Hakai no Miko

"The Subhumans disappeared?!"

Early in the morning, the Marquis of Appius voiced surprise at the reports brought about by the scouts he unleashed to reconnoiter the Crusaders' trends.

It is in the camp of the border armies.

It is not a good idea to surrender to the heads of the sub-people who call themselves the Sons of Destruction who conquered the Holmeer kingdom, an army assembled by the border marquis around the northern marquis of the Holmeer kingdom.

The movements of the Border Marquis Army have so far been dull, although it is hustled and rumored that they quickly raised troops for the recapture of the King's capital and the liberation of the royal family when marching. Not only did he purposefully gather his men in the city of Loughban, the lap of the Marquis of Apius, but he spent time forming soldiers and armies that could not be prolonged until the other day. I wondered if the crusaders had finally lifted up their heavy hips and let the army go south in return for the news that they had been turned towards them from the Wang capital, and the march was like a tortoise walk.

Some of the soldiers said, "Are you sure you're willing to fight?" It is also natural that a voice of doubt was raised.

But it doesn't change how it's moving forward, no matter how far it is the tortoise's walk. Gradually, the distance between the border marines and the crusaders will narrow and, finally, tomorrow, we will see each other in sight.

when everyone thought so.

Now the crusader's leg stops perfectly.

And when the Marquis of Appius unleashed all his reprimands, he made him look for the Crusaders. And it was this reward that one of them brought before the dawn of night.

You finally got what you've been waiting for!

The Marquis of Appius felt that way all the time.

Somehow the opponent flirts with Darius, known as Holmeer's best general, the son of destruction who took both Holmeer and Romanian powers in his hands. You can't just move around.

"All right! Get the soldiers up and get them ready for pursuit. I'll go see the enemy with these eyes myself."

Having said that, the Marquis of Apius took only a small offering, and rode himself to the position where the Crusaders were camped.

"Surely there are no signs of people..."

The crusader's position, which was stretched to lean against the woods to avoid this strong wind, could not be found from a distance as one figure of the moving. All that, instead of the noise of the soldiers standing, it doesn't sound like one of the horses.

I thought this was at least some sort of anomaly. Marquis Apius steps into the enemy formation cautiously while alerting the ambushes.

Then, as the scouts say, the position was already a mushroom.

Besides, how hastily I would have hesitated. Some of the positions were littered with weapons and protective equipment, and the tents were just abandoned while being defeated or even abandoned to part of the food.

And the bonfire (Kabi), which had been left on fire to delay the discovery that it had pulled the formation away, had also already burned out and now only slightly raised white smoke.

Says one of the knights who has followed him around as a offering, floating the colour of confusion.

"My lord. What the hell happened to this...?

In view of the number of troops and their level of proficiency, the Crusading Army prevails over the Border Marquis. If you get hit properly, that victory or loss is obvious. Yet it is a story that cannot be normal to leave a soldier suddenly after this time on the verge of meeting an enemy. I could only assume that something unforeseen had happened on the side of the subhumans.

The lips of the Marquis Apius, who guessed the unforeseen circumstances, hoisted like they were drawn.

"You Mendax guy. You did it...!

Marquis Apius, who initially showed an attitude of resistance in order to extract favorable conditions from the Son of Destruction, thus truly cited soldiers, was due to his covenant with Mendax.

The covenant is that by the march of the Northern Marquis, the subordinates will be separated from the king's capital, and in the meantime Mendax will rebel to name the chief of the subordinate, the Son of Destruction.

And perhaps the revolt was a success. That's why the Crusaders suddenly left the soldiers.

Marquis Apius, who so decided, acted quickly.

"Hurry back to formation! Go after the suburbs!

When I said that, I turned my horse's head and ran back to the positions of the border marines.

In his covenant with Mendax, after the recapture of the kingdom of Holmea, he will queen the rescued Princess Wallina, and he will honor the son of the Marquis of Appius as his king's mate. And Marquis Appius was meant to share power with each other as stepfather of the new queen and Mendax again as prime minister.

But it is much greater than it is for Mendax, who named the chief of the Son of Destruction, to let the armies of the Subians flee as they are.

