Mage Veigar

Chapter 552: The overwhelming momentum
"Long live the Empire!"

Vega was saluting the imperial soldiers and was waiting for the reaction of the soldiers below.

The 7000 soldiers that Vega secretly recruited also started to work at this time. They raised their arms and shouted one after another at this time -

"Long live the Empire!"

"Long live the Empire!"

"Long live the Empire!"

"..."

At first there were only a few isolated cases, then the trend spread like wildfire, and finally the entire army began to shout "Long live the empire", and the atmosphere in the prisoner camp was brought to a climax.

Seeing this, Vega finally smiled.

The efforts over the past half month have finally paid off at this moment. Now Vega has basically gained the loyalty of these 300,000 soldiers.

If Foster saw this scene, he would definitely find it unbelievable.

Just by a simple guidance of public opinion and a few words, the empire's years of brainwashing were wasted?

It looks simple, but the tricks are not.

Vega used the famous herd effect theory on Earth.

A flock of sheep is a very disorganized organization. Normally, they rush around blindly together. But once a leading sheep starts moving, the other sheep will follow without thinking, completely ignoring the possible wolves nearby and the better grass not far away.

When the imperial soldiers were confused, they didn't know whether to choose to believe Veigar or not.

The seven thousand soldiers that Vega had buried in it began to play a role. They acted as leaders and led the entire army to pledge allegiance to Vega.

When the emotions are stable.

Perhaps some soldiers will regret the decision they made at this time, but because they are not sure whether others have the same mentality as them, they are not sure whether they will be isolated if they speak out. Under the premise of this herd mentality and fear of being isolated, most soldiers will choose to deceive themselves and always insist that they have pledged allegiance to Vega.

Manipulating a person's psychology is difficult.

However, it is quite easy to manipulate the psychology of a group of people. People often dare not express their true thoughts when the general trend is overwhelming, and choose to go with the flow.

of course.

If you think Veigar is just taking advantage of the herd effect, you are wrong.

Here, Vega also took advantage of the human psychology of seeking benefits and avoiding harm.

The imperial soldiers here are now prisoners, and this label of being prisoners will never be washed away in their lifetime. Even if they go back alive, they will probably never be able to hold their heads up in society again.

At this time, Vega gave this group of people an excuse in his speech——

If you choose to be loyal to him, the captives' crime will no longer stand. All the people here are heroes who want to overthrow the corrupt regime, establish a new government, eliminate the invading army, and bring peace and prosperity to the empire.

Once the war is won and the imperial regime is overthrown, they will be the pioneers.

The glory will be theirs.

In addition, Vega never said that he was an invading army, and he always emphasized that everything he did was for the future of the empire, so swearing allegiance to him and the so-called treason were fundamentally invalid.

I've found an excuse for them.

The pancakes were also drawn for them.

In addition, with some people taking the lead in raising their arms and shouting, which soldier would be willing to bear the shameful charge of being a "prisoner" instead of joining the glorious camp of revolutionary pioneers and founding heroes?
Herd mentality. Seek benefits and avoid harm.

These two human weaknesses are well known to everyone, but even such simple common sense can produce unexpected results as long as it is used well.

Psychology has never been the exclusive domain of psychologists.

Although Vega had not received any systematic psychological education, he was just like a tiger that wanted to swallow up the world but sniffed the rose, and he grasped the fatal point deep in the hearts of the imperial soldiers.

Of course.

With such thorough preparations, there is no reason why these 300,000 elite troops would not be under Vega's control.

Based on Veigar's caution.

In the next half month, Vega did not think that he could rest easy after getting everyone's oath of allegiance that day, because humans are extremely forgetful creatures. Even lovers who have sworn to love each other may become strangers, let alone these imperial soldiers who were forced to pledge allegiance to him?
In order to make the idea of ​​fighting for the revolution deeply rooted in people's hearts.

In the past half month, Vega has launched a 360-degree brainwashing mode on the Imperial Army. At the same time, he has deployed a large number of surveillance personnel to focus on recording the "stubborn elements" among them. After all, there are all kinds of birds in the forest, and the entire army is not harmonious.

As for what are diehards?

The so-called diehards are either diehards of the Imperial Government or really smart people. The former are stubborn and believe that the current government is orthodox, and they don't care about their own future. The latter are different from the former. They probably see through all the means that Vega uses to win over the army, and they disdain it.

Can Vega let go of such a stubborn person?
Of course it is impossible.

Regardless of the former or the latter, the presence of surveillance personnel can easily make them nowhere to hide and have them all recorded.

As long as the garbage is hidden in the dark, the world will seem peaceful and prosperous.

Vega sent these approximately 3,000 people to the north to mine without hesitation. As for how many people could survive from there by the end of the war, it all depended on luck.

Stupidity has a price.

Mediocrity can be deceived.

Being smart may even lead to being excluded.

This world is so unreasonable.

But that so-called cleverness is just cleverness in Vega's eyes. Vega doesn't take this cleverness seriously at all. The truly smart people always judge the situation and show their sharp fangs when the opportunity comes.

This kind of person is the real winner of this game.

This is exactly the kind of person Vega is afraid of, and he is sure that there are many such time bombs buried among these 300,000 people. It would be fine if he keeps winning, but truly smart people will not jump out when the general trend is overwhelming.

But once Vega is defeated, he enters a weak period.

One thing that is certain is that these truly smart people will choose the right time to deal a fatal blow to Vega.

This is not an exaggeration.

A thousand-mile long dam is always breached by an ant hole.

Vega has no way to deal with this now. These smart people who are good at disguise will not reveal their identities in a short time. Maybe they look more loyal than any other soldiers. All he can do now is to deal with them as they move.

He incorporated 300,000 imperial troops.

Now Veigar's main force has reached 80.

This was an extremely terrifying number, which made Vega's confidence unprecedentedly swell. However, the city of Ropus, which had received the news, was already in a state of panic, and Foster didn't even know how to face this tremendous force.

(End of this chapter)