Mage Veigar

Chapter 703 Leading the Way

Two armies confront each other.

On one side, 100,000 soldiers from the Holy Dragon Kingdom were stationed in the city of Tully.

On the other side, there were more than 200 Galan troops stationed on the flank of Tuli City, about miles away.

Vega's side was in high spirits, and it was clear that they were determined to capture Tully City. However, the 100,000 defenders in Tully City were not as uneasy and afraid as one might imagine because they had received an order from Augustus to retreat at the critical moment.

Because everyone knows that if you can't win, you can just run away.

Vega was not in a hurry to attack. During the three days of landing, he only ordered the army to set up camp and sent out scouts to investigate the city of Tully inside and out. The air force was not used casually, after all, the enemy had more flexible flying dragons.

After three days of exploration.

Vega learned from the soldiers that Augustus allowed them to retreat if they were defeated. This made Vega basically certain that the main force was not here, but within the Saint Laurent defense system.

Then things are simple.

This battle no longer requires the use of conventional siege warfare. As long as he builds momentum before the war and gives the enemy an unbeatable tough attitude when the war starts, the enemy will retreat immediately and he can successfully capture Tully City.

When retreat does not violate orders.

So, if one knows that they might lose the battle, no one would choose to fight hard.

Dying in this way will not only bring no honor, but also shame.

Vega plans to take advantage of the enemy's mentality and win the battle without bloodshed. For Vega, who is short of manpower, every division is very valuable and cannot be wasted here.

Then the problem is coming.

How to scare off the enemy and force them to withdraw from Tully City?
This was not difficult for Veigar.

He turned his gaze to Shia Saint Laurent standing beside him.

With this enhanced star wizard who is proficient in two kinds of magic, it is easy to break through the defense of a medium-sized city, which is enough to give the enemy a warning.

Under this premise, the enemy can only move into the city to fight.

Because street fighting relies on cities, it is difficult for star magicians to use magic. A large-scale magic can not only kill the enemy, but also destroy houses and injure their own people or civilians.

So the real difficulty lies in how to make the enemy retreat in subsequent wars.

At this time, we need to build up momentum before the war.

Therefore, Vega took his soldiers to Tully City that day to show off his strength.

Da da da--

The war horses trampled the earth.

This is a mage team of about ten people, consisting of eight shadow mages and two elemental mages.

Vega was at the front, leading such a small team on the national highway towards the city of Tully. He did not hide his tracks and figure, so he was seen by the enemy scouts, but Vega did not seem to care about it.

He's very fast.

The scout's speed couldn't even catch up with him, so after this race, Vega actually arrived at the main gate of Tully City ahead of the scout and ordered two mid-level fire mages to start casting spells.

Boom boom boom——

As the two elemental mages' chants fell, a large fireball released by the two mages flew in a straight line towards the city gate. Because Vega came too suddenly, no one could stop it, and the large fireball smashed the city gate open, making a huge noise. The noise even reached the military camp not far from the main gate.

"what sound?"

The commander of the vanguard was Palitzer Gurni, commander of the Silver Dragon Legion.

He was thinking about how to force out Vega's divine mage and the appropriate time to retreat according to Augustus's order, but he was frightened by this huge voice and his face changed.

"Soldiers! Soldiers!" As he shouted loudly, the soldiers at the city gate also rushed here.

"Enemy, enemy attack! Commander, the enemy has breached the city gate!"

The soldier said anxiously, and this news also stunned Palitzer.

He said angrily: "Why didn't I receive the intelligence in advance? What on earth are the reconnaissance troops doing?"

Generally speaking, large troops march slowly, while small reconnaissance troops often move very fast. In most cases, even if the enemy intends to launch a surprise attack, once the large troops are about to approach the station, the scouts will send intelligence to him in advance, so that he can use this time to temporarily organize a counterattack force or establish a simple defense line.

But today it was too sudden.

It was clearly a serious siege, and even the city gate was destroyed, but he only realized it later.

When did the army of the Jialan Empire reach such speed?

"Immediately order the defenders to abandon the city gates. It is no longer possible to deploy defenses there. We will switch to urban warfare."

After a pause, Palitzer said, "If the situation is already critical, we should abandon Tali City in advance and move the entire army to Shaye City to join the main force. We will directly enter the second step of the plan."

"Um, Commander."

The soldier said rather embarrassedly: "Things may not be as bad as imagined. There are only 11 enemies..."

"How many?"

"11, 11..."

"Are you kidding me?"

"Please forgive me, Commander. I dare not deceive you."

"Speak clearly to me."

Under Palitzer's order, the soldier explained the whole story clearly.

"Vega Saint Laurent leads a team of mages alone?"

Palitzer frowned and said, "No wonder I didn't receive any intelligence from the reconnaissance team. If there were only eleven of them, the soldiers in the reconnaissance team would not be able to keep up with this team. But what can eleven of them do here? Do they want to take over this city? What tricks is that damn kid playing again?"

I was very confused.

Finally, Palitzer walked out the door. With only 11 people, he didn't have to worry about his safety. "Let's go to the tower. I want to see what he wants to do."

On the city wall, the holy dragon flag fluttered in the wind.

As soon as Palitzer approached the city tower, he saw that the city gate had been shattered into pieces. The fire on it had not yet gone out. The loud noise just now turned out to be the enemy wizard casting magic on the city tower.

Not much attention was paid to the broken city gate.

Palitzer walked up to the city wall, came to the middle, and looked straight ahead.

What came into view were eleven war horses lined up in two rows.

There were ten war horses in the row at the back, on which sat magicians wearing black cloaks. Two of them held magic wands, and the others held daggers.

And so on.

There was only one strongest warhorse in the first row, which was obviously Vega Saint Laurent's.

But the warhorse was empty, and there was no sign of Vega Saint Laurent.

Where is Vega?
Palitzer Gurney's heart skipped a beat for no apparent reason.

He turned his head with difficulty, and found that there was a figure beside him without knowing when.

(End of this chapter)