Mage Veigar

Chapter 321: Insufficient Troops
Time comes the next day.

Vega got up from the bed after resting for less than three hours.

After finishing his breakfast, he began the busy post-war cleanup work.

While doing the aftermath work, he also had to think about how to capture the city of Saint Laurent within seven days. The sooner the time passed, the more time he would have to prepare to resist the main attack of the Kingdom Army of the port city.

That's right.

If everything goes as expected, the news of the fall of Shenghui City has already reached the desk of the Saint Laurent City Command, and several other satellite cities are expected to begin full martial law.

None of this is the point.

What Vega was really worried about was that the request for assistance had already been sent to the main force of the Kingdom Army in the riverside cities via the war airship.

Although the Kingdom Army's air force was completely lost and there were not enough war airships to provide lightning-fast troop support, and a land march would take a month and ten days, Vega did not have much time left.

If he cannot capture Saint Laurent City within 7 days and take down the entire Saint Laurent defense system including Saya, Twilight, and Half Moon within 15 days, then he will not have enough time to replenish his troops and build fortifications.

If the time to take over the defense system is delayed to one month.

Even if he took down the entire defense system, without sufficient preparation time, he would probably be annihilated on the spot by the main force.

Then the problem is coming.

Is it really possible to capture Yves Saint Laurent in 7 days and take down the entire Yves Saint Laurent defense system in 15 days?
If Vega told this idea to others, everyone would probably think he was crazy.

It is no exaggeration to say that the difficulty of this is close to zero.

The city walls and gates made of forbidden magic stone are immune to all magical attacks. Five crystal hubs guard the airspace of Saint Laurent City. The towering war colossus stands under the sky. This is -

The eternal capital, Saint Laurent City!
Even the huge kingdom army was helpless when facing the city of Saint Laurent. In the end, they had to rely on taking over satellite cities and besieging Saint Laurent until Saint Laurent ran out of ammunition and food, and only then did they successfully capture this city that was older than its history.

How long did the Kingdom’s army besiege Saint Laurent?
This time can be traced back to the fall of the important city of Kareni in the north of the empire, when Vega had not yet gone to the Central Military Academy in the Imperial Capital.

That's true!

The United Kingdom besieged the city of Saint Laurent for nearly two years, and only recently entered the gate of Saint Laurent.

And Vega actually wanted to capture Saint Laurent City within 15 days?

If this kind of behavior were to be made public, it would definitely be labeled as arrogant.

Let alone 15 days, even if it was 150 days, the enemy would still be in ruins, and no commander would dare to guarantee that he could capture the city within a few hundred days.

Vega certainly couldn't guarantee that he could capture Saint Laurent City within 15 days.

But unfortunately, he had no choice.

If he wanted to complete this plan of "using the emperor to control the princes", he had to find a way to take this step no matter how difficult it was.

Vega put down the marker.

After turning to the back of the detailed diagram of Saint Laurent's defense system, he walked out of the office.

He really didn't have any good solutions now, and he found that his military strength was no longer sufficient to support future wars.

Replenishing fresh blood for combat troops has become an imminent issue.

How to replenish blood and increase the number of soldiers?
Veigar also had no clue.

Therefore, he planned to go out for a walk and take a closer look at the situation in Shenghui City. After all, a practical tactic is not something that can be easily come up with, but largely comes from daily inspiration.

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Accompanied by his adjutant and guards.

Vega walked out of the City Lord's Mansion and looked around along the most prosperous central street in Shenghui City.

It took about ten minutes to walk.

Vega suddenly became nervous when he found a large group of people surrounding Princess Sia and Guardian Knight Carol. Sia Saint Laurent was the whole of his plan. If she was slightly damaged, it would be disastrous. He took two steps at a time.

When Vega came closer, he found that this group of people were not looking for trouble with Xia.

The outer circle was made up of the civilians of the Holy Dynasty, and the inner circle was made up of the dynasty's former escaped and captured soldiers, including many professionals and magicians hiding in the city, all of whom were in tears.

"Your Highness, you finally came back to save us."

"We know that you will retake Shenghui City one day."

"We have been waiting for this day for two whole years."

"Long live Her Royal Highness, Princess. Please drive away the Kingdom Army and avenge our dead compatriots."

"..."

The civilians could tell Xia's identity at a glance because of her pointed ears and gender, and her appearance made the civilians think that the imperial army was the reinforcements invited by the princess to counterattack the kingdom. Shenghui City was able to be recaptured, and they no longer had to be oppressed by the kingdom's army, all of which was thanks to the princess.

When humans are helpless, they do tend to deceive themselves and grasp at straws.

Even though Shia tried her best to explain that it was Vega's credit.

However, the common people of the dynasty still believed that Vega was able to capture the Holy Light City under the leadership of Shiya. They had been oppressed for a long time and urgently needed a spiritual belief, and Shiya, the royal princess and the crown prince appointed by the king himself, was their belief.

A large group of soldiers began to kneel down and beg Xia to take them in again.

Led by the soldiers, civilians on the periphery also began to kneel on the ground and prepare to apply to join the army.

It is a common human problem that we learn to cherish something only after we lose it.

They used to not know what was wrong with being a deserter, a coward, pretending to be indifferent, or keeping silent when the war came. However, after suffering from oppression, they finally understood a truth.

Fate of the nation, everyone is responsible.

Although those on the periphery are just ordinary civilians, they already have a heart to fight for their country.

But in Carol's opinion, these people were simply unforgivable, especially the deserters.

His angry voice drowned out the surrounding noise: "You cowards, deserters, you ran away when the dynasty needed you the most, and now you want to serve Her Royal Highness again? You guys who go against the code of chivalry are not qualified to return to Her Royal Highness."

Carol's words brought the atmosphere to freezing point.

Although they wanted to refute, it was an indisputable fact that they had run away, remained silent, and allowed themselves to be slaughtered. They felt that they were not qualified to return to the princess, and several of them stood up and prepared to leave in shame.

Carol looked triumphant.

He would never allow these defeated soldiers to tarnish the glory of the royal family.

But when Vega saw this scene, he was almost furious.

He worked so hard to conquer Shenghui City, and even to capture Shengluolan and the entire defense system, wasn't it just to achieve this scene? Now that the signs of this scene have been ignited, Carol wants to nip it in the bud?
Vega immediately pushed through the crowd and came to Xia's side.

He said to the people who were about to leave: "Warriors of the dynasty, please stop. I am the commander in charge of commanding the imperial army and taking over Shenghui City. I am also the military ambassador of the Holy Dynasty appointed by Her Royal Highness the Princess herself."

"Now."

Vega shouted: "As the military ambassador of the Holy Dynasty, I pray that all warriors will regroup, strike hard at the despicable invaders, and drive the Kingdom's army out of our territory completely."

At this moment, Vega realized that this was an opportunity.

A godsend opportunity to step out from behind the scenes, increase his popularity in the dynasty, form his own dynasty legion, increase the number of soldiers, and take the second step of the plan of "using the emperor to command the princes" - "recruiting soldiers".

He wants to seize this opportunity.

While establishing his legitimate position in the dynasty, he recruited enough troops to deal with the Saint Laurent War.

(End of this chapter)