The Old Knight of a Frontier District

7

Shirin.

Chan.

The witch walks.

Three gold rings on the right hand side.

Three silver plates on the left hand side.

while alternating it and making noises.

Shirin.

Chan.

Step out every time you ring.

Raise your right foot to the left foot.

Raise to left knee height before lowering.

And stick forward like rubbing the ground.

Now move forward with your left leg the same way.

Witches are barefoot.

It is a light peach loose clothing.

Windy and long sleeves.

Eight steps further, he takes one of the kettles lying on his hips and turns it to the ground.

And then we go back eight steps, and now we walk east.

Water to the north.

Soil to the east.

Salt to the south.

Wine to the west.

In the center is a knight in holy hard silver (manadito) armor on his knees.

Thousands of people watching the ritual know it is the king.

Because the King is the only one who can receive blessings from the Four Graces.

The kings of earlier generations preferred to perform this ritual during parental enlistment.

For if this ritual is preceded by war, the grace of this land will be declared to be mine, that is to say, the meaning of a must win prayer.

And you're getting right.

When the ritual was over and the king raised his hands, the people cheered him.

It is already well known that the great army of Sinkai is already that close.

In the midst of spreading anxiety and rumours, he would have found relief (mostly) in this ritual.

And the king's army, and his lords, and his nobles, and his officials, and the men that stood alongside him, their faces are bright.

The witch who finished the role is backing aside and soaking up sweat.

It is Doriatessa.

The temple witch was supposed to do it, but shortly before, the witch panicked.

Whoever does this must be a virgin, and if he breaks the ban, he dies.

I guess I had an idea of that because I was so flippant that I didn't want to die.

You can't let them dance in that state, and you can't use someone you find ineligible.

I didn't have a replacement, so what should I do?

Queen Shernelia, who heard of it, recommended Doriatessa.

At an early age, they were educated once every five days in the temple.

At that time I had also learned how to walk in the service dance, and Doriatessa had a reputation for being good muscles.

The beauty of Doriatesa in this "Four Graces Dance" will become a reputation and will be served by the nickname "Witch Knight".

8

On June 1, the Sinkai army left Kasse.

Only five days later the news reached the King's Capital.

A further three days later we received a follow-up report, and it turns out that General Appetite remained in Casse.

The first large city of Tobosi on the path had not yet received instructions to just stop, so he tried to roll out the Knights and sharpen the enemy army at all.

That caused a lot of damage, but it earned me more days than I expected.

The king will reward you generously later.

In addition, the castles and fortifications that may be turned over were able to fight the opposite in a thoughtful way, thus achieving a good effect as a time buyer.

Every day of the time I earn thus increases my chances of winning.

Bardo was instrumental in training the general.

The expected date of arrival of the Sinkai army was gradually revised, and the last expected date of arrival on the plains west of Wangdu was July 28.

It is a calculation that earned twenty-seven days more than the original earliest expected arrival date.

Thanks to this, the number of improved crossbows and modified spears was also increased, and training was advanced.

The terrain of Yamano was also remembered very well.

Jog Ward is here.

Take deputy secretary Colin Cruiser and the minister in charge of extra-conventional affairs.

I'm here for reinforcements, and I want one for the agreement with Goriola.

Only two reinforcements, but Jog Ward would be a force of war.

I rushed first before Goliola, which means a lot of diplomatic significance.

In addition, participation is completely different from participation after the trade system is in place and before it is possible to do so.

Parzam's heavy ministers rolled their tongues.

I wonder when Gainelia has been such a good diplomat.

But the facts were different.

Following the outcome of an earlier meeting, a special envoy went from Parzam to Gaineria.

We asked for permission to cross the country so that Goriola's reinforcements could arrive safely and promptly.

The fact was that Jog jumped out on his own when he heard about it, so the minister in charge of extra-conventional matters followed him in advance.

The facts were different, but the results are the same.

Jog pushed Bardo's quarters, or the Toad family, even though he hadn't invited them.

He seemed to like Kamler's cooking a lot and praised him aloud.

