Mage Veigar

Chapter 741: Resurrecting a Soul from a Borrowed Corpse
Small Jersey town.

It is located in the lower reaches of the Tank River. Due to convenient land and water transportation, the imperial army first captured this city after entering the northwest to stockpile war supplies.

Vega and Coverdale have already arrived here with a reinforced brigade.

After arriving here, Vega did not rush to launch an attack on the Jersey town, but instead sent out a large number of reconnaissance troops to begin a comprehensive investigation of the situation in the city, as well as the locations of the army and warehouses.

Since the Imperial Army had never expected that the rebels, who had a straightforward fighting style, would attack their rear, the defense strength of the entire town was not actually that great. The rebel reconnaissance force obtained the intelligence without even losing a single person.

"Report to the leader."

The captain of the scout team reported to Coverdale, "There is a garrison of about 3.4 soldiers in the city. 2 of them are stationed at the four city gates, and 1.4 soldiers are responsible for guarding the warehouses. No reorganized high-level military units have been found so far."

"Although the enemy is relaxed, it seems that it will not be easy to complete the mission easily."

Coverdale looked at the full map of Jersey Town given by the intelligence agent and said to Vega: "The warehouse is closest to the East Gate, which has 5000 defenders. This is the first line of defense that we must break through no matter what. If we take them by surprise, it won't be difficult to take down the first line of defense, but..."

Just as Coverdale worried.

The enemy has no time to prepare because the attack is unexpected, so it is not difficult to attack the city.

The real difficulty is that once the war breaks out at the East Gate, the garrisons in other places will hear the news and move. By the time they arrive near the warehouse, they will probably not be facing 1.4 defenders, but the entire Jersey City Guard of up to 3.

It is almost impossible to try to defeat a standard corps with a reinforced brigade.

This is an absolute crushing defeat in terms of power.

Even if others don't notice that you have gone around to the rear, their impromptu counterattack can still knock you down.

"Your Majesty, can we adopt a strategy of making a feint to the east and attacking in the west?"

Coverdale, who seemed to be deeply influenced by Hausman these days and had a serious lack of basic knowledge but a strong learning ability, followed suit and asked Vega this question.

In Coverdale's view, the enemy is now in the open and we are in the dark.

Once an army attacks one of the places, in a critical situation, the enemy commander probably won't think too much, but will mobilize the defenders from various places to the feint attack side, so that their main force can take advantage of the opportunity to attack.

The idea is certainly good and has the potential to succeed.

However, Vega gave a negative answer.

He analyzed to Coverdale: "No matter how you make a feint to the east and attack to the west, it cannot change the fact that our troops are less than 1.4. The enemy will only be affected by your feint to the east and attack to the west. The 5000 soldiers near the warehouse will definitely not move a step. At that time, your 1.4 troops will fight against the elite soldiers of the empire, which is tantamount to seeking death."

"What should I do?"

"We must not divide our forces."

Vega calmly analyzed: "We only have 8,000 troops. We must concentrate all our forces in one place to have a chance of survival. Therefore, we need to think about how to break through the first line of defense without alerting the enemy."

"How can this be?"

Coverdale rejected it immediately: "The soldiers of the Empire are not blind. How could they let enemies like us enter the city?"

"Of course the Imperial Army will not allow the enemy to enter the city..."

Veigar smiled and said, "But what if we are friendly forces?"

"Friendly forces?"

Coverdale thought Vega was joking. "No matter how stupid the Imperial Army is, they can't possibly think of us as their allies...right?"

"Master Chief, have you ever heard of the phrase 'reincarnation through the dead'?"

Looking at Vega's smile.

Coverdale suddenly felt uncertain.

————The time came to the sixth day.

Vega and Coverdale waited outside the small Jersey town for six days without taking a single step.

Although Vega and Coverdale did not make any moves during these six days, Vega gained control of crucial intelligence during these six days.

First of all.

A temporary air port was built in the Jersey town, but it seems that due to the huge pressure that Hausman put on Foster, the Air Corps was transferred to the war city and has not returned yet.

Lost the war airship formation.

The only way for the Imperial Army to transport supplies is by land.

According to Vega's observations over the past six days, on average, a logistics force of about 7000 people came from the City of War to Jersey every three days to get supplies. Among them, 3000 logistics soldiers were responsible for transportation, and the other were a reinforced regiment responsible for protecting the safety of the transport team.

of course.

The reason why only one reinforced regiment is equipped as a guard is that the fewer the number of people, the faster the marching speed. When transporting supplies, you can't drag a standard division as a guard.

Besides, this escort group is not aimed at the rebels.

They only deployed garrisons to prevent attacks from refugees and bandits. A reinforced regiment was enough to deal with those people.

Vega set his sights on this transport convoy.

He led his troops to set up ambushes along the way. According to the time calculation, the rotating transport team would pass through this national highway tomorrow. They would never have dreamed that a rebel army would ambush them along the safe transportation route.

time flies.

In the blink of an eye, it was noon of the next day.

Today is a rainy day. Although this kind of weather is extremely unfavorable for marching and fighting, it can effectively prevent enemy detection, so it is undoubtedly beneficial for the ambushers.

"The Imperial Army is coming."

High up on either side of the little canyon, Coverdale saw traces of the Imperial Army.

"Master Chief, prepare to start the battle."

Coverdale nodded: "Your Majesty, please wait here for my good news."

Vega watched Coverdale leave. He continued to stay on this commanding height, observing the entire battle situation.

Getting closer.

Through the telescope, Vega could clearly see that the Imperial Army was not on guard at all.

Some professionals and magicians of the Imperial Army, either out of vanity or really wanting to prevent their clothes from getting wet, actually kept their magic defenses activated to resist the rain, and the officers seemed to have no intention of stopping them.

Although magic defense does not consume much magic power.

But along the way, it is inevitable to consume 1/3 of the magic power.

The price of carelessness is undoubtedly heavy.

When the Imperial Army entered the range of magic attack, the rebel mages launched the first round of magic attack.

Boom boom boom——

The fire element was roaring wildly, and even the falling rain was evaporated.

The imperial army was caught off guard and was disoriented. The entire team was like a headless fly, unable to find out from which direction the rebels launched the attack.

(End of this chapter)