Elf Tensei Kara no Cheat Kenkoku-ki

It's Elsier's holiday.

Rest once a week unless there is so much to it. Exactly. I'll take care of the goats and the crops at a minimum, but when that's over, I'll take my time.

Iraksa's training is off today, too. Even if you can heal your body with magic, you can't heal the fatigue that accumulates in your heart.

However, it is also a waste of time to just take a break, so I make it all free in the morning for lectures on voluntary participation and in the afternoon.

Even when I said voluntary participation, almost everyone...... in addition to that, Ku and Yukino also participated.

"Today, let's give a lecture mainly on tactics"

I opened my mouth in the widest room in the village chief's house, tapping a gray chalk made of a block of lime on a handmade blackboard.

"To put it a little more detail, it's a way to win by an overwhelming force difference. Just in time to explain the next battle."

Move your hands and write the number Elsier: twenty-three and Empire: four to five thousand on the blackboard.

I took some means and took the back, but I have succeeded in pulling more soldiers than I had planned by using a fan.

But it was a shame that Raffa, who found out his wife would no longer be alive in negotiations using the demonic stone of fire, was upside down, attacked by imperial soldiers, and died in return.

I thought I could use more...

I could have helped Raffa on that spot, but if I killed a soldier, the information wouldn't go up there. If I saved Raffa by keeping the soldiers alive, now I could have expected Raffa to be under surveillance and suspect the credibility of the information, so I looked him dead.

"Now, before we say the answer, let's do our own best to think about it. Whatever. Say what you can think of."

When I questioned Elsier's face, Loreau raised his hand with a confident look.

"Loreau, tell me"

"You can smash a hundred people each. Then we win."

What a great brain muscle.

It's just, even if you kill a hundred people, two thousand and three hundred. The opponent remains in the majority.

I'm sure Loreau said this in the sense that losing more than 30% of his squad would result in total annihilation that would stop him from functioning as an organization. I reviewed it a little.

"One hundred men at a time, if we all kill, we win. That's not realistic. This one keeps dying before I do. Then we'll have to kill them alone."

It doesn't matter how much life you have if you're doing it properly.

This time the target's bow becomes a threat as well. It's hard to knock a bow off with a headwind if you don't have all the numbers.

"Do you think you can fit in a trap? Like dropping a tiny stone off a cliff, or a pit?

Lucier opened her mouth with her hands up.

"Right. I hope it works, but in fact, that kind of maneuver has a limited number of points to set up, and it becomes exaggerated enough to target a big battle, and the enemy isn't stupid, so I usually notice it."

And a battalion of four thousand men would make the line as long as 1 km to 2 km. It is known what damage could be inflicted by the trap.

"Anything else have an opinion?

I will announce the correct answer because no one has given an opinion on whether to look around.

"There are two main parts. One is to ignore the miscellaneous fish and kill the enemy general. Without a mentor, the enemy will be unable to move."

"If we say it, it means they're gonna kill Cyril, right? Yeah, if they kill Cyril, I'm gonna have a lot of trouble not knowing what to do."

Everyone around me nods cocklessly at Lucier's casual crush.

I'm glad about that in itself, but there's a sense of crisis. Elsier himself is too dependent on me. Someday we need to improve.

"It's just going to be hard this time. The Imperial Army is more flexible than I thought, and it's a tough organization. For example, if I die, as soon as Loreau instructs everyone on my behalf, if Loreau dies, now Lucier leads us all, it seems that the rules are clearly set."

This information is highly accurate because it thoroughly hears the movement of the enemy once it has been raided by five hundred people and from previously captured prisoners.

To put the foil on, the nobles squeezed out, but they usually don't have anything to do with politics that commands the army.

In this day and age, it is fundamental that the top who decides to fight take the lead and fight, and if you kill him, the army loses the point of fighting.

But the Imperial Army carries out its military activities only at someone's behest, so killing the top of the scene doesn't make it go away in significance to fight, and if you just take the instructions of battle, you have as many alternatives, and a proper sequence of command is laid down.

"That's amazing. Elsier won't do it. If Cyril dies and Loreu tells me to replace him... yeah, I'm gonna want to give it all up"

"Hey Lucier!

Loreau makes an outrage. That said, the tone is soft. I'm trying to make myself understand what Lucier said.

"That's why this one's tricky inside. Here's another one. Aim for food. No army can beat hunger. Thoroughly stop and wait for their food to run out."

Yes, that's why I deliberately direct the snow to melt and aim right at it.

The empire-controlled villages where they replenish also run out of food reserves during the long winter months, and crops such as turnips, cabbages and onions that grow over the winter take a month or two before the snow melts to harvest, and cannot be harvested until it is the first summer until the wheat sprinkled in the autumn.

