Mage Veigar

Chapter 637 Strategic Significance
Nasir City.

The 800,000 main forces of the Holy Dragon Kingdom recaptured this strategic point in the western section of the border.

It was not so much that they spent a lot of effort to recapture the city of Nasisir. It was more that the enemy's 300,000 troops fled before they arrived, and when they arrived here, Nasisir had become an empty city.

In other words.

They didn't even see the enemy before they disappeared again into the Kalini Mountains.

Although overall the city of Nasisir was taken back.

But Augustus, the commander of the Holy Dragon Kingdom, could not be happy no matter what, because everything seemed too easy, so easy that he began to doubt the authenticity of the matter.

Let's think about it.

If the enemy was the United Kingdom, then everything would be very easy to explain.

Because when they were fighting with the United Kingdom, those cowardly troops would most likely abandon the city and flee as soon as they heard their names. They had encountered this more than a dozen times and it was not uncommon.

But this time is different.

Their enemy is Vega Saint Laurent.

One thing that is 100% certain is that the one who had traumatized them, who was short in stature but as intimidating as a giant, would never be afraid of them, let alone retreat before the battle.

Augustus...

Smells of conspiracy.

But what annoyed Augustus was that, although he knew clearly what the enemy was planning, he could not figure out even the slightest clue despite exhausting all his efforts. This frustrating feeling almost drove him crazy.

For three days, Augustus had grown suspicious.

He sent out a large number of reconnaissance troops, but the news he received was that 30 invading troops had returned to the Jialan Empire...

incredible.

Could it be that the little devil suddenly had a change of heart and no longer wanted to invade their land?

Were these months of preparation actually just a joke on them?
Are there really such boring people in the world?

Augustus didn't believe even a single punctuation mark in these three questions.

At this time, a piece of news brought by the scout confirmed his inner guess -

The city of Kasiri fell.

When he heard the news, Augustus sat down on his chair and was unable to come back to his senses for a long time.

Although he guessed that Vega might be carrying out some secret operation, he never thought that the city of Gashiri, which he thought was the safest, would fall, and that the little devil was not in the far west, but in the far east.

"What on earth is going on!"

Augustus slammed the table, the anger in his chest almost bursting out of his body.

"Report, report to the legion commander..."

The soldier said tremblingly: "The enemy...the enemy's main force has been hiding in the Gasilien High Ridge. The 300,000 troops that attacked Naxisil City before were the Jialan troops used by the enemy to attract our attention."

This information has been all over the place.

However, it was not until three days after the fall of Gasili City that the Holy Dragon Kingdom received this information.

"It's actually... right under our noses..."

Augustus held his head in pain and kept repeating, "Your Majesty, this battle is not my fault. It was our intelligence system that failed to bring me such important news." If he had known earlier that it was the Galan Army instead of the Dynasty Army that occupied the city of Nasisir, would he still make such a mistake?
Definitely not.

Unfortunately, the Holy Dragon Kingdom has always been too proud of the quality of its military and neglected the construction of its intelligence system.

Although an intelligence system had been established last time under the advice of Augustus, such a crude intelligence system was really ridiculous and could not be applied to the war in a short period of time.

The foundation of the Holy Dragon Kingdom... is too poor.

This was Augustus' first taste of how important the intelligence system was to war.

Without an intelligence system, the army is like fighting blindfolded, and the enemy can do whatever they want to you.

boom!
The door of the command room was violently kicked open.

The commander of the Silver Dragon Legion, Palitzer Gunnir, who had come from the capital Dragon City to reinforce, shouted angrily, "Augustus, what happened? Why did the city of Gathili fall?"

"Are you trying to pin the blame on me?"

Augustus glared at Palitzer and said, "I tell you, once His Majesty blames us, neither you nor I will be able to escape the blame. This war was ultimately caused by our crude intelligence system, and you are the one in charge of the intelligence system."

"N-Nonsense!"

Palitzer, who came to question the culprit, had a flash of panic in his eyes: "It is obviously because of your wrong decision that this result occurred. It has nothing to do with me. I just brought troops from the capital to support you."

"Is that right?"

Augustus sneered and said, "If you were still in the imperial capital, I think His Majesty would have dismissed you and investigated you. Don't forget that our Majesty also came from the military. Don't think that he can't see the root cause of the failure of the war."

This time Palitzer did not object.

He paced back and forth, then looked at Augustus and said, "Sir Augustus, I apologize for my previous impoliteness. The most urgent task now is to regain control of Jiasili City. You should know the importance of Jiasili City. With Jiasili City as a stronghold, it can directly threaten the existence of the capital Dragon City."

That's right.

If the Holy Dragon Kingdom had set its capital in the former capital of the dynasty, the City of Bauhinia, then they would not have to panic so much, because Casillas' strategic location would only have an effect on the south at most. However, in order to connect overseas and the mainland, they had the bad luck to set up their capital in the City of Dragons and even changed its name to Holy Dragon City.

Look at the map.

The Holy Dragon City is located above the City of Gasili, which is slightly northeast.

One city is in the south and the other is in the north, almost forming a straight line. If you march quickly, you can reach them in about ten days.

At that time, Foster Nolan used Gasilil as his base and directly threatened Dragon City. By taking over Dragon City, he could open up sea routes and further threaten the kingdom's capital, Bauhinia City.

This is the significance of the city of Gasili.

Taking this city means having the premise to attack Holy Dragon City. If you take a strategic city like Nasisir City, you will find that you still have to find a way to take Gasili after going around in circles.

The status of Holy Dragon City is self-evident.

First of all, as the capital, it is where the military’s heart is. The army is safe when the city is there, and the army is in panic when the city is lost.

Second.

The Holy Dragon Country came from overseas, and overseas was their retreat. Holy Dragon City was the only entry and exit point connecting their hometown and the mainland. Once they lost Holy Dragon City, it meant that their only retreat would be directly cut off.

It's entirely conceivable.

The way home was cut off, and the entire army... no, the entire country would fall into despair.

Therefore, both Augustus and Palitzer understood that they must recapture the city of Gasili, not only to atone for their mistakes, but also for the safety of Holy Dragon City.

(End of this chapter)