Mage Veigar

Chapter 392 The changing situation
The kingdom withdrew its troops.

Vega did not feel much about this matter. After all, all of this was within his expectations, because he had put in a lot of effort to make this happen, and the war involving the three kingdoms was also progressing step by step according to the strategic outline he had formulated in advance.

First, he was crowned emperor and sent envoys to the empire;

Second, besiege Wei to save Zhao and regain control of the eastern part;
Third, the snipe and the clam quarreled, and the troops were sent to the west coast;

Fourth: The fisherman gains the advantage and becomes the uncrowned king.

According to Vega's four strategic rings, it has now reached the second step. He only needs to wait for about half a month for the Kingdom Army to completely leave the eastern territory of the Holy Dynasty, then he can regain control of the entire eastern part of the Holy Dynasty.

And this time the kingdom’s army moved in a hurry.

The cities throughout the Holy Dynasty did not suffer much property damage, but the civilians suffered oppression and abuse, which intensified their hatred towards the United Kingdom.

Vega doesn't think this is a bad thing.

Hatred will make the people feel ashamed and then brave, and anger will make civilians unite to face the outside world, which will strengthen the cohesion of the entire nation and achieve unexpected results in future wars.

"Almost there, the second step is almost finished."

Veigar looked at the dark sky, feeling a sense of relief and a hint of complacency rising in his heart.

It is indeed complacency rather than confidence.

Although complacency has always been a derogatory word, but after spending countless days and nights to complete a work of art, shouldn't you be self-satisfied and say something that even makes you admire yourself?

As the old saying goes.

The best strategy is to attack the enemy's plan. It is the best strategy to defeat the enemy with strategy without sacrificing a single soldier.

The second is to use diplomatic means to expand one's own alliance and force the enemy to surrender.

Secondly, we must use force to fight the enemy to the death. This is something we must do when we have no alternative.

When it comes to siege, only a third-rate general would ignore the losses and use brute force to attack the enemy's city.

This time, Vega used tactics of attacking the kingdom's plans and diplomacy to force the kingdom to retreat without sacrificing a single soldier. While giving up the entire eastern part, the empire and the kingdom also suffered a great loss of national strength. The dynasty thus gained time for development.

Shouldn't this be a sign of complacency?

Although his strength has been stagnant due to the lack of war, Vega believes that this is not a bad thing. The stagnation of strength means that everything is moving according to his plan.

After all, personal strength is limited.

It is absolutely impossible to subvert a country with the power of one person. If you want to stand at the highest point and enjoy a comfortable life, you will definitely need the power of trillions of people.

Therefore, after becoming complacent, Veigar entered a dormant period.

Now all he had to do was wait, wait for the kingdom to defeat the empire's blocking forces, and at the same time bury all the troops coveting the kingdom's Dragon City within the kingdom.

After that, just wait.

He waited for the group of people in the western part of the Empire and the Dynasty to fight each other over a city of black gold. When the two forces had almost finished fighting, it would be his turn to send troops to the west bank and take the opportunity to annihilate the Dynasty army on the west bank.

Ultimately achieve the goal of unifying the dynasty and becoming the uncrowned emperor.

And in the next month, everything went just as Vega had imagined.

The Empire raised an army group to illegally enter the Holy Dynasty, attempting to stop the Kingdom Army from retreating for a month. With just one more month, Foster would be able to break through the Dragon City and open up a sea front, and the Kingdom would lose the initiative in the war across the country.

Ideas are beautiful.

But the empire was ultimately too arrogant.

After they saw the Kingdom Army being beaten to a pulp by the 40 remnants of Vega in the eastern part of the Holy Dynasty, they naturally thought that the Kingdom Army that had just been defeated was just that, and that one group was enough to resist an army of 15 for a month. However, an army of 40 and 100 were not of the same magnitude, and the Empire's main force was attacking Dragon City. This group of army could not even have standard war airships, so how could it fight the Kingdom Army?

Therefore, the consequence of overestimating one's own ability is——

completely annihilated.

Under the Kingdom's lightning tactics, the entire army's formation was cut in less than 12 hours, resulting in the inability to coordinate between the front, rear, flanks, and command center. Then the professionals and magicians broke through the enemy's rear and completely paralyzed the Empire's command system.

The final act was carpet bombing by war airships.

The Imperial Army originally planned to use an army group to block Tanniel for a month, but the cruel reality was that the Kingdom broke through the blocking circle in just one week, and sent the entire army group to hell.

One step wrong, step by step wrong.

When the empire realized that it was too arrogant and had completely ruined the good situation, the military immediately ordered Foster to abandon the attack on Dragon City and urgently withdraw to the country through Gasili City, but it was too late.

Foster advanced deep into the enemy's territory alone, and it would take him half a month to retreat back to Gazile.

But Tenniel acted too quickly. He captured the city of Gaithersburg before Foster's 30 troops retreated. Now more than 30 imperial troops were surrounded inside the kingdom, losing all their supplies and retreat routes.

What fate awaits them next?
After the kingdom has recovered, they will be attacked from both sides by the armies of Gasili City and Dragon City Kingdom, and will be completely buried in the land of the kingdom. I'm afraid no one will be able to escape.

Vega breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this battle report.

If the Empire occupied the Dragon City and swallowed up the entire United Kingdom, his Holy Dynasty would probably follow suit. Now that the Empire has lost this main force, the entire eastern part of the Jialan Mountains will enter a period of peace.

Veigar desperately needs this period of peace.

However, man proposes, God disposes. In a war, the quality of the army is only a secondary factor. The commander with outstanding command ability is the one who can really change the situation. The reason why the empire was once known as the invincible army was not because of the high quality of their soldiers, but because they had the largest number of talented generals.

Even though these generals were almost dead.

Even those who survived have lost their basic sense of war and can no longer recover to their former peak state.

But the commander of this battle is none other than——

Foster Nolan.

This commander with the last name of Empire is one of the most senior commanders.

He is almost a man of the same era as Tanier Rheinberg. Since he has been staying in the city of Kareni where the smoke of war has never been extinguished, and suffered a great loss at the hands of the Kingdom Army last time, he has regained his former sense of war.

After a year of precipitation.

When he took the initiative to volunteer to start this war of revenge, his strength was already greater than before.

In such a desperate situation, is it possible that such a person would surrender and wait for death?
No! Absolutely not!

A true legendary general will not panic when he is in a desperate situation. Instead, such a desperate situation will make him feel excited, because Foster has smelled the breath of epic enlightenment from it.

So when he opened his eyes that were always squinting.

This means that he will have to fight a desperate battle and create an epic battle of his own to prove that as long as these old guys are still alive, the empire will still have the strongest army.

Vega didn't know this at the time.

Even if he knew, he was powerless to stop it. Now another thing had attracted all his attention -

When the kingdom retreated, there were no more enemies in the east.

Callison returned with his remaining army of less than 5, and with him came the person Vega least wanted to see, the guardian knight Carol.

(End of this chapter)