Mage Veigar

Chapter 738: A Thousand Miles Away
Imperial Army, Headquarters.

Foster has brought 90% of his troops to the north of the war city Tank River. Now they have basically completed the control of half of the city, and are focusing on guiding public opinion in the controlled area, while using practical actions to compensate civilians.

But what gave Foster a headache was.

These damn civilians are like hungry ungrateful wolves, openly receiving subsidies from the empire, but secretly full of hostility towards them. Because 99% of people think that this is a temporary appeasement measure of the empire, and once the war is over, the true face will be exposed, so the rebels are their saviors.

Foster put all that behind him for the moment.

After all, the law does not punish the masses, and civilians cannot influence the war situation, so he just followed these civilians and stopped doing useless work. Instead of trying to find ways to guide public opinion, it is better to build ships and bridges at the same time to open up a way to attack the other side as soon as possible.

"How is the project being completed?"

Foster looked at the logistics officer. Building bridges and ships to allow the army to cross the Tanque River was a logistics task.

"Report to the commander, it will only take seven days."

The logistics officer assured, "I promise that we can complete all the work in seven days. However, during this period, please ask the commander to transfer the aviation formation near the granary here to cover our work. Otherwise, the enemy's war airships may destroy our seven days of hard work at any time."

"Come to think of it, the rebels do have an aviation formation."

Foster thought for a moment and said, "I will transfer the air force to cover you. Those damn small Western countries only know how to do boring things. In order to contain us, they even gave away war airships for free."

So on the second day.

Four air formations were transferred from the granary's aviation port and headed for the war city to cover the logistics army's various repair and road construction work, but the garrison forces in the rear were already extremely empty.

But Foster didn't care.

It’s not that he is careless. He is always a serious person and it is impossible for him to make such a low-level mistake.

The reason why the rear was ignored was that Foster was too familiar with the rebels' fighting methods.

Before the war, Foster had read all the war records between the rebels and the empire. He found that the rebels had no professional commanders. Even if there were a few military academy graduates, they were third-rate military academies that trained middle and low-level officers.

This can also be seen from the way they fight.

The rebels' fighting style has always been direct and they never know how to beat around the bush.

This single-cell army is very easy to understand.

After so many actual combat experiences, Foster became more certain of his point of view that the rebels' combat methods were indeed very simple.

Apart from that time when the guidance of public opinion was somewhat unexpected, there were almost no other changes. Therefore, Foster unilaterally believed that the rebels had always relied on civilians, and deceiving civilians was their specialty, so they were no match.

This further helped Foster see the situation clearly.

If he was right, when they crossed the Tank River, the rebel leader Coverdale would stand up again and lead the rebels to fight them to the death, but their old injuries would relapse again, and they would suffer defeat after defeat, and eventually be wiped out.

This is a war without any suspense.

Therefore, there is no need to pay attention to the rear. The most correct thing to do is to put your five fingers together, concentrate all your strength on your fists, and knock the rebels to the ground with one blow.

Besides, what can we do even if we are attacked from behind?
The leader was seriously injured, the rebels were defeated in successive battles, their morale was low, and without supplies, they could hold out for five days. Couldn't they defeat the inferior army that had no morale in these five days?
And at the end of the day.

How could the mediocre rebels think of launching a sneak attack on the granary in the rear? This is totally inconsistent with their marching style.

Of course. If it was Vega who was commanding this war, Foster would never dare to do this.

Most likely, he would choose to focus on deploying defenses in the rear and slowly advance the front line, rather than taking this quick-win approach. Because Foster believed that Vega was different from those single-celled organisms that could see clearly at a glance. When the enemy was strong and we were weak, he would definitely use tricks and schemes to defeat the enemy with little effort.

And at this time.

Another piece of intelligence from the rebels undoubtedly further strengthened Foster's plan of a quick victory:

Reinforcements from the Jialan Empire are about to arrive.

This was the news that was just spread from top to bottom by Chief Coverdale on the other side of the Tank River early this morning.

This news boosted the morale of the other side, but also made Foster very confused.

Although there was no intelligence indicating that the Jialan Army was moving towards the empire, and the Jialan Empire should not be able to launch an expedition at this time, there must be a reason for every smoke. Regardless of whether the news was true or not, he had to deal with the rebels as soon as possible.

This made Foster further ignore the small movements of the rear and the rebels, and at the same time turned his attention to the Galan Empire, paying close attention to every move of the Galan Empire, for fear that Vega would really support the rebels.

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When Foster's attention was drawn.

The rebels' plan also began to be implemented in earnest.

First of all, the news that reinforcements from the Jialan Empire were about to arrive and they could win as long as they persisted spread among the army. This exciting news directly swept away the haze of the entire army and boosted morale. After all, no one was unaware of the power of the Jialan Army.

Second.

The entire army, from top to bottom, began to learn the most basic operating methods of guerrilla warfare and street fighting, seizing every minute and every second to conduct superficial military exercises to improve the officers' and soldiers' understanding of guerrilla warfare and street fighting.

third.

Further promote the Imperial Army's lies.

The army was then divided into two parts. The newly recruited soldiers were split up into small groups and sent home to prepare for the next guerrilla warfare. The other main force occupied commanding heights, major buildings, and traffic arteries to prevent the imperial army from taking control of the entire city too quickly.

At last.

A spearhead force of about 8,000 people, led by Coverdale and Vega, attracted the enemy's attention at the cost of half of their aviation corps, and successfully left the city and headed towards the enemy's logistics base.

Three plans were implemented simultaneously.

As long as the spearhead troops led by Vega and Coverdale can destroy the enemy's logistics base, and the army commanded by Hausman in the city can hold on to the Imperial Army and drag them to death in the city, this war will be won.

This is Hausman's fighting style.

Whether attacking or defending, he, who is very possessive, wants to keep it firmly in his hands.

He wanted to use this opportunity to tell Foster that the difference between Foster, who scored 99 points in every assessment in the military academy, and him, who scored 100 points, was definitely not just one point. If anyone naively thought that there was no difference between 99 and full marks, they were greatly mistaken.

Because how can a test paper with a maximum score of 100 points possibly test a level of 500 or even 1000 points?

So the gap between Foster and him is the gap between 99 and 1000!
(End of this chapter)