Mage Veigar

Chapter 767: Opening the Canal to Release Water

Holy Dragon Army, headquarters.

By the tenth day, Augustus was completely lost.

He had never imagined that he would be forced into such a situation by a small rebel army.

Send out a large number of troops for patrols. There is a possibility that patrol teams will be killed by various strange methods 24 hours a day. Even though only a few people are lost each time, the total number of casualties in the whole city is an astronomical number.

It won’t work if we don’t send out patrol teams to maintain law and order.

The reason is simple. Without a patrol team to monitor the entire city, wouldn't it be like giving the city to the Dragon Slayer Organization? I'm afraid the Dragon Slayer Organization is waiting for this opportunity to continue to grow and drive them out of the city completely.

"This is damn guerrilla tactics!"

Augustus had cursed this sentence countless times.

It was precisely because of this tactic that their elite troops and huge advanced force had no place to use their strength. The feeling of being clearly stronger than the enemy but having no room to maneuver drove him crazy.

"This can't go on like this."

Augustus no longer dared to underestimate this rebel army. He began to realize the seriousness of the matter. If he continued to be careless, the failure of this war would be a foregone conclusion.

So what to do?
There are ways to deal with guerrilla tactics.

To sum up, there are only two types:

One is to gain the support of civilians, so that the members of the rebel organization will have nowhere to hide and cannot conceal their tracks no matter where they go. On the premise of gaining the hearts of the people, the members of the rebel organization can only sit and wait for death.

But this approach obviously doesn't work.

As the leader of the legion, he is a sub-dragon. He can use force and policies to temporarily appease the civilians and make the human army work for them, but compared with real humans, humans will of course choose humans who are also members of the rebel organization.

Plus, he chose public execution last time.

This put him and the civilians of Gasili City on opposite sides, with no possibility of reconciliation ever. It also made it even more impossible for the civilians to betray the rebel organization and support the Holy Dragon Army.

The so-called guerrilla tactics.

To put it bluntly, it is nothing more than a battle for the hearts and minds of the people. The party that wins the hearts of the people will surely win, and the party that loses the hearts of the people will surely fail.

Therefore, when it is impossible to win the hearts and minds of the people, the only way left to deal with guerrilla tactics is to -

Kill them all.

As long as all the civilians in the city are slaughtered, there will be no question of whether the people support the city or not, and the members of the rebel organization will not be able to rely on civilians to hide themselves.

This is a strategy that must be adopted as a last resort to eradicate the problem completely.

In the beginning, Augustus had rejected this idea deep in his heart, because once a massacre was carried out, it would be tantamount to declaring that "racial equality" was simply a piece of waste paper, and no one would choose to believe the promise of the Asian dragon race.

But today, this terrible thought once again arose in Augustus' heart.

Because this is the only thing he is capable of doing, and it is also the simplest and most brutal way. If he does not choose this method, he can only give up the city of Gasili and hand it over to the rebel organization, which is tantamount to admitting that he is inferior to others in terms of skills.

He could forgive himself for losing to Veigar.

But what he could not allow was that before losing to Vega, he first lost to an unknown rebel organization and the hidden leader of the Dragon Slayer Organization. This was a humiliation for Augustus.

Wealth and wealth are found in danger.

Augustus chose to take a gamble, he had to use this only remaining method.

However, before the massacre officially began, Augustus first announced an order to the entire city:

"Within seven days, all personnel except the military must withdraw from the city of Jiasili." "After seven days, the military will clean up those who disrespect the order."

The meaning of the announcement is very clear. Those who voluntarily leave the city of Gasili will be given a chance to live, and civilians who choose to stay will of course be killed on the spot.

Augustus saw it very clearly.

If the city of Gasili is a pond and the rebels are the fish, then the civilians are the water on which the rebels depend for survival.

As long as they opened a canal to drain all the water and fish in the pond, wouldn't there be no rebels targeting them? They could also use the city of Jiaxili to continue dealing with the Jialan Army.

In this case, if civilians disobey orders, it would be reasonable for the Holy Dragon Army to massacre them, and it does not mean that the Holy Dragon Army has torn up the "racial equality" policy it has promulgated.

This little trick of pretending to be innocent has been worn out, but it is still applicable.

So can the civilians of Gasili City agree to such a thing?

Obviously it can't be done.

Not to mention that the city of Gasili is their hometown, it is also the foundation of their survival. If tens of millions of people leave this city, then 90% of them will probably starve to death in the wild.

Because no city has the capital to take over a population of more than 10 million.

The most likely possibility is that each city closed its gates and kept them out, leaving them with nowhere to go and ending up lying dead on the ground.

This is tantamount to indirect massacre!
When Vega saw this announcement, he immediately realized that Augustus was finally going to end the war with his own hands.

He immediately asked members of the organization to guide public opinion and make civilians realize that leaving the city would definitely mean death, and that only by staying and fighting the enemy could there be a glimmer of hope.

"Protest! Protest! Protest!"

"This is our Gasili City!"

"This is our hometown, you have no right to ask us to leave!"

"..."

Civilians held high banners and launched a demonstration near the Holy Dragon Army’s base.

They blocked the gate of the military camp and tried to make Ocastas take back his order. This was a matter of life and death for them, and they absolutely could not give in. Any concession would mean death in a foreign land.

until now.

No one in the entire city of Gasili believes in any equal treaty anymore, and the Holy Dragon Army has completely lost the support of the people.

If someone raises a call at this time, a war may even be started directly.

Of course, Vega understood that this was a good opportunity, but he thought that it was still not the perfect opportunity. Only by letting these civilians bleed could his bloodiness be truly aroused.

The Holy Dragon Army was very cooperative with Vega's inner thoughts.

With the idea of ​​killing the chicken to scare the monkey, they intended to let the civilians in the city know their determination about this announcement, so they sent out a group of wizards to cast magic on the civilians who dared to march and demonstrate near the military camp. For a moment, flames shot up into the sky and countless people were killed and injured.

"Escape! Escape!"

The fire and blood terrified the civilians.

Under the suppression of force, the protesting civilians fled in all directions.

The civilians who had managed to escape began to exaggerate the incident the next day, causing the entire city of Gasili to fall into despair. They seemed to understand that the Holy Dragon Army was ready to take real action this time.

(End of this chapter)