Different World Reincarnation as a Sage ~With my Gaming Knowledge, I’ll become the World’s Strongest~

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"... Did you come again?"

About two weeks after I returned from Cardinal Georgis.

Me and the Earl of Maygis gathered at the Maegis Shokai and saw a letter.

The letter says:

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Declaration of war

The other day, we called for the return of healing equipment stolen from our territory.

However, despite the generous offer to return the device, he was not charged.

Instead, you buried the equipment in the forest and hid its whereabouts.

It is an outrageous business.

So we, Cardinal Georgis, apply for war on the Countess of Megis.

On a designated date, we will reclaim the buried forest of equipment via the Miles Wilderness.

If you had any dignity as a noble, you would not be able to hide your equipment and flee, but you would have been attacked from the front.

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In short, a declaration of war.

The date is written ... 3 days from now.

"Speaking of Miles wilderness ... is it a wilderness next to that forest?"

"Oh, the wilderness right next to the healing woods-a position where we can quickly march into the woods if we lose."

"Isn't it going to be ignored ..."

Unlike the war with foreign countries, the range of the civil war is limited.

If you warn the nobles in the area other than the one that issued the warning, "Be wary here, please do not get involved," extra enemies will increase.

Therefore, in the war, it is important to be ignored.

If you set up a battle zone away from your territory, the war defenders can avoid the war if they ignore them without doing anything.

The Miles Wilderness was made a battle zone to prevent that.

However…….

"Isn't this position quite disadvantageous for the Cardinal?"

In the event of a war between aristocrats, the battle zone is often selected as "a place that is neither territory."

This is because defenders have an overwhelming advantage when fighting in any noble territory.

In any case, the defender does not need to carry any supplies, does not need to tire his troops over long periods of time, and has a sense of land.

It is natural that the attacker with the opposite condition pretends.

However, the Earl took the battlefield in the Miles Wilderness, in the county of Megis.

This is a choice outside the war theory we had heard in advance.

"Oh, as far as the written conditions look ... it's pretty good for us.

Domestic wars usually require a long preparation period.

In consultation with the opponent, rent a battlefield wilderness, decide the witnesses, set victory conditions ... Fight after setting conditions such as "What if you escape?"

It seems like "ordinary war" in this country.

Even though it is a war, it is in a sense a “duel between nobles”.

This time, on the other hand, it's close to a real war.

The war start date and the battle zone are fixed, but if one unilaterally declares war and ignores it, it means armed control.

Normal wars tend to fight each other, so adjustments to the battlefield are effective.

That's why we can fight on nearly equal conditions.

But in this case, we don't want to fight.

After all, if you wait for Marquis Meyer, Cardinal Georgis loses his victory and has no reason to fight.

If we were to force us to the battlefield, we would have to somehow create a condition that we could not ignore.

The result may be this battlefield setting.

"But three days later is a rush."

"Why wouldn't you move your army after the declaration of war? ...... Wouldn't the soldiers get quite tired if we could reach here in three days?"

"Oh, out of the 30,000 troops out there, only 20,000 would be able to go to war. If you move that number in three days ... there should be quite a forced march."

The Countess of Megis and the Cardinal Georgis are only a short walk away.

But that's only for me.

The three-day period is too short to move 20,000 troops.

After all, the army doesn't just need people, it must move while carrying goods.

Unless you know how long the war will last, the amount of equipment and food you have to carry will be huge.

If they run out on the way, all you have to do is defeat.

There is also a problem with the road itself.

The roads in this world are not as wide or as developed as in Japan.

It's not just a path that many people can go through at the same time.

When passing through a place where only one person can pass, such as at a cliff, the army breaks down the platoon once and passes the soldiers one by one.

But… for example, on a road that can only pass one person per second, it takes 20,000 seconds for 20,000 people to pass-that is, about 5.6 hours.

Then, how long does it take to fix the platoon and regain the movement speed?

That's what military movement is.

Given the circumstances, the opening day, three days later, is a violence for Cardinals, equivalent to fighting without a break immediately after a forced march.

So why do you do such an unreasonable thing?

There is only one reason.

Perhaps Cardinal Georgis is impatient.

"... Is it all thanks to Marquis Meyer?"

"Perhaps that's it."

Perhaps Cardinal Georgis also realizes that he will be succumbed.

That's why they have challenged war on such disadvantageous conditions.

The back work by Marquis Maier has not yet been revealed.

The threat, however, has had a significant effect on Cardinal Georgis's pressure.