The Old Knight of a Frontier District

1

Now I woke up in two days.

Cars was carrying Bardo away from the queen's mistletoe to give him rest.

He was badly ill, but recovered gradually.

In this dim sea of trees, where we don't even know where the sun is, Cars spearheaded by not hesitating to see the direction.

The day I left the Tree Sea, I asked him if it was now a few days, and he returned the answer that it was twenty-three days.

I stopped by Tri to replenish the food, but someone spotted Bardo and was to stay overnight at the house of an official in charge of the village.

I asked about the state of war, and although I knew that a country called Sinkai had waged war, I had an optimistic expectation that it would be repelled before it approached the Imperial Capital.

Returning to Rhode Van Castle was on May 8th, and Cars' date calculation proved correct.

Zaifert was absent.

He said he was summoned back to the King's Capital.

Since Maitarp, the deputy commander, was also killed in battle in the Warcraft raid earlier, there will now be no commander or deputy commander here.

A knight named College Dolby, 2nd Battalion Commander, was acting as Commander.

Together, he is also a fellow who fought through the defense battle from the Warcraft and a knight who knows Bardo well.

The swordsmen roster also had their names.

The College found out that Bardo and Cars had gone to the Tree Sea to meet the Queen of Manuno, and looked up.

I can't help it.

Meet the Queen of Manuno, for example, is a morsel who doubts his sanity by passing recklessness.

Trying to step inside the Great Tree Sea itself, a decent person wouldn't even think about it.

It is precisely after that event that Manuno was leading the Great Invasion of Warcraft.

I put it down to Zaifert, but Zaifert didn't seem to tell the college.

Seven days earlier than the Baldos, Jurchaga was returning.

It is almost doubtful that others will be able to explore the state of the capital of Teula and Saion so soon.

If you go from Rhode Van Castle to Teula via the capital of Gainelia, isn't that nearly a hundred and eighty minutes away?

When it comes to the distance a person can walk in a day, it is about five minutes.

In other words, it takes thirty-five days just one way.

Moreover, it goes through the Gynerian country, which is in the midst of war, to the occupied Tura and Seion.

Of course, we do not know beforehand where to go to be safe and where to get the information we need.

I left three days earlier than the Baldos, but nevertheless my calculations tell me that I will be back in just seventy days.

In those days, you've just been scouting Teula and Seion, and you've been grasping the battle between Parzam and Goriola, so you can't give up.

But, well, it's a julchaga, so I guess I can do that.

Well, it's not just a compliment that Jules Rant said he wanted so much that any monarch had a hand through his throat.

The convenience of this man, especially in this sort of thing, is even a little irregular.

"No, no.

That's it.

Guynelia is not even in the middle of a war.

There is no war between Teula and Seion.

Anyway, let's start with the Tula Capital. "

Jurchaga's report began.

2.

I'm in the capital of Teula.

But I gathered more or less the information I needed before that.

Well, I was just wondering if you wanted to check or get some air on the scene.

And then I just wanted to take a look at the fence from the inside out in case I sneak in one day.

Huh?

No, I'm not talking about the war.

I don't want you to forget your main business.

Well.

Skip the troublesome explanations and just say what you know.

It's just about what's going on and what's going on in the end.

In the middle of January, Sinkai declared war on five countries: Parzam, Goriola, Tula, Seion and Gainelia.

The time of arrival of the Messengers of the Declaration of War varies from country to country, but it is generally the tenth to thirtieth of January.

Teula and Seion were completely alarmed.

'Cause Sinkai is northwest of Fargo and Ejite, right?

If Sinkai were to attack, I would have figured it would be a fight with Parzam first.

But on February 4th, the Sinkai army suddenly attacked the capital of Teula.

You ignored Fargo and Ejite, bypassed the Mordos mountain system even more, and hit the capital of Teula directly.

The main unit was left behind, and the advance party just for horseback riding arrived, and it was a very fast advance.

Some lords noticed the Sinkai army on the way out and sent out an expedition, but you arrived in the capital of Teula almost at the same time as the expedition arrived.

The advance party was only two hundred horseback riders, but I poked a challenging letter at the king to fight on a plain near the capital.

You can send out hundreds of people.

The king of Teula got angry and led two hundred knights into battle himself.

They also had about six hundred infantry.

So, he was quickly kicked in by the Sinkai army, and the king was taken prisoner.

The Sinkai army attack was too fast to escape.

This is a strange story.

The remaining ministers in Teula were surprised and tried to negotiate a ransom to get the king back somehow.

But General Sinkai, uh, General Bakou, he said that this general didn't try to respond to it at all, didn't even try to attack it any further, and started waiting at that location.