When he told me that he liked beef, Kamler served a beef dish of his own.

I'm thrilled Jog declared that I'm not moving here anymore.

Kamler couldn't possibly feel bad about being praised for cooking, and even showed off his moves every day.

I heard that my turn was still ahead of me, and I spent every day eating meat and drinking.

Behavior that makes you wonder what you've come to do, but I wouldn't even be angry if I thought this had added one big pawn to the mountain battle.

One day, when Bardo, who had completed training for the deformed spear unit, returned home, Seidelmont Expengler was visiting.

"Master Bardo.

Greetings are late and we are sorry to say so. "

Oh, Seidelmont!

I'm busy.

He came.

Even as Baldo, I was happy with this visit because I wanted to hear about the pacra after I embarked on my journey, etc.

Exactly when Jules Rant asked me if I could lend Cedarmont, the lead knight, I also said no to the current Tercian head of the family, Galliera.

But I was offered again, and now I can't refuse to let Seidelmont's loan period be separated from three years, and even on the condition that two highly capable knights be offered instead.

For if you refuse the offer twice, you will shame Jules Rant, king of the great powers.

Besides, for Galliera, Jules Rant is the separated brother of the year herself, and all she could do was be cute.

Also, the glad sunshine of a knight from the Tercian family on the throne of the kingdom of Parzam is irresistible, and I want to support him at all costs.

Fortunately, I don't need to worry about the Coendella family's plot right now.

That had brought tremendous looseness in the deployment of knights.

Galliera said she intends to take this opportunity to train several mid-level knights as commanders.

Seidelmont set aside his wife and sons, and brought one of his servants to really come alone.

All of a sudden, he is entrusted to the highest command, and while learning how to fight the unique battle of King Parzam's army, he must fight the Sinkai army, which fought in an unknown way.

Its hard work and heavy pressure will be daunting, but its attitude is relaxed.

Bardo was delighted that he had become a great knight.

Come to think of it, the three knights of Pakla are now the stalls of Parzam.

Isn't that pleasant?

The table was busy this evening.

In addition to Bardo and Seidelmont, there are Jog Ward and Colin Cruiser, for more Chantillion and Doriatessa have visited.

The main dish was steaming the meat by the spine of a two-year-old bull into a large pile.

It is eaten in steamed juice with spices and salt.

The dishes are transported to the dining room as they accumulate, each cut by the camlers.

If you watch hot meat with hot air cut thinly and served on a plate, and then soaked with sauce, it means no one gets out.

If you look at the cut cross section, it's so vividly red that it stays raw.

But if you cut it up and put it in your mouth, the fire will go through and it will be soft.

It's soft, but it has a good tooth, and it's really full of meat.

"Kamler.

Now cut me into three pieces.

Shake the sauce. "

"Oh, I'd like another one, too"

Besides, you can change as many dishes as you like.

Jog and Colin were delighted to ask for one addition after another.

Chantillion and Doriatessa had heard of Bardo's martial arts tradition from the Seadelmont period.

On July 5, reinforcements from Goriola arrived.

Eighty knights and eighty obedient knights, and two hundred and eighty concomitant graduates.

The Commander-in-Chief is General Batta Gottar.

Happily, there was the face of Arflaburn and Killy Halifarus.

The Pharrens were removed from this reinforcement because they participated in the earlier coalition forces of the Troika and caused great damage.

Arflaburn participated as an individual.

Though half of the purpose may have been to see the face of my beloved sister.

Killey resigned from the position of Kingsguard Martial Arts Master after the Border Race Martial Arts Association and lived a training threesome, but was called and joined by Arflaburn.

Bardo hung up on General Batta and had these two under Bardo's direct command.

He also borrowed a graduate, or archer, to an ambush unit.

In the end, Arflaburn and Killey were to stay at Baldo's with all their squire.

The House of Toad became so busy.

On July 24, the coalition, which had finished its preparations, finished the "Four Graces" on the western outskirts of the Wang capital and moved to the west for a day to form a formation.

