Hakai no Miko

Episode 120: Pursuit

And the pale horses came down from the gate, and gathered together the faces that were the LORD.

Among the faces thus collected, the first to be heard by the Ethereal Horse was the bird general Pipi Tot Gigi, who leads Harpuran.

"Mr. Pipi. What is the situation in the withdrawing Romanian country?

Pipi answers, rocking a cobalt blue blade that stretches slightly from his head.

"The Romanian army is retreating towards the Plains of Calilea."

The appearance of a child-faced pipipi, visible only to a girl from the human species, dusty and reporting, is a smiling sight reminiscent of a child who stretches out somewhere. But still, she is a clean adult woman.

"You're headed to the plains of Kalileya without any way to get your attitude in order?

Pipi nods to the question of the Ethereal Horse before answering.

"Yes, you should hear from me as soon as you have those signs, but so far I haven't heard from you like that"

To Pipi's report, the Ethereal Horse slaps his neck slightly.

I don't think King Dordea, so furious, would be convinced to retreat like this. The Ethereal Horse imagined that he was likely to reassemble his army and invade the King's capital again at a distance from him.

Just as King Dordea and the blood that was up in Zoan's ambush fell?

He was a pale horse who thought so, but Garam brought unexpected information there.

"It's Soma. Only a few or surviving Romanian soldiers were taken prisoner, but they gave me some interesting information."

I wonder how much information there is when it comes to serious gallam being interesting. The Ethereal Horse, who so expected, was also surprised by the words of the next Gallum.

"I hear King Dordea was wounded by an arrow"

"Is that true?!"

Gallum nods and shows to the pale horse who has accidentally raised his voice.

"The prisoners' soldiers were not present on the spot, so the authenticity is uncertain. In addition, even if it was a serious injury or a minor injury, some of the injuries were complicated by the information that the injuries occurred. But at least it looks like King Dordea hit the arrow and was wounded."

If you look at the retreat of the Romanian state, which has come so far but does not make you feel untrained to the King's capital, the Ethereal Horse considered that King Dordea is likely to be unharmed and dead. At least King Dordea himself is not in command of the army, so I guess we should withdraw before that information reaches the soldiers.

"Then it's our chance!

The Ethereal Horse built a clenching fist all the way.

Even the sudden withdrawal has disrupted the control of the Romanian National Army. If King Dordea were wounded there and could not command it, the chaos would still persist.

He held the king's capital, Holmenia, in his hand, but after breaking down the "black wall" on the Conte River in his original plans, he was supposed to pull back into the city of Bornis. That is why, given the new territorial governance and reconstruction gained by the conquest of the Holmeer State, which is currently unplanned, I would like to focus as much as I can on that. Yet if we continue even in future skirmishes with the Romanian state, we will be cut off people and funds that will even be scarce.

In order not to, I almost wanted to leave the Romanian National Army with a blow that I couldn't recover from here for a few years.

Nevertheless, even though I incited it, this one has a lot of folks. In an uncontrolled folk, it's hard to stop it once it's moved. If the Romanian National Army showed a move to regroup the army, it was meant to narrow the reins to such an extent that it could be controlled not to bump into each other from the front.

But if King Dordea falls, it's not the story.

The Ethereal Horse makes a decision.

"I will thoroughly slap the Romanian National Army!

From everyone's mouth, there was a voice that was neither exclaimed nor excited. Besides, the Ethereal Horse, convinced that everyone's war will be enough, goes on even further.

"We ask everyone in Zoan to pursue the Romanian National Army, which will withdraw immediately. - Mr. Gallum, can you go?

Even if the war is enough, Zoan and the others have just demonstrated the battle between the siege of partition and the Lion Rapid Fight from the pinch. To the pale horse worried about the fatigue, Gallum showed his chest slapped with a dong.

"Whatever. Instead, if they told you to rest here, the warriors would be in a bad mood"

The Ethereal Horse nodded one to Garam's confident words.

"Now, Mr. Gallam, lead the Zoan warriors of the Fang Clan and the Takeshi Clan in pursuit of the main unit of the Romanian National Army. Mr. Banukkah asks for an assistant general."

So the pale horse turns his face to Eladia.

"The Elf Bow Cavalry, along with Mr. Garam, would like to pursue you, please."

And Eladia, who was wearing trousers for horseback riding rather than female chief clothes, "I understand" with the same elegance as usual.

After seeing it through, the Ethereal Horse turns to the Gallum again.

"Mr. Gallam. When it comes to pursuit, you don't have to be forced to engage. Attack with arrows from afar and repeat the assault and retreat by the Zoan warriors if there is a gap. If there's going to be damage, you can just do a bare act of assault."

