Chapter 230: A Little Test
The ratio of promotion in this war is 10:1.
And the empire is divided into eastern, western, southern, northern, and central, if you want to advance in this war, then whether you are willing or not, you must be prepared to be a public enemy in the region, but Vega is more conscious.
If you want to capture the north, then it is useless to master as many medium-sized cities as you want.
As long as you hold the transportation hub of Lops City in your hands, you will be able to grasp the heart of the north, and you will not have to worry about supplies and reinforcements even if the battle line is pushed forward.
Take control of the city of Lops and capture Kareni.
Then the whole north has become the possession of Vega, and even if the others occupy the medium-sized cities, they will eventually be destroyed under his attack, because they will enter the iron wall and retreat into the abyss.
Vega's ambitions are great.
He was going to hold it in his hands first before others had the courage to fantasize about the city of Lops.
Taking advantage of the fact that the airspace in the north is still safe, Vega let the vanguard troops board 100 war airships, and 40,000 people slaughtered the city of Lops, but unfortunately the war airship does not have the passenger capacity of civilian airships and commercial airships, otherwise it is not a problem for the entire group army to surprise attack the city of Lops, but 40,000 soldiers are enough.
Since Vega's military war airship class is a combat type rather than a carrier type, the speed of the airship is very fast.
Departed that morning and arrived outside the city of Lops the next evening.
After more than 40 hours, the leaderboard has been refreshed several rounds, and now the highest ranking has captured 3 cities, during which Vega also noticed that someone had captured the important city of Elkia in the eastern region, but that name only stayed on the leaderboard for less than 7 hours before disappearing completely, and it was clearly eliminated.
That's right, it is not difficult to occupy the city, but it is difficult to hold it for 72 hours.
Vega looked at the magnificent and tall City of Ropps in front of him, took a deep breath, and did not give the order to attack at the first time, but sent a team of shadow mages to sneak into the city to collect some information.
Is it also necessary to be so cautious in dealing with virtual troops?
It is possible to break through the city gate directly with conventional combat, because if you don't attack the virtual army, he will not fight back, so it is not difficult to win in the case of taking the lead, the difficulty is how to take the city with fewer casualties, and Vega wants to keep the troops as much as possible.
The Shadow Mage team went fast and came back quickly.
After several hours of reconnaissance, Vega learned about the military airport, the headquarters of the enemy troops, the garrison of the troops, and the main route of reinforcements...... and other important building coordinates.
Vega took out his pocket watch and looked at it, then ordered 100 war airships to take to the skies.
This attack will be a small test of blitzkrieg in the land of war, and Vega investigates the coordinates of these buildings in order to allow their own war airships to carry out magic bombardment, paralyzing the command system and reinforcement system at the same time, so that the enemy's war airships will be destroyed directly before they can even get out of the airport.
As long as you have air supremacy.
Then Vega can easily occupy the city of Lops while keeping the main force, after all, the virtual officers do not know much street fighting and guerrilla warfare, and he is not worried that his blitzkrieg will be restrained.
The battle began.
The 100 airships first killed the two airships patrolled by the enemy, and then divided into three routes, the first army went to the military airport to destroy the troops, the second route army paralyzed the enemy headquarters, and the third route army destroyed the main reinforcement route.
Meanwhile.
Based on the knowledge of blitzkrieg knowledge known in his previous life, Vega gathered the magicians of the whole army to release magic together, and the terrifying magic instantly tore through the city gate, and then a regimental force that gathered the professionals of the whole army charged along the mage's torn opening.
The magical bombardment of the mages, the rampage of the professionals, the loss of the enemy's air supremacy, and the paralysis of the command and reinforcement systems, the entire garrison was in a mess, and could only resist instinctively and unorganized.
Immediately behind the mage and professional troops are the common soldiers.
These ordinary soldiers easily harvested the lives of virtual soldiers due to the command of some Vega, plus they didn't know how to start street battles, only frontal battles, so the war ended completely after 3 hours.
In the 31st Army, 34,000 people did not survive.
Because a large number of soldiers are the Air Force, and the Air Force that cannot be lifted into the air can still be called the Air Force?
On the other hand, the casualties of the ordinary troops on Vega's side were about 8,000, and the losses of the professional and mage troops were negligible, and the results of the first blitzkrieg were very remarkable, and the end of the war in 3 hours gave Vega a strong self-confidence.
Vega stood on the tower and watched the soldiers clean up the mess, and a sense of pride came to him.
Although it seems simple, isn't it just a matter of scouting a few locations, and then having the air force bombing, magicians, and professionals break through behind enemy lines, divide the battlefield, and clean up the mess with large forces.
But it is precisely these simple points that no officer can think of.
According to the other officers' tactics, it was inevitably the air force that destroyed the enemy's patrol airship first, and since they did not know the location of the airport, they could only wait until the enemy's airship took off and fought for air supremacy with the opposite side.
When a city is attacked, the virtual officer will ask the herald to notify the reinforcements and order the defending army to hold the city according to that pattern, and a formal siege battle will begin.
In the end, of course, it is the contestants who occupy the city.
But the troops of the participating officers must have suffered 1,000 casualties and 800 casualties, and it was impossible to storm the city of Lops in 48 hours, and if there was a man who took advantage of the fisherman, it was estimated that he would not even have the strength to fight back.
In 3 hours, 8,000 casualties took a heavy city, even if the opponent was a virtual army, this kind of record was absolutely unprecedented, so Vega could roughly guess how powerful the blitzkrieg was.
So the next thing for Vega to do is to hold the city for 72 hours.
He first ordered a few magicians to fly civilian magic airships to the border to bring back the remaining half of the army, at this time most of the officers were busy occupying the city, and as long as the route did not pass through the airspace of other cities, there was generally no risk of being shot down.
Vega's second order was to repair the gates and build a defensive line.
This line of defense does not need to be too strong, Vega does not intend to invest too many troops in the city gate, in the case of a group attack, too much attention to the defense line of the city gate will only run out of its own troops, and when there is really no way out, Vega will choose to use guerrilla warfare and street fighting to defend.
Just as Vega was methodically preparing, a crisp sound was heard.
Dingββ
"You have entered the leaderboard, currently ranked 17th, and occupied the city: Lops City. β
"Is it finally here?"
Hearing the sound of the Battlefield at War, Vega realized that a real challenge was coming, and that all the officers who had descended on the North Sector had already regarded him as an enemy and were ready to form an alliance to attack.
Is Vega afraid?
It's false to say that I'm not afraid, that's at least more than 10 group armies, more than a million terrifying troops, and his soldiers add up to only more than 90,000 people, half of which are even on the road, but Vega is so excited that even his little finger begins to tremble is true.
Because he likes crushing battles, and prefers counterattacks where the weak defeat the strong!
"Let's make the war crazier. β
Vega spread out the map, combined with the rankings on the leaderboard, and found the two cities that had been occupied by the contestants in the closest places to the city of Rops, and he drew two red circles on these two cities.
"Command the whole army. β
Vega smiled maniacally, then took a deep breath and gave the order: "Magicians and professionals immediately board the war airship, it's time for the guys who think they have the chance to win to see what blitzkrieg is!"