Mage Veigar

Chapter 305: Concealing the truth
knock knock --

Vega knocked on the door of the conference room of the Dynasty Army's commander-in-chief, Callison Clive.

Before entering the room, Vega could hear the heated discussion inside. The words "surrender" and "breakout" were particularly harsh. Even without listening carefully, he knew what was being discussed.

"Please come in."

Hearing Admiral Callison's voice, Vega opened the door to the conference room.

He immediately noticed that Callison, who was sitting in the main seat, had a gloomy face. This middle-aged man with a rigid aura was the commander of the Dynasty's 11th Air Force and also the commander-in-chief of this operation.

“Is it General Vega?”

Kellison quickly stood up and said, "General, you have come at the right time. I am sure you know the current situation. In your opinion, should we break out or surrender? We are currently hesitating on this issue."

"Lord Commander."

Without waiting for Vega to answer, a staff officer stepped forward and said, "Do we still need to look at the current situation? I have been working as a staff officer for 35 years. Under such circumstances, there is not even a 1% chance of success in breaking out. Please forgive me for not agreeing to such a boring and suicidal behavior."

"A gentleman can be killed, but not humiliated."

A division commander snorted disdainfully: "You staff officers have no idea what war, honor, and dignity are. If the commander-in-chief orders a surrender, I will die to prove my loyalty."

"you!!"

"..."

The conference room fell into noise again.

boom--

Kellison slammed the table and shouted angrily, "Be quiet, everyone. We don't have much time left. I didn't call you here to quarrel. If you want to quarrel, get out of the meeting room now."

You can hear a pin drop in the conference room.

Vega then began to speak: "Lord Callison, from a rational point of view, the Kingdom Army currently has 50 soldiers, including numerous high-level military forces and aviation units. Although our army has 8 soldiers, most of them are remnants and have no morale."

"In my humble opinion, the success rate of a breakout is less than 0.01%."

"That's right."

Callison sat back in his seat in frustration.

Of course he knew the current situation, and breaking out would simply lead to his own death.

And even if they succeeded in breaking out, what would happen? The dynasty had already given up the east. There were no reinforcements, no supplies, and no place to stay. By the time the kingdom's army had repaired and completed its control of the east, they would still not be able to escape death.

I can only surrender.

This is the most sensible and best option.

The General Staff saw this very clearly. What was left for Wang Chao's army was not a multiple-choice question, but a single-choice question with only one option. They had no room for choice at all.

But are you really willing to do this?
As a general of the dynasty, he once swore that he would never surrender even if he died on the battlefield. Although the officers who had heard his oath had died one by one before him, did he really want to break this oath?
Callison opened his mouth.

After a pause of a few seconds, he said weakly: "Since everyone is looking forward to it, then..."

"Master Callison, please wait a moment."

At this time, Vega suddenly stopped Kellison. He looked around and said, "Just now I was just speaking from a rational perspective, but you have to know that war is extremely accidental and irrational, so the so-called 'miracle war' was born."

"Your Excellency means..." Callison's eyes lit up.

After a few words of probing, Vega knew from Kellison's expression that he was a war advocate at heart, which saved him a lot of effort, so he smiled and said, "I advocate war!"

It was as if Kailisen had been given a shot of stimulant.

He laughed and stood up and said, "General, since you dare to say such a thing, I believe you have a plan. Why don't you tell us about it? If the plan is feasible, our army will fully cooperate with it."

“There is indeed a plan.”

Arriving in front of the sand table, Vega pointed to the north gate of Tali City and said, "The direction of the breakout is the Taliban Mountains. I think everyone has no objection to this. The question is how to break through the defense line of the United Kingdom's A11 and A12 armies, totaling 10 people, in a very short time."

"That's simply impossible." A staff officer objected immediately: "Although the Kingdom's A11 and A12 armies are both standard armies, their overall strength is still superior to ours. We may not win even in a head-on battle, let alone break through the defense line in a very short time."

Vega didn't care about the other party's tone.

He smiled so brightly that even the magic lamp was dimmed and said, "What if the enemy is not prepared at all?"

"Nonsense."

The staff officer denied it, saying, "The Kingdom Army today is not the same as it was in the past. Even your Empire's army was defeated by the Kingdom. Do you think they will be defenseless and allow us to attack them?"

"Major General, what if you are really defenseless?"

"If that's the case, then we will definitely win this battle."

The staff officer puffed out his chest and said proudly, "If the enemy dares not to take precautions, then I will first send our aviation forces to attack the enemy's temporary air port. After destroying the aviation forces, the main force will attack head-on. I believe that with the cover of air firepower, not to mention breaking through the encirclement, we can also severely damage the Kingdom Army's A11 and A12 Corps while breaking through."

clap clap-

In the quiet conference room, Vega's lone applause rang out.

He did not feel embarrassed at all, but said confidently: "Then it will depend on your performance, Major General. However, my ambition is bigger. I will not only swallow up the air force of the North Gate, but also destroy at least 2/3 of the air force of the Kingdom Army."

Everyone looked at Vega with idiotic eyes.

Now the enemy's war airships control the air, and the dynasty's airships dare not even take off. It is no exaggeration to say that there is no way to go up to the sky and no way to go down to the earth, but Vega is dreaming of this.

After saying this, Vega's impression on everyone plummeted.

But at this moment, Vega revealed his true intention -

"Generals."

An extremely confident tone echoed in the conference room: "Since there is no way to go to heaven, why don't we hide it from the world?"

"What do you mean by hiding something from the world?" Everyone was puzzled.

Vega did not explain. He just suggested to Kerison: "General Kerison, please write a letter of surrender immediately and send it to the enemy's temporary combat headquarters, and state that our army will surrender in five days. During this period, the four gates of Tully City must be opened and the defense line must be removed to show sincerity."

"General Vega, you said before that you are in favor of war. Are you joking now?" Callison was puzzled.

"Do you think I'm joking?"

Shrugging his shoulders, Vega pointed at himself and said, "I've only lived for 13 years. I'm going to get married and have children in the future. I don't plan to tell my future child that his father once did such a shameful thing as surrendering in battle."

Pointed to the sand table.

Vega continued, "For the first three days, we arranged for the army to openly conduct basic training around the outer wall of the city. The size of the troops participating in the training increased gradually. At the same time, we drove the war airships hidden in the city to the open space outside the city gate to show that we have no intention of resisting."

"General Vega, are you really not a believer in surrender?" Callison confirmed again.

This was inevitable. Submitting the letter of surrender, opening the city gates, and placing the war airships on the open space outside the city where the enemy could be destroyed in an instant, all these signs indicated that they were ready to surrender.

need to know.

Even if the general defending troops are ready to surrender, they will not open the city gates without authorization before the agreed time, and will not place strategic weapons such as war airships in a place where the enemy can destroy them at any time.

To others, Vega's actions were absolutely sincere.

Even if Vega said that he was in favor of war now, no one would believe him. If it were any other time, he would definitely be labeled a spy of the kingdom and a traitor to the country.

But Vega’s next words made the generals present break out in cold sweats—

Vega crushed all the pawns of the Kingdom Army's aviation force, and then said viciously: "On the fourth night, which is the night before the surrender ceremony, please order the aviation force to attack the enemy's temporary air port, and the frontal forces to break out directly to the north gate at the same time."

Can war be fought like this?
At this moment, everyone suddenly remembered a sentence from Saint Laurent XVIII:

The people of the empire are treacherous by nature and should not be trusted.

(End of this chapter)