The next day a carriage with Sinkai army food and stuff arrived.

In these days, the lords of Teula gathered together with the knights.

But General Bakou flatly put the army on standby.

On the third day, Sinkai's main unit arrived.

Five hundred on horseback and nine hundred on infantry, plus a heavy squad.

The ministers and lords of Teula sent out messengers to determine the terms of the war, thinking that the battle would finally begin.

What do you think happened there?

How dare the Sinkai Army return the king?

Without any conditions attached.

On the contrary, the knights we took prisoner with us also freed Mi-na.

Everyone looked at the king returning to the castle with a smile on his face.

Now, when we got back to the castle, the king said, "Yes, it is.

I was impressed by the virtues of General Bakou of the Sinkai Nation.

Let the hosts attend the feast to entertain him.

So, the king really called General Lugurgoa and the Sinkai army executives to do the treat.

Some thought it would kill the invading army generals by letting them stay alert in that seat exactly.

Conversely, some thought the king would be threatened and forced to sign badly disadvantaged surrender documents.

There was neither.

Something terribly odd just happened.

There was a big black carriage, and the king ordered me to say hello because Sinkai's princess was on it.

The ministers and lords of Teula went into it one after the other.

The Sinkai army received plenty of food in the capital of Teula.

And the Sinkai army left no more than one general or soldier, and went straight to Saion.

After that, the king wandered the lords to dissolve them, but only gave one weird order.

Even if the Sinkai army passes near the territory in the future, they must not do anything unless they attack from there.

From the royal castle of Teula to the royal castle of Seion, it is perfectly twenty-five minutes away.

A slow carriage can go in three days.

The battle was already over when the Sinkai army arrived at the Royal Castle of Saion on the third day.

Huh?

What's wrong with you?

There's nothing wrong with that.

'Cause Sinkay had a separate team.

Two hundred horseback rides from a separate unit led by General Leukai arrived in the capital of Seion three days ago.

I gave him a challenging letter to fight on the plains outside the capital.

I'm with Tula.

The slightly different thing is that here the next day was designated as the day of war, and because the lords near the capital rushed in the meantime, the power on the Saion side swelled to more than five hundred.

Of course, the infantry would have stuck to that, so that's a tremendous amount of fighting power, right?

Of course the king went out in battle.

You've been hiding in the castle with such a challenge, you can't show it.

Well, he's behind the big army, so he thought he could run right into the castle if anything happened.

But the strength and speed of the Sinkai army was outrageous.

The king was caught when he turned to the side.

After that, it's just like Teula.

When the main unit moved from Teula arrived, the king was freed and fed plenty of food before sending it off.

Of course, they said the great guys were invited to a big black carriage.

Now after this, Sinkai divided the army into three parts.

Four hundred rides led by General Bakou, General Baen, General Batutsu and General Gaxok invade the empire of Goriola with General Bakou as their main generals.

Four hundred rides led by General Leukai, General Radow, General Sonki and General Buntai invade the Kingdom of Parzam with General Leukai as their main generals.

The hundred horsemen led by General Chowdow invade the Guinelian country.

General Bakou roughed up cities in the southern part of the Goriola Empire while replenishing food in Teula and occupied Kobusi Castle at the end of February.

He is laid back with a painful hand to the knights of Goliola, who are attacking him to recapture him.

General Leukai attacked the city of Obas in northern Parzam to occupy it at the beginning of March.

In Gainelia, about eighty horsemen, combined with the eighth knights and the knights of the Hordes, intercepted General Chowdow.

But I lost lightly.

General Chowdow immediately attacked the capital of Gainelia.

You issued an urgent return order to General Jog Ward, who was here while the Fourth Knights worked hard to defend him from the First Knights.

I remember because you were here at this time.

It was the thirty-eighth day of February.

I was wounded in those days. The knights were feeling better, too.

He led fifty knights back and clashed with General Chowdow's army as it were.

He took General Chowdow's neck, and the knights under his command took about half of it.

That's why.

Now Guynelia is boiling in a victory.

I don't know when the next enemy army will come, but you're not at war now, are you?

Both Teula and Seeon are offering food to Sinkai, but it doesn't look like it's even neat.

And it also seems to be a base for Sinkai's replacements and stuff.

You're not in occupation or in war, are you?

It's some weird war, isn't it?

3

Bardo shared his thoughts on the big black carriage and whoever, or whatever, was in it, seemed to manipulate his mind.

Sounds absurd, but if you don't think so, I can't explain it.

"Yeah.

I think so too.

So long.

I remember what my daughter (Ko), who worked for the Tod family, said.

