Otoko Nara Ikkokuichijou no Aruji o Mezasa Nakya, ne?

September 1, 7451

The north of the kingdom.

Frakis, the second city of the Duke of Bertels' Realm, bordering the Granan Empire.

Sir Marie-Belle Laddock, commander of the Northern Army of the Kingdom of Lombardy in his own office, was in a bad mood.

The desk in front of him has a map centered a little further north than this city of Frakis.

--Even if it's not as if you're out of sight... this situation isn't good.

While biting his claws, Lord Lardock organizes the situation.

The villages scattered throughout the Demakar Mountains north of Frakis have been exposed to attacks from forces believed to belong to the Junkel Kingdom since mid-June.

At times, there were five or six attacks per month.

Of course, I didn't just overlook it with a hand in hand with the Lord.

Since the first attack was confirmed, Knights under his command have, of course, posted their hired adventurers and recruited hunters near many villages to tail the attackers.

At that time, she also planned to form a raiding party, raid the settlement of Junkel, obtain prisoners and interrogate them, and also planned to carry out the operation.

However, in the unlikely event of an ambush, when valuable manpower is split to make up the raiding party, not only will the forcefully formed raiding party suffer great damage, but on the contrary, it may also take prisoners.

Above all, I was forced to shelve myself thinking that I could not get much information when I attacked an appropriate village and obtained a prisoner.

That's why I didn't leave them alone, but in the event of an attack, I was putting a small number of Knightsmen in a blind village with the intention of letting the underdog follow me.

Initially, there was a problem with manpower, so I could not get much information by mistakenly reading about the village that would be attacked.

However, the reinforcement from the King's Capital arrived as planned in the planned invasion of the country of Junkel from next year, and we were willing to mobilize as many as 1, 200 soldiers from the fighting forces stationed in Frakis before and established a nearly complete monitoring system of the settlement at the end of July.

Nevertheless, the tailings continued to fail for about a month.

There are two reasons.

One is that the Knights, who were supposed to follow the raiders, left their strongholds without overlooking the barbarism of the raiders, and faced the raiders with a deadly readiness to defend the village, and those who were killed continued to emerge.

The other thing was that he was pissed off by his tail and suffered a backfire from an ambush or trap, which forced him to retreat along the way.

In the wake of those results, the Lord was angry and at the same time discouraged.

For a moment, as I initially realized, I even thought of raiding from here to get a prisoner.

Last month, I set aside the unavoidable budget to hire adventurers and nearby hunters to follow me.

As a result, it turned out that the source of the raiders was a fortress built near the summit of Demacar.

In addition to the fact that the fort was cleverly constructed using the terrain, it was speculated that the location was delayed due to the fact that it was on the Junkel side of the border, which had been arranged a long time ago.

Moreover, after having gathered so much information, he immediately sent an envoy to warn and apologize to the Junkel country and demand compensation.

The emissary came back today.

Of course, the answer of the Duke was unknown and unexpected.

Hou Guo complained that the fort was not a regular force on the Hou side of Junkel.

― ― As expected, the attack on the fort was no longer a problem.

In the first place, as a Lombard kingdom, it was intended to invade the Junkel kingdom, and it didn't matter whether the fort belonged to the kingdom or not.

It was good to attack and destroy them without saying anything about their presence.

Nevertheless, it is also certain that the appearance is better than pre-empting the facilities belonging to the kingdom.

"But..."

We need more information about the geography around the fort in order to launch an attack on it.

After all, it was built close to the summit of the high mountain, so the Knights of the Kingdom's specialty horsemen's charge was neglected, and it was impossible to even spread out their soldiers and act.

Even if we send reconnaissance to understand the surrounding geography, it is appropriate that the fort side has predicted the reconnaissance behavior, and we are taking necessary measures such as establishing strict patrols and traps.

It would be too dangerous for a small group to scout.

With a certain number of people, I was prepared to do some damage, and I had no choice but to have a pure forced reconnaissance.

--Thinking of that, it was nice to see that the reinforcements arrived on schedule.

Thanks to this, reinforcements have also been training together for two months, and it has been possible to foster cooperation between the units.

― ― The drifting stone was read by the Commander of the Gendail. Besides, it's your majesty's fault.

The Lord thanked his few bosses.

However, I did not hide the sound of Junkel's harassment attack.

In the first place, the reinforcements were not sent to respond to the harassment attacks by the Duke's country, but to attack the Duke's country first.

Without the harassment attack, we would have taken the lead by waiting for the snow melt next year to enter the Duke's country and seize two to three of the village by electric shock.

According to the original plan, Frakis had about 100 personnel as a minimum defense force, and with all the remaining fighting power, it was to go east through the Gisool Valley passing between Mount Demakar and Mount Batras in the north of the Duke of Bertars, before going north along the bottom of Mount Demakar and attacking the nearby villages.

--You 've taken the lead... "

According to the spokesperson's report, although the momentum of the Hou side's arms build-up is unremarkable, it was estimated that it was unlikely to launch an attack this year, but it was a deceased operation.

However, in light of the current situation, whoever looks at that part may have misread the upper level.

--You said that reinforcements from the Dart Plains would arrive next month...

The expected arrival force next month is two squadrons belonging to the 2nd Knight Regiment, who were at the forefront of the Daybus Kingdom in the Dart Plains. In addition, one squadron from the 4th Knight Regiment is said to be strong enough to get through the throat.

