Mage Veigar

Chapter 464: The Victory Treasure
The war reached its tenth day.

During these ten days, Vega launched seven battles, large and small, with direct losses of more than 1.8 people, but did not achieve any results.

Not only was there no result.

The continuous defeats caused the morale of Vega's army to drop to the lowest point, and the soldiers began to get tired of war. Every time Vega ordered an attack, the soldiers no longer responded actively, but seemed to be forced to do so.

Public opinion also began to emerge.

Many soldiers wanted to withdraw to the middle reaches. The cold weather intensified the public opinion. Vega certainly issued an order to control public opinion, but this attempt to cover up the truth made Eskar in the City of Black Gold laugh.

City of black gold.

Eskar, staring at the sand table, was already laughing happily.

"Hahaha!"

“Vega, oh Vega, you are too conceited after all, and you underestimate me too much.”

Eskar said to himself in a cold voice: "Do you think you can look down on me just because you relied on my trust and won the last war? Pride and arrogance will eventually send you to the grave. This war is a lesson for you, letting you know that the empire is not something you can look down on. Once you leave the empire, you will be nothing."

This is a declaration of victory.

Because during these ten days, the war went exactly as he planned, so smoothly that even he couldn't believe it.

At first, he just planned to hold his ground and fight a protracted war with Vega. This was his relatively conservative plan.

Of course he also prepared another more radical plan.

If Veigar launches multiple attacks in a short period of time and causes morale to drop to the bottom, and it will collapse directly with just the slightest touch, then he will lead his army to counterattack Veigar, and while blowing the horn of counterattack in the middle and lower reaches, wash away his own shame.

And the current situation is moving towards a radical plan.

Vega has launched seven wars.

These seven wars caused Vega to lose nearly 20,000 people, and the morale of his army dropped to the bottom.

There is no doubt about this.

Because they were the ones who cleaned up the soldiers' bodies, the low morale was visible to the naked eye.

In addition to the intelligence obtained by the scouts, it can be learned from those intelligence that a large number of officers and soldiers in the Vega army advocated retreat, and a considerable degree of public opinion and unrest broke out. Although these public opinions and unrest have been suppressed, if the defeat continues, the public opinions and unrest under high pressure will definitely rebound directly.

As a general with rich command experience.

Eskar certainly understood that for an army, morale is the most important thing.

Morale is not only the most important, but also the most difficult to restore.

If you want to see an army that has been defeated in battles one after another continue to fail, they will definitely not let you down. An army that has won battles one after another can at least improve its basic combat effectiveness by several levels, and can even achieve the level of defeating a larger force with a smaller one.

Not alarmist.

When morale drops to freezing point, execution and combat effectiveness plummet. A few words from the commander alone cannot directly improve morale, not to mention that Vega has basically lost his credibility as a commander.

But even at this time, Eskar still did not order an attack.

He was waiting, waiting until the last critical point.

He initially set this critical point at the 10th war.

If Veigar continues to order attacks, when the number of attacks reaches 10, he will order the entire army to attack Veigar, letting Veigar taste the taste of failure.

If it does not reach 10 times.

Even if there was only one mistake, Eskar intended to adopt a conservative plan and let Vega retreat safely to the middle reaches, because even if there was a one percent risk, Eskar did not intend to take the risk.

In another ten days.

It was like when he was about to go up to the house, a ladder inexplicably appeared in front of him. Vega really launched the tenth attack, and each attack ended in failure. Vega was forced to return to the camp, but there were deserters that night, and the entire army was on the verge of collapse.

at this time.

As long as an army launched an attack on them, Vega's army of less than 300,000 might collapse without a fight.

Although the time has come.

But this time, Eskar still did not wait to order his soldiers to leave the city to attack.

He carefully analyzed the battle situation and sent out reconnaissance troops to find out whether Vega's army was really on the verge of collapse. When he learned that Vega could no longer control public opinion and even saw unrest and desertions, Eskar realized that his opportunity had come.

No matter from which angle you look at it.

Vega no longer has the ability to restore the morale of the entire army.

If he attacks when the Dynasty army's morale is low, he will definitely win the battle. This is the best opportunity to wash away the shame and expand the results of the battle. If he misses this opportunity, he will never have the possibility of revenge.

"Commander, urgent news from the front line."

Just as Eskar was still hesitating, a scout broke into his office and gave him a very important report: "We have obtained the latest intelligence. The Dynasty Army has begun to retreat. They seem to be preparing to retreat to the middle reaches."

"Can't wait any longer."

The scout's report made Eskar make up his mind.

He immediately ordered the entire army to assemble. He must and must seize this only opportunity.

The Imperial Army has very high execution capabilities.

It only took half a day for the main forces of the empire to gather together. Eskar launched a pursuit in the direction of Vega. He had to catch up with Vega's army, leave Vega's main force upstream, and win a great victory.

Vega's morale was low, his men were exhausted, and of course his speed was not fast.

Therefore, Eskar is confident that he can catch up with Vega, and he has seen the dawn of victory.

The imperial army was well-rested, so of course they moved very quickly.

When it was getting dark, Eskar had already seen the dynasty army.

There was a long and narrow canyon ahead. Although the air force could not be used, he still laughed, then waved forward with a cross sword in his hand and ordered: "Vanguard, hold them back, and the main force will follow."

"Yes, Commander."

The cavalry mounted their horses, the professionals and magicians unleashed their magical powers, and the vanguard rushed towards the rear wing of Vega's army.

At this time, Vega received an urgent report from the scouts.

"Report to the commander, something terrible has happened."

The scout didn't even have time to catch his breath: "The Imperial Army is chasing us. General, please give the order."

"Tail wing turns to forward wing, all troops in defensive formation."

Vega decisively gave the order for a head-on battle, but this order was stopped by the division commander next to him.

He said hurriedly, "Commander, this cannot happen. Our army is now completely demoralized. The failures of the past half month have made the soldiers fear the Imperial Army like a tiger. We should retreat immediately. If we can retreat one group at a time, we will surely lose if we rashly engage in a direct battle with the enemy."

"Don't worry about that."

Veigar laughed. “Under normal circumstances, it would be extremely difficult to restore morale in such a short period of time. Even I can’t do it. This battle will definitely end in failure just as Eskar imagined.”

"such a pity--"

Vega smiled brightly. "Unfortunately, Eskar never expected that I have a treasure that can instantly restore morale."

(End of this chapter)