Gallum pinches at this description of the pale horse.

"I see. That's a procedure for scattering herds of cows."

When Zoan hunts a herd of cattle, he surrounds the herd with hunters and surprises the cattle by deliberately showing up or making noises. That's how one surprised cow ends up jumping out of the herd in confusion.

Just like that, Garam understood that it was about putting pressure on the Romanian National Army to lose control and beating where it dispersed into small units.

"Exactly. - Mr. Dvarin, Mr. Jaharngil, Mr. Marcronis."

The next three, called to name by the Ethereal Horse, each shakes his beard, roughs his nose and puts his hand on the pattern of the sword.

"The three of them will lead their own troops and act with me. This will be the main unit, followed by Mr Gallam. We will help the people of Holmeer as we sweep away the enemies that Mr. Garam and his men have scattered."

After saying so, the Ethereal Horse turns his face to Marcronis.

"Help the people of the Holmeer Country revolve around Mr. Marcronis's troops"

It has not yet been conveyed that the Ethereal Horse has already accepted the surrender of the Holmeer State and has defeated the Romanian National Army. It is a decision that the troops of Marcronis, the same human race, would suddenly do less confusion to rescue such people than to be heterogeneous.

Plus the pale horse pushes caution.

"I want to avoid the absurdity of coming so far and being mistaken for an enemy and being co-ed. We are not enemies. Let us teach the people of the Holmeer country that we are allies."

"I understand. - For that, I'd like to borrow the hands of Lord Eladia's men and, if possible, other races, from Setius's troops."

Setius, a subordinate of Marcronis, had been entrusted with the Heavy (Shoji) Squad, which would come further after the main unit this time. Marcronis says he wants to ask for an elf from a manpower distributing food and clothing to the people of the Holmeer country he helped.

Marcronis answers when the Ethereal Horse asks the reason for the request.

"Only humans would be more receptive and less confusing to the people of Holmea. But if we're going to get rid of the prejudice against the Fae, we'd rather have a Fae hand that handed us food and clothes where we're hurt and tired."

After saying that much, Marcronis laughed bitterly and somehow lowered his head to Eladia before continuing to say.

"Especially if it was a beautiful woman, it couldn't have been more effective."

Convinced.

The Ethereal Horse gave instructions to everyone to respond to Marcronis' request.

When it comes to being a woman and using her beauty, Eladia says, "Then that's what my sisters are good at. I'll take care of it," she smiled elegantly.

I just smiled, but I'm scared for some reason.

The Ethereal Horse remembers the guilt of throwing out a pathetic lamb before some hungry tiger, but now he decides not to think about it.

Measures against the Romanian National Army are ahead of them now.

"Next, Mr. Zug"

"Whoa! It's my turn at last."

Zug, called by his name by the Ethereal Horse, responds with an exciting look like a child the day before the excursion.

"Mr. Zug asks you to lead the warriors of the Claw Clan to sweep the remaining enemies scattered throughout Holmea."

There are no strict military regulations, and many of the soldiers gathered have been rapidly recruited. The armies of this era are easily dispersed once defeated.

This is a time when there are no telecoms yet. Once I couldn't get in touch with the soldiers who had scattered, I couldn't get them back. Also, I can't even try to take it from the side of the soldiers that have fallen off, or want to join the main army.

Then the soldiers, far from the army, will go for the Romanian state on their own.

It would be nice if they just tried to retreat to the Romanian state in the dark clouds.

But if the troops were led by commanders who were somewhat more conspicuous, they would destroy the village looting, arson, roads and bridges that they found as a cost of going and harassing us again.

Then there will also be a difference in the later reconstruction.

In order not to do so, we had to deal not only with the main army of the Romanian National Army, but also with the troops of the Romanian National Army, which have been scattered throughout those Holmea countries.

However, it is not easy to sweep the troops of the Romanian National Army, which have been scattered throughout the wider Holmeer country. To do that requires no matter what, superior tracking, accurate judgment, and above all, high enemy defense.

And the great actor, the Ethereal Horse, entrusted Zoog with it.

Besides, Zoog has a full grin.

"Whoa! I'll take care of it!

But it is Zug who just doesn't end up floating around the burdens he's been given and the expectations of the struggle.

"Naturally, could you lend me Lord Soma's 'net'?

"Of course," replied the Ethereal Horse to Zoog, who said so provocatively. Then the pale horse turns his eyes to Pipi.

"Mr. Pipi. I need Mr. Zug's support. Please spread the 'net' to the eastern part of the Holmeer country!