Mage Veigar

Chapter 391 Watertight
Ed City.

After Tanier and the other two left, Vega carefully kept the gratuitous gift agreement.

With this agreement, it means that he can form two standard armies within two years. This is too critical for Vega now. All his troops now add up to only 10 war airships.

These 10 ships are Vega's headquarters' war airships.

After so many wars, Vega has been reluctant to use them, and has kept these last 10 airships until today.

Of course, Vega was not worried that the kingdom would default on its debts.

This agreement is reasonable and legal. If the kingdom defaults on its debt, Vega can openly attack the United Kingdom and even bring other countries together to invade the United Kingdom.

That's why.

The kingdom will never tear up the agreement openly for these 200 airships and give Vega an excuse to openly attack their territory. By then, whether they win or lose, the losses will be more than just 200 war airships.

Moreover, a country that defaults on its debts will have credibility issues.

When negotiations are really needed in the future, other countries may directly reject the kingdom’s invitation for negotiations on this ground.

Therefore, as long as he had this agreement in hand, and as long as the United Kingdom Empire did not collapse, Vega could get the war airships he urgently needed in batches within two years, thus resolving his concern about not having air defense capabilities.

After keeping the agreement.

Vega immediately ordered the entire army to march out and leave Ed City as soon as possible.

After opening the city gate, Vega's troops left Ed City directly, which took less than half an hour. I guess no one would have thought that he could be so fast.

Why is it so fast?
Veigar has always been very sensitive in war.

Although he felt that the kingdom's army would not suddenly launch an attack on him after signing the agreement, after all, the kingdom's top priority was to resolve the crisis in Dragon City rather than continue to fight with him, its "friendly army". Anyone with a little common sense should know this.

But to be on the safe side, Vega played it safe.

He had given the order to prepare for retreat in advance yesterday, which directly saved several hours of time for assembling and organizing the troops, instead of having to wait until 14:00 in the afternoon to retreat.

As soon as Tanniel walked out of Ed City, he also left Ed City directly.

The two men left in opposite directions, leaving behind only an empty city.

Therefore, when Tanier arrived at Eide City with his troops at 14:00 that afternoon, he did not find any trace of Vega, and only a dead silent city was left.

"Could it be... that I have been discovered again!"

He calculated the time and did not dare to go too early, for fear that Vega had not yet lost his vigilance and had not withdrawn his fortifications.

He didn't dare to be too late. If he was too late, Vega might just slip away.

So he timed it at 14:00, which was the time when Vega would probably withdraw from the city after organizing his troops. After precise planning, the entire error would not exceed half an hour, but Vega still slipped away early.

This made Tanniel convinced.

Because plans without motive are the most difficult to predict.

His primary enemy now is the Empire, not Vega. Vega is even his ally for the time being. But even in this situation where there is no motivation at all, Vega still predicted in advance that he would turn against him, which made Tanier admire him.

Because of empathy.

Even he didn't think that he would continue to fight with Veigar at this critical juncture. It was like in LOL, the base was about to be destroyed, but you were still fighting a river crab alone.

But he did it anyway.

I thought that this crazy way of thinking beyond the limit could kill Veigar, or at least make him suffer a loss, thus putting a relatively complete end to my dynasty. But I miscalculated.

Even such a wild idea could not be hidden from Vega's eyes, so what else could he say? The question of who had higher military talent was clearly laid out before him.

And he realized it.

What he should do now is to rush back to the kingdom to save the situation instead of wasting time on unimportant things.

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the other side.

A few hours after Vega retreated, he learned from the scouts in the rear that the Kingdom did not pass through Ed City at 18:00 as agreed, but rushed into the city at 14:00.

This news made Vega break out in a cold sweat.

If he had not been so cautious yesterday and ordered the entire army to prepare for retreat in advance, and only assembled the troops and made a retreat plan after the negotiations were over, wouldn't it have been until 14:00?
Once we leave the city, everything will be exposed.

When the time comes, the kingdom will see him leading 2 soldiers to act like a big shot. Vega has already foreseen the terrifying scene of himself being burned to ashes by hundreds or thousands of flames.

It is no exaggeration to say that it is a matter of life and death.

Everything happened just as Tanier had imagined. Vega had not expected the Kingdom Army to launch a surprise counterattack.

After all, Vega is not an omniscient and omnipotent god.

Even if he had hundreds of heads, he would never understand why Tanniel would issue such an irrational order for this offensive plan that had no motive at all and no trace to be found.

He is not an enemy at this juncture.

He helped the kingdom's 40 troops return to the country and repel the imperial army. After the war, he was able to contain the imperial military, so that the empire did not dare to continue to attack the kingdom's allies recklessly and with all its might.

Waging war against him at this time would do no good at all.

If Vega dies, Tanir will face the all-out resistance of the dynasty and the empire. Under the intensity of this resistance, even an army of 40 will not be able to return to the country easily.

And everyone is an industry insider.

He is not young anymore.

We should also understand that there are no absolute enemies or allies between countries. As long as there are interests, allies can become enemies and enemies can shake hands and make peace.

But Tenniel did something only a child would do.

This made Vega instinctively look down on Tanir's magnanimity. A commander who didn't know how to consider the overall situation and couldn't distinguish priorities would sooner or later expose his shortcomings, no matter how outstanding his command ability was.

But everything has pros and cons.

Through Tanier's counterattack, Vega realized an important thing -

It is easy to deceive a genius, difficult to see through a fool, and impossible to deceive a pig.

The former always keeps his head and makes the best decision to deal with everything, while the latter's thinking is unpredictable and his behavior is unpredictable. You can never guarantee what he will do in the next second to harm others or himself. As for the last one -

Illogical, unreasonable, reckless, short-sighted, unwilling to listen to others, stubborn...

And Tannier is exactly between these three types.

The impression he gave to Vega now was that he was sometimes a genius, sometimes a fool, and sometimes... like a pig.

(End of this chapter)