There's been a big black unfamiliar carriage parked near the Todd house for a while. "

Oh, my God, Bardo said and narrowed his eyes.

And when did that happen?

"I wonder if you said last June or so.

'Cause that's a little bit of what I've heard.

I don't know much about it. "

But it's good.

I finally found a clue.

The question then is when was it decided that Baldo's place of stay in the King's Capital would be the Toad Mansion, and to what extent did humans know?

It's also the basis on which we could have predicted that Jules Rant might get a leg there.

I'll have to look into this sometime.

And what is inexplicable is the strength of the Sinkai army.

Bardo asked Jurchaga.

I wondered why Sinkai's army was such a winning streak.

"That was also the strangest thing about yummy.

So I did a lot of research.

Sounds like a great horse to start with.

And the horses are handled so well.

The knight's armor is light and sturdy like an idiot.

This is it. "

I took a closer look at what Jurchaga gave me.

Leather armor.

Besides, this is...

Warcraft!

There are several types of Warcraft leather that are applied to each other and made into armor.

I see.

This would be light. Plus, it's highly defensive.

"Anyway, Sinkai's army is a horseback rider.

The infantry just goes around cleaning up.

I wonder if that means that all soldiers are knights.

So all the knights wear the Leather Armor of the Warcraft. "

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God, is that a powerful army?

But how did Jurchaga get something like this?

"General Jog Ward gave it to me.

He said to make it look serious.

Speaking of which, General Jog, I was wondering if you had any further instructions. "

I thought for a moment what the next instruction was, and I thought to myself.

At that time, the man said he would follow Bardo Lowen's command until this battle was over.

I mean, you think "this fight" isn't over yet.

Still the weird one.

"And so on.

Tell him to pass this on.

The secret to the strength of the Sinkai army lies in their weapons.

They only use long patterned weapons.

Then, they don't try to capture the other knight, they come to kill him because they're supposed to.

That's a hell of a lot of them. "

Jurchaga said he has tested the weapon that he actually split from the Knight of Sinkai.

Looks like he's been hitting the string and even checking the length and blade crossing, and Bardo could have known about the enemy's weapon in quite some detail.

All very long.

There seem to be many different shapes.

Spears with axes.

A weapon like putting a giant sword on a spear pattern and letting it hold the opposite.

A weapon like the one with a heavier wedge attached to the tip of the spear.

A huge sickle-like weapon with a long pattern.

A weapon with chained iron balls at the end of a long pattern.

Sinkai's knights say they wield these weapons endlessly, sometimes poking and throwing them.

Because there are many weapons that can go around and strike even with a shield, and the range is much longer than a sword, there is no way to fight with a knight's standard armor.

A sword is a knight's weapon.

Everyone thinks so.

Some knights use Battlehammers and Battleax, but long-handed weapons are not considered to be suitable for knights.

There are no knights to use in action at the Wushu Guild, such as Morningstar.

It's a strange thing to think about.

In the old knight's story, the duel begins with a spear battle, goes through several types of weapons and ends with a sword and shield battle to settle.

That's why we must have fought with different weapons in ancient times.

In a war that still takes the form of a mass duel, assault spears are used for the first shot.

But that's enough spears.

Only the showdown is fought with a sword.

Also, there are no knights who wield spears and use them.

Because a spear is a poke, not a punch.

But actually, swinging a spear is a pretty useful method of warfare.

Bardo used to have his colleagues swing spears at him when he was attacked by the knights of Coendella on a thin fort and succeeded in repelling him.

I always thought so.

He said it would be just invincible if we created a Knights swinging spears endlessly with both hands across the horses.

Although it requires long and rigorous training.

The legion that Baldo had dreamed of existed.

No.

Beyond Bardo's dreams.

Anyway, they're all wearing Warcraft leather armor.

While securing a defense, the body is light.

Its manoeuvrability or just imagine it invites war.

A knight with a full body armor and a shield, they'll look like nothing more than knights.

And a horse.

Baldo also came to Nakahara and found out that, in this knighthood, horses are preferred to have thick legs.

Because otherwise you cannot march with heavy knights for long periods of time.

But really fast moving horses have thinner legs than body parts.

Perhaps the horses used by the knights of Sinkai are high-speed motorized horses with thin feet.

That may be a little inferior in endurance, but it will show unparalleled work in the showdown.

I can't win.

In the Knights of Nakahara, you can't beat the Knights of Sinkai.

At least I don't have a winning eye in the field.

In the old Knights of the Middle Plains except for the King's direct command of Parzam.

Speed and lightness.

Defense and breakthrough.

