I Shall Survive Using Potions!

When the Caorles reached the village, evacuation of the villagers had already been completed and were welcomed by four close guards. Fortunately, no enemy advance troops or scouts appeared.

"Then I'll be ready to move right away. First, replenish the water. After that, no wells are allowed."

With that said, Caorle went into every house in the village and began checking to see if there was any water or food left. The water left in the bottle or pan was discarded or poured suspicious liquid into it. There was rarely any food left, but only a little left. Besides, I gently swayed the liquid.

At the end of the process of confirming each house, Caorle goes towards the field and stores it in the item box with all sorts of things.

Finally, I made sure that everyone's water was replenished and went around the wells all over the village looking at the notes from the other day I checked. And of course, a suspicious drug that is put into all the wells.

"I'm coming!

One line returned to the route it came from and did the same thing in the next village, which was deserted after the evacuation. The carriage, whose cargo was light with eight children, along with the other carriage, whose load lightened with consumption of water, food, leaves, etc., could travel at a rate far above the infantry's marching speed, so he did not have to worry about being caught up by the Imperial Army even if he took some time to work.

In this village, one of the Kingsguards was sent straight to the Wang Capital as a preaching order. "The operation went well, and it went as planned," he entrusted.

The commander of the Imperial Army Northern Invasion Army was astonished to hear the report.

"The supplies are in a state of devastation..."

"Yes, we collected scattered items, burned items, etc., but almost all spare weapons, camping equipment, etc., were lost, water was for two days, food was for about a day, and..."

"Or a weapon for siege!

"Ha..."

We must attack the outer walls of the caged city and then drop the royal castle even more. That too, before the Western invaders return to the main enemy forces they've fished out. Even if the kingdom was sending most of its troops to the West, it would be difficult to fight its opponents who would cage without various tools for siege, such as ladders, ropes with claws, castle hammers, etc.

And above all, there can be no fool to come to the siege, which is a comparison of patience, without water, food or camping equipment.

This operation is expected to have less than 10,000 residual troops in Wangdu, but there is nothing we can do without supplies, not to mention how much troops are almost intact. But......

"The town ahead..."

"there are six villages and finally one medium-sized town in front of the king's capital between the time to the king's capital"

"All right, first let the Holy Nation of Rueda issue a decree and send food and other necessary supplies as soon as possible. We march like this, collect in villages and towns along the way. Food for stockpiles, field crops, livestock, everything. No more seeds or potatoes left for next year. Evoke them! In the meantime, just in case you get to the village, no food rations, water rations should be one-third. A day or so will put you up with that."

There is no better option than to withdraw. This is an invasion plan that has risked the fate of the Empire, and in the West, the Friends are literally risking their lives to attract the Royal Army mainstay. I came home with no water and no food, so I couldn't possibly go through. All command personnel are unquestionably hanged.

The Imperial Army Northern Invasive Army began marching again, aiming for the King's Capital of the Kingdom of Balmore, Grua.

"What the..."

The next day, regardless of hunger, the Imperial Army finally arrived in the village, suffering from an intolerable thirst.

The reports received by the commanders who arrived in the village a little late from the leading troops were: 'When the soldiers of the leading troops who arrived in the village drank well water, they were all unable to move due to severe vomiting and diarrhoea', and 'all those who spoken of bottles of water and food found remaining in private homes had the same symptoms'.

"Damn, the kingdom guys, did you throw poison into the well! How are the villagers doing?

"Ha, that's it, not a single villager remains"

"Did you let him evacuate... Let them find the food they're hiding. And the field crops!

The ordered soldiers took their men and scattered them everywhere.

It was a madness shack, such as poisoning the well. Even if you drive your enemies back, by the time that well is ready to be used again, it will take time and again to extract all the water and purify it, and if you do poorly, other wells will also be affected through the water vein. It was an act that I didn't think the villagers would have accepted.

The report of a soldier who came back after a while was that no food had been discovered and that there was no crop cakera in the field.

"Even if we stay here, without water and food, soldier depletion just goes on. Immediately resume the march and head to the next village!

I am the commander who so ordered, but I could not wipe the thought that the same might be true in the next village.

The use of the supply request sent to the Holy Nation also does not know when, given the number of days involved in the movement of the user, the preparation of supplies and carriages, the number of days involved in transport, etc. It is also a story if the Holy Nation unconditionally receives demands that are not included in the covenant.

But if we manage to get to the town in front of the Wang capital.