"That said, they have plenty of food, don't they? You're packing a lot of food from places like us. Aren't you going to bring all that from the Empire?

Loreau is surprisingly conjecturable. Surely the Empire will have a considerable stockpile. That's so much so that you don't have to take it away from the village on your way to Elsier.

"Oh, the empire itself has stockpiles. But it's a different matter of whether we can carry it or not. Let's figure out how much food a soldier spends in one day."

That's what I write on the blackboard: food, water, change of clothes.

"First, food, though. Soldiers get hungry because they keep walking until sundown. Bread, dried meat and dried vegetables, no matter how little you quote. 500 g in a single meal, you need 1 kg a day because you have to eat that twice a day."

Only this is the least I could do, actually I need a little more.

"Next is water. I'm going to need this a lot more than marching, too. If you are an adult male, you will fall without two kilos a day. I can't replenish it locally. The points at which water can be replenished are quite limited. Zelig on the way, a well in the village, I'm afraid I won't have at least five days to refill there."

If I may add, the water in Sawa is dangerous. Quite likely to break your belly, if there were four thousand people, quite a few people would complain of malaise.

If you boil it, it's fine, but you'll need fuel for it, and you'll weigh more for it. If the emphasis is on safety, it takes the form of replenishing it from the well every time you stop in the village. And such a convenient village can only think of about two by their relay base.

Digging a well is one of the means, but the water around here is quite deep and even means such as digging a simple well can crumble a whole day.

"The rest is to get dressed. There are quite a few hygiene problems with underwear if there is no substitution at least. This is about 1 kg. I mean, in total, that's 4 kg a day. Weight other than changing clothes increases by 3 kg every day. Five days would be 16 kg. Loreau, how many kilograms do you have in mind to walk?

"You're gonna walk until the sun goes down, right? Then three big bags of wheat is the limit. I just said what a 30kg would do."

"Even the powerful Loreau does, so, well, I guess the average human being just said 20 kg. Then you can't physically carry up to six days of stockpiles."

"Why don't you take the guys who are dedicated to luggage? And then maybe we should get a carriage full of stuff out of the empire."

"Of course, there are those people. But the number is limited. Bring those guys in, they'll have more meals for what they eat and more for the horses they bring in, and slower overall legs.

Even if we take the means from the empire to send out troops for replenishment and to keep up and replenish them one by one, we need to wait for the replenishment to catch up, the march is delayed, and the food is reduced by only a few days late. I would spend 15,000 kg a day in the first place. Even money doesn't make you an idiot. "

Building supply lines is the biggest problem in the operation of the military. When civilization progresses to some extent, the difficulty is reduced by allowing the transport of supplies that do not depend on manpower, but it is nevertheless a very difficult issue. In this day and age, when we have to rely on manpower, we can say that it is exactly the seeds of headaches.

"I don't think they're going to send out a supply squad after them, but I think about 30% of their troops are people who only carry food using carriages. They carry the knight's luggage and spare food.

The average soldier carries his own share, and if it's gone, he receives spare supplies from the luggage carriers. In my opinion, the premise of replenishing the water in the village at the relay point is that ten days is the limit. "

And they'll go for Elsier after they reach a relay base 100 km away and get supplies within those ten days. A march of 100 km in a battalion of nearly five thousand men in ten days is a rather harsh but not impossible figure.

When you arrive at the relay base, you receive and arm your gear. The load, reduced by the weight of the equipment, is accompanied by the people at the relay base as they become the cargo unit, in addition to which they send out carriages carrying more and more supplies after the people who leave.

You don't have to wait for a supply unit because you just have to catch up after the battle with Elsier. Besides, by doing this, you only have to carry one way of food.

In case the food is about to run out along the way, the idea would be that we should wait for the guys to replenish from the relay base. And I recieve a leisurely portion of food for my return on my way back after the battle.

The march of the Empire is based on this form.

Quite reasonable. To the relay base, the weight of the equipment and the food on the way home are unnecessary, and the relay base can still be followed closely.

But that's why there's a big drawback.

"I see what the chief's trying to say. If you stop them thoroughly, they'll starve to death."

"That's right. That's what this operation is all about. Basic policy is a thorough stepping stone. Specifically, ahead of them on the route of their march, they hide in the woods from outside their range and snipe with poisonous arrows that beat them for three days and three nights so they don't kill them. Immediate retreat if found. Repeat that even."

It's not kindness not to kill. I want you to hold the injured.

Eat my poison arrows and you'll keep screaming in hell's pain. That would thoroughly demoralize the soldiers. I don't think anyone wants to be. More than not dead, the injured will be about 70 kg of luggage per person, and they will take away the operation of soldiers to take care of him.

