Mage Veigar

Chapter 548: The Struggle between People and Others
a week later.

Vega has taken over all the defenses set up by the United Kingdom around the city.

While taking over the defense line, Vega focused on strengthening the control over commanding heights, traffic arteries, and large buildings in the ring city area, leaving almost no blind spots untouched, forming a terrifying defense and surveillance network like a spider weaving a web.

Vega's understanding of urban warfare is getting deeper and deeper.

If Vega had just entered the Ring City a week ago, the Empire's 400,000-strong army still had hope of breaking out, then until now, it has been impossible for the Imperial Army to escape from the dragnet.

In fact, this week of defense construction made Vega unable to sleep or eat.

Because Vega was very afraid that the Imperial Army would take advantage of this gap to break out. In the end, although he captured the strategic point of Kareni, he allowed the main force of the Empire to break through all the way back to the city of Lopus, and he lost the possibility of continuing to seize the city of Lopus.

Fortunately.

The Imperial Army did not break out, and seemed confident that they could teach him a lesson with the tactics he brought.

"Foster, you are still a little conceited."

Vega smiled at Kalini's detailed map and began to look down on Foster, the commander-in-chief of the Northern Front.

If the positions were reversed and he were the commander-in-chief of the empire's northern front, he would definitely order the troops here to break out during this golden time instead of staying here and fighting him.

Without knowing that it was Clemens who actively disobeyed orders, Vega attributed all the faults to Foster, and unconsciously lowered his evaluation of Foster by a level.

So now comes the question.

What to do if you encounter a fool in war?
The answer, of course, is to bully him with compassion, as much as possible, and in every possible way. Vega's favorite thing to do is not to fight a war to turn defeat into victory, but to stand on the commanding heights and beat the fallen dog, which is the most refreshing thing.

Vega only took a glance at the map and already had a plan to capture Kaleni.

of course.

Things were not so exaggerated, it was just that the glance might have been a bit long. If you counted carefully, it was probably less than five minutes, more than three minutes.

"General Srin Lan Carr."

Veigar looked at a middle-aged general and said, "I heard that your mother is from the Dynasty, but your father is from the Empire. And you lived with your father in Kareni City until you were 25 years old. Does that make you a native Kareni?"

"Yes, yes... yes, Your Highness."

Major General Slin's forehead was dripping with sweat. "But Your Highness, my father was persecuted by the Kareni government. I no longer have any feelings for the Empire. Please believe in my loyalty to the Holy Dynasty."

Silin just thought that Veigar doubted his loyalty, so he hurried to explain.

Veigar laughed and said, "Don't worry, Major General Silin. I have no intention of questioning your loyalty. I just want you to complete a vital mission."

"Please give your orders, Your Highness. I promise to complete the task."

"I need you to spread rumors in the city to discredit the Imperial Army while boosting our image."

Vega tilted his head and said, "You can just say that Vega, the former brigadier general of the Empire and the commander-in-chief of the Kareni guerrilla army, was persecuted by the imperial high-ranking officials and had to join the Dynasty camp. Now Vega cares about the people of Kareni and has returned to Kareni. He vowed to rebuild the corrupt imperial regime for the people of the Empire, eliminate the invading army, and bring peace and prosperity to the people of the Empire."

"I understand."

As soon as Vega said that, Slin understood what to do.

After occupying a city, everyone will do things like discrediting the enemy's image. This is also to make themselves the embodiment of justice, to win the hearts of the people and to manage the city.

But generally speaking this is of no use.

Because the invading army is the invading army, black is black, no matter how hard you try, you can't make it white. But it's different in Kareni.

Vega was once a hero of this city, and his bronze statue was destroyed not long ago. The scene of everyone becoming a soldier has not completely cooled down. Even now, there are still people who call themselves the Kareni Guerrilla Army, so he doesn't need to whitewash himself.

In other words.

Whatever Vega says, Kareni's people will believe it first.

This is the advantage of being a hero. Everyone in Kareni will only remember that it was Vega who saved them, and will not impose this favor on the Imperial Army.

And for civilians, what they desire most is peace.

Especially for the civilians of Kareni, who have experienced wars many times, they would be more eager for the world to return to the peaceful times, but unfortunately, the empire has only imposed war on them.

Therefore, the credibility of the imperial government has dropped to the lowest level.

Now that Vega, the man who once saved Kareni and brought them peace, has come forward again and promised to overthrow the corrupt imperial government and bring them peace again, it is clear which side the civilians should side with.

On one side are the liars who deceived them.

On one side is the hero who rescued them.

By using the method of propaganda warfare, Vega easily grasped the most critical thing in guerrilla warfare - harmony among people.

In just ten days.

Although Vega did not launch an attack on the Imperial Army and only continued to reinforce the existing defense line, the wind direction of the entire Kareni had already shifted to one side, and the civilians who once helped the Imperial Army fight against the Kingdom Army began to turn against them.

Urban warfare.

Civilians are like water and the army is like fish.

Whoever can get the support of the common people will be able to thrive.

When Vega has the advantage of people, then can the advantage of location be far behind?
The Imperial Army's garrisons, secret outposts, defense lines, traps... everything has been gathered in Vega's hands through the eyes of civilians. Now that the fog that obscured the view of the central city has been completely lifted, the Imperial Army no longer has any secrets.

As Clemens said.

This is Kareni.

Kareni is the first city that Vega traveled to, and it is also the first city that he saved from the Kingdom Army. The people of this city may not know who the highest leader of the three powers is, but they will never forget the name Vega. This is not Clemens' home court, but Vega's home court!

"Traitors, these damned unruly people are all traitors!"

Clemens looked at the news from the intelligence department, his eyes bloodshot: "Why? Why do you choose to believe the sweet words of a traitor instead of believing the promise of me, an orthodox officer of the Empire!"

Understand...can't.

He was obviously the genuine one, and at the same time he was using public opinion to discredit Vega, but in the end these civilians did not believe the promise of him, a legitimate officer of the Empire, and instead believed an invader.

This kind of thing is beyond Clemens's understanding.

At this moment, Clemens finally realized what the kingdom had experienced before -

Enemy to the whole world!

(End of this chapter)