Mage Veigar

Chapter 497 The Second Fire
It's ironic just to think about it.

The 18 countries regarded this plan as the most perfect retreat plan, but its maker was actually their current archenemy Vega?

Reynolds looked at everyone with pity.

Although Vega did not tell him the specific details of how to annihilate the soldiers of the 17th National Army, but only asked him to cooperate unconditionally, he had already smelled a hint of extremely dangerous atmosphere from this almost perfect plan.

need to know.

Even he, who knew the inside story, could not find any loopholes in this retreat plan after putting himself in their shoes. If they went ahead with this plan, it seemed that the Dynasty Army would be unable to do anything to them.

What does this incident prove?
This shows that the more perfect the plan is, the more it proves that Vega has a big plan.

Vega can't be so kind as to really formulate a perfect retreat plan for them. This is no different from a weasel paying a New Year's visit to a chicken. Those grand dukes who believed in the retreat plan will probably suffer for it.

Just as Reynolds Baya thought.

They should be thankful that Vega didn't harm the Eighteen Nations. Can you still expect Vega to do charity for them?

On the surface, this plan seemed perfect. After all, it was the work of Vega, a senior military officer who had experienced many battles. With the short-sightedness of those vassal states, how could they possibly see through the loopholes in it?

Do not!
Even a famous general of the time might not be able to tell what was wrong.

Because of the complex terrain and towering trees in the Kareni Mountains, once the army enters it, it is difficult to track the enemy by relying on reconnaissance troops. Without coordinates, no matter how many troops you have and how powerful they are, you can never expect to defeat the enemy.

Therefore, it is no exaggeration to say that.

There couldn't be a better plan, and no better escape route.

However, there is no perfect plan in the world. The more perfect the plan is, once there is even a slight loophole, it may be fatal and put you in an irretrievable situation.

The loophole lies not elsewhere but with Reynolds Baya.

As long as Reynolds is there, is Vega still afraid of not being able to find the enemy's coordinates?

As long as the enemy's coordinates are accurately grasped, it will be easy to launch a second raid or set an ambush.

And in the final analysis.

This retreat plan was made by him. Even the selection of the small branch roads in the mountains was made by him. Under this premise, how could the 18 countries that were kept in the dark escape from his clutches?
This is Veigar's confidence.

At this time, even if a five-star general appeared in the enemy army, he would never doubt that the commander-in-chief Reynolds Baya was his man, and it was even more impossible for him to guess that the retreat plan Reynolds took out came from his hand.

Vega is in the light.

Reynolds in the dark.

With the cooperation of the two, the light and the dark, the outcome of the war was already known at this moment.

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Five days later.

After spending two days to reorganize the troops, the 18-nation coalition had entered the Kareni Mountains for three days.

These three days were peaceful. Apart from a few soldiers falling to their deaths occasionally, there were no surprise attacks or ambushes by the Dynasty army. Everything was proceeding in an orderly manner according to the retreat plan.

"Three days, just three more days, and we'll reach Kareni."

"Yes, at least there were no accidents along the way."

"Thanks to Grand Duke Baya's perfect plan, otherwise we would have suffered a lot of losses during this retreat."

"..." During the break, all the grand dukes praised the plan and looked forward to returning safely to Kareni in three days.

"Grand Duke Baya? Grand Duke Baya?"

But when everyone was praising Reynolds Baya, he just remained silent and stared blankly for a long time holding the food.

"Grand Duke Baya, are you okay?"

Qifei pushed Reynolds, and he finally reacted. Then he gave an awkward smile and echoed everyone.

Time flies by.

They did not take Reynolds Baya's abnormality seriously, and they attributed it to the long journey.

But only he knew that Vega would start to take action tonight, because early this morning, his contact with Vega sent him a message from Vega -

Before 3:00 am.

He needed to secretly order his soldiers to stay away from the area where the main forces were stationed.

Although he himself did not know what Vega's plan was, and what method would be used to completely annihilate the coalition of 17 countries, he had to follow Vega's orders if he wanted to upgrade the "Principality" of the Baya Principality to an "Empire".

He chose his own path.

The road to the rise of a great nation is worth a try, not to mention risking one's life just once, even if it costs several or even dozens of generations of our descendants!
Therefore, that afternoon, Reynolds Baya deliberately ordered his troops to slow down and stay at the end of the entire army, and his army was naturally responsible for the rear-line security work that night.

At 00:00 in the morning.

Reynolds Baya ordered the entire army to temporarily leave the main force and move towards the north side of the mountain. This move did not alarm the other seventeen countries, because Reynolds' army was the last one to come, and it was late at night and there was no one around, so who would go to visit another country's army camp?

Although the other 17 Grand Dukes did not notice Reynolds's actions, one person did. He was none other than the Grand Duke Chife's accompanying general.

Joel Silland.

He had noticed something unusual on Reynolds' face as early as this afternoon. Later, Reynolds deliberately left the team at the end, which attracted his attention again. Of course, these were not enough to make him doubt what Reynolds was planning. He just felt that there must be something fishy, ​​so he kept an eye on every move of Reynolds' camp.

It was not until Reynolds Baya ordered the entire army to evacuate that his heart could no longer hold back its pounding.

Joel Cillan suddenly seemed to have grasped something, so he came to Reynolds and asked, "Your Majesty Baya, where are you mobilizing your troops to go in the middle of the night?"

Reynolds was startled by Joel's voice.

But he quickly came to his senses and squinted his eyes at Joel. He didn't say too much nonsense or make excuses, but went straight to the point and said, "How much do you know about this? Besides you, how many people know that I want to evacuate."

"If I'm not wrong..."

Joel did not answer, but took a deep breath, and then said calmly: "Your Majesty has betrayed the Empire and is ready to join forces with the enemy to harm the coalition forces? At first, I was still skeptical. The Dynasty Army clearly had time to burn all the supplies, so why did they leave enough supplies for the coalition forces to retreat? It turns out that the second fire was intended to burn here."

The first fire burns the grain.

The second fire burns people.

Burning food to create opportunities to burn people was indeed Vega's entire plan.

At this moment, there was finally someone in the coalition who understood and saw through the whole picture of Vega's plan.

Unfortunately, the plan has come to an end, and only at this point did they realize that the entire plan was ruined. Even a god could not save it.

(End of this chapter)