Mage Veigar

Chapter 403 Time
Marching and fighting.

The three common elements of victory are nothing more than the right time, the right place and the right people.

Although there is a saying that the weather is not as important as the location, and the location is not as important as the people, but nothing is absolute. Although the eldest prince has the advantage of location this time, Vega plans to use the weather to counter the location.

It is now late autumn after the harvest season.

The grass and trees are drying up, the temperature is dropping, and it is also the time when the fog is about to rise. October 10th is the first foggy day this year, and according to the prediction ability of the Word Spirit Mage, this fog is not small.

The heavy fog rising from the river surface with extremely low visibility meant that the war airships in the sky were useless.

Because even a Word Spirit Mage would not be able to see through such thick fog and accurately lock onto the target ship on the river.

What's more, the Word Spirit Mage is not a cabbage. Generally, the one responsible for locking the target on a war airship is a wind mage with lower accuracy than the Word Spirit Mage. This is the standard configuration of a war airship in war.

Of course, nothing is absolute.

If the war airship equipped with the Word Wizard descends to an altitude below 70 meters to conduct low-altitude reconnaissance missions, it is still easy to know Vega's coordinates, but it is only reconnaissance.

If a large force's war airship descends to an altitude below 70 meters to conduct combat.

Then Vega can order the mage troops to launch a counterattack and shoot the war airship down from the sky. In the end, it is still uncertain who will win this river war. The West Coast is not willing to destroy its air force in such a place.

The problem with the air force has been solved.

All that remained were the enemy's two navies.

Although the enemy's air force cannot participate in the battle, its reconnaissance capabilities are still there. If it can detect the location of the fleet, it is very likely that it can provide the route to the navy on the west coast, allowing the navy to block Vega on the river.

Veigar's ships are large merchant ships.

It has no attack devices to amplify the power of magic, nor the ability to defend against enemy magic attacks. Even its speed cannot be compared with that of regular military ships. Moreover, due to its huge size, it is completely a moving target. Even if the enemy shoots blindly with his eyes closed, his entire army can be buried.

If a naval battle really breaks out, it will probably be a one-sided situation.

So what to do?
Here we have to mention the strange order that Vega gave to the Chancellor of Finance more than a month ago to build three times the number of ships based on the base of 20 troops.

Vega was planning to use this empty ship strategy to confuse the enemy.

What would happen when the enemy's air force risked their lives to descend to 70 meters and detected two fleets crossing the river from the upper and middle reaches? Of course, they would report this intelligence to the navy as soon as possible.

The Navy has exactly two.

When they learned that two fleets were crossing the river from the upper and middle reaches respectively, they would of course divide their forces into two ends to block the two fleets. Vega could also take advantage of the two navies to fight those empty ships and cross the Donbu River unscathed with the real army.

At this time, even if the Air Force detected Vega's whereabouts again, they could only sigh in despair.

This was because the enemy navy heading to the middle and upper reaches had no time to turn their ships around and intercept Vega's real fleet.

This was the entire river crossing plan that Vega had thought of a month ago.

More importantly, this world's use of 'weather' is quite superficial. It can be seen from the fact that they wage wars all year round regardless of the season, that they do not have a clear understanding of these solar terms at all.

According to Vega's understanding.

There is no precedent in the world of war where anyone has used fog as cover to cross a river.

The first person to try something new will always get the biggest benefit. The lack of such a precedent means that the enemy will have a greater chance of being fooled, and it is entirely possible that they will be led by Vega.

Moreover, this strategy was not a one-time thing. Even if he laid out the entire plan, and the enemy could only pick two out of three, he still had a 33.33% chance of crossing the Donbu River, unlike other generals who relied on brute force to cross the river, with a success rate of less than %.

Unfortunately, this plan was destined not to be seen by Tanniel.

If he had seen this plan in advance and used it to land on the West Coast, the West Coast would probably have been reduced to a scorched earth long ago.

So now all Veigar has to do is wait.

Wait until October 10th.

The current time is October 10th, which means there are still ten days before the plan can be implemented.

Vega stood at the port and looked into the distance, silently feeling the tranquility before the war, and at the same time he was full of confusion about this Western Expedition. Although this plan seemed quite perfect to him, even the most perfect plan had loopholes, and he had experienced many times what it meant that man proposes but God disposes.

At this moment, a cold wind blew, causing Vega to tighten his collar involuntarily.

The seasons of the Holy Reign are very different from those of the previous life.

Although it was already autumn at this time in the previous life, the daytime temperature during the National Day was still quite high, and the Holy Dynasty was already showing signs of entering winter. By the 15th, it would probably be more than twice as cold.

"The Art of War says, attack when the enemy is least prepared and take advantage of the enemy's surprise."

Veigar watched the sunset slowly being swallowed by the river, muttering to himself, "But this time the enemy is fully prepared, and I am not prepared at all. Is it right or wrong to rashly cross the river and march west?"

The West Coast has 50 main forces that can be mobilized at will, including a standard air corps. The scattered troops defending the city are not included and have not been affected by the war.

But he had only 20 new recruits, of which only 1.5 were imperial troops.

The West Coast is full of talent.

At that time, all the senior generals and senior officials on the East Coast were transferred to the West Coast, and Vega could only rely on himself.

The West Coast is well-rested and is playing at home.

Vega not only played away from home, but also traveled from far away.

It is no exaggeration to say that this enemy is more terrifying than Tanir's 40 royal army. This war is simply not on the same level. Vega's overall strength is probably more than ten times weaker.

As the saying goes, know yourself and the enemy and you will be victorious in every battle.

But this time, it was precisely because he knew both himself and his enemy that Vega could not see the future.

But he had to fight this battle, unless he was willing to miss this once-in-a-millennium opportunity, give up everything in his hands, return to the empire in disgrace and become the number four figure in the dark, and be restricted by the empire platform for the rest of his life.

"Poultry and eagles?"

Vega turned around and left in the afterglow of the setting sun: "Even if poultry can get comfortable, they are still dependent on others. I don't need that kind of false and comfortable life."

It was already pitch dark when Vega returned to the headquarters.

But as soon as he returned to the headquarters, his new adjutant came up to him and said, "General, the imperial envoy has requested a meeting with you."

"An Imperial messenger?"

Vega's heart was moved for no reason, and he vaguely guessed some of the intentions of the empire's second envoy.

(End of this chapter)