The central periphery of the empire.

Haussmann's army of 400,000 was stationed here.

But for more than ten days, he was turned away from Sobi City, the cradle of the army, and was not allowed to enter an inch.

Now he has a terrible headache.

Originally, it was thought that taking the northeast dominated by Kareni, the northwest dominated by the city of war, and the southeast dominated by Elkia, coupled with shaking the confidence of the empire, the four-pronged approach would definitely defeat the imperial army in one fell swoop.

But now it seems that the situation is even more severe than imagined.

After all, the empire is too deep, even if the whole army has no morale, but with thousands of years of historical accumulation, it can still use excellent 'hardware' to keep him out, and it is impossible to forcibly break through in a short time.

"The rhythm is going to break. ”

Hausman's worst fears are happening, and he is powerless to stop them.

The quick attack is to slow down the rhythm of the enemy, and slap the enemy directly to death.

Once there is a break in the rhythm and give the enemy enough time to get rid of your offensive rhythm, then it means that this time the war can only stop there, and the enemy will use a watertight defense to make you return in vain.

Reality is also moving in this direction.

Because of the respite, the empire has made up for all the weak points one by one in the past ten days, and the iron walls arranged around the three cities are no longer something that the one million troops of the Jialan country can break through.

Now even if the Jialan army has tripled.

The Imperial Army is also sure to defend the next year when the ice melts and the Western army invades the country.

Of course.

Thanks to the huge advantage Hausman has achieved before, if he wants to retreat, the empire still has no way, and he does not dare to take the initiative to go out of the city to drag the footsteps of the Jialan army.

But how could Haussmann be satisfied with that alone.

He had promised Vega at the beginning that he would take down the entire empire.

Therefore, although such a battle situation was unexpected, he did do some worst-case scenarios-

When it really can't achieve its goal, force Vega to use the war seed.

So all he could do now was wait, wait for Vega to be ready to come up with the war seed.

Although the Empire also guessed that the Jialan Kingdom might use the war type.

But the generals of the Imperial Army and the Western countries still let go of their hearts.

"The tide of battle is finally going in the direction we want to see. ”

"The enemy's offensive has stopped here. ”

Eldir and Foster laughed at each other, happy to be able to break away from the enemy's rhythm.

As long as you don't fall into that breathless offensive rhythm, as for the war species, there is always a way to solve it, after all, the war species are limited, once all the war species are used here, how should the war in the coming year be?

Compared to attacking with wars.

The Empire thinks that half of the Jialan Kingdom will probably use the defense of the year.

Regardless of whether it is ultimately used for defense, if you can consume one of the enemy's hole cards, the odds are one percent higher.

"You can't take it lightly. ”

Erdir once again played a cautious character: "I want you to pay close attention to the movements of the Jialan Army, and at the same time strengthen the central defense line, especially in the weak points, and absolutely not give the Jialanjun any breakthrough." ”

"Please rest assured. ”

Forster assured: "We have sent people to do the intelligence work, and at the moment the enemy's troops in all three directions are being shut out by us, and it is absolutely impossible to break through the defensive line, and I think that now the initiative has been grasped by us." I would like to ask your Excellency, if the enemy wants to retreat, will we stay or not?"

Hold off the Jialans.

As soon as the Western countries arrive in the coming year, the Jialan country will be self-defeating.

Of course, Eldir knew this, but he did not agree: "If the Jialan Kingdom wants to retreat, let them go, because it is not ruled out that the other party is luring us out of the city, and it is not ruled out that they will use war dogs to jump over the wall, everything is careful." ”

"Yes, Führer. ”

If this had been placed in the past, Foster would have thought that Eldir was timid, but this time he surprisingly did not refute and agreed with Eldier's view.

The other side.

After receiving the latest war report, the Western countries also relaxed.

"If you want to destroy the empire in four months, Jialan is really beyond your strength. ”

"Jialan Country's three-plate axe has run out, and there is a high probability that it will retreat next. ”

"The empire should hold back the Jialan army at this time, and it will definitely win without a fight in the coming year. ”

“......”

While the Western countries gloated, they began to imagine how the war would be won in the coming year.

However, it was also while Hausman was waiting for Vega to be ready to use the war species.

Vega's orders were sent to Hausman.

At first, Hausman thought that Vega had come to his senses and sent him a letter to inform him.

But when he opened the secret letter, he found that it was not the case.

In this secret order, the next attack plan was elaborated and Haussmann was asked to cooperate.

"Good, good!"

A few minutes later, Haussman said three good words in quick succession.

Use the navy to land in the southwestern hinterland and attack the Imperial Shield, the city of Sylla, from the safety of the rear.

He really hadn't thought of such a plan.

Because the continent is surrounded by seawater, this commonplace thing has become the most neglected condition for victory.

Not even he noticed, let alone the Imperial Army, whose territory was basically not close to the sea.

Therefore, Haussmann believed that such a plan had a lot of potential, and was even more practical than forcing a breakthrough of the city with the use of war.

"Huh, who is Aliana Annistora?"

Hausman discovers that the owner of the plan is not Vega, but a man named Alina.

"This Alina Annistora is...... War species?!"

Haussman finally remembered the name: "I didn't expect it...... I'm not even as good as a little girl. Now I'm starting to look forward to what the Empire will look like when it finally knows that it has been defeated at the hands of an unknown little girl. ”

Thoughts with a bad taste.

Hausman followed the order and began to cooperate with Vega's battle.

As for how to cooperate, it was really simple, he only had to order the three armies to launch an attack on the three cities every day, and the empire would naturally be attracted to this place, for fear of where there would be a loophole, and would not pay attention to the security of the rear.

The truth is exactly what Haussmann said.

The three fronts of the Jialan Army launched an attack together, and the empire immediately began to be suspicious, thinking that the Jialan Army had found some loopholes, and immediately organized staff officers to investigate overnight, and even Foster and Eldier joined them.

This also caused them to not notice that the sea of dragons was already surging.

The time came to the twentieth day of stalemate.

Unbeknownst to them, the army of the Jialan Kingdom had touched an uninhabited island near a coastal city in the southwest of the empire.

The role of the Speech Mage is highlighted here.

They were able to predict exactly when it would be foggy and when it wouldn't, and thanks to the Spiritual Mage, they were able to get here safely. Now, according to the Spiritual Mage's prediction, a heavy fog will cover the nearby sea in two days.