The Land of War.

This is a magical illusion independently developed by the empire on the basis of ancient magic devices, which is completely applied to the command training of reserve officers, and truly achieves the teaching purpose of combining theory and practice.

This is also the reason why the Central Military Academy has produced a large number of talented people.

After all, every reserve officer will continue to conduct actual combat training through the war ground while studying theory from the beginning of his or her enrollment, and it is not surprising that after such training, he will train outstanding command talents.

Even some generals of the Imperial Military Department will regularly conduct military command contests through the land of war, which is also to maintain a keen sense of war.

Of course, the magical realm of the Land of War is not without its drawbacks.

First, because the operation depends on ancient magic devices, it is destined that the land of war can only be operated in the Central Military Academy, and other military schools in the empire cannot configure the land of war, which directly leads to the extremely limited command ability of officers graduating from other military schools.

Second, because the place of war is a virtual existence, it simulates that soldiers do not have any feelings, they will only faithfully carry out the orders of the commander, even if it is an order to die, which also leads to many officers not taking into account the two issues of morale and execution in the real war, so there are countless examples of defeat.

Even with all the drawbacks.

It is also absolutely impossible to deny its contribution to the Central Military Academy and the Empire, and this kind of magical illusion that simulates war is only possessed by the Empire on the mainland.

Adoption of the Specification of Rules.

Vega probably understood that this was a large city, separated by a large river, the left side of which was under his control, and the right side of which belonged to the area of Tyrs' control.

The two of them are going to fight each other in this city.

Vega glanced down, he now had a standard division.

This division includes 4 professional brigades, 1 mage squadron, and an overstaffed aviation unit with 10 war airships, each equipped with 10 fire and 10 wind fighters.

From himself to others, Lieutenant General Tilles's strength is almost the same as a division.

According to the rules proposed by Lieutenant General Tilles, he only needs to keep his strength above 20% within seven days to pass the entrance test, otherwise it will be judged a failure.

"There are still 30 minutes left before the start of the war, so please prepare the commanders of both sides. ”

With a mechanical chime, Vega realizes that this virtual war is about to begin, but he doesn't have much urgency, because Lieutenant General Tyrse has chosen the battle map of the city.

When it comes to urban warfare, is Vega a stranger?

If you say it, I don't think Tilce will believe it either.

Not long ago, he had just defeated a reinforced airborne division of the Kingdom Army with the remnants of his army.

Although there are no civilians in this virtual city, he is not familiar with the city's terrain.

However, he had the same number of troops as Tils, and with a thorough understanding of the concept of urban warfare, it was not difficult to ensure that he had more than 20% of his troops in seven days, and it did not mean that he would win the war.

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"There are still 30 minutes before the start of the war. ”

"Commanders on both sides are asked to be ready. ”

When the familiar sound of machinery sounded, the corner of Tiles's mouth on the right side of the river pulled into a smile, even if Vega was a cadet preparing to enter the elite class, he didn't take Vega, a rookie officer, in his eyes.

And rightfully so.

First of all, he is a general who has experienced a hundred battles, and as a general, he naturally has some confidence and self-confidence of his own.

The second reason was that he was so familiar with the land of war that he had fought no less than 10 battles with other officers on this map of the battle for the city. Whether it was command experience or familiarity with the terrain, he had no reason to fail.

Most importantly, he was prepared to use guerrilla tactics in this battle.

Guerrilla tactics, this is a new type of tactic that came back from the north of the empire, and it is also a tactic that the Imperial Military Research Institute has recently focused on research and study, and is preparing to open a basic course, and he is the leader of the guerrilla tactics research group.

The greatness of guerrilla tactics naturally goes without saying.

This tactic completely subverted the Empire's hard-fought frontal combat mentality, and adopted a lewd and shameless way to achieve the final victory of the war, which really went against the Empire's hard-line marching style, but Tilce had already regarded it as a natal tactic.

Although he only studied the skin.

But dealing with such a rookie officer, even with fur, is a bit of a bully, and the first few elite class students who participated in the test didn't even hold on for 3 days, and they were directly beaten by him.

Therefore, Tilce was not prepared to bully Vega.

Although it is said that Vega is required to maintain 20% of the force within 7 days to be qualified, in fact, as long as Vega insists on not surrendering until the whole army is destroyed, Tilce will let Vega pass the test, after all, he is here to recruit students, not to abuse them.

"Speaking of which, the creator of tactics is also a little ghost. ”

Tilles looked at the soldiers below who couldn't move for the time being and muttered to himself: "Are the little ghosts so powerful now, either creating tactics or going to military school, I remember that I was 35 years old when I entered the elite class of the military academy, and it was really enviable." ”

"By the way, what's the name of that little ghost on the other side?"

Tilce suddenly remembered that he had not asked the other party's name and hurriedly started the test, he picked up the test certificate and was about to look at Vega's name, but at this time, a mechanical prompt sounded again-

"War begins!"

The short 4 words indicate the beginning of the war, and every minute and every second in the early stage of the war is very important, and Tills doesn't care about anything else, and gives the order as soon as possible.

"The war airship immediately took to the air for cover. ”

Tills first ensured his own air supremacy, and then issued an order: "The large forces are divided into parts, with squads as units and crossbows as the main combat weapons, occupy the terrain and adopt high-mobility harassment operations, the logistics troops set up supply points, the supporting troops are ready for cover, and the operation is immediately launched." ”

This is a guerrilla tactic that Tills understands.

As long as the troops are reduced to zero, there is naturally a very high mobility.

In particular, the mage and professional troops are almost impossible to catch by the enemy's bloated troops, and coupled with the entanglement of the squad like maggots attached to the bones, even if the own air units are completely destroyed, the enemy's air support will not dare to carry out magic bombardment casually in order not to accidentally injure friendly troops.

Harass the enemy for a few days.

When the enemy is exhausted and unable to parry, he can regroup his forces and use regular warfare to annihilate the enemy in one fell swoop.

It is no exaggeration to say.

When Vega stepped into the right side of the river with his troops, he would let Vega know what fear was, and the first 10 or so officers who participated in the test were psychologically shadowed by him.

But what Tilce didn't expect was that Vega was not a novice to large-scale command operations from beginning to end, nor was he affected by the Imperial Army's hard-fought frontal combat thinking, and even had a better understanding of urban warfare than him.

Vega's goal is clear, and that is to hold out for 7 days.

Since it has been held out for 7 days, how could Vega be like the other officers who participated in the test, stupidly leading the troops to rush to the control area of Tyrse and fighting to the death with the other party, at this time, of course, to seize the initiative and fight a protracted war.

How to seize the initiative in the war?

In the case of urban operations, large buildings, roads, commanding heights...... It's all about the initiative.

Mastering large buildings means that you can defend against the air force, mastering road intersections, whether it is support or defense, it will be easy, and mastering the commanding heights is equivalent to mastering the enemy's movements in disguise.

A commander who truly understands urban warfare.

Even at a huge cost, they will occupy these locations as soon as possible, especially the main routes of life such as bridges, which can be attacked and defended. Unfortunately, Tilce doesn't seem to have the tactical thinking of urban warfare.

And so—

Vega had a great deal of trouble with the war airship blowing up several bridges across the river, so much so that Vega himself thought it was a little incredible.