Mage Veigar

Chapter 852 The Fall of the Empire
"you?"

"you!"

Foster pointed at everyone with a trembling finger. Although he had anticipated that the senior military officers might have despaired and planned to give up the war, he did not expect that these people had already banded together and forced him to abdicate.

From the current situation we can see.

Led by the Minister of Security, about two-thirds of the people in the conference room gathered together to force him to abdicate.

Of course, it doesn't mean that there are still 1/3 of the people around him supporting him. Among this 1/3, at least half are of the wavering type, and the other half are on his side because they are Foster's direct followers.

But if we ignore the factor of direct lineage.

Then they would also understand that since the Western countries no longer aided them and even planned to divide the empire's territory, there was no hope at all in this war.

No one wants to fight a hopeless war.

Even Foster, who had just seen the document, felt despair, not to mention the other officers and soldiers.

In addition, the rumors were completely out of control, and the collapse of the army was beyond their control. At this time, the commander's presence could no longer restrain the army. If they wanted to survive, they could only follow this trend and go with the flow.

Moreover, being defeated and captured is different from surrendering.

If you surrender directly before you are defeated, you still have value. Judging from the attitude of the Jialan Empire towards the two navy officers, I think they will definitely not be treated unfairly.

Once defeated and captured.

Then what awaits them may not be fine wine and delicious food, but all kinds of torture.

Those who know the current affairs are handsome.

No one here is a fool. It would be fine if there is a glimmer of hope, but there is no need to fight if there is no hope.

But Foster's position did not allow him to surrender.

The opportunity for this decisive battle was won for him by the leader Eldir at the cost of everything. If he simply surrendered to the enemy without firing a single arrow or moving a single soldier, how could he be worthy of the efforts he had made so far?

"What if I don't agree?"

Foster's voice was intimidating without being angry, and he wanted to suppress the discordant voices with his long-standing authority.

But this time, he couldn't hold it back any longer.

A lieutenant general stepped forward and said, "My apologies, Commander-in-Chief. I suddenly remembered that I have important matters to attend to in the army. I, Commander of the Third Army, Zwei Hain, will not accompany you here."

"Commander Corey of the 11th Legion is sorry to be unable to accompany you."

"Commander of the Seventeenth Legion, Will Corey, is not here to accompany you."

"..."

Each person spoke and then left the meeting room.

In a flash, two-thirds of the conference room was empty.

Seeing that Foster had lost control, the remaining one-third of the people who were wavering finally sighed, said goodbye to Foster, and left the meeting room with the first two-thirds.

In the end, there were less than seven senior officers left in the conference room, including Foster.

"Traitors! These traitors!"

A lieutenant general roared angrily: "Please rest assured, Commander-in-Chief, I will never surrender to the enemy even if I die on the battlefield. Please give the order to attack. I am willing to fight to the death."

"Please give the order, Commander-in-Chief."

Several of Foster's direct generals made requests to him.

But what made them even more desperate was that Foster himself had lost his last confidence and fell into endless despair as those senior officers left. He first looked at a few people tiredly.

Then he stood up and patted one of the lieutenant generals on the shoulder: "Thank you for choosing to stand on my side, but as you can see, we really lost this time, completely. I have always thought that I barely caught up with Vega Saint Laurent, but the other side defeated our millions of troops without even sending a single soldier."

"Go ahead, follow them and surrender."

Foster didn't dare to look into the eyes of the generals. "Take the important documents in my office and surrender to the Jialan Army. I can't let the people standing by my side be worse than those wavering traitors. I may not be able to guarantee anything else, but as long as you are valuable enough, that kid will not treat you unfairly."

"Commander, please don't say such things!"

An officer said angrily: "Whether alive or dead, we are all generals of the empire. Compared to kneeling and begging for mercy in humiliation, we choose to stand and die with honor."

"No, you are wrong!"

Foster smiled sadly: "History is always written by the victors, and glory and dignity never stand on the side of the losers. Your death is not glorious, but humiliating."

"Stay alive."

Foster turned around and said: "It is enough that all the humiliation is borne by me alone."

"Take your stuff and surrender!"

Foster used his last bit of strength to shout angrily: "This is the last order I give you as the commander-in-chief. If you still regard me as your commander-in-chief, you must obey this order!"

"at last……"

Foster's voice suddenly became extremely weak: "Finally, please tell the Führer that I am ashamed of his trust... Also, after I die, cremate me immediately. I don't want my body to fall into the hands of the enemy."

As the words fell, Foster's body fell.

There was no time for everyone to stop it.

Foster picked up the cross sword next to his seat, which symbolized the glory, power, and status of the empire, and committed suicide in front of everyone.

Everyone opened their mouths, but couldn't utter a word.

despair!
A silent salute.

They covered Foster's body with the Empire's black flag with a red eagle and cremated him in front of the gate of the headquarters.

As the black flag with a red eagle turned to ashes, the aggressive imperial army finally collapsed.

Three days later at noon.

The generals of all armies simultaneously submitted letters of surrender to Vega Saint Laurent, and all the soldiers of the Empire surrendered to the Kingdom of Jialan, including the Air Corps, the Imperial Central Corps, and the Imperial High-level Forces...

Not a single arrow was shot.

Not a single soldier was dispatched.

The Jialan Army defeated the Imperial Army with almost no losses.

As the imperial army on the front line was defeated and surrendered, a chain reaction began to erupt. Rebellions and mutinies broke out in the imperial capital's Immortal City, the air force base Langrey City, and the army's cradle Rossobi City, and the imperial regime was unable to maintain its rule.

Unable to withstand the successive blows.

The Imperial Head, Eldir, suffered a relapse of his old illness and died in the Head's Palace.

With the death of the head of the empire, the empire finally collapsed completely. In less than seven days, the three central cities opened their doors to Vega one after another, and then the cities in the northwest simultaneously submitted letters of surrender to Vega.

The ice and snow of late winter began to melt gradually.

But the imperial regime could no longer see this scene.

(End of this chapter)