Considering the history of the battle and the circumstances of the former encampment, it would be good to consider the level of training in battle sufficient.

However, we do not know how to cooperate with other units once and for all, and we cannot expect any kind of ad hoc and organic cooperation unless we train.

--All right, even if the cooperation is complete, it's a heartless battle force for a two-front operation......

I didn't think much about getting attacked by Mount Demakar during this planned invasion.

Even if it did, it would be sporadic enough to deflect the attention of our invading forces.

It is only natural to say that we were going to take the lead.

--But I'm not going to just leave a few of my fighting forces behind at this frequency...

The number of villages on the Lombert side scattered throughout the mountains was 40 in all.

Currently, I was putting all of them under surveillance with the power of telling gold, but Frakis' merchants began to complain that they were "starting to struggle to hire escort forces".

In addition, money is not infinite.

--This is way ahead of schedule, but do you want to wait for the reinforcements to arrive next month and move on to the offensive...?

It was originally planned to enter the offensive around the time of the snow melt next year, and to take the lead.

It's a long way ahead of time, but it might be better than getting a hit on Mount Demacar until it snows.

--But when that happens, the cooperation... "

Squads deployed on the Dart Plains, which are expected to arrive next month, will be attacked without any coordinated training.

― ― …… Do you want your troops to let the right people take over Mount Demakar's fortress?

According to the report, the reinforcements from the Dart Plains are an infantry squadron of 600 from the 2nd Knights' Company and a resupply squadron of 150 from the 4th Knights' Company.

If it is a fort near the summit, there is no place to spread out the troops and meet, so it is true that there is no need for close cooperation with other troops.

--Would you like to leave the command to Greedo? "It would be a good time to test the platoon leader..."



Hesketh, the capital of the country of Junker.

Vasco Benditz, the leader of the mercenary group Red Army, was summoned to the capital's Bisigne Castle, along with Zaboin Nephil, who also served as the head of the Augur regiment.

"... this is how things are at the moment."

Viscount Romuli, the leader of the Knights of the Empire, explained the progress of the diversionary operation that had already begun.

According to this, the Rombert Kingdom was turning back and the operation was going well in response to the harassment attack that had begun in mid-June.

The Royal Army stationed in Frakis called for reinforcements in response to the raid on the settlement.

There were hundreds of reinforcements arriving immediately, but according to reports from Lombardy and those who were penetrating the northern part of the kingdom, even if the kingdom had more reinforcements, even if there were reinforcements, it would likely be after the snow melt next year no matter how rushed to regroup the reinforcements and arrive at Frakis.

There were also reports that the Kingdom was now focusing on a border dispute with its southern neighbor, the Daybus Kingdom.

Anyway, it seems that the royalty was about to descend to the powerful nobility (also the commander of the Southern General Army of the Kingdom) entrusted to the Dart Plains in the south, but the bride was attacked by someone in the dowry procession and the bride went missing.

At the same time, there are reports that the bride has been killed, but it seems that the body has not been confirmed, and it is said that this report is a brow spit.

It's just circumstantial evidence, but it looks like the bad guys behind this assault are from the Kingdom of Daybus.

On the other hand, there are various things that do not fall into place, such as that the raid point is quite far from the border between the two countries, but there is also information that the nobleman who was abducted by the bride (probably) is angry and will wage war against the Daybus Kingdom alone.

Even as a kingdom, I can't ignore the possibility that royalty has been captured, so I have to focus on the Southern Front.

In addition, it was reported that the battle force input to the Northern Front (here) was about to end with the minimum required (reinforcements the other day).

"It may not be accurate to report the situation from an informant, but it seems that it is in a difficult situation to send reinforcements for the cause in any case."

In response to Viscount Lomuri's words, Vasco and Zaboin nodded.

In particular, it seems that the Rombert Kingdom is focusing on the south, which is purely good for Uncle Junkel's side.

"Wei and the others decided that now was a good time. I still have more than two months until it snows."

Sir Lomri says with a frivolous laugh.

That would have been particularly important.

Everyone knows that the Kingdom of Lombardy has a relationship with the Kingdom of Daybus, but in the last few decades, there has been no full-scale battle, and it has become a daily reality in a sense, just by taking and taking small reclaimed villages from each other.

If it moves a lot, it is likely that there is no room to worry about the Northern Front (here).

Originally, I was going to force two fronts due to the invasion from Mount Demacar and the Gishuku Gorge, but the north (this way) and the south (that way) will be two bigger fronts.

Indeed, it is an opportunity.

If you stick to your original schedule and stick to the attack from next year, the Southern Front may end.

It rarely snows on the Dart Plains.

Winter or no winter, you can always move your army.

"Our main unit is scheduled to leave Hesketh the day after tomorrow." I'll have my pussy stuffed first. "

First of all, it is postponed.

Could it be an apology that greatly increased the original schedule and ordered a sudden development?

Of course, it's impossible for both the Red Soldier and the Augur Regiment to leave in a day or two together.

"I can't burn it, but after World War II, I'll be in the vanguard." Let's talk about which way to go first. "

The first battle would almost certainly be an ambush.

Of course, the second and third battles can also be ambushed, but it's not as likely as the first, and the later, the less likely it is.

In the third battle, there was no doubt that the ambush would not be successful with the same high probability as in the first battle.

After stealing Zaboine, who sat next to him, Vasco vowed in his heart that he would have to take the lead in World War II.