And on the twenty-eighth day, in the plains west of Wangdu, the Sinkai army and the coalition clashed.

9

The Sinkai army is indeed a thousand great armies on horseback.

There are about 800 infantry soldiers behind it.

In contrast, the coalition took the position of placing the King's army in the front line, the Horsemen in the rear line, and the Goriola army on a hill a little further away as a guerrilla army.

The king is guarded by the Kingsguard the day before and after.

Both wings of the rear row are in front of them, and when they are in trouble, they are also the shields of kings.

The king's army has four hundred heavy infantry and four hundred spear men with shields in the front of the center, four hundred archers behind them, two hundred knights on the right wing and two hundred knights on the left wing.

It is Chantillion who is in command of the front lines.

Bardo and Seidelmont are by the king.

If you look at horseback riding power alone, the Allied forces are about four hundred kings, one hundred and sixty Goriola, eighty Kingsguards, and two hundred and thirty Horsemen, for a total of about eight hundred and seventy.

It is a number of knights combined with knights of obedience, and is of considerable width in terms of skill and quality of weapons.

Not long before reaching the range of the bow, four hundred of Sinkai's horseback riding legions began their assault.

Chantillion's decree flies, and the Archers begin their attack.

The archers of King Parzam's direct command are trained to shoot a large number of arrows into a certain space, with a very good range of firing speeds.

But Sinkai's knight's armor is made of the skin of a warcraft.

The knight running at the head of the group also has an arrow hanging on the head and neck of the horse, but this is also probably the skin of the Warcraft.

Without the rain of the arrows, the Sinkai Horse Riding Regiment proceeds.

Fast, fast.

Too fast.

Whether the horse running ahead falls or not, he bruises it and pushes it forward without a slight flinch.

On the verge of entering a defensive formation by heavy infantry and spear soldiers, the horseback squad split left to right.

further outward of the horseback riding distributed on both wings.

Let's go around from left to right and attack the king of the middle line.

That is a dangerous advance to show flanking horseback riding squads on both sides of this front line that remain intact.

The Horse Riders on both wings of the King's Army did not hesitate to intercept.

However, the level and speed of enemy horseback riding squadrons were faint, especially the strength of the few rides leading the way was unusual.

From the unreachable distance of this weapon, begin with the King's Army Knight with a long weapon, and aim for the King's Flag.

When the Horse Riders of both wings of the King's Army were in combat with the enemy vanguard, the remaining horse riding 600 of the Sinkai Army began their assault.

Chantillion responded calmly and well to this, but the enemy's invasion speed was too fast to deploy the infantry in time.

The six hundred horsemen split three hundred horsemen to the left and right, and approached the middle line overturning its outer side, where the first four hundred horsemen were feeding off their flanks.

If you make such a messy attack, you will be crushed by the martial armies that you stabbed out.

But the Sinkai Horse Riding Regiment's assault speed far exceeded what the Horsemen expected.

At the head of the Horse Army in the first place are defensive knights with thick full body armor and a shield.

The speed is different and natural for horses running on this weight and horses running on knights of leather armor.

Moreover, the horses of Sinkai are Hummers like wild horses, and only those who can pass through and ride through their hearts can become knights in Sinkai.

The horse is not blunt in shape either, supple and incredibly invasive in this eye.

Shinkai's Horse Riding Corps approaching the Seeing Headquarters, but the knights of the hand-finished Kingsguard lay heavy defenses around the king, and if they don't get through this, they don't want to be shredded from front to back.

Now, as Bardo looked at how he was going to pull out of here, the leading knights threw something at him.

It is a throwing axe.

With a small wave and plenty of weight, it starts or destroys the shields of the Kingsguard knights, causing damage to the knights.

Bardo was impressed to have kept these hands hidden.

General Buntai didn't say a word about the throwing axe or anything.

In anticipation, Bardo withdrew to the king.

The King, Bardo, Seidelmont and Cars flip their horse heads and move on to the run.

Then a knight with a king's flag follows him.

Sinkai's Horse Riders chase this hard, but Kingsguard knights buy time.

