Mage Veigar

Chapter 882: City of Dawn
After stabilization.

It's time to use force.

Vega's reason for coming this time was not really to covet the territory of the Holy Dragon Kingdom.

This piece of territory is actually quite useless to the Jialan Empire, because there is the Jialan Mountains in the middle. The resources here cannot be transported to the east, and the materials in the east are difficult to transport to the west. The existence of the Jialan Mountains, like a natural barrier, is not just as simple as physically isolating things. Objectively speaking, it almost isolates everything including culture, politics, race...

without any exaggeration.

Beyond the Jialan Mountains lies another world. Even places to the east, far away from the Jialan Mountains, have never heard of such a vast world beyond the mountains.

therefore.

For countries that do not want to develop with a focus on the West, this piece of land can indeed be said to be a chicken rib that is tasteless to eat and a pity to throw away.

This is just like the Principality of Baya and the Holy Dragon Kingdom.

Either the focus is shifted to the West and the East is completely ignored, or the East is used as the base point and a small part of the power is placed in the West. I have never heard of a country that has made the development of the East and West territories go forward in parallel.

The same is true for the Jialan Empire.

Vega knew clearly that once winter came, he would have no choice but to abandon this place with great pain.

It is impossible to give up.

Although chicken ribs are tasteless, it would be a pity to throw them away.

Therefore, Vega came up with a solution, which was to allow this place to form its own operating system in the form of an independent country.

The purpose of establishing the Holy Dragon Province is for this purpose.

Nominally.

The Holy Dragon Province belongs to the Galan Empire, but in fact, it has independent politics, military, law, and culture... and the king who rules here is Celis Rodney, who resigned from the intelligence department of the Galan Empire.

Now, all of Jialan's intelligence departments have been handed over to Menno.

Qilis has a high degree of autonomy in this land, especially in the winter when ice and snow close the Jialan Mountains and the Jialan Empire headquarters can hardly take care of the west. At this time, a reliable person is needed to withstand the pressure in the west.

of course.

It will take time to complete this project. It will take one or two years just to establish an independent army in the Holy Dragon Province and complete the relevant training. Now we rely entirely on the 500,000 Galan troops to keep the situation under control.

However, if 500,000 troops are really used for national defense, I am afraid they may not even be enough to defend the border.

Therefore, 99% of the cities, even the important ones, did not have any regular army. Only some temporary security teams were maintaining the order of the city. If other countries launched an attack at this time, they would have almost no ability to resist.

But at least before winter, no country dared to cross the border.

Because the existence of the Galan Empire and Vega is too scary.

No one wanted to anger Vega at this time, and let Vega start a war between the East and the West in anger. By then, millions of troops would cross the Jialan Mountains, and the countries that offended the Holy Dragon Province would probably be singled out by the Western countries for sacrifice.

To be precise, let alone attacking the Holy Dragon Province.

Even if they wanted to support the Principality of Baya, they didn't dare.

This was confirmed when Vega led his army south to attack the Principality of Baya.

Because of this, Vega breathed a sigh of relief.

He was also sure that he had fooled other Western countries.

In fact, it was not as bad as the Western countries imagined. The Western countries were simply scaring themselves by saying that if they angered him, the war would escalate. He simply did not have the ability to send five million troops across the Jialan Mountains to start the final decisive battle. If he could do it, he would have done it long ago, because neither time nor national strength allowed him to do anything. The West was seriously injured, and the Jialan Empire was also in ruins.

To mobilize an army of more than five million for an expedition would consume an astronomical amount of resources. The little money left in the original imperial treasury was not enough for post-war reconstruction. There would be no good end to excessive military spending.

So Veigar is now making an attempt.

Try to take over the Baya Principality, and then use the existing team of the Baya Principality to gain a foothold in the West. In this way, you may be able to forcibly keep the territory in the winter. When the ice and snow melt in late spring next year, the East will have a direct springboard to invade the West, and will not be hindered by the natural barrier of the Jialan Mountains.

This time the Western Expedition.

In fact, anger towards the Principality of Baya is just one of them.

After all, even though Vega was angry, he would not let his anger suppress his rationality.

Therefore, using chickens to lay eggs is Vega's real purpose that is unknown to the public.

Neither the West nor the country of Jialan knew that Vega was planning to use the hen to lay eggs. He not only wanted to destroy the Principality of Baya, but also wanted to take away the team that the Principality of Baya had spent several years to build up.

Of course, the difficulties in doing so are self-evident.

First, he cannot send out too large an army, as too large an army would arouse the vigilance of the West.

The idea of ​​the entire West joining the war became a fantasy.

Second, he must hurry.

Vega only has less than 4 months left. If he fails to capture the Principality of Baya within these 4 months, he will be forced to retreat to the East and hand over the Holy Dragon Province. If he is forced to stay in the West, he will most likely be besieged by a pack of wolves.

Once time drags on to next year.

The countries that have recovered some of their vitality will not ignore Vega's occupation of the Holy Dragon Kingdom's territory as they did this time. At that time, they will definitely block the Galan Army around the natural barrier of the Galan Mountains, making it difficult for the Galan Army to cross the mountains.

Therefore, success or failure depends on this one move.

Four months is Vega's deadline. If he succeeds, his chances of unifying the West next year will increase to eighty percent!

This is a crucial battle.

Vega didn't dare to guarantee victory, he could only do his best and leave the rest to fate. Of course he would be happy if he won, but if he returned empty-handed he would just vent his anger and disgust the Principality of Baya, which wouldn't be a big loss.

This is the benefit of taking the initiative in war.

Unlike the Principality of Baya, which makes no money if it wins and loses nothing if it loses, for Vega, winning can be said to be a huge profit, and losing is not a big deal. A force that has completed the primitive accumulation of capital can always do whatever it wants.

Cross the border and stand on the commanding heights.

Veigar looked towards his first target.

An important city in the northeast of the Principality of Baya, the City of Dawn, Saint Simonsi.

The City of Dawn is located near the Galan Mountains. It is one of the checkpoint cities in the Galan Mountains and a core strategic point on the border of the Principality of Baya. As the first place in the West to greet the sunrise, it is named the City of Dawn, which symbolizes "dawn and hope."

I don't know if it was intentional or a coincidence.

Veigar finally chose this city as his breakthrough point, and its significance couldn't be more obvious.

Bury hope!

(End of this chapter)