Mage Veigar

Chapter 310: Crushing Battle

The city gates were closed tightly, and everyone was as silent as a cicada.

The bustling Silverpine City suddenly became quiet. When Vega deployed 2 troops in front of the city gate, even if he did not launch an attack, it was enough to make the defending army nervous.

On the city floor.

The head of the group, Menno, didn't even dare to breathe.

As the head of the reinforced regiment and the commander of the kingdom in Silver Pine City, he had never imagined that one day he would have to face a siege by half a legion and tens of thousands of people. This kind of war was simply not on the same level.

You need to know that this is the safest central hinterland.

Moreover, Silver Pine City was not a strategic city, so it would be meaningless even if it was captured. This was why he was sent here to "retire" as a typical example of incompetence.

He himself had no objection to this matter.

So what if he is incompetent? So what if he can retire? He is not a soldier who aspires to become a general, nor is he an officer who regards dying on the battlefield as his ultimate destination. He is just a middle-level officer who is afraid of death and hopes to survive until the end of the war.

Is this wrong again?

Is there anything wrong?
Why did God treat him like this?

Is it really that difficult to survive?
Regimental Commander Menno leaned weakly against the city wall, his slightly fat body curled up in the shadows. If he didn't have to maintain the dignity of a middle-level officer, he would probably burst into tears.

"Captain, what should we do next?"

A battalion commander came over in a hurry and asked, "The enemy's high-level military force has moved forward. There are about 700 professionals and two mage squadrons with about 80 elemental mages. Our logistics warehouse has also been lost. Please give orders quickly."

Looked up.

Menno glanced at the battalion commander and said, "Give the order to surrender."

The simple and rough order coming from Menno made the battalion commander speechless for a long time.

"Captain, you are not kidding, are you?"

The battalion commander looked a little angry. Surrendering before fighting was an insult to a soldier's basic professional ethics.

But Menno obviously did not have such professional ethics. He stared at the other person with a pair of bloodshot eyes: "Bravery is worthy of praise, but you are not brave, you are pedantic!"

"please tell me."

Menno grabbed the battalion commander by the collar and said, "How are you going to fight this war? What method are you going to use? Surrounded by tens of thousands of soldiers, even breaking out is a fantasy. Now you're telling me you want to fight a city defense battle?"

That’s right, Menno didn’t want to die yet.

So is there any other option now besides surrender?

As for glory and dignity, go to hell with them.

He is not the kind of person who would risk his life for a few words of patriotism.

Therefore, he gave the order without hesitation: "Order the whole army to lay down their weapons and surrender. No one is allowed to resist. If they anger the enemy and give them an excuse to kill, I will not let them go even if I die."

Looking at the battalion commander intentionally or unintentionally, it was self-evident who Menno was talking about.

"I understand, Master."

The battalion commander chose to obey the order because he also understood that there was no point in continuing the war. The only two choices now were to surrender to the enemy and bear the humiliation of the crime, or to die heroically in this war.

Life is more important than bravery.

Therefore, a few minutes later, a white flag was raised above the city wall, which was a sign of surrender. If Vega was willing to accept the surrender, he could send an envoy to the gate alone to give a reply.

If you disagree, you can launch an attack directly.

Will Vega agree?

Vega, who was looking through the telescope, laughed out loud. It had been a long time since he had played such a crushing game. The feeling of controlling the fate of the enemy was so wonderful that Vega was deeply intoxicated by it. "General, do you want to agree to their surrender?"

Adjutant Yiluo asked while looking at the white flag on the other side's city. Although he knew without asking that the other side would generally accept surrender, as an adjutant he did not dare to interfere.

"agree?"

"Of course I don't agree!"

Veigar's answer was beyond Iroh's expectations: "We need more victories to stabilize the morale of the army. Just venting our anger in a breakout battle is not enough. Let the magicians blow up their white flags and at the same time, the war airships take off. Order the entire army to attack and let the enemy feel what true despair is."

"General, this kind of order...I'm afraid it won't go over well with international opinion."

"public opinion?"

Vega waved his hand and said, “I don’t have any extra food to feed the enemy, and the Kingdom Army was the first to break the armistice agreement. In this case, the so-called public opinion is nothing but a joke.”

"Yes, General."

As the order was given, the Fire Elemental Mage was the first to blow up the white flag with a fireball, thus kicking off this crushing battle.

When the enemy fills the city gate with ordinary troops.

The professionals of Vega's army were charging ahead, but the enemy was actually trying to pierce the defenses of the professionals and magicians with ordinary weapons?

When the enemy uses arrows as a tool to defend the city.

The Empire's war airships had bombed the city wall back and forth three times.

Blood is flowing and despair is spreading.

“This is not a war at all.”

Adjutant Iroh couldn't help but murmur as he looked at Vega, who was smiling from beginning to end with joy in his eyes. In his opinion, this was not a war at all, but a massacre.

But I have to admit it.

During this massacre, the cohesion of the entire army became stronger and stronger. When charging into battle, they were surrounded by people in front and behind, fearing that they would not be able to kill the enemy. If they were allowed to continue winning, they would definitely be an invincible army.

The more he worked with Vega, the more Iroh realized that Vega was born for war.

Annihilation war, blitzkrieg, blocking war, siege war, decapitation war, city defense war, encirclement war, breakthrough war...

In the forest, on the plain, in the city, in the canyon, on the river bank...

No matter what kind of war it was, there seemed to be no type that he couldn't handle. What was even more terrifying was that he was also a terrifying officer who was good at using every opportunity to cultivate the combat effectiveness of his soldiers. The combat effectiveness of the troops under his command was no longer the same as before.

"Perhaps, the kingdom has made the biggest mistake."

This thought appeared in Ilo's mind involuntarily. If the kingdom had ordered the war airship to destroy the blocking troops instead of attacking the dynasty royal army crossing the river, Vega would probably have died there.

But there are not so many coincidences in the world.

Now Iroh only wants to stay by Vega's side and witness the birth of Vega's unique legend with his own eyes.

Yes.

At this moment, Iroh trusts Vega very much.

He believed that the Kingdom's troops in the east would never be able to stop Vega. If they tried to stop him by force, the Kingdom's army would be the ones to regret it in the end.

You can say he is ignorant or arrogant.

But Ilo firmly believed it.

(End of this chapter)