And the difference in attack distance.

The troops of Teula and Seion could not keep up with the invasion speed and power they had not imagined at all.

That's more than enough to let the king escape.

And Sinkai's army, accustomed to beating the soldiers of Nakahara, could not cope with Jog Ward's troops.

Because Jog also asks his men for light attire and electric shock fights and trains them that way.

No matter how long Sinkai's general's weapon is, it won't extend to Jog's black sword.

Mmm.

Mmm.

Maybe this is.

war, something that may be about to take a major turn.

It may be said that battles are meant to determine wins and losses.

Winning and losing have a format, and a modus operandi.

But.

But.

If you fight how to kill your opponent, what do you think?

That's exactly how Sinkai does it.

A legion of horseback riding soldiers using only long-held, highly lethal weapons.

Moreover, horses and humans are increasingly being replenished, he said.

This legion must be regarded as having a terrible destructive power that cannot be counted in numbers.

Bardo accidentally said to Cars, who was listening to Jurchaga in silence on the side.

He said he had intercepted Sinkai's army before and defeated many generals, but that was a lot of work.

The words Cars uttered in response to that were unexpected.

"No.

At that time, the Sinkai army did use good horses, but it was the General or Captain's knight who wore the leather armor of the Warcraft, and not everyone wore it.

Besides, I didn't use long weapons or anything like that.

I was using a sword.

Overall, it wasn't that strong. "

Then the Sinkai army changed the way they fought at some point.

That's not something you can do overnight.

"Nevertheless, what is only a hundred rides against Gainelia?

I feel a little too insulted, no matter how powerful an army it is. "

I said it was Knights College Dolby, acting Knights Chief.

Bardo figured out why.

Overlapping that question with another, I got an answer.

Another question is that the invasion of Theula and Seion is raw.

It will be obvious to whoever sees that something is wrong with the kings and the heavy ministers.

That means the ministers and the marquis around them are intact and not overlooked.

The present state will not last forever.

Yet why do we leave the great army behind and not rule, and leave it in no way?

Because it is not necessary.

Sinkai knew that the great armies of the Warcraft would strike from the east.

Naturally, it should have been Guideria who would be the first to be fed in the Central Plains countries.

Next, Tula and Seion would have been ravaged.

There is no need to properly conquer or dominate a country that has been decided to become desolate.

You just have to leave the fact that you attacked and won.

What is required of Teula and Seion is perhaps its role as a bridgehead attacking Goliola and Parzam, nothing more.

Think the other way around and you'll see.

What would have happened if there had been no Warcraft raid, and if the order of attack had come from Parzam?

Even if we attack and destroy Parzam safely, there will be an intact seion, Theura, after which Guidelia will descend, and further north there will be Goriola, the giant nation.

It is even possible that these countries will send reinforcements into the fight against Parzam if it is worse.

But he taught that there was an attack of warcraft from the east, and once the attention and power of the Middle Plains countries was directed towards him, he dropped Teula and Seion at once.

That allowed us to attack both Goliola and Parzam powers in a short time.

And didn't you drop the leading cities of Parzam and Goriola to secure their strongholds?

It doesn't matter what happens anymore, such as Tula, Seion, Gynelia, etc.

In short, the war so far has carried Sinkai exactly as he thinks.

If there is a slight planned madness, is it that the Allied Forces of the Three Kingdoms assembled at Roadvan Castle have defeated the Warcraft?

I hope that helps in the future.

But in any case, Bardo thought his role was over.

I met with the Queen of Manuno and found out that there was no more invasion of the Warcraft.

All you have to do is go back to King's Capital and report back.

So I asked Knight College Dolby what I remembered.

The Patarapoza calendar, I was wondering if you ever heard of it.

The Knight College replied, I don't know such things or rhetoric.

It still seems unknown to the public.

Is it the calendar used by the Manounos and their subhumans?

After hearing all the reports and considering the problems, Bardo told the King's Capital tomorrow.

The Jurchaga report is from at least a month ago and the war situation will be progressing.

But Bardo thought that Sinkai's army should have been stopped in Parzam, regardless of other countries.

Because now that we have carried out military reform, King Parzam's direct army is probably not incompatible with the Sinkai army.

Sinkai's horse legs are stopped by heavy infantry and spear soldiers.

If you stop and meet, no matter how you're wearing Warcraft leather armor, a knight wearing metal full-body armor has a bad minute.

So as for the battle between the Sinkai and Parzam armies, Bardo thought there was no need to worry about that.

More than that, we have to tell Jullan about the meeting with the Queen of Manuno.

It's too subtle and ambiguous a story to be conveyed in letters or messages.