Then you'll have a big face on that hem grip. That's what it means to be handicapped.

We must hurry and chase the retreating sub-people in order to make an unbeatable feat on Mendax here.

That's what I thought. The Marquis of Apius will be returning to his ranks and will hasten his preparations for pursuit. When he managed to get ready for pursuit by kicking the butts of the allies of the still sleeping Northern Gorges, the Marquis of Apius first headed for the abandoned enemy formation.

The Marquis of Apius also knows the state of his own army. Even if they are named the Border Marquis, the majority of them are forcibly collected peasant militias and mercenaries for gold purposes. As a result, the soldiers were less skilled and, above all, had no command as an army.

To fight enemies in such an army, you must first convince each soldier of his or her victory and motivate him or her by stimulating that desire again.

So the Marquis of Appius admitted to his capture (mostly) in the deserted enemy formation before pursuing him.

Then the soldiers cheer and flock to the arsenals and food that had been thrown down before us, and begin to capture as much as they wish. After a while, every soldier of the Border Marquis held many swords and spears on his own, layered with the armor he had picked up, and swelled his back sac (yes) into bread with food.

Before those soldiers, the Marquis of Apius throws even more dramatic drugs.

"Then we'll go after the runaway suburbs! He who takes the head of an enemy general will receive a great reward!

The effect of this was surface (tempered).

Everyone was dissatisfied with the march in the strong wind until yesterday, but his eyes glistened to desire until he was now a soldier, and he moved his legs when he caught up with the subhumans who had fled a little sooner.

But I just couldn't catch up with the Crusaders that day.

Sooner or later, when the Marquis of Apius gave up his pursuit of the day and set up his camp, he spared no effort in feeding the soldiers his acumen, even the liquor that was in the grain he had plundered, and preparing them for the pursuit of the following day.

And the day after that, the pursuit resumed with the sunrise.

Then, before noon, traces of the camp were found believed to have been stretched by the runaway sub-men. The Marquis of Apius, who entered the ruins of that camp, had often observed his surroundings, but laughed out softly.

To the Marquis of Appius, who suddenly laughed out, one of the surprised northern marquis said, "How have you been?" Ask.

Then the Marquis of Appius points with his hands to the camp trail.

"Take a good look! The number of Kamadu is down from yesterday!

If we once again observed the camp trail in the words of the Marquis of Apius, we could see a smaller number of simple stone piles that the soldiers thought they had used to cook food than the other day.

"Sure. You look like you're losing count, if you ask me."

"But how did it go?

Marquis Apius speaks with a good face to his allies who do not know what it means to have a decreasing number of pigeons and just talk as they are.

"The decreasing number of birds means that the number of soldiers who use it is decreasing without taking it back."

The Marquis of Apius lifts his voice so that it can be heard not only by the northern marquis, but also by the soldiers around him.

"That means that many soldiers are fleeing the armies of the Subhumans!

The Northern Marquises were impressed.

"Sure. If you ask me, it looks like the footprints of the runaways are diminishing."

"Formerly a collection of Asians and defeated soldiers. If you lose control, the castle made of sand will collapse."

If it is to continue until the deserters, it is certain to see that the Mendax rebellion at King's Capital has finally succeeded and that the Son of Destruction has been taken over.

"Your Lords, our victory has already been confirmed!

In this declaration of victory of the Marquis of Appius, the soldiers who were listening stood in colour.

Satisfied with the state of this own army, the Marquis of Apius used the ruins of the camp to give him an early lunch, further hurrying up the soldiers to chase the runaways.

Then, that evening, the scourge that was leading the way finally captured the appearance of the sub-people.

"My Lord Marquis Apius! We have confirmed the appearance of a group of supposedly fleeing sub-humans a few miles away!

In the recompense of that scourge, the Marquis of Apius takes the word of labor and then looks up into the sky. Then the sky had already stained with a cedar colour, and from the eastern horizon the darkness of the night had peered into his face.

Even if we continue our pursuit and catch up to the suburbs by the end of the day, it will be night then. If it is also a night war, the subhuman side, which has many races with good night vision, is advantageous. Now that a lot of people (because they want to) have made up their minds, there's no need to chase them here to a disadvantageous night's war.

