Chapter 371: The decisive battle is approaching
Twilight Mountains.
After attacking Starfall, Vega immediately returned to Yves Saint Laurent.
Although it takes more than three times as long not to take the main road, if you take the main road, you will definitely collide with the enemy's reinforcements, so returning the same way is the best choice.
If everything goes according to plan.
Now that the kingdom has probably withdrawn its troops urgently, when he returns, he can order to regain control of the entire Saint Laurent system, and then "buy" grain from grain merchants without worries, and survive until the next harvest season.
Yves Saint Laurent's defense system is fertile and wild.
As long as he is given half a year to regain a large amount of supplies, he can raise an army of 300,000 or 400,000 men without any worries, and wait for the empire to send troops to the United Kingdom, and he will dominate the east.
This is Vega's script.
No matter how you look at it, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with this script.
But the hurried herald made Vega smell a hint of unease.
"Report to the general, Yves Saint Laurent is in a hurry!"
The herald didn't have time to catch his breath, so he said in a panic: "The main force of the kingdom is exhausted, and the 200,000 army is coming from Saya, I am afraid that it will arrive in Saint Laurent City in 3 days to launch a general attack." ”
"How, how could this be. ”
Vega's face turned pale in an instant, why would the Kingdom Army do such a bold thing?
Need to know.
Now that the kingdom army is retreating, it can still preserve its strength, and it will not even lose a single soldier, at best, it will lose a Saint Laurent defense system, and the advantage of the entire eastern war situation is still in the kingdom.
But if you go on the offensive, it's a different story.
If you want to attack Saint Laurent head-on regardless of losses, you need to consume at least about 70,000 soldiers, and if this time is to be controlled in two days, then it is not enough to have more than 100,000 lives.
And that's just the ideal state.
Due to the bloated 200,000 troops, it would take three days to get from Sayato to Saint Laurent, and if he led his troops to hold the city of Saint Laurent for two days and two nights, then the kingdom army would be defeated by lack of food.
I'm afraid the scene at that time will be-
Vega led the army to destroy the kingdom's army, and the kingdom's 200,000 troops were wiped out.
Other words.
This is an absolutely sub-optimal option.
If Vega was allowed to choose, he would definitely not spend more than 100,000 people to take a Saint Laurent city, obviously the future is long, and there is a chance to get the maximum benefit at the least cost, why launch a decisive battle in advance?
The frog couldn't understand the sky in the eyes of the bird.
Asuka also can't understand the frog's inferiority.
Vega didn't know that even though there were more than 400,000 kingdom troops in the east, Tanir didn't think he had the courage to defeat Vega, which was growing infinitely, and what he was afraid of was that when he turned back and attacked the Saint Laurent defense system again......
Vega has grown into his invincible being.
So it's all or nothing.
Even if he sacrificed hundreds of thousands of people, even if there was a high chance that the entire army would be wiped out, and even he himself could be killed by the enemy, he must nip Vega in the bud and cut off Vega's chance to reorganize the counterattack.
Tenniel knew very well that he could not retreat.
If he continues to retreat, he will have no way back.
Therefore, he wants to launch a decisive battle in advance, and at the time when Vega least expects it, take Saint Laurent, break the foundation of Vega, and let Vega be completely out of the huge gamble of seizing the Holy Dynasty.
"What a Tanil Rheinberg. ”
Vega sighed from the bottom of his heart, this kind of courage to win or die really made him sigh to himself.
Because of such a thing as 'win or die', generally only the weak side will do it.
As the absolute dominant side and the absolute strongest, the Kingdom Army does not need to make this kind of decision at all, but Tennir still chooses to do it, if the position is right, Vega himself does not have this kind of courage anyway.
Although I would love to cheer for Tenniel.
Unfortunately, there is only one victor in this war, and this victor must and must be him Vega Kareni, and no one can stand in his way.
So Vega also took countermeasures.
The first point of this strategy was that he himself rushed back to Saint Laurent as soon as possible, where he was now very much needed to stabilize the morale of the army, but his 3,000 soldiers did not have to return to Saint Laurent.
Therefore, the second point is that 3,000 soldiers immediately went south for half a moon and pointed their swords at Saya.
It only takes one day to march from here to Half Moon City, and now that the enemy has launched a general attack, the two cities on the retreat route of Saint Laurent and Twilight are of course heavily guarded, but the defenses of Half Moon City and Sayashi City are probably very weak.
Therefore, once the half moon is captured, the kingdom will be afraid.
The sword is pointed at Saya and his retreat is cut off. Pretending to be victorious, preparing to annihilate the kingdom's army. There may be a chance to make the opposing commander mistakenly think that he is prepared, and then scare off the Kingdom army.
Even if none of this can calm down the mad kingdom commander, then these 3,000 people can be regarded as a hidden fire. He won't even have a chance to make a comeback after the city is broken.
That's exactly what happened.
Vega was not sure that he would be able to keep the city of Saint Laurent in the face of the enemy's rush to jump over the wall, and now was not the day of the coronation ceremony, and it was impossible for him to take advantage of the general situation and encourage civilians to fight the enemy in a few words.
Anyway, go back to Yves Saint Laurent first.
After Vega gave the order, he headed alone in the direction of Saint Laurent, while his 3,000 men turned their horses around and rushed in the direction of Half Moon City.
"General, don't worry, we will definitely take Saya City!"
The regimental commander saluted Vega, who was far away, and the eyes of this army were full of determination.
Having just experienced the battle of Starfall City, they have become Vega's die-hard subordinates, and now even if Vega orders them to die, they will resolutely carry out the order.
And at the end of the day.
This time it's the final battle.
They felt deeply honored to be able to play such a pawn in this war, because now they were the most special existence, which no other soldier had.
It's been more than a day since they parted ways.
Vega kept running towards Saint Laurent, and if he traveled alone, he believed that he would be able to reach Saint Laurent the day before the general attack, that is, tomorrow morning, so that there might be a chance to rescue.
But that's just the time.
Vega on his horse felt a sense of foreboding.
He subconsciously jumped off the horse's back and pulled back, and sure enough, a fireburst blasted the horse into ashes.
There are enemies!
Vega's face was a little ugly.
Sure enough, what should have come will still come, and although the enemy's commanders have fallen into madness, they have not lost their reason to direct the war. The other party obviously saw that he was the heart of the army, and as long as he was not allowed to return to Saint Laurent, it would be possible to defeat a group of soldiers fighting with fear in such a short time.
In war, morale is better than geography.