If we can't afford it, we'll kill ourselves, but I appreciate that. Allied killings significantly shred the loyalty of other soldiers who saw it, in addition to the high spiritual damage of the soldiers who performed it.

"They try to find a sniper, turn in the soldiers, but we never get caught because we can sense a radius of more than 200m in [perceptual dilation] and get away quickly in [physical enhancement]. I'd rather thank you for stopping my leg. Eventually, they will start to ignore us and resume their march, even as they harm their allies."

They don't have time. The food in hand keeps running out. The screams of soldiers on our side echo, and so do their screams. We just have to move on.

"But if you decide to ignore us, your legs will be dull. Anyway, look at your suffering allies. You might be next. Where are the arrows flying from? That's what makes soldiers have to be on guard all the time."

And it puts a considerable strain on both the physical and the spiritual.

"Even at night, they can't be relieved. We can see them in [Extended Perception]. Better than noon. Take turns, put your hands on the night camp, and I won't let you sleep. Have them wear out more. Their feet get dull every day."

There will never be a soldier who can be laughed at for carrying out everything I have just said.

More and more rebels and spiritually broken people come out.

It will be a harder battle than death for the soldiers of the Empire.

"Ten days is too soon. Even they're not stupid, so if they have less stockpiles, they're going to ask the Empire to send them supplies early on. But half of us will line up behind them and kill the conductor. In case a supply unit comes at me, I'll kill that horse. I will never let you replenish it. It would be great if you could believe the arrival of their supply unit and pull over."

The faces around us are too wordless for outrageous operational content.

This is a method of warfare that is closer to irregular warfare rather than normal warfare.

I didn't put it in my mouth, but they'll get food even if I kill all the villagers in the village I stopped by on the way. But it's also water in the baking stone. If you leave the empire, there are only villages of between one hundred and two hundred people.

Five thousand troops don't make much sense because they consume a month's worth of food in a village in a single day. It could rather be the result of draining the mind and body.

"If we go this far, they'll be at the supply base."

If it's a man who says Lulubish, I think it's possible.

More importantly, it is the last hope for the soldiers to get there. People can work hard within hope. Hungry, exhausted, nightmarish, move on.

"But what awaits them there is despair. Supply base's pantry. Using the Demon Stone of Fire, Kuw and Yukino blow it up. If hope crushes in front of you, it breaks my heart. There's no supply, it's impossible to reach Elsier with countless injured people, and with that we're halfway there. That's not all. By their very nature, they don't bring the food for their return. Most of the 5,000 will starve to death without returning to the empire."

There are about three hundred people in our hands. More than half of them will resort to bandits attacking villages far from Elsier, inflicting tremendous scratches on the prestige of the Empire and giving them an aversion to the Empire. Most of the rest die of starvation, and a few of the survivors have a lifetime of trauma.

This is a heartbreaking battle.

I won't let it end with just winning. I will inflict unthinkable suffering on the Imperial Soldiers and at the same time give the villages on the Elsier side a trigger for rebellion.

"Cyril, if you can do that, I think you can win. But I think there are two problems. One knows what to do with our replenishment, and the other how to know when the Empire is moving. After the Imperial Soldier leaves, yeah, the Imperial Soldier leaves without knowing it, this operation doesn't make sense."

I loosen my cheeks to Lucier's sharp point.

I noticed it there a lot. It's proof that Lucier is growing.

"It's okay. I have a good idea about that. First of all, it's a matter of replenishment, but the food, we have cookies. It won't rot for two months, and it will be one meal at 200g. Three 600g bottles a day, even 18kg for a month. Crossbows and arrows add up to about 3kg, so we can figure it out. Besides, we'll build some huts so they won't be found in the woods between us and the Empire. I'm going to put a ton of cookies and arrows in there."

"What do you do with the water?

"If I were here, I wouldn't be in trouble."

I work on water mana and collect water from the atmosphere to make water spheres.

Most of the moisture contained in the air is likely, so most of it was borrowed from the vase.

It will suck up moisture from damp soil and trees when used outside.

Water magic cannot make water, but this is how it can be collected after purifying the surrounding water.

But on top of very advanced sorcery, the elves are considerably less compatible than the wind, even if they say they are good at wind and water. It's magic you can't use other than me.

"Besides, I'll also install a well in the cabin. There's no way I'd have built a cabin and built a well overnight. Whatever it is, you can use magic to dig wells at times of water trouble."

"That's Cyril."

"Brother Cyril, wow"

Ku and Yukino of Firefox pin their ears and hit me. I want to stroke your head so badly.

"And then, don't worry, you seem worried about the movement of the Empire, but about that, the new elite of Iraqsa is growing solid. With their help, we can do anything."

By now, I'm peeping that I'm hungry at the cabin. I smiled with their faces in my head.