"But if you look at this, it's going to take a long time to move by road."
"Yes, the commanders went straight down the river to the lumber mill, but our squad was acting differently, wasn't it?I left earlier, but the commanders who finished the battle were quicker to get to the rendezvous point. "
Return to New Balka City while transporting softwood lumber.
At first, I was wary of assassins coming, but they wouldn't show up.
If you think about it, it's only natural.
Looks like Congress decided to send an assassin a little while ago.
Laura and Eye contacted me quickly to find out about it, but perhaps the assassin hasn't moved yet.
Maybe they'll hear about the job of targeting me by now.
If you think so, it's not good to be too careful.
To a certain extent, I decided to move with vigilance but with ease of tension.
During that time, I talked to Zen, who was nearby.
It's an indescribable story.
We were talking about the slowness of land travel.
When we raided the lumber mill, we went down the river, so it was a short time before we got to our destination.
But I was moving Squad Zen ahead of the raid.
The aim is to secure personnel and legs for the transport of timber.
We were supposed to raid the ship, abandon it and go home, so we needed to get a replacement car for the ship.
Incidentally, I bought the abandoned boat from a village near the Glue River on the assumption that it would be abandoned.
No one would sell it to dispose of a ship, which is usually a business or household tool, but this time I could have bought it at a price that was either heavily damaged by the storm or thrown away.
Well, if we're lucky, we might be able to retrieve the ship we left behind later.
So I went up to land from such a disposable ship and loaded the car with lumber, but this was quite difficult.
It is because the road is rough.
The bumpy road shakes the car.
The shaking caused the pile of wood to collapse.
Worse still, the wheel part of the car's foot can break.
Whenever one of the wheels breaks, it needs to be stopped and repaired.
So the speed of advance was very slow.
"I mean, this is normal.It's strange to be able to make roads and tracks with a single spell.That will change the speed of travel a lot. "
"Sure, the road feels familiar, but it would be really inconvenient without it.You know, building walls, but I really thought about the magic of building roads. "
"Your brother made it, didn't he?Indeed, the King of the Sky. It is a bit interesting to say that even though he is the king of the sky, there are a lot of magic such as [road laying], [railway laying], [soil improvement]. "
"Well, that's why my brother Ars, who comes out of the Barca church teachings, is being portrayed more as a god's shield than a sky king.It's more like a god of earth than the sky. "
Zen also said that it is usually basic to travel at this speed.
Unpaved dirt path.
If it rains, it will become moist, and if it dries, it will become bumpy, it will not be a road.
It takes a lot of time to tow a car with a lot of luggage in it.
This is the same for ordinary people, merchants, and mercenaries and armies.
In particular, the more troops they have, the slower they move.
This is because the amount of luggage carried increases in proportion to the number of people.
Food, weapons, armor, camp equipment, and other things that you need to go to battle.
Roads and tracks can dramatically shorten such a time-consuming journey.
Especially the roads are of great benefit.
The track will not work well unless you have a dedicated vehicle to match it and control the direction and time of the vehicle running on the track, but the road can basically be used by anybody at any time after making it once.
In addition, the cured brick road, which is a mechanism for being drained even when it rains, is very easy to run.
It was clear from moving on the rough road once again.
"One of the factors that the Vulcans and Fontana forces have continued to fast forward is their speed of movement.Until then, it seemed that even in the same aristocratic realm, they dared not develop roads so as not to be able to move easily between each knight realm.By abolishing it and functionally laying roads in the territory, the Kingdom of Fontana is said to have gained strong national power. "
"I see. Speed is important to fight.The strength, but the speed of movement, the Balkan mercenary regiment has to operate. "
Eye supplemented our conversation.
How did the Fontana family, which was once only one aristocracy in the north, become stronger than other aristocracies?
Not only because there were many strong nobles and knights.
The speed of movement of the army is also important, Eye says.
But when I heard that, I remembered something else.
It's Brother Ars' big expedition.
That said, it is not an eastern expedition.
It's about the Percival raid.
The Percival family that once assassinated King Doren.
Along with King Doren, the Percival family was also in the hands of the ancestral king Carlos, who was the master of the Fontana family at the time.
And in order to carry out the conquest, Ars' brother ran through Fontana territory to Percival territory in just a few days and attacked.
The speed is said to have been unexpected.
That is not all because roads were built.
Instead, they attacked the Percival family lightly across other aristocratic territories with no roads in place.
"I want to make one, too. The Cavalry."
"Cavalry? That's good.But it's going to cost a lot of money. "
Ars' brother did it because there was a cavalry.
It was not a person's leg that moved to Percival territory.
It was because everyone rode and traveled at high speed.
I'd like to build a cavalry like that, but is it a problem that horses are expensive?
Anyway, I want to make a plan, but I want to get the number of horses together.
I waited for an assassin who didn't come too long, but kept moving slowly while thinking about the shape of a mercenary regiment in the future.