Mage Veigar

Chapter 369 Too late to regret
The war is over.

It was over when the enemy, armed with spears, tried to fight against more than half of the high-level forces.

Ordinary soldiers against professionals and magicians?
This is like a group of ancient soldiers armed with swords, spears, and halberds fighting against modern armored vehicles. Unless the fuel of these armored vehicles is completely lost, the flesh and blood cannot hurt even a hair of the professionals and magicians.

Therefore, when the reinforcements from Level 1 satellite cities such as Shenghui and Twilight arrived, what they saw were ruins, what they smelled was the burning smell that enveloped the entire city, and what they found were the corpses of their friendly forces.

More than 1500 defenders died in this battle.

This was while Vega was busy burning the supplies. If he had focused on fighting the enemy, the remaining 1500 people wouldn't even have a chance to escape.

So after questioning the escaped soldiers, they learned the whole story.

The logistical supplies that supported an army of 20 for a year or two were burned out by the Imperial Army. The reserve supplies of ordinary troops were generally only about 10 days. Some troops closest to the warehouse that had not yet been supplied only had 5 days of supplies.

A huge crisis has emerged.

The two commanders of the reinforcements looked at each other and ordered the messengers to report the situation here to the Saya City Headquarters as quickly as possible, and temporarily blocked the news to avoid riots in the entire army.

Riding at full speed and taking the national highway, the news reached Saya City in less than half a day.

"Commander-in-chief, urgent news from Starfall City."

A messenger, dressed in a dishevel and with helplessness in his eyes, broke into the conference room and handed a top-secret war report to Commander-in-Chief Tanniel, who was discussing the defense of Shaye City with Alex Soder and Ingril.

When they heard the words "Meteoric City", their hearts skipped a beat at the same time.

“Could it be…?”

Tanniel seemed to realize something, his lips turned pale, and he opened the top-secret war report with trembling hands.

blah-

A few seconds later, the war report slipped from Tanniel's hand and fell to the ground, but he maintained the original posture of reading the war report. Only his pupils had lost focus. It was obvious that he could not accept the reality and fell into a state of dementia.

"Master Commander-in-Chief? Master Commander-in-Chief!"

Ingril and Alex Sode both realized the seriousness of the matter. They asked in trembling voices, "Commander-in-Chief, could the content of this war report be..."

"boom!"

Tanier slammed the table and interrupted Ingrier. "Except for the two division commanders, everyone else should go out. Order the guards to guard the door. No one is allowed to approach within a 10-meter radius. Anyone who violates this will be charged with treason."

creak-

All staff in the meeting room, including the adjutant, left the room and closed the door.

"You two, we've been fooled."

Tanier's face turned pale. He picked up the battle report and handed it to the two men. "We just received the report. That kid assembled a high-level force of more than a thousand people to attack Starfall City through the Twilight Mountains. All our supplies have been burned. This means that within five days, our army will be in a food shortage crisis. If it drags on for ten days, our army will collapse without a fight."

"W-what!"

Yinglier's face was full of regret: "That traitor really deceived us. If we hadn't believed him at the beginning..."

"There is no need to discuss this topic anymore."

Alex Soder stopped Ingril: "That brat obviously saw through our intention to focus on defending Starfall City, so he deliberately exposed his flaws. First, he sent a traitor to establish an underground organization, and then he was caught by us by chance. Finally, under our interrogation, we made the traitor repeat our plan openly, which easily made us mistakenly believe that he really did not intend to attack Starfall, but instead targeted Saya."

"Yes, we have fallen into the war rhythm of that little devil."

Tanniel finally spoke: "He not only saw through our thoughts, but even used means to mislead our thinking and induce us to make wrong decisions. I have never seen such a weird method in my life. I have to admit that even if we put together the wisdom of the three of us, we can't reach the level of that kid." We still underestimated the other party.

Tanier has realized that he underestimated Vega's ambition.

Yes.

How could that ambitious man who wanted to cover up everything do something like retreat?

I was actually fooled by the enemy with just a few words. Am I really old?
I'm afraid that from the beginning to the end, the little devil never thought of giving up the city of Saint Laurent. He even found the only point to win when he was surrounded by 20 troops, and then revitalized the whole game.

"I lost this round."

A tone of conviction came out of Tannier's mouth.

As a frog in a well, although he has jumped out of the well, he knows very well that a frog in a well is a frog in a well. Even if he jumps out of the well, the sky he sees must be different from that seen by a bird.

What Vega saw was an even wider sky.

That's exactly what happened.

If the world's war history is a well, then China's war history is a vast ocean of stars.

Vega traveled from Earth. Even though he was just an ordinary young man before, he had seen pigs run even if he had never eaten pork.

The war history filled with conspiracies and deceptions made him think in the direction of playing dirty, but these generals from another world naively wanted to fight him head-on, in formation, or in conventional wars?

Although Tanier had tried his best to adapt to Vega's fighting style, he also started to use some tricks.

But unfortunately, his thinking and Vega's thinking are not in the same dimension at all.

One is a frog that just jumped out of the well, and the other is a human being who has seen the stars and the sea. Their understanding of war is simply not comparable. Tenniel's method only captures the form but not the spirit.

The consequences of showing off one's knowledge in front of an expert are obvious.

When the adjutant reported to Tenniel that Menno had escaped last night, he realized that he had been cheated by the damn liar Vega and was left with nothing but underwear, and now he had lost everything.

"Commander, what should we do next?"

Upon hearing the news that Menno had escaped, both men looked unhappy, but the problem still had to be solved, so Ingrid could only ask Tanniel. Now the only backbone was the commander-in-chief.

Although Tanniel also wanted to give up.

But as the commander-in-chief, he understood that the more critical the moment, the more he had to take on the responsibility.

Therefore, he analyzed the current battle situation and finally found out helplessly that he could only order the entire army to withdraw from the Saint Laurent defense system overnight, and at the same time order the port cities to transport supplies in the direction of their withdrawal.

If you don't withdraw your troops.

Within 5 days, the entire army fell into chaos. Vega took the opportunity to launch a general offensive. All his 20 troops would be buried here. If these 20 people were lost here, it meant that they would not even be qualified to continue to control the eastern part of the dynasty.

"Pass the order down, the entire army retreats..."

Just as Tannier was about to order the entire army to withdraw from the Saint Laurent defense system, his eyes inadvertently swept across the sand table.

A flash of inspiration suddenly came to his mind, and a shocking gamble suddenly appeared in his mind. If he won this gamble, maybe he could turn the whole battle situation around and let that conceited kid taste the bitterness of miscalculation.

(End of this chapter)