Mage Veigar

Chapter 850 A few pieces of waste paper?

Psychological warfare.

Strictly speaking, every war involves a psychological game between the commanders of both sides.

Whether consciously or passively, officers on both sides are engaged in a psychological battle all the time. The side that ultimately guesses the other side's movements or induces the other side's commander to step into a trap will inevitably have a greater chance of winning.

This is also where the so-called strange strategies and tricks come from.

But in the final analysis, whether it is speculating on the enemy commander's psychology or using means to induce the other side, it is only aimed at the behavior of at least one officer or at most a dozen or twenty officers. The ultimate goal is to induce one or dozens of officers, and does not involve or affect more people.

Foster also understood these simple truths.

After paying so much "tuition" to Vega, he has already upgraded from a head-on confrontation to knowing how to be wary of the enemy, set traps for the enemy, and lure the enemy into his own war rhythm.

But Foster...

No, it's not just Foster. Even other officers who have paid a lot of "tuition" to Vega have not noticed that in every war, Vega not only sets psychological traps for commanders, but also does not forget to mislead the public.

Others see crowd-baiting as a byproduct.

Therefore, when they blindly imitated Vega, they only got the form but not the spirit. Therefore, the same strategy worked like a charm on one side, but became inappropriate on the other side.

Therefore, almost everyone is completely in the dark about how to mislead the public.

In other words.

Ordinary officers want to win by deceiving one person, while Veigar wants to defeat the enemy by deceiving 99% of the people.

In his opinion, as long as 99 percent of the people were deceived, the remaining 1 percent, even if they were all high-ranking officers, would not be able to change the course of the war, because war was never the business of the commander alone.

Just like when there is an avalanche, no snowflake is innocent.

The soldiers only thought that the failure was due to the officers' improper command, but the fact was that every soldier had contributed to the defeat. Vega, standing on the shoulders of the giant, saw everything clearly.

There have been countless such wars in the history of the Earth.

The so-called being surrounded on all sides, fighting with one's back to the river..., are all due to the commander using means to mislead and deceive the enemy or almost all of his own soldiers, which laid the foundation for victory.

And whether it was Foster or any other officer.

Their eyes were on Vega from beginning to end, hoping to guess Vega's next move, or deceive Vega's eyes so that Vega could not anticipate their plan.

They have been targeting Vega alone, but Vega has been targeting a group of them.

Then there is no need to say who will win or lose.

This time too.

On the surface, whoever persists longer in this war will win.

The rules are very simple and clear.

Vega seems to have revealed his cards to Foster. Let's toss a coin and let God decide the final victory.

Because Foster's army could collapse at any time, or it could last two or even three months.

So Foster was also gambling, pinning all his hopes on luck.

As a result, Foster increased his control over the army on the one hand, and on the other hand, he kept a close eye on Vega to prevent Vega from launching a surprise attack on him. As long as these two aspects are managed well, both sides will eventually leave it to fate.

But Foster was wrong. Vega would not let the fate of the Empire Army collapse. Unlike Foster, this time his eyes were not on Foster, but on his millions of troops.

Just find a way to lure these millions of troops.

Then the enemy can be defeated without fighting. This is the real power of psychological warfare.

So how to guide these millions of people?
To deal with indecisive people, cut off their retreat and they will have no choice but to move forward. This is what is called a fight with one's back to the wall.

To deal with desperate people, destroy their last hope and make them completely despair, this is what is called being surrounded by enemies on all sides.

Now the imperial army is in despair, but this despair is not complete. They still retain hope in their hearts that when the ice and snow melt next year, they will be able to win without fighting.

As long as this hope is still there.

Then if the empire implements a high-pressure policy, the backlash will not be so strong.

After all, if you can survive standing, why bother kneeling down and begging for mercy from the Jialan Army.

Therefore, in Vega's view, at this moment, as long as he imitated the strategy of being surrounded on all sides and made the already desperate enemies utterly desperate, he could speed up their collapse, thus disrupting their formation and winning without fighting.

of course.

It’s not that Vega really wants people to sing.

As the saying goes, no matter how things change, they still remain essentially the same. The core of being surrounded by enemies on all sides is to make desperate people completely desperate. So as long as we follow this core to make plans, the surface plans can be easily made by Vega.

The only hope left in every soldier's heart was that the Western countries would cross the Jialan Mountains.

In this case, if they were told that the Western countries no longer needed them and had no intention of providing them with assistance after the ice and snow melted next year, they would inevitably fall into complete despair.

It sounds easy, but is it really that easy to do?

If it had been put in place before, it would have been a bit difficult to implement. After all, it would have been difficult to convince millions of people with just one mouth to believe that the Western countries had given up the empire and would not invade the East on time next year.

But it happened that a few days ago, Meru Scimitar helped a lot.

He delivered the alliance signed with the West, the contract on how to defeat the Wind Empire after the war, and the list of material aid to Vega, which gave Vega the confidence to completely collapse the Imperial Army.

This is all ironclad evidence.

With overwhelming evidence and rumors, Vega believed that he could easily detonate the Imperial Army.

The aftereffects of the last high-pressure policy will inevitably rebound this time with interest.

So Vega ordered the Minister of Intelligence to make a large number of copies of these contracts that day, and used spies and the "smart soldiers" in the Imperial Army who thought they saw the overall situation and were particularly angry about the high-pressure policy to find a way to make them publicize this matter in the Imperial Army.

If you want evidence, there is evidence.

If you want rumors, there will be rumors.

If you want internal navy, there is internal navy; if you want tap water for the imperial army, there is tap water.

With almost all favorable conditions, this spark spread like wildfire in a very short time. However, because the imperial army was too bloated, their top leaders did not react immediately.

By the time the top management found out, it was already too late.

Meru Scimitar, who was far away in the northwest, probably never dreamed that the few pieces of waste paper he used to show his loyalty and make Veigar believe that he was loyal would actually be used by Veigar as the key to turning the tide of the battle.

(End of this chapter)