Mage Veigar

Chapter 906 Riding the Wind and Waves
The Principality of Baya, the City of Dawn.

The cold wind blew in my face, making the flags flutter.

Today is the time when the Galan Army will launch a general attack on the City of Dawn.

The soldiers of the Principality of Baya were standing on the city walls, ready for battle, armed with spears, bows and arrows, and shields.

Although the Galan Army had only 500,000 soldiers and the City of Dawn had nearly 800,000 defenders, none of the soldiers had the confidence to defeat the Galan Army.

Because they remembered clearly that a few months ago, at the same place, they were defeated by the army in front of them, and finally, unable to resist the attack, they abandoned the Dawn City and fled in a panic.

Time passes.

They thought the nightmare was over, but unexpectedly, more than half a year later, they faced this army again.

With the shadow of failure still hanging over them, can they defeat this army?

"Cheer up, everyone!"

The roar of the commander at the front echoed on the tower: "Things are different now. The enemy has lost their air force, and they are no longer invincible. This time they have come to our door, and it is the best time for us to take revenge."

"For the motherland! For revenge! For victory!"

The officers raised their arms and shouted, and the soldiers, influenced by the atmosphere, also raised their arms and shouted slogans.

However, no matter from which angle you look at it, these slogans were extremely hypocritical. Even the soldiers who shouted the slogans did not quite believe that they had ever been so loyal to their motherland.

Talk about it.

The country where he had lived since childhood was not the Principality of Baya...

Countless thoughts flashed through the soldiers' minds. Behind the seemingly high morale was endless indifference. In the hearts of the soldiers, they didn't even understand why they were fighting.

"May I ask everyone in the Principality Army, what are you fighting for?"

Just at this time, a voice echoed through the magic loudspeaker in front of the formation, and the voice clearly came from the Jialan Army.

No one in the room knew who was speaking, but it didn't matter because the question captured everyone's attention.

“Please ask yourselves, what are you fighting for?”

The voice echoed again, asking the same question as before, but this time it made every soldier feel extremely depressed, because when they asked themselves, they could not find any reason to fight.

"For the motherland?"

"For revenge?"

"For glory?"

"For victory?"

Questions were constantly raised, and this voice directly pierced the hearts of the soldiers of the Principality Army: "No! None of them! I know this is not the answer you want. You don't even know what you are fighting for. You don't even know why you hold up your weapons and stand on your own, and why you are working for the Principality of Baya."

“We are different from you.”

The tone of the voice became extremely sarcastic: "My soldiers, please tell me, what are you fighting for?"

"Fight for freedom! Fight for the people! Fight to never be a slave!"

The Jialan Army burst out with an extremely terrifying momentum. They understood their mission. The reason they took up arms was not for the king or the country, but for the rights of being human and to fight for true democracy.

Vega told them.

The Kingdom of Jialan will implement the 965 system and establish a country where the people are the masters of the country. However, the Western countries do not want to see such a country and system established, so they can only get what they want by defeating the enemy and overcoming obstacles.

They fought for the people.

They also fight for themselves.

When this earth-shaking shout rose up, the morale of the Principality Army was suppressed.

They were already confused by the questions asked by the Jialan Army.

At this moment, they suddenly remembered the democratic ideas that had been making a lot of noise recently. Now that they were taking up arms and standing here to defend the interests of the nobles and landlords who oppressed them, weren't they?
If that is really the case...

Aren't they traitors to the people? Or... betrayed themselves? Because they are part of the masses.

Once they defeat the Jialan Army, wouldn't that be tantamount to persecuting their relatives, friends, and their own interests?

A few words.

The army's morale was already in chaos before the war even started.

The front-line commanders realized that something was wrong from the beginning. They wanted to stop the Jialan Army from spreading rumors to mislead the people. However, as the defending party this time, they simply could not stop the Jialan Army's verbal offensive by actively starting a war.

They could only passively listen to the various words of the Jialan Army, and at the same time ordered the soldiers not to discuss this matter, hoping to stabilize the morale of the army through this method. However, the more they prohibited it, the more it showed that the top leaders were guilty.

Most of the soldiers were convinced.

They are treated like livestock by the top leaders to protect the interests of the rich and powerful.

Why should their blood be used to defend the interests of the rich and powerful, instead of fighting for themselves?

This thought began to appear in everyone's mind and aroused the anger of the soldiers.

The army is like a powder keg that can be ignited at any time. At this moment, if someone shouts from a high place, it will explode immediately.

However, what was unexpected was that the first explosion was not from the army, but from the rear.

Several problems of the Jialan Army not only affected the army, but also seriously affected the civilians in the city and the revolutionary army.

When these people heard these questions, they could no longer control their anger at being treated like animals, and under the leadership of the revolutionary army, one civilian after another began to attack the government and the army.

"These stupid civilians."

The commander at the front roared loudly: "Soldiers, suppress these stupid pigs. Anyone who makes trouble at this time will be treated as a spy of the Jialan Army and an enemy of the Baya Principality."

After the words were spoken, no soldier obeyed the order.

Instead, a captain stood up and asked loudly: "Excuse me, General, why are we fighting? Are we fighting for the hundreds of millions of people across the country, or for those rich and unkind officials?"

"If you are fighting for the people, why don't you change the system to defend the interests of the people?"

"If we are fighting for the people, why do we have to raise our weapons against civilians?"

"If we are fighting for the people, why are we still being oppressed by the nobles and landlords?!"

Question after question was put to the commander at the front line, but the commander could not answer a single word.

"Who are you to ask me to answer this question?"

The commander at the frontline was furious and ordered: "He is a spy of the Jialan Army, arrest him..."

boom!
With a loud noise, Xia's star magic overwrote the officer's order.

At this time, the Jialan Army suddenly launched an attack, and the soldiers of the Baya Principality did not yet understand why they were fighting. They simply did not have the courage to raise their weapons against the powerful enemy and the unarmed civilians.

The Principality Army collapsed directly.

The soldiers questioned the officers, the officers gave orders but the soldiers did not move, and the civilians were causing trouble in the rear...

All of this made the war a complete failure like an avalanche.

And this is just the beginning.

Over the next half month, wherever Vega went, the city gates opened.

Soldiers rebelled, civilians revolted, and the government lost all credibility...

Countless problems could no longer be suppressed by force, and the Jialan Army went unhindered all the way to the capital city of Sulenhuo.

The last bit of hope left in Grand Duke Baya's heart was buried.

The miracle did not happen.

(End of this chapter)