Sinkai's horseback riding corps doesn't mind sacrifices, they just go after the king.

The Horsemen, who were directly behind the king, also come forward to buy more time.

Without even trying to fight this properly, the Sinkai army even goes after the king.

Whether they know this is a false defeat or not.

We know that it is a trap that will cause the king to flee by deliberately causing him to attack and bring them forth.

Bardo was convinced that there was a Sinkai spy inside the royal palace.

Otherwise, the Count of Zembourg cannot be used as a puppet to carry out assassinations in the House of Toad.

Upon confirmation, it was King Wendeland who designated the House of Toad as Bardo's quarters and Bari Toad, a facial acquaintance, as the entertainer.

If Jules Rant visited there, unlike the royal palace, he could relax and talk.

This seems to have been spoken of in front of a large number of subordinates.

That was before the Border Race Martial Association, and there were no problems with King Wendeland's health, so it wasn't so much a nerve-wrenching situation about Juleland's fortune.

It is believed that the secret detective was in a position to hear the king's words at that point.

The secret detective should be telling the Sinkai side that Bardo made a plan to decoy the king this time and pushed him through.

Knowing that, the Sinkai army will deliberately let us jump inside the defense team, so there is no hand in not using this.

Even if it is a trap, it can be chewed, and in any case the king will come out within reach, so it is a great opportunity.

That's the way they think.

I tried talking to General Buntai and Bardo was so sure.

But only a handful of people know there's another trap there.

It is not the king who is now on the king's horse, putting his holy armor together and running away in his golden helmet.

It is Seidelmont.

The two have the same color of hair and eyes, and very similar outfits and facades.

Even though his face and hair are now exposed, he assumes that both General Wang and the Horsemen are king of that person.

Seidelmont's becoming the king's shadow fighter allowed him to make his escape at a more remarkable time.

It's a slight difference, but that slight difference is huge.

Sinkai's general is chasing a false king by changing the color of his eyes.

Even after entering the mountains, Seidelmont will see a glimmer of escape and draw his enemies into the net.

Even so, the pursuit of the Sinkai army is at a meandering rate, and if you are caught off guard, you will be immediately captured.

The king's horse is a great famous horse, and the holy armor is light, so the speed is fast.

Although Baldo also has a shield, the armor is the leather armor of the Warcraft of the River Bear.

Wearing heavy armor was punished in the Battle of Roadvan Castle.

It goes without saying that Uytan has leg strength.

Cars is a light outfit, as usual, and doesn't even have a shield.

The legs of his beloved horse, Satra, are not concomitant.

The knight with the flag is the most equestrian craftsman in the Kingsguard, and the sickness even makes you feel beautiful.

Wearing full body armor and a helmet covering his face, the four ran hissed, leaving behind the Shadowman of Cedarmont with slow horse legs.

The four avoided the plains and headed for the mountainous areas.

It is a loose mountain stretching from west to north of the Wang capital.

Running away from the fast and impending Cinkai horseback riding corps, it's natural to go for the mountains rather than the flats where they'll catch up.

The Sinkai generals must also know that there are soldiers with spears lying on their heads in the mountains.

That is the squire gathered from the Hordes, and the lack of combat experience.

In any case, they have absolute confidence in equestrianism, and even in the mountains they have no idea of taking a back to the knights of Parzam, etc.

Thus Bardo succeeded in drawing Sinkai's horseback riding troops into the mountain battle.

The King's army and the Horsemen will cut their flanks in full because they will be forced to slip through and chase after the great army.

9

Get out of the way.

"I don't know.

Do you have to work for the meat?

You, what's your name?

"Rado, General of Sinkai.

You are. "

"Rado.

I remember.

I'm Jog Ward. "

Rado was quite a fierce general, and a strike with Jog was promising.

But the length, weight, and speed of Jog's black sword exceeded Rado's assumptions, and he was quickly plunged from his horse with his weapon.

The deformed spear squad wants to take it down.

I only explain in your previous meeting that old spears are to be repaired and used, but not exactly spears.

The spear pattern is fitted with an earlier razor claw.