Having so decided, the Marquis of Apius camped early today, labored the soldiers (there they were), and it is tomorrow that he decides to slap the subians thoroughly.

"Is there a good place to camp around here?

The scourge immediately answers the question of the Marquis of Appius.

"A little further than this, there is a canyon that the Subhumans used for their camp. Then the wind will be avoided, and the soldiers will rest."

"All right! Then show me there."

By the lead of that scourge, the Marquis of Appius and the other Border Marquis armies changed course and headed for the canyon.

It is a canyon where the Garams camped and regarded it as the "land of serpents".

The Marquis of Apius released his scouts to check the safety of the canyon before riding himself into the canyon with a horse.

Though the canyon is elongated and cannot be solidified and camped in one place, only because of the steep cliffs surrounding the left and right, is the wind as if the strong wind outside were a lie.

Tomorrow we have to chase the fast runaways. But with such a strong northerly wind, soldiers will not rest with their peeves. However, in this canyon, the wind can be avoided, and the soldiers can be made more comfortable by using the leftovers and tent tracks of the suburbs.

Marquis Apius decided to camp here today.

Communicating it to the entire army, the soldier, who had been plagued by this strong breeze the entire time he was pursuing it, enters the canyon ahead of us cheering and just starts preparing for the camp.

"Okay! Tomorrow we'll catch up with the suburbs. And those who merit there shall be rewarded with generosity! Tonight, rest your body slowly and prepare for tomorrow!

Marquis Apius strolled through the soldiers preparing the camp with a voice of encouragement.

If you look at the soldiers' faces, their intentions are enormous. This will inevitably bring down the Subhumans tomorrow.

Thus the Marquis of Apius builds the will of the soldiers sufficiently before entering the tent for himself, finally loosening the strings of armor and resting himself too.

Then there came a son who came with him to lead the army.

"Father. May I have a moment?

To his son, who looks anxious when he says he's no longer a winner, the Marquis of Apius asks, "What? return." Then the son of the Marquis of Appius hesitated for a while before saying:

"Father. Isn't this what Darius calls the Land of Snakes? Are you sure you want to camp here?

And Marquis Appius laughs, "Is that so?"

"So you say you're still a mortal. - Ready? Exactly. This is definitely what Darius calls the Land of Snakes. Normally, it's foolish to put a line here."

The Marquis of Apius dampened his lips with the warm wine offered by his squire before continuing.

"But didn't King Holmeanis, once the founding king, lay a line of leeway against what was in the Book of War: 'The formations keep the mountains on their backs and keep the rivers in front', thereby defeating the Romanian nation?

In the story of the Leeward Formation, which everyone would know if it were a warlord of the Holmeer kingdom, Marquis Apius' son is stuck in words: "It is…". Besides, Marquis Apius laughs niggardly and then says:

"Okay? The description of the Book of War is only basic. A true warlord must understand the Book of War and use it according to the time and circumstances."

Then the Marquis of Apius shouts the rest of the wine at once, along with the hot breath of alcohol mixing.

"It is the supreme of a fool to set up a formation in such a place in front of a wary enemy. Now, however, there is no will on the enemy, just fleeing. Then we should prepare our soldiers for tomorrow, rather than avoid it as the land of serpents."

Then Marquis Apius, who became the face from the face of the General of the Border Marquis Army to the flesh parents, speaks kindly to his son.

"Relieved but good. Many scouts are being sent out to monitor the subhumans who are ahead. If anything happens to them that flips and attacks, they'll be able to handle it right away. Don't worry, you can rest for tomorrow."

Plus the drunkenness of wine with the admirable words of his son, "That's Father," and the Marquis of Apius fell asleep that day in an upbeat mood.

But the Marquis Apius doesn't know.

That whoever has now said something similar to himself is looking down at himself from the top of the cliff multiplied by the shade of night.

"Come on, we got enemies as expected..."

The words of the Ethereal Horse, overlooking the camping Borderline Marquis Army, were blown away by the sound of a strong wind and did not reach the ears of the sleeping Marquis Apius.