Mage Veigar

Chapter 863 Second Encirclement
The long night is near.

There was an unusual silence around the military camp.

For the Western coalition forces, today is probably the nightmare they least want to recall.

The previous air force plowing caused them to lose nearly half of their comrades, and those who survived did not know where the future lay. As for the victory promised by the officers before the war, it was a mirage to them. Now they just wanted to return home alive.

"That's enough! I've had enough of this."

"Go home! We want to go home!"

"Keep your voice down. If the leader hears you, you will be punished."

"I don't know if I can make it back alive, so I'll punish you."

"..."

The morale of the troops in three directions was greatly affected.

The previous defeat had made them lose the confidence to continue fighting.

"Everyone, calm down!"

An officer who had just lost his right arm walked in and said, "The superiors have ordered that the number of alert troops tonight be doubled. Our regiment is on the list. If you want to return home alive, you better cheer up. Now we are all in this together."

"Double the alert again?"

The soldier seemed to be thinking of something terrible: "Is there something else in this forest...?"

"shut up!"

The officer glared at the soldier who was jumping the most happily and interrupted him: "Sometimes, smart people die the fastest. As soldiers, you just obey orders and don't ask questions that you shouldn't ask."

"Yes, General."

The soldier shrank his head, a look of fear on his face, and dared not say anything more.

Although he no longer said anything out of line, the fear in his eyes during the following patrols could not deceive anyone. Coupled with his frightened-bird-like behavior, his teammates became suspicious.

"What are you afraid of, kid?"

The captain asked irritably, "What do you know? Tell us what the captain forbade you to say."

"The leader has ordered me not to tell you."

"Don't try to use the leader to pressure me. Are we still comrades?"

"I, I know..."

The soldier gritted his teeth and said, "Although the superiors tried their best to conceal the truth in order to stabilize the morale of the troops, and said that the previous air force ambush was accidental, this is already the third order to increase the alert. From this, I guess that the previous enemy air raid was not accidental, but that our plan had been leaked. I'm afraid that the air raid was just a prelude, and the next one is the main course."

"The main course is next?!"

The captain and other team members' faces changed.

If the previous air raid of that intensity was just an appetizer, then could they survive the main course that followed?

I'm afraid the chance of survival is less than 1%.

"This is just your guess after all."

One team member denied the soldier's words with a pale face, but everyone knew that this was just self-deception.

When people encounter difficulties that they cannot overcome, they will inevitably develop an escapist mentality, hoping to solve the problem by escaping. Unfortunately, escape is useless, and what is coming will still come.

"What do we do now?"

The captain looked at the soldier. He felt that this soldier was probably the only smart one in the entire team, so he hoped to rely on this soldier and survive the war as much as possible.

"Escape! We must escape now!"

The soldier said simply: "We must flee from here. There may be a chance of survival. If we don't flee now and continue to follow the main force, we will die without a burial place."

"I agree with running away." "Me too."

"Me too……"

Everyone spoke up, and even the team members who had previously denied the soldier agreed with the opinion.

No one wants to die, and talking about fighting for glory when there is no victory in sight is just hooliganism.

So everyone looked at each other, took advantage of their patrol duties, and fled the barracks directly.

They moved very cautiously.

They did not attract the attention of the reconnaissance troops along the way, so in less than an hour, they escaped from the radiation range of the military camp.

"I escaped. I really escaped."

Everyone stood on a high place, breathing heavily and drinking spring water.

Only the soldier did not let down his guard: "Don't you think it's too smooth? The reconnaissance team is made up of professionals and mages, but we got here unscathed. Not only were we not discovered along the way, but we were also not stopped."

"I, I think I know the reason."

The captain's trembling voice came, he put down the telescope and pointed in the direction of the military camp.

Everyone looked in the direction of the finger and saw that the original army base was filled with thick smoke. Standing on this high place and looking there through a telescope, they could even clearly see the crowd fighting like ants.

"Here they come. The Jialan Army is here as expected."

The captain looked at the soldier in shock. "Everything is just as you said. Our plan was leaked. The previous air raid was just the appetizer of the Jialan Army. The main course will come next. The reason why we were able to escape safely is probably because the war started, and the war was so brutal that even the reconnaissance team had no time to pay attention to us."

"If we hadn't escaped, would we be dead now?"

"But even if we escape, where should we go?"

The other team members all looked very unhappy. They did not feel grateful for having survived the disaster. Instead, they were full of confusion about the future and had no idea where to go.

……

The battle lasted until dawn.

Although the second war was not as tragic as the air raid, where half of the people died directly, this battle completely shattered the last bit of fantasy of all the soldiers and made them realize that they had become trapped.

Whether moving forward or backward, they have nowhere to go.

Now they seem to have only one choice -

surrender.

And in the next few days.

The Jialan Army seemed to have given them enough time to hesitate. As long as they did not move, the Jialan Army would not launch any attack.

Seems to be waiting for them to make a decision.

But the quieter the time, the more difficult it is for them.

Because once people have free time, their minds become active, and the soldiers' calls for surrender were very loud.

Just because the soldiers want to surrender doesn't mean the top brass want to surrender.

Their roots were in the West, and as long as they could bring generals and officers back to the West, they would have the ability to continue the war.

Because training an officer is a very difficult task, but to form an army all you need is money and resources. All countries are populous countries, so it is easy to raise an army.

So the idea of ​​the top management now is -

Do whatever it takes to get officers and high-ranking forces back home.

(End of this chapter)