It is a weapon to feed and capture in the armor chamber.

Under the direction of the prestigious Zendatta, only those made with reference to Sinkai's armor are as powerful as ordered.

He was seized in large numbers by his inflexible squires, and General Rado is unable to move either.

"Ahhh.

Help General Rado!

Rado's men try to jump in, but the scaffolding is bad and we can't get a lot going at once.

An archer of the Goriola Empire shoots an arrow in there.

Working out in the hunt, their bow technique allows precision shooting at medium and close range, and accurately captures moving targets as well.

Precisely shot through the weak parts of the armor, and the Bulb and Sinkai generals fall.

It didn't happen that they retreated.

"All right, that's the second one.

Twitch.

I've defeated a general by the name of somehow.

Eat something good when you get back to the mansion. "

Didn't you say you'd work for the meat you've eaten before?

And don't you remember his name?

He's a man of no choice.

But I can count on you.

Bardo took Cars to his next base.

10

I was able to take a good amount of time to get ready, so I could hire a lower level civilian familiar with this mountain to run around and make each unit remember the way.

Bardo himself, I don't really know how to fight large numbers of people bumping into each other in the plains, but I'm good at small numbers of people encountering each other in the mountains, and as soon as I run a little in the mountains I don't know, the geography grabs me.

With the advice of Jurchaga, we decided on an ambush base.

In Sinkai's horseback riding regiment, it may be seen as higher than the one running ahead.

Instead, those who run out in the lead and defeat their enemies rise to a higher position than anyone else.

It is an army of extreme meritocracy.

The method of warfare is also at the core of individual martial arts.

Conversely, if they seize the rank of Commander, their mobility will be greatly reduced.

Mountain areas can't go on in the big army, so they're going to really split into smaller units.

I can't even take advantage of the speed of horse legs on a bad road.

He found an easy place to lure, hid soldiers in the shade and grass, and set up an operation to capture the rank of commander running the lead.

Enemies who don't get close to the base well are lured in by Jurchaga contacting Seidelmont and the flag bearer.

It's roughly the way the wars between knights in the Middle Plains come off.

But they're ignoring the main road, so you don't have to stick to the main road.

Bardo wasn't going to shy away at all in this fight.

In the battle of the day, he actually succeeded in capturing nine generals, starting with Ryukai, Rado and Sonki.

Jog, Arfraburn and Killy, they did a great job.

And the enemy soldiers who lost their commanders served as food for the Horsemen waiting on the plains.

The Goriola army, led by General Batta, also took on a lot of enemies.

The number of fleeing generals is probably less than a third.

It is an unprecedented victory.

"Jitter.

Brilliant. "

A sumptuous carriage of women came into the assembly area.

It is the carriage of the Royal Parzam, with a small, Soliespi flower crest engraved on the door.

It is the carriage of Shernelia, the righteous queen.

King Jules Lant is on board with the Queen.

Julelant spent some time aboard the carriage of the Queen when the Queen and the three concubines came to offer their condolences this morning.

Because it is a well-known fact that the kings and the righteous queens befriend each other, no one doubted it.

I switched with Seidelmont at that time, but have I been in this carriage the whole time?

What have you been doing in the carriage all day?

"Okay, please."

Bardo put his hand on his chest and said yes.

Start moving early the next morning.

Momentum is important in battle, and we must not let this momentum, which has won a great deal, squeeze away.

There is also a form of war between a country and a country.

And Sinkai went into Parzam, and made the city of Cassese, which was the stronghold of the northwest.

Then they proceeded to the army just near the king's capital.

It may be easier to fight a General of Appetite by drawing him near the Royal Castle, but he cannot take such tactics.

For we cannot keep our dignity as a nation unless, at the very least, we fight to the halfway point between the King's capital and Cassese and, if possible, to Cassese.

Leaving the king in the king's capital, Federated Marshal Bardo leads the army to discuss the General of Appetite.

Now we finally get in each other's shape.

Since leading cities remain undamaged, securing food and other items is not a problem.

Finally, it is a showdown.