In a town, unlike a small village, it would not be possible to evacuate all the inhabitants and leave them completely deserted. There will be no place to accommodate such numbers immediately, and there will be those who do not obey the orders of the army and claim to remain, the elderly and the sick who cannot move. Nor will we be able to carry all the food out, and given the later, we will not be able to throw poison into the wells all over town.

Because the Royal Army is caged within the King's City, it occupies the town, where it accumulates supplies from the town and surrounding villages, waiting for supplies from the Holy Nation while restoring soldiers. If the supplies did not arrive after waiting to some extent, siege the King's Capital as it is. Supplies should continue to be collected from the vicinity. Unlike the caged Royal Army, there are towns and villages around us. If you have many people in your arms and cages in the city, supplies are fast running out.

Even if the kingdom's main force returns, if it is sandwiched with Western invaders who would chase it from the rear...

The commander of the Northern invading army, while fully aware that it was a hopeful observation, wagered on its potential. Because there was no other option.

The Imperial Army resumed its march, preceded by advance troops by cavalry, saying they might be able to contain the well before the poison was put into service.

And all the well water was polluted and there were no shards of food in the next village that arrived, and the water and food rations were reduced to a quarter to the next village.

After completing the treatment of the fourth village, the Caorles head to the next village in a row. Soon we will reach the fifth village.

"Is it working..."

"The march will make you suffer from water shortages."

Roland answers Caorle's whine.

"Carry your luggage in combat gear and march in flames. If we can't replenish enough water, we'll be fatigued and ill, and then there will be those who fall. And even if he knows to belly down, he comes out with his hands on well water"

"I guess..."

Even if I know, I can't stand my thirst and drink it.

Aiming for it, it was not a potent poison, but a 'vomiting and abdominal' medicine.

Drink it and your thirst will temporarily heal. However, more moisture is drained than drank, and recovery, on the contrary, leads to a deterioration in health. It is no longer a body that can go about marching in very heavy equipment, and it will be left unattended or it will take the hands of others to pull the legs of marching speed. The wounded and sick are much more troublesome to the army than the dead of war.

By the time the next village was near, Caorle and the others found a boy around the age of ten walking down the street. Caorle, who had a bad feeling about something, stopped the carriage and spoke to the boy.

"What's going on? Didn't you evacuate with everyone?

The boy spoke with a desperate look to Caorle, who got out of the carriage and spoke to him.

"Dear user, it's hard! The well is in enemy hands..."

When the surprised caorles asked in detail, apparently the fourth village, which was later this morning, had a hidden well. A well that rarely dries up other wells due to drought, due to terrain or water veins, for some reason.

A well hidden from being pushed from nearby villages in preparation for a drought that occurs in a decades-long proportion. The villagers never taught the caorles the well either. There may have been things I wanted to keep secret and fears that something would happen to an important well. He would also have thought that the Imperial Army would not find him.

But the boy heard what the three villagers were talking about.

It was to secretly turn back to the village, sell the information on the hidden wells to the Imperial Army for a large bounty, and after the Imperial Army had left, steal the hidden property of all the villagers, load it up in their cars and head to the Holy Nation.

After confirming that the men had left altogether, I hurried to inform the adults, but I had to abandon them and continue to the Wang Capital because I would not be able to catch up with the three men who were impatient and inflexible from now on, that I might meet the Imperial Army, and that if I caught up with them, they might be killed if they were in contention with the men.

And when he departed from the deserted neighboring village, which was an overnight inn, the boy walked away from his family, saying that he would walk with his friends behind him, and secretly slipped out of the group of villagers and turned back into the street. To inform the caorles who will be back.

"How come you didn't go with everyone and took the risk on purpose?

To Caorle's question, the boy answered.

"Ginny helped you with the Goddess's medicine."

I don't know if Ginny is this kid's family or friends. But the eye was one that Caorle had already seen many times. I don't care what you say. Besides, it's a waste of time.

"Can you give me some guidance?

"Yes!"

In case anything happened to us, Caorle, who entrusted the two Kingsguards with a few plus spares of the wells in the remaining two villages, flipped with the rest and turned back to the fourth village. Two days ahead of the Imperial Army should have been. It was a calculation that even if we deducted the round-trip minutes from the village to here, we would not have to catch up. The treatment has been done in the village, so if you just put medicine in the hidden well, it will be done as soon as there is guidance.

But, like the commander of the enemy army, it was also just another 'hopeful observation'.