Mage Veigar

Chapter 385 Imperial Envoy
One map, three red lines.

With the port city of Tully as the center, the three red lines extend continuously in the north, northeast and northwest directions, directly converging on the territory of the United Kingdom.

The first route goes through the Taliban Mountains, which is the shortest and most hidden.

The second route is to go north along the Donbu River. It is the longest route but the safest.

The third route goes west out of the city of Eide. It is the easiest to travel and of moderate length. It can be seen as the best retreat route for the kingdom’s army.

Which path will the Kingdom Army take?

Vega was not sure about this, but he had some ideas.

If it were an ordinary commander, he would probably exclude the third option directly, because you can think of the best option, and the enemy can certainly think of it too. This route will often be ambushed by the enemy in advance, and it will become a dangerous route.

Therefore, if you want to be safe, you will choose the second option.

But the enemy's commander was none other than Tanniel, a madman who dared to risk attacking Saint Laurent at the last minute. Just because others didn't dare to do something didn't mean he couldn't do it, so Vega deduced that the Kingdom Army would probably still go west out of Eide City.

In other words.

As long as we focus on defending the Kingdom Army's retreat route in advance, it will be possible to give them a farewell gift.

After half a year of rest and recuperation.

Now Vega has assembled an army of 21. Although most of this army has no experience in actual combat and cannot even be equipped with basic aviation units, the training of new recruits has been basically completed and they can still handle simple ambushes.

"General, are you planning to trick the Kingdom Army?"

Ilo looked at the map and rubbed his hands excitedly. He had never been so eager to go to war.

But Vega did not give an answer immediately.

He looked hesitant and seemed to be wavering.

He had roughly guessed some of the kingdom's plans.

The imperial army occupied the city of Gasili and had just dealt a heavy blow to the southern part of the kingdom. Now they have sent a large number of troops to attack the southeastern Dragon City. Therefore, the kingdom will never watch the Dragon City fall. Losing the Dragon City means that a sharp knife is hanging over its head.

Don't underestimate the importance of Dragon City.

It is no exaggeration to say that the city's control by the empire indirectly announced the destruction of the kingdom.

And now the kingdom is in trouble both internally and externally.

Relying solely on the domestic military strength and morale, they could not guarantee that they could really withstand the terrifying attack of the Imperial Army.

The Imperial Army did not want to miss out on the once-in-a-thousand-years turmoil in the Kingdom this time, and planned to completely wipe out the Kingdom's flag from the territory of the Jialan Continent. Therefore, not only the army and air force were dispatched, but even the navy had already set out from the eastern coast, and the Judgment Corps, one of the Army's strongest trump cards, was also used in the war.

The kingdom is indeed in danger.

And Vega was the culprit who caused this result.

If Vega had not destroyed the Kingdom's formidable air force and dragged the Kingdom's 40 troops into the quagmire of the Dynasty's eastern front, the Empire would never have been able to set foot in the Kingdom again.

The Kingdom relied on its extremely powerful air force to carry out blitzkrieg, which could easily inflict heavy losses on the Empire.

But even so, the kingdom still has ways to deal with it.

As long as Tanir's 40 troops abandon the eastern front of the dynasty and march north to regain control of Gazile, cutting off the supply lines of the empire's remaining 30 troops and encircling the imperial army within the kingdom, the situation on the war will be reversed in an instant.

This is the only way.

And as the only way, the Empire's think tank could not fail to guess this.

So now the Empire has two choices.

The first option is to immediately abandon the battle of Dragon City and withdraw from the kingdom. Anyway, what should be plundered has been plundered, and the main purpose this time is to save Zhao by attacking Wei, so that the kingdom army in the dynasty can return to defend. Another option is to insist on attacking Dragon City.

The second option is not unfeasible. It only needs one troop to stop Tanir's 40-strong army until the Empire captures Dragon City and opens up a sea reinforcement and supply line. Then the kingdom will be completely powerless to recover.

So who will stop Tanniel's troops?

Now the three armies of the empire need to spend a large amount of manpower to fight a decisive battle with the kingdom in the Dragon City. Therefore, it is absolutely impossible to divert troops from the main force on the front line to stop Tanir's 40 troops. At most, they can draw about 10 troops from the country to enter the dynasty to stop Tanir's army.

But 10 people can't stop 40 people in any way.

Moreover, if the empire wants to legally enter the territory of the dynasty, it needs Xia's permission. Leading troops into the dynasty without permission means infringing on the sovereignty of the dynasty and is equivalent to declaring war on the dynasty.

If he guessed correctly -

A letter from the Empire asking him for help was on the way.

"report!"

"A man claiming to be an old friend of yours asked me to give this to you."

Speak of the devil, here comes the devil. Vega had just put down the marker when the soldier outside the door came to report and handed a token with the imperial emblem printed on it to Vega.

"Invite him in."

After receiving Vega's order, the soldier brought in three people.

“General Vega, we didn’t expect to meet here again after we parted ways a long time ago.”

The person who spoke was none other than one of Vega's direct superiors, the Chief of Staff of the Seventh Group of the Eastern Empire, Lieutenant General Eskar, and standing on both sides of him were two guards.

"Mr. Chief of Staff, I didn't expect that the person coming here would be you."

Vega smiled and asked knowingly, "I wonder why you took time out of your busy schedule to come to Saint Laurent this time? Is everything going well for our Seventh Group? In particular, have the three division commanders, Mari Le Harut, returned to the Empire safely?"

"Ahem, this is... of course."

Eskar had an embarrassed look on his face. He knew a little bit about the three people who abandoned Vega. Now that Vega brought up the past again, it made him feel a little embarrassed. After all, it was these three people who were shameless first.

"That's fine, that's fine."

Vega's selfless appearance made Eskar embarrassed to ask for his help.

After all, he sold out the person and now he goes back to ask for Vega's help. Doesn't this make him seem shameless? Although this is true, it is not a mistake he made.

However, with the Führer's order in hand, Eskar had no choice but to go ahead.

He coughed twice, then straightened his face and said, "To be honest, I came to Saint Laurent this time on the orders of the head of state to submit an entry application to His Majesty the King. At the same time, I also ask for your help. I also ask you to stop the 40 Kingdom troops preparing to evacuate from the Eastern Front of the Dynasty and assist us in taking down the Kingdom's Dragon City."

Vega didn't say anything, just laughed.

He sat back in the main seat, then shook his head and said, "Mr. Chief of Staff, I think you may have found the wrong person. My subordinates add up to less than 2. How can I stop the kingdom's 40 troops?"

"Aren't there 21 Dynasty troops in this Saint Laurent defense system?"

Eskar said doubtfully, "As the military ambassador of the dynasty, you have overall control over the military and political power, and you are also a favorite of the king. It should not be difficult for you to mobilize these 21 troops to slow down the kingdom's army."

There was a pause.

As if afraid that Vega would refuse, Eskar could not help but emphasize his tone: “Please note, sir, this is not my request, nor is it a request from the Seventh Army. This is an order from His Excellency the Führer.”

"It seems that the Chief of Staff did his homework before coming here."

Vega sighed, with a hint of barely perceptible contempt in his eyes, then smiled and asked, “Since it’s the Führer’s order, it seems I can’t refuse it?”

(End of this chapter)