Mage Veigar

Chapter 530 Vanguard

Almost at the same time.

The commanders of the Free Alliance, Swinburne and Vega, jointly expressed their willingness to let the kingdom serve as the vanguard to kick off the war between the four countries and the empire, without any hesitation at all.

Vega smiled.

He glanced in the direction of Swinburne and found that he was also smiling at him elegantly. If he hadn't revealed those incongruous fangs, it might have really made people feel like spring breeze.

"Are you two kidding?"

The King of the United Kingdom was stunned. Although the Kingdom did side with the Free Alliance, his act of letting the Imperial Army go without authorization might have angered the Alliance. At this time, neither Vega nor the Alliance would stand on his side.

But things turned out to be beyond expectations.

The two countries gave him the position of vanguard without any hesitation, which made King Nordrian feel that there seemed to be some trap, but he couldn't find what was wrong.

Of course.

King Nordrian attributed the two men's actions to a joke.

However, Vega looked at the Alliance Commander again at this time and said in a very affirmative tone: "As Your Majesty said before, military affairs are not a joke. My Holy Dynasty voluntarily gives up the position of the Vanguard Army."

"The Freedom League has no objection."

So under this circumstance, the United Kingdom took the position of the vanguard of this war without any hindrance. When the meeting ended, the king of the United Kingdom felt that he was blessed by God.

on the way back.

Vega contacted Swinburne, the commander of the Free Alliance: "Excuse me, sir, why did you agree to let the Kingdom take the position of the vanguard?"

"They can't guess the reason, but I think His Royal Highness should know it very well."

Swinburne said in fluent common language: "You don't know how high a mountain is until you stand on it. The Empire failed to check and the Kingdom was able to invade the north of the Empire. This made the United Kingdom think that the Empire was just that. But we must know that even the wisest people make mistakes. If we use this mistake to completely deny the strength of the Empire, then in the end the Kingdom will pay for its arrogance."

"Hahaha."

Vega laughed loudly. "There are rumors that the kingdom has already sided with the Free Alliance. You have also provided the kingdom with a large number of aviation armaments. Your Excellency did not dissuade them but instead let it go. Aren't you afraid of chilling the kingdom's feelings?"

Swinburne shook his head.

He looked Vega in the eye and said, "Let's put aside the fact that the Kingdom let go of 800,000 main forces of the Empire without permission. I would like to ask Your Highness, how would you explain to a frog in a well how deep the sky is and how vast the sea is outside the well?"

"Your Excellency is saying that status limits the kingdom's imagination?"

"That's right."

Swinburne smiled slightly. "After all, the Kingdom was originally a vassal state. Unlike the country you and I are loyal to, it has witnessed the empire's rise from humbleness to greatness, from weakness to invincibility as an ancient country from the very beginning. Since the Kingdom wants to take the vanguard in this battle, let it be. I am worried that there is no one to stop the first fire of the empire."

Vega felt a little ashamed by Swinburne's praise.

He wanted to tell Swinburne that, in fact, except for him, the attitude of the entire Holy Dynasty was the same as that of the United Kingdom and the Principality of Baya. They all believed that this war would definitely be won with an extremely arrogant attitude, even if the Empire had an additional 1.8 million troops. But after thinking about it, Vega gave up this plan.

He bid farewell to Swinburne, the modest and gentlemanly commander of the Alliance, and returned to the Holy Dynasty to make final preparations for the war. When Vega returned home, there were less than 5 days left before the war began.

During this period, the United Kingdom had already begun to take action.

In order to get the biggest piece of the pie this time, the kingdom emptied the last bit of reserves in the treasury, concentrated almost all the troops in the country to be stationed in Gasili, and then the king led the army in person, with General Tanier Rheinberg as deputy commander to assist.

At the kingdom's seventh pre-war meeting, the generals gathered together.

King Nordrian looked at the people in the Kingdom Think Tank and said, "Excuse me, have you figured out why the Dynasty and the Free Alliance gave us the position of the Vanguard so readily? It's not that I don't want this position, but there must be something wrong. The Dynasty and the Alliance are not stupid. There must be something else going on."

"Your Majesty, I'm sorry, we really didn't find any information."

A lieutenant general stood up and said: "But our think tank did make a guess based on the various performances of the Dynasty and the Alliance - the Alliance Army and the Dynasty Army are afraid of the Imperial Army."

“Why didn’t I see these manifestations?”

"Your Majesty doesn't know something."

The lieutenant general explained: "The Alliance dispatched 100 million troops this time, accounting for 2/5 of the total number of soldiers in the country, including the most elite Silver Wolf, Giant, Goblin, and even their commander-in-chief is a Dark Night with nearly 10 years of command experience. This is enough to show that the Free Alliance attaches great importance to the Empire as an opponent. And when they learned that we let the Empire's main forces escape, the Alliance added Deep Sea to cut off the Empire's maritime support line."

"Does the Alliance overestimate the Empire?"

"That's not all."

The lieutenant continued, "The Holy Dynasty also sent out its main force. They launched a two-front war, sending the Star Mage Okasos to form an army to attack Erkia in the east of the empire, in order to prevent the southeastern defenders from supporting Kareni in the north."

"Making a fuss out of a molehill."

King Nordrian's eyes flashed with disdain. "The Imperial Army is far from being as terrible as imagined. When our country launched a surprise attack on Kareni, the entire northern part of the Empire could only tremble under our iron hoofs. Now that the four countries are attacking the empire, our main forces are fully deployed, and our power is even greater than before. How can we not win this battle? The Alliance and the Dynasty may be making a fuss, but it is for us to take the position of the vanguard."

After receiving the think tank's analysis, Nordrian felt relieved.

What he was looking forward to next was the arrival of the agreed time. By then, with his military force of 75 soldiers, he would surely be able to recreate the scene of a few years ago - capturing Kareni and wreaking havoc in the north of the empire.

Veigar is also looking forward to the time when the Kingdom will attack.

He didn't believe that the Empire, which had suffered a great loss from the Kingdom in the past, would repeat the same mistake.

As the saying goes, every failure makes you wiser. The empire must have deployed many defense lines in the north at this moment. Originally, Vega was worried about how many troops he would have to lose before he could truly explore the empire's deployment in the north, but now it seems that there is no need to worry.

Because there is a country that wants to be the first to try something new.

However, in Vega's opinion, there are certainly many benefits to being the first to try something new.

But no one can guarantee whether the crab in your hand is a fresh and delicious king crab or a copper-cast cooked crab that is delicious when you eat it.

(End of this chapter)