Mage Veigar

Chapter 737: Three Strategies
Houseman presented the rebels with three options.

The first option is to attract the attention of the imperial army head-on and secretly organize troops to attack the granary in the rear.

Once the granary is broken, the bloated imperial army will have to retreat.

The second option is to drag the enemy into the quagmire of street fighting.

Make it impossible for the enemy's air force and mage corps to perform, and rely on hand-to-hand combat and almost unlimited manpower to stop the Imperial Army.

The third option is to break up into smaller units and engage in guerrilla warfare with the enemy within the city.

Although the rebels did not know how to make a feint to the east and attack in the west, nor did they know what street fighting was, let alone what guerrilla warfare was, this did not prevent them from knowing that Hausman was very powerful.

You know it without asking.

Their helpless imperial army fell into the hands of the enemy, and they could easily come up with three ways to repel the enemy. This was enough to show how powerful this general named Hausmann was.

How powerful is it...

At least he is much more powerful than their leader.

Think about it carefully. Before organizing the rebels, the leader was at best a company commander of the Empire, a low-level officer, while Hausman was a five-star general of the Empire at the time. Isn't the difference obvious in this comparison?

So they were blindly confident in Hausman's three strategies.

"I think street fighting is more reliable."

A burly officer said, "Before I joined the rebels, my favorite thing to do was to call a few brothers and drag the opponents into the alleys to kill them. I know the streets and alleys of the War City best."

"Do you have any misunderstandings about street fighting?"

A staff officer wearing glasses said: "Street fighting means occupying commanding heights and large buildings. If the enemy uses mages and air force, our soldiers can hide in basements, large buildings, and air-raid shelters. Once the enemy army launches a large-scale attack, we can engage in close combat to prevent the enemy's elemental mages and war airships from casting magic casually."

"What commanding heights, what large buildings?"

The burly officer looked confused. Coming from a gangster background, he really couldn't understand these professional terms, so he said stubbornly, "Anyway, I think street fighting is reliable."

"I think guerrilla warfare is more appropriate."

The staff officer had obviously received some military training. He pushed his glasses and said, "Ninety percent of our soldiers are civilians here. Once they are divided into small groups, the enemy will not be able to distinguish who is a civilian and who is a soldier. Using the principle of guerrilla warfare, the imperial army will either choose to massacre the city or retreat."

"I think the first strategy is more sophisticated."

The last middle-aged officer relaxed his brows and said, "Our rebel army has always been straightforward in its fighting style. The Empire would never have expected us to use such a trick. Once the logistics supply is destroyed by us, the Empire Army will not only temporarily withdraw from the war city, but will even be forced out of the entire northwest and retreat back to the central region."

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Everyone gasped: "Is the first strategy so powerful?"

Most people don't understand the power of it. After all, tactics, theories, and strategies are too advanced for the rebel army. Their style is to go straight ahead and either kill the opponent head-on or get a bloody head.

So the rebel leaders started arguing over the three strategies.

Some liked the first one, some liked the second and third, and for a whole half hour, no one was able to form a unified opinion.

At this moment, Coverdale suddenly spoke.

He looked at Hausmann and said, "General, please forgive me for being so presumptuous. Can we not make a choice and implement all three strategies at the same time?"

As soon as the words fell, the conference room fell into silence.

Then everyone started to joke, "Master Chief, you are too greedy. Although I don't know how to operate it, can we really carry out three plans at the same time with our military strength?"

"You can't chew too much, don't let it go to waste." "That's right, it's safer to focus on one thing."

Everyone thought Coverdale was joking and didn't take it seriously.

But Hausman applauded at this time: "As expected of you, Chief, you figured out the secret so quickly. These three strategies can be deployed separately, or they can be implemented simultaneously."

Coverdale was shocked when he heard this.

He said tremblingly: "These three strategies are not..."

As if realizing something, Coverdale stopped talking.

Because he suddenly realized that the combination of these three strategies was not a strategy to temporarily repel the Imperial Army, but a winning strategy to crush the Imperial Army here in one fell swoop.

Let’s look at the three strategies as a whole.

Retain a part of the main force with rich combat experience, and break up the other half of the troops with no combat experience to act as guerrilla forces. The combination of the two can hold the Imperial Army in the city of war and play hide-and-seek with the enemy for more than half a month.

at this time.

Secretly sending an army to attack the granary or even the airport in the rear would cut off the imperial army's supplies.

The loss of supplies to an army of a million is fatal.

What choice will the empire make at this time?

Of course the only option is to retreat.

But if the millions of troops trapped in the city of war want to retreat at this time, the guerrilla army and the main force can gather together at the first time, close the door, and hold the imperial army here.

It doesn't need to take ten days, or even seven.

If the imperial army's supplies are exhausted within five days, the entire army will collapse without a fight.

the most important is.

Even if the plan to launch a surprise attack on the rear failed and the street fighting was resolved by the Imperial Army, they still had a guerrilla tactic that was absolutely impossible to crack to force the Imperial Army to withdraw from the city of war.

After all, the imperial army cannot massacre the city, and without massacring the city, it will never be able to crack the rebels' guerrilla tactics.

If they advance, they can defeat the empire's million-strong army; if they retreat, they can regain control of the city of war.

At this time, Coverdale remembered that Hausman had told everyone to repel the imperial army, but did not promise to defeat the imperial army. If this winning strategy really succeeded, what kind of impact would it have on the entire army when a million imperial troops were defeated in the city of war?
no doubt.

The morale of the entire army and even the entire city will soar to an unprecedented level.

This is not just about scheming the enemy, but also scheming your teammates who are too stupid to understand the plan.

"Is this the true strength of a five-star admiral?"

Coverdale suddenly felt a little ashamed. Compared with these strategies, he suddenly felt that it was a miracle that he could survive to this day by leading the rebels around.

"That's it."

Coverdale made the final decision: "We will use all three strategies to defeat the Imperial Army!"

"Master Chief, you are wrong. It is to repel, not to defeat..."

An officer who didn't understand the strategy at all corrected Coverdale's wording in a smart-aleck way, and Coverdale could only nod in frustration.

(End of this chapter)