Mage Veigar

Chapter 554 Dilemma
Take it to the North.

He recruited 300,000 surrendered troops.

Vega, who had already established the situation, was ready to attack the city of Ropus.

But just when Vega was preparing to use force, he learned that Foster had destroyed all the main transportation routes and bridges leading to Lopus City, cutting off all connections between Lopus City and the north.

Veigar had never thought about this.

The Empire has always been arrogant. When the North is lost, it usually thinks about how to take it back, rather than actually handing it over. Destroying all the main transportation routes is equivalent to announcing to Vega that I don't want the North anymore, I'll give it to you.

Is this the Empire style?
Other small countries might be able to do such a thing, but Vega just didn't believe that the Empire would do so.

There is only one way to do this -

The empire is about to launch a big move.

However, this big move requires a considerable amount of preparation time, so the Empire was willing to cut off all ties between Ropus City and the North, and even hand over the entire North, rather than continue fighting with Vega in a short period of time.

The more the Empire behaves like this, the more urgent Vega feels.

But with all the traffic arteries and bridges destroyed, large-scale marches have become impossible. It will take at least five or six months to repair these transportation routes. If the empire's big move is ready by then, wouldn't you have built so many roads and just walked into their trap?

Of course, this is just Vega's speculation.

He was not sure whether the Empire was preparing a so-called big move. The fact that Foster cut off the connection between Ropes City and the North was not enough to directly prove that the Empire was delaying time.

Therefore, at this time, we need to look at the overall situation.

An outstanding general will not limit his focus to his own battlefield, but will always pay attention to the situation of other battles and infer the strategy of the entire country through other battles.

Let’s first take a look at the war situation in the eastern part of the empire.

There, the star mage Okasos and hundreds of thousands of miscellaneous soldiers "firmly occupied" the city of Erkia.

It can indeed be described as firmly occupied.

Because every time Okasos stepped out of Erkia to capture another economic capital, Sherantu, the imperial army would take back Erkia and cut off Okasos' supply lines, forcing Okasos to retake Erkia.

Talk about it.

The hundreds of thousands of soldiers that Okasos organized casually became a burden. He almost relied on his own strength to capture the city of Erkia, but he had to rely on these soldiers to manage the city.

So in Vega's opinion.

It was not that Okasos 'firmly occupied' Erkia, but that Erkia imprisoned Okasos.

Vega had already anticipated this outcome. This situation would probably continue until the end of the war. After all, a person's power was limited. It was easy for Okasos to destroy a country, but it was almost impossible to occupy a country.

Although the east is bustling with activity, everything is calm.

But it can also be seen from this that, just like here in the east and the north, the Imperial Army seems to be stalling for time.

To verify this, Vega looked to the west.

The west was the main battlefield of the Free Alliance, where the Imperial Army had withdrawn all its forces in strategic cities and several important secondary strategic points, leaving the Free Alliance to wreak havoc in other places. In addition, the 80 army troops withdrawn from the Kingdom by the Empire made the heavy cities in the west as hard as a tortoise shell, and the Free Alliance had no temper at all.

The same is true in the northwest direction.

As the Kingdom's army joined the battlefield, the situation in the northwest direction was slightly opened up, but it was only slightly. Judging from the current war situation, the Kingdom and the Principality of Baya would not be able to gain any decisive advantage for at least ten months.

need to know.

If these important cities and secondary strategic points of the empire are not lost, it means that the richest and most prosperous central part of the empire can rest assured. The central part has the largest population, the most developed economy, and is also the concentration of military industry.

Vega was eighty percent certain that the Empire was indeed stalling for time.

In as little as five months and as much as a year, the empire would surely reveal a trump card that they would be unable to deal with.

of course.

What finally made Vega 100% sure of this speculation was the battle situation west of the Galan Mountains.

According to the latest battle report obtained by Vega, the coalition forces of eleven nations are pressing the Free Alliance step by step at all costs. The coalition forces of nine nations, led by the Free Alliance, could have gained the upper hand, but the Free Alliance fought on two fronts, which put it at a disadvantage.

In other words.

Every day the Free Alliance stays in the east, it will have to bear a huge amount of pressure. Even if Vega uses his toes to think about it, he knows that this must be the Empire's interference, trying to force the Free Alliance to withdraw from the war.

Based on the current situation.

The Free Alliance can continue fighting in the east for seven months at most. If it still fails to achieve any decisive results, it will most likely be unable to withstand the tremendous pressure and choose to withdraw its troops back home.

What happens once the alliance withdraws?
I'm afraid that the day the alliance withdraws its troops will be the day the empire reveals its true colors.

If this trump card really reaches a level that defies the will of heaven, then the empire will surely sweep across the east and truly complete the unification of the east.

All the evidence shows that the Empire is 100% stalling for time.

Now that we know this, the only way to break the deadlock is to fight quickly and decisively.

Turn your attention back to the northern front.

The only way to win a quick victory now is to send all the main forces out of Ropes City, but there is no route that can reach Ropes City in a short time, so the battle situation seems to have reached a dead end again?
I looked at the map for a long time.

After Vega finally realized that ground march was not feasible, he thought of air transport.

But if he could think of it, Foster must be able to think of it too.

Vega was certain that the airspace within a hundred miles of Kareni must be heavily guarded. If he really dared to send the air force to force a breakthrough, he would most likely be caught in one fell swoop by the enemy in the air.

In the Jialan Continent.

Even if it is confirmed that the enemy has no air force, generals generally do not dare to use air transport to rush the troops.

Because if an accident occurs, no one can afford the consequences. A war airship carries at least 3000 soldiers. If a few of them are destroyed, there is no need to fight the war.

Vega didn't dare to gamble.

Especially when the enemy's air control capability is greater than his, he would be even more afraid to take risks.

There is no way to heaven and no way to earth.

Vega encountered the same situation as other fronts. It became absolutely impossible to advance the front in a short period of time.

Therefore, there are only two choices left for Veigar.

Or he could quit while he's ahead and quietly be the King of the North, using the time now to plunder the North.

Either find a way to destroy the enemy's air force, and then march towards Ropes City with a large army.

(End of this chapter)