had only worked out a rough strategy, but the war had already broken out at this time, and he could only perfect his plan after occupying the bridge and taking the initiative in the war.

The General's Battle lasted exactly 24 hours and the war broke out.

First, the two war airship formations engaged in an extremely fierce battle in the air. In less than 20 minutes, Vega lost 3 war airships, but Kafuin was obviously not having a good time either, as he had lost about 4 airships.

The situation began to reverse in the 25th minute.

It seemed that because of some order issued by Kafin, the war airships were arranged in a wide cone shape and scattered to provide cover, instantly shooting down two of Vega's war airships. Vega was so scared that he quickly ordered the remaining five war airships to retreat.

"It turns out that the foundation is a flaw."

Army commanders usually don't offer air combat courses in the first year. Such courses are usually offered in the third year. Therefore, Vega has no idea about these air combat formations. In addition, in the previous stage, he had dominated the field with numbers, so Vega didn't even think about systematically making up for the air combat courses for level 3 students. This is why he suffered a loss at the hands of Kafkin.

"It looks like we won't be able to take over the bridge today."

When air superiority was lost and magicians, professionals and ordinary troops came into close combat, Vega knew that the initiative had been lost. In the early stages of a war, whoever has air superiority is of course the boss, and Vega has no way to stop this.

In order to avoid meaningless sacrifices, Vega ordered a withdrawal.

He planned to take advantage of the truce to come up with some ways to restrain the local air force formation, otherwise the ground troops would be a bunch of sitting ducks, and if the enemy air force was not eliminated, he would not be able to feel at ease when sending troops to airdrop into the enemy city to attack the city.

Boom boom boom——

But just when Vega ordered the withdrawal, something he did not expect happened.

The enemy's air force and army's magic squadron actually joined forces... to blow up the bridge! Veigar rubbed his eyes vigorously. He never thought that Kafin would do such an unreasonable thing.

Talk about reason.

First of all, Vega is a major, and Kafyn is a general. It would be fine if a general did not take the initiative to attack a major, but he shamelessly blew up the bridge and tried to delay the attack? This is a shameful move that I would only make if I could clearly show that I can't beat you.

Forget about Kafkin being shameless.

The most important thing is that although Kaf had occupied the bridge and gained the initiative in the war, he simply gave up the initiative to attack or defend and degenerated himself into a coward.

No matter from which angle you look at it, this is not at all the war style that an extremely arrogant imperial general should display, but more like an extremely despicable and rogue tactic, as if he just wants to drag it out until the timer is up.

"Kafyin is still the same as always."

The people watching the game shook their heads. "Every time we fight him in a communication match, it's like fighting a turtle. He has the advantage, but he still acts like a coward. It really makes me angry. What kind of idiotic tactical thinking is this?"

"I am ignorant of the truth. Is the 'Unbreakable Formation' that is famous in Jialan just for nothing?"

A general from the West interrupted and said, "Back then on the Western Front, this guy accomplished the feat of holding back a standard corps with one division for a month, and then defeating the enemy a month later."

“These were indeed turbulent times.”

Even the head of the review team said with emotion: "If I remember correctly, his 95th Division was also named the 'Unbreakable Formation' by the Führer himself because of that battle. I still remember that when he mentioned how he defeated a legion with a division, he did not hesitate to disclose his tactical thinking."

"Oh? This makes me a little curious." The generals looked at the team leader.

The head of the review team laughed and said, "Although it is hard to believe, his tactical thinking is completely opposite to his personal character. This is what I remember most clearly."

"Stop keeping us in suspense." Everyone began to feel dissatisfied.

"Quiet, quiet—"

The team leader quickly raised his hand to suppress it, then coughed and said seriously: "Use stillness to control movement, use order to wait for chaos, strike back and win in one battle. Even if there are thousands of troops, we will not be defeated, even if there are tens of thousands of horses, we can win. This is an unbreakable formation!"

"hiss--"

Everyone gasped. "This tactical thinking, could it be that they want to drag the enemy to the point of bursting their mentality, dragging them to reveal their weaknesses, and then strike back and win in one battle? This kind of tactical thinking is probably only Kafyin can use flexibly. With my style, I can't drag down thousands of troops, nor can I stop tens of thousands of horses."

"Those who play tactics really have dirty hearts. Can this be considered the psychological warfare we discussed the other day?"

Several generals echoed him: "No wonder the 95th Division still believes in the Unbreakable Formation. The tactical thinking of the Unbreakable Formation is indeed not in vain. If Major Vega encounters such a coward, he will be in trouble. By then, even if he has the advantage in troop numbers, it is inevitable that Kaf will strike back and win in one battle."

Is this really the case?

Although there is no such thing as a God's perspective, Vega saw through Kafin's tactical thinking at the first glance, which is completely different from the guesses of the generals present. Because when it comes to psychological tactics, these generals and Vega are not in the same dimension at all.

For five thousand years, the game has always been to win people’s hearts.

Since the opponent wants to play this trick of using static to dynamic, striking back and waiting for him to lose his composure, Vega simply takes advantage of the situation and gives Kafkin a "family bucket" of the Thirty-Six Stratagems.

(End of this chapter)