Mage Veja

Chapter 377
the next day.

When the rising sun sweeps away the gloom of night, the real day of battle comes.

A cool breeze hits.

The kingdom's golden lion flag fluttered in the wind. In about half an hour, they would approach the city and formally launch the final battle against Saint Laurent. This protracted war would also come to an end.

17 soldiers.

This is the total number of soldiers of the Royal Army, excluding the soldiers killed in the last Battle of Saint Laurent and the soldiers who defended the city.Moreover, these soldiers are well-trained and battle-hardened main forces, which cannot be compared with the 8 cannon fodder of Saint Laurent.

If you really fight.

2 people can kill 8 recruits and throw away their helmets and armor.

Therefore, only the 2 imperial army in Saint Laurent has the power to fight the first battle, and the 3000 troops have to subtract [-] elites, which has dropped the strength of the city defense by several levels.

So no matter from which point of view, this is not a war of magnitude.

However, everyone in the Royal Army did not have a relaxed expression on their faces. From senior officers to ordinary soldiers, they all had serious expressions on their faces.

It wasn't the 8 recruits or the 2 imperial army that made them put on such expressions, because they had defeated the most elite royal army of the dynasty, and they had also defeated the empire.

There is only one reason for them to fight with their backs——

Vega Carleni.

It was that 13-year-old child, a small brigadier general of the empire, who not only preyed on Yves Saint Laurent, but also made a surprise attack on Xingyun, driving them to a desperate situation where they could either win or die.

Although it sounds a bit far-fetched, it is the truth——

17 people are afraid of one person.

As long as there is that brat in the city, no one dares to say that a large number will definitely win the battle. Even the commander-in-chief, Tanier, does not have the confidence to win this war.

The war that failed to win the city gate was vividly remembered.

After all, no one would have thought that just changing a commander would turn the city of Saint Laurent into an impenetrable fortress.

But the arrow is on the string, and they have to launch it. They can only fight to the death.

So half an hour later, the commander-in-chief of the Vanguard Army, Alex Soud, could already see the outline of the city of Saint Laurent. As long as he crossed the towering and thick city wall, it meant half the battle.

"All troops charge!"

Seeing that it was almost time, Alex Sodder ordered the whole army to charge.

He knew that the next time would be the most difficult time. The war colossus at the city gate would release an attack comparable to high-level magic, and the thick city gate could not be broken without using magic bombardment dozens of times.

There are also towering city walls.

Even if a professional has the ability to fly over the wall, it is quite difficult.

But there is no war without bloodshed. When the order is issued, the whole army speeds up. The vanguard rushes to the forefront carrying the siege equipment. Professionals wait for the opportunity to rush up the tower to kill wantonly.

In general, it does.

But at the scene in front of them, the 3 vanguards involuntarily stopped, not knowing whether they should move on.

"Scout, Scout!"

Alex Soder hurriedly yelled at the scout: "What happened, why did the whole army stop advancing? Who gave the order? I will kill him for delaying the attack."

"General, calm down."

The scout said in fear and fear: "A very strange scene appeared in front of us. The enemy actually opened the city gate, and there were no soldiers stationed there. We couldn't tell whether it was the enemy's conspiracy or not. , stopped without authorization.”

"What? You repeat it again."

Alex Sord almost thought that there was something wrong with his ears. The enemy army had abandoned the city gate as a natural line of defense before the war started. If this was placed in an offensive and defensive battle in other cities, it would be tantamount to surrendering the city.

But here is Saint Laurent, the city of Saint Laurent defended by Vega.

Therefore, instead of ordering the entire army to attack the city, Alex Soud ordered the entire army to stop the attack, retreat 5 miles to maintain a defensive formation, and immediately convey this news to the commander-in-chief tank behind. neil.

"What is the intention?"

Alex Sauder put down the binoculars and became uneasy.

Seeing is believing, when he saw with his own eyes that the gates of Saint Laurent City were wide open and no one was guarding the towers, he doubted whether today's decisive battle could be won.

I still remember the last time the four doors were opened wide, it was in Tully City.

The final result was that the imperial army surrendered, not only succeeded in breaking through, but also buried 2/3 of their air force.

And today the four doors are wide open again, what the hell is the enemy trying to do?
----

What Veigar wants to sing is of course an empty city plan.

But can a group of soldiers who are fighting to the death really be scared off by an empty city plan?

It needs to be known that there is no way to retreat, which will make them desperate, and it is impossible to be intimidated by the so-called empty city strategy. The most likely result is that the enemy will continue to launch a general offensive after a short hesitation.

So what's the point of this empty city plan?
First of all, Veigar didn't want to waste a lot of troops on the offense and defense of the city gate.

Although the city gate is the best first line of defense, if you invest too much troops, you will be dragged into conventional warfare by the enemy and lose a lot of troops. Therefore, Vega intends to abandon the garrison of the city gate and directly switch to guerrilla warfare.

He has already drawn up the whole plan of guerrilla warfare.

Once the enemy army rushed into the city, Veigar was sure to save the troops as much as possible by breaking them into pieces, and played hide-and-seek with the Kingdom Army for ten days and eight months. The Kingdom Army wanted to dig them out one by one within two days. Impossible.

Of course, this is only the most ideal state, and no one can guarantee that there will be no accidents.

Therefore, to scare away the enemy, Veigar certainly didn't want to start guerrilla warfare with the enemy, so based on the basis of guerrilla warfare and the concept of waste utilization, Veigar's advanced plan Empty City Plan came into being.

So how to use the city gate that is ready to give up anyway to scare off the enemy?

This refers to the previous Nanxia Banyue, when the sword pointed at Saya's elite troops.

If there were no mistakes in the calculations and no accidents in the middle, the Royal Army must have received the urgent battle report from Saya City, and it is impossible for English, who was defeated in the battle of Kaleni City in the northern part of the empire, not to see that he was preparing to carry out guerrilla warfare.

As long as he clarifies the concept of guerrilla warfare to the commander-in-chief.

And when Saya City was in a hurry and the way back was about to be cut off, even the most daring officer would order a retreat, because even a lunatic would not want to fight a losing war.

Instead of waiting for the entire army to be wiped out.

It is better to retreat temporarily, keep the 20 troops, and wait until the time is right before attacking the Saint Laurent defense system.

Although by that time, he is estimated to have developed quite well, but it is not impossible to defeat him.

So now Veigar is waiting, waiting for the Royal Army to retreat without a fight.

of course.

If the commander of the Royal Army has lost the last sliver of sanity, guerrilla warfare will have to be launched.

(End of this chapter)