Mage Veigar

Chapter 356: Defeated like a mountain
"Come back, come back to me!"

Tannier brandished his sword, trying to get the soldiers who had fled to turn back and fight.

But all is in vain.

The soldiers seemed to have seen unspeakable horror and had long lost the confidence to fight. If they continued to stay here, they would only waste their lives in vain, so this scene of people surging forward and following behind appeared.

"Failed, failed again."

In the first few minutes, he was ready to cut off Vega's head, but in the next few minutes he realized what it meant to be defeated. With his ability, he was simply unable to stop it.

Now even Tenniel was doubting himself.

Is he a qualified commander? Is he worthy of the rank of five-star general?

"Retreat, retreat of all troops."

After being forced to shout out this sentence, Tanniel seemed to have lost all his fighting spirit, and his ruddy face turned pale.

The time for retreat was quick.

In less than an hour, all 1 troops had withdrawn from the city of Saint Laurent.

When Tanniel passed through the city gate, a trace of sadness flashed in his eyes.

After spending countless efforts, he finally broke through the heavy city gate from the front. He even arrogantly equated victory in the war with breaking the city gate. Unfortunately, Vega slapped him in the face with a cold slap, almost sneering at him.

The capture of a city does not mean victory.

It is easy to imagine what kind of smile is on that little kid’s face right now.

"Is this... his true strength?"

Tanniel took a lingering look at the city gate, and finally withdrew his troops from the city.

It is no exaggeration to say that this was the first time in his life that an officer taught him what a real war was.

"Perhaps my time has come to an end."

Tanier's back on the warhorse looked particularly desolate. He had always longed for war and believed that he would rather die on the battlefield, but suddenly he began to become tired of war.

The two major defeats have left the old general with a psychological trauma.

At this moment, he even had the idea of ​​resigning and returning to the countryside.

"But if I give up the war, what do I have left?"

Just when Tanniel was losing confidence, these words came out from his heart.

At the ignorant age of 15, he chose to join the army.

He got a place in the military academy with his frail body, and since then he has embarked on the road of a soldier, there is no turning back. He helped the kingdom, which was in trouble both internally and externally, to resist one invasion after another. He tasted the joy of victory and also fled in embarrassment because of failure.

Even at the age of nearly 70, he is still dealing with war.

All he has ever known in his life is war, and he only knows how to fight a war. If he loses the war, what will he have left?
Farming? Herding? Or doing business?

Unfortunately, he didn't know how to use a hoe, drive cattle and sheep, and couldn't bargain.

Indeed.

He was such a good-for-nothing person who could only clumsily swing his sword and stab it into the enemy's chest. He also only knew how to mechanically arrange tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the best attacking positions. The only business experience he had was in brutally plundering the defeated side for great profits without any cost.

How can a useless person like him survive in this cruel society without war?

The thought made Tannier shudder involuntarily.

"No! I haven't lost yet!"

Tanniel almost blurted it out. The moment he realized that he was about to be abandoned by the war, he was afraid. This fear was even greater than death.

He spent half his life in the military.

I have no relatives, but I have more political enemies than I can count on my hands.

He has no friends, and the one who knows him best is the enemy general. He has no wife, and the one who accompanies him is the shadow mage who wants to chop off his head.

……

He has nothing that others have. All he has is the talent to command a war. And now someone wants to deprive him of the right to command a war?

"This kind of thing must never be allowed to happen."

Tanniel's eyes were bloodshot, and he gritted his teeth and said, "No one can deprive me of the right to continue commanding the war. No matter if you are a god or a devil, if you want to deprive me of everything, I, Tanniel, will chop off your head!"

"Pass the order."

Tanier said angrily, "Let Rocky continue his plan and tell him in person that a man loses only when he gives up fighting. As long as we keep fighting, we haven't lost yet."

This sentence was said to Rocky in the city, and also to Tenniel himself.

He has not lost yet. He still has more than 10 soldiers. He still firmly occupies four satellite cities and has besieged Vega in Saint Laurent. He is the one who truly holds the initiative in the war.

The advantage lies with him, not with Veigar.

and so--

He couldn't give up yet, he had to keep fighting, he hadn't lost yet.

----

boom!
When the city gate was closed again.

With just a few words, Vega reversed the situation and successfully used the power of the entire city to force the Kingdom Army to repeat the mistakes of Kareni City. Under the general trend, they were defeated.

A hint of a smile appeared on Vega's face.

There was absolutely no mistake, this was the annoying smile that Tanniel had imagined.

Shouldn't he celebrate his masterpiece, the victory of the war, with a smile?

As it should.

The results of this battle are undoubtedly huge.

Although the kingdom did not lose many soldiers, nearly one-third of its high-level military forces were destroyed, leaving them unable to forcibly attack the city of Saint Laurent.

Of course, we cannot be blindly optimistic.

The so-called whole nation is a soldier, and everyone relies entirely on impulse to fight.

As long as the war is won, this momentum will be dissipated. If the kingdom army enters the city again in a few days, Vega dares to guarantee that these civilians will no longer unite to fight the enemy.

If marching and fighting are like a burst of energy at the beginning, then it will weaken at the second and eventually be exhausted at the third.

Then the whole nation organized by words will be like a soldier, making a strong effort at the first blow and then exhausting it.

Therefore, wars relying on civilians can only be used occasionally, but cannot be based on this. After all, they are just a group of untrained and undisciplined mobs.

The real way to achieve victory is to rely on regular troops.

But that's enough for today.

Vega has already used this method to successfully make the United Kingdom suffer a loss.

Of course, the most important thing is that the coronation ceremony can go on.

Although the ceremony had been severely delayed, as long as the common people did not mind the time of the coronation, Vega would not mind crowning Shia in the middle of the night. After all, it was just a ceremony to occupy a righteous position.

However, this ritual will only be effective if it is performed in front of everyone.

Therefore, Vega stood on the stage again and said a few encouraging words to comfort the civilians who were still howling. He then let Xia come out from the backstage and sit on the throne that had been prepared in advance.

The coronation ceremony officially began.

(End of this chapter)